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 do not 4 a crane to unload less than a dozen rocks, do you? " smiled Joshua. "But those men do not 5 to have muscles at all ," said michacl,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 lea 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." |
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阅读理解。 | Topping the class academically was certainly an advantage. Studying was a breeze for Nigel. The reward was certainly incomparable to the little effort that he had to put it. It begin when he was selected to help the teachers in the computer laboratories. The peak of his school career came not when he topped the school but when he was selected for the nationwide competition. Unlike everyone else, Nigel wanted to join the contest because he liked playing with the Lego sets and making something out of them. Nigel spent the next two months rebuilding the robot. It was during the time that Nigel found out about the prizes for the competition. Its well us auspices competitor. Alicia, from a neighboring school. His early intentions were forgotten. Getting the thousand-dollar prize was more important than anything else. Nigel decided to befriend Alicia. Unaware of his intentions, she told him all about the robot that she had been building for the competition. He even helped her to put the finishing branches to her robot. He was glad with the way things had progressed. His robot looked even better than Alicia"s and it was able to become a ball with its arms, something Alicia had failed to do. On the day of the competition, he says Alicia. Everything dawned on her the minute she saw him among the competition. She stared at him, puzzled at first, then angry and finally a look of helplessness came over her. The flashbulbs of the camera exploded in Nigel"s try. The robot bird performed actions so unique and different that the specialist judgments were the same. Nigel was so personal with himself that he did not even notice the girl standing a few feet away from him. Without her, he would never win the competition. | 1. What reward did Nigel receive for doing well in his school work? | A. He was offered a part-time job B. He was honored with a scholarship C. He helped his teacher construct a robot D. He helped in the computer laboratories | 2. Nigel"s original intention of joining the contest was to ___. | A. be the top student of the school B. being great honor to his school C. constructs a robot with the Lego sets D. wins the thousand-dollar prize | 3. Why did Nigel help Alicia finish her robot? | A. He tried to make friends with her B. He was fond of building robots C. He intended to help her D. He didn"t want her to suspect him | 4. What is the author"s attitude towards Nigel"s actions? | A. He is mildly critical B. He is strongly critical C. He is in favor of them D. His attitude is not clear | 完形填空。 | The books in David"s schoolbag felt like bricks as he ran down the street. What he wanted to do was to play basketball with Eric, 1 his mother told him he would have to return his sister"s books to the library first. He had 2 se foot in a library and he wasn"t about to do so today. He would just 3 the books in the outside return box. But there was a 4 ; it was locked. He went into the building, only a few minutes 5 closing time. He put the books into the return box. And after a brief 6 in the toilet, he would be on his way to the playground to 7 Eric. David stepped out of the toilet and stopped in 8 -the library lights were off. The place was 9 . The doors had been shut. They 10 be opened from the inside, he was trapped (被困)-in a library! He tried to 11 a telephone call, but was unable to 12 . What"s more, the pay phones were on the outside of the building. 13 the sun began to set, he searched for a light and found it. 14 he could see. David wrote on a piece of paper:" 15 ! I"m TRAPPED inside!" and stuck it to the glass door. 16 , someone passing by would see it. He was surprised to discover that this place was not so unpleasant, 17 . Rows and rows of shelves held books, videos and music. He saw a book about Michael Jordan and took it off the shelf. He settled into a chair and started to 18 . He knew he had to 19 , but now, that didn"t seem to be such a 20 thing. | ( )1. A. but ( )2. A. ever ( )3. A. pass ( )4. A. problem ( )5. A. during ( )6. A. rest ( )7. A. visit ( )8. A. delight ( )9. A. lonely ( )10. A. wouldn’t ( )11. A. make ( )12. A. get on ( )13. A. If ( )14. A. On time ( )15. A. Come ( )16. A. Surely ( )17. A. at most ( )18. A. watch ( )19. A. wait ( )20. A. bad | B. because B. nearly B. drop B. mistake B. after B. break B. meet B. anger B. empty B. shouldn’t B. fix B. get up B. As B. Now and then B. Help B. Thankfully B. after all B. play B. stand B. cool | C. or C. never C. carry C. case C. over C. walk C. catch C. surprise C. noisy C. couldn’t C. use C. get through C. Though C. By the way C. Hello C. Truly C. in short C. read C. sleep C. strange | D. since D. often D. take D. question D. before D. stop D. greet D. eagerness D. crowded D. needn’t D. pick D. get in D. Until D. At last D. Sorry D. Gradually D. as usual D. write D. work D. nice | 阅读理解。 | If you were to walk up to Arthur Bonner and say, "Hey, Butterfly Man," his face would break into a smile. The title suits him. And he loves it. Arthur Bonner works with the Palos Verdes blue butterfly (蝴蝶), once thought to have died out. Today the butterfly is coming back-thanks to him. But years ago if you"d told him this was what he"d be doing someday, he would have laughed," You"re crazy." As a boy, he used to be "a little tough guy on the streets". At age thirteen, he was caught by police stealing. At eighteen, he landed in prison for shooting a man. "I knew it had hurried my mom," Bonner said after he got out of prison. "So I told myself I would not put my mom through that pain again." One day he met Professor Mattoni, who was working to rebuild the habitat (栖息地) for an endangered butterfly called El Segundo blue. "I saw the sign "Butterfly Habitat" and asked, "How can you have a habitat when the butterflies can just fly away?"" Bonner recalls. "Dr. Mattoni laughed and handed me a magnifying glass (放大镜), "Look at the leaves." I could see all these caterpillars (蝴蝶的幼虫) on the plant. Dr Mattoni explained, "Without the plant, there are no butterflies."" Weeks later, Bonner received a call from Dr. Mattoni, who told him there was a butterfly needed help. That was how he met the Palos Verdes blue. Since then he"s been working for four years to help bring the butterfly back. He grows astragalus, the only plant the butterfly eats. He collects butterflies and brings them into a lab to lay eggs. Then he puts new butterflies into the habitat. The butterfly"s population, once almost zero, is now up to 900. For their work, Bonner and Dr. Mattoni received lots of awards. But for Bonner, he earned something more: he turned his life around. For six years now Bonner has kept his promise to stay out of prison. While he"s bringing back the Palos Verdes blue, the butterfly has helped bring him back, too. | 1. When he was young, Arthur Bonner _____. | A. broke the law and ended up in prison B. was fond of shooting and hurt his mom C. often laughed at people on the streets D. often caught butterflies and took them home | 2. Bonner came to know the Palos Verdes blue after he _____. | A. found the butterfly had died out B. won many prizes from his professor C. met Dr. Mattoni, a professor of biology D. collected butterflies and put them into a lab | 3. From the last sentence of the text, we learn that raising butterflies has _____. | A. made Bonner famous B. changed Bonner"s life C. brought Bonner wealth D. enriched Bonner"s knowledge | 4. Which of the following would be the best title for the text? | A. A Promise to Mom B. A Man Saved by Butterflies C. A Story of Butterflies D. A Job Offered by Dr. Mattoni | 完形填空。 | On a warm Monday, Jenny Neilson bought a sandwich and parked her car under some trees. Rolling down the windows to 1 in fresh air, she settled back to enjoy her lunch. Suddenly she 2 a big bald (秃顶的) man running through the parking lot. Before she came to 3 what would happen, the man was there, shouting through her window, "Get out!" Neilson 4 . Pulling open her door, the man seized her 5 the neck and hair, and threw her out of the car onto the ground. She screamed, 6 her purse and the keys. Two reporters of the local newspaper, Robert Bruce and Jeff Jackson, just outside their office building on a 7 , heard the screams and began running. When they 8 Neilson"s car, the attacker had jumped into the driver"s seat and was 9 searching for the keys. Bruce opened the door, and he and Jackson dragged the man out. The attacker 10 back. But even in his cornered panic, he was no 11 for the two athletic men. Reggie Miller, a worker of the local newspaper, heard the screams, too. He rushed back to the office to 12 the police, and then ran back with some plastic ropes-used to tie up newspapers. With his arms 13 tight behind him, the prisoner looked up and said 14 , "I hope you guys feel good about yourselves-you just caught one of the most wanted men." They 15 him and waited for the police. Later, Bruce and Jackson were shocked to learn the man was the 16 carjacker (劫车者)and suspected murderer, whose 17 -but with a full head of hair-had been recently printed in their own newspaper. Neilson considers herself lucky 18 she suffered injuries. She believes the story might have had a 19 ending if those good people had not come to her aid. "Unfortunately," she said, "many people would 20 have done what they did, and that" the real truth." | ( )1. A. bring ( )2. A. recognized ( )3. A. realize ( )4. A. escaped ( )5. A. by ( )6. A. burying ( )7. A. trip ( )8. A. started ( )9. A. carefully ( )10. A. fought ( )11. A. match ( )12. A. remind ( )13. A. rolled ( )14. A. angrily ( )15. A. caught ( )16. A. ordinary ( )17. A. picture ( )18. A. and ( )19. A. ridiculous ( )20. A. sometimes | B. let B. watched B. understand B. struggled B. around B. forgetting B. visit B. stopped B. madly B. turned B. target B. phone B. folded B. kindly B. thanked B. professional B. background B. but B. similar B. never | C. gather C. noticed C. imagine C. refused C. with C. offering C. break C. entered C. disappointedly C. jumped C. equal C. invite C. bent C. coldly C. comforted C. honest C. character C. though C. strange C. often | D. send D. met D. conclude D. obeyed D. on D. grabbing D. holiday D. reached D. patiently D. shouted D. companion D. beg D. tied D. warmly D. ignored D. outstanding D. story D. when D. different D. forever | 阅读理解。 | Margaret, married with two small children, has been working for the last seven years as a night cleaner, cleaning offices in a big building. She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill. "I would have liked to go back to it, but the shifts (工作班次) are all wrong for me, as I have to be home to get the children up and off to school." So she works as a cleaner instead, from 9 a.m. till 6 a.m. five nights a week for just £90, before tax and insurance. "It"s better than it was last year, but I still think that people who work "unsocial hours" should get a bit extra." The hours she" s chosen to work meant that she sees plenty of the children, but very little of her husband. However, she doesn"t think that puts any pressure on their relationship. Her work isn"t physically very hard, but it"s not exactly pleasant, either. "I do get angry with people who leave their offices like a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have to do it, perhaps they"d be a bit more careful." The fact that she"s working all night doesn"t worry Margaret at all. Unlike some dark buildings at night, the building where she works is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three. "Since I"ve got to be here, I try to enjoy myself-and I usually do, because of the other girls. We all have a good laugh, so the time never drags." Another challenge Margaret has to face is the reaction of other people when she tells them what she does for a living. "They think you"re a cleaner because you don"t know how to read and write," said Margaret. "I used to think what my parents would say if they knew what I"d been doing, but I don"t think that way any more. I don"t dislike the work though I can"t say I"m mad about it." | 1. Margaret quit her job as a nurse because _______ | A. she wanted to earn more money to support her family B. she had suffered a lot of mental pressure C. she needed the right time to look after her children D. she felt tired of taking care of patients | 2. Margaret gets angry with people who work in the office because Margaret _______. | A. they never clean their offices B. they look down upon cleaners C. they never do their work carefully D. they always make a mess in their offices | 3. When at work, Margaret feels _______. | A. light-hearted because of her fellow workers B. happy because the building is fully lit C. tired because of the heavy workload D. bored because time passed slowly | 4. The underlined part in the last paragraph implies that Margaret"s parents would _______. | A. help care for her children B. regret what they had said C. show sympathy for her D. feel disappointed in her |
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