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1、第三阶段在线作业单选题（共40道题）收起1. （25 分） Passage 1 My friends grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe. After being processed （移民入境检查）at Ellis Island, he went into a cafeteria in Lower Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat down at a table and waited for someone to take his order. But nobody came to

2、him. Later a woman with a plate full of food sat down opposite him and told him how a cafeteria worked. uStart out at the end/? she said. Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other end hell tell you how much you have to pay.” “I soon learned thats how everything works in America

3、, “ the grandfather told my friend. Life is like a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want only if you are willing to pay the money. You can even get success, but youll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to you. You have to get up and get it yourself. l.From the passage, we know

4、if you want to get success in America, you should try to get it by yourself.A、TB、F我的答案：A此题得分：2.5分2（25 分） Passage 1 My friends grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe. After being processed （移民入境检查）at Ellis Island, he went into a cafeteria in Lower Manhattan to get something to eat. He sat do

5、wn at a table and waited for someone to take his order. But nobody came to him. Later a woman with a plate full of food sat down opposite him and told him how a cafeteria worked. Start out at the end,“ she said. Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other end hell tell you how mu

6、ch you have to pay.” “I soon learned thats how everything works in America,“ the grandfather told my friend. Life is like a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want only if you are willing to pay the money. You can even get success, but youll never get it if you wait for someone to bring it to

7、you. You have to get up and get it yourself. ” 2.The old man came from Eastern Europe.A、TB、F我的答案：A此题得分：2.5分3. （2.5 分） Passage 1 My friends grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe. After being processed （移民入境检查）at Ellis Island, he went into a cafeteria in Lower Manhattan to get something to e

8、at. He sat down at a table and waited for someone to take his order. But nobody came to him. Later a woman with a plate full of food sat down opposite him and told him how a cafeteria worked. u Start out at the end,n she said. u Just go along the line and pick out what you want. At the other end hel

9、l tell you how much you have to pay.” “I soon learned thats how everything works in America, “ the grandfather told my friend. Life is like a cafeteria here. You can get anything you want only if you are willing to pay the money. You can even get success, but youll never get it if you wait for someo

10、ne to bring it to you. You have to get up and get it yourself. 3.The old woman sat down opposite the old man so that she could serve him.A、TB、F我的答案：B此题得分：2.5分4. （2.5 分） Passage 1 My friends grandfather came to America from Eastern Europe. After being professor occupies a higher social position and c

11、ommands greater respect in the community than the common laborer or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer or laborer of some sort. This attitude toward manual （体力的）labor is now still seen in many aspects of American life.

12、One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even luxuriously （豪华地） furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact that the family has been able to afford foreign travel, expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess probably will cook

13、the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward; furthermore, the dinner will not consist merely of something quickly and easily assembled from contents of various cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. On the contrary, the hostess usually takes pride in caref

14、ul preparation of special dishes. A professional may talk about washing the car, digging in his flowerbeds, painting the house. His wife may even help with these things, just as he often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may wait on table and wash dishes for his living,

15、or during the summer he may work with a construction gang on a highway in order to pay for his education. 24. The authors attitude towards manual labor is.A、positiveB、negativeC、humorousD、critical我的答案：A此题得分：2.5分25. （2.5 分） Passage 5 A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradit

16、ion is to respect the self-made man-the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts, usually beginning by working with his hands. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position and commands greater respect in the community than the common

17、 laborer or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer or laborer of some sort. This attitude toward manual （体力的） labor is now still seen in many aspects of American life. One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only com

18、fortably but even luxuriously （豪华地） furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact that the family has been able to afford foreign travel, expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess probably will cook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash

19、 dishes afterward; furthermore, the dinner will not consist merely of something quickly and easily assembled from contents of various cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. On the contrary, the hostess usually takes pride in careful preparation of special dishes. A professional may ta

20、lk about washing the car, digging in his flowerbeds, painting the house. His wife may even help with these things, just as he often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may wait on table and wash dishes for his living, or during the summer he may work with a construction ga

21、ng on a highway in order to pay for his education. 25. Which of the following could be the best title of the passage?A、A Respectable Self-made FamilyB、American Attitude toward Manual LaborC、 Characteristics of American CultureD、The Development of Manual Labor我的答案：B此题得分：2.5分26. （2.5 分） Passage 6 How

22、men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thought and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they a

23、greed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to present those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken or written in letters, we call words. The power of words, then, lies in their associations-the things they bring up before our minds. Words become

24、filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something increases. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also exp

25、ress these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of words is what we call literary style. Above all, the real poet is a master of words. He can convey his meaning in words which sing like music and which by their position and association c

26、an move men to tears. We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use them accurately, or they will make our speech silly and vulgar. 26. The origin of language isA、a legend handed down from the pastB、a matter that is hidden or secretC、a question difficult to answerD、a problem not ye

27、t solved我的答案：D此题得分：2.5分27. （25 分） Passage 6 How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thought and feelings, actions and things, so that they could co

28、mmunicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to present those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken or written in letters, we call words. The power of words, then, lies in their associations-the thin

29、gs they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something increases. Great writers are tho

30、se who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of words is what we call literary style. Above allz the real poet is a master of words. He can convey his meaning in words which sing like mus

31、ic and which by their position and association can move men to tears. We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use them accurately, or they will make our speech silly and vulgar. 27. What is true about wo rd s ?A、They are used to express feelings only8、 They can not be written dow

32、n.C、They are simply sounds.D、They are mysterious.我的答案：C此题得分：2.5分（2.5 分） Passage 6 How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thought and feelings, act

33、ions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to present those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken or written in letters, we call words. The power of words, the

34、n, lies in their associations-the things they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean some

35、thing increases. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of words is what we call literary style. Above all, the real poet is a master of words. He can convey hi

36、s meaning in words which sing like music and which by their position and association can move men to tears. We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use them accurately, or they will make our speech silly and vulgar. 28. The real power of words consists in their.A、propertiesB、char

37、acteristicsC、peculiarityD、 representative function我的答案：D此题得分：2.5分28. （2.5 分） Passage 6 How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thought and feelings

38、, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to present those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken or written in letters, we call words. The power of words

39、, then, lies in their associations-the things they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean

40、 something increases. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of words is what we call literary style. Above all, the real poet is a master of words. He can conv

41、ey his meaning in words which sing like music and which by their position and association can move men to tears. We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use them accurately, or they will make our speech silly and vulgar. 29. By association in the last paragraph, the author means.

42、A、a special qualityB、a joining of ideas in the mindC、 an appearance which is puzzlingD、a strange feature我的答案：B此题得分：2.5分29. （2.5 分） Passage 6 How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow i

43、nvented certain sounds to express thought and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to present those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken or

44、 written in letters, we call words. The power of words, then, lies in their associations-the things they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we

45、read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something increases. Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which appeal powerfully to our minds and emotions. This charming and telling use of words is what we call literary style. Abov

46、e all, the real poet is a master of words. He can convey his meaning in words which sing like music and which by their position and association can move men to tears. We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use them accurately, or they will make our speech silly and vulgar. 30. W

47、hich of the following statements about the real poet is NOT true?A、He is no more than a master of words.B、He can convey his ideas in words which sing like music.C、 He can move men to tears.D、 His style is always charming.我的答案：A此题得分：2.5分（2.5 分） Passage 7 They were going to Fort Lauderdale-three boys

48、and three girls-and when they _31_ the bus, they were carrying sandwiches and wine in paper bags dreaming _32_ golden beaches and sea tides as the gray, cold spring of New York vanished behind them. As the bus passed through New Jersey, they began to notice Vingo. He sat in front of them, _33_ in pl

49、ain, ill-fitting suit, never moving, his dusty face _34_ his age. He kept chewing the inside of his lip a lot, frozen _35_ complete silence. 31 的选项是A、boardedB、dressedC、maskingD、intoE、of我的答案：A此题得分：2.5分30. （2.5 分） Passage 7 They were going to Fort Lauderdale-three boys and three girls-and when they _31_ the bus, they were carrying sandwiches and wine in paper bags dreaming _32_ golden beaches and sea tides as the gray, cold spring of New York vanished behind them. A