MEMPHIS，Tenn，(AP)一An early Saturday morning fire killed five children and two adults， but three youths were able to escape and were being treated for burns．Next―door neighbor Lamar
Boyce said he was awakened around 5：30 a．m．by the victims’cries for help and saw two of the survivors jump from a second―story window．
The two teenagers and an 11-year―old boy who escaped were hospitalized with second―degree bums on their faces and hands，Fire Department spokesman
Lt．Keith Star)les said．
Boyce said the two，―story brick and wood―frame house was completely covered by flames and windows were popping out from the heat when he and his girlfrend．Nikko Moore．
rushed to try helping the victims．
“She tried to put the water hose on it to do what we could do．but by that time it was too late，”Boyce said．“It was too
much fire．The water hose would do nothing．”
Lorenzo Williams．who 1ives down the street in the low―income neighborhood，said he and several other neighbors also tried to help but flames and smoke turned them back．
“You could hear them screaming．but there was nothing you could do．”Williams said．
Relatives，including the twin sister of the woman who died，gathered hugging and sobbing on a sidewalk near the burned remains of the house．They identified the mother as Melissa Poole，38，and said four of her children died with her．A niece and nephew who were visiting when the fire broke out also died，family members said．
The top floor of the house was heavily damaged and pieces of the collapsed roof and ceiling covered much of the bottom back floor of the residence．The cause of the fire is under investigation．
The causes of death were not immediately known．Staples said．”but the bodies did appear to have some severe burns．”
56．How many people were there in the house when the fire broke out?
A．Five． B．Seven C．Eight D．Ten．
57．When did the fire break out?
A．About 5：30 P．m．,Saturday． B．About 5：30 a．In．，Saturday．
C．About 3：50 p．m．,Tuesday． D．About 5：30 a．m．，Sunday．
58．What’s the name of the mother who died in the fire?
A．L83nar Boyce B．Lt．Keith Staples C．Nikko Moore D．Melissa Poole
59．What's the cause of the fire according to the passage?
A．Because it is a two―story brick and wood frame house．
B．Because of hot weather．
C．The cause of the fire is under investigation．
D．Someone set the house on fire on purpose．
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Many years ago, when I was a man in my twenties, I worked as a salesman for a piano company.
We 1 our pianos all over the state by advertising in small town 2 .Every time we advertised, we would receive a reply on a postcard which said,“Please 3 me a new piano for my little granddaughter. It 4 be red mahogany（红木）. I can pay $10 a month with my egg money.”Of course, we could not sell a(n) 5 piano for $10 a month. 6 her cards kept on coming.
A couple of years later, I 7 my own piano company, and when I 8 in that area, the postcards started coming to me. For months, I ignored（不理睬） 9 --what else could I do?
But then, one day I 10 to be in the area. I had a red mahogany piano on my little truck. Despite knowing that I was about to 11 a terrible business decision, I managed to find the old woman and took the new piano in her house and placed it 12 I thought the roof would be least likely to rain on it. I told her and a little barefoot girl to try to 13 the chickens off it, and I left sure I had just 14 a new piano.
But the 15 came in, all 52 of them as agreed, sometimes with coins. It was unbelievable!
Then one day I was in Memphis on 16 business. As I was sitting at the bar having a drink, I heard the most beautiful piano music behind me. I looked 17 ,and there was a lovely young woman 18 a very nice ground piano.
She smiled at me, asked for requests, and when she took a 19 she sat down at my table.
“Aren't you the man who sold my grandma a piano a long time ago?”
I suddenly remembered. My Lord, it was her! It was the little barefoot girl!
I did have to go to my room because men don't like to be 20 crying public.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2013届安徽泗县双语中学高三5月模拟测试英语卷（带解析） 题型：阅读理解
Cleveland has won the distinction of being the worst city in the United States, according to a new survey. The city has high unemployment, terrible weather, heavy taxes, and ordinary sports teams, all of which have pushed it to the No. 1 position in the Forbes.com list.
"Cleveland was the only city that fell in the bottom half of rankings in all nine categories. And it has been entitled with a less than endearing nickname: the Mistake by the lake," Forbes said on its website,
The economic downturn hit cities across the United States last year particularly in the mid-west section of the country. Crime and unemployment secured the No. 2 spot for Stockton, which held the top position in last year's ranking. Memphis got third place thanks to its violent crime rate and the number of officials who are guilty, while the poor auto industry drove the Michigan cities of Detroit and Flint into the top five.
"A lot of the cities that showed up on our list are going through hard times fight now, dealing with high unemployment, with declining producing bases. Many have experienced strong movement out of the city over the last 20 and 30 years."
Despite (尽管) its fine weather, Miami scored in the bottom 10 percent in commuting (上下班往返) time, and violent crime which sent it into sixth place.
"One of the biggest surprises is Miami. The good weather and no state income taxes blur some of the severe problems that Miami has related to crime as well as long commutes," Badenhausen added.
Florida was followed in the poor ranking by St Louis, Buffalo, Canton, Ohio and Chicago, which has the country's highest sales tax at 10.25 percent. New York, the nation's biggest city, is rich in culture but its lengthy commuting time and high income taxes pushed it into 16th place.
【小题1】From the text we can learn that ______.
| A．Cleveland has been entitled a lovely nickname |
| B．the economic downturn hit cities in the mid-east section |
| C．Miami scored in the bottom 10 percent in all nine categories |
| D．commuting time in New York is too long |
| A．The number of officials who are guilty is large in Memphis. |
| B．Stockton got second place in last year's ranking. |
| C．High income taxes made New York get 16th place. |
| D．Ohio has the country's highest sales tax. |
| A．make it possible | B．make it unclear | C．make if obvious | D．make it important |
| A．Cleveland, Detroit, Miami, Buffalo, Florida. |
| B．Stockton, Miami, Flint, Florida, Canton. |
| C．Cleveland, Stockton, Miami, Chicago, Florida. |
| D．Stockton, Detroit, Miami, Florida, St Louis. |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2014届浙江省高一奖学金考试英语试题（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
“My work is done.” Those words were some of the last penned by George Eastman. He included them in his suicide note. They mark an ignoble end to a noble life, the leave taking of a truly great man. The same words could now be said for the company he left behind. Actually, the Eastman Kodak Company is through. It has been mismanaged financially, technologically and competitively. For 20 years, its leaders have foolishly spent down the patrimony of a century’s prosperity. One of America’s bedrock brands is about to disappear, the Kodak moment has passed.
But George Eastman is not how he died, and the Eastman Kodak Company is not how it is being killed. Though the ends be needless and premature, they must not be allowed to overshadow the greatness that came before. Few companies have done so much good for so many people, or defined and lifted so profoundly the spirit of a nation and perhaps the world. It is impossible to understand the 20th Century without recognizing the role of the Eastman Kodak Company.
Kodak served mankind through entertainment, science, national defense and the stockpiling of family memories. Kodak took us to the top of Mount Suribachi and to the Sea of Tranquility. It introduced us to the merry old Land of Oz and to stars from Charlie Chaplin to John Wayne, and Elizabeth Taylor to Tom Hanks. It showed us the shot that killed President Kennedy, and his brother bleeding out on a kitchen floor, and a fallen Martin Luther King Jr. on the hard balcony of a Memphis motel. When that sailor kissed the nurse, and when the spy planes saw missiles in Cuba, Kodak was the eyes of a nation. From the deck of the Missouri to the grandeur of Monument Valley, Kodak took us there. Virtually every significant image of the 20th Century is a gift to posterity from the Eastman Kodak Company.
In an era of easy digital photography, when we can take a picture of anything at any time, we cannot imagine what life was like before George Eastman brought photography to people. Yes, there were photographers, and for relatively large sums of money they would take stilted pictures in studios and formal settings. But most people couldn’t afford photographs, and so all they had to remember distant loved ones, or earlier times of their lives, was memory. Children could not know what their parents had looked like as young people, grandparents far away might never learn what their grandchildren looked like. Eastman Kodak allowed memory to move from the uncertainty of recollection, to the permanence of a photograph. But it wasn’t just people whose features were savable; it was events, the sacred and precious times that families cherish. The Kodak moment, was humanity’s moment.
And it wasn’t just people whose features were savable; it was events, the precious times that familes cherish. Kodak let the fleeting moments of birthdays and weddings, picnics and parties, be preserved and saved. It allowed for the creation of the most egalitarian art form. Lovers could take one another’s pictures, children were photographed walking out the door on the first day of school, the person releasing the shutter decided what was worth recording, and hundreds of millions of such decisions were made. And for centuries to come, those long dead will smile and dance and communicate to their unborn progeny. Family history will be not only names on paper, but smiles on faces.
The cash flow not just provided thousands of people with job, but also allowed the company’s founder to engage in some of the most generous philanthropy in America’s history. Not just in Kodak’s home city of Rochester, New York, but in Tuskegee and London, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He bankrolled two historically black colleges, fixed the teeth of Europe’s poor, and quietly did good wherever he could. While doing good, Kodak did very well. Over all the years, all the Kodakers over all the years are essential parts of that monumental legacy. They prospered a great company, but they – with that company – blessed the world.
That is what we should remember about the Eastman Kodak Company.
Like its founder, we should remember how it lived, not how it died.
History will forget the small men who have scuttled this company.
But history will never forget Kodak.
1.According to the passage, which of the following is to blame for the fall of Kodak?
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A．The invention of easy digital photography |
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B．The poor management of the company |
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C．The early death of George Eastman |
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D．The quick rise of its business competitors |
2.It can be learnt from the passage that George Eastman .
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A．died a natural death of old age. |
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B．happened to be on the spot when President Kennedy was shot dead. |
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C．set up his company in the capital of the US before setting up its branches all over the world. |
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D．was not only interested in commercial profits, but also in the improvement of other people’s lives. |
3.Before George Eastman brought photography to people, .
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A．no photos has ever been taken of people or events |
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B．photos were very expensive and mostly taken indoors |
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C．painting was the only way for people to keep a record of their ancestors. |
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D．grandparents never knew what their grandchildren looked like. |
4.The person releasing the shutter (Paragraph 5) was the one .
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A．who took the photograph |
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B．who wanted to have a photo taken |
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C．whose decisions shaped the Eastman Kodak Company |
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D．whose smiles could long be seen by their children |
5.What is the writer’s attitude towards the Eastman Kodak Company?
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A．Disapproving |
B．Respectful |
C．Regretful |
D．Critical |
6.Which do you think is the best title for the passage?
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A．Great Contributions of Kodak |
B．Unforgettable moments of Kodak |
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C．Kodak Is Dead |
D．History of Eastman Kodak Company |
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HOUSTON (Reuters) — Houston tops a U.S. magazine’s annual fattest cities list for the fourth time in five years, with four other Texas cities in the top 25.
Fast food restaurants — Houston has twice the national average number — are partly to blame for the dishonor, Men’s Fitness editor-in-chief Neal Boulton said.
“Americans work long hours, don’t take vacations, and when they’re faced with the worst food choices, they indulge (沉溺于) in those,” he said.
High humidity, poor air quality and some of the nation’s longest commute (每天去上班的路程) times also helped Texas’ most populous city unseat Detroit, the 2003 heavy weight champion, the magazine said.
Houston Mayor Bill White, who has worked with a major food company to develop healthy food products and the city’s public schools to improve lunch menus, called the report “mostly ungrounded and nonsense.”
“On the other hand, it calls attention to real issues the mayor is trying to deal with,” his spokesman, Frank Michel, said.
The magazine said it looked at factors such as the number and types of restaurants, park space, air quality, weather and the number of health clubs.
Philadelphia, Detroit, Memphis, Tennessee, and Chicago followed Houston on the seventh edition of the fat list. Texas cities Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth and El Paso were in the top 14, which Boulton said was no surprise.
“It’s pure big indulgence, just living big, and that’s part of the culture,” said Boulton.
Seattle ranked as the fittest city. Austin and Arlington, a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb, were the only Texas cities on the fit list. Austin was 19th and Arlington 22nd out of 25.
1.What decides the magazine’s annual fattest list?
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A．The size of fat population. |
B．The number of fast food restaurants. |
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C．The economic growth rate of the state. |
D．Things related to unhealthy ways of life. |
2.Which city topped 2003 fattest cities list?
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A．Houston. |
B．Dallas. |
C．Detroit. |
D．Philadelphia. |
3.By saying “living big” (in Paragraph 9), Boulton means people _________.
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A．are growing fatter |
B．are living wastefully
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C．eat too many fatty foods |
D．are spending too much time working |
4.Which of the following is best supported by the text?
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A．Texas has the most fat cities in the U.S. |
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B．Bill White is happy with the newspaper report. |
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C．People in Texas are the most hardworking in the U.S. |
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D．Most school children in Houston have weight problems. |
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