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MACABRE : SHUDDER::
A．torpid : embolden
B．homesick: domesticate
C．insipid : chuckle
D．overweening : plume
E．grisly : flinch
Girls flinch back in the competition with boys most probably because
A．they are short of confidence in themselves.
B．employers often prefer boys to take technical jobs.
C．they have poorer performance in technical jobs.
D．they are willing to leave technical jobs to boys.
Everything seemed to have become a weapon of war. Our enemies had (1)_____ the most familiar objects (2)_____ us, turned shaving kits into holsters and airplanes (3)_____ missiles and soccer coaches and newlyweds into involuntary suicide bombers. So it was (4)_____ the President and his generals to plot the response.
That is because we are (5)_____ one enemy but two: one unseen, the other inside. Terror on this scale (6)_____ to wreck the way we live our lives make us flinch when a siren sounds, (7)_____ when a door slams and think twice before deciding (8)_____ we really have to take a plane. If we falter, they win, (9)_____ they never plant another bomb. So after the early helplessness, what can I do？ I've already given blood-people started to realize that (10)_____ they could do was exactly, as precisely as possible, (11)_____ they would have done if all this (12)_____.
That was the spirit (13)_____ in New York and Washington and all across the country, faith and fear and resolve in a tight braid. Because the killers who hate us did the (14)_____, nothing is unthinkable now. A plume of grill smoke venting from a Manhattan steak house (15)_____ the evacuation of midtown office towers. After the Pentagon (16)_____, generals called their families and told them (17)_____ the water, it could be poisoned. Sales of guns and gas masks spiked. The National Football League (18)_____ its games for the first time ever; bomb scares emptied 90 sites on Thursday in New York City (19)_____. People wore sneakers with their suits (20)_____ they had to fly fast down the stairs.
A．used
B．change
C．applied
D．turned
Most of the young and those in the prime of life were thickset, red-faced men of good medium height and enormous strength, who prided themselves on the weights they could carry and boasted of never having had an ache nor a pain in their lives. The elders stooped, had gnarled and swollen hands and, walked badly, for they felt the effects of a life spent out of doors in all weathers and of the rheumatism which tried most of them. They still spoke the dialect, in which the vowels were not only broadened, but in many words doubled. Boy was "boo-oy," cola "coo-al" and so on. In other words, syllables were slurred and words were run together, as "brenbu'er" for bread and butter. They had hundreds of proverbs and sayings and their talk was stiff with simile. Nothing was ever simply hot, cold or colored; it was "as hot as hell, as cold as ice, as green as grass" or "as yellow as a guinea". To be nervy was to be "like a cat on hot bricks"; to be angry , "mad as a bull", or any one might be "poor as a rat", "sick as a dog" , "as ugly as sin" , "full of the milk of human kindness", or "stinking with pride" .
The men's incomes were the same to a penny (ten shillings a week); their circumstances, pleasures, and their daily field work were shared in common but in themselves they differed, as other men of their day differed, in country and town. Some were intelligent, others slow in the uptake, some were kind and helpful, others selfish. A stranger would not have found the dry humor of the Scottish peasant, or the racy wit and wisdom of Thomas Hardy's Wessex. These men's minds were east in a heavier mould and moved more slowly. Yet there were occasional gleams of quiet fun. When Edmund was crying because his pet magpie had flown away one man told him to go and tell Mrs. Andrews about it (she was the village gossip) "and you'll soon know where she's been seen."
Their favorite virtue was endurance. Not to flinch from pain or hardship was their ideal. A young woman would say to the midwife after her first confinement, "I didn't flinch, did I？ Oh, I do hope I didn't flinch", and a man would tell how he had taken a piece of fence to fight off a charging bull, and not he but the bull had "flinched."
Most of the younger men were ______.
A．satisfied with their weight and good health
B．boastful of their great height and energy
C．vain about their good health and strength
D．proud of their being able to carry light weights
TEXT A
This fishing village of l,480 people is a bleak and lonely place. Set on the southwestern edge of Ice- land, the volcanic landscape is whipped by the North Atlantic winds, which hush everything around them. A sculpture at the entrance to the village depicts a naked man facing a wall of seawater twice his height.
There is no movie theater, and many residents never venture to the capital, a 50-min. drive away.
But Sandgerdi might be the perfect place to raise girls who have mathematical talent. Government re- searchers two years ago tested almost every 15-year-old in Iceland for it and found that boys trailed far behind girls. That fact was unique among the 41 countries that participated in the standardized test for that age group designed by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development But while Iceland's girls
were alone in the world in their significant lead in math, their national advantage of 15 points was small compared with the one they had over boys in fishing villages like Sandgerdi, where it was closer t0 30.
The teachers of Sandgerdi's 254 students were only mildly surprised by the results. They say the gender gap is a story not of talent but motivation. Boys think of school as sufferings on the way to a future of finding riches at sea; for girls, it's their ticket out of town. Margret Ingporsdottir and Hanna Maria Heidarsdottir, both 15, students at Sandgerdi's gleaming school-which has a science laboratory, a computer room and a well-stocked library-have no doubt that they are headed for university. "I think I will be a pharmacist," says Heidarsdottir. The teens sat in principal Gudjon Kristjansson's office last week, waiting for a ride to the nearby town of Kevlavik, where they were competing in West Iceland's yearly math con- test, one of many throughout Iceland in which girls excel.
Meanwhile, by the harbor, Gisli Tor Hauksson, 14, already has big plans that don't require spending his aftemoons toiling over geometry. "I'll be a fisherman," he says, just like most of his ancestors. His father recently returned home from 60 days at sea off the coast of Norway. "He came back with l.1 million kro- na," about $18,000, says Hauksson. As for school, he says, "it destroys the brain." He intends 'to quit at 16, the earliest age at which he can do so legally. "A boy sees his older brother who has been at sea for only two years and has a better car and a bigger house than the headmaster," says Kristjansson.
But the story of female achievement in Iceland doesn't necessarily have a happy ending. Educators have found that when girls leave their rural enclaves to attend universities in the nation's cities, their sci- ence advantage generally shrinks. YVhile 61% of university students are women, they make up only one-third of Iceland's science students. By the time they enter the labor market, many are overtaken by men, who become doctors, engineers and computer technicians. Educators say they watch many bright girls suddenly flinch back in the face of real, head-to-head competition with boys. In a math class at a Reykjavik schooL
Asgeir Gurdmundsson, 17, says that although girls were consistently brighter than boys at school, "they just seem to leave the technical jobs to us." Says Solrun Gensdottir, the director of education at the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture: ';We have to find a way to stop girls from dropping out of sciences."
Teachers across the country have begun to experiment with ways to raise boys to the level of girls in elementary and secondary education. The high school in Kevlavik tried an experiment in 2002 and 2003, separating 16-to-20-year-olds by gender for two years. That time the boys slipped even further behind. "The boys said the girls were better anyway," says Kristjan Asmundsson, who taught the 25 boys. "They didn't even try."
Which of the following words can best describe Sandgerdi？
[A] desolate
[B] poor
[C] bustling
[D] thriving
It was hard to say "I love you' to someone who didn't say it back. After so many disappointing times when I would flinch from his sharp rebuff I began to withdraw my own warm displays of affection. I stopped reaching out or hugging or kissing him. At first this act of self-restraint was conscious. Later it would become automatic, and finally it was ingrained. The love between us ran strong but silent.
One rare evening out, when my mother had successfully coaxed my usually asocial father to join us for a night in the town, we were sitting in an elegant restaurant that boasted a small but lively band. When it struck up a familiar waltz tune, I glanced at my father. He suddenly appeared small and shrunken to me not powerful and intimidating as I had always perceived him.
All the old hurts welled up inside but I decided to dare one last time.
"Dad, You know I've never ever danced with you. Even when I was a little girl, I begged you, but you never wanted to! How about right now？ " I waited for the usual brusque reply that would once again slice my heart into ribbons. But instead he considered me thoughtfully and then a surprising twinkle appeared in his eye." I have been remiss in my duties as a father then." he uncharacteristically joked. "Let's hit the floor and I'll show you just what kind of moves an old geezer like me still can make!"
My father took me in his arms. Since earliest childhood I hadn't been enfolded in his embrace. I felt overcome by emotion.
As we danced, I looked up at my father intently but he avoided my gaze. His eyes swept the dance floor, the other diners and the members of the band. His scrutiny took in everyone and everything but me. I felt that he must already be regretting his decision to join me for a dance; he seemed uncomfortable being physically close to me.
"Dad," I finally whispered tears in my eyes. "Why is it so hard for you to look at me？" At last his eyes dropped to my face and he studied me intently. "Because I love you so much", he whispered back. "Because I love you. " I was struck dumb by his response. It wasn't what I had anticipated. But it was of course exactly what I needed to hear. His own eyes were misty and he was blinking.
I had always known that he loved me, I just hadn't understood that his vast emotion had frightened him and made him mute. His taciturn manner hid the deep emotions flowing inside. "I love you too, Dad" I whispered back softly. He stumbled over the next few words" I ... I'm sorry that I'm not demonstrative." Then he said "I've realized that I don't show what I feel. My parents never hugged or kissed me and I guess I learned how not to from them. It's... it's.., hard for me. I'm probably too old to change my ways now but just know how much I love you." "Okay" I smiled.
When the dance ended, I brought Dad back to Mom waiting at the table and excused myself to the ladies' room. I was gone just a few minutes but during my absence everything changed.
There were screams and shouts and scrapings of chairs as I made my way back across the room. I wondered what the commotion was all about. As I approached the table I saw it was all about Dad. He was slumped in his chair ashen gray. A doctor in the restaurant rushed over to handle the emergency and an ambulance was called but it was really all too late. He was gone. Instantly they said.
What had suddenly made me after so many years of steeling myself against his constant rejection ask hi
A．He was a bad-tempered man because of the disease he had suffered.
B．He was an asocial man with little idea of using body language.
C．He was an affectionate father who seldom joked.
D．He was a loving father without much warm demonstration of love.
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