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A Heroic Woman
The whole of the United States cheered its latest hero,Ashley Smith,with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation saying it was planning to give a big reward to her for having a brave
heart and wise mind.
________(1)She was moving into her apartment in Atlanta,Georgia early on the
morning of March 12,when a man followed her to her door and put a gun to her side.
"I started walking to my door,and I felt really,really afraid,"she said in a TV interview
last week.The man was Brian Nichols,33.He was suspected of killing three people at an
Atlanta courthouse(法院)on March 11 and later of killing a federal agent.__________(2)
Nichols tied Smith up with tape,but released her after she repeatedly begged him not to
take her life."I told him if he hurt me,my little girl wouldn't have a mummy,"she said.In
order to calm the man down,she read to him from"The Purpose-Driven Life",a best-
selling religious book.He asked her to repeat a paragraph"about what you thought your
purpose in life was一what talents were you given."_________(3)
"I basically just talked to him and tried to gain his trust,"Smith said.
Smith said she asked Nichols why he chose her."He said he thought I was an angel
sent from God,and we were Christian sister and brother,"she said."And that he was lost,
and that God led him to me to tell him that he had hurt a lot of people."__________(4)
She said Nichols was surprised when she made him breakfast and that the two of them
watched television coverage(报道)of the police hunt for him."I cannot believe that's me,"
Nichols told the woman.Then,Nichols asked Smith what she thought he should do.She
said,"I think you should turn yourself in.If you don't,lots more people are going to get
hurt."
Eventually,he let her go._________(5)A US$60,000 reward had been posted for
Nichols' capture. Authorities said they did not yet know if Smith would be eligible(有资格的)
for that money.
_________(1)
A:The local police were searching for him.
B:Smith is a 26-year-old single mother with a daughter.
C:Smith tried very hard to kill Nichols.
D:She even cooked breakfast for the man before he allowed her to leave.
E:And the two of them discussed this topic.
F:Then she called the police.
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The Fat Problem That Men Face
It is a pleasure to see men of a certain age worrying about their weight.Listening to them is not such a pleasure.Because the men are new at the game,they don't hesitate to discuss the fat problem incessantly.
However,women of the same age do not discuss the fat problem,especially not in mixed company.They prefer to face the problem with quiet dignity.Discussing the problem might only draw attention to some stray body part that may be successfully tucked away under an article of clothing.
The age at which a man begins to explore the fat problem can vary.The actual problem can manifest itself in the early 30's,but broad-range discussion usually starts later.There are early nonverbal symptoms. I've watched the rugged journalist who shares my apartment sneak by with a Diet Coke.His shirts are no longer neatly tucked in to display a trim waist.Recently he has begun to verbalize his anxiety.He tells me, with a sheepish grin,that he is taking his suits to Chinatown to have them"tailored".
Still older men have lost their dignity and rattle on unabashedly.Often wives and children play important roles in their fat-inspection rituals.Take my oldest brother,a former college football player,as an example.His daughter says that several tinies a day he will stand at attention and call out,"Fat,medium or thin?" She knows the correct answer:medium.Thin would be an obvious stretch,and fat may not get her that new video.According to his wife,he stands in front of the mirror in the morning(before the day's meals take their toll),puts his hands behind his head and lurches into a side bend,then clutches the roll that has developed arid says,"Am I getting fatter?" His wife is expected to answer,"You look like you may have lost a few pounds."
And then there are the ex-husbands a pitiful group.They are extremely vocal.When I go to the movies with one,he confides that he is suffering from great hunger because he is dieting.He hasn't eaten since the pancakes and sausages he wolfed down that morning.He pauses in his monologue while he buys his popcorn.
After the movie,we sprint to a restaurant,where he again pauses to devour a basket of bread.Before he orders his chaste salad and soup,he grows plaintive.Do I think he's fat?
The ex-husbands are pitiful because they have got no wives to sympathize with their fat problem.
A:Right
B:Wrong
C:Not mentioned
He shifted his position a little in order to alleviate the pain in his leg.
A:ease
B:control
C:experience
D:suffer
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Who Built Giza's Pyramids(金字塔)?
1 .For centuries,the pyramids of Giza have been timeless symbols of Egyptian culture.But who actually built them? For years, we did not know for sure.But archeologists(考古学家)recently discovered an ancient village near the pyramids.Close by,there was also a ceme-tery(墓地)where pyramid builders were buried.From studying these places, archeologists can now confirm that the pyramids were not built by slaves or foreigners.Ordinary Egyptians built them.
2 .It took about eighty years to build the pyramids.According to archeologists,about 20,000~30,000 people were involved in completing the task.The workers had different roles.Some dug up the rock,some moved it,and some shaped it into blocks.People also worked on different teams,each with its own name.On a wall in Khufu's Great Pyramid,for example,a group of workers wrote“Friends of Khufu.”Teams often competed to do a job faster.
3.Life for these workers was hard.“We can see that in their skeletons(骨架),”says Azza Mohamed Sarry El-Din,a scientist studying bodies found in the cemetery.The bones show signs of arthritis(关节炎),which developed from carrying heavy things for a long time.Archeologists have also found many female skeletons in the village and cemetery.The damage to their bones is similar to the men's.Their lives may have been even tougher:male workers lived to age 40~45,but women to only 30~35.However,workers usually had enough food,and they also had medical care if they got sick or hurt.
4 .The work was challenging,but laborers were proud of their work.“It's because they were not just building the tomb of their king,” says Egyptian archeologist Zahi Hawass.“They were building Egypt.It was a national project,and everyone was a participant.”
To build the pyramids,the workers had different roles and worked______.
A:of their king
B:from taking heavy things
C:on different teams
D:by foreigners
E:of their work
F:by ordinary Egyptians
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Unidentified Flying Object
Unidentified flying Object(UFO)is any object or light,reportedly sighted in the sky,that cannot be immediately explained by the observer. Sightings of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times,but UFOs(sometimes called flying saucers)became widely discussed only after the first widely publicized U.S.sighting in 1947.Many thousands of such observations have since been reported worldwide.
At least 90 percent of UFO sightings can be identified as conventional objects,although time consuming investigations are often necessary for such identification.The objects most often be mistaken for UFOs are bright planets and stars,aircraft,birds,balloons,kites,aerial flares,peculiar clouds, meteors(流星),and satellites. The remaining sightings most likely can be attributed to other mistaken sightings or to inaccurate reporting, tricks, or delusions(妄想),although to disprove all claims made about UFOs is impossible.
From 1947 to 1969 the US air force investigated UFOs as a possible threat to national security. A total of 12,618 reports was received,of which 701 reports,or 5.6 percent,were listed as unexplained.The air force concluded that"no UFO reported,investigated,and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security."Since 1969 no agency of the US government has had any active program of UFO investigation.
Some persons, however, believe that UFOs are extraterrestrial(地球外的)spacecraft, even though no scientifically valid evidence supports that belief. The possibility of extraterrestrial civilizations is not the stumbling block(障碍物);most scientists grant that intelligent life may well exist elsewhere in the universe.A fully convincing UFO photograph of a craft like object has yet to be taken, however, and the scientific method requires that highly speculative(推测性的)explanations should not be adopted unless all of the more ordinary explanations can be ruled out.
UFO enthusiasts persist,however,and some persons even claim to have been captured and taken aboard UFOs.No one has produced scientifically acceptable proof of these claims.Behavioral scientist Car Sagan of Cornel University has proposed that"certain psychological needs are met by belief in superior beings from other worlds."
What is the significance of the UFO sighting in 1947 according to the passage?
A:It was the first evidence showing the existence of intelligent life outside Earth.
B:It helped to explain some sightings of unusual aerial phenomena in ancient times.
C:It aroused widespread interest in unidentified objects in the heavens.
D:It touched off the flying-saucer scare in the United States.
My mother finally approved of my plan to receive further education abroad.
A:contributed to
B:disagreed with
C:dedicated to
D:consented to
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The Internet House
A leading British building and design company has just announced their plans for the home of the future.The new design,______(51)as the“Internet House”,has five bedrooms,plenty of bathrooms and a double garage.But these are not the main selling______(52),for it is the £25000______(53)of automation that makes this house really different.
It will be______(54),for people who have plenty of money,but not a great ______(55)of time:young professionals in other words.They are likely to be______(56)to the idea of a microwave that provides easy-to-cook______(57)via the Internet and cooker that switches itself on or off at a command received via e-mail.
All the appliances in the house,______(58)the heating and lighting controls,are linked together ______( 59 ) means of a gadget(小装置)called a “ router”.Using what's called a“webpad”,a kind of portable lap-top computer,the owners of the house tap in commands from ______(60)they may be. The Webpad______(61)a signal to the router,which ______(62)the message and then activates the necessary controls. On the way home at night, for example,the owners can switch on the lights or______(63)the central heating working, and so______(64)sure that they have a nice warm welcome when they______(65)into their home.
51._________
A: entitled
B: known
C: referred
D: named
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More Than 8 Hours Sleep Too Much of a Good Thing
1 .Although the dangers of too little sleep are widely known,new research suggests that people who sleep too much may also suffer the consequences.
2 .Investigators at the University of California in San Diego found that people who clock up 9 or 10 hours each weeknight appear to have more trouble falling and staying asleep,as well as a number of other sleep problems,than people who sleep 8 hours a night.People who slept only 7 hours each night also said they had more trouble falling asleep and feeling refreshed after a night's sleep than 8-hour sleepers.
3 .These findings,which DL Daniel Kripke reported in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine,demonstrate that people who want to get a good night's rest may not need to set aside. More than 8 hours a night.He added that“it might be a good idea” for people who sleep more than 8 hours each night to consider reducing the amount of time they spend in bed,but cautioned that more research is needed to confirm this.
4 .Previous studies have shown the potential dangers of chronic shortages of sleep一for instance,one report demonstrated that people who habitually sleep less than 7 hours each night have a higher risk of dying within a fixed period than people who sleep more.
5 .For the current report,Kripke reviewed the responses of 1,004 adults to sleep questionnaires,in which participants indicated how much they slept during the week and whether they experienced any sleep problems.Sleep problems included waking in the middle of the night,arising early in the morning and being unable to fall back to sleep,and having fatigue interfere with day-to-day functioning.
6 .Kripke found that people who slept between 9 and 10 hours each night were more likely to report experiencing each sleep problem than people who slept 8 hours.In an interview, Kripke noted that long sleepers may struggle to get rest at night simply because they spend too much time in bed.As evidence,he added that one way to help insomnia is to spend less time in bed.“It stands to reason that if a person spends too long a time in bed,then they'll spend a higher percentage of time awake.”he said.
Long sleepers are reported to be more likely to______.
A:fall asleep again
B:become more energetic the following day
C:sleep less than 7 hours
D:confirm those serious consequences
E:suffer sleep problems
F:sleep more than 8 hours
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On Sleep
Baekeland and Hartmann report that the"short sleepers"had been more or less average in their sleep needs until the men were in their teens.But at about age 15 or so,the men voluntarily began cutting down their nightly sleep time because of pressures from school,work,and other activities. These men tended to view their nightly periods of unconsciousness as bothersome interruptions in their daily routines.
In general,these"short sleeps"appeared ambitious,active,energetic,cheerful,conformist(不动摇)in their opinions,and very sure about their career choices. They often held several jobs at once,or worked full-or part-time while going to school. And many of them had a strong urge to appear"normal"or" acceptable"to their friends and associates.
When asked to recall their dreams,the "short sleepers" did poorly.More than this,they seemed to prefer not remembering. In similar fashion,their usual way of dealing with psychological problems was to deny that the problem existed,and then to keep busy in the hope that the trouble
would go away.
The sleep patterns of the"short sleepers"were similar to,but less extreme than,sleep patterns shown by many mental patients categorized as manic(疯人).
The"long sleepers"were quite different indeed.Baekeland and Hartmann report that these young men had been lengthy sleeps since childhood.They seemed to enjoy their sleep,protected it, and were quite concerned when they were occasionally deprived of their desired 9 hours of nightly bed rest. They tended to recall their dreams much better than did the"short sleepers."
Many of the "long sleepers" were shy, anxious , introverted(内向),inhibited(压抑),passive, mildly depressed,and unsure of themselves(particularly in social situations).Several openly states that sleep was an escape from their daily problems.
It is stated in the third paragraph that short sleepers________.
A:are ideally vigorous even under the pressures of life
B:often neglect the consequences of inadequate sleep
C:do not know how to relax properly
D:are more unlikely to run into mental problems
The war was over,but the whole country was in a state of disorder.
A:confusion
B:disagreement
C:disappearance
D:disaster
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