E Many years ago, when I was first out of school and working in Danver, I was driving to my parents’ home in Messouri for Christmas. I stopped at a gas station about 50 miles from Okiahoma City, where I was planning to stop and visit a friend. While I was standing in line at the cash register,I said hello to an old couple who were also paying for gas. I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car. I stopped and wondered what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas station. They said they would take me to my friend’s. We chatted on the way into the city, and when I get out of the car, the husband gave me his business card. I wrote him and his wife a thank-you note for helping me. Soon after, I received a Christmas present from them. Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their holidays meaningful. Years later, I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning, In late afternoon I returned to my car and found that I’d left the lights on all day, and the battery was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly ford shop-a shop selling cars-was right next door. I walked over and found two salesmen in the showroom. “Just how friendly is Friendly Ford? I asked and explained my trouble. They quickly drove a pickup truck to my car and started it. They would accept no payment; so when I got home; I wrote them a note to say thanks, I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write him and say thank you ,and it meant a lot, he said. “Thank you - two powerful words. They’re easy to say and mean so much. 71.The author planned to stop at Oklahoma City . A. to visit a friend B. to see his parents C. to pay or the cash register D. to have more gas for his car 72.The words“took off underlined in Paragraph 2 mean“ A. turned off B. moved off C. put up D. set up 73.What happened when the author found smoke coming out of his car? A. He had it pulled back to the gas station. B. The couples sent him a business card. C. The couple offered to help him. D. He called his friend for help. 74.The battery of the author’s car was dead because . A. something went wrong with the lights B. the meeting lasted a whole day C. he forgot to turn off the lights D. he drove too long a distance 75.By telling his own experiences, the author tries to show . A. how to write a thank-you letter B. how to deal with car problems C. the kindheartedness of old people D. the importance of expressing thanks 查看更多

 

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__1.__ This was not because the woods and fields were always far away, but because they were too far from the city to permit people to make a day trip between morning and nightfall.

___2.___ He decided to turn his little school house into a dormitory for the summer holidays. Anyone who brought his sleeping bag and cooking equipment along could stay there for a very small quantity of money. The idea was a success. A few years later, the school house was much too small to hold the many young people who wanted to stay there. ___3.___ This was the first hostel (青年招待所).

Today, young students and workers of every country can meet in the hostel and get to know each other. When young people arrive at the hostel, they have only to show their cards of membership in a hostel organization in their own country. ___4.___

Often, at the evening meal, a group of boys and girls from various parts of the country or world will happen to meet at the same hostel. They may put their food together and prepare a dinner with many kinds of dishes. Sometimes a program will be organized after the meal with dances, songs, or short talks followed by a question period.___5.___  For this reason, a few weeks spent ‘hostelling’ can be just as useful a part of one’s education as classes in school.

A.In 1970, a young German school master had an idea which changed this situation.

B.People can stay in the hostel if they brought enough equipment with them.

C.One can learn a lot about other places, just by meeting people from those places.

D.As a result, a dormitory was set up in an old castle nearby.

E. For years, children in the industrial areas of Europe seldom left their cities to see the beauties of the countryside.

F. More and more young people went to the hostel for summer holidays.

G. This card will permit them to stay in a hostel all over the world for very low prices.

 

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People often ask me how, as a man, I became so devoted to improving the quality of women’s lives.  It wasn’t until age forty that I realized what had started me down my career path.

One morning more than thirty-seven years ago, I was awakened by the passing school bus.  I was thirteen years old, living at home with my two younger brothers and our mother, Doris Joy Heavin.  She had just passed her fortieth birthday.  She was a mother of five children and had suffered emotional and physical problems most of her life.  Her doctor had tried various treatments on her with little benefit.

As I awoke to the sound of the passing school bus, my brother Paul came in and told me that I’d better come quickly because mother was sick.  As I knelt beside her bed, I could feel the absence of warmth.  I put my arms around her, first to feel for a sign of life, and then as a final hug.  I took my younger brothers, aged eight and nine, in my arms and gently told them that our mother was in heaven.

Her death was unnecessary.  The high blood pressure causing the blood clot(血栓) that took her life was unnecessary.  Rather than medicate the symptoms, she could have dealt with the cause of her high blood pressure: we now know that exercise and proper nutrition will almost always reduce the causes of high blood pressure and most other chronic(慢性的) diseases.

Many years later, while teaching a fitness and weight loss class to a group of about eighty women, I realized I was subconsciously(下意识地) searching the crowd for the face of my mother.

57.The underlined part “medicate the symptoms” in Paragraph 4 probably means _______ .

A.provide proper nutrition                

B.take exercise regularly

C.give up the treatment                      

D.treat the disease using medicine

58.What made the author devoted to improving the quality of women’s lives.

A.His mother’s illness and death.      

B.The early loss of both his parents.

C.His support to the rights of women.      

D.His knowledge of high blood pressure.

59.From the passage we learn that ________ .

A.the author was the oldest child in his family

B.the author’s father died long before his mother

C.high blood pressure is a kind of chronic disease

D.many women were found with blood clot at the time

60.Why did the author think his mother’s death was unnecessary?

A.Because her blood clot wasn’t a deadly disease at the time.

B.Because his mother wouldn’t have died if she had a job.

C.Because her high blood pressure could have been prevented.

D.Because his mother was not treated in the local hospital.

 

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I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.
I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.
So here’s what I wanted to tell you today:Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion, the bigger pay-check…
Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.
It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes. It is so easy to existinstead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, and something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.
By telling them this:Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.
【小题1】 It can be inferred from the passage that_____.

A.the author is a success in personal life
B.the author didn’t try her best to work well
C.the author spent all her time caring for her children
D.the author likes traveling very much
【小题2】How did the author form her view of life?
A.Through social experience.B.By learning from her friends
C.Through an unfortunate experienceD.From her children and husband.
【小题3】 By the underlined sentence “ It is so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth paragraph, the author really means that people tend to_____.
A.make a living rather than live a real life
B.work rather than enjoy life
C.waste a lot in life
D.forget the most important lessons in life
【小题4】 What’s the author’s attitude towards work?
A.Do it well to serve others.
B.Earn enough money to make life better.
C.Try your best to get higher position and pay.
D.Don’t let it affect your real life.

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The oldest stone buildings in the world are the pyramids. __66__. There are over eighty of them scattered along the banks of the Nile, some of which are different in shape from the true pyramids. The most famous of these are the “step” pyramid and “ Bent ”pyramid.
Some of the pyramids still look much the same as they must have done when they were built thousands of years ago. Most of the damage suffered by the others has been at the hands of men who were looking for treasure or, more often, for stone to use in modern buildings.__67__. These are good reasons why they can still be seen today, but perhaps the most important is that they were planned to last forever. __68__. However, there are no writings or pictures to show us how the Egyptians planned or built the pyramids themselves. __69__. Nevertheless, by examining the actual pyramids and various tools which have been found, archaeologists have formed a fairly clear picture of them.
One thing is certain: there must have been months of careful planning before they could begin to build. __70__. You may think this would have been easy with miles and miles of empty desert around, but a pyramid could not be built just anywhere. Certain rules had to be followed, and certain problems had to be overcome.

A.The dry climate of Egypt has helped to preserve the pyramids, and their very shape have made them less likely to fall into ruin.
B.It is practically certain that plans were made for the building of the
pyramids because the plans of other large works have fortunately been preserved.
C.The first thing they had to do was to choose a suitable place.
D.Consequently, we are only able to guess at the methods used.
E. Many people were killed while building the pyramids.
F. They have stood for nearly 5,000 years, and it seems likely that they will
continue to stand for thousands of years yet.
G. It takes workers twenty years to build the Pyramids.

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I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.
I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows(誓约) mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.
So here's what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion(提升), the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure(空闲), it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.
It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned. By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.
【小题1】The best title of this passage probably is________.

A.Love your friends B.Live a real life
C.Don't waste time D.Be a good mother and wife
【小题2】The underlined sentence "It is so easy to exist instead of to live" in the fifth paragraph probably has the same meaning as________.
A.it is so easy to keep alive but not to live a real life
B.it is very hard to live a real life
C.it is so easy to make a living
D.it is more difficult to exist than to live a happy life
【小题3】What's the author's attitude toward work?
A.Do it well to serve others.
B.To earn enough money to make life better.
C.Try your best to get higher position and pay.
D.Don't let it affect your real life.
【小题4】It can be inferred from the passage that_________.
A.the author is a success in personal life
B.the author didn't try her best to work well
C.the author spent all her time caring for her children
D.the author likes traveling very much

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