Peter Fern was crazy about mountains. Climbing was the  1  of his life. Church towers,seaside cliffs, rock faces, ice mountains,anything “If it is there” , he used to say, “then I want to climb it.”

So the news of his marriage gave me a   2  . I’d never known him to take much interest in   3  . Well,Peter Fern a married man! I couldn't  4  it. I  5  whether his wife would try to stop some of his risky   6  .

She was French perhaps--from that place   7  he usually spent his holidays. Chamonix,wasn’t it? From Chamonix he'd climbed Mount Blanc on his seventeenth birthday, and another one the day after! That was it, then: She was French,from a mountaineering family. No  8  . No other explanation.

A month later I met them  9  in town. Anna surprised me—because she was English. She was a dancer in the   10.

“I have   11  climbed more than sixty steps in my life,” she told me. “Peter has his   12  , and I’ve got mine. No   13  ”. “None at all,”Peter said, smiling. “Where did you spend your   14  ?” I asked.Somewhere far  15  theatres and mountains,was it? “We had a week's holiday,” Anna said, “I flew to New York to see Dirke Dancers on Broadway. A wonderful  16  !” Peter said, “I didn’t want to   17  the good weather. So I went to Switzerland and climbed the north   18  of the Eiger with Allen Dunlop. Great   19  , the Eiger. Grand place for a honeymoon! I’ll show you the   20  we took one day.”

1. A.purpose                B.love                  C.answer                 D.even

2. A.joy                       B.thought              C.lesson                   D.shock

3. A.mountains             B.churches            C.faces                    D.girls

4. A.accept                  B.understand         C.bear                     D.tell

5. A.believed               B.knew                 C.wondered             D.realized

6. A.jobs                      B.words                C.adventures            D.deeds

7. A.where                   B.when                 C.which                   D.how

8. A.one                      B.reason               C.sign                      D.doubt

9. A.all                     B.two                   C.both                     D.double

10.A.family               B.mountain            C.theatre                  D.holiday

11.A.ever                    B.even                  C.never                    D.almost

12.A.interests               B.life                    C.room                    D.car

13.A.wonder             B.way                   C.time                     D.problems

14.A.days                    B.honeymoon        C.childhood              D.rest of life

15.A.away                   B.as                      C.by                        D.from

16.A.show                   B.sight                  C.scene                   D.game

17.A.miss                    B.escape               C.break                    D.forget

18.A.position               B.face                   C.point                    D.line

19.A.programme          B.progress            C.fun                       D.invention

20.A.photographs         B.roles                  C.sports                   D.pains

Recently, a study was carried out to determine who was the greatest American president.Sixty-five presidential historians took part in it, and they judged the past forty-two American leaders based on ten leadership qualities, including public persuasiveness (信服), crisis leadership, management of the economy, moral leadership, and conduct of international relations.The historians also looked at administrative (管理) ability, relations with Congress, ability to set goals, and the pursuit of equal justice for all.Finally, the experts took into consideration the historical period in which the president lived.

The historians chose Abraham Lincoln as American’s greatest president.He had also been named best president in a similar study in 2000.Abraham Lincoln was the president who led the nation through the Civil War in the 1860s, and was able to unite it in the end.He also took the first steps to abolish slavery in America.

Edna Medford, a professor of history at Howard University in Washington, D.C., was an adviser on this study and the earlier one.She says Abraham Lincoln is seen to represent the values the nation most honors, such as truthfulness, moderation, and respect for human rights.

The historians put American’s first president, George Washington, second on the list, while Franklin D.Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harry Truman follow in that order.John   F.Kennedy, the country’s first Roman Catholic president, is sixth on the list.Like Lincoln, Kennedy was murdered while in office.

Among recent presidents, Ronald Reagan was named the tenth best and Bill Clinton rated fifteenth, while the historians put former president George W.Bush at number thirty-six.His father, George H.W.Bush, did much better, being placed at number eighteen.

We learn from the text that ___________.

      A.this is the second time that Abraham Lincoln has been chosen as America’s greatest president

      B.Edna Medford didn’t take part in the study conducted in 2000.

      C.George H.W.Bush was thought to have done worse in office than George W.Bush

      D.Harry Truman was rated the fourth-best president by the study

Which of the following belong to the ten leadership qualities considered?

      a.Being able to persuade the public

      b.Taking effective measures during a financial crisis.

      c.Balancing home life and career.

      d.Pursuing equal justice for all.

   A.a,b,c             B.b,c,d        C.a,b,d        D.a,c,d

Who is rated worst among the following four presidents?

     A.John F.Kennedy                B.George Washington

     C.Bill Clinton                     D.George W.Bush

The text is mainly about ________.

     A.the ten qualities a great president needs

     B.a study of American presidents

     C.the values the American nation honors most

     D.how Abraham Lincoln improved the country

There have been great changes in the lives of women. During the twentieth century ,there was an unusual shortening of the time of a woman’s life spent in caring for children. A woman marrying at the end of the 19th century would probably have been in her middle twenties, and would be likely to have about eight children, of whom about five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which custom, chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children, her work is lightened by household appliances(家用电器) and convenience(方便) foods.

This important change in women’s way of life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women’s economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women tend to marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards, return to full or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with both husband and wife accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfaction of family life, and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money and running the home, according to the abilities and interest of each them.

1.Women marrying at the end of the 19th century ________.

A. would have fewer children than those today.

B. would have more children than those today.

C. lived as hard as those in the 20th century

D. lived more comfortably than those in the 20th century

2. According to the passage, a woman in the 19th century would likely to have about eight children and _______.

A. only about three of them could live more than five years old.

B. only about three of them could live for five years.

C. about eight children lived to be more than five years.

D. about eight children lived to be less than five years.

3. From the second paragraph, we know _______.

A. women today are not willing to run their home together with their husbands.

B. women today wouldn’t like to do any housework.

C. women today will return to work after they have their babies.

D. were unlikely to find jobs like the mothers before .

4.According to the passage, which of the following is right ?

A. in the past most women often stay at home after leaving school

B. women today like to marry men younger than themselves

C. women today are playing important parts in work and family life.

D. husbands today needn’t do any work at home.

 

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