Gary got his spinal cord injured in a car accident.A. RightB. Wrong C. Not mentioned
Gary got his spinal cord injured in a car accident.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
Gary got his spinal cord injured in a car accident.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned
第1题
Gary got his spinal cord injured in a car accident.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
第2题
Gary Finkle had his spinal cord(脊髓)severely injured in a swimming-pool accident seven years ago. A heavy-set, bearded man of 27, he is one of thousands of Americans who have lost virtually all feeling and movement from their shoulders down. He lives with his wife, Micky, and a female monkey named Jo outside the village of Andes, N.Y.
Gary is a participant in a remarkable enterprise called Helping Hands: Simian Aides for the Disabled. The nonprofit organization supplies the disabled with trained monkeys that reduce the disabled person's dependency on family, friends and hired attendants.
Using his mouth, Gary controls a small laser pointer mounted on his wheelchair. With it, he directs Jo to change books or magazines in his reading stand or to get him tapes for the cassette player. She brings him drinks from a refrigerator and clears away empties.
When asked, Jo will fetch the remote control for the TV and place it on Gary's working table where he can operate it with his mouth-stick. The mouth-stick is a quadriplegic's(瘫痪者)primary tool. It can be used for practically everything: turning the pages of a book, dialing the telephone, changing channels on the TV, working at a typewriter or computer. If Gary's mouth-stick drops to the floor. Jo will pick it up and gently reinsert it into his mouth.
"I can't imagine living without her," Gary says. He will always need human assistance for such things as getting in and out of bed, bathing or changing his clothes. But having Jo lessens his reliance on Micky, enabling her to do things in town without worrying about her husband's welfare.
Jo is a robot to help the disabled with daily life.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
第3题
Gary and Me
The restaurant owner John Moore writes about his relationship with his son Gary, the famous TV chef
I believe everyone's given a chance in life. My son, Gary, was given his chance with cooking, and my chance was to run a restaurant. When I heard about the opportunity, I rushed over to look at the place. It was in a really bad state. It was perfect for what I had in mind.
Coming into this business made me recall my childhood. I can remember my mother going out to work in a factory and me being so upset because I was left alone. With that in mind, I thought, "We want time for family life". My wife dedicated herself to looking after the children and did all my accounts while I ran the business. We lived over the restaurant in those days, and we always put a lot of emphasis on having meals together line 14 It's paid dividends with our children, Gary and Joe. They're both very confident. Also, from a very early age they would come down and talk to our regular customers. It's given both of them a great start in life.
Gary was quite a lively child when he was really small. We had a corner bath, and when he was about seven he thought he'd jump into it like a swimming pool, and he knocked himself out. When he was older, he had to work tot pocket money. He started off doing odd jobs and by the age of about ten he was m the kitchen every weekend, so be always had loads of money at school. He had discipline. He used to be up even before me it the morning. If you run a filmily business, it's for the family, and it was nice to see him helping out.
Gary wasn't very academic, but lie shone so much in the kitchen. By the age of fifteen he was as good as any of the men working there, and sometimes he was even left in charge. He would produce over a hundred meals, and from then I knew he'd go into catering because he had that flair. So when he came to me and said, "Dad, I've got to do work experience as part of my course at school", I sent him to a friend of mine who's got a restaurant.
Gary, recently took up playing the drums and now he has his own band. Goodness knows what will happen to the cooking if the music takes off. My advice to Gary would be: if you start chasing two hams, you end up catching neither-, so chase the hare you know you're going to catch. He understood when I said to him: "Gary, if you're going to get anywhere in life, you've got to do it by the age of 30. If you haven't done it by then, it's too late." line 44
Gary went to catering college at the age of 17, and on his first day he and the other new students--they're normally complete beginners-were given what's supposed to be a morning's work. But within an hour, Gary had chopped all his vegetables, sliced all his meats. He'd prepared everything. That's my soil for you! In the end, he was helping other people out.
None of is can believe how successful Gary's TV cookery series has become. I'm extremely proud of him. I've always tried to tell him that if you want something, you've got to work jolly hard for it, because no one gives you anything. He's seen the opportunity he's been given and grabbed hold of it with both hands. You know, you talk to your children as they grow up, and if they only take in ten per cent of what you've told them, you've got to be happy with that. The things Gary says, the firings he does, I think, well, he must have listened sometimes.
How did the writer react to his own big chance?
A.He worried about the problems.
B.He saw what could be done.
C.He thought the family would suffer.
D.He wondered if he should take it.
第4题
Gary really loses his donkey.
A.True.
B.False.
第5题
How does his father regard Gary's upbringing?
A.His encouragement has caused Gary's success.
B.The family influence on Gary was too strong.
C.Gary has forgotten important lessons.
D.Gary has learnt some essential things.
第6题
A.He helped other people.
B.He impressed those in charge.
C.He tried to make his father proud.
D.He performed the task efficiently.
第8题
Gary wants Io visit his friend.
A.True.
B.False.
第9题
听力原文:M: Gary insists on buying the food for the picnic.
W: That's pretty generous. But shouldn't we at least offer to share the expense?
Q: What does the woman suggest?
(14)
A.Pay for some of the food.
B.Take Gary to picnic some other time.
C.Insist on buying food themselves.
D.Thank Gary for his buying food.
第10题
(27)
A.The trip was worth the time but not the money.
B.The trip was worth the money but not the time.
C.The trip was a waste of time and money.
D.The trip was not a waste of time or money.