drawing to a close.
When his heart problems led to operation, Jill went through it successfully, and a full recovery was
expected. Within days, however, his heart was not beating properly. Jill was rushed back to operation,
but nothing was found to explain the cause of his illness. He died on the operating table on the day
before his 48th birthday.
Dr. Bruce Smaller, a psychologist (心理学家), had had many conversations with him, and the more
he learned, the stranger he realized Jill"s case was. When Jill was a child, his father, a teacher, suffered
a heart attack and stayed home to recover. One morning Jill asked his father to look over his homework,
promising to come home from school at noon to pick it up. His father agreed, but when Jill returned his
father had died. Jill"s father was 48.
"I think all his life Jill believed he killed his father," Dr. Smaller says. "He felt that if he had not asked
him to look at his homework, his father would have lived. Jill had been troubled by the idea. The
operation was the trial(判决) he had expected for forty years." Smaller believes that Jill willed himself
not to live to the age of 48.
Jill"s case shows the powerful role that attitude (态度) plays on physical health, and that childhood
experiences produce far-reaching effect on the health of grown-ups. Although most cases are less direct
than Jill"s, studies show that childhood events, besides genes, may well cause such midlife diseases as
cancer, heart disease and mental illness.
B. Jill died on the operating table.
C. Both Jill and his father died of the same disease.
D. Jill"s death is closely connected with his father"s.
B. Smaller agreed that Jill did kill his father
C. Jill thought he would be punished some day
D. Smaller believed Jill wouldn"t live to the age of 48
a. One"s genes.
b. One"s life in childhood.
c. One"s physical education.
d. The date of one"s birthday.
e. The opinions one has about something.
B. a, b, e
C. a, c, e
D. b, c, d
The half-empty coffee cups, still standing next to their plates, tell of a morning like any other. And
yet, that grey covering of dust that everything 1 tells a different story: it tells of screams, tears, terror
and 2 . Now the restaurant in the World Trade Center will 3 again serve breakfast. And never
again will all those people go there to eat or 4 . So many people whose faces we associate with life
and liveliness are gone
5 . So many words remain 6 , and so much happiness has been destroyed. In their places are
tear-stained(泪水沾湿的) faces.
My generation has seen this. On Monday, a fight with my sister, a bad grade and homework 7 to
be the biggest problems in the world. Tonight, so many across the country know that America"s pain
is at its 8 ever.
We have 9 World WarⅡ. But to most of us students, that"s an event on a textbook 10 that
would never happen today.
After all, this was a time of 11 and wealth-the United States was powerful and successful. There
would be no more wars, and we were 12 to live in such a time.
But when those planes 13 ; when firefighters with 14 on their faces ran among the parts of the
building that had fallen; when people 15 for their family members; when history was unfolding before
our eyes, in full, clear color-then we knew the world had been changed. 16 how many human beings
turned to ashes in a second, and seeing some jump from the buildings, I know that my generation is
growing up in a world where 17 can still be evil.
But seeing those heroes risk their lives among the castle-like ruins, and seeing the 18 blood
donors at the hospitals, my generation has learned that tears are allowed, that mankind can also be
19 , and that the ghost of evil never 20 the spirit of good.
| ( ) 1. A. dresses ( ) 2. A. blood ( ) 3. A. still ( ) 4. A. work ( ) 5. A. yesterday ( ) 6. A. unknown ( ) 7. A. turned ( ) 8. A. least ( ) 9. A. experienced ( )10. A. text ( )11. A. tears ( )12. A. unlucky ( )13. A. fell ( )14. A. terror ( )15. A. called ( )16. A. Knowing ( )17. A. everyone ( )18. A. unwilling ( )19. A. beautiful ( )20. A. hurt | B. gets B. surprise B. never B. drive B. tonight B. untold B. had B. worst B. known B. lesson B. terror B. promising B. landed B. surprise B. screamed B. Telling B. nobody B. eager B. terrible B. beat | C. wears C. laugh C. hardly C. play C. last night C. unchanged C. got C. best C. read about C. copy C. peace C. convenient C. hit C. joy C. died C. Hearing C. mankind C. happy C. terrified C. wins | D. covers D. cry D. seldom D. swim D. this morning D. unsaid D. seemed D. most D. seen D. page D. health D. lucky D. exploded D. smile D. reached D. Remembering D. our country D. curious D. hopeful D. defeats | |||||||||||
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We are most often called upon to support others in friendship. Several years ago, Donna had | ||||||||||||||
| 1. The underlined part "pulled herself together" in the second paragraph probably means____ | ||||||||||||||
| A. put on her clothes B. dressed herself up C. controlled herself D. enjoyed herself | ||||||||||||||
| 2. Which of the following orders best describes what happened to Donna? a. Mary telephoned Donna.b. Donna broke up with her boyfriend. c. Mary"s brother died in a car accident.d. Donna lay in bed with a knee injury. e. Donna came to be in company with Mary. | ||||||||||||||
| A. c-a-b-d-e B. b-d-a-c-e C. d-b-c-a-e D. b-d-c-a-e | ||||||||||||||
| 3. The most suitable title for this passage is ___________. | ||||||||||||||
| A. Friendship B. Support C. Donna"s Depression D. Shocking News | ||||||||||||||
| 4. From the last paragraph, we can infer that ________________________. | ||||||||||||||
| A. Donna could have supported herself more to reduce her own depression. B. Donna had given Mary much greater support than she had done herself. C. Donna paid much attention to and showed lots of care for herself during her dark time. D. With Donna"s help, life began to return to normal. | ||||||||||||||
| 阅读理解。 | ||||||||||||||
| Senior citizens are permitted to travel cheaply on a bus if they have a special card. Women may get the card when they are sixty. Mrs. Mathews lived in the country but she went into town once a week to buy food and other things for the house, and she usually went by bus. She always had to pay the full price for her ride. Then she reached the age of sixty and got her senior citizen"s card, but when she used it for the first time on the bus, it made her feel very old. The bus driver had often seen her traveling on the bus before, and he noticed that she was not feeling happy, so after she had paid her money, he winkled(眨眼) at her and whispered. "Don"t forget to give your mother"s card back to her when you see her again." Mrs. Mathews was very happy when she heard this. | ||||||||||||||
| 1. Who can get a special card when they are sixty? | ||||||||||||||
| A. Senior citizens B. Old people. C. Women. D. Men | ||||||||||||||
| 2. Before she was sixty, Mrs. Mathews used to | ||||||||||||||
| A. live alone B. go to town once a month C. go to town by car D. pay the full price for her ride | ||||||||||||||
| 3. Why was Mrs. Mathews very happy when she heard the driver"s words? Because she _______. | ||||||||||||||
| A. was traveling cheaply B. loved her mother deeply C. was still under sixty D. she thought she looked much younger than she really was | ||||||||||||||
| 4. From the passage we know the bus driver___________. | ||||||||||||||
| A. had poor eyesight B. was not polite to old people C. was a kind-hearted man D. mistook her for a young lady. | ||||||||||||||
| 完形填空。 | ||||||||||||||
| Teach Me in the way To Go I grew up in a very poor Catholic family. My father used some 1 ways to teach us and rarely spared us from the school of hard lessons. This is the one I 2 most. On the first day of 2nd grade, my father asked me if I could 3 well. "Yes, I can," I said. So he gave me a hand-drawn 4 with street names and directions on how to walk to school. School is 3 miles away, and I had never been off my home street by myself, ever. The 5 he gave me as he sends me the map with my lunch box and jacket said very little, he 6 says, "Everything you need to know is written on the map, read the map and 7 the directions." Okay, by now I was standing in 8 at his request, scared to death, but he kissed me goodbye and sent me out the door. And 9 I went to school, crying, but 10 . I don"t know how long it took for me to get there, or how many fearful and anxious 11 I had, but I do remember forever 12 it felt when I came around the last corner, and saw my school. The 13 , the laughter, the joy. I had made it! I jumped 14 and angry as I was with my Dad, I wished I could tell him 15 that I had done it. He wasn"t there when I got home and I was 16 when he got home. The next day I waited for him to ask what had happened. He never did. We laughed and talked and our 17 began. Years later I finally got the 18 to ask him why he did that and why he hadn"t cared about what had happened. He just looked at me for a few minutes then said, "I didn"t have to ask you, I knew. I followed you the whole way in the car, 19 far enough back so you could not see me. I saw you jump up and down at the last street corner. I 20 what you felt." Then I understood and I cried. Thanks. Dad. | ||||||||||||||
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