Bears and humans often meet in National Parks. Although campers and hikers are warned not to feed the bears, many people ignore these warnings and feed the beasts anyway. When bears are used to people’s food, problems soon arise.
Bears like to eat a large variety of things, both meat and vegetable. Without human assistance, bears live nicely on roots, twigs, leaves of trees, insects and small animals. With people around, the bears’ tastes quickly expand to include sandwiches, hot dogs, hamburgers, and anything else they can temp humans into giving up.
Bears often develop clever strategies for getting people to let go their food supplies. More often than not, an unsuspecting hiker has taken off his or her pack for a rest only to have a bear charge out of the woods, grab the pack and quickly disappear into the underbrush with it. Hanging the pack on a tree branch won’t help. Bears have been known to climb up, jump off, and catch the pack on the way down. One mother bear stretched up with her baby on her shoulders to reach a pack stored on a pole. Many bears threaten people into giving up their supplies. Although a bear is unlikely to attack a person and would probably run away if screamed at, few people are willing to do so. Most people drop the pack and run the other way. This, of course, delights the bear. In some places, the Park Service installed some metal barrels with lids to help campers keep their supplies safe from bears. Although the bears were unable to open these containers, the effort was less than successful. Most campers, unable to tell the metal drums from rubbish cans, never used them for the intended purpose.
1.Feeding bears on people’s food .
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A．brings the people a lot of fun |
B．can cause problems |
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C．often causes injuries and deaths |
D．helps bears survive |
2.If people had never fed bears, the bears .
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A．might be satisfied with what they had originally |
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B．would have starved long before |
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C．wouldn’t have enough food supply |
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D．would have hunted for other kind of food |
3.Which of the following is TRUE?
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A．If fed on sandwiches and hot dogs, the bears would no longer eat roots, twigs and insects . |
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B．It’s likely that bears would hurt people if the people didn’t give up their food. |
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C．Most people would frighten away the bears that would temp their food. |
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D．Seeing a pack, the bear would quickly snatch it and run away with it. |
4.Bear-proof containers didn’t work because .
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A．bears were clever enough to get the food in them |
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B．they were left open in the open air |
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C．people were not sure of their use |
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D．they were once used as rubbish cans |
For almost two months Dominic York, a 23-year-old hairdresser, wandered about hospitals all night, wearing a white coat and pretending he was a doctor. Yesterday he proudly claimed in court that despite his complete lack of medical experience or qualifications, he had saved several people’s lives. He had even been allowed to assist a surgeon during an emergency operation on a patient who was about to die on something she had swallowed.
“I watched one of those TV dramas about a hospital and suddenly I felt like playing one of the roles myself. So I put on a white jacket and a stethoscope (听诊器) and walked around one of the biggest hospital in London. At first I just watched. Once you learn how doctors talk to patients, nurses and others doctors, it’s easy to take people in,” he said.
One of the patients he treated was Laura Kennan. She had been knocked down by a car and fainted. When she came to in hospital, York was standing over her.
“He looked very professional. He told me his name was Doctor Simon. Then he gave me some sort of injection,” she said. And then he suddenly cleared off when a nurse asked who he was. She didn’t think there was anything wrong. “I would never have realized he was a fake if a policewoman hadn’t showed me his photograph a week later. When the policewoman told me who he really was, I could hardly believe my ears.”
Judge Raymond Adams told York that he was. “ shocked and horrified” that he got away with his deceiving for so long, and then sentenced him to eighteen months in a special prison for criminal with mental disorders.
“I can only hope that this will not lead to further problems. After all, you will have considerable opportunity to study the behaviour of the psychiatrists(精神科医生)who will look after you while you are there. If you try to persuade people that you yourself are a psychiatrist after you are set free, I shall make sure that you are given a much longer sentence.” Judge Adams warned York.
1.York was proud of the fact that ___________.
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A．a surgeon let him watch an operation. |
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B．he could perform some duties of a doctor. |
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C．he had cheated doctors for so long |
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D．people thought he could become a real doctor |
2.York learned how to behave like a doctor by __________.
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A．watching other doctors work |
B．talking to doctors and nurses |
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C．getting some training and experience |
D．observing doctors while he was a patient |
3.Why was Laura Kennan in hospital?
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A．She had swallowed something and almost died. |
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B．She had to have and emergency operation. |
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C．She had been injured in a road accident. |
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D．She had lost consciousness while driving. |
4.The judge’s remark implied that York would be more severely punished if he _________.
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A．pretended to be a psychiatrist |
B．tried to get away from prison |
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C．was proud of what he had done |
D．studied the behaviour of the psychiatrist |
No one in the United States could forget the sorrowful story, April 14th, 1865 36 Abraham Lincoln was murdered.
The night after a very busy 37 , the President and his wife went to Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C where a new play was to be put on.
Near the theatre 38 a 25-year-old unsuccessful actor named John Wilkes Booth, who was strongly against the North though he hadn’t fought 39 the South himself. As the play 40 after a moment of rest, Booth came into the theatre. He walked slowly and quietly 41 the door through which he could see the President’s 42. He looked 43 carefully so as to find the guards 44 task was to protect the President from the enemy. To his joy, there was none of 45 and nobody noticed him. He reached the door quickly and began to get hold of the gun 46 in his pocket.
It was quiet in the theatre and everyone 47 his eyes on the stage. Suddenly a terrible sound of 48 broke in on the play. It surprised everyone and soon they looked 49 where the sound had just come .Smoke was seen coming out of the President’s box, where the 50 had enjoyed the play. Right away the theatre was full of shouting and excited people. Soldiers hurried in to _51 the building, but it was too 52 ! The murderer had already 53 from the box onto the stage, from which then he hurriedly ran out of the theatre and soon disappeared in the 54_.
The news came that Lincoln, whom the people had 55 to love as an inspiring leader and a wise, warm-hearted, honest man, was short in the chest and died early the next morning.
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--- Have you gone over what the teacher taught in class?
--- Not yet.
--- Better remember: ________.
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A．Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched |
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B．A bird in hand is worth two in the bush |
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C．Strike while the iron is hot |
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D．All roads lead to Rome |
_______ email is becoming more popular with many people, I still like writing to my friends.
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A．When |
B．As |
C．Since |
D．While |
—Do you mind __________ alone at home?
— Not at all. She is old enough to take care of herself.
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A．Jane leaving |
B．Jane having left |
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C．Jane’s being left |
D．Jane to be left |
