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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 he 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.
B. She felt herself a nobody.
C. She was too shy to go to school.
D. She did not have any good teachers.
B. run away from her family
C. make a lot of friends
D. develop her writing style
B. Her training in the Workshop.
C. Her feeling of being different.
D. Her childhood experience.
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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试题【阅读理解。 Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American fami】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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his plan for the future. "I"m going to college, but I need a way to pay for it," Deluca recalls saying. Buck said,
"you should open a sandwich shop."
That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After doing
some research, Buck wrote a check for $ 1,000. Deluca rented a storefront (店面) in Connecticut, and when
they couldn"t cover their start-up costs, Buck kicked in another $1,000.
But business didn"t go smoothly as they expected. Deluca says, "After six months, we were doing poorly,
but we didn"t know how badly, because we didn"t have any financial controls." All he and Buck knew was that
their sales were lower than their costs.
Deluca was managing the store and to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at
his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They"d meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping
the business running. "We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public,
"We are so successful, we are opening a second store."" And they did-in the spring of 1966. Still, it was a lot
of learning by trial and error (反复摸索).
But the partners" learn-as-you-go approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday, Deluca
would drive around and hand-deliver the checks to pay their suppliers. "It probably took me two and a half
hours and it wasn"t necessary but as a result, the suppliers got to know me very well, and the personal
relationships established really helped out," Deluca says.
And having a goal was also important. "There are so many problems that can get you down. You just have
to keep working toward your goal," Deluca adds.
Deluca ended up founding Subways Sandwich, the multimillion-dollar restaurant chain.
B. pay for his college education
C. help his partner expand business
D. do some research
B. He was a professor of business administration.
C. He was studying at the University of Bridgeport.
D. He rented a storefront for Deluca.
B. It lowered the prices to promote sales.
C. It made no profits due to poor management.
D. It lacked control over the quality of sandwich.
B. had succeeded in their business
C. wished to meet the increasing demand of customers
D. wanted to make believe that they were successful
B. Making friends with suppliers.
C. Finding a good partner.
D. Opening chain stores.
December 1946. His father was an electric engineer and his mother was a performing pianist. His sister, Anne
Spielberg, became a screenwriter who wrote the stories for many famous films.
Stephen had always wanted to be a director ever since he was a young boy. When he was just 13 years old,
he made a 40-minute film. It won a local competition. Three years later, he produced a film called Firelight,
which made one hundred dollars" profit at the cinema in his hometown. Many of the ideas from this film were
later used for one of his most famous films called Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
When he was 18 years old, he wanted to go to film school so that he could improve his skills and become
an even better director. Unluckily, he was unsuccessful in getting a place at this school so he went to a
university in California to study English. Even though he had failed to get into the school he wanted to go to,
he didn"t let this stop him following his dream to become a great director.
Stephen Spielberg has directed many films since his first major film in 1976. He now owns many different
businesses, most of which are involved in the film industry.
| Year | What happened |
| 1946 | Stephen Spielberg 1_____ 2_____ in Cincinnati. |
| 1959 | Stephen Spielberg made a 3_____ film and it 4_____ a local competition. |
| 1962 | Stephen Spielberg produced a film called 5_____, from which many 6_____ were later used for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. |
| 7_____ | Though he 8_____ to get into the film school he wanted to go to, Stephen Spielberg didn"t give up his dream to become a great director. |
| 1976 | Stephen Spielberg 9_____ his 10_____ major film. |
| 阅读理解。 | |
| Henry Ford was the first person to build cars which were cheap,strong and fast. He was able to sell millions of models because be could produce them in large numbers at a time; that is, he made a great many cars of exactly the same kind. Ford"s father hoped that his son would become a farmer, but the young man did not like the idea and he went to Detroit where he worked as a mechanic (机械师). By the age of 29, in 1892, he had built his first car. However, the car made in this way, the famous "Model T" did not appear until 1908-five years after Ford had started his great motor car factory. This car showed to be well-known that it remained unchanged for twenty years. Since Ford"s time, this way of producing cars in large numbers has become common in industry and has reduced the price of many goods which would otherwise be very expensive. | |
| 1. Henry Ford was the man to build _____ cars. | |
| [ ] | |
| A. cheap and strong B. cheap and long C. fast and expensive D. strong and slow | |
| 2. Ford was able to sell millions of cars, because _____. | |
| [ ] | |
| A. he made many great cars B. his cars are many C. he made lots of cars of the same kind D. both A and B | |
| 3. The young man became a mechanic, _____. | |
| [ ] | |
| A. which was his father"s will B. which was against his own will C. which was against his father"s will D. which was the will of both | |
| 4. The "Model T" was very famous _____. | |
| [ ] | |
| A. before 1908 B. between 1982 and 1908 C. before 1892 D. after 1908 | |
| 5. Ford built his own car factory _____. | |
| [ ] | |
| A. in 1903 B. in 1908 C. in 1913 D. in 1897 | |
| 语法填空。阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填人一个适当的 词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。 | |
| Bill Gates 1_____ (be) very successful and become very rich. He is very generous but 2_____ has he got his money? He has done this by making sure that no one else will be able to compete with his software. His software is not the best 3_____ it is used most widely in the world. When he sees what 4_____ (need), he makes a program and produces 5_____ quicker than anybody else. That way he gets 6_____ large part of the software market. Then he works 7_____ improving the software later. He tries hard to stop others making better software. In 1995 the government tried 8_____ (make) things fairer for people like me. The government wanted to make Microsoft into two companies so that neither of them was so strong 9_____ so rich. This meant that they could not stop somebody else making new software. I always wonder how he could get so rich so quickly. Has he done it 10_____ fair means? Or has he done it by being a computer bully. | |
| 阅读理解。 | |
| You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. In fact, an English dictionary like the kind you use today wasn"t made until the time of the Qing Dynasty. Three men did most of the important early work on dictionaries: Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, and James Murray. These men spent nearly all of their lives trying to collect words for their dictionaries. For them, it wasn"t only a job; it was a wonderful journey. The largest dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED for short. The idea for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. Twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor of its new dictionary. Murray had never been to college. At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank. Later he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a place built in the garden behind his house to do his work. Part of it was one meter underground. In winter it felt like a barn, he had to wear a heavy coat and put his feet in a box to keep warm. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o"clock and worked several hours before breakfast. Often he would work by candle light into the evening. Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was still adding words for the letter A! Then others went to work with Murray, including his two daughters. He worked on the dictionary until he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished it. It included more than 15,000 words in twelve books. And you thought your English dictionary was big! | |
| 1. The first English dictionary like we are using today _____. | |
| [ ] | |
| A. was edited in China in the Qing Dynasty B. has been used for many centuries C. was completed by James Murray D. was made in the 20th century | |
| 2. What"s the meaning of the underlined sentence? | |
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| A. The editors liked their jobs very much. B. Making dictionaries was more than their job, it took their whole lives to complete the tasks. C. Editing dictionaries was like taking a wonderful journey. D. It was only a job for the editors to make dictionaries. | |
| 3. Which of the following statements about the Oxford English Dictionary is NOT true? | |
| [ ] | |
| A. It was completed by James Murray and some other people. B. It was decided to make such a dictionary in 1857. C. The dictionary was completed twenty-two years after it was decided to be made. D. It took James Murray more than 5 years to add words to letter A. | |
| 4. In the last paragraph, "barn" probably is _____. | |
| [ ] | |
| A. a hotel to live in B. a nice house to look at C. a place for animals to stay in D. a room to keep cold out | |
| 5. The main purpose of writing this passage is to _____. | |
| [ ] | |
| A. tell us why the first English dictionary was made B. introduce who James Murray was C. tell us how the first English dictionary was made D. introduce us three people - Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, and James Murray |