poison spreading to his heart. Rushing home he shouted ?Bring me the knife!? Minutes later the man lost his arm forever.”
“The sad story touched me so much that I decided to devote myself to helping people bitten by snakes,” Shu said.
The best headline for this newspaper article is ______.
A. Astonishing Medicine B. Farmer Loses Arms C. Dangerous Bites D. Snake Doctor
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James Cleveland Owens was the son of a farmer and the grandson of black slaves. His family moved to Cleveland when he was 9. There, a school teacher asked the youth his name.
“J.C.”, he replied.
She thought he had said “Jesse”, and he had a new name.
Owens ran his first race at age 13. After high school, he went to Ohio State University. He had to work part time so as to pay for his education. As a second-year student, in the Big Ten games in 1935, he set even more records than he would in the Olympic Games a year later.
A week before the Big Ten meet, Owens accidentally fell down a flight of stairs. His back hurt so much that he could not exercise all week, and he had to be helped in and out of the car that drove him to the meet. He refused to listen to the suggestions that he give up and said he would try, event by event. He did try, and the results are in the record book.
The stage was set for Owens? victory at the Olympic Games in Berlin the next year, and his success would come to be regarded as not only athletic(体育的)but also political. Hitler did not congratulate any of the African-American winners.
“It was all right with me,” he said years later. “I didn?t go to Berlin to shake hands with him, anyway.”
Having returned from Berlin. He received no telephone call from the president of his own country, either. In fact, he was not honored by the United States until 1976, four years before his death.
Owens? Olympic victories made little difference to him. He earned his living by looking after a school playground, and accepted money to race against cars, trucks, motorcycles, and dogs.
“Sure, it bothered (烦扰)me,” he said later. “But at least it was an honest living. I had to eat.” In time, however, his gold medals (奖牌) changed his life. “They have kept me alive over the years,” he once said. “Time has stood still for me. That golden moment dies hard.” Which of the following is a suitable title for the text? A. Jesse Owens, a Great American Athlete B. Golden Moment — a Life-time Struggle C. Making a Living as a Sportsman D. How to Be a Successful Athlete?
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Since many of you are planning to study at a college or university in this country, you may be curious to know what you usually do in a typical week, how you can get along with your fellow students, and so on. These are the questions I want to discuss with you today.
First, let?s talk about what your weekly schedule will look like. No matter what your major may be, you can expect to spend between four and six hours a week for each class attending lectures. Lectures are usually in very large rooms because some courses such as introduction to sociology or economics often have as many as two or three hundred students, especially at large universities. In lectures, it?s very important for you to take notes on what the professor says because the
information a lecture is often different from the information in your textbooks. Also, you can expect to have exam questions based on the lectures. So it isn?t enough to just read your textbooks; you have to attend lectures as well. In a typical week you will also have a couple of hours of discussion for every class you take. The discussion section is a small group meeting usually with fewer than thirty students where you can ask questions about the lectures, the reading, and the homework. In large universities, graduate students, called teaching assistants, usually direct discussion sections. If your major is chemistry, or physics, or another science, you?ll also have to spend several hours a week in the lab, or laboratory, doing experiments. This means that science majors spend more time in the classroom than non science majors do. On the other hand, people who major in subjects like literature or history usually have to read and write more than science majors do. The main purpose of this text is________ . . A. to help the students to learn about university life B. to persuade the students to attend lectures
C. to encourage the sudents to take part in discussions D. to advise the students to choose proper majors
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While parents, particularly mothers, have always been attached to their infants（婴儿）. societal conditions frequently made this attachment difficult to maintain（保持）. First of all, the high infant death rate in the premodern times meant that such attachments often ended in hopelessness. Perhaps to prevent the sadness that infant death caused, a number of societal practices developed which worked against early attachment of mother and child.
One of these premodern attachment discouraging practices was to leave infants unnamed until they had survived into the second year. Another practice that discouraged maternal（母亲的）attachment was tightly wrapping（包裹）infants. Wrapping effectively prevented the close physical interactions like stroking（抚摸）and kissing that are so much a part of modern mothers? and fathers? affection for their infants.
A third practice which had the same distancing effect was wet-nursing. Breast-feeding（母乳哺育）was not popular among the well-to-do in the early modern times; infants were often fed by wet nurses hired for the purpose. In some places, such as nineteenth-century France, city infants were sent to wet nurses in the country. Often a wet nurse would feed her own child first, leaving little
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milk for the city infant－who, in many cases, died. In Rouen, the death rate for children sent to a wet nurse was 35 percent
Which is the best title for the passage? A．Societal Conditions in Premodern Times B．Practices of Reducing Matenal Attachment C．Poor Health Service and High Infant Death Rate D．Differences between Modern and Premodern Parents
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Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia was delivered to my house. No card came with it. Calls to the flower-shop were not helpful at all. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender?s name and just delighted in the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper.
But I never stopped imagining who the giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged these imaginings. She?d ask me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness. Perhaps it was the old man across the street whose mail I?d delivered during the winter. As a girl, though, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy I had run into.
One month before my graduation, my father died. I felt so sad that I became completely uninterested in my upcoming graduation dance, and I didn?t care if I had a new dress or not. But my mother, in her own sadness, would not let me miss any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved and lovable. In truth, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia-lovely, strong and perfect with perhaps a bit of mystery(神秘)
My mother died ten days after I was married. I was 22. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.
Which of the following would be the best title for the text? A．A childhood Dream. C．A Graduation Party.
B．A Mother?s Love. D．A Special Birthday. （10）
PITTSBURGH-For most people , snakes seem unpleasant or even threatening . But Howie Choset sees in their delicate movements a way to save lives.
The 37-year-old Carnegie Mellon University professor has spent years developing snake-like robots he hopes will eventually slide through fallen buildings in search of victims trapped after natural disasters or other emergencies. What it the text mainly about ? A．Snake-like robots used in industries B．Snake-like robots made to aid in rescues. C．The development of snake-like robots . D．The working principles of snake-like robots .
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