Oprah Winfrey, born in 1954, is all American talk show host, best known for her multi-award-winning talk show. She is also, according to some assessments, the most influential woman in the world. It's no surprise that her endorsement(認(rèn)可)can bring overnight sales fortune that defeats most, if not all, marketing campaigns. The star features about 20 products each year On her “Favorite Things” show. There’s even a term for it: the Oprah Effect.
Her television career began unexpectedly. When she was 16 year old, she had the idea of being a journalist to tell other people’s stories in a way that made a difference in their lives and the world. She was on television by the time she was 19 years old. And in 1986 she started her own television show with a continuous determination to succeed at first.
TIME magazine wrote, “People would have doubted Oprah Winfrey’s swift rise to host of the most popular talk show on TV. In a field dominated by white males, she is a black female of big size. As interviewers go, she is no match for Phil Donahue. What she lacks in journalistic toughness, she makes up for in plainspoken curiosity, rich humor and, above all understanding. Guests with sad[stories to tell tend to bring out a tear in Oprah’s eye. They, in turn, often find themselves exposing things they would not imagine telling anyone, much less a national TV audience.”
“I was nervous about the competition and then I became my own competition raising the bar every year, pushing, pushing, pushing myself as hard as I knew. It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to fall if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages, you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction” as Oprah addressed graduates at Harvard on May 30, 2013.
小題1:The Oprah Effect refers to _______
A．the effect on a businessB．the power of Oprah’s opinions
C．the impact on talkshowsD．the assessment of Oprah’s talk show
小題2:What can be inferred about Oprah’s television career?
A．She once gave up on her choice
B．Her swift success has been expected.
C．It lives up to her parents’ expectation.
D．She must have been challenged by white males.
小題3:The message from Oprah to graduates at Harvard is that _______.
A．success comes after failure
B．failure is nothing to fear
C．there is no need to set goals too high
D．pushing physical limits makes no sense
小題4:Which of the following best describes Oprah Winfrey?
A．Dull and pushy.B．Honest but tough.
C．Caring and determined.D．Curious but weak.

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:C

試題分析：生于1954年，奧普拉·溫弗瑞是美國著名的脫口秀主持人。同時(shí)，她也是最具影響力的女性。得到奧普拉認(rèn)可的商品很可能一夜售罄，這比任何的市場宣傳手段都更有效。
小題1:根據(jù)第一段“It's no surprise that her endorsement(認(rèn)可)can bring overnight sales fortune that defeats most, if not all, marketing campaigns.”可知，得到奧普拉·溫弗瑞認(rèn)可的東西可能會一夜售罄，能打敗幾乎所有的市場宣傳手段，這就是奧普拉效應(yīng)，故選A。
小題2:根據(jù)第三段“People would have doubted Oprah Winfrey’s swift rise to host of the most popular talk show on TV. In a field dominated by white males”可知，人們，尤其是男性白種人，懷疑過奧普拉的迅速成名，故選D。
小題3:根據(jù)第四段“there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction”可知，奧普拉認(rèn)為，生活中沒有失敗這樣的東西，所謂的失敗只是生命在指引你 換一個(gè)方向前行，故選B。
小題4:根據(jù)第二段“with a continuous determination to succeed at first”和第三段“Guests with sad[stories to tell tend to bring out a tear in Oprah’s eye.”可知，奧普拉意志堅(jiān)定，對嘉賓的經(jīng)歷有同情心，故選C。
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____ passed. The little boy didn't become a botanist, but he was elected President of the United States. His name was Franklin Roosevelt.
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d. The writer's morn fell ill.
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I arrived in the classroom，ready to share my knowledge and experience with 75 students who would be my English literature class．Having taught in the US for 17 years，I had no      about my ability to hold their attention and to  on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue．
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My students    diaries．However，as I read them，the happy mood was gradually    by a strong sense of sadness．The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today．    her next lecture will be better．”Greatly surprised，I read diary after diary，each expressing a     theme．“Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire philosophical framework (哲學(xué)體系) of Western thought and laid the historical    for all the works we’ll study in class，” I complained．“How    they say I didn’t teach them anything?”
It was a long term，and it      became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as    of my students．I thought a teacher’s job was to raise    questions and provide enough background so that students could ＿  their own conclusions．My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide      information as directly and clearly as possible．What a difference!
  ，I also learnt a lot，and my experience with my Chinese students has made me a＿  American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.
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A．certainty B．idea C．doubt D．experience
小題2:
A．impress B．put C．leave D．fix
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A．Attention B．Look out C．At ease D．Stand up
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A．puzzled B．sure C．curious D．worried
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A．found B．returned C．regained D．followed
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A．more B．even C．yet D．still
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A．thought B．sense C．emotion D．idea
小題8:
A．shared B．borrowed C．kept D．read
小題9:
A．replacedB． takenC．caughtD．moved
小題10:
A．Naturally B．Perhaps C．FortunatelyD．Reasonably
小題11:
A．different B．same C．similar D．usual
小題12:
A．happenings B．characters C．developmentD．background
小題13:
A．should B．need C．will D．must
小題14:
A．immediately B．certainly C．simply D．gradually
小題15:
A．that B．what C．those D．ones
小題16:
A．difficult B．interestingC．ordinary D．unusual
小題17:
A．draw B．get C．decide D．give
小題18:
A．strange B．standard C．exact D．serious
小題19:
A．Therefore B．However C．Besides D．Though
小題20:
A．stricter B．happier C．worse D．better

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Streit was an experienced safecracker who never used force—either against people or safes．He was a real    of his trade and it took him only 19 minutes to open the most difficult   he had ever met．In about 10 years，   by his brother Stefan，he took about 33,000,000—from the safes of 28 banks in Austria．On his last job，he     the safe door open and 80,000 behind．With the    was a note，“We don't need all that much”．A witness      his car and Streit was caught by the police．Then he was sent to Austria's Stein Prison to serve a six-year    ．He boasted（吹噓）at his trial that he would continue   the law, “I'm a thief and I shall use every opportunity.” In spite of the     prison officials moved Streit to the prison's blacksmith shop．One day during the week before Christmas，Streit    ．Searchers found all his doors were well locked．Streit had   to make a set of keys and let himself out．Not to     ，though．After crossing into Bavaria，Streit    the suspicion（懷疑）of German customs police on purpose and got himself     ．“I want to be in a German prison, ”he     to the surprised police．“As German coups give much milder（溫和的）sentences for     like mine and will     the time I would otherwise have served in Stein Prison．”In prison，Streit    his keepers to let him telephone his former keeper, Karl Schreiner of Stein Prison．“I'm sorry     I caused trouble．I didn't want to     anybody by escaping．Conditions weren't that bad．In fact the food was better than it is here．”
小題1:
A．dancerB．a(chǎn)rtistC．composer D．musician
小題2:
A．safeB．bankC．prison D．door
小題3:
A．offeredB．trainedC．respected D．helped
小題4:
A．madeB．brokeC．leftD．removed
小題5:
A．safeB．moneyC．door D．job
小題6:
A．rodeB．stoleC．broke D．recognized
小題7:
A．sentenceB．holidayC．freedom D．treatment
小題8:
A．obeyingB．respectingC．breaking D．destroying
小題9:
A．sentenceB．warningC．trial D．suggestion
小題10:
A．survivedB．starvedC．disappeared D．worked
小題11:
A．triedB．decidedC．expected D．managed
小題12:
A．safetyB．prisonC．hometown D．freedom
小題13:
A．offeredB．a(chǎn)ttractedC．removedD．a(chǎn)dmired
小題14:
A．a(chǎn)rrestedB．relaxedC．recognizedD．encouraged
小題15:
A．wentB．liedC．explained D．negotiated
小題16:
A．mistakesB．robberyC．money D．crimes
小題17:
A．multiplyB．reduceC．a(chǎn)dd D．lose
小題18:
A．cheatedB．expectedC．persuaded D．helped
小題19:
A．ifB．butC．for D．though
小題20:
A．injureB．stealC．a(chǎn)ccuse D．embarrass

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