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    I would like to tell you a story about my uncle Theo. He is my oldest uncle, a tall, thin, grey-haired man whose thoughts are always on learning and nothing else. He is quiet, gentle and absent-minded and with about as much sense as a child where money is concerned. Well, he applied a post in Camford University. It was a very good post and there were hundreds of candidates who applied for it, and about fifteen, including Theo, were asked to be interviewed.
    Camford is a very small town; there is only one hotel in it, and it was so full that they had to put many of the candidates two in a room. Theo was one of these, and the man who shared the room with him was a self-confident fellow called Adams, about twenty years younger than Theo, with a loud voice, and a laugh that you could hear all over the hotel. But he was a clever fellow all the same and had a good post in Iscaiot College, Narkover. Well, the Dean, who was the head of the department of the University, and the committee interviewed all the candidates; and as a result of this interview, the number of the candidates was reduced to two, Uncle Theo and Adams. The committee couldn’t decide which of the two to take, so they decided to make their final choice after each of the candidates had given a public lecture in the college lecture-hall. The subject they had to speak on was “The Civilization of the Ancient Summerians”; and the lecture had to be given in three days’ time.
    Well, for these three days Uncle Theo never left his room. He worked day and night at that lecture, writing it out and memorizing it, almost without eating or sleeping. Adams didn’t seem to do any preparation at all. You could hear his voice and his laughter where he had a crowd of people around him. He came to his room late at night, asked Uncle Theo how he was getting on with his lecture, and then told him how he had spent the evening playing bridge, or at the music hall. He ate like a horse and slept like a log; and Uncle Theo sat up working at his lecture.
    The day of the lecture arrived. They all went into the lecture hall and Theo and Adams took their seats on the platform. And then, Theo discovered, to his horror,  that typewritten copy of his speech had disappeared! The Dean said they would call on the candidates on the alphabetical order, Adams first; and the despair in his heart, Theo watched Adams calmly take the stolen speech out of pocket and read it to the professors who were gathered to hear it. And how well he read it! Even Uncle Theo had to admit he couldn’t have read it nearly so eloquently himself, and when Adams finished there was a great burst of applause. Adams bowed and smiled, and sat down.
    Now, it was Theo’s turn. But what could he do? He had put everything he knew into the lecture. His mind was too much upset to put the same thoughts in another way. With a burning face he could only repeat, word for word, in a low, dull voice, the lecture that Adams had spoken so eloquently. There was hardly any applause when he sat down.
    The Dean and the committee went out to decide who the successful candidate was, but everyone was sure what their decision would be. Adams leaned across to Theo and patted him on the back and said, smilingly, “Hard luck, old fellow, but after all, only one of us could win”
    Then the Dean and the committee came back, “Gentlemen”, the Dean said, “the candidate we have chosen is Mr. Hobdell.” Uncle Theo had won! The audience were completely taken by surprise, and the Dean continued, “ I think I ought to tell you how we arrived at the decision. We were all filled with admiration at the learning and eloquence of Mr. Adams. I was greatly impressed. But, you will remember, Mr. Adams read his lecture to us. When Mr. Hobdell’s turn came, he repeated that speech, word by word from memory, though, of course, he couldn’t have seen a line of it before. Now a fine memory is absolutely necessary for this post; and what a memory Mr. Hobdell must have! This is why we decided that Mr. Hobdell was exactly the man we wanted! ”
    As they walked out of the room, the Dean came up to Uncle Theo, who was so confused but so happy that he hardly knew whether he was standing on his head or heels; and as he shook Theo’s hand he said, “Congratulations, Mr. Hobdell! But, my fellow, when you are on our staff, you must be more careful and not leave valuable papers lying about!”
    【小题1】. Which of the followings best describes Uncle Theo?

    A．Good-manneredB．ModestC．ChildishD．Bookish
    【小题2】 What do we know about the post at Camford University?
    A．The applicants had to sit for an examination.
    B．There was much competition for the post.
    C．The post requires a lot of teaching experience.
    D．The post offered quite high salary.
    【小题3】. Adams did not bother to do any preparation because______.
    A．he was quite familiar with the subject.
    B．he knew the committee members well.
    C．he had a well-thought-out plan.
    D．he had full confidence in himself.
    【小题4】 When Uncle Theo’s turn came, _______.
    A．he felt so angry that he couldn’t see a word.
    B．he felt so upset that he could not remember anything.
    C．he had to put the same thoughts in another way.
    D．he had to repeat the speech, word by word from memory.
    【小题5】 When the committee went out to make a decision, Adams _______.
    A．could not help feeling worried.
    B．could hardly wait to show his joy.
    C．felt sorry for Theo and tried to cheer him up.
    D．felt ashamed and tried to chat with Theo.
    【小题6】Theo became successful because _______.
    A．he had a better memory than Adams.
    B．he was more experienced than Adams.
    		C．the committee knew he was exactly the man they wanted.
    D．the committee knew Adams had copied Theo’s speech.

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    　　I would like to tell you a story about my uncle Theo．He is my oldest uncle, a tall, thin, grey-haired man whose thoughts are always on learning and nothing else．He is quiet, gentle and absent-minded and with about as much sense as a child where money is concerned．Well, he applied a post in Camford University．It was a very good post and there were hundreds of candidates who applied for it, and about fifteen, including Theo, were asked to be interviewed．

    　　Camford is a very small town; there is only one hotel in it, and it was so full that they had to put many of the candidates two in a room．Theo was one of these, and the man who shared the room with him was a self-confident fellow called Adams, about twenty years younger than Theo, with a loud voice, and a laugh that you could hear all over the hotel．But he was a clever fellow all the same and had a good post in Iscaiot College, Narkover．Well, the Dean, who was the head of the department of the University, and the committee interviewed all the candidates; and as a result of this interview, the number of the candidates was reduced to two, Uncle Theo and Adams．The committee couldn’t decide which of the two to take, so they decided to make their final choice after each of the candidates had given a public lecture in the college lecture-hall．The subject they had to speak on was “The Civilization of the Ancient Summerians”; and the lecture had to be given in three days’ time．

    　　Well, for these three days Uncle Theo never left his room．He worked day and night at that lecture, writing it out and memorizing it, almost without eating or sleeping．Adams didn’t seem to do any preparation at all．You could hear his voice and his laughter where he had a crowd of people around him．He came to his room late at night, asked Uncle Theo how he was getting on with his lecture, and then told him how he had spent the evening playing bridge, or at the music hall．He ate like a horse and slept like a log; and Uncle Theo sat up working at his lecture．

    　　The day of the lecture arrived．They all went into the lecture hall and Theo and Adams took their seats on the platform．And then, Theo discovered, to his horror, that typewritten copy of his speech had disappeared! The Dean said they would call on the candidates on the alphabetical order, Adams first; and the despair in his heart, Theo watched Adams calmly take the stolen speech out of pocket and read it to the professors who were gathered to hear it．And how well he read it! Even Uncle Theo had to admit he couldn’t have read it nearly so eloquently himself, and when Adams finished there was a great burst of applause．Adams bowed and smiled, and sat down．

    　　Now, it was Theo’s turn．But what could he do? He had put everything he knew into the lecture．His mind was too much upset to put the same thoughts in another way．With a burning face he could only repeat, word for word, in a low, dull voice, the lecture that Adams had spoken so eloquently．There was hardly any applause when he sat down．

    　　The Dean and the committee went out to decide who the successful candidate was, but everyone was sure what their decision would be．Adams leaned across to Theo and patted him on the back and said, smilingly, “Hard luck, old fellow, but after all, only one of us could win”

    　　Then the Dean and the committee came back, “Gentlemen”, the Dean said, “the candidate we have chosen is Mr．Hob dell．” Uncle Theo had won! The audience were completely taken by surprise, and the Dean continued, “I think I ought to tell you how we arrived at the decision．We were all filled with admiration at the learning and eloquence of Mr．Adams．I was greatly impressed．But, you will remember, Mr．Adams read his lecture to us．When Mr．Hob dell’s turn came, he repeated that speech, word by word from memory, though, of course, he couldn’t have seen a line of it before．Now a fine memory is absolutely necessary for this post; and what a memory Mr．Hob dell must have! This is why we decided that Mr．Hob dell was exactly the man we wanted! ”

    　　As they walked out of the room, the Dean came up to Uncle Theo, who was so confused but so happy that he hardly knew whether he was standing on his head or heels; and as he shook Theo’s hand he said, “Congratulations, Mr．Hob dell! But, my fellow, when you are on our staff, you must be more careful and not leave valuable papers lying about!”

    (1)

    Which of the followings best describes Uncle Theo?

    [　　]

    A．

    Good-mannered

    B．

    Modest

    C．

    Childish

    D．

    Bookish

    (2)

    What do we know about the post at Camford University?

    [　　]

    A．

    The applicants had to sit for an examination．

    B．

    There was much competition for the post．

    C．

    The post requires a lot of teaching experience．

    D．

    The post offered quite high salary．

    (3)

    Adams did not bother to do any preparation because _________．

    [　　]

    A．

    he was quite familiar with the subject．

    B．

    he knew the committee members well．

    C．

    he had a well-thought-out plan．

    D．

    he had full confidence in himself．

    (4)

    When Uncle Theo’s turn came, _________．

    [　　]

    A．

    he felt so angry that he couldn’t see a word．

    B．

    he felt so upset that he could not remember anything．

    C．

    he had to put the same thoughts in another way．

    D．

    he had to repeat the speech, word by word from memory．

    (5)

    When the committee went out to make a decision, Adams _________．

    [　　]

    A．

    could not help feeling worried．

    B．

    could hardly wait to show his joy．

    C．

    felt sorry for Theo and tried to cheer him up．

    D．

    felt ashamed and tried to chat with Theo．

    (6)

    Theo became successful because _________．

    [　　]

    A．

    he had a better memory than Adams．

    B．

    he was more experienced than Adams．

    C．

    the committee knew he was exactly the man they wanted．

    D．

    the committee knew Adams had copied Theo’s speech．

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    He is ____ than ____of the two, so he is _____of the three.

    A．thin; thin; thinner                  B．thinner; thinner; thinnest

    C．thinner; the thinner; the thinnest   D．the thin; the thinner; the thinnest

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    Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph．There is one extra heading that you do not need．

    Even Intelligent People Can Fail

    1．________

    The unusual things about the innovators(创新者)who succeeded in making our modern world is how often they failed．Turn on a light, take a photograph, watch TV, search the web, jet across the Pacific Ocean, talk on a cell-phone．The innovators who left us these things had to find the way to success through a maze(错综复杂)of wrong turns．

    2．________

    We have just celebrated the 125th anniversary of American innovator Thomas Edison’s success in heating a thin line to white, hot heat for 14 hours in his lab in New Jersey, US．He did that on October 22, 1879, and followed up a month later by keeping a thread of common cardboard alight(点亮着的)in an airless space for 45 hours．Three years later he went on to light up half a square mile of downtown Manhattan, even though only one of the six power plants in his design worked when he turned it on, on September 4, 1882．

    3．________

    “Many of life’s failures,” Edison said, “are because that people did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up．” Before that magical moment in October 1879, Edison had worked out no fewer than 3,000 theories about electric light．But in only two cases did his experiments work．

    4．________

    No one likes failure, but the smart innovators learn from it．Mark Gumz, the head of a camera maker, attributes some of the company’s successes in technology to understanding failure．His popular phrase is：“You only fail when you quit．”

    5．________

    Over two centuries, the most common quality of the innovators has been persistence(坚忍不拔)．That is another way of saying they had the emotional ability to keep on with what they were doing．Walt Disney, the founder of Disneyland, was so penniless after a series of financial failures that he was left shoeless in his office because he could not afford the ＄1.50 to get his shoes from the repair shop．Pioneering car maker Henry Ford failed with one company and was forced out of another before he developed the Model T Car．

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    Prince Roman was a Polish nobleman, a captain in the army of Czar Nicholas of Russia. When his young wife died, the prince left the army and returned in sorrow to his native Poland.
    In time, love for his country and its people took the place of his lost love. He joined a Polish rising against the Russians. The rising was crushed, and Prince Roman was taken prisoner. His relatives and friends begged the military court to have mercy on him.
    The president of the court received these appeals kindly. He was a good Russian, but he was also a good-natured man. Russian hatred of Poles was not as fierce at that time as it became later; and the Russian felt sympathetic as soon as he saw the prince's thin, tired, sun-burnt face.
    The court of three officers sat in a bare room, behind a long black table. Some clerks sat at the two ends, but no one else was there when the guards brought in the prince.
    Those four walls shut out from Prince Roman all sights and sounds of freedom, all hopes of the future, all comforting thoughts. How much love for Poland remained in him then? How much love of life? He stood before his judges alone, having refused their permission to sit. He answered their first formal questions — his name and so on — clearly and politely although he felt too weary to talk.
    Then the president of the court seemed to suggest how the young man could best help himself. He asked questions in a way that almost put the right answers in the prisoner's mouth.
    “Didn't your wife's death drive you to despair? Wasn't your mind unbalanced by that sad event ?”
    Prince Roman was silent.
    "You were not fully responsible for you conduct, were you?"
    Prince Roman was silent.
    "You made a sudden blind decision to join the rising. You didn't realize that your actions were dangerous and dishonourable. Isn't that the truth of this unfortunate matter?"
    The judges looked at the prisoner hopefully. In silence the prince reached for a pen and some paper. He wrote, "I joined the rising because I believe it was just." He pushed the paper towards the president, who took it and read it in silence.
    Prince Roman was sentenced to hard work for life in the Siberian salt mines. It was a sentence of delayed death.
    When Czar Nicholas read the report and sentence, he added in his own handwriting, "Make sure that this prisoner walks in chains every step of the way to Siberia."
    【小题1】What does the passage tell us of Poland at the time?

    A．Polish officers in the Russian army had to return to Poland.
    B．Russia was at war with Poland, so the Poles were enemies.
    C．The Russians were very cruel rulers of Poland.
    D．It was ruled by Russia, and Poles served in the Russian army.
    【小题2】How much love for Poland remained in the prince when he stood trial?
    A．Not much, probably, after the failure of the rising.
    B． More than he had ever felt before.
    C．As much as he had ever felt.
    D．The passage doesn't suggest an answer to the question.
    【小题3】The questions which the president asked show that ______.
    A．he was trying to find excuse for the prince's conduct
    B．the court wanted the prince to admit his own guilt
    C．he wanted to learn the truth about the Polish rising
    D．Prince Roman was a weak person
    【小题4】In the trial, Prince Roman ______.
    A．was afraid to be responsible for his actions
    B．blamed others for his actions
    C．accepted responsibility for his actions
    D．admitted his guilt
    【小题5】According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
    A．The judges were less sympathetic than Czar Nicholas.
    B．Czar Nicholas was as kind as the judges.
    C．Czar Nicholas was not as sympathetic as the judges.
    D．The judges were as cruel as Czar Nicholas.

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