阅读理解. Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was ——青夏教育精英家教网—

阅读理解。

     Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven.
His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes.
Lieberman improved his kitchen skills greatly during a year abroad before college, learning from a cook in
Italy and studying local specialties (地方特色菜) in Germany, Spain and France. At Yale, he was known
for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for dozens of friends.
Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine about his cooking.
Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmates how to do things like make drinks out of dining-
hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students. They would stop Lieberman after
classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around, with which his name went
beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.
     Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He says
Lieberman's charisma is key. "Food TV isn't about food anymore," says Flay. "It's about your personality
(个性) and finding a way to keep people's eyeballs on your show."
     But Lieberman isn't putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new how,
Lieberman was back in his won small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company (航空公司) was
looking for some one to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flights,
Lieberman got the job.

1. We can learn from the text that Lieberman's family _____.

A. have relatives in Europe
B. love cooking at home
C. often hold parties
D. own a restaurant

2. The Food Network got to know Lieberman _____.

A. at one of his parties
B. from his teachers
C. through his taped show
D. on a television program

3. What does the word "charisma" underlined in the text refer to?

A. A natural ability to attract others.
B. A way to show one's achievement.
C. Lieberman's after-class interest.
D. Lieberman's fine cooking skill.

4. Why did the airline company give Lieberman the job?

A. He could prepare meals in a small kitchen.
B. He was famous for his shows on Food TV.
C. He was good at using eggs to make sandwiches.
D. He could cook cheap, delicious and simple meals.

5. What can we learn about Lieberman from the text?

A. He is clever but lonely.
B. he is friendly and active.
C. He enjoys traveling around.
D. He often changes his menus.

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     It's fourteen years since I left the Philippines to live with my family in the USA. A month ago, while on
summer vacation back in my motherland, I learned a lesson from mosquito (蚊子) bites. Right before   1
Kennedy Airport in New York, my grandma   2 me of the behavior of the native mosquitoes around the   3
like me. She said, "There's an old saying-the   4 you stay away from the motherland, the sweeter your blood
  5 to the mosquitoes. " Not   6 it, I replied, "Grandma, that's just an old wives' tale!"
     Well, less than a week   7 my arrival in Manila, I was already carpeted with a   8 of mosquito bites. I
took many measures to keep myself from being   9 , but they all proved useless.
     Late one  10 in my cousin's home, I couldn't bear the  11  of the bites. Hoping to find some comfort, I
12 my cousin, who was sleeping peacefully in the bed next to mine. Unhappy for being  13 she said, "There
nothing you can do. Go back to sleep." With a few turns, she slept again. Enviously (妒嫉地)  14 her sleep,
I hoped a big mosquito would  15 on her face. However, the mosquitoes would just lightly dance around her
forehead and fly away quickly, never biting her. Amazed (惊奇的), I ran to others'  16 , only to find they were
all sleeping  17 as the same thing occurred again and again. From those bites, I came to  18 my grandma's silly
tale.
     From then on, I've always tried to keep a(n)  19  mind about those strange old wives' tales  20  they do have
some truth to them.

(     )1. A. leaving
(     )2. A. persuaded
(     )3. A. students
(     )4. A. earlier
(     )5. A. grows
(     )6. A. expecting
(     )7. A. after
(     )8. A. shade
(     )9. A. touched
(     )10. A. morning
(     )11. A. noise
(     )12. A. woke up
(     )13. A. blamed
(     )14. A. having
(     )15. A. land
(     )16. A. houses
(     )17. A. joyfully
(     )18. A. tell
(     )19. A. open
(     )20. A. and

B. passing
B. reminded
B. foreigners
B. longer
B. goes
B. understanding
B. before
B. pile
B. bitten
B. afternoon
B. hit
B. shouted at
B. interrupted
B. watching
B. fly
B. flats
B. anxiously
B. know
B. active
B. so

C. visiting
C. warned
C. passengers
C. sooner
C. flows
C. recognizing
C. when
C. cloud
C. defeated
C. evening
C. pain
C. looked for
C. moved
C. making
C. fall
C. rooms
C. soundlessly
C. remember
C. clear
C. because

D. finding
D. informed
D. visitors
D. later
D. remains
D. believing
D. as
D. blanket
D. discovered
D. night
D. effect
D. dropped on
D. frightened
D. helping
D. wait
D. homes
D. worriedly
D. accept
D. honest
D. until

阅读理解。

     Jim suffered heart problems. In conversation he expressed little joy and it seemed that his life was
drawing to a close.
     When his heart problems led to operation, Jim went through it successfully, and a full recovery was
expected. Within days, however, his heart was not beating properly. Jim was rushed back to operation,
but nothing was found to explain the cause of his illness. He died on the operating table on the day before
his 48th birthday.
     Dr. Bruce Smoller, a psychologist (心理学家), had had many conversations with him, and the more
he learned, the stranger he realized Jim's case was. When Jim was a child, his father, a teacher, suffered
a heart attack and stayed home to recover. One morning Jim asked his father to look over his homework,
promising to come home from school at noon to pick it up. His father agreed, but when Jim returned his
father had died. Jim's father was 48.
     "I think all his life Jim believed he killed his father," Dr. Smoller says."He felt that if he had not asked
him to look at his homework, his father would have lived. Jim had been troubled by the idea. The operation
was the trial (判决) he had expected for forty years." Smoller believes that Jim willed himself not to live to
the age of 48.
     Jim's case shows the powerful role that attitude (态度) plays in physical health, and that childhood
experiences produce far-reaching effect on the health of grown-ups. Although most cases are less direct
than Jim's, studies show that childhood events, besides genes, may well cause such midlife diseases as
cancer, heart disease and mental illness.

1. Jim was sent back to operation because _____.

A. his heart didn't work well
B. he expected a full recovery
C. his life was drawing to a close
D. the first one wasn't well performed

2. What made Dr. Smoller feel strange about Jim's case?

A. Jim died at a young age.
B. Jim died on the operating table.
C. Both Jim and his father died of the same disease.
D. Jim's death is closely connected with his father's.

3. From Smoller's words, we can infer that ______.

A. Jim's father cared little about his study
B. Smoller agreed that Jim did kill his father
C. Jim thought he would be punished some day
D. Smoller believed Jim wouldn't live to the age of 48

4. Which of the following could have strong effect on one's physical health according to the text.?
a. One's genes.
b. One's life in childhood.
c. One's physical education.
d. The date of one's birthday.
e. The opinions one has about something.

A. a, b, d
B. a, b, e
C. a, c, e
D. b, c, d

阅读理解。

I entered high school having read hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader. Merely bookish,
I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for
good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themes-anything to enrich my thought and
make me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that
a person could not have a"complicated (复杂的) idea" until he had read at least two thousand books, I
heard the words without recognizing either its irony (嘲讽) or its very complicated truth. I merely
determined to make a list of all the books I had ever read. Strict with myself, I included only once a title
I might have read several times. (How, after all, could one read a book more than once?) And I included
only those books over a hundred pages in length. (Could anything shorter be a book?)
There was yet another high school list I made. One day I came across a newspaper article about an
English professor at a nearby state college. The article had a list of the"hundred most important books
of Western Civilization.""More than anything else in my life, " the professor told the reporter with finality,"
these books have made me all that I am." That was the kind of words I couldn't ignore (忽视). I kept the
list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Most books, of course, I hardly understood.
While reading Plato's The Republic, for example, I needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book
to remind myself what the text was about. However, with the special patience and superstition (迷信) of
a schoolboy, I looked at every word of the text. And by me time I reached the last word, pleased, I
persuaded myself that I had read The Republic, and seriously crossed Plato off my list.

1. On heating the teacher's suggestion of reading, the writer thought ______.

A. one must read as many books as possible
B. a student should not have a complicated idea
C. it was impossible for one to read two thousand books
D. students ought to make a list of the books they had read

2. While at high school, the writer ______.

A. had plans for reading
B. learned to educate himself
C. only read books over 100 pages
D. read only one book several times

3. The underlined phrase "with finality" probably means _____.

A. firmly
B. clearly
C. proudly
D. pleasantly

4. The writer's purpose in mentioning The Republic is to _____.

A. explain why it was included in the list
B. describe why he seriously crossed it off the list
C. show that he read the books blindly though they were hard to understand
D. prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at every word

5. The writer provides two book lists to ______.

A. show how he developed his point of view
B. tell his reading experience at high school
C. introduce the two persons' reading methods
D. explain that he read many books at high school

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     Roberta appeared on the stage. She took a deep breath and began to  1   . Now she was Portia,
a strong-willed   2   in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. The theater was filled with people.
She was speaking with a power she had never before experienced, the words flowing   3 form her
         4 , Roberta had never acted in her life before the audition (选拔试演). She   5    being in
front of other people. She was very   6   at school. She had never thought she was good enough at
anything to   7   much attention. She stayed mostly to herself, making   8    friends. She had
excellent grades, 9    she always thought that something was missing.
     Two weeks before the audition, Robertsa's mother had heard about it and 10   her to join in.
     "I can't think of anyone else better suited to  11   the part. Remember all the plays you used to act
our for us?”
     Her mother wouldn't let the   12   drop. “You're just a little scared (害怕). Everyone gets scared.
You know you 13    do it. The trick is to look past the 14    to find the love of what you're doing.”
     So Roberta had made an appointment (预约) with the head of the Drama Club. She had read the play
and found herself excited by the 15    of speaking such rich words. In secret she practiced Portia's
part,  16   the lines by repeating them over and over. It wasn't hard; she 17   every minute of it.
Every time she spoke the words, she had a new 18  of the lines, as if Shakespeare had written Portia
on many levels.
     On the day of the audition, she   19    two of Portia's famous speeches for the auditors. When she
had finished, the head of the Drama Club announced the 20   was hers.

(     )1. A. sing
(     )2. A. member
(     )3. A. weakly
(     )4. A. At first
(     )5. A. hated
(     )6. A. honest
(     )7. A. avoid
(     )8. A. few
(     )9. A. or
(     )10. A. forced
(     )11. A. accept
(     )12. A. role
(     )13. A. can
(     )14. A. anger
(     )15. A. purpose
(     )16. A. memorizing
(     )17. A. disliked
(     )18. A. consideration
(     )19. A. practiced
(     )20. A. part

B. dance
B. actress
B. rapidly
B. In fact
B. enjoyed
B. shy
B. focus
B. a few
B. so
B. requested
B. play
B. matter
B. must
B. pain
B. way
B. organizing
B. loved
B. description
B. planned
B. play

C. speak
C. player
C. smoothly
C. After all
C. appreciated
C. polite
C. pay
C. several
C. for
C. encouraged
C. offer
C. interest
C. may
C. sadness
C. idea
C. checking
C. expected
C. selection
C. performed
C. speech

D. report
D. character
D. slowly
D. In all
D. regretted
D. patient
D. attract
D. many
D. but
D. reminded
D. learn
D. grade
D. should
D. fear
D. importance
D. improving
D. bore
D. understanding
D. delivered
D. position

阅读理解。

     I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, midlife for an elephant, and ancient for a sportsman.
Fifty is a nice number for the states in the US or for a national speed limit but it is not a number that I was
prepared to have hung on me. Fifty is supposed to be my father's age, but now I am stuck with this number
and everything it means.
     A few days ago, a friend tried to cheer me up by saying, " Fifty is what forty used to be." He had made
an inspirational point, Am I over the hill? People keep telling me that the hill has been moved, and I keep telling
them that he high-jump bar has dropped from the six feet I once easily cleared to the four feet that is
impossible for me now.
     " Your are not getting older, you are getting better." says Dr. Joyce Brothers. This, however, is the kind
of doctor who inspires a second opinion.
     And so. as I approach the day when I cannot even jump over the tennis net. I am moves to share some
thoughts on aging with you. I am moved to show how aging feels to me physically and mentally. Getting older.
of course, is obviously a better change than the one that brings you eulogies (悼词). In fact, a poet named
Robert Browning considered it the best change of all:
     Grow old along with me!
     The best is yet to me.
     Whether or not Browning was right, most of my first fifty years have been golden ones, so I will settle for
what is ahead being as good as what has gone by. I find myself moving toward what is ahead with a curious
blend (混合) of both fighting and accepting my aging, hoping that the philosopher (哲学家) was right when
he said. " Old is always fifteen years from now."

1. The author seems to tell us in Paragraph 1 that _____.

A. time alone will tell
B. time goes by quickly
C. time will show what is right
D. time makes one forget the past

2. When the author turned fifty, people around him ______.

A. tried to comfort him
B. got inspiration with him
C. were friendlier with him
D. found him more talkative

3. The author considers his fifty years of life _____.

A. peaceful
B. ordinary
C. satisfactory
D. regretful

4. We can infer from the passage that _____.

A. the old should led a simple life
B. the old should face the fact of aging
C. the old should take more exercise
D. the old should fill themselves with curiosity

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