| In the city of Fujisawa，Japan，lives a woman named Atsuko Saeki. When she was a teenager，she__1__of going to the United States. Most of what she knew about American__2__was from the textbooks she had read. “I had a__3__in mind：Daddy watching TV in the living room，Mummy__4__cakes and their teenage daughter off to the cinema with her boyfriend.” Atsuko__5__to attend college in California. When she arrived，however，she found it was not her__6__world.“People were struggling with problems and often seemed__7__”，she said. “I felt very alone.” One of her hardest__8__was physical education. “We played volleyball，”she said. “The other students were__9__it，but I wasn’t.” One afternoon，the instructor asked Atsuko to__10__the ball to her teammates so they could knock it__11__the net. No problem for most people，but it terrified Atsuko. She was afraid of losing face__12__she failed. A young man on her team__13__what she was going through. “He walked up to me and__14__，‘Come on. You can do that.’” “You will never understand how those words of__15__made me feel...Four words：You can do that. I felt like crying with happiness.” She made it through the class. Perhaps she thanked the young man；she is not__16__. Six years have passed. Atsuko is back in Japan，working as a salesclerk. “I have__17__forgotten the words，”she said. “When things are not going so well，I think of them.” She is sure the young man had no idea how much his kindness__18__to her. “He probably doesn’t even remember it，”she said. That may be the lesson. Whenever you say something to a person—cruel or kind—you have no idea how long the words will__19__.She’s all the way over in Japan，but still she hears those four__20__words：You can do that. 1．A. learned B．spoke C．dreamed D．heard 2．A. way B．life C．education D．spirit 3．A. photo B．painting C．picture D．drawing 4．A. baking B．frying C．steaming D．boiling 5．A. hoped B．arranged C．liked D．attempted 6．A. described B．imagined C．created D．discovered 7．A. tense B．cheerful C．relaxed D．deserted 8．A. times B．questions C．classes D．projects 9．A. curious about B．good at C．slow at D．nervous about 10．A. kick B．pass C．carry D．hit 11．A. through B．into C．over D．past 12．A. after B．if C．because D．until 13．A. believed B．considered C．wondered D．sensed 14．A. warned B．sighed C．ordered D．whispered 15.A. excitement B．encouragement C．persuasion D．suggestion 16．A. interested B．doubtful C．puzzled D．sure 17．A. never B．already C．seldom D．almost 18．A. happened B．applied C．seemed D．meant 19．A. continue B．stay C．exist D．live 20．A. merciful B．bitter C．simple D．easy |
| 1—20 CBCAB BACBD CBDDB DADBC |
| 1．dream of意为“梦想”，表示她在年轻时梦想去美国。learn of意为“听到，获悉”；speak of意为“说到，谈到”；hear of意为“听说”。 2．life意为“生活”，泛指“生活；生涯”，即某种方式的生活，表示她对美国生活的了解来自所读的课本。way意为“方式，方法”；education意为“教育”；spirit意为“精神”。 3．picture“图画”，泛指人物、风景、物品等的水彩画。photo意为“照片”。painting意为“油画”，专指美术绘画的各种彩色作品，常指油画和水彩画。drawing意为“画”，常指用铅笔、钢笔或粉笔画的“线条画”，主要的手段是明暗对比，一般不用色彩，包括素描或工程图纸。 4．bake意为“烘，焙，烤”，指在热的表面上慢慢地烘焙。bake cakes表示“烤制蛋糕”。fry意为“用油煎，用油炸、炒”，指用油煎鱼或炒菜。steam意为“蒸”，指用蒸汽蒸饭。boil意为“煮”，指用水煮食物。 5．arrange意为“准备，安排”，指为某事作好准备和安排。根据下文所提供的情景“When she arrived”可判断出Atsuko准备去加利福尼亚上大学。hope意为“希望”；like 意为“喜欢，愿意”；attempt意为“企图”，都与下文的内容不相符合。 6．imagine意为“想像，设想；猜想，推测”，上文讲到“I had a picture in mind：Daddy watching TV in the living room，Mummy baking cakes and their teenage daughter off to the cinema with her boyfriend.”因此可判断出实际的情况与她想像的不一样。describe意为“描述”；create意为“创作，创造”；discover意为“发现”。 7．tense意为“紧张的”，上文中的“People were struggling with problems”说明，由于尽力解决问题，他们似乎经常处于紧张状况。cheerful意为“高兴的；兴致勃勃的；欢乐的；快活的；爽快的”；relaxed意为“放松的”；deserted意为“被放弃的”。 8．class意为“课程”，根据其表语“physical education”可判断出她最困难的课程是体育。time意为“时间”；question意为“问题”；project意为“工程、项目”。 9．be good at意为“擅长于”，指善于做某事。but是并列连词，表示转折和对比，从but I wasn’t可以看出：其他同学擅长于打排球，而Atsuko却在这方面存在困难。be curious about意为“对……好奇”；be slow at意为“在……迟钝”；be nervous about意为“对……感到紧张”。 10．hit意为“打，击”，hit the ball表示用手击球。上文中的We played volleyball表明他们在打排球，所以要用手击球。kick the ball意为“踢球”，pass the ball意为“传球”，carry the ball意为“带球”，都不符合打排球的比赛规则。 11．over意为“越过”，指把排球打过网。through意为“穿过”，指从空间中穿过。into意为“到……里”，past意为“过，通过”，这也都不符合打排球的比赛规则。 12．if引导条件状语从句，意为“如果”，表示如果她不能把球击中，她害怕她会丢人。after引导时间状语从句，表示“在……之后”。because引导原因状语从句，意为“因为”。until引导时间状语从句，意为“一直……”，表示动作一直延续到until从句的谓语动词所表示的动作发生。 13．sense意为“感觉(到)”指通过直觉、迹象、线索等隐约感到或明白。句意为：她球队的一位年轻人觉察出Atsuko的心理状态。believe意为“相信”；consider意为“考虑”；wonder意为“感到迷惑不解，想知道”。 14．whisper意为“低语；耳语”，指低声地对某人说话、讲话。因为这位年轻人觉察出Atsuko害怕在人们面前丢脸的心理状态，所以他用“Come on.You can do that.”这样的话语鼓励她，而在许多人面前，他只能低声地对她说。warn意为“警告”；sigh意为“叹息”；order意为“命令”。 15. encouragement意为“鼓励”，“Come on.You can do that.”意为“加油，你能行”，是鼓励人们努力的话语。excitement意为“激动”；persuasion意为“说服，劝导”；suggestion意为“建议”。 16．sure意为“深信，确信”。上文讲述了在一次排球比赛中，一位年轻人鼓励Atsuko努力去做，“You can do that.”使她增强了信心，体育课程取得了好成绩。所以这里讲到她或许应该谢谢这个年轻人，但心中没有把握，不知道该不该这样做。interested意为“感兴趣”；doubtful意为“怀疑的”；puzzled意为“感到迷惑不解的”。 17．never意为“从不”，根据下文中的“When things are not going so well，I think of them.”可判断出Atsuko没有忘记那位年轻人所说的话。already意为“已经”；seldom意为“不常；很少；难得……”；almost意为“几乎”。 18．mean意为“意味着”，表示她深信那位年轻人不知道她的好心对她来说有多么重要。happen意为“发生”，指事情偶然发生；apply意为“运用，应用”；seem意为“似乎”。 19．stay意为“保留”，多指停留或处于相对稳定的状态。表示你不知道一个人说的话会保留多长时间。continue意为“继续”，指任何进行过程在时间或空间上的延续，强调持续不断、无间歇、无终止，有时也可指短暂停止后继续进行。exist意为“存在”。live意为“居住”。 20．simple意为“简单的”，“You can do that.”只含有四个词，是一句简单的话。merciful意为“仁慈的，温和的”；bitter意为“辛苦的，悲惨的”；easy意为“容易的”。 |
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One of the world's richest men has taken a close interest in one of man’s most basic functions: visiting the toilet．Bill Gates’s charitable organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is looking for inventors to design the loo of the future, which, they hope, would improve sanitation for millions of people around the world．
So, what's wrong with the traditional flush toilet? Firstly, it wastes a huge amount of potential drinking water．Secondly, they are more likely to cause pollution．This is a real problem in many areas of the developing world, where, according to United Nations estimates, unsafe sanitation causes half of all hospitalizations．Younger people are particularly at risk．Illnesses which cause diarrhea are responsible for the deaths of about 1.5 million children a year．Finally, standard lavatories simply aren’t practical in remote areas．
The challenge set by Bill Gates was to come up with a latrine which works without running water, electricity or aseptic tank(化粪池)．It also needed to operate for less than 5 cents．28 designs were displayed at the recent Reinvent the Toilet Fair in Seattle, USA．Among them was one which turned human waste into electricity using microwaves, another which converted human waste into charcoal, and yet another which used urine for flushing．
But the winner was a solar-powered design which generated hydrogen gas and electricity.The team from the California Institute of Technology（CIT）picked up a prize of $ 100,000.
But clearly Bill Gates doesn’t feel he’s flushing money down the toilet．After the Seattle event he said, “We, couldn’t be happier with the response we’ve gotten,” Gates has even pledged $370m more to the future toilet project．They hope to field test more prototypes over the next three years．
【小题1】Why is Bill Gates paying people to invent new toilets?
| A．Because he wants to test people’s sense of creativity． |
| B．Because he wants to improve sanitation for many people． |
| C．Because he thinks the traditional ones are out of fashion． |
| D．Because he can’t design this kind of things himself． |
| A．They waste too much water． |
| B．They might cause diseases． |
| C．They are not always practical． |
| D．They are too complicated to use. |
| A．Loo | B．sanitation | C．diarrhea | D．prototype |
| A．can change human waste into electricity |
| B．can turn human waste into charcoal |
| C．can produce power with solar energy |
| D．can use urine for flushing |
| A．showing off their wealth |
| B．being angry with their work onditions |
| C．wasting money for nothing |
| D．expressing their great determination |
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C
It is naturally impossible for a well educated, intellectual（懂道理的）,or brave man to make money-the chief of his thoughts; it is naturally impossible for him to make his dinner—the necessary object of him. All healthy—minded people like their dinner, but their dinner is not the main object of their lives. So all healthy—minded people like making money—but the main object of their lives is not money; it is something more important than money.
A good soldier for instance, mainly wished to do his fighting well. He is glad for his pay—very properly so, and justly complains when you keep him ten months without it; still his main aim of his life is to win battles, not to be paid for winning them.
As for doctors, they like fees, no doubt — ought to like them; yet if they are brave and well educated, the entire object（目标） of their lives is not fees. They, on the whole, wishes to cure me sick, and—they are good doctors, and the choices is fairly put to them—would rather cure their patients and lose their fees than kill him and get it. And so with all other brave and rightly trained men—their work is first, their fees second, very important always, but still second.
64. The text is mainly about ____.
A. money is not everything but no money is nothing
B. work is first but money is also important
C. work is the chief opinion of the good people’s lives
D. People like less work but more money
65. According to the text, it is ____ that a good solider will run away when a drowning man needs help but there is no money.
A. impossible B. possible C. clever D. foolish
66. The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph means ____
A. their patient B. their work C. the object of lives D. their money
67. If you are middle school teacher described in the text, what will you do if you are not paid for six months?
A. To quarrel with the headmaster
B. To go on teaching in this school
C. To give up the teaching in this school and find a teaching job in another school
D. To go on teaching after getting paid
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C
It is have xxxxxx that clothing manufacturcrs（生产商）follow certa a untharm standards far yarious featurce（特征）of clothes. What seerns strange, however. Is that the xxxxxx adopted for women is the opposite of the one for men. Take a look at the way your clodns buntm. Men’s clothes tend to button from the right, and women’s form the left. Lonsidering most of the world’s popalation—men and women—are right-handnd, the men’s standard would apper inake more sense for women. Xxxxx why do women’s clethes bution from the left?
Histov mally coms to matter here. Buttons finst appcaned only on the lothes or the rich in the 17th camary. When rich women were dressed by servents. For the mostly right-hand-d servants, having women’s shirts button from the left would be easier. On the other hand, having men’s shirt button from the right made secse.too. Most men dressed themselves, and a swont drawn from the lelt with the right hand would be lese likely to get catght in the sairt.
Tady women are seldom dressed by scryants. Hat tuaoning from the lefts still the standard for them. Is it intcesting? Actually, a standoont, once set, resists change. At a time when all women’s shirts buttoned from the left, it would have been risky for any sigle manufactura is offer women’s shirts that battoned from the right. After all, women had grown so used to shirts whirt unored from the left and would have to devclop new habits and skills to switch. Benides, come women might have found it socially awkward to appear in public wearing shirts that buttoned from the right, since anyone who rociced that would believe they were wearing men’s shirts.
64.What is surprising about the standard of the clothing industry?
A.It has been followed by the industry for over 400 years.
B.It is different for men’s clothing and women’s.
C.It works better with men than with women.
D.It fails to consider right-handed people.
65.What do we know about the rich men in the 17th century?
A.They tended to wear clothes without bottons.
B.They were interested in historical matters.
C.They were mostly dressed by servants.
D.They drew their swords from the left.
66.Women’s clothes still button from the left today because______.
A.abouting men’s style is improper for women
B.manufacturers should follow standards
C.modern women dress themselves
D.customs are hard to change
67.The passage is mainly developed by _______.
A.analyzing
causes
B.making comparisons
C.examining differences
D.following the time order
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One of the world's richest men has taken a close interest in one of man's most basic functions: visiting the toilet．Bill Gates’ charitable organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is looking for inventors to design the loo of the future, which, they hope, would improve sanitation for millions of people around the world．
So, what's wrong with the traditional flush toilet? Firstly, it wastes a huge amount of potential drinking water．Secondly, they are more likely to cause pollution．This is a real problem in many areas of the developing world, where, according to United Nations’ estimates, unsafe sanitation causes half of all hospitalizations．Younger people are particularly at risk．Illnesses which cause diarrhea are responsible for the deaths of about 1．5 million children a year．Finally, standard lavatories simply aren't practical in remote areas．
The challenge set by Bill Gates was to come up with a latrine which works without running water, electricity or aseptic tank．It also needed to operate for less than 5 cents．28 designs were displayed at the recent event of the Toilet Fair in Seattle, USA．Among them was one which turned human waste into electricity using microwaves, another which converted human waste into charcoal, and yet another which used urine for flushing．
But the winner was a solar-powered design which generated hydrogen gas and electricity．The team from the California Institute of Technology（CIT）picked up a prize of $ 100,000.
But clearly Bill Gates doesn't feel he's flushing money down the toilet．After the Seattle event he said, "We couldn't be happier with the response we've gotten," Gates has even promised $370 million more to the future toilet project．They hope to field test more prototypes over the next three years．
1.Why is Bill Gates paying people to invent new toilets?
A．Because he wants to test people's sense of creativity．
B．Because he wants to improve sanitation for many people．
C．Because he thinks the traditional ones are out of fashion．
D．Because he can't design this kind of things himself．
2.Which of the following is NOT a problem with the traditional flush toilet?
A．They waste too much water． B．They might cause diseases．
C．They are not always practical． D．They are too complicated to use.
3.The underlined word "latrine" in the third paragraph might have similar meanings to the word "__ " in the text．
A．loo B．sanitation C．diarrhea D．prototype
4.The team from CIT won the prize because their design .
A．can change human waste into electricity
B．can turn human waste into charcoal
C．can produce power with solar energy
D．can use urine for flushing
5.If people "flush money down the toilet", they are .
A．showing off their wealth B．angry with their working conditions
C．wasting money for nothing D．expressing their great determination
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One of the world's richest men has taken a close interest in one of man’s most basic functions: visiting the toilet．Bill Gates’s charitable organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is looking for inventors to design the loo of the future, which, they hope, would improve sanitation for millions of people around the world．
So, what's wrong with the traditional flush toilet? Firstly, it wastes a huge amount of potential drinking water．Secondly, they are more likely to cause pollution．This is a real problem in many areas of the developing world, where, according to United Nations estimates, unsafe sanitation causes half of all hospitalizations．Younger people are particularly at risk．Illnesses which cause diarrhea are responsible for the deaths of about 1.5 million children a year．Finally, standard lavatories simply aren’t practical in remote areas．
The challenge set by Bill Gates was to come up with a latrine which works without running water, electricity or aseptic tank(化粪池)．It also needed to operate for less than 5 cents．28 designs were displayed at the recent Reinvent the Toilet Fair in Seattle, USA．Among them was one which turned human waste into electricity using microwaves, another which converted human waste into charcoal, and yet another which used urine for flushing．
But the winner was a solar-powered design which generated hydrogen gas and electricity.The team from the California Institute of Technology（CIT）picked up a prize of $ 100,000.
But clearly Bill Gates doesn’t feel he’s flushing money down the toilet．After the Seattle event he said, “We, couldn’t be happier with the response we’ve gotten,” Gates has even pledged $370m more to the future toilet project．They hope to field test more prototypes over the next three years．
1.Why is Bill Gates paying people to invent new toilets?
A．Because he wants to test people’s sense of creativity．
B．Because he wants to improve sanitation for many people．
C．Because he thinks the traditional ones are out of fashion．
D．Because he can’t design this kind of things himself．
2.Which of the following is NOT a problem with the traditional flush toilet?
A．They waste too much water．
B．They might cause diseases．
C．They are not always practical．
D．They are too complicated to use.
3.The underlined word “latrine” in the third paragraph might have similar meanings to the word “__ ”n the text．
A．Loo B．sanitation C．diarrhea D．prototype
4.The team from CIT won the prize because their design .
A．can change human waste into electricity
B．can turn human waste into charcoal
C．can produce power with solar energy
D．can use urine for flushing
5.If someone “flush money down the toilet”, they are .
A．showing off their wealth
B．being angry with their work onditions
C．wasting money for nothing
D．expressing their great determination
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