1 . My father was a foreman of a sugar-cane plantation in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. My first job was to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields. I would walk behind an ox, guiding him with a broomstick. For $1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks.
It was very tedious work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons. Because the plantation owners were always watching us, I had to be on time every day and work as hard as I could. I’ve never been late for any job since. I also learned about being respectful and faithful to the people you work for. More importantly, I earned my pay, it never entered my mind to say I was sick just because I didn’t want to work.
I was only six years old, but I was doing a man’s job. Our family needed every dollar we could make because my father never earned more than $18 a week. Our home was a three-room wood shack with a dirty floor and no toilet. Nothing made me prouder than bringing home money to help my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters. This gave me self-esteem(自尊心), one of the most important things a person could have.
When I was seven, I got work at a golf course near our house. My job was to stand down the fairway and spot the balls as they landed, so the golfers could find them. Losing a ball meant you were fired, so I never missed one. Some nights I would lie in bed and dream of making thousands of dollars by playing golf and being able to buy a bicycle.
The more I dreamed, the more I thought. Why not? I made my first golf club out of guava limb (番石榴树枝) and a piece of pipe. Then I hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball. And finally I dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth. I practiced with the same devotion and intensity. I learned working in the field--- except now I was driving golf balls with club, not oxen with a broomstick.
1. The writer’s first job was ___________.
2. The underlined word “tedious” in Paragraph 2 most probably means ___________.
3. The writer learned that ________ from his first job.
4. ________ gave the writer self-esteem.
5. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
It was very tedious work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons. Because the plantation owners were always watching us, I had to be on time every day and work as hard as I could. I’ve never been late for any job since. I also learned about being respectful and faithful to the people you work for. More importantly, I earned my pay, it never entered my mind to say I was sick just because I didn’t want to work.
I was only six years old, but I was doing a man’s job. Our family needed every dollar we could make because my father never earned more than $18 a week. Our home was a three-room wood shack with a dirty floor and no toilet. Nothing made me prouder than bringing home money to help my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters. This gave me self-esteem(自尊心), one of the most important things a person could have.
When I was seven, I got work at a golf course near our house. My job was to stand down the fairway and spot the balls as they landed, so the golfers could find them. Losing a ball meant you were fired, so I never missed one. Some nights I would lie in bed and dream of making thousands of dollars by playing golf and being able to buy a bicycle.
The more I dreamed, the more I thought. Why not? I made my first golf club out of guava limb (番石榴树枝) and a piece of pipe. Then I hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball. And finally I dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth. I practiced with the same devotion and intensity. I learned working in the field--- except now I was driving golf balls with club, not oxen with a broomstick.
1. The writer’s first job was ___________.
| A．to stand down the fairway at the golf course |
| B．to watch over the sugar-cane plantation |
| C．to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields |
| D．to spot the balls as they landed so the golfers could find them |
| A．difficult | B．boring | C．interesting | D．unusual |
| A．he should work for those who he liked most |
| B．he should work longer than what he was expected |
| C．he should never fail to say hello to his owner |
| D．he should show respect and faith to the people he worked for |
| A．Having a family of eight people |
| B．Owning his own golf course |
| C．Bringing money back home to help the family |
| D．Helping his father with the work on the plantation |
| A．He wanted to be a successful golfer. |
| B．He wanted to run a golf course near his house. |
| C．He was satisfied with the job he got on a plantation. |
| D．He wanted to make money by guiding oxen with a broomstick. |
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2 . One day in Israel government officials were rebuilding a barn(谷仓). While working, they found a (n)____ hole in a corner, so they used smoke to force the mice inside the hole to ____ A while later they indeed saw mice running out, one after another.
Then, everyone thought that all the mice had____ But just as they were just about to start to clean up, they saw two mice squeezing out at the ____ of the hole. After some endeavor, the mice finally got out. But ____ , they did not run away immediately. Instead, one chased after the other near the exit of the hole. It seemed that one was trying to bite the ____ of the other. Everyone was puzzled, so they stepped____ to take a look. They realized that one of the mice was ____ and could not see anything, and the other one was trying to allow the blind mouse to ____ on his tail so he could pull the blind one with him to escape.
After witnessing what happened, everyone was____ and lost in thought. During meal time, the group of people sat down and started to chat about what had happened to the two mice. One serious Rome official said, “I think the relationship between those two mice was that of emperor and ____ ” The others thought for a while and said, “That was why !”A smart Israeli said, “I think their relationship was husband and wife.” The others felt it made sense, so they ____ A Korean, who was accustomed to the firm tradition of loyalty to____ , said, “I think the relationship between them was that of mother and son.” Once again the others felt this was more reasonable,
At that moment, one Samaritan who sat behind them resting his chin in his palms,____ looked at other people, and asked, “Why did those two mice have to have a certain relationship?” Suddenly, the atmosphere froze. The group____ at the Samaritan and remained silent. In fact, the true love is not established on benefit, friendship and loyalty or blood relationship. Instead, it is based on no relationship.1.
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| A．cat | B．mouse | C．dog | D．ant |
| A．come in | B．come down | C．come out | D．come over |
| A．died | B．saved | C．stayed | D．escaped |
| A．exit | B．wall | C．floor | D．door |
| A．strangely | B．happily | C．luckily | D．sadly |
| A．tail | B．head | C．foot | D．hand |
| A．longer | B．higher | C．closer | D．farther |
| A．clear | B．blind | C．deaf | D．mute |
| A．eat | B．bite | C．suck | D．drink |
| A．joyless | B．hopeless | C．careless | D．speechless |
| A．doctor | B．servant | C．empress | D．minister |
| A．stopped | B．argued | C．agreed | D．talked |
| A．couples | B．parents | C．teachers | D．elders |
| A．puzzledly | B．repeatedly | C．pleasedly | D．expectedly |
| A．looked in | B．looked up | C．looked back | D．looked down |
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