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My phone rings a lot. But most of the time it's not for me. It's for my cat! Well, the caller doesn't want to talk to my cat. He wants to talk about him.
You see, my cat really gets around!
I met him three years ago. I was walking home one cold winter night. As I went by a row of houses, I saw something orange on a stoop(门前台阶). Then I heard a little cry. I went closer. It was a kitten.
He was sitting in the snow. As I watched, the ball of orange fur tried to stand up. But he wobbled－and fell down a step.
“You need to get warm.” I said. “My coat is big enough for both of us.” I picked up the shaking kitten. “I found you on a stoop.” I went on. “So that will be your name.” At once I heard a soft purr(咕噜声).
At home, Stoop lapped (舔) up some milk. He was warm and happy. In a week, he was running all over the apartment(一套房间).
But Stoop was not going to let himself be just an apartment cat. In the spring, he found his way to the streets of the city. How? By climbing down a tree outside my window!
I wanted to make sure that Stoop would always come home. I bought a little collar(颈圈) with a tag (标签). The tag said:“I have a home. If I look lost, phone Fred Sparks XY9－8809.”
1．The writer's telephone rings a lot because ________ .
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A．the writer has so many friends all over the world
B．the writer has much business to do with others
C．the caller wants to talk about the writer's books
D．the caller wants to talk to the writer's about his cat
2．If we say that somebody gets around, we means that ________ .
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A．he travels a lot from place to place
B．he is not active and always stays at home
C．he becomes as round as a big ball
D．he is very famous and everybody seems to know him
3．In the story “the ball of orange fur” refers to (指) ________ .
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4．An apartment cat must be a cat that ________ .
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A．is living with a family in an apartment
B．is born and grows up in an apartment
C．stays in an apartment, never goes out to play
D．has no place to live in and no master to attend him
5．How did all those callers know the writer's telephone number?
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What is the cleverest machine in history? If you're anything like nine out of ten people in the world, you'll say it's a computer, a machine with mathematical logic(数学逻辑)that can reason(推理)in the same way as humans．
Alan Mathison Turing never expected to be the father of a machine with such a title．
He was born in London in 1912, the second of his parents' two sons．His parents worked in India while Turing and his brother spent their childhoods in Britain．
Turing's loneliness during this time may have led to his lifelong interest in how the human mind works．He believed that the mind creates its own world when the real world is not acceptable to it．At 13, he already showed a talent for mathematics．He wasn't perfect though．His teachers said his work was hard to read．
After graduating from Cambridge University, he remained there as a teacher．At that time, his interest in the human mind led him to draw a machine．
In 1937, Turing wrote a report about his machine．However, few people understand what he was talking about．But the report changed Turing's whole life．After the start of World War Ⅱ, the British Government ordered him to serve in a special department．The task was to break codes used by the Nazis(纳粹)．
Turing's talent shone in this top-secret work．He played a major role in designing an early computer like machines that could decipher(破译)Nazi codes at high speed．After the war, he returned to Cambridge, and built a machine based on his ideas from 1937．
1．Where does Alan Mathison Turing come from?
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2．What did Turing do in 1937?
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3．What does the sentence‘If you're anything like nine out of ten people in the world mean’?
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4．What was Turing interested in after he graduated from university?
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5．What could the machine that Turing helped to do during World War Ⅱ?
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William Shakespeare was a writer of plays and poems. Some of his most famous plays are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth. He wrote thirty-seven plays in all. They are still popular today.
He was born in 1564 in England. At school he liked watching plays. He decided to be an actor (演员) when he finished school at the age of fourteen. In 1582, he married a farmer's daughter. She was eight years older than he was. Their first child was a daughter. Later they had twins. In 1585, Shakespeare left his hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon. His wife and children stayed behind. No one knows why he left or what he did between 1585 and 1592.
At twenty-eight he moved to London and joined a theatre company which opened the Globe Theatre in 1599. He became an actor, and he also wrote plays. He usually acted in his own plays. He earned almost no money from his writing. But he made a lot of money from acting. With the money he bought a large house in his hometown.
At the age of forty-nine, Shakespeare retired (退休) and went to live in Stratford-up-on-Avon. He died at the age of fifty-two. He left his money to his family. He left his genius to the world. You still see his plays in English and in many other languages. He is one of the most famous writers in the world.
(1) Shakespeare wrote many famous plays except
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(2) Shakespeare decided to be an actor in ________.
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(3) In 1585, Shakespeare left his hometown Stratford-upon-Avon ________.
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A．with his wife
B．with his daughter
C．with his wife and children
D．alone
(4) Shakespeare got much money from ________.
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(5) According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
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A．Shakespeare had two children.
B．Shakespeare wrote both plays and poems.
C．Shakespeare left his money to the Globe Theatre.
D．Shakespeare wrote plays in English and some other languages.
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