Beep …beep … There went the bell! Robbie opened his eyes. He had been sitting in the room for a whole day, and now it was time for him to do something.
Robbie looked out of the window. It was still snowing heavily and there was ice on the window. It was another cold day. Robbie was told to turn the heat on before the family got home. And he did it.
Then Robbie was told to do some cleaning work at once. It was an easy job for him, but a tough one for his master, Helen. He kept on working until every room was clean and tidy.
For now, he had to cook supper for the family.
The first thing Robbie did was to get the big pot(锅) in the kitchen. Then he put some water in the pot and put it on the stove. He used one of his hands to cut up a chicken and added the pieces to the water to make a good soup. Then he got some tomatoes, cabbages and carrots to make a vegetable salad.
At ten past eight he laid the table. Then he put some bread, the chicken soup and the salad on it. What a sweet smell! The moment he turned on the lights, the whole family came home.
“The soup smells great, Victor,” said Helen. “You really know how to tell Robbie what to do.”
Robbie is one robot that really saves the family a lot of work.What is Robbie?
| A．A cook. | B．A robot | C．A cleaner | D．A computer |
What do the underlined words “did it” in the second paragraph mean?
| A．looked out | B．got home |
| C．turned the heat on | D．did some cleaning |
What time did Robbie lay the table?
What can we learn from the passage?
| A．The story happened on a rainy day. |
| B．Robbie didn’t have to be told what to do. |
| C．Helen found it easy to do cleaning work at home. |
| D．Victor and Helen felt comfortable when they got home. |
We can make mistakes at any age. Some mistakes we make are about money. But most mistakes are about people.“Did Jerry really care when I broke up with Helen?” When I got that great job, did Jim really feel good about it, as a friend? Or did he envy(嫉妒)my luck?”“And Paul-why didn’t he pick up that he was friendly just because I had a car?”When we look back, doubts like these can make us feel bad. But when we look back, it’s too late.
Why do we go wrong about our friends or our enemies? Sometimes what people say hides their real meaning. And if we don’t really listen we miss the feeling behind the words. Suppose someone tells you, “You’re a lucky dog.”that’s being friendly. But“lucky dog”?There’s a bit of envy in those words. Maybe he doesn’t see it himself. But bringing in the “dog” bit puts you down a little. What he may be saying is that he doesn’t think you deserve your luck.
“Just think of all the things you have to be thankful for ”is another noise that says one thing and means another . It could mean that the speaker is trying to get you to see your problem as part of your life as a whole. But is he? Wrapped up(包藏) in this phrase is the thought that your problem isn’t important. It’s telling you to think of all the starving people in the world when you haven’t got a date for Saturday night.
How can you tell the real meaning behind someone’s got a date for Saturday night? Good look at the person talking. Do his words fit the way he looks? Does what he says agree with the tone of voice? His posture(姿态)?The look in his eyes? Stop and think. The minute you spend thinking about the real meaning of what people to you may save another mistake.This passage is mainly about_____.
| A．how to interpret(understand) what people say |
| B．what to do when you listen to others talking |
| C．how to avoid mistakes when you communicate with people |
| D．why we go wrong with people sometimes |
According to the author, the reason why we go wrong about our friends is that_______.
| A．we fail to listen carefully when they talk |
| B．we tend to(倾向)doubt what our friends say |
| C．people usually state one thing but means another |
| D．people tend to be annoyed when we check what they say |
In the sentence “Maybe he doesn’t see it himself.” In the second paragraph, the pronoun “it”refers to____.
| A．being friendly | B．a bit of envy | C．lucky dog | D．your luck |
When we listen to a person talking , the most important thing for us to do is _______.
| A．notice the way the person is talking |
| B．take a good look at the person talking |
| C．mind his tone, his posture and the look in his eyes |
| D．examine the real meaning of what he says based on his manner, his tone and his posture |
My wife passed away a few years ago, and I went through the worst time in my life. I even wanted to kill myself .Just for kids, I had to continue to live and work as small-town doctor at my medical clinic in Hawaii. My kids had gone to live on the mainland, and I was alone. Then they asked me to have a family trip. On our trip, we turned on the TV at the motel and saw the second plane crash into the World Trade Center. Seeing it falling down, I said to my kids: “I’m going to Afghanistan”. And a few weeks later, international Medical Corps sent me to set up 20 clinics in provinces where people had no health care. In these field clinics surrounded by frightening shoots or deadly bombs, we were eventually serving 27,000 patients a month in a very busy schedule. Tired and nervous, I gradually had a sense of achievement, a sense of purpose, and my depression went away.
In the years to follow, I went to Indonesia after the tsunami, Pakistan after the earthquakes, Sudan after the civil war and Iraq after more and more bombs. Each time after disasters one after another, hundreds of people were killed, wounded and many more had to flee. We once set up movable clinics in an area with 19,000 refugees, and it was supposed to hold 13,000 originally. Flu broke out, one of the biggest killers of kids in refugee camps, and it spread like wildfire. Water and food were also serious problems. “Adventures or not?” I often asked myself.
When my wife passed away, I thought my life was done. But in reality, it was just getting started. At the end of her life, she went unconscious. I held her head in my hands and told her of all the places we would visit and the exciting adventures we would have.
I think about the moment many times during my “adventures”. I didn’t know how predictive those words would be. But I know that she is still with me.Where has the doctor been in the past few years?
| A．Some countries where he could set up clinics. |
| B．Some African countries where flu broke out. |
| C．The places where the earthquakes happened. |
| D．The places that the horrible disasters struck. |
How would the doctor describe his life after he had worked in Afghanistan?
| A．Tired and troublesome. | B．Busy and risky. |
| C．Meaningful and helpful | D．Frightening and depressing. |
The underlined word “refugees” means people_______________.
| A．who are robbed, killed, or wounded |
| B．who suffer from flu in movable clinics |
| C．who like to take adventures |
| D．who have lost homes because of disasters. |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．the doctor’s wife encouraged him to work in foreign countries |
| B．What the doctor said to his wife before her death became reality. |
| C．The doctor’s adventures made him understand the love of his wife. |
| D．With the true love of his wife, the doctor started to change his life. |
A Great Creator
Steven Jobs, the designer of Apple Computer, was not clever when he was in school. At that time, he was not a good student and he always made troubles with his schoolmates. When he went into college, he didn’t change a lot. Then he dropped out. But he was full of new ideas.
After he left college, Steven Jobs worked as a video game designer. He worked there for only several months and then he went to India. He hoped that the trip would give him some new ideas and give him a change in life.
Steven Jobs lived on a farm in California for a year after he returned from India.
In 1975, he began to make a new type of computer. He designed the Apple Computer with his friend in his garage. He chose the name “Apple” just because it could help him to remember a happy summer he once spent an apple tree garden.
His Apple Computer was such a great success that Steven Jobs soon became famous all over the world.Steven Jobs was not a good student in school because he .
| A．never did his lessons |
| B．was full of new ideas |
| C．always made troubles with his schoolmates |
| D．he was not clever |
Then he dropped out.
| A．drop in | B．gave up college | C．fall off | D．left out |
Steven Jobs called his new computer “Apple” because .
| A．he likes apples too much |
| B．he wanted to remember the happy time in an apple tree garden |
| C．he always liked some new ideas |
| D．he wanted to change in his life |
Steven Jobs is famous for his all over the world .
| A．new ideas | B．apple |
| C．Apple Computer | D．video games |
From this passage we know .
| A．Steven Jobs didn’t finish his studies in the college because he hated his schoolmates. |
| B．Steven Jobs liked traveling in India and California. |
| C．Steven Jobs only designed video games. |
| D．Steven Jobs liked trying new things and making new ideas become true. |
I went to a volunteer orientation（志愿者活动情况介绍会） at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in California several days ago.
Before I went there, I thought it was just a meeting for us to learn some basic information on how to do volunteer work. To my surprise, this meeting lasted for four hours! It told us in detail how to be a good volunteer at hospital.
For example, Graham, the director, told us to keep eye contact while offering help and never wait to be asked but offer help first. She also told us to bend down（弯下腰） to listen while patients are talking to show that we’re willing to hear. We should lead them to ask others for help if we can’t answer their questions and never say: it is not my business.
For the whole meeting, Miss Graham taught us how to satisfy patients through our words, body language and manners. It impressed me a lot. Americans pay so much attention to serving people with a professional attitude（专业的态度）.
I suddenly realized why many people feel foreigners are really nice and friendly. They have been trained to do so since they were young. They always ask themselves: How do people feel toward my service? How can I improve to let them feel better? I really like this kind of culture.According to the first two paragraphs, we learn the following about the volunteer orientation EXCEPT ____.
| A．it was held in a hospital |
| B．it lasted for four hours |
| C．it told people how to be a good volunteer at hospital |
| D．it talked about the kinds of volunteer work there are |
As a volunteer at hospital, you should ____.
| A．always wait to be asked |
| B．bend down to listen when being asked |
| C．show them that you know everything |
| D．leave them alone if you can’t help |
The last paragraph mainly talks about ____.
| A．what the whole meeting was about |
| B．why the meeting was successful |
| C．cultural differences between China and the US |
| D．what the writer learned from the meeting |
What does the writer think of such culture in the US?
| A．She feels that it is great. |
| B．She doesn’t like it. |
| C．She feels that it is hard to understand. |
| D．She thinks only the US has this kind of culture. |
London used to be “foggy”--- the “fog” was in fact smog, a mixture of smoke and fog. In other words, it was caused by air pollution. In London, some of this pollution came from factories, but a lot of it came from the coal that people burnt in their houses to keep warm during the winter. By the 1950s, London’s smog problem had become so bad that the government decided to do something to clean up the air. It didn’t allow people to born coal in any British city. A few years later, the air became much cleaner.
Today many Chinese cities face the same problem with air pollution that London faced sixty years ago. However, this problem is more difficult for Chinese cities to solve. One reason is that more of pollution comes from big factories, rather than from the coal burnt in people’s houses. If these factories were suddenly closed, it would harm the economy and lots of people would lose their jobs. Another reason is that changing from coal to cleaner fuels is quite expensive. However, the air in many cities will become cleaner, as the government and ordinary people pay more and more attention to protecting the environment. Where was the pollution from in London over sixty years ago?
| A．The pollution came from factories. |
| B．The pollution was from coal that people burnt in their houses. |
| C．The pollution was from too much traffic on the roads. |
| D．The pollution was from factories and coal that people burnt in their houses. |
How was the air in London after the government didn’t allow people to born coal in any British city?
| A．It was still foggy. | B．It was smog. |
| C．It was much cleaner. | D．It was stormy. |
What is the main idea of the second paragraph?
| A．In most of Chinese cities there is smog. |
| B．The reasons of smog in China. |
| C．The reasons of why it’s difficult for China to solve “smog”. |
| D．What did Chinese government do to solve “smog”. |
Which of the following is not true EXCEPT ____.
| A．people in London were allowed to born coal sixty years ago. |
| B．the air pollution in many Chinese cities is not serious. |
| C．smog in fact is a mixture of smoke and fog. |
| D．changing from coal to cleaner fuels is quite easy and cheap. |