题目内容
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Your watch is slow. You’d better ________ it.
| A.abandon | B.arrange | C.adjust | D.adapt |
C
解析
Jack is a twenty-year-old young man. Two years ago, when he finished middle school, he found work in a shop. Usually he works until ten o'clock in the evening. He is very tired when he gets home. After a quick supper he goes to bed and soon falls asleep. His grandma who lives downstairs is satisfied with (满意) him.
One day, on his way home, he met Mary. They were both happy. He asked the girl to his house, she agreed happily. He bought some fruit and drinks for her. And they talked about their school, teachers, classmates and their future (未来). They talked for a long time.
"Have a look at your watch, please," said the girl. "What time is it now?"
"Sorry, something is wrong with my watch," said Jack. "Where's yours?"
"I left it at home."
Jack thought for a moment and found a way. He began to stamp his foot on the floor, "Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The sound woke his grandma up. The old woman shouted downstairs, "It's twelve o'clock in the night, Jack. Why are you still jumping upstairs?"
【小题1】Jack was ________ when he finished middle school.
| A.sixteen | B.eighteen | C.twenty | D.fifteen |
| A.he's her grandson | B.he's clever |
| C.he can keep quiet | D.he gets home on time |
| A.classmate | B.colleague (同事) | C.aunt | D.wife |
| A.盖印 | B.跺 | C.贴邮票 | D.承认 |
| A.to wake his grandma up |
| B.to make his grandma angry |
| C.that his grandma was going to tell him the time |
| D.that his grandma was going to buy him a watch |
Strange things happen when you travel, because the earth is divided into twenty-four zones. The time difference between two zones is one hour. You can have days with more than twenty-four hours and days with fewer than twenty- four hours. You can have weeks with more than seven days and weeks with fewer than seven days.
If you make a five-trip across the Atlantic Ocean , your ship come into a different time zone every day. As you come into each zone, the time changes one hour. If you travel west, you set your watch back. If you travel east, you set it ahead. Each day of your trip has either twenty-five or twenty-three hours.
If you make a trip by ship across the Pacific Ocean , you cross the International Date Line. This is the point where a new day begins when you cross the line, you change one full day. If you travel east, today becomes yesterday, if you travel west it is tomorrow.
【小题1】Something interesting will happen to the time if you travel because ______.
| A.a day has always fewer than twenty-four hours |
| B.a day has always more than twenty- four hours |
| C.a day has more or fewer than twenty-four hours, |
| D.some time zones are large and some time zones are small |
| A.twenty-four hours | B.one hour |
| C.two hours | D.twenty-three hours |
| A.3rd | B.4th | C.5th | D.6th |
One night, as Diaz stepped off the train and onto a nearly empty platform, a teenage boy approached and pulled out a knife.
“He wanted my money, so I just gave him my wallet and told him, ‘Here you go ’” Diaz says.
As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, “Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something. If you’re going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm.”
The robber looked at him puzzled, saying, “Why are you doing this?”
Diaz replied, “If you’re willing to risk your freedom for a few dollars, then you must really need the money. I mean, all I wanted to do was get dinner and if you really want to join me…..”
Diaz says he and the teen went into a diner and sat in a booth.
“The manager comes by, the dishwashers come by, the waiters come by to say hi,” Diaz says.
The kid said, “You know everybody here. Do you own this place?”
“No, I just eat here a lot,” Dias said. “But you’re even nice to the dishwasher,” he said.
Diaz replied, “Well, haven’t you been taught you should be nice to everybody?”
“Yeah, but I didn’t think people actually behaved that way,” the teen said.
When the bill arrived, Diaz said, “You’re going to have to pay for this bill because you have my money and I can’t pay for this. So if you give me my wallet back, I’ll gladly treat you.”
The teen returned it immediately. “I gave him $20…. I figure maybe it’ll help him.” Diaz says he asked for something in return--- the teen’s knife--- “and he gave it to me.”
Afterwards, when Diaz told his mother what happened, she said, “You’re the type of kid that if someone asked you for the time, you gave them your watch.”
“I figure, you know, if you treat people right, you can only hope that they treat you right. It’s as simple as it gets in this complicated world.”
【小题1】What did Diaz do to the teen?
| A.He gave the teen a new wallet | B.He treated the teen to dinner |
| C.He gave his coat to the teen | D.He bought the teen’s knife |
| A.expressed his gratitude for Diaz’s kindness |
| B.gave up the idea of robbing in the end |
| C.wasn’t taught how to be nice to everybody |
| D.gave the knife to Diaz in return for his forgiveness |
| A.anger | B.concern | C.criticism | D.praise |
| A.to keep calm in danger | B.not to go out alone at night |
| C.to treat others kindly | D.not to harm others on purpose |