By the time Billy was 6, he________in the sea...

By the time Billy was 6, he________in the sea.

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As a boy，Tim was much influenced by books about the sea, but in fact by the age of fifteen he had decided to become a doctor rather than a sailor. His father was a dentist and as a result Tim had the opportunity of meeting many doctors either at home or elsewhere. When he was fourteen he was already hanging around the clinic of a local doctor where he was supposed to be helping to wrap up medicine bottles，but was actually trying to listen to the conversations taking place between the doctor and his patients in the next room.

During the war Tim served in the Navy as a surgeon（外科医生）.“That was the happiest time of my life. I was dealing with very real suffering and on the whole making a success of it .”In California he taught the country people simple facts about medicine. He saw himself as a life-saver. He had proved his skills to himself and his ability to take decisions. Thus，while he was able to tell them what to do, he could feel he was serving them. After the war, he got married and chose to be a doctor in the countryside，working under an old doctor who was popular in the area，but who hated the sight of blood and believed that the secret of medicine was faith. This gave the younger man many opportunities to go on working as a life –saver.

1.Tim decided to become a doctor at fifteen mainly because

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

3.From the passage we can infer that Tim        .

4.The passage is mainly about        .

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He came back late, _______ which time all the guests had already left.

A. after                            B. by                            C. at                                               D. during

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By the time Robert Porter Allen was born in 1905, the whooping crane(鸣鹤)was already in trouble. The beautiful bird was once commonly found across North America. By 1941, the whooping crane population had dwindled to the double digits. The tallest species in North America were critically endangered.

In the 1940s, the remaining cranes migrate(迁徙) every year from the Gulf Coast of Texas to somewhere in the north of Canada to breed(繁殖). The conservation community didn’t know where the birds went. The wetlands where they used to spend winters were growing rarer and rarer as they tiny, non-migrating group of whooping cranes was alive in Louisiana in 1941, but the group had disappeared by the time Allen started his research.

In 1942, Allen undertook the whooping crane project Over the next three years, he did almost constant field work that took him from Texas up the cranes' migration route to Nebraska, and on into Saskatchewan in search of the nesting ground of the birds.

Studying the bird in its breeding habitat and seeing how many birds were born would allow conservationists to understand how to help the birds on their journey. But finding the whooping crane 's nesting site meant difficult and fruitless air searches over northern Canada.

In 1952, Allen wrote a report on the whooping crane. The report was a warning call to the conservation community: only 33 migratory "whoopers" remained, and their nesting site still hadn’t been found. Two years later, the whooping cranes breeding grounds in Canada's Wood Buffalo National Park were finally found, and Allen headed north to study them firsthand, an "incredibly difficult journey, "in Sprunt’s words, Allen’s work laid the groundwork for conservationists to save the birds.

Their efforts paid off as the numbers reached 57 by 1970 and 214 by 2005.Today, the whooping crane is still listed as endangered, but there are roughly 600 birds alive.

1.What is the passage mainly about?

A. It is a story about Allen’s searching for a lost bird.

B. It is a story about the cranes ,Long migration flight

C. It is a story about the crane surviving the winters.

D. It is a story about conserving the whooping crane

2.What does the underlined word “dwindled” mean in the first paragraph?

A. Increased B. Reduced C. Stayed D. Limited

3.According to the Passage, which of the following is mainly responsible for what happened to the remaining whooping cranes？

A. Habitat loss B. Illegal hunting. C. Natural disaster. D. Deadly diseases.

4.Which of the following events took place in 1954?

A. The non-migrating group of whooping cranes disappeared

B. Robert Potter Allen undertook the whooping crane project.

C. The whooping cranes breeding grounds were discovered

D. Robert Porter Allen wrote a report on the whooping crane.

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I was in the seventh grade, and we had moved to New Jersey in November. By then, everyone already had had their own friends, and no one wanted to talk to a new girl. To make things worse, they put me in “Section L”. I found out later that everyone called Section L “Loserville”. It was sort of an open secret that it was the section for troublemakers and not-so-smart kids. When I found out, I wanted to scream. I had always been a good student and had amazing friends, and now everyone thought I was a loser!

I did text my friends in Illinois almost every night, especially my best friend, Ana. At first my friends wanted to hear all about it. But then some stopped texting back once I said something about how miserable I was. One night when I was texting with Ana, I complained about another friend who had just done that.

Ana’s texts came really fast for the next few minutes and they surprised me. She said that she was tired of hearing about how bad everything was in New Jersey, too. She said she did not want to hurt my feelings but that I needed to stop feeling so sorry for myself all the time, I had to try to make things better.

The next day, I thought a lot about what Ana had said. She was right!

I wish I could say that everything changed overnight after that, but it didn’t. I was still stuck in “Loserville”, and some people were still mean to me, even though I tried to just stay out of their way.

But what did change was me—I stopped feeling so sorry for myself and did something about making friends. I signed up to make sets for the school play. I met a lot of new people there, and suddenly I had friends to say hi to in the halls!

I still miss Illinois sometimes, but life in New Jersey isn’t so hard anymore. Even though I couldn’t change my situation, I could change my attitude—and that made all the difference.

1.“Loserville” is a section for ________.

A. failures B. good students

C. class secrets D. newcomers

2.The writer complained all the time in the new environment because ________.

A. Ana didn’t text back to her B. her friends hurt her feelings

C. she was unfairly treated D. she was a good student

3.What made a difference in changing the situation?

A. She went back to Illinois.

B. She ended friendship with Ana.

C. She fought back with her classmates.

D. She began to make friends with others.

4.The best title for the passage can be ________.

A. Lasting Friendship B. An Incidence at School

C. Say Goodbye to “Loserville” D. Unhappiness in “Loserville”

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By the time the police arrived, the old man ________ dead already, with a gun in his hand.

A.was found B.had found C.found D.has been found

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By the time I saw the job ________ in the newspaper，it was already too late.

A．advertised　    B．to be advertised

C．advertise　    D．to advertise

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(2013·福建七所名校第一次联考)By the time I saw the job ________ in the newspaper, it was already too late to apply.

A．advertised      B．to be advertised

C．being advertised      D．having been advertised

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______ he was 12, Einstein had learned advanced mathematics by himself.

A. The first time　　 B. At the time

C. By the time　　 D. During the time

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Walter Osipoff was an experienced parachutist（伞兵）.He had already made more than 20 jumps by May 15 , 1941. That morning, Osipoff trained his soldiers to practice jumps. Three boxes, containing weapons, were also to be parachuted overboard as part of the exercise.

Most of the soldiers had already jumped when Osipoff, standing a few inches from the plane's door, started to push out the last box. Somehow his parachute was suddenly opened. Instead of flowing free, Osipoff’s parachute now wrapped itself around the plane's tail wheel. He was now hanging below the tail of the plane. The soldiers struggled to pull Osipoff to safety, but they could not reach him. The plane was starting to run low on fuel, but an emergency landing with Osipoff dragging behind would certainly kill him. And pilots had no radio contact with the ground. To attract attention below, they eased the transport plane down to 300 feet and started circling the airport.

Meanwhile, Bill Lowrey and John McCants saw the trouble at the same time. As the plane circled once again, Lowrey yelled to McCants, “We must save him!” Lowrey's plane took off quickly. Within minutes, they made five approaches, but the air proved too bumpy（颠簸）to try for a rescue. Lowrey flew back once again and edged the plane closer. McCants, standing upright in the back, reached for Osipoff. He grabbed him at the waist and pulled Osipoff into the plane. Lowrey then nosed his plane inch by inch closer to the transport and used his propeller（螺旋桨）to cut the parachute lines. After hanging for 33 minutes between life and death, Osipoff was finally free.

Three weeks later, Lowrey and McCants were awarded for accomplishing “one of the most brilliant and daring rescues in history". Osipoff spent the next six months in hospital. The following January, he went back to parachute jumping.

1.What happened to Walter Osipoff on May 15,1941 ?

A.He was trapped in a skydiving incident.

B.He threw weapon containers by mistake.

C.His soldiers refused to practice parachuting.

D.His parachute failed because of his carelessness.

2.Why did the transport plane circle the airport?

A.To inform the ground crew to refuel for it.

B.To warn other planes to keep away from it.

C.To show the dangerous situation to the ground.

D.To tell the ground to receive weapon containers.

3.How did Lowrey and McCants perform the rescue?

A.They pushed Osipoff back into the plane.

B.They boarded the transport plane to help.

C.They flew under Osipoff* s plane to free him.

D.They guided the transport plane to land safely.

4.What did people think of Lowrey and McCants' behavior?

A.Fearless. B.Subjective. C.Confidential. D.Tentative.

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