Daniel Boone was born in the United States in 1734. He didn't go to school and couldn't read, although he learned all about the forests, streams and hunting. He could move silently like an Indian leaving no marks. He loved to live alone in the woods where nothing frightened him.
When he grew up, he married and tried to settle down on a farm. A year later, however, he wasn't satisfied and decided to go into the unknown western lands, crossing the Appalachian Mountains. When he returned after two years, he became famous for his long journey. He brought valuable animal skins and told stories about the Indians.
After this, he chose to keep travelling to unknown places. Once he lost to the Indians in battle and was taken away. The Indians liked him and became his friends.
Daniel Boone died at the age of 86. He is remembered as an explorer(探险者)and a pioneer who lived an exciting life in the early years of American nation.
1.Daniel Boone's early life was mainly spent in ______ .
A.learning about nature
B.hunting with his friends
C.learning useful skills from the Indians
D.studying at home because he couldn't go to school
2.When he got married, Daniel Boone first planned to ______.
A.set up a large farm
B.go on a journey with his wife
C.find food, new land for his farm
D.live a peaceful life with his family
3.Daniel Boone became famous because ______ .
A.he travelled a lot in the western lands
B.he was very good at telling stories
C.he found better animal skins than others
D.he was the first to climb the Appalachian Mountains
4.Why did the Indians want to make friends with him?
A.Because they wanted to learn from him.
B.Because he wanted to make peace with them.
C.Because they wanted to make friends with white people.
D.No reason is told in this article.
5.In this article, Daniel Boone is best described as ______ .
A.warm-hearted B.strong
C.careful D.brave
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Daniel Boone was born in the United States in 1734. He didn't go to school and couldn't read, although he learned all about the forests, streams and hunting. He could move silently like an Indian leaving no marks. He loved to live alone in the woods where nothing frightened him.
When he grew up, he married and tried to settle down on a farm. A year later, however, he wasn't satisfied and decided to go into the unknown western lands, crossing the Appalachian Mountains. When he returned after two years, he became famous for his long journey. He brought valuable animal skins and told stories about the Indians.
After this, he chose to keep travelling to unknown places. Once he lost to the Indians in battle and was taken away. The Indians liked him and became his friends.
Daniel Boone died at the age of 86. He is remembered as an explorer(探险者)and a pioneer who lived an exciting life in the early years of American nation.
1.Daniel Boone's early life was mainly spent in ______ .
A.learning about nature
B.hunting with his friends
C.learning useful skills from the Indians
D.studying at home because he couldn't go to school
2.When he got married, Daniel Boone first planned to ______.
A.set up a large farm
B.go on a journey with his wife
C.find food, new land for his farm
D.live a peaceful life with his family
3.Daniel Boone became famous because ______ .
A.he travelled a lot in the western lands
B.he was very good at telling stories
C.he found better animal skins than others
D.he was the first to climb the Appalachian Mountains
4.Why did the Indians want to make friends with him?
A.Because they wanted to learn from him.
B.Because he wanted to make peace with them.
C.Because they wanted to make friends with white people.
D.No reason is told in this article.
5.In this article, Daniel Boone is best described as ______ .
A.warm-hearted B.strong
C.careful D.brave
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Daniel Boone was born in the United States in 1734. He didn't go to school and couldn't read, although he learned all about the forests, streams and hunting. He could move silently like an Indian leaving no marks. He loved to live alone in the woods where nothing frightened him.
When he grew up, he married and tried to settle down on a farm. A year later, however, he wasn't satisfied and decided to go into the unknown western lands, crossing the Appalachian Mountains. When he returned after two years, he became famous for his long journey. He brought valuable animal skins and told stories about the Indians.
After this, he chose to keep travelling to unknown places. Once he lost to the Indians in battle and was taken away. The Indians liked him and became his friends.
Daniel Boone died at the age of 86. He is remembered as an explorer(探险者)and a pioneer who lived an exciting life in the early years of American nation.
1.Daniel Boone's early life was mainly spent in ______ .
A.learning about nature
B.hunting with his friends
C.learning useful skills from the Indians
D.studying at home because he couldn't go to school
2.When he got married, Daniel Boone first planned to ______.
A.set up a large farm
B.go on a journey with his wife
C.find food, new land for his farm
D.live a peaceful life with his family
3.Daniel Boone became famous because ______ .
A.he travelled a lot in the western lands
B.he was very good at telling stories
C.he found better animal skins than others
D.he was the first to climb the Appalachian Mountains
4.Why did the Indians want to make friends with him?
A.Because they wanted to learn from him.
B.Because he wanted to make peace with them.
C.Because they wanted to make friends with white people.
D.No reason is told in this article.
5.In this article, Daniel Boone is best described as ______ .
A.warm-hearted B.strong
C.careful D.brave
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Levi Strauss was born in Bavaria (巴伐利亚) in Europe in 1829. He emigrated(移居)to the United States of America when he was seventeen years old. His brothers sold cloth, and he worked for them even though he could not speak English very well. At this time many people were moving to California because gold was discovered there. Strauss went to look for gold, too.
Strauss took a lot of cloth with him to San Francisco. He thought that he could make tents out of the cloth and sell them to people working in the gold fields. But when he got there, he saw that people had a greater need for clothes than tents. Clothes did not last very long in the gold fields. At first Strauss made pants out of canvas(帆布). They were very strong ---- much stronger than other pants. Soon everyone was wearing them , so he decided only to make pants. He opened a small store and made a lot of money from selling pants.
After a while, Strauss found a material even stronger than canvas. It came from a town in France called Nimes. The French called the material serge de Nimes, which means “cloth from Nimes”. The Americans called it denim. Strauss also bought some cloth from Genoa, a town in Italy. To Americans this name sounds like “jeans”, so they called his pants jeans. The cloth that Strauss used was always blue, so people also called his pants blue jeans and blue denims. Other people called them Levi’s. Levi Strauss jeans are some of the best-selling jeans in the world today. They last a long time and are very comfortable.
56. 1.When Levi Strauss went to San Francisco for the first time, he wanted to ______.
A. find a strong material to make pants
B. work for his brothers
C. make money by selling tents
D. open a store to make pants
57. 2.In the beginning Strauss made pants from ______.
A. serge de Nimes B. silk
C. denim D. canvas
58. 3.The name “jeans” was first used by ______.
A. Bavarians B. Americans
C. Italians D. Frenchmen
59. 4.The story is about ______.
A. where cloth came from
B. the man who first made jeans
C. how to make lots of money
D. life on the gold fields
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Joey was born in 1990 in Connecticut and now lives in North Carolina in the United States. When Joey was six, he started racing small cars in competitions. He began to win many races, but they weren’t big races. His parents decided to move to Atlanta, Georgia, so Joey could compete in bigger and better competitions. When he was 12, he set a record by winning 14 races in a row at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. He continued to win many races, and finally began racing with regular-sized (正常大小的) race cars.
When Joey was 15 years old, he met the race car driver Mark Martin. Martin is a famous NASCAR driver. NASCAR is the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, and it is the biggest and most popular car-racing organization in the United States. Martin was interested in Joey and thought he was “the real deal.” He said, “I am sure that he can be one of the greatest that ever raced in NASCAR. There’s no doubt in my mind.”
Martin was right. Joey started as a NASCAR driver in 2007. NASCAR has many races, and at first, Joey was only able to compete in smaller races because of his age. In his first NASCAR season, he won a championship (冠军). In 2008, he was able to compete in bigger NASCAR competitions. He competed in one of the top NASCAR racing series called the Nationwide Series, and at 18, he became the youngest winner in Nationwide Series history.
In 2009, he became the youngest winner in another top NASCAR racing series called the Sprint Cup Series, and he also won the Nationwide Series for the fifth time. To be one of the best drivers in the history of racing, Joey has to win many more races. But at 19, he’s off to a good start.
1.Why did Joey’s parents decide to move to Atlanta?
A. To make more money for Joey.
B. To allow Joey to watch more car races.
C. To provide Joey with a better education.
D. To let him compete in bigger and better races.
2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. Joey had a bright future.
B. Joey was a true lover of race cars.
C. Martin won a nationwide competition.
D. Martin became the youngest NASCAR winner.
3.What happened when Joey was 19 years old?
A. He won the Sprint Cup Series.
B. He had his first NASCAR season.
C. He won the Nationwide Series for the first time.
D. He broke many records for NASCAR racing series.
4.What is the best title for the text?
A. A good start. B. NASCAR races.
C. Racing to success. D. Best drivers in history.
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Anne Sewell Young was born on January 2, 1871, in the United States. She earned her bachelor’s degree in 1892 from Carleton College in Minnesota, where she also completed a master’s degree in 1897. She went on to earn a PhD (something very unusual for women in those days) from Columbia University in 1906.
Anne Sewell Young was the most famous of the early astronomy students at Carleton College, and one of the few professional women astronomers of her days. Carleton produced half a dozen professional women astronomers in the first 50 years of the course, but she was the only one whose name was recorded in the college’s “Who’s Who”(名人录)
Anne Sewell Young was a number of the AAVSO(美国变星观测者协会). She handed in over 6,500 observations over a 33-year period, and was also one of the first AAVSO Council members.
In 1881, Mt. Holyoke College set up the John Payson Williston Observatory (天文台), and in 1899 Young was named its director. In 1903, a library and a lecture room were added to the observatory building, and in 1907 astronomy was made a course in which one could major at the college, with Yong serving as Department Chair. She retired in 1936, and Alice Farnsworth succeeded her.
Young continued to work on astronomy, publishing her last paper in 1942. She died on August 15, 1961, in California.
68. Put the following events in the correct order.
a. Young graduated from Columbia University.
b. Young served at Carleton College.
c. Young served as Department Chair.
d. Young publish her last paper.
A. b, a, c, d B. c, b, d, a
C. b, c, d, a D. b, d, a, c
69. From the passage we learn that Carleton College made great contribution to________.
A. “Who’s who”
B. astronomy
C. the AAVSO
D. Mt. Holyoke College
70. What is the author’s attitude toward Anne Sewell Young?
A. Negative B. Neutral C. positive. D. We don’t know.
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Bao Bao was born in the United States,but she was always destined(注定的)to go to China.A giant panda named Mei Xiang gave birth to Bao Bao at Washington's National Zoo in 2013.She was the zoo's first surviving panda cub(幼崽)since 2005.Visitors went to see Bao Bao for the first time in early 2014.The zoo's first giant pandas arrived in 1972.They were a gift to the United States after President Richard Nixon's historic trip to China
The US agreement with China states that the cubs of pandas loaned to the National Zoo must go to China by age four.Zoo officials have a number of events planned for Bao Bao before she travels.For example,she will receive a cake made of ice.Officials say it will recognize the people who give money to the National Zoo to help research into animals.
People around the world will be able to watch Bao Bao's final days in Washington.There will be several Facebook Live events,including videos of zookeepers preparing Bao Bao for her trip and a program showing how to make panda-themed art projects.Bao Bao's final hours at the zoo will be shown on Facebook Live on February 21.
Some of her human friends are using the hashtag(标签)# ByeByeBaoBao to say goodbye.On Twitter,Lisa wrote:"I am going to miss Bao Bao so much!I have met so many people because of her."
Bao Bao will leave for China soon on a flight called the Fed Ex "Panda Express".If you are sad about seeing her go,there are three other pandas at the zoo.You can still see her parents,Mei Xiang and Tian Tian,and her brother,Bei Bei.
1.What can we learn from Paragraph 1?
A. Bao Bao will be sent back to China.
B. Bao Bao was the only surviving cub.
C. Bao Bao once visited China with Nixon.
D. Bao Bao was sent to the United Kingdom as a present.
2.Which of the following can replace the underlined word "loaned" in Paragraph 2?
A. turned B. lent
C. referred D. apologised
3.What may be the best title for the text?
A. Bao Bao's living habits
B. Bao Bao will leave for China
C. Chinese and Americans' love for pandas
D. Officials are preparing for pandas coming home
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In the early part of the twentieth century, racism was widespread in the United States. Many African Americans were not given equal opportunities in education or employment. Marian Anderson (1897-1993) was an African American woman who gained fame as a concert singer in this climate of racism. She was born in Philadelphia and sang in church choirs during her childhood. When she applied for admission to a local music school in 1917, she was turned down because she was black. Unable to attend music school, she began her career as a singer for church gatherings. In 1929, she went to Europe to study voice and spent several years performing there. Her voice was widely praised throughout Europe. Then she returned to the US in 1935 and became a top concert singer after performing at Town Hall in New York City.
Racism again affected Anderson in 1939. When it was arranged for her to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution opposed it because of her color. She sang instead at the Lincoln Memorial for over 75 000 people. In 1955, Anderson became the first black soloist to sing win the Metropolitan Opera of New York City. The famous conductor Toscanini praised her voice as “heard only once in a hundred years”. She was a US delegate to the United Nations in 1958 and won the UN peace prize in 1977. Anderson eventually triumphed over racism.
1. According to this passage, what did Marian Anderson do between 1917 and 1929?
A.She studied at a music school. B.She sang for religious activities.
C.She sang at Town Hall in New York. D.She studied voice in Europe.
2.Toscanini thought that Marian Anderson ________.
A.had a very rare voice B.sang occasionally in public
C.sang only once in many years D.was seldom heard by people
3.Anderson’s beautiful voice was first recognized ________.
A. at the Lincoln Memorial B. in Washington, DC.
C. in Europe D. at the United Nations
4.This passage shows that Anderson finally defeated racism in the US by ________.
A.protesting to the government B.appealing to the United Nations
C.demonstrating in the streets D.working hard to perfect her art
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In the early part of the twentieth century, racism(种族歧视)was widespread in the United States. Many African Americans were not given equal opportunities in education or employment. Marian Anderson (1897-1993) was an African American woman who gained fame as a concert singer in this climate of racism. She was born in Philadelphia and sang in church choirs during her childhood. When she asked for admission to a local music school in 1917, she was refused because she was black. Unable to attend music school, she began her career as a singer for religious activities. In 1929, she went to Europe to study voice and spent several years performing there. Her voice was widely praised throughout Europe. Then she returned to the US in 1935 and became a top concert singer after performing at Town Hall in New York City.
Racism again affected Anderson in 1939. When it was arranged to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution opposed(反对)it because of her color. She sang instead at the Lincoln Memorial for over 75 000 people. In 1955, Anderson became the first black soloist(独唱) to sing in the Metropolitan Opera of New York City. The famous conductor Toscanini praised her voice as “heard only once in a hundred years”. She was a US delegate(代表)to the United Nations in 1958 and won the UN peace prize in 1977. Anderson eventually triumphed over racism.
1.According to this passage, what did Marian Anderson do between 1917 and 1929?
A. She studied at a music school.
B. She sang for religious activities.
C. She sang at Town Hall in New York.
D. She studied voice in Europe.
2.Toscanini thought that Marian Anderson_________. .
A. had a very rare(稀有的) voice
B. sang occasionally in public
C. sang only once in many years
D. was seldom heard by people
3.Anderson’s beautiful voice was first recognized________ .
A. at the Lincoln Memorial B. in Washington, DC.
C. in Europe D. at the United Nations
4.This passage shows that Anderson finally defeated racism in the US by____.
A. opposing the government B. working for the United Nations
C. singing in the streets D. working hard to perfect her art
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Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman doctor in the United States. Her success opened the way for other women who wanted to do more than nursing. She was born in England in 1821 and her family moved to America when she was eleven years old.
The Blackwell girls received the same education as their brothers. This was most unusual in those days. Their father died young and they had very little money to live on. Elizabeth and her sisters taught at school. Then a woman dying of cancer urged Elizabeth to study medicine, saying that a woman doctor would have saved her from her worst sufferings. Nearly everyone said a girl should not go to medical school, but she managed to enter Geneva College in New York State. She graduated in 1849 at the head of her class and received the first medical degree ever given to a woman.
Next, Dr. Blackwell went to Paris. Her only chance of training was in a hospital where women came to have their babies. Four months later, while she was working in the French hospital, her left eye became dangerously infected (感染). She lost the eye. She was very disappointed. But she was soon back at work again, this time in London, England. There she met many famous scientists.
In 1859, Elizabeth Blackwell was officially recognized as a doctor in Great Britain — the first woman to be honored. She was the inspiration of Elizabeth Garrett, who began the women’s medical movement in England. Florence Nightingale, founder of the practice of nursing by women, was another of her friends.
Dr. Blackwell died in 1910 at the age of 89.
1.Elizabeth and her sisters taught at school probably to .
A. help support the family B. become women doctors
C. get practical experience D. earn money for their education
2.What made Elizabeth decide to study medicine?
A. The education she received. B. The death of her father.
C. The sufferings of a cancer patient. D. The encouragement from a patient.
3.Which of the following is the correct order of events according to the passage?
a. Elizabeth Blackwell lost one eye.
b. Elizabeth Blackwell received a doctor’s degree.
c. Elizabeth Blackwell entered Geneva College.
d. Elizabeth Blackwell was recognized as a doctor.
e. Elizabeth Blackwell went to work in London.
A. cabed B. cbaed
C. acbed D. bcade
4.What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?
A. Elizabeth Blackwell was more famous in Britain.
B. Elizabeth Blackwell learned from other women.
C. Elizabeth Garrett gave Elizabeth Blackwell much help.
D. Florence Nightingale was encouraged by Elizabeth Blackwell.
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Rock and roll music developed in the United States in the early nineteen-fifties. It was based on the music called rhythm and blues that was performed by African American musicians.
Early rock and roll singers developed their own kinds of music. Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, the Beach Boys, and Bob Dylan were the most popular rock and roll musicians in the early 1960s. All were American. Then, in 1964, a new rock and roll group from England invaded America: the Beatles.
Some people say the Beatles’ music shook America like an earthquake. The Beatles changed rock and roll forever. Their early songs were influenced by American rock and roll musicians, including Chuck Berry. But the Beatles looked different and sounded different from any musical group before them.
The Beatles released their first album in the United States in 1964, when all of the top five records in America were by the Beatles. In 1967, they released an album called “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” It was one of the first “concept” albums. That is, all the songs were linked by a common story or idea.
The popularity of the Beatles led the way for more rock and roll bands from England to become popular in America. The Rolling Stones was the most important of these bands. The Rolling Stones is one of the few groups from the 1960s that is still performing and recording today. In 1965, the group recorded one of its most famous songs, “Satisfaction”.
By the 1970s, rock and roll music became known as rock music. Experts say rock music regained some of the energy of early rock and roll. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band became popular with their album “Born to Run”. Springsteen’s music was like the lively rock and roll music of the early nineteen-sixties. Many of his songs were about social issues. He sang about the effects of unemployment and the war in Vietnam.
1.The main topic of this passage is _______.
A.the history of American music
B.the development of rock and roll music
C.the famous rock and roll groups
D.the new forms of rock and roll music
2.What does “the Beatles’ music shook America like an earthquake” mean?
A.The Beatle’s music was as violent as an earthquake in America.
B.the Beatles looked differently because an earthquake hit America.
C.The Beatle’s music had great effect on the rock and roll music in America.
D.The Beatle’s music were greatly influenced by American rock and roll music.
3.Whose songs were mainly about social problems like unemployment and war?
A.Elvis Presley’s. B.Bob Dylan’s.
C.Chuck Berry’s. D.Springsteen’s.
4.From the passage, we can know that _______.
A.one of the Rolling Stones’ albums was called “concept”
B.all of the top five records in America were by the Beatles in 1964
C.the Rolling Stones was the only band that became popular in America
D.all the most popular rock and roll musicians in the 1960s were American
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