欧美日韩黄网欧美日韩日B片|二区无码视频网站|欧美AAAA小视频|久久99爱视频播放|日本久久成人免费视频|性交黄色毛片特黄色性交毛片|91久久伊人日韩插穴|国产三级A片电影网站|亚州无码成人激情视频|国产又黄又粗又猛又爽的

                                                                Fresh Air will Kill You
    Smog, which was once the big attraction of Los Angeles, can now be found all over the country from
Butte, Montana, to New York City, and people are getting so used to polluted air that it is very difficult
for them to breathe anything else.
    I was lecturing recently, and one of my stops was Flagstaff, Arizona, which is about 7,000 feet above
sea level. As soon as I got out of the plane, I smelled something peculiar(奇怪的). "What's that smell?" I
asked the man who met me at the plane. "I don't smell anything," he replied.
    "There is a definite odor that I am not familiar with," I said.  
    "Oh, you must be talking about the fresh air. A lot of people come out here who have never smelled
fresh air before." "What's it supposed to do?" I asked suspiciously.
    "Nothing. You just breathe it like any other kind of air. It's supposed to be good for your lungs."
    "I've heard that story before," I said. "How come if it's air, my eyes aren't watering?"
    "Your eyes don't water with fresh air. That's the advantage of it. Saves you a lot in paper tissues."
    I looked around and everything appeared crystal-clear. It was a strange sensation and made me feel
very uncomfortable.
    My host, sensing this, tried to be assuring. "Please don't worry about it. Tests have proved that you
can breathe fresh air day and night without its doing any harm to the body."

1. What is the air like in Flagstaff?

A. Polluted.    
B. Fresh        
C. Dirty          
D. Clean

2. We can infer from the story _______ .

A. Flagstaff is a small city
B. fresh air made the writer sick
C. the air in many American cities is polluted
D. breathing fresh air day and night does you no good

3. How did the writer feel when he first came to Flagstaff?

A. Excited    
B. Disappointed    
C. Uncomfortable  
D. Surprised

     According to the Daily Telegraph on February 10, a British woman who was "pushed to the edge" by
a faulty fire alarm that sounded non-stop for several days discovered that the sound was in fact made by
a parrot in her garden.
     Shanna Sexton, 25, from Devon, UK, even called in workmen to try and solve the problem. But she
was amazed to see an African Grey Congo parrot stopped on a water bucket as she came out washing in
the garden.
     The noisy parrot, called Sammi, had escaped from neighbor Louise Ledger's house a week earlier and spent seven days in the garden imitating a smoke alarm.
     Ledger, 38, was worried and spent hours searching for her beloved pet and she even pasted the
neighborhood with missing posters hoping for Sammi's return.
     "I am over the moon. I am going to give Shanna a huge bunch of flowers. When I found out where he
was I could not have got there any faster. He is always making funny noises from anywhere and
everywhere. I think he must have heard me burning the toast once so he made the smoke alarm noise,"
said Ledger.

1. According to the first paragraph, what exactly pushed the British woman Shanna Sexton to the edge?

A. A parrot              
B. A parrot's noises
C. A fire alarm             
D. The sound made by a parrot

2. What does the underlined word "faulty" in Para. 1 mean?

A. Right 
B. Wrong
C. Worried
D. Relaxed

3. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?

A. I am so angry     
B. I am so worried
C. I am so excited          
D. I am so disappointed

4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Shanna Sexton was amazed to see a parrot in her garden
B. Ledger loved her parrot very much and worried for his missing
C. The parrot has been missing for a week
D. The parrot imitated the fire alarm at Shanna's house

     My friend, Emma Daniels, spent the summer of 1974 traveling in Israel. During her month-long stay in
Jerusalem she often went to a caf? called Chocolate Soup. It was run by two men, one of whom - Alex -
used to live in Montreal. One morning when Emma went in for coffee, while chatting with her new friend
Alex, she mentioned that she had just finished the book she was reading and had nothing else to read. Alex said he had a wonderful book she might like, and that he'd be happy to lend it to her. As he lived just
above the caf?, he quickly ran up to get it. The book he handed to Emma just minutes later was Markings, a book by a former Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN).
     Emma had never read it, nor had she ever bought a copy. But, when she opened it up, she was floored to see her own name and address inside the cover in her own handwriting. It turned out that the summer
before, at a concert back in Montreal, Emma had met a Californian who was in town visiting friends. They decided to exchange (交換) addresses, but neither of them had any paper. The man opened up a book he was carrying in his backpack and asked Emma to write her name and address inside. When he returned to California, he left the book behind in Montreal, and his friend Alex kept it. When Alex later moved to
Jerusalem, he took the book along.

1. Alex lent Emma the book, Markings, ________.

A. to show his interest in reading
B. to show his friendliness to her
C. to tell her about the importance of the UN
D. to let her write her name and address inside

2. How did Emma feel the moment she opened the book?

A. Pleased                  
B. Satisfied
C. Worried                 
D. Surprised

3. We can learn from the text that the Californian ________.

A. met Emma at a concert
B. invited Emma to a concert
C. introduced Emma to his friend
D. left Emma his backpack

4. Who was supposed to be the first owner of the book?

A. An official of the UN
B. Alex's friend from California
C. A friend of the author's
D. A coffee shop owner

     Long ago, near the frontier lived an old man. One day he found his horse   1 _ (miss). It was said that the horse was seen running outside the border of the country. The neighbors came to comfort him for the unfortunate loss. But the old man was    2_ (expect) calm and said, “ It doesn’t matter; it may not be a bad event, on the contrary, I think it can be a good    3   .”
     One night the old man heard some noise of horses and got up to take a look. To his surprise, he saw   4   handsome horse besides his own. It was clear that his horse had brought a companion home. Hearing the news, the neighbors all came to say congratulations   5   his good luck. However, the old man was very calm. He added, “It is true that I got a new horse for nothing, but it is hard to say  6  it is good or bad. It may be   7  unlucky thing.”
     What he said turned   8  to be right. The son of the old man was very fond of the horse   9  (bring) home, and one day, when he was riding the horse, he fell off the horseback and terribly hurt in his left leg. “Nothing serious,” the old man said, “perhaps it is going to be good.”
     A year later, many of the youth were recruited (應(yīng)征) to fight in a war and most of them died. The son of the old man was absolved(免除) from the army service for his   10  (disable), so he escaped death.

     Mother’s Day was coming, a man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be wired to his mother who lived two hundred miles away.
     As he got out of his car, he noticed that a young girl was sitting on the curb sobbing (啜泣). He asked her what was wrong with her and she replied, “I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother. But I only have seventy-five cents, and a rose costs two dollars.”
     The man smiled and said, “Come on in with me. I’ll buy you a rose.”
     After they went in, he bought a rose for the little girl and ordered flowers for his own mother.
As they were leaving, he offered to ride the girl home. She said, “Yes, please! But can you take me to my mother?” “To your mother?” the man was a little puzzled but didn’t say anything. She directed him to a cemetery, where she placed the rose on a freshly dug grave (墳?zāi)?.
     The man was shocked and returned to the flower shop, canceled the wire order, picked up a bunch of flowers and drove the two hundred miles to his mother’s house.

     Bardithch High School decided to have an All-School Reunion. Over 450 people came to the event.
There were tours of the old school building and a picnic at Confederate Park. Several former teachers
were on hand to tell stories about the old days. Ms. Mabel Yates, the English teacher for over fifty years, was wheeled to the Park.
     Some eyes rolled and there were a few low groans (嘟囔聲) when Ms. Yates was about to speak.
Many started looking at their watches and coming up with excuses to be anywhere instead of preparing to
listen to a lecture from an old woman who had few kind words for her students and made them work
harder than all the other teachers combined.
     Then Ms. Yates started to speak:
     "I can't tell you how pleased I'm to be here. I haven't seen many of you since your graduation, but I
have followed your careers and enjoyed your victories as well as crying for your tragedies. I have a large
collection of newspaper photographs of my students. Although I haven't appeared in person, I have
attended your college graduations, weddings and even the births of your children, in my imagination. "
     Ms. Yates paused and started crying a bit. Then she continued:
     "It was my belief that if I pushed you as hard as I could, some of you would succeed to please me and others would succeed to annoy me. Regardless of our motives, I can see that you have all been successful
in your chosen path."
     "There is no greater comfort for an educator than to see the end result of his or her years of work. You have all been a great source of pleasure and pride for me and I want you to know I love you all from the
bottom of my heart."
     There was a silence over the crowd for a few seconds and then someone started clapping. The
clapping turned into cheering, then into a deafening roar (呼喊). Lawyers, truck drivers, bankers and
models were rubbing their eyes or crying openly with no shame all because of the words from a long
forgotten English teacher from their hometown.

1. What does the smile usually mean in the U.S.?

A. Love
B. Politeness
C. Joy
D. Thankfulness

2. The author mentions the smile of the Vietnamese to prove that a smile can ________.

A. show friendliness to strangers
B. be used to hide true feelings
C. be used in the wrong places
D. show personal habits

3. What should we do before attempting to "read" people?

A. Learn about their relations with others
B. Understand their cultural backgrounds
C. Find out about their past experience
D. Figure out what they will do next

4. What would be the best title for the test?

A. Cultural Differences
B. Smiles and Relationships
C. Facial Expressiveness
D. Habits and Emotions

     My father brought home a sailboat when I was ten, and almost each Sunday in summers we would go
sailing. Dad was quite skilled in sailing, but not good at   1  . As for me, I learned both before twelve
because of living close to Lake Ontario.
     The last time Dad and I set sail together was really unforgettable. It was a perfect weekend after I
graduated from university. I came home and invited Dad to go sailing. Out we set soon on the calm lake.
Dad hadn't   2   for years, but everything   3   well with the tiller(舵柄)in his hands.
     When we were in the middle of the lake, a   4   wind came all of a sudden. The boat was hit violently. Dad was always at his best in any danger,   5   at this moment he froze.
     "John!    6 !" he shouted in a trembling voice, with the tiller still in his hands.
     In my memory he could fix any   7  . He was the one I always    8  to for strength and security.
Before I could respond, a wave of water got into the boat. I rushed to the tiller but it was too late. Another huge wall of water turned   9   the boat in a minute. We were thrown into the water, and Dad was
struggling aimlessly. At that moment, I felt fiercely protective of him.
     I swam to Dad quickly and assisted him in climbing onto the hull(船殼)of the boat. Upon sitting on the hull, Dad was a little awkward about his flash of.   10  "It's all right, Dad. We are safe now," I comforted him.
     That was the first time Dad had counted on me in a moment of emergency. More importantly, I found it was my turn to start looking out for my father.