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Yorkshire, England was the setting for two great novels (小说) of the 19th century. These were
Charlotte Bronte"s Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte"s also a gifted novelist, and her books have the same
extraordinary quality as her sisters".
Their father was Pattick Bronte, born in Ireland. He moved with his wife, Maria Bronte, and their
six small children to Haworth in Yorkshire in 1820. Soon after, Mrs. Bronte and the two eldest children
died, leaving the father to care for the remaining three girls and a boy.
Charlotte was born in 1816 Emily was born in 1818 and Anne in 1820. Their brother Branwell was
born in 1817. Left to themselves, the children wrote and told stories and walked over the hills. They grew
up largely self-educated Branwell showed a great interest in drawing. The girls were determined to earn
money for his art education. They took positions as teachers or taught children in their homes.
As children they had all written many stories. Charlotte, as a young girl, alone wrote 22 books, each
with 60 to 100 pages of small handwriting Therefore, they turned to writing for income. By 1847,
Charlotte had written The Professor; Emily, Wuthering Heights; and Anne, Agnes Grey. After much
difficulty Anne and Emily found a publisher (出版商); but there was no interest shown in Charlotte"s book.
(It was not published until 1859.) However, one publisher expressed an interest in seeing more of her work.
Jane Eyre was already started, and she hurriedly finished it. It was accepted at once; thus each of the
sister had a book published in 1847. Jane Eyre was immediately successful; the other two, however, did
not do so well People did not like Wuthering Heights. They said it was too wild, considered one of the
finest novels in the English language Emily lived only a short while after the publication of her book, and
Anne died in 1849. Charlotte published Shirley in 1849,and Villette in 1853. In 1854 she married Arthur
Bell Nicholls. But only a year later, she died of tuberculosis (肺结核) as her sisters had.
B. Help him get trained in art.
C. Teach him how to draw well.
D. Teach him how to educate himself.
B. Charlotte Bronte wrote 22 books in all
C. the Bronte sisters received good education
D. Patrick Bronte helped his daughters with their wiring
B. Villette
C. Agnes Grey
D. The Professor
B. The Professor and Agnes Grey
C. Agnes Grey and Wuthering Heights
D. The Professor and Withering Heights
B. None of them had more than two books published.
C. None of them lived longer than 4O yeah old .
D. Emily was the least successful of the three.
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up by herself. After her first 2 , teaching disabled children, she became a part-time writer for IBM. 3 ,
writing stories was simply a 4 . interest. Tracy sent three of her stories to a publisher (出版商). 5 , they
immediately suggested that she put them together to make a single one long 6 and paid Tracy a $ 50,000
advance. "A pretty money," said the publisher, "for 7 writer."
8 Traey"s characters (人物) are interesting, her stories sometimes 9 readem uneasy: those about the
supernatural. "My mother believed I could 10 the afterlife world," she told a close friend. "She used to have
me speak with my grandmother, who died many years ago."
"Can I? I don"t think I can," Tracy said with a laugh. "But I do have 11 when things come to me 12 ."
Once, she was wondering how to complete a 13 set in ancient (古代的) China. 14 the doorbell rang. It
was a FedEx delivery man, with a copy of a book on Chinese 15 . It came without her having 16 it.
Though she has published 10 books, Tracy has remained 17 by her fame. She lives in the same 18 she
lived 27 years ago-although in a mom comfortable home. There" s more room for 19 in her life-and it wasn"t
just 20 .
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| Since 1989, Dave Thomas, who died at age 69, was one of the most recognizable faces on TV. He appeared in more than 800 commercials (商业广告) for the hamburger chain named for his daughter, "As long as it works," he said in 1991, "I"ll continue to do those commercials." Even though he was successful,Thomas remained troubled by his childhood. "He still won"t let anyone see his feet, which are out of shape because he never had properfitting shoes," Wendy said in 1993. Born to a single mother,he was adopted (收养) as a baby by Rex and Auleva Thomas of Kalamazoo in Michigan. After Auleva died when he was 5, Thomas spent years on the road as Rex traveled around seeking construction work. "He fed me," Thomas said, "and if I got out of line,he"d beat me." Moving out on his own at 15,Thomas worked, first as a waiter, in many restaurants.But he had something much better in mind. "I thought if I owned a restaurant," he said, "I could eat for free." A 1956 meeting with Harland Sanders led Thomas to a career as the manager of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant that made him a millionaire in 1968. In 1969,after breaking with Sanders, Thomas started the first Wendy"s Old Fadhioned Hamburgers, in Columbus, Ohio, which set itself apart by serving made-to -order burgers. With 6,000 restaruants worldwide, the chair now makes $ 6 billion a year in sales. Although troubled by his own experience with adoption, Thomas, married since 1954 to Lorraine, 66, and with four grown kids besides Wendy, felt it could offer a future for other children.He started the Dave Thomas Foundation (基金会) for Adoption in 1992. In 1993, Thomas,who had left school at 15, graduated from Coconut Greek High School in Florida. He even took Lorraine to the graduation dance party. The kids voted him Most Likely to Succeed. "The Dave you saw on TV was the real Dave," says friends Pat Williams."He wasn"t a great actor or a great speaker. He was just Joe Everybody." | |||
| 1. What is the article mainly about? | |||
| A. The life of Dave Thomas. B. The dream of Dave Thomas. C. The schooling of Dave Thomas. D. The growth of Dave Thomas"s business. | |||
| 2. What do we know about his childhood? | |||
| A. He lived a poor life B. He had caring parents C. He stayed in one place D. He didn"t go to school | |||
| 3. Choose the right time order of the following events in Thomas"s life. a. graduated from high school b. started his own business c. became a millionaire d. started a foundation e.met Harland Sanders | |||
| A. e,b,c,d,a B. a,e,c,b,d C. e,c,b,d,a D. a,e,b,c,d | |||
| 4. " He was just Joe Everybody."(in the last paragraph) means _____. | |||
| A. Dave was famous B. Dave was ordinary C. Dave was showy D. Dave was shy | |||
| 5. What is the name of Dave Thomas"s business? | |||
| A. Thomas"s B. Wendy"s C. Lorraine"s D. Rex"s | |||
| 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中多余选项。 | |||
| For over one hundred and fifty years, Americans of all social classes have worn blue jeans. 1_____ Whether they are worn for work or for fashion today. Strauss" invention continues to be popular not only among Americans but also among people around the world. Levi Strauss was born in Germany in 1829. 2_____ He grew up in Kentucky before moving to New York in 1847. Before becoming an American citizen and moving to the West in 1853, Strauss worked in his brother"s dry goods business. This gave him a chance to produce his famous invention. After the gold rush of 1949, Strauss decided to move to the West to seek his fortunes. Strauss did not want to be a person who searched an area for minerals. Instead, he knew he could make a good living by selling supplies to the miners. At first, he planned to sell sewing supplies and cloth. 3_____ When he heard miners complaining that their clothes were easily broken or they usually tore their pockets during mining, he decided to use a special fabric to make pants for the miners. These pants proved so popular that he quickly ran out of materials to make more. In 1873, Strauss received a letter from a Jewish tailor named Jacob Davis who had invented a process of connecting pockets with copper rivets (铆钉). This made the pants last a long time. Because Davis did not have the money to patent his idea, he offered to share it with Strauss if Strauss would agree to pay for the patent. 4_____. By the time Strauss died in 1902, he had made a great contribution to American fashion. 5_____ The business has been growing ever since and Levi Strauss" company is now one of the largest clothing companies in the world. | |||
| A. As a young boy, he moved with his family to the United States. B. Nobody knew what kind of material was suitable. C. He did and Levi jeans have been made with metal rivets ever since. D. However, he did not get much business for those products. E. He also made a great contribution to America"s clothing industry. F. Since they were invented by Levi Strauss, they have become a symbol of American consumer culture. G. As the business grew, Strauss got much money from it. | |||
| 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中的两项为多途选项。 | |||
| More than half of young black men in the United States do not finish high school. Many grow up without fathers and in neighborhood with gangs, drugs and violence. Sixty percent of those who drop out of school have spent time in prison by the age of thirty-five. Joe Marshall co-founded the Omega Boys Club in San Francisco, California twenty-three years ago. He tries to give these children a safe refuge (避难所) and a better future. 1_____. Twice a week, it offers after- school classes in math, reading family and life skills, and college preparation. In many ways, it serves as a kind of family. It provides teenagers with structure and support. Mr. Marshall spent twenty-five years as a teacher and administration in San Francisco. 2_____ He sees gangs and violence as a disease that needs to be dealt with as a public health problem. "We tell them to follow some new rules for living. 3_____." The Club represents what he calls the "alive and free movement." 4_____ In 1991, Joe Marshall started "Street Soldiers", a weekly call-in show. Marlena was one of the graduates of the Omega Boys Club. "She"s at Southern University right now, going into her third year. She talked about what she had learned the hard way and how we help her learn that by coming to Omega, by listening to "Street Soldiers ". 5_____" Joe Marshall said. Mr. Marshall is sixty-three this year and he wants to build an institution. "I"m not going to be here forever, so my big thing is to make sure this goes on." | |||
| A. She said she had learned how to love herself. B. That"s what these young people get in the street. C. A lot of my former students ended up in prison for selling drugs. D. But his most effective way to spread his anti-violence message is through radio. E. The Omega Boys Club serves more than four hundred young people every year. F. He taught math in middle school and expected to see his best students go to school. G. These rules will decrease their chances of ending up dead or in prison and increase their chances dramatically of staying alive and free. | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| The man of many secrets-Harry Houdini-was one of the greatest American entertainers in the theater this century. He was a man famous for his escapes-from prison cells, from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America. Crowds came to see the great Houdini and his "magic" tricks. Of course, his secret was not magic or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability to move his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted. Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo performed card tricks in clubs in New York. They called themselves the Houdini Brothers. When Harry married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant. Bur for a long time they were not very successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to escape from the prison, and he invited the local newspapermen to watch. It was the publicity (宣传) that came from this that started Harry Houdini"s success. Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape ankle chains. But his biggest secret was how he unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck-and a small skeleton key, which is a key that fits many locks, pass quickly from her mouth to his. Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local prison of every town he visited. In the afternoon, the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full. What was the result? Worldwide fame and a name remembered today. | |||
| 1. According to the passage, Houdini"s success in prison escapes depends on ______. | |||
| A. his special tricks and supernatural powers B. his unusual ability and skeleton key C. his magic tricks and inhuman powers D. his wisdom and magic tricks | |||
| 2. In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word "this" refers to ______. | |||
| A. his first prison escape B. the year 1898 C. the publicity D. Harry Houdini"s success | |||
| 3. It can be inferred from the passage that Houdini became famous ______. | |||
| A. in 1894 B. before he married C. at the age of 17 D. when he was 24 | |||
| 4. Which of the following is the best title for the passage? | |||
| A. A skeleton key B. A man of many secrets C. Worldwide fame D. Great escapes |