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"Some books are to be chewed and digested" means that some books____.

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A. should be dipped into

B. should be read here and there

C. shouldn't be put down until you finish reading it

D. should be read slowly and carefully

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In the last 500 years, nothing about people — their clothes, ideas, or languages—has changed as much as what they eat. The original chocolate drink was made from the seeds of the cocoa tree(可可树)by South American. Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500’s. And although it was very expensive, it quickly became fashionable. In London, shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places. Some still exist today.

The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Eu??rope, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish peo??ple starved when the crop failed during the "Potato Famine (饥荒)" of 1845—1846, and thousands more were forced to leave their homeland and move to America.

There are many other foods that have traveled from South America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil is now the world’s largest grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native to Ethiopia, a country in Africa. It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400’s.

according to an. Arabic legend, coffee was discovered when a person named Kaldi noticed that his goats were attracted to the red berries on a coffee, bush. He tried one and experienced the " wide-awake" feeling that one third of the world’s population now starts the day with.

1. according to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years?

A. Food.      B. Clothing.          C. Ideology.           D. Language.

2. The word "some" in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to________.

A. some cocoa trees                    B. some chocolate drinks.

C. some shops                           D. some South American Indians

3. Thousands of Irish people starved during the " Potato Famine" because________

A. they were so dependent on potatoes that they refused to eat anything else

B. they were forced to leave their homeland and move to America

C. the weather conditions in Ireland were not suitable for growing potatoes

D. the potato harvest was bad

4. according to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. One third of the world’s population drinks coffee.

B. Coffee is native to Colombia.

C. Coffee can keep one awake.

D. Coffee drinks were first made by Arabs.

"Hey, Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "what was your favourite fast food when you were growing up?"

"We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him."All the food was slow." "Where did you eat?" "It was a place called 'at home'." I explained."Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I liked it."

Some parents never owned their own houses, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card.

My parents have never driven me to soccer practice.This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer.I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed.We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11.I was 13 when I tasted my first pizza; it was called "pizza pie".When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered(粘贴)itself against my chin and burned that, too.It's still the best pizza I ever had.

I delivered newspapers, six days a week .The paper cost 7 cents, of which I got to keep 2 cents.I had to get up at 4:00 a.m.every morning.On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers.My favourite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren.

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

1.By saying "All the food was slow", the writer implies that ____.

A.when he was growing up, he never ate fast food

B.he didn't like fast food when he was growing up

C.his grandma made food slowly

D.he had to wait for a long time for the fast food

2.When the writer didn't like the food his grandma cooked when he was growing up, _______.

A.his grandma would make something he liked

B.his grandma would buy him fast food

C.he would sit there waiting for his favourite pizza pie

D.he had to eat it or go without

3.The writer's purpose of writing this passage is to _____.

A.tell his children there was no fast food in the past

B.tell us that life has been changing

C.tell us how hard it is to deliver newspapers

D.made us understand the meaning of life

 

第三节:完形填空(共20小题,每小题1.5分,满分30分)

阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项A、B、C、D中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

Jessie's Glove

I do a lot of management training each year for the Circle K Corporation, a national chain of convenience stores.      21    the topics we discuss is the retention (保持)of quality employees -- a real challenge to managers when you consider the pay scale (薪水标准)in the service industry. During these discussions, I asked the participants, "What has caused you to stay long enough to become a manager?" Some time back a new   22    took the question and     23      said, "It was a $19 baseball glove."

Cynthia told the group that she    24    took a Circle K clerk job as an interim (过渡时期)position   25      she looked for something   26     .On her second or third day behind the counter, she received a phone call from her nine-year-old son, Jessie. He needed a baseball glove for Little League. She explained that    27     a single mother, money was very    28    , and her first check would    29    go for paying   30    . Perhaps she could buy his baseball glove with her second or third check..

When Cynthia arrived for work the next morning, Patricia, the store manager, asked her to come to the small room in the back of the store that    31    as an office. Cynthia    32    if she had done something wrong or left some part of her job incomplete from the day before. She was concerned and confused.

Patricia handed her a box. "I overheard you talking to your son   33    ," she said, "and I know that it is hard to   34     things to kids. This is a baseball glove for Jessie because he may not understand how    35    he is, even though you have to pay bills    36    you can buy gloves. You know we can't pay good people like you as much as we would like to; but we    37   care, and I want you to know you are important to    38  ."

The thoughtfulness, sympathy and    39  of this convenience store manager demonstrates vividly that people remember more how much an employer  40     than how much the employer pays. An important lesson for the price of a Little League baseball glove.

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22.A.employee

23.A.loudly

24.A.originally

25..A.during

26.A.larger

27.A.to

28.A.small

29.A.have to

30.A.calls

31.A.worked

32.A.imagined

33.A.yesterday

34.A.introduce

35.A.important

36.A.after

37.A.can

38.A.him

39.A.love

40.A.has

B. Among

B. student

B. quickly

B. generally

B. while

B. easier

B. for

B. low

B. like to

B. bills

B. regarded

B. wondered

B .last week

B. instruct

B. helpful

B. before

B. do

B. her

B. expectation

B. does

C. In

C. manager

C. slowly

C. mostly

C. after

C. better

C. like

C. useful

C. stick to

C. meals

C. looked

C. realized

C. today

C. explain

C. hopeful

C. when

C. have

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C choice

C. cares

D. about

D. teacher

D. angrily

D. recently

D. until

D. safer

D. as

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`D. education

`D. served

D. doubted

D. just now

D. speak

D. wonderful

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D. wish

D. Says

 

Not all memories are sweet. Some people spend all their lives trying to forget bad experiences. Violence and traffic accidents can leave people with terrible physical and emotional scars. Often they relive these experiences in nightmares(噩梦).

Now American researchers think they are close to developing a pill, which will help people forget bad memories. The pill is designed to be taken immediately after a frightening experience. They hope it might reduce, or possibly wipe out, the effect of painful memories.

In November, experts tested a drug on people in the US and France. The drug stops the body releasing (释放) chemicals that fix memories in the brain. So far the research has suggested that only the emotional effects of memories may be reduced, not that the memories are wiped out. They are not sure to what degree people’s memories are affected.

The research has caused a great deal of argument(争议). Some think it is a bad idea, while others support it. Supporters say it could lead to pills that prevent or treat soldiers' troubling memories after war. They say that there are many people who suffer from terrible memories.

"Some memories can ruin people's lives. They come back to you when you don't want to have them in a daydream or nightmare. They usually come with very painful emotions," said Roger Pitman, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "This could relieve a lot of that suffering."

But those who are against the research say that maybe the pills can change people’s memories and changing memories is very dangerous because memories give us our identity (特质). They also help us all avoid the mistakes of the past.

"All of us can think of bad events in our lives that were terrible at the time but make us who we are. I'm not sure we want to wipe those memories out, "said Rebecca Dresser, a medical ethicist.

1. The passage is mainly about               .

A. a new medical invention              B. a new research on the pill

C. a way of wiping out painful memories D. an argument about the research on the pill

2.The drug tested on people can            .

A. cause the brain to fix memories          B. stop people remembering bad experiences

 C. stop body producing certain chemicals   D. wipe out the emotional effects of memories

3.We can infer from the passage that            .

A. people doubt the effects of the pills       

B. the pill will certainly stop people's emotional memories

C. taking the pill will do harm to people's physical health

D. the pill has already been produced and used by the public in America

4.Which of the following does Rebecca Dresser agree with in the last paragraph ?

A. some memories can ruin people's lives.          

B. people want to get rid of bad memories.

C. experiencing bad events makes us different from others.

D. the pill will reduce people's sufferings from bad memories.

5.You may probably read the passage in a __________

A. guidebook   B. medical magazine      C. textbook   D. science fiction

 

For many years it was common in the United States to associate Chinese Americans with restaurants and places that wash clothes. People did not realize that the Chinese had been driven into these occupations by the prejudice and discrimination that faced them in this country.

The first Chinese to reach the United States came during the California Gold Rush of 1849. Like most of the other people there,they had come to search for gold. In that largely unoccupied land, the men staked a claim (立界标表明所有权) for themselves by placing makers’ in the ground. However,either because the Chinese were so different from the others or because they worked so patiently that they sometimes succeeded in getting a mining claim to make a profit ( where others saw no way to do so) ,they became the target".Of their competi­tors. They were troubled and attacked in many ways. Often they were prevented from working their claims; some places even passed regulations forbidding them to own claims. The Chinese therefore started to seek out other ways of earning a living. Some of them began to wash clothes for the white miners; others set up small restaurants. (There were almost no women in California in those days and the Chinese filled a real need by doing this" women's work". ) Some went to work as farmhands or as fishermen.

In the early 1860's many more Chinese arrived in California. This time railroad companies brought the men in to build the first railroad line from California to the East. They were sorely needed because the work was so hard and dangerous,and it was carried on in such an isolated part of the country that the railroad company could not find other laborers for the job. As in the case of the first Chinese in America, these Chinese were almost all males; and like them,too,they encountered a great deal of prejudice. The hostility grew es­pecially strong after the railroad project was completed,and the Chinese laborers returned to California—thousands of them,all out of work

Many of today's Chinese Americans are the descendants of some of the early miners and railroad workers.

1. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. The first Chinese to reach the United States came during the California Gold Rush of 1849.

B. Many more Chinese arrived in California to construct the first railroad from California to the East.

C. Early Chinese immigrants to America experienced a lot of prejudice and discrimination.

D. Prejudice and discrimination that Chinese Americans met.

2. Why did the Chinese become the target of their competitors?

A. Because the Chinese were different and they worked patiently to achieve a lot of success while others couldn't.

B. The Chinese were so different from the others.

C. They worked so patiently with little payment

D. There were almost no women in California in those days.

3.What was the fate of the Chinese after the construction of the railroad?

A. They went back to their own country  

B. They stayed to work in the railroad companies.

C. They went to California to search for gold.

D. The hostility grew especially strong.

4.What is the meaning of the word" encountered"?

A. face.            B. Count.         C. Enter.             D. Handle.

5.The following statements are true EXCEPT       .

A. during the California Gold Rush of 1849,people staked a claim for themselves by placing markers in the ground

B. the first Chinese went to America because they wanted to work as farmhands or as fishermen

C. many of today's Chinese Americans are the descendants of the early miners and railroad workers

D. the Chinese were sorely needed because the work was so dangerous

 

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