Artie Shaw was born in New York City in 1910. His name was Arthur Arshawsky. His parents were poor immigrants who had come to the United States from Eastern Europe. His family later moved to New Haven, Connecticut. At the age of fourteen, he began to play the saxophone and then the clarinet. From a very young age, Artie Shaw wanted to play his clarinet better than anyone. He wanted his sound and music to be perfect. He worked at this task much of his life. He began working as a professional musician when he was fifteen. He left home and began playing in bands across the United States. In 1928, young Artie Shaw traveled to Chicago, Illinois to hear the great trumpet player, Louis Armstrong. He immediately understood that Armstrong"s great jazz sound was the beginning of something new and exciting. Artie left Chicago with a growing interest in jazz music. Soon after, he moved to New York City. He got work playing the clarinet for the Columbia Broadcast System radio network. In 1936, he was given a chance to form a small group and play at New York"s famous Imperial Theater on Broadway. His group was not the top band in the show. But the crowd loved his music. This proved to be a major step in his career. Artie Shaw was always trying something new, something different. He heard a young black woman sing and hired her for his band. This was the first time that a black woman sang with white musicians. Racial separation was the rule in many states. Artie Shaw did not care. Artie Shaw wrote several books in his later years. He wrote stories for magazines. He spoke about music at colleges and universities. But he had very little to do with the world of recording or music. During those years however, he received many awards and honors for his music. These included a Hall of Fame award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. 小题1:When he was very young, Artie Shaw was ________.A.born to a wealthy family | B.a famous singer | C.a man with a great dream | D.was in love with music when he was a baby | 小题2:To achieve his music dream, Artie Shaw ________.A.first began to play the clarinet | B.wanted to be the most famous musician around the world | C.began playing in bands across the United States | D.became a famous musician when he was fifteen | 小题3:When Artie Shaw became an adult, ________.A.he showed a growing interest in jazz music | B.he worked for Columbia Broadcast System radio network as a singer | C.he formed a small band when he was twenty three | D.he thought that racial separation should be the rule of the society | 小题4: In his later years, Artie Shaw ________.A.almost stopped playing music | B.worked for a magazine as an professional writer | C.he made many speeches about his life at colleges | D.he received many awards and honors for his books | 小题5:Which one can be the title of the passage?A.Artie Shaw’s Life Stories | B.Artie Shaw — A Crazy Musician | C.Artie Shaw — A Great Writer | D.Artie Shaw’s Music Life |
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试题分析:文章介绍了Artie Shaw 的音乐生涯,包括他从小对音乐的热爱,和努力追求音乐梦想的过程,以及他的成就。 小题1:细节题:从文章第二段的句子:At the age of fourteen, he began to play the saxophone and then the clarinet. From a very young age, Artie Shaw wanted to play his clarinet better than anyone. He wanted his sound and music to be perfect.可知小时候,Artie Shaw 是很有梦想的人,选C 小题2:细节题:从文章第三段的句子:He began working as a professional musician when he was fifteen. He left home and began playing in bands across the United States.可知为了实现他的音乐梦想,Artie Shaw开始在整个美国的乐队中演奏。选C 小题3:细节题:根据文章第四段的句子:In 1928, young Artie Shaw traveled to Chicago, Illinois to hear the great trumpet player, Louis Armstrong. He immediately understood that Armstrong"s great jazz sound was the beginning of something new and exciting. Artie left Chicago with a growing interest in jazz music.可知当Artie Shaw 成年后,他在爵士乐方面表示出兴趣。选A 小题4:细节题:根据文章最后一段的句子:Artie Shaw wrote several books in his later years. He wrote stories for magazines. He spoke about music at colleges and universities. But he had very little to do with the world of recording or music.可知在最后几年Artie Shaw 几乎停止演奏音乐。选A 小题5:标题确定题:通读文章可知:文章介绍了Artie Shaw 的音乐生涯,所以D是最贴切的标题。 |
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One young person, who was well educated, went for a job as a manager in a big company. The president did the final . He discovered the youth was and felt satisfied. Then the president asked who paid for his school fees. The youth answered, “My mother did it. She worked as a clothes .” The president requested the youth to his hands. So the youth did. They were smooth. Then he asked, “Have you ever your mother wash the clothes before?” The youth answered, “Never, my mother always wanted me to .”“Go and clean your mother’s when you go back today, and then me tomorrow morning,” the president said .The youth felt his chance of getting the job was high, so when he went back, he requested his mother to let him clean her hands. However, his tears fell he cleaned his mother’s hands slowly. It was the first time he had that his mother’s hands were so wrinkled (布满皱纹的). After that, the youth didn’t say a word and washed all the remaining clothes for his mother . That night, Mother and Son for a very long time, longer than any talk before. The next , the youth went to the president’s office. The president noticed the tears in the youth’s eyes and asked: “Please tell me how you about helping your mother.” The youth said, “Number One, I know now what is. Without my mother, I wouldn’t be successful today. Number Two, by helping my mother, I realize how it is to get something done. Number Three, I’ve come to realize the of family relationship.” The president said, “You are . This is what I’m looking for to be my manager.”
小题1: | A.election | B.test | C.interview | D.competition |
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小题2: | A.strong | B.excellent | C.humorous | D.cute |
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小题3: | A.maker | B.cleaner | C.mender | D.seller |
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小题5: | A.found | B.let | C.helped | D.watched |
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小题6: | A.study | B.ignore | C.work | D.rest |
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小题7: | A.clothes | B.hands | C.feet | D.shoes |
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小题8: | A.see | B.move | C.recognize | D.answer |
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小题9: | A.on purpose | B.in patience | C.by chance | D.at last |
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小题10: | A.carefully | B.nervously | C.happily | D.shyly |
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小题11: | A.after | B.until | C.because | D.as |
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小题12: | A.believed | B.sensed | C.noticed | D.expected |
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小题13: | A.quietly | B.sadly | C.excitedly | D.angrily |
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小题14: | A.thought | B.slept | C.sat | D.talked |
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小题15: | A.morning | B.noon | C.afternoon | D.evening |
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小题16: | A.worried | B.felt | C.brought | D.spoke |
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小题17: | A.courage | B.appreciation | C.success | D.family |
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小题18: | A.important | B.difficult | C.different | D.impossible |
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小题19: | A.value | B.secret | C.type | D.change |
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小题20: | A.educated | B.respected | C.trusted | D.hired |
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My Garden -----by Nelson Mandela In early 1977, the authorities (当局) announced the physical labour and arranged some kind of work for us to do in the courtyard. The free time also allowed me to hunt what became two of my favorite hobbies in Robben Island---gardening and tennis. To survive in prison, one must develop ways to take satisfaction in one"s daily life. One can feel fulfilled (充实) by washing one"s clothes so that they are particularly clean. Just as one takes pride in important tasks outside of prison, one can find the same pride in doing small things inside prison. Almost from the beginning of my sentence on Robben Island, I asked the authorities for permission to start a garden in the courtyard. For years, they refused without offering a reason. But finally they gave in, and we were able to cut out a small garden in the prison. The soil in the courtyard was dry and rocky. In order to start my garden, I had to remove a great many rocks to allow the plant room to grow. The authorities supplied me with seeds. At first, I planned tomatoes and onions, because these plants did not require rich earth or constant care. The early harvests were poor, but they soon improved. I began to order books on gardening. I studied different gardening techniques and types of fertilizers (肥料). For a time, I tried to grow peanuts, and used different soils and fertilizers, but finally I gave up. It was one of my few failures. A garden was one of the few things in prison that one could control. The processes of planting a seed, watching it grow, taking care of it and then harvesting it offered a simple but long-lasting satisfaction. The sense of being the owner of the small patch of earth offered a small taste of freedom. 小题1:Mandela"s hobbies on Robben Island were ____.A.hunting and physical labour | B.gardening and tennis | C.washing his clothes | D.gardening techniques and types of fertilizers | 小题2:When did Mandela ask the prison authorities for the permission to start a small garden?A.Soon after 1997. | B.Some time in early 1977. | C.Almost as soon as he went to prison there. | D.Long after he went to prison there. | 小题3:Why did Mandela wash his clothes especially clean although he was in prison?A.To show he could do it as well as others. | B.To get some sense of pride and satisfaction from it. | C.To show others that he preferred to be clean. | D.To gain the authorities" permission to start a garden. | 小题4:Hard as he tried, he failed ____ at last. A.to get a sense of satisfaction and freedom | B.to grow tomatoes and onions | C.to grow peanuts | D.to get the same pride inside prison. |
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Twenty years ago, Mark Thatcher, the son of Mrs. Thatcher, was reported missing in the Sahara Desert while competing in the Grand Prix Motor race from Paris to Daker. The sad news, so unexpected, shook the unusually and unhurried politician off her balance. Though she did her best to as if nothing had happened and made her public appearance as usual, people could not fail to notice that she was no longer the old self-assured prime minister who always had everything under . Instead she had become a very sad mother who was unable to from her shock. One day when she was to at a lunch party, a reporter caught her off her guard by bringing up the of her missing son again. She was mentally unprepared for the question and lost her self-control. Tears were her cheeks she sobbingly told the reporter there was still no news of Mark and that she was very worried about him. She said that all the countries concerned had to do their best to help her find her son. With that she down completely and sobbed silently for quite a while. Gradually she calmed down and started to speak as . It was a very scene which exposed a new side of Mrs. Thatcher’s the public do not usually see. People began to talk about the Iron Woman’s love, a that is common to all human race. Later Mark returned to his mother’s side, good-humored and all smiles as usual nothing unusual had ever happened. The Iron Woman, , broke down again and was sobbing for a second time.
小题1: | A.outstanding | B.busy | C.calm | D.considerate |
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小题2: | A.seem | B.talk | C.do | D.pretend |
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小题3: | A.construction | B.control | C.discussion | D.pressure |
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小题4: | A.respond | B.relieve | C.reduce | D.recover |
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小题5: | A.arrive | B.eat | C.speak | D.read |
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小题6: | A.subject | B.object | C.theme | D.message |
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小题7: | A.hardly | B.totally | C.partly | D.mostly |
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小题8: | A.putting down | B.taking off | C.getting off | D.rolling down |
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小题9: | A.because | B.though | C.if | D.as |
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小题10: | A.permitted | B.admitted | C.promised | D.managed |
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小题11: | A.fell | B.went | C.broke | D.brought |
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小题12: | A.agreed | B.planned | C.announced | D.explained |
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小题13: | A.moving | B.shocking | C.interesting | D.serious |
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小题14: | A.quality | B.action | C.position | D.character |
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小题15: | A.lively | B.likely | C.lovely | D.motherly |
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小题16: | A.habit | B.hobby | C.feeling | D.thought |
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小题17: | A.hungry and tired | B.safe and funny | C.safe and sound | D.tired and sleepy |
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小题18: | A.as if | B.even if | C.so that | D.if only |
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小题19: | A.therefore | B.however | C.besides | D.thus |
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小题20: | A.made | B.heard | C.felt | D.seen |
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Suzie goes to her art class on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. She always looks forward to those days when she can do things all afternoon. What Suzie likes best is the good feeling she gets when she has finished working on a piece of . And then when she takes it home to her parents, she feels so proud of what she has made. On Wednesday afternoons Suzie writes articles for the newspaper. When she first moved to her new school, she wrote an article about how it feels to be a student in a new school. Her second article in the newspaper was about a(n) from her school who had just finished writing a book. Suzie the teacher what it feels like to be a published author. And then she what she found out with the rest of the school. Another time she wrote an article about why she thought the school should have two short a day instead of a long one. Lots of her friends thought that this would be a good idea too. Many teachers also with Suzie’s suggestion. Would you believe the principal (校长) of the school asked everyone to have a about Suzie’s suggestion? The principal always thinks that students should help decide how the school should be . During the vote, each person in the school voted. At last, the school that two short breaks would be better than one long break. And all of that happened because of Suzie’s suggestion in the school newspaper. On the day the newspaper out each month, the first thing Suzie does is to where her article is in the newspaper. And each time at the beginning of her article are the words: By Suzie Jefferson.
小题1: | A.sensitive | B.creative | C.positive | D.instructive |
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小题2: | A.cloth | B.art | C.article | D.picture |
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小题3: | A.show | B.explain | C.introduce | D.reward |
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小题4: | A.national | B.local | C.school | D.educational |
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小题5: | A.accustomed | B.fresh | C.strange | D.regular |
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小题6: | A.author | B.artist | C.student | D.teacher |
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小题7: | A.told | B.asked | C.examined | D.obeyed |
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小题8: | A.described | B.recorded | C.shared | D.forgot |
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小题9: | A.classes | B.breaks | C.activities | D.sports |
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小题10: | A.discussed | B.argued | C.disagreed | D.agreed |
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小题11: | A.vote | B.choice | C.question | D.decision |
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小题12: | A.performed | B.run | C.achieved | D.established |
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小题13: | A.imagined | B.expected | C.decided | D.requested |
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小题14: | A.puts | B.takes | C.gives | D.comes |
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小题15: | A.consider | B.check | C.read | D.place |
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Louis Pasteur, the famous French chemist and bacteriologist(微生物学家), invented “pasteurization”. In 1854 Pasteur was made head of the department of science at the University of Lille, and it was there that he made one of his most famous discoveries. Lille was a major center for wine and beer-making, and some of the local wine-makers asked Pasteur if he could help solve the problem of keeping wine fresh. At that time, it was believed that food and drinks go “bad” due to a purely chemical process. But during a series of experiments Pasteur proved that tiny living organisms(微生物)caused food and drinks to go bad. In the case of wine and beer the organisms are already present in the form of the various yeasts (酵母) that caused the fermentation(发酵) process. Pasteur discovered that heating the wine gently for a few minutes after it had fermented would kill off the yeast that was left in the wine, with the result that the wine would remain fresh for much longer. He also proved that food and drinks could be turned bad by other organisms that were present in the air, and that they too would keep fresh much longer if they were kept in airtight containers. The heating process was so successful that it made Pasteur famous. It was named “pasteurization” in his honour, and by about 1900 it had been widely used for processing and bottling cows’ milk. The result was a huge drop in the number of bottle-fed babies dying from infant diarrhea(婴儿腹泻)and from that time on it has been a standard treatment for milk and many other food products. This simple process has saved thousands, possibly millions, of lives worldwide. 小题1:Pasteur became ___________ in 1854. A.the chairperson of the science department at the University of Lille | B.the director of a chemical laboratory at the University of Lille | C.the general manager of a large beer-making company | D.the president of the University of Lille | 小题2:According to the passage, Lille was a major center for ___________ in the mid-19th century. A.growing grain crops | B.making beer and wine | C.doing chemical research | D.producing various kinds of yeasts | 小题3:In the last sentence of Paragraph 1, the underlined word “they” refers to ___________. A.wine and beer | B.food and drinks | C.the various yeasts | D.other organisms | 小题4:We can infer from the passage that Pasteur’s discovery __________. A.is no longer widely used for treating milk and other food products | B.did not bring much profit to the wine makers in Lille | C.has done a lot of good to children in the world | D.has greatly reduced the number of wars in the world | 小题5:According to the passage, we know it is that causes food and drinks to go bad.A.a purely chemical process. | B.tiny living organisms(微生物) | C.keeping them in airtight containers. | D.the heating process |
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