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    　　Two year s ago, Wendy Ha snip, 47，experienced a brain injury that left her speechle s s for two week s．When she finally recovered, she found her self talking with what seemed to be a French accent．“I phoned a friend the other day, and she spent the fir st ten minute s laughing, ” Ha snip said at the time, “while I have nothing again st the French．”

    　　Ha snip suffered from foreign accent syndrome(外国口音综合症), a rare condition in which people find them selve s speaking their own language like someone from a foreign country．The condition u sually occur s in people who have experienced a head injury or a stroke-a sudden lo s s of con sciou sne s s, sen sation, or movement cau sed by a blocked or broken blood ve s selin the brain．

    　　The condition wa s fir st identified during the Second World War in a Norwegian woman who se head wa s injured during an attack by the German military．The woman recovered but wa s left with a German-sounding accent, to the horror of fellow villager s who avoided her after that．

    　　Re searcher s have di scovered that the combined effect of the damage to several part s of the brain make s victim s lengthen certain syllable, mi spronounce sound s, and change the normal pitch(音高)of their voice．Tho se change s in speech add up to what sound s like a foreign accent．

    　　Another re searcher, a phonetician, say s victim s of the syndrome don't acquire a true foreign accent．Their strangely changed speech only re semble s the foreign accent with which it ha s a few sound s in common．

    　　When an Engli sh woman named Annie recently developed foreign accent syndrome after a stroke, she spoke with what seemed to be a Scotti sh accent．However, Annie' s Scotti sh coworker s said she didn't sound at all like a Scot．

    (1)

    According to the pa s sage, people ________ may have foreign accent syndrome．

    [　　]

    A．

    who se parent ha s experienced a head injury

    B．

    who have lived in a foreign country for a long time

    C．

    who have lo st their con sciou sne s s owing to a stroke

    D．

    who have learned foreign language from their coworker s

    (2)

    If a per son suffer s foreign accent syndrome, ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    hi s coworker s will be afraid of him and avoid contacting with him

    B．

    he ha s more chance of suffering stroke again

    C．

    he will speak a fluent foreign language like native speaker s

    D．

    hi s speech only ha s a few sound s in common with the foreign accent

    (3)

    Writing thi s pa s sage, the writer' s main purpo se i s to ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    introduce foreign accent syndrome and some related information

    B．

    warn people not to be at the ri sk of experiencing a stroke

    C．

    make it clear that foreign accent syndrome can be cured

    D．

    tell a story of an injured woman during the Second World War

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    　　It was Satuday．As always, it was the one, for “Six days, shall you labar and all your work”was taken senously back then, Outside, Father and Mr．Patnce ncxt door were bxsy conny tcood lnside the wiel users Mother ane Mrs．Patrick were enpted in seeng cleaning

    　　Somehow the boy s had shipped away to the back lot with their kites．Now, evet at the reis of having Brother caught to beat carpets．they had sent him to the kitchen tox exsre xding, sccmed there was no limt to the heights to which kites would fly today

    　　My mothe looked at the sitting room, its furndign disordered for a tborough sweeting．Again she cast a look toward the window “Come on, girls! Let's take sing to the beer and theem a tutue”

    　　On the way we met Mrs．Patrick, Ianghing guiltily as if she wrig doing woeig wrong

    　　The never was such a day for flying kites! We played all our frsh string into the boys' kites up higher and higher, We could hardly distingwish the orang-coloced sports of the kites Now and then we slowly pullked one kite back, watching it dancing upo and down in the wind and finally bringing it down to earth, just for the joy of sending yt up again

    　　Even out fathers dropped their tools and joined us．Out mothers look their turn, laughing like schoolgirls Ithink we were all beside ourselves Parents forgx their daty and their dignity; children for everyday fights and little jealousies．"Perhaps it's like this in the some of heafer,"I thought confusedly．

    　　It we growing dark before we all walked sleepily back to the housew．Isuppose we had some chean and orderly enough．The strange thing was, we didn't mention that ady afterward Ifelt a little embarrasse．Surely none of the of the others had been as exceted as I Ikxked the memory up in that deepest part of me where we keep “the things that cannot be and yet they are”

    　　The years went on, then one day Iwas hurrying about my kitchen in a city apartment, trying to get some work out of the way while my three-year-old, sisrently cried her desire to go park, see duck

    　　“I can't go!”I said．”“I have this angt and when I'm through I'll be too rired to walk that far

    　　My mother, who was visiting us, go up from the peas she was shelling It's a wllderful day, she offered, really warm, yet there's a fine breeu．Do you remimber that day we flew kites?

    　　I stoppoed in my dash between store and sink．The locked door flew open and with it a rush of memorese Come on, I told my little girl You're right, it's too good d day to miss．

    　　Another decade passed, We were in the aftennath(余波)of a great war, All evening we had been asking our returned soldier, the youngest Patrick Boy, about his experiences as a prisone war, He has ked freely, but now for a long time he had been silent, What was he thinking of-what dark and horrible things?

    　　"Sany!"A smile shpped out frow his jips．"Do you remem-no, of course you wouldn't make the impression on you as it did on me．”

    　　I hardly dared speak,”Remrmber what?

    　　“I used to think of that day a lot in POW camo(战俘营)，when things weren's too good, DO you remember the we flew the kites?

    (1)

    mrs．patnck was laughing gultily because she thought ________

    [　　]

    A．

    she was too old to fly kites

    B．

    her husband would make fun of her

    C．

    she shoule have been doing her how

    D．

    supposed to the don't game

    (2)

    by “we were all beside ourselves writer means that they all ________

    [　　]

    A．

    felt confused

    B．

    went wild with joy

    C．

    looked on

    D．

    forfot their fights

    (3)

    what did the think atfer the kite flying?

    [　　]

    A．

    boys must hace had nore fun than the firls

    B．

    shoule have finished their work before playing

    C．

    her parents should spend more time with them

    D．

    all the others must have forgotten that day

    (4)

    why did the writer finally agree to jtake her little girl for an outing?

    [　　]

    A．

    she suddenluy renmenbered ther duty as mother

    B．

    she was reminded of the day thety felw kits

    C．

    she ha dfinished her

    D．

    she thought it was a

    (5)

    the youngest patrick boy iss mentioned to show that ________

    [　　]

    A．

    the write was not alone in treasuring her fond menories h

    B．

    his expenience in POW camp threw a shadow over his life

    C．

    childhood friend\ship means so much to the writer

    D．

    people like him really changed a lot after the war

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    Mi s s Jone s ________ mu sic at Bardon School for five year s and now she i s an actre s s．

    [　　]

    A．taught

    B．ha s taught

    C．had taught

    D．ha s been teaching

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    It was a test all of us would hope to pass, but none of us really wants to take. A masked gunman points his weapon at a Christian and asks “Do you __1__ God？” She knows that if she says “yes，” she'll pay with her __2__. But unfaithfulness to her Lord is unthinkable.

    So, with what would be her last __3__， she calmly answers “Yes, I believe in God.”

    As you may have guessed, the event I'm __4__ took place last Tuesday in Littleton, Colorado.

    As the Washington Post __5__， the two students who shot 13 people, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, did not __6__ their victims at random(随意)—they were __7__ out of ugly prejudices(偏见)．

    Media coverage has __8__ the killers' hostility(敌意) toward racial minorities and athletes, but there was another group the pair __9__ every bit as much, if not more: Christians. And, there were plenty of them to hate at Columbine High School. According to some __10__ eight Christians—four Evangelicals and four Catholics—were killed.

    Among them was Cassia Bernall. And it was Cassia who made the dramatic __11__ I've just described—fitting for a person whose __12__ movie was Brave heart in which the hero dies a martyr's(殉教的) __13__.

    Cassia was a 17－year－old junior with long blond hair, hair she wanted to __14__ and have made into wigs(假发) for cancer patients who had __15__  their hair through chemotherapy(化疗). She was __16__ in her youth group at West Pool's Community Church and was known for __17__ a Bible to school.

    Cassia was in the school library reading her Bible when the two young killers __18__. According to witnesses, one of the killers __19__ his gun at Cassia and asked, “Do you believe in God？” Cassia __20__ and then answered, “Yes, I believe in God.” “Why？” the gunman asked. Cassia did not have a chance to respond；the gunman had already shot her head.

    1. A. believe in　B. care for　C. fight againstD. rely on

    2. A. money          B. belief       C. life              D. happiness

    3. A. sight          B. words        C. note              D. picture

    4. A. asking         B. watching     C. noticing          D. describing

    5. A. reported       B. wrote        C. asked             D. watched

    6. A. choose         B. kill         C. ask               D. put

    7. A. killing        B. walking      C. acting            D. making

    8. A. taken on       B. focused on   C. opposed to        D. cared about

    9. A. liked          B. noted        C. got               D. hated

    10. A. accounts      B. papers       C. policemen         D. articles

    11. A. speech        B. decision     C. notes             D. reports

    12. A. favourite      B. colour       C. black             D. long

    13. A. life          B. death        C. hero              D. belief

    14. A. dress up      B. put up       C. cut off            D. make smart

    15. A. brightened             B. lost        

    C. burnt                 D. thickened

    16. A. active        B. hidden       C. lazy              D. tall

    17. A. writing       B. carrying     C. reading            D. sending

    18. A. came over            B. went over   

    C. drove in              D. burst in

    19. A. put           B. drew         C. pointed           D. showed

    20. A. paused        B. stood         C. smiled           D. walked

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    　　A few days ago I asked my sons’ governess（女家庭教师）Julia to come into my study. “Be seated, Julia, ”I said, “Let’s settle our accounts. I guess you most likely need some money, but maybe you’re too polite to mention it. Now then, we agreed on thirty dollars a month...”

    　　“Forty.”

    　　“No, thirty. I made a note of it. I always pay our governess thirty. Well, um, you’ve been here two months, so...”

    　　“Two months and five days.”

    　　“Exactly two months. I made a special note of it. That means you have sixty dollars coming to you. Take off nine Sundays... you know you didn’t work with Tom on Sundays, you only took walks. And three holidays... ”Julia was biting her finger nail nervously, her face red, but - not a word.

    　　“Three holidays, therefore take off twelve dollars. Four days Tom was sick and there were no lessons, as you were occupied only with Dick. Three days you had a toothache and my wife gave you permission not to work after lunch. Twelve and seven - nineteen. Take nineteen off ... that leaves. hmm.... forty one dollars. Correct？”

    　　Julia’s left eye reddened with tears welling up. Her chin trembled; she coughed nervously and blew her nose, but - still not a word.

    　　“Around New Year’s Day you broke a teacup and a saucer; take off two dollars. The cup cost more, it was a treasure of the family, but- forget it. When didn’t I take a loss! Then, due to your neglect （疏忽）, Tom climbed a tree and tore his jacket; take away ten. Also due to your carelessness the maid stole Dick’s shoes. You ought to watch everything! You get paid for it. So, that means five more dollars off. The tenth of January I gave ten dollars.”

    　　“You didn’t. ”sobbed Julia.

    　　“But I made a note of it.”

    　　“Well... if you say so.”

    　　“Take twenty seven from forty one -that leaves fourteen.”

    　　Both her eyes were filled with tears. Beads of sweat stood on the thin pretty little nose. Poor girl!

    　　“Only once was I given any money,” she whispered, her voice trembling, “and that was by your wife. Three dollars, nothing more.”

    　　“Really? You see now, and I didn’t know that! Take three from fourteen.. leaves eleven. Here’s your money, my dear. Three, three, three, one and one. Here it is !”

    　　I handed her eleven dollars. She took them and pocketed them.

    　　“Merci （法语: 谢谢）,”she whispered.

    　　I jumped to my feet and started pacing the room. I was overcome with anger. “For what, this - ‘merci’?” I asked.

    　　“For the money. ”

    　　“But you know I’ve cheated you - robbed you ! I have actually stolen from you ! Why this‘merci’？”

    　　“In my other places they didn’t give me anything at all.”

    　　“They didn’t give you anything? No wonder! I played a little joke on you, a cruel lesson, just to teach you... I m going to give you all the eighty dollars! Here they are in the envelope all ready for you... Is it really possible to be so spineless （懦弱）?Why didn’t you protest? Why were you silent? Is it possible in this world to be without teeth and claws（爪）—to be such a fool?”

    　　Embarrassed, she smiled. And I could read her expression,“It is possible.”

    　　I asked her pardon for the cruel lesson and, to her great surprise, gave her the eighty dollars. She murmured her little“merci”several times and went out. I looked after her and thought,“How easy it is to crush the weak in this world !”

    　　While talking to Julia, the wrier expected from her ________.

    　　A. a protest　　　　　　　　　　　B. gratitude

    　　C. obedience　　　　　　　　　　 D. an explanation

    　　What shocked the writer was Julia’s ________.

    　　A. nervousness in front of her boss

    　　B. acceptance of injustice

    　　C. shyness when talking about money

    　　D. reluctance to express herself

    　　The writer said, “Is it possible in this world to be without teeth and claws?” He was actually telling the governess ________.

    　　A. to be more aggressive

    　　B. to be more careful in her work

    　　C. to protect her right

    　　D. to live independently

    　　At the end of the story, the writer said,“ How easy it is to crush the weak in this world!”to show ________.

    　　A. his understanding of Julia’s anxiety

    　　B. his worry about Julia’s future

    　　C. his concern on the living condition of working - class people

    　　D. his sympathy for the mental state of those exploited

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