The three youths leaned over the metal rails along the sea-wall and watched a few fishermen pull in
their nets. About thirty metres away, a boat pulled alongside the slippery steps leading ___1__ to the
sea.
"Hey, look!" exclaimed Rahim. "Those two men are ___2__ heavy rocks. I thought we no longer do
muscle labour in this technological ___3__. "
"You don"t __4___ a crane (起重机) to unload less than a dozen rocks, do you?" smiled Joshua.
"But those men don"t __5___ to have muscles at all,"said Michael, rather surprised. Joshua
smiled.
"They are ___6__ laborers who know how to spread the weight of the rocks they ___7__. See how
the man positions the rock just at the slope of his 8 . Some of the rock"s weight is set ___9__ his
head, some on the right hand and some on the left hand. His body isn"t bent. His legs are well __10___ ."
"You"re right, Josh. He may have a small build. ___11__ he certainly well knows his job. Dear me!
And to think we have been studying ___12__! " Rahim thought about all that was happening. Suddenly,
he said, "Technology won"t ___13__ the human being completely, it appears."
"I don"t think it will. " ___14__ Joshua.
"You can harvest a crop of potatoes or wheat with one of those large, multi-purpose tractors, but
you __15___ use that equipment to harvest tea leaves and tomatoes, will you?""You can get a computer
to __16___ multiple-choice assessments, but you cannot get the computer to produce of assess essays,
can you?"asked Michael.
"Well, the washing machine leaves my shirt collar quite as ___17__ as ever — that"s domestic
technology for you! " said Rahim.
"One day, perhaps, there won"t be anybody ___18___ who can carry a large rock the way those
men do. It"s not going to be a very ___19___ world, I"m afraid." Sighed Michael.
"You"re too much of a pessimist (悲观主义者), Mike." Said Joshua. " __20___ will always be other
things that will make the world exciting. " |
( )1. A. through
( )2. A. loading
( )3. A. way
( )4. A. ask
( )5. A. happen
( )6. A. ambitious
( )7. A. take
( )8. A. shoulder
( )9. A. on
( )10. A. supported
( )11. A. but
( )12. A. chemistry
( )13. A. control
( )14. A. agreed
( )15. A. can"t
( )16. A. point out
( )17. A. dirty
( )18. A. caught
( )19. A. exciting
( )20. A. That | B. across
B. unloading
B. revolution
B. expect
B. fail
B. experienced
B. fetch
B. back
B. against
B. grasped
B. however
B. physics
B. affect
B. proposed
B. mustn"t
B. take out
B. clean
B. arranged
B. mysterious
B. This | C. down
C. covering
C. process
C. attempt
C. have
C. potential
C. carry
C. chest
C. toward
C. placed
C. so
C. biology
C. remove
C. refused
C. won"t
C. hand out
C. old
C. left
C. technological
C. They | D. up
D. uncovering
D. era
D. hope
D. seem
D. energetic
D. bring
D. arms
D. under
D. strengthened
D. therefore
D. psychology
D. replace
D. denied
D. needn"t
D. print out
D. new
D. convinced
D. modern
D. There | | 完形填空 | When Susan White went back to high school a couple of years ago, she never had any thought about
actually getting a high school diploma(文凭).
"I 1 wanted to learn more," she said. 2 when she found out that many of her classmates were 3 to
graduate, Mrs. White recalled (回忆), "I said if my 4 friends can 5 from high school, so can I." She
seems to have been 6 . As soon as she completes a history 7 , Mrs.White will graduate next month.
And when she does, she will 8 the record books as the 9 person ever to graduate from high school in
the United States.
Mrs. White is 98 years old, and nobody 10 of anyone who has completed high school 46 an older
age.
Mrs. White dropped out of school in the tenth 12 , but her ability (能力) 13 has obviously not been
dulled (减弱) by the 80-year layoff (中止活动). Since going back to her studies she has 14 a straight-A
record, and that is the highest possible. 15 she is about to get a diploma, Mrs. White has become a
strong believer in getting a good 16 . "I 17 anyone dropping out of school," she said. "It makes me
mad when a person decides to 18 school, because 19 generations will have to know 20 more than
we do in order to survive (生存)." | ( )1. A. just
( )2. A. And
( )3. A. thinking
( )4. A. young
( )5. A. leave
( )6. A. right
( )7. A. class
( )8. A. enter
( )9. A. earliest
( )10. A. cares
( )11. A. of
( )12. A. class
( )13. A. to learn
( )14. A. set up
( )15. A. While
( )16. A. idea
( )17. A. suggest
( )18. A. complete
( )19. A. past
( )20. A. any | B. hardly
B. So
B. planning
B. old
B. stop
B. wrong
B. lesson
B. write
B. youngest
B. talks
B. for
B. grade
B. to play
B. kept up
B. Although
B. education
B. hate
B. drop
B. older
B. once | C. most
C. But
C. considering
C. close
C. learn
C. unsuccessful
C. study
C. set
C. latest
C. knows
C. at
C. school
C. to walk
C. got up
C. For
C. job
C. love
C. separate
C. whole
C. even | D. very much
D. Though
D. beginning
D. good
D. graduate
D. hopeless
D. course
D. sell
D. oldest
D. speaks
D. in
D. year
D. to drive
D. made up
D. Now that
D. position
D. disagree
D. leave
D. future
D. many | | 完形填空 | My son Joey was born with club (畸形) feet. The doctors told us that with treatment he would be
able to walk 1 -but would never run very well. The first three years of his 2 were spent in surgery.
By the time he was eight, you wouldn"t know he had a problem when you saw him 3 .
The children in our 4 ran around as most children do during play, and Joey would jump right in
and run and play, too. We never told him that he probably wouldn"t be 5 to run as well as the other
children .So he didn"t know.
In seventh grade he 6 to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he trained with the team.
He worked harder and ran 7 than any of the others - perhaps he 8 that the abilities that seemed to
come naturally to so many others did not come 9 to him. Although the entire team runs, only the 10
seven runners have the potential to score points for the school. We didn"t tell him he probably would
never make the team, so he didn"t know.
He 11 to run four to five miles a day, every day -even the day he had a fever. I was 12 , so I went
to look for him after school. I found him running alone. I asked him how he felt. " 13 ", he said. He
had two more miles to go. The 14 ran down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. 15 he
looked straight ahead and kept running. We never told him he 16 run four miles with a fever. So he
didn"t know.
Two weeks later, the 17 of the team runners were called. Joey was number six on the list. Joey
had made the team. He was in seventh grade- the 18 six team members were all eighth-graders. We
never told him he shouldn"t 19 to make the team. We never told him he couldn"t do it. We never told
him he couldn"t do all those things. So he didn"t know. He 20 did it. | ( )1. A. silently
( )2. A. school
( )3. A. play
( )4. A. neighborhood
( )5. A. pleased
( )6. A. refused
( )7. A. faster
( )8. A. sensed
( )9. A. certainly
( )10. A. oldest
( )11. A. continued
( )12. A. upset
( )13. A. Sorry
( )14. A. tears
( )15. A. Thus
( )16. A. couldn"t
( )17. A. parents
( )18. A. next
( )19. A. expect
( )20. A. seldom
| B. usually
B. life
B. laugh
B. city
B. forced
B. decided
B. sooner
B. understood
B. actually
B. earliest
B. had
B. angry
B. Okay
B. heat
B. Then
B. wouldn"t
B. names
B. last
B. wish
B. just
| C. particularly
C. illness
C. walk
C. family
C. able
C. remembered
C. less
C. learned
C. naturally
C. first
C. wanted
C. worried
C. Right
C. sweat
C. So
C. mustn"t
C. teachers
C. other
C. fail
C. always
| D. normally
D. time
D. talk
D. childhood
D. willing
D. hesitated
D. more
D. proved
D. possibly
D. top
D. stopped
D. disappointed
D. Absolutely
D. rain
D. Yet
D. needn"t
D. members
D. remaining
D. want
D. never | | 阅读理解。 | We called her the "Lemon Lady" because of the sour-puss face she always presented to the public
and because she grew the finest lemons we had ever seen, on two huge trees in her front garden. We
often wondered why she looked so sour and how she grew such lemons -but we could find out nothing
about her. She was an old lady - at least 70 years of age, at a guess, perhaps more.
One day we answered an advertisement for a flat to rent, as we had been asked to leave ours as
soon as we could, and when we went to the address given, it was the house of the Lemon Lady.
She didn"t "unfreeze" during the whole of our interview. She said the flat would not be ready for
occupation for about a month; that she had 45 names on her list and might add more before she would
select the people to suit her best. She was just firm and austere, and I gathered that we were not likely
to be the ones selected.
As my husband and I were leaving, I said, "How do you grow those wonderful lemons?" She gave
a wintry smile, which transformed her whole expression and made her look sweet and somehow pitiful.
"I do grow nice lemons," she replied. We went on to tell her how much we had always admired them
every time we had passed, and she opened up and told us quite a lot about this fruit. "You know the
general theory of pruning(修剪), I suppose?" She asked.
"Oh," said my husband, "I understand about pruning fruit trees and roses, but you must not prune
lemons, or so I understand." He added these last words when he saw from the Lemon Lady"s expression
that he had said the wrong thing.
"No," said the Lemon Lady, "you must not prune lemons unless you want them to grow like mine.
What is the reason for pruning?"
"Well, to cut off dead or diseased wood; to prevent one branch chafing another; to let the sunlight
into the center of the bush and to promote the growth of the more virile buds."
"Very nicely put," said the Lemon Lady. "And why do you think that lemons are better with dead
or diseased wood on them; why should you not let sunlight into them; why should allowing many sickly
buds to develop make it a healthier tree?"
"I hadn"t thought about it at all," confessed my husband rather shamefacedly, as he prides himself on
being an original thinker, and here he was allowing an old lady to out-think him. "Everyone here said you
mustn"t prune lemons, so I thought it must be right."
We thanked her for the information and left, on much better terms with her than we would have ever
thought possible. We even felt quite a degree of affection towards her.
In the course of the next three weeks we saw several places that might have been to let but which for
various reasons we could not get. Eventually we got a place that suited us very well and I returned to tell
the Lemon Lady that we would not be needing her flat.
She was very nice and gave me afternoon tea. She said in her precise and careful style, "I"m glad you
have a house for the sake of your little boy, because a flat is no place for a child, especially a boy. But
for my own sake, I"m very sorry. I had decided to let you have the flat because I think we could have
got on very well together and because you liked my lemons."
As I left, she handed me a bag with two huge lemons in it. They were the most magnificent I have
ever seen. As I looked back from the gate and saw her sweet smile, I wondered why we had called
her the Lemon Lady.
As my husband said to me afterwards, "No one could do anything so well as she grew those lemons,
without being very proud of the accomplishment, and our touching on them was a good point in
psychology." We have used that idea to good effect several times since then.
At the house we did rent was a dying old lemon tree. My husband shook his head sadly as he gazed
at it. "Too late for treatment, I"m afraid," he said, but he set to and pruned it ruthlessly. We were in that
house for four years and from the second year onward, we each had the juice of a lemon every morning,
and when we left we took with us two 60-pound cases of lemons from the tree, and after we left a friend wrote and asked why we hadn"t picked the lemons before we left.
We still call her the Lemon Lady, but the term is now one of pure affection. (825 words) | | 1. How did the Lemon Lady make the couple aware of the necessity of pruning the lemon tree? | A. By asking questions
B. By giving examples
C. By explaining details
D. By Comparing lemons with other fruit trees | | 2. What do the underlined words "that idea" in the last but two paragraphs refer to? | A. touching of lemons
B. being proud of the accomplishment
C. being proud of doing something well
D. touching of something one takes pride in | 3. Which of the following shows the correct order of the story?
a.Having lemon juice every year.
b.Talking about lemon pruning.
c.Leaving with two cases of lemons.
d.Visiting the Lemon Lady.
e.Wondering about the wonderful lemons. | A. edbac
B. debac
C. debca
D. edbca | | 4. Which of the following best describes the Lemon Lady? | A. talkative and affectionate
B. careful and friendly
C. generous and strict
D. proud and serious | | 5.Which of the following might be the best title for the passage? | A. Pruning the lemon tree
B. Renting a flat
C. The Lemon Lady
D. The pure affection | Jack sits in the coffee bar that looks at Jaffa Street listening to the sad, sad music playing on an old
tape recorder. "Oum Khalsoum", says one of the other men sitting in the coffee bar to nobody in
particular. "This is Oum Khalsoum singing".
Jack takes another sip of sweet mint(薄荷) tea and nods in agreement without saying anything. His uncle
lives in Egypt, and every time he visits him, he tells him the story of how he saw the well-known singer at
one of her concerts in Cairo in 1970, not long before she died. The song seems to go on forever, and it"s
very sad. He thinks it"s beautiful, but he doesn"t want to hear it now. It"s too sad for him. It makes him
think of his uncle in Egypt who he hasn"t seen for many years now, and also about the reason why his
uncle lives in Egypt while his aunt lived in Lebanon and why he, on the other hand, lives in Jordan, and
why he is in Jerusalem now.
His father died a few months ago. After that, he found that there were so many things that he had
wanted to ask his father, but had never asked . He realized that he knew very little about his own family,
and decided to try and find out more about the place where his father had grown up, and where his
grandparents (who had died when he was very young) were from.
He has now spent a couple of days wandering around Jerusalem with an old, torn photograph in his
hand. The photograph shows the whole family, his grandparents standing proudly at the centre of a
group of four children in front of a house on a busy street. Next to the house there seems to be a garden
with what look like olive (橄榄色) trees in it.
Jack, though, can"t find anywhere in this modern Jerusalem that looks much like the street or the
house where the photograph was taken. He feels sadder than the sad song playing in the cafe, thinking
now that he might never find the place where his father had been born and the place where his
grandparents had lived until they moved away in 1947. | | 1. According to the passage, the sad music make Jack think of _____. | A. His uncle
B. His father
C. His mother
D. His family | | 2. We can know that Jack used to live______. | A. in Egypt
B. in Jerusalem
C. in Jordan
D. in Cairo | | 3. Jack tried to find out that_____. | A. Where his father lived in the past
B. Where his grandparents was from
C. He wanted to know more about his family
D. All of above | | 4. It is implied that______. | A. Jack wants his family to lead a good life
B. Jack has a photograph taken with his family
C. Jack looks happy and enjoys love from his family
D. Jack is a lonely man and knows little about his father |
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