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Chair Miller and his crew picked up a new B-24 at California’s March Field on Christmas Eve, 1943, and prepared to fly to England. But they decided to have “one more hamburger” before going out for the distant land of fish and chips.
As the airmen sat in a local restaurant, a beautiful young waitress approached. “I understand you’re going to England,” she said to Miller. Then she told him that her fiancé, an aviation gunner like Miller, was stationed there.
The woman said she was waiting for him to provide an address so she could send him a picture of herself. “You might run into him,” she told Miller hopefully. “Would you take it?”
Miller knew it was unlikely he’d ever see her fiancé. But he didn’t want to disappoint the woman. He took the picture and placed it in his wallet. Later he realized he hadn’t even asked the man’s name. Then he was on to Europe and the war.
On August 9, 1944, Miller’s plane was shot down, and he was forced to parachute to an island off the coast of Holland. Captured by the Nazis, he spent the next nine months as a prisoner of war.
It was on Christmas Eve that someone told him a 19-year-old American prisoner down the hall was badly depressed and possibly suicidal（有自杀倾向）. Miller decided to pay the man a visit.
To break the ice, he mentioned the POW band he’s started, with the help of the Red Gross. The young man, he learned, played the saxophone. The two began to exchange details about their families. Was he married, the kid asked. “Yeah, since 1938,” responded Miller.
“Have you got her picture?” the soldier asked. So Miller reached for his wallet, and pulled out a photograph of his wife.
“She’s beautiful!” the young man responded. Then he noticed that a second picture had fallen out, and an expression of wonder crossed his face. “Where did you get that?” Miller told the story of the waitress at the California hamburger stand.
“That’s my fiancée,” the surprised man said. Miller kept his promise to the beautiful girl back home and turned the picture over to its rightful owner.
1．The reasonable connection between Miller and the young man is that ________.
A．they were in love with the same waitress
B．they played with the same POW band
C．they were kept prisoner in the same camp
D．they both served as gunners in a new B-24
2．The underlined words “To break the ice” would probably mean “______”.
A．to keep warm in icy surroundings
B．to start a conversation after a silence
C．to get rid of the ice around the house
D．to escape from the freezing place
3．It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A．Miller did not ask about the young man’s name on purpose
B．the young man killed himself on account of missing his fiancée
C．Miller joined in the war against the Nazis and was captured
D．the young man got the photo of his fiancée by accident
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TIJUANA, Mexico-A powerful earthquake swayed (摇动 ) buildings from Los Angeles to Tijuana, killing
two people in Mexico, blacking out cities and forcing the evacuation (疏散) of hospitals and nursing homes.
One California city closed offits down town because of unsteady buildings.
The 7. 2-magnitude quake centered just south of the US border near Mexicali was one of the strongest
earthquakes to hit region in decades.
"It sounds like it's felt by at least 20 million people," USGS seismologist (地震学家) Lucy Jones said."
Most of Southern Califomia felt this earthquake."
Sunday aftemoon's earthquake hit hardest in Mexicali, a busi ne8s center along Mexico's border with
California, where authorities said the quake was followed by at least 20 smaller aftershocks, in- cluding ones
of magnitudes 5. 1,4. 5 and 4. 3.
"It has not stopped trembling in Mexicali," said Baja Califor nia State Civil Protection Director Alfredo
Escobedo on Monday.
Escobedo said one man was killed when his home collapsed (倒塌) just outside of Mexicali and another
died when he rushed into the street in panic and was struck by a car. At least 100 people were injured in the
city, most of them struck by falling objects. Pow er was out in virtually the whole city.
Susan Warmbier was putting away groceries in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista when her husband
asked, "Is the house mov ing?"
Elsewhere in San Diego, there were reports of shattered windows, broken pipes and water main breaks in
private buildings, but no reports of injuries, San Diego Fire-Rescue Department spokes- man Maurice Luque
said. Coronado Bridge over San Diego Bay was briefly closed as a safety measure.
Across the border in Tijuana, Mexico, the quake caused build- ings to sway and knocked out power in
some areas. No tsunami warning was issued, but hundreds of people on Tijuana's crowded beach feared the
worst and fied when they felt the ground shake.
“If there is one thing I’m sure about, it is that in a hundred years from now we will still be reading newspapers. It is not that newspapers are a necessity. Even now some people get most of their news from television or radio. Many buy a paper only on Saturday or Sunday. But for most people reading a newspaper has become a habit passed down from generation to generation.
The nature of what is news may change. What basically makes news is what affects our lives-the big political stories, the coverage of the wars, earthquakes and other disasters, will continue much the same. I think there will be more coverage of scientific research, though. It’s already happening in areas that may directly affect our lives, like genetic（基因的）engineering. In the future, I think there will be more coverage of scientific explanations of why we feel as we do-as we develop a better understanding of how the brain operates and what our feelings really are.
It’s quite possible that in the next century newspapers will be transmitted electronically from Fleet Street and printed out in our own home. In fact, I’m pretty sure that it will happen in the future. You will probably be able to choose from a menu, making up your own newspaper by picking out the things you want to read-sport and international news. etc.
I think people have got it wrong when they talk about competition between the different media（媒体）. They actually feed off each other. Some people once foresaw that television would kill off newspapers, but that hasn’t happened. What is read on the printed page lasts longer than pictures on a screen or sound lost in the air. And as for the Internet, it’s never really pleasant to read something just on a screen.
In the writer’s opinion, in the future, .
A. more big political affairs, wars and disasters will make news
B. newspapers will not be printed in publishing houses any longer
C. newspapers will cover more scientific research
D. more and more people will watch TV
From the passage, we can infer that .
A. newspapers will win the competition among the different media
B. newspapers will stay with us together with other media
C. television will take the place of the newspaper
D. the writer believes some media will die out
The phrase “feed off” in the last paragraph means “ ”.
A. depend on B. compete with C. fight with D. kill off
What is the best title for the passage?
A. The Best Way to Get News. B. The Changes of Media.
C. Make Your Own newspaper. D. The Future of Newspaper.
Whatever our differences as human beings are we all think we’re more like the rest of the animal world than we realize. It is said that we share 40 per cent of our genetic（遗传的）structure with the simple worm.
But that fact has helped Sir John Sulston win the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Sir John is the founder of the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, which was set up in 1992 to get further understanding of the human genome（染色体组）.
To help them do this, they turned to the worm. The nematode（线虫类的）worm is one of the earliest creatures on planet earth. It is less than one millimeter long, completely transparent and spends its entire life digging holes through sand. But it still has lots to say about human life, and what can be done to make it better.
What the worm told Sir John and his colleagues was that each of the cells in the human body is programmed like a computer. They grow, develop and die according to a set of instructions that are coded in our genetic make-up.
Many of the diseases that humans suffer from happen when these instructions go wrong or are not obeyed. When the cell refuses to die but carries on growing instead, this leads to cancer. Heart attacks and diseases like AIDS cause more cell deaths than normal, increasing the damage they do to the body. Sir John was the first scientist to prove the existence of programmed cell death.
Sir John Sulston got a Nobel Prize for Medicine because he has .
A．found that human beings are similar to the worm
B．got the fact we share 40 per cent of our genetic structure with the simple worm
C．found the computer which controls each of the cells in the human body
D．proved that cell death is programmed
People might be seriously ill if the cells in their body .
A．grow without being instructed B．die regularly
C．fail to follow people’s instructions D．develop in the human body
The underlined word“they”（paragraph 5）refers to .
A．cell deaths B．diseases C．instructions D．cells
What is the subject discussed in the text?
A．The theory of programmed cell deaths. B．A great scientist—Sir John Sulston.
C．The programmed human life. D．Dangerous diseases.
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