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appeared in more than 800 commercials (商业广告) for the hamburger chain named for his daughter,
"As long as it works," he said in 1991, "I"ll continue to do those commercials."
Even though he was successful,Thomas remained troubled by his childhood. "He still won"t let anyone
see his feet, which are out of shape because he never had properfitting shoes," Wendy said in 1993. Born
to a single mother,he was adopted (收养) as a baby by Rex and Auleva Thomas of Kalamazoo in Michigan.
After Auleva died when he was 5, Thomas spent years on the road as Rex traveled around seeking
construction work. "He fed me," Thomas said, "and if I got out of line,he"d beat me."
Moving out on his own at 15,Thomas worked, first as a waiter, in many restaurants.But he had
something much better in mind. "I thought if I owned a restaurant," he said, "I could eat for free." A 1956
meeting with Harland Sanders led Thomas to a career as the manager of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant
that made him a millionaire in 1968.
In 1969,after breaking with Sanders, Thomas started the first Wendy"s Old Fadhioned Hamburgers, in
Columbus, Ohio, which set itself apart by serving made-to -order burgers. With 6,000 restaruants worldwide,
the chair now makes $ 6 billion a year in sales.
Although troubled by his own experience with adoption, Thomas, married since 1954 to Lorraine, 66, and
with four grown kids besides Wendy, felt it could offer a future for other children.He started the Dave
Thomas Foundation (基金会) for Adoption in 1992.
In 1993, Thomas,who had left school at 15, graduated from Coconut Greek High School in Florida. He
even took Lorraine to the graduation dance party. The kids voted him Most Likely to Succeed.
"The Dave you saw on TV was the real Dave," says friends Pat Williams."He wasn"t a great actor or a
great speaker. He was just Joe Everybody."
B. The dream of Dave Thomas.
C. The schooling of Dave Thomas.
D. The growth of Dave Thomas"s business.
B. He had caring parents
C. He stayed in one place
D. He didn"t go to school
a. graduated from high school
b. started his own business
c. became a millionaire
d. started a foundation e.met Harland Sanders
B. a,e,c,b,d
C. e,c,b,d,a
D. a,e,b,c,d
B. Dave was ordinary
C. Dave was showy
D. Dave was shy
B. Wendy"s
C. Lorraine"s
D. Rex"s
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Whether they are worn for work or for fashion today. Strauss" invention continues to be popular not only
among Americans but also among people around the world.
Levi Strauss was born in Germany in 1829. 2_____ He grew up in Kentucky before moving to New
York in 1847. Before becoming an American citizen and moving to the West in 1853, Strauss worked in his
brother"s dry goods business. This gave him a chance to produce his famous invention. After the gold rush
of 1949, Strauss decided to move to the West to seek his fortunes.
Strauss did not want to be a person who searched an area for minerals. Instead, he knew he could make
a good living by selling supplies to the miners. At first, he planned to sell sewing supplies and cloth. 3_____
When he heard miners complaining that their clothes were easily broken or they usually tore their pockets
during mining, he decided to use a special fabric to make pants for the miners. These pants proved so popular
that he quickly ran out of materials to make more.
In 1873, Strauss received a letter from a Jewish tailor named Jacob Davis who had invented a process of
connecting pockets with copper rivets (铆钉). This made the pants last a long time. Because Davis did not have
the money to patent his idea, he offered to share it with Strauss if Strauss would agree to pay for the patent.
4_____.
By the time Strauss died in 1902, he had made a great contribution to American fashion.
5_____ The business has been growing ever since and Levi Strauss" company is now one of the largest
clothing companies in the world.
B. Nobody knew what kind of material was suitable.
C. He did and Levi jeans have been made with metal rivets ever since.
D. However, he did not get much business for those products.
E. He also made a great contribution to America"s clothing industry.
F. Since they were invented by Levi Strauss, they have become a symbol of American consumer culture.
G. As the business grew, Strauss got much money from it.
fathers and in neighborhood with gangs, drugs and violence. Sixty percent of those who drop out of school
have spent time in prison by the age of thirty-five.
Joe Marshall co-founded the Omega Boys Club in San Francisco, California twenty-three years ago. He
tries to give these children a safe refuge (避难所) and a better future. 1_____. Twice a week, it offers after-
school classes in math, reading family and life skills, and college preparation. In many ways, it serves as a
kind of family. It provides teenagers with structure and support.
Mr. Marshall spent twenty-five years as a teacher and administration in San Francisco. 2_____ He sees
gangs and violence as a disease that needs to be dealt with as a public health problem.
"We tell them to follow some new rules for living. 3_____." The Club represents what he calls the "alive
and free movement." 4_____ In 1991, Joe Marshall started "Street Soldiers", a weekly call-in show.
Marlena was one of the graduates of the Omega Boys Club. "She"s at Southern University right now, going
into her third year. She talked about what she had learned the hard way and how we help her learn that by
coming to Omega, by listening to "Street Soldiers ". 5_____" Joe Marshall said.
Mr. Marshall is sixty-three this year and he wants to build an institution. "I"m not going to be here forever,
so my big thing is to make sure this goes on."
B. That"s what these young people get in the street.
C. A lot of my former students ended up in prison for selling drugs.
D. But his most effective way to spread his anti-violence message is through radio.
E. The Omega Boys Club serves more than four hundred young people every year.
F. He taught math in middle school and expected to see his best students go to school.
G. These rules will decrease their chances of ending up dead or in prison and increase their chances
dramatically of staying alive and free.
century. He was a man famous for his escapes-from prison cells, from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from
locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America. Crowds came to see the great
Houdini and his "magic" tricks.
Of course, his secret was not magic or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability to
move his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted.
Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo
performed card tricks in clubs in New York. They called themselves the Houdini Brothers. When Harry
married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant. Bur for a long time they
were not very successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded
a detective to let him try to escape from the prison, and he invited the local newspapermen to watch.
It was the publicity (宣传) that came from this that started Harry Houdini"s success. Harry had fingers
trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape ankle chains. But his biggest secret was how he
unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck-and a
small skeleton key, which is a key that fits many locks, pass quickly from her mouth to his.
Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local prison of every
town he visited. In the afternoon, the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and
in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full. What was the result? Worldwide fame and a name
remembered today.
B. his unusual ability and skeleton key
C. his magic tricks and inhuman powers
D. his wisdom and magic tricks
B. the year 1898
C. the publicity
D. Harry Houdini"s success
B. before he married
C. at the age of 17
D. when he was 24
B. A man of many secrets
C. Worldwide fame
D. Great escapes
living for 15 years by selling false signatures of Americans. Spring was born in England in 1813 and arrived in
Philadelphia in 1858 to open a bookstore. At first he became rich by selling his small but real collection of early
U.S. autographs (手稿). Discovering his ability at copying handwriting, he began imitating signatures of George
Washington and Ben Franklin and writing them on the title pages of old books. To lessen the chance of detection
(察觉), he sent his forgeries to England and Canada for sale.
Forgers have a hard time selling their products. A forger can"t deal with a respectable buyer but people who
don"t have much knowledge in the field. Forgers have many ways to make their work look real. For example,
they buy old books to use the aged paper of the title page, and they can treat paper and ink with chemicals.
In Spring"s time, right after the Civil War, Britain was still fond of the Southern states, so Spring invented a
respectable maiden lady known as Miss Fanny Jackson, the only daughter of General "Stonewall" Jackson. For
several years Miss Fanny"s financial problems forced her to sell a great number of letters and manuscripts.
Spring had to work very hard to satisfy the demand. All this activity did not prevent Spring from dying in
poverty, leaving sharp-eyed experts the difficult task of separating his forgeries from the originals.
B. There was less chance of being detected there.
C. Britain was Spring"s birthplace.
D. The prices were higher in England and Canada.
B. signatures of George Washington and Ben Franklin
C. Southern manuscripts and letters
D. Civil War battle plans
B. keeping in touch with Miss Fanny Jackson
C. as a forger
D. as a respectable dealer
B. persons who aren"t experts
C. book dealers
D. owners of old books
when he was just eight. "You need fortune," his father said."But if you don"t work hard, no 1 will come."
What made him sad was 2 his piano teacher in Beijing didn"t like him. "You have no talent (天赋). You
will never be a pianist." 3 a nine-year-old boy, Lang Lang was badly 4 . He decided not to be a 5 any
more. For the next two weeks, he didn"t play 6 piano. Wisely, he father didn"t push, but waited.
Luckily, the day came when his teacher asked him to 7 some holiday songs. He didn"t want to, but as he
placed his fingers on the piano keys, he realized that he 8 show others that he had 9 .That day he told his
father what he had been waiting to hear-that he wanted 10 with a new teacher. 11 that moment on,
everything turned around.
He started 12 competitions. In the 1994 International Young Pianists Competition,when it 13 announced
that Lang Lang had won, he was too 14 to hold back his tears. Soon 15 was clear that he couldn"t stay in
China forever-he had to play on the world"s 16 stages. In 1997 Lang Lang 17 again, this time to Philadelphia,
U.S.. There he spent two years practising, and by 1999 he had worked hard enough for fortune to take over.
After his
18 performance at Chicago"s Ravinia Festival, gigs (特邀演出) in Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall started
breaking. 19 Lang Lang worked to reach the place where fortune spots (发现) 20 , and lets him develop.