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I was being tested for a driving license ___1___ the third time. I had been asked to drive in heavy traffic and had done so ___2___(succeed). After ___3___ (instruct) to drive out of town, I began to acquire confidence. Sure that I had passed, I was almost beginning to enjoy ___4___ test. The examiner must have been pleased with my ___5___(perform), for he smiled and said. “Just one more thing, Mr. Eames. Let us suppose that a child suddenly crosses the road in front of you. As soon as I tap on the window, you must stop ___6___ five feet.” I continued driving and after some time, the examiner tapped loudly, ___7___ the sound could ___8___ (hear) clearly, ___9___ took me a long time to react. I suddenly pressed the brake pedal(刹车踏板)and both of us were thrown forward. The examiner looked at me sadly. 'Mr. Eames,' he said, ___10___ a mournful voice, “you have just killed that child!”

 

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I was being tested for a driving license ___1___ the third time. I had been asked to drive in heavy traffic and had done so ___2___(succeed). After ___3___ (instruct) to drive out of town, I began to acquire confidence. Sure that I had passed, I was almost beginning to enjoy ___4___ test. The examiner must have been pleased with my ___5___(perform), for he smiled and said. “Just one more thing, Mr. Eames. Let us suppose that a child suddenly crosses the road in front of you. As soon as I tap on the window, you must stop ___6___ five feet.” I continued driving and after some time, the examiner tapped loudly, ___7___ the sound could ___8___ (hear) clearly, ___9___ took me a long time to react. I suddenly pressed the brake pedal(刹车踏板)and both of us were thrown forward. The examiner looked at me sadly. 'Mr. Eames,' he said, ___10___ a mournful voice, “you have just killed that child!”

Complete the passage by choosing the proper words or phrases in the box．

A．important          B．succeed             C．speeches          D．afford    E．achieve F．tasks       G．successfully  H．good     I．held     J．provide

I grew up in a tiny Baltimore row house in a faraway mountain area．My parents ___1___ the necessities of life but they couldn’t give much more．If I asked my father for a pair of jeans, he would say, “If you want them, make the money and buy them yourself ．” He wasn’t being mean; he just couldn’t ___2___ them．From age 12 on, I did part-time jobs after school．

When I graduated from high school, I joined the navy．Soon I was in a boot camp at Parris Island, S．C．, where I learned that life in the navy centered around completing daily __3__．These could be anything from cleaning the camp to conducting mock（模拟的） battles．Completing these tasks __4____ required discipline, team-work and responsibility．It didn’t matter whether you were black, white or Asian; everyone worked together for the __5__ of the company．

I went on to graduate from the U．S．Naval Academy and later became an officer in the navy．The part of my job I enjoyed most was the consoling meetings I __6__ with the family members of the men and women in my charge , trying to help them deal with the long periods of separation ．These proved popular and before long I was being asked to give encouraging ___7___ to business groups, educators and kids across the country．

But I consider the boot camp my first real job , and my life is still guided by the __8__ lessons I learned there．It taught me discipline, friendship and the pride related to setting a task every day and working hard to __9_ it．

信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

Directions: Read the texts from a magazine article in which five people talked about their listening habits. For questions 64 to 68, match one of the speakers to one of the following statements (A to F ) given below. Note: there is one extra statement.

Mary Taylor:

  My father looked at me disapprovingly when I talked to him about ideas that he didn’t agree with. He would often interrupt me in the middle of a sentence to tell me I was wrong. As a result of the childhood experience, I had difficulty concentrating when anyone in authority talked to me. I would concentrate on how I was coming across to the other person, not on what the person was saying.

Chris More:

   My father used to frown (皱眉) when concentrating on something. I thought he was angry or upset with me until I later found out that he was only thinking about what he was doing. I certainly experienced some anxiety until I found this out. When I started conducting seminars(会议), I discovered that I frowned a lot while concentrating on what the talker was saying , and the attendees thought I was being critical of them.

Janet Smith:

  I constantly tuned others out (不理睬)while they were talking and I couldn’t seem to break the habit . It upset me because I was having trouble at work listening to directions and paying attention during meetings. As it happened, my mother had been a nonstop talker who ignored my needs. To keep my own sanity(清醒), I had learned to shut her out of my consciousness. I became so good at tuning her out that I generalized this behavior ------ tuning other people out as well.

Lylian Mason:

  I often feel victim in my interactions with my boss. I think he is the persecutor and I’m the victim. For example, late Thursday afternoon, my boss gave me a twenty-page project with graphs and numerical tables to type and finish by Monday at 10 a.m. I didn’t listen to the time he stated when he handed me the project. Instead, I was busy figuring out how I was going to get it down and finish the other work I had on my desk.

Jack Candison:

  When I am with a group of people who are interested in the subject I am covering and are receptive to me, they are open to more material and ideas. The more important the subject is to them, the more listening involvement they get into. In other words, the more relevant my material is to their personal or professional goals, the more they listen to what I have to say and the less they tune me out.

64. __________ Mary Taylor

65. __________Chris More

66. __________Janet Smith

67. __________Lylian Mason

68. __________Jack Candison

A.It’s hard for me to change my bad habit of not listening to others.

B.The heavy workload worried me so much.

C.I gave people the impression that I’m being picky (挑剔的)

D.My boss listens to me carefully.

E.My father used to ignore me.

F.People are likely to listen more attentively while the subject is of interest to them.

I left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I wanted to do. Over the next six years, I was treading water, just trying to earn an income. I tried journalism, but I didn’t think I was any good, then finance, which I hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull.
I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000 words.
It takes confidence to make a new start — there’s a dark period in-between where you’re neither one thing nor the other. You’re out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you’re too ashamed to say, “Well, I’m writing a novel, but I’m not quite sure if I’m going to get there.” My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside.
Then I met an agent（代理商）who said I should send my novel out to agents. So, I did and, to my surprise, got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and, after signing with an agent, I finished the second half of the novel.
The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no income, just waiting and wondering, a publisher offered me a book deal — that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for.
It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck — of fate, really. When you set out to do something different, there’s no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract（合同）of the publisher — to be a published writer — is unbelievably rewarding（有回报的）.
【小题1】What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 mean?

A．I was waiting for good fortune.

B．I was trying to find an admirable job.

C．I was being aimless about a suitable job.

D．I was doing several jobs for more pay at a time.

【小题2】The author decided to write a novel ______ .

A．to finish the writing course

B．to realize her own dream

C．to satisfy readers’ wish

D．to earn more money

【小题3】How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?

A．Disturbed.

B．Ashamed.

C．Confident.

D．Uncertain.

【小题4】What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph?

A．It pays to stick to one’s goal.

B．Hard work can lead to success.

C．She feels like being unexpectedly lucky.

D．There is no end in sight when starting to do something.