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When Benjamin Franklin observed that nothing is certain in this world but death and taxes,

he might well have added "and work." Not that work really belongs in such dark company, however; it can and should be a good deal more pleasant than Mr. Franldin's two certainties. Working in a pleasant atmosphere, occupying the right post -- in short, finding the right job -- is an important part, perhaps the most important, of every man's life.

The first thing to do in seeking a position is to determine exactly what you want to do -- not in terms of some vague, ethereal (轻飘的) objective, such as "I, want to become a member of the management group," but with a definite and immediate goal. Through everyone's experience there must run a thread of consistency, a pattern of what the individual has enjoyed doing and hence has done well. Though actual jobs may have been held in different fields of endeavor, each one of us should be able to pick out the type of work he can do best.

Many men I have interviewed have come to me and said: "I am a financial man. Any sport you have in the treasurer's or controller's line, I'd like." or "I'm good with people. I can sell anything. If you hear of a sales manager's opening or public relations spot, I'd be a natural".

These men are confused. They have not thought through the problems and responsibilities of the fields they say they are qualified for. It is also apparent to the interviewer that they are thinking of themselves rather than of the contribution they can make to the future employer.

This does not imply that one man is not capable of filling several different kinds of positions. A man's aptitude or his past training may fit him for a number of job, but he should know enough not to confuse sales management with public relations or a treasurer's duties with those of a controller. (Personally I believe many companies set such rigid specifications .in looking for a man that they overlook worthwhile candidates.) But after all, if an individual cannot decide for himself what he can do best, how can he expect anyone else to do it for him?

The author seems to ______.

A.disagree with Franklin on death and taxes as the only two certainties

B.agree with Franklin on death and taxes as the only two certainties

C.think that there is no certainties but work in this world

D.think that work is as dark as death and taxes

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第1题

Vote for Our Hero of the YearEvery month, Reader's Digest spotlights ordinary citizens who

Vote for Our Hero of the Year

Every month, Reader's Digest spotlights ordinary citizens who risk something big—their reputation, their money, sometimes even their livesto help someone else. Here we profile seven of the most extraordinary Americans we know. Whose story inspired you the most? Cast your vote at www. rd. com/everyday heroes. We'll update you on our winner in the April issue.

The Good Doctor

The tiny village of Bayou La Batre, Ala., had been without a doctor for several years when Regian Benjamin turned a shuttered pharmacy into a community clinic. And in they came—patients with problems you didn't often see in a medical school; shrimp poisoning from the seafood plants, fishhooks in eyebrows, shark bites.

In 1998 Hurricane Georges roared through, smashing everything in its path. The clinic was destroyed. For two years, Benjamin made house calls in her battered pickup, working weekends as an ER physician and running up her credit cards while rebuilding her clinic.

In June 2002, Benjamin, at 45, became the first woman and the first African American to be named president of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama. But her passion remains her patients. Every once in a while a headhunter calls with a job offer. For Benjamin the answer is easy: "Not interested."

The Shadow

Driving up a residential street in the quiet suburb of Clarkston, Wash., Kim Heimgartner noticed a man pulling a girl of 11 or so into a white sedan. The girl struggled, but the man yanked her by the backpack, shoved her into the backseat and sped off. "Maybe it was her dad," Heimgarmer wondered. Possibly. But...

With her own sixyearold daughter in her jeep. Heimgartner turned around and followed the sedan out of town. She dialed 911. I've witnessed a possible abduction, she explained, describing their remote location near a landfill.

Heimgartne's hunch (直觉) was right. After a threehour standoff with police, the kidnapper surrendered. In his car were a gun, knives, cameras, duct tape and 90 rounds of ammunition. He is now serving a 13year, 8month prison terms. And Heimgartner knows to trust her gut instinct.

The Brave Boy

"I went into the ditch and fiipped(翻转) over twice," recalls Tammy Hill of the accident on Thanksgiving, 2002. "Luckily, the kids were all in car seats. I went through the driver's side window." Hill's sevenyearold son, Titus Adams, suddenly became the head of the family. He wrapped blankets around his two younger sisters, crawled through the broken window and wearing only his pajamas and socks, walked toward the lights of a dairy farm a third of a mile away. Weather reports showed it was below freezing, and Titus was scared of the dark. Colorado State Trooper J. R. Peters was the first officer to arrive at the accident scene.' This kid was unbelievable, he said. Tammy's injuries were severing, but thanks to her son, she's going to be okay.

The Track Star

All Brad McCorkle intended that afternoon was meet his cousin, Kim, for lunch. But when be got to Valley Bank in Davenport, Iowa, where Kim worked as a teller, a man leapt over the gate by the teller's window and rushed past. Kim pointed at the man and mouthed to McCorkle, a former track star (田径明星), "Go get him!"

Across the street, through a supermarket parking lot, over a barbedwire fence, McCorkle chased the man, cornering him in somebody's backyard. When police arrived, they found $12,940 in the man's pocket. Coincidentally, the pursuit lasted a quarter of a mile—McCorkle's best distance. The robber was sentenced to ten years.

The Mountain Climber

At 13,000 feet, about to summit Colorado's Quandary Peak, Andy Kass and Matt Wisniewski felt like they were on top of the world. But in a flash, the snow beneath their feet cracked

A.Y

B.N

C.NG

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第2题

听力原文:W: How many holidays do you have in the U.S.?M: Er, I'm not quite sure. I just kn

听力原文:W: How many holidays do you have in the U.S.?

M: Er, I'm not quite sure. I just know some.

W: For example?

M: Mmm..., Mother's Day, National Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, and Valentine's Day.

W: Not bad. When does its National Day come? And the Valentine's Day?

M: The National Day comes on July 4th and the latter on February 14th.

W: Talking of the National Day, who is the Father of the state? Benjamin Franklin or George Washington?

M: George Washington, of course.

W: Besides Washington, who else is regarded as a great president?

M: Abraham Lincoln, I'm one hundred per cent sure.

What were the two speakers talking about?

A.They were talking about the US holidays and so on.

B.They were talking about the US language and so on.

C.They were talking about the US presidents and so on.

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第3题

It is a great truth because once we truly understand and accept it. Then life is no lo
nger difficult. Most people do not fully see this truth. Instead they complain about their problems and difficulties as if life should be easy. It seems to them that difficulties represent (代表) a special kind of suffering especially forced upon them or else upon their families, their class, or even their nation.

What makes life difficult is the process of facing and solving problems and it is a painful one. Problems, depending on their nature, cause us sadness or, loneliness or regret or anger of fear. These are uncomfortable feelings, often as painful as any kind of physical pain. And since life causes an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.Yet, it is in this whole process of solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the serious test that tells us success from failure. When we desire to encourage the growth of human spirit, we encourage the human ability to solve problems, just as in school we set problems for our children to solve. It is through the pain of meeting and working out problems that we learn. As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct." It is for this reason that wise people learn not to fear but to welcome the pain of problems.

1.The main idea of paragraph three is that ().

A、most people feel life is easy

B、the writer feels life is easy

C、the writer likes to complain about his problems

D、Problem solving is part of life

2.The saying from Benjamin Franklin "Those things that hurt, instruct" suggest that ().

A、we do not learn from experience

B、we do not learn when we are pain

C、pain teaches us important lessons

D、pain cannot be avoid

3.According to the passage, we give school children difficult problems to solve in order to ().

A、encourage them to learn

B、teach them to fear the pain of solving the problem

C、help them learn to deal with pain

D、teach them how to respect from problems

4.From the passage, it can be inferred that ().

A、everybody has problems

B、we become stronger by meeting and solving the problems of life

C、life is difficult because our problems bring us pain

D、people like to complain about their problems

5.The writer probably used one short sentence in the first paragraph to ().

A、save space

B、persuade readers

C、make readers laugh

D、get readers'' attention

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第4题

Some people were just born to rebel; Charles Darwin was one of them.【21】______Nicholas Cop
ernicus, Benjamin Franklin and Bill Gates. They were【22】______"laterborns" -that is, they had【23】______one older sibling — brother or sister — when they were born.

【24】______, laterborns are up to 15 times more likely than firstborns to【25】______authority and break new【26】______, says Frank J. Sulloway, a researcher scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In his book"Born To Rebel"being【27】______this week, Sulloway claims that【28】______someone is an older or younger sibling is the most important【29】______shaping personality - more significant than gender, race, nationality【30】______class.

He spent 26 years【31】______the lives - and birth orders - of 6, 566 historical【32】______to reach his conclusions.

A laterborn himself, Sulloway first【33】______how birth order affected personality【34】______a scholar of Darwin at Harvard University.

" How could a somewhat【35】______student at Cambridge become the most【36】______thinker in the 19th century?" he said.

Darwin, the first to【37】______the belief that God created the world with his theory of evolution, was the fifth of six children. Most of his【38】______were firstborns.

Sulloway's theory held【39】______with Copernicus, the first astronomer to【40】______that the Sun was the center of the universe, and computer revolutionary Gates of Microsoft.

【21】

A.Likewise

B.Likely

C.Alike

D.Unlike

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第5题

Life is difficult.It is a great truth because once we truly understand and accept it, then

Life is difficult.

It is a great truth because once we truly understand and accept it, then life is no longer difficult.

Most do not fully see this truth. Instead they complain about their problems and difficulties as if life should be easy. It seems to them that difficulties represent a special kind of suffering especially forced upon them or else upon their families, their class, or even their nations.

What makes life difficult is that the process of facing and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending on their natures, cause us sadness or loneliness or regret or anger or fear. These are uncomfortable feelings, often as painful as any kind of physical pain. And since life causes endless serious of problems, life is always difficulties and is full of pain as well as joy.

Yes, it is in this whole process of solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the serious tests that tell us success from failure. When we desire to encourage the growth of human spirit, we encourage the human ability to solve problems, just as in school we set problems for our children to resolve. It is through the pain of meeting and working out problems that we learn. As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct." It is for this reason that wise people learn not to fear but to welcome the pain of problems.

From this passage, it can be inferred that ________.

A.everybody has problems

B.we become stronger by meeting and solving the problems of life

C.life is difficult because our problems bring us pain

D.people like to complain about their problems

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第6题

听力原文:Twice a year, all the clocks in the United States are changed by one hour. In the

听力原文: Twice a year, all the clocks in the United States are changed by one hour. In the spring, clocks are moved ahead an hour. This is called daylight savings time. In the fall, clocks are set back an hour to standard time. People remember how to change their clocks by remembering this saying: Spring forward, fall back. It seems Benjamin Franklin was the first person to propose the idea of daylight savings time back in the 1790s. At the time, people thought he was joking. They couldn't believe he was serious. Many years later, during World War I, people realized what an innovative idea he'd had. In the spring and summer, the sun rises earlier. By moving the clock ahead, people can take advantage of the extra daylight and save energy. Energy is an important resource, of course, especially during wartime. The United States operated on daylight savings time during World War I and again during World War II. After that some parts of the country observed daylight savings time and some didn't. Beginning and ending dates varied from place to place. This confusion ended in 1966, when the Congress passed the Uniform. Time Act, standardizing the process and making daylight savings time a federal law. Since then, some lawmakers have proposed that the United States go to year-round daylight savings time.

(36)

A.The Uniform. Time Act.

B.The role of daylight savings time in wartime.

C.Ways to save energy.

D.The history of daylight savings time.

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第7题

听力原文: The first newspapers were handwritten sheets which were posted in public places.
The earliest recorded newspaper was started in Rome in 59 B. C.. In the 700s, the world's first printed newspaper was developed in China. The paper was printed from carved wooden blocks and distributed among the citizens. Europe didn't have a regularly published newspaper until 1609, when one was started in Germany.

The first regularly published newspaper in the English language was printed in Amsterdam in 1620. In 1621, an English newspaper was started in London and was published weekly. The first daily English newspaper was the Daily Courant(current), which didn't appear until March 1702.

In 1690, Benjamin Harris printed the first American newspaper in Boston. The paper was called Publick (public) Occurrences, hath forreign (foreign) and domastick (domestic). The local government, however, didn't approve of the paper and stopped its publication after the first issue. In 1704, John Campbell started the Boston Newsletter, the first newspaper to be published daily in the American colonies. By 1760, the colonies had more than thirty daily newspapers. There are now about 1 800 daily papers in America.

Today, as a group, English language newspapers have the largest circulation all over the world. The largest circulation for an individual newspaper, however, is that of the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, which sells more than eleven million copies each day.

How long is it since the first newspaper was printed?

A.700 years.

B.Over 2 000 years.

C.About 1 300 years.

D.About 380 years.

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第8题

Nothing gets people moving faster than the word "fire".When someone yells &q
Nothing gets people moving faster than the word "fire".When someone yells "Fire!", most people dash for(冲向)the __51__.Their only thought is to get out of the building fast.Firefighters, __52__, race just as quickly toward the fire.They want to put out the fire as fast as possible.There are more than one million firefighters in the United States today.They are trained to put out fires.Back in the 1600s, though, there were no trained firefighters.Putting out fires was __53__ job.Cities and towns had no indoor plumbing, running water, or fire hydrants(消防栓), so water from a pond, river, or well had to be carried to the fire spot in buckets.When a fire __54__, everyone ran to help.They formed a bucket brigade.Men formed one __55__, leading from the water supply and passed buckets of water to throw on the fire.Women and children formed another line, __56__ empty buckets back to be filled.It was a very slow way to put out a fire, and many houses were burnt to the ground __57__ the fire could be put out.Then in 1736, Benjamin Franklin __58__ up with an idea — set up a fire department.He convinced a group of people in Philadelphia to __59__ the Union Fire Company.They became the first official volunteer firefighters.Today, three out of four American firefighters are volunteers.These brave men and women do not get paid __60__ their work, but they are in good company.George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Paul Revere were all volunteer fire fighters, in their days.

51.A.windows

B.outdoors

C.openings

D.exits

52.A.on the other hand

B.by the way

C.sooner or later

D.as a result

53.A.another’s

B.others’

C.everyone’s

D.one’s

54.A.took out

B.broke out

C.came out

D.got out

55.A.circle

B.team

C.line

D.group

56.A.sending

B.sent

C.to send

D.having sent

57.A.since

B.before

C.when

D.after

58.A.kept

B.caught

C.came

D.put

59.A.form

B.shape

C.make

D.develop

60.A.on

B.with

C.to

D.for

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第9题

履带式推土机是由美国人Benjamin Holt在1904年研制成功的()
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第10题

It was______who wrote “The Age of Reason”

A.Washington

B.Jefferson

C.Benjamin Franklin

D.Thomas Paine

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第11题

Eleven days after her son Benjamin's birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle o
f the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just【C1】______her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do,she dropped dead【C2】______a blood clot(凝块).

Pregnancy-related deaths like Coale's【C3】______to have risen nationwide over the past decade, nearly tripling in the state with the most careful count-California. And【C4】______they're very rare--about 550 a year out of 4 million births【C5】______--they're nowhere near as rare as they should be. Pregnancy-related death rate is four times【C6】______than a goal the federal government【C7】______for this year. "It's unacceptable," says Dr. Mark Chassin of The Joint Commission, the agency which recently issued a(n)【C8】______to hospitals to take steps to【C9】______mothers-to-be. "Maybe as many as half of these are【C10】______."

Two years after Coale's death near Annapolis,Maryland, her sister says【C11】______that list should be warning women about【C12】______of an emergency, like the clot called deep vein thrombosis(DVT)that can kill【C13】______it breaks out of the leg and moves to the lung. "【C14】______she wanted to do was have her own family, and when she【C15】______gets that privilege, she's no longer【C16】______us," says Clare Johnson, who says her the sister's【C17】______risk was being pregnant at age 35.

Pregnancy-related death【C18】______little public attention in U.S.,【C19】______last year's worry over the flu that killed at least 28 pregnant women. Among the【C20】______preventable causes are massive bleeding, DVT-caused lung disease and uncontrolled blood pressure.

【C1】

A.as

B.for

C.once

D.since

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