Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.
I am one of those unlucky people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the place I was heading for.
I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit（承认）that they didn’t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite（相反的）direction to that in which you should be going.
If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.
Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.
Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions of my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.
1.What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?
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A．He will direct the right way to the person willingly.
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B．He will reply to it by the means of being a stranger to the town.
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C．He will give the very person long list of direction.
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D．He is going to show the man an opposite direction. |
2.Why did the writer consider himself to be an unlucky dog?
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A．Because of his poor sense of direction. |
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B．Because he always forget the way to home. |
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C．Because he did not have any friend. |
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D． Because he used to be shy and dared not ask others the way. |
3.How did the visitor feel when he was showed into the very room?
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A．He felt strange. |
B．He felt embarrassed. |
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C．He felt very sad. |
D．He felt astonished. |
4.Who showed the right way to the interviewee according to the passage?
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A．Someone we don’t know. |
B．The writer did it for himself.
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C．The secretary did so. |
D．A warm-hearted old lady did itI. |
Personal computers and the Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time.
Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members, but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care most about. I know this from personal experience.
E-mail makes it easy to work at home, which is where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours aren’t necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she’d been born before electronic mail became such a practical tool.
The Internet also makes it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends. Say you do something fun - see a great movie perhaps - and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may be tired of telling the story.
With E-mail, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience, and address it to all the friends you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only as much as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.
E-mail is also an inexpensive way stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use E-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with their children off at college.
We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of staying in touch. They don’t take the place of any of the old ways.
1. The purpose of this passage is to ________.
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A．explain how to use the Internet |
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B．describe the writer’s joy of keeping up with the latest technology |
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C．tell the merits(价值) and usefulness of the Internet |
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D．introduce the reader to basic knowledge about personal computers and the Internet |
2.The use of E-mail has made it possible for the writer to ________.
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A．have more free time with his child |
B．spend less time working |
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C．work at home on weekends |
D．work at a speed comfortable to him |
3.According to the writer, E-mail has an obvious advantage over the telephone because the
former helps one ________.
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A．reach a group of people at one time conveniently |
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B．keep one’s communication as personal as possible |
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C．pass on much more information than the later |
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D．get in touch with one’s friends faster than the later |
4.The best title for this passage is ________.
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A．Computer: New Technological Advances |
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B．Internet: New Tool to Maintain Good Friendship |
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C．Computers Have Made Life Easier |
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D．Internet: a Convenient Tool for Communication |
Everybody may have seen the film “Death on the Nile ( 尼罗河)”, but nobody can imagine that the writer of the story, Agatha Christie, saved a baby in a most unusual way.
In June 1977, a baby girl became seriously ill in Deleville. Doctors there were unable to find out the cause of her illness, so she was sent to a famous hospital in London, where there were many excellent doctors. The baby was so seriously ill that a team of doctors hurried to examine her without delay. The doctors, too, were puzzled by the baby’s illness and they also became discouraged. Just then a nurse asked to speak to them.
“I think the baby is suffering from thallium (铊) poisoning. ” said the nurse. “A few days ago, I read a story ‘A Pale Horse’ written by Agatha Christie. Someone uses thallium poison, and all the symptoms (症状) are written in the book. They are exactly the same as the baby’s.”
“You’re very good at observing things,” said a doctor, “and you may be right. We’ll carry out some tests and find out whether the cause is thallium poisoning or not.”
The tests proved that the baby had indeed been poisoned by thallium. Once they knew the cause, the doctors were able to give her correct treatment. The baby soon got well and was sent back to Deleville. A week later it was reported that the poison might have come from an insecticide (杀虫剂) used in Deleville.
1.The baby was sent to a hospital in London because ______.
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A．her parents were living in London then |
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B．the hospitals in Deleville were full at that time |
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C．doctors in Deleville were not sure about the cause of her illness |
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D．she was the daughter of a famous doctor in London |
2.When the baby was first sent to the hospital in London, her illness was considered to be ______
A quite easy to treat
B. the result of thallium poisoning
C. a common one
D. extraordinarily serious
3.From this passage it seems that the baby’s illness had something to do with ______.
A a dead writer B. a harmful substance ( 物质) used to kill pests
C. the water in Deleville D. a dangerous murderer
4. As far as we can tell from the story, Agatha Christie ______.
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A．had never met this baby |
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B．had spent a long time studying the baby’s illness |
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C．visited the baby both in Deleville and London |
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D．gave the nurse some advice on the telephone |
Last night, when I was driving back home, I noticed a hitchhiker(搭便车的人) who was having no luck getting a ride. I rolled down my__ 21 and signed to the man to my car. I asked him where he was 22 and he told me he needed a 23 to his doctor’s office which would close in 15 minutes. I told him to 24 and he gratefully did so.
25 he got in he told me that he was a 26 and went out to sea for weeks at a time. He took medicine for his nerves and 27 to get another prescription(处方) before he left on the boat. He said that he had prayed (祈祷) 28 would stop for him so he could be there before the 29 office closed. With some 30 driving we managed to make it there in about 10 31 . I then asked him how he 32 on getting back home and he said he could walk. “I’ll patiently 33 for you and bring you back,” I told him. He 34 me and said he should only be about 15 minutes.
Afterwards he got back in my 35 and tried his hardest to pay me back: offering me dinner, gas money, even offering to ship me 40 lbs of scallops (海扇贝)! I 36 refused, gave him a smile card and asked him to help someone else the next time he had a 37 . I drove him back to where I had picked him up and 38 one more “thank you” he was on his way.
I feel that the world 39 offers us what we need. In the man’s 40 it was a ride, in mine the chance to help someone else.
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Is this TV set ________ you wish to have ________?
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A．the one; repaired |
B．which; it repaired |
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C．the one; it repaired |
D．which; repaired |
They wanted someone with _____ for this job, so as a freshman I had _______ that day.
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A．experiences; unpleasant experience |
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B．an experience; an unpleasant experience |
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C．experiences; an unpleasant experience |
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D．experience; an unpleasant experience |
