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O. Henry was a pen name used by an
American writer of short stories. His real name
was William
Sydney Porter. He was born
in North Carolina in 1862. As a young boy he lived
an exciting life. He
did not go to
school for very long, but he managed to teach
himself everything he needed to know.
When he was about 20 years old, O.
Henry went to Texas, where he tried different
jobs. He first
worked on a newspaper,
and then had a job in a bank, when some money went
missing from the bank
O. Henry was
believed to have stolen it. Because of that, he
was sent to prison. During the three years
in prison, he learned to write short
stories. After he got out of prison, he went to
New York and
continued writing. He
wrote mostly about New York and the life of the
poor there. People liked his
stories,
because simple as the tales were, they would
finish with a sudden change at the end, to the
reader’s surprise.
1. In which order did O. Henry do the
following things?
a. Lived in New York.
b. Worked in a
bank.
c. Travelled to Texas.
d. Was put in
prison.
e. Had a newspaper Job.
f. Learned to write
stories.
A. e. c. f. b. d. a
B.
c. e. b. d. f. a
C. e. b. d. c. a. f.
D. c. b. e. d.
a f.
2. People enjoyed
read
ing O. Henry’s stories because
A. they had surprise endings
B. they were easy to
understand
C. they showed his love for
the poor D. they were about New York City
3. O. Henry went to prison
because
.
A. people thought he had stolen money
from the newspaper
B. he broke the law by not
using his own name
C. he wanted to write
stories about prisoners
D. people thought he had
taken money that was not his
4. What do
we know about O. Henry before he began writing?
A.
He was well-educated. B. He was not serious about
his work.
C. He was devoted to the poor. D. He
was very good at learning.
5. Where did
O. Henry get most material for his short stories?
A.
His life inside the prison. B. The newspaper
articles he wrote.
C. The city and people of
New York. D. His exciting early life as a
boy.
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One
day a few years ago a very funny thing happened to
a neighbour of mine. He is a teacher at
one of London’s big medical schools, He
had finished his teaching for the summer term
and was at
the airport on
his way to Russia to give a lecture.
He
had put a few clothes and his lecture notes in his
shoulder bag, but he had put Rupert, the
skeleton (
人体骨骼
)
to be used in his lecture, in a large brown
suitcase (
箱子
). At the
airport desk, he
suddenly thought that
he had forgotten to buy a newspaper. He left his
suitcase near the desk and
went over to
the shop.
When he got back he
discovered that someone had taken his suitcase by
mistake. He often
wonders what they
said when they got home and found Rupert.
1. Who wrote the story?
A. Rupert’s
teacher. B. The neighbour’s teacher.
C.
A medical school teacher. D. The teacher’s
neighbour.
2. Why did the
teacher put a skeleton in his suitcase?
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A.
He needed it for the summer term in London.
B.
He needed it for the lecture he was going to give.
C.
He wanted to take it to Russia for medical
research.
D. He wanted to take it home as he had
finished his teaching.
3. What happened
at the airport?
A. The skeleton went
missing . B. The skeleton was stolen .
C. The teacher
forgot his suitcase. D. The teacher took the wrong
suitcase .
4. Which of the following
best tells the teacher’s feeling about the
incident?
A. He is very angry . B. He
thinks it rather funny .
C. He feels helpless
without Rupert. D. He feels good without Rupert .
5. Which of the following might have
happened afterwards?
A. The teacher got back the
suitcase but not Rupert.
B. The teacher got back
neither the suitcase nor Rupert.
C. The teacher
got back Rupert but not the suitcase.
D. The teacher
got back both the suitcase and Rupert.
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On the evening
of June 21, 1992, a tall man with brown hair and
blue eyes entered the beautiful
hall of
the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi’an with his bicycle.
T
he hotel workers received him and
telephoned the manager, for they had
never seen a bicycle in the hotel ball before
though they lived in
“the kingdom of
bicycles.”
Robert
Friedlander, an American, arrived in Xi’an on his
bicycle trip across Asia which
started
last December in New Delhi, India.
When he was 11, he read the book Marco
Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road.
Now, after 44 years , he was on the
Silk Road in Xi’an and his early dreams were
coming true.
Robert
Friedlander’s
next destinations
(
目的地
) were Lanzhou,
Dunhuang, Urumqi, etc. He
will complete
his trip in Pakistan.
1. The best
headline(
标题
) for this
newspaper article would be
.
A.
The Kingdom of Bicycles
B.
A Beautiful Hotel in Xi’an
C. Marco Polo
and the Silk Road D. An American Achieving His
Aims
2. The hotel workers
told the manager about Friedlander coming to the
hotel because
.
A.
he asked to see the manager
B. he entered
the hall with a bike
C. the manager had to know
about all foreign guests
D. the manager knew about
his trip and was expecting him
3.
Friedlander is visiting the three countries in the
following order,
.
A. China, India, and
Pakistan
B. India, China,
and Pakistan
C. Pakistan, China, and
India D. China, Pakistan, and India
4. What made Friedlander want to come
to China?
A. The stories about Marco Polo . B.
The famous sights in Xi’an .
C.
His interest in Chinese silk. D. His childhood
dreams about bicycles .
5. Friedlander
can be said to be
.
A. clever B. friendly C. hardworking D.
strong
—
minded
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Mr. Grey was
the manager of a small office in London. He lived
in the country, and came up to
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work by train. He liked walking from
the station to his office unless it was raining,
because it gave him
some exercise.
One morning he was walking along the
street when a stranger stopped him and said to
him,
“You may not remember me, sir, but
seven years ago I came to London without a penny
in my
pockets, I stopped you in this
street and aske
d you to lend me some
money, and you lent me £ 5,
because you
said you were willing to take a chance so as to
give a man a start on the way to
success.”
Mr Grey thought
for a few minutes and then said, “Yes, I remember
you. Go on with your
story!” “Well,”
answered the stranger, “are you still willing to
take a chance?”
1. How did
Mr. Grey get to his office?
A. He went up
to work by train.
B. He walked to his office.
C.
He went to his office on foot unless it rained.
D.
He usually took a train to the station and then
walked to his office if the weather was fine.
2. Mr Grey liked walking to his office
because ________.
A. he couldn’t afford the
buses
B.
he wanted to save money
C. he wanted to
keep in good health
D. he
could do some exercises on the way
3.
Mr. Grey had been willing to lend money to a
stranger in order to_______
A. give him a
start in life
B. help him on the way to success
C.
make him rich
D. gain more
money
4. One morning the stranger
recognized Mr. Grey, and_______
A. wanted to
return Mr. Grey the money
B. again asked Mr. Grey for
money
C. would like to make friends with him
D.
told Mr. Grey that he had been successful since
then
5. In the second paragraph, “…take
a chance” means ______.
A. Mr. Gray
happened to meet a stranger
B. Mr. Grey had
a chance to help a stranger
C. Mr. Grey
helped a stranger by chance
D. Mr. Grey
took the risk that the stranger would not give
back the money which he lent him
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Even if you are
a good high-jumper, you can jump only about seven
feet off the ground. You
cannot jump
any higher because the earth pulls you hard. The
pull of the earth is called gravity.
You
can easily find out the pull of the earth. If you
weigh yourself, you will know how much
gravity is pulling you.
Since there is gravity, water runs down
hill. When you throw a ball into the air, it falls
back down.
Because of gravity, you do
not fall off the earth as it whirls
(
旋转
) around.
Then, can we get away from the earth
and go far out into space? Now you can do it,
because
spaceships have been invented.
Then spaceship will go so fast that it can escape
(
逃出) the earth’s
gravity and
carry you into space.
1. In this
passage, the word “gravity” means.
A.
the pull of everything.
B. the force of
attraction(
吸引
) among
objects.
C. the force which attracts objects
towards the centre of the earth
D. the force
which attracts the earth towards the sun.
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2. When you
slip(
滑
) you always fall to
the ground because
A. the earth always turns
round.
B.
the earth has gravity
C. the earth’s gravity is
greater than your weight.
D. you are
careless.
3. Gravity is
strong that
A. it can throw a ball into
the air.
B. it makes you jump only
seven feet.
C. it can let you fly away from the
earth.
D. it can keep everything
on earth.
4. Because of gravity,
A.
water flows everything.
B. we can go everywhere by
ship.
C. water always flows downwards.
D. fish can live in water.
5. We can get away from the earth by
spaceship because
A. the spaceship goes very
fast.
B.
the earth can’t pull the spaceship.
C.
the spaceship has a strong force.
D. the
spaceship can jump higher than other
things.
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An expensive car speeding down the main
street of a small town was soon caught up with by
a
young motorcycle policeman. As he
started to make out the ticket, the woman behind
the wheel said
proudly, “Before you go
any further, young man, I think you
sho
uld know that the mayor of this city
is a good friend of mine.”The officer
did not say a word, but kept writing. “I am also a
friend of
chief of police
Barens,”continued the woman, getting more angry
each moment, Still he kept on
writing.
“Young man,”she persisted, “I know Judge Lawson
and State Senator (参议员
)
Patton.” Handing the ticket to the
woman, the officer asked pleasantly , “Tell me, do
you know
Bill Bronson.”
“Why, no,”she answered.
“Well, that is the man you should have
known,”he said, heading back to his motorcycle, “I
an Bill Bronson.”
1. The policeman stopped the car
because_____
A. it was an expensive car
B. the driver
was a proud lady
C. the driver was driving
beyond the speed limit
D. the driver was going to
make trouble for the police
2. The
woman was getting more angry each moment because
_____.
A. the policeman didn’t know her
friends
B. the policeman
didn’t accept her kindness
C. the policeman was going to punish
her
D. she didn’t know the
policeman’s name
3. The
policeman was _______.
A. an honourable fellow B.
a stupid fellow C. an impolite man
D. a shy man
4.
The woman was _______.
A. kind-hearted
B. a person who
depended on someone else to finish her work
C.
trying to frighten the policeman on the
stre
ngth of her friends’ powerful
positions
D. introducing her good
friends’ names to the young officer
5. The policeman _______.
A. had no sense
of humor (
幽默
)
B. had s sense
of humor
C. had no sense of duty
D. was
senseless
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Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England
in 1821, and moved to New York City when she was
ten years old. One day she decided that
she wanted to become a doctor. That was nearly
impossible
for a woman in the middle of
the nineteenth century. After writing many letters
asking for
admission(
录取
) to
medical schools, she was finally accepted by a
doctor in Philadelphia. She was so
determined that she taught school and
gave music lessons to get money for the cost of
schooling.
In 1849, after graduation
from medical school. she decided to further her
education in Paris. She
wanted to be a
surgeon(
外科医师
) , but a
serious eye problem forced her to give up the
idea.
Upon returning to the
United States, she found it difficult to start her
own practice because she
was a woman.
By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor,
along with another woman doctor,
managed to open a new hospital, the
first for women and children Besides being the
first woman
physician and founding her
own hospital , she also set up the first medical
school for women.
1. Why couldn’t
Elizabeth Blackwell realize her dream of becoming
a surgeon?
A. She couldn’t get
admitted to medical school
B. She decided
to further her education in Paris
C. A serious
eye problem stopped her
D. It was difficult for her
to start a practice in the United States
2. What main obstacle(
障碍)
almost destroyed Elizabeth’s chances for becoming
for a doctor?
A. She was a woman. B. She
wrote too many letters.
C. She couldn’t graduate
from me
dical school.
D. She couldn’t
set up her hospital.
3. How
many years passed between her graduation from
medical school and the opening of her
hospital?
A. Eight years
B. Ten years
C. Nineteen years
D. Thirty-six years
4. According to the
passage,
all of the following are “firsts” in the life of
Elizabeth Blacekwell,
except that she
______.
A. became the first woman physician
B.
was the first woman doctor
C. and several other women
founded the first hospital for women and children
D.
set up the first medical school for women
5. Eilzabeth Blackwell spent most of
her lift in _______.
A. England
B. Paris
C. the United States
D. New York City
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In today’s age of fast
travel, the world seems a smaller
p
lace---- and to some people, a less
exciting place, Fifty years ago only a
few English people and holidays abroad, People who
didn’t
travel thought of other
countries as very far away and different. For
example, people thought the
French all
eat garlic(
大蒜
), the Italians
all eat spaghetti(
细条实心面
).
and the Americans all drink
Coca Cola,
These definite(
明确的
) ideas of
other nationalities are called
stereotypes(
陈规老套
) . But
do we have the same stereotypes today?
People travel more, we all watch the same TV
programmes,
and ideas travel quickly
too. Nowadays everyone eats garlic and spaghetti
and drinks Coca Cola.
Everyone listens
to the same music. wears the same
fashions(
流行式样
) , buys the
same cars. They
just do it in a
different language!
1. Now the world
seems to be
exciting.
A.
bigger and more
B.
smaller and more
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C. smaller and less
D. bigger and less
2. Fifty years ago,
English people travelled abroad.
A.
many
B. few
C.
only some
D. a few
3.
People thought of other countries as
.
A.
near and different
B. near and the same
C.
remote and very different
D.
remote and the same
4. Nowadays,
people’s ideas of other nationalities
.
A. have changed
B.
are the same
C. are different
D. are almost the same
5. We
don’t have the same stereotypes because people
_______.
A. travel more
B. watch the
same TV programmes
C. watch different TV
programmes
D. travel more
and watch the same TV programmes
6. The
best title for this passage would be
.
A. A Big World
B. A Small World C. An Exacting World
D. An Interesting World
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We are used to
the idea of aging in ourselves. We are so used to
this that it comes as a surprise
to
find that there may be some animals that do not
age. Sea anemones(
海葵
) are an
example. Some
have been kept for nearly
a century without showing any signs of
lifelessness. Some kinds of sea
worms
can even “grow backwards.” If kept in the dark and
given nothing to eat,
they get steadily
smaller, They finally end as a ball of
cells(
细胞
) looking rather
like the egg from which they came.
Under good conditions the ball will
turn back to a worm and start growing again. One
could probably
keep them growing and
un-growing again and again.
1. Some sea
worms grow smaller when they ______.
A. lose weight
B. live in the darkness
C.
are under good conditions
D. don’t eat and are kept in the
dark
2. According to the
passage, some sea animals ________.
A. will die
when they become a ball of cells
B. do not grow old
C.
will die without food
D. will stop growing any
time they want
3. According to the
passage, which of the following statements in NOT
true?
A. We can keep certain kind of sea worm
growing and ungrowing again and again.
B. Human beings
will grow old and die.
C. An anemone is a king of
sea worm that can grow backwards.
D. Some
anemones will live nearly a hundred years.
4. The underlined word aging in the
first sentence means ______.
A. growing old
B. the age of a
person
g
younger
D. un
-growing
5. This passage is mainly
about ______.
A. sea animals
B.
cells
C. aging
D. anemones
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Now I’d like to talk to you
about your final exa
m. The exam will be
held next Thursday, the
last day of the
exam week. Remember to bring two of three pens in
case you run out of ink. And
unlike the
midterm exam, this test will not include multiple
--- choice questions; it will consist entirely
of essays(
文章). You’ll have
to answer three of the five essay questions. The
exam will be
comprehensive
(
全面的), which means you’ll be
responsible for all of the subject matters we
covered in class this term, I would
suggest you review your midterm exam as well as
textbooks and
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your class notes. The
final exam will count as 50 percent of your grade
of the course. The research
project
(
项目) will count as 20 percent and the
midterm exam 30 percent. I’ll be in my office
almost
all day next Tuesday. If you run
into any prob
lems, please drop in. Good
luck to you and I’ll see
you on
Tuesday.
1. When will the final exam
take place?
A. On Tuesday
B. On a Wednesday
C. On a Thursday
D.
On a
Friday
2.
What will be included in the exam?
A. There will
be only multiple-choice questions.
B. The exam
will contain both multiple-choice and essay
questions.
C. The exam will have an oral and a
written section.
D. There
will be only essay questions.
3. Why does the teacher call the exam
comprehensive?
A. It will be easy to understand.
B.
Students will be tested on all the material
discussed in class.
C. It will cover topics
from a wide variety of subjects.
D. Students
must complete all parts of it.
4. The
underlined phrase run into probably means
.
A. go into
B. meet
somebody unexpectedly
C. come up against
something with force
D. come across
5. When was this talk most likely
given?
A. During the first week of class
B.
During midterm week
C. On the last day of class
D. On the last day of exam
week
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When Dean Arnold got his first job, he
was miserable (
痛苦的
), Each
time he went
to work, he coughed and he
couldn’t breathe. Working in a
bakery(面包房
) when you
are
allergic to (
对…过敏
) flour can
be painful.
But Arnold stayed with the
National Biscuit Company for ten years. He was a
businessman and he helped them improve
production. At last his health problems
became too serious. He left and formed
his own company.
With his wife
and mother, he founded Arnold Bakery. They tried
new recipes (
配
方
).
changing the kind and amount of flour used. This
enabled Arnold to work there
without
too much pain. The bread, made with unbleached
flour (
标准粉
), was baked in a
brick oven (
烘炉
).
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They began by baking two dozen loaves.
The bread was sold door to door for
fifteen cents a loaf. Winning customers
to his unusual, old-fashioned bread took time.
But Arnold, struggling against his
allergy, built his bakery into one of the largest
in the
United States.
1. A
good title for this passage would be
.
A.
A Sick Baker
B.
A Brick-oven Bread Baker
C. An Old-fashioned Baker
D. How to
Overcome Allergy
2. Dean left the
National Biscuit Company because he
.
A.
suffered from allergy to flour
B. didn’t like the job
C.
wanted to make more money
D. wanted to form his own company
3. During his stay in the National
Biscuit Company,
.
A.
he founded Arnold Bakery
B. he tried a new method of
baking
C. he helped the company improve their
production
D. he became successful in his business
4. Which of the following is NOT
mentioned in the passage?
A. Arnold’s bread was baked
in a brick oven.
B. Arnold’s
bread was made with un
bleached flour.
C.
Arnold’s bread was sold at a low price.
D.
Arnold’s bread was of poor quality.
5. From the passage we can conclude
that Arnold was
.
A. determined
B. brave
C. unusual
D. unhealthy
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When we see well, we do not
think about our eyes very often. It is only when
we
cannot see perfectly that we realize
how important our eyes are.
People who are near-sighted can only
see things that are very close to their eyes,
Everything else seems blurry(=unclear).
Many people who do a lot of work, such as
writing, reading and sewing become
near
—
sighted. Then
People who are far-sighted suffer from
just the opposite problem. They can see
things that are far away, but they have
difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it
at
arm’s length. If they want to do
much reading ,they must get glasses,
too.
Other people do
not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly
the right shape.
They have what is
called astigmatism (
散光
).
This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some
people’s eyes become cloudy because of
cataracts (白内障
). Long ago these people
often became blind. Now, however, it is
possible to operate on the cataracts and remove
them.
Having two good
eyes is important for judging distances. Each eye
sees things from
a slightly different
angle (
角度
). To prove this to
yourself, look at an object our of one
eye; then look at the same object out
of your other eye. You will find the object’s
relation to the background and other
things around it has changed. The difference
between these two different eye views
helps us to judge how far away an object is.
People
who have only one eye cannot
judge distance as people with two eyes.
1. We should take good care of our eyes
.
A. only when we can see well
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B.
only when we cannot see perfectly
C. even if we
can see well
D. only when we realize how important
our eyes are
2. When things far away
seem indistinct(
模糊不清
) , one
is probably
.
A. near-sighted
B. far-sighted
C. astigmatic
D. suffering from cataracts
3. The underlined word suffer in the
third paragraph probably means
.
A.
experience
B. imagine
C. feel pain
D. are affected
with
4. Having two eyes instead of one
is particularly useful for
.
A. seeing at
night
B. seeing
objects far away
C. looking over a wide area
D. judging distances
5. People who suffer from astigmatism
have
.
A. one eye bigger than the
other
B. eyes that are not exactly the right
shape
C. a difficulty that can be corrected
by an operation
D. an eye difficulty that
cannot be corrected by glasses
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Grandma was a wonderful
story-teller, and she had a set of priceless,
individually
(
独特地
) tailored
stories with which American grandparents of her
day brought up
children. There was the
story of the little boys who had been taught
complete, quick
obedience
(
服从
). One day when they were
out on the grassy plain, their father shouted.
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“Fall down on your faces!” They did,
and the terrible prairie(草原
) fire swept
over
them and they weren’t hurt. There
was also the story of three boys at school, each
of
whom received a cake sent from home.
One saved his, and the mice ate it; one ate all of
his , and he got sick; and who do you
think had the best time?
—
Why, of course, the one
who shared his cake with his friends.
1. What is the main idea of this
passage?
A. Children should obey their parents
quickly.
B. Children should share with others.
C.
The author remembers many of her grandma’s
wonderful stories.
D. The
grandma’s stories helped teach the children morals
and good manners.
2. Which
of the following details supports the main idea of
the passage?
A. The children were saved from the
fire because they followed directions.
B. Grandma told
a story of three boys at school.
C. Each of the
three boys got a cake sent from home.
D. The big
prairie fire soon spread over to the village.
3. Which of the following statements is
true?
A. The author was saved from the fire.
B.
The author was brought up from his grandmother.
C.
Grandma was good at telling children stories.
D.
Grandma told stories to children just for fun.
4. All of the following were not
praised by the author except ___________.
A.
the boy who shared his cake with others
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B.
the boy who ate up all his cake by himself
C.
the boy who kept the cake for the future
D.
the boys who didn’t obey their parents
5. According to this passage, the
underlined word tailored probably means
__________.
A. measured
B. specially prepared
C.
cut
D.
invented
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The most
important use of drifting
(
漂流
) bottles is to find
ocean currents. When
the position and
direction of currents are known, ships can use the
forward movement
of a current or stay
away from currents that would carry them off their
course. Benjamin
Franklin was one of
the first to use bottles in the study of currents.
He wondered why
British mall ships
needed a week or two longer than U.S. ships needed
in order to cross
the Atlantic Ocean.
Franklin thought the Gulf Stream
(
墨西哥湾流
) might explain this
difference.
Franklin talked
with captains of U.S. ships. He found that they
knew each turn of
the Gulf Stream. They
used the current in every possible way. From his
talks with the
captains. Franklin made
his first map of the Gulf Stream. Then he checked
his map by
using sealed
(
密封的
) bottles. The map that
he finally made is still used, with only a few
changes, today.
1. Why are
drifting bottles used?
A. To determine the
position of a ship.
B. To find the
direction of a current.
C. To predict the direction
of a ship.
D. To carry
message across the ocean.
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2. What led Franklin to talk with U.S.
captains?
A. U.S. ships were longer than British
ones.
B. British ships could sail the
Atlantic faster than U.S. ones.
C. U.S. ships
could sail the Atlantic faster than U.S. ones.
D.
U.S captains knew more about maps.
3.
What did Franklin make after his talks with U.S.
captains?
A. A map of the Gulf Stream.
B. A map of the Atlantic Ocean.
C.
A map of ocean currents.
D.
A map of his first voyage.
4. What did
Franklin do in order to make an exact map?
A.
He compared his own map with other maps.
B. He talked with many U.S.
captains.
C. He used drifting bottles
to check his map.
D. Both B and C.
5. The
underlined word current in the first paragraph
means ______.
A. a stream of water
B.
a course of events
C. the flow of electricity
D. the situation of the
present time
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The Guidance
Department (
教导处
) at
Burrville High School has a staff
(
职员
) of
eleven.
Most of their work is done with the students. But
the staff sees a lot of parents,
too.
“Parent meetings form a
clear monthly pattern,” says Mildred Foreman,
Guidance Director. “This pattern stays
much the same from year to year. The busy
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