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A man from Sri Lanka on Friday broke the Guinness world record for the longest time spent watching TV. He finished with 69 hours and 48 minutes.
Suresh Joachim did his TV viewing in the lobby (门厅) of WABC-TV as part of the “Guinness World Record Breaker Week ” on the TV talk show “Live With Regis and Kelly”.
After passing the previous record of 50 hours and 7 minutes Thursday, Joachim continued until about 7 am Friday.
Sitting on a brown leather couch, he watched nothing but ABC shows.
“I’m going to be a little tired of watching TV after this,” Joachim told reporters by phone during a brief break.
Rules of Guinness for the couch potato honor, allow for a five-minute break every hour and a 15-minute break every eight hours. The viewer must be constantly looking at the screen.
The hardest part, Joachim said on Live With Regis and Kelly, was “I couldn’t watch the people” — the many waving passers-by on the street outside the ABC studio.
Joachim, who lives in Toronto but comes from Sri Lanka, now holds more than 16 Guinness records, including the longest duration (持续) balancing on one foot (76 hours, 40 minutes) and bowling for 100 hours. He does it, he says, to raise awareness of suffering children.
64. Which paragraph shows the main idea of the passage?
A. The first paragraph. B. The last paragraph.
C. The second paragraph. D. The sixth paragraph.
65. How long had Joachim spent when the new “couch potato” record was made?
A. Half a week. B. Less than two days.
C. 76 hours, 40 minutes. D. Nearly three days.
66. Which of the following phrases can replace the underlined word “constantly”?
A. All the time. B. At times. C. Some time. D. Once upon a time.
67. What’s the biggest pity for Joachim when he did his TV viewing?
A. That Joachim could eat nothing.
B. That Joachim couldn’t watch the people outside.
C. That Joachim felt very tired.
D. That Joachim didn’t have any time for a break.
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64---67 ADAB
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试题【 CA man from Sri Lanka on Friday broke the Guinness world record for the longest】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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One day in early March of 1993, Pauline and Tom Nichter and their 11-year-old son Jason, were shopping for a toy in Buena Park, California. Suddenly, Pauline saw a wallet lying on the floor. When she looked inside, she found $200. The family, homeless and without work, knew that could change their lives. But they took the wallet to the nearby police station and turned it in. The wallet was found to have some other pockets, and more money in — over $2000! The police called the man who lost the wallet to pick it up. The man thanked the Nichters and shook their hands, but did not reward them. Luckily for the family, a TV news reporter filmed the story. People from all over the world heard the story and sent them letters, money and even jobs. A businessman even let them live in his house for free for six months. So far, the family has received over $1, 000, 000. Now the Nichters’ future is bright.
68. The best title of the reading would be________.
A. Money Is Everything B. From Have-nots to Haves
C. A Kind Businessman D. A Lost Wallet and the Police
69. Who found out the “major part of the money” in the wallet?
A. The police. B. Jason.
C. Someone else in the shop. D. The man who lost the wallet.
70. The words “reward them” in the reading means “_______”.
A. speak highly of the Nichters B. give something to the Nichters
C. pay the policemen D. meet the news reporters
71. Which of the following is true about the Nichters?
A. They got lots of money from a reporter.
B. They made friends with the loser of the money.
C. They worked for a business for half a year.
D. They became known to many people.
B
When I was a boy, my father told me that he could do anything he wanted to. Dad said that he wanted to be the first to develop color prints in our city. And so he did.
When I was 16,Dad looked closely at the violin I played and announced that he want to make one. He read about violinmaking,and then became a violinmaker at the age of 43. He bought the tools and materials,opened a small store and set Mom up as the shopkeeper,while he worked at a local company. He retired from the company 17 years later and continued to make violins and other instruments.
Dad often guessed why the Stradivarius violins sound so beautiful. Some experts claimed that it was the unique varnish(油漆)that gave those instruments their beautiful sound. Dad argued that chemists could analyze the varnish—if that were the answer.
One of Dad’s friends asked him once which kind of wood was used to make violins. When Dad explained that the top was made of spruce(云杉),his friend said that he had an old piece of spruce Dad might be interested in.
He worked for the next 12 months making a violin from the wood that his friend had given him. It proved to be a superior violin and it would become Dad’s masterpiece. He was convinced that the secret of the Stradivarius sound was in the wood itself.
Later,the instrument was stolen. Dad’s spirit was broken by the robbery, and he stopped making instruments. But he kept the music shop until he was 80 years old, selling guitars and violins.
My father has been gone for 14 years now. The violin has been missing for more than 25 years. Somewhere a musician is playing a late-20th-century violin with an excellent tone. The owner today may never understand why this ordinary-looking violin sounds so much like Stradivarius.
45. The author mentions his father’s developing color prints____________.
A. to show that his father’s real interest was not in making violins
B. to prove that his father could do anything he wanted to
C. to give an example proving that his father was an inventor
D. to describe the real thing that made the author believe his father
46. What did the author"s father think about Stradivarius violins?
A. The varnish was different from the others.
B. The way of making them was special.
C. The wood of the violins was special.
D. They could only be analyzed by chemists.
47. From the underlined sentence, we can learn that the author’s father________.
A. 1iked the violin very much
B. got crazy after this happened
C. 1ost interest in instruments
D. didn"t want to become famous
48. We can infer from the last paragraph that the author __________ .
A. really hates the thief
B. misses his father a 1ot
C. really wants to play the violin
D. wonders who’s playing the violin now
第二节:补全对话(共5小题;每小题1分)
根据对话内容,从对话后所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
(B: Burley, the boss, J: Jeremy)
B: Good morning.
J: Good morning, Mr. Burley.
B: Please be seated. 61
J: Yes, I have. I worked for B & J Business Forms Company.
B: 62
J: I quite enjoyed it, but the office was too big and sometimes noisy. I want to work in a smaller and quieter office.
B: 63 I think my office is very quiet and modern. I hope you don’t stay away from work too much.
J: 64
B: That’s very good indeed. 65 One of the young men in my office is always absent. Right! I’ll take you on.
A.I need a young man like you. |
B.How long have you worked in an office before? |
C.That sounds very good. |
D.Have you ever worked in an office before? |
F.I’d like to follow your advice.
G.And did you enjoy it?
第二节情景对话(共5小题;每小题1分,满分5分)
根据对话情景和内容,从对话后所给的选项中选出能填入每一空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。(注意:E涂AB;F涂AC;G涂AD)
Dorothy and Debbie are two friends. One year later, they happen to meet in the street.
—Debbie ! I can" t believe it ! I haven" t seen yon for ages.
—Dorothy! It"s really a nice surprise! 6
—Pretty good.
— 7
—I wish I could, but I" m on my way out. I have to be in the city in an hour.
— 8
—There"s a lot of truffle and I really have to get going. You know where I live—why
don" t you drop in one evening?
—I" ll do that. 9 Let" s keep in touch.
—I" d really like to. I" ll talk to you soon, Debbie. I" m glad I ran into you.
— 10
A. Take care:
B. How are you?
C. Where have you been?
D. Can you join me?
E. Come on, just for a minute.
F. And you should feel free to call or visit me.
G. It" s been a whole year since we saw each other last, time.
第二节 信息匹配(共5小题,每小题2分,满分l0分)
根据短文内容,从下框的A—F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。(注意:E涂AB;F涂AC)
A.The effects of flu and its symptoms
B.Types of virus to cause flu
C.People’s attitudes toward flu
D.The cause of flu
E.The way that flu spreads
F.The methods to fight flu
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Flu (which is short for influenza) is a highly infectious disease,the cause of which is a very tiny organism known as a virus.Several types of flu are recognized,depending on the type of virus that causes the disease.
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62.
Flu Can often cause problems in breathing,and general infection of the lung.With elderly and weak people,these added complications often produce serious results.The virus, if not properly treated, can weaken the body so that patient may develop more serious illnesses,such as pneumonia and bronchitis.When people catch flu,they often complain of a headache or a sore throat.They usually have a fever and their temperature rises from the normal 37℃ (98.6℉) to about 39.5℃ (103℉).Sometimes a person has a dry hacking cough and aching joints.
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63.
Today many doctors use drugs that fight the disease.And scientists have also developed vaccines that help to prevent it.If the patient has proper treatment,and complete rest in bed,the virus is normally beaten within a week to ten days.
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64.
How does flu spread so quickly? When the infected person breathes out.sneezes or coughs,he gives out droplets of moisture in the breath from his mouth or nose.These remain in the air for some time.Flu viruses are present in these droplets.If a person sneezes in a crowd or poorly ventilated place,such as a lift,viruses can easily be carried from all infected person to a healthy person.This is known as droplet infection.The healthy person will breathe in the viruses given out by the infected person.
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65.
There are three main types of virus that cause flu,which are called type A, B and C. Type A is the most powerful of the three,and undergoes minor changes in its genetic material every few years.The new form of the virus is called a strain.The new strain is not affected by the current vaccines. It is said to be“resistant”to them.So doctors must be continually producing new vaccines to combat the new strains of virus.
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