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Aug. 31, will arrive on campus in an unusual and philanthropic manner.
Phillips is expected to arrive between 5 p. m. and 6 p. m. Thursday on his bicycle, having pedaled
1,450 miles from Astoria, Ore.
Phillips combined his desire to complete a long bike ride before entering college with his interest in
helping the children of Uganda.
He is raising funds for Invisible Children, a San Diegobased organization seeking to end conflicts
afflicting(使苦恼) northern Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African
Republic and stop the use of children as soldiers.
Phillips had raised $1,540 before embarking Aug.11 and hopes to reach $2,000.
Phillips, who is from Redmond, Washington, visited Uganda during high school and worked in an
orphanage(孤儿院) there. He was also inspired by a presentation by Invisible Children at his high
school.
"I have been to Uganda and personally gotten to know some of the kids affected by the war,"
Phillips said in a statement released by the university. "I would do anything to help these kids."
Phillips" new roommate, Kyle Sharp, has joined him for the last 600 miles of the trip. Students and
other members of the USD community are expected to join him for the last 13 miles.
"Nathan"s passionate commitment(恪守承诺) to improving the lives of children more than 8,000
miles away resonates(共鸣) with USD"s mission to prepare future leaders to change the world for the
better," Pamela Gray Payton, assistant vice president of public affairs at USD, said in a prepared
statement. "We are delighted to have Nathan as a member of our campus community."
Supporters from USD and Invisible Children will greet Phillips and his entourage(随从) when they
arrive in front of Founders Hall on campus. The public is invited as well.
1. Which of the following statements about Nathan Phillips is TRUE?
A. Nathan Phillips has been a freshman at the university.
B. Nathan Phillips is an American.
C. Nathan Phillips is an African.
D. Nathan Phillips likes riding a bike.
2. Why does Nathan Phillips finish riding a bike for a long way before going into college?
A. He travels to Uganda.
B. He practises riding a bike.
C. He raises money to help the children of Uganda.
D. He wants to take exercise.
3. How much money does Nathan Phillips expect to collect in total?
A. $1,540.
B. $2,000.
C. $3,540.
D. $2,540.
4. How far does Nathan Phillips ride to college?
A. 8,000 miles.
B. 600 miles.
C. 13 miles.
D. 86,000 miles.
5. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. People like Nathan Phillips.
B. The public invite Nathan Phillips.
C. People support what Nathan Phillips does.
D. Supporters like Nathan Phillips.
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seventh child out of nine children in his family.Michael was often physically abused by his father, beaten
up and also verbally abused.But Michael also owed his success to his father"s strict discipline.
Michael was always an entertainer.Even when he had just started school, he would perform in front
of friends and classmates.Michael started his professional music career at the age of 11, as a member of
The Jackson Five.
He"s well known for increasing the popularity of MTV through his music videos.Before this, music
videos were made just to promote the albums.But Michael"s videos managed to change that by making
them an art and big business.Some of the music videos that are good examples of this are Beat It, Billie
Jean, and Thriller.Through these works, the world got caught onto the idea of music videos and focused on music video channels.
Michael enthralled his fans and audiences with his style of singing, dressing, and his complex dance
moves, especially the moonwalk.The moonwalk is something that people from every part of the globe
love and try to copy.People have also done mass moonwalks all around the world to show their love for
him.
Michael Jackson supported 39 charities (慈善机构). Through his work and various foundations (基金会), he raised and donated millions to charity, much more than any other showman.He had a great love
for children, especially poor ones, and he felt children were the next best thing after God.
Michael planned to start a 50concert tour in July 2009.Sadly, on June 25th,2009, Michael passed
away at home.Michael Jackson was a great performer, showman and entertainer, besides being a good
and charitable person.It"s very unlikely that there will be another entertainer like Michael Jackson ever
again.
1. Which of the following topics related to Michael Jackson is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. Childhood.
B. Personal life.
C. Music career
D. Charity.
2. According to the passage, Michael Jackson ________.
A. lived a happy life as a child
B. fell in love with music at the age of 11
C. loved performing at school
D. had nine brothers or sisters
3. In the author"s opinion, Michael Jackson"s greatest contribution is ________.
A. joining The Jackson Five
B. popularizing MTV
C. creating music video channels
D. popularizing the moonwalk
4. The underlined word "enthralled" in Paragraph 4 probably means "________".
A. encouraged
B. developed
C. attracted
D. puzzled
5. The purpose of the passage is to ________.
A. call on us to learn from Michael Jackson
B. tell us the truth of Michael Jackson"s death
C. prove that Michael Jackson was a great person
D. provide some facts about Michael Jackson
and more.Some say he was the greatest experimental scientist of the seventeenth century.
Once he worked with renowned men of science like Christian Huygens,Antony van
Leeuwenhoek,Robert Boyle,Isaac Newton and the great architect,Christopher Wren.
Hooke"s early education began at home,under the guidance of his father.He entered
Westminster School at the age of thirteen,and from there he went to Oxford,where he
came in contact with some of the best scientists in England.Hooke impressed them with
his skill at designing experiments and devising instruments.In 1662,at the age of
twenty－eight,he was named Curator of Experiments of the newly formed Royal Society
of London.Hooke accepted the job,even though he knew that it had no money to pay him!
Watching living things through the microscope was one of his favorite occupations.He
devised a compound microscope for this purpose.One day while observing a cork (软木)
under a microscope,he saw honeycomb－like structures.They were cells-the smallest units
of life.In fact,it was Hooke who coined the term "cell" as the boxlike cells of the cork
reminded him of the cells of a monastery(修道院)．
Perhaps because of his varied interests,Hooke often left experiments unfinished.Others
took up where he left off and then claimed sole(独占的)credit.This sometimes led to
quarrels with colleagues.One work that he finished was his book MICROGRAPHIA,a
volume that reveals the immense potential of the microscope.The book also includes,
among other things,ideas on gravity and light which may have helped scientists like
Newton while they were developing their own theories on these phenomena.
Hooke made valuable contributions to astronomy too.A crater(陨石坑) on the moon
is named after him in appreciation of his services to this branch of science.
B．liked making friends with the famous people
C．received a lot from other scientists
D．made contributions to many different fields
C．1662D．1640
B．introducing himself to them
C．designing experiments and instruments
D．refusing any reward from Royal Society of London
B．he had all kinds of interests in his daily life
C．he was too proud to look up to them
D．the other scientists took the fruits of his experiments
B．Its ideas on gravity and light might have been helpful for Newton.
C．Newton realized the importance of it.
D．Hooke thought highly of Newton"s scientific theory in it.
outside Detroit,not far from her grandparents and their Ontario reservation (印第安人保留地)．When
the teenage Rush visited the reservation for the first time,she was struck by the poverty and lack of hope.
"I really wanted to make a difference,"she says.
She graduated from the University of Michigan in 1982 and took a nursing job . But she was
disappointed with the low pay,and within a year she was pursuing an MBA.That summer,she interned
(作实习生) at an air freight (货运) company,where the speed of package pickups and deliveries drove
profits."I thought I could do that better," Rush says.
She used her credit cards and borrowed $5,000 from her parents to buy a van and two used pickup
trucks.She accepted every delivery job that came her way,and worked nursing shifts on weekends.
Within six months,Rush had ten employees,and customers like Ford and GM were paying her to fetch
small packages from the airport.Ford was the first to offer her a job trucking parts between its plants and
suppliers.
Rush_kept_a_single－minded_focus_on_meeting_deadlines-no matter what.In the wake of 9·11,when
increased security stalled (拖延) traffic for hours on Detroit"s largest bridge, she hired ships to get her
trucks across the Detroit River.
By 2001,many of Rush"s 1,000 employees were Native Americans,working alongside people of every
background.But she felt she hadn"t done enough.So she joined forces with a Canadian parts maker to
design and fit auto parts.She located the plants near reservations,creating opportunities where they were
needed most.By 2009,her auto parts business was bringing in $370 million.
Rush is 49 now and still working hard."I love my job,"she says."I like the fact that you can keep
challenging yourself-and then suddenly you lift your head and it"s been 25 years."
B．pleased
C．nervous
D．curious
B．started a transport business
C．worked as a full－time nurse
D．became a worker at the airport
B．Rush believed in the importance of meetings
C．Rush tried hard to guarantee on－time deliveries
D．Rush would accept every delivery job
B．is the owner of a famous international auto maker
C．believes she would do better if she had better opportunities
D．tries hard to help Native Americans on reservations
B．parts
C．reservations
D．opportunities
The writings of William Shakespeare are today little read by young people in Britian.His young
readership is limited to those who choose to study literature at university.
Still,in British schools,____________to study the poet, and when something is made compulsory,
usually the result is boredom,resentment or both.Shakespeare,Charles Dickens,Jane Austen-for many of
the young,reading them can seem like being forced to eat medicine,especially when people are at an age
when they are beginning to discover themselves and warning to claim their independence.
This was my experience of the classics at school.But when I reached my late teenage years,I had a
change of heart.Like every other young person since the dawn of time,the world confused me.I wanted
answers,so I turned to books to find them.
I went on to take a PhD in literature and have taught the subject in universities in Britain and China.I
have never regretted it.There is something in literature that people want,even if they don"t read books.
You see this in the popularity of TV and movie adaptations of great works,the recent film version of Jane Austen"s Pride and Prejudice being a case in point.These popular adaptations may help increase people"s
interest in the classic.
Reading a simplified Romeo and Juliet may perhaps lead to a reading of Shakespeare"s actual play.If
that is the case then I welcome the trend.But do not make the mistake of thinking that it is the same thing.
Shakespeare is a poet and his greatness is in his language.Reading_someone_else"s rewriting_of_his_work
_is_like_peeling_(剥皮)_a_banana,throwing_away_the_fruit,and_eating_the_skin.Take on the original.It
really is worth the effort.
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Thomas A. Edison was bom in Milan, Ohio, on February 11,1847. His family moved to Port Huron, Michigan,when he was seven years old. Surprisingly,he attended school for only two months. His mother, a former teacher,taught him a few things,but Thomas was mostly self-educated. His natural curiosity led him to start experimenting at a young age with electrical and mecharucal things at home.
When he was 12 years old,he got his first job. He became a newsboy on a train that ran between Port Huron and Detroit. He set up a laboratory in a baggage car of the train so that he could continue his experiments in his spare time. Unfortunately,his first work experience did not end well. Thomas was fired when he accidentally set fire to the floor of the baggage car.
Thomas then worked for five years as a telegraph operator,but he continued to spend much of his time on the job conducting experiments. He got his first patent in 1868 for a vote recorder run by electricity. However, the vote recorder was not a success. In 1870,he sold another invention,a stock ticker,for $40 000. A stock ticker is a machine that automatically(自动地) prints stock prices on a tape. He was then able to build his first shop in Newark,New Jersey.
Thomas Edison was totally deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other,but thought of his deafness as a blessing in many ways. It kept conversations short, so that he could have more time for work. He called himself a "two-shift man"because he worked 16 out of every 24 hours. Sometimes he worked so intensely that his wife had to remind him to sleep and eat.
Thomas Edison died at the age of 84 on October 18,1931,at his estate in West Orange,New Jersey. He left numerous inventions that improved the quality of life all over the world.
1. Thomas Edison did things in this order .
A. he became a telegraph operator,a newsboy,and then got his first patent
B. he became a newsboy, got his first patent, and then became a telegraph operator
C. he got a patent,became a telegraph operator,and then became a newsboy
D. he became a newsboy,a telegraph operator,and then got a patent
2. Of all the inventions, was probably the most important for civilization.
A. the vote recorder
B. the stock ticker
C. the light bulb
D. the motion picture camera
3. The main idea of this passage is that ___ .
A. Edison was always interested in science and inventions ,and he inventea many important things
B. Thomas Edison could not keep a job
C. Thomas Edison worked day and night on his experiments
D. deaf people make good inventors without the distraction of spoken conversation
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