题目内容
Until he told me yesterday,I knew______of what had happened to him .
A.everything B.something C.anything D.nothing
D
解析:
句意理解是:直到昨天他告诉我,我对他发生了什么事一无所知。
The differences between men and women's friendships
Betty and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzles (困扰) old Harold. How is it that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitting on the sofa, talking, go out to a ballgame, come back three and a half hours later, and they're still sitting on the sofa and talking?
What old Harold cannot understand or explain is the fact that women have so much to share.
Betty shrugs. Talk? We're friends.
Researching this matter called friendship, psychologist Lillian Rubin spent two years interviewing more than two hundred women and men. the results were completely clear: women have more friendships than men. Rubin's study shows that for emotional support a married woman is more likely to turn to a female friend.
"In general," writes Rubin in her new book, "women's friendships with each other lie on shared emotions and support, but men's relationships are marked by shared activities.”
“ Men keep their innermost(内心深处的) feelings to themselves. " Rubin writes, " Whereas(然而) a woman's closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage. However, a man by society doesn’t complain about his marriage trouble. it wasn't unusual to hear a man say he didn't know his friend's marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on the sofa. "
1.What old Harold cannot understand or explain is the fact that ________.
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A.he is treated as an outsider rather than a husband |
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B.women have so much to share. |
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C.women show little interest in ballgames |
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D.he find his wife difficult to talk to |
2.Rubin's study shows that for emotional support a married woman is more likely to turn to _________.
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A.a male friend |
B.a female friend |
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C.her parents |
D.her husband |
3.What do women's friendships with each other lie on in general?
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A.shared emotions |
B.support |
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C.shared activities |
D.shared emotions and support |
4.According to the last paragraph, which type of behavior is NOT expected of a man by society?
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A.Ending his marriage without good reason. |
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B.Spending too much time with his friends. |
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C.complaining about his marriage trouble. |
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D.going out to ballgames too often.. |
5.What is the article about? ________.
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A.happy and successful marriages |
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B.friendships of men and women |
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C.emotional problems in marriage |
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D.interactions between men and women |
John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas City in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching the high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks.
Fortunately he had a strong-willed caring mother. John remembered that his mother told him many times, “Son, you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe.” She told him not to depend on others, including his mother. “You have to earn success,” she said. “All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”
These words came from a woman with less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and hard work don’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son, who was then 15, to Chicago. Chicago in 1933 was not the promised land that black southerners were looking for. John’s mother and stepfather could not find work. But here John could go to school, and here he learned the power of words---as an editor of the newspaper and yearbook at Du Sable High School. His wish was to publish a magazine for blacks.
While others discouraged him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by: “Nothing beats a failure but a try. ” She also let him pawn(典当)her furniture to get the $500 he needed to start the Negro magazine for blacks.
It is natural that difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He always keeps his mother’s words in mind.: “Son, failure is not in your vocabulary!”
Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America---worth $150 million.
1.John’s mother decided to move to Chicago because_______.
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A.his father died when John was very young. |
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B.life was too hard for them to stay on in their hometown |
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C.John needed more education badly |
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D.there were no school for Negroes in their hometown |
2.John’s mother________.
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A.didn’t believe in or depend on others |
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B.thought one could be whatever one wanted to be |
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C.believed one would succeed without working hard |
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D.thought no one could succeed without working hard. |
3.The sentence “Nothing beats a failure but a try” means _______.
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A.if you try, you would succeed |
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B.a failure is difficult to beat, even if you try |
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C.a try is always followed by a failure |
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D.no failure can be beaten unless you try |