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B．A Scary Night C．The Frightened Kid D．The Allen’s footprints
C
15、“Everything happens for the best.” Whenever I faced disappointment, my mother would say this to me. After I graduated from college in 1932, I decided to find a job in a radio station as a sports announcer (广播员). I went to Chicago and knocked at the door of every station. But unluckily, I was refused every time. At one station, a kind lady told me that big stations wouldn’t hire (雇佣) an inexperienced person and suggested that I try my luck at smaller stations. Following her advice, I went back to Dixon, where I had grown up. There were no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, and my father said a newly-opened store wanted a local athlete to work for it. I applied for the job, but I was refused again.
“Everything happens for the best,” Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to look for a job. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.
As I left his office, my frustration(失意、挫败)______“How can I become a sports announcer if I can’t get a job in a radio station?” I asked aloud.
While I was waiting for the elevator, I heard someone calling. It was MacArthur. “What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he asked me to broadcast (广播) an
imaginary(想象出来的) game. He was pleased with my performance, he offered me a chance to work there. On my way home, I thought of my mother’s words: “If you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn’t have happened if not for that previous(先前的) disappointment”. 根据短文内容，选择最佳选项，并将其标号在答题卡上涂黑。（每小题2分，共10分） 1．Why couldn’t the writer find a job at big radio stations? A．Because he never graduated from college. B．Because he was an inexperienced announcer. C．Because he didn’t work hard in college. D．Because he didn’t know about sports. 2．Where was the writer born? A．In Chicago. B．In New York. C．In Dixon. D．In Washington. 3．Which of the following is TRUE?
A．The writer’s parents didn’t want him to be a sports announcer. B．There were no radio-announcing jobs in the writer’s hometown. C．The writer became uninterested in sports announcing.
D．The writer got a job as a sports announcer in Dixon at last. 4．The underlined word boiled over means______. A．达到极点 B．随遇而安 C．无影无踪 D．无法诉说
5．According to the last paragraph, what did the writer’s mom want to tell him,? A．He shouldn’t be a sports announcer. B．Disappointment leads to failure. C．He should be proud of himself.
D．Everything will be OK if he keeps trying.
D
16、A public primary school in the USA has stopped giving its students’ homework.
Principal Jane Hsu wrote a letter to parents last month, explaining that after more than a year
of analyzing (分析) studies, the school had decided that students’ after-school time would be better spent on activities like reading at their own pace (步伐) and playing instead of working on homework.
Hsu’s letter says that many studies show that there is no connection between homework and academic (学业的) success. Some other studies also show that the connection between homework and success is dubious at the primary school level.
Harris Cooper, a social psychologist who researches education, found that doing homework makes students perform better in school as they grew older. In later grades, students who did homework performed increasingly better than students who did not. In 2006, Cooper published a study that analyzed 15 years’ worth of data on the influence of homework. He found that homework had a good influence on students as they aged.
Some parents are not happy with the decision to give up homework. “I think they should have homework. I want my daughter to have fun, but I also want her to be working towards a goal,” Daniel Tasman, the father of a second-grader at the school, said to the reporter.
“Students have to do homework in order to gain. Students have to do homework because they may not be able to understand everything in school,” Sharon Blake, a student’s grandmother told ABC news. 1．Jane Hsu wrote a letter to parents to explain . A．how students should read at their own pace B．why the school gave up homework recently C．what activities students could take at home D．how important the homework is for students
2．The word “dubious” in Paragraph 3 probably means “not ”. A．real B．public C．clear D．special
3．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Cooper found homework had a bad effect on students as they aged. B．Some parents are worried about their children if there is no homework. C．Some students are not happy with the decision to give up school homework. D．Daniel Tasman wanted his daughter to have fun instead of working to a goal
E
17、I remember the exact moment I learned the principle(原则) of preparing for luck.
I was on the wrestling(摔跤) team, Now, if there’s one thing I can tell you about any sport, it is that wresting is probably the sport that has the least luck. There are only two people out on the mat(垫子), so you cannot blame(指责) it on your teammates or your coach(教练). And guess what? There is no weather because we do the whole thing indoors, so you can’t say, “It was raining” or “It was snowing.” So we should say wrestling is the sport with the least luck.
On our team there were two world champions; one of them had been a world champion five times. We also had five people who were national champions. One of them was a guy by the name of John.
John had never been beaten in any high school wrestling competition that I could remember, as he was a national champion. There was nobody local who could touch him.
One day, we went for a match with our biggest opponent（对手）. John went out on the mat, and about a minute and 30 seconds into the match he tried to make a special move. He rolled over, and his opponent caught him halfway through his roll. He was pinned(压住)! The match was over. I remember on the way home, one of our teammates tried to comfort John by saying, “Oh, he just got lucky.” And John said, “That’s so silly. The opportunity presented itself, and he just took advantage it.” We used to have this big sign in our wrestling room that the coach had put there. “Luck is what happens when opportunity meets preparation.”
John’s opponent was prepared to make use of this opportunity. The possibility of beating John was not strong and he knew it. But he waited for the right opportunity, and he defeated and pinned a national champion.
In other words, the real message is “Be prepared!” It’s not just finding the opportunity, you have to be prepared to take it.
1．The author thinks that if you want to win in the wrestling, ________ A．you must have the best luck B．you must prepare for it well C．you should know your opponent D．you must become a national champion
2．The phrase “on the wrestling team” can be replaced by “________”
A．a leader of the wrestling team
B．a person working for the wrestling team C．a member of the wrestling team D．the coach of the wrestling team
3．Why did one of the author’s teammates comfort John? A．Because John was beaten easily
B．Because John’s opponent was much stronger than him C．Because John looked very unhappy after the match D．Because failure is the mother of success 4．From this passage, we can infer that ________ A．John’s opponent had more luck than him B．wrestling is an outdoor sport
C．wrestling is the sport with the most luck D．John didn’t prepare so well as his opponent 5．What’s the best title for this passage?
A．A Wrestling Match B．Catch the Opportunity
C．To be Lucky, be Prepared D．A Sport with the Least Luck
F
18、阅读理解（20小题，每小题2分，共40分）
Who says that skirts are only for girls? Men can also wear them. Scotchmen have worn them for many years. They call their skirts kilts. A kilt is a colored skirt. It reaches down to the knee(膝盖). It has different colored checks (方格) on it, like red or blue. Some families in Scotland have their own colors and designs. From the kind of kilt they wear you can tell which group they come from.
The kilt goes back to the 1720s. Scottish soldiers used to wear them. Later, many Scottish men wore them. Today the kilt is not much seen in Scotland. However, in some parts of the country you can still see some older men wearing kilts. Most Scotchman see the kilt as formal dress for national celebrations, marriages or big dinners.
Even kilt makers have moved with the times. Some modern designs have a pocket for a mobile phone. 根据材料内容选择最佳答案, 并将其标号填入题前括号内。 1．Men in ____ wear skirts for many years. A．Spain B．Korean C．Japan D．Scotland 2．A kilt is___________. A．a kind of beautiful pants