“Lizzie, there’s a letter for you!” Emily called up the stairs to her sister. Elizabeth looked down. “Is it from Harvard? They refused my application once.” Emily answered, “No, it’s from Yale.” Quickly, Elizabeth walked downstairs. She took the letter and opened it. “Rejected again,” Elizabeth said unhappily. “Who says women can’t be doctors?”
“They are fools not to accept you. You can’t let them stop you, Lizzie,” Emily said.
“I won’t. I’ll apply to Geneva Medical College,” Elizabeth told her sister. As it turned out, the professors at Geneva Medical College were not fools. They allowed Elizabeth Blackwell to study medicine.
In 1848, a year before Elizabeth would graduate, a typhoid epidemic (伤寒流行病) broke out in New York. Elizabeth wrote to Emily. “There’s an outbreak of typhoid, and I am going to help. It is dangerous, so if I should not survive, please do me the honor of studying medicine yourself.”
Emily replied, “Encouraged by your dream and success, I have decided to study in medical school, as well.”
Having survived the disease, Elizabeth tried to set up a private medical practice. “I graduated first in my class but no one believes a woman can be a good doctor,” she said to Emily one day. “All I hear is that doctors should be men, while women should stay home to cook and clean.”
Emily said worriedly, “I will graduate in June with my medical degree. What shall we do?” Elizabeth thought for a while and replied, “There’s a big house in the poor part of our town. We can practice medicine there for people who couldn’t afford care.”
Soon with the help of some friends, Elizabeth and Emily bought the house and opened a hospital for poor women and children. “We’ll have an all-women staff ,” Elizabeth said. “And later, we’ll add a medical college for women!” Emily added. At last, Elizabeth realized her dream of being a doctor.The underlined word “Rejected” in the first paragraph can be best replaced by _____.
| A．Refused | B．Praised |
| C．Changed | D．Accepted |
Hearing Elizabeth’s words about the letter from Yale, Emily felt _____.
| A．excited | B．calm |
| C．satisfied | D．angry |
In 1848, Elizabeth wrote to Emily to _____.
| A．persuade Emily to come to help the sick |
| B．ask Emily to study medicine if she died |
| C．warn Emily the danger of typhoid epidemic |
| D．tell Emily she would graduate from college |
We can learn from the text that Elizabeth _____.
| A．received strong support from her sister |
| B．refused to go to study at Yale University |
| C．founded a medical college after graduation |
| D．was finally accepted by Harvard after her efforts |
Which of the following can best be used to describe Elizabeth?
| A．Humorous. | B．Honest. |
| C．Determined. | D．Careful |
In the early part of the twentieth century, racism was widespread in the United States. Many African Americans were not given equal opportunities in education or employment. Marian Anderson (1897-1993) was an African American woman who gained fame as a concert singer in this climate of racism. She was born in Philadelphia and sang in church choirs during her childhood. When she applied for admission to a local music school in 1917, she was turned down because she was black. Unable to attend music school, she began her career as a singer for church gatherings. In 1929, she went to Europe to study voice and spent several years performing there. Her voice was widely praised throughout Europe. Then she returned to the US in 1935 and became a top concert singer after performing at Town Hall in New York City.
Racism again affected Anderson in 1939. When it was arranged for her to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution opposed it because of her color. She sang instead at the Lincoln Memorial for over 75 000 people. In 1955, Anderson became the first black soloist to sing win the Metropolitan Opera of New York City. The famous conductor Toscanini praised her voice as “heard only once in a hundred years”. She was a US delegate to the United Nations in 1958 and won the UN peace prize in 1977. Anderson eventually triumphed over racism.According to this passage, what did Marian Anderson do between 1917 and 1929?
| A．She studied at a music school. | B．She sang for religious activities. |
| C．She sang at Town Hall in New York. | D．She studied voice in Europe. |
Toscanini thought that Marian Anderson .
| A．had a very rare voice | B．sang occasionally in public |
| C．sang only once in many years | D．was seldom heard by people |
Anderson’s beautiful voice was first recognized .
A. at the Lincoln Memorial B. in Washington, DC.
C. in Europe D. at the United NationsThis passage shows that Anderson finally defeated racism in the US by
| A．protesting to the government | B．appealing to the United Nations |
| C．demonstrating in the streets | D．working hard to perfect her art |
Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV, according to results of a survey by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) published Thursday.
The survey, of citizens of five Chinese cities, found that 79 percent of interviewees use the internet for information, and 55.1 percent to read news on the internet. About 63 percent of the interviewees use e-mail. The average times spent surfing the net and watching TV were 2.73 hours and 1.29hours, respectively.
Only 10.4 percent reported use the internet primarily to send and receive email; 65.9 percent read online news; 62.2 quite often play games on-line. More and more people have taken an interest in the entertainment opportunities online. Up to 56.5 percent of interviewees quite often download music, and 53.5 percent get entertainment messages from the internet.
Yet the survey found that television is still the dominant mass medium. Seventy-nine percent of interviewees choose to watch TV to get information, and another 75 percent take newspapers as important as TV.
Five major web sites in the Chinese language, namely Sina, Sohu, Netease, Baidu and Yahoo are still ranked top ones by web users, and those that voted for Sina as the best among them were 30.9 percent.
Authorized statistics showed that web users in China have already exceeded 100 million, second to that of the United States.Which of the following is not true?
| A．Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV. |
| B．There are more Chinese people using the internet for information compared with those reading news on the internet. |
| C．There are more people using e-mail compared with those searching information on the internet. |
| D．There are more people using e-mail compared with those reading news on the internet. |
The survey shows that .
| A．Only 10.4% reported use the internet to send and receive email. |
| B．Less than half of the people use the internet for enter fain-ment. |
| C．All of the people reported like to play games on-line. |
| D．Most of the people reported read online news. |
Which will you choose if you want to chat with your friends on the internet?
| A．TV | B．Sina | C．telephone | D．QQ |
The underlined word “exceeded” means .
| A．increased to | B．increased by | C．risen | D．decreased |
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| C．They should be on the front of the page only. |
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Which of the following is true according to the passage?
| A．The contributors must keep copies of their manuscripts. |
| B．Woman’s Day is most probably a monthly magazine. |
| C．The editor will pay for the damage or loss of the manuscripts. |
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According to the passage the copyright holders are ____ .
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| B．the producers of Woman’s Day |
| C．the readers of Woman’s Day |
| D．those who subscribe Woman’s Day |
Apart from the website, how many other ways can people gain information from the magazine?
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At one time, computers were expected largely to remove the need for paper copies of documents because they could be stored electronically. But for all the texts that are written, stored and sent electronically, a lot of them are still ending up on paper.
It is difficult to measure the quantity of paper used as a result of use of Internet-connected computers, although just about anyone who works in an office can tell you that when e-mail is introduced, the printers start working overtime. “I feel in my bones this revolution is causing more trees to be cut down,” says Ted Smith of the Earth Village Organization.
Perhaps the best sign of how computer and Internet use pushes up demand for paper comes from the high-tech industry itself, which sees printing as one of its most promising new markets. Several Internet companies have been set up to help small businesses print quality documents from a computer. Earlier this week Hewlett-Packard Co. announced a plan to develop new technologies that will enable people to print even more so they can get a hard copy of a business document, a medical record or just a one-line e-mail, even if they are nowhere near a computer. As the company sees it, the more use of the Internet the greater demand for printers .
Does all this mean environmental concerns have been forgotten? Some activists suggest people have been led to believe that a lot of dangers to the environment have gone away. “I guess people believe that the problem is taken care of, because of recycling (回收利用)?” said Kelly Quirke, director of the Rainforest Action Network in San Francisco. Yet Quirke is hopeful that high-tech may also prove helpful. He says printers that print on both sides are growing in popularity. The action group has also found acceptable paper made from materials other than wood, such as agricultural waste. The growing demand for paper in recent years is largely due to ____.
| A．the rapid development of small businesses | B．the opening up of new markets |
| C．the printing of high quality copies | D．the increased use of the Internet |
Environmentalists believe one possible way of dealing with the paper situation is ____.
| A．to encourage printing more quality documents | B．to develop new printers using recycled paper |
| C．to find new materials for making paper | D．to plant more fast-growing trees |
Hewlett-Packard Co. has decided to develop new technologies because ____.
| A．people are concerned about the environment | B．printers in many offices are working overtime |
| C．small companies need more hard copies | D．they see a growing market for printers |
What would be the best title for the text?
| A．Computers and Printers | B．E-mail and the Business World |
| C．Internet Revolution and Environment | D．Modern Technology and New Markets |
In 1918, after four years of war which had left millions of people dead, the people alive began to look for a better and happier world. The cinema supplied an answer. For little money, people could forget their unhappy lives and dream of better ones. In the years between 1918 and 1939, going to the cinema became the most popular family free-time activity.
Hollywood in America, made more films than any other film center in the world. The warm climate and long hours of sunlight meant that film-making was easy and quite cheap. This was also a rich part of America and there were many businessmen who wanted to make money from the film industry. At first short cowboy films were popular because they added excitement and adventure to people’s lives. Later comedy films were made so that people could laugh and forget their troubles.
Charlie Chaplin was probably the most liked of all comedy actors. Cinema became the most popular in people’s free time because ____.
| A．it was cheap | B．it was safe |
| C．it could make people happy | D．both A and C |
Which, according to the writer, is true?
| A．Hollywood made more films than some film centers in the world. |
| B．Many businessmen came to Hollywood in order to make films. |
| C．Hollywood was not the biggest producer of films in the world. |
| D．No other film center made more films than Hollywood did. |
Hollywood became a film center because ____.
| A．film-making there was cheap and easy | B．it enjoyed long hours of sunlight |
| C．it was a rich part of America | D．many businessmen went there |
A “comedy” is something that is ____.
| A．funny | B．exciting | C．full of danger | D．Sad |