His entire money________no more than one hund...

His entire money________no more than one hundred dollars when he arrived in America in 2000.

A. added to             B. added up to       C. was added up to    D. raised to

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His entire education _______ no more than one year.

A. added to            B. added up to         C. was added up to    D. was added to

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Early one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep. He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed impossible to get the thread to run around the needle without any problems.

Though he was tired, Howe slept badly. He turned and turned. Then he had a dream. He dreamt that he had been caught by terrible savages whose king wanted to kill him and eat him unless he could build a perfect sewing machine. When he tried to do so, Howe ran into the same problem as before. The thread kept getting caught around the needle. The king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill Howe. They came up towards him with their spears raised. But suddenly the inventor noticed something. There was a hole in the tip of each spear. The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that he had just found the answer to the problem. Instead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the needle. This was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practised sewing machine.

Elias Howe was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in this way. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came into him in dreams. So did the great physicist Albert Einstein. Charlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane Eyre.

To know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep. Even then, a part of your mind is still working. This unconscious(无意识的), but still active part understands your experiences and goes to work on the problems you have had during the day. It stores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticed. It is only when you fall asleep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you are awake. However, the unconscious part acts in a special way. It uses strange images which the conscious part may not understand at first. This is why dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves”.

1.The problem Howe was trying to solve was________.

A. what kind of thread to use

B. how to design a needle which would not break

C. where to put the needle

D. how to stop the thread from getting caught around the needle

2.Thomas Edison is spoken of because________.

A. he also tried to invent a sewing machine

B. he got some of his ideas from dreams

C. he was one of Howe’s best friends

D. he also had difficulty in falling asleep

3.Dreams are sometimes called “secret messages to ourselves” because ________.

A. strange images are used to communicate ideas

B. images which have no meaning are used

C. we can never understand the real meaning

D. only specially trained people can understand them

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More than one hundred teachers work in our school, and most of _____are from countryside.

A. whom          B. them        C. whoever         D. Whomever

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_________was reported in the paper, more than one hundred miners were saved.

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Mr. More has more money than Mr. Little. But he doesn’t enjoy_____.

A. he　　　　　 B. him　　　　　 C. his　　　　　 D. himself

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1.　　 He had more money than he could ever spend, and he was admired and looked up to by his community．2.　　 　 He wasn’t happy．All his life he had been pursuing happiness and striving (奋斗) for happiness, but he had never been able to find it.

Then one day he heard about a hidden temple in Nepal that had a special room that contained the secret of happiness．3.　　 After many years of searching and countless hardships he arrived there．He was tired and penniless, but he knew that none of that mattered now because he had found the temple．He asked a wise, smiling monk (僧侣) if he could enter the special room．The monk agreed and showed him the stairs leading to the room．4.　　 　 He stared into the room with sunlight steaming through the window and saw what he had come so far to find． There hanging on the wall was the secret of happiness．The man gazed at his reflection in the mirror and laughed.

5.　　 Happiness is a choice that we can make．Don’t spend the rest of your life searching the world for happiness then．Just look in the mirror and laugh．Just let the happiness flow from your heart, mind, and soul until it fills your life and the lives of all those around you．

A．It is time that we all realized that we were the secret of our own happiness.

B．He immediately sold all that he owned and set out to find this hidden temple.

C．There once was a very wealthy and successful man.

D．He climbed them with legs shaking with expectation and slowly opened the door.

E．But he knew that something was missing in his life.

F．No one found the secret of happiness at last.

G．It was difficult to find the temple in Nepal.

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Bill Gates is very _________because he has given away more than half of his money to help those who are poor .

A. generous　　 　　 B. active

C. grateful　　　　　　 D. mean

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He knew his colors and shapes, he learned more than 100 English words, and with his own brand of one-liners he established (确立) himself in TV shows, scientific reports, and news articles as perhaps the world’s most famous talking bird.

But last week, Alex, an African parrot, died, obviously of natural causes, said Dr Irene Pepperberg, an expert at Brandeis University and Harvard who studied and worked with the parrot for most of its life and published reports of his progress in scientific journals. The parrot was 31.

Scientists have long debated whether any other species can develop the ability to learn human language. Alex’s language ability was, in some ways, more surprising than the efforts of those animals that have been taught, like Koko, the gorilla (猩猩) trained by Penny Patterson at the Gorilla Foundation in Woodside, or Washoe, another gorilla studied by R. Allen and Beatrice Gardner at the University of Nevada in the 1960s and 1970s.

When Dr Pepperberg, who was then a doctoral student in chemistry at Harvard, found Alex was good at remembering words in a pet store in 1977 and bought it, scientists had little expectation that birds could learn to communicate with humans. Most of the research had been done on pigeons, and was not promising.

But by using novel methods of teaching, Dr Pepperberg taught Alex to learn about 150 words, which he could put into categories. He could count small numbers and tell colors and shapes. “The work changed the way we think of bird brains,” said Diana Reiss, a psychologist at Hunter College who works with dolphins and elephants. “We used to look down upon those birds, but now we look at those brains — at least Alex’s — with some awe.”

1.Alex is very famous because ________.

A. it died of a strange disease

B. it lived longer than any other parrot

C. it hosted many famous TV shows

D. it has a special talent in learning human language

2.What was the direct reason why Dr Pepperberg bought Alex?

A. He found it was good at remembering words.

B. He liked its colors and shapes.

C. He wanted to do research on birds.

D. Diana Reiss asked him to do that.

3.What does the underlined word “novel” mean in the last paragraph?

A. Special.　　 B. New.

C. Great.　　 D. Unique.

4.According to the last paragraph, we can learn that ________.

A. people used to think dolphins were the cleverest

B. Alex’s ability of learning human language has changed some researchers’ ideas about birds

C. elephants are better at learning human language

D. birds’ great ability in learning human language has already been noticed before

5.What would be the best title for this passage?

A. Who are cleverer, birds or gorillas?

B. A famous talking bird died

C. Have you ever talked with a bird?

D. The keeper of a famous bird

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It’s said that he’s looking for a new job, one ______ he can get more money to support his family.

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