Smartphone Security Blankets
Security—for the information on your smartphone, as well as for the phone itself—is a hot topic these days. The truth is that you’re packing a lot of sensitive information on your phone, and you should keep it safe.
When it comes to physical security, iPhone users would do well to download Find My iPhone, a free app (application program) from Apple that allows you to visit a website and see your (lost, stolen or misplaced) phone on a map. You can then sound an alarm, send a message that will pop up on its screen, lock the phone or erase all your data.
Android does not have an exact equivalent, but there are plenty of alternatives. A free app called Lookout offers the find-my-phone feature. The paid version allows you to wipe the data from your phone remotely.
Then there is your coffee shop’s WiFi network. Anyone with minimal technical expert skill can snoop on（窥视）people using shared wireless networks, harvesting passwords and other personal data. Lookout’s apps will caution you when you’ve logged on to an unsecure network, but cannot protect you once you’re there.
In order to protect yourself on such networks, you can use a virtual private network, or V.P.N. This turns all your activity into nonsense to anyone trying to read along with you from across the Starbucks. It also keeps websites from tracking you and, if you’re traveling, allows you to get access to sites that may be blocked in other countries.
If you have an iPhone, the simplest V.P.N. app is probably Hotspot Shield, whose distinguishing feature is said to be that it automatically kicks in each time you start browsing (浏览), as opposed to other V.P.N. apps that require you to start them up manually. This matters, because even if you decide you want a V.P.N. app, you want to spend approximately zero time thinking about it. For the most part, that was true of Hotspot Shield, though occasionally it took a while to connect or temporarily lost connection without warning. I found myself having to turn the app on and off sometimes, which involved setting my phone constantly.
If even reading about the settings on your phone drives you crazy, then it is probably best to stay away from a V.P.N. app. But if you’re the type who can’t resist checking your bank balance from your corner bar, the hassle may be preferable to the risk.
64. Which of the following can warn you against the unsecure network?
A. Android. B. V.P.N. C. Lookout. D. Find My iPhone.
65. By using V.P.N., users can _______.
A. find their lost phone on the Internet
B. erase all the data from the phone remotely
C. check their bank balance now and then
D. save their browsing from being tracked
66. The underlined word “that” in Para. 6 refers to the fact that _____.
A. a V.P.N. app kicks in automatically
B. the user starts V.P.N. apps manually
C. the app takes a while to connect
D. users spend no time thinking about it
Some plants get so hungry that they eat flies, and even small frogs. What's more amazing is that these plants occur naturally (in special environments) in every state. In fact, they're found on every continent except Antarctica.
You've probably seen a Venus' flytrap -- a small plant, which grows 6 to 8 inches tall in a container. At the end of its stalks (茎) are leaves that act like traps (陷阱). Inside each trap is a lining of tiny hairs. When an insect lands on them, the traps suddenly shut. Over the course of a week or so, the plant feeds on its catch.
The Venus' flytrap is just one of more than 500 species of meat-eating plants, says Barry Meyers-Rice, the editor of the International Carnivorous Plant Society's Newsletter. He states although you might have read some science-fiction stories, no meat-eating plant does any danger to humans.
Barry says a plant is meat-eating, only if it does all four of the following: "attract, kill, digest, and absorb" some form of insects. Meat-eating plants look and act like other green plants -- well, most of the time.
All green plants make sugar to produce food. What makes meat-eating plants different is their special leaves, which need insects for one reason: nitrogen (氮). Nitrogen is a nutrient that they can't obtain any other way. Why?
Almost all green plants on our planet get nitrogen from the soil. Meat-eating plants can't. They live in places where nutrients are hard to get from the soil because of its acidity. So they've come to rely on getting nitrogen from insects and small animals. In fact, nutrient-rich soil is poisonous to meat-eating plants. Never fertilize (施肥) them! But don't worry, either, if they never seem to catch any insects. They can survive, but they'll grow very slowly.
32. According to the passage, a Venus' flytrap ______.
A．is a small plant which grows in a container
B．is a kind of plant which gets hungry easily
C．can only grow 6-8 inches tall
D． can trap and feed on some form of insects
33. From the passage, we can infer that ______.
A．meat-eating plants are found nowhere else except Antarctica
B．all green plants get nitrogen from the soil
C．meat-eating plants endanger humans in science-fiction stories
D．the nutrient-poor soil is beneficial to meat-eating plants
34. Meat-eating plants grow very slowly, ______.
A．so you'd better fertilize them
B．simply because they can't absorb nitrogen from the soil
C． probably because the supply of nitrogen is cut off
D．and then they will die slowly
35. Which of the following is true?
A．Meat-eating plants look and act like other green plants.
B．The Venus' flytrap eats flies to get nutrient from them.
C． It's hard for plants to get nutrients in the soil when acidity is high.
D．Green plants make sugar at night.
American cities are similar to other cities around the world. In every country cities reflect the values of the culture. Cities contain the very best aspects of a society: opportunities for education employment and entertainment. They also contain the very worst parts of a society: violent crime racial conflict and poverty. American cities are changing just as American society is changing.
After World War II city residents became wealthier more prosperous. They had more children. They needed more space. They move out of their apartments in the city to buy their own homes. They bought houses in the suburbs areas near a city where people live. These are areas without many offices or factories. During the 1950s the American “dream” was to have a house in the suburbs.
Now things are changing. The children of the people who left the cities in 1950s are now adults. They unlike their parents want to live in the cities. Many young professionals doctors lawyers and executives are moving back into the city. Many are single; others are married but often without children. They prefer the city to the suburbs because their jobs are there; they are afraid of the fuel shortage; or they just enjoy the excitement and opportunities which the city offers.
This population shift is bringing problems as well as benefits. Countless poor people must leave their apartments in the city because the owners want to sell the buildings or make apartments for sale instead of for rent. In the 1950s, many poor people did not have enough money to move to the suburbs; now many of these people do not have enough money to stay in the cities.
Only a few years ago, people thought that the older American cities were dying. Some city residents now see a bright , new future .Others see only problems and conflicts. One thing is sure：many dying cities are alive again.
28. What does the author think of cities all over the world ? __________.
A. They are alive .
B. They are hopeless.
C. They are similar
D. They are different.
29. According to the 4th paragraph , a great many poor people in American cities __________.
A. are faced with housing problems
B. are faced to move to the suburbs
C. want to sell their buildings
D. need more money for daily expenses
30. We can conclude from the text that __________.
A. American cities are changing for the worse
B. people have different views on American cities
C. many people are now moving from American cities
D. the population is decreasing in older American cities
It all began with a stop at a red light.
Kevin Salwen was driving his 14-year-old daughter, Hannah, back from a sleepover in 2006 . While waiting at a traffic light, they saw a black Mercedes Coupe on one side and a homeless man begging for food on the other.
“Dad, if that man had a less nice car, that man there could have a meal.”Hannah protested. The light changed and they drove on, but Hannah was too young to be reasonable. She pestered （纠缠）her parents about inequity, insisting that she wanted to do something.
“What do you want to do?” her mom responded. “Sell our house?”
Warning! Never suggest a grand gesture to an idealistic teenager. Hannah seized upon the idea of selling the luxurious family home and donating half the proceeds to charity, while using the other half to buy a more modest replacement home.
Eventually, that’s what the family did. The project —crazy, impetuous （鲁莽的） and utterly inspiring — is written down in detail in a book by father and daughter scheduled to be published next month: “The Power of Half.” It’s a book that, frankly, I’d be nervous about leaving around where my own teenage kids might find it. An impressionable child reads this, and the next thing you know your whole family is out on the street.
At a time of enormous needs in Haiti and elsewhere, when so many Americans are trying to help Haitians by sending everything from text messages to shoes, the Salwens offer an example of a family that came together to make a difference — for themselves as much as the people they were trying to help. In a column a week ago, it described neurological evidence from brain scans that unselfishness lights up parts of the brain normally associated with more primary satisfaction. The Salwens’ experience confirms the selfish pleasures of selflessness.
Mr. Salwen and his wife, Joan, had always assumed that their kids would be better off in a bigger house. But after they downsized, there was much less space to retreat to, so the family members spent more time around each other. A smaller house unexpectedly turned out to be a more family-friendly house.
60. The best title for the passage should be “______”.
A. The Less, the Better B. An Expected Satisfaction
C. Something We Can Live Without D. Somewhat Crazy but Inspiring
61. What does the underlined word “inequity” most probably mean in Paragraph 3?
A. Unfairness. B. Satisfaction. C. Personal attitude. D. Reasonable statement.
62. What does the underlined sentence “Never suggest a grand gesture to an idealistic teenager.” means___?
A. Never give a quick answer to an idealistic teenager.
B. Unless a child is realistic, never give an answer immediately.
C. Give an answer if the child is reasonable.
D. Don’t respond to a child's demands firmly without consideration.
63. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. The Salwens regretted selling their house.
B. The relationship between the family members of the Salwens is much closer.
C. Small houses can bring happiness.
D. The Salwens intend to buy another big house.
64. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Mercedes Coupe is only an ordinary car which is quite cheap.
B. Unselfishness has nothing to do with people’s primary satisfaction.
C. Hannah asked her parents to do something charitable and they sold their house.
D. The writer’s children asked him to sell their house.
The person who set the course of my life was a school teacher named Marjorie Hurd. When I was stepped off a ship in New York Harbor in 1949, I was a nine-year-old war refugee, who had lost his mother and was coming to live with the father he did not know. My mother, Eleni Gatzoyiannis, had been imprisoned and shot for sending my sisters and me to freedom.
I was thirteen years old when I entered Chandler Junior High. Shortly after I arrived, I was told to select a hobby to pursue during “club hours.” The idea of hobbies and clubs made no sense to my immigrant ears, but I decided to follow the prettiest girl in my class. She led me into the presence of Miss Hurd, the school newspaper adviser and English teacher.
A tough woman with salt-and-pepper hair and determined eyes, Miss Hurd had no patience with lazy bones. She drilled us in grammar, assigned stories for us to read and discuss, and eventually taught us how to put out a newspaper. Her introduction to the literary wealth of Greece gave me a new perspective on my war-torn homeland, making me proud of my origins. Her efforts inspired me to understand the logic and structure of the English language. Owing to her inspiration, during my next twenty-five years, I became a journalist by profession.
Miss Hurd retired at the age of 62. By then, she had taught for a total of 41 years. Even after her retirement, she continually made a project of unwilling students in whom she spied a spark of potential. The students were mainly from the most troubled homes, yet she alternately bullied and charmed them with her own special brand of tough love, until the spark caught fire.
Miss Hurd was the one who directed my grief and pain into writing. But for Miss Hurd, I wouldn’t have become a reporter. She was the one that sent me into journalism and indirectly caused all the good things that came after.
1. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph Two most probably mean?
A. Hobbies and clubs did not interest the author.
B. The author turned a deaf ear to joining clubs.
C. The author had no idea what hobbies and clubs were all about.
D. Hobbies and clubs were inaccessible to immigrants like the author.
2. Which of the following caused the author to think of his homeland differently?
A. Stepping on the American soil for the first time.
B. Her mother’s miserable death.
C. Following the prettiest girl in his class.
D. Being exposed to Greek literary works.
3. It can be inferred from Paragraph Four that ___________.
A. Miss Hurd’s contribution was recognized across the nation.
B. Students from troubled homes preferred Miss Hurd’s teaching style.
C. Miss Hurd employed a unique way to handle these students.
D. The students Miss Hurd taught were all finally fired.
4. The passage is mainly concerned with ___________.
A. how the author became a journalist. B. the importance of inspiration in one’s life.
C. factors contributing to a successful career. D. the teacher who shaped the author’s life.
He spent much of the evening with Robert Green, he had hardly seen in the thirty years since they had worked together at CBS．
A．what B．that C．who D．whom
City College
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21. Which kind of the following people could not be admitted to City College?
A. A high school graduate
B. A sixteen boy without a high school diploma
C. An adult without a high school diploma
D. Anyone who possesses a high school diploma
22. What do we know about the entrance examinations from the passage?
A. All new and readmitted students must take the examinations.
B. Those who are poor in English and Math must take the entrance examinations.
C. Not all the new students are required to take the entrance examinations.
D. The entrance examinations are free of charge.
23. Where can this passage be found?
A. In a college news report B. In a newspaper advertisement
C. In a tour guide D. On an education website.
目前，一些诸如GG, MM, Xia Mi 等网络语言在青少年中极为盛行，并且出现在家庭作业报告，甚至全国入学考试的作文中。请你以 “Should Internet Slang Be Prohibited (禁止)?”为题，用英语写一篇短文。短文须包含下面所给的内容。
1. 一些同学认为：网络语言生动、时尚、 网络语言充满幽默与智慧， 使网上聊天更快捷
2. 另一些同学认为：网络语言缺乏思想性， 没有被大部分人理解、接受，过多使用使人不解，甚至误解。
3. 你的看法
词数：短文词数不少于100字（不含已写好的部分）
Should Internet Slang Be Prohibited?
At present, Internet Slang, such as “GG, MM, Xia Mi”， has become popular among the teenagers.____________________________________________________
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If you’re a fan of The Hunger Games, you shouldn’t miss another trilogy called Divergent.
41 second book, by US author Veronica Roth, 42 _ (publish) in 2012. It has spent 105 weeks on the USA Today best-selling books list and 43 (current) ranks No 1.
The trilogy’s story begins in a futuristic Chicago 44 people are divided into five distinct groups. Each group is characterized by certain traits – Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Erudite (the intelligent), Amity (the peaceful) and Candor (the honest). Every child, at 16, takes a test 45 (see) which of the five factions he or she belongs to. But Beatrice Prior, born in Abnegation, is qualified 46 three, meaning she is a Divergent. And she is told not to tell 47 if she wants to stay alive.
So the decision is between staying with her family or being true to herself. Beatrice ends up 48 (choose) the Dauntless. After joining her new group, Beatrice renames herself Tris and tries to prove her 49 (brave) with amazing things like jumping off a moving train onto a rooftop. While undergoing these extreme physical tests, Tris must also determine who her real friends are.
The story of the trilogy “explores a more common adolescent anxiety – the painful realization 50 coming into one’s own sometimes means leaving family behind, both ideologically and physically”, commented The New York Times.
As a young man, Al was a skilled artist．He had a wife and two fine sons．One night, his oldest son developed a severe stomachache．Thinking it was only some 1 intestinal （肠内的）disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition very seriously．But the boy 2 suddenly that night．
Knowing the death could have been 3 if he had only realized the seriousness of the situation, Al's emotional health became worse under the huge burden of his 4 To make matters worse his wile 5 him a short time later, leaving him alone with his six-year-old younger son．The hurt and pain of the two 6 were more than Al could handle, and he 7 to alcohol．In time Al became an alcoholic．
8___ the alcoholism progressed, Al began to lose everything he 9 — his home, his land, his art objects, everything． 10 Al died alone in a San Francisco motel room．
When I heard of Al's death, I thought that Al's life was a complete 11 ．
As time went by, I began to re-evaluate my earlier judgment．I knew Al's now 12 son, Ernie．He is one of the kindest, most caring, most loving men I have ever known．I watched Ernie with his children and saw the free 13 of love between them．I knew that kindness and caring had to come from somewhere．
I hadn't heard Ernie talk much about his 14__．One day I worked __15_ my courage to ask him．"I'm really _16__ by something," I said．"I know your father was 17 _ the only one to raise you．What on earth did he do that you became such a special person?"
Ernie sat quietly and _18_ for a few moments．Then he said, "From my earliest _19_ as a child until I left home at 18, Al came into my room every night, gave me a kiss and said, ' I love you, son．' "
Tears came to my eyes as I realized what a fool I had been to __20_ Al as a failure．He had not left any material possessions behind．But he had been a kind loving father, and he left behind one of the finest, most giving men I have ever known．
1．A．certain B．common C．rare D．basic
2．A．died B．choked C．starved D．worsened
3．A．cured B．prevented C．forbidden D．saved
4．A．disease B．debt C．guilt D．duty
5．A．left B．scolded C．quarreled D．forgave
6．A．disasters B．adventures C．conflicts D．situations
7．A．got B．drank C．turned D．sank
8．A．As B．Though C．Because D．If
9．A．needed B．shared C．benefited D．possessed
10．A．Eventually B．Gradually C．Therefore D．Meanwhile
11．A．trouble B．hardship C．failure D．waste
12．A．teen B．adult C．aged D．adolescent
13．A．win B．fall C．space D．flow
14．A．mother B．brother C．father D．child
15．A．up B．with C．on D．through
16．A．worried B．puzzled C．interested D．attracted
17．A．especially B．basically C．merely D．specially
18．A．argued B．searched C．analyzed D．reflected
19．A．thoughts B．ideas C．minds D．memories
20．A．treat B．call C．judge D．feel
----Are you going to Lily`s birthday party tonight?
----____________! She is my best friend.
A. Sounds great B.I will go C. You bet D. It is my pleasure
We know the famous ones--the Thomas Edison and the Alexander Graham Bells--but what about the less famous inventors? What about the people who invented the traffic light and the windshield wiper (雨刮器)? Shouldn't we know who they are?
Joan McLean thinks so. In fact, McLean, a professor of physics at Mountain University in Range,feels so strongly about this matter that she's developed a course on the topic. In addition to learning "who"invented "what", however, McLean also likes her students to learn the answers to the "why" and "how" questions. According to McLean, "When students learn the answers to these questions, they are better prepared to recognize opportunities for inventing and more motivated to give inventing a try. "
Her students agree. One young man with a patent(专利证） for an unbreakable umbrella is walking proof of McLean's statement. "If I had not heard the story of the windshield wiper's invention," said Tommy Lee, a senior physics major, "I never would have dreamed of turning my bad experience during a rainstorm into something so constructive. " Lee is currently negotiating to sell his patent to an umbrella producer.
So, just what is the story behind the windshield wiper? Well, Mary Anderson came up with the idea in 1902 after a visit to New York City. The day was cold and stormy, but Anderson still wanted to see the sights,so she jumped aboard a streetcar. Noticing that the driver was struggling to see through the snow covering the windshield, she found herself wondering why there couldn't be a built-in device for cleaning the window. Still wondering about this when she returned home to Birmingham, Alabama, Anderson started drafting out solutions. One of her ideas, a lever (操作杆) on the inside of a vehicle that would control an arm on the outside,became the first windshield wiper.
Today we benefit from countless inventions and innovations. It's hard to imagine driving without Garrett A. Morgan's traffic light. It's equally impossible to picture a world without Katherine J. Blodgett's innovation that makes glass invisible. Can you picture life without clear windows and eyeglasses?
32. By mentioning "traffic light" and "windshield wiper", the author indicates that countless inventions are ________.
A. beneficial, because their inventors are famous
B. beneficial, though their inventors are less famous
C. not useful, because their inventors are less famous
D. not useful, though their inventors are famous
33. Professor Joan McLean's course aims to ________.
A. add color and variety to students' campus life
B. inform students of the windshield wiper's invention
C. carry out the requirements by Mountain University
D. prepare students to try their own inventions
34. Tommy Lee's invention of the unbreakable umbrella was ________.
A. not eventually accepted by the umbrella producer
B. inspired by the story behind the windshield wiper
C. due to his dream of being caught in a rainstorm
D. not related to Professor Joan McLean's lectures
35. Which of the following can best serve as the title of this passage?
A. How to Help Students to Sell Their Inventions to Producers?
B. How to Design a Built-in Device for Cleaning the Window?
C. Shouldn't We Know Who Invented the Windshield Wiper?
D. Shouldn't We Develop Invention Courses in Universities?
根据括号内的汉语提示, 用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。
1．If it were not for _____________ （你生病的事实）, I would ask you to do this right now.（fact）
2．— Could you meet me at the airport?
— I’d like to, but I ______________________ （已离开上海）when you return.（leave）
3．I can’t read the advertisement on the board. Could you hold the light ___________ ____ （离它更近一点点吗）? （close）
4．He was seated at the piano, ______________________ （背对着观众）.（with）
5．The new hospital is _________________ （即将竣工）. （way, finish）
6．______________（什么也没剩下）after the terrible fire which had been caused by someone smoking in bed. （remain）
7．John did well in the exam. He came home __________________（带着幸福的微笑）. （wear）
8．____________________的新小说是必读书）for all lovers of scientific fiction. （must n. ）
9．Professor, I want to know ___________________ 们的生活会是什么样）in 50 years. （like）
10．The girl ___________________________________ （有希望成为优秀的画家）if she is well trained in an art school. （promise）
If ever the_______ arises when I want advice, you are the first person I’ll come to.
A. occasion B. situation C. condition D. information
71. He is good at playing the piano, but he is _________________________ his singing ability. (know)
他会演奏钢琴，但是他因他的唱歌能力而更出名。
72. I can’t get down to my work with ________________________ around. (play)
有这么多的孩子在身边玩耍,我不能开始认真工作。
73. When I was at middle school, my physics teacher told me light ______________________ sound. (travel)
在中学时，我的物理老师告诉我光比声音传播得快。
74. Tom came late again. Otherwise, we ______________________ earlier and left earlier. (finish)
汤姆又来晚了，否则我们就能早些完成工作早些离开了。
75. At that time, the poor workers __________________________ until late into the night. (make)
在那时，那些可怜的工人们经常被迫工作到深夜。
76. ______________________ that Bell sent his first telephone message to his assistant Watson. (until)
直到5天后贝尔给他的助手沃森发送了第一份信息。
77. ______________________ your teacher if you have any question. (afraid)
如果你有任何问题，别害怕问你的老师。
78. He wrote a long letter to his son, _____________________ that it was unwise to make emotional decisions. (point)
他给他儿子写了一封长信。 在信中他指出作出情绪化的决定是不明智的。
79. ______________________ sounds right to Helen. That’s why she has made up her mind to leave the matter to him. (whatever)
对海伦来说，无论大卫(David)说什么听起来都是对的。这就是为什么她决定把这事留给他。
80. __________________________，his mood was very bad. (punish)
他被老板惩罚了，因此他的心情很糟糕。
Daniel Brown was just five years old when he climbed into the family car and let it roll away down the road. He was only three when he flooded the kitchen.
His mother, Angela Brown, is in ____ .She is very busy looking after her new baby, a little girl ____ Laura, as well as Daniel. She told us, “Daniel is so full of ___ ”At that moment, we hear a huge crash and then silence. We go up stairs and ____ Daniel crawling（爬）out of a wardrobe (衣橱) he has pulled over onto the floor, with a book in his hand.“It’s for you Mum, ” he said and ____ at his mum and smiled. Seven-year-old Daniel has a ____face. He has golden hair, big brown eyes, and a friendly smile. I have to ____that Daniel doesn’t look like a naughty boy.
Angela told me all about it. “____ I found him as he was about to put Jasper in the washing machine. ”Jasper, she ____ , is the Browns’ dog. “When I asked him why, he said that he thought Jasper was dirty! It’s ____how one little boy can cause so much trouble. Another time he ____ all the hair of the little girl next door. She was going to attend her sister’s wedding and the ____haven’t spoken to us since. ”
Angela told me about Daniel’s most ____crime. “I was about to do the washing up ____ the baby started crying. Daniel decided to ____and filled the kitchen sink with water. When I came in, the water was already ____the kitchen and was about to flood the hall. The carpet was ruined and had to be ____.I hope things will get better as he gets ____ ”
Amazingly, Daniel is quite ____ behaved in school. This may be because he is rarely bored. ____he continues to be the naughtiest little boy in England. Will his sister Laura grow up to be the naughtiest little girl?
16．A. despair B. surprise C.. anger D.danger
17．A. hurt . B. called C.favored D. repaid
18．A. regret B. imagination C. honesty D.curiosity
19．A. hear B. prevent C. find D.leave
20．A. looked up B. turned out C. gave in D.got through
21．A. ugly B.serious C. mysterious D.lovely
22．A. reform B.admit C.sense D.rest
23．A. Even if B. In no time C. Once D.Although
24．A. cured B. discovered C. damaged D. explained
25．A. fearful B. amazing C.favorable D. common
26．A. dried up B. came down C.cut off D.fell off
27．A. sons B. neighbors C. assistants D.teachers
28．A.exciting B. boring C. satisfied D. expensive
29．A. as if B. when C.. before D.because
30．A.help B. disturb C. save D.puzzle
31．A. boiling B. sweeping C. flooding D. nearing
32．A. blamed B.replaced C. burned D. controlled
33．A. older B.smarter C. healthier D.lighter
34．A. hardly B.madly C.well D. badly
35．A. Instead B. Furthermore C.Though D.Meanwhile
Mr. Parkinson stood up and left the room, the door behind her
A．closing B．closed C．close D．to close
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A. caring for B. sending for C. standing for D. calling for
When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
Joe was a man with a genius for art. Delia did things in six octaves(音阶) promisingly.
Joe and Delia became in love with one of the other, or each of the other, as you please, and in a short time were married – for (see above), when one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.
They began housekeeping in a flat. It was a lonesome flat, but they were happy; for they had their Art, and they had each other.
Joe was learning painting in the class of the great Magister – you know his fame. His fees are high; his lessons are light – his high-lights have brought him fame. Delia was studying under Rosenstock – you know his reputation as a disturber of the piano keys.
They were mighty happy as long as their money lasted.
After a while Art flagged. Everything going out and nothing coming in, money was lacking to pay Mr. Magister and Rosenstock their prices. When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard. So, Delia said she must give music lessons to make the ends meet.
For two or three days she went out looking for pupils. One evening she came home overjoyed.
“Joe, dear,” she said, cheerfully, “I’ve a pupil. And, oh, the loveliest people! General – General Pinkney’s daughter Clementina – on Seventy-first street.”
“That’s all right for you, Dele,” said Joe, “but how about me? Do you think I’m going to let you work while I play in the regions of high art? ”
Delia came and hung about his neck.
“Joe, dear, you are silly. You must keep on at your studies. It is not as if I had quit my music and gone to work at something else. While I teach I learn. I am always with my music.”
“All right,” said Joe. “But I may sell some of my pictures as well.”
The next few weeks, they both busied themselves with their own business and brought back a ten, a five, a two and a one – all legal tender notes – and laid them beside each others’ earnings.
One Saturday evening Joe reached home first. He spread his $18 on the table and washed what seemed to be a great deal of dark paint from his hands.
Half an hour later Delia arrived, her right hand tied up in a shapeless bundle of wraps and bandages.
“How is this?” asked Joe. Delia laughed, but not very joyously. “Clementina,” she explained, “insisted upon a Welsh rabbit(一种奶酪) after her lesson. In serving the rabbit she spilled a great lot of it, boiling hot, over my wrist. Nothing serious, dear.”
“What time this afternoon did you burn your hand, Dele?”
“Five o’clock, I think,” said Dele. “The iron – I mean the rabbit came off the fire about that time.”
“Sit down here a moment, Dele,” said Joe. “What have you been doing for the last few weeks, Dele?” he asked.
She braved it for a moment or two with an eye full of love and stubbornness, but at last down went her head and out came the truth and tears.
“I couldn’t get any pupils,” she wept. “I got a place ironing shirts in that big Twenty-fourth street laundry. A girl in the laundry set down a hot iron on my hand this afternoon. I think I did very well to make up both General Pinkney and Clementina. What made you ever suspect that I wasn’t giving music lessons?”
“I didn’t,” said Joe, “until tonight. And I wouldn’t have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron. I’ve been firing the engine in that laundry for the last few weeks.”
“And then you didn’t …” said Delia
And then they both looked at each other and laughed, and Joe began:
“When one loves one’s Art no service seems …”
But Delia stopped him with her hand on his lips. “No,” she said – “just ‘When one loves.’”
65. What can we know about the couple from the story?
A. They both became famous for their talents in art.
B. Studying from famous teachers contributed most to their poverty.
C. Art helped them out of the poverty they were faced with.
D. They turned out to be working at the same laundry.
66. What qualities of the couple’s are best conveyed in the story?
A. considerate and giving B. faithful and romantic
C. intelligent and economical D. hardworking and loyal
67. What does the underlined word “flagged” most probably mean?
A. became weaker B. displayed its power
C. went in a wrong direction D. returned to its original condition
68. Which of the following does NOT give readers a clue that the couple were telling white lies?
A. Joe washed what seemed to be a great deal of dark paint from his hands.
B. Delia’s right wrist was tied up in a shapeless bundle of wraps and bandages.
C. Delia said she must give music lessons to make the ends meet.
D. “The iron – I mean the rabbit came off the fire about that time” said Dele.
69. What can serve as the best title of this story?
A. A Service of Art B. The Love for Art
C. A Service of Love D. No Art No Love
70. Why does the author repeat “When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.”?
A. To reveal the theme of the story.
B. To assist with the development of the story.
C. To explain the author’s writing purpose.
D. To indicate the sad mood of the story.
