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| I took up skydiving in my twenties.At the time the accident happened, I'd done just 30 jumps.The airfield was quiet when I __1__.On board were Chris, who was taking a tourist, and Ants, the cameraman.Chris indicated I should exit first and the other three would __2__.Later I knew it was this __3__ that saved my life. At 12,000 feet Chris rolled up the door and nodded that it was time for my exit.I put my foot on a step just beside the door, and in a(n) __4__ the propeller blast (螺旋桨气流) threw me against the __5__ of the plane, half in, half out.I pushed and got my other leg out of the door, but in doing so I found myself __6__ the body of the plane towards the tail.My parachute (降落伞) got caught and my __7__ and legs were pushed backwards, powerless, in the strong wind. I was strangely __8__.To a skydiver, being at 12,000 feet is a good thing.Altitude is your friend； being close to the ground is deadly and will kill you. Ants appeared and __9__ slowly towards me, his legs held by Chris in the door.Ants reached out and got hold of my foot.With the weight partly off, I found myself falling away from the plane, __10__ freed.I waved and smiled to indicate I was fine. It was actually very __11__.If any one of a number of factors had been different, I would have __12__.I could have hit the plane with my head.If I had been the last to exit, the pilot alone would have been unable to free me, and even if he had been aware that I was __13__ underneath the plane, he would still have had to land at some point. Blue Skies, Black Death is the skydivers' mantra (咒语)．On the one hand, there's the freedom and __14__ of the open sky.But in order to __15__this joy, you must accept that there is usually only one result if something goes wrong. | ||||
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| 语法填空 Crying marriage? 1 (surprise), isn't it?Actually, the custom of crying marriage existed a long time ago in many areas of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, and 2 (remain) in fashion 3 the end of the Qing Dynasty.Though not so popular as before, the custom is still observed by people in many places, especially Tujia people, who view it as a 4 (necessary) to marriage procedure. It is very much 5 same in different places of the province.According to elderly people, every bride had to cry at the wedding. 6 , the bride's neighbors would look down upon 7 as a poorly cultivated girl and she would become the laughingstock of the village.In fact, there were cases 8 which the bride was beaten by her mother for not crying at the wedding ceremony. In a word, crying at wedding is a 9 by custom to set off the happiness of the wedding through falsely sorrowful words.However, in the 10 (arrange) marriages of the old days of China, there were indeed quite a lot of brides who cried over their unsatisfactory marriage and even their miserable life. |
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| Eddie McKay, a onceforgotten pilot is a subject of great interest to a group of history students in Canada. It all started when Graham Broad, a professor at the University of Western Ontario, fofund McKay's name in a footnote in a book about university history.McKay was included in a list of university alumni (校友) who had served during the First World War, but his name was unfamiliar to Broad, a specialist in military history.Out of curiosity, Broad spent hours at the local archives(档案馆)in a fruitless search for information on McKay.Tired and discouraged, he finally gave up.On his way out, Broad's glance happened to fall on an exhibiting case showing some old newspapers.His eye was drawn to an old picture of a young man in a rugby uniform.As he read the words beside the picture, he experienced a thrilling realization."After looking for him all day, there he was, staring up at me out of the exhibiting case, "said Broad.Excited by the find'Broad asked his students to continue his search.They combed old newspapers and other materials for clues.Gradually, a picture came into view. Captain Alfred Edwin McKay joined the British Royal Flying Corps in 1916.He downed ten enemy planes, outlived his entire squadron(中队)as a WWI flyer, spent some time as a flying instructor in England, and then returned to the front, where he was eventually shot down over Belgium and killed in December 1917.But there's more to his story."For a brief time in 1916 he was probably the most famous pilot in the world, "says Broad."He was credited with downing Oswald Boelcke, the most famous German pilot at the time."Yet, in a letter home, McKay refused to take credit, saying that Boelcke had actually crashed into another German plane. McKay's war records were destroyed during a World War ? air bombing on London-an explanation for why he was all but forgotten. But now, thanks to the efforts of Broad and his students, a marker in McKay's memory was placed on the university grounds in November 2007."I found my eyes filling with tears as I read the word ' deceased' (阵亡) next to his name, "said Corey Everrett, a student who found a picture of Mckay in his uniform."This was such a simple example of the fact that he had been a student just like us, but instead of finishing his time at Western, he chose to fight and die for his country." 1. What made Professor Broad continue his search for more information on McKay? A. A uniform of McKay. B. A footnote about McKay. C. A book on McKay. D. A picture of McKay. 2. What did the students find out about McKay? A. He trained pilots for some time. B. He lived longer than other pilots. C. He died in the Second World War. D. He was downed by the pilot Boelcke. 3. McKay's flying documents were destroyed in________. A. Belgium B. Germany C. Canada D. England 4. We can learn from the last paragraph that McKay________. A. preferred fight to his study B. went to war before graduation C. left a picture for Corey Everrett D. set an example for his fellow students 5. What is the text mainly about? A. The research into war history. B. The finding of a forgotten hero. C. The pilots of the two world wars. D. The importance of military studies. |
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| Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson tells us at the beginning of his long (but never boring)new biography(传记), "is the founding father who winks at us."By that, Isaacson explains, he means Franklin is the most human-and most modern-of the men who shaped the American republic.We admire Washington, Jefferson and Adams, but they remain creatures of the 18th century.The man we encounter in"Benjamin Franklin"-funny, pragmatic and selfaware-seems like one of us, or at least someone we'd like to be. Unlike Washington's cherry tree, Franklin's kite was real.His experiments with electricity made him one of the great scientists of his day.He was a middleclass businessman whose success as a printer and a journalist allowed him to retire at 42-and he devoted the rest of his life to his country.He was diplomat who persuaded the French to back the American Revolution and the author of the first great American autobiography.He was an excellent swimmer.There was almost nothing he couldn't do well, except write poetry.But what truly distinguished Franklin was his talent of being great and human at the same time.He owned slaves as a younger man, but in his last years became an abolitionist(废奴主义者). When he fathered an illegitimate(私生的) son, he acknowledged his fatherhood and took the responsibility of raising the boy. He seems strange today in the joy he took in compiling and creating all those selfimprovement maxims he published in Poor Richard's Almanac(年鉴)- "early to bed, early to rise"and so on. Generations of lazy boys could have been happier without that.But he was no hypocrite.Isaacson tells us Franklin practiced what he preached, and often laughed at himself while he did so. By a happy accident, this is the second excellent biography of Franklin to appear in two years, after Edmund S. Morgan's inspiring"Benjamin Franklin." 1. What type of literature does this passage belong to? A. Research paper. B. Book review. C. Biography. D. Short story. 2. The underlined word"maxims"in Paragraph 3 probably means________. A. proverbs B. standards C. requests D. orders 3. With the fact that Franklin shouldered the responsibilities of raising his illegitimate son, the author wants to prove that________. A. Franklin had made a big fortune in his business before he got devoted to polities B. Franklin might be the only parent to support the child at that time C. Franklin was a great man who seems human to us D. Franklin was improving his character when he got on in ages 4. The underlined word"himself"in Paragraph 3 refers to________. A. Richard's Almanac B. Walter isaacson C. anyone of the readers. D. Benjamin Franklin 5. In which part of a magazine can we most probably find this article? A. Society and the Arts. B. World Affairs. C. Business Report. D. Advertisement. |