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A rich American went into a shop in London. He wanted very much to get a nice-looking

watch. He saw a watch and liked it so much that he decided to buy it. But the owner of the shop asked five hundred dollars for it.___1___ the American was hesitating, a young man suddenly came into the shop, took ___2___out of the owner's hand and ran out with it. It all happened in a few seconds. When the owner ran out ___3___the street, the young man had already disappeared among the people. The American went on. At the next corner, he saw the young man with the stolen watch in his hand, “Do you want to buy a fine watch, sir？” he said in a low voice, “It's only a hundred dollars.”

“The young man doesn't know I saw him stealing the watch just now,” he thought. The American paid at once and went happily back to his room with the watch. He told his friend about the fine watch. His friend ___4___ a look at the watch and started to shout immediately. He said, “You are a fool. This watch is worth only ten dollars. I'm ___5___the shop owner and the young man planned all this together.”

1)、A.into

B.sure

C.took

D.While

E.the watch

2)、A.into

B.sure

C.took

D.While

E.the watch

3)、A.into

B.sure

C.took

D.While

E.the watch

4)、A.into

B.sure

C.took

D.While

E.the watch

5)、A.into

B.sure

C.took

D.While

E.the watch

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第1题

The rich man went abroad with the （）of trying his fortune, while the poor man（） to lear

n some skills of earning money.（intend）

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第2题

Kaleil Isaza Tuzman moved to the United States from Columbia when he was 15.Within a f

ew years he was pushing to get ahead, hawking (叫卖) baseball caps to pay the bills his Harvard scholarship didn't cover.

After graduating, he landed on Wall Street, but every night he dreamed of working for himself.During the booming (繁荣的) 1990s, he gave it a try when he and a partner started govWorks - a software company that helped city government go online.

They raised $60 million and expanded like crazy.Then dotcoms started turning into dotbombs - govWorks broke up too.Says Isaza Tuzman, "Entrepreneurs (创业人) have to be ready for both success and failure.In Columbia if you fail, you become a pariah and no one will do business with you.The wonderful thing about this country is you can get up again."

From national parks to moon landings, America has given the world some amazing ideas.But the American Dream is still the biggest - the idea that with hard work and a bit of luck you can be whoever you want to be.Historian James Truslow Adams once wrote that Americans believe "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement."

These days there's pressure on the dream idea.A 1978 study of boys born and raised after World War II found an astonishing 23% of the poorest had reached the top of the income heap by 1973.Now, in a typical generation, only 10% work their way from bottom to top.

But every day, some still do make it.After govWorks went bankrupt, Isaza Tuzman built on what he had learned.His new company, Recognition Group, restructures (重组) firms and finds them venture capital？–？nearly $150 million so far.Last year, "Hispanic Business" magazine named him to its 100 Most Influential list.Not bad for a dreamer, in a country built on dreams.

41.What did Kaleil Isaza Tuzman dream of after graduating from college______

A.Working in the Wall Street stock market.

B.Starting a business of his own.

C.Climbing to the top of society.

D.Entering the IT industry.

42.The word "pariah" in " if you fail, you become a pariah" (Line 3,Para.3) most likely means "________."

A.a person who has no future

B.a person to be pitied

C.a person to be condemned

D.a person to be avoided

43.What does the author mean by the American Dream______

A.Everyone can reach the top of the social ladder.

B.People will have a better, richer, and fuller life than their parents.

C.A lucky poor boy can move to the top if he works hard.

D.Everyone enjoys equal opportunity and share in the wealth.

44.Which of the following statements is true of the American Dream these days______

A.It is becoming more and more difficult for one to work their way from the bottom to the top.

B.More and more people are feeling the pressure to work harder in order to realize their dreams.

C.It is becoming more and more unpopular because few people today can move up the social ladder.

D.If one works hard enough, he will eventually make his dreams come true.

45.To Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, the wonderful thing about America is that ________.

A.there is equal opportunity for everyone

B.everyone can get rich if they work hard

C.you can get capital if you want to start a business

D.you can start all over again after failure

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第3题

Most American families are smaller than the families in other countries. Most American

families have one or two parents and one or two children each. Children in the US will leave their parents ’ home when they grow up. They usually live far from their parents because they want to find good jobs. They often write to their parents or telephone them. And they often go to visit their parents on holiday. Parents usually let their children choose their own jobs. Americans think it important for young people to decide on their lives by themselves. Children are asked to do some work around their house. And in many families, children are paid for doing some housework so that they learn how to make money for their own use.

1.The size of most American families is() that of other countries.

A、larger than

B、smaller than

C、as big as

D、as small as

2.When children grow up, they leave their parents’ home to()

A、get married

B、be free

C、find good jobs

D、study

3.They visit their parents()

A、on weekdays

B、on weekends

C、at any time

D、on holiday

4.Which of the following statements is WRONG()

A、Children have the freedom to choose their own job

B、Parents don't ask their children to do the housework.

C、Parents think it important for children to make their own decision.

D、When children grow up, they usually live far away from their home.

5.Some parents pay their children for doing housework because ()

A、children can learn how to make money for themselves

B、their children required them to do so

C、they are rich

D、it is required by law

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第4题

Jim Thorpe was a Native American. He was born in 1888 in an Indian Territory(印第安人

保护区) that is now Oklahoma. Like most Native American children then, he liked to fish, hunt, swim, and play games outdoors. he was healthy and strong, but he had very little formal education. In 1950, Jim Thorpe was named the greatest American football player. He was also an Olympic gold medal winner. But Thorpe had many tragedies in his life.

Jim had a twin brother who died when he was nine years old. By the time he was 16, his mother and father were also dead. Jim then went to a special school in Pennsylvania for Native American children. There, he learned to read and write and also began to play sports. Jim was poor, so he left school for two years to earn some money. During this time, he played on a baseball team. The team paid him only $ 15 a week. Soon he returned to school to complete his education. Jim was a star athlete (运动员) in several sports, including baseball, running, and football. He won many awards for his athletic ability, mainly for football. In many games, he scored all or most of the points for his team.

In 1912，when Jim Thorpe was 24 years old, he became part of the U.S. Olympic team. He competed in two very difficult events: the pentathlon and the decathlon. Both require great ability and strength. The pentathlon has five track and field events，including the long jump and the 1,500-meter race. The decathlon has ten track and field events，with running, jumping ,and throwing contests.

People thought it was impossible for an athlete to compete in both the pentathlon and the decathlon. So everyone was surprised when Thorpe won gold medals in both events. When the King of Sweden presented Thorpe with his two gold medals, he said, “Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world.” Thorpe was a simple and honest man. He just answered, “Thanks, King.”

(1)、From the passage we learn that Jim Thorpe was born in ().

A、India

B、Pennsylvania

C、Oklahoma

D、Sweden

(2)、According to the passage, most American Indian children loved all the following EXCEPT

A、fishing

B、hunting

C、swimming

D、singing

(3)、Jim Thorpe started to play sports().

A、before he was nine years old

B、when he was 16 years’ old

C、when he was 24 years old

D、before his parents passed away

(4)、The word “decathlon” in Paragraph 3 probably means ().

A、jumping

B、five track and field events

C、throwing

D、ten track and field events

(5)、Which of the following is NOT TRUE？

A、In 1912, Thorpe went back to finish his college education.

B、Thorpe won two gold medals in the 1912 Olympic Games.

C、Thorpe once played on a baseball team for money.

D、In 1950, Thorpe was named the greatest American football player.

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第5题

In the United States, a person can take credit only for what he has accomplished by hims

elf. Americans get no credit whatsoever for having been born into a rich or privileged family. (In the United States, that would be considered “an accident of birth.”) Americans pride themselves in having been born poor and, through their own hard work, having climbed the difficult ladder of success to whatever level they have achieved--all by themselves. The American social system has, of course, made it possible for Americans to move, relatively easily, up the social ladder, whereas this is impossible to do in many other countries. The “self-made man or woman” is still very much the ideal in present-day America. Americans believe that competition brings out the best in any individual. They claim that it challenges or forces each person to produce the very best that is humanly possible. Consequently, the foreign visitor will see if you come from competition being fostered in the American home and in the American classroom, even at the youngest level. You may find the value placed on the competition disagreeable, especially if you come from a society that promote cooperation rather than competition among individuals. But Americans teaching in Third World countries find the lack of competitiveness in a classroom situation equally distressing. They soon learn that what they had thought to be one of the universal human characteristics represented only a peculiarly American (or Western) value.

Americans, valuing competition, have devised an economic system to go with-free enterprise. Americans feel very strongly that a highly competitive economy will bring out the best in its people and ultimately, that the society which fosters competition will progress most rapidly. If you look for it, you will see evidence in all areas--in all fields as diverse as medicine, the arts, education, and sports--that free enterprise is the approach most often preferred in America.

16. What does the author mean by saying “The ‘self-made man or woman’ is still very much the ideal in present-day America”？

A. Americans no longer respect those who are born rich as they used to.

B. Americans still respect those who have climbed up the social ladder through hard work.

C. Americans think that an ideal man or woman should be born poor.

D. Americans think that only the self-made man or woman is worthy of respect.

17. What does the author think of the American social system？

A. It is a system that does not favor those who are born rich.

B. It is a system that makes social climbing very difficult, if not impossible.

C. It makes it comparatively easy for the poor to move up the social ladder.

D. It is the best system possible in the world

18. Americans teaching in Third World countries found that ___.

A. competition is a unique American (or Western ) value

B. competition must be fostered in the classroom for success in business

C. cooperation is more important than competition in bringing about progress

D. competition is one of the universal human characteristics

19. We can infer from the passage that free enterprise is ____.

A. an economic system allowing free competition among businesses

B. a belief that competition brings out the best in any individual

C. an attitude that values competition rather than cooperation

D. a theory that advocates competition as the source of all progress

20. Americans would most likely frown at you if you ____.

A. complain that you were born poor and had had no opportunities

B. tell then you were born poor and had to work with your hands

C. go around telling people that your father is a self-made man

D. tell them that their social system is not necessarily the best

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第6题

It was a normal Monday morning at a meeting, and the old headmaster was addressing the

students on important things in life and about 36 ourselves to what is 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 37He would get the train right to Central London, and then sit at the street comer and 38 .He would do this every single day of his life.He sat at the same street comer and begged for almost 20 years.

His house was dirty, and a stench came out of the house and it smelled 39 .The neighbors could not 40 the smell anymore, so they called the police officers to 41 the place.The officers 42 down the door and cleaned the house.There were small bags of 43 all over the house that he had 44 over the years.

The police counted the money, and they soon realized that the old man was a 45 .They waited outside his house in anticipation (预料) to 46 the good news with him.When he arrived home that evening, he was met by one of the officers who told him that there was no 47 for him to beg any more as he was a rich man now, a millionaire.

He said 48 at all; he went into his house and locked the door.The next morning he woke up as usual, went to the street and continued to beg.

49 , this old man had no great plans, dreams or anything 50 for his life.We learn nothing from this story other than staying 51 the things we enjoy doing: commitment(信奉).

We should remain true to our course, which may mean devoting yourselves to things that people around you would 52 disapprove of.Let nothing distract us from being happy, let nothing else determine our fate, but 53.

What makes us happy is 54 matters in the end…not what we acquire (获得).

This particular story is one such lesson that I will never forget.Every time I don't concentrate on course, I get reminded 55 this story.

36.A.attracting

B.agreeing

C.believing

D.devoting

37.A.street

B.factory

C.subway

D.airport

38.A.beg

B.wait

C.attempt

D.evaluate

39.A.pleasant

B.horrible

C.endless

D.serious

40.A.explain

B.forget

C.judge

D.tolerate

41.A.clear

B.remove

C.control

D.inspect

42.A.put

B.took

C.knocked

D.cut

43.A.rubbish

B.money

C.waste

D.food

44.A.managed

B.stole

C.arranged

D.collected

45.A.millionaire

B.gentleman

C.boss

D.gift

46.A.satisfy

B.share

C.believe

D.report

47.A.need

B.doubt

C.chance

D.result

48.A.something

B.anything

C.everything

D.nothing

49.A.Clearly

B.Actually

C.Surprisingly

D.Suddenly

50.A.fortunate

B.possible

C.significant

D.worth

51.A.acted out

B.called on

C.turned to

D.focused on

52.A.normally

B.crazily

C.finally

D.completely

53.A.others

B.the others

C.ourselves

D.some

54.A.when

B.that

C.what

D.which

55.A.with

B.of

C.on

D.from

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第7题

Ray Charles, a black singer and pianist of the USA. He had won 12 Grammy Awards （格莱

Ray Charles, a black singer and pianist of the USA. He had won 12 Grammy Awards (格莱美奖) and performed at 10,000 concerts around the world. Many musicians called him simply “the Genius”(天才).Ray Charles was born into a poor family, without a father. When he was 5 years old, his younger brother died, and around the same time, Charles started to lose his sight. By the age of 7 he was completely blind. He had already been learning the piano for a year, and when he went blind, his mother knew this would be the only way he would make any money in the future. All his life, Charles remembered her saying: “Do it right, or don’t do it at all.”

Later he went to a school for blind and deaf children. There the teachers also encouraged him to study music. Sadly, while he was still at school, his mother died. He left school and in the early 1950s Charles organized a group of players. He sang, played the piano and wrote music.

He made many classical CDs with famous artists such as Elton John and the Beatles. In 2003 a film of his life Ray was made. The part of Charles was played by a younger actor and musician called Jamie Foxx. The film director brought Foxx to meet Charles. After they had been playing together for two hours, Charles, then aged 73, jumped up and said: “He’s the one ... he can do it.” A year later Charles died aged 74. The film of his life has been as popular as his songs and means that the memory of Charles’ music will live on.

(1)What can we learn from Ray’s childhood story？

A、His father died when he was 5 years old.

B、He started to go blind at the age of 7.

C、He was born in a rich musician family.

D、He started to learn the piano at the age of 6.

(2)Ray Charles’ mother encouraged him to play music because ().

A、his father was a musician as well

B、because it would help him get used to being blind

C、it was a good way for a blind person to get money

D、his teacher thought he was a genius

(3) Ray Charles went to a school for ().

A、normal children

B、deaf and blind children

C、talented children only

D、children without parents

(4)Ray Charles thought that Jamie Foxx ().

A、was the right person to play him in the film

B、was a good film maker

C、was the wrong person to play him in the film

D、was a good director

(5) What is the main idea of the last paragraph？

A、Becoming a musician.

B、Childhood story.

C、The film of Ray’s life.

D、Master of many styles.

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第8题

Modern mass－production (成批生产) methods lower the cost of making goods, and thus give us

Modern mass-production (成批生产) methods lower the cost of making goods, and thus give us better values. At the same time, American ingenuity (独创性) and science are constantly at work improving the quality of products. In this way, better quality products at good values are continually being brought to the people of all income (收入) groups.

As an example of how this works, when facial tissues (面巾纸) were first put on the market in 1924, they were made in limited quantities and sold at 65 cents per box of 200. People liked these facial tissues immediately and began asking for them when they went into different stores. Because there was such a demand for the product, manufacturers began making tissues in larger quantities, their production costs were lowered, so that the cost of tissues went down. In the meanwhile, the quality of facial tissues was constantly improving, because more manufacturers went into the business of making tissues, and each manufacturer strove to make his product better than his competitors'. Today, instead of costing 65 cents, a box of 200 tissues costs around one-third of that price, and they are both softer and stronger.

When people are free to compete when they are free to make more things and make them better everyone benefits.

1、In regard to the production of goods in greater quantities, the author states that ________.

A.the price of the goods should drop

B.the quantity of the goods should improve

C.the quality should rise and the price should drop

D.the price and quality should both rise

2、 lt can be inferred from the example that___.

A.increased demand led to mass production

B.facial tissues attracted much attention when first put on the market for their low prices

C.better quality resulted from mass production

D.lower price resulted in lower quality of the facial tissues

3、Improved quality of facial tissues resulted from ________.

A.mass-production methods

B.popular demand or a better product

C.a degrease in production costs

D.competition among manufacturers

4、According to the passage we can see that lower prices and better quality occur ________.

A.as a result of the effect of one on the other

B.always at the same time

C.independently of each other

D.when the demand exceeds the supply

5、The author believes that in a nation where free enterprise (自由企业制) exists, manufacturers will produce ________.

A.as much as they like

B.better quality goods

C.more than they are able to sell

D.both A and B

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第9题

（1) Life can be tough for immigrants in America. A...

(1) Life can be tough for immigrants in America. As a Romanian bank clerk in Atlanta puts it, to find a good job “you have to be like a wolf in the forest – able to smell out the best meat.” And if you can’t find work, don’t expect the taxpayer to bail you out. Unlike in some European countries, it is extremely hard for an able-bodied immigrant to live off the state. A law passed in 1996 explicitly bars most immigrants, even those with legal status, from receiving almost any federal benefits. (2) That is one reason why America absorbs immigrants better than any other rich countries, according to a new study by the University of California. The researchers sought to measure the effect of immigration on the native-born in 20 rich countries, taking into account differences in skills between immigrants and natives, imperfect labor markets and the size of the welfare state in each country. (3) Their results offer ammunition for fans of more open borders. In 19 out of 20 countries, the authors calculated that shutting the doors entirely to foreign workers would make the native-born worse off. Never mind what it would do to the immigrants themselves, who benefit far more than anyone else from being allowed to cross borders to find work. (4) The study also suggests that most countries could handle more immigration than they currently allow. In America, a one-percentage point increase in the proportion of immigrants in the population made the native-born 0.05% better off. The opposite was true in some countries with generous or ill-designed welfare states, however. A one-point rise in immigration made the native-born slightly worse off in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. In Belgium, immigrants who lose jobs can receive almost two-thirds of their most recent wage in state benefits, which must make the hunt for a new job less urgent. (5) None of these effects was large, but the study undermines the claim that immigrants steal jobs from native or drag down their wages. Many immigrants take jobs that Americans do not want, the study finds. This “smooths” the labor market and ultimately creates more jobs for locals. Native-owned grocery stores do better business because there are immigrants to pick the fruit they sell. Indian computer scientists help American software firms expand. A previous study found that because immigrants typically earn less than locals with similar skills, they boost corporate profits, prompting companies to grow and hire more locals. 1. Increase in immigration in Austria fails to improve locals’ life mainly because of ________.

A、low wages for locals

B、imperfect labor markets

C、the design of the welfare system

D、inadequate skills of immigrants

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第10题

（) ,I will take her as my wife.

A.Were she rich or poor

B.Being rich or poor

C.Be she rich or poor

D.Whether is she rich or poor

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第11题

Modem technology and science have produced a wealth of new materials and new ways of u

sing old materials. For the artist this means wider opportunities. There is no doubt that the limitations of materials and nature of tools both restrict and shape a man's work. Observe how the development of plastics and light metals as well as new methods of welding (焊接法)has changed the direction of sculpture. Transparent plastic materials allow one to look through an object, to see its various sides overlapped with each other (as in Cubism or in an X ray). Today, welding is as prevalent as casting was in the past. This new method encourages open designs, where surrounding and intervening space becomes as important as form. itself.

More ambiguous than other scientific inventions familiar to modem artists, but no less influential, are the psychoanalytic studies of Freud and his followers, discoveries that have penetrated recent art, especially Surrealism. (超现实主义)

The surrealists, in their struggle to escape the monotony and frustrations of everyday life, claimed that dreams were the only hope. Turning to the irrational world of their unconscious, they banished all time barriers and moral judgments to combine disconnected dream experiences from the past, present and intervening psychological states. The surrealists were concerned with overlapping emotions more than with overlapping forms. Their paintings often become segmented capsules of associative experiences. As to them, obsessive and often unrelated images replaced the direct emotional messages of Expressionism. They did not need to smash paint and canvas ; they went beyond this to smash the whole continuity of logical thought.

There is little doubt that contemporary art has taken much from contemporary life. In a period when science has made revolutionary strides, artists in their studios have not been unaware of scientists in their laboratories. At the same time, this has rarely been a one-way street. Painters and sculptors, though admittedly influenced by modem science, have also molded and changed our world. If break-up has been a vital part of their expression, it has not always been a symbol of destruction. Quite the contrary: it has been used to examine more fully, to penetrate more deeply, to analyze more thoroughly, to enlarge, isolate and make more familiar certain aspects of life that earlier were apt to neglect. In addition, at times it provides rich multiple experiences so organized as not merely to reflect our world, but in fact to interpret it.

41.The author argues that Freud's studies .

A.are more comprehensible than other scientific inventions

B.are more controversial than any other scientific findings

C.have been largely influenced by contemporary arts

D.have found their expression in the Surrealism's claims

42.The Surrealism made every endeavor .

A.to transform. real existence into incoherent dreams

B.to diminish all time barriers and moral judgments

C.to express their disconnected unconscious thoughts

D.to substitute direct expressions for fragmented images

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