People have been burying the dead at Salem’s Hope Cemetery since 1833. The place is filled with old gravestones and gothic mausoleums(哥特式陵墓), the spirits of the dead hanging over the land like an early morning fog.
Keeping watch, a few steps from the road with her skirt over the pedestal (基座), is Goldie Belle Taylor, her face weathered but otherwise in good condition. On this day, she is holding a bunch of pink rises because Goldie Belle always holds flowers. Someone makes sure of that.
“And she has had fresh flowers in her hands for the last 150 years.” Karen Biery lives in Damascus, about five miles west of Hope Cemetery. She’s written a book based on the legend of Goldie Belle Taylor titled Believe. In 1886, at the age of two, young Goldie Belle used her hands to sop up (抹去) the left over elderberry juice from her father’s iron kettle. She died not long after from poisoning. She was the love of her dad’s life, and he was so upset that he sold the family farm to buy the Italian made statue, which today marks her grave.
At first, it was her father who brought the flowers and laid them in her hands. When he died in 1896, the flowers kept coming. Her flowers are different per season. Why do the flowers keep miraculously appearing? People have tried to find out by having camped by the statue, but not even the groundskeepers have been able to catch the criminal.
It’s said that a fairy arrives at Hope Cemetery looking for the grave of her birth mother. She comes across Goldie Belle’s statue.
【小题1】The underlined word “that” in paragraph 2 probably refers to________.

A．her face in good condition

B．her bunch of pink roses

C．Goldie Belle Taylor is holding pink roses

D．Goldie Belle Taylor always holds flowers

【小题2】It can be inferred from the third paragraph __________.

A．her father was poisonous	B．the iron kettle was poisonous
C．elderberry juice was poisonous	D．it was her father that hated her

【小题3】After her father died, the flowers in the hands of Goldie Belle Taylor_______.

A．usually change	B．were stolen
C．are no longer fresh	D．come from a criminal

【小题4】What would be the best title for the passage?

A．A fairy brings the flowers.	B．The mystery of Goldie’s flowers.
C．What happens to the girl?	D．How do the flowers get there?

Sports are full of wonderful moments, but perhaps  36   is as exciting as the finish of the marathon. It is the longest, hardest  37   of all. The name “marathon” comes from a village in  38  . A famous battle was 39  there in the year 490 BC. When the Greeks had beaten the Persians, a soldier  40   all the way  41   Marathon to Athens, more than 40 kilometers to  42   people the good  43  . When the modern Olympic Games  44   in 1896, the organizers knew this  45  . The marathon has been a race  46  that time.

In the ancient world the Olympic Games were held  47   four years of 1000 years. They were an important part of life. In the  48   Games we try to copy their  49   . The finest sportsmen in the world are collected in one place   50   at least the finest “amateurs（业余爱好者 ） ” are. An amateur is someone who does not earn 51  money from sport. It is often difficult to say who is an amateur and who is not. It is  52  that Olympic athletes do not earn large amounts of  money like professional （职业的）sportsmen. But Olympic athletes are often students or teachers of a  53  . They have to  54   a lot of time training. Their governments pay for their training travel and pocket money, 55  they want them to win. Some people think this changes the Olympics. They feel that the Games are now a political marathon.

1.                A．something      B．everything      C．anything  D．nothing

 

2.                A．run            B．race           C．game D．match

 

3.                A．Greece         B．England         C．America  D．France

 

4.                A．broken out      B．fought          C．happened D．taken place

 

5.                A．went           B．drove          C．ran  D．walked

 

6.                A．in             B．of             C．with D．from

 

7.                A．tell            B．say            C．talk  D．show

 

8.                A．story           B．film            C．result    D．news

 

9.                A．held           B．broke out       C．had  D．started

 

10.               A．news          B．soldier         C．story D．race

 

11.               A．at             B．from           C．after  D．since

 

12.               A．in             B．each           C．every D．after

 

13.               A．modern        B．exciting        C．interesting D．important

 

14.               A．plans          B．diaries         C．ideas D．programs

 

15.               A．and           B．but            C．where D．or

 

16.               A．some          B．any            C．a little D．much

 

17.               A．true           B．false           C．a lie  D．interesting

 

18.               A．country        B．lesson          C．game D．sport

 

19.               A．use            B．take           C．spend D．cost

 

20.               A．as             B．because        C．since D．if

 

 

Agnes Miller was one of the earliest leaders of the Women’s Liberation Movement in the United States. She was born on a farm in Missouri in 1892. Strangely enough she had a very happy life as a child. She was the only daughter and the youngest child of five. Her parents and her brothers always treated her as their favorite.

In 1896 the family moved to Chicago. Three years later they moved back to St. Louis where Agnes spent the rest of her childhood. She enjoyed her years in school and was an excellent student of mathematics. She also was quite skillful as a painter.

It was when Agnes went off to college that she first learned that women were not treated as equals. She didn’t like being treated unequally but she tried not to notice it. After graduating from college she tried to get a job in her major field—physics. She soon found it was almost impossible for a woman.

Agnes spent a full year looking for a job. Finally she gave up in anger. She began writing letters of anger to various newspapers. An editor in New York liked her ideas very much. He specially liked her style. He asked her to do a series of stories on the difficulties that women had in finding a job. And there she began her great fight for equal rights for women.

1.Where did Agnes spend her childhood?

A．Missouri.	B．Chicago.
C．New York.	D．St. Louis and Chicago.

2.At school, Agnes was good at      .

A．physics and painting

B．maths and painting

C．writing and maths

D．physics and writing

3.What happened in Agnes’s life when she was in college?

A．She learned to accept the fact that men and women were unequal.

B．She learned that it was impossible for a woman to be a scientist.

C．She came to know of the inequality between men and women.

D．She developed her personal way of writing.

 

People have been burying the dead at Salem’s Hope Cemetery since 1833. The place is filled with old gravestones and gothic mausoleums(哥特式陵墓), the spirits of the dead hanging over the land like an early morning fog.
Keeping watch, a few steps from the road with her skirt over the pedestal (基座), is Goldie Belle Taylor, her face weathered but otherwise in good condition. On this day, she is holding a bunch of pink rises because Goldie Belle always holds flowers. Someone makes sure of that.
“And she has had fresh flowers in her hands for the last 150 years.” Karen Biery lives in Damascus, about five miles west of Hope Cemetery. She’s written a book based on the legend of Goldie Belle Taylor titled Believe. In 1886, at the age of two, young Goldie Belle used her hands to sop up (抹去) the left over elderberry juice from her father’s iron kettle. She died not long after from poisoning. She was the love of her dad’s life, and he was so upset that he sold the family farm to buy the Italian made statue, which today marks her grave.
At first, it was her father who brought the flowers and laid them in her hands. When he died in 1896, the flowers kept coming. Her flowers are different per season. Why do the flowers keep miraculously appearing? People have tried to find out by having camped by the statue, but not even the groundskeepers have been able to catch the criminal.
It’s said that a fairy arrives at Hope Cemetery looking for the grave of her birth mother. She comes across Goldie Belle’s statue.
【小题1】The underlined word “that” in paragraph 2 probably refers to________.

A．her face in good condition

B．her bunch of pink roses

C．Goldie Belle Taylor is holding pink roses

D．Goldie Belle Taylor always holds flowers

【小题2】It can be inferred from the third paragraph __________.

A．her father was poisonous

B．the iron kettle was poisonous

C．elderberry juice was poisonous

D．it was her father that hated her

【小题3】After her father died, the flowers in the hands of Goldie Belle Taylor_______.

A．usually change

B．were stolen

C．are no longer fresh

D．come from a criminal

【小题4】What would be the best title for the passage?

A．A fairy brings the flowers.

B．The mystery of Goldie’s flowers.

C．What happens to the girl?

D．How do the flowers get there?

People have been burying the dead at Salem’s Hope Cemetery since 1833. The place is filled with old gravestones and gothic mausoleums(哥特式陵墓), the spirits of the dead hanging over the land like an early morning fog.

Keeping watch, a few steps from the road with her skirt over the pedestal (基座), is Goldie Belle Taylor, her face weathered but otherwise in good condition. On this day, she is holding a bunch of pink rises because Goldie Belle always holds flowers. Someone makes sure of that.

“And she has had fresh flowers in her hands for the last 150 years.” Karen Biery lives in Damascus, about five miles west of Hope Cemetery. She’s written a book based on the legend of Goldie Belle Taylor titled Believe. In 1886, at the age of two, young Goldie Belle used her hands to sop up (抹去) the left over elderberry juice from her father’s iron kettle. She died not long after from poisoning. She was the love of her dad’s life, and he was so upset that he sold the family farm to buy the Italian made statue, which today marks her grave.

At first, it was her father who brought the flowers and laid them in her hands. When he died in 1896, the flowers kept coming. Her flowers are different per season. Why do the flowers keep miraculously appearing? People have tried to find out by having camped by the statue, but not even the groundskeepers have been able to catch the criminal.

It’s said that a fairy arrives at Hope Cemetery looking for the grave of her birth mother. She comes across Goldie Belle’s statue.

1.The underlined word “that” in paragraph 2 probably refers to________.

A．her face in good condition

B．her bunch of pink roses

C．Goldie Belle Taylor is holding pink roses

D．Goldie Belle Taylor always holds flowers

2.It can be inferred from the third paragraph __________.

A．her father was poisonous                 B．the iron kettle was poisonous

C．elderberry juice was poisonous             D．it was her father that hated her

3.After her father died, the flowers in the hands of Goldie Belle Taylor_______.

A．usually change                         B．were stolen

C．are no longer fresh                      D．come from a criminal

4.What would be the best title for the passage?

A．A fairy brings the flowers.                 B．The mystery of Goldie’s flowers.

C．What happens to the girl?                 D．How do the flowers get there?