An Italian couple are to become the world's oldest divorcees, after the 99 - year – old husband found that his 96 - year - old wife had an affair（婚外情）in the 1940s．
The Italian man, called by lawyers in the case as Antonio C, was looking through an old drawer when he made the discovery a few days before Christmas．    
In spite of the time that had passed since the affair, he was so upset that he immediately asked his wife of 77years, named as Rosa C, whether it was true, and demanded a divorce．
Stricken by the guilt, she reportedly admitted everything but was unable to persuade her husband to reconsider his decision, though her children also did much more work．
She wrote the letters to her lover during a secret affair in the 1940s, according to court papers released in Rome this week, which made people know the truth．
The couple are now preparing to split; though the marriage they built has lasted over nearly eight decades－ they have five children,  a dozen grandchildren and one great – grand child．
The discovery of the letters was the final problem for their marriage which had already run into difficulty－10 years ago the husband briefly left their house in Rome and moved in with one of his sons, only to return a few weeks later．
The Italian thought the fierce split resulted from the couple's southern blood 一 he is originally from Olbia in Sardinia: while his wife was born in Naples． The couple met during the 1930s when Antonio served as a young officer．
The case appears to set a new record, at least for the age of the oldest figures – the previous oldest couple to divorce were Bertie and Jessie Wood, both aged 98, from the UK．
That pair ended their 36 - year marriage in 2009 when they were both two years away from their l00th birthdays．They got married in Elstree, Hertfordshire, in 1972, having both ended previous marriages, before moving to Falmouth, Cornwall four years later．
小題1:Which is true according to the text?   
A．To find his wife' affair, Antonio C looked through an old drawer．
B．Rosa C' lover may be Bertie．
C．Rosa C admitted what she did because she was sorry for her guilt．
D．The Italian thought the fierce split resulted from the discovery of the letters．
小題2:Which word can replace the underlined one in passage5?
A．a(chǎn)dvertisedB．a(chǎn)nnouncedC．concludedD．expressed
小題3:Which of the following best describe Antonio C?．
A．a(chǎn) childish manB．a(chǎn) rude man
C．a(chǎn) romantic manD．a(chǎn) stubborn man
小題4:The marriage of Antonio C and Rosa C            ．
A．may come to an end because the husband sticks to his decision
B．a(chǎn)ppears to set a new record
C．may have lasted over 36 years
D．began in the 1930s before both ending previous marriages
小題5:This passage may come from        ．
A．a(chǎn) text bookB．a(chǎn) newspaper
C．a(chǎn) history bookD．a(chǎn)n advertisement

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:A
小題5:B

試題分析：本文介紹了世界上最老的一對(duì)離婚的夫妻，并介紹了相關(guān)的具體信息。
小題1:C 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第四段1,2行Stricken by the guilt, she reportedly admitted everything but was unable to persuade her husband to reconsider his decision,說(shuō)明她感覺(jué)很愧疚，承認(rèn)了一切。故C正確。
小題2:B 推理題。根據(jù)本句She wrote the letters to her lover during a secret affair in the 1940s, according to court papers released in Rome this week, which made people know the truth．說(shuō)明該詞是指宣布，指在法庭里非宣布的導(dǎo)致婚姻破裂的那封信。故B正確。
小題3:D 推理題。根據(jù)文章第二段The Italian man, called by lawyers in the case as Antonio C, was looking through an old drawer when he made the discovery a few days before Christmas說(shuō)明他在如此大的年齡還堅(jiān)持和老婆離婚，說(shuō)明他是一個(gè)很固執(zhí)的人。故D正確。
小題4:A 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第四段Stricken by the guilt, she reportedly admitted everything but was unable to persuade her husband to reconsider his decision, though her children also did much more work．說(shuō)明她無(wú)法說(shuō)服他放棄離婚的這個(gè)決定。故A正確。
小題5:B 推理題。根據(jù)文章第一段可知這樁離婚是關(guān)于世界上最老的離婚的一對(duì)夫妻，屬于新聞報(bào)告類(lèi)短文，最可能是從報(bào)紙上摘錄下來(lái)的故B正確。
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小題1:What does the underlined sentence mean in Paragraph 1?
A．Bruno regretted to have an easy life.
B．Bruno had a special behavior in reality,
C．Bruno and his family led a happy life.
D．Bruno would have liked a life with fewer items.
小題2:The things were included in Bruno’s 94 items EXCEPT____________.
A．socksB．a(chǎn) BibleC．cookersD．a(chǎn) wedding ring
小題3:What is the best title for the passage?
A．Live with 100 Things
B．Defeat 100 Challenges in Life
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More than half of the drugs currently used to treat children in the industrialized world have not been specifically tested on youngsters.
The problem is even worse in developing countries where price remains a major barrier and 6 million children die each year from treatable conditions.
In the case of HIV/AIDS, the few existing pediatric therapies（兒科的療法）developed for children generally cost three times more than adult ones.
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Medicines that need to be adapted to children’s needs include many antibiotics, pain drugs as well as combination pills for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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小題1:Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A．A Global Campaign to Promote Research into AIDS Medicine
B．WHO Says Children are Dying for Lack of Child-sized Drugs
C．Many People are Concerned about Children’s Drugs
D．Measures Taken to Develop Child-friendly Medicine Quickly
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A．Pain killers.B．Tuberculosis.
C．AID pills.D．Flu pills.
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A．It is against good ethical practice
B．Children shouldn’t take part in clinical trials.
C．It is hard to get informed agreement from children tested.
D．Parents don’t allow their children to be tested on medicine.
小題4:The underlined word “wary” in the last but one paragraph means _________.
A．fastB．fondC．cautiousD．uninterested
小題5:What can be inferred from the passage?
A．There is still a long way to go on children’s medicine.
B．An Internet entrance is being built to link to clinical trials carried out in children.
C．Both Europe and the United States now have special rules offering extended patent protection for children’s drugs.
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2. Quvenzhane Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild
3. Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone
3. Helen Mirren in Hitchcock
5. Emmanuelle Riva in Amour
6. Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty
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小題1: What’s the purpose of the first paragraph?
A．To introduce Silver Linings Playbook
B．To get us out of the topic.
C．To tell us a specific story
D．To bring out the topic of the passage
小題2: The underlined sentence implies that    ?
A．Jennifer Lawrence doesn’t like smile.
B．Jennifer Lawrence’s smile can impress you all greatly.
C．The woman has never seen comic films featured by Jennifer Lawrence.
D．The woman hates to see Jennifer Lawrence’s films.
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A．Cotillard once won the best actress Oscar.
B．Jennifer Lawrence was nominated because of The Hunger Games.
C．Mirren is the only one who can take the place of Jennifer Lawrence.
D．We cannot see the film Silver Linings Playbook before Thanksgiving.
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d.Emmanuelle Riva     e. Jessica Chastain       f. Alma Reville
A．c, eB．a(chǎn) ,c ,fC．d, fD．c, e, f
小題5:The most suitable title of the passage is    ?
A．Silver Linings Playbook, the best movie
B．A 22-year-old actress
C．My favorite movie
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小題1:Which of the following is true?
A．The dispute is between a Xinjiang Uygur vendor and a policeman.
B．Nut cake is a popular pastry across East Asia and the Middle East.
C．The prices of Baklava will change according to the time and season.
D．The demand of the 16 Uygur sellers were refused and they were sent back to Xinjiang.
小題2:How much did the broken motorcycle cost？
A．160,000 yuan B．200,000 yuan
C．40，000yuanD．We don’t know
小題3: What’s the best title of the passage?
A．World's most expensive baklava.
B．Ethnic tensions across China.
C．Pay attention to the Uygurs
D．Misunderstanding caused by a fight
小題4: What can we infer from the passage?
A．Yueyang police are afraid of the Xinjiang Uygur vendor
B．It’s not the only ethnic tension across China,
C．Many Uygurs living in major Chinese cities are viewed by locals as thieves, crooks and even terrorists.
D．Villager Ling got into a fight with a Uygur due to a misunderstanding.
小題5: Where is this passage probably from?
A．Microblogging.B．Textbook.
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"There are still earthquakes under the volcano, and the small earthquake is still not quite down to what it was before the eruption."
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"It stopped and started again several times with different intervals（間隔）, so it's difficult to say, difficult to give a timeline," he said.
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At the height of its activity, the volcano sent out huge clouds of ash, which led to airlines grounding their planes for fear it could interfere with plane engines.
It was the biggest action of closing airspace in Europe since World War II, and affected at least 10 million passengers worldwide.
小題1:What do expert think Eyjafjallajokull is like now?
A．Magma is still coming out
B．The hole appears about 100 degrees C
C．The eruption was not over
D．It is very cold.
小題2:How do expects know the temperature in Eyjafjallajokull's hole?
A．By taking photosB．By taking its temperature
C．By going close to itD．By driving past it
小題3:What does Steinunn Jakobsdottir think of Eyjafjallajokull?
A．It will erupt again soon
B．It will be sleeping
C．Another mountain might also erupt
D．It’s uncertain
小題4:What do you think the main idea is?
A．the biggest action of closing airspace in Europe
B．the temperature in Eyjafjallajokull's hole
C．The Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland
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A boy who was nervous on his first day of school climbed onto a third-floor balcony (陽(yáng)臺(tái)) and put legs over the side. His mother and teachers tried their best to bring him down, but failed. However, a firefighter who dressed as "Spiderman" succeeded in saving him.
Firefighter David Smith was called in after the 6-year-old’s teachers and mother had failed to get him down from the balcony. "He was asking for his mother, "Smith said. "He was crying, and wouldn’t let any of us get near him." After hearing a conversation between the boy’s mother and his teachers about his love of superheroes , Smith hurried home to get his Spiderman clothes.
"I told him 'Spiderman is here to save you. No one will hurt you now,’" Smith said. "Then I told him to walk slowly toward me. I was really nervous that he might fall if he got too excited and started running." Then the crying boy broke into a smile and walked into the fireman’s arms.
The fictional (虛構(gòu)的) superhero was created by writer Stan Lee in the early 1960s. It has recently become popular again through a series of movies made about him. In them he is acted by superstar Tobey Maguire, who acted with Kirsten Dunst and James Franco.
小題1:Which would be the best title for this passage?
A．Spiderman Is BackB．"Spiderman" Saved a Boy
C．Spiderman Is PopularD．A Boy’s Love of Spiderman
小題2:Put the following things in the correct order.
a. The fireman dressed as "Spiderman".
b. The mother talked with the boy’s teachers.
c. The boy didn’t let anyone get near him.
d. The boy smiled at the fireman.
A．c, b, a, dB．c, b, d, aC．b, c, a, dD．b, a, c, d
小題3:How did the fireman succeed in saving the boy?
A．By showing he had the same interest as the boy.
B．By bringing the boy’s mother to his side.
C．By dressing up as a superhero.
D．By making friends with him.
小題4:What do we learn from the passage?
A．The boy had been forced to go to school.
B．The mother did not love her son.
C．Spiderman is a superhero in a series of movies.
D．Spiderman became popular again in the 1960s.

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When TV news programs report wars or disasters, the editors rarely use the most horrifying pictures of dead or wounded victims because they don’t want to upset their viewers. Even so, viewers are usually warned in advance that they may find some of these scenes disturbing, so they can look away if they choose. But the men and women whose job is to record those scenes－the TV cameramen－h(huán)ave no such choice. It is their duty to witness the horrors of the world and record them, no matter how terrible and unpleasant they may be. Consequently, it is one of the most dangerous, exposed and emotionally taxing jobs the world has to offer.
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These freelance cameramen are independent operators tied to no particular organization. They will work for any company which hires them, be it for just a few hours or for several weeks in a war zone. But if the freelance cameraman is injured in the course of the job, the TV company is not responsible for him. The freelancer must survive on his own.
TV will always need hard, vivid moving pictures which are fresh, but these companies feel uncomfortable with large numbers of employees on their books, explains Nick Growing, once foreign editor for Britain Channel 4 News and now a BBC news presenter.
By hiring freelancers, they can buy in the skills they need only when they need them. It also enables them to contract out the risk, he says.
小題1:TV news agencies turn to freelance cameramen in order to           .
A．save expense and avoid risks
B．get free and useful pictures
C．get first-hand information and pictures
D．satisfy the greed of the freelance cameramen
小題2:We can infer from the passage that the freelance cameramen             .
A．have to take a lot of risks in the course of work
B．a(chǎn)re tied to many TV news agencies
C．have better skills than other cameramen
D．need to contract out risks of work for TV companies
小題3:According to this passage, some major broadcasters and TV news agencies            .
A. have employed enough cameramen
B. are not willing to employ many cameramen
C. are very mean to freelancers
C. are responsible for the freelancer if he is injured
小題4:The author of this passage shows his           the freelance cameramen.
A．sympathy toB．respect forC．a(chǎn)nger toD．a(chǎn)dmiration to

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Talk about a real-life hero! Ten-year-old Larry Champagne from St. Louis, Missouri, hit the brake (剎車(chē)) on a runaway school bus. He saved himself and 20 other kids on board from disaster.
It all happened in one terrible accident. On the way to school, the bus driver, Ernestine Blackman, suddenly fell ill. Seeing the car was running away, the other kids started to scream, but Larry ran to the front and stopped the bus.
“At first I thought, ‘We’re going to die,’” says Larry, “but after I pressed the brake, I felt safe.”
Larry’s speedy reaction made news all over the country. He appeared on TV shows as a hero. The bus company gave Larry a big gift. His school hung a medal of honor around his neck.
“My grandmother always tells me to do what’s right,” says Larry. He thanked his brother, Jerrick, 9, who “helped me get the bus driver up” during the emergency. How did he know how to stop the bus? Larry is something of a mechanic（機(jī)械師）. He helps his grandfather work on his old truck. “He gets his hands dirty,” says his grandfather. One thing is for certain: Larry knows where to find the brakes.
小題1:What did Larry do to save the runaway bus?
A．He parked it for the sleeping bus driver.
B．He helped all the kids climb out through the windows.
C．He made a call to the police.
D．He pressed the brake.
小題2:When did Larry finally feel safe?
A．When the kids finally stopped screaming.
B．When the police officers arrived.
C．Once he pressed the brake, and the bus stopped.
D．When the bus driver started driving again.
小題3:Larry got the following as praise for his hero action Except _______.
A．a(chǎn)ppearing on TV showsB．a(chǎn) scholarship from his school
C．a(chǎn) big gift from the bus companyD．a(chǎn) medal of honor
小題4:Larry thanked his brother Jerrick for ________.
A．helping him get the bus driver up
B．helping him work on his old truck
C．teaching him how to find the brake
D．teaching him how to stop the bus
小題5:The underlined sentence “Larry is something of a mechanic” tells us that ____.
A．Larry’s job is a mechanic
B．Larry knows something about machines
C．Larry is a robot
D．Larry knows nothing about machines

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