Helen Thomas, the pioneering White House reporter known for putting presidents on the hot seat, died at 92．
To those who regularly watch presidential press conferences, Helen Thomas is a familiar figure．Usually dressed in red and always seated in the front row, she is always the first or second reporter the president calls upon．It is an honor she has earned．Besides, it affords her the perfect opportunity to do what she does best - challenge the president and other public officials to tell the plain truth．She said, "We reporters" priority（首要事情） is the people"s right to know - without fear or favor．We are the people"s servants．"
Helen Thomas was born in Kentucky in 1920．All the nine Thomas children were brought up to value education, and all were expected to make something of themselves through working hard．She made up her mind while still in high school to become a reporter after writing for the student newspaper．After receiving her bachelor"s degree in 1942, Thomas headed straight for Washington, D．C．in search of a newspaper job．Before long, she landed one at Washington Daily News．Her duty included fetching coffee and doughnuts for the paper"s reporters and editors．The eager young woman found the atmosphere exciting and was convinced she had made the right career choice．
Her big break came when she was sent to Florida to report on the vacation of President-elect John F．Kennedy and his family．Once President Kennedy took office, Thomas changed her focus from the president"s family to his policies．She began attending the daily press briefings at the White House as well as presidential press conferences．Thomas has covered every president since Kennedy．Over the years, Thomas found her job "thrilling and inspiring," but never boring．And she took very seriously her duty to "keep an eye on the president" and keep American people informed．
小题1:What can we learn about Helen Thomas from the passage?| A．Her career took off after covering the Kennedys． | | B．Her first job was to deliver doughnuts to a news agency． | | C．She was born to a large family in Kentucky in 1942． | | D．She decided to be a reporter while in college． |
小题2:Paragraph 3 is written to show Helen Thomas| A．is a good decision maker for her career | | B．appreciates education and hard work | | C．wants to be famous by writing reports | | D．has great support from her family |
小题3:What does Helen Thomas think other work?| A．Unbearable． | B．Exciting． | C．Challenging． | D．Unforgettable． |
小题4:What can be the best title for the text?| A．A reporter sticking to the facts． | | B．A reporter challenging President Kennedy． | | C．A reporter from an ordinary family． | | D．A reporter for Washington Daily News． |
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小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:B
小题4:A |
试题分析: 本文介绍了美国著名记者海伦.托马斯。自小她的父母对于孩子们都有着很高的期望，希望他们会有所作为。而她自己也非常勤奋，立志想当记者。毕业后她找了一份在报社的工作，从最底层的工作做起，经过她的不懈努力，成了美国白宫记者团资深成员。
小题1:A细节理解题。根据文章末段 Her big break came when she was sent to Florida to report on the vacation of President-elect John F．Kennedy and his family．可知她事业的转机是在肯尼迪总统时期，故A选项正确。
小题2:B推理判断题。文章第三段讲述了Helen Thomas所受的教育以及她想当记者的志向，和工作中的勤奋努力，由此判断B选项正确。
小题3:B细节理解题。根据文章末段Over the years, Thomas found her job "thrilling and inspiring," but never boring．可知B选项正确。
小题4:A主旨大意题。本文介绍了美国著名记者海伦.托马斯。她高中时候就立志成为一名记者，后来因为她尖锐的问题，而让多位美国总统吃足苦头，根据文章介绍可知A选项内容更能体现她的特点，选A。 |
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A friend of mine met with an accident driving in darkness. His legs were so hurt that he couldn’t move. What was the was he found himself unable to ask for help — his mobile phone went out of as a result of exhausted battery. Nothing could be done but to in cold wilderness. It was 8 hours later that day broke, and then the of the rescue.
It is almost that he could stand the horror in the darkness for so long. Even more surprising was his : "First of all I checked up my conditions and found myself not in mortal （致命的）danger. As there was no way to call for help, I leaned back in my seat trying my best to keep the wound from . In this way I dozed （打盹）off ."
His story put an end to my regret for the of an exploration adventure that happened last year. A group of young men to explore a mountain cave and got lost. to find a way out in the dark cave they were frightened and ran anxiously without a sense of .Finally they fell dead in fear and exhaustion. According to the people that found them, the place where they got lost was only about 10 meters away from the of the cave. If they stayed on the spot when they lost their way and tried to themselves, they would probably sense a faint light glimmering （闪烁）not far away .
Don’t you think that you can compare it with itself? When you meet with obstacles （障碍）in life and work, you are lost in darkness. you it’s unclear yet and you needn’t put up struggle . It seems to be a negative attitude, a person who can afford to do so must have foresight as well as a great in the first place.
| 小题1: | | A．hopeless | B．worst | C．more | D．best |
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| 小题2: | | A．service | B．way | C．order | D．work |
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| 小题3: | | A．cry | B．lie | C．wait | D．sleep |
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| 小题4: | | A．delay | B．success | C．team | D．arrival |
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| 小题5: | | A．untrue | B．unimaginable | C．true | D．useless |
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| 小题6: | | A．plan | B．decision | C．explanation | D．excuse |
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| 小题7: | | A．physical | B．mental | C．working | D．medical |
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| 小题8: | | A．rotting | B．spreading | C．hurting | D．bleeding |
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| 小题9: | | A．loss | B．failure | C．disappointment | D．sadness |
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| 小题10: | | A．had | B．managed | C．tried | D．planned |
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| 小题11: | | A．Willing | B．Unable | C．Determined | D．Deciding |
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| 小题12: | | A．hearing | B．sight | C．feeling | D．direction |
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| 小题13: | | A．rescue | B．village | C．local | D．brave |
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| 小题14: | | A．end | B．top | C．opening | D．side |
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| 小题15: | | A．save | B．help | C．stop | D．calm |
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| 小题16: | | A．adventure | B．work | C．life | D．mankind |
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| 小题17: | | A．Mind | B．Watch | C．Imagine | D．Warn |
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| 小题18: | | A．really | B．immediately | C．carefully | D．hopefully |
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| 小题20: | | A．courage | B．thought | C．opinion | D．strength |
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They think they"re lucky and it"s Christmas again. They can"t see that we live on a dirty street in a shabby house among people who aren"t much good. Johnny and the children can"t see how pitiful it is that our neighbors have to make happiness out of this filth and dirt. My children must get out of this. But how? The money that we"ve saved isn"t nearly enough.
The McGaritys have money, but they are show-offs with it. The McGarity girl just yesterday stood out there in the street eating from a bag of cookies while a ring of hungry children watched her. I saw those children looking at her and crying in their hearts, and when she couldn"t eat any more, she threw the rest down the sewer(阴沟).
Miss Jackson who teaches at the Settlement House isn"t rich, but she knows things. She understands people. Her eyes look straight into yours when she talks with you. Everybody else here looks away because they"re ashamed of their lives. I"d like to see the children would be like Miss Jackson when they grew up.
小题1:The writer"s family is the poorest one on that street.
小题2:The McGarity girl is characterized as rich and nice.
小题3:The writer thinks Miss Jackson is an example her children should follow.
小题4:The writer wants to move out of that district.
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The Johnson family from England believe they are lucky to be alive after surviving an incredible incident off the coast of Australia. The Johnsons had been that they might see some whales when they were _ a yacht （帆船）— a large expensive boat for a 10-day sailing around the Whitsunday Islands. , they had no clue just how their viewing would be. Two hours into their journey a nine-meter-long humpback whale out of the ocean and crashed into their boat before returning to the water.
Mark Johnson，the eldest son，was sailing the yacht when he heard an immense bang and a thud(重击声).He thought the yacht had hit a rock. However, when he looked up, he saw the whale down the deck of the boat. He told the reporters, “ We were staring into its right eye. It was a very _ moment. The eye was about the of a dinner plate. It was huge.”
for the Johnson family, no one was hurt, but the yacht suffered damage. The whale had ruined the mast and rigging — the pole and ropes which hold the ——and so the family was left at sea, 10 miles from the shore. The equipment was also damaged, but fortunately they had a cell phone and were able to call for help.
Why the whale jumped onto the yacht is a ，but the family thinks that maybe the boat had not sailed between the whale and its baby calf. Perhaps the whale was trying to its calf when it jumped, hit the yacht by chance.
Whatever the reason, people are completely that this incident happened. There is over 135 million square miles of ocean , so what are the of a whale jumping onto a 30-foot-long yacht? The chance of something like this happening is miniscale, but it just shows that life is full of surprises.
| 小题1: | | A．explained | B．learned | C．told | D．taught |
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| 小题2: | | A．hiring | B．running | C．taking | D．driving |
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| 小题3: | | A．competition | B．game | C．trail | D．trip |
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| 小题4: | | A．Moreover | B．Nevertheless | C．Worthwhile | D．However |
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| 小题5: | | A．wide | B．close | C．vivid | D．tense |
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| 小题6: | | A．swam | B．leapt | C．slipped | D．stretched |
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| 小题7: | | A．suddenly | B．occasionally | C．immediately | D．accidentally |
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| 小题8: | | A．shooting | B．jumping | C．falling | D．sliding |
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| 小题9: | | A．exciting | B．surprising | C．frightening | D．astonishing |
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| 小题10: | | A． size | B．sample | C．range | D．scale |
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| 小题11: | | A． Certainly | B．Luckily | C．Definitely | D．Possibly |
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| 小题12: | | A． severe | B．extreme | C．actual | D．special |
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| 小题13: | | A． boat | B．beach | C．sail | D．journey |
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| 小题14: | | A． by all means | B．in no time | C．from then on | D．with no way |
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| 小题15: | | A． radio | B．craft | C．edition | D．compass |
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| 小题16: | | A． problem | B．mystery | C．suspect | D．question |
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| 小题17: | | A． carefully | B．surely | C．purposely | D．simply |
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| 小题18: | | A． see | B．touch | C．tend | D．reach |
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| 小题19: | | A． amazed | B．worried | C．interested | D．touched |
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| 小题20: | | A． surprises | B．chances | C．predictions | D．results |
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When Jean Calment entered the world in 1875, telephones and automobiles still lay in the future. Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso were not yet born. The Eiffel Tower was 14 years from being built. As a teenager, she met Vincent Van Gogh, near her home in Arles, in the south of France. He was “very ugly, ungracious, impolite, sick—I forgive him, they called him loco.” She recalled. When she died last week at age 122, she was the world’s oldest person. (There were others who claimed to the title, but only Calment had the official documents to prove her age)
Each February 21, her birthday, she would share the secrets of long life. Some years it was “a sense of humor”, others it was “keeping busy”. “God may have forgotten me,” she once explained. The truth probably was that she had good genes. Her mother reportedly lived to be 86 and her father 94.
Her life had its sadness: she outlived her husband, her only daughter and her grandson. According to a friend, she was imperturbable. “If you can’t do anything about it,” she reportedly said, “don’t worry about it.”
In her last years she was nearly blind and deaf, but her health remained good. She ate a few bars of chocolate each week and continued smoking until a few years ago, when she could no longer light her own cigarettes. She never lost her sense of humor. On her 110th birthday, she commented, “I have only ever had one wrinkle, and I am sitting on it.” Her longevity made her famous. Her spirits made her eternal(永恒的)
小题1:Why does the author mention Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and the Eiffel Tower?| A．To show that Calment had seen famous people and things. | | B．To emphasize that Calement was born a long time ago. | | C．To indicate that Calement is just as famous. | | D．To admire the knowledge that Calement had. |
小题2:The author believes that Calment’s longevity is mainly due to _____.| A．a sense of humor | B．being kept busy | C．belief in God | D．good genes |
小题3:The underlined word imperturbable means ______.| A．calm | B．humorous | C．friendly | D．healthy |
小题4:Toward the end of the story, the author seems to be impressed by Calment’s _____.| A．attitude | B．religious belief | C．knowledge | D．lifestyle |
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Father’s Garden
My father was always a good(酷爱的) gardener. One of my earliest memories is standing without shoes in the freshly tilled(翻耕的) soil, my hands blackened from digging in the ground.
As a child, I loved following Dad around in the garden. I remember Dad pushing the tiller(耕作机) ahead in perfectly straight lines. Dad loved growing all sorts of things: yellow and green onions, watermelons almost as big as me, rows of yellow corn, and our favorite--- red tomatoes.
As I grew into a teenager, I didn’t get so excited about gardening with Dad. Instead of magical land of possibility, it had turned into some kind of prison. As Dad grew older, his love for gardening never disappeared. After all the kids were grown and had started families of their own, Dad turned to gardening like never before. Even when he was diagnosed with cancer, he still took care of his garden.
But then, the cancer, bit by bit, invaded his body. I had to do the things he used to do. What really convinced me that Dad was dying was the state of his garden that year. The rows and rows of multicolored vegetables were gone. Too tired to weed them, he simply let them be. He only planted tomatoes.
For the first few years after he died, I couldn’t even bear to look at anyone’s garden without having strong memories pour over me like cold water from a bucket. Three years ago, I decided to plant my own garden and started out with just a few tomatoes. That morning, after breaking up a fair amount of soil, something caught the corner of my eye and I had to smile. It was my eight-year-old son Nathan, happily playing in the freshly tilled soil.
小题1:Why did the author like the garden when he was a child?| A．He wanted to be a garden-crazy like his father. | | B．He loved being in the garden with his father. | | C．The garden was full of his favorite food. | | D．The garden was just freshly tilled. |
小题2:When all the kids started their own families, the author’s father _____.| A．stopped his gardening. | | B．turned to other hobbies. | | C．devoted more to gardening. | | D．focused on planting tomatoes. |
小题3:What happened to the garden when the author’s father was seriously ill?| A．There was a great harvest. | | B．The garden was almost deserted. | | C．No plant grew in the garden at all. | | D．The author’s son took charge of the garden. |
小题4:Why did the author start his garden with tomatoes?| A．He wanted to honor his father. | | B．His son liked the fields of tomatoes. | | C．He only knew how to grow tomatoes. | | D．He thought tomatoes were easy to manage. |
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