French, they took a French word book with them and hoped it would help them in difficult situations.
The flight was 2 , and the hotel was very comfortable. Each day after breakfast, Steve and Mark
3 a picnic lunch and dinner and went off to visit interesting places. After a while, the boys became
tired of 4 picnic meals and decided to eat a big fish dinner in a good restaurant. Unfortunately, they
5 their word book in the hotel.
They 6 the menu carefully. After ten minutes, Steve said to Mark:"I don"t understand this menu. "
"Neither do I," said Mark. "I see poison on this menu. Are they 7 here?"
"Maybe. They even spelled poison 8 . They spelled it p- o-i-s-s-o-n instead of p-o-i-s-o-n. But
it 9 mean the same thing. Maybe we should go to another restaurant. I don"t 10 to eat something
that will kill me. "
But Mark was 11 , so he said:"There is no other restau- rant near here, and l"m tired of walking
around the city. Let"s order something else instead. It"s 12 here, so the food must be good. "
The boy looked at the menu again. They finally decided to order steak, 13 they really wanted fish.
The boys just pointed to the word steak, and the waiter 14 .
As they were eating they 15 some tourists speaking English.
"This 16 is delicious. "
"We"re lucky we picked a restaurant that"s famous for its fish. "
Steve and Mark wondered about what they 17 .
"Famous for its fish? There was no fish on 18 !" said Mark.
Finally, Steve decided to find out what all this was about.
"Excuse me, how did you order fish when it wasn"t on the menu?"
"Sure it"s on the menu. It"s right here. Poisson. "
The boy shouted:
"Poisson. That"s 19 ! We were wondering a restaurant like this could have poison on the menu. "
The tourists 20 . One of them said:
"No. Poisson is French for fish. "
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plastic bag 1 a few po-tatoes. Each potato would be given a 2 of a person the child 3 , so the
number of the potatoes in their bags would 4 on the number of the people they hated.
So when the day came, every child brought some potatoes withthe names of some people. Some had
two potatoes ; some three 5 some up to five. The teacher then told the children to 6 withthem the
potatoes 7 they went (even to the toilet) for oneweek.
As days passed 8 , the children started to 9 aboutthe unpleasant smell let out by the rotten
potatoes. 10 , those having five potatoes also had to carry heavier bags. After one week, the children
were 11 because the game had finally ended.
The teacher asked about their feelings of carrying the potatoes.The children 12 out their frustrations (沮丧) and started complaining of the trouble they had to 13 . Then the teacher told them the 14
meaning behind the game.
She said:" This is exactly the 15 when you carry your ha-tred for somebody inside your heart. The
stench (恶臭 ) of hatredwill contaminate (玷污) your heart and you will always carry it with you. If you
cannot 16 the smell of rotten potatoes for just one week, can you imagine 17 it is like to have the
hatred in your heart for your lifetime?"
Moral of the story:
18 away any hatred for anyone from your heart 19 you will not carry it for a lifetime. 20 others
is the best attitude totake !
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( )17.A.how
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B.take
B.whenever
B.away
B.spread
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B.identification
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D.Forgiving
Jonathan James looks like just another kid about to graduatefrom high school. But this 19-year-old
Swede is anything but ordinary from the computer in his parents" home, he helps the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) find out the world"s most wanted cybercriminals.
Jonathan first made headlines when he and another Swede, Fredrik Bjoerck, found out the maker of the " Melissa" Virus in March, 1999. He went to the aid of the FBI again on May 7 , findingout the suspected sender of the dangerous" I LOVE YOU" virus. The suspect was caught in Manila on May 8.
Jonathan"s special skills are in hot demand as officials around the world express alarm at the" virtual"
crime. In studying for finalexams, hanging out with his friends and refereeing his younger brother"s football matches, the quiet, gentle teenager also gives les-sons on e-security(电子安全) to large companies. He
reads a lot and exchanges information with other computer experts to know much about the latest tricks of the hacker trade.
Many companies have already tried to employ him, but he is not interested at the moment. Instead, he
plans to begin law school in the autumn at Sweden"s Uppsala University and start up his owne-security
company.
Ahhough he works with the FBI now and then, his family insists he"s just" a regular kid". "Jonathan is a
great kid. He has his friends and he does a lot more than just play with the Computer,"his little sister Tessa said, adding that he helps the FBI because" he likes to help" not because he"s looking for fame or
recognition.
When the world was hit by the" Love Bug" virus, Jonathan was too busy preparing a speech on security to look into the problem. "Finally on May 7 , I had some free time, so I began looking. "Within a few
hours, he found the suspect and e-mailed his methods and resuits to the FBI. He said his work on the
" Melissa" virus, which took three weeks to solve, was a big help in finding the suspect so quickly.
"This time I knew exactly where to start, what to disregard and what to look at. "
B. softwares for smoothing away the poison
C. persons who create the network
D. designers for the Internet systems
B. his work together with Fredrik Bjoerck to find out the maker of the" Melissa" virus
C. his little sister"s talk about his good qualities as a regular kid and good programmer
D. his speech on e-security to many computer companies after his fight against hackers
B. He is such a brave fighter that any criminal will feel afraid.
C. He is an expert on e-security, not interested in running a company.
D. He is a regular kid but does something unusual.
4. The passage mainly wants to tell us that _ .
B. Jonathan is really a quiet, gentle and ordinary boy
C. many companies want the young computer expert to join them
D. all cybercriminals will surely be found out wherever they are
horsemen pass by but he didn"t ask for any help. The wait seemed 1 (end). Then came another rider,
the old man 2 (catch) his eye and said , " Sir, would you mind doing me a favor?"
Stopping his horse, he replied," Of course. ". Almost 3 (freeze) , the old man could not get 4 the ground. The horseman helped him onto his horse. He took the old man not just across the river, 5 to his home.
"Sir, you didn"t even ask the other riders for help, why? What 6 I had said no and left you there?"
the horseman asked.
The old man looked at him straight in the eyes and said, "1looked into their eyes, I found they didn"t
care, 7 told me it would be useless, but when I looked into 8 ,I saw kindness. "
These words touched the rider deeply. "Thank you for 9 you"ve said. I hope I will never be too
busy to help others. " With that,Thomas Jefferson, the 10 (three) president of the US, turned his horse
around and went away.
move. What was 1 , he found himself unable to ask for help-his mobile phone went out of 2 as a
result of the exhausted (用尽的) battery. Nothing could be done but to 3 in the cold wilderness. It
was 8 hours later that day broke,and then the 4 of the rescue.
It was almost 5 that he could stand the horror in the darkness for so long. Even more surprising
was his 6 ," First of all I checked up my 7 conditions and found myself not in deadly danger. As
there was no 8 to call for help,I leaned back in my seat trying my best to keep the wound from 9 .
In this way I dozed (打盹) off. "
His story put an end to my regret for the 10 of an explora- tion adventure that happened last year.
A group of young men 11 exploring a mountain cave and got lost. 12 to find a way out in the dark
cave they were frightened and ran anxiously without a sense of 13 . Finally they fell dead because of
fear and exhaustion, According to the 14 people that found them, the place where they got lost was
only about 10 meters away from the 15 of the cave. If they had stayed on the spot when they lost their way and had tried to 16 themselves, they would have probably sensed a faint light flashing not far away.
Don"t you think that you can compare it with 17 itself? When you meet with difficulties in life,you
are lost in darkness. 18 you that it"s unclear yet and you needn"t put up struggle 19 . It seems to be a
negative (消极的) attitude, 20 a person who can do so must have foresight as well as a great courage in
the first place.
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It was a sunny day. A little boy"s father was sitting on the couch, drinking a beer,while watching a 1 match. Seeing this, the boy rushed to his father and shouted, "Daddy, Daddy, 2 me how to play catch!"The father, 3 at the television screen, replied," Let me 4 watching the match. Play outside and come back in five minutes. " "Okay, Daddy !" said the boy, running out of the room. Five minutes later,the boy returned, 5 ," Daddy,let"s go. Let"s play catch now !" The father turned to the boy and 6 him again to come back in five 7 minutes," Okay, Daddy," said the boy. Five minutes later,the boy returned with a basketball in his hand, 8 waiting for his father to play catch. 9 this time,the father had opened another cold beer and another match was beginning. 10 with the boy"s interruption, the dad brought a magazine to his son. On the cover of the magazine was a large picture of the 11 . The father, who was angry and annoyed, began 12 the magazine cover into small pieces. Then, the father turned to his boy and said," Son, once you put this picture 13 together,we can play catch, 14 do not interrupt me again until you finish. " A few minutes later, the boy returned and said, "I have finished, Daddy! 15 we play catch now?" 16 , the father glanced towards his child, and there in his small hands 17 the magazine with the world 18 perfectly to gether. The dad asked his child how he put the world together so quickly. "It was 19 , "said the boy. "On the back of the world was the picture of a person, and once I put the person together, that"s 20 the world came together. " | |||