A. if B. when C. that D. what Reading A Each morning a rich man found a poor man sitting on a park bench. The poor man always sat there, looking at the big hotel in which the rich man lived. One day the rich man got out of his car and said to the poor man, “Excuse me, but I just want to know why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning. “Sir, said the poor man, “I am a failure. I have no money, no family, no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I’ll sleep in that hotel. The rich man said, “That is not so hard. Tonight your dream will come true. I’ll pay for the best room in that hotel for you for a whole month. A few days later, the rich man went by the poor man’s room to ask him how he was enjoying himself. To his surprise, he found that the man had moved out of the hotel, back to his park bench. When the rich man asked why, the poor man said, “you see, when I am down here sleeping on my bench, I dream I’m up there, in that big hotel. It’s a wonderful dream. But when I was up there, I dreamed I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible dream, and I couldn’t get any sleep at all. 查看更多

 

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-He asked Tom, “Have you finished your homework?”  -He asked Tom     .

A. if had he finished his homework.    B. whether he had finished his homework.

C. if he had finished homework.     D. if you had finished your homework.

 

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With a good shopping position and the right amount(数量)of money , any educated person ought to be able to make a living out of a bookshop . It is not a difficult trade to learn and the large chain-stores can never force the small bookseller out of existence as they have done to the corner shop . But the hours of work are very long-I was only doing a part-time job , but my boss put in a seventy-hour week ,besides regular journeys out of shopping hours to buy books .

    The real reason why I should not like to be back in the book trade for life , however , is that while I was in it, I lost my love of books . A bookseller cannot always tell the truth about his books , and that gives him a dislike for them . There was a time when I really did love books—loved the sight and smell and feel of them—if they were fifty or more years old , that is . Nothing pleased me quite so much as to buy a bargain lot of them on sale for several pounds . There is a peculiar flavour(独特的味道)about the unexpected books you pick up in that kind of collection: little-known eighteenth-century poets , or out-of-date geography books . For occasional reading—in your bath , for example , or late at night when you are too tired to go to bed—there is nothing as good as a very old picture story-book .

    But as soon as I went to work in the bookshop, I stopped buying books . Seen in a mass, five or ten thousand at a time , books were dull and even a little tiresome . Nowadays I do buy one occasionally , but only if it is a book that I want to read and can’t borrow , and I never buy rubbish .

64. According to the passage ,    is one of the necessary conditions to run a bookshop .

    A. an educated shop-owner  

    B. a good position at a street corner

    C. a regular journey out of the shop  

    D. the force of large chain-stores

65. The author should not like to be back as a bookseller for life because    .

    A. he hated his job of selling books   

    B. selling books was only a part-time job

    C. the books in the shop gave him a dislike

    D. he was unable to be honest about the books he sold

66. The books preferred by the author should be those    .

    A. stories making readers sleepless     

    B. valuable ones bought on sale

    C. peculiar ones with great expectation    

    D. geography ones from the eighteenth century

67. The author will only buy new books    .

    A. if he feels dull and tired       

    B. after he gives up his job as a bookseller

    C. which are interesting but hard to borrow

    D. when he throws away old ones

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_______, and the Iraqis can get real peace.

A. If the American soldiers leave Iraq.    B. Driving the American soldiers out of Iraq.

C. Drive the American soldiers out of Iraq.  D. The American soldiers leave Iraq.

 

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We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects(缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things   1 !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe    ___2  .

These comments may come from stories about us that have been  3  for many years—often from  4  childhood. These stories may have no  5  in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical (操作机械的) skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations  6  my development? I was never  7  to work on cars or be around  8  . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!

Six years later,  9  , I was at California University, working on my doctors degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I  10  down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the  11  side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.”

Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life  12 and told him about my  13  performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “  14  is it that you can solve   15  mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”

Suddenly I realized that I didn’t  16  from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to  17  . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been  18  my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true.  19  , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost  20  we choose.

1. A. away       B. off         C. up           D. down

2. A. them      B. myself       C. yourself      D. others

3. A. said       B. spoken       C. spread       D. repeated

4. A. as long as   B. as far back as   C. as well as     D. as much as

5. A. basis      B. plot         C. cause            D. meaning

6. A. lead       B. improve       C. affect       D. change

7. A. encouraged B. demanded    C. hoped       D. agreed

8. A. means     B. tools        C. facilities      D. hammers

9. A. therefore   B. somehow     C. instead       D. however

10. A. settled    B. turned       C. took            D. got

11. A. passive     B. active       C. negative       D. subjective

12. A. experiences     B. trips            C. roads        D. paths

13. A. unexpected B. poor        C. excellent     D. average

14. A. When     B. What        C. How         D. Why

15. A. complex   B. advanced      C. common      D. primary

16. A. arise      B. separate       C. suffer       D. come

17. A. believe    B. suspect      C. adopt        D. receive

18. A. weakening B. strengthening   C. abandoning   D. accepting

19. A. As a result     B. At the same time C. In addition    D. On the contrary

20. A. anything    B. something    C. nothing      D. all

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Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experiences? Strangely enough, the answer to both these questions is yes. To some degree our intelligence is given us at birth, and no amount of special education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the limits of a person's intelligence are fixed at birth, but whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, now held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways.

  It is easy to show that intelligence is to some degree something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people at random(随机地) from the population, it is likely that their degrees of intelligence will be completely different. If on the other hand we take two identical (完全相同的) twins they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.

  Imagine now that we take two identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment as well as birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all, are likely to have similar degrees of intelligence.    

Which of these sentences best describes the writer’s point in Para. 1?

  A. To some degree, intelligence is given at birth.

  B. Intelligence is developed by the environment.

  C. Some people are born clever and others born stupid.

  D. Intelligence is fixed at birth, but is developed by the environment.

It is suggested in this passage that_______.

  A. unrelated people are not likely to have different intelligence

  B. close relations usually have similar intelligence

  C. the closer the blood relationship between people, the more different they are likely to be

  in intelligence

  D. people who live in close contact with each other are not likely to have similar degrees

    of intelligence

In Para. 1, the word "surroundings" means_______.

  A. intelligence     B. life      C. environments    D. housing

The best title for this article would be_______.

  A. On Intelligence              B. What Intelligence Means

  C. We are Born with Intelligence  D. Environment Plays a Part in Developing Intelligence

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