SYDNEY 2005-01-01 08:33—Mother of two, Jillian Searle, had to choose between her children when she made a life-or-death decision.
Swept up by mountainous tsunami (海啸) waves at a Thai resort ( 旅游胜地), she could not hold on to both her young sons and survive . Fighting to stay above the waters , she had to choose which one would have to take his chances in the swirling torrent (漩流).
“I knew I had to let go of one of them and I just thought I’d better let go of the one that’s the older,” she told Sky News television in a report broadcast on Thursday. She said she was accompanied by the two boys, Lachie, 5, and two-year-old Blake, and their father, Brad, who had watched the drama helplessly from their first-floor hotel room, when the waves struck. “And I was screaming, trying to find him, and we thought he was dead,” she told reporters on arrival back in Australia. Lachie was found alive about 2 hours later clinging to a door and, looked uninjured as his mother spoke to reporters.
British surfer (冲浪运动员) Martin Markwell is also a lucky man. He had always dreamed of catching that perfect wave –but when it finally came along, it was a nightmare. He was on his surfboard when he was swept up by a tsunami wave.
“It was really terrible because I was surfing, I was really surfing on a wave I wasn’t supposed to be on,” he said. “As an experienced surfer, when I saw the wave come I realized something was wrong, but I couldn’t escape because my surfboard was tied to my ankle.”
His wife Vicki and son Jake looked on in horror from a hotel balcony as he crashed towards the shore. Luckily , he stayed on top of his board until he reached the hotel , jumped off and got to safety as the ocean rolled back to feed a much larger tsunami wave on its way . The family regrouped and ran to safety just minutes before a giant tsunami wave 10 meters high.
1.When the waves struck, the father Brad ________.
A. reported the disaster to Sky News television
B. was watching a drama play on TV in the hotel
C. tried to find his son lost in the waters
D. watched things going on , unable to do anything
2.The underlined word “him” refers to ________.
A. an old man B. Lachie C. Brad D. Blake
3.Which of the following is wrong ?
A. Lachie and Martin were both with their family members when the disaster happened.
B. Lachie and Martin both survived from the high waves when tsunami struck.
C. Lachie and Martin were both travelers from Europe on holiday in Thailand.
D. Lachie and Martin were both alive owing to their good luck.
4.The best title of this news story would be ________ .
A. Narrow Escape B. Disaster Caused by Tsunami
C. Exciting Surfing Experience D. Struggle Against Tsunami
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SYDNEY 2005-01-01 08:33—Mother of two, Jillian Searle, had to choose between her children when she made a life-or-death decision.
Swept up by mountainous tsunami (海啸) waves at a Thai resort ( 旅游胜地), she could not hold on to both her young sons and survive . Fighting to stay above the waters , she had to choose which one would have to take his chances in the swirling torrent (漩流).
“I knew I had to let go of one of them and I just thought I’d better let go of the one that’s the older,” she told Sky News television in a report broadcast on Thursday. She said she was accompanied by the two boys, Lachie, 5, and two-year-old Blake, and their father, Brad, who had watched the drama helplessly from their first-floor hotel room, when the waves struck. “And I was screaming, trying to find him, and we thought he was dead,” she told reporters on arrival back in Australia. Lachie was found alive about 2 hours later clinging to a door and, looked uninjured as his mother spoke to reporters.
British surfer (冲浪运动员) Martin Markwell is also a lucky man. He had always dreamed of catching that perfect wave –but when it finally came along, it was a nightmare. He was on his surfboard when he was swept up by a tsunami wave.
“It was really terrible because I was surfing, I was really surfing on a wave I wasn’t supposed to be on,” he said. “As an experienced surfer, when I saw the wave come I realized something was wrong, but I couldn’t escape because my surfboard was tied to my ankle.”
His wife Vicki and son Jake looked on in horror from a hotel balcony as he crashed towards the shore. Luckily , he stayed on top of his board until he reached the hotel , jumped off and got to safety as the ocean rolled back to feed a much larger tsunami wave on its way . The family regrouped and ran to safety just minutes before a giant tsunami wave 10 meters high.
1.When the waves struck, the father Brad ________.
A. reported the disaster to Sky News television
B. was watching a drama play on TV in the hotel
C. tried to find his son lost in the waters
D. watched things going on , unable to do anything
2.The underlined word “him” refers to ________.
A. an old man B. Lachie C. Brad D. Blake
3.Which of the following is wrong ?
A. Lachie and Martin were both with their family members when the disaster happened.
B. Lachie and Martin both survived from the high waves when tsunami struck.
C. Lachie and Martin were both travelers from Europe on holiday in Thailand.
D. Lachie and Martin were both alive owing to their good luck.
4.The best title of this news story would be ________ .
A. Narrow Escape B. Disaster Caused by Tsunami
C. Exciting Surfing Experience D. Struggle Against Tsunami
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A mother had two daughters. She loved them very much, but two girls would fight with each other from their earliest years. As they grew older, they became total strangers. They had no contact with each other when they were adults.
This caused the mother great pain. Then, later, she had an idea. She decided to write a letter to them. In this letter, she told them how much she loved them, and how she wanted them to love each other in this way. She also gave them news of herself and some guidance on how to live happier lives.
When the letter was ready, she wrote out one copy for each daughter, but these copies were special. Each copy contained only every second sentence of the original letter: the copy for one daughter had only the even (双数的) sentences, and the other daughter’s copy contained only the odd sentences. Neither contained the fullness of the mother’s message.
When the two daughters received their letters, they were puzzled. To understand the half-letter, they would have to put the two letters together and read them as one, which meant they must approach one another again in love and respect. But they each blamed the other for not helping them when trying to read the half-letter.
For a long time, the mother waited in vain. Then one day, when the mother had almost given up hope, there was a knock at the door. There they stood, together. “We’ve come home,” they said at the same time. “We’ve finally put our letters together, and we’ve come to say how much we love you, Mum.” Then she hugged them both, tears of joy streaming down her cheeks, and welcomed them back home.
1. The mother gave her daughters incomplete letters mainly to ______.
A. tell them her news B. offer them advice
C. mend their relations D. win their hearts
2.Upon receiving their letters, the two daughters ______.
A. complained about each other as usual
B. put the letters together and read them
C. blamed her mother for the half-letter
D. understood the mother’s purpose at once
3.Why did the two daughters visit their mother at last?
A. They missed home very much.
B. They felt grateful for the mother.
C. They wanted to apologize.
D. They had put the letters together.
4. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Two Special Daughters
B. A Mother’s Endless Love
C.A Sincere Apology to Mother
D. An Unusual Letter
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As a single mother,I had to do two jobs,which kept me very busy.
Two months ago,I went to a ___ with Alice. Since I ____went out with her,she seemed very happy. Many parents were there with their children. I sat down on a bench,___Alice playing with other children. About half an hour later,a man of about forty years old came and ___beside me. As I had to go back to work,I stood up and told Alice that we had to ____.
“Can I stay here a little longer?”Alice pleaded.(祈求)
“No,we must go now,”I said,____ Alice just didn’t move.
“Just ten more minutes,”she pleaded again,and I became ___.
“Go now,”I____,and Alice started to cry.____ that,the man sitting on the ____stood up and came to us.
“Why don’t you just let her____ten more minutes?”he asked. Then he told me a ___.He used to be very busy,too. Every time his little son wanted to go out and play,he told him he was ____.One day,his son went out and played ____,and he didn’t come back again—he was hit by a ___driver of a car. The father regretted what he had done to his son,but he never had the ___to play with him again. Hearing the story,I ____.I knelt down and said to Alice,“OK,ten more minutes,and Mom will play ____you.”
____is all about making priorities(优先).What are your priorities?Give someone you____ten more minutes of your time today.
1.A. park B. school C. sea D. cinema
2.A. sometimes B. often C. usually D. hardly
3.A. keeping B. hearing C. finding D. watching
4.A. got off B. sat down C. broke in D. turned up
5.A. go B. shop C. change D. eat
6.A. because B. as C. but D. so
7.A. sad B. pleased C. angry D. excited
8.A. whispered B. wished C. begged D. shouted
9.A. Knowing B. Seeing C. Hoping D. Thinking
10.A. ground B. chair C. bench D. stone
11.A. run B. play C. do D. laugh
12.A. story B. joke C. way D. lie
13.A. busy B. lonely C. boring D. ill’
14.A. suddenly B. alone C. happily D. crazily
15.A. blind B. kind C. drunken D. good
16.A. energy B. interest C. heart D. chance
17.A. stayed up B. took part C. calmed down D. came back
18.A. behind B. with C. for D. under
19.A. Choice B. Joy C. Work D. Life
20.A. appreciate B. dislike C. admire D. love
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Jim is one of my closely friends. Two months ago, his mother bought a computer to him as a birthday present. She hoped Jim will study hard with the help of the computer. To his surprise, Jim just wasted plenty of time play computer games every day. Now she regrets buying the computer. As matter of fact, a computer can do a lot of everyday jobs for us. It is wide used in factories, hospitals, banks and so on. Many computers scientists are now trying to make the computer to “think” like a man. In my opinion, the key is what we should use it wisely.
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There were a family of nine: the father, the mother, two boys and five girls. The father worked as a kitchen cleaner at a local school and the rest of the family did the same job-----clean people’s yards.________1.________
Then one day, the father lost his job at the school. He asked me if I could allow him to clean my yard.________2.________ He and his family came to our house three times a week to clean the yard.
One Sunday morning, the father suffered a stroke and died in the hospital two days later. The poor family had lost their main bread-winner. The eldest boy had just completed high school and was getting ready to go to college.________3.________
For the following years, Andrew, my husband and I did all our best to help make sure the family got their education, and provided some daily needs, like clothes.
________4.________. They didn’t have a toilet in their home! Imagine! A mother, a fifteen-year-old girl, and four smaller children without a toilet or bathroom!
The next morning, my friend Peter came to my house. Then I told him I wanted to do something for the poor family. As a helpful man, he promised to offer some money. So together we built a bathroom and a toilet for this family in three days.________5.________. And we felt happy, too.
A.Clearly, they lived a poor life.
B.The others were just little kids
C.Realizing his situation, I offered him the job at once.
D.This brought a lot of smiles and happiness to the family.
E.Every day we gave her some pocket money.
F.We visited the family once and one thing made us greatly surprised.
G.You would be surprised to know that this poor family lived in just two rooms!
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There were a family of nine: the father, the mother, two boys and five girls. The father worked as a kitchen cleaner at a local school and the rest of the family did the same job-----clean people’s yards. 1.
Then one day, the father lost his job at the school. He asked me if I could allow him to clean my yard. 2. He and his family came to our house three times a week to clean the yard.
One Sunday morning, the father suffered a stroke and died in the hospital two days later. The poor family had lost their main bread-winner. The eldest boy had just completed high school and was getting ready to go to college. 3.
For the following years, Andrew, my husband and I did all our best to help make sure the family got their education, and provided some daily needs, like clothes.
4. . They didn’t have a toilet in their home! Imagine! A mother, a fifteen-year-old girl, and four smaller children without a toilet or bathroom!
The next morning, my friend Peter came to my house. Then I told him I wanted to do something for the poor family. As a helpful man, he promised to offer some money. So together we built a bathroom and a toilet for this family in three days5. . And we felt happy, too.
A. Clearly, they lived a poor life.
B. The others were just little kids
C. Realizing his situation, I offered him the job at once.
D. You would be surprised to know that this poor family lived in just two rooms!
E. Every day we gave her some pocket money.
F.We visited the family once and one thing made us greatly surprised.
G. This brought a lot of smiles and happiness to the family.
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I like all kinds of chocolates. Best of all, _______, I like bitter baking chocolate. Mother had bought a bar of it, and _______ I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
I was helping father on the farm. It was right then that I got the _______ to cut a chunk off the end of that bar of chocolate.
A good _______ opened up. My parents were out _______ with their own odd jobs on the farm.I had got the bar down from the shelf when I heard mother _______. So I slipped the chocolate into the front of my shirt and went to the barn and _______ the chocolate there. I told myself that I hadn’t really _______ the whole bar, _______ to take only a little piece.
That night I couldn’t ________. At last I got up, slid out into the yard with a ________, went into the barn and got the chocolate. I took it outside and ________ it on the lower rail of the fence. The moon gave enough ________ for me to see what I was doing.
Just as I was starting to ________, father said: “Son!” I grabbed (抓起) up the bar of chocolate and ________ hid it next to my chest before I ________. Father made me ________ against the wall, saying what let him down wasn’t that I’d taken the chocolate, but that I’d ________ to hide it from him. I could have had the chocolate if I’d ________ it. I learned a lesson from this situation: never did something ________ rather than openly.
1.A.though B.then C.ever D.otherwise
2.A.anyhow B.somehow C.rather D.however
3.A.effort B.confidence C.energy D.idea
4.A.intention B.purpose C.belief D.opportunity
5.A.quick B.careful C.busy D.desperate
6.A.leaving out B.coming in C.standing up D.running out
7.A.hid B.repaired C.saved D.discovered
8.A.covered B.stolen C.seen D.hidden
9.A.even B.and C.but D.also
10.A.think B.rest C.wait D.sleep
11.A.chocolate B.hand C.knife D.tool
12.A.found B.laid C.ate D.fetched
13.A.light B.impression C.attention D.mind
14.A.watch B.cut C.share D.think
15.A.gradually B.slowly C.immediately D.purposely
16.A.ran off B.turned around C.calmed down D.stood up
17.A.stand B.tremble C.sleep D.explain
18.A.planned B.came C.tried D.managed
19.A.relied on B.asked for C.learned from D.respected for
20.A.secretly B.accidentally C.hopefully D.extremely
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Mother said that Mike could eat two of ten oranges and that the rest _______ left for Tom and Betty.
A. were B. was C. be D. being
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Whenever I felt disappointed I often thought of what my mother had said to me, "Everything happens for the best. If you______, one day something good will happen. And you'll realize that it wouldn't have happened but for that previous______. "
As it______, mother was right. In 1932, I ended my college life. ______ that, I had decided to try for a job in radio, and then could work my way up to a sports ______. I went to Chicago and knocked on the door of every______-but got turned down every time. In one studio, a ______ lady told me that big stations couldn't risk hiring a person who lacked ______. "Go to ______ town and find a little station that will give you a chance," she said. I then ______ to Dixon. While there was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted an athlete to ______ its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I ______. The job sounded just right for me. But I wasn't ______.
My disappointment must have ______. "Everything happens for the best, " Mom ______ me. Then I ______ WOC Radio in Davenport. The program director named Peter MacArthur told me they had already ______ a contract with another announcer.
As I left his office, my disappointment ______ over. I asked aloud, “How can a fellow become a sport announcer if he can’t get a job in a radio station?”
I was waiting for the lift when I heard MacArthur calling, “What was that you said about sports? You know something about football?” Then he stood me before a ______and asked me to broadcast a live game.
I often ______ what direction my life might have taken if I'd gotten the job at Montgomery Ward and if I didn't persist.
1.A. look on B. get on C. carry on D. stay on
2.A. successes B. results C. lives D. disappointments
3.A. carried out B. turned out C. figured out D. looked out
4.A. Before B. After C. Since D. Although
5.A. hostess B. athlete C. announcer D. performer
6.A. firm B. school C. store D. station
7.A. beautiful B. strict C. kind D. cruel
8.A. money B. experience C. appearance D. knowledge
9.A. busy B. distant C. big D. small
10.A. turned B. saw C. walked D. added
11.A. buy B. manage C. sell D. show
12.A. applied B. refused C. agreed D. appealed
13.A. employed B. fired C. fitted D. satisfied
14.A. disappeared B. shown C. fallen D. responded
15.A. recited B. persuaded C. advised D. reminded
16.A. tried B. visited C. passed D. poured
17.A. assigned B. signed C. designed D. resigned
18.A. appeared B. disappeared C. boiled D. removed
19.A. radio B. station C. studio D. microphone
20.A. doubted B. intended C. wondered D. expected
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---How can you keep slim as a mother of two sons?
---I _______ in the gym for years.
A. have worked out B. have been working out
C. have worked on D. have been working on
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