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One morning I got into three different taxis and announced, "Well, it"s my first day back in New York
in seven years. I"ve been in prison." Not a single driver replied, so I tried again. "Yeah, I shot a man in Reno."
I explained, hoping the driver would ask me why, but nobody asked. The only response came from a Ghanaian
driver, "Reno? That is in Nevada?"
Taxi drivers were uniformly sympathetic when I said I"d just been fired. "This is America," a Haitian driver
said."One door is closed. Another is open." He argued against my plan to burn down my boss"s house. A
Pakistani driver even turned down a chance to profit from my loss of hope; he refused to take me to the middle
of George Washington Bridge-a $ 20 trip. "Why you want to go there? Go home and relax. Don"t worry. Take
a new job."
One very hot weekday in July, while wearing a red ski mask and holding a stuffed pillowcase with the word
"BANK" on it, I tried calling a taxi five times outside different banks. The driver picked me up every time. My
ride with a Haitian driver was typical of the superb assistance I received.
"Let"s go across the park." I said. "I just robbed the bank there. I got $ 25 000."
"$ 25 0007" He asked.
"Yeah, you think it was wrong to take it?"
"No, man. I work 8 hours and I don"t make almost $ 70. If I can do that, I do it too."
As we approached 86th and Lexington, I pointed to the Chemical Bank.
"Hey, there"s another bank," I said, "Could you wait here a minute while I go inside?"
"No, I can"t wait. Pay me now." His reluctance may have something to do with money-taxi drivers think
the rate for waiting time is too low-but I think he wanted me to learn that even a bank robber can"t expect
unconditional support.
B. he was afraid of the author
C. he looked down upon the author
D. he thought the author was crazy
B. Because he wanted to go home and relax.
C. Because it was far away from his home.
D. Because he thought that the author would commit suicide.
B. The driver thought it wrong to support a taxi rider unconditionally.
C. The driver was frightened and wanted to leave him as soon as possible.
D. The driver did not want to help a suspect to escape from a bank robbery.
B. They often refuse to pick up those who would kill themselves.
C. They are sympathetic with those who are out of work.
D. They work only for money.
B. how to deal with taxi drivers
C. the attitudes of taxi drivers towards riders in personal trouble
D. the attitudes of taxi drivers towards troublesome taxi riders
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Both worked very hard. After several years, however, the boss promoted Bobby to the position of manager
but John remained an ordinary employee. John could not take it any more, tendered his resignation to the
boss and complained the boss did not know how to delegate and did not value hard-working staff, but only
promoted those who flattered him.
The boss knew that John worked very hard for the years. He thought a moment and said, "Thank you
for your criticism, but I have a request. I hope you will do one more thing for our company before you leave
Perhaps you will change your decision and take back your resignation."
John agreed. The boss asked him to go and find out anyone selling watermelon in the market. John went
and returned soon. He said he had found out a man selling watermelon. The boss asked how much per kg.
John shook his head and went back to the market to ask and returned to inform the boss $1.2 per kg.
Boss told John to wait a second, and he called Bobby to come to his office. He asked Bobby to go and
find anyone selling watermelon in the market. Bobby went, returned and said, "Boss, only one person selling
watermelon. $1.2 per kg, $10 for 10 kg, he has inventory (清单) of 340 melons. On the table 58 melons,
bought from the South two days ago, they are fresh and red, good quality."
John was very impressed and realized the difference between himself and Bobby. He decided not to resign
but to learn from Bobby.
Chances exist in the daily details. For the same matter, a more successful person sees more and farther so
that he can find out an opportunity and catch it to realize his aim. If a person sees one year ahead, while another
sees only tomorrow. Then the difference between a year and a day is 365 times!
B. Because Bobby would take John"s former position.
C. Because the boss was not flattered by his hard work.
D. Because Bobby instead of him was promoted.
B. To make a complete marketing research on the various prices of watermelons.
C. To search for much information about the effective ways to sell watermelons.
D. To make a comparison on the prices of different types of watermelons.
B. The quality.
C. The quantity.
D. The weight.
B. observant, thoughtful and exploratory
C. considerate, modest and satisfied
D. confident, noble and tolerant
center. We spotted a(n) 1 one in the next row of spaces, and I drove our van around the turn, all the while
hoping no one else would spot it and grab it 2 I could. And, as luck would have it, a lady was 3 her
shopping cart right in front of us, and it looked like 4 was getting away from her-filled with bags and cartons
of soda. She herself was carrying three extra bags in her hands while trying to push the cart 5 a strong spring
wind, and looked 6 . Suddenly the cart hit a bump and everything fell off.
At that point I felt something snap in me. I pulled the van into an unloading 7 and told my son to wait for
a moment. I rushed over to her and the 8 thing she did was to apologize several times. I helped her 9
everything up, took the extra bags 10 from her hands, and walked her to her car. She told me she was trying
to 11 home to her son"s thirteenth birthday party. I helped her load the 12 and she stopped and looked at me
and just said, "Thank you so much". I smiled and said, "I am a mother of three and do you think 13 has ever
helped me out? I am just returning the 14 ." She smiled and said, "God bless you" and got in her car.
I walked the row over to my van 15 my son was waiting and had been 16 . "Who was that, Mom?" he
asked me. "She was a 17 too, trying to get home for her son"s birthday party. She needed our help," I said.
And I just knew he 18 with that clarity children all seem to have.
We found a good 19 and walked together towards the store. As we were walking, my son took my hand.
It was the most touching 20 of all, and I realized more than ever that our children are always watching.
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| 阅读理解。 | ||||||||||||||
| Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor of the apartment building. Behrman was a failure in art. For years, he had always been planning to paint a work of art, but had never yet begun it. He earned a little money by serving as a model to artists who could not pay for a professional model. He was a fierce, little, old man who protected the two young women in the studio apartment above him. Sue found Behrman in his room. In one area was a blank canvas (画布) that had been waiting twenty-five years for the first line of paint. Sue told him about Johnsy and how she feared that her friend would float away like a leaf on the old ivy vine climbing hopelessly up the outside block wall. Old Behrman was angered at such an idea. "Are there people in the world with the foolishness to die because leaves drop off a vine? Why do you let that silly business come in her brain?" "She is very sick and weak," said Sue, "and the disease has left her mind full of strange ideas." "This is not any place in which one so good as Miss Johnsy shall lie sick," yelled Behrman. "Some day I will paint a masterpiece, and we shall all go away." Johnsy was sleeping when they went upstairs. Sue pulled the shade down to cover the window. She and Behrman went into the other room. They looked out a window fearfully at the ivy vine. Then they looked at each other without speaking. A cold rain was falling, mixed with snow. Behrman sat and posed as the miner. The next morning, Sue awoke after an hour"s sleep. She found Johnsy with wide-open eyes staring at the covered window. "Pull up the shade; I want to see," she ordered, quietly. Sue obeyed. After the beating rain and fierce wind that blew through the night, there yet stood against the wall one ivy leaf. It was the last one on the vine. It was still dark green at the center. But its edges were colored with the yellow. It hung bravely from the branch about seven meters above the ground. "It is the last one," said Johnsy. "I thought it would surely fail during the night. I heard the wind. It will fall today and I shall die at the same time." "Dear, dear!" said Sue, leaning her worn face downtoward the bed. "Think.of me, if you won"t think of yourself. What would I do?" But Johnsy did not answer. The next morning, when it was light, Johnsy demanded that the window shade be raised. The ivy leaf was still there. Johnsy lay for a long time, looking at it. And then she called to Sue, who was preparing chicken soup. "I"ve been a bad girl," said Johnsy. "Something has made that last leaf stay there to show me how bad I was. It is wrong to want to die. You may bring me a little soup now." An hour later she said:"someday I hope to paint the Bay of Naples." Later in the day, the doctor came, and Sue talked to him in the hallway. "Even chances. With good care, you"ll win," said the doctor. "And now I must see another case I have in your building. Behrman, his name is-some kind of an artist, I believe. Pneumonia (肺炎), too. He is an old, weak man and his case is severe. There is no hope for him; but he goes to the hospital today to ease his pain." The next day, the doctor said to Sue:"She"s out of danger. You won. Nutrition and care now-that"s all." Later that day, Sue came to the bed where Johnsy lay, and put one arm around her. "I have something to tell you, white mouse," she said."Mister Behrman died of pneumonia today in the hospital. He was sick only two days. They found him the morning of the first day in his room downstairs helpless with pain. His shoes and clothing were completely wet and icy cold. They could not imagine where he had been on such a terrible night. And then they found a lantern, still lighted. And they found a ladder that had been moved from its place. And art supplies and a painting board with green and yellow colors mixed on it. And look out the window, dear, at the last ivy leaf on the wall. Didn"t you wonder why it never moved when the wind blew? Ah, darling, it is Behrrnan"s masterpiece-he painted it there the night that the last leaf felt." | ||||||||||||||
| 1. What was in Johnsy"s mind all the time? | ||||||||||||||
| A. When the last leaf falls I must go. B. The old ivy leaves have little to do with my getting well. C. I am such a bad girl as to make everything messy. D. Someday I hope to paint a masterpiece. | ||||||||||||||
| 2. Which detail in the passage suggests that Behrman was a failure? | ||||||||||||||
| A. He worked as a miner to make ends meet. B. His drawing board had waited 25 years to receive the first line of his masterpiece. C. He was protective of the two girls but mostly sensitive and fierce. D. He was a professional model waiting for his great opportunity. | ||||||||||||||
| 3. One can safely assume after reading the story that _____. | ||||||||||||||
| A. the relationship between the two artist girls was developed on material comfort B. the three artists mentioned in the story shared a studio apartment C. Behrman showed great sympathy for the two youth D. Johnsy was somehow annoyed to be accompanied by a never-succeeded artist | ||||||||||||||
| 4. What does the underlined part "Even chances" suggest? | ||||||||||||||
| A. The doctor indicated that Johnsy was doomed to die. B. The doctor thought that they should let her go. C. The doctor believed that Johnsy had every chance of recovery. D. The doctor put her chances at fifty-fifty. | ||||||||||||||
| 5. When Johnsy said she had been a bad girl, she meant that _____. | ||||||||||||||
| A. asking for death was not right B. she deserved more severe punishment C. she should never forget about her dream D. she was ashamed not to be able to support the other two | ||||||||||||||
| 6. The short story can be listed as a typical example of stories with _____. | ||||||||||||||
| A. surprise endings B. vivid contrasts C. artistic imagination D. arresting openings | ||||||||||||||
| 完形填空。 | ||||||||||||||
| "Excuse me," said the young man, standing shyly at the open church door. "I"m here to 1 an Easter basket for my daughter. Am I in the 2 place?" "Well, we have baskets, 3 they"re not East baskets for kids; they"re food baskets," I explained. That morning I had arrived at St. Michael"s Church in Carmichael, California, to help 4 the baskets to needy families for Easter. To make sure the needy would 5 the offer, we had handed out numbers to them 6 matched the basket they were supposed to receive. Each one contained a full Easter dinner-a whole ham, potatoes, bread, vegetables and a pie- enough food to help 7 a family for a week. "Why don"t you come in?" I said to the man. He looked 8 . He 9 his head, "I can"t. My daughter is waiting for me over there. I"m 10 for the food, but 11 I heard you were giving away baskets for Easter, well, I thought they would be Easter baskets for 12 ." He continued, "I 13 my daughter one, and I wanted to surprise her." I felt bad, but there was 14 we could do. The man handed me his 15 , and I walked over to the baskets. A bulge (凸出) in one of the baskets caught my 16 . What was that? I wondered. Leaning over and looking more 17 , I could see, unmistakably, an Easter basket-filled with candy, chocolate and Easter eggs-decorated with ribbons (丝带). One of the 18 must have added it by mistake! I thought. Then I looked at the man"s number in my 19 . Well, he"ll be... "Happy Easter," I said to the man, handing him the only food basket with an Easter basket inside-the very same basket with his number on it. "Someone already knew just 20 you need." | ||||||||||||||
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