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is a morning jogger. One day she said, "Daddy, I want to run with you every day, But I"m afraid I"ll have
a seizure(发作).
Her father told her, "If you do, I know how to handle it, so let"s start running!"
That"s just what they did every day. It was a wonderful experience for them to share. And there were
no seizures at all while she was running. After a few weeks, she told her father, "Daddy, I want to break
the world"s long-distance running record for women."
So she did. That year, she wore a T-shirt that read, "I love epileptics" and completed her run to San
Francisco. Her dad ran every mile at her side, and her mom, a nurse, followed in a car behind them in
case anything went wrong.
In her second year in college, Patti"s classmates got behind her. They built a giant poster that read,
"Run, Patti, Run!"
Her foot was injured when she was running to Portland. A doctor told her she had to stop her run.
"Doctor, you don"t understand," she said, "This isn"t a whim(突发的奇想)of mine. I"m doing it to
break the chains on the brains that limit so many others. Isn"t there a way I can keep running?" "Yes, but
it would be incredibly painful." The doctor said. She told the doctor just to do it.
At last she finished the run to Portland and completed her last mile with the governor of Oregon.
B. who eats breakfast quite early
C. who runs in the morning
D. who reads in the morning
B. After she ran with her father for a few weeks.
C. When she was in her second year in college.
D. After she completed her run to San Francisco
B. Confident
C. Opposed.
D. Unconcerned
B. she wanted to win the competition
C. she wanted to prove that nothing is impossible
D. she wanted to run with the governor of Oregon
B. The friendship between epileptics
C. Supper runner ------ Patti Wilson
D. The benefits of running
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核心考点
试题【阅读理解 At a young age, Patti Wilson was told that she was an epileptic(癫痫患者). 】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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who he had never met in the months before World War II. When the fighting began, their correspondence still continued.
Over the next year or so the two got to know each other through their letters. Even so, when Blanchard asked for a photograph, the woman refused. She felt that if he really cared, it wouldn"t matter what she
looked like.
When the day finally came for him to return from Europe, they scheduled their first meeting - 7:00 pm at Grand Central Station in New York. "You"ll recognise me," she wrote, "by the red rose I"ll be wearing on my suit."
At the station a beautiful young woman approached him. She was wearing a green suit and was
everything that he hoped Miss Maynell would be. But there was no red rose. There was another woman.
She was well past 40 and had her hair tucked(塞)under a worn hat. She was more than plump, her fat feet thrust(挤)into shoes. Her pale face was gentle and her gray eyes had a warm twinkle(闪光). On her coat,
there was a red rose.
He did not hesitate. His fingers gripped the small worn copy of the book that was to identify him to her. "This will not be love, but it will be something precious, something perhaps even better than love, a feeling
for which I have been and must ever be grateful." he thought.
" I"m John Blanchard, and you must be Miss Maynell. I am so glad you could meet me. May I take you to dinner?" he asked.
The woman"s face broadened into a smile. "I don"t know what this is about, son." she answered, "But
the young lady in the green suit who just went by begged me to wear this rose on my coat. And she said if you were to ask me out to dinner, I should go and tell you that she is waiting for you in the big restaurant across the street. She said it was a kind of test!"
B. Miss Maynell didn"t turn up at the meeting place.
C. Mr. Blanchard lost contact with the woman during the war.
D. Mr. Blanchard and the woman kept in touch by writing to each other.
2. When Mr. Blanchard saw the middle-aged woman, he probably felt a little __________.
B. excited
C. indifferent
D. expectant
__________.
A. friendship
B. love
C. brotherhood
D. memory
B. wondered whether Mr. Blanchard would keep his word to meet her
C. wanted to play a trick on Mr. Blanchard
D. wanted to know Mr. Blanchard cared more about her looks or her personality
B. Beautiful and wise
C. Young but sly(狡猾)
D. Young and amusing
listen to him. I thought that Lynne would pay because she had invited me.
I arrived at the restaurant exactly on time. I"d been told that Americans expect you to be on time.
Lynne and I sat at a table in the corner of the restaurant and a waitress came and took our order. The
dinner was a great success. I talked a lot about Saudi Arabia and Lynne told me all about herself. After
two hours the waitress finally came and asked if we wanted one check or two. Lynne said two. We
went to the cashier and Lynne paid her check. I was embarrassed (尴尬) when the cashier gave me my
bill. I had no money to pay for my meal. Then I had an idea. I pretended to look for something in my
pockets and said,"Oh!I forgot my money! Can I call my roommate, please?" The cashier showed me
where the phone was and I quickly called my roommate.
In a few minutes he arrived with some money,but he couldn"t hide how he felt. He laughed all the way
home.
Now, I think it"s funny too. But at the time I was terribly embarrassed. I thought that an invitation to
have dinner meant the same thing in the United States as in my country. I guess you have to understand
that your customs are only your customs. When you visit a foreign country, you have to learn about their
customs, too.
B. share the cost of the meal
C. invite Lynne to dinner
D. pay for the restaurant
B. telephoned him to bring some books to him
C. hadn"t told Lynne the truth
D. would not listen to him when he left the house
B. successfully finished their meal
C. had a talk for two hours
D. traveled to Saudi Arabia together
B. entirely different
C. close to each other
D. very similar
B. Because she didn"t have the meal.
C. Because she thought it was natural for people to pay their own check.
D. Because she wanted to embarrass the writer.
self, and 1 he discovered that he couldn"t manage he asked me for 2 at the last
moment. So now we had only an hour to get to the airport. Luckily there were not many cars and
buses on the road and we were 3 to get there just in time. We checked in and went straight
into a big hall to wait for our 4 to be called. We waited and waited 5 no announcement
was made.We asked for 6 and the girl there told us that the 7 hadn"t arrived yet. In the
end there came an announcement telling us that those 8 for Flight JJ 108 could get a free
meal voucher (代金卷) and that the plane hadn"t left Spain 9 technical problems. We
thought that meant that it was not 10 for the plane to 11. We waited again for a long time
until half 12 when we were asked to report again. This time we were given free vouchers to
spend the night in a 13 hotel.
The next morning after a 14 night because of all the planes 15 off and landing, we were
reported back to the airport. Guess 16 had happened while we were 17. Our plane had
arrived and taken off again. All the other 18 had been woken up in the night to 19 the
plane, but for some reason or other we had been 20. You can imagine how we felt.
( ) 2．A. food
( ) 3．A. impossible
( ) 4．A. plane
( ) 5．A. so
( ) 6．A. time
( ) 7．A. policeman
( ) 8．A. coming
( ) 9．A. for
( )10．A. possible
( )11．A. repair
( )12．A. evening
( )13．A. faraway
( )14．A. bad
( )15．A. turning
( )16．A. what
( )17．A. awake
( )18．A. workers
( )19．A. get
( )20．A. woken
B. advice
B. necessary
B. flight
B. but
B. advice
B. plane
B. sitting
B. since
B. important
B. sell
B. noon
B. nearby
B. quiet
B. putting
B. where
B. asleep
B. planes
B. catch
B. announced
C. praise
C. able
C. fly
C. otherwise
C. help
C. driver
C. waiting
C. because
C. safe
C. fly
C. morning
C. distant
C. sweet
C. taking
C. it
C. alone
C. passengers
C. drive
C. lost
D. help
D. unable
D. flying
D. if
D. information
D.train
D. working
D. from
D. difficult
D. telephone
D. afternoon
D. silent
D. pleasant
D. keeping
D. that
D. afraid
D. flights
D. ride
D. forgotten
passing through, though we knew from the map that our river must from time to time be passing through
chains of hills which crossed the jungle plains. Nowhere did we find a place where we could have landed: where the jungle did not actually spread right down into the river, banks of soft mud prevented us form
going ashore. In any case, what would we have gained by landing? The country was full of snakes and
other dangerous creatures and the jungle was so thick that one would be able to advance slowly, cutting
one"s way with knives the whole way. So we stayed in the boat, hoping that when we reached the sea, a
friendly fisherman would pick us up and take us to civilization.
As for water, there was a choice. We could drink the muddy river water, or die of thirst. We drank the water. Men who have just escaped from what appeared to be certain death lost all worries about such
small things as diseases caused by dirty water. In fact, none of us suffered from any illness as a result.
One day we passed another village, but fortunately nobody saw us. We did not wish to risk being taken prisoners a second time: we might not be so lucky as to escape in a stolen boat again.
B. chains of hills
C. walls
D. vast land
B. they did something wrong so they were put into prison
C. They drank the muddy river water out of thirsty
D. they were on a journey home
B. landing was of little help
C. the jungle did not actually spread right down into the river
D. they were afraid of the snakes and other dangerous animals in the jungle
B. They ware taken prisoners for a second time.
C. They cut their way in the jungle with knives the whole way.
D. They were careful so none of them suffered from any illness.
B. An Adventure along the River
C. An Entirely New Experience
D. An Escape in the Jungle
I came to study in the United States a year ago. Yet I did not know the American society until I was
injured in a car accident because after the accident I had to see a doctor and go to court. After the
accident, my roommate called a doctor for me. I was very grateful and decided to repay him one day.
But the next day, he asked me to pay him $200 for what he had done. I was astonished. He had good
reason to charge me, he said. And if I wanted to collect money from the person who was responsible for my injury, I’d have to have a good lawyer. Now that he had helped me to find a good doctor, it was only
fair that I should pay him.
But every time I went to see the doctor, I had to wait about 50 minutes. He would see two or three
patients at the same time, and often stop treating one so as to see another. Yet he charged me $115 each
time. The final examination report only contained ten lines, and it cost me $215.
My lawyer was all smiles the first time we met. But after that he avoided seeing me at all. He knew
very well the other party was responsible for the accident, yet he hardly did anything. He simply waited
to collect his money. He was so irresponsible that I decided to fire him. And he made me pay him $770.
Now I had to act as my own lawyer. Because of my inexperience, I told the insurance the date I was
leaving America. Knowing that, they played for, time …and I left without getting a cent.
My experiences taught me two things about America: firstly, in a country like America money is
everything. It is more important than friendship, honor or professional morality; secondly, foreigners are
still being unfairly treated. So when we talk about America, we should see both its advantages and
disadvantages.
1. The author’s roommate offered to help him because ________.
A. he felt sorry for the author.
B. he thought it was a chance to make some money
C. he knew the doctor was a very good one
D. he wanted the author to have a good lawyer
2. A good lawyer is important for the author to ________.
A. be properly treated
B. talk with the person responsible for the accident
C. recover before he leaves America
D. eventually get the responsible party to pay for his injury
3. Which is wrong according the the passage?
A. The author has learned a lot through the experience.
B. Everything about America is advantageous.
C. The author"s roommate helped him but charged for that.
D. The author"s final examination report only contained ten lines but cost $215.
4. The word charge in the passage means _____.
A. be responsible
B. entertain
C. ask to pay
D. repay
5. What conclusion can you draw from this story?
A. Going to court is something very common in America.
B. One must be very careful while driving a car.
C. There are more disadvantages in America than advantages.
D. Money is more important than other things in the US.
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