Eleven-year-old Antonin Careme could not believe that his father ordered a lot of delicious food. It was
an unexpected (意料不到的) dinner (1)b__________ the Careme family was poor. When he was eating
thankfully, his father (2)t__________ him in a sad voice that this would be a farewell meal. His father could
not support all his children any (3)m__________, (4)s__________ Antonin would have to leave home to
make money (5)h__________.
After the meal, Antonin walked (6)a__________ the streets and felt sad. He knocked on the door of a
restaurant and the (7)o__________ happened to (碰巧) need an waiter. In the restaurant, young Antonin
(8)g__________ his first lesson in cooking. He was hardworking and his employer (雇主) (9)d_________
to teach him all the skills (技能) and secrets of French cooking. When he was fifteen years old, Antonin
trained under the famous cook, Baily.
One of Baily"s customers was pleased with Antonin"s style of cooking, he asked him to be his personal
(10) c________, working at his home. Antonin later went on to work for a diplomat, a banker and even the
king.
when my mother calls, "Herbert! It"s seven o"clock! Get up!" Herbert answers, "I"m coming!" and goes
right back to sleep. I"m not at all like my brother. I don"t like to go to bed at night but I don"t mind getting
up in the morning. I usually wake up before my mother calls me. I jump out of bed and go into the bathroom
to take a shower. I get dressed, brush my teeth, comb my hair, and get ready to go downstairs for breakfast
as soon as my mother calls. But not Herbert. He just sleeps. A military band (军乐队) in our bedroom could
not wake him up. I call him and say, "Get up! Mum will be up here to pull you out of bed if you don"t get up
immediately!" But he just sleeps. After calling a few more times my mother has to come upstairs and pull
Herbert out of bed. It"s that way every day with my little brother. Perhaps some day he"ll learn to get up on
time, but I really don"t think so.
( )2.I"m not like my brother because I like to go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning.
( )3.I usually jump out of bed and go into the bathroom for a shower before my mother calls.
( )4.My mother often has to go upstairs and pull Herbert out of bed as he refuses to get up.
( )5.Sometimes we have to send for a military band to wake Herbert up.
( )6.The writer thinks some day Herbert will learn to get up on time.
in the day. He became very worried, so he went to see his doctor.
"Can you help me, doctor?" he asked. I slept so well, but now I slept less than two hours at night.
The doctor looked him very carefully, gave him some tests, asked him to work less hard, and told
him to take some medicine to help him. He said he was sure that he was not seriously ill, and that he
would soon be better.
But the businessman grew worse instead of better. He slept even less than before at night and was
still falling asleep in his office. He visited the doctor again and again and it took the doctor a long time
to find out the reason: the businessman"s wife was giving him the sleeping medicine in the morning and
the ones to keep him awake at night.
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2.How long does he sleep now at night?
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3.Did the doctor think the businessman had a serious problem?
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4.Did the businessman grow worse or better after seeing the doctor?
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5.Was the doctor able to find the real reason for the business"s problem?
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6.Who was responsible for the businessman"s problem?
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teacher with the university where I am 1 . Most of my friends and parents think that it"s best for a girl
to be a university teacher.
But I don"t know 2 to do. It is not that I wouldn"t like to be a teacher. But I don"t want to stay, not
now, because I need some experience in telling my students how to turn 3 into practice.
I once taught business English at a night school, yet I had never done any business. Though I prepared
my lessons well, I still 4 to create a "real-life" situation for my students to practice with. I feel now is
not the right time for me to work here and spend my life in a university. I want to work in a place where I
can use what I"ve learnt:my knowledge of English and French. I also want to know more about other things.
I know that if I leave the university, I shall start from the beginning in some ways, but I"m 5 to learn,
to work 6 to keep up with others and then, if possible, surpass (超过) them. English can be a good tool
to help me. It is a means to an end, but not the end itself.
( )1.A.visiting ( )2.A.whether ( )3.A.pictures ( )4.A.failed ( )5.A.free ( )6.A.difficult | B.working B.what B.covers B.enjoyed B.slow B.hard | C.studying C.how C.pages C.decided C.ready C.hardly | D.playing D.why D.theory D.needed D.polite D.easily |
Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words. (在短文的空格上填入适当的词,使其内容通畅,每空格限填一词,首字母已给。) | |||
A man once had a dream about the Black Forest in Germany. In his dream he was walking in the forest when two men ran out and tried to throw him to the ground. He ran off as (1)f _______ as he could, but they followed him. He reached a place where he saw two roads in (2)f _______ of him, one to the right and the other to the left. Which road should he take? He heard the two men behind him, getting nearer, and at the (3)s _______ time he heard a voice in his ear. It told him to go to the right, and he did so. He ran on and soon came to a small hotel. He was received there kindly and given a room, and he was saved from the two men. That was the dream. Twenty years (4)l ________ he was really in the Black Forest and, as happened in the dream long ago, two men ran out and tried to (5)t ________ him down. He ran off, and came to a place with two roads, like in the dream. He remembered the dream and (6)t ________ the road to the right. He soon reached a small hotel, was taken in, and so was safe. His dream of twenty years before had saved his life. | |||
阅读理解。 | |||
Once upon a time there was a poor family in a small village. The family had a son called Jackson. He was a kind boy. He always saved his pocket money to help pay for his sister"s school fees. One day, they had no food to eat. Jackson"s mother asked him to go fishing. So he went to the nearby river. He waited for a long time and caught a cod (鳕鱼) at last. The cod said to him, "If you don"t eat me, I will give you a pair of magic scissors (剪刀). And you can use the scissors to cut anything you want." Jackson believed it and got the scissors. When he got home, he told his parents and his sister about the magic scissors. They cut some food, and the delicious food was on the table. Then they cut a house, and they had a new house. They were very happy, and didn"t worry about the food any more. | |||
1. There could be ______ people in Jackson"s family. | |||
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A. two B. three C. four D. five | |||
2. Jackson saved his pocket money because ______. | |||
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A. he wanted to buy a computer B. his sister needed money to go to school C. his mother told him to do so D. he wanted to buy a pair of magic scissors | |||
3. Jackson"s mother asked him to go fishing because ______. | |||
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A. he was good at fishing B. he wanted to eat fish C. he enjoyed fishing D. his family had no food to eat | |||
4. The underlined phrase "school fees" means "______" in Chinese. | |||
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A. 学籍 B. 学分 C. 学科 D. 学费 | |||
5. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? | |||
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A. Jackson"s sister wasn"t old enough to go to school. B. The cod gave Jackson a pair of magic scissors. C. Jackson put the cod back into the river at last. D. Jackson"s family had a new house after getting the scissors. |