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[1]Although known as an extraordinarily successful businessman, Warren Buffet comes off as a pretty ordinary person.

[2]Looking back on his childhood, one can see how serious he was about making money. Buffet used to go door-to-door and sell soda pop. Later, he also worked at his grandfather’s grocery store. At the ripe age of 11, Buffet bought his first stock(股票). When his family moved to Washington D.C., Buffet became a paperboy for The Washington Post. While still in school, he was making $175 a month, a full-time wage for many young men.

[3]From the beginning, Buffet made his fortune from investing. He started with all the money that he had made from selling pop, delivering papers and so on. Between 1950 and l956, he grew his $9, 800 to $14, 000．From there, he organized investment partnerships with his family and friends, and then gradually drew in more people through very attractive terms.

[4]Buffet applied to Harvard Business School but , making it to be one of the worst admission decisions in Harvard history. The outcome ended up affecting Buffet’s life deeply, for he ended up attending Columbia Business School, where he studied under Benjamin Graham, the father of securities analysis who provided the foundation for Buffet’s grand success.

[5]Buffet is a person of habit—same house, same office, same city. He doesn’t collect houses or cars or works of art, and he hates companies that waste money on such goods. Instead, he has established the Buffet Foundation, with a detailed plan on how to invest his money more wisely to society.

1.What kind of person is Buffet according to Paragraph 1? (no more than 10 words)

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2.What does the writer intend to tell us in Paragraph 2? (no more than 10 words)

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3.According to Paragraph 3, how did Buffet start his investment? (no more than 10 words)

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4.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words. (no more than 3 words)

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5.Explain the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5.

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1.He is an extraordinarily successful but pretty ordinary person.

2.From childhood, Buffet was serious /wise enough to make money.

或How Buffet made money even when he was young.

3.With all the money that he had made before

4.was turned down / was not admitted/was not successful /was refused / failed.

5.He dislikes change或 He doesn’t like change或 He was not willing to change.

【解析】

试题分析：本文介绍了商业天才Warren Buffet的个人成长之路

1. 第一段说明他是一个事业上 很成功的商业天才，但是他也是从一个普通人慢慢成长起来的。

2. 第二段中描述了从很小的时候，他就开始自己挣钱，11岁就投资股票，送报纸等等。这些都说明他在努力挣钱。

3. 根据He started with all the money that he had made from selling pop, delivering papers and so on可知他把以前挣得钱都用来投资了。

4. 根据but可知表示转折，也就是他没有被哈佛录取，这也许哈佛历史上最糟糕的一场录取了

5. 根据下一句same house, same office, same city.可知他要住同一个房子，同样的办公室，都说明他是一个不愿意改变的人。

考点：人物类阅读。

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Remember “Nobody” ever died from stage fright. But, according to surveys, many people would rather die than give a speech. If that applies to you, and you are an unlucky guy who is with stage fright the whole time, try out some of the strategies(策略) as follows to help get yourself under control. Realize that you may never overcome stage fright, but you can learn to control it, and use it to your advantage.

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1) If legs are trembling, lean on table or shift legs or move.

2) Don’t hold notes. The audience can see them shake. Use three-by-five cards instead.

3) Use eye contact. Look at the friendliest faces in the audience.

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1.Someone may be most likely to suffer from stage fright when he/she is ______.

A. attending an English class

B. standing in a classroom

C. watching a performance

D. talking in front of people

2.By thinking of stage fright in a positive way, one could ______.

A. learn to control stage fright

B. get rid of stage fright

C. calm down before stepping on stage

D. become more physically attractive

3.Which of the following is true?

A. Top performers usually suffer from stage fright.

B. Stage fright may stay with a person for a life time.

C. Nobody would rather die than give a speech.

D. No one can overcome or control stage fright.

4.The author advises people with stage fright to ______.

A. show one-tenth of their nervousness

B. experiment with different kinds of stage fright

C. refer to the strategies whenever they feel the need

D. use one of the strategies each time

5.The passage mainly talks about ______.

A. how to deal with stage fright

B. what stage fright is like

C. when stage fright occurs

D. why people have stage fright

 

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However, his father did not like the idea of having a poet for a son and tried to discourage him from writing. To cover up the publication of his first poem, he took the pen name Pablo Neruda.

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1.The underlined word “Picasso” can probably be replaced by “________”.

A. poem fan

B. most important person

C. famous person from Picasso

D. freedom fighter in Picasso

2. Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basolto took the pen name Pablo Neruda because ________.

A. he was greatly influenced by other poets

B. literary greats usually used the pen name

C. his father encouraged him to use the name

D. he wanted to prevent his father knowing the publication

3.Which of the following is not the theme of his works?

A. Social reform. B. Love.

C. Political struggle. D. Development of South America.

4.The last paragraph mainly tells us ________.

A. Neruda loved to write his poems near the sea

B. the sea gave Neruda vast writing inspiration

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D. Neruda’s poems were widely read overseas

 

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Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why otherwise healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason at a relatively early age, and how the process of aging could be slowed down.

With a team of colleagues at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain volumes of a thousand people of different ages and varying occupations.

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1.The team of doctors wanted to find out ________.

why certain people age sooner than others

B. how to make people live longer

C. the size of certain people’s brains

D. which people are most intelligent

2.On what are their research findings based?

A survey of farmers in northern Japan.

B. Tests performed on a thousand old people.

C. The study of brain volumes of different people

D. The latest development of computer technology.

3.The word “subjects” in Paragraph 5 means ________.

something to be considered

B. branches of knowledge studied

C. persons chosen to be studied in an experiment

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4.According to the passage, which people seem to age slower than the others?

A. Lawyers. B. Farmers.

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1.What was the first piece of man-made space trash­?

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A. It no longer served any useful purpose.

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A. It is huge, heavy machines.

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A. A measure of body health based on height and weight.

B. A worldwide prize for the healthiest model.

C. A new show held by those skinny models.

D. A kind of medicine to cure eating disorders.

2.One benefit the new Israeli law may bring is ________.

A. to change the working conditions of models

B. to lower the chance of skinny models’ death

C. to prevent models from suffering from eating disorders

D. to provide guidance for women worshiping thinness

3.In the opinion of the critics, the law won’t succeed because .

A. it misleads young women to form a bad eating habit

B. the fashion industry is much too influential

C. it doesn’t provide a proper approach that can work well

D. it doesn’t create a healthy working environment for models

4.What caused Adatto to think that a law was needed to change the situation?

A. Establishing his fashion model agent.

B. Meeting an ambitious but too skinny model.

C. Being interviewed by a reporter.

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5.According to the passage, the new Israeli law banning skinny models is .

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The day you speak to someone who has his head down and then see him lift it up and smile, you will realize how powerful it is just to open your mouth and say hello.

1.What is the best title for this passage?

A. The power of being talkative

B. My mother's influence on me

C. The power of saying hello

D. My way to become vice-president

2. It is implied in the first paragraph that .

A. the writer didn't like Mr. Lee

B. the writer didn't say hello to Mr. Lee on that occasion

C. the writer didn't get along well with his mother

D. the writer's mother stopped to say hello to everyone she met

3. What can we learn from the second paragraph?

A. The writer didn't say hello to everyone in the company.

B. The writer made a very good impression on the president of the company.

C. The president of the company thought the writer was much better than him.

D. The president of the company actually didn't like the writer at all.

4.For the writer, saying hello to others .

A. is a way to get what he wants

B. has become a habit and a way of life

C. is a way to show respect for his mother

D. is important in making him remembered

5.According to Paragraph 3, in the writer’s opinion, speaking to others can .

A. make our world much better

B. make people much happier every day

C. help people understand each other better

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从南京“彭宇案”开始，社会就陷入“助人恐惧”中，最近，你们班就“是否应该帮助陌生人”展开了讨论，同学们就这一话题意见不一，你的看法如何？你认为怎样才能让爱心回归社会，建立人与人之间的信任？请根据讨论结果，以“Should We Help Strangers?” 为题写一篇短文

 

原因

赞成

帮助他人是美德……；

帮助他人就是帮助自己……；

……

反对

怕陷入麻烦，甚至危险；

怕被误解；

……

你的观点？(至少两点)

注意： 1.词数120左右； 2.开头已写好，不计入总词数；3.覆盖所有要点，适当发挥；

参考词汇： 美德 virtue

Should We Help Strangers?

We used to appreciate those who like to help strangers. But nowadays people tend to be very cautious of helping strangers. Recently our class had a discussion about whether we should help strangers._______________

 

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