A young woman went into a Paris hospital one day in 1816. She was having trouble breathing. Dr. Rene Laennec was trying to listen to her body to find signs of trouble. But he could not hear anything because she was overweight. Also, he thought, “She will not like it if I press my ear against her chest.”
After working hard, Dr. Laennec went for a walk in a nearby park. As the doctor was walking, he saw a group of boys playing with a long piece of wood. One boy was scratching(刮擦)the end of the wood with a pin(针). At the other end, the other boys had their ears pressed against the wood. They were listening to the scratching sound the pin made.
Dr. Laennec had a great idea. He rushed back to the hospital and rolled up some paper. With the rolled-up paper, he listened to the young woman’s chest. He could hear everything perfectly. “This idea will change medicine forever,” he thought.
Dr. Laennec used this idea to invent the first stethoscope(听诊器). This invention is still used by doctors today.
1.What’s the matter with the woman?
A. She had a high fever.
B. She had a bad cough.
C. She couldn’t breathe freely.
D. She couldn’t speak clearly.
2.Why couldn’t Dr. Laennec find any signs of trouble from her body?
A. Because the woman was very fat.
B. Because the woman no longer breathed.
C. Because the woman was unhappy.
D. Because the woman had a strange illness.
3.What were the boys doing in the park?
A. They were playing doctors.
B. They were taking care of a patient.
C. They were playing with a ball.
D. They were playing with a piece of wood.
4. Which of the following is True according to the text?
A. Dr. Laennec liked to play with children.
B. Dr. Laennec got a great idea at his house.
C. Dr. Laennec was a smart doctor who worked in America.
D. Dr. Laennec was worried about pressing his ear against the woman’s chest.
The story goes that some time ago, a man punished (惩罚) his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll (卷) of gold paper. The family was not rich and he became angry when the child tried to decorate (装饰) a box to put under the Christmas tree. However, the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning and said, “This is for you, Daddy.”
The man felt sorry for what he had done the day before, but felt angry again when he found out the box was empty. He shouted at her, “Don’t you know, when you give someone a present, there should be something inside?” The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and cried, “Oh, Daddy, it’s not empty at all. I blew kisses into the box. They’re all for you, Daddy.”
The father was shocked. He put his arms around his little girl and said sorry again and again.
Only a short time later, an accident took the life of the child. It is also told that her father kept that gold box by his bed for many years and, whenever he felt unhappy, he would take out an imaginary kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.
1.The father punished his daughter because she ______.
A. wasted time decorating a box
B. put the box under a Christmas tree
C. decorated a Christmas tree
D. wasted some gold paper
2.What was the girl’s Christmas gift for her father?
A. A gold box. B. A Christmas tree.
C. Some gold paper. D. Some money.
3.What did the girl do the next morning when her father shouted at her?
A. She cried. B. She went away.
C. She kissed her father. D. She said sorry to her father.
4.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. Their family was rich.
B. The girl lost her life in an accident.
C. The father didn’t love his daughter.
D. The girl’s mother died early.
The Apple computer is very popular in the world, but the designer of the Apple Computer, Steve Jobs, was not quite successful in his early years. He was not among the best students at school, and from time to time he got into trouble with either his schoolmates or his teachers. But he was full of new ideas, of which few people saw the value. Things remained the same when he went up to college and he dropped out(退学)half way.
Steve Jobs worked first as a video game designer at Atari. He worked there only a few months and then he set out to tour India. He hoped that the trip would give him more ideas and give him a change in life for the better.
After he returned from India, he began to live on a farm in California. And then, in 1975, Steve Jobs set about making a new type of computer. Along with his friend Stephen Wozniak, he designed the Apple Computer in his bedroom and built it in his garage(车库). He gave the name “Apple” because it reminded him of a happy summer he once spent on an orchard(果园) in Oregon.
His Apple Computer was so successful that Steve Jobs soon became worldwide famous. But unluckily, he died of illness in 2011.
1. Steve Jobs ______ when he was at school.
A . was an outstanding student
B. wasn’t the best student
C. didn’t learn anything
D. was the worst student
2. The underlined word “value” means_____.
A. chance B. importance C. hope D. difference
3.Steve Jobs _____.
A. received excellent college education
B. didn’t go to college at all
C. didn’t finish his college education
D. didn’t go to school
4.Steve Jobs named his computer “Apple” because _____.
A. apple was his favorite
B. he wanted to remember the happy time on the orchard
C. the computer was designed on the orchard
D. the computer was like an apple
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My son Joey was born with club feet(畸形足). The doctors told us that he would be able to walk, but would never________ very well. By the time he was eight, you wouldn’t know he had a ________when you saw him walk.
In seventh grade he ________to go out for the cross-country(越野赛)team. Every day he worked harder and ran ________ than any of the others. ________the whole team runs, only the top seven runners score for the school. We didn’t tell him he probably would ________be on the team, so he didn’t know.
He went on running four to five miles a day, every day ― even the day he had a high ________. I was ________ , so I went to see him after school. I found him running alone. I asked him how he ________ .
“Okay,” he said. He had another two miles to go. Yet he looked straight ahead and ________ running. We never told him he ________ run miles with a high fever. So he didn’t ________ .
Two weeks later, the ________of the team runners were called. Joey was Number Six on the list. Joey was on the team! He was in seventh grade ― the other ________ team members were in eighth grade. We never told him he couldn’t do it. So he didn’t know. He just ________ it!
1.A. run B. walk C. speak D. work
2.A. rest B. secret C. change D. problem
3.A. asked B. decided C. expected D. failed
4. A. more B. less C. faster D. later
5.A. Because B. Since C. Although D. When
6.A. just B. always C. never D. also
7.A. fever B. cold C. cough D. stomachache
8.A. disappointed B. surprised C. interested D. worried
9.A. succeeded B. studied C. worked D. felt
10.A. stopped B. kept C. finished D. missed
11.A. wouldn’t B. couldn’t C. needn’t D. might not
12.A. know B. understand C. listen D. think
13.A. attentions B. numbers C. names D. meetings
14.A. six B. seven C. eight D. nine
15.A. caught B. went C. got D. did
Let’s wait _______ see how the two countries will deal with the problems.
A. so B. or C. but D. And
--Why did Miss Wang look so worried when we saw her?
--Because she wondered _______.
A. where did the other students go
B. what her students have done during the trip
C. when would the students come
D. whether her students had won the match
