閱讀下面短文,從每小題所給的四個選項中,選出一個最佳答案。

  After giving a talk at a high school, I was asked to pay a visit to a special student. An illness had kept the boy home, but he had expressed an interest in meeting me, and it would mean a great deal to him. I agreed.

  During the nine-mile drive to his home, I found out something about Matthew. He had mus-cular dystrophy (肌肉萎縮癥) , When he was born, the doctor told his parents that he would not live to see five, then they were told he would not make it to ten. Now he was thirteen. He wanted to meet me because I was a gold-medal power lifter, and I knew about overcoming obstacles and going for my dream.

  I spent over an hour talking to Matthew. Never once did he complain or ask, “Why me?” He spoke about winning and succeeding and going for his dreams. Obviously, he knew what he was talking about. He didn’t mention that his classmates had made fun of him because he was differ-ent. He just talked about his hopes for the future, and how one day he wanted to lift weight with me.

  When we finished talking, I went to my briefcase and pulled out the first gold medal I won and put it around his neck. I told him he was more of a winner and knew more about success and over-coming obstacles than I ever would. He looked at it for a moment, then took it off and handed it back to me. He said, “You are a champion. You earned that medal. Someday when I get to the Olympics and win my own medal, I will show it to you. ”

  Last summer I received a letter from Matthew’s parents telling me that Matthew had passed away. They wanted me to have a letter he had written to me a few days before

  Dear Rick ,

  My mom said I should send you a thank-you letter for the picture you sent me. 1 also want to let you know that the doctors tell me that 1 don ‘t have long to live anymore. But I still smile as much as 1 can.

  I told you someday 1 was going to the Olympics and win a gold medal. But I know now I will never get to do that. But I know 1 ‘m a champion , and God knows that too. When I get to Heaven , God will give me my medal and when you get there , I will show it to you. Thank you for loving me.

Your friend ,

Matthew

1.The boy wanted to meet the author because________.

[  ]

A.he was interested in weight lifting

B.he wanted to get a gold medal.

C.he admired the author very much

D.he wanted the author to know him.

2.The underlined part “Why me?” in the third paragraph probably means “________”

[  ]

A.Why do you come to see me?

B.Why do I have to stay at home?

C.Why does the disease fall on me?

D.Why not give a gold medal to me?

3.We can infer from the passage that ________.

[  ]

A.Matthew is a determined boy

B.Rich used to have the same disease

C.Matthew became a champion finally

D.Rick regarded Matthew as normal

4.The boy refused the author’s medal because ________.

[  ]

A.he wanted the picture instead

B.he did not like to be pitied by others

C.he did not know he would die soon

D.he himself could earn one in the future

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  When I asked my daughter which item she would keep; the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said “the phone”. Personally, I could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual, because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology.

  Point 1 The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 pm and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about?

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  Point 3 The mobile removes our secrets. It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsch , Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at any time of day to ask where they are, where they are going, any how their last meeting went.

  Point 4 The telephone separates us. Antonella Bramante in Rome says , “ We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were so near-but we didn’t meet for the first two weeks!”

  Point 5 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously (同時地) on chat lines (at least my daughter does. I wouldn’t know what to talk about). We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts (if you know any) while they’re space-walking. And, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can use the Internet, the biggest library on the Earth.

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A businessman walks into a bank in San Francisco and asks for the loan officer. He says he is going to Europe on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5000 . The bank officer says the bank will need some kind of security for such a loan. So the businessman hands over the keys to a Rolls Royce parked on the street in front of the bank. Everything checks out, and the bank agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan. An employee drives the Rolls Royce into the bank’s underground garage and parks it there.

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B. he thinks the businessman is crazy to leave his car in the bank

C . he never thought the businessman could drive a Rolls Royce

D. he thinks$5000 is so small a sum of money to the businessman

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A. security     B. payment      C . reward      D. deal

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閱讀下面短文,從每小題所給的四個選項(A、B、C、D)中,選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項,并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

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Two weeks later, the businessman returns, and repays the $5000 and the interest, which comes to $15.41.

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Laughing, the businessman replies, “ Where else in San Francisco can I park my car for two weeks for $15?”

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A. borrowing$5000                             B. meeting the loan officer

C . finding a place to park his car              D. showing how rich he is

57. The loan officer is puzzled because        .

A. he never thought he could meet a multimillionaire in his bank

B. he thinks the businessman is crazy to leave his car in the bank

C . he never thought the businessman could drive a Rolls Royce

D. he thinks$5000 is so small a sum of money to the businessman

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A. security     B. payment      C . reward      D. deal

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