(5)------中偏易題
When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station.When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street.But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry to Harvard University.And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”, shown in late April.
Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination.Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted parents.There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house.Liz was the only member of the family who had a job.Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old.The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life.Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.
Liz went back to school.She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless.At night, she lived on the streets.“What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being.I had only experienced a small part of the society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.
She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on.She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”.She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University.But Liz decided to leave her top university for a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS.“I love my parents so much.They are drug addicts.But I never forget that they love me all the time.”
Liz wants moviegoers (影迷) to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.
1.In which order did the following things happen to Liz?
a.Her Mum died of AIDS.
b.She worked at a petrol station.
c.She got admitted into Harvard.
d.The movie about her life was put on.
e.She had trouble finding a place to sleep.
A.b, a, e, c, d      B.a(chǎn), b, c, e, d      C.e, d, b, a, c      D.b, e, a, d, c
2.What decision did Liz make that changed her life?
A.To write Breaking Night.
B.To go to the best university.
C.To live through the difficult time.
D.To live a different life from her parents’.
3.When she wrote, “What drove me to live on … I had only experienced a small part of the
society”, she meant that ________.
A.she had little experience of social life
B.she could hardly understand the society
C.she would do something for her own life
D.she needed to travel more around the world
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閱讀下面的短文,并根據(jù)短文后的要求答題(請注意問題后的字?jǐn)?shù)要求)。
[1] My daughter did an experiment for me two summers ago. She applied to job openings she’d found on a couple of big online job boards.    She mailed the applications and waited. And waited. After sending out 100 resumes(履歷表), specially addressed to each organization’s human resources(HR) manager, fewer than five HR departments took the time to reply, or acknowledged receipt.
[2] What happened?
[3] Maybe in the thirty seconds or so of attention that her resume received, each HR person made a snap decision. It seemed that 95 of them were unimpressioned.
[4] Or, maybe, out of the 300 other resumes HR had received that morning, they had already scheduled a requisite(必要的) number of interviews. Or, maybe HR simply forwarded her resume to the hiring manager who was supposed to call her for an interview.
[5] Or, maybe they thought her resume was fairly generic(一般的) and they didn’t have time to figure out if she might be a good fit, with the necessary skills, attitudes, and the desire to do the job.
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[7] This happens all the time. I think most job seekers make the serious mistake of thinking that all they need to do is tell the HR department what they did in the past.
[8] That might be OK for some hiring managers, but most want to know the answer to one question: How can this applicant help us right now? If your resume does not answer that question, or sufficiently tell a story about how you may be able to help, you won’t have a shot at the job in this market.
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[10] Information is power, and it is available quite easily. Don’t expect HR to figure out how you might fit into their organization. You _________ instead. This is the surest way to get the interview.
76.What’s the main idea of this passage?(within 20 words)
____________________________________________________________________________
77.Which sentence in the text is the closest in meaning to the following one?
You should tell the HR what you can do for them in your resume and then you may be able to find a job.
____________________________________________________________________________
78. Fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words.(within 8 words)
____________________________________________________________________________
79.List two of the reasons why most HR managers even didn’t give the girl a reply.
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①__________________________________________________________________________
②__________________________________________________________________________
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36. A. bad                           B. good              C. hateful                     D. quick
37. A. disappointed          B. excited              C. attacked            D. ashamed
38. A. wrong                       B. foolish                 C. empty-headed    D. right
39. A. unusual               B. immediate       C. following          D. last
40. A. raise                          B. lower                C. keep                 D. change
41. A. remember                  B. regret                C. forget               D. realize
42. A. her                              B. him                  C. me                    D. myself
43. A .it                               B. her                   C. them                 D. us
44. A. so                      B. but                   C. although            D. however
45. A. health                        B. action           C. calmness           D. anger
46. A. headed to                   B. asked for           C. turned to          D. referred to
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Bigelow was up against the top-selling film of all time, Avatar.But Bigelow's smallbudget film, The Hurt Locker, swept the awards with six trophies (獎杯) , including Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound Mixing and the big one: Best Picture.
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Bigelow was only the fourth female ever to be nominated (提名) for Best Director.She followed in the footsteps of Lina Wurtmuller, for Seven Beauties (1976); Jane Campion, The Piano (1993);and Sophia Coppola, Lost in Translation (2003).
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Oh, Johnny (Random House, $ 25), his hovel about a young Marine in 1944. "On his way to war, Johnny met the most beautiful and wonderful girl he'd ever seen. It changed his life. "
Where He's Surfing
"I'm on the computer all day long for nay job, checking the telegraphs, reading the news, send the news eBay because I collect bus memorabilia (值得紀(jì)念的東西): toy buses, bus stop signs, and bus driver caps. I've bought quite a bit."
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60. What job does Jim Lehrer do?
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C. To better carry out his job.                D. To read his favorite novels.
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A. surf eBay for his hobby                                B. watch exciting TV series
C. listen to music on his iPod                     D. work on his own novel
63. Which of the following books is based on a real person?
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Research has shown that quick music can make a person feel more alert, while slow music can produce a calm, deep thinking state. Also, research has found that music can change brainwave activity levels. This can help the brain to change speeds more easily on its own as needed, which means that music can bring lasting benefits to your state of mind, even after you’ve stopped listening.
Breathing and heart rates can also be influenced by music. This can mean slower breathing, slower heart rate. This is why music and music therapy can help reduce the damaging effects of long-term stress, greatly promoting (促進(jìn)) not only relaxation, but health.
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61. What can we infer about music therapy?
A. It is a type of music.
B. It is a research about music.
C. It is a kind of musical effect on diseases.
D. It is the use of music method to help treat diseases.
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C. it does good to breathing and heart rates
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How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters. These letters could be combined to represent those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken, or written in letters, we call words.
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minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience, and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something to us increases. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of words is what we call literary style. Above all, the real poet is a master of words. He can convey his meaning in words which sing like music and which by their position and association can move men to tears. We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use them accurately, or they will make our speech silly and vulgar(粗俗的).

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B.The origin of language is a complicated question.
C.Words did not haven written form, at first.
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B.the fact that once word is connected with another
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A.the more we read and learn, the larger our vocabulary will be
B.the longer we live, the number of words that mean something to us increases
C.words can be used to represent various meanings
D.literary style is usually very charming
44.What does this passage primarily concern?
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49.  Whose baby would have breathing diseases?
A.Mother who smokes cigarettes after their baby are born
B.Mother who smokes cigarettes before their baby are born
C.Mother who don’t smoke at all
D.Mother whose mother smokes
50. Suppose John’s father was a heavy smoker, so was Mary’ mother. According to this study,  _________.
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C. Mary and John have the same chance to develop lung cancer              
D. Neither John and Mary has the chance to develop lung cancer      
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They’re WILD animals
By Ernst-Ulrich Franzen
March 11, 2010 (3) Comments
The story about the woman who lost some fingers while feeding a bear at a zoo in Manitowoc, after she ignored warnings and barriers(柵欄), reminded me of the story I heard about a couple who put their baby on the back of a wild horse in South Dakota to get a really cute picture. We all do silly things at times — no one is immune — but treating wild animals as lovely pets has to fall into a special category. Teddy bears and Disney movies aren’t actually representative of real bears.
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1. TosaLeft - Mar 11, 2010 10:46AM
Don’t you think that maybe, just maybe some alcohol was involved?
2. tk421 - Mar 11, 2010 11:09 AM
It was already approved that alcohol was involved. Stories that begin with a drunk person saying “Hey, I got an idea, watch this!” rarely end well.
3. Tristan Kloss - Mar 11, 2010 11:41 AM
Alcohol certainly isn’t involved when people decide to keep “pets” like chimpanzees, baby tigers, etc. Stupidity, definitely. Dogs are pets because of thousands of years of domestication. Even farm animals, which have been kept by humans for thousands of years as well, aren’t let in the house. So why keep animals that treat human contact with, at best, indifference(冷淡、不在乎) and, at worst, violence?
60.In Ernst-Ulrich Franzen’s opinion, the woman lost her fingers because ________.
A. the zoo keepers didn’t warn her of the danger       
B. she didn’t know the bear was a wild animal
C. she was somehow influenced by cartoon characters
D. she climbed over the barriers and angered the bear
61.TosaLeft thinks the wounded woman ________.
A. may have been drunk                                          B. may be a little stupid
C. was addicted to wine                                           D. fed wine to the bear
62.tk421 means a drunk person ________.
A. should be forbidden to enter the zoo                     B. usually gets himself into trouble
C. is often fond of making up stories                         D. usually likes to show himself off
63.What does Tristan Kloss think of people treating wild animals as pets?
A. Kind.                       B. Illegal.                                   C. Loving.                           D. Stupid.

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