The car started to move very slowly. The man looked at the road and saw a curve(拐弯处) coming his way. Terrified, he started to pray, begging for his life. He had not come out of shock when, just before the car hit the curve, a hand suddenly appeared through the window and moved the wheel. The man, paralyzed with fear, watched how the hand appeared every time the car was drawing near a curve. Finally, although terrified, the man managed to open the door and jump out of the spooky(怪异的) car. Without looking back, the man ran through the storm all the way to the nearest town. In a state of complete horror, the man walked into a nearby bar and asked for two glasses of Scotch whisky.
Then, still shaking with fright, he started telling everybody in the bar about the horrible experience he just went through in the spooky car. Everyone in the bar listened in silence and became frightened, with hair standing on end, when they realized the man was telling the truth because he was crying and he was certainly not drunk!
About half an hour later, two other young men walked into the same bar and one said to the other,“Hey, there’s a stupid man who jumped into the car while we were pushing it!”
1. When the car was first drawing near a curve, the man .
| A．felt very curious | B．was extremely frightened |
| C．cried for help | D．remained as calm as possible |
| A．His reasonable behavior. | B．His vivid description. |
| C．His simple appearance. | D．His honest attitude. |
| A．it is unsafe for people to take a free ride |
| B．the man was telling a lie to his listeners |
| C．the car probably broke down on the way |
| D．the two young men were familiar with the man |
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【推荐1】How to keep a journal
Keeping a journal can be a way of giving your feelings an outlet like no other.
Find a journal medium that's perfect for you.
Decide what kind of journal you'd like to keep.You could simply use your journal to write down all the thoughts that come to you at any particular time,randomly,or you could make your journal more focused on a specific theme to draw out something that you're trying to develop more of in your life.
Find sources of inspiration.It's often easiest to start with your current feelings.
| A．Write down your feelings on paper and see where this takes you next. |
| B．Reflect over what you've written now and then. |
| C．Keep in mind that a journal is not about using a fancy book. |
| D．Decide how you want to keep your journal,either on paper or in electronic form. |
| E．Journal writing is a personal journey,determined wholly by your own thoughts. |
| F．It's fun to glue in little things of your life,like pictures you took of a breathtaking sunset. |
| G．And there is nothing saying that you can't keep both a random and a specific journal at the same time! |
【推荐2】US President Donald Trump's senior adviser Kellyanne Conway has come under fire after picture of her casually kneeling on a couch in the Oval Office was widely shared on social media.
In an image captured by an AFP photographer,Conway appears on the couch with her shoes on as Trump poses for a photo with leaders of historically black colleges and universities.
Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens was among those taking aim at Conway,suggesting that aides under previous administrations would have caused even greater outcry.
"If Rice or Jarrett had sat like this in Oval Office,conservatives（保守党党员）would have screamed themselves hoarse for weeks.Now we own trashy," he wrote.
Trump's predecessor Barack Obama was repeatedly attacked for photos in which he appeared to be relaxing. Critics also condemned Obama for unbuttoning the previous Oval Office dress code that called for a suit jacket and a tie.
The image of Conway was spread widely on social media,with several Twitter users criticizing her for what they described as a lack of respect in the Oval Office.
This is not the first time Conway has found herself at the centre of a storm.She recently came under fire for plugging（宣传）the fashion brand of the president's daughter.
The head of the US Office of Government Ethics urged the White House to investigate Conway after the incident,saying she should face disciplinary（惩戒性的）action.
1. What do we know about Rice and Jarrett mentioned in Paragraph 4?| A．They once screamed themselves in Oval Office. |
| B．They were both Obama's assistants under previous administrations. |
| C．They are senior advisers now. |
| D．They have found themselves at the centre of a storm. |
| A．Of no value. | B．Rubbish. |
| C．Satisfying. | D．Precious. |
| A．Barack Obama didn't make achievements as the US President. |
| B．Barack Obama was repeatedly seen wearing informal clothes in the Oval Office. |
| C．Barack Obama preferred Rice or Jarrett to behave casually in the Oval Office. |
| D．Barack Obama ordered Rice to plug the fashion brand of his daughter. . |
| A．She would be promoted. |
| B．She might be praised by President Donald Trump. |
| C．She might be given disciplinary treatment. |
| D．She would apply for resignation. |
Cigarettes? Cup of coffee? No, it’s the third most addictive（使人上瘾的） thing in modern life, the cell phone. And experts say it is becoming more difficult for many people to curb their wishes to hug it more tightly than most of their personal relationships.
With its shiny surface, its smooth and satisfying touch, the cell phone connects us to the world even as it disconnects us from people three feet away. It affects us in ways its inventors in the late 1940s never imagined.
Dr. Chris Knippers, an expert at the Betty Ford Center in Southern California, reports that the overuse of cell phones has become a social problem not much different from other harmful addictions: a barrier to one-on-one personal contact, and an escape from reality.
Sounds extreme, but we’ve all witnessed the evidence: the person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal, ignoring his kids around the table; the woman who talks on the phone in the car, ignoring her husband; the teen who texts messages all the way home from school, avoiding contact with kids all around him. Is it just rude, or is it a kind of unhealthiness? And pardon me, but how is this improving the quality of life?
Jim Williams, an industrial sociologist based in Massachusetts, he points to a study by Duke University researchers that found one-quarter of Americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with. Despite the growing use of phones, e-mail and instant messaging, in other words, Williams says studies show that we don’t have as many friends as our parents. “Just as more information has led to less wisdom, more acquaintances(熟人) through the Internet and cell phones have produced fewer friends,” he says.
If the cell phone has truly had these effects, it’s because it has become very widespread. In 1987, there were only 1 million cell phones in use. Today, almost 300 million Americans carry them. The number of cell phones is far more than that of wired phones in the United States.
1. Which of the following could probably best explain the title of the passage?
| A．Cell phone users smoke less than they used to. |
| B．More people use cell phones than smoke cigarettes. |
| C．Cell phones have become as addictive as cigarettes. |
| D．Using cell phone is just as cool as smoking cigarettes. |
| A．rescue | B．control | C．develop | D．ignore |
| A．Women use cell phones more often than men. |
| B．Talking on the phone while driving is dangerous. |
| C．Cell phones make one-on-one personal contact easy. |
| D．Cell phones do not necessarily bring people together. |
| A．How to make people get closer. |
| B．The advantages of wired phones. |
| C．How to use cell phones properly. |
| D．Giving an example to prove the bad effects of cell phones. |
【推荐1】What do you plan to do in your retirement? Tom Brown—an engineer who grew up in rural North Carolina discovered unexpectedly his retirement passion project in 1998 at a farmer’s market. Brown was introduced to several heritage apples—varieties of the fruit which were standardized in the 18th and 19th centuries. For the past 20 years, he has devoted his time and efforts to hunting down rare and lost heritage apples across the east coast.
The number of apple types has likely numbered over 14,000 across the United States by 1905. At that time, food production and consumption was more localized than the international produce market of today. Some of the richest variety in apples was found along the east coast, particularly in the rural south. Many small farms boasted apple trees.
The consumer and technological shifts of the 20th century reduced American apple offerings. Orchards (果园) were abandoned, destroyed, or lost to growing forest. As a result, thousands of varieties seemingly disappeared from the palate (味觉) of the nation. Brown refers to these varieties as “Lost Heritage Apples,” apples which have not been documented or clearly known since about 1930.
Brown began his website Apple Search in search of these lost pieces of culinary (食物的) history. He spends much of his time driving around, literally knocking on doors and talking about apples. At times, Brown heads off for an old orchard mentioned in historical records. Other times, he follows the word of mouth as people whisper of apple trees they knew in their youth.
When Brown finds a variety of apple, he often donates cuttings to heritage apple orchards. While it may seem like a never-ending task to track down these trees, Brown says, “It is exciting for me to look for rare apple varieties knowing that I am helping restore the agricultural heritage of our country. It feels wrong to just let them die and be lost forever.”
1. What probably caused the disappearance of some apple types in America?| A．Change of climate. | B．Development of times. |
| C．Expansion of forests. | D．Decrease of consumers. |
| A．Brown’s efforts to build his website. |
| B．Brown’s interest in talking about apples. |
| C．Brown’s curiosity about the history of orchards. |
| D．Brown’s struggle to look for the missing apple species. |
| A．Faithful and humorous. | B．Optimistic and modest. |
| C．Responsible and determined. | D．Hard-working and considerate. |
| A．The Apple Hunter | B．The Rare Apple Species |
| C．The Apple Dealer | D．The Lost Heritage Apples |
【推荐2】When I think about ducks. I picture my mother's pets. She saved Lucy and Fran from a very wet area when I was 16 years old. The little ducks were weak and sick. My mother helped them to get healthy.
Lucy and Fran lived in a large box in the garage. They became family pets. They were members of our family. Lucy followed me around. She quacked and quacked. She liked attention.
My brother Tim read everything he could find about ducks. He learned to care for our pets. He made sure that the box in the garage was fit for our pets. It had a heat lamp and a feeder. He gave them water and fresh straw each day. What a hit! Lucy and Fran loved their house. They quacked to say, “Thank you!”
On a rainy morning, Lucy walked near me to the mailbox. She walked so close that we knocked each other. I fell into a big mud hole. All the letters from the mailbox got wet. They were covered with muddy, brown water
What's worse. Tim watched from the window. When I got back into the house, he was on the kitchen floor holding the sides of his stomach. He laughed there.
I stomped my feet and threw up my arms. My mom calmly listened to me shout. “It's okay, honey. If you prefer to you can trade beds with the ducks!” she comforted.
With that in mind, I went to the garage and made my peace with the ducks. My own bed looked a lot better than their straw and heat lamp.
1. Where did Lucy and Fran live?| A．In the kitchen | B．In the bedroom |
| C．In the water. | D．In the garage |
| A．The writer fell into a big mud hole | B．The mailbox got lost |
| C．The ducks both disappeared | D．Tim picked up some letters |
| A．Two Noisy Ducks for Sale | B．A Family's Love for Ducks |
| C．A Family’s Photo with Ducks | D．Two Boys' Fight with Ducks |
【推荐3】Even in the face of fire, smoke and flood, firefighter Li Shengli doesn’t draw back. He simply says it is his job as a firefighter and his duty as a member of the Communist Party of China.
Li, 51, who became a firefighter in 1991, has fought at the forefront in firefighting and rescue over the past 30 years. He has participated in over 11,000 tasks, saving about 30,000 trapped people.
In one task in May 1993, a fire broke out in a mall in Nanchang. When firefighters arrived at the scene, smoke and fire had blocked all the exits for people inside the building, leaving hundreds of people upstairs in danger. Facing smoke and flames, the then 21-year-old rushed to the front and climbed up the aerial ladder (云梯) to evacuate people from a height of more than 20 meters. Finally, about 270 people were rescued.
“Fear is a human nature, but not retreating is a kind of responsibility. With so many people waiting to be rescued, I couldn’t be afraid, let alone withdraw,” he said.
In July 2021, when several cities in Henan Province were hit by severe floods, Li joined the rescue. He and his teammates used a small boat to transfer trapped people. The boat suddenly lost power and stopped in the water. Without hesitation, Li jumped into the deep water and grabbed a rope to move them to a safe place several hundred meters away.
“The people on the boat were all villagers from my hometown. I brought my teammates to my hometown to fight the flood, and of course I needed to get down into the water first to help,” he said.
In September 2021, Li was transferred to the command center of Jiangxi Fire and Rescue Brigade due to many physical injuries. “The platform has changed, but the heart of being a firefighter is the same. You have to get to the front line when the emergency appears, then others would trust you.”
1. Why was the aerial ladder used in the rescue of the Nanchang fire?| A．All the exits of the mall were blocked. |
| B．The mall was too high for people to get down. |
| C．People trapped in the mall suffered from injuries. |
| D．It was funny to carry people with the aerial ladder. |
| A．Energetic and humorous. | B．Honest and confident. |
| C．Devoted and responsible. | D．Curious and brave. |
| A．He is willing to pass his belief down. |
| B．He expects to find more favour with people. |
| C．He has benefited a lot from his career experiences. |
| D．He is determined to devote himself to serving people. |
| A．Disasters call for more firefighters |
| B．Hard work pays off, career takes off |
| C．Firefighter braves dangers to save lives |
| D．Firefighter jumps into water to save teammates |
【推荐1】My wife and I usually don’t keep houseplants. But after I was told I had cancer I wanted to be around some life. When my friend Mitch gave me a lucky bamboo plant in a bowl, we decided to place the plant next to the living room window across from the couch.
I told Hannah I wanted to care for the plant myself. When it didn’t immediately turn yellow or brown or lose all of its leaves, I was pleasantly surprised. Tending to the plant gave me a sense of achievement at a time when I sometimes felt useless. As a doctor, I was used to being the one who provided care, not the one who received it. Watering the plant taught me I couldstill be a caregiver.
Over the next few months, I recovered from surgery and completed the first round of chemotherapy(化疗). Even after I returned to work, I continued to care for the plant. Soon, it had nearly doubled in height and its leaves were shiny and lush Both the tree and I were healthy.
Then,mysteriously, it began to show signs of stress. No matter what I did, the leaves kept browning and dropping to the floor. I grew more and more frustrated and uneasy.
“I can’t even care for a simple plant!” I yelled. “I’m failing!“ I couldn’t shake the feeling that the plant had become a symbol of my own health. I realized I had wrongly connected my careful caring for the plant-something over which I had at least some control-with my own survival something over which I had no control.
When my tumor(肿瘤) returned, it would not be because of any failure on my part. As my anxiety decreased, I began to research how to heal the plant. After moving it under a sunny window, we both began to thrive again.
Whenever I look at the tree in its new pot, I think of Mitch and all the people who supported me. If the plant outlives me, I hope it will comfort Hannah and remind her that our large community will continue to care for her after I am gone.
1. How did the author feel about caring for the plart at first?| A．Bored. | B．Satisfied. |
| C．Confused. | D．Impatient. |
| A．He feared letting Mitch down. |
| B．He worried about losing it. |
| C．He didn’t want to feel useless. |
| D．He took it as a sign of his death. |
| A．Weak. | B．Clean. |
| C．Unique. | D．Thick. |
| A．The author’s love for lucky bamboos. |
| B．The author’s experience of keeping a plant. |
| C．The author’s advice on how to grow houseplants. |
| D．The author’s appreciation tar his friends. |
【推荐2】Mia, 18, had just started working as a lifesaver at a beach in Australia on New Year’s Eve when beach-goers started to point and shout at the water. The workers quickly examined the situation and saw that a kangaroo had jumped out of the bushes — straight into the sea.
The animal seemed confused by the fishermen standing on the rocks. So instead of turning back and heading back into the bushes, it jumped right into the water! The poor thing bobbed (摆动) around in the waves and went underwater several times before Mia decided to take action.
As with any other animal rescue, it’s important to approach the situation with care. Wild animals that are stressed can become dangerous to their rescuers, and Mia was aware of the risks as she took her rescue board and hit the water at a run. “It just didn’t want to come on to the beach because it was kind of scared,” she said, “I was trying to figure out how to get it on the board. But considering that it’s a wild animal, even though I was helping, I wouldn’t want to be hurt by it or make it more stressed out.”
As beach-goers recorded the rescue on their phones, Mia paddled (用桨划船) behind the animal carefully and guided the kangaroo onto the beach. As soon as Mia’s feet touched the sand, the beach erupted in cheers for her! “It was quite special. As people there were cheering and clapping, the kangaroo was just sitting there up in the bushes staring at me, as if it was conveying something with its shining eyes,” Mia said, “I didn’t think that was going to ever be my first rescue, I may have more rescues in the future, but none would be as memorable as this one.”
1. Why did the kangaroo jump into the water?| A．To find food in the sea. | B．To assist its partner in the water. |
| C．To pose a threat to the beach-goers. | D．To escape from the fishermen on the rocks. |
| A．She used a helicopter for the rescue. |
| B．She used food to attract it onto the rescue board. |
| C．She guided it onto the beach using a rescue board. |
| D．She called for professional animal handlers to assist. |
| A．Ambitious and flexible. | B．Caring and thoughtful. |
| C．Generous and considerate. | D．Energetic and passive. |
| A．The kangaroo attacked Mia during the rescue. |
| B．Mia’s rescue board broke during the operation. |
| C．Mia regretted her decision to rescue the kangaroo. |
| D．The kangaroo seemed to have expressed its gratitude. |
【推荐3】“Dad,” I sai one day, “Let’s take a trip. Why don’t you fly out and meet me?”
My father had just retired after 27 years as a manager for IBM. His job filled his day, his thought and his life. While he woke up and took a warm shower, I screamed under a freezing waterfall in Peru. While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch, I rowed a boat across Lake of the Ozarks.
My father saw me drifting aimlessly, nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps. He wanted me to settle down, but now I want him to find an adventure.
He agreed to travel with me through some national parks. We met four weeks later in Rapid City.
“What is our first stop?” asked my father.
“What time is it?”
“Still don’t have a watch?”
Less than an hour away was Mount Rushmore. As he stared up at the four Presidents carved in rocks, his mouth and eyes opened slowly, like those of a little boy. “Unbelievable,” he said, “how was this done?”
Sculptor Gutzon devoted 14 years to this sculpture and then left the final touches to his son. We stared up and I asked myself, “Would I ever devote my life to anything?”No directions, no goals. I always used to hear those words in my father’s voice. Now I hear them in my own.
The next day we were at Yellowstone National Park, where we had a picnic. “Did you ever travel with your dad?” I asked. “Only once” he said. “I never spoke much to my father. We loved each other-but never said it. Whatever he could give me, he gave.”
The last sentence—it’s probably the same thing I’d say about my father—is what I would want my child to say about me.
In Glacier National Park, my father said, “I have never seen water so blue.” I have, in several places of the world. I can keep traveling, I realize- and maybe a regular job won’t be as dull as I feared.
Weeks after our trip, I called my father. “The photos from the trip are wonderful,” he said. “We have got to take another trip like that sometime.” I told him I had decided to settle down, and I’m wearing a watch.
1. What can we learn about the father from paragraph 2 and 3?| A．He followed the fashion. |
| B．He got bored with his job. |
| C．He was unhappy with the author’s lifestyle. |
| D．He liked the author’s collection of stamps. |
| A．He wants his children to learn from their grandfather. |
| B．He comes to understand what parental love means. |
| C．He learns how to communicate with his father. |
| D．He hopes to give whatever he can to his father. |
| A．The call solved their disagreements. |
| B．The Swiss Watch has drawn them closer. |
| C．They decided to learn photography together. |
| D．They began to change their attitudes to life. |
| A．Love nature, love life. | B．A son lost in adventure. |
| C．A journey with dad. | D．The art of travel. |
