第1题
When the first news of the stock market crash came into the office, Bill immediately sat down and wrote up the story. The editor liked it so much that he used the story. And he didn’t make any changes in it. After that the editor decided Bill should be a writer.
After this first story Bill became especially interested in financial news. But he wrote stories on just about everything. In 1945 he spent five months in Europe. His editor had decided he should write about the end of World War II. His paper was the smallest one with a writer in Europe.
One of Bill's greatest moments came in 1946, a story he had written on war won the National Newspaperman’s Award. Bill took the prize but he gave all the praise to his editor.
It was just before Christmas in 1967 that he learned he had cancer. Six months later he was dead. But he never stopped his work as an editor. The day before he died he had spent a full day at the office.
When did Bill begin working for the paper?
A.In 1948.
B.In 1926.
C.In 1937.
D.In 1929.
第2题
Which statement was not true?
A.Japan had revised related laws to grant pension to the family of these convicted war criminals.
B.Some people at home and abroad called Yasukuni to establish new memorial to separate war criminals from ordinary war dead
C.Koizumi took office in 2001.
D.Yasukuni hadn't make response to the call of separating war criminals from ordinary dead.
第3题
听力原文:M: What subjects are you taking this semester?
W: I'm taking History, ,Freshman Composition, Western Civilization and Physics.
M: That's quite a load.
W: Yes. I know it's going to be a lot of work, but it should be an interesting semester. And I'm not going to have to work this term because I managed to save quite a bit of money from my summer job. So I should have enough time for studying.
M: That's good. I'm going to have to work twenty hours a week at the library.
W: What do you do there? Do you like it?
M: I shelve books on the third floor. Sometimes it gets boring, but the pay isn't bad.
W: What are you taking this semester?
M: French, Biology, and Accounting. I like the French and Biology instructors. But the Accounting professor is very dry.
W: Do you have Professor Stillwell? I've heard he's terrible!
M: Yes. Do you know of anybody who's better?
W: My friend Antonio took Accounting with Professor Atkins last spring. He said that she was wonderful--knew her subject well and had a great sense of humor.
M: I'll have to check to see if she's teaching this semester. If she is, I'll try to transfer into her class.
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A.She has earned enough money from the part-time job in summer.
B.She has got enough money from her parents.
C.She has saved a lot of money from her winter job.
D.She has got a grant from her university.
第4题
M: I come from the Raze, an Indian reservation. I grew up there, lived there until 18. I lived on and off the reservation for the next 6 or 7 years during college. I lived there after I graduated and worked at a high school exchange program. I thought I would do that kind of job to support my writing, day jobs that require no emotional investment beyond 8 hours a day where I would not need to bring work home. I did not want to be part of management or anybody important on the job. I wanted to be completely replaceable. That is what I thought I would be doing for most of my life and writing. Then I got a grant and my first book got a front-page review in the New York Times Book Review.
W: When did writing enter your life?
M: Books have always been in my life. My dad loved books and most of what he read were westerns, spy novels, and mysteries. I grew up loving books, copying my dad's love for books. But nobody had showed me a book written by an Indian, not even one piece of a poem. Nothing. At that time, I was going to be a physician. I loved math and science. I got to college, could not handle physiology, and was looking around for options and took a poetry writing class for fun.
W: Poetry was your way in?
M: Yes, that's where I got started. I took the class and honestly I thought poetry would be an easy grade. But I completely underestimated poetry and what it would do to me and a realm of possibility for it. I took the class and was hooked about ten minutes after reading my first contemporary poem.
Why did Sherman Alexie only take day jobs?
A.He could bring unfinished work home.
B.He might have time to pursue his interests.
C.He might do some evening teaching.
D.He could invest more emotion in his family.
第5题
A.正确
B.错误
第6题
Why did he look so excited? It ________ two week leave.
[A] was granted
[B] had granted
[C] has granted
[D] had been granted
第7题
Why did Mr. Grant call in Mr. Scott from Smith-Weston Consultations for?
A.Because his company wanted to make a productivity study
B.Because the sales of the company decreased a lot
C.Because he expected him to raise workers' morale
第8题
Jack took the old woman's umbrella______.
A.by mistake
B.because he liked it
C.because he collected umbrellas
第9题
A.progressed
B.operated
C.equipped
D.managed
第10题
听音频,回答下列问题:
A.Since he found a girlfriend.
B.Since he took to heavy smoking,
C.Since he began to exercise regularly.
D.Since he started to live on his own.