Robinson Diaz lives in a small cottage high in the Andes Mountains of South America. Diaz is a “cable racer”, and every morning he faces the difficult task of taking the local teacher to her school. To do this, he first walks for an hour up to a place the locals call Los Pinos, right at the edge of the 400-foot deep gorge of the Negro valley. Here, one end of a thick metal cable has been fixed to a wooden post. The cable stretches right across the deep valley to the other side, a kilometer away.
A metal hook is fixed to the cable, with leather straps hanging from it. Diaz fastens the straps around his shoulders and waist, does a quick safety check and then, without hesitating, throws himself off the edge of the mountain. Attached to the cable by only the metal hook, he rapidly picks up speed and soon he is racing through the air. Crossing the valley by wire takes him 30 seconds, instead of the two hours it would take him to walk down through the rain forest and climb up the steep muddy slopes on the other side.
As Diaz begins his trip, Diana Rios, a 23-year-old elementary teacher, is waiting on the other side of the gorge for the moment when he will come racing through the mist towards her at 100 mph. She will then return with him, hanging on to him as he goes back along the cable. Diana had no idea when she took the teaching job that just getting to work in the village school would be dangerous. "At first I wanted to cry," she says, clutching her hook as the metal cable starts to rattle violently at Diaz’s approach. “But I soon got used to it.” She still prefers to go with Diaz, though, rather than making the frightening and dangerous crossing on her own.
For the inhabitants of Los Pinos, the wire cable is a lifeline. For more than 50 years, it has served the community as a form of transport to and from the rest of the world. Everything that comes arrives via the cable----bricks and wood for building, sacks of rice and corn. Pregnant mothers, who must get to the nearest clinic, cross the wire during the darkness of the night, returning with their newborn babies. It is dangerous, but they have no choice.
This time Robinson Diaz makes a perfect landing on Diana’s side of the gorge. For him, the dangers of this daily journey are insignificant. “What I’m really scared of are snakes,” he says. “This is nothing in comparison.” Then Dianna straps herself into her harness and hooks herself up to the wire behind Diaz, holding on to him tightly. He turns, flashes her a smile, releases the brake and kicks away. Within seconds, the teacher and the cable-racer have disappeared back into the mist.
60．Robinson Diaz has a difficult task every morning because he has to________.
A．climb a long way up a mountain B．get to the edge of a valley
C．walk through a dangerous area D．help someone get to work
61．In the second paragraph, the writer suggests that Diaz is________.
A．confident about what he is doing B．unaware of the danger he faces
C．careless about his own safety D．uncertain of what he is doing
62．What is Diana's opinion about the journey now?
A．She enjoys it. B．She no longer finds it a problem.
C．It makes her feel very frightened. D．It would be impossible without Diaz.
63．What does Diaz say about using the cable?
A．He does not find it as frightening as other things.
B．He does not think there is any risk.
C．He is happy that he can help the teacher.
D．He is worried about the danger of snakes
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“Yes, I’ll be ready at nine. Goodbye, dear, and thanks again.”Mrs Robinson replaced the receiver and crossed the hall into the 1 . It had not been an easy telephone call for her to make. Her daughter had been very kind, 2 , and had immediately agreed to pick her 3 . But Mrs Robinson hated to admit 4 she needed help. Since her husband died ten years ago, she had prided herself upon her independence. She had 5 to live in their little house 6 and refused to go and live with her daughter.
But on 7 evening, she was standing at her living-room window, 8 out at the“SOLD”notice in the small front garden. Her feelings were 9 . Naturally she was 10 at the thought of leaving her house as it was full of so many memories. But 11 she was looking 12 to spending her last years near the sea, 13 in the little sea town 14 she was born. 15 the money from the sale of the house, she had bought a little flat there.
Her husband had always been very 16 his house. She hadn’t been unhappy here, but it didn’t mean as much to 17 as it had to him. 18 most of the people who lived in the street had moved away, and it was this that had made her 19 to sell it.
The next morning Mrs Robinson left the house for the station 20 her daughter’s car.
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SPORTS EVENTSBASKETBALL:
Central Sports Center, City Road
All Stars vs(对)Rockets, Sat. 8∶30 p.m., $ 12
Northerners vs Tiger, Sun. noon, $ 12
Momington Center, Swan, Street
Blues vs Giants, Sat 8∶30 p.m., $ 10
BUSHWALKING:
Meet at Wanda Station, Sun. 9∶00 a.m. sharp for 3 hr walk to Canary Mountains, $ 7, Ph
8765432
Meet at Westtey Station, Sun. 9:a.m. sharp for full day walk to Wombat Calley
FOOTBALL:
ST Martins Sports Center
ST Martins vs Doonsberg, Sat. 2∶00 p.m., $ 8
Eastside Central vs Light Hill, Sun 2∶00 p.m.
Neil Park Recreation Center
Neil Park vs Robinson, Sat. 2∶00 p.m., $ 11
Essen vs Springwood, Sun 2∶00 p.m. $ 11
LAWN BOWLS(草坪滚木球)
Tans Town B. C.
Tans Town vs White Vale, Sun. 9∶00 a.m
Wake Hill B. C.
Wake Hill vs Golls, Sat 2∶00 p.m.
1．Which of the following events can be seen by the same person?
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A．St Martin vs Doonsberg and Hill vs Coll.
B．Essen vs Springwood and Eastside Central vs Light Hill.
C．Northerners vs Tigers and Nell Park vs Robinson.
D．All Stars vs Rockets and Blues vs Giant.
2．Which of the following events is the most expensive to attend?
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3．Which day and time is the most popular for sporting events?
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4．We can ten football is the most popular sport because ________ ________.
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A．it is the least expensive to attend
B．the teams have many supporters
C．The venues(比赛地点)are easy to get to
D．There are more games scheduled(预定)each week
5．How many sports teams are mentioned in the passage?
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Fifty–eight percent of the teachers interviewed in the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) questionnaire had come across copying among their pupils. Gill Bullen from Itchen College in Southampton, for example, said, "Pieces handed in by two students were identical and significantly better than either of them could have done. Not only that, the essays handed in didn't quite answer the title question I had set". A teacher from Leeds said, "I had one piece of work so bravely cut and pasted that it still contained ads from the web page."
Connie Robinson from Stockton Riverside College said, "With less able students it is easy to spot copying as the writing style changes in the middle of the assignment, but with more able students it is sometimes necessary for tutors to carry out Internet research to identify the source of the copy."
Mary Bousted, general secretary of the ATL, said," Teachers are struggling under a mountain of cut-and-pasting to spot whether work was the student's own or copy." She called for policies to stop copying, and asked for help from exam boards and the government in providing resources and techniques to detect cheats.
But there was another side. "I have found once students clearly understand what copying is, its consequences and how to reference correctly so they can draw on published works, copying becomes less of a problem," said Diana Baker from Emmanuel College, Durham.
"I think the majority of students who engage in copying do it more out of ignorance than the desire to cheat. They really want to succeed on their own."
53. The passage mainly wants to tell us ____________.
| A. the benefits of the Internet for students |
| B. web copying is a serious problem in the UK |
| C. the ways to find web copying for teachers |
| D. how we can use the Internet to do homework |
| A. excellent | B. contrasting | C. the same | D. complex |
| A. It’s not easy to find the less able students copy from the Internet |
| B. It’s difficult to find whether the more able students have copied. |
| C. The less able student will not change their writing style when copying. |
| D. The more able students needn’t copy from the Internet. |
| A. The writer doesn’t tell us. | B. The writer feels angry about it. |
| C. The writer thinks it doesn’t matter. | D. The writer approves of it. |
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The house next door had been empty for so long that we had quite forgotten what it was to have neighbors. One day, __36__, a great furniture lorry drew up near our front gate and a short time, all kinds of furniture were __37__ on the pavement. A small car arrived, out of which came seven people , a man a woman and five children of __38__ ages. The children rushed out and began laughing__39__ as the whole family moved into the house. Windows were __40__ open; furniture was put into__41__; and little faces looked curiously at us over the fence and disappeared. It was our first__42__ to the Robinsons.
Though we became firm__43__ with our neighbors, we often had causes to be made angry by them. Our garden became an unsafe place: little boys __44__up as cowboys or Indians would jump up from somewhere, __45__wooden guns at us and __46__ us to put up our hands. Sometimes our lives were __47__; at others, we were killed with a __48__ “Bang, Bang!”. Even more dangerous were the arrows that occasionally came sailing __49__ the garden fence.
But we did not __50__ go in fear for our lives. The Robinsons were friendly and helpful and when we left for our holidays, we knew we had nothing to fear __51__our neighbors were around. We understood what it was like to have __52__ in the long, dull winter evening __53__ Mr Robinson would __54__ in for a cup of tea and chat; or when Mr. Robinson would __55__ over the fence and talk endlessly with father about gardening problems.
1.A. so B. but C. however D. therefore
2.A. unloaded B. loaded C. moved D. bought
3.A. the same B. various C. same D. young
4.A. delightedly B. angrily C. sadly D. friendly
5.A. forced B. broken C. kicked D. pushed
6.A. place B. order C. room D, building
7.A. interview B. introduction C. arrangement D. management
8.A. strangers B. enemies C. friends D. relatives
9.A. pretending B. looking C. dressing D. making
10.A. put B. take C. throw D. point
11.A. leadB. order C. ask D. make
12.A. wasted B. saved C. devoted D. spared
13.A. fast B. soft C. sharp D. slow
14.A. in B. on C. over D. under
15.A. always B. often C. even D. then
16.A. though B. unless C. so long as D. even if
17.A. cheers B. fun C. discussion D. company
18.A. as B. when C. while D. since
19.A. drop B. jump C. slip D. break
20.A. fall B. swim C. lean D. lie
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There was enough evidence to prove that the explosion in Robinson’s house _______ the leak of natural gas.
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