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    I was 15 when I walked into McCarley's Bookstore in Ashland. As I was looking at  1 on the shelves, the man behind the counter, the shop owner, asked if I'd like  2 . I needed to start  3 for college, so I said yes. I worked after school and during the summer for the lowest wages, and the job helped  4 my freshman year of college. I would work many other jobs: I made coffee in the Students Union during college, I was a hotel maid and  5 made maps for the U. S. Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most  6 .

    One day a woman asked me for books on cancer. She seemed fearful. I showed her almost everything we had at that time  7 and found other books we could order. She left the store less  8 , I've always remembered the  9 I felt in having helped her.

    Years later, as a  10 in Los Angeles, I heard about an immigrant child who was born  11 his fingers connected, weblike. His family could not afford a corrective operation, and the boy lived in  12 , hiding his hand in his pocket.

    I  13 my boss to let me do the story. After my story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the  14 for free.

    I visited the boy in the recovery room soon after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his  15 hand and say, “Thank you.” I felt a sense of  16 .

    In the past, while I was  17 , I always sensed I was working for the customers , not the store. Today it's the  18 . NBC News pays my salary,  19 I feel as if I work for the  20 , helping them make sense of the world.

1．

[　　]

A．maps	B．titles
C．articles	D．reports

2．

[　　]

A．a book	B．a job
C．some tea	D．any help

3．

[　　]

A．planning	B．saving
C．preparing	D．studying

4．

[　　]

A．pay for	B．fit for
C．run for	D．enter for

5．

[　　]

A．so	B．yet
C．even	D．still

6．

[　　]

A．boring	B．surprising
C．satisfying	D．disappointing

7．

[　　]

A．in need	B．in all
C．in order	D．in store

8．

[　　]

A．worried	B．satisfied
C．excited	D．puzzled

9．

[　　]

A．pride	B．failure
C．regret	D．surprise

10．

[　　]

A．doctor	B．store owner
C．bookseller	D．TV reporter

11．

[　　]

A．in	B．with
C．by	D．for

12．

[　　]

A．shame	B．honor
C．horror	D．danger

13．

[　　]

A．advised	B．forced
C．persuaded	D．permitted

14．

[　　]

A．action	B．program
C．treatment	D．operation

15．

[　　]

A．repaired	B．connected
C．injured	D．improved

16．

[　　]

A．pleasure	B．sadness
C．interest	D．disappointment

17．

[　　]

A．at the TV station	B．in the Students Union
C．at the U. S. Forest Service	D．at McCarley's Bookstore

18．

[　　]

A．difference	B．same
C．usual	D．request

19．

[　　]

A．so	B．and
C．but	D．because

20．

[　　]

A．readers	B．viewers
C．customers	D．passengers

 (浙江省台州中学2008学年第二学期第三次统练试题)

I was 17 when I walked into Carley’s bookstore in Ashland. As I was looking at  21  on the shelves, the shop owner asked if I’d like   22  . I needed to start   23  for college, so I said yes. I worked after school, and the job helped  24  my yearly tuition. I would work many other jobs: making coffee in the Students Union; a hotel maid and   25  making maps for a company. But selling books was one of the most   26  .

One day a woman asked me for books on cancer. She seemed fearful. I showed her almost everything  27  and found other books we could order. She left the store less   28  . I’ve always remembered the   29  I felt in having helped her.

Years later, as a   30  in Los Angles, I heard about an immigrant child born   31  his fingers connected. His family couldn’t afford a corrective operation, and the boy lived in   32  , hiding his hand in his pocket.

I   33  my  boss to let me do the story. After the story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the   34  for free.

I visited the boy soon after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his   35  hand and said, “Thank you.” I felt a sense of   36  .

In the past, while I was   37  , I always sensed I was working for the customers, not the store. Today it’s the   38  . Fox pays my salary,  39  I feel as if I work for the   40  , helping them make sense of the world.

21．A．maps                   B．articles                  C．reports                  D．titles

22．A．a book                 B．some tea               C．a job                     D．any help

23．A．planning        B．saving                   C．preparing              D．studying

24．A．pay for                 B．fit for                     C．run for                  D．enter for

25．A．so                        B．yet                        C．even                     D．still

26．A．boring                                                     B．satisfying       

C．surprising                                                        D．disappointing

27．A．in need                 B．in all               C．in order                 D．in store

28．A．worried                B．satisfied                 C．interested              D．puzzled

29．A．surprise                B．failure                    C．regret                    D．pride

30．A．doctor                 B．TV reporter          C．bookseller             D．store owner

31．A．with                     B．in                          C．by                         D．for

32．A．horror                  B．honor                    C．shame                   D．danger

33．A．advised                B．persuaded             C．forced                   D．permitted

34．A．action                  B．program                C．treatment              D．operation

35．A．repaired               B．connected             C．injured                  D．improved

36．A．humor                  B．interest                  C．pleasure                D．excitement

37．A．at the TV station                                     B．in the Students Union   

       C．at the US Forest Service                          D．at Carley’s bookstore

38．A．opposite              B．same                     C．different                D．right

39．A．so                        B．and                       C．but                        D．because

40．A．viewers                B．readers                 C．customers             D．passengers

Everyone knows about straight—A students. We see them frequently in TV situation comedies and in movies like Revenge of the Nerds(《菜鸟大反攻》)，a comedy film satirizing(讽刺)social life in college. They get high grades，all right，but only by becoming dull laborers，their noses always stuck in a book. They are not good at social communication and look clumsy while doing sports.

How，then, do we account for Domenica Roman or Paul Melendres?

Roman is on the tennis team at Fairmont Senior High School. She also sings in the school singing group, serves on the students’ union and is a member of the mathematics society. For two years she has kept up A’s in every subject. Melendres, a freshman at the University of New Mexico，was student-body president at Valley High School in Albuquerque. He played soccer and basketball well, exhibited at the science fair，and meanwhile worked as a reporter on a local television station. Being a speech giver at the graduation ceremony，he achieved straight A’s in his regular classes，plus rewarding points for A’s in two college-level course.

How do super—achievers like Roman and Melendres do it? Brains aren’t the only answer “Top grades don’t always go to the brightest students,” declares Herbert Walberg, a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who has conducted major studies on super—achieving students “Knowing how to make the most of your innate(天生的)abilities counts far more. Much more.”

In fact，Walberg says，students with high IQ sometimes don’t do as well as classmates with lower IQ. For them，learning comes too easily and they never find out how to get down.

Hard work isn’t the whole story, either．“it’s not how long you sit there with the books open．”said one of the many—A students we interviewed. “It’s what you do while you’re sitting.” Indeed，some of these students actually put in fewer hours of homework time than their lower-scoring classmates. The kids at the top of the class get there by mastering a few basic techniques that others can readily learn.

1.What can we conclude from the first paragraph?

A．Most TV programs and films are about straight-A students

B．People have unfavorable impression on straight—A students

C．Everyone knows about straight-A students from TV or films

D．Straight-A students are well admired by people in the society

2.What will be talked about after the last paragraph?

A．The interviews with more students

B．The role IQ plays in learning well

C．The techniques to be better learners

D．The achievements top students make

3.What can we infer from the passage?

A．IQ is more important than hard work in study

B．The brightest students can never get low glades

C．Top students certainly achieve all-around developments

D．Students with average IQ can become super-achievers