In 1978, I was 18 and was working as a nurse in a small town about 270 km away from Sydney, Australia. I was looking forward to having five fays off from duty. Unfortunately, the only one train a day back to my home in Sydney had already left. So I thought I’d hitch a ride (搭便车).
I waited by the side of the highway for three hours but no one stopped for me. Finally, a man walked over and introduced himself as Gordon. He said that although he couldn’t give me a lift, I should come back to his house for lunch. He noticed me standing for hours in the November heat and thought I must be hungry. I was doubtful as a young girl but he assured （使…放心）me I was safe, and he also offered to help me find a lift home afterwards. When we arrived at his house, he made us sandwiches. After lunch, he helped me find a lift home.
Twenty-five years later, in 2003, while I was driving to a nearby town one day, I saw an elderly man standing in the glaring heat, trying to hitch a ride. I thought it was another chance to repay someone for the favour I’d been given decades earlier. I pulled over and picked him up. I made him comfortable on the back seat and offered him some water.
After a few moments of small talk, the man said to me, “You haven’t changed a bit, even your red hair is still the same.” I couldn’t remember where I’d met him. He then told me he was the man who had given me lunch and helped me find a lift all those years ago. It was Gordon.
1.The author had to hitch a ride one day in 1978 because_______.
A. she missed the only train back home
B. she was going home for her holidays
C. the town was far away from Sydney
D. her work delayed her trip to Sydney
2.Which of the following did Gordon do according to Paragraph 2?
A. He gave the girl a ride back home.
B. He helped the girl find a ride.
C. He bought sandwiches for the girl.
D. He watched the girl for three hours.
3.The reason why the author offered a lift to the elderly man was that_________.
A. she realized he was Gordon
B. she had known him for decades
C. she wanted to repay the favour she once got
D. she was going to the nearby town
4.What does the author want to tell the readers through the story?
A. Those who give rides will be rapid.
B. Good manners bring about happiness.
C. People should offer free rides to others.
D. Giving sometimes produces nice results.
One sunny day last September, Tim heard some shouting. Looking out to the sea carefully, he saw a couple of kids in a rowboat were being pulled out to sea.
Two 12-year-old boys, Christian and Jack, rowed out a boat to search for a football. Once they'd rowed beyond the calm waters, a beach umbrella tied to the boat caught the wind and pulled the boat into open water. The pair panicked and tried to row back to shore. But they were no match for it and the boat was out of control.
Tim knew it would soon be swallowed by the waves. "Everything went quiet in my head," Tim recalls(回忆). "I was trying to figure out how to swim to the boys in a straight line."
Tim took off his clothes and jumped into the water. Every 500 yards or so, he raised his head to judge his progress. "At one point, I considered turning back," he says. "I wondered if I was putting my life at risk." After 30 minutes of struggling, he was close enough to yell to the boys, "Take down the umbrella!"
Christian made much effort to take down the umbrella. Then Tim was able to catch up and climb aboard the boat. He took over rowing, but the waves were almost too strong for him.
"Let's aim for the pier(码头)," Jack said. Tim turned the boat toward it. Soon afterward, waves crashed over the boat, and it began to sink. "Can you guys swim?" he cried. "A little bit," the boys said.
Once the were in the water, Tim decided it would he safer and faster for him to pull the boys toward the pier. Christian and Jack were wearing life jackets and floated on their backs. Tim swan toward land as water washed over the boys' faces.
“Are we almost there?" they asked again and again. "Yes," Tim told them each time.
After 30minutes, they reached the pier.
1.what does “it” in paragraph 2 refer to ?
A. The beach B. the water C. the wind D. the boat
2.why did Tim raise his head regularly?
A. to take in enough fresh air
B. To consider turning back to not.
C. To check his distance from the boys
D. To ask the boys to take down the umbrella
3.How did the two boys finally reach the pier?
A. They swam to the pier all by themselves.
B. They were washed to the pier by the wave.
C. They were carried to the pier by Tim on his back.
D. They were dragged to the pier by Tim.
The garden city was largely the invention of Ebenezer Howard (1850 – 1928). After immigrating from England to the USA, and an unsuccessful attempt to make a living as a farmer, he moved to Chicago, where he saw the reconstruction of the city after the disastrous fire of 1871. In those days, it was nicknamed "the Garden City", almost certainly the source of Howard's name for his later building plan of towns．Returning to London, Howard developed his design in the 1880s and 1890s, drawing on ideas that were popular at the time, but creating a unique combination of designs．
The nineteenth-century poor city was in many ways a terrible place, dirty and crowded; but it offered economic and social opportunities．At the same time, the British countryside was in fact equally unattractive: though it promised fresh air and nature, it suffered from agricultural depression（萧条）and it offered neither enough work and wages, nor much social life．Howard's idea was to combine the best of town and country in a new kind of settlement, the garden city．Howard's idea was that a group of people should set up a company, borrowing money to establish a garden city in the depressed countryside; far enough from existing cities to make sure that the land was bought at the bottom price．
Garden cities would provide a central public open space, radial avenues and connecting industries．They would be surrounded by a much larger area of green belt, also owned by the company, containing not merely farms but also some industrial institutions．As more and more people moved in, the garden city would reach its planned limit-Howard suggested 32,000 people; then, another would be started a short distance away．Thus, over time, there would develop a vast planned house collection, extending almost without limit; within it, each garden city would offer a wide rang of jobs and services, but each would also be connected to the others by a rapid transportation system, thus giving all the economic and social opportunities of a big city．
1.How did Howard get the name for his building plan of garden cities?
A. By using the nickname of the reconstructed Chicago．
B. Through his observation of the country life．
C. Through the combination of different ideas．
D. By taking other people's advice．
2.The underlined phrase "drawing on "in Paragraph 1 probably means______．
A．making comments on B．giving an explanation of
C．giving a description of D．making use of
3.What can we learn about garden cities from the last paragraph?
A. Each one would continue to become larger
B. People would live and work in the same place
C. Their number would continue to rise
D. Each one would contain a certain type of business
4.What could be the best title for the passage?
A．City and Countryside
B．The Invention of the Garden City
C．A New City in Chicago
D．A Famous Garden City in England
As our exams were over, my friends and I went to a fast food restaurant. We hamburgers and Coca Colar at the counter. When our came, I started walking towards an empty table. By bad luck, my purse strap(带子) got on a chair and the tray(托盘) that I was holding slipped my hands and went flying in the air. The tray, and its contents, on a man who was just about to a bite of his sandwich. I stared, greatly , as the drinks soaked(浸湿) his white shirt.
Then I my eyes and prepared myself for his burst of . Instead, he said “It’s OK” to me before he disappeared into washroom.
Still shaky and unsure to do next, my friends and I went to a table and sat there, trying our best to look . A moment later, the man came out of the washroom and our table. My heart almost stopped . I though he was going to ask for my father’ s and call him.
To my surprise, he merely smiled at us, handed us some cash and said, “ yourself new hamburgers.” He then walked without even finishing his food.
He could have made what was already an uncomfortable situation worse, he chose a different way and gave us a reason to believe that there is still in this world. I’ll never his actions.
1.A. made B. ordered C. arranged D. demanded
2.A. food B. turn C. bill D. menu
3.A. fixed B. cut C. tied D. caught
4.A. out B. by C. in D. from
5.A. knocked B. fell C. stood D. hung
6.A. taste B. take C. swallow D. chew
7.A. discouraged B. disappointed C. shocked D. annoyed
8.A. rolled B. rubbed C. narrowed D. closed
9.A. bitterness B. anxiety C. anger D. sorrow
10.A. satisfy B. comfort C. encourage D. praise
11.A. what B. how C. who D. which
12.A. mild B. honest C. calm D. modest
13.A. approached B. pushed C. drew D. laid
14.A. breaking B. sinking C. trembling D. beating
15.A. help B. position C. number D. job
16.A. Prepare B. Buy C. Find D. Cook
17.A. away B. on C. around D. up
18.A. so B. since C. although D. but
19.A. kindness B. happiness C. politeness D. brightness
20.A. refuse B. forget C. oppose D. ignore
Provide your doctor with a detailed medical history ____he can give you the accurate treatment
A. even if B. in case C. so that D. as though
It was ___that we wanted to stay here for another two days.
A. such a fine weather B. such fine weather C. so fine weather D. so fine a weather.
