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when John was six. He was reaching high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks.
Fortunately (幸运地) he had a strong-willed, caring mother. John remembers that his mother told him
many times, "Son, you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe." She told him not to be
dependent on others, including his mother. "You have to earn success," said she. "All the people who work
hard don"t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard."
These words came from a woman with less than a third-grade education.She worked hard as a cook for
two years to save enough money to take her son-then 15-to Chicago.
Chicago in 1933 was not the promised land (乐土) that black southerners were looking for. John"s
mother and stepfather could not find work. But here John could go to school, and here he learned the power
of words-as an editor (编辑) of the newspaper at Du Sable High School. His wish was to publish a magazine
for the blacks.
While others discouraged him, John"s mother offered him more words to live by: "Nothing beats a failure
but a try." She also let him pawn (典当) her furniture to get the $500 he needed to start the Negro magazine.
It is natural the difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He always
keeps his mother"s words in mind: "Son, failure is not in your vocabulary." Now John H. Johnson is one of
the 400 richest people in America.
B. John"s father died in his hometown when John was very young
C. there were no high schools for the blacks in their hometown
D. John needed education and he could go to school there
B. a try is always followed by a failure
C. only by trying can you get out of failure
D. a failure is difficult to beat, even if you try
B. thought success only came from working hard
C. thought one could be whatever one wanted to be
D. believed one would succeed without working hard
B. Chicago was the promised land for the whites in 1933.
C. John"s father died in an accident during the war.
D. John"s mother was caring for him.
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试题【阅读理解。 John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas City in 1918. H】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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articles in the world, many were designed by the same architect-Ieoh Ming Pei.
Pei, the 1983 Laureate of the Pritzker, Architecture Prize, is a founding partner of I. M. Pei & Partners
based in New York City. He was born in China in 1917, the son of a banker. He came to the United States in
1935 to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Graduate School of
Design (M. Arch. 1946).
From 1945 to 1948, Pei taught at Harvard. In 1948 he accepted the newly created post of director of
Architecture at Webb & Knapp, Inc., and this association resulted in major architectural and planning projects
in big cities. In 1958, he formed the partnership (合伙人)of I. M. Pei & Associates, which became I. M. Pei
& Partners in 1966. The partnership received the 1968 Architectural Firm Award of The American Institute of
Architects.
Pei has designed over forty projects in the world, twenty of which have been award winners. His
outstanding projects have included the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Library near Boston; the Fragrant Hill Hotel near Beijing, China.
Pei is now a member of the National Council on the Arts, and before served on the National Council on the
Humanities. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a member of the Royal Institute of British
Architects, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a member of the
Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As a student, he was awarded the MIT Traveling Fellowship, at Harvard. He later won a lot of honors. In
1982, the deans of the architectural schools of America chose I. M. Pei as the best designer of significant
non-residential (非住宅的) structures.
B. Over twenty
C. None
D. Twenty
B. In 1982.
C. In 1968.
D. In 1948.
B. Ieoh Ming Pei studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when he was young.
C. Ieoh Ming Pei got a degree for architecture in 1948.
D. Ieoh Ming Pei got a Harvard undergraduate Degree in 1946.
B. A Famous Professor-Ieoh Ming Pei
C. An Unusual Architect-Ieoh Ming Pei
D. A Great Architect of Residential Structures
felt as she did.
Maria Montessori was born in 1870 in northern Italy. Both her parents were well educated.
While Maria was a student, she took great interest in the study of the particular nature of the child"s mind.
It came to her that small children should have freedom to learn.
Maria became a doctor and a professor at Rome University. In 1907, after working with backward students, she was given a chance to try out her ideas on children. There were sixty children, aged three to six, in the
Children"s House. The rooms were bright and colorful. Maria let the children make their own choice of what
they wanted to do and work with their own speed. They became busy, peaceful and happy.
Maria Montessori was one of the world"s greatest teachers. She traveled in Europe, America and Far East.
She thought that true education, providing (提供) for the real needs of the child, would produce wise and
happy grown-ups and therefore a peaceful world. Her original way of education has changed our whole idea
of what childhood is.
Maria Montessori died in Holland at the age of eighty-two.
B. a new idea of education
C. the importance of proper education
D. the life of Maria Montessori
B. enjoy her life in real nature
C. spread her ideas of teaching
D. study the situation of education
B. She let them learn in a very pleasant way.
C. She taught them by showing them how to do things.
D. She just let them choose the most interesting subjects.
B. Maria didn"t get married
C. Maria"s own parents were her teachers
D. Maria fully understood the child"s mind
seventy-five years,and had taught freshman chemistry to over 40,000 college students. For his life, he had
published a popular chemistry textbook and dozens of articles,had managed the U.S. Olympic ski team, and
discovered a way to allow deep-sea divers to stay underwater longer.In his own way,Dr. Hildebrand was
certainly a genius.
Dr. Hildebrand"s interest in chemistry began at an early age. In an interview, he once said that his interest
had to make his own decision about what to pay attention to.Even as a student in high school, Dr. Hildebrand
had the fame as the one who learned more chemistry than his teacher knew. As a result he was given the keys
to the high school chemistry lab, and there he discovered that the correct formula (公式) for a certain chemical compound was not the one given in his chemistry book but a totally different one. Dr. Hildebrand went on to
teach at the University of California at Berkeley and remained there for almost forty years.
During that time, Dr, Hildebrand discovered that the gas helium (氦)could be combined with oxygen for use
as diving gas to allow divers to dive deeper and take the great pressure of the water without the physical
discomforts that had been experienced when that used another gas, nitrogen. The use of helium for deep-sea
diving is now standard practice.Dr. Hildebrand was also valuable to his country during both world wars. In
World War I he analyzed the poisonous gases used on the battlefield and helped develop a truck that could
clean and treat soldiers" clothes which had been contaminated (弄脏) by poisonous gases during fighting. In
World War II he helped develop a type of snowmobile,a vehicle used to carry the soldiers through the snow in
northern countries. Dr. Hildebrand"s retirement (退休) from teaching at the age of seventy was required by
state law in California.
He objected to this,joking he thought a teacher"s time of retirement ought to be determined not by age but
by how many of that teacher"s students were still awake after the first fifteen minutes of class!
Dr. Hildebrand"s writing career continued,however, and was still feeling strong at the age of 100,when he
published an article on the theory of chemical solutions. Dr. Hildebrand"s love of life and his interest in it were
an inspirations to all who knew him. When asked once how he could have such ageless energy and vigor, he
said,"I chose my ancestors carefully."
B. A favourable means to encourage learning.
C. Something that was not helpful to people"s attention
D. Something that man had to use in their daily life.
B. Could use the chemistry as he liked.
C. His teachers were not so clever as he was.
D. Discovered the formula for some chemical compound(成分)
B. was discovered with the help of Dr. Hildebrand"s teachers.
C. was a great help to the invention of snowmobiles.
D. helped to make the divers love their job.
B. A Well-know Professor of Chemistry
C. A Man Who Lived a Long and Valuable Life
D. The Greatest Discovery of the Century
lacked the harmony (和睦) that was typical of a happy family. Later, Yeats shocked his family by saying
that he remembered "little of childhood but its pain". In fact, he inherited (继承) excellent taste in art from
his family-both his father and his brother were painters. But he finally settled on literature, particularly drama
(戏剧) and poetry.
Yeats had strong faith in coming of new artistic movements. He set himself the fresh task in founding
an Irish national theatre in the late 1890s. His early theatrical experiments, however, were not received
favorably at the beginning. He didn"t lose heart, and finally enjoyed success in his poetical drama.
Compared with his dramatic works, Yeats"s poems attract much admiring notice. The subject matter
includes love, nature, history, time and aging. Though Yeats generally relied on very traditional forms, he
brought modern sensibility to them. As his literary life progressed, his poetry grew finer and richer, which
led him to worldwide recognition.
He had not enjoyed a major public life since winning the Nobel Prize in 1923. Yet, he continued writing
almost to the end of his life. Had Yeats stopped writing at age 40, he would probably now his valued as a
manor poet, for there is no other example in literary history of a poet who produces his greatest works
between the ages of 50 and 75. After Yeats"s death in 1939, W.H. Auden wrote, among others, the following
lines:
Earth, recive an honoured guest:
William Yeats is laid to rest.
Let the Irish vessel (船) lie
Emptied of its poetry
B. It had an artistic atmosphere.
C. It was shocked by Yeats"s choice.
D. It was a typically wealthy family.
B. Yeats stuck to modern forms in his poetry.
C. Yeats began to produce his best works from the 1910s.
D. Yeats was not favored by the public until the 1923 Noble Prize.
B. Sympathy
C. Emptiness
D. Admiration
B. Yeats"s historical influence
C. Yeats"s artistic ambition
D. Yeats"s national honor
120 years and 238 days, she became the longest-lived human being on record. A Japanese man died in 1986
at the age of 120 years and 237 days.
Jeanne Calment lives in a small old people"s home in the south of France; her husband, her only child and
her grandson have all died. She is nearly blind and deaf and is always in a wheelchair, but her doctor describe
s her as being more like a 90-year-old in good health than someone of 120. She still has a lively sense of humor. When asked on her 120th birthday what she expected of the future, she replied: A very short one. She also
remarked that she thought the good Lord had forgotten all about her.
So what is the key to a long life? According to some doctors, diet, exercise and no smoking are the three
important factors. Jeanne Calment has followed two of the tips. She has always eaten a healthy diet, and she
used to do exercises every day until she broke her leg at the age of 115. However, until recently she drank two
glasses of strong red wine a day, and she does smoke(now only a little). Besides, Jeanne Calment might have
got very good genes (基因) from her parents. Her father lived to the age of 94 and her mother to 86.
A local lawyer bought her house when she was 80 under an agreement that he would pay her some money
every year until her death. It must have seemed a good move at the time, but so far the lawyer has paid her at
least three times the value of the house. Every year on her birthday Jeanne Calment sends him a card saying:
Sorry, I"m still alive!
B. She is cheerful and humorous.
C. She would like to live much longer.
D. She feels she is going to die very soon.
B. her giving up smoking and drinking
C. drinking two glasses of strong red wine every day
D. the good genes from her parents, a healthy diet and some exercises
B. Because she has asked the lawyer to pay her more rent than they first agreed.
C. Because the lawyer has paid her much more money than the value of the house.
D. Because the house she sold to the lawyer isn"t worth the money he has already paid.
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