题目内容
A New Heart，a New Life
Donald Arthur ticks off the marathons he’s done in the last 12 years：New York City (tentimes)，Los Angeles，Alaska．27 in all．His goal is to complete the tiring 26．2一mile road race 
in each of the 50 states：he has 34 to go．
And yet it wasn’t so long ago that Arthur couldn’t so much as chew his food without becoming very tired．“To walk a block could take me more than an hour．”says the 63一year―old retired bookkeeper．who lives in the Bronx．New York．Facing death from serious heart trouble，all enlarged heart he blames on decades of cigarettes and alcohol，Arthur had only one option，his doctors told him：a transplant．
He recalls the precise moment―6：10 P．m．on August 2．1996―when he got the call that a donor heart had become available．A 25一year―old mall named Fitzgerald Gittens had died from a bullet intended for someone else．After five hours in surgery．Arthur had a brand―new heart．Soon enough．he could walk up stairs without tiring．
That was just the beginning．A fellow patient told him about the Achilles Track Club．Which helps people with disabilities run marathons．Arthur contacted the club’s president．who told him he could complete a marathon if he trained hard enough．
The club．he says．“gave me a belief in myself．”He joined its six―mile walks around central Park，then moved up to racewalking to improve his endurance．Fifteen months after his transplant，he finished his first New York City Marathon．
In 2001, just before the Winter Games，Arthur carried the Olympic torch on part of its Journey．But his most memorable run was the 1999 New York City Marathon，when he was accompanied by Mack Andrews．the brother of the mall whose heart now beats in his chest．
60．In how many states 0f the USA has Donald Arthur run the tiring 26．2-mile marathon by now?
A．12． B．27． C．34． D．16．
61．When and where did Donald Arthur finish his first marathon?
A．August 2，1996，Los Angeles．
B．November，1997，New York City．
C．1999，New York City．
D．2001，Alaska．
62．Who can get help from the Achilles Track Club?
A．People with disabilities to ran marathons．
B．Sportsmen．
C．People who love marathons．
D．Football fans．
63．Whose heart now beats in Donald Arthur's chest?
A．Mack Andrews’s． B．A fellow patient’s． C．His own brothers．D．Fitzgerald Gittens’s．
Never before had I imagined I should have the opportunity to live with so many girls．Would they 36 such a single “Hi” from me? I was about to greet my new roommates， 37 they did not seem to have the same 38 attention that I had．They just dealt with their own 39 ， sorting out their clothes，and making arrangements for their university life．Thus tranquility（宁静）
became the 40 atmosphere in the dormitory．
To my surprise， 41 such a situation，I did not feel a sense of 42 ．With time going on，we got to know each other deeper．I was 43 to find that in deep soul we all had great dreams and belonged to the same 44 ．
However，not long before the 45 was disturbed by my own upset of mind for study pressure．What I was 46 about seemed to have 47 to do with them and what they were doing and talking about seemed so far away from me．However，one incident changed my 48 and made me treasure this kind of 49 better and more confident in our friendship．
One day，when I was leaving the teachers’ office，it was in complete silence and frightening 50 ．At my dormitory gate，I was startled （使惊奇）to find there still 51 a little light glimmering in the darkness，so faint but yet so clear．Just under the 52 of the light，I went to the room without any difficulty．They were in sound sleep，leaving the 53 light on in the calm world．Tears rolled down my cheeks．
I know 54 that we all like tranquility，both in environment and in our mind．It is the care that 55 all the misunderstandings and unpleasantness．
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That year , in the local school, there was a new math teacher, as well as some new pupils. One of the new kids was the stupidest child anyone had ever seen. It made no difference how quickly or how slowly they tried explaining numbers to him; he would always end up saying something enormously stupid. Like two plus two was five, seven times three was twenty-seven, or a triangle had thirty corners……
Before this boy arrived, math lessons had been the most boring of all. Now they were great fun. Encouraged by the new teacher, the children would listen to the pieces of nonsense spouted by the new kid, and they would have to correct his mistakes.
Whenever the new teacher asked questions, the stupid kid would stand up but made the wrong answers, the other students all wanted to be the first to find his mistakes, and then think up the most original ways to explain them. To do this they used all kinds of stuff : sweets, playing cards, oranges, paper planes, etc. It didn’t seem like any of this bothered the new kid.
However, Little Lewis was sure that it was bound to make him feel sad inside. Lewis was sure he would see him crying. So, one day, he decided to follow the new kid home after school. On leaving school, the new kid walked a few minutes to a local park, and there he waited for a while, until someone came along to meet him……
It was the new teacher!
The teacher gave the new kid a hug, and off they went, hand in hand. Following from a distance, Lewis could hear they were talking about math.
【小题1】根据短文第二三段描述，可知这位新老师的工作很有创造性，故选A。
【小题2】根据短文最后一段Following from a distance, Lewis could hear they were talking about math.描述，可知选B，这个所谓的最蠢的学生其实比其它学生知道的多。
【小题3】根据Lewis was sure he would see him crying. So, one day, he decided to follow the new kid home after school.描述，可知选B。
【小题4】联系上文To do this they used all kinds of stuff :可知选C。
【小题5】The math lessons became interesting again because of the new teacher’s ___________.
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| A．was in great need of math teacher’s help after class |
| B．knew much more about math than other classmates |
| C．had no much gift for math and was slow to learn it |
| D．disliked both the new math teacher and his lessons |
| A．learn about where he lived | B．find out if he felt upset |
| C．say something to comfort him | D．make friends with him |
| A．To find the stupidest kid’s mistakes. |
| B．To think up the most original ways to explain. |
| C．To use all kinds of stuff. |
| D．To follow him home after school. |
Motorists who used to listen to the radio or their favorite tunes on CDs may have a new way to entertain themselves, after engineers in Japan developed a musical road surface.
A team from the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute has built a number of“melody roads,”which use cars as tuning forks to play music as they travel.
The concept works by using grooves(凹槽).They are cut at very specific intervals in the road surface. The melody road uses the spaces between to create different notes.
Depending on how far apart the grooves are, a car moving over them will produce a series of high or low notes, and designers are able to create a distinct tune.
Paten documents for the design describe it as notches “formed in a road surface so as to play a melody without producing simple sound or rhythm and reproduce melody-like tones”.
There are three musical strips in central and northern Japan—one of which plays the tune of a Japanese pop song. Reports say the system was invented by Shizuo Shinoda. He scraped some markings into a road with a bulldozer before driving over them and found that they helped to produce all kinds of tones.
The optimal speed for melody road is 44kph,but people say it is not always easy to get the intended sound.
“You need to keep the car windows closed to hear well,”wrote one Japanese blogger.“Driving too fast will sound like playing fast forward, while driving around 12mph［20km/h］has a slow-motion effect, making you almost car-sick.”
1.According to the passage, melody roads use to create different notes.
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A．cars |
B．grooves |
C．spaces between intervals |
D．bulldozers |
2.We can learn from the passage that the highness of notes is depended on .
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A．how far the grooves are |
B．how big the grooves are |
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C．the number of the grooves |
D．the speed of the car |
3.The underlined word “optimal” in the passage might mean .
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A．fastest |
B．possible |
C．best |
D．suitable |
4.In order to hear the music well, you have to .
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A．drive very fast |
B．drive slowly |
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C．open the windows wide |
D．keep the windows closed |
5.What’s the best title of the passage?
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A．A New Type of Music |
B．Melody Roads in Japan |
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C．A Musical Road Surface |
D．A New Invention in J |