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She had struggled through changing tides that swept her first one way, then the other. It turned the 21-mile crossing into a 65-mile one. She declared, “Time and tide wait for no man—and they certainly didn’t wait for me. I was fully expecting it to get dark before I got to Calais but I never imagined I’d also see the dawn again. But I wasn’t going to give up.”
Her feat(壮举) raised more than $2,000 in charity sponsorship for research into Huntingdon’s disease, a sum that was continuing to grow as news of her achievement spread. That was why she did it. “I don’t really know myself,” she said. “ I just kept thinking of all the people I’d be letting down if I stopped.”
Mrs Cobell took to the water so well at school. But after bringing up two daughters, she started to gain weight. Five years ago she took up swimming again and decided to prepare for the Channel challenge to lose weight. She became much fitter. Then came the big swim. “I practiced on Windermere lake,” she said. “it’s about half the distance of the Channel so I just double
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Her husband David, trainer, official observer and friend sailed alongside her on a boat. She said, “I sang to keep myself going. When they told me I was a record breaker I thought they were just having a joke—until I realized it was the record for the slowest crossing. But maybe next time I might be a bit quicker.”
小题1:According to Paragraph 1, Mrs Cobell_____________.
A.started to learn swimming five years ago |
B.arrived at Calais on late Sunday morning |
C.wanted to break the record for the slowest crossing |
D.was too exhausted to move after crossing the Channel |
A.Because the tides changed her direction. |
B.Because she was not in good condition. |
C.Because she wasn’t good at swimming. |
D.Because the winds kept her from swimming fast. |
A.taking a risk |
B.losing more weight |
C.raising money for charity |
D.becoming famous worldwide |
A.Dissatisfied | B.Excited | C.Annoyed | D.Proud |
答案
小题1:B
小题1:A
小题1:C
小题1:A
解析
小题1:B.推理判断题。根据第一段The time was 6:40am. 28 hours and 44 minutes later 和Mrs Cobell started at Dover Saturday morning 可判断
小题1:A。 细节理解题。根据第二段She had struggled through changing tides that swept her first one way, then the other,可知
小题1:C.细节理解题。根据第三段Her feat (壮举) raised more than $2,000 in charity sponsorship 和 That was why she did it.可知
小题1:A.判断推理题。 根据末段But maybe next time I might be a bit quicker 可推断,她对这个记录不满意。
核心考点
试题【Down on the beach of Dover, 56-year-old Channel swimmer Jackie Cobell bravely se】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Tuesday’s DailyNews said 29yearold Julien Duret from France is the man who left the spot quickly after the rescue last Saturday.
He lifted the little girl out of the water after she fell off the bank at the South Street Seaport museum.He handed the girl to her father, David Anderson, who had dived in after him.
“I didn’t think at all,” Duret told the DailyNews.“It happened very fast.I reacted very fast.”
Duret, an engineer on vacation, was walking with his girlfriend along the pier (码头) when he saw something falling into the water.He thought it was a doll, but realized it was a child when he approached the river.In an instant, he took off his coat and jumped into the water.
When he reached the girl, she appeared lifeless, he said.Fortunately,when she was out of the water, she opened her eyes.
Anderson said his daughter slipped off the bank when he was adjusting his camera.An ambulance came later for her, said Duret, who was handed dry clothes from onlookers.Duret caught a taxi with his girlfriend shortly after.
The rescue happened on the day before he left for France.Duret said he didn’t realize his tale of heroism had greatly moved New York until he was leaving the city the next morning.
“I don’t really think I’m a hero,”said Duret.“Anyone would do the same thing.”
小题1:Why was Duret in New York?
A.To meet his girlfriend. |
B.To work as an engineer. |
C.To spend his holiday. |
D.To visit the Andersons. |
A.He was interviewed by a newspaper. |
B.He asked his girlfriend for his dry clothes. |
C.He went to the hospital in the ambulance. |
D.He disappeared from the spot quickly. |
A.David Anderson. |
B.A passerby. |
C.His girlfriend. |
D.A taxi driver. |
Vicki Brown, 30, played a very important role in 23 the nationwide manhunt. Vicki, who has worked at the Royal Hotel for four years, told of her terrible 24 when she had to steal into Bieber’s bedroom and to watch him 25 . Then she waited alone for three 26 while armed police prepared to 27 the building.
She said, "I was very nervous. But when I opened the hotel door and saw 20 armed policemen
28 in the car park I was so glad they were there.”
The alarm had been raised because Vicki became suspicious of the guest who 29 in at 3 pm the day before New Year’s Eve with little luggage and 30 sunglasses and a hat pulled down over his 31 . She said, "He didn’t seem to want to talk too much and make any eye contact." Vicki, the only employee on duty, called her boss Margaret, 64, and husband Stan McKale, 65, who phoned the police at 11 pm.
Officers from Northumbria Police called Vicki at the hotel in Dunston, Gateshead, at about 11:30 pm to make sure that this was the 32 man. Then they kept in touch by phoning Vicki
33 15 minutes.
"It was about ten past two in the morning 34 the phone went again and a policeman said ‘Would you go and make yourself known to the armed officers outside?’. My heart missed a 35 ."
Vicki quietly showed eight armed officers 36 passages and staircases to the top floor room and 37 over the key.
"I realized that my bedroom window overlooks that part of the hotel, so I went to watch. I could not see into the man’s room, 38 I could see the passage. The police kept 39 at the man to come out with his hands showing. Then suddenly he 40 have come out because they shouted for him to lie down while he was handcuffed (带上手铐)。
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Last year and halfway across the United States, the Ramirez family of suburban Miami adopted a girl who had been abandoned a week later on the same spot.
Both families named their daughters Mia. It turns out, a first name and Chinese heritage aren’t the only things the three-year-olds have in common. The girls’ mothers—Holly Funk and Diana Ramirez—met on a website for parents who had gone through international adoptions. After a flurry of e-mails comparing photographs and biographical details, DNA testing proved the families’ suspicions: The girls are probably fraternal (手足般的) twins.
“I was in shock,” said Ramirez, who lives with her husband Carlos in Pembroke Pines, Florida. “Well, now this is for real.”
The Internet and Web groups revolving around international orphanages are increasingly being used to link adopted children with biological kin(亲属). The site that the Funks and Ramirezes used has a membership of 137 people, with 15 sets of twins and seven sets of siblings whose relationships have been confirmed.
At a reunion on Friday at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, Mia Diamond Funk Mia Hanying Ramirez shyly surveyed each other, then reached for each other’s hand.
DNA tests established an 85 percent probability that the girls are at least half sisters. Scientists did not have a biological parent to test and reach a greater certainty, but given their ages and physical similarities, experts say it is likely they are fraternal twins.
Douglas and Holly Funk hope to take Mia to Miami in October. Both sets of parents say they are committed to staying in touch and often let the twins talk to each other on the phone.
小题1:. Both the adopted girls shared a first name ________.
A.because they both came from China |
B.because of their physical similarities |
C.because their US parents suspected they were twins |
D.for no good reason |
A.To compare photographs of the two girls. |
B.To communicate with other people who had adopted children abroad. |
C.To test their suspicion. |
D.To exchange experiences on adopting children. |
A.DNA tests are still not accurate enough |
B.the two girls were born by different parents |
C.the DNA of a biological parent is still missing |
D.one girl is born a week later than the other |
A.Adopted Twins Reunited on Internet |
B.Adopted Twins Live happily in the US. |
C.Suspicion Turned into Reality |
D.The Story of Adopted Twins and Their Parents |
Despite her previous experience as a torchbearer in the Beijing leg of the Athens 2004 torch relay, Luo felt honored and proud of being chosen as the first Chinese torchbearer, the Xihua News Agency reported Luo as saying in an interview.
She talked about the great responsibility that she felt, as she believed she was representing every Chinese athlete and even Chinese person by running her leg of the relay.
Regarding missing the torch lighting ceremony because she had to be in an assigned location to wait for the flame, Luo felt no regret. “Even though I couldn’t see it, I was able to feel the flame light and knew that it was happening at a place nearby,” she said.
Luo expressed her belief that even if people couldn’t communicate with words, the Olympic Flame enables the transmission of the Olympic spirit and brings smiles wherever it might go. In Luo’s mind, the Olympic spirit represents purity, competition, friendship, enthusiasm, peace and harmony.
小题1:Why didn’t Luo see the torch lighting ceremony?
A. She was late for the ceremony. |
B. She was not allowed to go there. |
C. She waited for the flame as the next torchbearer. |
D. The ceremony took place at a place far away. |
A. One of the long parts that connect the feet to the rest of the body. |
B. The part of a pair of trousers. |
C. One of the long thin parts on the bottom of a table. |
D. One part of a journey or race. |
A. Luo Xuejuan was the first Olympic torchbearer in Greece. |
B. Luo had never been selected as a torchbearer before. |
C. Luo believed that the Olympic flame helped communication among people. |
D. Luo felt regretful because she missed the torch lighting ceremony. |
A. Luo Xuejuan: A Swimming Gold Medalist. |
B. The Torch Lighting Ceremony |
C. The Torch Relay Had Begun |
D. Luo Xuejuan: the First Chinese Torchbearer of Athens Torch Relay |
A. novel | B. newspaper | C. magazine | D. textbook |
No, it’s not a visit from their mothers, and not a threat to take away their cellphones or pocket money.
It’s high-frequency noise. The UK police recently agreed to use a device (装置) called the Sonic Teenager Deterrent. It sends out a sound that makes teenagers become so impatient and angry that they have to cover their ears tightly and walk away.
The sound is at extreme high-pitch that can be heard by those under 20. The body’s natural ability to detect some wave bands (波段) decreases almost entirely after 20, so few adults can hear the sounds. The black-box device, nicknamed the Mosquito because of its sound, can be fixed to the outside walls of shops, offices and homes. It sounds to youngsters like a crazy insect or a badly played violin. But it causes no physical damage.
A number of police forces and councils have given permission to use the system and want to install it at trouble spots.
Staffordshire Police Inspector Amanda Davies, who has given the device to shopkeepers in the Moorlands area, said," It is controlled by the shopkeepers--if they can see through their window that there is a problem, they turn the device on for a while until the group has run away."
小题1:The device can be used to ____________.
A.threaten teenagers in public |
B.drive away trouble-makers under 20 |
C.help mothers control their teenage children |
D.help the police control shopkeepers |
A.young people often suffer from pains in ears |
B.shopkeepers are troubled by noisy insects |
C.high-frequency noise is beyond the listening ability of people over 20 |
D.the police invented a new device to deal with teenagers |
A.to advertise a new hi-tech device |
B.to tell the reader a piece of news |
C.to sell the device to shopkeepers |
D.to inform the public as the spokesman of the police |
A.Shopkeepers. | B.The police. | C.Young people. | D.The producer. |
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