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Among them I like this kind of food ______, for it is ______ sugar and water.
A. best, mostly B. best, most C. most, best D. most, mostly
Not many years ago,a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy-five, he gave £ 12,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children’s playground.
As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk,Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy—five. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening.” he told the newspaperman,thinking of his evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain,asking him for the secret of his daily injection.
【小题1】Johnson became a rich man through _________.
| A.making whisky |
| B.doing business. |
| C.buying and selling land. |
| D.having an injection each night |
| A.he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening. |
| B.he needed an injection in the neck. |
| C.a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well. |
| D.there was something wrong with his neck. |
| A.humorous and drunk | B.wealthy and honest |
| C.wealthy and humorous | D.drunk and clever |
Mary Buendia once spent a day in an airplane, looking for a cat. She didn't find it that day. The plane flew around all over the world for three weeks with the cat on board. She finally found it in the cargo hold and sent it home first-class. Another time ,she found two suitcases full of birds from Turkey. But her strangest experience was when she pulled a snake out of a man's pants.
Mary Buendia is an animal health inspector at JFK Airport in New York. She takes care of all the animals that pass through the airport and checks that they are healthy. In the Animal Health Center, there are areas for dogs, cats, reptiles, birds, and fish. There is also an area for very big animals. The biggest they ever had was a black rhino. "It was no problem." she says.
At the center, they receive all types of animals monkeys, wild cats, poisonous spiders. It's impossible for one person to know about all of these, but there are 20 people working with Mary. Among them, they understand how to take care of the animals. She recently had to feed a group of toucans, which are rare birds. "luckily," she says, "there is a supermarket nearby which is open 24 hours. I had to go at 2 a.m to buy bananas.
Mary often works at night. "It's quiet between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m." she says, "because we don't have night flights. We try to give the animals a quiet night." Mary clearly loves her job. "You never know what the day will bring,"she says, and goes off to feed the birds.
【小题1】The best title of the passage will probably be _____.
| A.JKF Airport in New York | B.Airport Health Inspector |
| C.Mary Buendia | D.Animal Health Center |
| A.working as an Airport Health Inspector, Mary Buendea has various experiences |
| B.after the cat was found, it was sent home to New York |
| C.Mary got frightened when she pulled a snake out of a man's pants |
| D.Mary was tired of dealing with animals at the airport |
| A.Mary often works at night during flights |
| B.it took Mary a whole day to find a lost cat in an airplane |
| C.only healthy animals can be permitted to go aboard the airplane |
| D.Mary knows everything about the animals by working with 20 other people |
Giacomo Puccini was born in 1858 and was a son of a musical director. __ 51 He is remembered as a master of opera.
52 Many early forerunners of Impressionistic Music including Rimsky-Korsakov, Strauss, Schoenberg and Stravinsky, inspired him greatly.
Turandot, an opera based on an Italian drama by the same name, is by far considered to be one of Puccini’s most popular and most performed works.
It’s a pity that Puccini had no chance to watch his own great opera himself. 53
In this opera you can hear a traditional Chinese folk song, which is titled Molihua(茉莉花)or Jasmine Flower. _____54____ Among them the version sung in Jiangsu, a province in south China, is the most popular one. By admiring the jasmine flower, the song celebrates the sweetness and beauty of romantic love. 55 In 1804 the song was published in a book by a British diplomat(外交官), making it the first Chinese folk song that gained popularity outside China.
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A.During his music career, Puccini was also influenced by other musicians. |
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B.At the end of the 18th century, it was first translated into English. |
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C.Though Puccini received training in various areas of music, his true love was in opera. |
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D.Puccini’s operas are strong in emotion and conflict. |
E. Turandot is performed regularly all over the world.
F. The opera was first performed in 1926, two years after Puccini’s death.
G. There are many different versions of Molihua or Jasmine Flower in different parts of China.