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    66．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage? A．The Shaolin Temple has 29 branches in China. B．The most important Shaolin Temple is in Tianjin. C．There used to be only a tower and some stone monuments in North Shaolin Temple. D．The restoration hasn’t been started for the local government hasn’t approved the budget. 【查看更多】

     

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    This cake is ________ that one. Which of the following is wrong?


    1. A.
      three times the size of
    2. B.
      three times so big as
    3. C.
      three times bigger than
    4. D.
      one third as big as

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    My wife passed away a few years ago,and I went through the worst time in my life.I even wanted to kill myself.Just for kids,I had to continue to live and work as small-town doctor at my medical clinic in Hawaii.My kids had gone to live on the mainland,and I was alone.Then they asked me to have a family trip.On our trip, we turned on the TV at the motel and saw the second plane crash into the World Trade Center. Seeing it falling down, I said to my kids: “I’m going to Afghanistan”. And a few weeks later, international Medical Corps sent me to set up 20 clinics in provinces where people had no health care. In these field clinics surrounded by frightening shoots or deadly bombs, we were eventually serving 27,000 patients a month in a very busy schedule. Tired and nervous, I gradually had a sense of achievement, a sense of purpose, and my depression went away.
    In the years to follow, I went to Indonesia after the tsunami, Pakistan after the earthquakes, Sudan after the civil war and Iraq after more and more bombs. Each time after disasters one after another, hundreds of people were killed, wounded and many more had to flee. We once set up movable clinics in an area with 19,000 refugees, and it was supposed to hold 13,000 originally. Flu broke out, one of the biggest killers of kids in refugee camps, and it spread like wildfire. Water and food were also serious problems. “Adventures or not?” I often asked myself.
    When my wife passed away, I thought my life was done. But in reality, it was just getting started. At the end of her life, she went unconscious. I held her head in my hands and told her of all the places we would visit and the exciting adventures we would have.
    I think about the moment many times during my “adventures”. I didn’t know how predictive those words would be. But I know that she is still with me

    1. 1.

      Where has the doctor been in the past few years?

      1. A.
        Some countries where he could set up clinics
      2. B.
        Some African countries where flu broke out
      3. C.
        The places where the earthquakes happened
      4. D.
        The places that the horrible disasters struck
    2. 2.

      How would the doctor describe his life after he had worked in Afghanistan?

      1. A.
        Tired and troublesome
      2. B.
        Busy and risky
      3. C.
        Meaningful and helpful
      4. D.
        Frightening and depressing
    3. 3.

      The underlined word “refugees” means people______.

      1. A.
        who are robbed, killed, or wounded
      2. B.
        who suffer from flu in movable clinics
      3. C.
        who like to take adventures
      4. D.
        who have lost homes because of disasters
    4. 4.

      Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

      1. A.
        the doctor’s wife encouraged him to work in foreign countries
      2. B.
        What the doctor said to his wife before her death became reality
      3. C.
        The doctor’s adventures made him understand the love of his wife
      4. D.
        With the true love of his wife, the doctor started to change his life

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    It was Saturday when the entire summer world was bright and fresh. Tom looked at the fence, which was long and high, feeling all enthusiasm leaving him. He dipped his brush into the whitewash before moving it along the top board of the fence. He knew other boys would arrive soon with all minds of interesting plans for this day. As walking past him, they would tease him for having to work on a beautiful Saturday—which burnt him like fire.
    He, putting his hands into his pockets and taking out all he owned with the expectation of letting someone paint, found nothing that could buy half an hour of freedom. At this dark and hopeless moment, a wonderful idea occurred to him, pouring a great bright light into his mind. He took up his brush and continued to work pleasantly with calm and quietness.
    Presently, Ben Rogers came in sight—munching an apple and making joyful noises like the sound of a riverboat as he walked along. Tom went on whitewashing, paying no attention to the steamboat. 
    “Hello!” Ben said, “I’m going swimming, but you can’t go, can you?”
    No answer. Tom moved his brush gently along the fence and surveyed the result. Ben came nearer. Tom’s mouth watered for Ben’s apple while he kept painting the fence.
    Ben said, “That’s a lot of work, isn’t it?”
    Tom turned suddenly saying “Here you are! Ben! I didn’t notice you.”
    “I’m going swimming,” Ben said. “Don’t you wish you could go? Or would you rather work?”
    Tom said, “Work? What do you mean ‘work’?”
    “Isn’t that work?”
    Tom continued painting and answered carelessly, “Maybe it is, and maybe it isn’t. All I know is it suits Tom Sawyer.”
    “Do you mean that you enjoy it?”
    “I don’t see why I oughtn’t to enjoy it.”
    “Does a boy have a chance to paint a fence frequently” said Tom.
    Ben stopped munching his apple.
    Tom moved his brush back and forth—stepped back to note the effect—added a little paint here and there. Ben watched every move, getting more and more interested, more and more absorbed1. After a short time, he said, “Tom, let me whitewash a little.”
    Tom seemed to be thinking for a moment before he said, “No, Aunt Polly wants this fence to be perfect. If it was the back fence, maybe you could do it. But this fence beside the street is where everybody can see it. It has to be done right.”
    “Oh, come on, let me try. I’ll be careful. Listen, Tom. I’ll give you part of my apple if you let me paint.”
    “No, Ben, I’m afraid—”
    “I’ll give you all the apple!”
    Tom handed the brush to Ben with unwillingness on his face but alacrity in his heart. While the riverboat worked and sweated in the hot sun, Tom, an artist sat in the shade close by, munching his apple, and planning how he could trick more of the boys.
    Before long there were enough boys each of whom came along the street; stopped to laugh but soon begged to be allowed to paint. By the middle of the afternoon, Tom had got many treasures while the fence had had three layers of whitewash on it. If he hadn’t run out of whitewash, he would have owned everything belonging to the boys in the village.
    Tom said to himself that the world was not so depressing after all. He had discovered a great law of human action: in order to make a man cover a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

    1. 1.

      By using “Tom continued painting and answered carelessly”, the author shows Tom ______ when he was talking to Ben.

      1. A.
        made mistakes
      2. B.
        damaged things
      3. C.
        was natural
      4. D.
        wasn’t concentrating
    2. 2.

      The underlined word “alacrity” in the last but two paragraph most probable means “______”.

      1. A.
        kindness
      2. B.
        discouragement
      3. C.
        sympathy
      4. D.
        eagerness
    3. 3.

      Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? ________

      1. A.
        Tom did not want to go swimming at all
      2. B.
        Tom was asked to help Aunt Polly paint the fence
      3. C.
        Tom did not get along well with his friends
      4. D.
        Tom was very busy that Saturday afternoon.
    4. 4.

      We can draw a conclusion from the last paragraph that _______.

      1. A.
        forbidden fruit is sweet.
      2. B.
        a friend in need is a friend indeed.
      3. C.
        all good things must come to an end.
      4. D.
        a bad excuse is better than none.

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    Sports shoes that work out whether their owner has done enough exercise to warrant time in front of the television have been devised in the UK.
    The shoes — named Square Eyes — contain an electronic pressure sensor and a tiny computer chip to record how many steps the wearer has taken in a day. A wireless transmitter(传话器) passes the information to a receiver connected to a television, and this decides how much evening viewing time the wearer deserves, based on the day’s efforts.
    The design was inspired by a desire to fight against the rapidly ballooning waistlines among British teenagers, says Gillian Swan, who developed Square Eyes as a final year design project at Brunel University to London, UK. “We looked at current issues and childhood overweight really stood out,” she says. “And I wanted to tackle that with my design.”
    Once a child has used up their daily allowance gained through exercise, the television automatically switches off. And further time in front of the TV can only be earned through more steps.
    Swan calculated how exercise should translate to television time using the recommended daily amounts of both. Health experts suggest that a child take 12,000 steps each day and watch no more than two hours of television. So, every 100 steps recorded by the Square Eyes shoes equals precisely one minute of TV time.
    Existing pedometers （计步器） normally clip onto a belt or slip into a pocket and keep count of steps by measuring sudden movement. Swan says these can be easily tricked into recording steps through shaking. But her shoe has been built to be harder for lazy teenagers to cheat. “It is possible, but it would be a lot of effort,” she says. “That was one of my main design considerations.”

    1. 1.

      According to Swan, the purpose of her design project is to ________.

      1. A.
        keep a record of the steps of the wearer
      2. B.
        deal with overweight among teenagers
      3. C.
        enable children to resist the temptation of TV
      4. D.
        prevent children from being tricked by TV programs
    2. 2.

      Which of the following is true of Square Eyes shoes?

      1. A.
        They regulate a child’s evening TV viewing time.
      2. B.
        They determine a child’s daily pocket money.
      3. C.
        They have raised the hot issue of overweight.
      4. D.
        They contain information of the receiver.
    3. 3.

      What is stressed（强调）by health experts in their suggestion?

      1. A.
        The exact number of steps to be taken.
      2. B.
        The precise number of hours spent on TV.
      3. C.
        The proper amount of daily exercise and TV time.
      4. D.
        The way of changing steps into TV watching time.
    4. 4.

      Compared with other similar products, the new design ________.

      1. A.
        makes it difficult for lazy teenagers to cheat
      2. B.
        counts the wearer’s steps through shaking
      3. C.
        records the sudden movement of the wearer
      4. D.
        sends teenagers’ health data to the receiver
    5. 5.

      Which of the following would be the best title for the text?

      1. A.
        Smart Shoes Decide on Television Time
      2. B.
        Smart Shoes Guarantee More Exercise
      3. C.
        Smart Shoes Measure Time of Exercise
      4. D.
        Smart Shoes Stop Childhood Overweight

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    Steve Jobs made technology fun.The co-founder of Apple died last Wednesday at the age of fifty-six He had fought for years against cancer.Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world.
    Tim Bajarin, president of a high-tech research and consulting company, said "If you actually look at a tech leader, they're really happy if they have one hit in their life.Steve Jobs has the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and Pixar."
    Steve Jobs was a college dropout.He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant.They supported his early interest in electronics.
    He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer—now just called Apple—in nineteen seventy-six.They stayed at the company until nineteen eighty-five.That year, Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute（分歧）with the chief executive.
    Mr.Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer.He rejoined Apple in nineteen ninety-seven after it bought NeXT.He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world today.
    Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a "great visionary and leader'' and a "marketing genius（天才）".
    President Obama said in a statement: "By building one of the planet's most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity.By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun."
    David Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City.He says Steve Jobs not only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American business.
    "The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce top to bottom and across is really stunning （令人惊奇的）.He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, so one of the great[s] of all time." David Carroll said.
    Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's chief executive in August because of his health.He died a day after the company released a new iPhone version that met with limited excitement.Apple's new chief, Tim Cook, will also have to deal with the new Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon.com.It costs less than half as much as an iPad but also does less.

    1. 1.

      Why did people all over the world mourn Steve Jobs?

      1. A.
        He was very courageous in the face of cancer.
      2. B.
        He became very rich though dropping out college.
      3. C.
        He released a new iPhone version before death.
      4. D.
        He revolutionized technology and made it enjoyable.
    2. 2.

      Which of the following can easily prove that Jobs is a "marketing genius"?

      1. A.
        After Apple, he founded NeXT Computer.
      2. B.
        He made Apple very valuable once again in the world.
      3. C.
        He developed a series of Apple products.
      4. D.
        He was considered the greatest industrial figure of all time.
    3. 3.

      What does the underlined part in Paragraph 7 mean?

      1. A.
        Jobs was a typical example of American spirit of creation.
      2. B.
        Jobs enriched the American spirit of science and freedom.
      3. C.
        Jobs eventually realized his American dream.
      4. D.
        American people are good at inventing things.
    4. 4.

      Which of the following is true according to the text?

      1. A.
        Jobs's parents discouraged him from working on electronics
      2. B.
        Jobs stayed in Apple as chief executive for about 24 years.
      3. C.
        Jobs started his career in his family garage.
      4. D.
        Run unsuccessfully, Apple was sold to NeXT Computer.

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