______had I reached school than the bell rang.A.No soonerB.OnlyC.HardlyD.Rarely
______had I reached school than the bell rang.
A.No sooner
B.Only
C.Hardly
D.Rarely
______had I reached school than the bell rang.
A.No sooner
B.Only
C.Hardly
D.Rarely
A.I had reached
B.did I reach
C.had I reached
D.I reached
【25】 the young adventurer had covered about 15,000 kilometres of different climates, travelling【26】15 countries. For him, it was a test of【27】and will:
Balhi started his journey on May 30 from Paris. The journey was to be a real test,【28】he had fully prepared.
【29】problem made it very hard for him to ask the way, and it always caused him troubles when he crossed【30】When he was venturing (冒险)【31】desert and the war zone between Iran and Iraq, he was【32】from hunger, coldness and war. At the same time, he had to stay alert (警惕)【33】and safeguard himself against the possible attacks by both animals and robbers.
"I'm lucky enough to arrive in Shanghai safe and【34】a cup of tea together with my Chinese friend【35】I promised last year." he said.
(36)
A.come
B.run
C.fly
D.ride
On Christmas Eve, my mother created abundant Chinese food. And then they arrived—the minister's family and all my relatives.Robert greeted hello, and I pretended he was not worthy of existence.
Dinner threw me deeper into disappointment.My relatives licked(舔)the ends of their chopsticks and reached across the table.Robert and his family waited patiently for a large plate to be passed to them.My relatives murmured with pleasure when my mother brought out the whole steamed fish.Robert made a face.Then my father reached his chopsticks just below the fish eye and picked out the soft meat. "Amy, your favorite, " he said, offering me the tender fish cheek.I wanted to disappear.
At the end of the meal, my father leaned back and burped(打嗝)loudly, thanking my mother for her fine cooking."It' s a police Chinese custom to show you are satisfied, "explained my father to our astonished guests.Robert was looking down at his plate with a reddish face.The minister managed to bring up a quiet burp.I was shocked into silence for the rest of the night.
After everyone had gone, my mother said to me, "You want to be the shame as American girls on the outside. "She handed me an early gift. It was a miniskirt. "But inside you must always be Chinese. You must be proud you are different. Your only shame is to have shame. "
It was not until years later that I was able to fully appreciate her lesson and the purpose behind her particular menu. For Christmas Eve that year, she had chosen excellent Chinese food.
When I found out the minister' s family would come for Christmas Eve dinner, I cried mainly because______.
A.I worried about our shabby Chinese Christmas
B.I worried about our Chinese relatives lacking American manners
C.I worried about meeting the minister' s family
D.I worried about being laughed at
No sooner had we reached home______a violent storm broke out.
A.when
B.that
C.until
D.than
When We reached the station the train had not arrived yet;so we_______.
A.neednt have hurried
B.didn’t need to hurry
C.need not to hurry
D.had not needed to hurry
Globe jobs were for life-guaranteed until retirement. For 15 years I had prospered there—moving from an ordinary reporter to foreign correspondent and finally to senior. I would have a life time of security if I stuck to it.Instead, I had made a decision to leave. I entered my boss’s office. Would he rage?I wondered. He had a famous temper. “Matt, we have to have a talk,” I began awkwardly.“I came to the Globe when I was twenty-four. Now I’m forty. There’s a lot I want to doinlife. I’m resigning.” “To another paper?” he asked. I reached into my coat pocket, but didn’t say anything. I handed him a letter that explained everything.It said that I was leaving to start a new media company. We were at a rare turning point in history. I wanted to be directly engaged in the change.“I’m glad for you,”he said, quite out of my expectation.“I just came from aboard of directors meeting and it was seventy-five percent discouraging news. Some of that we can deal with. But much of it we can’t,” he went on.“I wish you all the luck in the world,”he concluded.“And if it doesn’t work out, remember, your star is always high here."
Then I went out of his office, walking through the news room for more good-byes. Everybody was saying congratulations. Everybody--even though I’d be risking all on an unfamiliar venture: all the financial security I had carefully built up.
Later, I had a final talk with Bill Taylor, chairman and publisher of the Boston Globe. He had turned the Globe into abillion-dollar property. “I’m resigning, Bill,” I said. He listened while I gave him the story. He wasn’t looking angry or dismayed either. After a pause, he said,“Golly, I wish I were in your shoes.”
From the passage we know that the Globe is a famous 。
A.newspaper
B.magazine
C.temple
D.church
If the writer stayed with the Globe 。
A.he would be able to realize his lifetime dreams.
B.he would let his long favourite dreams fade away
C.he would never have to worry about his future life
D.he would never be allowed to develop his ambitions
The writer wanted to resign because .
A.he had serous trouble with his boss.
B.he wanted to be engaged in the new media industry.
C.he got underpaid at his job for the Globe.
D.he had found a better paid job in a publishing house.
When the writer decided to resign the Globe was faced with .
A.a trouble with its staff members
B.a shortage of qualified reporters
C.an unfavorable business situation
D.a promising business situation
By saying“I wish I were in your shoes”(in the last paragraph) Bill Taylor meant that .
A.The writer was to fail.
B.The writer was stupid
C.He would reject the writer’s request
D.He would do the same if possibl
In the fall of 1924 Thomas Wolfe, fresh from his courses in play writing at Harvard joined the eight or
ten of us who were teaching English composition in New York University. I had never before seen a man
so tall as he, and so ugly. I pitied him and went out of my way to help him with his work and make him
feel at home.
His students soon let me know that he had no need of my protectiveness. They spoke of his ability to
explain a poem in such a manner as to have them shouting with laughter or struggling to keep back
their tears, of his readiness to quote in detail from any poet they could name.
Indeed, his students made so much of his power of observation that I decided to make a little test and
see for myself. My chance came one morning when the students were slowly gathering for nine o‘clock
classes.
Upon arriving at the university that day, I found Wolfe alone in the large room which served all the
English composition teachers as an office. He did not say anything when I asked him to come
with me out into the hall, and he only smiled when we reached a classroom door and I told him
to enter alone and look around.
He stepped in, remained no more than thirty seconds and then came out. “Tell me what you see.”
I said as I took his place in the room, leaving him in the hall with his back to the door. Without the
least hesitation and without a single error, he gave the number of seats in the room, pointed out
those which were taken by boys and those occupied by girls, named the colors each student was
wearing, pointed out the Latin verb written on the blackboard, spoke of the chalk marks which the
cleaner had failed to wash from the floor, and pictured in detail the view of Washington Square from
the window.
As I rejoined Wolfe, I was speechless with surprise. He, on the contrary, was wholly calm as he
said, “The worst thing about it is that I‘ll remember it all.”
What is the passage mainly discussing?
A. Thomas Wolfe‘s teaching work.
B. Thomas Wolfe‘s course in playwriting.
C. Thomas Wolfe‘s ability of explaining.
D. Thomas Wolfe‘s genius.
It was as he swung around to look in his toolbox for the cigarettes that Eddie saw the lump. Right in the middle of the brand new bright red carpet, there was a lump. A lump the size of a packet of cigarettes.
"I've done it again? said Eddie angrily. "I've left the cigarettes under the carpet?
He had done this once before, and taking up and refitting the carpet had taken him two hours. Eddie was determined that he was not going to spend another two hours in this house. He decided to get rid of the lump another way. It would mean wasting a good packet of cigarettes, nearly full, but anything was better than taking up the whole carpet and fitting it again .He turned to his toolbox for a large hammer.
Eddie didn't want to damage the carpet itself, so he took a block of wood and placed it on top of the lump. Then he began to beat the block of wood as hard as he could. He kept beating, hoping Mrs. Vanbrugh wouldn't hear the noise and come to see what he was doing. It would be difficult to explain why he was hammering the middle of her beautiful new carpet... The lump was beginning to flatten out.
After three or four minutes, the job was finally finished. Eddie picked up his tools, and began to walk out to his car. Mrs. Vanbrugh accompanied him. She seemed a little worried about something.
"Young man, while you were working today, you didn't by any chance see any sign of Armand, did you? Armand is my bird. I let him out of his cage, you see, this morning, and he's disappeared. He likes to walk around the house, and he usually just comes back to his cage after an hour or so and gets right in. Only today he didn't come back. He's never done such a thing before, it's most peculiar..."
"No, madam, I haven't seen him anywhere," said Eddie, as he reached to start the car.
And he saw his packet of Marlboro cigarettes on the panel, where he had left it at lunchtime....
And he remembered the lump in the carpet...
What did Eddie want to do when he had finished fitting the carpet?
A.To have a cigarette.
B.To hammer the carpet flat.
C.To put back his tools.
D.To start work in the dining room.
Grandpa’s dog and hunting partner, Rusty, had taken on a very bad __58__ in his old age. He had begun __59__ into the chicken coop(鸡笼 )and eggs. In the eyes of the local famers,__60__ dogs started stealing eggs, there was no __61__ to cure them. They knew there was onlyone thing to be done __62__ such a dog —you had to shoot it and the sooner the __63__. Rusty and Grandpa were old friends.
Grandpa certainly didn&39;t __64__ to shoot Rusty, but heknew it needed to be done. The “egg money ” was Grandma ’s private income, so you canimagine __65__ she felt about the problem. __66__ the inexperienced confidence of youth, I toldGrandpa that I thought I could “ cure ” the eg -stealing dog. I wanted to at least have a __67__ tosave Rusty ’ s life, and save Grandpa from the sadness of __68__ Rusty.
The next morning, I broke open six fresh eggs and put them in Rusty ’s bowl __69__ at thedoor to the chicken coop. Rusty came __70__ and noticed the eggs. He quickly __71__ the eggsand happily walked off for his nap (打盹 ).The following morning I did __72__ thing. I put the eggsa few feet away from the chicken coop, toward the back door of the farmhouse __73__ Grandmausually fed Rusty. The next day I again moved the bowl closer to the house ,and added some dogfood to the eggs. Every day I moved the bowl closer to the back door, mixing more dog food and__74__ eggs. By the time the bowl reached the door, it was all dog food and no eggs. Rusty badagain become __75__ to looking for his food at the back door of the house, and never again wentinto the chicken coop.
56_________
A.watched
B.noticed
C.invited
D.visited
57A.peace
B.stress
C.crisis
D.miracle
58A.habit
B.pattern
C.custom
D.crime
61A.desire
B.route
C.way
D.idea
69A.next
B.right
C.behind
D.beside
72A.specific
B.same
C.kind
D.different
73A.what
B.which
C.where
D.when
74A.fewer
B.more
C.little
D.few
75A.accustomed
B.relate
C.interested
D.depressed
59A.to throw
B.to break
C.throwing
D.breaking
60A.once
B.before
C.while
D.although
63A.wider
B.better
C.happier
D.calmer
62A.in
B.at
C.for
D.with
66A.In
B.With
C.On
D.At
64A.care
B.start
C.want
D.feel
65A.how
B.when
C.what
D.which
68A.losing
B.helping
C.worrying
D.keeping
67A.rate
B.space
C.pity
D.chance
71A.saw
B.found
C.left
D.ate
70A.before
B.after
C.along
D.from
请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析,谢谢!
One day a lawyer's (律师) wife fell iii and he went to get a doctor. The doctor went to see tile woman, but before he went into the house he stopped. He knew that the lawyer never paid his bill (账单). So he said to the man, "But if I do cure (治愈) your wife I'm afraid you may not pay me."
"Sir," said the lawyer, '" here I have $ 500. Whether you cure my wife or whether you kill her I will give you all this."
The doctor was now sure of the payment and went into the house. When he reached the woman's bedside, it was soon clear to him that he could do little. She was badly iii, and though he gave her some medicine to take, she soon died.
He told the lawyer he was very sorry, then asked for the money.
"Did you kill my wife.'?" asked the lawyer.
"Of course not," said the doctor.
"Well, did you cure my wife?" asked the lawyer.
"I'm afraid that was impossible," answered the doctor.
"Well then, since you didn't kill her and you didn't cure her, I have nothing to pay you."
Before the doctor went into the lawyer's house he stopped because ______.
A.the lawyer was too poor to pay his bills
B.the lawyer had a bad name
C.he knew, well he couldn't cure the lawyer's wife
D.it was well-known that the lawyer would not be willing to pay what he should