1、A film crew was at the Circle Five Ranch to film a Marlboro commercial. This was in 1868, before they prohibited cigarette ads from American television. Darrell Winfield was watching the crew set up the equipment. The scene included an actor crossing a river on horseback, but when the time came to s
2、hoot, the man was too drunk to ride. Someone from the crew saw Winfield and asked him if he would ride the horse for 50 dollars. Hell, said Winfield, for 50 bucks, Ill jump that damn horse over the moon! To people in many countries, Winfield is just a familiar but nameless face, a simple cowboy with
3、 an advertising message about a connection between the West and a brand of cigarettes. Few people know that he is 55, a family man whos been married to the same woman for 37 years and has 5 children and 7 grandchildren. Most surprisingly, hes a real, working cowboy who raises horses in his ranch in
4、Wyoming.One of the most striking things about the Marlboro Man is that success hasnt changed him much. He says that complete strangers sometimes come up to him and say, Ive met you,know you from somewhere. Whenever it happens, he says that he gets embarrassed.(1)、Marlboro commercials were allowed on
5、 television in America before 1868.A：TB：F答案：A (2)、The word prohibited in the first paragraph mean forbidden.A：TB：F答案：A (3)、When they filmed the ad, Winfield was too drunk. A：TB：F答案：B (4)、From the passage, we know that Winfield was a rich man. A：TB：F答案：B (5)、When people recognized Winfield, he felt u
6、ncomfortable.A：TB：F答案：A Last Friday a storm tore through two villages in the New Territories destroying fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged that their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or torn roofs. One person was killed, several were badly injured and t
7、aken to hospital, and a number of other people received smaller injuries. Altogether over two hundred people were homeless as a result of the storm.A farmer, Mr. C. Y. Tan, said that the storm began early in the morning and lasted for over an hour.I was in the kitchen with my wife and children, he s
8、aid, when we heard a loud noise. A few minutes later our house fell down on top of us, we managed to climb out but then I saw that one of my children was missing. I went back inside and found him, safe but very frightened.Mrs. Woo Mei Fong said that her husband had just left for work when she notice
9、d that her house was shaking. She rushed outside immediately with her children.There was no time to take anything, she said. A few minutes later, the roof came down.Soldiers helped to bring people out of the flooded area and the Welfare Department provided food, clothes and shelter.(1)、Some of the p
10、eople were taken to hospital because they had been badly injured.A：TB：F答案：A (2)、When the storm first began, Mr. Tan was inside his house.A：TB：F答案：A (3)、When Mr. Tans house fell down, only one of his children was inside it.A：TB：F答案：A (4)、Mrs. Woo and her family escaped injury because her husband had
11、gone to work.A：TB：F答案：B (5)、The best title for the passage would be A Terrible Storm.A：TB：F答案：A In 1933 an unknown American called Clarence Nash went to see the filmmaker Walt Disney. He had an unusual voice and he wanted to work in Disneys cartoon（动画片） film for children. When Walt Disney heard Nash
12、s voice, he said,Stop! Thats our duck!The duck was the now-famous Donald Duck, who first appeared in 1934 in the film The Wise Little Hen. Donald lived in an old houseboat and wore his sailor jacket and hat. Later that year he became a star after an eight-minute Mickey Mouse film. The cinema audienc
13、e liked him because he was lazy and greedy, and because he lost his temper very quickly. And they loved his voice when he became angry with Mickeys eight nephews. Soon Donald was more popular than Mickey Mouse himself, probably because he wasnt a goody-goody like Mickey.In the 1930s, 40s and 50s Don
14、ald and his friends Mickey, Goofy and Pluto made hundreds of Disney cartoons. He also made educational films about the place of the USA in the world and safety in the home. Then in 1966 Donald Duck and his voice disappeared-there were no more new cartoons. Clarence Nash died in February, 1985. But t
15、odays children can still see the old cartoons on television and hear that famous voice.(1)、Walt Disney made Donald Duck film.A：TB：F答案：A (2)、The first Donald Duck film was made in 1934.A：TB：F答案：A (3)、Clarence Nash was a film-maker.A：TB：F答案：B (4)、The underlined word audience in the second paragraph me
16、ans readers.A：TB：F答案：B (5)、The underlined word goody-goody in the second paragraph means a person who likes to appear to be faultless in behavior.A：TB：F答案：A全套完整题库，全中文翻译内容，复习更方便，考前独家提供简化版本，助您快速通过，全程免费答疑。唯一QQ28638354One day in 1965, when I was a library worker at school, a teacher came to me. She had
17、a student who finished his work before all the others and needed something more difficult for him to do. Could you help me in the library? she asked. I said, Send him along.Soon, a golden-haired boy appeared. Do you have a job for me? he asked. I told him about a system for sorting books. He picked
18、up the idea immediately. Then I showed him some cards for some unreturned books that I thought had been returned but not recorded. Maybe some books were put on wrong places. He said, Is it a kind of a detective （侦探） job? I answered yes, and then began his work.He had found three books with wrong car
19、ds by the time his teacher opened the door and said, Time for rest! he argued for finishing the finding job, but the teacher won. The next morning, he arrived early, I want to finish these books, he said. At the end of the day, when he asked to work with me more often, it was easy for me to say yes.
20、After a few weeks I found a note on my desk, inviting me to dinner at the boys home. At the end of a pleasant evening, his mother declared that the family would be moving to another school. Her sons first concern, she said, was leaving the library. Who will find the lost books? he asked. When the ti
21、me came, it was hard to say goodbye. Though at the beginning he had seemed an ordinary boy, his strong feeling of interest had made him different. Do you know who he is? This boy became a great man of the Information Age: Bill Gates.(1)、The teacher went to the library to find a job for Bill Gates.A：
22、TB：F答案：A (2)、The librarian was too busy to have a rest.A：TB：F答案：B (3)、The sentence He picked up the idea immediately means that he learned that system quickly.A：TB：F答案：A (4)、Bill Gates was expected to find books with wrong cards.A：TB：F答案：A (5)、Bill Gates felt sad when his family would move to anothe
23、r school area.A：TB：F答案：B A young man who lived in London was in love with a beautiful girl. Soon she became his fiance （未婚妻）. The man was very poor while the girl was rich. The young man wanted to make her a present on her birthday. He wanted to buy something beautiful for her, but he had no idea ho
24、w to do it, as he had very little money. The next morning he went to a shop. There were many fine things there: gold watches, diamond but all these things were too expensive. There was one thing he could not take his eyes off. It was a beautiful vase. That was a suitable present for his fiance. He h
25、ad been looking at the vase for half an hour when the manager of the shop noticed him. The young man looked so pale, sad and unhappy that the manager asked what had happened to him.The young man told him everything. The manager felt sorry for him and decided to help him. A bright idea struck him. Th
26、e manager pointed to the corner of the shop. To his great surprise the young man saw a vase broken into many pieces. The manager said: When the servant enters the room, he will drop it.On the birthday of his fiance the young man was very excited.Everything happened as had been planned. The servant b
27、rought in the vase, and as he entered the room, he dropped it. There was horror on everybodys face. When the box was opened, the guests saw that each piece was packed separately.(1)、The story took place in the United States.A：TB：F答案：B (2)、The young mans family was poor while the beautiful girl is ri
28、ch, according to the passage.A：TB：F答案：A (3)、The young man wanted to buy a present as a Christmas gift for the girl.A：TB：F答案：B (4)、The shop manager came to talk to the young man, because he was poorly dressed.A：TB：F答案：B (5)、On the birthday of his fiance, the young man was excited because the girl was
29、 in love with him.A：TB：F答案：B Our childs behavior is greatly influenced by the way we react to what he has done. Our reactions help to determine whether our child will repeat his behavior or whether he will do something different. This statement is a very important part of a principle of behavioral p
30、sychology.The principle states that a behavior is influenced or affected by how the environment - people, places and things - immediately responds to the behavior. Perhaps without realizing it, you have used this principle many times.On the occasion when you told your child what a good boy he was af
31、ter he cleaned up his room, you used the principle. When you sent your child to his room for fighting with his brother, you used the principle. When I gave Kim a cookie after she started to cry, I used the principle. In each of these examples, a particular behavior occurred first - cleaning up a roo
32、m, fighting, and crying.In addition, there was a reaction to each behavior - the child was praised, sent to his room, or given a cookie. By these actions, we have influenced the previous behaviors and have helped to determine whether those behaviors will occur again in the future.(1)、The lecture is
33、mainly about Childrens behavior and our response.A：TB：F答案：A (2)、The lecture is based on the principle in behavioral psychology.A：TB：F答案：A (3)、The audience at this lecture might be social workers.A：TB：F答案：B (4)、According to the lecture, the child was sent to his room as a kind of reward.A：TB：F答案：B (5
34、)、People, places and things are elements of environment meant by the lecturer.A：TB：F答案：A 、Younger people and older people do not always agree. They sometimes have different ideas about life, work and play. But in one special program in New York State, adults and teenagers live together in peace. Eac
35、h summer 200 teenagers and 50 adults live together for eight weeks as members of a special work group. Everyone works several hours each day. The aim is not just to keep busy but rather to find meaning and enjoyment in work. Some teenagers work in the woods or on the farms near the village. Some lea
36、rn to make furniture and to build houses. The adults teach them these skills.There are several free hours each day. Weekends are free, too. During the free hours some of the teenagers learn photography or painting. Others sit around talking and singing. Each teenager chooses his own way to spend his
37、 free time.When people live together, rules are always necessary. In this program the teenagers and the adults make the rules together. If someone breaks a rule, the problem goes before the whole group. The group discusses the problem. They ask, Why did it happen? What should we do about it? One of
38、the teenagers has this to say about the experience: You stop thinking only about yourself. You learn how to think about the group. (1)、The passage is mainly about how adults and teenagers live together in a special group.A：TB：F答案：A (2)、The special program offered every winter in New York city.A：TB：F
39、答案：B (3)、People will make more rules when someone breaks a rule.A：TB：F答案：B (4)、To find a way to solve the generation gap is NOT stated directly in the passage as a purpose of the program.A：TB：F答案：A (5)、Some teenagers learn photography when they are free.A：TB：F答案：A In Sydney there is a special long-d
40、istance running race called the City to Surf. The race takes place on the second Sunday in August every year. More than 23,000 people run in the race. The race is 14 kilometers long. It starts in the center of the city and finishes at a surf beach called Bondi. That is why its called the City to Sur
41、f. All kinds of people run in the City to Surf. Some people take their small children in strollers. Other people take their dogs on the lead. Blind people in wheelchairs also take part in the race. Old people take part in the race too. In 1981 the oldest runner was an 81-year-old man and his sister
42、Linda, 76 was the last runner to finish. At the end of the race an official writes down the runners names and running times. The newspaper prints the names and running times of the competitors a few days later. In 1981 the first runner took just 40 minutes to run the race. The last runner took two a
43、nd a half hours. The first man and the first woman to cross the finishing line each received a trophy and a free trip to San Francisco in the United States. There they ran in another long-distance race. (1)、An annual long-distance running race in Sydney is The City to Surf. A：TB：F答案：A (2)、The race s
44、tarts in center Sydney and finishes at Bondi. A：TB：F答案：A (3)、The race is held in winter. A：TB：F答案：B (4)、Local citizens take part in the race. A：TB：F答案：B (5)、Old-aged runners are especially encouraged to join the race. A：TB：F答案：B There was once a large, fat woman who had a small, thin husband. He had
45、 a job in a big company and was given his weekly wages every Friday evening. As soon as he got home on Fridays, his wife used to make him give her all his money, and then she used to give him back enough to buy his lunch in the office every day. One day the small man came home very excited. He hurri
46、ed into the living-room. His wife was listening to the radio and eating chocolates there. Youll never guess what happened to me today, dear, he said. He waited for a few seconds and then added, I won ten thousand pounds on the lottery! Thats wonderful! said his wife delightedly. But then she thought for a few seconds and added angrily, But wait a moment! How could you afford to buy the lottery tickets? (1)、The small man was allowed to keep just enough to buy his lunch in the office every day. A：TB：F答案：A (2)、The man won a lottery one day. A：TB：F答案：A (3
