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for 15 minutes. Then he waited impatiently for 15 minutes more. After that, he became 1 . When he saw
a photograph booth (照相亭) nearby, he had 2 .
He wore the most unhappy expression he could manage, which was not 3 in the situation. In a few
moments, he was holding four small prints that shocked even him. He wrote his wife"s name on the back
of the photos and handed them to a clerk behind the desk in the booth." 4 you see a small, dark lady with
brown eyes and an apologetic expression, obviously 5 someone, would you please give her this?" he said.
He then returned to his office in Morrison Building, 6 that if a picture is worth a thousand words, then the
four photos must be a good lecture! He sat down with a smile.
His wife 7 those pictures. She carries them in her purse now and shows them to anyone who asks if
she is married …
How are you with patience? One person calls it "wait training." It seems that there is always something
we are waiting for. We wait on traffic and we wait in lines. We wait to hear about a new job. We wait to
complete school. We wait for someone to change his or her mind.
Patience is an important quality of a happy and rewarding life. 8 , some things are worth waiting for.
Every day presents many opportunities for wait training.
We can hate waiting, 9 it or even get good at it! But one thing is 10 —we cannot avoid it. How is
your wait training coming along?
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| In the age of reality television, success isn"t the only way to the public eye. Failure can also create fame, just like William Hung, 21, a native of Hong Kong. Hung recently has made an agreement with US-based entertainment firms Koch Records and Fuse Music Network. They will publish a full-length record, titled"The True Idol" on April 6. The idol is a civil engineering student at the University of California at Berkeley. He did a version of Ricky Martin"s "She Bangs" on the television show "American Idol 3", on January 27. The Fox TV singing contest searches for pop stars among ordinary people. In the case of Hung, however, his act was so bad that the judges cut him off in mid-act. Hung"s response? "I already gave my best, so I have no regrets at all." That"s good, because any common person would have found plenty to regret: The off-key singing. The blue Hawaiian shirt worn with pants pulled up too high. The terrible dancing. The hips jerking (摇摆) to a beat that did not belong to the song, maybe not even to this planet. It was, by all accounts, bad. But, it was this very bad act that sold well. Marc Juries, president of Fuse, explained it this way: "Every one of us is happily guilty of singing our favorite song at the top of our lungs with complete freedom, completely off-key and completely unworried. That"s what William did and immediately won the hearts of America." Whatever it is, for the moment it"s big. Three websites devoted to Hung have gone up on the Internet in the past few weeks. Versions of his performance have been remixed with hip hop and techno-music and have made it to the top 10 request list at a Chicago radio station. So, what does Hung think of this? "There were all these people saying things about me. A lot were saying I was very courageous and that I was great on the show, but some didn"t have much respect for me and some were kind of mean." Now he says he"s not so sure whether to distance himself from the glamour (魅力) or to accept it. Returning to normal hasn"t been easy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 7 refer to? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. William Hung. B. Hung"s bad act. C. Hung"s website. D. The public"s opinion. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. Which of the following shows the correct order of what happened to Hung? a. The entertainment firms made an agreement with Hung. b. The judges cut Hung off in mid-act in the singing contest. c. Hung became popular among Americans. d. Hung gave a terrible performance though he tried his best. e. Three websites put Hung"s funny performance on the Internet. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. d, b, e, c, a B. a, c, d, b, e C. a, d, b, c, e D. d, b, a, e, c | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. What is the main idea of this passage? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. Sometimes an idol behaves quite foolishly. B. Hung"s performance attracted the public eye. C. How an unsuccessful person became famous. D. Success sometimes does not require hard work. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A young man once asked Albert Einstein, the great scientist, 1 the secret of success (成功) is. The scientist told him that the secret of success is 2 work. A few days later the young man asked him the same question again. Einstein was very 3 . He did not say 4 , but wrote 5 words on a piece of paper and handed it 6 the young man. The young man looked at the piece of paper. 7 it was written: A=X+Y+Z. "What does this mean?" asked the young man. "A means success," explained the old scientist."X stands for (代表) hard work, Y stands for good methods (方法), and Z…, Z means stopping 8 and getting down to work." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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