My father was a foreman of a sugar-cane plantation in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. My first job was to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields. I would walk behind an ox, guiding him with a broomstick. For $1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks.
It was very tedious work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons. Because the plantation owners were always watching us, I had to be on time every day and work as hard as I could. I’ve never been late for any job since. I also learned about being respectful and faithful to the people you work for. More importantly, I earned my pay, it never entered my mind to say I was sick just because I didn’t want to work.
I was only six years old, but I was doing a man’s job. Our family needed every dollar we could make because my father never earned more than $18 a week. Our home was a three-room wood shack with a dirty floor and no toilet. Nothing made me prouder than bringing home money to help my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters. This gave me self-esteem(自尊心), one of the most important things a person could have.
When I was seven, I got work at a golf course near our house. My job was to stand down the fairway and spot the balls as they landed, so the golfers could find them. Losing a ball meant you were fired, so I never missed one. Some nights I would lie in bed and dream of making thousands of dollars by playing golf and being able to buy a bicycle.
The more I dreamed, the more I thought. Why not? I made my first golf club out of guava limb (番石榴樹枝) and a piece of pipe. Then I hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball. And finally I dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth. I practiced with the same devotion and intensity. I learned working in the field--- except now I was driving golf balls with club, not oxen with a broomstick.
【小題1】The writer’s first job was ___________.
| A．to stand down the fairway at the golf course |
| B．to watch over the sugar-cane plantation |
| C．to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields |
| D．to spot the balls as they landed so the golfers could find them |
| A．difficult | B．boring | C．interesting | D．unusual |
| A．he should work for those who he liked most |
| B．he should work longer than what he was expected |
| C．he should never fail to say hello to his owner |
| D．he should show respect and faith to the people he worked for |
| A．Having a family of eight people |
| B．Owning his own golf course |
| C．Bringing money back home to help the family |
| D．Helping his father with the work on the plantation |
| A．He wanted to be a successful golfer. |
| B．He wanted to run a golf course near his house. |
| C．He was satisfied with the job he got on a plantation. |
| D．He wanted to make money by guiding oxen with a broomstick. |
【小題1】C
【小題2】B
【小題3】D
【小題4】C
【小題5】A
解析試題分析：作者的第一份工作是趕著牛車犁甘蔗地，每天工作8小時，作者覺得這個工作沒有意思。但是，作者這份工作教會了作者很多道理。作者用掙來的錢貼補家用，這讓作者感到很自豪。
【小題1】根據(jù)第一段“My first job was to drive the oxen that ploughed the cane fields.”可知，作者的第一份工作是趕著牛犁甘蔗地，故選C。
【小題2】根據(jù)第一段“I would walk behind an ox, guiding him with a broomstick. For $1 a day, I worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks.”工作的描述可知，作者認為這份工作是無聊的，故選B。
【小題3】根據(jù)第二段“I also learned about being respectful and faithful to the people you work for.”可知，作者學會的道理是，要尊敬并信任你的老板，故選D。
【小題4】根據(jù)第三段“Nothing made me prouder than bringing home money to help my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters. This gave me self-esteem(自尊心)”可知，把掙得的錢拿回家?guī)椭依铮@給了作者自尊心，故選C。
【小題5】根據(jù)最后一段“I made my first golf club out of guava limb (番石榴樹枝) and a piece of pipe. Then I hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball. And finally I dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth.”可知，作者想成為一名成功的高爾夫球手，故選A。
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| A．Growing up in India. |
| B．Once staying in Canada. |
| C．Once traveling to Canada with his father. |
| D．His father's stories about his traveling experiences. |
| A．The author traveled with one of his parents. |
| B．Both their going and return were by air. |
| C．They traveled in spring that year. |
| D．They stayed in Europe for nearly two months. |
| A．a city in India |
| B．a city in Europe |
| C．an airline company |
| D．a travel agency |
| A．happy | B．sad | C．angry | D．enjoyable |
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| C．1950s | D．1970s |
| A．Devotion. | B．Sympathy. |
| C．Worry. | D．Encouragement. |
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【小題1】Why did the two boys go to the sea?
| A．To go boat rowing. | B．To swim in the open water. |
| C．To get back their football. | D．To test the umbrella as a sail. |
| A．The beach. | B．The wind. |
| C．The boat. | D．The water. |
| A．To check his distance from the boys. |
| B．To consider turning back or not. |
| C．To take in enough fresh air. |
| D．To ask the boys to take down the umbrella. |
| A．They were carried to the pier by Tim on his back. |
| B．They swam to the pier all by themselves. |
| C．They were washed to the pier by the waves. |
| D．They were dragged to the pier by Tim. |
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【小題1】The author quoted Yang Yudan in the text to ________.
| A．show his admiration for her |
| B．make an argument with her |
| C．support his own viewpoint |
| D．build up his fame |
| A．It was unwise for him to share information with others. |
| B．He broke the rules made by the company. |
| C．He was such an honest person that he told the truth. |
| D．He treated his colleagues as family members. |
| A．To draw people's attention to their behaviors in public. |
| B．To advise office workers to be aware of the image they project. |
| C．To make you believe that communication in the office is complicated. |
| D．To warn you to be careful of invisible trouble while talking about your privacy to colleagues. |
| A．At Work, Keep It to Yourself |
| B．Keep the Right Balance |
| C．Share Your Personal Life with Others |
| D．Safe Topics to Talk about |
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Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel.And he surely deserves additional praise：the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.
I say clever because antislavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War.H.B.Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is only the most famous example.These early stories dealt directly with slavery.With minor exceptions，Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely.He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.
Again and again，in the postwar years，Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race.Consider the most controversial，at least today，of Twain's novels，Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn，Twain's most widely read tale.Once upon a time，people hated the book because it struck them as rude.Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums(貧民窟)．”More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim，the escaped slave，and many occurences of the word nigger.(The term Nigger Jim，for which the novel is often severely criticized，never appears in it.)
But the attacks were and are silly—and miss the point.The novel is strongly antislavery.Jim's search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic.As J．Chadwick has pointed out，the character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognition that the slave had two personalities，“the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual：Jim，the father and the man.”
There is much more.Twain's mystery novel Pudd'nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day.Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior(低等的)to whites，especially in intelligence，Twain's tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth.A slave gave birth to her master's baby and，for fear that the child should be sold South，switched him for the master's baby by his wife.The slave's lightskinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slaveholding class.The master's wife's baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave.
The point was difficult to miss：nurture(養(yǎng)育)，not nature，was the key to social status.The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice—manner of speech，for example—were，to Twain，indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.
Twain's racial tone was not perfect.One is left uneasy，for example，by the lengthy passage in his autobiography(自傳)about how much he loved what were called“nigger shows”in his youth—mostly with white men performing in blackface—and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them.Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality.His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.
Was Twain a racist？Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln.If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the“wisdom”of the considered moral judgments of the present，we will find nothing but error.Lincoln，who believed the black man the inferior of the white，fought and won a war to free him.And Twain，raised in a slave state，briefly a soldier，and inventor of Jim，may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century.
【小題1】How do Twain's novels on slavery differ from Stowe's?
| A．Twain was more willng to deal with racism. |
| B．Twain's attack on racism was much less open. |
| C．Twain's themes seemed to agree with plots. |
| D．Twain was openly concerned with racism. |
| A．target readers at the bottom |
| B．antislavery attitude |
| C．rather impolite language |
| D．frequent use of “nigger” |
| A．Jim's search for his family was described in detail. |
| B．The slave's voice was first heard in American novels. |
| C．Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture. |
| D．Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent. |
| A．slaves were forced to give up their babies to their masters |
| B．slaves' babies could pick up slaveholders' way of speaking |
| C．blacks' social position was shaped by how they were brought up |
| D．blacks were born with certain features of prejudice |
| A．The attacks. | B．Slavery and prejudice. |
| C．White men. | D．The shows. |
| A．Twain had done more than his contemporary writers to attack racism. |
| B．Twain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln. |
| C．Twain's works had been banned on unreasonable grounds. |
| D．Twain's works should be read from a historical point of view. |
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