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A few years ago, Masaru lbuka, the head of Sony, was at a company planning meeting. Suddenly he had
an idea. He stopped the meeting and asked everyone what would happen if Sony took away the recording
function and speakers and sold headphones with a tape player instead. Almost everyone thought he was silly.
Still, lbuka kept his idea and worked at it. The result, of course, turned out to be successful Sony Walkman.
Good ideas often start with a really silly question. Bill Bower man was making breakfast one day. As he
stood there making cakes for his son, he asked himself what would happen if he poured rubber (橡胶) into his
cake iron (蛋糕模具). Later, he tried it and the result looked something like the bottom of most sports shoes
we see today. Still, when he took this idea to several shoes companies, he was laughed at. In fact, every single
company turned him down. Though rather disappointed, Bill went on to form his own company, making NIKE
sports shoes.
We know today, of course, that each of these ideas caused a successful thing that has changed the way
many of us live. The best questions are usually opened (开放的) and are often "Silly", Children aren"t afraid
to ask such questions, but adults usually are. Think how difficult the world might be if people never asked
"silly" questions!
B. most people
C. few people
D. everyone
B. 伟大的
C. 愚蠢的
D. 渺小的
B. with headphones, but no recording function or speakers
C. with speakers and headphones, but no recording function
D. with recording function and speakers, but no headphones
B. sports shoes
C. cating
D. cooking
B. they didn"t know how to make sports shoes
C. his idea was hard to come true
D. it was difficult to pour rubber into the cake iron
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试题【阅读理解。 A few years ago, Masaru lbuka, the head of Sony, was at a company plan】；主要考察你对人物故事类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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It"s from a charity (慈善机构), asking him to give money to help save the animals. The doorbell rings and there
is an old woman on Daniel"s doorstep (门外的台阶). She is asking for money to help old people. When he turns on the TV, he hears sad music and sees a picture of a weak child who is dying of hunger in Africa. He knows
those poor children need money. He is always ready to help those in trouble.
In May 2003, Yao Ming, a basketball star, held a TV show in Shanghai and he collected ＄300, 000 to help
scientists with medical research."We must do something to help our country at this difficult time. "he said.
People such as Daniel and Yao Ming feel good about helping others with money.
( )1. Daniel always collects letters in the evening.
( )2. Daniel often looks after a sick horse.
( )3. From this passage, we learn that Yao Ming is kind and helpful.
( )4. Many people such as Daniel and Yao Ming like helping others with money.
( )5. This passage is mainly about charity.
She wanted to be famous. But she had poor education and several years later she had to ask for food on the
street for a living. Now her father has died. Her mother is an old woman. But she is still looking for her daughter. She has been to every corner of the city. Everywhere she goes, she puts up a big photo of herself on the wall.
At the lower part of the photo she writes, "I still love you..., come back home!"
One day, the daughter saw one of the photos. The face was familiar. "Is that my mother?" she moved
closer and read the words "I still love you..."She cried. When she got home, it was early morning. She
knocked on the door. The door opened itself. She rushed to her mother"s bedroom. Her mother was sleeping.
She woke her mother up,"It"s me! Your daughter is back home!" The mother and daughter held each other, full
of happy tears. The daughter asked,"Why is the door not locked? A thief could get in."The mother answered
softly,"The door has never been locked since you left."
The door of parents" love for their children will never be closed.
1. Why did the girl leave home?
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2 .Why couldn"t the girl be famous?
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3. Has her mother given up looking for her?
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4. What was the mother doing when the girl came back home that morning?
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5. 把文中画线的句子翻译成汉语.
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One day, we were walking in our hometown and saw hundreds of cigarette butts on the ground.
They made the ground dirty.
They made the town look so ugly that we decided to start a group to make people stop dropping butts.
We called it "No Butts About It!" At first, we drew pictures with "The Earth Is Not Your Ashtray (烟灰缸)"
written on them. We put the pictures around our hometown-in parks, by beaches, and along roads.
We wanted to make people understand that dropping butts does harm to the environment. Most smokers
don"t think that dropping butts harms the earth. But it does! All rubbish does.
Later, we wrote to companies and asked them for money to help us. We used the money to buy ashtrays
to give smokers.
We wanted smokers to carry the ashtrays with them so they didn"t have to drop butts. At the moment, we
are trying to get cigarette companies to put an ashtray in each pack of cigarettes. Some companies would like
to do it.
Many people have started to join our group since it began. Today there are 45 other "No Butts About It"
groups in America. And there are even groups in England, Australia and India!
Many newspapers have written about my sister and I over the last seven years. And we have won many
prizes for our good work.
But we are not interested in prizes. We just want to make the earth a better and cleaner place for animals,
plants and people.
One day it will be.
1. It has _____ Alli and the writer seven years to try to _____ people stop dropping cigarette butts.
2. The cigarette butts made the town look so _____ that they decided to start a group _____"No Butts
About It."
3. First, they drew pictures and put them around their hometown. Then they _____ to companies to
ask for money. _____ the money they buy ashtrays to give smokers.
4. There are many" No Butts About It" groups in _____, _____, Australia and India.
5. They hope that one day the earth will be a _____ and _____ place for animals and people.
in the tree. Bill climbed up to look in. Two baby squirrels were inside, crying for their mother. Someone killed
her and left the babies to die. Each of the boys put a baby squirrel in his jacket pocket and carried it home.
There the boys made a soft bed in a box for the little animals, and fed them with warm milk from a small bottle. The squirrel"s sons grew round and fat. Bill and Tom liked them very much.
B. in the forest
C. in the park
D. on the farm
B. on the ground
C. in a hole in the tree
D. under the tree
B. They carried them home.
C. They put them back in the tree.
D. They threw them away.
B. bread
C. nuts
D. warm milk
B. ran away
C. died
D. grew round and fat
even 1 you." We were very 2 , the stranger and I. Then we went on our way after saying 3 .
But at home, a different 4 is told. How we treat our 5 ones, the young and the old. Later, in the
kitchen, as I cooked our supper, my 6 entered, very still. When I turned, I nearly knocked her down." Get
out of the way!" I 7 at her. She left, with her little heart broken. I didn"t 8 how hard I"d spoken.
The night, as I lay awake in bed, God" quiet voice 9 to me and said," While with strangers, you are polite,
but with those you love, you didn"t do it properly. Go and look right now on the 10 floor, you"ll find some
flowers there by the door. Those are the flowers she 11 for you. She picked them herself-pink, yellow and
blue.
By this time, I felt 12 and small and now my 13 fell. I quietly went to her bed, "Wake up, my dear
daughter." I said."Are these flowers you picked for me? She smiled, "I found them under the tree.. I knew
you"d like them, 14 the blue." I said,"I"m so 15 that I missed them today….
And I shouldn"t have shouted at you that way." And she whispered,"Mommy, that"s Ok. I still love you
anyway." I hugged her and said," I love you, too and love your flowers, especially the blue.