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It was a market day, so people and traffic had been pouring into the town since early morning. 16 it was an old town, even the main street was very 17 and soon became overcrowded. There was not enough 18 for all the people on the sidewalk at the roadside, 19 they overflowed into the road, 20 danger to their lives from 21 cars and buses, the drivers of 42 were constantly blowing their horns (喇叭) to 23 people to get out of their 24 .
Yet it was a(n) 25 scene. Peasants walked along the street, their heads piled high with baskets or beautifully woven blankets which they hoped to 26 to the townsfolk. Men with carts 27 their way along, shouting their goods at the top of their 28 . They were selling apples, oranges and grapes -- the 29 of their fields. 30 it all, women in bright summer clothes made their way, laughing and talking, 31 children rushed in and out of the crowds screaming with laughter when they did’t ask for something they could not have, or crying with 32 because they were lost.
The noise went on all day. People did not even stop for a meal, but preferred to buy bits of meat cooked over a fire or bread or ice-cream from the street sellers. The 33 from this and from all the activities of the day began to collect in the street. And finally, when night at last came, the street 34 and only the rubbish 35 sadly blowing in the cooling night wind.
16. A. Although | B. For | C. But | D. As |
17. A. small | B. crowded | C. narrow | D. short |
18. A. land | B. area | C. ground | D. room |
19. A. and | B. however | C. or | D. then |
20. A. having | B. causing | C. throwing | D. being |
21. A. passing | B. taking | C. catching | D. driving |
22. A. them | B. which | C. whom | D. that |
23. A. persuade | B. order | C. stop | D. wait |
24. A. road | B. way | C. sight | D. place |
25. A. strange | B. usual | C. colorful | D. interesting |
26. A. give | B. sell | C. take | D. send |
27. A. forced | B. walked | C. found | D. took |
28. A. voices | B. prices | C. heads | D. carts |
29. A. crops | B. result | C. harvest | D. productions |
30. A. Through | B. Across | C. Above | D. After |
31. A. while | B. as | C. when | D. whose |
32. A. tear | B. sorrow | C. sadness | D. fear |
33. A. people | B. noise | C. rubbish | D. business |
34. A. emptied | B. silenced | C. calmed | D. changed |
35. A. remained | B. left | C. lay | D. piled |
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I shook hands with my father in the truck,and for a long time he looked straight ahead and didn’t say a word.But I knew he was going to say a little to me.“I can’t tell anything,” he finally said.“I never went to college,and none of your brothers went to college.I can’t say don’t do this and do that,because everything is different and I don’t know what is going to come up.I can’t help much with money either,but I think things will work out.”
He gave me a new check?book.“If things get pushing,write a small check.But when you write one,send me a letter and let me know how much.There are some things we can always sell.” In four years all the checks I wrote were less than a thousand dollars.My part?time jobs such as reading to the blind student and sitting with the teachers’ kids filled in the financial gaps.
“You know what you want to be,and they’ll tell you what to take,” my father went on.“When you get a job,be sure it’s honest,and work hard.” I knew that soon I would be alone in the big town,and I would be missing the cool winds and a life where your thinking was done for you.
Then my dad reached down beside his seat and brought the old,broken Bible that he had read so often,the one he used when he wanted to look something up in a friendly quarrel with one of the neighbours.I knew he would miss it.I knew,though,that I must take it.
He didn’t say read this every morning.He just said,“This can help you if you will let it.”
Did it help? I got through college without being a burden on the family.I have been able to make money since.
1.What is the writer’s main purpose (目的) in writing this passage?
A.To tell the readers his life story.
B.To tell people what kind of person his father was.
C.To let people know how poor he was.
D.To tell the readers what present he got from his father.
2.Why did the father not ask his son not to do this and do that?
A.Because he felt quite confident of him.
B.Because he was born from a poor family.
C.Because he was a man of few words.
D.Because he didn’t want to be much too strict with him.
3.What would you learn from this passage?
A.How to live by oneself.
B.How to stand on one’s own feet.
C.What a good father should do.
D.What the self?important is like.
4.What may be the proper Chinese for the underlined part in the passage?
A.闲暇时光。 B.学费。
C.经济不足。 D.精神空虚。
5.What kind of book did the Bible seem to be to the writer’s father?
A.It was a book which told you how you should get on well with others.
B.There were many good examples for you to copy in it.
C.It was a book that told you how to get a good job and a good future.
D.It was a good book that could help you when you were in trouble.
In the United States in the early 1800’s, individual state governments had more effect on the economy than did the federal government. States controlled manufacturing, banking, mining and transportation firms and participated in the construction of various internal improvements such as canals, turnpikes(收费关卡), and railroads. The states encouraged internal improvements in two distinct ways: first, by actually establishing state companies to build such improvements; second, by providing part of the capital for mixed public-private companies setting out to make a profit.
In the early nineteenth century, state governments also engaged in a surprisingly large amount of direct restricting activity, including extensive licensing and inspection programs. Licensing targets reflected both similarities in and difference between the economy of the nineteenth century and that of today: in the nineteenth century, state regulation through licensing fell especially on drug dealers, innkeepers and retail merchants of various kinds. The goods of trade generally came under state inspection and such important raw material as lumber and gunpowder were also subject to state control. Finally, state governments experimented with direct labor and business regulation designed to help the individual laborer or consumer, including setting maximum limits on hours of work and restrictions on price-fixing by business.
Although the states dominated economic activity during this period, the federal government was not inactive. Its goals were the facilitation of western settlement and the development of native industries. Toward these ends the federal government pursued several courses of action. It established a national bank to stabilize banking activities in the country and, in part, to provide a supply of relatively easy money to the region, where it was greatly needed for settlement. It permitted access to public western lands on increasing easy term, with a summit in the Homestead Act of 1862, by which title to land could be claimed on the basis of residence alone. Finally, it set up a system of tariffs(关税) that was basically protectionist in effect, although maneuvering for position by various regional interests produced frequent changes in tariff rates throughout the nineteenth century.
1.What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. States rights versus federal rights.
B. The participation of state governments in railroad, canal, and turnpike construction.
C. The roles of state and federal government in the economy of the nineteenth century.
D. Restricting activity by state government.
2.It can be inferred from the first paragraph that in the nineteenth century canals and railroads were ______.
A. built with money that came from the federal government
B. much more expensive to build than they had been previously
C. built predominantly in the western part of the country
D. sometimes built in part by state companies
3.According to the passage, which of the following is true of the Homestead Act of 1862?
A. It increased the money supply in the West.
B. It was a law first passed by state government in the West.
C. It made it increasingly possible for settlers to obtain land in the West.
D. It established tariffs in a number of regions.
4.Which of the following activities was the responsibility of the federal government in the nineteenth century?
A. Control of the manufacture of gunpowder.
B. Determining the conditions under which individuals worked.
C. Regulation of the supply of money.
D. Inspection of new homes built on western lands.
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