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A.He said , I don't remember that I was ever President.
B. suggestion
C. explanation
D. achievement
E.comment
A.He said , I don't remember that I was ever President.
B. suggestion
C. explanation
D. achievement
E.comment
A.used to live
B.used to living
C.were used to living
D.got used to live
A.Meeting him when he was a chil
B.Learning about him at school.
C.Hearing the news about his deat
D.Seeing the assassination on television.
1.A.on
B.reached
C.fast
D.But
E.from
2.A.on
B.reached
C.fast
D.But
E.from
3.A.on
B.reached
C.fast
D.But
E.from
4.A.on
B.reached
C.fast
D.But
E.from
5.A.on
B.reached
C.fast
D.But
E.from
1.According to the passage, Nicholas Alkemade ____.
A、was a German officer during the Second World War
B、had often jumped from a height of about 18, 000 feet
C、was a British officer
D、calculated the height with a special instrument
2.Nicholas jumped out of his plane because ____.
A、he was a good parachutist
B、he would otherwise be burned to death
C、he wanted to become a hero
D、the Royal Air Force instructed him to do so
3.Nicholas's experience was ____.
A、only an experiment
B、just as he had expected it to be
C、something painful and quick
D、quite unimaginable
4.Which of the following in the passage was the name of Nicholas's plane? ____
A、Lancaster
B、Gunnery
C、Trampoline
D、Asphyxia
5.The passage tells us that Capt. Joseph Kittinger ____.
A、served as a pilot during the Second World War
B、did not believe that people would die if they jumped from a plane without parachutes
C、made a successful free-fall land from a balloon
D、often forgot to open his parachute when jumping from a plane
The next day was Saturday. He knew that most of the boys would be down on the playground and choose up sides for the Saturday game. Robert knew he could play well and that just might be enough to prove he was strong, and to make friends with them. He arrived early and did his step exercises. He shot the ball several times and did some other exercises—the most difficult and most wonderful in basketball. Then the boys came. Robert went through what he had done before the game and showed what he could do. No one said a word. The boys just looked at each other and thought about it. In the end, when it was all over, the biggest of the group just smiled and shook his head. Robert knew he had made it.
1. What does “This did not help to make him less lonely” mean?()
A、Robert felt more lonely because the other boys wanted to test him.
B、Robert did not want himself to be less lonely.
C、Robert felt as lonely as before when the other boys tried to find out what kind of a boy he was.
D、The other boys did not want to make Robert feel less lonely.
A warm-hearted (热心的) nurse on her first day's work went near to a patient (病人). He has come to London as a tourist. She asked him if she could do something for him, but he only waved (摇) his hand and said something she could not understand. With a smile she asked him again and he just kept saying the same word but in a very much lower voice (声音) before closing his eyes. She ran to the doctor and repeated(重复) to him the sounds she had heard: "My dear girl," said the doctor after listening carefully to what she repeated, he was saying, " You are standing on I oxygen pipe (氧气管)!"
In the story, the nurse and the patient ______.
A.speak the same language
B.speak different languages
C.can't hear each other
根据下列文章,请回答 1~5 题。
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It was fifteen past nine as Made hurried into the office building where she was going to work. Her bus had inched along through heavy morning traffic, making her a few minutes late for her very first job. She decided to start out half an hour earlier the next day.
Once inside the lobby, she had to stand at the elevators and wait several minutes before she could get on one going to the sixth floor. When she finally reached the office marked "Smith Enterprises", she knocked at the door nervously and waited. There was no reply. She tapped on the door again, but still there was no answer. From inside the next office, she could hear the sound of voices, so she opened the door and went in.
Although she was sure it was the same office she had been in two weeks before when she had the interview with Mr. Smith, it looked quite different now. In fact, it hardly looked like an office at all. The employees were just standing around chatting and smoking. In the front of the room, somebody must have just told a good joke, she thought, because there was a loud burst of laughter as she came in. For a moment she had thought they were laughing at her.
Then one of the men looked at his watch, clapped his hands and said something to the others. Quickly they all went to their desks and, in a matter of seconds, everyone was hard at work. No one paid any attention to Made. Finally she went up to the man who was sitting at the desk nearest to the door and explained that this was her first day in the office. Hardly looking up from his work, he told her to have a seat and wait for Mr. Smith, who would arrive at any moment. Then Marie realized that the day' s work in the office began just before Mr. Smith arrived. Later she found out that he lived in Connecticut and came into Manhattan on the same train every morning, arriving in the office at 9:35,so that his staff knew exactly when to start working.
第 1 题 Made felt nervous when she knocked at the door because
A.it was her first day in a new job
B.she was a little bit late for work
C.she was afraid that she had gone to the wrong place
D.there was no answer from inside the office
In many African tribes the natives【C3】______the ground over which a chief has walked. Kissing the hand and foot has been a mark of respect from the【C4】______times.
The early Romans kissed the mouth or eyes【C5】______a form. of dignified greeting. One Roman emperor allowed his important nobles to kiss his lips, but the【C6】______important ones had to kiss his hands, and the【C7】______. important ones were【C8】______allowed to kiss his feet! It is quite probable that kiss as a form. of affection can be traced back to primitive times when a mother【C9】______fondle(爱抚)her child, just as a mother【C10】______today. It only remained for society to【C11】______this as a custom for expressing affection between adults.
We have evidence that this was already the【C12】______by the time of the sixth century, but we can only assume it was【C13】______long before that. The first【C14】______where the kiss became accepted in courtship and love was in France. When dancing became' popular, almost every dance figure ended【C15】______a kiss.
From France the kiss spread rapidly all over Europe. Russia, which loved to【C16】______the customs of France, adopted the kiss and it spread there through all the upper【C17】______A kiss from the Tsar became【C18】______of the highest forms of recognition from the Crown.
In time, the kiss became a part of courtship.【C19】______marriage customs developed, the kiss became a part of the wedding ceremony. Today, of course, we regard the kiss as an expression of love and tenderness. But there are still many places in the world where the kiss is【C20】______of formal ceremonies and is intended to convey respect.
【C1】
A.it
B.one
C.this
D.itself
But Jim's one great shortcoming was that he could never tell a lie, no matter how hard he tried, not even a little one. In fact, he was so honest and shy that he would blush even when he was telling the truth. He used to stand in front of the mirror and practice lying while looking himself in the eyes at the same time. But as soon as he saw his face starting to go red he had to look away.
One morning, however, he didn’t feel like going to work because he had been to a party the night before and it hadn't ended till the early hours of the morning. And so far the first time in his life he decided to take the day off. He rang his boss, pretending to be a woman. "I'm afraid Jim can't come to work today. He isn't feeling very well."
Poor Jim was thankful that his boss couldn’t see him just at that moment because his hands were trembling(发抖) and his face was bright red.
"Thank you for letting me know," said Mr. Woods, his boss, and then just as he was about to hang up, he said, "just a moment, madam, who's speaking."
"Oh!" he stammered (口气地说), and going all out for making a voice like a woman, he cried in a voice: "This is my landlady speaking!"
Jim was ______.
A.mid-aged
B.a teen-ager(青少年)
C.over 25
D.between 20 to 25
Yesterday afternoon John and I were walking along a road where we heard someone shout "Help! Help!" He was in __1__a lake, about a hundred feet from the shore. There was a __2__small boat nearby. We knew immediately what happened. __3__
He had fallen out of the boat and could not swim good enough __4__to reach it or to get to the shore. As we ran towards the lake I saw him sunk, and I was certain that he would drown. But in __5__a moment his head appeared again. Quickly John took out his __6__shoes, jumped into the water and started swimming toward the drowned man. He reached him just as the man went down __7__again. He was close enough as to stretch out his hand and try __8__to take hold of the man's clothes or his hair before he sank.But the man threw out his arms in fear, caught John across the __9__neck, and began to draw him down under the water. John fought to keep his head above the water and at the same time tried to swim toward the boat, pulled the man with him. __10__