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waist-high ruins, smelly and dirty.
Before the trip, I"d had my car fixed. When the office employee of the garage was writing up the bill,
she noticed my Louisiana license plate. "You from New Orleans?" she asked. I said I was. "No charge,"
she said, and firmly shook her head when I reached for my wallet. The next day I went for a haircut, and
the same thing happened.
As my wife was studying in Florida, we decided to move there and tried to find a rental house that we
could afford while also paying off a mortgage (抵押贷款) on our ruined house. We looked at many places,
but none was satisfactory. We"d begun to accept that we"d have to live in extremely reduced circumstances
for a while, when I got a very curious e-mail from a James Kennedy in California. He"d read some pieces
I"d written about our sufferings for Slate, the online magazine, and wanted to give us ("no conditions attached")
a new house across the lake from New Orleans.
It sounded too good to be true, but I replied, thanking him for his exceptional generosity, that we had no
plans to go back. Then a poet at the University of Florida offered to let his house to me while he went to
England on his one-year paid leave. The rent was rather reasonable. I mentioned the poet"s offer to James
Kennedy, and the next day he sent a check covering our entire rent for eight months.
Throughout this painful experience, the kindness of strangers has done much to bring back my faith in
humanity. It"s almost worth losing your worldly possessions to be reminded that people are really nice when
given half a chance.
B. sympathy
C. doubt
D. tolerance
B. He was a poet at the University of Florida.
C. He offered the author a new house free of charge.
D. He learned about the author"s sufferings via e-mail.
B. rents were comparatively reasonable despite the disaster.
C. houses were difficult to find in the hurricane-stricken area.
D. the mortgage on the ruined house was paid off by the bank.
B. generosity should be encouraged in some cases.
C. people benefit from their sad stories.
D. human beings are kind after all.
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试题【阅读理解。 A month after Hurricane Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans. There】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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program with almost no money for equipment or supplies in a climate where standards-based learning
was the focus and music just provided a break for students and teachers.
For her drive and creativity in overcoming those challenges, she"s been name national teacher of the
year.
Principal Waynes Kettler said he"s worked with many outstanding teachers in his 22 years as an educator,
but Peterson is "just that one step above anybody I"ve ever worked with before."
Kettler and others at Monte Cristo Elementary School talk about the ways she has introduced the learning
from other classrooms into her music program and her creativity in working around things such as the
lack of money for new music.
When students were reading S.E. Hinton"s novel The Outsiders in their regular classroom, Peterson
helped them write a 30-minute play with scenes from the book. Then they chose three Broadway tunes that
focused on race, equality and social justice, the themes of the book. Peterson composed two other sons
herself after classroom discussions about the play and the book.
The honor means a lot to residents of Granie Falls. It"s inspiring to know that people from small towns
can even win national honors.
As national teacher of the year, Peterson will spend the next year outside classroom, as a national and
international spokeswoman for education.
Not surprisingly, she is a big believer in the value of arts education. She said it"s essential for schools
to offer classes such as art or music and physical education because for some kids one of those subjects
is the only thing that motivates them to come back to school day after day.
B. interesting
C. creative
D. unbearable
B. the environment was favorable to music teaching.
C. the school lacked teaching facilities for music.
D. financial support for music programs was unavailable.
B. She motivated students to learn music with her creativity.
C. She has taught music at the elementary school for 22 years.
D. She made great efforts to arouse students" interest in literature.
B. She made use of the contents of other classes in her teaching.
C. She organized classroom discussions of Broadway tunes.
D. She helped students compose songs by themselves.
B. more subjects should be offered to students.
C. students should be motivated to attend art classes.
D. arts education is more important than other subjects.
B. Peterson"s art classes attracted students back to school.
C. Peterson aroused the local residents" passion for music.
D. Peterson will change her profession next year.
one we had in England before 2 home. Yesterday the sales office rang us to say the car was 3 . I had
tried out a model like it before, but as I was not yet 4 driving in this city, my wife did not want me to
collect it 5 so we went together to 6 it. We paid for the car and 7 the papers. They told us that there
was 8 petrol (汽油) to take us to a garage, where we could fill up. The 9 garage to the office was about
100 yards away and we got there 10 . But when I turned into main road I suddenly saw a lot of cars racing
11 me. I got out of 12 as fast as I could by backing into the garage 13 and the man behind 14 me.
"It"s such a problem to 15 to drive on the right side, isn"t it?" my wife said. "Yes, if only I had had a few
lessons for 16 ." I replied. "You had better go 17 on the way home," my wife said. "You"d be sorry if you
had 18 on the first day, wouldn"t you?" While we were talking, the man behind got out of his car and said in
good English, "Would you mind telling me 19 you are thinking of leaving? 20 are you going to sit in your
car all day?"
| ( )1. A. borrow ( )2. A. leaving ( )3. A. right ( )4. A. sure of ( )5. A. on my own ( )6. A. receive ( )7. A. accepted ( )8. A. little ( )9. A. best ( )10. A. lately ( )11. A. after ( )12. A. their way ( )13. A. at last ( )14. A. caught ( )15. A. prepare ( )16. A. discussion ( )17. A. carefully ( )18. A. an error ( )19. A. when ( )20. A. For | B. drive B. making B. ready B. satisfied with B. right away B. bring B. wrote B. enough B. nearest B. directly B. with B. the garage B. once more B. cheered B. continue B. adventure B. smoothly B. a problem B. why B. Or | C. buy C. returning C. fixed C. interested in C. in a hurry C. order C. signed C. much C. quickest C. safely C. around C. their sight C. as usual C. shouted at C. choose C. experiment C. quickly C. as accident C. how C. But | D. choose D. getting D. sold D. used to D. on the way D. fetch D. copied D. no D. cleanest D. slowly D. towards D. the car D. as well D. chatted with D. remember D. practice D. differently D. a headache D. what D. So | |||||||||||
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| Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes. Lieberman improved his kitchen skills greatly during a year abroad before college, learning from a cook in Italy and studying local specialties (地方特色菜) in Germany, Spain and France. At Yale, he was known for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for dozens of friends. Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine about his cooking. Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmates how to do things like make drinks out of dining- hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students. They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around, with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network. Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He says Lieberman"s charisma is key. "Food TV isn"t about food anymore," says Flay. "It"s about your personality (个性) and finding a way to keep people"s eyeballs on your show." But Lieberman isn"t putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new how, Lieberman was back in his won small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company (航空公司) was looking for some one to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flights, Lieberman got the job. | ||||||||||||||
| 1. We can learn from the text that Lieberman"s family _____. | ||||||||||||||
| A. have relatives in Europe B. love cooking at home C. often hold parties D. own a restaurant | ||||||||||||||
| 2. The Food Network got to know Lieberman _____. | ||||||||||||||
| A. at one of his parties B. from his teachers C. through his taped show D. on a television program | ||||||||||||||
| 3. What does the word "charisma" underlined in the text refer to? | ||||||||||||||
| A. A natural ability to attract others. B. A way to show one"s achievement. C. Lieberman"s after-class interest. D. Lieberman"s fine cooking skill. | ||||||||||||||
| 4. Why did the airline company give Lieberman the job? | ||||||||||||||
| A. He could prepare meals in a small kitchen. B. He was famous for his shows on Food TV. C. He was good at using eggs to make sandwiches. D. He could cook cheap, delicious and simple meals. | ||||||||||||||
| 5. What can we learn about Lieberman from the text? | ||||||||||||||
| A. He is clever but lonely. B. he is friendly and active. C. He enjoys traveling around. D. He often changes his menus. | ||||||||||||||
| 完形填空。 | ||||||||||||||
| It"s fourteen years since I left the Philippines to live with my family in the USA. A month ago, while on summer vacation back in my motherland, I learned a lesson from mosquito (蚊子) bites. Right before 1 Kennedy Airport in New York, my grandma 2 me of the behavior of the native mosquitoes around the 3 like me. She said, "There"s an old saying-the 4 you stay away from the motherland, the sweeter your blood 5 to the mosquitoes. " Not 6 it, I replied, "Grandma, that"s just an old wives" tale!" Well, less than a week 7 my arrival in Manila, I was already carpeted with a 8 of mosquito bites. I took many measures to keep myself from being 9 , but they all proved useless. Late one 10 in my cousin"s home, I couldn"t bear the 11 of the bites. Hoping to find some comfort, I 12 my cousin, who was sleeping peacefully in the bed next to mine. Unhappy for being 13 she said, "There nothing you can do. Go back to sleep." With a few turns, she slept again. Enviously (妒嫉地) 14 her sleep, I hoped a big mosquito would 15 on her face. However, the mosquitoes would just lightly dance around her forehead and fly away quickly, never biting her. Amazed (惊奇的), I ran to others" 16 , only to find they were all sleeping 17 as the same thing occurred again and again. From those bites, I came to 18 my grandma"s silly tale. From then on, I"ve always tried to keep a(n) 19 mind about those strange old wives" tales 20 they do have some truth to them. | ||||||||||||||
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