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The town came into ______ as we turned the corner.

A.being          B.use        C.fashion           D.sight

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After twenty years of shaving(剃须)himself every morning, a man in a small Southern town thought he had enough. He told his wife that he intended to let the local barber shave him each day. He put on his hat and coat and went to the barber shop.

The barber's wife, Grace, was working that day, so she performed the task. Grace shaved him, and said, "That will be $20." The man thought the price was a bit high, but he paid the bill and went to work.

The next morning the man looked in the mirror, and his face was as smooth as it had been when he left the barber shop the day before. “Not bad, he thought. At least I don't need to get a shave every day.”

The next morning, the man's face was still smooth. Two weeks later, the man was still unable to find any trace of whiskers on his face. It was more than he could take and he was frightened, so he returned to the barber shop.

   "I thought $20 was high for a shave", he told the barber's wife, "but you must have done a great job. It's been two weeks and my whiskers still haven't started growing back." The expression on her face didn't even change, expecting his comment. She responded, "You were shaved by Grace and once shaved, always shaved!"

It’s implied in the first sentence of the passage that          .

A. the man lived a very poor life                B. the man liked shaving himself

C. the man finally got bored of shaving himself    D. the man decided not to shave again

We learn that at first the man thought $20 for a shave was         .

A. too little    B. too much     C. proper     D. impossible

What can we learn from the passage?

A. Everybody in the town knows Grace.

B. Nobody wants to be shaved by Grace in the town.

C. The man was scared by the result two weeks later.

D. The man’s whiskers grew back at last.

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I paid a visit to Cambridge last January.  Though the trip took me 5 hours and it rained the whole day with strong winds there, the town deserved a visit.
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【小题1】The writer believed that the trip took more time because of________

A.bad weatherB.unexpected stops of the bus
C.one passengerD.an accident on the way
【小题2】Why is Cambridge called a university town?
A.It has 10,000 undergraduates and postgraduates.
B.There are over thirty colleges in the town.
C.All the students and staff live in the town.
D.The university and town are fully combined.
【小题3】It can be inferred that most Cambridge students take _______as their first means of transport.
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After twenty years of shaving(剃须)himself every morning, a man in a small Southern town thought he had enough. He told his wife that he intended to let the local barber shave him each day. He put on his hat and coat and went to the barber shop.
The barber's wife, Grace, was working that day, so she performed the task. Grace shaved him, and said, "That will be $20." The man thought the price was a bit high, but he paid the bill and went to work.
The next morning the man looked in the mirror, and his face was as smooth as it had been when he left the barber shop the day before. “Not bad, he thought. At least I don't need to get a shave every day.”
The next morning, the man's face was still smooth. Two weeks later, the man was still unable to find any trace of whiskers on his face. It was more than he could take and he was frightened, so he returned to the barber shop.
"I thought $20 was high for a shave", he told the barber's wife, "but you must have done a great job. It's been two weeks and my whiskers still haven't started growing back." The expression on her face didn't even change, expecting his comment. She responded, "You were shaved by Grace and once shaved, always shaved!"
【小题1】It’s implied in the first sentence of the passage that          .

A.the man lived a very poor lifeB.the man liked shaving himself
C.the man finally got bored of shaving himselfD.the man decided not to shave again
【小题2】We learn that at first the man thought $20 for a shave was         .
A.too littleB.too muchC.properD.impossible
【小题3】What can we learn from the passage?
A.Everybody in the town knows Grace.
B.Nobody wants to be shaved by Grace in the town.
C.The man was scared by the result two weeks later.
D.The man’s whiskers grew back at last.

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In the 1980s, with the paint on the water tower fading, residents of Calumet City decided to make the face their own.They repainted the tower, and a Happy Cook Restaurant and Smiley Face Inn appeared on the highway outside the town, ready to make you smile! Local businessmen printed the Smiley icon on their business cards, and displayed Smiley Face souvenirs in shop windows.

By the late 1990s, the survival of the Smiley Face water tower was assured.It didn’t matter why the face had been painted there—it was now a part of history.In May 2009, the town again celebrated its Smiley Face water tower as a symbol of hope for a better tomorrow.

60.The author mainly wants to tell readers that the symbol asks them to_________

A.greet people politely       B.deal with their problems

C.enjoy themselves            D.forget the past

61.The underlined word “icon ” in the first paragraph probably means________.

A.beautiful picture      B.building    C.image       D.valuable painting

62.Why did Calumet residents accept the tower happily?

A.It set a good example to them.      

B.It made them work harder.

C.They wanted to think it for supplying water.

D.They wanted to make the Smiley Face their own.

63.From the text we learn that the Smiley Face water tower________

A.was based on a painter’s inspiration

B.is a symbol of the prosperity of the town

C.is meant to give people hope for a better future

D.was created in 1972 by the city council, just for fun

 

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Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.

I am one of those unfortunate people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the spot I was heading for.

I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit that they didn’t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite direction to that in which you should be going.

If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.

Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.

Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions of my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.

1.What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?

A.He will direct the right way to the person willingly.

B.He will reply to it by the means of being a stranger to the town.

C.He will give the very person long list of direction.

D.He is going to show the man an opposite direction.

2. Why did the writer consider himself to be an unlucky dog?

A.Because of his poor sense of direction.

B.Because he always forget the way to home.

C.Because he did not have any friend.

D.Because he used to be shy and dared not ask others the way.

3.How did the visitor feel when he was showed into the very room?

A.He felt strange.

B.He felt embarrassed.

C.He felt very sad.

D.He felt astonished.

4. Who showed the right way to the interviewee according to the passage?

A.Someone we don’t know.

B.The writer did it for himself.

C.The secretary did so.

D.A warm-hearted old lady did such a thing.

 

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