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　　In the fall of 1924, Thomas Wolfe, newly corning from his courses in playwriting at Harvard, joined the ten of us who were teaching English composition in New York University. I had never before seen a man so tall as he, and so ungraceful (不体面). I pitied him and went out of my way to help him get his work started and to make him feel at home.

　　His students soon let me know that he had no need of my protectiveness. They spoke of his ability to tell a simple thing in such a manner as to have then bursting into laughter or struggling to keep back their tears, of his habit of writing three pages of remark on a student's one-page composition, and of his astonishing freedom in expressing in words anything he had seen or heard or tasted or felt.

　　Indeed, his students made so much of his powers of observation that I decided to make a little test and see for myself. My chance came one morning when the students were slowly gathering for nine o'clock classes.

　　Upon arriving at the university that day, I found Wolfe alone in the large room which served all the English composition teachers as an office. He did not refuse when I asked him to come with me out into the hall, and he only smiled when we reached a classroom door and I told him to enter alone and look around.

　　He stepped in, remained no more than thirty seconds, and then came out. “Tell me what you see,” I said as I took his place in the room, leaving him in the hall with his back to the door. Without the least hesitation and without a single mistake, he gave the number of seats in the room, pointed out those which boys were seated in and those girls were seated in, named the colors each student was wearing, pointed out the Latin verb written on the blackboard, and pictured in detail (详细) the view of Washington Square from the windows.

　　As I joined Wolfe again, I was speechless with astonishment. He, on the contrary, was wholly calm as he said, “The worst thing about it is that I'll remember it all.”

1．What is the passage mainly discussing?

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A．Thomas Wolfe's teaching life.

B．Thomas Wolfe's courses in playwriting.

C．Thomas Wolfe's ability of telling stories.

D．Thomas Wolfe's genius (天才).

2．Which of the following is TRUE of Thomas Wolfe?

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A．He failed to finish his courses at Harvard.

B．He began teaching right after his graduation.

C．He regarded New York University as his home.

D．He had a polite manner.

3．What do the students think of Thomas Wolfe?

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A．He was a good storyteller.

B．He was willing to protect his students.

C．He was ungraceful.

D．He was easy to get along with.

4．Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

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A．Wolfe's students praised Wolfe's power of observation.

B．The writer did an experiment on Wolfe's ability.

C．Wolfe's students asked the writer to have a test of their ability.

D．Wolfe did not feel angry when he was tested.

5．What do we learn about Wolfe from the passage?

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A．He tried hard to remember what was in the classroom.

B．He stayed in the classroom for a short time.

C．He quickly drew a picture of Washington Square.

D．He followed the writer into the classroom.

6．There were ________ teachers of English in New York University in the autumn of 1924.

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Smiles

It amazed me ------every time I saw Joe he was smiling．It didn’t matter whether he had to  1  at a stop light, or if he were the seventh person in  2  at the bank , and the teller closed her window just  3  he got there．Joe always smiled．It made me wonder why he always seemed so   4 

Having observed Joe with other people, I also noticed something else．Joe   5  people how they were doing, and really seemed to listen to their answers．He was   6 if someone was hurt , and had kind words, and   7 to help in any way he could．

It made me think ……what if I tried to smile more? An   8 of sorts began when I went to a grocery store．I   9  as I went up and down the aisles（ 过道   ）…… and people I didn’t even  10  smiled back at me．Some even   11  ! The little kid in the cart who was giving his mother a   12  time saw me smile and stopped talking…and, you guessed it --- he made a little  13   attempt at a smile．The man in the handicapped cart   14  a person to reach something…… I could get that for him．The smile even   15 to him, and he thanked me and smiled at me ．

As I  16  home, I was smiling．I thought about what I had just  17  , and when someone passed my car and gave me a gesture, I smiles at him．He looked  18  ．

Now I know a smile is a  19  thing , but what if we were all to try to smile a few more times each day? I couldn’t believe how great I felt．  20   in my life had changed ---but maybe it had．For what I learned was that such a small thing could lift not only my spirits, but those around me as well．

1．A．wait                  B．suffer            C．look                  D．slide

2．A．advance               B．addition             C．total              D．line

3．A．though                B．before              C．while            D．because

4．A．patient                 B．active               C．happy           D．wise

5．A．asked                 B．observed          C．recorded       D．analyzed

6．A．angry                B．nervous           C．fearful             D．sympathetic

7．A．agreed                B．offered             C．refused        D．used

8．A．example              B．experiment        C．instance           D．arrangement

9．A．sang                  B．nodded            C．smiled         D．talked

10．A．welcome           B．greet               C．recognize         D．know

11．A．spoke             B．laughed             C．whispered         D．shouted

12．A．pleasant            B．hard                C．smooth          D．good

13．A．weak               B．polite              C．shy             D．sincere

14．A．required            B．demanded         C．ordered          D．needed

15．A．spread              B．approached       C．advanced           D．reached

16．A．walked             B．drove             C．ran            D．moved

17．A．learned              B．paid              C．wasted          D．sacrificed

18．A．scared             B．disappointed      C．puzzled           D．annoyed

19．A．funny               B．worthy            C．valuable          D．small

20．A．Nothing             B．Everything        C．Something        D．Anything