The oldest man had just celebrated(庆祝)his hundredth birthday and the reporter of a local(本地的)paper called on him for an interview .Having congratulated(祝贺)the old man, the reporter asked a few questions.

“To what do you owe your long life?”

The old man thought for a moment and then holding up his hand and counting the items(条目)on his fingers, began,“ I never smoked, drank, or overate and always rise at six in the morning.”

“But,”the reporter didn’t agree, saying,“ I had an uncle who acted in that way, yet he only lived to be eighty. How do you explain the cause of that?”

“ He didn’t keep it up long enough,” was the calm(平静的)reply.

46.When did the reporter call on the old man?

A .shortly after his birthday                 B.on his birthday

C. at an interview                         D.not long before his birthday

47.The reporter was interested in _______.

A.how the old man celebrated his hundredth birthday   B why the old man never smoke

C. how the old man manage to live so long 

D. what the old man usually drank or ate for his health

48After hearing the old man’s words, the reporter __________.

A wanted to live long, too                   B was not satisfied (满意)with his reply

C explained why his uncle live to be eighty     D thought it was reasonable

49In the old man’s opinion, the cause of the reporter’s uncle’s death was______

A He had bad habits(习惯)                  B he smoke too much

C He did not keep his good habit long enough   D He drank too much wine

50．When did the old man usually get up in the morning?

A at seven      B at eight      C at six       D at half past six

The oldest man had just celebrated his hundredth birthday and the reporter of a local paper called on him for an interview .Having congratulated the old man, the reporter asked a few questions.

“To what do you owe your long life?”

The old man thought for a moment and then holding up his hand and counting the items on his fingers, began,“ I never smoked, drank, or overate and always rise at six in the morning.”

“But,”the reporter didn’t agree, saying,“ I had an uncle who acted in that way, yet he only lived to be eighty. How do you explain the cause of that?”

“ He didn’t keep it up long enough,” was the calm reply.

51.When did the reporter call on the old man?

A.on his birthday                   B.shortly after his birthday

C. at an interview                   D.not long before his birthday

52.The reporter was interested in _______.

A.how the old man celebrated his hundredth birthday 

B why the old man never smoke

C. what the old man usually drank or ate for his health

D. how the old man manage to live so long 

53.After hearing the old man’s words, the reporter __________.

A wanted to live long, too                  B thought it was reasonable

C explained why his uncle live to be eighty    D was not satisfied with his reply

54.In the old man’s opinion, the cause of the reporter’s uncle’s death was______

A He did not keep his good habit long enough 

B he smoke too much

C He had bad habits

D He drank too much wine

55.．When did the old man usually get up in the morning?

A at seven                           B at six  

C at eight                            D at half past six

　　Like most people, I’ve long understood that I’ll be judged by my occupation, that my profession is used by people to see how talented I am. Recently, however, I was disappointed to see that it also decides how I’m treated as a person.

　　Last year I left a professional position as a small-town reporter and took a job waiting tables. As someone paid to serve food to people, I had customers say and do things to me I suppose they’d never say or do to the people they know. One night a man talking on his cell phone waved me away, then called me back with his finger a minute later, saying angrily that he was ready to order and asking where I’d been.

　　I had waited tables during summers in college and was treated like a peon（勤杂工） by plenty of people. But at 19 years old, I believed I deserved inferior（低等的）treatment from professional adults. Besides, people responded to me differently after I told them I was in college. Customers would joke that one day I’d be sitting at their table, waiting to be served.

　　Once I graduated I took a job at a community newspaper. From my first day, I heard a respectful tone from everyone who called me. I assumed this was the way the professional world worked--- politely and formally.

　　I soon found out differently. I sat several feet away from a person in advertising department with a similar name. Our calls would often get mixed up and someone asking for Kristen would be transferred to Christie. The mistake was immediately clear. Perhaps it was because of money, but people used a tone with Kristen that they never used with me.

　　It’s no secret that there’s a lot to put up with when waiting tables, and fortunately, much of it can be easily forgotten when you pocket the tips. The service industry exists to meet others’ needs. Still, it seemed that many of my customers didn’t get the difference between server and servant.

　　I’m now applying to graduate school, which means someday I’ll return to a profession where people need to be nice to me in order to get what they want. I think I’ll take them to dinner first, and see how they treat someone whose job is to serve them.

　　68. What makes the author disappointed?

　　A. Professionals tend to look down upon workers.

　　B. Talented people have to do the job waiting tables.

　　C. One’s position is used to measure one’s intelligence.

　　D. Occupation affects the way one is treated as a person.

　　69. What does the author intend to say by the example in Paragraph 2?

　　A. Waiting tables is a hard job.

　　B. Some customers are difficult to deal with.

　　C. The man making a phone call is absent-minded.

　　D. Some customers show no respect to those who serve them.

　　70. How did the author feel when waiting tables at the age of 19?

　　A. She felt it unfair to be treated as a servant.

　　B. She found it natural for professionals to treat her as inferior.

　　C. She was embarrassed each time her customers joked with her.

　　D. She felt badly hurt when her customers regarded her as a peon.

　　71. The author says one day she’ll take her customers to dinner in order to _______.

　　A. see what kind of person they are

　　B. experience the feeling of being served

　　C. share her working experience with her customers

　　D. help them realize the difference between server and servant

完形填空（每小题1.5分，共20小题）
You are near the front line of a battle. Around you shells are exploding; people are shooting from a house behind you. What are you doing there? You aren’t a soldier. You aren’t  1  carrying a gun. You’re standing in front of a  2 and you’re telling the TV 3  what is happening.
It’s all in a day’s work for a war reporter, and it can be very 4  . In the first two years of the  5  in former Yugoslavia（前南斯拉夫), 28 reporters and photographers were killed. Hundreds more were 6  .
What kind of people put themselves in danger to  7  pictures to our TV screens and  48  to our newspapers? Why do they do it ?
“I think it’s every young journalist’s 9  to be a foreign reporter,” says Michael Nicholson, “that’s  10  you find the excitement. So when the first opportunity comes, you take it  11  it is a war.”
But there are moments of  12 . Jeremy Bowen says, “Yes, when you’re lying on the ground and bullets（子弹）are flying  13  your ears, you think: ‘What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again.’ But that feeling  14 after a while and when the next war starts, you’ll be  15  .”
“None of us believes that we’re going to  16  ” adds Michael. But he always 17 a lucky charm（护身符）with him. It was given to him by his wife for his first war. It’s a card which says “Take care of yourself.” Does he ever think about dying? “Oh, 18  , and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, ‘If you get me out of this, I  19  I’ll never do it again.’ You can almost hear God  20  , because you know he doesn’t believe you .”