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A

A thief who dropped a winning lottery ticket （彩票） at the scene of his crime has been given a lesson in honesty. His victim， who picked up the ticket， then claimed the￡25000 prize， managed to find him， and handed over the cash. The robbery （盜竊案） happened when maths professor Vinicio Sabbatucci， 58， was changing a tyre on an Italian motorway. Another motorist， who stopped to “help”， stole a suitcase from his car and drove off. The professor found the dropped ticket and put it in his pocket before driving home to Ascoli in eastern Italy.

Next day， he saw the lottery results on TV and， taking out the ticket， realized it was a winner. He claimed the 60 million lire prize. Then he began a battle with his conscience. Finally， he decided he could not keep the money despite having been robbed. He advertised in newspapers and on radio， saying， “Im trying to find the man who robbed me. I have 60 million for him—a lottery win. Please meet me.”

Professor Sabbatucci received hundreds of calls from people hoping to trick him into handing them the cash. But there was one voice he recognized—and he arranged to meet the man in a park. The robber， a 35-year-old unemployed father of two， gave back the suitcase and burst into tears. He could not believe what was happening. “Why didnt you keep the money？” he asked. The professor replied， “I couldnt because its not mine.” Then he walked off， spurning the thiefs offer of a reward （回報(bào)）.

1. Where did the robbery happen？

A. On a bus. B. On a train.

C. On a motorway. D. On an airplane.

2. Hundreds of people phone professor Sabbatucci because they ___ .

A. lost the lottery ticket

B. hoped to get the money

C. knew who the robber was

D. wanted to make fun of him

3. What does the underlined word “spurning” mean？

A. Refusing. B. Accepting.

C. Requesting. D. Exchanging.

4. Whats the best title of the passage？

A. A Magic Lottery

B. A Thiefs Lucky Day

C. A Reward of Honesty

D. A Popular Maths Professor

B

There are two kinds of memory—short-term and long-term. Information in long-term memory can be recalled at a later time when it is needed. The information may be kept for days or weeks， while information in short-term memory is kept for only a few seconds， usually by repeating the information over and over. The following experiment shows how short-term memory has been studied.

Henning studied how students who are learning English as a second language remember a list of words. The subjects （主體） in his experiment were 75 college students. They represented all levels of ability in English： beginning， intermediate （中級的）， advanced， and native-speaking students.

To begin with， the subjects listened to a recording of a native speaker reading a paragraph in English. Following the recording， the subjects took a 15-question test to see which words they remembered. Each question had four choices. The subjects had to circle the word they had heard in the recording. Some of the questions had four choices that sound alike. For example， weather， whether， wither and wetter are four words that sound alike. Some of the questions had four choices that have the same meaning. Method， way， manner and system would be four words with the same meaning. Finally the subjects took a language-proficiency test.

Having found that students with a lower proficiency in English made more of their mistakes on words that have the same meaning， Hennings results suggest that beginning students hold the sound of words in their short-term memory， and advanced students hold the meaning of words in their short-term memory.

5. Henning made the experiment in order to find ___ .

A. how to develop students ability to use English

B. how students learn English as a second language

C. how long information in short-term memory is kept

D. how English words are remembered by non-native speaks

6. What does the underlined word “proficiency” mean？

A. Skill. B. Degree.

C. Attention. D. Knowledge.

7. Which of the following statements is TRUE？

A. Long-term memory can be got only by training.

B. Henning gave a separate test on words to the subjects.

C. It is easier to test short-term memory than long-term memory.

D. Information in short-term memory is different from that in a long-term memory.

8. Whats the passage mainly about？

A. English learning. B. Long-term memory.

C. Short-term memory. D. Language proficiency.

單詞訓(xùn)練營

從下列方框里10個單詞中選擇8個適當(dāng)單詞的正確形式填入下列各句中，使其句意完整。每個單詞只使用一次。

abandon declare drown invade last

occupy overlook rescue shock wound

1. The ____ enemies tore down the peoples houses by force.

2. Bad habits which will do you harm should be ____ .

3. Many families were ____ when the river burst its banks.

4. The sale was supposed to ____ for a week， but for all practical purposes its over.

5. Thousands of civilians have been killed or severely ____ in furious crossfire.

6. I was ____ when I heard about your accident.

7. We want a room which ____ the garden， not one facing the car park.

8. The child was ____ from the fire， but died soon after that for terrible burns.

單句改錯

下列各句每句有1個錯誤。

1. He dived into the water and rescued the drowned boy.

____

2. The house gives no evidence of having been occupied with. ____

3. The hot weather lasted from the end of September in my country. ____

4. The wound left a scar that he will carry it with him to the grave. ____

單句翻譯

1. 我們應(yīng)該向我們的壞習(xí)慣開戰(zhàn)。

2. 科學(xué)家們在計(jì)算機(jī)科學(xué)方面取得了重大突破。

3. 最終你所有的孩子將會離開家去過他們自己的生活。

4. 軍隊(duì)在風(fēng)雪中登陸了英國海灘，他們又冷又餓。

單項(xiàng)選擇

1. Helen was fully occupied ___ business matters， so we didnt want to bother her.

A. for B. at

C. with D. about

2. If you take a ___ breath， you can stay under water for more than a minute.

A. big B. heavy

C. strong D. deep

3. ___ has helped to save the ___ girl is worth praising.

A. Who； drowned B. Whoever； drowned

C. No matter who； drowning D. Whoever； drowning

4. Peace cannot be got by begging； it must be ___ for.

A. worked B. invaded

C. fought D. rescued

5. The telephone is ringing. Please ___ .

A. take up it B. pick up it

C. take it up D. pick it up

6. Although they may be useful at times， most users do not ___ use them.

A. usually B. finally

C. frequently D. eventually

7. Creating troubles in public places should be ___ by social opinion.

A. condemned B. scolded

C. blamed D. attacked

8. David felt ___ because his mother expressed no regret about scolding him in a loud voice in public.

A. cut B. injured

C. harmed D. hurt

閱讀表達(dá)

Once many years ago， I pulled a family out of a burning car somewhere in Wyoming. Last week I received a telephone call from a woman who could not stop crying as she told me that one of my stories had saved her son from committing suicide. In closing she called me a hero.

That got me thinking about what a hero is. Was I a hero because I pulled a family from a burning car？ If so， how could I be a hero just because I wrote a story that saved someones life？

Today I looked up the word “hero” in the dictionary to see exactly what it meant. It read “a person who does something brave” and also “a person who is good and noble”.

That statement impressed me more than the part about being brave. So I thought about something very important. And I remembered what happened to me years ago.

After my marriage of twenty years ended， I was in such a condition. I was within hours trying to get up enough courage to end the pain and misery. When I returned home， someone had sent me a card in the mail which told me how much they would appreciate me as a friend. That wonderful card probably saved my life. That person， without even knowing it， saved a life and became a hero.

The many stories I kept writing in the following years saved the life of a teenage boy. In turn that makes the person who sent me the card a double hero. I suppose that is why I fight so hard to help the children now living in orphanages （孤兒院）. Most children come out of these institutions with a very hard and bitter attitude against the world. The gifts we send them let them know that they have not been forgotten. Hopefully， most of them will never hurt anyone because of the kindness shown to them by those of us who cared. If it works， we will also become “heroes”.

1. What did the writer do in Wyoming many years ago？ （no more than 9 words）

2. Why did the woman call the writer a hero at the end of the call？ （no more than 7 words）

3. What caused his pain and misery？ （no more than 3 words）

4. What probably saved the writers life？ （no more than 3 words）

5. Who can be considered as a hero according to the passage？ （no more than 9 words）