go straight On to university why not get some work experience first?

一Can you         your absence last Friday?

一Well,my car broke down and I had 10 get it taken to a garage．

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，

选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When 1 was twelve years old，my family were the first black people to move into an

a11-white part of Grand Rapids，Michigan．Many of our new36_weren’t very welco—

ming. Some of the adults said    37 that we should return where we came from．The

38  sometimes threw stones at me or  39  me home from school．

Most of my teachers 40  ignored me，but not Dorothy Bean，my history teach—

er．Miss Bean was angry at how badly 1 was being   41  ，but she didn’t say this to

me．Miss Bean showed  showed her 42  for me by teaching me just like anyone else．43   

being unnoticed，1 was given a 44   to show that 1 was smart．Miss Bean was the first

teacher who ever made me 45    for myself． She insisted on knowing what I thought

about difficult 46 ．Was Thomas Jefferson right to buy Louisiana from France?

Why?She 47 me to have an opinion and to be able to  48    it up．Miss Bean was

teaching me that thinking for oneself was the real    49    to Success in learning.

One day，when 1 was not   50   in class，Miss Bean suddenly threw an eraser at

me．Unbelievably，the eraser hit me right on the hand and   51     my pencil flying．The

whole class was  52  at first，then started laughing．This incident became famous in

the school and，  53  it happened to me，the students wanted to get to  54    ，So

that's the  story of how Dorothy Bean made me her target，and how I became just anoth—er  55  in school．

36．A．friends       B．relatives     C．fellows     D．neighbors

37．A．kindly       B．pitifully      C．angrily     D．anxiously

38．A．seniors       B．children     C．enemies     D．elders

39．A．drove        B．took        C．helped      D．carried

40．A．hardly        B．simply      C．suddenly    D．widely

41．A．taught        B．fooled      C．picked      D．treated

42．A．dislike        B．thanks      Crespect．     D．gifts

43．A．Instead of                     B．In memory of

C．In case of                      D．In spite of

44．A．question      B．chance      C．test         D．place

45．A．care          B．100k       C．work        D．think

46．A．exams        B．history      C．questions    D．books

47．A．persuaded     B．forced       C．allowed     D．expected

48．A．back      B．set         C．shut         D．give

49．A．notice     B．key        C．attention     D．attitude

50．A．looking up               B．paying attention

C．reading aloud             D．getting along

51．A．sent     B．found      C.saw          D．kept

52．A．moved    B．calmed     C．worried     D．shocked

53．A．when     B．once       C．because     D．whether

54．A．ask       B．know      C．punish      D．admire

55．A．kid       B．problem    C.teacher       D．example

Amanda Clement grew up in Hudson，South Dakota．Baseball was always her fa—

vorite sport．Once in a while her brother Hank and his friends would let her play first

base in their games．More often，however，they asked her to umpire(裁判)for them，

because they knew her calls would be fair and there would be no arguing．

One day in 1904，Amanda and her mother traveled to Hawarden，Iowa，to watch

Hank play for the home team against Hawarden．When they arrived at the ball field，

two local teams were waiting to play a preliminary(预备)game．The umpire hadn’t ar—

rived，so Hank argued that the teams should let his sister serve as umpire．The players

finally agreed．

Amanda，then sixteen and standing five feet，ten inches tall，made perfect calls．

She was so good that players for the main game asked her 10 umpire for them and even

offered to pay her．Thus，at sixteen，Amanda Clement became the first paid female

baseball umpire on record．She is honored in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown，

New York．

61．Hank and his friends often asked Amanda to umpire for them because      

　A．they wanted to make her happy

　B．she called them brothers

　 C．no one else wanted to do it for them

　 D．she knew the rules well and was fair

62．Amanda went to Hawarden in order to      

A．serve as umpire

C．make money

B．watch her brother play

D．help the local teams

63．Amanda most probably learned how to umpire a baseball game       .

　A．in her P．E．classes at school    B．in an umpire training school

　 C．by watching and playing the games D．from her mother，a baseball umpire

64．Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

　 A．Amanda Clement．First Female Umpire

　 B．A Family of Baseball Fans

　 C．Baseball Games in Hawarden，Iowa

　 D．The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown

  Young visitors to museums often complain(抱怨)about having museum feet，the

tired feeling one gets after spending too much time in a museum．A case of museum feet

makes one feel like saying：“This is boring．I could have done the painting myself．

When can we sit down? What time is it?

Studies of museum behavior show that the average visitor spends about four sec．

onds looking at one object．For young visitors，the time call be even shorter．Children

are more interested in smells，sounds，and the“feel’’of a place than looking at a work of

art．If they stay in a museum too long，they will feel tired and become impatient．

To avoid museum feet，try not to have children look at too many things in one vis-．

it．It is reported that young visitors get more out of a visit if they focus on no more than

nine objects．One and a half hours is the ideal(理想的)time to keep their eyes and

minds sharp，and their feet happy.

65．When a child gets“museum  feet”,he or she feels     ．

A．bored    B．interested    C．pleased D．angry

66．To attract more children，museums should offer more    ．

A．reading materials    B．works of art

C．1ively things        D．comfortable shoes

67．Children can benefit most from a visit to a museum if they spend        .

A．1ess than 4 seconds looking at 1 object

B．a whole morning focusing on 19 objects

C．the time together with their parents

D．1.5 hours focusing on 9 objects

68．What’s the passage mainly about?

A．The cause of museum feet and how to avoid them．

B．How to build better museums for children．

C．How to prevent children from getting museum feet．

D．Why more children get museum feet than adults．

---_______ leave at the end of this month.

--- I don’t think you should do that until ____ another job.

A. I’m going to; you’d found       B. I’m going to; you’ve found    

C. I’ll; you’ll find                D. I’ll; you’d find

The room ______ white last year is my study.

A. to be painted     B. being painted   C. painted     D. having been painted

When we heard the gun fire, we all stood still and shook with _______.

   A. fear        B. a fear      C. fears         D. the fear

 Their plan was ____. With it we had little trouble in finishing the work.

   A. success         B. succeed      C. a success       D. a successful

I’ve won a holiday for two days to Florida. I _____ my mum.

   A. am taking     B. have taken         C. take      D. will have taken