One Sunday last year, eight of us hiked for a couple of hours through the desert near San Diego to reach Thunder Canyon Cave. We had to go through a waterfall to get inside, so we put on our wetsuits and lowered ourselves 30ft down. By 11:00 am we were inside. With further climbing, we reached a nineinch crack. Having caved for four hours,__I was tired and wet.
The group leader, Luca,__was guiding three cavers. One of them, Steve, in his 50s, got jammed in the__crack. There was 10 minutes of pulling and pushing until Steve was free. He was tired and needed to leave. Luca, assuming I'd been through the crack before, guided Steve through another 15 minutes of cave to an exit. I was second from last to go through and out of earshot (可听距离). I didn't realize that Luca wasn't there—if I'd known, I wouldn't have attempted the crack, as I needed an experienced guide.
The challenge is to move your feet first down the length of the crack, and then angle your body sideways to swing along, before dropping five feet to the floor of the next space. On my first attempt, I knew I wouldn't make__it through, but the group encouraged me to try again. I didn't want to inconvenience anyone by having to make the long trip back through the cave, so I backed out and took off my wetsuit. In just my Tshirt, I tried to slide through again but my hips (屁股) jammed. My feet were hanging the other side and my left arm supported my body. My hand rested on a wooden board that had been left covering rocks to protect cavers from slipping. Luca returned and the team tried everything to move me as I mentally focused on escape.
After two hours my arm weakened, so I slid further into the crack, where the__gap was only eight and a half inches wide. My body weight was now on my left elbow, my back and chest touching the cold stone walls. The guy behind me, Jim, tried unsuccessfully to pull me back. Of course, I was blocking his escape,__too.
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With the risk of hypothermia (低体温),
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Luca finally found the rescue helicopter.
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Qian Zhongshu was a Chinese scholar and writer, known for his wit and erudition (博学). Despite failing in mathematics, Qian
Qian lived in Shanghai from 1941 to 1945,
3 . Recently,a special group of American athletes were invited to Poland to run in a 100-kilometer race. The endurance race was
“Disabled people always
The runners in Poland showed that there's almost
That's
In 1988,376 disabled Americans competed in many
They have been helped by great advances in
Some people wonder if disabled athletes are
A.of | B.in | C.to | D.with |
A.troubled | B.sick | C.unhealthy | D.disabled |
A.hard | B.weak | C.strong | D.soft |
A.Because of | B.Although | C.Despite | D.In case |
A.made | B.did | C.got | D.took |
A.avoid | B.admit | C.sigh | D.smile |
A.love | B.thank | C.mind | D.care |
A.something | B.anything | C.everything | D.nothing |
A.early | B.later | C.ago | D.after |
A.stayed at | B.worked at | C.moved around | D.escaped from |
A.stopping | B.advancing | C.changing | D.improving |
A.purposes | B.faiths | C.limits | D.passions |
A.create | B.succeed | C.fail | D.believe |
A.ill | B.lame | C.deaf | D.blind |
A.activities | B.sports | C.campaigns | D.occasions |
A.out of question | B.out of date | C.out of luck | D.out of sight |
A.equipment | B.legs | C.machines | D.wheelchairs |
A.wrong | B.mistaken | C.false | D.faulty |
A.hurting | B.asking | C.pulling | D.pushing |
A.making | B.building | C.doing | D.showing |
4 . Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, painter, social activist and bookstore owner, has been San Francisco’s honored poet. He turns 100 this month, and the city is making preparations to celebrate him in style. Readings and performances and an open house will take place at City Lights, the sacred bookstore he co-founded in 1953.
On March 24, 1919, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York. After spending his early childhood in France, he received his BA from the University of North Carolina, an MA from Columbia University, and a PhD from the Sorbonne.
He is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, including Poetry as Insurgent Art; A Coney Island of the Mind. He has translated the works of a number of poets, including Nicanor Parra, Jacques Prevert, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. In addition to poetry, he is also the author of more than eight plays and three novels, including Little Boy: A Novel, Love in the Days of Rage and Her.
In 1953, Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin opened the City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, California. It became a nerve center for the Beats and other writers. Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and other writers from that era were Easterners who dropped into San Francisco for a spell. In 2001 it was made an official historic landmark. Now City Lights is almost certainly the best bookstore in the United States. It’s filled with serious world literature of all kinds.
If City Lights is a San Francisco institution, Ferlinghetti himself is as much of one. He has loomed over the city’s literary life. As a poet, he’s never been a critical favorite. But his flexible and plain-spoken and often powerful work — he has published more than 50 volumes — has found a wide audience. His collection “A Coney Island of the Mind” has sold more than 1 million copies, making it one of the best-selling American poetry books ever published.
1. What can we learn about Ferlinghetti from Paragraph 2?A.He had a happy childhood. |
B.He received normal education. |
C.He had a gift for writing novels. |
D.He had written lots of poetry. |
A.Flexible. | B.Optimistic. | C.Outspoken. | D.Productive. |
A.Because it is a nerve center for the youth. |
B.Because its collections have a long history. |
C.Because it is an official historic landmark. |
D.Because it has many modern world literature. |
A.To speak highly of a great poet. |
B.To introduce some English poetry. |
C.To promote values of City Lights. |
D.To celebrate the birthday of Ferlinghetti. |
5 . How the Elderly Are Treated Around the World
How cultures view and treat their elderly is closely linked to their most prized values and qualities.
In the US and UK, Protestantism (新教) is at play. Western cultures tend to be youth-centric, stressing qualities like independence.
In France, parents are protected by law. It is difficult to imagine an Elderly Rights Law being a focus in the laws of many Western cultures. France did, however, pass a similar law in 2004.
The way to care for Chinese elders is changing. Chinese families traditionally view respect for one’s elders as the highest virtue, according to the Confucian tradition. Adult children are generally expected to care for their parents in their old age.
A.However, this tradition is beginning to break down due to rising lifetime and an aging population. |
B.In the African-American area, death is seen as an opportunity to celebrate life. |
C.Here’s what we can learn from other cultures about treating the elderly. |
D.But China faces the unique problem of tending to an increasingly elderly population. |
E.Native American elders pass down their knowledge. |
F.It was only passed following two disturbing events, though. |
G.This relates back to the Protestant work rules. |