In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. These things come to represent,
in fact, what I call 1 and love.
I don"t remember my father ever getting into a swimming tool. But he did 2 the water. Any kind of 3
ride seemed to give him pleasure. 4 he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being 5 the water, moving
through it, 6 it all around me. I was not a strong 7 , or one who learned to swim early, for I had my 8 .
But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father"s office and 9 those summer days with my father,
who 10 come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit,
the 11 person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go 12 his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he
let me 13 anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk 14 he worked
in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn"t be playing with his 15 . But
my father always 16 and said easily, "Oh, no, it"s 17 ." Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get 18
an ice cream…
A poet once said, "We look at life once, in childhood; the rest is 19 ." And I think it is not only what we
"look at once, in childhood" that determines our memories, but 20 , in that childhood, look at us. |
( )1.A. desire
( )2.A. avoid
( )3.A. boat
( )4.A. But
( )5.A. on
( )6.A. having
( )7.A. swimmer
( )8.A. hopes
( )9.A. spending
( )10.A. should
( )11.A. next
( )12.A. away from
( )13.A. put up
( )14.A. the moment
( )15. A. fishing net
( )16. A. stood up
( )17. A. fine
( )18. A. the student
( )19. A. memory
( )20. A. which | B. joy
B. refuse
B. bus
B. Then
B. off
B. leaving
B. rider
B. faiths
B. saving
B. would
B. only
B. out of
B. break down
B. the first time
B. office things
B. set out
B. strange
B. the assistant
B. wealth
B. who | C. anger
C. praise
C. train
C. And
C. by
C. making
C. walker
C. rights
C. wasting
C. had to
C. other
C. by
C. play with
C. while
C. wooden chair
C. showed up
C. terrible
C. myself
C. experience
C. what | D. worry
D. love
D. bike
D. Still
D. in
D. getting
D. runner
D. fears
D. ruining
D. ought to
D. last
D. inside
D. work out
D. before
D. lab equipment
D. turned out
D. funny
D. himself
D. practice
D. whose | | 阅读理解。 | Below is a discussion on a website.
| http://www.TalkingPoints.com/ | | Stuck on a desert island? | | Started on 23rd April by Steve Posts 1 - 7 of 42 | Molly信箱是一个报刊栏目，主持人Molly回答读者提出的各种问题。第1至5题是五位读者的来信。
请从A、B、C、D、E和F中为每封来信选出最合适的回复。选项中一项是多余选项。 | ( )1. Dear Molly,
I have a problem. My parents are always talking to me about studying. They want me to study harder
so I can go to a good school. I know studying is very important, but my parents put too much pressure
on me. How can I explain to my parents that I need some free time?
------ Overworked
( )2. Dear Molly,
My best friend Tony is a nice young man, but he has a bad habit. He is always late. No matter where
he is going to what he is doing, he is never on time. Once he turned up thirty minutes late for a meeting!
What can I do to break him of this bad habit?
------ Worried
( )3. Dear Molly,
I have a new roommate named Louis. He is a good friend of mine, but he is driving me crazy because
he is very untidy. He leaves his dirty clothes everywhere, and he never makes his bed. I am extremely neat.
What can I do?
----Unhappy
( )4. Dear Molly,
My cousin plays computer games a lot and he keeps on talking to me about various games. I don"t have
any interest at all, but I find it difficult to stop him without hurting his feelings. Would you kindly give me
some advice?
--- Shy
( )5. Dear Molly,
I"m feeling upset these days because the result of my last English exam was not as good as I had expected. My teacher comforted me, saying "Don"t worry. You can do better next time." But I"m still feeling bad. I need
your help.
----Disappointed | A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
 | | 阅读理解。 | In ancient Egypt, the pharaoh (法老) treated the poor message runner like a prince when he arrived at the
palace, if he brought good news. However, if the exhausted runner had the misfortune to bring the pharaoh
unhappy news, his head was cut off.
Shades of that spirit spread over today"s conversations. Once a friend and I packed up some peanut butter
and sandwiches for an outing. As we walked light-heartedly out the door, picnic basket in hand, a smiling
neighbor looked up at the sky and said, "Oh boy, bad day for a picnic. The weatherman says it"s going to rain."
I wanted to strike him on the race with the peanut butter and sandwiches. Not for his stupid weather report,
for his smile.
Several months ago I was racing to catch a bus. As I breathlessly put my handful of cash across the
Greyhound counter, the sales agent said with a broad smile, "Oh that bus left rive minutes ago." Dreams of
head-cutting!
It"s not the news that makes someone angry. It"s the unsympathetic attitude with which it"s delivered.
Everyone must give bad news from time to time, and winning professionals do it with the proper attitude. A
doctor advising a patient that she needs an operation dose it in a caring way A boss informing an employee he
didn"t get the job takes on a sympathetic tone. Big winners know, when delivering any bad news, they should
share the feeling of the receiver.
Unfortunately, many people are not aware of this. When you"re tired from a long flight, has a hotel clerk
cheerfully said that your room isn"t ready ye? When you had your heart set on the toast beef, has your waiter
merrily told you that he just served the last piece? It makes you as traveler or diner want to land your fist right
on their unsympathetic faces.
Had my neighbor told me of the upcoming rainstorm with sympathy, I would have appreciated his warning.
Had the Greyhound salesclerk sympathetically informed me that my bus had already left, I probably would
have said, "Oh, that"s all right. I"ll catch the next one." Big winners, when they bear bad news, deliver bombs
with the emotion the bombarded (被轰炸的) person is sure to have. | | 1. In Paragraph 1, the writer tells the story of the pharaoh to _____. | A. make a comparison
B. introduce a topic
C. describe a scene
D. offer an argument | | 2. In the writer"s opinion, his neighbor was _____. | A. friendly
B. warm-hearted
C. not considerate
D. not helpful | | 3. From "Dreams of head-cutting!"(Paragraph 3), we learn that the writer _____. | A. was mad at the sales agent
B. was reminded of the cruel pharaoh
C. wished that the sales agent would have had dreams
D. dreamed of cutting the sales agent"s head that night | | 4. What is the main idea of the text? | A. Delivering bad news properly is important in communication.
B. Helping others sincerely is the key to business success.
C. Receiving bad news requires great courage.
D. Learning ancient traditions can be useful. | | 阅读理解。 | When you"re lying on the white sands of the Mexican Riviera, the stresses (压力) of the world
seem a million miles away. Hey, stop! This is no vacation-you have to finish something!
Here lies the problem for the travel writer and critic (评论家), Edie Jarolim "I always loved
traveling and always liked to eat, but it never occurred to me that I could make money doing both
of those things," Jarolim said. Now you can read her travel advice everywhere in Arts and Antiques,
in Brides, or in one of her there books, The Complete Idiot"s Travel Guide to Mexican Beach Resorts.
……writing began some eight years ago. After getting a PhD in English in Canada, she took a Test
Frommer"s travel guides, passed it, and got the job. After working at Frommer"s, Jarolim worked for a while
at Rough Guides in London, then Fodor"s, where she fell so in love with a description of the Southwest of
the U.S. that she moved there.
Now as a travel writer, she spends one-third of her year on the road. The rest of the time is spent
completing her tasks and writing reviews of restaurants at home in Tucson, Arigona.
As adventurous as the job sounds, the hard part is fact-checking all the information. Sure, it"s great to
write about a tourist attraction, but you"d better get the local (当地的) museum hours correct or you could
really ruin someone"s vacation. | | 1. Which country does Jarolim live in now? | A. Mexico
B. The U.S.
C. The U.K.
D. Canada | | 2. What is most difficult for Jarolim? | A. Working in different places to collect information
B. Checking all the facts to be written in the guides
C. Finishing her work as soon as possible
D. Passing a test to write travel guides | | 3. What do we know about Jarolim from the text? | A. She is successful in her job
B. She finds her life full of stresses
C. She spends half of her time traveling
D. She is especially interested in museums | | 4. What would be the best title for the text? | A. Adventures in Travel Writing
B. Working as a Food Critic
C. Travel Guides on the Market
D. Vacationing for a Living |
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