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-Who talked to you?
-My sister whispered______ my ear.
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A. in B. to C. with D. on
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“Everything happens for the best,” my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. “If you carry on, one day something good will happen. And you’ll realize that it wouldn’t have happened if not for that previous disappointment.”
Mother was right, as I discovered after graduating from college in 1932, I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way up to a sports announcer. I hitchhiked to Chicago and knocked on the door of every station—and got turned down every time. In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn’t risk hiring an inexperienced person. “Go out in the sticks and find a small station that’ll give you a chance,” she said. I thumbed home to Dixon, Illinois.
While there were no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I applied. The job sounded just right for me. But I wasn’t hired. My disappointment must have shown. “Everything happens for the best.” Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to hunt a job. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur told me they had already hired an announcer.
As I left his office, my frustration (挫折) boiled over. I asked aloud, “How can a fellow get to be a sports announcer if he can’t get a job in a radio station?” I was waiting for the elevator when I heard MacArthur calling, “What was you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he stood me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast an imaginary game. The preceding (在前的) autumn, my team had won a game in the last 20 seconds with a 65-yard run. I did a 15-minute build-up to that play, and Peter told me I would be broadcasting Saturday’s game! On my way home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother’s words: “If you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn’t have happened if not for that previous disappointment.”
I often wonder what direction my life might have taken if I’d gotten the job at Montgomery Ward.
【小题1】The writer shows his _____ by saying “… if I’d not gotten the job at Montgomery Ward”.
| A.regret | B.happiness | C.gratefulness | D.disappointment |
| A.in radio stations | B.in the country |
| C.in big cities | D.in Dixon, Illinois |
| A.it was his mother’s words that encouraged him |
| B.his mother was a person who talked a lot |
| C.nothing good has happened to him up to now |
| D.he got turned down every time he tried |
| A.There was a small radio station in Dixon, Illinois. |
| B.Peter MacArthur was a program director in Scotland. |
| C.WOC Radio in Davenport broadcast imaginary games. |
| D.Montgomery Ward had a store with a sports department. |
| A.When he hitchhiked to Chicago. | B.After he graduated from college. |
| C.Before he graduated from college. | D.As soon as he was turned down. |
IQUIQUE, Chile (Reuters) — Rescue workers at the San Jose gold and copper mine in northern Chile had reason to sing this week. A small hole drilled into the earth became a passage to freedom for 33 trapped miners, who spent 69 days underground. “Never have people been trapped for so long so deeply,” says a doctor at NASA, the American space agency, which helped in the rescue.
But the chief medical officer for the miners said most are in good enough health to leave the hospital within a day or so. The first three recovered and went home Thursday night.
For much of the day the miners relaxed with Chilean President Sebastian Pinera. The 32 Chileans and 1 Bolivian still wore special sunglasses to protect their eyes.
A partial mine collapse on 5th August trapped them more than half a kilometer underground. They had to stretch a two-day food supply. For two weeks no one knew if they were alive or dead. Later, they received supplies.
The first miner rescued on Wednesday was Florencio Avalos. The second was Mario Sepulveda, who talked about how the experience tested his faith. The last miner up was Luis Urzua, who was the shift leader when his crew became trapped.
Rescuers used a metal cage to pull the miners to safety in less than 24 hours — faster than expected. The rescue capsule was a half-meter wide and known as the Phoenix, an imaginary bird from ancient stories. It bursts into flames but is continually reborn and rises from the ashes.
Chile’s Navy built the capsule with advice from mining experts and NASA engineers. It worked like an elevator, traveling up and down on a cable through a shaft(竖井)drilled 622 meters into the rocks.
Millions of people around the world watched the rescue. More than one thousand journalists traveled to the mine in the Atacama Desert to report on the rescue. They joined family members of the miners and rescue crews housed in an area of tents known as Camp Hope.
【小题1】What would be the best title for the passage?
| A.Rescued miners speak out |
| B.Miners’ life deep underground |
| C.A rebirth for 33 rescued miners in Chile |
| D.Chilean president honors rescued miners |
| A.3. | B.30. | C.33. | D.69. |
| A.all the trapped miners are Chileans |
| B.the Chileans rescued the miners alone |
| C.the rescue caught the world’s attention |
| D.the trapped miners lived easily underground |
| A.It was a wooden cage like a capsule. |
| B.It worked efficiently in the rescue. |
| C.It was named after a real Chilean bird. |
| D.It was built by NASA engineers. |
| A.33 trapped miners were saved |
| B.the American space agency took part |
| C.Chilean President was on the rescuing spot |
| D.it lasted so long and the miners were trapped so deep |