William James, the great psychologist (心理學家), said that most men are “old fogies (守舊者) at twenty-five”. He was right. Most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their jobs. They have closed their minds to all new ideas; they have stopped to grow.
The minute a man stops to grow –no matter what his years –that minute he begins to be old. On the other hand, the really great man never grows old. Goethe passed away at eighty-three, and finished his Faust only a few years earlier; Gladstone took up a new language when he was seventy. Laplace, the astronomer, was still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight. He died crying, “What we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense (extremely large).”
And there you have the real answer to the question, “When is a man old?”
Laplace at seventy-eight died young. He was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had a lot to learn.
As long as a man can keep himself in that attitude of mind, as long as he can look back on every year and say, “I grew”, he is still young.
The minute he ceases (stops) to grow, the minute he says to himself, “I know all that I need to know,” –that day youth stops. He may be twenty-five or seventy-five; it makes no difference. On that day he begins to be old.
【小題1】According to William James, _______.
| A．most people are not open to new ideas before 25. |
| B．few people continue to improve themselves after 25. |
| C．some people still try to make progress after 25.[來源:學,科,網(wǎng)] |
| D．a(chǎn)ll the people stop to make progress after 25. |
| A．the great man stops to grow that minute he begins to be old. |
| B．the really great man never grows old. |
| C．the great man usually dies young. |
| D．the really great man never dies. |
| A．He was a great writer. |
| B．He was not pleased with what he had learned. |
| C．He thought he was one of the greatest man. |
| D．He thought he was old when he was 25. |
| A．people should be pleased with what they have. |
| B．people should try to make a great difference. |
| C．people should cease to grow when they are 25. |
| D．people should not be satisfied with what they know. |
科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：閱讀理解
閱讀下列材料， 從所給的六個選項（A, B,C, D, E, F）中， 選出符合各個小題要求的最佳選項，選項中有一項是多余選
以下是復(fù)活節(jié)的活動介紹:
A. Second Church in Dorchester sponsors Easter Egg Hunt
Join the fun at the Second Chruch in Dorchester’s Easter Egg Hunt, Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 12 noon. Children aged 12 and younger are invited to the Church Lawn at the corner of Washington St. and Talbot Ave. in Codman Square to search for the hidden candy-filled egg. Bring your own basket.
This free event is fun for the whole family.
For more information call 617-825-2797, visit the website at http://www.secondchurchchnaz.org,
or email info@secondchurchnaz.org.
B. Choate Park Easter Egg Hunt
The Easter Bunny will visit Choate Park this year and will hide thousands of Easter eggs throughout the historic town park for kids to find! The special day is Saturday, March 15, at 11 a.m. at Choare Park in Medway. The Easter Egg Hunt costs $5 per child over the age of 2, and is open to children up to ten years old. Pre-registration suggested at cholatefriends@yahoo.com or by calling 508-533-3275 so there will be enough eggs for everyone.
C. Billerica Breakfast with Easter Bunny
http://www.town.billerica.ma/us/cities/billericama/docs/UploadPages?recreation.htm#Breakfast
Sunday, March 16,2008
8:30-12 noon
Shawsheen Valley Technical School Cafeteria
100 Cook Street, Billerica
$5.00 per person for a GREAT Meal and LOADS of fun!
(Includes breakfast, photo with Easter Bunny, egg hunt, hat parade, face painting & crafts!)
D. Burlington—FLASHLIGHT AT NIGHT EASTER EGG HUNT
http://www.burlington.org/reaction//Special Events.htm
Thursday, March 20, 2008
The Easter bunny will be making a special trip to Burlington to hide some eggs for Easter. This year the Easter bunny will be hiding eggs in two separate locations. Bring your flashlight and a parent and help us find the eggs that are scattered about the Town Common and Simonds Park. The Easter Bunny will be on hand for pictures, so bring your camera. The Easter egg hunt is open for residents only who have signed up and have a ticket. This is for children ages 2-5 with a parents and tickets are $6 each.
E. Wilmington
http://www.towm.wilmington.ma.us/old/rec.htm
EASTER EGG HUNT (Town Common)
The Annual Easter Egg Hunt for children aged 6 and younger will be held on Saturday, March 22 on the Town Common. In case of poor weather or ground
F. Methuen Easter Egg Hunt
http://www.ci.methuen.ma.us/
Saturday, March 22, 12:00 Noon at Veterans Park on Milk Street
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Bring a Basket! Special Appearance by the Easter Bunny!!!
Ages: Preschool to 3rd Grade.
Information: 978-983-8590
請根據(jù)下面家長和小孩的信息，為其挑選合適的活動。
76.Mr. Brown. My son is 5 years old. He loves Easter Egg Hunt. But this time I won’t be free until Saturday afternoon, March 22.
77. Mrs. Houston My husband and I will be free on March 15, so we would like to take our kid, Jason, 12, to join in some free events.
78．Mr. Robinson Judy, my daughter, is 3 years old. She loves the Easter Bunny so much that she will be happy to take a picture with it.
79．Mrs. Ryan I am available before noon on March 15 so I am taking my boy, Justin, aged 8, to try for the egg hunts.
80. Mr. William Besides egg hunts, my boy would also like to watch other performance, such as parade and painting.
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An estimated 80 percent of American adults think music lessons, though at times boring and challenging in the eyes of some kids, improve children’s ability to learn or their performance in school . They say that the satisfaction for learning to play a new song helps a child express creativity.
Researchers at Harvard University, however, have found that there’s one thing musical training does not do. Samuel Mehr, the leading researcher of the new study, said it is wrong to think that learning to play a musical instrument improves a child’s intellectual development. The evidence comes from studies that measured the mental ability of two groups of 4-year-olds and their parents. One group attended music class; the comparison group went to a class that places importance on the optical arts-arts that can be seen.
“We found no evidence for any advantage on any of these tests for the kids participating in these music classes,” said Mehr.
Samuel Mehr says researchers have carried out many studies in an effort to learn whether musical training can make children smarter. Only one study seems to show a small percentage increase in IQ, intellectual scores among students after one year of music lessons.
He does not believe that IQ is a good measure of a child’s intelligence. Therefore, the researchers in his study compared how well children in the musical training group did on mental processing tasks, then the results were compared to those of children who did not take lessons.
Music lessons may not offer children a fast easy way to gain entry to the best schools later of their life, but the training is still important.
Mr Mehr notes that the works of writer William Shakespeare are not taught , so the children will do better in physics. He says Shakespeare is taught because it is important for cultural reasons.“And I don’t think music needs to be any different than that.”
1.What attitude do most American grown-ups have towards music lessons? _________
A. Uninterested B. Approving C. Doubtful D. Uncertain
2.The underlined word“optical”in Paragraph 2 probably means .
A. visual B. colorful C. traditional D. serious
3.According to Samuel Mehr, _________ .
A. many studies show that music training can improve IQ
B. IQ is a good measure of a child’s intelligence
C. music can enable a child to go to a better school
D. music should be taught for cultural reasons
4.The study shows that .
A. early music training has negative effects
B. musical lessons should be stopped at school
C. musical training doesn’t improve kids’ intelligence
D. playing musical instrument makes kids more creative
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閱讀下面短文并回答問題，然后將答案寫到答案卡相應(yīng)的位置上（請注意每題的詞數(shù)要求）。
Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876．He was abandoned by his father， “Professor” William Henry Chaney，a fortune telling person，and raised in Oakland by his mother Flora Wellman，a music teacher．London’s stepfather，John London，whose surname he took，was a failed storekeeper. London’ youth marked by poverty. At the age of the he became a crazy reader, and borrowed books from the Oakland Public Library, where Ina Coolbirth told him to read the works of Flaubert, Tolstoy and other major novelists.
After leaving school at the age of 14，London worked as a seaman，rode in trains as a wanderer and adopted socialistic views as a member of the protest armies of the unemployed．In 1894 he was arrested in Niagara Fails and put into prison for wandering． These years made him determined to raise himself out of poverty but they also gave later materials for such works as The Sea Wolf（1 904），which partly came from his horrible experiences as a sailor in the Pacific Ocean．
Without having much formal education，London spent much time in public libraries reading fiction，philosophy，poetry，political science，and at the age of 19 got admittance to the University of California in Berkeley．During this period he had already started to write．London left the school before the year was over and went to seek his fortune in the Klondike gold rush of 1 89 7．His attempt was unsuccessful．London spent the winter near Dawson City，suffering from illness．In the spring he returned to San Francisco with his notebook full of plans for stories．For the remainder of 1 89 8 London again tried to earn his living by writing．London’s first novel，The Son of the Wolf，appeared’in 1900．By 1904 Jack London was the author of 10 books．The Son of the Wolf got a wide audience as did his other Alaska stories，The Call of the Wild（1903），White Fang（1906），and Burning Daylight（1910）．Jack London died on November 22，1916．
1.What did Ina Coolbirth tell London in the Oakland Public Library?（Within 15 words）
2.Why were London's horrible experiences as a sailor good for him?（Within 12 words）
3.What was wrong with London near Dawson City?（Within 5 words）
4.What is London’s first novel?（Within 5 words）
5.How is the text developed?（Within 5 words）
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根據(jù)中文意義完成句子（每空1詞，每題2分，共14分）
1.Tony just called me up to ____ ____ ____ ____. Tony打電話祝賀我的成功。
2.____ ____ ____ ____ the number of private cars, government should also provide more public transport. 除了減少私家車數(shù)量，政府還應(yīng)該提供更多的公共交通工具。
3.Jim was sorry ____ ____ ____ ____ his wife to hospital when their baby was born.
在他們孩子出生時Jim對于沒能陪他妻子去醫(yī)院感到很抱歉。
4.William can’t bear ____ ____ ____ ____ like this before the whole class.
William無法忍受在全班同學前被這樣取笑。
5.I have a busy life with ____ ____ ____ ____ _____ feeling sorry for myself.
我生活充實，沒有時間閑坐著自憐。
6.He was ____ ____ ____ ____ her yet he didn’t know what to say.
他對她充滿了同情，卻不知道該說什么。
7.She was adopted as a little baby, thus she ____ ____ ____ ____ her natural parents.
她在小嬰兒的時候被收養(yǎng)，因此她對生身父母沒感情。
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One dark stormy night, an elderly couple hurried into a hotel and asked whether they could be put up for the night. “I’ m very 36 ,” the clerk on night shift said politely, “we are all 37 tonight. But you could stay in my room if you don’t 38 . As I’m on duty, I’ll be staying up in the office anyway,” The young man gave the 39 _ advice.
The elderly couple 40 his offer with gratitude(感激). They 41 for the inconvenience they had caused him. The next day, the rain stopped and it cleared up. When the old gentleman went to pay his 42 , the clerk behind the counter was that same helpful young man. “The room you and your wife stayed in is not a proper guest room in this hotel, 43 you don’t need to pay,” said the clerk, with the same friendly smile.
The old gentleman nodded in 44 , “You are an employee that every boss in the hotel business would 45 . Perhaps 46 I’ll build a hotel for you. ” The clerk was amazed but, deciding that the guest must have been joking, he gave the remark no more 47 .
Two years later, the young man received a registered letter(掛號信) from the old gentleman, in which he 48 the experience of that dark stormy night. The letter also enclosed（附上） a formal 49 and a round-trip air ticket to New York, asking the young man to pay a visit.
At a street comer in Manhattan, the young man met his 50 guest. The old gentleman, pointing to a magnificent new 51 towering over the crossroads, said, “Look, that is the hotel I 52 to build for you. I hope you will manage it for me. Remember what I said then? Well, I was serious about it.”
“But…will there be any conditions, sir? Why do you choose me? And who are you?”
“My name is William Aster. There’s not any condition. 53 I told you before, you are the best employee…!”
This building was none 54 the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Starting business in 1931, this hotel has been a symbol of supreme status and honor in the city of New York. The young man who became its first 55 was George Boldt, the man who turned Waldorf into one of the most glamorous hotels in the world.
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