Oprah Winfrey, born in 1954, is all American talk show host, best known for her multi-award-winning talk show. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world. It"s no surprise that her endorsement(认可)can bring overnight sales fortune that defeats most, if not all, marketing campaigns. The star features about 20 products each year On her “Favorite Things” show. There’s even a term for it: the Oprah Effect.
Her television career began unexpectedly. When she was 16 year old, she had the idea of being a journalist to tell other people’s stories in a way that made a difference in their lives and the world. She was on television by the time she was 19 years old. And in 1986 she started her own television show with a continuous determination to succeed at first.
TIME magazine wrote, “People would have doubted Oprah Winfrey’s swift rise to host of the most popular talk show on TV. In a field dominated by white males, she is a black female of big size. As interviewers go, she is no match for Phil Donahue. What she lacks in journalistic toughness, she makes up for in plainspoken curiosity, rich humor and, above all understanding. Guests with sad[stories to tell tend to bring out a tear in Oprah’s eye. They, in turn, often find themselves exposing things they would not imagine telling anyone, much less a national TV audience.”
“I was nervous about the competition and then I became my own competition raising the bar every year, pushing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as I knew. It doesn"t matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to fall if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you"re constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages, you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction” as Oprah addressed graduates at Harvard on May 30, 2013.
小题1:The Oprah Effect refers to _______ | A．the effect on a business | B．the power of Oprah’s opinions | | C．the impact on talkshows | D．the assessment of Oprah’s talk show |
小题2:What can be inferred about Oprah’s television career?| A．She once gave up on her choice | | B．Her swift success has been expected. | | C．It lives up to her parents’ expectation. | | D．She must have been challenged by white males. |
小题3:The message from Oprah to graduates at Harvard is that _______.| A．success comes after failure | | B．failure is nothing to fear | | C．there is no need to set goals too high | | D．pushing physical limits makes no sense |
小题4:Which of the following best describes Oprah Winfrey?| A．Dull and pushy. | B．Honest but tough. | | C．Caring and determined. | D．Curious but weak. |
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小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:C |
试题分析：生于1954年，奥普拉·温弗瑞是美国著名的脱口秀主持人。同时，她也是最具影响力的女性。得到奥普拉认可的商品很可能一夜售罄，这比任何的市场宣传手段都更有效。
小题1:根据第一段“It"s no surprise that her endorsement(认可)can bring overnight sales fortune that defeats most, if not all, marketing campaigns.”可知，得到奥普拉·温弗瑞认可的东西可能会一夜售罄，能打败几乎所有的市场宣传手段，这就是奥普拉效应，故选A。
小题2:根据第三段“People would have doubted Oprah Winfrey’s swift rise to host of the most popular talk show on TV. In a field dominated by white males”可知，人们，尤其是男性白种人，怀疑过奥普拉的迅速成名，故选D。
小题3:根据第四段“there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction”可知，奥普拉认为，生活中没有失败这样的东西，所谓的失败只是生命在指引你 换一个方向前行，故选B。
小题4:根据第二段“with a continuous determination to succeed at first”和第三段“Guests with sad[stories to tell tend to bring out a tear in Oprah’s eye.”可知，奥普拉意志坚定，对嘉宾的经历有同情心，故选C。 |
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Once I invited a group of friends round to my house, telling them that I was going to record their speech. I said I was interested in their regional accents, and that it would take only a few minutes. Thus, on one evening, three people turned up at my house and were shown into my front room. When they saw the room they were a bit alarmed, for it was laid out as a studio. In front of each easy chair there was a microphone at head height, with wires leading to a tape-recorder in the middle of the floor. I explained that all I wanted was for them to count from one to twenty. Then we could relax and have a drink.
I turned on the tape-recorder and each in turn seriously counted from one to twenty in their best accent. When it was over, I turned the tape-recorder off and brought round the drinks, and for the rest of the evening there was general cheerful conversation—interrupted only by the fact that I had to take a telephone call in another room, which unfortunately lasted some time.
Or at least that was how it would appear. For, of course, the microphones were not connected to the tape-recorder in the middle of the room at all but to another one, which was turning happily away in the kitchen. The participants, having seen the visible tape-recorder turned off, paid no more attention to the microphones which stayed in front of their chairs, only a few inches from their mouths, thus giving excellent sound quality. And my lengthy absence meant that I was able to obtain as natural a piece of conversation as it would be possible to find.
I should add, perhaps, that I did tell my friends what had happened to them, after the event was over, and gave them the choice of destroying the tape. None of them wanted to—though for some years afterwards it always seemed to be my round when it came to the buying of drinks. Linguistic research can be a very expensive business.
小题1:The writer asked his friends to count from one to twenty because _______. | A．he wanted to record the numbers for his research | | B．he wanted to find out whether the tape recorder was working | | C．he wanted to make his friends relax before real recording started | | D．he wanted his friends to think that was all he wanted to record |
小题2:The writer went into another room to ________.| A．get a natural recording of his friends’ conversation | | B．stay away from too much drinking with his friends | | C．bring a telephone into the front room | | D．answer a long distance phone call |
小题3:The writer turned off the tape-recorder because _______.| A．he had to answer a phone call | | B．he wanted his friends to enjoy some drinks | | C．he thought the tape-recorder might bother his friends | | D．he wanted to make his friends believe he had finished the recording |
小题4:Which one is true according to the passage?| A．The writer destroyed the tape. | | B．The writer’s friends destroyed the tape. | | C．The writer did tell his friends what had happened. | | D．The writer’s friends like to drink. |
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Working Christmas Day
It was unusually quiet in the emergency room on December 25．I was a nurse that day, sighing about having to work on Christmas．Just then five bodies showed up at my ，a pale woman and four small children．
“Are you all ? ” I asked doubtfully．
“Yes．”the woman said and lowered her head．
But when it came to the of their problems，things got a little strange．Two of the chlidren had headaches, weren’t accompanied by the normal symptoms of being ill．Two children had earaches，but only one could tell me which ear was ．The mother complained of a but seemed to work to produce it．
“It may be a little while a doctor sees you．” I explained．
“Take your time；it’s warm here．”She ．
Whne they were waiting，I checked the chart．They had no —they were homeless．The waiting room was warm．I looked out at the by the Christmas tree．The youngest one was saying to her mother．The oldest one was looking at the Christmas tree．
I went back to the nurses’ station and the homeless family in the waiting room．The nurses，complaining about the working Christmas，began to feel pity for a family just trying to get on Christmas．The team went into action，as we do when there’s a emergency, but this was a Christmas emergency．
We a simple dinner for our Christmas guests in the hospital cafeteria．They needed ，so we collected from different departments candies and other things that could be presents．
As the family walked to the door to leave，the four-year-old came running , gave me a hug and whispered，” Thanks for being our angel today．”
| 小题1: | | A．on business | B．on holiday | C．on duty | D．on purpose |
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| 小题2: | | A．desk | B．book | C．computer | D．chair |
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| 小题4: | | A．highly | B．secrecy | C．happily | D．weakly |
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| 小题5: | | A．treatments | B．descriptions | C．suggestions | D．solutions |
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| 小题7: | | A．controlled | B．reflected | C．attacked | D．affected |
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| 小题8: | | A．break | B．trouble | C．mistake | D．cough |
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| 小题9: | | A．before | B．after | C．until | D．unless |
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| 小题10: | | A．hesitated | B．announced | C．responded | D．regretted |
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| 小题11: | | A．identity | B．address | C．money | D．problem |
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| 小题12: | | A．nurses | B．doctors | C．patients | D．family |
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| 小题13: | | A．something | B．nothing | C．everything | D．anything |
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| 小题14: | | A．informed | B．mentioned | C．rejected | D．criticized |
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| 小题15: | | A．relaxed | B．busy | C．free | D．warm |
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| 小题16: | | A．mental | B．physical | C．medical | D．vital |
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| 小题17: | | A．shared | B．enjoyed | C．prepared | D．delivered |
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| 小题18: | | A．medicine | B．courage | C．houses | D．presents |
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| 小题19: | | A．cheap | B．available | C．healthy | D．convenient |
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| 小题20: | | A．back | B．forward | C．around | D．away |
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On Nov．18，1995，Itzhak Perlman，the violinist，came on stage to give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City．
If you have ever been to a Perlman concert，you know that getting on stage is no small achievement for him．He was stricken with polio(小儿麻痹症)as a child，and so he has braces(支架)on both legs and walks with the aid of two crutches(双拐)．
He walks painfully, yet majestically, until he reaches his chair．Then he sits down，slowly, puts his crutches on the floor, undoes the clasps on his legs，tucks one foot back and extends the other foot forward．Then he bends down and picks up the violin, puts it under his chin，nods to the conductor and proceeds to play．
But this time，something went wrong．Just as he fmished the first few bars(小节)，one of the strings on his violin broke．You could hear it snap(嘣断)---it went off like gunfire across the room．There was no mistaking what that meant．There was no mistaking what he had to do．
We figured that he would have to get up，put on the clasps again，pick up the crutches and limp his way off stage-to either find another violin or else find another string for this one．But he didn’t．Instead．he waited a moment，closed his eyes and then signaled the conductor to begin again．
The orchestra began，and he played from where he had left off．And he played with such passion and such power and such purity as they had never heard before．
When he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room．And then people rose and cheered．He smiled，wiped the sweat from this brow, raised his bow to quit us，and then he said in a quiet tone．“You know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left．’’
小题1:By saying “getting on stage is no small achievement for him”, the author really means .| A．it’s very difficult for Itzhak Perlman to play the violin with three strings | | B．it’s not easy for Itzhak Perlman to get on the stage because he is disabled | | C．it’s not easy for ltzhak Perlman to face such a large audience | | D．it’s really great achievements for ltzhak Perlman to play the violin with three strings |
小题2:When one of the strings broke，people thought Itzhak Perlman would .| A．go on playing with the remaining three strings | | B．give up playing | | C．change or repair his violin | | D．get off the stage with shame |
小题3:Itzhak Perlman when one of the strings of the violin broke．| A．gave up playing | | B．didn’t know what to do | | C．went on playing the same piece of music | | D．went on playing a different piece of music |
小题4:What did the audience feel when Itzhak Perlman finished playing?| A．Surprised． | B．Disappointed． | C．Moved． | D．Satistied． |
小题5:Itzhak Perlman can be best described as a man who is ．| A．clever | B．strong willed | C．humourous | D．quite skilled |
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One evening I was resting in a cafe. I a pair of newly bought white leather shoes, which were rather expensive. Then a boy came to me.
He was in a(n) shirt, looking pale and about eleven. No sooner had I begun to speak than he opened the i n his hand and took out the tools of shoe-polishing. He down, took off my leather shoes, and began to shine them.
He was busy doing his work heavy rain began to pour down.People rushed to the café for from the rain.More and more people crowded and gradually separated the boy from me.
Hours passed, and it turned .I had no shoes on my feet and where the boy had been.I thought he would not my shoes, and I would have to go home on my bare feet.
When it was near midnight the ended, and there were fewer and fewer people in the café. The café was to be .I had to move to the door, head . just as I went to the gate, I found that a boy of about eleven, looking very familiar, was sleeping at the with his head leaning against a boxand his upper body being . he held a package made of his shirt tightly in his arms.
I shook him slightly and woke him up. He up and rubbed his eyes for a while before he recognized me.Then he opened the package , gave me my leather shoes, and apologized to me shyly.I him and wrapped him with his unfit shirt, which had wrapped my leather shoes. On my way home, the of the boy stayed in my mind.
| 小题1: | | A．took | B．wore | C．mended | D．owned |
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| 小题2: | | A．old | B．unfit | C．small | D．dirty |
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| 小题3: | | A．bag | B．package | C．box | D．suitcase |
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| 小题4: | | A．seated | B．bent | C．put | D．looked |
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| 小题5: | | A．when | B．after | C．because | D．since |
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| 小题6: | | A．protection | B．rest | C．hide | D．preparation |
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| 小题8: | | A．dark | B．light | C．dim | D．bright |
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| 小题9: | | A．thought | B．wondered | C．guessed | D．imagined |
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| 小题10: | | A．shine | B．keep | C．return | D．carry |
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| 小题11: | | A．rain | B．coffee | C．time | D．work |
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| 小题12: | | A．opened | B．locked | C．stopped | D．closed |
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| 小题13: | | A．lowered | B．dropped | C．raised | D．held |
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| 小题14: | | A．shortly | B．surprisedly | C．sadly | D．immediately |
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| 小题15: | | A．table | B．door | C．bed | D．cafe |
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| 小题17: | | A．stayed | B．say | C．jumped | D．got |
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| 小题18: | | A．finally | B．suddenly | C．unfriendly | D．hurriedly |
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| 小题19: | | A．recognized | B．forgave | C．paid | D．inspired |
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| 小题20: | | A．feature | B．shirt | C．image | D．form |
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“A” for Attitude
English was always my favorite subject. In my freshman year of high school, I could write a killer composition. In my second year, my teacher me to give spelling tests to the class. I had a time of my junior year. Mrs Alexander me to sit at her desk and take over the class when she had to leave the room. Only my senior English class was , as we had a teacher right out of college who expected work. Every student received a "C" or "D" grade the first quarter. But English was still my favorite subject.
I graduated from high school, early and had children. about my English, I often helped my kids with their English homework. And I wrote long articles and beautiful poetry as a columnist for a newspaper. Fifteen years later, I went to college, and because I had been an "A" student, I remained an "A" student. I up to my own expectations.
Yesterday, I my high school report cards when I was reading old papers. That bundle of report cards back the old days. I remembered sitting in my advisor"s office, explaining that I had always be at English, and recommending that I did not deserve a ""D" from that inexperienced teacher of my senior year. The advisor was but unable to change a(an) . Reading through my old report cards revealed something else too. I wanted to them or hide them. I was not an "A" student in high school English! Somehow, I had myself of this, when the grades clearly reflected an average student with an "A" or "B" but mostly "C” S.
Had I lived up to those grades and myself according to those letters, I would have never confidently sought my writing career. Had I my early grades instead of myself, I would have allowed my fear of failure to enthusiasm and damage my creativity. Instead, I my younger self as an "A" English student, except for that undeserved "D".
| 小题1: | | A．scolded | B．allowed | C．ordered | D．reminded |
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| 小题2: | | A．bad | B．complex | C．terrible | D．wonderful |
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| 小题3: | | A．approved | B．appointed | C．expected | D．urged |
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| 小题4: | | A．flexible | B．creative | C．disappointing | D．controversial |
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| 小题5: | | A．college-level | B．based | C．difficult | D．easy |
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| 小题6: | | A．married | B．worked | C．succeeded | D．progressed |
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| 小题7: | | A．Sad | B．Confident | C．Anxious | D．Curious |
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| 小题8: | | A．added | B．lived | C．grew | D．went |
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| 小题9: | | A．counted | B．remembered | C．approached | D．discovered |
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| 小题10: | | A．brought | B．turned | C．held | D．kept |
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| 小题11: | | A．nervous | B．good | C．poor | D．terrible |
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| 小题12: | | A．impolite | B．impatient | C．inexperienced | D．sympathetic |
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| 小题13: | | A．grade | B．figure | C．paper | D．entry |
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| 小题14: | | A．tear | B．fire | C．cry | D．escape |
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| 小题15: | | A．warned | B．reminded | C．informed | D．convinced |
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| 小题16: | | A．average | B．enthusiastic | C．outstanding | D．occasional |
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| 小题17: | | A．considered | B．denied | C．reflected | D．described |
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| 小题18: | | A．abandoned | B．given | C．believed in | D．doubted |
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| 小题19: | | A．change | B．risk | C．defeat | D．reminded |
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| 小题20: | | A．looked | B．viewed | C．sang | D．criticized |
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