of Wisconsin-Madison, then he left for Chicago and started to learn from Louis Sullivan, the “father of modernism.\Wright’ s splendid resume included more than 500 works, most famous of which are Fallingwater and New York City's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
56. What does“dropouts”in Paragraph One mean? A. Hardworking students. B. Very successful students.
C. Students failing to finish their school education. D. Students from poor families.
57. Which of the following is right according to Paragraph One?
A. People graduating from famous universities are more likely to get jobs. B. Many successful people had the experience of giving up their school education. C. If one has a lot of gold, he will become very rich one day.
D. We should stop our college education to follow in those successful people’s steps.
58. According to the writer, Bill Gates _________. A. is richer than any other man in the world B. is well-known in Harvard University
C. finally finished his study at Harvard and got a doctorate degree D. is the only founder of Microsoft
59. Which of the following statements can’t be learned from the last two paragraphs? A. The reason for Jobs’ dropping his college education is that his parents couldn’t pay for it.
B. Jobs thought his six-month college education gave him no help. C. Wright’s teacher was a very famous artist.
D. Wright is the designer of New York City’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. 60. What does the author want to tell us in this passage?
A. Successful people often have unordinary life experience. B. College education is not so important to one’s success.
C. People from poor families are more likely to give up their college education. D. Even without college education, one can still achieve success with one’s hard work.
B
Lightning flashed through the darkness over Donald Lubeck’s bedroom skylight. The 80-year-old retired worker was shaken by a blast of thunder. It was 11 p.m. The storm had moved directly over his two-story wood home in the rural town of Belchertown,
Massachusetts. Then he heard the smoke alarm beeping. Lubeck padded down the stairs barefoot and opened the door to the basement, and flames exploded out.
Lubeck fled back upstairs to call 911 from his bedroom, but the phone didn’t work. Lubeck realized he was trapped. “I started panicking,” he says.
His daughter and young granddaughters, who lived with him, were away for the night. No one will even know I’m home, he thought. His house was three miles off the main road and so well hidden by pines that Lubeck knew calling for help would be fruitless.
Up a hill about a third of a mile away lived Lubeck’s closest neighbors, Jeremie Wentworth and his wife. Wentworth had been lying down, listening to the radio when it occurred to him that the sound was more like a smoke detector. He jumped out of bed, grabbed a cordless phone and a flashlight, and headed down the hillside toward the noise.
He dialed 911. “Is anyone there?” he called out as he approached the house. Wentworth knew that Lubeck lived in the house.
Then he heard, “Help me! I’m trapped!” coming from the balcony off Lubeck’s bedroom.
“I ran in and yelled,‘Don, where are you?’ Then I had to run outside to catch my breath.”
After one more attempt inside the house, he gave up and circled around back. But there was no way to get to him. “I shined the flashlight into the woods next to an old shed and noticed a ladder,” says Wentworth. He dragged it over to the balcony and pulled Lubeck down just as the second floor of the house collapsed.
Wentworth and Lubeck don’t run into each other regularly, but Lubeck now knows that if he ever needs help, Wentworth will be there.
Lubeck still chokes up when he tells the story. “I was alone,” he says. “Then I heard the most beautiful sound in my life. It was Jeremie.” 61. According to the text, Lubeck___________. A. stayed calm in the fire
B. couldn’t find a safe way out D. called for help in the fire
C. lived on the first floor
62. How did Wentworth help Lubeck escape?
A. He called 911.
B. He went upstairs and took Lubeck out. D. He used a ladder and pulled Lubeck down.
C. He put out the fire.
63. Which of the following factors was not mentioned in the text that almost cost
Lubeck’s life?
A. He was living in his wood home alone that night.
B. The storm was too heavy and the fire was too fierce. C. He lived far from the main road and was surrounded by pines. D. He was too frightened to escape from the danger. 64. What does the text mainly talk about?
A. A near neighbour is better than a distant cousin. B. A good way to get a narrow escape. C. God helps those who help themselves. D. Blood is thicker than water.
C
Cameron thought of himself as merely organized. He certainly did not consider that he took great pains over anything, he did just enough to get it right. Exactly right, of course, for as he was fond of telling his staff, \it's not exactly right, it's wrong\Occasionally a worker might be sad on hearing these words, because it meant another hour or so of going over the same bit of work, correcting the mistakes which Cameron had patiently pointed out. And doing the corrections exactly right of course.
Strangely enough, his department had the reputation for performing the highest quality work in the company, and it was seen, and not only by those who worked in the department, as a sort of elite (出类拔萃) unit. Those programmes that had to work first time, straight out of the box, Cameron's men got those. \(任务) critical—give it to Cameron\
It helped that Cameron was not merely particular about things. He wanted things done just so, not because of a personal taste, but because he had discovered through patient experimentation that this was the best way for it to be done.
In Cameron's dictionary, \on your task not just in office hours, but that evening, and late into the early hours of the following morning if you so desired. But the project had to be in by its completion date, and yes, done exactly right. Or you did it again.
But he would always be regarded, and not least by himself, as someone who had failed to meet requirements, one of those who just couldn't cut it. You had to face it, if you were not working for Cameron, you were second best. So when word got out that Cameron had messed up, big time, the news was greeted with a mixture of sympathy, and entire relief that this perfection too was human. 65. Cameron was a___________.
A. software programmer
B. a chief scientist
C. quality controller D. head of department
66. \
A. Cameron's work was error-free C. he didn't mind working late
B. Cameron was critical D. he had a good team
67. Working for Cameron, people felt that___________.
A. they were part of an elite B. their mission was critical
C. Cameron was very particular about things D. Cameron was patient and responsible
68. According to the underlined part in Paragraph 5, what is meant by someone “who
couldn't cut it” ?
A. He didn’t cut corners.
B. He wasn't good enough.
C. He had the wrong measurements. 69. What can we learn about Cameron?
A. He never got things wrong.
D. He was a perfection.
B. He didn’t allow for any mistake.
C. He encouraged work to be done in office hours. D. He was often misunderstood.
70. The attitude of the author towards Cameron is that of being___________. A. positive
B. sympathetic
D. optimistic
D
Every year holidays Broughton teams up with Sopraviva Trekking to offer twelve days of unforgettable adventure in a tropical rain forest. Depending on where this year's rain forest adventure is located, you may be going to Borneo, Malaysia, Indonesia, or even to the greatest rain forest of them all, the mighty Amazonian forest.
You will fly with your fellow adventurers to one of our special base camps at the edge of the forest, where you will be given five days of survival training, and talks on the local wildlife by trained and experienced experts. You will also go on walks which take you deeper and deeper under the forest canopy until on your final night you camp out in the rain forest itself.
Then you transfer by bus into the forest itself. If you go on one of the Asian holidays, you will have to walk the final five miles to the camp site itself, to avoid disturbing the local ecology. All of the Sopraviva sites have been carefully built to conform with the latest regulations, and to cause the minimal amount of
C. non-subjective
disturbance to the local wildlife.
From the camp, you will go on daily walking tours to experience for yourself the beauty and diversity of the forests, and plants and vegetation that can be found nowhere else on the planet. Remember that these adventure holidays take you deep into the wilderness, and they are not suitable for families with young children or for anyone who is not physically able to meet the demands of this kind of adventure. Also remember that in order to preserve the delicate ecological system that you will be walking through, no more than two dozen guests can stay at any camp at one time, so if you want to go on one of these very special holidays, you will need to book early!
71. If you want to go on the camp, you will first have to___________. A. attend talks on the local wildlife C. walk the final five miles
B. have survival training
D. book beforehand
72. What does the organizer of the camp mainly stress? A. Disturbing the local ecology.
B. Preserving the forest environment.
C. Private possessions and possible dangers. D. The survival training. 73. Go on daily walking tours and you’ll enjoy___________. A. the wilderness
B. the Amazonian forest D. the forest canopy
C. the Asian forest
74. Which of the following people is/are allowed to enter the forest? A. A family with young kids. C. Walking tourists
B. A person with physical problems. D. Cyclists.
75. Which of the following is true of the holiday camp? A. It is free of charge.
B. It lasts 12 days.
D. It attaches little importance to
C. It is organized by Broughton.
ecology.
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Mr. Turner turned over in bed from time to time in last night, for he was very excited that he could not fall asleep. Yesterday morning, he went to a big gardening company, knowing as Green Fingers, for the interview. Mr. Turner, that liked to help