Two teenagers who were lost at sea off the United States for six days were saved yesterday.
Driscoll,15,and his best friend,18－year－old Josh Long,were_1_on Saturday about 11 km off
Cape Fear in North Carolina.That was six days and more than 100 miles (161 km) from where they
had_2_from Sullivan"s Island,South Carolina,on April 24.
The boys had_3_a lot of water and were tired,but in pretty_4_shape.
They set out_5_on a 4.3－metre sailboat on a_6_day when the National Weather Service had
warned small boats to stay out of the water.They_7_they were in trouble almost_8_and tried to swim
bac k to the shore,_9_the boat along with them.
Within 10 ,they were far out at sea.
"We lost our fishing equipment on the second day,"Driscoll said."So we couldn"t 11 any fish."
The boys" hopes 12 with each day.They stood on their boat 13 they saw another boat, 14
and shouting.One night they were woken up by 15 coming into the boat.A large ship was very close
to them.
"It was like some huge 16 in the water,"Driscoll said.
At one point,the boys thought they had gone across the Atlantic Ocean and were close to Africa.
17 , they were 179 km north of their 18 point.A coast guard boat set out to look for them.
The boys got up and made some 19 .This time,they were heard.
"What we have is a completely surprising story of 20 that"s going to be studied for years to come,"
said Richard Goerling,Long"s uncle."I think the boys have a book to write." |
( )1. A. seen
( )2. A. took off
( )3. A. drunk
( )4. A. good
( )5. A. traveling
( )6. A. fine
( )7. A. realized
( )8. A. immediately
( )9. A. driving
( )10. A. weeks
( )11. A. buy
( )12. A. declined
( )13. A. every time
( )14. A. screaming
( )15. A. a shark
( )16. A. glacier
( )17. A. Instead
( )18. A. ending
( )19. A. fire
( )20. A. voyage | B. watched
B. set off
B. lost
B. healthy
B. racing
B. rainy
B. recognized
B. soon
B. sailing
B. hours
B. take
B. reduced
B. the moment
B. waving
B. a mouse
B. tower
B. Therefore
B. starting
B. noise
B. struggle | C. noticed
C. broke off
C. saved
C. poor
C. fishing
C. windy
C. considered
C. eventually
C. pushing
C. minutes
C. catch
C. increased
C. instantly
C. spreading
C. water
C. creature
C. Otherwise
C. challenging
C. balloons
C. survival | D. found
D. cut off
D. got
D. thin
D. swimming
D. snowy
D. concerned
D. similarly
D. pulling
D. seconds
D. sell
D. faded
D. for the first time
D. signing
D. some noise
D. building
D. Furthermore
D. endangering
D. flags
D. sailing |
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| 完形填空 | My wife and I had just finished the 150－mile trip home from our daughter"s college.It was the first
time in our liv es that we would _1_ for any length of time.We wondered how other people had _2_ it.
Later in bed, I _3_ the time I started college.My father had driven me, too.My mother had to stay home
to keep the _4_from getting into the crops.I, the fourth in a line of brothers, was the first to _5_ college.
The truck was slow, and I was glad.I didn"t want to get to the city _6_.I shook hands with my father
in the truck and he didn"t say a word.But I knew he was going to make a little _7_.He finally said, "I
never went to college and _8_of your brothers did.I can"t say don"t do this or that, because everything
is _9_and I don"t know what is going to come up, but I think things will 10 .When you get a job, be
sure to be honest and work hard."I knew that so on I would be 11 in the big town and I would be
12 the life home.
Then my father 13 the Bible (圣经) that he had read so often.I knew that he would miss it but I
must 14 it.He just said, "This can help you 15 you will let it."
When I finished school I took the Bible 16 to my father.But he said he wanted me to 17 it.
Now, too late, I remember.It would have been so 18 to give it to my daughter when she got
out of the car.But I didn"t.My father could give me only a Bible, but I don"t really believe now that I
gave her half as 19 as my father gave me.So the next morning I 20 up the book and sent it to her.
I wrote a note."This can help you, " I said, "if you will let it." | ( )1. A. interesting
( )2. A. free
( )3. A. point
( )4. A. brought
( )5. A. always
( )6. A. known
( )7. A. doubt
( )8. A. meet
( )9. A. collect
( )10. A. chance
( )11. A. doctor
( )12. A. prevented
( )13. A. decided
( )14. A. at
( )15. A. highs and lows
( )16. A. lonely
( )17. A. manner
( )18. A. position
( )19. A. Virtually
( )20. A. athletics | B. anxious
B. safe
B. sense
B. figured
B. seldom
B. attracted
B. hope
B. keep
B. buy
B. change
B. teenager
B. protected
B. intended
B. into
B. pros and cons
B. afraid
B. habit
B. heart
B. Hopefully
B. acting | C. popular
C. absent
C. subject
C. held
C. almost
C. preferred
C. fear
C. leave
C. try
C. decision
C. amateur
C. discouraged
C. continued
C. on
C. causes and effects
C. confused
C. spread
C. attitude
C. Similarly
C. academics | D . eager
D. different
D. promise
D. kept
D. already
D. rejected
D. danger
D. move
D. check
D. advance
D. athlete
D. sheltered
D. pretended
D. from
D. days and nights
D. depressed
D. practice
D. speech
D. Luc kily
D. promotion | | 阅读理解 | When I started my career in management, I was really green, but I always tried to stay positive on
the job.I was working for a new company that was having a difficult time with its customers.Actually,
at one point my General Manager told me he liked me and suggested I should start looking for a new
job as we were about to lose our only order.Every day we faced people leaving the company, customers
complaining, and upper management preparing to close the place.
One night, I went home thinking about the problems.My wife told me to forget about work and see
a movie.We went and saw Slumdog Millionaire.Jamal, an eighteen－year－old Indian young man, is
from a poor family and becomes rich later.He tries his best to change his position.I realized what we
needed to do was to correct the situation.
The next day I called my customers to have a talk.I promised to do my best to solve the problems
if they would give us some time.As a result,  we were given one month to turn the situation around.This
 was our only chance to correct the situation.To achieve this, I worked day and night with my team.I
can remember wo rking from 6 a. m.and not going home until 2 a. m.the next day.
To make a long story short, we succeeded in solving all of the problems and at the same time
increased our productivity (生产率). The customers and management were very happy, and I knew
at that moment we had saved our jobs.Actually things went so well that we ended up having our pay
doubled.
Through this experience I understand that you can achieve what you desire as long as you work at
it and stay positive. | | 1. The General Manager advised the author to look for a new job mainly because________. | A. he knew the author didn"t want to stay there
B. his company was too small to hire so many people
C. he believed the author could get more pay that way
D. the management was preparing to close the department | | 2. Who caused the author to decide to change his situation? | A. The hero in a movie.
B. His wife.
C. His boss.
D. The customers. | 3. How long  did the author stay in his department every day during that month? | A. 8 hours.
B. 15 hours.
C. 20 hours.
D. 24 hours. | | 4. The experience of the author shows that________. | A. if a person does his best and keeps positive, he"ll succeed
B. if a person takes advice from others, he"ll make progress
C. if a person is clever, he"ll realize his dream sooner or later
D. if a person wants to change his fate, he mustn"t change his job | | 5. What would be the best title for this passage? | A. My work experience
B. My first management job
C. How to correct your situation
D. The importance of working hard | | 完形填空 | What would I do for Carol’s 50th birthday? It was __1__ that she didn"t want a party, certainly
not a surprise party (that was an agreement at our marriage).
"How about a small dinner with __2__?" I asked.
"No," she said, “I hate being the center of __3__."
Still, the milestone had to be marked. I wasn’t going to let her get away with a Stouffer"s frozen dinner
and a movie video, and this was all she said she wanted.
I thought and thought, and __4__ making my decision, I sent a letter to her friends, asking them
for photos, poems, and letters. "Carol doesn"t __5__ a party in person…but I"m hoping to give her a
party in a book." I bought an album with a friend’s advice, and what I wanted __6__. For a few
minutes at the end of every workday, I would pull out the marking pens and make up the __7__,
Carol"s.
Photos of her in junior high, pictures of us with the boys, original songs, notes, cards, and poems. It
made me __8__ for all the years we had had together. The __9__ was more than the album. It was
the friendship and love she had given to me and to our kids and to all her friends and family. You could
__10__ it on every page.
I wrapped it up and __11__ it home. "Happy birthday, sweetie," I said. "It"s not a frozen dinner or
a video, but it"s what you deserve." She cried. She doesn"t __12__ like to cry, but I think she likes the
book. She"s said so many times. And every time I remind her that putting it together was a gift to me. | ( )1. A. amazing
( )2. A. neighbours
( )3. A. attention
( )4. A. before
( )5. A. want
( )6. A. went on
( )7. A. decision
( )8. A. grateful
( )9. A. meaning
( )10. A. count
( )11. A. took
( )12. A. normally | B. clear
B. children
B. comment
B. after
B. have
B. poured in
B. story
B. worried
B. gift
B. read
B. sent
B. merely | C. unusual
C. friends
C. view
C. when
C. hold
C. turned back
C. mind
C. nervous
C. party
C. express
C. placed
C. really | D. important
D. classmates
D. interest
D. once
D. attend
D. got away
D. book
D. special
D. world
D. improve
D. packed
D. obviously | | 阅读理解。 | It was the summer of 1965. Deluca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked
Deluca about 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 startup 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.
But the partners" learnasyougo approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday,
Deluca would drive around and handdeliver the checks to pay their supplies. "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 multimilliondollar restaurant chain. | | 1．Deluca opened the first sandwich shop in order to ________. | A．support his family
B．pay for his college education
C．help his partner expand business
D．do some research | | 2．Which of the following is true of Buck? | A．He put money into the sandwich business.
B．He was a professor of business administration.
C．He was studying at the University of Bridgeport.
D．He rented a storefront for Deluca. | | 3．What can we learn about their first shop? | A．It stood at an unfavorable place.
B．It lowered the prices to poor management.
C．It made no profits due to poor management.
D．It lacked control over the quality of sandwich. | | 4．They decided to open a second store because they ________. | A．had enough money to do it
B．had succeeded in their business
C．wished to meet the increasing demand of customers
D．wanted to make believe(假装)that they were successful | | 5．What contributes most to their success according to the author? | A．Learning by trial and error.
B．Making friends with supplies.
C．Finding a good partner.
D．Opening chain stores. | Two college students were returning home from their part time work at 12: 30 p. m. on Saturday,
December 28, 1985 ____1____ they saw an object shoot across the sky at Dyserth Crossroads in the
Denbighshire village.
The object appeared to have a yellow glow at its centre with green light.The students said it was
traveling ____2____ great speed from the direction of Meliden Quarry towards fields. After some miles
the object stopped, circled and disappeared behind ____3____ cloud. The students stopped at the
scene of the landing and investigated further. ____4____ they could see nothing.
A week ____5____ at 8: 30 p. m. on January 4, 1986, in the neighbouring village of Trelawnyd
four people claimed ____6____ have seen a cigarshaped craft with bright red lights. Earlier on the
same day a farmer said he saw a bright red round object hanging in the sky ____7____ trees in the
village. He said ____8____ was some 40 feet from one side to the other. |
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