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Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes. Lieberman improved his kitchen skills greatly during a year abroad before college, learning from a cook in Italy and studying local specialties(地方特色菜)in Germany, Spain and France. At Yale, he was known for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for dozens of friends. Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine about his cooking. Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmates how to do things like make drinks out of dining-hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students. They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around, with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.
Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He says Lieberman’s charisma is key. “Food TV  isn’t about food anymore,” says Flay. “It’s about your personality(个性)and finding a way to keep people’s eyeballs on your show.”
But Lieberman isn’t putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new how, Lieberman was back in his won small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company was looking for some one to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flights, Lieberman got the job.
小题1: We can learn from the text that Lieberman’s family ___________.
A. have relatives in EuropeB.love cooking at home
C. often hold partiesD.own a restaurant
小题2:The Food Network got to know Lieberman______________.
A.at one of this partiesB. from his teachers
C.through his taped showD.on a television program
小题3: What does the word “charisma” underlined in the text refer to ?
A.A natural ability to attract others.
B.A way to show one’s achievement.
C.Lieberman’s after-class interest.
D.Lieberman’s fine cooking skill.
小题4:Why did the airline company give Lieberman the job?
A.He could prepare meals in a small kitchen.
B.He was famous for his shows on Food TV.
C.He was good at using eggs to make sandwiches.
D.He could cook cheap ,delicious and simple meals.
小题5:What can we learn about Lieberman from the text?
A.He is clever but lonely.
B.He is friendly and active.
C.He enjoys traveling around.
D.He often changes his meals.

答案

小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:D
小题5:B
解析

小题1:细节判断题。根据第一段“ Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens”,不难判断,他的家人喜欢在家里作饭。选B。
小题2:细节判断题。依据第一段最后一句“Tapes of the show were passed around, with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.”可知应选C。
小题3:词义猜测题。从第二段“It’s about your personality(个性)and finding a way to keep people’s eyeballs on your show.”可知Food Network.看中Lieberman是由于他的魅力,选A。小题4:推理类。根据第三段An airline company(航空公司)was looking for some one to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flights,因为他能做出好吃便宜又简单的食品,故D项为正确答案。
小题5:推理类。根据第一段可知 Lieberman组织和参加了多个活动:组织聚会、制作录像带、为同学解答烹饪方面的问题,不难看出他是个友好而活跃的人。答案为B项。
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Lying in the sun on a rock, the cougar(美洲狮) saw Jeb and his son, Tom, before they saw it. Jeb put his bag down quickly and pulled his jacket open with both hands, making himself look big to the cougar. It worked. The cougar hesitated, ready to attack Jeb, but ready to forget the whole thing, too.
Jeb let go of his jacket, grasped Tom and held him across his body, making a cross. Now the cougar’s enemy looked even bigger, and it rose up, ready to move away, but unfortunately Tom got scared and struggled free of Jeb.
“Tom,no!”shouted his father.
But Tom broke and ran and that’s the last thing you do with a cougar. The second Tom broke free, Jeb threw himself on the cougar, just as it jumped from the rock. They hit each other in mid-air and both fell. The cougar was on Jeb in a flash, forgetting about Tom, which was what Jeb wanted.
Cougars are not as big as most people think and a determined man stands a chance, even with just his fists. As the cougar’s claws(爪子) got into his left shoulder. Jeb swung his fist at its eyes and hit hard. The animal howled(吼叫) and put its head back. Jeb followed up with his other fist. Then out of the corner of his eye. Jeb saw Tom. The boy was running back to help his father.
“Knife, Tom,” shouted Jeb.
The boy ran to his father’s bag, while Jeb started shouting as well as hitting, to keep the cougar’s attention away from Tom. Tom got the knife and ran over to Jeb. The cougar was moving its head in and out, trying to find a way through the wall Jeb was making out of his arms. Tom swung with the knife, into the cougar’s back. It howled horribly and ran off into the mountains.
The whole fight had taken about thirty seconds.
小题1:Why did Jeb pull his jacket open when he saw the cougar?
A.To get ready to fight.B.To frighten it away.
C.To protect the boy.D.To cool down.
小题2:What do we know about cougars?
A.They are afraid of noises.
B.They hesitate before they hit.
C.They are bigger than we think.
D.They like to attack running people.
小题3:How did Jeb try to hold the cougar’s attention?
A.By keeping shouting and hitting.
B.By making a wall out of his arms.
C.By throwing himself on the cougar.
D.By swinging his fists at the cougar’s eyes.
小题4:Which of the following happened first?
A.The cougar jumped from the rock.
B.Tom struggled free of his father.
C.Jeb asked Tom to get the knife.
D.Jeb held Tom across his body.

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Sitting and eating quietly on his father’s lap, the 18-month-old was oblivious to the infection in his veins(血管).But his father a strong farmer, knew only too well. It was the same one that killed his wife four month ago, leaving him alone with four children. The man started to cry.
“When my wife died, I thought ,well, it is from God, but at least I have him.” he said. “Then I learned he is sick, too. I asked if there was medicine and the doctors said no.
HIV and AIDS have quietly arrived in this land. They remain almost completely underground, hidden in ignorance(无知)and shame.
The father of the infected 18-month-old said his village teacher had never talked about AIDS. Nearly a year of tests on the father have found no HIV, and the old children are clear, but his smallest child tested positive(阳性)at ten months.
Six years earlier, his wife lost a baby and have several transfusions in Pakistan. After she became sick and was found to be infected, “I told the family her blood was not good and to avoid eating with her.” he said. “And I told them not to kiss his son, he burst into tears.
“I don’t know what to do,” he said; “I have sacrificed so much since my marriage.. I mortgaged (抵押)half my land to pay for her medical care.”
The father can do little for his son but keep his secret. There are no AIDS treatment centers in Afghanistan, only a single secret clinic in the capital that just monitors the disease, and no drugs are available.
小题1:The underlined part “was oblivious to” in Paragraph 1 can best be replaced by______.
A. was shocked by
B. was afraid of
C. was curious about
D. was unaware of
小题2:What happened to the man?
A. He was diagnosed with AIDS just now
B. He has no money to support the family
C. His wife died of AIDS four weeks ago
D. His youngest son was infected with AIDS
小题3:It can be inferred from Paragraph 5 that______
A. the wife had several blood transfusions
B. the family knew how to avoid AIDS
C. the farmer had little knowledge about AIDS
D. the family loved the youngest son most
小题4:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. There are several AIDS treatment centers in Afghanistan
B. The farmer will keep his son’s disease unknown to others
C. The farmer sold his house to pay for his wife’s medial care
D. Afghanistian’s medical conditions have been greatly improved.

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Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a family of seven children, she often felt like she had “seven fathers,” because her six brothers, as well as her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated(躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.
In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because her thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university’s Writers’ Workshop, however, she felt lonely----a Mexican American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find her “Creative voice.”
“It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn’t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That’s when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldn’t write about.”
Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book tells about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school through graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children’s book, and a short-story collection.
小题1:Which of the following is TRUE about Cisneros in her childhood?
A.She had seven brothers.B.She felt herself a nobody.
C.She was too shy to go to school.
D.She did not have any good teachers.
小题2:The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to _____.
A.work for a school magazineB.run away from her family
C.make a lot of friendsD.develop her writing style
小题3:According to Cisneros, what played the decisive role in her success?
A.Her early years in college.B.Her training in the Workshop.
C.Her feeling of being different.D.Her childhood experience.
小题4:What do we learn about The House on Mango Street?
A.It is quite popular among students.
B.It is the only book ever written by Cisneros.
C.It wasn’t success as it was written in Spanish.
D.It won an award when Cisneros was twenty-nine.

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A tourist comes out of the airport. There are a lot of taxis, but he asks every taxi-driver’s name, and takes the third taxi. It costs 5 from the airport to the hotel. “How much does it cost for the whole day?” the tourists asks. “100,” says the taxi-driver. This is very expensive, but the tourist accepts the price.
The taxi-driver takes the tourist everywhere. He shows him all monuments and all the museums. In the evening they go back to the hotel. The tourist gives the taxi-driver 100 and says, “What about tomorrow?” The taxi-driver looks at the tourist. “ Tomorrow? It’s another 100 tomorrow.” But the tourist says, “That’s OK. If that’s the price. See you tomorrow.” The taxi-driver is very pleased. The day the taxi-driver takes the tourist everywhere again. And in the second evening they go back to the hotel. The tourist gives the taxi-driver another 100 and says, “I’m going home tomorrow.” He likes the tourist, above all, 100 a day is a good money. “So you are going home, where do you come from?” he asks.
“I come from New York.”
“New York!” says the taxi-driver, “I have a sister in New York. Her name is Susannah, Do you know her?”
“Of course I know her. She gave me 200 for you.”
小题1:The tourist is _______.
an Englishman
a Frenchman.
a Swedish.
an American.
小题2:The tourist asks every taxi-driver his name because_______
A.he is afraid f being cheated
B.he knows one of the taxi-drivers
C.he knows of one of the taxi-drivers
D.there is a friend of his among the taxi-drivers.
小题3:Why is the taxi-driver very pleased with the tourist?
A.None but the tourist agrees to the price given without arguing with him
B.His sister knows the tourist.
C.His sister had brought so much money to him
D.He wants to be the guide of the tourist.
小题4: We can conclude that _______
A.he tourist will give the taxi-driver another 200
B.the tourist makes fun of the taxi-driver
C.the tourist will give the taxi-driver half of sum
D.the taxi-driver insists that the tourist should pay him another 200

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A brother and sister have been reunited after more than 60 years, thanks to a letter in the Welwyn and Hatfield Times.
For years John Hannant Kept a photograph of his long-lost sister, hoping they would meet again. Margery, the eldest of the three children, had signed up to the Royal Air Force as part of the war effort, when John was still a baby. The family lost touch and as the decade s passed only a single letter gave a clue to her whereabouts. The clue was enough for a WHT reader to recognize  Margery and put the family back in touch..
John, 67, had been searching for a long time and a friend suggested writing to the paper.
“That’s the one that made it, the letter to the paper a few months age,” he said. “It’s like a dream come true. The last time we ever heard from Margery was in 1953 after the floods. She wrote home to know if we were all right. My sister Dorothy wrote back, But Margery had moved again and never got the letter.”
Having retired from his job as a gardener at Park House, Mr. Hannat decided to take action once and for all. He and his wife Doreen, travelled to Margery’s home in Chelwood Avenue, Hatfield , which she shares with her husband Jack Cooke.
Now 88, she was recovering after several months in hospital, but immediately recognized her brother. John said, “It’s something that I never thought was going to happen, but I always hoped it would.” As well as finding his sister, John has also discovered he now has a nephew, niece and six grandnieces and grandnephews.
小题1:Margery left her family because______
there was a flood in her hometown
she signed up to serve the army
she wanted to get her husband back
a war broken out in her hometown
小题2:When she wrote to John last time ,Margery was ______
A.34 years oldB.40 years old
C.44years oldD.54 years old
小题3: What do we know about Jack Cooke’s family?
A.Jack now has a son and a daughter.
B.Jack and his wife live with their children now
C.Jack’s wife is in good health all the time.
D.Jack lost touch with his family a long time ago.
小题4: It can be inferred from the passage that______
A.since 1953 Margery has come back home only once.
B.Margery received only one letter from John.
C.Margery does not care about her family.
D.WHT refers to a newspaper.

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