（Reuters）--- A Michigan man credited his dog with saving his life by chewing off his diseased big toe as he lay passed out in a drunken stupor(昏迷)
Jerry Douthett, 48, who woke up on a Saturday night in late July in his Rockford, Michigan home to find his Jack Russell Terrier, Kiko, had gnawed off his right big toe.
“The dog always lies with me on the bed”, said Douthett. “That night, I woke up and looked down at my foot, and it was wet. When I looked, it was blood and there was the dog looking at me with a blood moustache.”
Douthett’s wife, Rosee, rushed him to a hospital where doctors found he was suffering from Type 2 diabetes. His toe was badly infected and surgeons amputated(截)the remainder of the toe.
Douthett’s wife, a registered nurse, had been urging him for weeks to have his infected toe examined by a doctor.
On the night Kiko ate his toe, Douthett said he had been out with his wife and drank about six or seven beers and a pair of giant margaritas—big enough to put goldfish in.
“I was self-medicating at this point,” he said. “The moral of the story is that the dog saved my life, because otherwise I would never have gone to see a doctor.”
The couple said they were amazed that Kiko appeared to know Douthett had an infection that needed treatment.
“He kind of chewed off the infected part and stopped at the good bone,” said Rosee. “We joked that we shouldn’t have had to pay the co-pay because he did half the job by chewing off half of the toe.”
1.What does the underlined phrase “gnawed off” probably mean?
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A．bit away |
B．cared for |
C．sucked on |
D．smelt out |
2.It can be learned from the text that________________.
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A．Douthett’s wife was a doctor |
B．Douthett’s wife felt something about his disease |
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C．Douthett never got that drunk |
D．Douthett had seen a doctor for his disease |
3.From the text we know that Kiko ______________.
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A．is in top physical condition |
B．was trained at an early age |
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C．nearly cost Douthett his life |
D．saved his master’s life |
4.Which is NOT true according to the text?
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A．It is hard for the couple to explain the dog’s behaviour |
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B．Jerry Douthett went to see a doctor because of Kiko’s chewing his big toe.. |
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C．The couple shouldn’t have to pay the co-pay because Kiko did half the job. |
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D．Kiko didn’t hurt the good bone of its master. |
Facebook users may feel socially successful in the web world but they are more likely to perform poorly in exams. The majority of students who use Facebook every day are doing badly compared with those who don’t. About 83% of British 16 to 24-year-old people are using social networking site such as Facebook and MySpace, to keep in touch with friends and organize their social activities.
“Our study shows people who spend more time on Facebook spend less time studying,” said Aryn Karpinski, a researcher. “Every generation has its distractions(娱乐), but I think Facebook is a unique phenomenon.” Karpinski and a colleague questioned 219 US undergraduates and graduates about their study and general Internet use, as well as their specific use of Facebook. They found 65% of Facebook users accessed their account daily, checking it several times to see if they had received new messages. The amount of time spent on Facebook at each log-in(登录) varied from just a few minutes to more than an hour.
Some UK students have already realized the potential danger. Daisy Jones, 21, an undergraduate, realized the time she was spending on Facebook was threatening her grades, urging her to deactivate(使无效) her account, “I was in the library and tried to write a 2,000-word essay when I realized my Facebook habit had got out of hand,” she said. “I couldn’t resist going online, when thinking about it. Before you know it , a couple of minutes have turned into a couple of hours and you haven’t written a word.”
Jones is among the few to have realized the risks. 79% of the users, however, believed the time they spent on the site had no impact on their work. The CEO of Facebook said, “There is also academic research that shows the benefits of services like Facebook. It’s in the hands of students to decide how to spend their time.”
1.What can we know from Paragraph 1?
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A．All the students who don’t use Facebook do well in exams. |
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B．Social networking sites have both advantages and disadvantages. |
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C．Facebook is the main site for British people to keep in touch. |
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D．Most of British students use social networking sites daily. |
2.Facebook users check their account frequently to ____________.
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A．spend less time on study |
B．make sure new messages aren’t missed |
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C．practise specific use of Facebook |
D．accumulate amount of time spent on Facebook. |
3.Why did Daisy Jones deactivate her account?
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A．She was warned about the risk of using Facebook. |
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B．Spending much time on Facebook affected her study |
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C．She wanted to write a long article in the library. |
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D．There was something wrong with her eyes. |
4.What’s the best title of the passage ?
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A．Facebook fans do worse in exams |
B．Social networking sites and their fans |
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C．Facebook helps organize social activities |
D．How to use social networking sites correctly. |
A man had a little daughter—an only and much-loved child. He lived ___21__ her—she was his life. So when she became ill, he became like a man moving 22 and earth to bring about her restoration to 23 .
His best efforts, 24 , proved 25 and the child died. The father became a bitter loner, 26 himself away from his many friends and refusing every 27 that might restore his calm and bring him back to his normal self. But one night he had a 28 .
He was in heaven, 29 a grand presentation of all the little child angels. They were 30 in a line passing by the Great White Throne. Every white-robed angelic child 31 a candle. He noticed that one child’s candle was not lighted. Then he saw that the child with the 32 candle was his own little girl. 33 to her, he seized her in his arms, 34 her tenderly, and then asked, “ 35 is it, darling, that your candle alone is unlighted?”“Daddy, they often relight it, but your tears always 36 .”
Just then he awoke from his dream. The lesson was clear, and its effects were 37 . From that hour on he was not a loner, but associated freely and 38 with his former friends and colleagues. 39 would his darling’s candle be extinguished(熄灭) by his 40 tears.
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---What’s wrong with your cell phone? I can’t get through.
--- Oh, my line was cut off because I ________ my bill.
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A．haven’t paid |
B．hadn’t paid |
C．wasn’t paying |
D．don’t pay |
It is obvious that John is unhappy. _________, it comes as no surprise that she has decided to change her job.
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A．However |
B．Otherwise |
C．Moreover |
D．Therefore |
– She will finish the project within three days!
-- ______________! I could do it in three hours.
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A．You are right. |
B．I’m stuck. |
C．Oh, come on |
D．Don’t mention it. |
