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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～20各题所给的四个选项（A，B，C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　I am my mother's third child. When I was born, her doctor gently explained to my mother that my left arm was 1 below the elbow. Then he gave her some 2 ,“Don't treat her any 3 from other girls. Demand more.”And she 4 !

　　My mother had to work to 5 our family. There were five girls in our family and we all had to 6 . Once when I was about seven, I came out of the 7 ,“Mom, I can't peel potatoes. I only have one hand.”

　　“You get back to peel those potatoes, and don't ever use that as a (n) 8 for anything again!”

　　Of course I could peel potatoes—with my good hand, while holding them down with my 9 arm. There was always a 10 , and Mom knew it.“If you try hard 11 , ”she'd say,“you can do anything.”

　　Once in the second ,our teacher had each of us race across the monkey bars(高低杠).

　　When it was my turn, I 12 my head. Some kids 13 . I went home crying. After work the next afternoon, Mom 14 me back to the school playground.

　　“Now, 15 up with your right arm,”she advised. She stood by 16 I practised, and she 17 me when I made progress.

　　I'll never forget the 18 time I was crossing the bars. The kids were standing there with their mouths open. It was the way with everything. When I 19 I can't handle things, I see Mom's smile again. She had the heart to 20 anything. And she taught me, I could, too.

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　　In ancient times, the most important exams were spoken, not written. In the 1 of ancient Greece and Rome, testing usually 2 saying poetry aloud or giving speeches.

　　In the European universities of the Middle Ages, students who were 3 for advanced degrees had to 4 questions in their field of study with people who had made a special study of the subject . This 5 exists today as part of the process of 6 candidates(应试者) for the doctor's degree.

　　Generally, 7 , modern exams are written. The written exam, 8 all students are tested on the same questions, was probably 9 until the nineteenth century. Perhaps it came into 10 with the great 11 in population and the great development of modern industry. A room full of candidates for a state exam, 12 exactly by electric clocks and carefully watched over by managers, is similar to a group of 13 at an automobile factory. Certainly, during exams teachers and students are 14 to act like machines.

　　One type of test is sometimes 15 an“objective teat”. It is intended to deal with facts, not 16 opinions. To 17 an objective test the teacher writes a series of questions, each of which has 18 one correct answer. Along with each question, the teacher writes the correct answer and also three statements that 19 answers to students who have not learned the material 20 .

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　　Ted had not seen his old friend Sam since they were at school together. Then Ted saw Sam at a business meeting which 1 men were at in big 2 , and he went over and spoke to him. “Hi, Sam!” Ted said 3 “How are you?”“ I'm very well, thank you. ”Sam answered. They sat down 4 and began to talk. “I have 5 a wife and two children now. ” Sam began . “Well, ” Ted answered, “ I have married, too and had three children.”

　　After half an hour, Sam said, “I must go and buy myself a tooth brush raw. I 6 mine at home. Let's have dinner this evening and then we can talk 7 ”“All right.” Ted said.

　　They 8 in the restaurant of hotel, and they both began to talk about their 9 . Ted said, “I think it was very 10 for people. When I was a young man we did things ourselves, we didn't just watch other people. In the evenings, we sang songs or played music or cards with each other, 11 we read the newspaper or found ourselves something to do.” Sam 12 , “Yes,” he said, “That's true, and perhaps once a week, or once a month, we went into the town specially to see a film at the cinema, and maybe to buy an ice-cream.”“And now, ” Ted 13 , “ my children watch 14 films on television almost every 15 , and they don't do the work that their teachers give them. 16 will they do with themselves when they 17 school?” “Yes, it's very bad, isn't it?” Sam said, “ 18 what can we do about it?”“ Well,” Ted answered. “I have 19 myself one thing: I'm going to sell our television set 20 the football season finishes at the end of this month. ”

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　　It was an early morning in summer. In the streets, sleepy-eyed people were moving quickly, heading towards their 1 . This was the beginning of another 2 day in New York City. 3 this day was to be different.

　　Waiting 4 the crowded streets, on top of a 5 110 stories high, was Philippe Petit. This daring Frenchman was about to 6 a tightrope(绷索)between the two towers of the World Trade Center.

　　Philippe took his first 7 with great care. The wire held. Now he was 8 he could do it. 9 only a balancing pole, Philippe walked his way across, a 10 of 131 feet.

　　Soon the rush-hour 11 began to notice. What a 12 There, 1,350 feet above the street, a 13 figure was walking on air.

　　Philippe made seven 14 , back and forth (来回). He wasn't satisfied with just 15 . At times he would turn, sit down, and 16 go on his knees. Once, he had the astonishing 17 to lie down on the thin thread. And thousands of 18 watchers stared with their hearts beating fast.

　　After the forty-five-minute 19 , Philippe was taken to the police station. He was asked 20 he did it. Philippe shrugged(耸肩)and said, “When I see two tall buildings, I walk. ”

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　　My father often works very hard. And he has 1 to see a film. Here I'll tell you 2 about him.

　　One afternoon, when he finished his work and 3 go home, he found a film ticket under the 4 on his desk. He thought he 5 to have not much work to do that day and 6 was quite wonderful to pass the 7 at the cinema.

　　So he came back home and 8 finished his supper. Then he said 9 to us and left .

　　But to our 10 , he carne back about half an hour later, I 11 him what was the matter. He smiled and told us about 12 funny thing that had happened at the cinema.

　　When my father was sitting in his seat, a 13 came to my father's seat and said that the seat was 14 . My father was surprised. He took out the ticket 15 looked at it carefully. It was Row 17, 16 . And then he looked at the seat. It was the same. So he asked her 17 her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat shown in it was Row 17, Seat 3.

　　 18 ? What's the matter with all this? While they were wondering, suddenly the woman said, “The 19 of the tickets are different.” So they looked at the ticket more carefully. After a while, my father said, “Oh, 20 , I made a mistake. My ticket is for the film a month ago. Take this seat, please.”With these words, he left the cinema.

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　　Here in Alaska, the wolf almost disappeared a few years ago, because hunters were killing hundreds of them for 1 . However, laws were passed to protect the wolves 2 the sportsmen and also the people who 3 the animals for fur. So the wolf population has greatly 4 . Now there are so 5 wolves that they are destroying their own 6 supply.

　　A wolf naturally preys(捕食)on animals in the 7 family. People in the wilderness(荒原)also hunt deer for food. Many of the animals have been destroyed by the very 8 recently and by changes in the wilderness 9 life. When the deer can't find 10 food, they die.

　　If the wolves 11 to kill large numbers of deer, their prey will 12 some day . And the wolves will, too . So we must 13 the cycle of life in the wilderness to 14 the ecology (生态). If we killed more wolves, we would 15 them and their prey from extinction(绝种). We'd also save some 16 animals.

　　In another northern state, wolves attacked cows and chickens for 17 . 18 want the United States government to send a team of 19 to study the problem. They believe it is necessary to kill wolves in some areas and to protect them in places where there is a 20 wolf population.

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　　Once a group of jewelers who were staying at a hotel in Birmingham were having dinner in the restaurant. Fish was brought and while they were eating 1 some of than told interesting stories about 2 pearls and other valuable things 3 .

　　An old gentleman, who 4 had listened quietly to their conversation, at last said, “I've heard all your stories, 5 now I'll tell you 6 . When I was a young man I was employed (雇用)in a large importing house in New York and 7 is usual with young persons, I fell in love with a pretty young girl. Very 8 me were engaged. About two months before our marriage was 9 , I suddenly sent to Birmingham 10 very important 11. I left my sweet-heart, 12 to write to her. ”

　　“I was obliged to stay in Birmingham 13 than I had expected. 14 my work was done, and I could leave Birmingham. But just before I left for home, I bought a beautiful and very expensive diamond ring, intending to give it to my sweet-heart.”

　　“On my way 15 New York, I was looking 16 the morning newspaper, which had been brought on board by the pilot. Suddenly I saw 17 of my sweet-heart's marriage with another man. This made me so 18 that I threw the ring overboard. A few days later, when I was eating fish I bit on something hard. What do you think it was?”“ 19 , ” cried his companions. “No, ” said the old gentleman sadly, “It was 20 .”

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　　Soon it would he the holidays, but before that, there were final 1 . All the kids had been working hard for some time, reviewing their 2 . If they didn't pass the exams, they wood have to 3 them in September. There were usually a few who 4 , but Jane didn't want to be one of them. She had worked hard all year, but she was working so hard that her mother 5 her. She went to bed too late. The night before the big day, her mother 6 that she should have an early night and take a sleeping pill . She promised to 7 her up in the morning.

　　Jane was too 8 to fall asleep. Her mind kept jumping from subject to subject. At last, the 9 did work. In no time at all, she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the paper, but she couldn't answer 10 of the questions. Everyone 11 her was writing pages and pages. 12 she thought hard, she couldn't find anything to write about. From time to time she looked at her 13 .

　　Time was running 14 . There was only an hour to 15 . She started one question, wrote two sentences, 16 and tried another. With only half an hour left she wrote 17 two sentences. By this time she was so worried that she stared 18 . Her whole body shook. It shook so much that she woke up. She was still in bed and it had all been a terrible 19 . A minute later, 20 called her name.

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　　Henry's job was to examine cars which crossed the frontier(边境)to make sure that they were not smuggling (走私)anything into the country. Every evening 1 at weekends, he 2 see a factory worker coming up the hill towards the frontier, pushing a bicycle with a big load of straw(稻草)on it. When the bicycle 3 the frontier. Henry used to stop the man and 4 him take the straw off and 5 it. Then he would examine the straw carefully to see 6 he could find anything, after which he would look in all the man's pockets before he let him tie straw again. The man would then put it on his bicycle and go off 7 the hill with it. Although Henry was always 8 to find gold or jewellery or other valuable things 9 in the straw, he never found anything even though he examined it very 10 . He was sure that the man was 11 something, but he was not 12 to imagine what it could be.

　　Then one evening, after he had looked through the straw and emptied the factory worker's pockets 13 usual, he 14 to him, “Listen, I know that you're smuggling things 15 this frontier. Won't you tell me what it is that you are bringing 16 so successfully? I'm an old man, and today is my last day on the 17 . Tomorrow I'm going to 18 . I promise that I shall not tell 19 if you tell me what you've been smuggling. ”The factory worker didn't say anything for 20 . Then he smiled, turned to Henry and said quickly, “Bicycles! ”

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完形填空阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A，B，C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项．

　　Mr Bagget, the cashier (出纳) in a branch office of the Paris Bank, was a very 1 man who was always reliable in his work. But one day the 2 of the bank 3 a letter saying that Mr Bagget was 4 money. He put some inspectors (检查员) to check Mr Bagget's books, and the result showed that not a single cent was 5 . However another letter came to 6 desk, still saying that Mr Bagget was 7 the bank. This time the president sent 8 inspectors to check Mr Bagger's books and the 9 result was got at last.

　　The day after the second time of 10 , Mr Bagget went to see the president and said, “I've been working too 11 without asking for a bit of praising, but you think that I've been 12 and put the inspectors to check me twice. 13 the result showed that I had done nothing 14 , my reputation (名誉) has been damaged (损害), therefore I've come to 15 my application of resignation (辞职申请).”

　　“No, no, Mr Bagget.”The president said.“You've been working very hard and the result of checking also proved(证明)this.”“But what can help 16 my reputation?”Mr Bagget asked. “Well,”the president said,“the post of the branch manager remains 17 , and I think no one else can be 18 than you to take that post.”

　　After returning home that evening, Mr Bagget said to his wife, “Good Luck! Without the two letters, 19 in the 20 office would pay attention to me. Thank you, my dear, it has been a good idea of yours!”

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