Fat and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team " Football,
tennis, cricket - anything with a round ball.I was useless," he says now with a laugh.But back
then he was the one always made fun of in school gym classes in Devonshire, England.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him.At first he went
biking alone in a nearby forest.Then he began to ride the bike along with a runner friend.
Gradually, Saunders set his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed and strength.At
the age of 18, he ran his first marathon.
The following year, he met John Ridgway and was hired as an instructor at Ridgway"s School
of Adventure in Scotland, where he learnt about Ridgway"s cold - water exploits.Greatly interested,
Saunders read all he could about North Pole explorers and adventures, then decided that this would
be his future.
In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders started his first long - distance expedition towards
the North Pole.It took unbelievable energy.He suffered frostbite (冻疮) ,ran into a polar bear
and pushed his body to the limit, pulling his supply -loaded sled (雪橇) up and over rocky ice.
Next October, Saunders, 27, heads south from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back,
a 2900 - kilometer journey that has never been completed on skis.
B. He began to build up his body.
C. He joined a sports team.
D. He made friends with a runner.
B. researches
C. adventures
D. operations
a. He ran his first marathon.
b. He skied alone in the North Pole.
c. He rode his bike in a forest,
d. He planned an adventure to the South Pole.
B. cdab
C. acbd
D. cabd
B. He is the best British skier.
C. He is Ridgway"s favorite student.
D. He is good instructor at school.
the night that Nashville Police Officer Floyd Hyde was on duty.
"I was on the way to a personal-injury accident in West Nashville. As I got onto Highway 40, blue
lights and siren(警笛) going, I fell in behind a gold Pontiac Firebird that suddenly seeme
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quickly down the highway. The driver somehow panicked at the sight of me. He was going more than a hundred miles an hour and began passing cars on the shoulder."
But Hyde couldn"t go after him. Taking care of injured people is always more important than worrying
about speeders, so the officer had to stay on his way to the accident. But he did try to keep the Firebird in sight as he drove, hoping another nearby unit would be able to step in and stop the speeding car. As it
turned out, keeping the Firebird in sight was not that difficult. Every turn the Pontiac made was the very
turn the officer needed to get to the accident scene.
Hyde followed the Pontiac all the way to his destination(目的地). At that point he found another unit
had already arrived at the accident scene. His help wasn"t needed. Now he was free to try to stop the
driver of the firebird, who by this time had developed something new to panick about.
"Just about that time," Hyde says, " I saw fire coming out from under that car, with blue smoke and oil
going everywhere. He"s blown his engine. Now he had to stop."
After I arrested him, I asked him why he was running. He told me he didn"t have a driver"s license.
That accident cost the driver of the Firebird plenty-a thousand dollars for the new engine-not to
mention the charges for driving without a license, attempting to run away, and dangerous driving.
B. fear
C. anger
D. hate
B. Because he realized he had to hurry to the accident scene.
C. Because he thought the police officer wanted to stop him.
D. Because he wanted to overtake other cars on the shoulder.
B. The Pontiac reached its destination at the accident scene.
C. Hyde knew where he was going by following the right car.
D. The policeman was running after a speeder on Highway 40.
B. had some trouble with his car
C. was stopped by the police officer
D. paid for the expenses of the accident
B. Going My Way?
C. Fun All the Way?
D. Help on the Way?
were late and Barbara was 1 tired. She had worked extra shifts as a night 2 nurse.The sleet
( 雨夹雪) storm and icy roads 3 her tension. She was thinking of turning around at once.
Suddenly a car ahead of them lost control on a patch of ice and crashed 4 into a telephone
pole. The impact was horrible.
Barbara pulled onto the road"s shoulder. Thank God she was a nurse-her skill might make
a 5 in the fate of these 6 passengers! But what about Ben ? Little boys 7 see scenes
like this. But was it 8 to leave him alone? What if their car was 9 from behind, or a stranger
10 him? For a brief moment, Barbara decided to go on her way. "Ben, honey, 11 me you"ll
stay in the car!" she cried over her shoulder.
"I will, Mommy," she heard him say 12 , she can, slipping and sliding, toward the crash site.
It was 13 than she had feared. Two high-school-aged girls had been in the car. One, the blonde
on the passenger side was dead. The driver, however, was unconscious. Barbara quickly 14
pressure to the wound in the teenager"s head while her practiced eyes ran over the other 15 , a
broken leg, maybe two, along with probable internal damage. But if help came , this girl would live.
The ambulance arrived. " Good job," one rescue worker said, 16 he examined the driver. " You
probably saved her life, Madam."
As Barbara walked back to her car, a feeling of 17 overwhelmed her, especially for the
family of the passenger who had died. But what should she tell Ben?
"Mom," he 18 " did you see it?"
"See what honey?" she asked.
"The angel, Mom! He came down from the sky. And he opened the door, and he took that girl
out. " Barbara"s eyes were filling with tears, " Which door, Ben?" "The 19 side."
Later Barbara was able to meet the families of the victims. They expressed their 20 for the help
she had provided. Barbara was able to give them something more: Ben"s Vision .
( )2. A. class
( )3. A. added to
( )4. A. front
( )5. A. help
( )6. A. fortunate
( )7. A. shouldn"t
( )8. A. safe
( )9. A. stolen
( )10. A. approached
( )11. A. tell
( )12. A. before
( )13. A. lucky
( )14. A. pulled
( )15. A. scars
( )16. A. before
( )17. A. harm
( )18. A. whispered
( )19. A. driver
( )20. A. gratitude
B. work
B. made up
B. forward
B. devotion
B. unfortunate
B. can"t
B. necessary
B. beat
B. stolen
B. reply
B. as
B. more dangerous
B. put
B. injuries
B. after
B. achievement
B. shouted
B. stranger
B. admiration
C. school
C. added
C. backward
C. contribution
C. strange
C. wouldn"t
C. fit
C. hit
C. struck
C. answer
C. after
C. worse
C. set
C. death
C. since
C. sadness
C. yelled
C. passenger
C. help
D. duty
D. brought up
D. sideways
D. difference
D. familiar
D. couldn"t
D. sure
D. broken
D. robbed
D. promise
D. on
D. better
D. applied
D. harms
D. as
D. tiredness
D. repeated
D. passer-by
D. benefits
passed by and we heard one of them say, "Never seen that dog around here before."
We looked down the hill and saw an old black dog stumbling(蹒跚) painfully up the hill. We
bent down, talked gently to the dog and patted it. I checked and there was a collar. There was a
phone number on the collar, but no one answered.
The dog was painfully thin. It didn"t have many teeth left and, well, it just seemed done.
Julie ran home to get some of our dog"s food while I tried to encourage the dog to come along with
me. Julie got home and back again when I was only half way there. So, we sat down on the sidewalk
while our new friend made short work of the food.
Eventually we got her home. We gave her a blanket, more food, kept her warm and wondered
what to do next.
After trying for many times we got a response from the number. A lady came around with a bunch
of flowers for us. She explained that Tara had been her father"s dog. She was very old and should
probably be put to sleep, but the lady just couldn"t bring herself to do it. So, Tara was safely returned
home.
Here is the truth of the story:
Actually Julie and I were out that morning because I was leaving. She was trying to persuade me
to come back, but I wasn"t hearing anything that made that sound likely.
I was about to turn and go when an old, worn out dog walked between us and collapsed. Suddenly
we had something more important than our problem to worry about. There was a creature in need
right before us and we had to work together to help it.
We did help it. And here am I writing the story in my own home, in my own family.
In the song "Love Is Not a Fight" Warren Barfield talks about marriage. At one point he sings, "And
if we try to leave, may God send angels to guard the door."
Sometimes angels come disguised (伪装) as dogs.
B. The old black dog was sick and weak and couldn"t walk.
C. After finding the dog, the writer phoned its owners.
D. Most of the dog"s teeth had been pulled out by someone.
B. the writer had his own pet dog
C. the dog didn"t go with the writer
D. the dog didn"t eat any of the food
B. took good care of the dog
C. found out that its owner was a lady
D. found it hard to get to sleep
B. Julie disagreed with the writer"s travel on business
C. an old and worn out dog appeared in front of them
D. the couple had some trouble with their marriage
B. An Angel Dog.
C. Saving the Dog.
D. A Famous Song.
As she waited at the edge of the ice for her music to start, Peggy took a quick look at her father
standing nearby with a group of parents and teachers. He smiled at her. Then she __1 _out at the
audience, __2_to see her mother. These two, Alvert and Doris Fleming, had _3_ all the way from
California more than 2,000 miles away, to see their _4_ compete in this sports meet in Cleveland,
Ohio.
The music _ 5_ and Peggy moved onto the ice, letting the music _6_ her along into her turns, and
she began skating with much _7_ in herself. The cold fear she always had in the _8_ seconds before
skating onto the ice was _9 . She was feeling the movement of the _10_and letting it carry her. She
skated easily, 11_ did some jumps, a final turn and her performance was _12 .
The crowd loved it and cheered _13_ she skated off the ice. "Nice job," said one of the other _14_.
It was the remark that _15_ came after a free-skating performance. But what would the _16_ say ?
Standing beside her father, Peggy _17_ for the scoring to be finished. On all sides were other young
skaters, some waiting _18_alone, others with a parent. Shortly before 10 o"clock the results were _19 .
The newUni-ted States Women"s Skating Champion was Peggy forming of Padena, _20 !
( )2.A. tried
( )3.A. flown
( )4.A. friend
( )5.A. started
( )6.A. allow
( )7.A. thought
( )8.A. last
( )9.A. lost
( )10. A. ice
( )11. A. so
( )12. A. satisfied
( )13. A. becaus
( )14. A. skater
( )15. A. seldom
( )16. A. player
( )17. A. looked
( )18. A. comfortably
( )19. A. cried out
( )20. A. California
B. hoped
B. driven
B. children
B. played
B. set out
B. belief
B. following
B. present
B. fear
B. or
B. finished
B. until
B. parents
B. always
B. audience
B. wished
B. anxiously
B. let out
B. Cleveland
C. hoping
C. hoped
C. son
C. develop
C. carry
C. success
C. recent
C. string
C. music
C. before
C. unsatisfactory
C. as
C. judges
C. again
C. parents
C. waited
C. hurriedly
C. declared
C. Ohio
D. looking forward
D. prepared
D. daughter
D. sang
D. support
D. design
D. past
D. gone
D. audience
D. then
D. welcome
D. before
D. audiences
D. hardly
D. judges
D. asked
D. happily
D. announced
D. England
One day, I happened to meet an Englishman on the road, and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be astonished. Gently shaking his head,
shrugging his shoulders, he said, "You don"t say!" "You don"t say!" I was puzzled. I thought, perhaps this is not an appropriate topic (适当的话题). "Well, I"d better change the topic." So I said to him. "Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? By the way, have you ever been there?" "Certainly, everyone back home
will laugh at me if I leave China without seeing it. It was magnificent." He was deep in thought when I
began to talk like a tourist guide. "The Great Wall is one of the wonders in the world. We are very proud
of it." Soon I was in
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Didn"t you say" you don"t say?" Hearing this, the Englishman laughed to tears. He began to explain, "You
don"t say" actually means "really!" It is an expression of surprise. Perhaps you don"t pay attention to English
idioms." Only then did I know I had made a fool of myself. Since then I have been more
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idiomatic expressions. Remember: what the English teachers said is always right to us students.
B. I was not careful with English idioms
C. my teacher didn"t emphasize the importance of them
D. I had no interest in them
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A. he was not interested in the topic
B. he was only interested in the Great Wall
C. I had talked too much
D. I had to stop talking
B. important
C. terrible
D. unlucky
B. The Englishman wanted to see the Great Wall after I talked about it.
C. The Englishman wanted me to act as his guide.
D. The Englishman visited the Great Wall and thought it worth visiting.
B. the Englishman became a real fool.
C. I felt very silly
D. I became more carefully in everything
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