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_____great progress Jim had made in _______ time!

A. What a ;  such a short                B. What ; so short a

C. How a ;  such a short                 D. How;  such short

B

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After a lot of weightlifting and 25 exhausting days training, a 52-year-old woman recently became the first female “gripman” on San Francisco’s historic cable cars.

Fannie Barnes passed her written test and completed a final run under the watchful eye of a supervisor, Municipal Railway spokesman Alan Siegel said.

Deep calluses(茧) are already forming at the base of her fingers and there is a hole in her glove. Two other women quit after a single day with injured muscles. “Now they’re going to have to change the word from gripman to grip person, just because of me,” Barnes said earlier, “I’m so excited.”

After almost a year of serious workouts, Barns can pull more than 61 kilos, only 23 kilos less than her body weight. And she’ll need the muscle, for this is no modern, push-button technology. Every time a car starts up again after making a stop, the gripman must haul back on a lever controlling a device that grips the cable, which runs continuously at 14 kilometers per hour. If the grip slips, so does the car. A second person operates the brakes.

In addition to having to throw her weight around on the job, she’s got to throw out some attitude to men who were hard to convince. The city employs 76 men in the job.

“A lot of men said mean things to me and didn’t want to help train me. But I would like to thank the guys who were against me because they gave me even more inspiration to do it.” she said.

Not all the men were against her. Many of the male colleagues yelled out support as she did her training runs. One of her biggest tests was drizzly December morning. She first went down the Hyde Street Hill, considered the most dangerous incline on the cable car routes. “I had to have the will and I had to believe I could do it,” she said. “It was scary, but as I started going down full grip and felt that I was in control, I knew I was on my way,” Barnes already is a pioneer of sorts. She started working as a cable car conductor six years ago, collecting fares and assisting on the back brake. She is one of only three women to have that job. But she said she always wanted the job up front on the car. (400)

What is unusual about Fannie Barnes getting a job as a gripman?

 A. She is the oldest one to work as a grpman.

 B. She is the first women to work as a gripman.

 C. She is the fattest women to work as a gripman.

 D. She is the most suitable one to work as a gripman.

What did the 52-year-old woman do when she first began working on the city’s cable car?

 A. As a gripman.    B. As a conductor.    C. As a brakeman.  D. As a supervisor.

It can be inferred from the passage that Fannie Barnes is ________.

A. strong and easy-going            B. strong-willed and self-confident

C. popular and humorous            D. considerate and quick-tempered

There is no _____ that taking regular physical exercise is good for your heart.

A. need                    B. sense                        C. worry                 D. doubt

 You’d better not phone me between two and six o’clock this afternoon; I ___

   a speech then.

A. will give                  B. will have been giving    

C. will be giving              D. will have given

 —What about the picnic plan?

    —Not ________ yet. It’s being discussed..

A. decided                           B. decide         C. deciding                        D. to be decided

第一节 语音知识（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

例：have        A. gave               B. save                  C. hat                D. made

答案是C。

1. burst         A. survival     B. confirm     C. govern             D. advertise

2. steak          A. great         B. wealth       C. appeal              D. react

3. otherwise   A. cloth         B. thirst         C. clothing        D. throat

4. attach        A. technology       B. machine    C. school                  D. charge

5. punish              A. cushion     B. quantity    C. conclude       D. unable

Carl Linnaeus made great contributions to ________ plant species.

A. group      B. have grouped  C. grouping   D. been grouping

 A good advertisement should ____ the consumers and direct their attention to the product.

A. absorb       B. attach      C. call     D. attract

 Housing price in China is so expensive that it is_______ the reach of those with average income, so the government is taking measures to solve the problem.

   A. over              B. within                C. beyond                 D. below     

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