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One of the best-loved American writers was William Sydney Porter, or O.Henry. From 1893 he lived with his family in a house in Austin, Texas, which is now a museum. Visitors to Austin can see the house. It was saved from destruction (破坏) and turned into a museum in1934. The museum is a good way to learn about the interesting life of the American writer.
William Porter rented this house in Austin and lived there with his wife Athol and daughter Margaret for about two years. Many objects in the museum belonged to the Porters. Others did not. An important piece in the room is the original photograph over here. It was taken there in the house about 1895. The piano
there goes back to the 1860s. His wife took lessons on it when she first moved to Austin.
Porter did not star
t his career as a successful writer. He worked at a farm, land office and bank. He also loved words and writing. The museu
m has a special proof of Porter"s love of language --- his dictionary. It is said that he had read every word in that dictionary.
Later William Porter was forced to leave Austin because he was charged with financial wrongdoing at
the bank and lost his job. Because he was afraid of a trail (审判), he left the country secretly. But he returned because his wife was dying. After her death, he faced the trial and became a criminal. He served three
and a ha
lf years in a prison in Ohio.William Porter would keep his time in prison a secret. But there was one good thing about it. It provided him with time to write. By the time he was freed, he had published 14 stories and became well known as O.Henry.
Porter later moved to New York City and found great success there. He published over 180 stories in
the last eight years of his life.
1. O.Henry"s house in Austin has been well kept up till now so that ____.
A. Americans can explore their history
B more visitors will be attracted to Austin
C. visitors can learn about O.Henry"s life
D. it can show the way of life in the 1860s
2. What do we know about the piano in the house?
A. It was hated by Porter"s daughter.
B. It has a long history of about 150 years.
C. Porter"s wife gave music lessons on it.
D. Porter usually created music on it.
3. How does the museum prove (证明) Porter was fond of language?
A. With a dictionary he used.
B. With the records they keep.
C. Using the books they wrote.
D. Using the photograph they keep.
4. Why did Porter escape from Austin?
A. He didn"t want to lose his job.
B. He didn"t want to make trouble.
C. He meant to save his wife"s life.
D. He was charged with a crime.
5. From the last two paragraphs we know that _______.
A. Porter became famous suddenly
B. Porter spent his time in prison writing
C. Porter suffered a lot from his time in prison
D. life in prison provided what he could write for Porter
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Arthur Miller (1915-2005) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists(剧作家) of the
20th century. Miller`s father had moved to the USA from Austria Hungary, drawn like so many others by
the "Great American Dream". However, he experienced severe financial hardship when his family business was ruined in the Great Depression of the early l930s.
Millers" s most famous play, Death of a Salesman, is a powerful attack on the American system, with its aggressive way of doing business and its insistence(执着) on money and social status(身份) as indicators(指数) of worth. In Willy Loman, the hero of the play, we see a man who has got into trouble with his
worth. Willy is "burnt out" and in the cruel world of business there is no room for sentiment: if he can"t do
the work, then he is no good to his employer, the Wagner Company, and he must go. Willy is painfully
aware of this, and at loss as to what to do with his lack of success. He refuses to face the fact that he has
failed and kills himself in the end.
When it was first staged in 1949, the play was greeted with enthusiastic reviews, and it won the Tony
Award for Best Play, the New York Drama Critics` Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It
was the first play to win all three of these major awards.
Miller died of heart failure at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, on the evening of February 10, 2005,
the 56th anniversary of the first performance of Death of a Salesman on Broadway.
1. What can we learn about Willy Loman?
A. He treats his employer badly.
B. He runs the Wagner Company.
C. He is a victim of the American system.
D. He is regarded as a hero by his colleagues.
2. After it was first staged, Death of a Salesman .
A. achieved huge success
B. won the first Tony Award
C. was warmly welcomed by salesmen
D. was severely attacked by dramatists
3. Why did Arthur Miller"s father move to the USA?
A. He suffered from severe hunger in his home country.
B. He was attracted by the "Great American Dream.
C. He hoped to make his son a dramatist.
D. His family business failed.
4. The play Death of a Salesman .
A. exposes the cruelty of the American business world
B. discusses the ways to get promoted in a company
C. talks about the business career of Arthur Miller
D. focuses on the skills in doing business
5. What is the text mainly about?
A. Arthur Miller and his family.
B. The awards Arthur Miller won.
C. The hardship Arthur Miller experienced.
D. Arthur Miller and his best-known play.
Thomas Edison was one of ten said to be the greatest genius of his age. There are only a few men in all of the history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric
light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius. "There is no such
thing as genius, " Edison said. He said that what people called genius was mostly hard work.
But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about
the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to
learn what could usefully be done with them.
Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men
enjoyment and pleasure.
Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also
loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life.
"Work," he answered. "Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier." He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.
1. The passage is mainly about _________.
A. great genius in history
B. a great inventor
C. Edison"s inventions
D. love for nature
2. Edison thought _______.
A. he could be happy if he was a genius
B. genius plays the most important part in one"s success
C. hard work could do better than genius
D. genius could do better than hard work
3. Edison was _______.
A. very much interested in dreaming
B. interested in the secrets of nature
C. interested in changing people"s ideas
D. uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature
4. In Edison"s opinion, _____ .
A. thinking can supply people with enjoyment and pleasure as well as help
B. people"s success lies mostly in genius
C. hard work is the second important thing in making people successful
D. there are few secrets for him to discover later
5. The last sentence in the passage most probably implies .
A. life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beings
B. Edison made 100 inventions in his life
C. Edison was able to live and work for 100 years
D. People of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 years" work
on Thursday,Viesturs became the only American to climb to the top of the world"s 14 highest mountains.
His last hike was up Mount Annapurna,in Asia"s snowcapped Himalayas.At 26,545 feet,its peak is the
10th highest in the world,It is the mountain that inspired him to start climbing.
"It tends to be the trickiest,the most dangerous,"said Viesturs."There"s no simple way to climb it.There
are threatening avalanches(雪崩)and ice falls that protect the mountain."
In high school,Viesturs read French climber Maurice Herzog"s tale of climbing the icy Annapurna.
Herzog"s story was of frostbite(冻伤)and difficulty and neardeath experiences.Viesturs was hooked right
away.
Viesturs got his start on Washington"s Mount Rainier in 1977,guiding hikes in the summer.Fifteen years
ago,he set out to walk up to the world"s highest peaks.Finally,he"s done.
The pioneering climber talks about mountains as if they were living creatures that should be treated with
respect."You have to use all of your senses,all of your abilities to see if the mountain will let you climb it,
"said Viesturs."If we have the patience and the respect,and if we"re here at the right time,under the right
circumstances,they allow us to go up,and allow us to come down."
What"s next for a man who can"t stop climbing?"I"m going to hug my wife and kids and kind of kick
back and enjoy the summer,"says Viesturs.But for a man who"s climbed the world"s 14 tallest mountains,
he will probably soon set off on yet another adventure.
B.He has been to the top of the world"s 14 highest mountains.
C.He has become the first to climb to the height of 26,545 feet.
D.He has become the first man to climb to the top of 14 highest mountains in the world.
C.interested D．upset
B.mountains should be regarded as living creature
C.mountain climbing needs more skills than physical energy
D.those who like mountain climbing won"t stop climbing
B.Climbing to the top of the world"s 14 tallest mountains again.
C.Climbing another one of the highest mountains.
D.Writing down the experiences about his adventure.
________________________________________________________________________
Most people know that Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the first
person to win it twice.However, few people know that she was also the mother of a Nobel Prize winner.
Born in September, 1897, Irene Curie was the first of the Curies" two daughters.Along with nine
other children whose parents were also famous scholars, Irene studied in their own school, and her mother was one of the teachers.She finished her high school education at the College of 
in Paris.
Irene entered the University of Paris in 1914 to prepare for a degree in mathematics and physics.
When World War ? began, Irene went to help her mother, who was using Xray facilities (设备) to help
save the lives of wounded soldiers.Irene continued the work by developing Xray facilities in military
hospitals in France and Belgium.Her services were recognised in the form of a Military Medal by the
French government.
In 1918, Irene became her mother"s assistant at the Curie Institute.In December 1924, Frederic
Joliot joined the Institute, and Irene taught him the techniques required for his work.They soon fell in love
and were married in 1926.Their daughter Helene was born in 1
927 and their son Pierre five years later.
Like her mother, Irene combined family and career.Like her mother, Irene was awarded a Nobel
Prize, along with her husband, in 1935.Unfortunately, also like her mother, she developed leukemia
because of her work with radioactivity (辐射能)．Irene JoliotCurie died from leukemia on March 17,
1956.
B．Because she contributed to saving the wounded．
C．Because she won the Nobel Prize with Frederic．
D．Because she worked as a helper to her mother．
B．At the University of Paris．
C．At a military hospital．
D．At the College of
?.B．In 1927．
C．In 1897．
D．In 1926．
A．Irene worked with radioactivity．
B．Irene combined family and career．
C．Irene won the Nobel Prize once．
D．Irene died from leukemia．
went to work as an editor in the last two decades of her life, she revealed (展现) herself as she did
nowhere else.
After the death of her second husband, Greek shipping magnate (巨头) Aristotle Onassis, Jacqueline"s close friend and former White House social secretary Letitia Bald"rige made a suggestion that she consider a career(职业) in publishing.After consideration, Jacqueline accepted it.Perhaps she hoped to find there
some ideas about how to live her own life.She became not less but more interested in reading.For the last 20 years of her life, Jacqueline worked as a publisher"s editor,first at Viking, then at Doubleday, pursuing (追求) a latelife career longer than her two marriages combined.During her time in publishing, she wa
sresponsible for managing and editing more than 100 successfully marketed books.Among the first books
were In the Russian Style and Inventive Paris Clothes.She also succeeded in persuading TV hosts Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell to transform their popular television conversations into a book, The Power of Myth.The book went on to become an international bestseller.She dealt, too, with Michael Jackson as
he prepared his autobiography (自传),Moonwalk.
Jacqueline may have been hired for her name and for her social relations, but she soon proved her
worth.Her choices, suggestions and widespread social relations were of benefit both to the publishing firms and to Jacqueline herself.In the books she selected for publication, she built on a lifetime of spending time
by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind.Her books are the autobiography she
never wrote.Her_role_as_First_Lady,_in_the_end,_was_overshadowed_by_her_performance_as_an
editor.However, few knew that she had achieved so much.
A. became fond of reading after working as an editor
B. was in charge of publishing 100 books
C. promoted her books through social relations
D. gained a lot from her career as an editor
2. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means that ________.
A. Jacqueline ended up as an editor rather than as First Lady
B. Jacqueline"s life as First Lady was more colorful than as an editor
C. Jacqueline was more successful as an editor than as First Lady
D. Jacqueline"s role as First Lady was more brilliant than as an editor
3. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Jacqueline"s two marriages lasted more than 20 years.
B. Jacqueline"s own publishing firm was set up eventually.
C. Jacqueline"s views and beliefs were reflected in the books she edited.
D. Jacqueline"s achievements were widely known.
4. The passage is mainly ________.
A. an introduction of Jacqueline"s life both as First Lady and as an editor
B. a brief description of Jacqueline"s lifelong experiences
C. a brief account of Jacqueline"s career as an editor in her last 20 years
D. an analysis of Jacqueline"s social relations in publishing
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