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题型：同步题难度：来源：
fate saved Clive of India for his mission in history is a matter of record.Downhearted, ill, and
depressed, Clive, then a young clerk, placed a revolver(左轮枪手) to his head and snapped
the trigger time after time.It refused to fire and he realised that suicide was not to be his lot.A
subordinate (下属) took the same pistol from Clive"s hand and fired it six times in succession
(连续)．
A somewhat different but disturbing fate laid in store for Robert Todd Lincoln, the eldest son
of the Civil War President.Young Lincoln had received orders to report to Washington.In White
House he was told that his parents had gone to Fords Theatre and they had requested that he
join them there.Robert Todd Lincoln went to the theatre and, just as he entered the building, he
was stretched back by a crowd of excited people, among whom were the stretcher bearerscarrying
the dying President.
During the administration of President Garfield, Robert Todd Lincoln became Secretary of War.
He was a close personal friend of President Garfield and, when the President prepared to leave for
a visit to the seashore at Elberton, New Jersey, Secretary Lincoln accepted an invitation to go along
.As Secretary Lincoln reached the railway station, he encountered the stretcher bearers carrying out
the fatally wounded President Garfield, victim of an assassin"s(刺客) bullet.
Twenty years later, as Robert Todd Lincoln entered the Temple of Music in Buffalo to greet
President McKinley, the President was carried past him by stretcher bearers.Garfield, Lincoln, and
McKinley were the presidents to be assassinated (暗***), and Robert Todd Lincoln was the only
man who was on the scene immediately after all the shootings.
B．remained a clerk all his life
C．became famous later in life
D．was a man who liked to play jokes
B．He tried to kill himself but failed.
C．He didn"t know how to use a revolver.
D．He was not pleased with his position.
B．He was lucky enough to hold important positions in the government of three presidents.
C．He was the only man who saw the deaths of three presidents.
D．He was the only man who arrived immediately after the three presidents were shot.
B．Clive.
C．Robert Todd Lincoln.
D．McKinley.
B．Different Fates for Different People
C．The Shootings of Three Presidents
D．The Sad Life of Robert Todd Lincoln
答案
核心考点
试题【阅读理解。 It seems that fate likes to play strange jokes on those who are famous】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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and cultural differences. Ignoring these __1__, I got there in July 2010.__2__ I arrived, I realized the
importance of getting a job __3__ my living expenses. Determined to do this __4__, I spent several
weeks going doortodoor for a job, but found __5__ response(回应).
One afternoon, I walked into a building to ask __6__there were any job opportunities(机会). The
people there advised me not to continue my job search in that __7__. As I was about to __8__, a man
who had been listening approached me and asked me to wait outside __9__. Nearly ten minutes later,
he __10__.He asked me about my plans and encouraged me to stay __11__. Then he offered to take me to Royal Oak to __12__a job.
I was a little surprised, but had a __13__feeling about him. Along the way, I realized that I had
__14__resumes(简历). Seeing this, the man __15__at his business partner"s office to make me fifteen
__16__copies. He also gave me some __17__on dressing and speaking. I handed out my resumes and
went home feeling very __18__. The following day, I received a __19__from a store in Royal Oak
offering me a job.
It seems that the world always __20__to you when you need it.And this time, it was a complete
stranger who turned out to be a real blessing.
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| Mr Glen is a millionaire. Five years ago, after returning from abroad to his motherland, he__1__up his small company. Speaking of success, Glen often tells us a story about his__2__expensive "school" fee. He always owes his success to it. At that time, Glen, who already got a Ph.Degree, decided to return to the homeland, starting a company. Before__3__, he bought a Rolex watch with the __4__made through years of work after school and the scholarships. At the airport he had to accept the routine customs check. The watch on his wrist was also demanded to be __5__ down for inspection. Glen knew that carrying the __6__goods out had to pay the tax. And he worried about paying__7__ for his watch. So when he was checked, he told a lie that his watch was a worthless__8__. When he was__9__of his "smarts", immediately, __10__ the presence of Glen, the officers hit the watch, which__11__ nearly ￥100,000, into pieces at hearing Glen"s words. Glen was amazed.__12__ he understood why, he was taken to the office to be__13__ strictly. For many times of entry exit __14__he knew that only those people in the "blacklist" would "enjoy" this special treatment. The officers looked out everything carefully in the box, and warned him __15__ time of entry and exit he must accept the check and if __16__ reusing and carrying fake and shoddy(劣质的)goods, he would be charged according to law！Suddenly, his face turned red, and he had nothing in mind after__17__ the plane for long. After returning to the homeland, he often told the story to his family, and his employees, too. He said that this made a deep__18__ on him, because the additional high "school" fee that he had ever paid made him realize the value of __19__, which he would__20__as the secret of his success forever. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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