about sound, and she decided to test them to see how successful she had been in her explanation. She said to them,"Now I have a brother in Los Angeles. If I was calling him on the phone and at the same time you were 75 feet away, listening to me from across the street, which of you would hear what I said earlier, my brother or you and for what reason?"
Tom at once answered, "Your brother. Because electricity travels faster than sound waves.""That"s very good, "Miss Gorgers answered; but then one of the girls raised her
hand, and Miss Gorgers said."Yes, Kate."
"I disagree,"Kate said."Your brother would hear you earlier because when it"s 11 o"clock here it"s only 8 o"clock in Los Angeles."
A. how to telephone
B. about electricity
C .about time zone
D. about sound
2. Miss Gorgers raised this question because she wanted to know whether______.
A. it was easy to phone to Los Angeles
B. her student could hear her from 75 feet away
C. her students had grasped her lesson
D. sound waves were slower than electricity
3. Tom thought that electricity was _________.
A. slower than sound waves
B. faster than sound waves
C. not so fast as sound waves
D. as fast as sound waves
4. Kate thought Tom was wrong because _______.
A. clocks in Los Angeles showed a different time from those in New York
B. electricity was slower than sound waves
C. Tom was not good at physics at all
D. Tom"s answer had nothing to do with sound waves
5. Whose answer do you think is correct according to the law of physics?
A. Tom"s
B. Kate"s
C. Both A and B
D. Neither A nor B
morning I was due to visit a store at 9 am. I 1 my car, bundled my scarf around me and 2
up the street towards his shop front.
The Street where his store was 3 was partially blocked by two large, ruddy faced workmen
who were tearing up the concrete. I prepared myself for the 4 cat calls (起哄). I was up early,
out in the cold, and probably to be seen as a funny scene by two men I didn"t even 5 .
Then I stopped and 6 my own father. Both he and my grandfather had 7 much of
their early careers working outside in similar jobs before they 8 and became engineers. I recalled how hard Dad worked, in all kinds of 9 -;how he"d come home with sunburn or frost
nip (冻伤). I realized that if was cold then these two guys were probably 10 , given that it
looked as though they"d already been 11 for hours.
My customer"s shop wasn"t open yet but I was beyond being annoyed at his 12 . I Went to
a coffee sh、op around the comer, 13 myself a hot chocolate, then two more with
whipped cream .I made my 14 down the Street to wards the workmen. One of them turned to
me with a wide smile and 15 me with a joking "Oh lovey, you shouldn"t have!" To his 16 ,
I passed him the tray with the two 17 chocolates. I replied," Maybe not. 18 it"s too
cold to be working outside today."
I got two looks of genuine (真诚的) 19 , and a timely reminder that it"s as easy to be
20 as it is to pre-judge-but the former is so much nicer!
( )2. A. wandered
( )3. A. locate
( )4. A. cheering
( )5. A. see
( )6. A. met
( )7. A. wasted
( )8. A. retired
( )9. A. weather
( )10. A. hungry
( )11. A. waiting
( )12. A. rudeness
( )13. A. ordered
( )14. A. promise
( )15. A. caught
( )16. As hame
( )17. A. cold
( )18. A. So
( )19. A. thanks
( )20. A. shy
B. traveled
B. served
B. expected
B. notice
B. called
B. spent
B. reded
B. streets
B. freezing
B. playing
B. coldness
B looked
B. decision
B. greeted
B. honor
B. hot
B. or
B. surprise
B. careful
C. stopped
C. laid
C. pleasant
C. find
C. remembered
C. spared
C. qualified
C. pressure
C. excited
C. chatting
C. lateness
C. filled
C. way
C. suggested.
C. sorrow
C. special
C. But
C. trust
C. grateful
D. pulled
D. stationed
D. interesting
D. know
D. asked
D. kept
D. aged
D. stores
D. thirsty
D. working
D. disappearance
D. poured
D. choice
D. warned
D. shock
D. soft
D. And
D. upset
D. kind
to 1 only one person. However, there Were over 20 candidates, among whom was my son. I 2
him, "It"s difficult to get into the company. Don"t 3 too much for fear that you would feel disappointed
when you fail." My son said smilingly, " 4 I try, there will be hope!"
Of the 20 candidates, only three could 5 the final round, which would later decide the one to be
employed. Everything seemed to 6 quite well and my son 7 the first round and entered the final.
Unexpectedly, the final interview was unbelievably 8 , and all of them were asked to go home and wait
for the 9 of the interview.
One morning, my son 10 a text from the company that he was not cmployed. Before I 11 what
to say to comfort him, I was told that afternoon that my son received another
12 saying he was employed. 13 the first text was also part of the test in the interview. The three
men received the same text that morning and only my son"s 14 was satisfying to the company, so he
was employed. I asked my son 15 they replied. My son told me that one 16 silent, one said "
good-by" and he said "thank you".
Only then did I know my son"s" 17 "came in that way. That is: don"t forget to say" thank you" to
those who even 18 on. Saying "thank you" shows your 19 for
Others work, therefore, you will get the upper hand in terms of 20 compared with others under the
same conditions.
( )2. A. interrupted
( )3. A. spend
( )4. A. As if
( )5. A. enter
( )6. A. move
( )7. A. passed
( )8. A. challenging
( )9. A. course
( )10. A. prepared
( )11. A. figured out
( )12. A. gift
( )13. A. Ridiculously
( )14. A. reply
( )15. A. when
( )16. A. got
( )17. A. hope
( )18. A. cheat
( )19. A. pity
( )20. A. chances
B. promised
B. expect
B. as soon as
B. survive
B. go
B. eatned
B. simple
B. plan
B. received
B. took up
B. note
B. Actually
B. question
B. what
B. kept
B. dream
B. hate
B. doubt
B. skills
C. reminded
C. waste
C. Even if
C. change
C. fit
C. left
C. perfect
C. answer
C. copied
C. set off
C. text
C. Cleverly
C. reason
C. how
C. made
C. plan
C. dislike
C. respect
C. lessons
D. followed
D. wish
D. As long as
D. judge
D. stay
D. started
D. secret
D. result
D. wrote
D. worked on
D. rule
D. Sadly
D. belief
D. whom
D. went
D. aim
D. disappoint
D. desire
D. salaries
Some of the greatest success stories of 1 have followed a word of 2 or an act of confidence
by a loved one or a 3 friend. Had it not been for a confident wife, Sophia, we might not have listed
Nathaniel Hawt home among the great 4 of literature. One cold evening when Nathaniel, a 5 man,
went home to tell his wife, Sophia, that he was a failure and had been fired from his job in the customs.
she 6 him with a cry of joy.
"Now," she said 7 , "you can write your book!"
"Yes?" replied the man, with 8 confidence, "and what shall we 9 while I am writing it?" To his
10 , she opened a drawer and pulled out a sum of money.
"Where on earth did you get that?" he asked.
"I have always known you were a man of 11 ," she told him. "I 12 that someday you would write
a great novel. So every week, out of the 13 you gave me for housekeeping, I saved a little bit. So here
is enough to 14 us for one whole year."
From her trust and 15 came one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Scarlet Letter.
( )2. A. enjoyment
( )3. A. trusting
( )4. A. books
( )5. A. successful
( )6. A. bugged
( )7. A. sadly
( )8. A. little
( )9. A. stick to
( )10. A. amazement
( )11. A. business
( )12. A. knew
( )13. A. time
( )14. A. lead
( )15. A. confidence
B. encouragement
B. merciful
B. novels
B. courageous
B. surprised
B. willingly
B. much
B. try out
B. satisfaction
B. writing
B. see
B. room
B. hold
B. experience
C. kindness
C. cautious
C. names
C. sorrowful
C. comforted
C. proudly
C. no
C. take up
C. expectation
C. talent
C. understand
C. job
C. last
C. competence
D. delight
D. intelligent
D. nicknames
D. heartbroken
D. loved
D. intentionally
D. less
D. live on
D. disappointment
D. marketing
D. dream
D. money
D. leave
D. guidance
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯要求,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。
Long long ago, in a small and faraway village, there was a place known as the House of 1,000
Mirrors. A 1ittle happy dog learned of this place 1 decided to visit it.
When he arrived, he bounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through
the doorway 2 his tail wagging as fast as it could. To his great surprise, he found 3 staring at 1,000
other happy 1ittle dogs 4 (wag) their tails just as fast as his. He smiled a great smile, and 5 (answer)
with 1,000 great smiles. As he left the House, he thought to himself, "It is such a wonderful place 6 I
will come back to visit it often."
In the same village, 7 little dog, who was not as happy as the first one, also decided to visit the
House. In a bad mood, he slowly climbed up the stairs and looked through the doorway 8 a smile.
When he saw the 1,000 9 (friend) dogs staring back at him, he shouted 10 (angry) at them and was
horrified to see 1,000 1ittle dogs shouting back at him in the same way. As he 1eft, he thought to himself,
" This is a horrible place, and I won"t come back here any more.
All the faces in the world are like mirrors. What kind of reflections do you see in the faces of the
people you meet?
some of the world’s most beautiful animals-whales (鲸鱼)in the North Atlantic Ocean.
After a long trip by train and bus, we got on the ship called the “Privateer”. On our way to see the
whales on that beautiful sunny day, I grew more and more excited. After a while we stopped, and everyone on the ship started to shout because we’d seen whales. It was wonderful!
While we were watching the whales, a guide was giving us information about them. She told us we were seeing only two kinds of whales - 50-foot whales (singing whales) and 70-foot whales (the second largest whales on the earth). She also said we could easily tell the different kinds of whales by their tales(尾巴),
since every whale has a different tail, just as people have different fingerprints(指纹).
They all have names as well. On this trip, we saw “Salt” and “Pepper”, two whales named by a scientist and a fisherman. They swam together all the time. Sometimes whales came so close to the ship that we thought we could touch them.
I took twenty-seven photos, which was a really hard job because they moved so quickly, and stayed on the surface of the ocean for such a short time. Having seen the whales was one of the chances few people ever got. I was lucky enough to have that chance.
1. The passage is mainly about _________.
A. the different kinds of whales
B.the different kinds of animals in the ocean
C.a trip to study ocean animals
D.a trip to see whales
2. Which of the following transport did the author NOT use during the trip?
A.The train.
B.The plane.
C.The bus.
D.The ship
3. We can learn from the third paragraph that _________.
A.there were only two kinds of whales
B.70-foot whales are the largest in the world
C.whales all have different tails
D.whales have fingerprints as people do
4. What did the author do when she saw the whales?
A. She gave them the names “Salt” and “Pepper”.
B. She swam with them.
C.She got close to touch them
D.She took photos of them.
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