After two years he received the certificate of the college for ______ in chemistry.A.profi
After two years he received the certificate of the college for ______ in chemistry.
A.proficiency
B.diversion
C.immersion
D.involvement
After two years he received the certificate of the college for ______ in chemistry.
A.proficiency
B.diversion
C.immersion
D.involvement
Steven Avery faces life imprison for a rape of a young woman 18 years ago.
A.正确
B.错误
What was he unable to remember a few weeks after the accident?
A.The previous 11 years of his life.
B.Anything about the village he had been living in.
C.A few years he had spent in Australia.
D.The two years before he came to live in the village.
Passage Five
Billy Joel was born on Long Island, in New York State. He began taking piano lessons at an early age and joined his first rock band when he was fourteen. After playing in a number of Long Island groups, Billy began concentrating on his song-writing. His first album of completely original songs was Cold Spring Harbor. It was released in 1972. Two years later, after the release of the smash-hit albums Piano Man and Street-life Serenade. Billy was named "Best New Male Vocalist" by Cask Box magazine.
51. Billy Joel began taking piano lessons ______.
A. when he joined his first rock band
B. after he was named "Best New Male Vocalist"
C. at fourteen
D. before he was fourteen years old
Passage Five
In America, every student in his or her second year of high school is required to take a class in driver's education.
The course is divided up into two parts: class time for learning laws and regulations and driving time to practice driving. Each student is required to drive a total of six hours. The students are divided up into groups of four. The students and the instructor go out driving for two hour blocks of time. Thus, each student gets half an hour driving time per outing. Drivers Ed cars are unlike other cars in which they have two sets of brakes, one on the driver's side and one on the other side where the instructor sits. Thus, if the student driver should run into difficulties the instructor can take over.
After a student has passed the driver's education course and reached the appropriate age to drive (this age differs in every state but in most cases the person must be 16 years old), he must take his driver's test. The person must pass all three tests in order to be given a driver's license. If the person does well in his or her driver's education class, he or she will pass the test with flying colors and get a driver's license.
51. In America, the driver's course mentioned above______.
A. is considered as part of the advanced education
B. is given to anyone wanting to get a driver's license
C. is carried on after students graduate from high school
D. is offered to all the students of Grade 2 in high school
The language has always changed, but the rate of change has been uneven. The most important of these periods occurred during the two hundred and fifty years after 1066, the year the Norman conquered England. Before the conquest, the inhabitants of England spoke Anglo-Saxon, a complex Germanic language. The Normans were Norsemen who, after generations of raiding, had settled in northern France in the tenth century and by 1066 were speaking a form. of French. After their conquest of England they instituted Norman French as the dominant language--the language of the upper classes, of law, of government, and of such commerce as there was.
Why did a contemporary Rip Van Winkle have to get educated to read the English newspaper?
A.Because many new words have been added to English.
B.Because he was illiterate before he went to sleep years ago.
C.Because after the accident, he lost his memory.
D.Because he was a Hungarian and couldn't read English.
EMERY TOBIN: Pistol-Packin' Reformer
Ketchikan has had many notable citizens in the city's 102 years of history, but perhaps none stands out so boldly as the late Emery Tobin, who died in 1977 at age 81. His roster of activities and accomplishments in Ketchikan is lengthy and incredibly varied. He joined the newly founded American Legion Post 3 in 1921, became a member of the Chamber of Commerce in 1923, and was a charter member of Ketchikan Rotary in 1925.
In the early 1920s he also was an active leader in Ketchikan's Boy Scout Troop #1, the first troop in all of Alaska, anti he was a volunteer drama coach for the high school's theatrical productions. He was later a founder plus publisher and editor of the Alaska Sportsman magazine, which continues today as the nationally known Alaska Magazine.
His magazine office and his Alaska Specialties novelty shop were located in the old 1904 Yates hospital on Mission Street-now the Seamen's Center.
The Rain Gauge that stands next to today's visitor bureau on the dock was first erected in front of Tobin's shop. He was an avid booster of tourism and sold Alaska books and novelties through ads in his Alaska Sportsman magazine.
But those things are not necessarily what Emery Tobin is remembered for. Emery's claim to fame is that he is said to be the man who spearheaded the closure of the city's red light districts in 1953, ending 50 years of openly tolerated prostitution in Ketchikan, Alaska! He became a hero to some and an arch villain to others. It was during that contentious crusade that Emery kept a pistol at hand on his desk.
Although he served in France in World War Ⅰ, Emery was not a man one would ever connect with a firearm. He was not tall, he bad a rather high voice and a Boston area accent he never lost, which made an R sound like a W—some people thought it was a lisp. He spoke rapidly and with great assurance. Even after his hair turned white, he still had thick black eyebrows on a brow ridge that made smiles that blossomed on his face seem closer to frowns. When he walked with his rapid gait down Ketchikan's wet and breezy streets, head bent and hands in pockets, he appeared to be bucking a powerful headwind.
Even into his sixties Emery was fearless. When a young man shoplifted something and departed running from Emery's Alaska Specialties shop on Mission Street, Emery took off after him, legs and arms pumping. He tackled the miscreant to the wet sidewalk in front of the entrance to St. John's Church and pinned him there until help arrived. Some of Emery Tobin's spirit and determination must have come directly from his father.
Emery Fridolf Tobin was born to August and Emma Tobin, Swedish immigrants, on Dec. 14, 1895, in Quincy, Mass., ten miles south of Boston. August Tobin was a painting contractor, working for the school district. The great Depression of 1893 had affected everyone. Tobin's customers owned him money and Tobin owed money to his own creditors. Times were hard.
Two years after Emery's birth, in 1897, news of the Klondike Gold Rush circled the globe, and among those infected with gold fever were August Tobin and his brother-in-law-Emma's brother. The two couples were close and had been married at a double wedding. Each little family had two children-the eldest of the four babies not yet two years old. The two fathers decided that one would have to stay and care for both wives and all four children; the other would go to Alaska, make a fortune and return in a year to Quincy. At least that was the plan. So the men drew straws and August drew the long straw for Alaska. Emery loved to tell this story. He would lean back in his squeaky oak desk chair and his face was all smiles as he related his family's history.
Emery's lather was long on confidence but short on money to get himself to Seattle, much less all the way to
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
Passage Two
I was only eight years old when the Second World War ended, but I can still remember something about the victory celebrations in the small town where I lived on the day when the war in Europe ended. We had not suffered much from the war there. But both at home and at school I had become accustomed to the phrases "before the war" and "when the war's over". "Before the war", apparently, things had been better, though I was too young to understand why, except that there had been no bombs then, and people had eaten things like ice -cream and bananas, which I had only heard of . When the war was over we would go back to London, but this meant little to me. I did not remember what London was like.
What I remember now about VE (Victory in Europe) Day was the May evening. After dinner I said I wanted to see the bonfire (大火堆) , so when it got dark my father took me to the end of the street. The bonfire was very high, and somehow people had collected some old clothes to dress the un- mistakable figure with the moustache (胡子) they had to put on top of it. Just as we arrived, they set light to it. The flames rose and soon swallowed the "guy". Everyone was cheering and shouting, and an old woman came out of her house with two chairs and threw them on the fire to keep it going.
I stood beside my father until the fire started to go down, not knowing what to say. He said nothing, either. He had fought in the First World War and may have been remembering the end of that. At last he said, "Well, that's it, son. Let's hope that this time it really will be the last one."
40. Where did the author live before the Second World War?
A. In London.
B. In a small town.
C. In Europe.
D. In the countryside.
根据材料请回答 41~45 题
Memory
One day more than fifty years ago, a young man had an accident on his motor-bike in which he suffered a few apparently minor injuries.There was a bruise (淤青) on the left side of his forehead and some slight bleeding from his left ear.He was taken to hospital for examination but X-rays did not reveal any other injuries. Nevertheless, the doctor who was treating him decided to keep him in hospital for further observations because the young man was having difficulty in speaking and seemed very confused.
At the time of the accident, the young man was 22 years old, and the date was Au-gust, 1933.A week later, he was able to carry on what seemed a perfectly normal conver-sation.However, he told the doctor that he was only 11 years old and that the date was February, 1922.What is more, he could not remember anything that had happened since 1922.For example, he could not recall having spent five years in Australia, or coming back to England and working for two years on a golf course.
As time went by, part of his memory of the eleven missing years come back.A few weeks later, he even remembered his years in Australia.But the two years of his life just before the accident were still a completely a blank.Three weeks after his injury, he went back to the village where he had been living for those two years.Everything seemed unfa-miliar and he did not recall ever having been there before.Despite this, he was able to take up his old job again in the village and to do it satisfactorily.But he often got lost when walking around the village and found it difficult to remember what he had done during the day.
Slowly, however, his memory continued to return so that, about ten weeks after the accident, he could even remember most of the previous two years.There remained only one complete gap in his memory: he could remember absolutely nothing about what.he had done a few minutes immediately before the accident or the accident itself. This part of his memory never came back.
第 41 题 When did the accident happen?
A.In February 1922.
B.A few years ago.
C. when the young man was in Australia.
D.Over half a century ago.
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.
听力原文: A man who fired three shots into a crowded birthday party killing one man and wounding two other people has been sentenced to six years in prison. 36-year-old Mark Eastwood was in court for sentencing today after a jury had found him guilty of manslaughter but not guilty of murder.
Mark Eastwood snapped after being kept awake for four successive nights by noisy parties yards away from his home. He took a loaded revolver and fired three shots through the window of a house in the southeastern part of the city. A 25-year-old man at the party died after being hit in the head, two other people were seriously wounded. The court was told that Eastwood had a lengthy criminal record for dishonesty and he was keeping the gun without a licence. Sentencing him to six years in prison, Mr Justice Dawson said, "No one must be allowed to kill innocent people and not be severely punished."
The man was convicted for
A.dishonesty.
B.manslaughter.
C.murder.
D.having a gun.
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