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Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush. Although George Herbert Walker Bush began his career in the oil industry, he finally served as a congressman(国会议员), and vice(副) president and president of the United States.
At the age of two,Bush moved with his parents from Connecticut to Odessa, Texas, where his father took up the oil business. After a year in Texas, the family moved to California for business reasons. A year later, the family returned to Texas and settled in Midland, where Bush lived from 1950 to 1959.
In 1959, again for business reasons, the family moved to Houston, Texas. In 1961 Bush left Texas and went to Andover, Massachusetts, to attend Phillips Academy, aboarding school(寄宿学校) that his father had also attended.
At Phillips, Bush played basketball, baseball, and football. He was best known for being head cheerleader. In 1964 he enrolled at Yale University in Connecticut.His father and grandfather had also attended Yale. At Yale, Bush was considered an average student, but he was popular with his classmates.
Bush graduated from Yale with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1968. Then he joined the Air National Guard and remained in the Guard until 1973. After earning his MBA from Harvard in 1975, Bush returned to Midland. Like his father, he first entered the oil industry as a “landsman(新手)”. However, Bush’s oil companies never enjoyed great success. He took more interest in politics. He helped his father to become president and in 1994 he himself was elected governor of Texas.
In the summer of 1999, Bush began to run for the president of the USA and on January 20, 2001, George W. Bush, hand raised, took the oath(宣誓) of office to become the 43rd president of the US.
小题1:What does the writer intend to tell us in the first paragraph?
A.George W. Bush is the first son in American history to follow his father into the White House. |
B.George W. Bush is the first son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush. |
C.John Quincy Adams and his father were both former American presidents. |
D.George W. Bush is the second one in American history to follow his father into the White House. |
A.got on very well at the universities |
B.was very good at basketball, baseball and football |
C.did everything as his father had done |
D.was a very successful politician like his father |
A.Young Bush lived with his family in Texas from 1948 to 1961. |
B.He once studied at a university that his father and grandfather had also attended. |
C.He once ruled over an American state before he entered the White House. |
D.He once served at the Air National Guard for about five years. |
答案
小题1:D
小题1:D
小题1:A
解析
核心考点
试题【When he took office, George W. Bush, son of former president George Herbert Walk】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
One day, Kerry promised marriage to Alice. Surprised and pleased by the offer, the girl was not sure whether she would spend her future as a wife or a painter. After a moment she replied as follows, "Each of us must paint a picture. If yours is superior to mine, you can make me your wife. If not, please drop the question." Then it was decided to give it the following day.
The next morning. Alice hung her picture on the gate. It showed a bunch of flowers and won high praise from everyone who passed by. In fact, a crowd collected in front of her masterpiece and fixed eyes on it.
Several hours passed. Then Kerry was seen coming along to the gate with what appeared to be a beautiful leather suitcase in his hand. When he finally stopped before Alice, the girl artist brushed like a rose and agreed to marry him without any hesitation. Why?
小题1:What did Alice think Kerry"s offer?
A.She liked Kerry, but she didn"t expect him to promise marriage to her. |
B.She didn"t want to marry anybody. |
C.She didn"t like it at all. |
D.She thought the offer wasn"t polite. |
A.not so better than | B.better than |
C.so good as | D.as good as |
A.Kerry didn"t accept Alice"s suggestion. |
B.Kerry wasn"t sure of his painting so he dropped his offer. |
C.Kerry did go the next day, but he failed to take a picture |
D.Kerry agreed to Alice"s suggestion. |
A.it was true to nature | B.the flowers were red |
C.it showed so large a bunch of flowers | D.people felt it strange to hang it on the gate |
A.a real one | B.a painting drawn by Kerry |
C.a box with a picture in it | D.made up of leather |
His father was a doctor, so Darwin was sent to Edinburgh to study medicine, and was planned to follow a medical career. But Charles found the lectures boring. Then his father sent him to Cambridge University to study to be a priest. While at Cambridge, Darwin’s interest in zoology and geography grew. Later he got a letter from Robert Fitzroy who was planning to make a voyage around the world on a ship, the Beagle. He wanted a naturalist to join the ship, and Darwin was recommended(推荐). That voyage was the start of Darwin’s great life.
As the Beagle sailed around the world, Darwin began to wonder how life had developed on earth. He began to observe everything. After he was home, he set to work, getting his collection in order. His first great work The Zoology of the Beagle was well received, but he was slow to make public his ideas on the origin of life.
Later Darwin and Wallace, another naturalist who had the same opinions as Darwin, produced a paper together. Darwin’s great book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (《物种起源》) appeared. It attracted a storm. People thought that Darwin was saying they were descended from monkeys. What a shameful idea! Although most scientists agreed that Darwin was right, the Church was still so strong that Darwin never received any honors for his work.
Afterwards, he published another great work, The Descent of Man. His health grew worse, but he still worked. “When I have to give up observation, I shall die,” he said. He was still working on 17, April, 1882. He was dead two days later.
小题1:Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A.Charles Darwin’s ideas |
B.Charles Darwin’s works |
C.Father of modern biology: Charles Darwin |
D.The greatest scientist: Charles Darwin |
A.make him like natural history |
B.make him become a doctor |
C.let him change his hobbies |
D.have him give up his collection |
A.his study at Cambridge University |
B.his collection of coins |
C.the naturalists at Cambridge |
D.the voyage of the Beagle |
A.they gave monkeys life |
B.they were different from monkeys |
C.they were developed from monkeys |
D.they had to live with monkeys |
Crayon Shinchan(蜡笔小新)enjoys great popularity in China. He has many fans in Hong Kong , Taiwan and on the mainland. And he is one of the hottest cartoon characters in his home country, Japan.
But, the trouble-maker’s show was ranked the No. 1 most unwanted cartoon program by Japan’s Parents’ Association on April 18.
More than half the parents who took part in the study thought Shinchan was a negative role model for children. They believed his actions and speech were adult in nature and not suitable for kids.
Many parents and education experts in China agree with them. Shinchan, they say, is really offensive. He looks out for pretty ladies on the street; at the bookstore he reads magazines full of sexy women; he pretends to be kidnapped by his teacher when he sees a police car; and he raises his mum’s skirt and shouts out the color of her underpants if she doesn’t buy him what he wants.
“Crayon Shimchan is full of dirty humor. The boy shows some terrible adult mentality(心态),which doesn’t match his age,” said Pang Lijuan, professor of the Education Department at Beijing Normal University. Pang further pointed out that Shinchan destroys the traditional image of a polite, hard-working boy. She fears that some teens may copy his behavior and harm their psychological development. Pang and many others in China think that Shinchan is a cartoon for adults-----not for children.
But some kids disagree. Jiangxin, a senior 2 student in Luhe Middle School in Beijing, became a fan of Shinchan after he first saw the cartoon two years ago. He said it is Shinchan’s humor , courage, and cleverness that makes him and his friends love the little cartoon character . “Shinchan looks at the adults’ world with kid’s eyes. He uncovers the hypocrisy(虚伪) and selfishness in a childish way,” explained Jiang. “We watch it just for fun.” But Jiang also admitted that Shinchan is not good for all ages. “It may not be suitable for primary school kids. They may try to blindly copy him.”
Shinchan’s “father ”, Japan’s popular cartoonist, Yoshito Ushi, never thought Shinchan would cause such a heated discussion. He argued that Shinchan is a childish copy of Japan’s middle-aged men. The boy does everything adults would like, but don’t dare to do. “People can easily forgive him because he’s only five years old,” said Yoshito.
小题1: Teachers and parents dislikes Crayon Shinchan because .
A.he looks very ugly |
B.he caused a heated discussion |
C.the character was created by an adult cartoonist |
D.he was regarded as a negative role model for children to follow |
A.he looks very funny |
B.the cartoon character is suitable for all ages |
C.they think he is humorous, clever and brave |
D.he is a childish copy of Japan’s middle-aged men |
A.humorous | B.ugly-looking | C.funny | D.unpleasant |
A.Shinchan is such a naughty boy that he can’t behave himself. |
B.Shinchan is trying to draw people’s attention by doing some offensive things. |
C.Shinchan wants to set a role model in a different way. |
D.Shinchan’ s behaviour is just a childish copy of Japan’s middle-aged men. |
One evening, the telephone rang while the old woman was preparing supper. She went to answer it. She was told that one of her sons died in a traffic accident. She heard this and fell in a faint. When she came back to life, she was in hospital. And she needed to be helped after that.
Several months later she was told on the telephone her daughter died while she was being operated on. The old woman was so sad that she had to be in hospital again. From then on she was afraid to answer any telephones and sometimes she was afraid hear the bell. Of course it brought them some trouble and some important business was held up. So her husband advised her to see a psychiatrist. The man examined her carefully and then asked her some questions.
“You will soon be all right if you follow my advice, Mrs Keller.” said the psychiatrist.
The old woman took the medicine the doctor gave on time and tried to forget her dead son and daughter. And two months later she went to see the psychiatrist again.
“You have saved me, Doctor,” the old woman said, as soon as she saw him.
“Are you afraid to answer the telephone now?”
“No,” answered Keller.
“I dare answer it whether it rings or not.”
小题1:Mrs Keller could do all housework because ______.
A.she had no money to employ a helper. |
B.she was strong enough to do all at home |
C.she didn’t believe anybody |
D.only she was free at home |
A.she went to answer the telephone. |
B.she was very ill that evening |
C.she walked in the room carelessly |
D.she heard the news about her son’s death. |
A.strong | B.able | C.clever | D.sad |
A.The doctor’s advice | B.Her husband’s suggestion |
C.Her poor health | D.The two pieces of bad news |
Of the many interactions I had with my mother those many years ago, one stands out with clarity. I remember the occasion when Mother sent me to the main road, about twenty yards away from the farmhouse, to invite a passing group of seasonal work-seekers home for a meal. She instructed me to take a container along and collect dry cow dung (牛粪) for making a fire. I was then to prepare the meal for the group of work-seekers.
The thought of making an open fire outside at midday, cooking in a large three-legged pot in that high heat, was enough to upset even an angel. I did not manage to hide my feelings from my mother, and after serving the group, she called me to the balcony, where she usually sat to attend to her sewing (缝纫).
Looking straight into my eyes, she said, “Tsholofelo, why were you so unhappy when I requested you to prepare a meal for those poor people?” Despite my attempt to deny her allegation (断言), and using the heat of the fire and the sun as an excuse for my alleged behavior, Mother, giving me a firm look, said, “A foot has no nose.” It means, “You can’t detect what trouble may lie ahead of you.” Had I denied the group of people a meal, it may have happened that, in my travels some time in the future, I found myself at the mercy of those very individuals. As if that was not enough to shame me, Mother continued, “A person is a person because of another person.”
小题1:We learn from the passage that Tsholofelo’s mother often _____.
A.quoted proverbs when she was talking with others |
B.asked Tsholofelo to read more proverbs |
C.collected proverbs in her spare time |
D.used proverbs to teach Tsholofelo |
A.Unwilling. | B.Interested. | C.Critical. | D.Unconcerned. |
A.very strange | B.a bit tense | C.quite lively | D.pretty relaxed |
A.flexible and creative | B.sincere and honest |
C.active and confident | D.sympathetic and helpful |
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