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We returned from Iraq and landed safely. My heart 16 when I was asked to the back room by the immigration officer. My 17___, with his very American last name, had no trouble at all. In fact, I am 18____ American born and raised, but they weren’t quite ready to let me in yet. The only reason was 19___ they thought my name looked like the one of 20___ who’s on their wanted list (通缉令) and I had to wait till they checked me out 21___ Washington.
Time passed 22___ . One hour, one hour and a half…I could not wait any longer and 23___ my cellphone out to call the friend I had planned to meet that evening. An officer 24___ over. “No Phone!” he said, “For all we know you could be calling terrorists and giving them 25___.”
Oh, my God! I was just a university professor. I had no 26___ but to put my phone away. My husband and I were getting hungry and 27_____. I wanted to cry, to 28____ onto a chair and shout: “I am nothing but an American professor!”
After two hours in the back room, without explanation and 29____, I was allowed to go after he gave me a piece of paper with a(n) 30_____ on it and told me I could write to the department if I wasn’t 31____ with the treatment. He also 32___ that nothing could stop it from happening again.
I shared my experience with my friends and the 33____ was I should change my name. But name is personal, like the town you were born in.
Even though I had a troublesome experience at the airport, which made me realize being American could ever be so 34_____, like my father, I’ll keep the 35____.
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试题【Nowadays, any traveler might be treated as a terrorist (恐怖分子) by the immigration】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Then the farm changed hands but it went no farther than to cousins. So the memory of the lost ring remained alive until thirty-eight years had passed. Then came a spring day when a man was ploughing the field behind a pair of horses. Even after thirty-eight years he still looked out for the ring, and knew just which part of the field Nancy had lost it in. At this time, when he came there, he found it .He picked it up, put it carefully into his pocket, left his horse, and ran all the way down to the village and placed it into Nancy’s hand.
小题1: How did Nancy come to lose her ring?
A.She lost it while helping to harvest tomatoes in the field |
B.She lost it while watering the plants in the field. |
C.She lost it while working in the field. |
D.She lost it while helping to plant potatoes in the field. |
A.It was a very expensive ring | B.They all wanted to solve the mystery. |
C.They all loved Nancy. | D.Everybody wanted to have this ring. |
A.He picked it up and put it in his pocket. |
B.He ran back to tell everybody in the village. |
C.He placed it in a secret spot. |
D.He returned it to the owner. |
A.The ring was invaluable. |
B.People on the farm were honest and helpful. |
C.The ring’s disappearance was the work of supernatural power. |
D.Nancy no longer expected that her ring would be found again. |
A young man, a student in one of our universities, was one day taking a walk with a professor, who was commonly called the students’ friend, for his kindness to those who waited on his instructions.
As they went along, they saw 21 in the path a pair of old shoes, which they supposed to belong to a poor man who was employed in a field close by, and who had 22 finished his day’s work.
The student 23 the professor, saying, “Let’s play the man a(n) 24 : we will hide his shoes, and we stay behind those bushes, and wait to see his 25 when he cannot find them.”
“My young friend,” answered the professor, “we should never 26 ourselves at the expense of the poor.You are 27 , and may give yourself a much greater pleasure by means of helping the poor man.Put a 28 into each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch how the 29 affects him.”
The student did so, 30 they both placed themselves behind the bushes close by.
The poor man soon finished his work, and came 31 the field to the path where he had left his coat and shoes.While 32 his coat he slipped his foot into one of his shoes; but feeling something 33 , he bent down to feel what it was, and found the coin.
Astonishment and wonder were seen upon his face.He gazed upon the coin, turned it round, and looked at it again and again.He then looked around 34 on all sides, but no person was to be seen.He now put the money into his pocket, and went on to put on the other shoe; but his surprise was 35 on finding the other coin.
His feelings 36 him; he fell upon his 37 , looked up to heaven and let out a sincere thanksgiving, in which he spoke of his wife, sick and 38 , and his children without bread, whom the timely giving, from some unknown hand, would save from dying.
The student stood there deeply affected, his eyes filled with tears.“Now,” said the professor,
“Are you not much better pleased than if you had played your 39 trick?” The youth replied, “You have taught me a lesson which I will never forget.I feel now the 40 of those words, which I never understood before: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
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He learned how to play in Haiti, where he was born, but a Fulbright scholarship brought him to the United States, and he finally earned a master’s degree, reports CBS News reporter Katie Couric. Music had changed his life. He wanted to do the same for the children of Haiti.
Joseph built a school in Port-au-Prince nearly 20 years ago. He was on the third floor when suddenly “It was like boom boom boom and everything just opened,” Joseph said. “And the next thing I knew I was on the ground.”
Blind since birth, Joseph tried to feel his way out, but was pinned(夹)beneath heavy concrete(混凝土). He remained trapped for 18 hours. He prays that his new wife, seven months pregnant(***的), will be found.
He is now being treated at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital for two injured legs and an arm.
Joseph wonders if he’ll ever play the violin again. He can feel sensation(知觉)in his fingertips. He said, “If you were to give me a violin and if I didn’t have to fold the fingers, I would be able to play.”
Joseph’s daughter Victoria spent three terrifying days unsure of her father’s fate. For her, having him home is the sweetest music.
“Can you imagine your dad not being able to play the violin?” Couric asked.
“No, I can’t,” Victoria Joseph said. “But I will love him all the same if he can’t.”
Romel doesn’t know how many of his 300 students died in the quake. As he waits for news about his wife, Romel Joseph is already planning a return to Haiti to rebuild the school and continue teaching there.
“We can save two children, 20, 200, 300, 500 through education and music, and these children will make a difference,” Romel Joseph said.
小题1: Romel began to like music ________.
A.because he was blind since birth |
B.after he had listened to a famous piece of music |
C.when he got a scholarship to study in America |
D.since he was born in Haiti |
A.upset | B.fearful | C.excited | D.optimistic |
A.to see her father recover from the injury quickly |
B.to listen to her father playing the sweetest music |
C.to play the violin as well as her father |
D.to be sure that her father could play the violin |
A.To save his students from the earthquake. |
B.To change the life of children by teaching music. |
C.To find out how seriously his school was damaged. |
D.To look for his wife who is pregnant. |
A.Music education: keep your creativity alive |
B.A great blind musician and his students |
C.Haiti earthquake: a story of a music teacher |
D.How did some Haiti earthquake victims survive |
According to the Los Angeles Times, the move “signals the beginning of the decline for the daytime talk show.” More women are working full-time jobs, and people are turning to cable (有线电视) and pre-recorded shows for their entertainment.
It may be that Oprah isn’t quitting so much as moving on.She has created the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), and will most likely move her show to the network.If audiences around the world need Oprah, they well know where to look.
Oprah Winfrey was born to a single teenage mother in a small town in rural Mississippi, US.As a child, she lived with poverty and abuse.But she got a job at a local radio station, where her honesty, emotional style won her many fans.She quickly rose through the ranks of radio and television before launching her own production company and starting her own show.
Oprah’s talk show was not the first of its kind, but it quickly became the best and most popular.It made talk shows popular, and others jumped in to start similar shows.But while other talk shows turned ugly, featuring guests who argued and attacked each other with chairs, Oprah rose above the mess.
“Part of her power lies in the fact that her life story resonates (产生共鸣) with her audience, as a kind of version of the American dream,” writes Kevin Connolly, a reporter with the BBC.
She became a star because of the way she opened up about her problems to her audience.She shared her own struggles with relationships and weight.She focused on self-help.Connolly believes “something in her honesty and her sometimes painfully emotional directness struck home with a certain type of American”.
小题1:Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A.The stop of Oprah’s show reflects the decrease of audience. |
B.Oprah hosted her show for about 25 years. |
C.American talk show was pioneered by Oprah. |
D.Oprah used to be a radio presenter. |
A.Oprah could deal with the guests fighting very well. |
B.Oprah’s show stood out with her unique style. |
C.Oprah turned a deaf ear to other people’s quarrel. |
D.Oprah’s fame rose because lots of people watch her show. |
A.Oprah always shares people’s life stories in her show |
B.the audiences are touched by Oprah’s honesty and frankness |
C.Oprah’s life story reflects the truth of American dream |
D.some audiences are inspired by Oprah’s show |
A.always volunteers to help those who need help |
B.has practiced presentational skills since she was young |
C.believes that one should rely on himself to solve problems |
D.calls on women to work full-time jobs |
小题1:This story teaches us ______.
A.not to eat in inns | B.not to eat soup that is too hot |
C.to cry when we burn our mouth | D.not to believe everything you hear |
A.was a nobleman | B.felt ashamed | C.was in an inn | D.was angry |
A.had no brother who was hanged | B.had a very good brother |
C.knew the soup was too hot | D.had never eaten soup |
A.was very happy | B.believed the nobleman |
C.was angry with the nobleman | D.had kind heart |
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