Norman Cousins was a businessman from the Uni...

Norman Cousins was a businessman from the United Stated who often traveled around the world on business. He enjoyed his work and traveling. But now, Mr. Cousins got sick, because he had pushed his body to the limit of its strength on his work. Surrounded by endless work, he had no choice but to deal with it day and night. Then a chemical change began to take place inside him. The material between his bones became weak. In less than one week after his return, he could not stand. Every move that he make was painful. He was not able to sleep at night.

The doctors told him that they did not know how to cure (治疗) Mr. Cousins’ problem and he might never get over the illness. However, Mr. Cousins refused to give up hope. He thought that unhappy thoughts were causing bad chemical changes in his body. He didn’t want to take medicine to cure himself. Instead, he felt that happy thoughts or laughter might cure his illness.

He began to experiment (实验) on himself while still in the hospital by watching funny shows on television. Mr. Cousins quickly found that 10 minutes of real laughter during the day gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night. After that Mr. Cousins left the hospital and checked into a hotel room where he could continue his experiments with laughter. For eight days, Mr. Cousins rested in the hotel room watching funny shows on television, reading funny books, and sleeping whenever he felt tired. Within three weeks, he felt well enough to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for exercise.

After a few months, Mr. Cousins returned to work. He had laughed himself back to health.

1.Why did Norman Cousins get a strange and serious illness?

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2.What could the doctors do to help him?

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3.Besides feeling painful, what did he have difficulty doing?

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4.What did Norman Cousins think caused his disease?

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5.What did he do to help himself cure his problem?

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Norman Bethune was a great man________gave his life to help the Chinese people.

A.which B.who C.whose

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Once upon a time, there was a businessman who owed(欠债) a lot of money to a noble(贵族). The noble said he would forget about the money if he could marry the businessman’s daughter. The businessman didn’t want his daughter to marry the noble, but he was too poor to pay back.

The noble said, ”I have an idea. I will put a black stone and a white stone into an empty bag.Your daughter has to pick one from the bag. If she picks the black one , she will become my wife and you won’t need to pay me back. If she picks the white one, she need’t marry me. When your daughter picks the white one, you need’t pay back, either.” The businessman and his daughter agreed.

The noble went to pick two small stones. As he picks them up , the girl noticed him pick two black stones and put then into the bag. He then asked the girl to pick one. The girl put her hand into the bag and chose a stone. Without looking at it, she threw it into a river.

She said, “Oh, silly! I didn’t see the color of the stone. But if you look at the other one, you will be able to tell which one I have picked. ”

1.The businessman borrowed ___________from the noble.

A.some stones B.some food C.some bags D.some money

2.The businessman was too ___________ to pay back.

A.rich B.poor C.young D.old

3.If the daughter picks the white stone, ____________.

A.she need’t marry the noble B.the businessman has to pay back

C.she can put it into the bag D.she has to throw it into a river

4.The girl noticed the noble picked ____________.

A.two white stones B.two brown stones

C.two black stones D.two grey stones

5.In the end, the noble may be ___________.

A.happy B.disappointed

C.scared D.calm

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任务性阅读。（每小题2分，共10分）

Now the idea of “ car sharing” has become popular in Europe and the United Stated. That’s to say, people share one car, not each person has one.(A)As we know, most cars are parked in garages（车库） for much time. In fact, we drive our own cars as long as one or two hours a day on average(平均). When we don’t use them, we have to pay for parking and other things. (B)We spend too much money on that. If we share a car, we’ll only pay when we use it .(C)Because some people want to save money, they come up with the idea of “car sharing”. Now many people are starting to do car sharing. In Switzerland, almost 40000 people have joined it. Japan is also trying to make “car sharing” popular around the country.(D)car,　 is, of, new, sharing, transportation, beginning, a,　 idea, the, in. (E) This is also very easy for us to travel here and there without buying cars. Do you love to share a car with others?

1.请将（A）处的句子翻译成汉语。

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2.在下面的空白处填上一个适当的单词，使句意与（B）处相同。

That 　　　　　　　　　　 us too much money.

3.对（C）出的画线部分提问。

4.请将（D）处的单词组合成一个完整的句子。

5.（E）处有一处错误，请找出错误并改在下面的横线上。（可用文字叙述）。

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　　　　 There was a girl called Anna, who was studying in Esmarth Vil, a primary school in the United States. She was the most_______girl at her school. Her marks were higher than the others. She was the best, and almost everybody wanted to be her____________They wanted to play with her. One day, the teacher set an exam and a boy called Robert_______ his exam using Anna’s name. So when the teacher_______all the exams, Anna found out she had failed the exam, and the other kids were_________.

　　　　 Later on, Robert apologized to Anna, and finally they became good friends.

1.A. outgoing　　 B. beautiful　　 C. careful　　 D. hardworking

2.A. neighbor　　 B. friend　　 C. classmate　　 D. teacher

3.A. signed　　 B. sent　　 C. offered　　 D. wrote

4.A. marked　　 B. finished　　 C. returned　　 D. exchanged

5.A. pleased　　 B. moved　　 C. shocked　　 D. scared

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Passage 3

① Rebecca is a wildlife camerawoman from the United Kingdom. She was filming a documentary(纪录片)for the BBC in the Pacific Ocean (太平洋) when she saw something that made her cry: hundreds of dead birds. They died because they accidentally (偶然地) ate some of the plastic that is thrown into the sea each year. The beaches on the Pacific islands should have been some of the most beautiful places in the world. But they were covered with plastic toys, bottles, pens, cigarette lighters(打火机)—every plastic thing you can think of.

②Rebecca decided she had to do something In her hometown of Modbury in southwest England, she asked local shopkeepers if they could do something to help. She asked them to stop using plastic bags in their shops.

③Plastic bags are used everywhere in Britain. The numbers are amazing. Britain uses nearly 17 billion plastic bags each year. And the bags can take hundreds of years to break down(分解) because they are made of chemicals (化学物质). Each year, the sea and the environment become more and more polluted.

④To Rebecca's surprise, the shopkeepers agreed and Modbury became the first plastic bag-free town in Britain. Instead, shops offer reusable cotton bags or biodegradable(可生物降解的)bags. Other towns followed Modbury's example and more towns around Britain and around the world are becoming plastic bag-free.

⑤Now the bag for life is part of the national culture, and the task of reducing the use of plastic bags has become law(法律): since October 2015, all shops in the UK must charge(承担) five pence for each plastic bag used by each shopper, no matter how generous(大量的)their spending is! It's not enough, but it's a start.

1.While filming in the Pacific Ocean, Rebecca________.

A.enioyed the beautiful beaches B.saw hundreds of dead birds

C.watched wildlife through her camera D.collected lots of plastic waste

2.What Rebecca did in her hometown was the basic step to________.

A.reduce the usage of plastic B.offer help to shopkeepers

C.make full use of the plastic bags D.raise money for her filming

3.In Paragraph ③, the writer mainly wants to tell us________.

A.what the plastic is made of B.how serious the plastic pollution is

C.how badly the sea is polluted D.where the plastic bags are often used

4.What's the result of Rebecca's efforts in Britain?

A.Shoppers mustn't use plastic bags any more

B.All the towns have become plastic bag-free

C.The task of protecting wildlife has become law

D.The government has begun caring about the plastic use

5.What's the main idea of the passage?

A.The reason for the death of birds B.The pollution of plastic bags

C.Rebecca's ways to stop plastic waste D.Rebecca's documentary of wildlife.

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—Hi, Bruce. Here is a letter for you.

—Thanks. I wonder　　　　　　 .

A. who the letter was from         B. who was from the letter

C. who was the letter from         D. who from the letter was

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A businessman, who was very fond of music, was asked by a poor widow to give her some help. Her husband, who was a musician, had died, and left her very poor indeed.

The businessman saw that the widow and her daughter, who was with her, were in great distress. He looked with pity into their pale faces, and was sure that their sad story was true.

“How much do you want, my good woman?” said the businessman.

“Five dollars will save us,” said the poor widow, with some hesitation, after she thought for a few seconds.

The businessman sat down at his desk, took a piece of paper, wrote a few lines on it, and gave it to the widow with the words, “Take it to the bank you see on the other side of the street.”

The widow thanked the man, and then quickly walked to the bank with her daughter, without stopping to read the note. The banker at once counted out fifty dollars instead of five, and passed them to the window.

She was amazed when she saw so much money. “Sir, there is a mistake here.” she said. “You have given me fifty dollars, and I asked for only five.”

The banker then looked at the note once more, and said, “The check calls for fifty dollars.”

The banker then asked her to wait a few minutes, while he went to see the businessman who gave her the note.

“Yes,” said the businessman, when he had heard the banker’s story, “I did make a mistake. I wrote fifty instead of five hundred. Give the poor widow five hundred dollars, for such honesty is poorly rewarded (奖赏) with even that sum.”

1. From the story, we can guess that a widow is a woman who ________.

A. has lost her husband

B. loves her husband very much

C. is very poor

D. has a daughter but no sons

2.On her way to the bank, the widow ________.

A. thought she would get five dollars

B. stopped to read the note

C. knew she would get fifty dollars

D. felt very amazed

3.________ most probably has nothing to do with (和…有关) the word distress in second paragraph.

A. A poor family　 B. A pale face

C. A sad story D. A music lover

4. From the story we know that the businessman was ________.

A. rich and generous

B. poor and honest

C. warm-hearted but careless

D. polite but helpless

5.The businessman’s last sentence at the end of the story means _________.

A. the banker should give the widow some money to reward her for her honesty.

B. he felt better if he gave the widow fifty dollars instead of five hundred

C. the widow was poor, so she would get a sum of five hundred dollars.

D. the widow was honest, so she should get more money as a reward.

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There was a businessman who was deep in debt(债务) and could see no way out. He sat on a park bench, head in his hands.

Suddenly, an old man appeared before him. “I can see that something is troubling you,” he said. After listening to the businessman’s story, the old man wrote out a check(支票), and put it in his hand, saying, “Take it and pay me back here exactly one year from today.” Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.

The businessman saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, one of the richest men in the world.

“I can pay off my debts in a second!” he realized. But instead, the businessman decided to put the check in his safe(保险箱). Just knowing it was there might give him the power to save his business, he thought.

He went back and worked hard to make his business successful. Within several months,　 he was out of debt and making money once again.

Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. Behind the old man was a nurse. The nurse spoke to the businessman and said that the old man was mentally ill and was always telling people he was John D. Rockefeller.

The businessman was shocked to hear this. All year long he’d been buying and selling, believing that he had half a million dollars behind him. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn’t the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.

1.The businessman probably felt_________when he got the check from the old man.

A.anxious B.excited C.annoyed D.unhappy

2.The business put the check away because_________.

A.he didn’t want it to be stolen B.having the money brought him confidence

C.he hoped to find his real owner D.he was scared of spending it

3.What does the underlined word “mentally” mean in Chinese?

A.心理上 B.身体上 C.言语上 D.行动上

4.What happened at the agreed-upon time the next year?

A.The old man asked the businessman to pay back at once.

B.The businessman returned the check to the old man.

C.The old man didn’t remember he was John D. Rockefeller.

D.The businessman found out that the old man had a mental illness.

5.What does the story tell us?

A.Poor people are less confident than the rich.

B.It is easy for rich people to become poor.

C.Self-confidence plays a big role in one’s life.

D.Mentally ill people understand life’s basic truths.

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