I still remember the sitting-room _______ my ...

I still remember the sitting-room _______ my mother and I used to sit in the evening．

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I still remember --- my hands and my fingers still remember --- what used to lie in store for us on our return to school from the holidays. The trees in the school yard would be in full leaf again and the old leaves would be lying around like a muddy sea of leaves.

“Get that all swept up!” the headmaster would tell us. “I want the whole place cleaned up, at once!” There was enough work there, to last over a week. Especially since the only tools with which we were provided were our hands, our fingers, our nails. “Now see that it’s done properly, and be quick about it,” the headmaster would say to the older pupils, “or you’ll have to answer for it!”

So at an order from the older boys we would all line up like peanuts about to cut and gather in crops. If the work was not going as quickly as the headmaster expected, the big boys, instead of giving us a helping hand, used to find it simpler to beat us with branches pulled from the trees. In order to avoid these blows, we used to bribe(贿赂) the older boys with the juicy cakes we used to bring for our midday meal. And if we happened to have any money on us, the coins changed hands at once. If we did not do this, if we were afraid of going home with an empty stomach or an empty purse, the blows were redoubled. They hit us so violently and with such evil enjoyment that even a deaf and dumb person would have realized that we were being whipped so much not to make us work harder, but rather to beat us into a state of obedience(服从) in which we would be only too glad to give up our food and money.

Occasionally one of us, worn out by such calculated cruelty, would have the courage to complain to the headmaster. He would of course be very angry, but the punishment he gave the older boys was always very small --- nothing compared to what they had done to us. And the fact is that however much we complained, our situation did not improve in the slightest. Perhaps we should have let our parents know what was going on, but somehow we never dreamed of doing so; I don’t know whether it was loyalty or pride that kept us silent, but I can see now that we were foolish to keep quiet about it, for such beating were completely foreign to our nature.

1.The statement “my hands and my fingers still remember” (Para.1) means that___________.

A．the author’s hands were severely injured in the cleaning up

B．the author seldom did such hard work as the cleaning up

C．the author was bullied by the big boys in the cleaning up

D．the author’s hands were his only tool for the cleaning

2.The headmaster asked the older boys to_____________.

A．beat those who worked slowly

B．treat the small boys as peanuts

C．take charge of the process of the cleaning

D．do the cleaning all by themselves

3.According to Para. 3, if the author had any money on him, he most probably_________.

A．gave it to the big boys so as to please them

B．gave it as a bride to the headmaster

C．spent it all on his midday meal

D．spent it buying midday meals for the big boys

4.When receiving complaints, the headmaster would deal with the big boys by means of _________.

A．slight punishment                       B．strict criticism

C．complete indifference                   D．good beating

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______ many times, my elderly mother still can’t remember how to light the gas.

A．Had told          B．Having told        C．Having been told    D．Being told

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My mother  _______ a bed in the sitting-room for my cousins from the countryside.

A．brought up        B．took up           C．made up          D．put up

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My father died when I was nine, and I remember doing the household chores to help my mother. I hated changing the vacuum cleaner (真空吸尘器) bag and picking up things the machine did not suck up.

Twenty years later, in 1978, I was doing chores at home alongside my wife. One day the vacuum cleaner was screaming away, and I had to empty the bag because I could not find a replacement for it. With this lifelong hatred of the way the machine worked, I decided to make a bagless vacuum cleaner.

Easier said than done, of course. I didn’t realize that I would spend the next five years perfecting my design, a process that resulted in 5,127 different prototypes (设计原型). By the time I made my 15th prototype, my third child was born. By 2,627, my wife and I were really counting our pennies. By 3,727, my wife was giving art lessons for some extra cash, and we were getting further and further into debt. These were tough times, but each failure brought me closer to solving the problem.

I just had a passion for the vacuum cleaner as a product, but I never thought of going into a business with it. In the early 1980s, I started trying to get licensing agreements for my technology. The reality was very different, however. The major vacuum makers had built a business model based on the profits from bags and filters (滤网). No one would license my idea, not because it was a bad one, but because it was bad for business.

That gave me the courage to keep going, but soon after, the companies that I had talked with started making machines like mine. I had to fight legal battles on both sides of the Atlantic to protect the patents on my vacuum cleaner. However, I was still in financial difficulties until 1993, when my bank manager personally persuaded Lloyds Bank to lend me $1 million. Then I was able to go into production. Within two years, the Dyson vacuum cleaner became a best-seller in Britain.

Today, I still embrace risk and the potential for failure as part of the process. Nothing beats the excitement of invention. Go out and brainstorm your ideas. You are not bound to any rules - in fact, the stranger and riskier your idea, the better.

1.According to the article, which of the following statements about the writer is NOT true?

A.He lost his father during his childhood and lived with his mother.

B.He built over five thousand prototypes of the vacuum cleaner between 1978 and 1983.

C.Finally, the vacuum cleaner he reinvented became popular with British customers.

D.He decided to develop an innovative vacuum cleaner for his wife while in his thirties.

2.According to the article, the writer’s bagless vacuum cleaner was produced in large numbers ______.

A.in the early 1980s

B.after his bank manager agreed to lend him $1 million

C.after he managed to get a $1 million loan

D.before he obtained a patent on the product

3.It can be inferred from the article that ______.

A.the writer was a born businessman

B.the writer had no confidence in his vacuum cleaner initially

C.the writer’s invention might have ended up in failure without his wife

D.the writer’s vacuum cleaner was never recognized by other vacuum makers

4.According to the article, which of the following would most likely be the writer’s motto?

A.Never be afraid of failure because failure is nothing but the first step to success.

B.The foundation stones for a success are honesty, faith, love and loyalty.

C.It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves.

D.If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

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My father died when I was nine, and I remember doing the household chores to help my mother. I hated changing the vacuum cleaner(真空吸尘器) bag and ___________ things the machine did not suck up.

Twenty years later, in 1978, I was doing chores at home alongside my ___________. One day the vacuum cleaner was screaming away, and I had to ___________ the bag because I could not find a new one to replace it. With this lifelong hatred of the way the machine worked, I decided to make a ___________ vacuum cleaner.

Easier said than done, of course. I didn't ___________ that l would spend the next five years perfecting my design, a ___________ that resulted in 5,127 different prototypes(设计原型). By the time I made my 15th prototype, my third child was born. By 2,627, my wife and I were really counting our ___________. By 3,727, my wife was giving art lessons for some extra cash, and we were getting further and further into ___________. These were tough times, but each failure brought me closer to ___________ the problem.

I just had a passion for the vacuum cleaner as a product, but I ____________ thought of going into a business with it. In the early 1980 s, I started trying to ____________ licensing agreements for my technology. The reality was very different, ____________. The major vacuum makers had built a business model based on the ____________ from bags. No one would license my idea, not because it was a (an) ____________ one, but because it was bad for business.

That gave me the courage to keep going, but soon after, the companies that I had talked with started making machines ____________ mine. I had to fight legal battles to protect the patents on my vacuum cleaner. However, I was still in ____________ difficulties until 1993, when my bank manager personally ____________ Lloyds Bank to lend me $1 million. Then I was able to go into production. Within two years, the Dyson vacuum cleaner became a ____________ in Britain.

Today, I still embrace risk and the potential for failure as part of the process. Nothing ____________ the excitement of invention. Go out and brainstorm your ideas. You are not ____________ to any rules-in fact, the stranger and riskier your idea, the better.

1.A.making out B.picking up C.holding onto D.noting down

2.A.porter B.designer C.dad D.wife

3.A.desert B.empty C.fill D.pack

4.A.waterproof B.silent C.cheap D.bagless

5.A.realize B.regret C.doubt D.recall

6.A.compromise B.process C.bargain D.choice

7.A.babies B.bags C.sheep D.pennies

8.A.debt B.success C.quarrel D.wealth

9.A.facing B.settling C.raising D.avoiding

10.A.also B.occasionally C.nearly D.never

11.A.sell B.break C.get D.conclude

12.A.though B.instead C.as usual D.in theory

13.A.information B.sufferings C.profits D.lesson

14.A.new B.realistic C.illegal D.bad

15.A.above B.like C.without D.beside

16.A.financial B.household C.technological D.moral

17.A.forbade B.ordered C.helped D.persuaded

18.A.failure B.joke C.hit D.patent

19.A.recovers B.beats C.arouses D.adds

20.A.open B.accustomed C.bound D.opposed

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My father died when I was nine, and I remember doing the household chores(杂务)to help my mother. I hated changing the vacuum cleaner(真空吸尘器)bag and picking up things the machine did not suck up.

Twenty years later, in 1978, I was doing chores at home alongside my wife. One day the vacuum cleaner was screaming away, and I had to empty the bag because I could not find a replacement for it. With this lifelong hatred of the way the machine worked. I decided to make a bagless vacuum cleaner.

Easier said than done, of course. I didn't realize that I would spend the next five years perfecting my design, a process that resulted in 5,127 different prototypes(设计原型). By the time I made my 15th prototype, my third child was born. By 2,627, my wife and I were really counting our pennies. By 3,727, my wife was giving art lessons for some extra cash, and we were getting further and further into debt. These were tough times, but each failure brought me closer to solving the problem.

I just had a passion for the vacuum cleaner as a product, but I never thought of going into a business with it. In the early 1980s, I started trying to get licensing agreements for my technology. The reality was very different, however. The major vacuum makers had built a business model based on the profits from bags and filters(滤网).

No one would license my idea, not because it was a bad one, but because it was bad for business.

That gave me the courage to keep going. Then, in 1993, when my bank manager personally persuaded Lloyds Bank to lend me $1 million, I was able to go into production. Within two years, the Dyson vacuum cleaner became a best-seller in Britain.

Today, I still embrace risk and the potential for failure as part of the process. Nothing beats the excitement of invention. Go out and brainstorm your ideas. You are not bound to any rules—in fact, the stranger and riskier your idea, the better.

1.Why did James Dyson decide to make a bagless vacuum cleaner?

A.Because he lost his father at an early age.

B.Because he didn't like to do household chores.

C.Because he could find a replacement for the old cleaner

D.Because he didn't like how the old vacuum cleaner worked.

2.What can we learn from paragraph 3?

A.Dyson found the design of the cleaner easier than expected.

B.Dyson was in financial difficulties while designing his cleaner.

C.Dyson's wife had to give art lessons to make money for five years.

D.Dyson was discouraged by the tough times in designing his cleaner.

3.What happened to Dyson's design of vacuum cleaner?

A.It went into production immediately.

B.It got a licensing agreement very quickly

C.It had the same business model like others.

D.It was not accepted by major vacuum makers.

4.What is the purpose of the text?

A.To compare two types of vacuum cleaners.

B.To persuade people to buy a Dyson vacuum cleaners.

C.To encourage people to face risks and failures bravely.

D.To introduce the reader to the life story of James Dyson.

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My mother and her old friends talked of some things and people ________ they remembered in the school.

A．whom　     B．which　

C．who　     D．that

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— Do you still remember how we first met?

— Yes, you ________ to my office and ran into me on the way.

A．were walking       B．walked            C．had walked        D．walks

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I still remember my happy childhood when my mother ______ take me to Disneyland at weekends.

A. might　　　　　　　　　　 B. must

C. would　　　　　　　　　　 D. should

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