She often wrote him ______ letters in her spare time. （friend)

听力原文： I once knew a man whose memory was very bad. Richard Rudd was so forgetful that he sometimes forgot what he was talking about in the middle of a sentence. His wife had to remind him constantly of his appointments, his classes--even his meals! Since Rudd was a professor at a well-known university, his forgetfulness often caused an embarrassment. It wasn't that he was unintelligent, as some critical people tend to gossip. He was just very, very absent-minded.

One hot summer day, Professor Rudd decided to take his children to the beach. The seaside town he planned to visit was about a three-hour train ride away. To make the trip more interesting for his young children, he kept the name of the town a secret. Unfortunately, by the time Rudd had arrived at the train station, the poor forgetful man had forgotten the name of his destination himself. Luckily, a friend of his happened to be in the station. He offered to take care of the children while Rudd went back home to find out where he was going. The professor's wife was surprised to see him again so soon, but she was amused when she heard what the matter was. She distrusted his memory, so she wrote the name of the town on a piece of paper. Satisfied that she had solved the problem, she sent her husband off again. Ten minutes later, she was astonished to see him outside the house again. What was the matter now？

"I can't find the piece of paper," said Professor Rudd.

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A．Lack of confidence.

B．Lack of intelligence.

C．Carelessness.

D．Absent-mindedness.

Why did Jenny kept her old love letters？

A．Because she loved some of the men who wrote to her.

B．Because she thought they were a part of her life.

C．Because her daughter often played with them.

A．Because she wrote about village life in her best works.

B．Because she was the first one to use local dialect for her characters in her works.

C．Because she wrote about the customs of the villages with a bit imagination.

D．Because her settings were often described actually and in detail.

ote in the dead night.

A．in that

B．if

C．each time

D．once

did not come easily at all. They cost him a great deal of hard work. We know now often he rewrote and corrected his work because his notebooks are still kept in museums and libraries. He always found it hard to satisfy himself.

When he was 28, the worst difficulty of all came to him. He began to notice a strange humming in his ears. At first he paid little attention, but it grew worse, and at last he consulted doctors. They gave him the worst news any musician can hear: he was gradually going deaf. Beethoven was in despair, he was sure that he was going to die.

He went away to the country, to a place called Heiligenstadt, and from there he wrote a long farewell letter to his brothers. In this letter he told them how depressed and lonely his deafness had made him. "It was impossible for me to ask men to speak louder or shout, for I am cleat," he wrote. "How could I possibly admit an infirmity (残废) in the one sense (hearing) which should have been more perfect in me than in others...？ I must live like an exile." He longed to die, and said to death, "Come when you will. I shall meet you bravely."

In fact, Beethoven did something braver than dying. He gathered his courage and went on writing music, though he could hear what he wrote only more and more faintly. He wrote his best music, the music we remember him for, after he became deaf. The music he wrote was very different from any that had been composed before. Instead of the elegant and stately music that earlier musicians had written for their wealthy listeners, Beethoven wrote stormy, exciting, revolutionary music, which reminds us of his troubled and courageous life. He grew to admire courage more than anything, and he called one of his symphonies the Eroica or Heroic Symphony to celebrate the memory of a great man. Describing the dramatic opening notes of his famous Fifth Symphony, he said, "Thus fate knocks on the door."

In time Beethoven went completely deaf, He was lonely and often unhappy, but in spite of this, he often wrote joyful music. In his last symphony, the Ninth, a choir sings a wonderful Hymn of Joy. Because of his courage and determination to overcome his terrible disaster, his music has given joy and inspiration to millions of people.

In the first paragraph we are told that Beethoven found that writing great music ______.

A．was easy

B．was difficult

C．was straightforward

D．easily satisfied him

听力原文： Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809. He was president of the United States from 1861 until he died 1865. Lincoln was a very tall man. He was 6 feet 4 inches tall. Even his feet were big. They were 13 inches long. Lincoln was too tall to fit most beds. When he was president the people from his hometown gave him a special bed. It was 9 feet long. That bed was big enough for president Lincoln. Lincoln liked to laugh. He liked to make other people laugh too. People said that he was so funny that he made eats laugh. Many people thought Abraham Lincoln was very ugly. Right before he became president an 11-year-old girl wrote him a letter. She said that she wanted him to grow a beard. Abraham Lincoln thought this over and he said that it was a good idea. That is why in most pictures of Lincoln, he has a short beard.

When was Lincoln born？

A．In 1819.

B．In 1861.

C．In 1909.

听力原文： Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809. -He was president of the United States from 1861 until he died 1865. Lincoln was a very tall man. He was 6 foot 4 inches tall. Even his feet were big. They were 13 inches long. Lincoln was too tall to fit most beds. When he was president the people from his hometown gave him a special bed. It was 9 feet long. That bed was big enough for president Lincoln. Lincoln liked to laugh. He liked to make other people laugh too. People said that he was so funny that he made cats laugh. Many people thought Abraham Lincoln was very ugly. Right before he became president an 11-year-old girl wrote him a letter. She said that she wanted him to grow a beard. Abraham Lincoln thought this over and he said that it was a good

idea. That is why in most pictures of Lincoln he has a short beard.

When was Lincoln born？

A．In 1819.

B．In 1861.

C．In 1809.

第二篇

Surprised by a Miracle

I had been working in the trauma unit at a local hospital for about a year. You get used to families thinking that a "coma" (昏迷) patient is moving their hand or doing something that they were asked to do. "Following commands" is what we call it often it's "wishful thinking" on the families' part. Nurses can easily become callous （麻木不仁的) to it.

On this particular night during visiting hours, my patient's wife came ~n. I had taken care of him for several nights I was very familiar with his care and what he was able to do. Actually, he didn't do anything. He barely moved at all, even when something would obviously hurt him, such as suctioning (抽吸)

His wife was very short, about 5 feet tall. She had to stand on a stool to lean over him, so that she could see his face and talk to him. She climbed up on the stool I spoke to her for a few minutes, and then stepped out to tend to my other patient. A few minutes later, she came running out of the room. In an excited voice, she said, "Donna, he's moving his hand!"

I immediately thought that it was probably her imagination, and that he had not actually done it on purpose. He had been there about a month at the time and had never made any movements on purpose. I asked her what had happened and she said, "1 asked him to squeeze my hand and he did!"

This led me to another train of questioning. "But, did he let go when you asked him to？" She said yes, that he had done exactly what she asked

I went into the room with her, not really believing that I would see anything different than I had always seen. But I decided that it would be better to pacify (抚慰) her than to make her think that I didn't believe her or that she was somehow mistaken.

She asked him to squeeze her hand, which he did.

I said, "Well, ask him to let go." He continued to squeeze for a moment, so that when he finally did let go, I really still didn't believe that he had done it on purpose.

So, I said, "Ask him to hold up one finger." He did as asked.

Well, hmm, this was starting to get my attention. I looked at him, his face still somewhat swollen (肿胀的) and his eyes still closed. "Stick out your tongue!" I said. He did it. I almost fell on the floor. It was the first time I had ever seen anyone "wake up."

36 The first paragraph indicates that more often than not a coma patient

A is found to be following commands.

B is callous to nurses' commands.

C is thought to be following commands.

D is used to following commands.

saved his wife. Edward Winter has witnessed his wife' s death from a 【21】______ attack. The doctors had tried to restart her heart with an electric 【22】______ with remarkable success, but leaving her brain 【23】______ . Her death was a long and 【24】______ experience, which he did not want to go through himself. After she died he asked his doctor 【25】______ to save him in 【26】______ circumstances, but instead to let him die 【27】______ .

While out visiting in May 1988, Mr. Winter 【28】______ the heart attack, which he was treated, and was rushed to St Franc' is hospital in Cincinnati. The doctor who 【29】______ him wrote down on his chart that he was not to be 【30】______ but the duty nurse was not informed of Mr. Winter's 【31】______ . The nurse took the usual 【32】______ action and tried to revive him with an electric shock. His life was saved 【33】______ the treatment was not completely successful. Since then he 【34】______ stay in a nursing home, partially 【35】______ and barely able to speak without weeping. Though there is 【36】______ hope of improvement in his condition, doctors say he could 【37】______ many more years. The hospital 【38】______ his story, arguing that the injury suffered by Mr. Winter is the 【39】______ of an act of God and they 【40】______ him over $ 60,000 for saving his life.

【21】

A．heart

B．liver

C．brain

D．nerves