题目
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Napolitano and Larry McNevin were just friends. They wore jackets and were always sitting on the bridge
smoking. But neither gave the other a romantic thought. In fact, asked to describe each other back in those
days, Sue and Larry both came up with the adjective:"nice".
On Sept.11, 2004, after 35 years, the high school friends were about to find out how nice "nice" could be.
Larry was looking for another friend with whom he went to high school through Classmates.com, a service
that reconnects high school friends through e-mails. That friend suggested he call Sue.
Then Larry and Sue talked from the topics of music to food and found they shared similar tastes. After that,
they both ran to their closets to dig out their yearbooks to find the other"s picture.
With that one call, Sue, who divorced (离婚) in 1985 after five years of marriage, and Larry, who divorced
in 1997, began calling and e-mailing each other daily. A month later Sue flew to Chicago. Larry and Sue hugged
and cried when they met at the airport. They were like two lovers separated for years.
On April 11, 2005, while the two were in Las Vegas, they got married. After the wedding, Larry said it make
more sense for him to move to Phoenix, since he planned on retiring to some place warm, and few places are
warmer. They now live in Phoenix and are surprised how high school friends found their way back together
after 35 years.
B. they felt it was nice to stay together
C. they both liked lifetime TV movies
D. they always had romantic ideas with each other
B. look for how to reconnect Sue
C. seek advice about marriage
D. search for another schoolmate
B. warm
C. wet
D. dry
B. foreseeable
C. amazing
D. impossible
答案
核心考点
试题【阅读理解。 He was her best friend"s boyfriend. It sounds like a lifetime TV movie】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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cream he was serving fell onto the white dress of a rich and important woman.
Thirty years have passed, but Odland can"t get the memory out of his mind, nor the woman"s kind reaction
(反应). She was shocked, regained calmness and, in a kind voice, told the young Odland, "It"s OK. It wasn"t
your fault." When she left the restaurant, she also left the future Fortune 500CEO (总裁) with a life lesson:
You can tell a lot about a person by the way he or she treats the waiter.
Odland isn"t the only CEO to have made this discovery. Rather, it seems to be one of those few laws of the
land that every CEO learns on the way up. It"s hard to get a dozen CEOs to agree about anything, but most
agree with the Waiter Rule. They say how others treat the CEO says nothing. But how others treat the waiter
is like a window into the soul.
Watch out for anyone who pulls out the power card to say something like, "I could buy this p[lace and fir
you," or "I know the owner and I could have you fired." Those who say such things have shown more about
their character(人品) than about their wealth and power.
The CEO who came up with it, or at least first wrote it down, is Raytheon CEO Bill Swanson. He wrote
a best-selling book called Swanson"s Unwritten Rules of Management.
"A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person," Swanson says, "I
will never offer a job to the person who is sweet to the boss but rude to someone cleaning the tables."
B. He was blamed.
C. The woman comforted him.
D. The woman left the restaurant at once.
B. the advice given by the CEOs
C. an article in Fortune
D. an interesting best-selling book
B. the Management Rules
C. Swanson"s book
D. the Waiter Rule
B. CEOs often show their power before others
C. one should respect others no matter who they are
D. CEOs often have meals in expensive restaurants
"What is it?" I wondered. I 1 it over. There, in faded ink, was a hand-scrawled (手写的) 2 .
Immediately my mind traveled 3 many years.
I was nine years old, walking down the cold, wet streets of Springfield, with a bag of 4 on my
shoulder. On my rounds that day, I came to that company finally, whose owner, Mr. Rader, had always
taken me there to ask his workers 5 they wanted any magazines.
Shaking off the 6 like a wet dog, I entered Mr. Rader"s office. After a quick glance he 7 me over
to the fireplace. Noticing the 8 in the top of my shoe,he said."Come with me!"
Pulling me into his pick-up 9 , he pulled to a stop before a 10 store. Inside, a salesman fitted me
with the finest pair of Oxfords I had 11 seen. I 12 about 100 feet tall when I stood up 13 them."We"d
like a pair of new 14 too." Mr Rader said.
Back in his office, Mr Rader took out a 15 , wrote something on it, and handed it to me. With 16 eyes,
I read, "Do to others as you would have them do to you." He said affectionately (深情地), "Jimmy, I want
you to 17 I love you." I said goodbye, and for the first time I sensed a hope that somehow things would
be 18 . With people like Mr. Rader in the world, there was hope, 19 and love,and that would always make
a 20 .
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| One Sunday night, a teenager, Rory Campbell heard noises next door to his home in Bonita Mews, off St. Asaph Road, Brockley. When he went outside, he saw his neighbor climbing out of a front window of his second floor flat. He then saw the man covered in black soot (黑灰), tying himself to the window, shouting for help. The 15-year-old boy called the fire brigade( 队) and tried to calm the neighbor, who is in his 30s, until firefighters arrived. Rory said, "He was shouting "help me, help me, get a ladder, get a ladder". He was a bit wild. I didn"t have time to think. I just tried to calm him by telling him the fire brigade was on his way." Rory was told by the man that the fire had been caused by a candle falling over. Fire crews from New Cross, Peckham, Lewisham and Forest Hill rescued the man by ladder and got the fire under control within minutes of arriving. He was taken to a south London hospital where he is still recovering from smoke inhalation. (吸入) There was 25 percent fire damage done to the flat. Rory, studying music, added, " As the man walked past me, he said "thanks" and that meant a lot to me. I do feel good that I helped save his life." Another neighbor added, " I heard a lot of noise but thought it was the railway opposite. I couldn"t believe it when I saw the man hanging there. The boy next door really did save his life by calling the fire brigade." | |||||||
| 1. According to the passage, what might caused the fire? | |||||||
| A. Rory"s smoking. B. The lighted candle. C. The gas fire. D. Carelessly cooking. | |||||||
| 2. Before the fire brigade arrived, what did Rory do? | |||||||
| A. Lightening the candle. B. Calming his neighbor. C. Closing doors to stop the fire. D. Holding a ladder. | |||||||
| 3. It can be inferred from the passage that ____. | |||||||
| A. much of the flat was damaged B. Rory was sent to hospital for injuries C. Rory studied music D. Rory"s neighbor was lucky to be met by Rory | |||||||
| 4. What should be the best title for the passage? | |||||||
| A. A Neighbor Was Saved B. A Boy Did What He Should Do C. A Terrible Fire D. The Boy Next Door Saved His Neighbor | |||||||
| 完形填空。 | |||||||
| A girl complained to her father about her hard life. She wanted to 1 because she didn"t know what she had to do. She felt 2 of fighting and fighting. When one 3 had been solved, another just came. Her father, a cook, took her into the kitchen. He 4 water into three pans. After boiling, in the first pan 5 some carrots, the second some eggs and the last was put with coffee. He waited without any 6 from his mouth. The girl closed her mouth and waited, 7 by what her father did. After about twenty minutes, her father 8 the stove and took out the carrots and the eggs. After that the coffee was poured into the cup. Turning back to her daughter, he asked,"What do you 9 ?" "Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she answered. Her father suggested her 10 the carrots. She did and felt the carrots were 11 . Then he asked her to take the eggs and break them. After 12 them, she got the eggs, cooked and hard. 13 , he asked her to smell the coffee. She asked 14 , "What"s the meaning on earth, father?" He explained that 15 had experienced the same unfortunate-the boiling water, but made 16 responses. The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak after in the 17 water. The fragile eggs became hard after cooked. Coffee was very unique, but it could 18 water. " 19 are you?" asked her father,"When the suffering knocks at your door, how is your 20 ? Are you carrots, eggs, or coffee?" | |||||||
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