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Steve Jobs made technology fun.The co-founder of Apple died last Wednesday at the age of fifty-six He had fought for years against cancer.Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world.
Tim Bajarin, president of a high-tech research and consulting company, said "If you actually look at a tech leader, they're really happy if they have one hit in their life.Steve Jobs has the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and Pixar."
Steve Jobs was a college dropout.He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant.They supported his early interest in electronics.
He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer—now just called Apple—in nineteen seventy-six.They stayed at the company until nineteen eighty-five.That year, Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute（分歧）with the chief executive.
Mr.Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer.He rejoined Apple in nineteen ninety-seven after it bought NeXT.He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world today.
Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a "great visionary and leader'' and a "marketing genius（天才）".
President Obama said in a statement: "By building one of the planet's most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity.By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun."
David Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City.He says Steve Jobs not only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American business.
"The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce top to bottom and across is really stunning （令人驚奇的）.He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, so one of the great[s] of all time." David Carroll said.
Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's chief executive in August because of his health.He died a day after the company released a new iPhone version that met with limited excitement.Apple's new chief, Tim Cook, will also have to deal with the new Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon.com.It costs less than half as much as an iPad but also does less.

  1. 1.

    Why did people all over the world mourn Steve Jobs?

    1. A.
      He was very courageous in the face of cancer.
    2. B.
      He became very rich though dropping out college.
    3. C.
      He released a new iPhone version before death.
    4. D.
      He revolutionized technology and made it enjoyable.
  2. 2.

    Which of the following can easily prove that Jobs is a "marketing genius"?

    1. A.
      After Apple, he founded NeXT Computer.
    2. B.
      He made Apple very valuable once again in the world.
    3. C.
      He developed a series of Apple products.
    4. D.
      He was considered the greatest industrial figure of all time.
  3. 3.

    What does the underlined part in Paragraph 7 mean?

    1. A.
      Jobs was a typical example of American spirit of creation.
    2. B.
      Jobs enriched the American spirit of science and freedom.
    3. C.
      Jobs eventually realized his American dream.
    4. D.
      American people are good at inventing things.
  4. 4.

    Which of the following is true according to the text?

    1. A.
      Jobs's parents discouraged him from working on electronics
    2. B.
      Jobs stayed in Apple as chief executive for about 24 years.
    3. C.
      Jobs started his career in his family garage.
    4. D.
      Run unsuccessfully, Apple was sold to NeXT Computer.

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Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach(菠菜) to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.
Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.
People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.
Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid(葉酸).
It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along.   

  1. 1.

    A good title for this reading passage is______.

    1. A.
      Popeye the Sailor
    2. B.
      The Truth About Spinach
    3. C.
      A Mistake with Numbers
    4. D.
      Folic Acid Makes You Strong
  2. 2.

    Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?

    1. A.
      They thought spinach made them strong.
    2. B.
      They thought Popeye was funny.
    3. C.
      Spinach had a lot of iron.
    4. D.
      People liked folic acid.
  3. 3.

    A research group told people that spinach______.

    1. A.
      made Popeye strong
    2. B.
      was a green vegetable
    3. C.
      had less iron than other green vegetables
    4. D.
      had more iron than other green vegetables
  4. 4.

    Folic acid is ______.

    1. A.
      something in food
    2. B.
      a vegetable
    3. C.
      dangerous
    4. D.
      a certain kind of spinach

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I was the youngest of five boys and also had four sisters who had to pull together and take care of each other. Dad wasn't around, so I never knew him well. He killed himself when I was three years old, leaving mom with the job of raising nine kids. She was a very hard worker, and in order to make ends meet, she hardly ever rested. With my mom as my example, I learned that hard work is the best way to get what you want.
Even as a little boy, I knew I was going to be successful. Regardless of what I chose, I wanted to make my brothers, sisters and mom proud of me—not only by being successful in what I chose to do, but also as a person who could be looked up to for the right reasons.
Surprising as it might seem, basketball wasn't in my plans. One day, my mom cut a rim(邊緣) off an old water barrel(水桶) and then held it up for me to throw an old rubber ball through. By junior high, I started playing basketball on a team. I loved to compete. For me, it paid off. I always put the effort in, every day.
I am grateful for the life I've enjoyed as a basketball star. Basketball is not life. It can be exciting. But the most important thing about basketball is that it gives me a way to do good things for others as I move through this journey called life.

  1. 1.

    It can be inferred that the author's________.

    1. A.
      brothers were more famous than him
    2. B.
      mother had a great influence on his career
    3. C.
      father loved his children and wife very much
    4. D.
      family was rich and happy when he was a child
  2. 2.

    Why did the author's father kill himself?

    1. A.
      Because the family was poor.
    2. B.
      Because he often quarreled with his wife.
    3. C.
      Because he was seriously ill.
    4. D.
      The passage didn't tell us the reason.
  3. 3.

    From the second paragraph, we can infer that________.

    1. A.
      the author was respected as a brave boy
    2. B.
      the author's family didn't like his career
    3. C.
      the author got on well with his mother, brothers and sisters
    4. D.
      the author helped his brothers and sisters succeed
  4. 4.

    What does the author get from basketball?

    1. A.
      How to do good things for others.
    2. B.
      Life is as hard as playing basketball.
    3. C.
      Cooperation with others is important.
    4. D.
      Two heads are wiser than one.

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For a while, my neighborhood was taken ever by an army of joggers(慢跑者). They were there all the time: early morning, noon, and evening. There were little old ladies in gray sweats, young couples in Adidas shoes, middle-aged men with red faces. “Come on!” My friend Alex encouraged me to join him as he jogged by my house every evening. “You’ll feel great.”
Well, I had nothing against feeling great and if Alex could jog every day, anyone could. So I took up jogging seriously and gave it a good two months of my life, and not a day more. Based on my experience, jogging is the most overvalued form of exercise around, and judging from the number of the people who left our neighborhood jogging army. I’m not alone in my opinion.
First of all, jogging is very hard on the body. Your legs and feet a real pounding（追擊）ruining down a road for two or three miles. I developed foot, leg, and back problems. Then I read about a nationally famous jogger who died of a heart attack while jogging, and I had something else to worry about. Jogging doesn’t kill hundreds of people, but if you have any physical weaknesses, jogging will surely bring them out, as they did with me.
Secondly, I got no enjoyment out of jogging. Putting one foot in front of the other for forty-five minutes isn’t my idea of fun. Jogging is also a lonely pastime. Some joggers say, “I love being out there with just my thoughts” Well, my thoughts began to bore me, and most of them were on how much my legs hurt.
And how could I enjoy something that brought me pain? And that wasn’t just the first week: it was practically every day for two months. I never got past the pain level, and pain isn’t fun. What a cruel way to do it! So many other exercises, including walking, lead to almost the same results painlessly, so why jog?
I don’t jog any more, and I don’t think I ever will. I’m walking two miles three times a week at a fast pace, and that feels good. I bicycle to work when the weather is good. I’m getting exercise, and I’m enjoying it at the same time. I could never say the same for jogging, and I’ve found a lot of better ways to stay in shape.

  1. 1.

    From the first paragraph, we learn that in the writer’s neighborhood ______.

    1. A.
      jogging became very popular
    2. B.
      people jogged only during the daytime
    3. C.
      Alex organized an army of joggers
    4. D.
      jogging provided a chance to get together
  2. 2.

    The underlined word “them”(Paragraph 3) most probably refers to _____.

    1. A.
      heart attacks
    2. B.
      Back problems
    3. C.
      famous joggers
    4. D.
      physical weaknesses
  3. 3.

    What was the writer’s attitude towards jogging in the beginning?

    1. A.
      He felt it was worth a try.
    2. B.
      He was very fond of it.
    3. C.
      He was strongly against it.
    4. D.
      He thought it must be painful.
  4. 4.

    Why did the writer give up jogging two months later?

    1. A.
      He disliked doing exercise outside.
    2. B.
      He found it neither healthy nor interesting.
    3. C.
      He was afraid of having a heart attack.
    4. D.
      He was worried about being left alone.
  5. 5.

    From the writer’s experience, we can conclude that______.

    1. A.
      not everyone enjoys jogging
    2. B.
      he is the only person who hates jogging
    3. C.
      nothing other than jogging can help people keep fit
    4. D.
      jogging makes people feel greater than any other sport.

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Our village carpenter(木匠), John Hill, came one day and made a dining table for my wife. He made it just the right size to fill the space between the two windows. When I got home that evening, John was drinking a cup of tea and writing out his bill for the job.
My wife said to me quietly, “It’s his ninth cup of tea today.” But she said in a loud voice, “It is a beautiful table, dear, isn’t it?”
“I will decide about that when I see the bill, ” I read:
One dining table, 10 November, 1989.
Cost of wood: ＄17.00
Paint: ＄1.50
Work: 8 hours (＄1 an hour) ＄8.00
Total: ＄36.50
When I was looking at the bill, John said, “It’s been a fine day, hasn’t it? Quite sunny.” “Yes,” I said, “I’m glad it is only the 10th of November.”
“Me, too,” said John. “You wait. It’ll be a lot colder by the end of the month.”
“Yes, colder…. And more expensive! Dining tables will be ＄20 more expensive on November 30th, won’t they, John?” John looked hard at me for half a minute. Was there a little smile in his two blue eyes? I gave his bill back to him.
“If it isn’t too much trouble, John,” I said, “Please add it up again and you can forget the date.”
I paid him ＄26.50and he was happy to get it.

  1. 1.

    Why did John talk about the weather when the writer was looking at the bill?_______

    1. A.
      Because he didn’t want the writer to go through the bill carefully.
    2. B.
      Because it was really a fine day.
    3. C.
      Because he wanted the writer to check the bill carefully.
    4. D.
      Because he wanted to tell the writer what the weather was like.
  2. 2.

    Why did the writer say that dining table would be＄ 20 more expensive on November 30th ?__________ 

    1. A.
      Because it was difficult to make dining tables in cold weather.
    2. B.
      Because paint would be more expensive.
    3. C.
      Because the cost of wood would be more expensive.
    4. D.
      Because he thought John would certainly add to the cost of the dining table.
  3. 3.

    From the story we know that _____________

    1. A.
      John made a mistake in the bill.
    2. B.
      John tried to fool the writer in order to get more money for his work
    3. C.
      John had written out the bill before the writer got home.
    4. D.
      John still wanted to get ＄36.50 for his work in the end.

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