Not until he read the report（）what a serious mistake he had made.

A.A.learned

B.B.studied

C.C.bore

D.D.kept

According to the passage, it is true that ________.

[A] in the late 19th century in the United States the dividing line between adolescence and adulthood no longer existed

[B] no one can marry without the permission of his parents until the age of twenty-one

[C] one is considered to have reached adulthood when he has a driver’s license

[D] one is not free from the restrictions of child labor laws until he can join the arm

Doctor Ben Carson grew up in a poor single parent household in Detroit. His mother, who had only a third-grade education, worked two jobs cleaning bathrooms. To his classmates and even to his teachers, he was thought of as the dumbest kid in the class, according to his own not so fond memories. He had a terrible temper, and once threatened to kill another child. Doctor Carson was headed down a path of self-destruction until a critical moment in his youth. His mother, convinced that she had to do something dramatic to prevent him from leading a life of failure, laid down some rules. He could not watch television except for two programs a week, could not play with his friends after school until he finished his homework, and had to read two books a week and write book reports about them. His mother’s strategy worked. “Of course, I didn’t know she couldn’t read, so there I was submitting these reports.” He said. “She would put check marks on them like she had been reading them. As I began to read about scientists, economists and philosophers, I started imaging myself in their shoes. As he got in the habit of hard work, his grades began to soar. Ultimately, he received a scholarship to attend Yale University. And later, he was admitted to the University of Michigan Medical School. He is now a leading surgeon at John’s Hopkins Medical School, and he’s also the author of three books.

Q: What do we learn about Ben Carson？

A.He had only a third-grade education.

B.He once threatened to kill his teacher.

C.He grew up in a poor single-parent household.

D.He often helped his.

Dr。 Ben Carsen grew up in a poor single parent house-hold in Detroit。 His mother， who had only a 3rd grade education helds two jobs cleaning bathrooms。 To his classmates and even to his

teachers he was thought of as the dummest kid in his class。 According to his own not so fond memories。

He had a terrible temper， and once threatened to kill another child。 Dr。 Carsen was headed down part of seld distraction until a critical moment in his youth。 His mother convinced that he had to do something dramatic preventing leading a life of failure laid down some rules。 He could not

watch television except for two programs a week， could not play with his friends after school

until he finished his homework。 And had to read two books a week， and write book reports about them。 His mother’s strategy worked。 “Of course， I didn’t know she couldn’t read。 So there I was

submitting these reports。” he said。 She would put check marks on them like she had been reading them。 As I began to read about scientists，economists and philosophers。 I started imaging myself in their shoes。 As he got into the hobbit of hard work， his grade began to soar。 Ultimately he received a scholarship to attending Yale

University， and later he was admitted to the University of Michigan Medical School。

He is now a leading surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medical School and he is also the author of the three books。

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you’ve just heard。

Q23 What do we learn about Ben Carsen ？

Q24 What did Ben Caren’s classmates and teachers think of him whenhe was first at school？

Q25 What did Ben Carsen’s mother tell him to do when he was a school boy？

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third year in high school that the possibility came into 63（）. Until then I' d been bored by everything associated. 64 （）English courses. I found English grammar dull and difficult. I hated the assignments to turn out long. 65（） paragraphs that were agony for teachers to read and for me to write.

When our class was assigned to Mr. Fleagle for third-year English, I anticipated another

cheerless year in that most tedious subject. Mr. Fleagle had a reputation among students for

dullness and an 66（） to inspire. He 67（） very formal, rigid and 68（） out of date. To me he looked to be sixty or seventy and excessively prim (正经的、规矩的). He wore primly severe eyeglasses, and his wavy hair was primly cut and primly combed. He wore prim suits with neckties set primly against the collar buttons of his prim white shirts. He had a primly pointed jaw, a primly straight nose, and a prim manner of speaking that was.69（） correct and gentlemanly 70（） he seemed a comic antique.

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B.off

C.off and on

D.on

62A.was

B.wasn't

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D.isn't

63A.be

B.to be

C.being

D.been

64A.on

B.with

C.to

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65A.vivid

B.live

C.lifeless

D.life

66A.disability

B.unable

C.unability

D.inability

67A.said

B.was said

C.was said to be

D.was said being

68A.hopelessly

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70A.which

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an accident in his father's harness shop.His father, determined that Louis should not suffer the usual fate of blind persons at that time and become a beggar, kept him in the village school until he was ten and then entered him in the institution des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris.Louis learned to read from the three books engraved in large raised letters in the Institution library.He did exceptionally well both in academic work and at the piano and the organ, and was soon helping to teach the younger children.

In 1819, the same year that Louis entered the Institution, Charles Barbier, an army captain, reported to the Academy of Sciences on a system of raised dots and dashes which enabled soldiers to read messages in the dark.Later, Barbier brought his invention to the Institution.After experimenting with it, young Braille produced a writing system using only dots, from which he gradually devised 63 separate combinations representing the letters in the French alphabet.At the request of an Englishman, he later added the letter “w”, accents and punctuation marks, and mathematical signs.Although government bureaucracy prevented immediate official adoption, his system was used at the Institution as long as the director, Dr.Pignier, was in office.Pignier’s successor insisted on returning to the officially approved former system, but students continued to use Braille's method secretly.Eventually, its superiority was established and it was adopted throughout France.

(1).Louis-Braille first learned to read with the aid of _________________.

A.his father

B.special books at the Institution

C.the village school teacher

D.Captain Barbier's system of dots and dashes

(2).Louis's father kept him at the village school until he was ten because his father ________________.

A.wanted Louis to help him in the harness shop

B.thought it was not worthwhile to have Louis work when he was young

C.did not want Louis to live the same sort of life as that of other blind people

D.wanted Louis to remain with the family as long as possible

(3).Louis Braille did all of the following things EXCEPT________________.

A.teaching young children at the Institution

B.developing a writing system for the blind

C.learning to play musical instruments well

D.encouraging students to use his method secretly

(4).Charles Barbier originally devised his writing system for________________.

A.the Academy of Sciences

B.blind children

C.military personnel

D.the English government

(5).Braille's method was not adopted officially for some time because________________.

A.the students preferred the former method

B.the large library collection would then have been useless

C.Dr.Pignier's successor disliked Braille's method

D.the government was slow to approve it

根据材料，回答题。

Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage, and for each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D at the end of the passage. You should choose ONE answer that best fit into the passage. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In____56______a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend____57______can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are____58______readers. Most of us develop poor reading _____59_____at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency____60______in the actual stuff of language itself—words. Taken individually, words have_____61_____

meaning until they are strung together into phrased, sentences and paragraphs.____62______, however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to______63____words or passages. Regression, the tendency to look back over____64______you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which ____65______down the speed of reading is vocalization-- sounding each word either orally or mentally as____66______reads.

To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an____67______, which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speeD．The bar is set at a slightly faster rate ____68______the reader finds comfortable, in order to "stretch" him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, _____69_____word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization, practically impossible. At first____70______is sacrificed for speeD．But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, ____71______your comprehension will improve. Many people have found_____72_____reading skill drastically improved after some training._____73_____Charles Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute____74______the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can_____75_____a lot more reading material in a short period of time.

第56题答案为 查看材料

A.Applying

B.doing

C.offering

D.getting

For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade publications, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words. In getting a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend quickly can mean the difference between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are poor readers. Most of us develop poor reading habits at an early age, and never get over them. The main problem lies in language itself—words. Single words have little meaning until they are combined into phrases, sentences and paragraphs. Unfortunately, however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He reads one word at a time, often regressing to reread words or passages. Regression, or looking back over what you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which slows down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as one reads.To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called accelerator (加速器), which moves a bar down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate than the reader finds comfortable, in order to “stretch” him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, making word-by-word reading, regression and vocalization virtually impossible. At first, comprehension is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas, you will not only read faster, but your comprehension will improve. Many people have found their reading skills improved a lot after some training.

A、regression

B、reading for ideas only

C、vocalization

D、word-by-word reading

How to Find Time to Read

Do you want to know how to improve yourself all the time without having to spend more time reading because you get involved in work everyday？ Does it sound too good to be true？ Well, read on, please.

An Average Reader

If you are an average reader you can read an average book at the rate of 300 words a minute. You cannot maintain that average, however, unless you read regularly every day. Nor can you reach that speed with hard books in science, mathematics, agriculture, business, or any subject that is new or unfamiliar to you. The chances are that you will never attempt that speed with poetry or want to race through some passages in fiction over which you wish to linger. But for most of the novels, biographies, and books about travel, hobbies or personal interests, if you are an average reader you should have no trouble at all in absorbing meaning and pleasure out of 300 printed words every 60 seconds.

Statistics are not always practical, but consider the following: If the average reader can read 300 words a minute of average reading, then in 15 minutes he can read 4 500 words. Multiplied by 7, the days of the week, the product is 315 000. Another multiplication by 12, the months of the year, results in a grand total of 1 512 000 words. That is the total number of words of average reading an average reader can do in just 15 minutes a day for one year.

Books vary in length from 60 000 to 1 000 000 words. The average is about 75 000 words. In one year of average reading by an average reader for 15 minutes a day, 20 books will be read. That's a lot of books. It is 4 times the number of books read by public-library borrowers in America. And yet it is easily possible.

Sir William Osier

One of the greatest of all modern physicians was Sir William Osier. He taught at the Johns Hopkins Medical School He finished his teaching days at McGill University. Many of the out-standing physicians today were his students. Nearly all of the practicing doctors of today were brought up on his medical textbooks. Among his many remarkable contributions to medicine are his unpublished notes on how the people die.

His greatness is attributed by his biographers and critics not alone to his profound medical knowledge and insight but to his broad general education, for he was a very cultured man. He was very interested in what men have done and taught throughout the ages. And he knew that the only way to find out what the best experiences of the race had been was to read what people had written. But Osler's problem was the same as everyone else's, only more so. He was a busy physician, a teacher of physicians, and a medical-research specialist. There was no time in a 4-hour day that did not rightly belong to one of these three occupations, except the few hours for sleep, meals, and bodily functions.

Osler arrived at his solution early. He would read the last 15 minutes before he want to sleep. If bedtime was set for 11:00 Pm, he read from 11:00 to 11:15. If research kept him up to 2:00 AM, he read from 2:00 to 2:15. Over a very long time, Osler never broke the role once he had established it. We have evidence that after a while he simply could not fall asleep until he had done his 15 minutes of reading.

In his lifetime, Osler read a significant library of books. Just do a mental calculation for halfa century of 15-minute reading periods daily and see how many books you get. Consider what a range of interests and variety of subjects are possible in one lifetime. Osler read widely outside of medical specialty. Indeed, he developed from this 15-minute reading habit a vocational specialty to balance his vocational specialization. Among scholars in English literature, Osler is known as an authority on Sir Thomas Browne, seventeenth century English prose master, and Osler's library on Sir Thomas is considered one of t

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Passage Two

There are two factors which determine an individual's intelligence. The first is the sort of brain he is born with. Human brains differ considerably, some being more capable than others. But no matter how good a brain he has to begin with, an individual will have a low order of intelligence unless he has opportunities to learn. So the second factor is what happens to the individual the sort of environment in which he is reared (抚养). If an individual is handicapped environmentally, it is likely that his brain will fail to develop and he will never attain the level of intelligence of which he is capable.

The importance of environment in determining an individual's intelligence can be demonstrated by the case history of the identical twins, Peter and Mark. Being identical, the twins had identical brains at birth, and their growth processes were the same. When the twins were three months old, their parents died, and they were placed in separate foster (收养) homes. Peter was reared by parents of low intelligence in an isolated community with poor educational opportunities. Mark was reared in the home of well-to-do parents who had been to college. He was read to as a child, sent to good schools, and given every opportunity to be stimulated intellectually. This environmental difference continued until the twins were in their late teens, when they were given tests to measure their intelligence. Mark's IQ was 125, twenty-five points higher than the average and fully forty points higher than his identical brother. Given equal opportunities, the twins, having identical brains, would have tested at roughly the same level.

36. This selection can be titled ______.

A. Measuring Your Intelligence

B. Intelligence and Environment

C. The Case of Peter and Mark

D. how the Brain Influences Intelligence