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It was a normal Monday morning at an assembly,and he was addressing the students on important things in life and about committing ourselves to what was important to us.This is how the story went: An old man lived in a certain part of London,and he would wake up every morning and go to the subway.He would take the train right to Central London,and then sit at the street corner and beg.He did this every single day for almost 20 years.
His house was filthy,and a horrible smell came out of it.The neighbors could not stand the smell any longer,so they summoned the police officers to clear the place.The officers knocked down the door,cleaned the house and found small bags of money all over the house.When they counted the money,they realized that the old man was a millionaire.
They waited outside his house in anticipation to share the good news with him.When he arrived home that evening,the old man was met by one of the officers who told him that there was no need for him to beg any more as he was now a millionaire. The old man said nothing at all.He went into his house and locked the door.The next morning he woke up as usual,went to the subway,got into the train,and sat at the street corner and continued to beg.Obviously,this old man had no great plans,dreams or anything significant for his life. We learn nothing from this story other than staying focused on the things we enjoy doing.
We should remain true to our course,which may mean committing ourselves to things that people around us would normally disapprove.Let nothing distract us from being happy;let nothing else determine our fate,but ourselves.What makes us happy is what matters in the end,not what we acquire.
1. The sentence“I drift off course”might be replaced by.
(A). I do not pass a course at school
(B). I am determined to do something new
(C). I fail to stick to what I have been doing
(D). I come across difficulties in my studies
2. According to the passage,the old man.
(A). lived in Central London
(B). came from a poor family
(C). began begging as a child
(D). begged in London every day
3. When they waited for the old man,the police expected he would be.
(A). pleased to see the clean house
(B). glad to know that he was rich
(C). angry with what they had done
(D). grateful for what they did for him
4. The old man is admired mainly because.
(A). he stuck to what he did
(B). he had a splendid dream
(C). he was confident in himself
(D). he had great plans for the future
5. The old headmaster told the story to remind his students of the importance of.
(A). honesty
(B). commitment
(C). kindness
(D). patience
Speaker A: Thanks to John, we've lost our most important client.
Speaker B: I've told you he's not proper for the position.
Speaker A: ______
A.I don't really agree with you
B.I should have listened to you
C.It doesn't matter. I trust him
D.Thank you for being so helpful
The event happened in the early morning in one of the first days when Calvin Coolidge came into power. He and his family were living in the same third-floor suite at the Willard Hotel in Washington that they had moved in several years before. The former President's wife was still living in the White House.
Coolidge awoke to see a stranger go through his clothes, remove a wallet and a watch chain.
Coolidge spoke, "I wish you won't take that."
The thief, gaining his voice, said, "Why?"
"I don't mean the watch and chain, only the charm. Take it near the window and read what is on its back," the President said.
The thief read," Presented to Calvin Coolidge."
"Are you President Coolidge?" he asked.
The President answered "Yes, and the House of Representatives gave me that watch charm. I'm fond of it. It would do you no good. You want money. Let's talk this over."
Holding up the wallet, the young man said in a low voice, "I'll take this and leave everything else."
Coolidge, knowing there was $80 in it, persuaded the young man to sit down and talk. He told the President he and his college roommate had overspent during their holiday and did not have enough money to pay their hotel bill.
Coolidge added up the roommate and two rail tickets back to the college. Then he counted out $32 and said it was a loan.
He then told the young man "There is a guard in the corridor." The young man nodded and left through the same window as he had entered.
What caused the thief to meet the President?
A.He knew the President had lots of money.
B.He knew the President lived in the suite.
C.He wanted to be a rich businessman.
D.He wanted to steal some money.
听力原文: PARIS--French voters chose Nicolas Sarkozy as their new president on Sunday, giving the conservative a mandate for change. His Socialist opponent conceded minutes after polls closed.
With nearly 70 percent of ballots counted, Sarkozy had just over 53 percent of the vote, according to the Interior Ministry.
The results dashed Socialist Segolene Royal's hopes of being elected France's first woman president. The projections were based on vote counts from representative samples of hundreds of polling stations across the country.
"Universal suffrage has spoken. I wish the next president of the Republic the best in accomplishing his mission in the service of all the French people," Royal told supporters in Paris.
Washington can "count on our friendship," Sarkozy told hundreds of cheering supporters, though he added that "friendship means accepting that friends can have different opinions."
Sarkozy's election could help restart the process of finding a way forward on reviving the European Union constitution, which has been held up as Europe awaited the results of the French election.
In remarks just after his election, Sarkozy said: "France is back in Europe."
Nicolas Sarkozy ______.
A.was defeated by his socialist opponent
B.was elected as the new President of France
C.had more than 70 96 of the vote
D.announced after the election that France and the U.S. would share opinions.
What did the boy say about his early use of the languages?
A.He would choose properly which language to use.
B.He had to use English most of the time.
C.His parents wanted him to use his native tongue.
D.Somebody told him what he should do about it.
It is not an uncommon estimate of Chaucer that he must be counted among the few greatest of English poets. In range of interest he is surpassed only by Shakespeare. He was recognized already in the Renaissance, when it came to England, as the Father of English Poetry. He was a man of wide learning and wrote with ease on religion, philosophy, ethics, science, rhetoric. No man has more completely summed up an age than Chaucer has his, yet the people of his great poems, are revealed as men and women are in all times.
Master of verse, as Chaucer was, he introduced into English poetry many verse forms: the heroic couplet (in which form. most of The Canterbury Tales is written), verse written in iambic pentameter, rhyming aa, bb, cc, etc.--a form. that was to be very important in the eighteenth century; the rime royal, a seven-line stanza in iambic pentameters, rhyming ababbcc (Troilus and Criseyde); the terza rima, three-line stanzas, rhyming aba, bcb cdc, etc.(which he imitated from Dante, in some of his minor poems); and the eight-line iambic pentameter stanza, rhyming ababbcbc (The Monk's Tale).
This passage does not indicate that Chaucer wrote on the topic of ______.
A.philosophy
B.religion
C.rhetoric
D.politics
So he became a thief--but he did not do the stealing himself. He got others to do it. They were much less intelligent than he was, so he arranged everything and told them what to do.
One day they were looking for rich families to rob, and Jim sent one of them to a large beautiful house just outside the town.
It was evening, and when the man looked through one of the windows, he saw a young man and a girl playing on a piano.
When he went back to Jim, he said, "That family can't have much money. Two people were playing on the same piano there."
What Jim said can be said to be______.
A.an excuse
B.a lie
C.a joke
D.a truth
听力原文:W: Isn't Mary Ellen a beautiful bride?
M: She is indeed. John looks very happy too, doesn't he? He told me that they'll be going to Florida on their honeymoon.
Q: Where did this conversation most probably take place?
(17)
A.At a wedding.
B.On a honeymoon.
C.In Florida.
D.At an airport.
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