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needed." Nate left the building filled with despair. By the time he reached home, he was in a deep depression.
When he entered his house, he blurted out to his wife Sophia, "I lost my job. I am a complete, absolutely
failure." A tense silence followed. Then a smile crept across Sophia"s face. "What great news!" she responded,
"Now you can write the book you have always wanted to write."
"But I have no job and no prospect of a job," he objected, completely without hope. "If I struggle to be an
author, then what will we live on? Where will the money come from?" Sophia took her husband by the hand
and led him to the kitchen. Opening a drawer, she took out a box that was full of cash. "Where on earth did
you get this?" Nate gasped."To whom does it belong?"
"It"s ours!" Sophia replied. "I always know that one day you would become a great writer only if you
were given the chance. From the money you gave me for housekeeping every week, I have saved as much
as I could so you would have your chance. Now there is enough to last us a whole year."
What a surprise! What encouragement! What a wife! The unemployed husband did concentrate on writing
that year, and the novel he wrote became a literary masterpiece (杰作). The book is The Scarlet Letter. Sophia
had an even greater achievement, and she turned Nathaniel Hawthorne from a poor clerk into a world famous
master.
B. Nate was too sad to speak any more.
C. Sophia was thinking of how to encourage Nate.
D. Neither husband nor wife had any idea of what to do.
B. she knew their life would be in difficulty
C. she was very careful with money
D. she was trying to help her husband in every possible way
B. careful and encouraging
C. friendly and warm-hearted
D. honest and determined
B. A Great Writer"s Struggle to Success
C. Great Encouragement in Hard Times
D. Failure is the Mother of Success
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Brown, a young girl who wins first place in a famous horse race. At first, the producers of the movie told
Taylor that she was too small to play the part of Velvet. However, they waited for her for a few months as
she exercised and trained-and added three inches to her height in four months! Her acting in National Velvet
is still considered the best by a child actress.
Elizabeth Taylor was born in London in 1932. Her parents, both Americans, had moved there for business
reasons. When World War II started, the Taylors moved to Beverly Hills, California, and there Elizabeth started
acting in movies. After her success as a child star, Taylor had no trouble moving into adult (成人) roles and
won twice for Best Actress: Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who"s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).
Taylor"s fame (名声) and popularity gave her a lot of power with the movie industry, so she was able to
demand very high pay for her movies. In 1963, she received $1 million for her part in Cleopatra-the highest
pay received by any star up to that time.
Elizabeth Taylor is a legend (传奇人物) of our time. Like Velvet Brown in National Velvet, she has been
lucky. She has beauty, fame and wealth. But she is also a hard worker. Taylor seldom acts in movies any
more. Instead, she puts her time and efforts into her businesses, and into helping others - several years ago,
she founded an organization that has raised more than $40 million for research and education.
B. was too young
C. did not play well enough
D. did not show much interest
B. famous actresses
C. successful when very young
D. rich and kind-hearted
B. 28
C. 31
D. 34
B. turning herself into a legend
C. collecting money for the poor
D. going about research and education work
face and a sweet smile. However, there is something about her that makes her very special: her voice. No
one else can sing like she can. Now, Sun is a bright star. She has released many albums (专辑).
Sun was born in Singapore. When she was a child, her father told her:"A person should always be good
at something in life, so they have something to do for a hobby." Sun chose to learn to play the piano when
she was only five. Then, she took up kick-boxing (搏击操) because she felt she was thin and wanted to make
herself stronger.
She often sings about the pain and happiness of growing up. The simple but true feelings in her music are
loved by teens. "Sun may be a star, but she seems like a normal girl. She is close to us," said Zhu Liying, 15,
a Beijing student."Her songs give me courage."
Eventually, the star was tired because she had worked so hard. She stopped singing for a while and had
a one-year holiday to travel. "I won"t give up singing. I just want a rest and to try something new. I hope to
make better music when I come back," Sun said then.
Now she is working hard again to let her fans hear more beautiful music.
B. She always has sweet smiles.
C. Her face looks clear.
D. She is a very famous actress.
B. set free
C. let out
D. made up of
B. she wanted to get stronger
C. she enjoyed dancing
D. she wanted to be famous
B. she looks clear and is kind to all her fans
C. the feelings in her songs are simple but true
D. her songs are about love and friends
his living for 15 years by selling false signatures of Americans. Spring was born in England in 1813 and arrived
in Philadelphia in 1858 to open a bookstore. At first he became rich by selling his small but real collection of
early U.S. autographs (手稿). Discovering his ability at copying handwriting, he began imitating signatures of
George Washington and Ben Franklin and writing them on the title pages of old books. To lessen the chance
of detection (察觉), he sent his forgeries to England and Canada for sale.
Forgers have a hard time selling their products. A forger can"t deal with a respectable buyer but people
who don"t have much knowledge in the field. Forgers have many ways to make their work look real. For
example, they buy old books to use the aged paper of the title page, and they can treat paper and ink with
chemicals.
In Spring"s time right after the Civil War, Britain was still fond of the Southern states, so Spring invented
a respectable maiden lady known as Miss Fanny Jackson, the only daughter of General "Stonewall" Jackson.
For several years Miss Fanny"s financial problems forced her to sell a great number of letters and manuscripts
(手稿). Spring had to work very hard to satisfy the demand. All this activity did not prevent Spring from dying
in poverty, leaving sharp-eyed experts the difficult task of separating his forgeries from the originals.
B. There was less chance of being detected there.
C. Britain was Spring"s birthplace.
D. The prices were higher in England and Canada.
B. Signatures of George Washington and Ben Franklin
C. Southern manuscripts and letters
D. Civil War battle plans
B. persons who aren"t experts
C. book dealers
D. owners of old books
B. A little - known girl who sold her father"s papers to Robert Spring.
C. Robert Spring"s daughter.
D. An imaginary person created by Spring.
of seven children, she often felt like she had "seven fathers," because her six brothers, as well as her father,
tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated (躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading,
she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.
In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and
worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because he thought it
would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a
husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of
Iowa. At the university"s Writers" Workshop, however, she felt lonely-a Mexican American from a poor
neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find
her "Creative voice."
"It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice.
I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn"t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance
in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That"s when I decided I would write about something my
classmates couldn"t write about."
Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book
tells about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the
neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in
classes from high school through graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books
of poetry, a children"s book, and a short-story collection.
B. She felt herself a nobody.
C. She was too shy to go to school.
D. She did not have any good teachers.
B. run away from her family
C. make a lot of friends
D. develop her writing style
B. Her training in the Workshop.
C. Her feeling of being different.
D. Her childhood experience.
B. It is the only book ever written by Cisneros.
C. It wasn"t success as it was written in Spanish.
D. It won an award when Cisneros was twenty-nine.
his plan for the future. "I"m going to college, but I need a way to pay for it," Deluca recalls saying. Buck said,
"you should open a sandwich shop."
That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After doing
some research, Buck wrote a check for $ 1,000. Deluca rented a storefront (店面) in Connecticut, and when
they couldn"t cover their start-up costs, Buck kicked in another $1,000.
But business didn"t go smoothly as they expected. Deluca says, "After six months, we were doing poorly,
but we didn"t know how badly, because we didn"t have any financial controls." All he and Buck knew was that
their sales were lower than their costs.
Deluca was managing the store and to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at
his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They"d meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping
the business running. "We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public,
"We are so successful, we are opening a second store."" And they did-in the spring of 1966. Still, it was a lot
of learning by trial and error (反复摸索).
But the partners" learn-as-you-go approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday, Deluca
would drive around and hand-deliver the checks to pay their suppliers. "It probably took me two and a half
hours and it wasn"t necessary but as a result, the suppliers got to know me very well, and the personal
relationships established really helped out," Deluca says.
And having a goal was also important. "There are so many problems that can get you down. You just have
to keep working toward your goal," Deluca adds.
Deluca ended up founding Subways Sandwich, the multimillion-dollar restaurant chain.
B. pay for his college education
C. help his partner expand business
D. do some research
B. He was a professor of business administration.
C. He was studying at the University of Bridgeport.
D. He rented a storefront for Deluca.
B. It lowered the prices to promote sales.
C. It made no profits due to poor management.
D. It lacked control over the quality of sandwich.
B. had succeeded in their business
C. wished to meet the increasing demand of customers
D. wanted to make believe that they were successful
B. Making friends with suppliers.
C. Finding a good partner.
D. Opening chain stores.
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