One stormy night many years ago, an elderly man and his wife entered a small hotel in Philadelphia. Trying to get out of the 36 _, the couple went to the front desk hoping to 37 for the night.
“Could you 38 give us a room here?” the husband asked.
The clerk, a 39 man with a winning smile, looked at the couple and 40 that there were three conventions(大会) in town.
“All of our 41 are taken,” the clerk said. “But I can’t send a 42 couple like you 43 into the rain at 1 o’clock in the morning. Would you please be 44 to sleep in my room? It’s not exactly a suite（套房）, but it will be good enough to make you 45 for the night.”
The couple said no politely.
“Don’t 46 me. It is just fine with me,” the clerk told them.
As he paid his bill the next morning, the elderly man said to the clerk, “You are the kind of manager who should be the boss of the best hotel. Maybe someday I’ll build 47 for you.” The three of them had a good 48 .
Two years passed. The clerk had almost forgotten it 49 he received a letter from the old man. It recalled(使回忆) that stormy night and contained a round-trip（双程的） 50 to New York, asking the young man to pay them a visit. The old man met him in New York, and 51 him to the corner of Fifth Avenue and 34th Street.
He then pointed to a great new 52 there, a palace of reddish stone. “That,” said the old man, “is the hotel I have just built for you to 53_ .”
“You must be 54 ,” the young man said.
“I am sure I am not,” said the old man, the name of 55 was William Waldorf Astor, and the magnificent structure was the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The young clerk, George C. Boldt became its first manager.
| 小题1: | | A．rain | B．anger | C．snow | D．hunger |
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| 小题3: | | A．surely | B．possibly | C．really | D．freely |
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| 小题4: | | A．lazy | B．bored | C．nervous | D．friendly |
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| 小题5: | | A．shouted | B．explained | C．believed | D．agreed |
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| 小题6: | | A．hotels | B．desks | C．streets | D．rooms |
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| 小题9: | | A．kind | B．glad | C．good | D．generous |
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| 小题10: | | A．enjoyable | B．helpful | C．grateful | D．comfortable |
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| 小题16: | | A．made | B．told | C．treated | D．led |
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| 小题17: | | A．building | B．car | C．bedroom | D．place |
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| 小题18: | | A．live | B．sell | C．manage | D．rent |
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| 小题19: | | A．lying | B．joking | C．dreaming | D．cheating |
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Once a man named Grand found a box of old papers in a room at the top of his house. He burned most of them, because he didn’t like old things very much, But one of these papers was an old letter. At the bottom(底部) of the letter was the name of a well-known writer. “When this letter was written,” said Grant, “no one knew about the writer. But now everyone knows him. Some people like to buy letters like this. I may be able to get much money for the letter if I sell it to the right man.”
But there were a lot of dirty marks all over the letter.
“It doesn’t look nice,” he thought. “No one wants to buy a letter if it’s dirty. I’ll have to clean it.”
So he took a piece of cloth and some water and cleaned the letter. He worked hard and gave a lot of care. At last the letter looked better. And he was very pleased with his work.
“Now it looks nice,” he said to himself. “I’ll be able to sell it for a lot of money.”
He took the letter to a shop in London where old papers of this kind were bought and sold.
“I want to sell this letter,” Grant said to the man in the shop. “It was written by a well-known writer. You know about these things. How much will you give me for it?”
The man looked at him for a long time.
“I will give you two pounds for it,” he said at last.
“Only two pounds!” said Grant. “But people pay ten pounds for a letter like this. And just look! I’ve even cleaned it to make it look nice.”
“I can see that,” said the man. “That’s the trouble. People who buy old papers like them to be dirty.”
小题1:Which of the following is not right?| A．Grant found a box of old letters. | B．Grant didn’t like old things very much. | | C．Grant didn’t burn the old letter. | D．The letter was written by a famous writer. |
小题2:Grant didn’t burn the letter because______.| A．it was written by his father | B．he thought he could get much money by selling it | | C．he wanted to keep it forever | D．he wanted to give it to the government |
小题3:In order to sell it, Grant decided to _____ first.| A．make advertisement(广告)in the newspapers | B．show it to others around him | | C．clean it to make it look nice | D．take it to an archeologist(考古学家) |
小题4:Grant didn’t sell the letter at a good price because_______.| A．it was not an old letter | B．few people knew about the writer | | C．it had been cleaned | D．the man didn’t like it |
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The great 46 scientist, Charles Darwin, was born on February 12, 1809. His father was a well-known doctor, and 47 that his son also would become a doctor.
As a boy, Charles liked to go for walks in the fields and 48 , 49 nature and comparing what he saw with everything he had read in natural science books. He was fond 50 collecting animal and plant specimens 51 insects, birds, flowers and leaves.
At sixteen, Charles 52 Edinburgh University 53 . But he was interested in 54 . Then he was sent to Cambridge University, 55 he graduated in1831.
56 he heard that the ship Beagle(贝格尔号) was 57 to South America and wanted a naturalist. His biology professor advised him to go. He said the journey would be just the thing for Charles. So the Beagle left England in December 1831, Charles Darwin was 58 .
The expedition 59 almost five years. The Beagle 60 the waters near the east and west 61 of South America, and many other places. He 62 all kinds of plants and animals, which he sent home from the 63 he visited.
After returning from the expedition, Darwin continued his studies of changes in nature. Darwin understood that plants and animals do no t 64 the same, that they always change.
By 1859 Darwin had finished his famous book “The Origin of Species”. It made a great noise in the word of science. Darwin was attacked by the 65 and even by some scientists. But later, more and more scientists agreed with him.
Darwin tirelessly continued his scientific studies until he died on April 19,1882.
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| | A．American | | B．British | | C．German | | D．Italian |
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| | A．hoped | | B．wanted | | C．wished | | D．required |
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| | A．woods | | B．forests | | C．mountains | | D．countryside |
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| | A．noticing | | B．watching | | C．looking over | | D．seeing |
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| | A．for example | | B．like as | | C．such as | | D．like |
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| | A．had been sent to | | B．was sent to | | C．was sent for | | D．had been sent for |
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| | A．to find machine | | B．to study medicine | | C．to make medicine | | D．to study machine |
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| | A．nature scene | | B．social history | | C．natural history | | D．biological lives |
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| | A．from where | | B．in which | | C．from which | | D．at which |
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| | A．Late | | B．Later | | C．After that | | D．From then on |
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| | A．going on a trip | | B．traveling about | | C．about to a journey | | D．making a journey |
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| | A．at board | | B．in ship | | C．on board | | D．on trip |
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Benjamin Franklin only studied in school for two years. But he liked to read and write very much. Once he discussed a question with his friend in letters. His father found the letters and read them. He felt Ben did not express himself well. Nor did Ben make his meaning clear. He agreed that his father was right, From then on, he paid more attention to the style of his writing so that he could write better .
About that time he bought a copy of the British periodical(周刊) called The Spectator (《观察家》). He read it over and over. He thought the writing excellent, and wished, if possible, to write in the same style.
With this in mind, he studied some of the stories and made a note of the thought in each sentence. Then, a few days later, without looking at the magazine, he tried to write the stories. He tried to express each thought as fully as it had been expressed before. Then he compared his writing with the magazine. He found some of his faults in the compositions.
In this way he discovered he needed to know many more words. He felt that writing poetry would help him since that needed to use many different words which had the same meaning. So he turned some of the stories into poems; and after a time, he wrote them as stories again. He insisted on doing this for a long time.
He learned much from his efforts and went on to practise his writing. Then he became the first famous writer in American history.
小题1:Benjamin liked ______ very much when he was ______ .| A．languages; young | B．writing; young | C．writing; old enough | D．languages; old enough |
小题2:What did his father do to him?| A．He found his son’s letters written very well | | B．He felt his son expressed himself very well | | C．He told his son what he wrote wasn’t so good | | D．He bought a copy of The Spectator for him |
小题3:How did Benjamin practise writing?
(1) He studied the stories in the magazine and made notes.
(2) He rewrote some of the stories and tried to express their thought fully.
(3) He turned some stories into poems, and then turned them back again.
(4) He tried hard to publish his poems in the periodical The Spectator.| A．(1)(2)(3) | B．(2)(3)(4) | C．(1)(3)(4) | D．(1)(2)(4) |
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It’s great fun to explore new places—it feels like an adventure, even when you know you’re not the first to have been there. But make sure not to get lost or waste time going round in circles.
·Do the map reading if you’re being driven somewhere. It’ll be easier if you keep turning the map so it follows the direction you’re traveling in. Keep looking  ahead so that you can give the driver lots of warning before having to make a turn, or you’ll have to move to the back seat.
·Get a group of friends together and go exploring. You’ll need a good map, a compass(指南针), a raincoat, a cellphone to call for help in case you get lost, and a bit of spare cash for emergencies. Tell someone where you’re going before you set out and let them know what time you expect to be back. The test is not in getting lost, not in seeing how fast you can go, so always stick together, waiting for slower friends to catch up.
See if your school or a club organizes orienteering(越野识途比赛) activities, in which you need a map and a compass to find your way. This can be done as a sport, with teams trying to find the way from A to B (and B to C, etc) in the fastest time, or simply as a spare-time activity. Either way, it’s not only good fun, but a great way to keep fit.
小题1: Sitting beside the driver, you should _______.| A．direct the driver when necessary | | B．look ahead to see where there’s a turn | | C．move to the back seat if feeling uncomfortable | | D．Keep looking at the map to find a place to go to |
小题2: Why do you need to tell someone your exploration plan before setting out?| A．To get information when in danger. | | B．To be saved in case of an accident. | | C．To share the fun with him/her in exploration. | | D．To tell him/her what’s going on with the group members. |
小题3: Orienteering activities can _______.| A．make people work fast | B．help people stay healthy | | C．help people organize other activities | D．make people get prepared for sports. |
小题4: The text mainly talks about _____.| A．the fun of exploration | B．what to bring for exploration | | C．the way to use a map in exploration | D．how to prevent getting lost in exploration. |
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If you do not use your arms or your legs for some time, they become weak. When you start using them again, they slowly become strong again. Everybody knows this. Yet there are many people who do not seem to know that one’s memory works in the same way. When someone says that he has a good memory, he really means that he keeps his memory in practice by exercising it regularly. When someone else says that his memory is poor, he really means that he does not give it enough chance to become strong.
If a friend complains that his arms are weak, we know that it is his own fault. But if he tells us that he has a poor memory, many of us think that his parents are to blame, or that he is just unlucky, and few of us realize that it is really his own fault. Not all of us can become very strong or very clever, but all of us can improve our memory by the same means —practice.
Have you ever noticed that people who cannot read or write usually have a better memory than those who can? Why is this? Of course, because people who can’t read or write have to remember things: they cannot write them down in a little notebook. They have to remember dates, prices, names, songs and stories, so their memory is exercised all the time.
So if you want a good memory, learn from those who cannot read or write: practice remembering.
小题1: According to the passage, few people know that _____.| A．arms or legs become weak if they are not used for some time | | B．when they start using their arms or legs again, they slowly become strong again | | C．a person’s memory becomes weak if he does not practice remembering things | | D．it is their own fault if their arms or legs are weak |
小题2:The author thinks that if a person has a poor memory, ____.| A．it is his own fault | B．his parents are to blame | | C．he is just unlucky | D．his arms must be weak |
小题3: According to the passage, we learn that all of us can ____.| A．become very strong | B．become very clever | | C．improve our memory by practicing | D．know how to improve our memory |
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