The first day of school we were interested to get to know a new classmate.I looked around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder.I found a little old lady with a warm smile.
She said,“Hi ! I’m Rose.I’m 87 years old.Can I give you a hug?”I laughed and I heartily responded,“Of course!”
“Why are you in college at such a young,innocent(天真無邪的)age?”I asked.
She jokingly replied,“I’m here to meet a rich husband,get married,have children, and then travel around.”
“Not seriously,”I asked.I was curious why she took on this challenge at this age.
“I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!”she told me.We became instant friends.
Over the year,Rose became a campus icon(偶像) and she easily made friends wherever she went.She loved to dress up and she enjoyed the attention from the other students.
At the end of the semester,we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I’ll never forget what she taught us.
“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.Here are the secrets to staying young.You have to laugh and find humor every day.You’ve got to have a dream.When you lose your dreams,you die.Unfortunately we have many people like this walking around?”she said.
“There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.Anybody can grow older.That doesn’t take any talent or ability,”she added.“But growing up requires finding the opportunity in change.Have no regrets.The elederly usually don’t regret what they did,but rather things they did not do.”
One week after graduation that year,Rose died peacefully in her sleep.She taught us by example that__________________.
小題1:Why was Rose in college at 87? Because        .
A．she wanted to meet a rich husband
B．she wanted to get married and have children
C．she wanted to travel around
D．she dreamed of having a college education
小題2:According to the passage,Rose loved to do the following EXCEPT       .
A．dress up
B．enjoy the attention from the other students
C．play football
D．make friends
小題3:According to what Rose said,we can know that to stay young you must not     .
A．laughB．be humorous
C．have a dreamD．lose your dream
小題4:According to the last paragraph but one we know         .
A．growing older is quite different from growing up
B．growing older needs talent
C．growing up doesn’t require ability
D．the elderly usually have no regrets
小題5:Which of the following can be used to fill in the blank at the end of the passage?
A．where there is a will, there’s a way
B．never too late to learn
C．Study hard and you will be young
D．never too late to be all you can possibly be

小題1:D
小題2:A
小題3:D
小題4:A
小題5:D
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A．a(chǎn) rich man who owned a big wood
B．a(chǎn) poor Irishman who lived all by himself
C．a(chǎn) clever man who tried to get something to eat
D．a(chǎn)n Irish hunter with a large family
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After 3 minutes a middle-aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He stopped for a few seconds and then hurried on. Four minutes later the violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat without stopping and continued to walk. After 6 minutes, a young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and walked away. After 10 minutes, a 3-year-old boy stopped but his mother dragged him along hurriedly. This action was repeated by several other children. Every parent, without exception, forced their children to move on quickly.
Finally only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while. About 20 gave money, but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $ 32. When he finished playing, no one applauded.
The violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate (復(fù)雜的) pieces ever written, with a violin worth $ 3.5 million dollars. Two days before, Joshua Bell sold out a theatre in Boston where the seats averaged $ 100 each.
The program was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about understanding, taste, and people’s social position. In a common place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we appreciate beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?
If we do not take a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, how many other things are we missing?
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A．the man chose a bad place for playingB．what background the story was set in
C．how busy people were that morningD．many people showed interest in music
小題2:We can infer from the passage that ______.
A．none of the passers-by were fond of music
B．beauty can only be enjoyed in particular places
C．in a way, the violinist was mistaken as a beggar
D．Joshua Bell first played the violin in the station
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After twenty years of shaving（剃須）himself every morning, a man in a small Southern town thought he had enough. He told his wife that he intended to let the local barber shave him each day. He put on his hat and coat and went to the barber shop.
The barber's wife, Grace, was working that day, so she performed the task. Grace shaved him, and said, "That will be $20." The man thought the price was a bit high, but he paid the bill and went to work.
The next morning the man looked in the mirror, and his face was as smooth as it had been when he left the barber shop the day before. “Not bad, he thought. At least I don't need to get a shave every day.”
The next morning, the man's face was still smooth. Two weeks later, the man was still unable to find any trace of whiskers on his face. It was more than he could take and he was frightened, so he returned to the barber shop.
"I thought $20 was high for a shave", he told the barber's wife, "but you must have done a great job. It's been two weeks and my whiskers still haven't started growing back." The expression on her face didn't even change, expecting his comment. She responded, "You were shaved by Grace and once shaved, always shaved!"
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A．the man lived a very poor lifeB．the man liked shaving himself
C．the man finally got bored of shaving himselfD．the man decided not to shave again
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A．too littleB．too muchC．properD．impossible
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A．Everybody in the town knows Grace.
B．Nobody wants to be shaved by Grace in the town.
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An ancient Egyptian mummy thought to be that of Pharaoh Ramses I(法老一世)has returned home after more than 140 years in North American museums. The body was carried off the plane in Cairo in a box covered in Egypt’s flag.
The Michael Carlos Museum gave it back after tests showed it was probably that of the man who ruled 3,000 years ago. The US museum acquired it three years ago from a Canadian museum, which in turn is thought to have bought it from Egyptian garve robbers in 1860. The mummy was welcomed back home with songs and military band music during a ceremony at the national museum in Cairo.
Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities(文物最高委員會(huì)), traveled from the US with the body and said it would be moved next year to the Luxor Museum in southern Egypt. “We are not 100% sure that mummy is that of Ramses I,” said Mr. Hawass. “But we are 100% sure that it is of a king.”
Atlanta’s Michael Carlos Museum acquired the mummy in 1999, but offered to return it after hi-tech scanning equipment indicated it was likely to be that of Ramses I. The museum website said it had been acquired from the Niagara Falls Museum. It is thought a Canadian collector bought the mummy for the Niagara Falls Museum around 1860 from an Egyptian family which had came across a tomb filled with royal mummies at a site near Luxor.
Mr. Hawass praised the handover as “a great, civilized gesture”. And he appealed to other world museums to return Egypt’s antiquities, particularly the Rosetta Stone in the Britain Museum and the Bust of Nefertiti in the Berlin Museum.
小題1: Where was Ramses mummy kept in just before the handover?
A．the Luxor Museum
B．the Michael Carlos Museum
C．the Niagara Falls Museum
D．a(chǎn) Canadian Museum
小題2:Which is the correct order of the following events according to the passage?
a. The mummy returned home.
b. The mummy was kept in the Niagara Falls Museum.
c. Egyptian grave robber sold he mummy.
d. A Canadian collector bought the mummy.
e. The mummy was kept in the Michael Carlos Museum.
A．c-d-e-b-a
B．c-b-e-d-a
C．a(chǎn)-d-c-b-e
D．c-d-b-e-a
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A．All the Egypt’s antiquities have returned home after the handover.
B．Niagara Falls Museum is an American museum.
C．Buying the mummy from the Egyptian family was a civilized gesture.
D．Ramses Mummy had been kept in Canada for more than a century.
小題4: What would be the best title for the passage?
A．The history of Ramses mummy.
B．The handover ceremony of Ramses mummy from Canada.
C．The returning of Ramses mummy to its homeland Egypt.
D．The history of the royal family of Ramses.

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