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A.means
B.matters
C.reaches
D.signals
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第1题
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I felt helpless and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me--a potential to live, you might call it--which I didn't see, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.
The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic, If I hadn't been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front perch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. "I can't use this," I said. "Take it with you," he urged me, "and roll it around." The words stuck in my head. "Roll it around!" By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good to try for something I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on average I made progress.
The disaster that happened when the writer was 4 years old ______.
A．makes him believe in life more deeply than the other people.
B．makes him appreciate the value of the rest of his faculties.
C．makes him prefer going without his eyes.
D．strengthens his memory of the color of red.
第2题
听力原文：W: Hi, Jack, have you finished Professor Smith's assignment？
M: The assignment？ No, not yet.
W: But tomorrow's the deadline.
M: Anna, take it easy. I can always pull it together in no time.
W: Hey, don't you think playing PC games takes up too much of your time？
M: Oh, computer games represent the latest technology. You can't simply ignore them.
W: I know. You can play as much as you like during the holiday, but not now. It's affecting your studies.
M: It's not. I feel I'm getting smarter day by day, and my reaction time is much quicker.
W: You only become alive and alert at those war games. In class, I saw you doze off.
M: It's not my fault. The textbooks are boring and the lectures are tedious. I dislike those teachers who love to call the roll. But the games are interesting, challenging and can broaden my mind as well.
W: I didn't say the games are all bad, but you can't play games all the time. Have you ever considered what you will do if you fail the exams？
M: well…
W: I know it's not easy to resist the temptation, but self-discipline is essential to one's success. It's part of one's character. Look at yourself in the mirror. You look pale and haggard. See, you have nothing but half a life.
M: Really？ Oh, heavens!
(20)
A．Teacher and student.
B．Mother and son.
C．Classmates.
D．Brother and sister
第3题
A.interrupt
B.assume
C.grant
D.arrest
第4题
What does the author intend to say by the example in the second paragraph？
A．Some customers simply show no respect to those who serve them.
B．People absorbed in a phone conversation tend to be absent-minded.
C．Waitresses are often treated by customers as casual acquaintances.
D．Some customers like to make loud complaints for no reason at all.
第5题
A.speaking
B.having spoken
C.to speak
D.to speech
第6题
Character is made up of those principles and values that give your life direction, meaning and depth. These constitute your inner sense of what's right and wrong based not on laws or rules of conduct but on who you are. They include such traits as integrity, honesty, courage, fairness and generosity--which arise from the hard choices we have to make in life. So wrong is simply in doing wrong, not in getting caught.
Yet some people wonder if our inner values matter anymore. After all, hasn't our noted bank executive succeeded in every visible way, despite his transgressions (过错,犯罪)？
This question demonstrates a quandary (因境) of our modern life. Many have come to believe that the only things we need for success are talent, energy and personality. But history has taught us that over the long haul, who we are is more important than who we appear to be.
During the nation's first century and a half, almost everything in the literature of success and self-help focused on what could be called the character ethic. Such eminent figures as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson made clear their belief that we can only experience tree success and happiness by making character the base of our lives.
After we moved into the industrial age and after World WarⅠ, the basic view of success shifted to what we could call the personality ethic. Success became more a function of charm, skills and techniques that, at least on the surface, lubricate (使润滑) the process of human interaction. Rather than struggle with thorny issues of right and wrong, we turned to making things run smoothly.
Some of that philosophy expressed itself with harmless but superficial maxims such as "Smiling wins more friends than frowning." Other ideas were clearly manipulative or even deceptive-faking interest in others' hobbies so they will like you, for instance.
With a value system based solely on skill and personality, we find heroes in athletes, musicians and in powerful business executives. But despite the admiration we feel for these achievers, we shouldn't necessarily look upon them as role models. While skill is certainly needed for success, it can never guarantee happiness and fulfillment. These come from developing character.
According to the passage, character is（）.
A.your integrity
B.your personality
C.a guide in your life
D.your sense of good
第7题
THOMAS EDISON
On the night of 21 October 1931, millions of Americans took part in a coast-to-coast ceremony to commemorate the passing of a great man. Lights 【B1】______ in homes and offices from New York to California. The ceremony 【B2】______ the death of an inventor—indeed, to many people, the most important inventor of 【B3】______ time: Thomas Alva Edison.
Few inventors have 【B4】______ an impact as great as his on everyday life. While most of his 1 000- plus inventions were devices we no 【B5】______ use, many of the things he invented played a crucial 【B6】______ in the development of modern technology, simply by showing what was possible. And one should never 【B7】______ how amazing some of Edison's inventions were.
In so many ways, Edison is the perfect example of an inventor, by which I 【B8】______ not just someone who 【B9】______ up clever gadgets, but someone whose products transform. the lives of millions. He possessed the key characteristics that an inventor needs to 【B10】______ a success of inventions. Sheer determination is certainly one of them. Edison famously tried thousands of materials while working 【B11】______a new type of battery, reacting to failure by cheerfully 【B12】______to his colleagues: 'Well, 【B13】______we know 8 000 things that don't work.' Knowing when to take no 【B14】______ of experts is also important. Edison's proposal for electric lighting circuitry was 【B15】______ with total disbelief by eminent scientists, until he lit up whole streets with his lights.
【B1】______
A．turned out
B．came off
C．went out
D．put off
第8题
Now psychologist Annette Simms of the New York State University offers a new （） for childhood amnesia.She argues that there simply （） any early childhood memories to recall.According to Dr.Simms, children need to learn to use （） spoken description of their personal experiences in order to turn their own short-term, quickly （） impressions of them into long-term memories.In other （）, children have to talk about their experiences and hear others talk about （） -----Mother talking about the afternoon （） looking for seashells at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Ocean Park.Without this （） reinforcement, says Dr.Simms, children cannot form. （） memories of their personal experiences.
1.A.listened B.feltC.touchedD.heard
2.A.involveB.interpretC.recallD.resolve
3.A.largelyB.rarelyC.merelyD.really
4.A.canceled B.figuredC.proposedD.witnessed
5.A.untilB.onceC.afterD.since
6.A.magnifiesB.intervenesC.containsD.maintains
7.A.reflect B.attainC.accessD.refer
8.A.narratives B.forecastsC.regulationsD.descriptions
9.A.the restB.anotherC.the other D.others
10.A.outputs B.dreamsC.flashesD.files
11.A.footstepB.patternC.frameD.landscape
12.A.emphasisB.arrangementC.explanationD.factor
13.A.aren'tB.weren'tC.isn'tD.wasn't
14.A.anyone elseB.anyone else'sC.some elseD.someone else's
15.A.forgottenB.rememberedC.forgettingD.remembering
16.A.sensesB.casesC.wordsD.means
17.A.himB.theirsC.itD.them
18.A.usedB.chosenC.takenD.spent
19.A.habitualB.verbalC.prettyD.mutual
20.A.permanentB.consciousC.subordinateD.spiritual
第9题
When John and Victoria Falls arrived in New York City for one-year stay, they did not bring very many things with them. They had planned either to live in a furnished apartment or to buy used furniture. But they soon learned about a new system that more and more people are using. The renting of home furnishings (bed, tables, dishes,and so on) has become one of America's fastest growing businesses.What kinds of people rent their home furnishings instead of buying them？ People who are international business or government officials, foreign students, airline workers, young married couples -people whose job or business may force them to move frequently from one city to another. They save a lot of trouble and the cost of moving their furniture each time. They simply rent new furniture when they reach their new homes. Young people with little money do not want to buy cheap furniture that they may soon dislike. They prefer to wait until they have enough money to buy furniture they really like. Meanwhile, they find they can rent better quality furniture than they could afford to buy.One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture so much that they decided to keep renting it instead of buying new things. But usually people don't like to tell others about it. The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they are not sure what their neighbors might think.
(1)、Which of the following has become one of America's fastest growing businesses？ ________
A：Selling home furnishings.
B：Renting furnished apartments.
C：Selling used furniture.
D：Renting home furnishings.
(2)、Why do some people prefer to rent furniture？ ________
A：Because the furniture they get in this way is new.
B：Because it saves them a lot of money.
C：Because it saves them much trouble and money.
D：Because they can always get better quality furniture in this way.
(3)、What can you infer from the passage？ ________
A：The idea of renting furniture is not acceptable.
B：Renting furniture is not popular in the couple's home town.
C：Only those who don't have enough money to rent furniture.
D：People usually grow to like the furniture they have rented.
(4)、Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage？ ________
A：Rent or Buy？
B：A New Way of Getting Home Furnishings.
C：Furnished Apartments.
D：A New Idea.
(5)、Young people liked renting home furniture in that ________
A：They have less money.
B：They don't want to buy old furniture.
C：The new furniture is of good quality.
D：They don't have much money and don't want to buy the cheap furniture.
第10题
Sure, some leftish billionaires like George Soros have been railing against income inequality for years. But increasingly, centrist and right-wing billionaires are starting to worry about income inequality and the fate of the middle class.
In December, Mortimer Zuckerman wrote a column in U.S. News & World Report, which he owns. "Our nation's core bargain with the middle class is disintegrating," lamented (哀叹) the 117th-riehest main in America. "Most of our economic gains have gone to people at the very top of the income ladder. Average income for a household of people of working age, by contrast, has fallen five years in a row." He noted that "Tens of millions of Americans live in fear that a major health problem can reduce them to bankruptcy."
Wilbur Ross Jr. has echoed Zuckerman's anger over the bitter struggles faced by middle-class Americans. "It's an outrage that any American's life expectancy should be shortened simply because the company they worked for went bankrupt and ended health-care coverage," said the former chairman of the International Steel Group.
What's happening？ The very rich are just as trendy as you and I, and can be so when it comes to politics and policy. Given the recent change of control in Congress, the popularity of measures like increasing the minimum wage, and efforts by California's governor to offer universal health care, these guys don't need their own personal weathermen to know which way the wind blows.
It's possible that plutocrats (有钱有势的人) are expressing solidarity with the struggling middle class as part of an effort to insulate themselves from confiscatory (没收性的) tax policies. But the prospect that income inequality will lead to higher taxes on the wealthy doesn't keep plutocrats up at night. They can live with that.
No, what they fear was that the political challenges of sustaining support for global economic integration will be more difficult in the United States because of what has happened to the distribution of income and economic insecurity.
In other words, if middle-class Americans continue to struggle financially as the ultrawealthy grow ever wealthier, it will be increasingly difficult to maintain political support for the free flow of goods, services, and capital across borders. And when the United States places obstacles in the way of foreign investors and foreign goods, it's likely to encourage reciprocal action abroad. For people who buy and sell companies, or who allocate capital to markets all around the world, that's the real nightmare.
What is the current topic of common interest among the very rich in America？
A．The fate of the ultrawealthy people.
B．The disintegration of the middle class.
C．The inequality in the distribution of wealth.
D．The conflict between the left and the right wing.
