55.A. wanted man B. owner C. policeman D. waiter Rescuers have found the bodies of over 130 people killed in two ferry disasters in Bangladesh.The accidents happened during a storm that hit the country on April 21st.Hundreds more are missing or feared to be dead. The two ferries sank in different rivers near the capital city of Dhakfi as strong winds and rain hit the South Asian country.The government has since banned all ferries and other boats from traveling at night during the April-May stormy season. One of the ferries.MV Mitali.was carrying far more people than it was supposed to.About 400 passengers fitted into a space made for just 300.police said.The second ferry carried about 100 passengers. “The number of deaths is certain to rise. said an official in charge of the rescue work.“No one really knows how many people were on board the ferry or how many of them survived. Ferries in Bangladesh don’t always keep passenger lists.making it difficult to determine the exact number of people on board. Besides the ferry accidents.at least 40 people were killed and 400 injured by lightning strikes.falling houses and trees and the sinking of small boats. Storms are common this time of year in Bangladesh.as are boating accidents.Ferry disasters take away hundreds of lives every year in a nation of 130 million people. Officials blame these river accidents on a lack of safety measures, too many passengers in boats and not enough checks on weather conditions. Ferries are a common means of transport in Bangladesh.It is a country covered by about 230 rivers.Some 20,000 ferries use the nation’s Waterways every year.And many of them are dangerously overcrowded.Since 1977, more than 3,000 people have died in some 260 boating accidents. 查看更多

 

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     A little old couple walked slowly   1   McDonald's one cold winter evening. They looked out of place among
the young families and couples   2   there that night.
     Some of the customers looked   3   at them. You could tell what the admirers   4   ."Look, there is a couple
who has been   5   a lot together, probably for 60 years or more!"
     The little old man walked up to the cash register, placed his order and paid   6   it. The couple took a table
near the back wall and on their tray there was one hamburger, one order of French fries and one drink. The
little man unwrapped the hamburger and cut it   7  . Then he carefully counted out the French fries,   8   them in
two piles and neatly placed one pile in front of his wife. He took a sip of the drink, his wife took a sip and then
set the cup down between them. 
       9  the man began to eat his few  10   of hamburger the crowd began to get restless. Again you could   11   
what they were thinking."That poor old couple can only   12   one meal for the two of them. A young man stood
up and came over to the old couple's table. He politely   13   to buy another meal for them. The old man replied
that they   14   everything. Then the crowd   15   that the little old lady  16  a bite. She just sat there   17   her
husband eat. Again the young man came over and begged them  18  him buy them something to eat. They
refused again. As the little old man finished eating, the young man could no longer stand it. Again he offered to
buy some food. After   19   again, he asked the little old lady a question."Ma'am, why aren't you eating? You said
that you shared everything. What  20  you are waiting for?" She answered,"The teeth."
(     )1. A. out of            
(     )2. A. eat                
(     )3. A. surprising         
(     )4. A. thought             
(     )5. A. over               
(     )6. A. off                
(     )7. A. in half           
(     )8. A. cut                
(     )9. A. As                
(     )10. A. mouths           
(     )11. A. say              
(     )12. A. afford          
(     )13. A. supplied        
(     )14. A. were used to share
(     )15. A. found out       
(     )16. A. didn’t eat      
(     )17. A. watched          
(     )18. A. to allow        
(     )19. A. refused         
(     )20. A. is it            
B. into            
B. who eat        
B. anxiously       
B. would think     
B. through         
B. back            
B. into half        
B. divided         
B. Since          
B. hands           
B. talk            
B. bought          
B. provided         
B. used to share 
B. realizing       
B. ate             
B. watching        
B. to let          
B. to refuse       
B. is it that    
C. with             
C. eating           
C. curiously          
C. had thought    
C. throughout       
C. /                 
C. in halves       
C. separated         
C. For           
C. bites              
C. tell             
C. offer             
C. offered           
C. used to sharing  
C. see             
C. had eaten        
C. seen              
C. permitting       
C. refusing          
C. was it that   
D. on                        
D. were eating               
D. admiringly                    
D. were thinking         
D. across                   
D. for                         
D. to halves               
D. put                      
D. While                  
D. sips                        
D. speak                    
D. afforded               
D. wanted                    
D. were used to sharing   
D. noticed                  
D. hadn’t eaten          
D. enjoy                       
D. letting                   
D. having refused           
D. was it               

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A thief who dropped a winning lottery ticket at the scene of his crime has been given a lesson in honesty. His victim, who picked up the ticket,  then claimed the £25000 prize, managed to trace him, and handed over the cash. The robbery happened when maths professor Vinicio Sabhatucci, 58, was changing a tyre on an Italian motorway. Another motorist, who stopped "to help", stole a suitcase from his car and drove off. The professor found the dropped ticket and put it in his pocket before driving home to Ascoli in eastern Italy.

     Next day, he saw the lottery results on TV and, taking out the ticket, realized it was a  winner. He claimed the 60 million lire prize. Then he began a battle with his conscience. Finally, he decided he could not keep the money despite having been robbed. He advertised in newspapers and on radio, saying, "I'm trying to find the man who robbed me. I have 60 million lire for him--a lottery win. Please meet me. Anonymity guaranteed."

      Professor Sabbatucci received hundreds of calls from people hoping to trick him into handing them the cash. But there was one voice he recognized--and he arranged to meet the man in a park. The robber, a 35-year-old unemployed father of two, gave back the suitcase and burst into tears. He could not behave what was happening. "Why didn't you keep the money?" he asked. The professor replied, "I couldn't, because it's not mine." Then he walked off, spurning the thief's offer of a reward.

The sentence "Then he began a battle with his conscience." in Paragraph 2 implies all of the following EXCEPT that

   A. he knew what he should do as soon as he saw the lottery results

   B. he hesitated about keeping the money for some time

   C. he thought for a moment of avenging himself on the robber

   D. he came to realize that honesty is more important than money

Hundreds of people phoned professor Sabhatucci because they         .

   A. wanted to make fun of him   B. hoped to get the money

   C. knew who the robber was    D. lost the lottery ticket

The underlined word "spurning” in the last sentence can be replaced by         .

    A. accepting      B. claiming      C. rejecting      D. canceling

If the story appears in a newspaper, the best title might be          .

   A. A Thief's lucky Day        B. A popular Maths Professor

   C. A Magic lottery           D. A Reward of Honesty

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One day, when I was working as a psychologist in England,an adolescent boy showed up in my office. It was David. He kept walking up and down restlessly, his face pale, and his hands shaking slightly. His head teacher had referred him to me.  "This boy has lost his family," he wrote.  "He is understandably very sad and refuses to talk to others, and I'm very worried about him. Can you help?”

         I looked at David and showed him to a chair. How could I help him? There are problems psychology doesn’t have the answer to, and which no words can describe. Sometimes the best thing one can do is to listen openly and sympathetically.

         The first two times we met, David didn't say a word. He sat there, only looking up to look at the children's drawings on the wall behind me. I suggested we play a game of chess. He nodded. After that he played chess with me every Wednesday afternoon——in complete silence and without looking at me. It's not easy to cheat in chess, but I admit I made sure David won once or twice.

         Usually, he arrived earlier than agreed, took the chess board and pieces from the shelf and began setting them up before I even got a chance to sit down. It seemed as if he enjoyed my company. But why did he never look at me?

         "Perhaps he simply needs someone to share his pain with," I thought. "Perhaps he senses that I respect his suffering.”Some months later, when we were playing chess, he looked up at me suddenly.

         "Is your turn," he said.

         After that day, David started talking. He got friends in school and joined a bicycle club. He wrote to me a few times about his biking with some friends, and about his plan to get into university. Now he had really started to live his own life.

         Maybe I gave David something. But I also learned that one——without any words——can reach out to another person. All it takes is a hug, a shoulder to cry on, a friendly touch, and an ear that listens.

1.When he first met the author, David         .

A. felt a little excited

B.looked a little nervous

C. walked energetically

D. showed up with his teacher

2.As a psychologist, the author         .

A. was able to describe David's problem

B. was skeptical about psychology

C. was ready to listen to David

D. was sure of handling David's problem

3.David enjoyed being with the author because he________.

A. wanted to ask the author for advice

B. bear the author many times in the chess game

C. liked the children’s drawings in the office

D. need to share sorrow with the author

4.What can be inferred about David?

A.He recovered after months of treatment. 

B.He liked biking before he lost his family.

C.He went into university soon after starting to talk.

D.He got friends in school before he met the author.

5.What made David change?

A.His teacher’s  help.

B.The author’s  friendship.

C.The author’s silent communication with him.

D.His exchange of letters with the author.

 

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— You were late again, Peter.

—Sorry, I ______ to be here on time, but the traffic on the roads _____ heavy.

A. wanted; was                      B. had wanted; was    

C. wanted; would have been            D. had wanted; would have been

 

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It’s a small gas station that has snacks,drinks,cigarettes,and candies.The young man behind the counter(柜台) knows his    16   by name and what they normally want to buy.He treats children and adults with equal   17   .He reads science fiction behind the counter when business is   18 .
One day , three people rushed in and grabbed food off the shelves as fast as they could ,   19  not intending to pay for it . He hit the “panic button”, then went over the counter and    20  the front door . It was obvious that they were homeless, and equally obvious that they were’t going    21  with their ill-gotten gains (不义之财).They   22  the food and simply crowded together in panic-knowing the police were   23  the way.
Imagine what they must have felt like when they were told they didn’t have to steal if they were that   24 . “We have food in the back expired(到期) but still   25  to eat . If you need food , you   26  have some .”
They were told to   27  what they had dropped and put it back , and then asked to straighten out the mess. They were doing just that   28  the police arrived. The officers were told the situation was under control and the police were no longer   29  .
This wasn’t what they had   30  . They were being treated as human beings who could right the wrong they’d done. Shocked , they quickly followed orders to take turns and use the restroom to clean up.
Soon three   31  people walked out with all the   32  their arms could hold. They were   33  that , if they needed to come back again , they were to ask and not just grab. 
And then the young man went back to read until the next customer came in . He would be the 34  person in the world to claim he was a hero . But he gave three people something they were in desperate need of –a   35  amount of self-respect and a little bit of hope.
【小题1】A  frends B  neighbors    C  customers    D  passengers
【小题2】A  respect     B  pride        C  wisdom   D  right
【小题3】 A  slow   B  busy         C  heavy        D  swift
【小题4】A  bravely     B  reasonably   C  hardly       D  obviously
【小题5】A  opened B  locked       C  closed       D  broke
【小题6】A  nowhere     B  somewhere    C  anywhere     D  everywhere
【小题7】A  hid         B  lifted       C  swallowed    D  dropped
【小题8】 A  in         B  on           C  off          D  by
【小题9】A  anxious     B  cautious     C  courageous   D  hungry
【小题10】 A  safe       B  easy         C  sweet        D  unique
【小题11】A  must    B  can          C  should       D  need
【小题12】A  hold up B  hand out     C  pick up      D  hand in
【小题13】A  when    B  after            C  before       D  since
【小题14】A  popular     B  necessary    C  reliable         D  admired
【小题15】A  wanted  B  desired      C  expected     D  admired
【小题16】 A  dirtier    B  cleaner      C  cleverer     D  quicker
【小题17】 A  money B  cigarettes   C  drinks       D  food
【小题18】A  reminded B  warned      C  ordered      D  persuaded
【小题19】A  first       B  last         C  best         D  worst
【小题20】A  large   B  fair         C  small        D  full

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