I truly feel that my mother led me here, to Morzaine, and to my future as happy wife and business woman. When Mum ____ in October 2007, I was a cook. In December that year while I was working for a wedding, a pearl necklace Mum had left me ____. I was distraught(忧心如焚的). Some days later, I was ____ that a guy who was working with us that day “could probably have made a fortune ___ the necklace he found.” ____， he returned it. Hearing how I"d ____Mum for six months before her death, he said，” Christmas is going to be ___ —why not go out to the Alps for a couple of weeks？”
I come to Morzaine，a small，friendly village in the Alps and ____ fell in love with it. What was ____ to be a stopgap (权宜之计) trip turned into a new life. I kept travelling between London and here and felt ____ than I had in months.In December 2008, I was ____ as a hotel manager and moved here full time.
A month later, I met Paul, who was traveling here. We fell in love. In the beginning, I didn"t want to discuss ____， because the sadness of losing Mum ____ felt great. Paul understood that and never __49__ me but, by summer, we got married. A year later, we used his saving, and the money from the sale of Mom"s house, to build our own ____.
We want to give our guests a ____ feeling, so each room is themed(以……为主题) around memories from our lives. There are also style to remind me of Mom —a tiny chair which ___ be in her bedroom is set in one room.
We are having a wonderful life Mum ____ naturally part of it, ____ there"s no way we would be here if it wasn"t for the ____ she gave me. I know she"s here in spirit, keeping an eye on us.
| 小题1: | | A．died | B．came | C．returned | D．visited |
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| 小题2: | | A．burned | B．disappeared | C．broke | D．dropped |
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| 小题3: | | A．shown | B．comforted | C．persuaded | D．told |
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| 小题4: | | A．hiding | B．stealing | C．selling | D．wearing |
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| 小题5: | | A．Luckily | B．Naturally | C．Surely | D．Hopefully |
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| 小题6: | | A．nursed | B．cured | C．missed | D．guarded |
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| 小题7: | | A．long | B．hard | C．merry | D．free |
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| 小题8: | | A．suddenly | B．finally | | C．nearly | D．immediately |
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| 小题9: | | A．said | B．proved | C．supposed | D．judged |
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| 小题10: | | A．smarter | B．higher | C．firmer | D．lighter |
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| 小题11: | | A．honoured | B．hired | C．regarded | D．trained |
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| 小题12: | | A．travel | B．business | C．children | D．marriage |
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| 小题13: | | A．recently | B．once | C．still | D．firstly |
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| 小题14: | | A．left | B．pushed | C．surprised | D．interrupted |
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| 小题15: | | A．hotel | B．restaurant | C．home | D．shop |
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| 小题16: | | A．homely | B．lively | C．motherly | D．friendly |
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| 小题17: | | A．ought to | B．used to | C．might | D．could |
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| 小题18: | | A．takes | B．keeps | C．looks | D．feels |
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| 小题19: | | A．unless | B．while | C．because | D．though |
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| 小题20: | | A．money | B．chair | C．house | D．necklace |
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小题1:答案 A [句意：当母亲在2007年10月去世时，我是一个厨师。从第41个空后出现的her death及其作者丢失母亲留给她的项链时心急如焚的感受以及下文的描述可知，当时母亲已去世。]
小题2:答案 B [句意：那年的12月，当我在为一个婚礼忙碌时，母亲留给我的珍珠项链没了，我忧心如焚。从该空后的I was distraught以及下文对于项链去向的猜测可反推此处指作者的妈妈留给她的项链没了。]
小题3:答案 D [句意：几天后，我被“告知”那个和我们一起工作的家伙……show表现，展示；comfort安慰；persuade说服；tell告诉。由句意可知D项正确。]
小题4:答案 C [句意：他可能拿着捡到的项链卖钱了。这句话中make a fortune的意思是“挣大钱”。根据逻辑推理，此人应该是将捡到的项链卖掉，以此来换取钱财。通过逻辑推理可知C项正确。]
小题5:答案 A [句意：幸运的是，他把它还回来了。从上文看，作者没想到这个人还能将她的项链还给她。再次获得母亲的遗物，作者应该感到很幸运。luckily幸运地；naturally自然地；surely当然，肯定；hopefully有希望地。]
小题6:答案 A [句意：在听说了我在母亲去世前6个月是如何照顾她的后……根据for six months before her death并结合下文他对作者提出的外出放松一下的建议来看，作者应该是照顾了母亲很长时间。nurse照顾，护理；cure治愈；miss想念，错过；guard守卫，保卫。根据上下文可知A项正确。]
小题7:答案 B [句意：圣诞节会过得很艰难……结合上文来看，母亲的去世给作者带来了很大的伤痛。按逻辑来推，没有亲人的陪伴，圣诞节会让作者更难过。long漫长的；hard艰难的；merry欢快的； free自由的。]
小题8:答案 D [句意：我来到了Morzaine，阿尔卑斯山区的一个很小却友善的村庄，并立刻喜欢上了它。suddenly突然；finally最终；nearly将近，接近；immediately立刻，马上。根据句意可知D项正确。]
小题9:答案 C [句意：原本认为是权宜之计的旅行却成就了我新的生活。say说；prove证明；suppose猜测，认为，此处构成短语be supposed to，表示“被认为是”；judge判断。根据句意可知C项正确。]
小题10:答案 D [句意：我不断往返于伦敦和这个地方，我的心情也比数月前轻松多了。由上下文可知，这次旅行医治了作者内心的伤痛，其心情也逐渐轻松起来。smart时髦的，聪明的；high高的；firm坚定的；light轻松的。]
小题11:答案 B [句意：2008年12月，我被聘为一名旅馆经理，我也完全搬到了这里。honour纪念；hire雇用；regard把……看作；train训练。尽管四个选项均可与as搭配构成短语，但结合句意，只有B项正确。]
小题12:答案 D [句意：我们相爱了。一开始，我并未想到要谈婚论嫁。travel 旅行；business生意；children孩子；marriage婚姻。根据上文We fell in love.及下文作者依然对母亲的去世感到悲伤可推断此处作者虽然爱保罗，却没想到要与他结婚。根据逻辑推理可知D项正确。]
小题13:答案 C [句意：……因为失去母亲的悲痛仍然感觉很强烈。结合上文作者虽然爱保罗却并未想到要谈婚论嫁可知，失去母亲之痛仍折磨着作者。recently最近；once曾经；still仍旧，依然；firstly首先。根据句意可知C项正确。]
小题14:答案 B [句意：保罗理解那种感觉，他从来不催促我，但到夏天的时候，我们结婚了。leave离开；push推，催促；surprise使……吃惊；interrupt打断。下文的but表明了前后语意的转折。根据句意及逻辑关系可知B项正确。]
小题15:答案 A [句意：一年之后，我们用他的积蓄以及卖掉母亲房子的钱建了属于我们自己的旅馆。hotel旅馆；restaurant饭店；home家；shop商店。]
小题16:答案 A [句意：我们想给我们的客人家的感觉，所以每个房间都是以我们生活中的回忆为主题的。homely家庭的；lively精力充沛的；motherly母亲般的；friendly友好的。根据句意可知A项正确。]
小题17:答案 B [句意：也有一些房间的风格让我想起了我的母亲——其中一个房间里就摆放了母亲卧室里曾摆放过的一把小椅子。ought to应该；used to过去常常；might可能；could可能，能够。根据句意可知B项正确。]
小题18:答案 D [句意：现在我们生活得非常好，母亲很自然地能感受到这些。feel此处与part of搭配，字面意思表示“感受到其中的一部分”。take拿，取；keep保留；look看，均不符合句意。根据语境可知D项正确。]
小题19:答案 C [句意：……因为如果没有她给我的项链，我们不可能来到这里。unless除非；while当……时候；because因为；though虽然；根据上下文逻辑关系及语意可知C项正确。]
小题20:答案 D [根据该句中的定语从句she gave me并结合上文可知，此处作者指的是母亲送给她的项链。] |
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试题【I truly feel that my mother led me here, to Morzaine, and to my future as happy 】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
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Diana Jacobs thought her family had a workable plan to pay for college for her 21yearold twin sons: a combination of savings, income, scholarships, and a modest amount of borrowing. Then her husband lost his job, and the plan fell apart.
“I have two kids in college, and I want to say ‘come home"，but at the same time I want to provide them with a good education，” says Jacobs.
The Jacobs family did work out a solution: They asked and received more aid from the schools, and each son increased his borrowing to the maximum amount through the federal loan (贷款) program. They will each graduate with $20,000 of debt, but at least they will be able to finish school.
With unemployment rising, financial aid administrators expect to hear more families like the Jacobs. More students are applying for aid, and more families expect to need student loans. College administrators are concerned that they will not have enough aid money to go around.
At the same time, tuition(学费)continues to rise. A report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education found that college tuition and fees increased 439% from 1982 to 2007, while average family income rose just 147%. Student borrowing has more than doubled in the last decade.
“If we go on this way for another 25 years, we won"t have an affordable system of higher education，” says Patrick M. Callan, president of the center. “The middle class families have been financing it through debt. They will send kids to college whatever it takes, even if that means a huge amount of debt.”
Financial aid administrators have been having a hard time as many companies decide that student loans are not profitable enough and have stopped making them. The good news, however, is that federal loans account for about three quarters of student borrowing, and the government says that money will flow uninterrupted.
小题1:According to Paragraph 1，why did the plan of Jacobs family fail?| A．The twins wasted too much money. | | B．The father was out of work. | | C．Their saving ran out | | D．The family fell apart. |
小题2:How did the Jacobses manage to solve their problem?| A．They asked their kids to come home. | | B．They borrowed $20,000 from the school. | | C．They encouraged their twin sons to do parttime jobs. | | D．They got help from the school and the federal government. |
小题3:Financial aid administrators believe that ________.| A．more families will face the same problem as the Jacobses | | B．the government will receive more letters of complaint | | C．college tuition fees will double soon | | D．America"s unemployment will fall |
小题4:．What can we learn about the middle class families from the text? | A．They blamed the government for the tuition increase. | | B．Their income remained steady in the last decade. | | C．They will try their best to send kids to college. | | D．Their debts will be paid off within 25 years |
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A person may have an idea about himself that will prevent him from doing good work. He may have the belief that he is not capable (有能力的) of it. A child may think he is ___ because he doesn"t understand how to make the ____ of his mental faculties (才能). Older people may be mistaken that they are incapable of learning new things because of their ____.
A person who believes that he is incapable will not make a real ____ because he feels that it would be useless. He won"t go at a job with the confidence necessary for ___， and he won"t work his hardest way, even though he may think he is doing so. He is ____ likely to fail, and the failure will ____ his belief in his incompetence (无能)．
Alfred Alder, a famous doctor, had ____ like this. When he was a small boy, he had a poor ___ in maths. His teacher told his parents he had no ability in maths in order that they would not ____ too much of him. In his way, they two ____ the idea. He accepted ____ mistaken thinking of his ability, felt that it was useless ____ and was very poor at maths, ____ as they expected.
One day he worked at a problem which ____ of the other students had been able to solve.
Alder ___ in solving the problem. This gave him confidence. He now ___ with interest, determination and purpose, and he soon became especially good at maths. He not only ____ that he could learn maths well, but luckily he learnt ____ in his life from his own experience that if a person goes at a job with determination and purpose, he may ____himself as well as others by his ability.
| 小题1: | | A．clever | B．shy | C．useless | D．stupid |
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| 小题2: | | A．biggest | B．most | C．highest | D．deepest |
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| 小题3: | | A．ability | B．age | C．brain | D．knowledge |
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| 小题4: | | A．decision | B．success | C．effort | D．trouble |
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| 小题5: | | A．work | B．study | C．improvement | D．success |
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| 小题6: | | A．truly | B．really | C．however | D．therefore |
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| 小题7: | | A．lead to | B．strengthen | C．increase | D．add to |
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| 小题8: | | A．an experience | B．an example | C．a thought | D．a story |
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| 小题9: | | A．state | B．mind | C．start | D．ending |
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| 小题10: | | A．blame | B．expect | C．get | D．win |
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| 小题11: | | A．developed | B．organized | C．discovered | D．found |
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| 小题13: | | A．managing | B．succeeding | C．trying | D．acting |
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| 小题14: | | A．only | B．almost | C．just | D．then |
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| 小题15: | | A．none | B．no | C．no one | D．nobody |
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| 小题16: | | A．gave | B．succeeded | C．failed | D．believed |
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| 小题17: | | A．lived | B．worked | C．played | D．graduated |
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| 小题18: | | A．made | B．took | C．expected | D．proved |
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| 小题19: | | A．early | B．deeply | C．late | D．simple |
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| 小题20: | | A．encourage | B．love | C．astonish | D．disappoint |
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My uncle has a very beautiful umbrella. He has had it ____ and he is very careful with it. It still looks as good as new. “That umbrella must have ____ you a great deal of money, Uncle，” I said to him one day. “No，” he replied, “____.” “Was it a present？” I asked again. “No，” said he. “Then how did you get it？” I asked.
“Well，” he answered, “it is a strange true story. About ten years ago I was walking along a quiet London street one evening ____ it suddenly rained. I had no ___ and no umbrella. No buses ____that street and there were no taxis in sight. As I was on my way to a party I didn"t want to get ___.So I stood in a doorway and waited for the rain to stop. By and by it grew quite ____， there wasn"t a person around，and still it rained and rained.____ a young man came to the place where I was standing, ____ a large umbrella over his head. As I hoped he would ____ me to walk to the next corner with him, ___ I could have got a taxi，I stepped ____ the dark doorway where I had been standing, and said, ‘____， where are you going with that umbrella？’
____ by my sudden appearance, the young man ____ the umbrella which I am afraid, he had just stolen, ran away, and ___ into the darkness. I picked up the umbrella and ____ my walk. I knew it would be ____ in this big city to try and discover the owner and so I"ve kept it ____.”
| 小题1: | | A．for months | B．for years | | C．since childhood | D．since then |
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| 小题2: | | A．used | B．cost | C．taken | D．spent |
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| 小题3: | | A．very little | B．only a few pounds | | C．not a penny | D．not a great deal |
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| 小题5: | | A．car | B．hat | C．raincoat | D．friend |
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| 小题6: | | A．moved through | B．ran through | | C．went across | D．passed across |
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| 小题8: | | A．dark | B．wet | C．late | D．helpless |
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| 小题9: | | A．At once | B．At last | C．Strangely | D．Secretly |
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| 小题10: | | A．raising | B．carrying | C．holding | D．lifting |
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| 小题11: | | A．allow | B．let | C．agree | D．promise |
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| 小题12: | | A．there | B．where | C．from which | D．in which |
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| 小题13: | | A．into | B．out of | | C．towards | D．from behind |
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| 小题14: | | A．By the way | B．Pardon | C．Excuse me | D．Sorry |
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| 小题15: | | A．Encouraged | B．Forced | | C．Warmed | D．Frightened |
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| 小题16: | | A．shut | B．took | C．dropped | D．forgot |
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| 小题17: | | A．disappeared | B．wandered | C．marched | D．came |
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| 小题18: | | A．stopped | B．started | C．continued | D．delayed |
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| 小题19: | | A．endless | B．interesting | C．exciting | D．hopeless |
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| 小题20: | | A．ever since | B．forever | C．long enough | D．in the end |
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In the fall of 1985，I was a brighteyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twentyone years later I am later I am still a brighteyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.
My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.
Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic...and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No. 3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.
You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 8！Our home was a complete zoo...a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college fulltime. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant talking as few as one class each semester.
The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit.But I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.
In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree!
I am not special, just singleminded. It always struck me that when you"re looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you"re in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won"t arrive in your life on one day. It"s a process. Remember；little steps add up to big dreams.
小题1:When the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be ________.| A．a writer | B．a teacher | C．a judge | D．a doctor |
小题2:Why did the author quit school in her second year of college?| A．She wanted to study by herself. | | B．She fell in love and got married. | | C．She suffered from a serious illness. | | D．She decided to look after her grandma. |
小题3:What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 4 and 5?| A．She was busy yet happy with her family life. | | B．She ignored her guilty feeling for her sons. | | C．She wanted to remain a fulltime housewife. | | D．She was too confused to make a correct choice. |
小题4:What does the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph?| A．Failure is the mother of success. | | B．Little by little，one goes far. | | C．Every coin has two sides. | | D．Well begun, half done. |
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The American newspaper publisher Arthur Sulzberger Sr died at the age of 86.Mr Sulzberger led The New York Times for more than three decades，before passing the business to his son.He took over the paper in 1963 when it was in financial trouble，and transformed it into the heart of a multibillion dollar media empire.
His family announced he had died at his home in Southampton，New York State，after a long illness.His son，Arthur Sulzberger Jr，said in a statement that his father，whom he referred to by his childhood nickname of Punch，was “one of our industry’s most admired executives”．“Punch，the old Marine captain who never backed down from a fight，was an absolutely fierce defender of the freedom of the press，” he said.
The New York Times was bought by Mr Sulzberger Sr’s grandfather Adolph Ochs in 1896.During Mr Sulzberger’s tenure，The New York Times won 31 Pulitzer prizes.
Born in New York City,5 February 1926，Sr served in Marine Corps during World War Ⅱ and Korean War，joined The New York Times in 1951 after graduating from Columbia College，took over as publisher in 1963 after his brotherinlaw died suddenly，stepped down in 1997 and passed stewardship to his son，Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
He oversaw a huge circulation boost at the paper，and increased its parent company’s annual revenues (年收入) from $100m in 1963 to $1.7bn by the time he stepped down in 1997.He also led the paper through highlevel clashes with the political establishment.In 1971，The Times published a series of stories saying that politicians had systematically lied over the US involvement in Vietnam.The source was thousands of leaked government documents known as the Pentagon Papers.The Nixon administration demanded that the paper stop publishing the stories on grounds of national security.But the paper refused，and then won the subsequent court case by arguing that the First Amendment of the US Constitution (宪法) guaranteed free speech.The case is seen as a landmark in the history of free speech in the US.Mr Sulzberger said he read more than 7,000 pages of the Pentagon Papers before personally deciding to publish them.
His family still holds a controlling stake (控股权) in The New York Times.He was a strong believer in family ownership of newspapers.He once joked：“My conclusion is simple.Nepotism works.”
小题1:When did Arthur Sulzberger Sr die?| A．In 1997. | B．In 2012. | | C．In 1963. | D．In 1971. |
小题2:Punch，the old Marine captain was actually________.| A．Arthur Sulzberger Jr | | B．Adolph Ochs | | C．Arthur Sutzberger Sr’s father | | D．Arthur Sulzberger Sr |
小题3:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?| A．Arthur Sulzberger Sr took over The New York Times from his brotherinlaw. | | B．Arthur Sulzberger Jr’s grandfather bought The New York Times. | | C．Arthur Sulzberger Sr resigned when The New York Times was in financial trouble. | | D．Arthur Sulzberger Jr took over The New York Times after graduating from Columbia College. |
小题4:In the political case in the 1970s，Mr Sulzberger________.| A．failed the case in the end | | B．lost the controlling stake in The New York Times | | C．gave in to the government | | D．succeeded in guarding free speech of the paper |
小题5:What does the underlined word “Nepotism” probably refer to?| A．Friendship. | B．Politics. | | C．Family ownership | D．Freedom of speech. |
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