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business venture (冒险活动). This area would later become known as the origin of the American circus(马戏). In 1793, Englishman John Bill Rickets introduced Americans to the circus at his place in
Philadelphia where trick riding was featured along with clown(小丑) acts in the same show.
In the 1830s, farmers in Southeast began showing menageries(野生动物), collections of interesting
animals from far away lands. They soon combined the menagerie show with the acrobatic(杂技的)
entertainment of trick riding and these early circus bosses began taking their show on the road. By the
1850s American circuses were a big business and they began to travel abroad, bringing back to
American even more unique items and animals.
Hachaliah Bailey, from nearby Somers, Westchester County, brought the first elephant "Old Bet" to
the United States in 1796. Bailey exhibited "Old Bet", until her death in 1816. Somers is home to the
Elephant Hotel, built by Hachaliah Bailey in 1820-1825. The building served as a meeting place for
menagerie owners.
Many showmen and circus people came from Southeast. Nathan and Seth B. Howes began their
show business careers at early ages, in Southeast.
In 1811, Nathan formed a small circus company made up largely of his friends and family, including
11yearold Seth. Seth B. Howes would later become one of the foremost circus businessmen in the area.
From 1850 to 1853, Seth B. Howes managed a circus project for P. T. Barnum. He later toured Europe, performing before heads of state. Seth B. Howes retired in 1870.
B. In the 18th century.
C. In the 19th century.
D. In the 20th century.
a. Farmers in Southeast began showing menageries.
b. The first elephant "Old Bet" was brought to the United States.
c. American circuses were a big business and began to travel abroad.
d. Nathan formed a small circus company.
e. Seth B. Howes retired in 1870.
B. c, a, b, d, e
C. d, c, a, b, e
D. a, c, b, d, e
B. a place for menagerie owners to meet
C. a farmer who raised animals
D. an American who introduced an elephant
B. The Origin of Circus
C. Menageries in the United States
D. Ways of Fun in Southeast
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试题【阅读理解 During the 19th century, farmers in and around Southeast began to inv】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Years ago in Scotland, the Clark family had a dream. Clark and his wife worked and 1 , making
plans for their nine children and themselves to travel to 2 . It had taken years, and they had 3 saved
enough money and had got passports (护照) and 4 for the whole family to the United States.
The entire family was filled with 5 about their new life. 6 , seven days before their departure, the
youngest son was bitten by a dog. The doctor sewed up the boy but he 7 a yellow sheet on the
Clarks" front door. 8 the possibility of rabies (狂犬病), they should be quarantined (隔离) for
fourteen days.
The family"s 9 was destroyed. They would not be able to make the trip to America as they had
10 . The father, filled with disappointment and 11 , hurried to the dock to watch the ship leave-without
the Clark family. 12 of disappointment came to the father. Five days 13 , the tragic news spread
throughout Scotland - the mighty Titanic had sunk. The unsinkable ship had sunk, 14 many lives with
it. The Clark family should have been on that ship, 15 because the son had been bitten by the dog,
they were 16 in Scotland. When Mr. Clark heard the news, he 17 his son and thanked him for saving
the family. He thanked God for saving their lives and turning 18 he had felt was a(n) 19 into a
blessing.
Although we may not always understand, all things 20 for a reason.
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| Henry works in a factory. He comes from a poor family and was in school for only four years. He has to do the hard work, but he is paid less. He likes to watch football matches very much and spends much time on them. One afternoon there was a big football match on the playground. He borrowed some money from his friend and hurried there. There were a lot of people there. And all the tickets were sold out. He was sorry for it. He saw a pole outside the playground and climbed it quickly. A policeman came and said, "It is dangerous to stay on it! Come down!" "Wait a minute, please!" Henry said and just at that moment the policeman heard cheers on the playground and asked in a hurry, "which team has kicked a goal?" "Ours!" "wonderful! You can stay there. But take care!" The policeman said happily and left. When the match would be soon over, he came back again and asked, "who has won?" "Theirs, 3:2 " " Come down," the policeman said angrily. " Such a match is not worth watching!" Henry had to come down. But soon they heard cheers again. The policeman said in a hurry, "Climb up quickly and see who has kicked a goal." | |||
| 1. From the passage we know that _________. | |||
| A. Henry doesn"t like his work B. Henry comes from a rich family. C. Henry is paid less D. Henry doesn"t like the policeman | |||
| 2. Henry failed to get a ticket for the match that day because ___________. | |||
| A. all the tickets were sold out B. he didn"t want to buy a ticket C. he had no time to buy a ticket D. he had no money to buy a ticket | |||
| 3. The policeman asked Henry to come down the pole at first because ____________. | |||
| A. the other team kicked a goal B. Henry had no ticket C. their team kicked a goal D. it was dangerous | |||
| 4. From the third paragraph, we can guess that _____________. | |||
| A. the policeman wanted to teach Henry a lesson. B. the policeman was also a football fan. C. the policeman didn"t like Henry. D. the policeman tried to please Henry | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| On January 15, a little girl from the Chinese mainland was on the subway in Hong Kong. She was eating something. A local man told her not to do so. The girl"s mother told him to mind his own business. A quarrel started. Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway rules say people cannot eat on the subway. The rules say the train will be filled with the smell of food. They say the smell will attract mice to the train. These mice might chew the cables and cause safety problems for passengers. People caught eating on the subway will be fined up to 2,000 Hong Kong dollars (1,625 yuan), Xinhua reported. Signs clearly say "no eating" and the rule is often announced on the subway and in stations. However, the girl and her parents say they did not notice this. This seemingly small event has started a debate on the Internet, Xinhua reported. A netizen named Zhu Hongying said some Chinese consider bad habits like talking loudly in public places, spitting or jumping queues as small matters. They simply don"t care because they think public places are not their private homes. "This kind of thinking shows a lack of a sense of social morality," she pointed out. Many people agree. "The parents (of the girl) should have apologized for their mistake," Zhang Nan, 15, a Senior 1 student at Diaotai High School, Shaanxi, said to Teens. "Quarreling after making the mistake only makes the situation more embarrassing for them." Reports of Chinese people behaving badly at tourist sites at home and abroad are nothing new. Such reports are affecting the way other countries see Chinese people. Some foreign airports put up signs in Chinese telling Chinese people not to talk loudly and not to spit everywhere. Many Chinese people find this embarrassing. All this shows that one of the secrets to a good journey is to learn about local customs and taboos before you go. | |||
| 1.The underlined word taboos probably means _________. | |||
| A. something you buy or keep to remind yourself of a place or an occasion B. a group of people who have the power to make and change laws C. a general agreement that does not allow people to do, use or talk about something D. guidance offering information of local weather, accommodation and specialties | |||
| 2.According to the debate on the net reported by Xinhua, Chinese manners___________. | |||
| A. are far from being poor B. leave much to be desired C. are only too easy to improve D. are always to blame anywhere anytime | |||
| 3.The passage wants to tell us that ___________. | |||
| A. When in Rome, do as the Romans do B. Birds of a feather flock together C. Misfortune may be an actual blessing D. A real man never goes back on his words | |||
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| Joe came to New York from the Middle West, dreaming about painting. Delia came to New York from the South, dreaming about music. Joe and Delia met in a studio. Before long they were good friends and got married. They had only a small flat to live in , but they were happy. They loved each other, and they were both interested in art. Everything was fine until one day they found they had spent all their money. Delia decided to give music lessons. One afternoon she said to her husband: "Joe, I"ve found a pupil, a general"s daughter. She is a sweet girl. I"m to give three lessons a week and get $5 a lesson." But Joe was not glad. "But how about me?" he said." Do you think I"m going to watch you work while I play with my art? No, I want to earn some money too." "Joe, you are silly," said Delia. "You must keep at your studies. We can live quite happily on $15 a week." "Well, perhaps I can sell some of my pictures," said Joe. Every day they parted in the morning and met in the evening. A week passed and Delia brought home fifteen dollars, but she looked a little tired. "Clementina sometimes gets on my nerves. I"m afraid she doesn"t practice enough. But the general is thet old man! I wish you could know him, Joe." And then Joe took eighteen dollars out of his pocket. "I"ve sold one of my pictures to a man from Peoria," he said, "and he has ordered another." "I"m so glad," said Delia. "Thirty-three dollars! We never had so much to spend before. We"ll have a good supper tonight." Next week Joe came home and put another eighteen dollars on the table. In half an hour Delia came, her right hand in a bandage. "What"s the matter with your hand?" said Joe. Delia laughed and said: "Oh, a funny thing happened! Clemantina gave me a plate of soup and spilled some of it on my hand. She was very sorry for it. And so was the old general. But why are you looking at me like that, Joe?" "What time this afternoon did you burn your hand, Delia?" "Five o"clock, I think. The iron-I mean the soup-was ready about five, Why?" "Delia, come and sit here," said Joe. He drew her to the couch and sat beside her. "What do you do every day, Delia? Do you really give music lesson? Tell me the truth." She began to cry. "I couldn"t get any pupils," she said, "So I got a place in a laundry ironing shirts. This afternoon a girl accidentally set down an iron on my hand and I got a bad burn. But tell me, Joe, how did you guess that I wasn"t giving music lessons?" "It"s very simple," said Joe. "I knew all about your bandages because I had to send them upstair s to a girl in the laundry who had and accident with a hot iron. You see, I work in the engine-room of the same laundry where you work." "And your pictures? Did you sell and to that man from Peoria?" "Well, your general with his Clemantina is an invention, and so is my man from Peoria." And then they both laughed. | |||
| 1. To support the family, Delia worked as . | |||
| A. a tutor B. a music teacher C. an artist D. a laundry assistant | |||
2. We can infer from the underlined sentence that . | |||
| A. Clemantina was an invention of the general B. Clemantina was an invention of the man from Peoria C. there were no such men as the general, Clemantina and the man from Peoria D. the general, Clemantina and the man from Peoria were the couple"s clients | |||
| 3. The couple"s attitude towards each other is . | |||
| A. faithful B. honest C. ashamed D. heartbreaking | |||
| 4. Which do you think is the best title of the story? | |||
| A. A service of love B. A story of Joe and Delia C. Lies and truth D. Servants of love | |||
| 完形填空 | |||
| In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. These things have come to represent, in fact, what I call __1__ and love. I don"t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did __2__ the water. Any kind of __3__ ride seemed to give him pleasure. __4__ he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along. But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father __5__. I liked being at the water, moving through it, __6__ it all around me. I was not a strong __7__, or one who learned to swim early, for I had my __8__. But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father"s office and __9__ those summer days with my father, who __10__ come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the __11__ person not in swimsuit. After swimming, I would go __12__ his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me __13__ anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk __14__ he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn"t be playing with his __15__. But my father always __16__ and said easily, "Oh, no, it"s __17__." Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get __18__ an ice cream... A poet once said, "We look at life once, in childhood; the rest is __19__." And I think it is not only what we "look at once, in childhood" that determines our memories, __20__the person who, in that childhood, looks at us. | |||
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