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e things about the chef's pork chops, but probably wouldn't have told him—just as I had failed to tell Liani how much she had helped me that first day in class.

Reading Comprehension

Directions:There are two passages in this part． Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements． For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D．You sbould decide on the best choice．

Questions 56- 60 are based on Passage One:

Passage One

When I opened the first “Body Shop” in 1976, what l wanted to do was to earn(挣)enough money to feed my children． Today the“Body Shop”is a great company growing fast all around the world．In the years since we began,I have learned a lot．Much of what I have learned will be found in this book, because I believe that we, as a company, have something worth saying about how to run a successful business without giving up what you really believe in．

It's not an ordinary business bookIt is not just about my life, either．The message is that to succeed in business you have to be different．Business can be fun, and can be run with love and do goocLIn business, as in life, I need to enjoy myself, to have a feeling of my family and to feel excited by somethingunusual．I have always wantecl the people who work for the “Body Shop” to feel the same way．

Now this book sends these ideas out into the world, and makes them public．I'd like tothink there are no limits（界限） to our “family”, and no limits to what can be done． I find that an exciting thought． I hope you do, too．

What is the writer's main purposec目的） in writing this text？()

A．To tell the reader her life story．

B． To tell people how she brought up her children．

C． To let people know how rich she was．

D．To introduce her ideas to the reader．

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, while her wealthy English parents were traveling in Europe. As a child, she traveled to many places with her family and learned how to speak several languages.

When Nightingale was 17, she told her family that she was going to help sick people. 'Her parents did not approved, but Nightingale was determined.

She traveled to hospitals all over Europe. She saw that doctors were working too hard. She saw that patients died because they did not get enough care. Nightingale felt that women could be doing more to help doctors take care of sick people.

Nightingale knew that in order for nurses to do more, they needed special training in how to take care of sick people. Nightingale went to a hospital in Germany to study nursing. Then she returned to London and became the head of a group of women called Gentlewomen during illness. These women cared for sick people in their homes.

In 1854, England was fighting a war with Russia. No reporters wrote about the terrible conditions in the hospitals that cared for the wounded. People demanded that something be done about it. A leader of government asked Florence Nightingale to take some nurses into the war hospitals. So, in November 1854, Nightingale finally got to work in a hospital.

She took along 38 nurses whom she had trained herself.

At first, the doctors on the battlefields did not want Nightingale and her nurses in their hospitals. They did not believe that women could help. But in fact, the nurses did make a difference. They worked around the clock, tending the sick. Thanks to their hard work, many wounded soldiers survived. After the War, Nightingale and her nurses were treated like heroes. Finally, in 1860, she started the Nightingale School for nurses. In time, thanks to Florence Nightingale, nursing became an important part of medicine.

Florence Nightingale was born into a rich______.

A．Italian family

B．Russian family

C．English family

D．German family

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, while her wealthy English parents were traveling in Europe. As a child, she traveled to many places with her family and learned how to speak several languages.

When Nightingale was 17, she told her family that she was going to help sick people. Her parents did not approve, but Nightingale was determined.

She traveled to hospitals all over Europe. She saw that doctors were working too hard. She saw that patients died because they did not get enough care. Nightingale felt that women could be doing more to help doctors take care of sick people.

Nightingale knew that in order for nurses to do more, they needed special training in how to take care of sick people. Nightingale went to a hospital in Germany to study nursing. Then she returned to London and became the head of a group of women called Gentlewomen During Illness. These women cared for sick people in their homes.

In 1854, England was fighting a war with Russia. War reporters wrote about the terrible conditions in the hospitals that cared for the wounded. People demanded that something be done about it. A leader of the government asked Florence Nightingale to take some nurses into the war hospitals. So, in November 1854, Nightingale finally got to work in a hospital.

She took along 38 nurses whom she had trained herself.

At first, the doctors on the battlefields did not want Nightingale and her nurses in their hospitals. They did not believe that women could help. But in fact, the nurses did make a difference. They worked around the clock, tending the sick. Thanks to their hard work, many wounded soldiers survived.

After the war, Nightingale and her nurses were treated like heroes. Finally, in 1860, she started the Nightingale School for Nurses. In time, thanks to Florence Nightingale, nursing became an important part of medicine.

Florence Nightingale was born into a rich

A．Italian family.

B．Russian family.

C．English family.

D．German family.

Gladys Holm was a secretary (秘书). She worked in an office all her life. Gladys earned (挣) about $ 15,000 a year. She died when she was 86 years old. And she left a big surprise–$ 18 million! She gave the money to a children’s hospital.

Gladys Holm never got married or had any children. But she always liked children, and she wanted to help them. When her friend ’s daughter was ill in hospital, Gladys brought her a teddy bear. After that, she visited the hospital many times. Every time she visited, she brought teddy bears for those children. After that, people started to call Gladys the “Teddy Bear Lady”.

Gladys always gave toys and presents to her friends and family but no one knew she had a lot of money. She lived in a small house outside Chicago. Everyone was very surprised when they learned she was a millionaire. A family friend said, “She always gave us nice presents and things, but we didn’t know she was rich.

How did Gladys get so much money？ She asked her boss how to earn more money,and she listened to what he said. She bought the stocks (股票) that he told her to buy,and she got very rich. Before she died, she talked to her friends about“giving something to the children’s hospital”. No one knew that the “something” was $ 18 million!

1. Gladys Holm often visited the hospital and gave children teddy bears because she had a lot of teddy bears.

A. T B. F

2. People started to call Gladys the “Teddy Bear Lady”after she died.

A. T B. F

3. Everyone was surprised that Gladys had so much money.

A. T B. F

4. Gladys did what the boss told her to do, so she got rich.

A. T B. F

5. When Gladys Holm became a millionaire, she stopped working.

A. T B. F

Remembering My Grandparents

When memory began for me, my grandfather was past sixty -- a great tall man with thick hair becoming gray. He had black eyes and a straight nose which ended in a slightly flattened tip. Once he explained seriously to me that he got that flattened tip as a small child when he fell down and stepped On his nose.The little marks of laughter at the corners of his eyes were the product of a kindly and humorous nature. The years of work which had bent his shoulders had never dulled his humor nor his love of a joke. Everywhere he went, "Gramp" made friends easily. At the end of half an hour you felt you had known him all your life. I soon learned that he hated to give orders, but that when he had to, he tried to make his orders sound like suggestions.One July morning, as he was leaving to go to the cornfield, he said, "Edwin, you can pick up the potatoes in the field today if you want to do that." Then he drove away with his horses.The day passed, and I did not have any desire to pick up potatoes. Evening came and the potatoes were still in the field. Gramp, dusty and tired, led the horses to get their drink."How many bags of potatoes were there？" Gramp inquired."I don't know."

"How many potatoes did you pick up？"

"I didn't pick any."

"Not any! Why not？"

"You said I could pick them up if I wanted to. You didn't say I had to."

In the next few minutes I learned a lesson I would not forget, when Gramp said I could if I wanted to, he meant that I should want to.My grandmother ("Gram") worked hard all day, washing clothes, cleaning the house, making butter, and even working in the field when help was scarce. In the evening, though, she was not too tired to read books from the community library. For more than forty years Gram read aloud to Gramp almost every evening. In this way she and Gramp learned about all the great battles of history and became familiar with the works of great authors and the lives of famous men.Gram hated cruelty and injustice. The injustices of history, even those of a thousand years before, angered her as much as the injustices of her own day.She also had a deep love of beauty. When she was almost seventy-five, and had gone to live with one of her daughters, she spent a delightful morning washing dishes because, as she said, the beautiful patterns on the dishes gave her pleasure. The birds, the flowers, the clouds -- all that was beautiful around her -- pleased her. She was like the father of the French painter, Millet, who used to gather grass and show it to his son, saying, "See how beautiful this is!"

In a pioneer society it is the harder qualities of mind and character that are of value. The softer virtues are considered unnecessary. Men and women struggling daily to earn a living are unable, even for a moment, to forget the business of preserving their lives. Only unusual people, like my grandparents, manage to keep the softer qualities in a world of daily struggle.Such were the two people with whom I spent the months from June to September in the wonderful days of summer and youth.

1.We know that Grandpa's nose ____

A、was flattened because it had been stepped on

B、was not flat when he was a boy

C、was both straight and broad

D、was straight but its tip was a bit flat

2.We learn from the passage that Grandpa ____

A、loved to give orders

B、liked making suggestions

C、was friendly and humorous

D、was a serious and strict person

3.When Grandpa told the writer to pick up potatoes if he wanted to do that, he meant that ____

A、he had to do it

B、he could do it if he wanted to

C、he could do it anytime he was ready

D、he did not really have to do so

4.The writer describes his Grandma as ____

A、someone who could find beauty in life

B、a very obedient housewife

C、a woman who complained about the injustices of life

D、a woman who loved Millet's paintings

5.According to the passage, in the days of the writer's grandparents ____

A、it was difficult for people to keep the "soft qualities" of mind and character

B、most people understood how to appreciate the beautiful things in life

C、it was the "soft virtues" that were thought to be very important

D、only ordinary people managed to appreciate the beauty of nature

g with most of them, they haven't yet learned how to live in harmony with the newest of these: the personal computer. 【B1】This is so because the widespread use of the personal computer is a relatively new phenomenon.

There was the widely publicized case of a family man who became so absorbed in his computer that he spent long hours with it. 【B2】Of course, if he was spending long hours with his computer, he was spending less time with his family. And if his wife needed to see him, he was unavailable. She became so upset by this state of affairs that she delivered an ultimatum (最后通牒), declaring that unless he spent fewer hours with the machine and more with her and the family, she was going to divorce him. This issue became so serious that the couple had to go to a doctor to resolve it. 【B3】The fortunate result was that the husband reduced the time he spent with the computer, and the marriage was saved.

【B4】Personal computers may cause people to become isolated from one another since work can be done at home alone. In this case, there may be no need for offices, or for that matter, for any other central gathering place. Universities, or even cities, could be abandoned. Moreover, if what is now recorded on paper is recorded in the computer instead, people will have no reason to use any paper whatsoever: no money, receipts, letters, newspapers, magazines, books, and so on. 【B5】If this happens, there will be no need to go to the bank, the bookstore, or the library. Will people then be isolated in their separate homes-alone with their computers and their families, apart from fellow workers, readers, or students？

This is so because the widespread use of the personal computer is a relatively new phenomenon.

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B.In

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D.By

The mother almost ______ when she learned that her son was shot dead.

A．fell down

B．came down

C．fell apart

D．went to pieces

A.Nobody

B.Anybody

C.Somebody

D.Everybody