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first meeting of an introductory 1 course about 20 years ago.
The professor 2 the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans (豆), and invited
the students to 3 how many beans the jar contained. After 4 shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor
smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the 5 answer, and went on saying, "You have just 6 an important
lesson about science. That is: Never 7 your own senses."
Twenty years later, the 8 could guess what the professor had in mind. He 9 himself, perhaps, as
inviting his students to start an exciting 10 into an un- known world invisible (无形的) to the 11 , which can
be discovered only through scientific 12 . But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even 13 the
invitation She was just 14 to understand the world. And she 15 that her firsthand experience could be the
16 . The professor, however, said that it was 17 . He was taking away her only 18 for knowing and was
providing her with no substitute (替代) "I remember feeling small and 19 ." the woman says, "and I did the
only thing I could do. I 20 the course that afternoon, and I haven"t gone near science since."
| ( )1. A. art ( )2. A. searched for ( )3. A. count ( )4. A. warning ( )5. A. ready ( )6. A. learned ( )7. A. lose ( )8. A. lecturer ( )9. A. described ( )10. A. voyage ( )11. A. professor ( )12. A. model ( )13. A. hear ( )14. A. suggesting ( )15. A. believed ( )16. A. growth ( )17. A. firm ( )18. A. ask ( )19. A. cruel ( )20. A. dropped | B. history B. looked at B. guess B. giving B. possible B. prepared B. trust B. scientist B. respected B. movement B. eye B. senses B. make B. beginning B. doubted B. strength B. interesting B. tool B. proud B. started | C. science C. got through C. report C. turning away C. correct C. taught C. sharpen C. speaker C. saw C. change C. knowledge C. spirit C. present C. pretending C. proved C. faith C. wrong C. success C. frightened C. passed | D. math D. marched into D. watch D. listening to D. difficult D. taken D. show D. woman D. served D. rush D. light D. methods D. refuse D. waiting D. explained D. truth D. acceptable D. connection D. brave D. missed | |||||||||||||||
| 1-5: C D B D C 6-10: A B D C A 11-15: B D A B A 16-20: D C B C A | ||||||||||||||||||
| 阅读理解。 | ||||||||||||||||||
| When milk arrived on the doorstep When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn"t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer. Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note-"Please add a bottle of butter- milk next delivery"-and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically (魔术般) appear. All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn"t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery. There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete (竞争). Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service. Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch (门廊). Every so often my son"s friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1. Mr. Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer _____. | ||||||||||||||||||
| A. to show his magical power B. to pay for the delivery C. to satisfy his curiosity D. to please his mother | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2. What can be inferred from the fact that the milkman had the key to the boy"s house? | ||||||||||||||||||
| A. He wanted to have tea there. B. He was a respectable person. C. He was treated as a family member. D. He was fully trusted by the family. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3. Why does home milk delivery no longer exist? | ||||||||||||||||||
| A. Nobody wants to be a milkman now. B. It has been driven out of the market. C. Its service is getting poor. D. It is forbidden by law. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4. Why did the author bring back home an old milk box? | ||||||||||||||||||
| A. He missed the good old days. B. He wanted to tell interesting stories. C. He needed it for his milk bottles. D. He planted flowers in it. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 阅读理解。 | ||||||||||||||||||
| The host poured the tea into the cup and placed it on the small table in front of his guests, who were a father and his daughter, and put the lid on the cup with a clink. Obviously thinking of something, he hurried into the inner room, leaving the thermos (热水瓶) on the table. His two guests heard a chest of drawers opening and rustling. They remained sitting in the sitting room, the ten-year-old daughter looking at the flowers outside the window, the father just about to take his cup, when the crash came, right there in the sitting room. Something was hopelessly broken. It was the thermos, which had fallen to the floor. The girls looked over her shoulder suddenly, shocked, staring. It was mysterious; neither of them had touched it, not even a little bit. True, it hadn"t stood steadily when their host placed it on the table, but it hadn"t fallen then. The crash of the thermos caused the host, with a box of sugar cubes in his hand, to rush back from the inner room. He looked foolishly at the steaming floor and blurted out. "It doesn"t matter! It doesn"t matter!" The father started to say something. Then he said in a low voice, "Sorry I touched it and it fell." "It doesn"t matter," the host said. Later, when they left the house,the daughter said, "Daddy, did you touch it?" "No. But it stood so close to me." "But you didn"t touch it. I saw your reflection in the window. You were sitting perfectly still." The father laughed. "Then how would you explain the cause of its fall?" "The thermos fell by itself. The floor is uneven. It wasn"t steady when Mr. Li put it there. Daddy, why did you say that?" "That won"t do,girl. It sounds more acceptable when I say I knocked it down. There are things which people accept less true it sounds." The daughter was lost in silence for a while. Then she said, "Can you explain it only this way?" "Only this way." her father said. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1. Which statement is a possible main idea of this story? | ||||||||||||||||||
| A. People seldom tell the truth. B. You can"t always make people believe the truth. C. If you try to defend yourself,people will believe you. D. People never believe others. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2. It can be inferred from the story that the father _____. | ||||||||||||||||||
| A. didn"t know Mr. Li very well B. was sorry that he hadn"t told the host the truth C. didn"t think Mr. Li would believe the truth D. was glad that he had told the truth | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3. From the story,we know that the daughter _____. | ||||||||||||||||||
| A. thought her father should have told the truth B. knew the thermos would fall and stepped out C. thought her father shouldn"t have told the truth D. thought her father must have known the cause | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4. From the passage, we can see the reason why the thermos fell was that _____. | ||||||||||||||||||
| A. the table was too small B. the father sat too close to the thermos C. the father wanted to help himself with some water D. something impossible to explain happened | ||||||||||||||||||
| 完形填空。 | ||||||||||||||||||
| It was freezing outside my car. I did not want to get out of it when we passed by a small grocery shop. Suddenly I 1 a tiny figure, bent and covered with some bits of cloth, trembling with the 2 from the harsh winds that were blowing so 3 that night. It was only 5 degrees that evening, which was freezing cold indeed. Here was an old man of 75, 4 in the corner of this store, waiting for anyone who would think of 5 him a single coin or a cup of hot tea. I asked my 6 to go over and hand this old man 7 . He looked into my husband"s face and smiled, and said, "Thank you." I felt so 8 and I prayed for the old man to live 9 the cold night. I was sure to visit again and find out 10 he was the next day, as I have to pass this way every day. I did so the 11 evening, and he remembered the car and came up to my 12 and smiled at me. This time I 13 him a bag of food. He reached out for the bag 14 I gave him my hand. He held it and smiled and said, "May God bless you." I looked at the old man and asked my husband, "Doesn"t he 15 you of someone? With that cap on his head and the 16 in his eyes and the warmth of his hand, I could tell you this: he reminds me of my 17 ." At a closer look, I saw my Daddy in this old man, waiting for anyone to show him some mercy or 18 . I do hope all of you who read this, will remember that maybe one day, it could happen to one of us, so please do not 19 by a poor person without offering at least a word of love and a kind smile or a(n) 20 of kindness of any kind. | ||||||||||||||||||
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