Well，we’re here in New York at last!Our fligh...

Well，we’re here in New York at last!

Our flight left at 2:30pm and for the next hours everything was great. But when we were about 30 minutes away from New York，there was a 1.________ (暴风雨) in the city．The pilot told us that we had to 2.l　　　 in Washington DC and the airline was going to take 3.________by bus to New York．However, we couldn’t get4._______the plane in Washington DC because there were too many planes5.________ (到达) at the same time．It had to fly in circles for three hours before we finally 6.l　　　 the plane．

The airline then 7. i　　　　 us that we’d have to stay in a hotel and set off for New York the next morning．So off we went to find the bus to the hotel．We found the bus stop and then stood in the rain8. ________ (焦急地) waiting for the bus．40 minutes later, we reached the hotel but there was only one room9.a　　　　 for my brothers and I．So we had to share one single bed． 10.________you can imagine，we didn’t get much sleep．

What a journey!

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_______ the interview in Boston lasted so long, I missed my connecting flight to New York.

A. Due to         B. So long as         C. As         D. Despite

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Ella _____ at the car crash scene in New York last Sunday; she was travelling with me in Hawaii then.

A. shouldn’t have appeared 　　 B. couldn’t have appeared

C. wouldn’t have appeared　　 D. might not have appeared

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Jenny went to visit her friends in New York last weekend. Her friends met her at the airport on Friday afternoon and drove her to the hotel. They had dinner at a Chinese restaurant and went to see a film after that.

Jenny and her friends set out early on Saturday morning for a farm and stayed there until Sunday morning. During their stay, they went fishing and swimming in the small river on the farm.　 They played football in the field and enjoyed a big meal around a camp fire（篝火）, singing and dancing till late into the night.

Nobody could get up early on Sunday morning. So when they got back to New York City, it was about three o’clock in the afternoon. They drove right to the airport because Jenny didn’t want to miss her plane back home. Jenny only stayed in New York for two nights but she had a great time with her friends.

1.Jenny went to New York________.

A. to do some shopping　　 B. to see her friends

C. to spend her summer holiday　　 D. to find a job

2.How did Jenny get to New York?

A. By train.　　 B. By bus.

C. By plane.　　 D. On foot.

3.Where did Jenny and her friends go on Saturday?

A. To the farm.　　 B. To the Chinese restaurant.

C. To the airport.　　 D. To the railway station.

4.When did Jenny go back home?

A. On Saturday afternoon.　　 B. On Sunday morning.

C. On Saturday evening.　　 D. On Sunday afternoon.

5.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. Jenny and her friends lived in the same city.

B. They went to watch a movie after dinner on Friday.

C. Jenny and her friends set out early on Sunday morning for a farm.

D. Jenny stayed in the hotel all day.

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I wish I ______ at my sister’s wedding last Tuesday, but I was on a business trip in New York then.

A. will be　　　　 　　 　 B. would be

C. have been　　　　 　　 D. had been

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I wish I ______ at my sister’s wedding last Tuesday, but I was on a business trip in New York then.

A. will be　　　　　　 B. would be

C. have been　　　　　 D. had been

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We met an old friend in New York ____our expectation. She waved at us _____ the street when she saw us.

A．with; in           B．out of; next to      C．in; out of          D．beyond; from across

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Attention please.Flight Nineteen from New York to Washington is now arriving at_______.

A.the two gate　 B.a second gate　 C.the Gate Two　 D.Gate two

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My husband and son took a New York-to-Milwaukee flight that was supposed to leave Friday at 11:29 am. The flight boarded after 4 pm and didn’t leave the gate until 4:40, and half an hour later the pilot announced it would be another hour until takeoff. At that point a Jewish family, worried about violating the Sabbath （安息日）, asked to get off. Going back to the gate cost the plane its place in line for takeoff, and the flight was eventually cancelled. Was the airline right to grant that request?

M. W, Norwalk, CONN.

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Situations like that can bring out the worst in people. But despite the increasing resentment（怨恨） of a plane full of people, the pilot tried to do the right thing. He went out of his way to satisfy one family’s urgent need. He should not have done so.

Passengers bought tickets in the belief that the airline’s primary goal was to get them to their destination as close to the schedule as possible. Once they got on the plane and the doors are locked, it’s not correct to announce that the rules have changed and that a personal (as opposed to medical) emergency —no matter how urgent — might take precedence（优先）.

That would be just as true if turning back to the gate had merely cost a few minutes rather than doomed the flight entirely, since on a plane, even a slight delay can spread outward, from the people in the cabin to those meeting them to the passengers waiting to board the plane for the next leg of its journey and so on. It would also be true if the personal emergency were not religious — if someone suddenly realized she’d made a professional mistake that might cost her millions, and she had to race back to the office to fix it.

If a religious practice does nothing to harm others, then airlines should make a reasonable effort to accommodate it. Though that family has every right to observe the Sabbath, it has no right to enlist an airplane full of captive bystanders to help them do so. By boarding a flight on a Friday afternoon, the family knowingly risked running into trouble. The risk was theirs alone to bear.

1.M. W. wrote the letter to ask whether ______.

A．Any religious passenger has the right to ask the pilot to take off

B．The airline has the right to cancel the flight without any reason

C．A flight should meet any passenger’s need despite others’ benefit

D．A plane which has left the gate should give up taking off

2.What do we know from the reply letter?

A．The pilot did the right thing in spite of the fierce resentment.

B．The plane should turn back if anyone aboard is seriously ill.

C．Anybody who has boarded has no chance to get off the plane.

D．Any flight shouldn’t change its schedule no matter what has happened.

3.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Turning back to the gate usually takes a plane quite a long time.

B．Nobody should take precedence to require the plane to turn back to the gate.

C．Even if it had taken a few minutes it was not right to turn back to the gate.

D．It was OK if turning back to the gate hadn’t caused the flight to be cancelled.

4.The author of the reply letter thinks that _________.

A．It’s right for the plane to turn back to the gate to save a passenger’s treasure

B．The Jewish family should give up observing the Sabbath after boarding

C．The biggest problem of turning back is to bring trouble to the pilot

D．The Jewish family had better avoid boarding on Friday afternoon

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In 1935, the clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman, aged just twentysix, left New York with his fourteenpiece “swing” band and, traveling in a ragtag group of cars, headed for the huge Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles. It was not an easy trip. There were half a dozen dismal, sparsely attended onenighters and three weeks at a dance hall in Denver, where the band was forced to play waltzes, tangos, and novelty numbers. On the opening night at the Palomar, the band played ballad numbers in the first set, and there was little response from the dancers. Then one of the musicians said, if they were going to bomb again they might well do it in style. So Goodman called for his hot, often uptempo arrangements, many of them by the ingenious black bandleader and arranger Fletcher Henderson, and the kids stopped dancing, clustered around the bandstand, and began roaring. Before the weeks at the Palomar were over, it was clear that Goodman had suddenly made jazz—still a suspect and largely subliminal American folk music, despite the brilliant inventions during the previous decade of Jelly Roll Morton and others—into a popular music.

Goodmans surprising ways continued. In 1936, he shook up the white entertainment establishment by hiring two black musicians—the elegant pianist Teddy Wilson and the plunging vibraphonist Lione Hampton. (To be sure, Wilson and Hampton did not play in the band; instead, they appeared with Goodman and the drummer Gene Krupa during intermissions.) A year later, when the band went into the Paramount Theater in New York for three weeks, legions of kids appeared, and a screaming, dancing riot nearly took place. It was the first great American show frenzy, and it prepared the way for the Sinatra frenzy of 1947, and for all the Beatles frenzies, and for all the mindless rockborne frenzies of the Seventies and Eighties.

Then, on the night of January 16, 1938, Goodman, challenging the longhairs, took his band into a soldout Carnegie Hall. The big band played a dozen numbers, the trio two numbers, and the quartet five numbers. Despite the immediate rumblings from Olin Downes, the Timess classical music critic (“The playing last night, if noise, speed and beat, all old devices, are heat, was “hot” as it could be, but nothing came of it all, and in the long run it was decidedly monotonous”), Goodmans concert moved jazz even further up the American popular register. ［412 words］

1. This passage is mainly

A　 a general review of Jazz music.

B　 a biography of Benny Goodman.

C　 about the origin of American folk music.

D　 about how jazz became popular in America.

2.　 Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A　 The bands first music show in Los Angles was an immediate success.

B　 Goodman is considered the father of Jazz music.

C　 Benny Goodman was unknown to public when he left New York.

D　 The band scheduled to play waltzes, tangos and novelty numbers at a dance hall in Denver.

3. It could be inferred from the passage that

A　 Jazz is a style of music native to America.

B　 Classic music had become outdated at Goodmans time.

C　 Morton and Goodman were contemporaries.

D　 Goodman was the first bandleader who hired Black musicians in 1930s.

4. The phrase “shake up” (Line 1,Paragraph 2) in the context probably means

A　 to give a very unpleasant shock.

B　 to make changes to an organization.

B　 to get rid of a problem.

D　 to point out, designate.

5.　 Towards Goodmans music show frenzy, Olin Downes, the classical music critic has

A　 approving attitude. B　 satirizing attitude.

C　 regretting mind. D　 exaggerated tone.

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