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A few months before I was born, my Dad met a stranger who was new to our small town. From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer and soon invited him to live with our family. The stranger was quickly accepted and was around to welcome me into the world a few months later.
As I grew up, I never questioned his place in my family. In my young mind, he had a special position. My parents were complementary instructors：Mom taught me the words, and Dad taught me to obey them. But the stranger... He was our storyteller. He would keep us spellbound for hours on end with adventures, mysteries and comedies(喜剧).
If I wanted to know anything about politics，history or science，he always knew the answers about the past, understood the present and even seemed able to predict the future! He made me laugh, and he made me cry. The stranger never stopped talking, but Dad didn't seem to mind.
I now know that my early concepts about relationship were influenced strongly by the stranger. Time after time, he opposed the values of my parents, yet he was seldom blamed...and NEVER asked to leave.
More than fifty years have passed since the stranger moved in with our family. He has blended(融合) right in but is not nearly as fascinating as he was at first. Still, if you were to walk into my parent's room today, you would still find him sitting over in his corner, waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures. His name?
We just call him...“TV”.
He has a younger sister now. We call her “Computer”.
56．When the stranger came to live with our family, he was ________.
A. ignored by the children B. driven away for no reason
C. abandoned because it was too noisy D. accepted by every family member
57．The stranger can do all the following things EXCEPT that he can ________.
A. tell us some funny stories B. reject our proposals(提议)
C. influence the children's character D. predict the future
58．The underlined word “spellbound” in Paragraph 2 most probably means ________.
A. concentrated B. puzzled
C. fascinated D. astonished
59．What can we learn from the last three paragraphs of the passage?
A. The computer is more advanced and has gained greater popularity.
B. Old as he is，we like the stranger best.
C. The TV set is out of fashion and often breaks down.
D. We decide to throw the TV set away immediately.
查看习题详情和答案>>A few months before I was born, my Dad met a stranger who was new to our small town. From the beginning, Dad was fascinated with this enchanting newcomer and soon invited him to live with our family. The stranger was quickly accepted and was around to welcome me into the world a few months later.
As I grew up, I never questioned his place in my family. In my young mind, he had a special position. My parents were complementary instructors：Mom taught me the words, and Dad taught me to obey them. But the stranger... He was our storyteller. He would keep us spellbound for hours on end with adventures, mysteries and comedies(喜剧).
If I wanted to know anything about politics，history or science，he always knew the answers about the past, understood the present and even seemed able to predict the future! He made me laugh, and he made me cry. The stranger never stopped talking, but Dad didn't seem to mind.
I now know that my early concepts about relationship were influenced strongly by the stranger. Time after time, he opposed the values of my parents, yet he was seldom blamed...and NEVER asked to leave.
More than fifty years have passed since the stranger moved in with our family. He has blended(融合) right in but is not nearly as fascinating as he was at first. Still, if you were to walk into my parent's room today, you would still find him sitting over in his corner, waiting for someone to listen to him talk and watch him draw his pictures. His name?
We just call him...“TV”.
He has a younger sister now. We call her “Computer”.
51．The stranger can do all the following things EXCEPT that he can ________.
A. tell us some funny stories B. reject our proposals(提议)
C. influence the children's character D. predict the future
52．The underlined word “spellbound” in Paragraph 2 most probably means ________.
A. concentrated B. puzzled C. fascinated D. astonished
53．What can we learn from the last three paragraphs of the passage?
A. The computer is more advanced and has gained greater popularity.
B. Old as he is，we like the stranger best.
C. The TV set is out of fashion and often breaks down.
D. We decide to throw the TV set away immediately.
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Roger Conner is a modern?-day Horatio Alger hero. Roger started out as an unpaid worker in a small flower shop. He has become the owner of a florist company whose sales are well over $100 000 a year.
One day when Roger was only twelve, he stopped at a local flower shop. He asked the owner if he could work for him, without pay, in order to learn the business. Roger started working every day after school and on weekends. After two years on the job, he finally asked for a small salary. The owners told him he “wasn't good enough to be paid.” So he quit, and found a paying job at another local flower shop. He worked hard there, but after six months they laid him off because business was slow.
Not discouraged, Roger decided to do it alone and started his own flower store in a basement in his town. He started his business with only sixty?-five dollars. He bought old refrigerators at garage sales and knocked the shelves out. This turned them into coolers for his fresh?-cut flowers. His business grew rapidly as he built up a reputation for top quality and fine service.
In 1977, Roger bought out the flower store where he had worked without pay for over two years. The people who said he “wasn’t good enough to be paid” were astonished to find that they were being taken over by a teenager. He had plans to renovate (振兴) the whole store.
One of the reasons the owners sold out to Roger was that the store wasn't doing well. But after Roger took over ownership and redid the store, business started booming. In fact, business was so good that after one year, he celebrated by buying out the other store where he had worked. Roger then combined both stores and moved to a location in the center of his town.
The new store has 2 000 square feet and seven employees. And he did it all before he reached the age of twenty.
71．The author is wants to show us that people who want to succeed in business should ________.
A. work without pay
B. own a flower shop
C. work hard and never give up
D. work as teenagers
72．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. He worked for two years without pay.
B. He needed luck to be successful.
C. He opened his first flower business in a basement.
D. He became successful before the age of twenty.
73. The passage may be a ________.
A. newspaper report B. humorous story
C. television play D. scientific story
74. The underlined part in Paragraph 2 probably means ________.
A. employed him
B. didn’t let him work there
C. paid him money
D. were proud of him
75. From the passage, a “Horatio Alger hero” may be the kind of person who________.
A. works hard in the flower business
B. was born into a rich family
C. starts out poor and becomes rich
D. becomes famous as a result of good luck
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“It’s over! Thank goodness!”
School was over and I was tired. I sat at the front of the school bus. Janie, the driver, tries to break the uncomfortable atmosphere by striking the match of talks. I try to listen politely, but usually I am too busy thinking about my day. On this day, however, her talk was worth listening to.
“My father’s ill,” she said to no one in particular. I could see worry in her eyes. I had never seen her like this before. She always meets students with a smile. With a sudden change of interest, I asked, “What’s wrong with him?”
With her eyes wet and her voice unusual, she answered, “Heart trouble.” Her eyes lowered as she continued, “I’ve already lost my mum, so I don’t think I can stand losing him.” I couldn’t answer. My heart ached for her.
I sat on the seat thinking of the great pain my own mother was thrown into when her father died. I saw how hard it was, and still is, for her. I wouldn’t want anyone to go through that.
Suddenly I realized Janie was more than a bus driver. That was just her job. She had a whole world of family and cares for them too.
I suddenly felt very selfish. I paid no attention to Janie because she was a bus driver. I had judged her by her job and brushed her off as unimportant. I shouldn’t have been so selfish and self-centered.
Understanding people is an art.
68. When the students get on the school bus, Janie usually _______.
A. tries to break the silence B. meets them with a smile
C. sits on her seat without words D. speaks to herself
69. After she learned Janie’s story, the author thought of _______.
A. Janie’s pain when her mother died
B. her mother’s pain when the author’s father died
C. the author’s pain when her own father died
D. her mother’s pain when the author’s grandfather died
70．The writer felt very selfish because .
A. she was always busy with her own studies.
B. she thought nothing of Janie as a driver.
C. she showed no concern about others.
D. she hardly thought of others.
71. In this passage the writer tries to tell us .
A. understanding people around us takes time.
B. people should care for others more.
C. we should learn some skills to understand others.
D. we should pay attention when someone is speaking.
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The Colonel asks Ashenden a good many questions and then suggested that he had particular qualifications for the Secret Service. Ashenden knew several European languages and the fact that he was a writer provided excellent cover: on the pretext that he was writing a book he could, without attracting attention, visit any neutral country.
It was while they were discussing this point that the Colonel said, "You know you might get material that would be very useful to you in your work. I'll tell you an incident that occurred only recently. Very dramatic. A foreign government minister went down to a Mediterranean resort to recover from a cold and he had some very important documents with him that he kept in a dispatch case(公文箱). A day or two after he arrived, he picked up a beautiful blonde at some restaurant or other, and he got very friendly with her. He took her back to his hotel, and when he came to himself in the morning, the lady and the dispatch-case had disappeared. They had one or two drinks up in his room and his theory is that when his back was turned the woman slipped a drug in his glass.
"Do you mean to say that happened the other day?" said Ashenden.
"The week before last."
"Impossible," cried Ashenden. "Why! We've been putting that incident on the stage for sixty years, we've written it in a thousand novels. Do you mean to say that life has only just caught up with us?"
"Well, I can guarantee the truth of the story." said the Colonel, "And believe me, the government has been put to no end of trouble by the loss of the documents."
"Well sir, if you can't do better than that in the Secret Service," sighed Ashenden, " I'm afraid that as a source of inspiration to the writer of fiction, it's washout."
51． How did the Colonel suggest that Ashenden's being a writer would relate to his work as a spy?
A. It would make traveling abroad more possible.
B. It would make it easier for him to meet people.
C. It would enable him to avoid arousing suspicion.
D. It would enable him to use the languages he knew.
52．The reason for the Minister's trip was ________ .
A. to fetch some documents B. to get over an illness
C. to meet a spy D. to deliver some papers
53．According to the Colonel the incident happened _______ .
A. a few days before B. a few weeks before
C. two weeks before D. sixty years before
54．Ashenden cried 'Impossible' after hearing the Colonel's story because he thought ______ .
A. it could not possibly happen B. it was too embarrassing
C. it was too close to fiction D. it was too recent
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