TheTVshowsababy’spram(婴儿车)roll

更新 2022-09-03
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The TV shows a baby’s pram (婴儿车) rolling off a train platform as the mother makes a mad rush to save her son, but she is too late and it falls onto the rails in front of an incoming train. This heart-stopping scene happened yesterday at Ashburton station in Melbourne, Australia. But the story has a happy ending: the six-month-old baby survived with just a cut on his forehead, although the pram was dragged about 35 metres by the braking train. The nurse Jon Wright said the boy just “needed a feed and a sleep” and didn’t need to stay in hospital.
“Luckily, he was strapped (绑) into his pram at the time, which probably saved his life. I think the child is extremely lucky, ” Wright told the Herald Sun newspaper after the baby was taken to hospital with minor injuries.
Fortunately the train was already slowing down to stop at the station so it stopped quickly when the driver put on the brakes as soon as he saw the pram fall in front of him. Rail firm Connex is to look into how the pram rolled off the platform. The accident came one day after Connex started a child safety awareness activity warning parents to keep babies strapped into their prams at all times while on platforms.
The accident happened at the same time as the “balloon boy ”story in the US, in which a six-year-old Colorado boy was reported to be trapped in a flyaway balloon. However, he was later found hiding in the family’s garage. Many people believe that it had all been a publicity stunt by the parents. No such doubts surround the baby on the train platform.
In the accident, the baby .

A．almost fell onto the rails

B．needed to stay in hospital

C．was badly injured by the train

D．was pulled a long distance in the pram by the train

The child was not killed most probably because .

A．the mother strapped him into his pram

B．the platform is not very high

C．he was well fed and asleep

D．the mother rushed to save him

Why could the train stop quickly?

A．Because it had just begun to move.

B．Because it was moving slowly at that time.

C．Because the mother took measures quickly.

D．Because the driver saw the pram fall.

The underlined word “stunt” in the last paragraph probably means .

A．something silly	B．something funny
C．something done to attract attention	D．something done to avoid bad luck

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Everyone has got two personalities—the one that is shown to the world and the other that is secret and real. You don’t show your secret personality when you are awake because you can control your behavior, but when you are asleep, your sleeping position shows the real you. In a normal night, of course, people frequently change their positions. The important position is the one that you go to sleep in.
If you go to sleep on your back, you’re a very open person. You normally trust people and you are easily influenced by fashion or new ideas. You don’t like to displease people. So you never express your real feelings. You’re quite shy and you aren’t quite sure of yourself.
If you sleep on your stomach, you are a rather secretive person. You worry a lot and you’re always easily upset. You always stick to your own opinions or judgment, but you don’t raise your hope too much. You usually live for today not tomorrow. This means that you enjoy having a good time.
If you sleep curled up, you are probably a very nervous person. You have a low opinion of yourself and so you’re often defensive. You’re shy and you don’t normally like meeting people. You prefer to on your own. You’re easily hurt.
If you sleep on your side, you have usually got a well—balanced personality. You know your strengths and weakness. You’re usually careful. You believe in yourself. You sometimes feel anxious, but you don’t often get sad. You always say what you think even if it makes people rather angry.
1. According to the passage, a person, who is not willing to change his mind and hard to
deal with, probably sleeps ______.
A. on his side          B. on his back    C. curled up        D. on his stomach
2. If a person prefers to sleep curled up rather than on his back, he may be well content to _________.
A. do things personally.                       B. stay alone
C. keep things secret                     D. trust others easily
3. Which of the following people, in the author’s opinion, most likely have personalities
opposite to each other ?
A. The people sleeping on their stomach and those sleeping on his backs.
B. The people sleeping on their sides and those sleeping curled up.
C. The people sleeping on their backs and those sleeping on their sides.
D. The people sleeping curled up and those sleeping on their stomach.
4. What the author mainly intends to tell us is that _______.
A. one’s sleeping position has something to do with one’s character.
B. everyone has got both real and secret personalities.
C. the position in which one goes to sleep is the most important one.
D. when awake, one does not show one’s secret personality.

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阅读下列短文，并做每篇后的题目，从四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或所给句子的最佳答案。
HONG KONG-Nine out of ten Singapore citizens returned dropped wallets with
money in them, but in Hong Kong only three out of 10 wallets were returned in an
honesty test carried out in Asian cities by Readers Digest.
Larger cities did worse while in general people in smaller places returned secretly planted wallets, results from the experiment showed. Readers Digest secretly
scattered 140 wallets allover Asia, each with a name, address and phone number, family pictures, notes and money in it.
The magazine workers then watched to see what happened. South Koreans in Seoul returned six out of the ten dropped wallets, while those in Inchon returned eight. 50 per cent of the dropped wallets were returned in Bombay, Bangkok, Taipei and Kajang in
Malaysia, with most people saying they would not keep what was not rightfully
theirs. Honesty had little relation to wealth or status(地位), as several well-dressed people in a number of cities were observed to walk away without doing anything to get in touch with the rightful owners.
About 57 per cent of the wallets were returned, compared with 28 per cent in
Europe in a similar experiment and 67 per cent in the United States.
1. The newspaper report is mainly about_________.
A. how the honesty test was carried out
B. where the honesty test was carried out
C. the results of the honesty test in Asia
D. the results of the honesty tests in the world
2. It can be learned from the newspaper report that Bombay is a city in _________.
A. Europe      B. Asia    C. the United States       D. Africa
3. How many of the wallets dropped in Asian cities were taken away without being returned?
A. About 60.   B. About 80.      C. About 56. D. About 42.
4. Which people did best in the honesty tests?
A. People in Hong Kong.       B. People in the United States.
C. People in Inchon.          D. People in Singapore.

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Happy birthday
The China Nation Opera (CNO)will give a concert to celebrate its 50th birthday.
Different generations of CNO vocalists(歌手), like Li Guangxi, Yao Hong and Ma Mei, will present the concert which will feature both songs from famous Chinese operas like “The White-haired GM “and “The Hundredth Bride”, as well as, arias (咏叹调) of such Western opera classics as “Madame Butterfly”, “La Traviata” and “Rigoletto”.
Time/date : 7:30 pm, September 7, 8
Location : Tianqiao Theatre
Tel : 6551-4787, 8315-6170
Tickets : 60—50 yuan (US $7.2-60.2)
Folk music
A concert will be held to feature some recently-composed traditional Chinese music works.
The concert, given by the Folk Orchestra of the China Opera and Ballet Theatre, will include such pieces as “Memory of Childhood”, “Memorial Ceremony for God” and “Wine Song”.
Time/date : 7:30 pm, September 13
Location: Concert hall at the National Library of China
Tel: 6848-5462, 6841-9220
Tickets : 30-200 yuan (US $ 3.6—24.1)
Moon music
A concert of traditional Chinese music will be given on the eve of the Moon Festival which falls on September 21st this year.
The concert will feature a number of famous pieces centered on this theme of the moon, such as “Moonlight”, “Spring Night on a Moonlit River” and “Lofty Mountain and Flowing River.”
A number of established traditional Chinese music performers, like Zhou Yaokun and Fan Weiqing, will play solos（独奏）as well as collaborate（合奏）with the folk music orchestra.
Time/ date: 7:30 pm, September 21st
Location: Grand Theatre of the Cultural Palace of Nationalities
Tel: 6606-8888, 6606-9999
1. If you want to buy tickets for listening to the music “Memory of Childhood”, you will dial .

A. 6551-4787

B. 6848-5462

C. 8315-6170

D. 6606-9999

2. “Madame Butterfly” is .

A. a Chinese opera

B. a song

C. a piece of music

D. a Western opera

3. The passage will most probably appear in the column “ ”of a newspaper.

A. Animals

B. People

C. Entertainment

D. Sports

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Dear Earthmen,
I have enjoyed my stay on your interesting unusual planet. I think I understand the life on earth now and I would like to give you my impressions.
First of all you live in boxes. Every morning you leave your big boxes and get into smaller boxes on wheels. All these small boxes race around and around, and finally stop to rest. You then leave these boxes on wheels and go to very large tall boxes.
After testing all days you get back in your little boxes and return to your big boxes. There you sit and stare at tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front.
Only one thing puzzles me. One day, I went to a football game. A bunch of angry boys fought over a little round ball. Everyone yelled for them to stop but they kept on fighting. They were angry, I suppose, about being cooped up（被关起来）in boxes all day.
Thank you earthmen for this chance to get to know you.
Gratefully,
The man from the Mars（火星）
1. The small boxes on wheels are ________.

	A. toys	B. cars
	C. houses that can be moved	D. boxes in which there are wheels

2. The tiny glowing boxes with moving pictures on the front are ______.

A. cameras

B. cinema screens

C. telescopes

D. TV sets

3. In the football game ________.
A. the players were very angry because there was only one ball on the playground
B. the players were very angry because everyone yelled at them
C. the man from the Mars saw fighting among the angry boys
D. the man from the Mars saw a close match
4. The best title of this passage is ______.

	A. The Man from the Mars	B. Something about Boxes
	C. A Letter from the Mars	D. A football Game

5. The man from the Mars thinks _______.
A. it is interesting to live on our unusual planet
B. there are so many boxes on the earth
C. the tiny glowing boxes are moving pictures
D. the angry boys are too foolish to fight over a little round ball

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Every people（民族）uses its own special（特殊的）words to show its ideas and feelings. Some expressions are commonly used for many years. Others are popular for just a short time. One such American expression is“Where’s the beef?”It is used when something is not as good as it is said to be In the early 1980s “Where’s the beef?”was one of the most popular expressions in the United States. It seemed as if everyone was using it at the time.
Beef, of course, is the meat from a cow, and no food is more popular in America than a hamburger（汉堡包）made from beef. In the 1960s a businessman named Ray Kroc began building small restaurants that sold hamburgers at a low price. Kroc called his restaurants“McDonald’s”. Ray Kroc became one of the richest businessmen in America.
Other business people watched his success. Some of them opened their own hamburger restaurants. One company（公司）called“Wendy’s”said its hamburgers were bigger than those sold by McDonald’s or anyone else’s .The Wendy’s Company began to use the expression“Where’s the beef?”to make people know that Wendy’s hamburgers were the biggest. The Wendy’s television advertisement（广告）showed three old women eating hamburgers. The bread that covered the meat was very big, but inside there was only a bit of meat. One of the women said she would not eat a hamburger with such a little piece of beef.“Where’s the beef?”she shouted in a funny way. The advertisement for Wendy’s hamburger restaurants was a success. As we said, it seemed everyone began using the expression“Where’s the beef?”
1.______________started Mc Donald’s restaurant.

A. Ray Kroc

B. McDonald

C. Wendy

D. Three old women

2. Other people wanted to open hamburger restaurants because they thought       .
A. they could sell hamburgers at a low price
B. hamburgers were easy to make
C. beef was very popular in America
D. they could make a lot of money
3. Wendy’s made the expression known to everybody        .
A. with many old women eating hamburgers
B. by a television advertisement
C. while selling bread with a bit of meat in it
D. at the McDonald’s restaurant
4. We can learn from the passage that the expression“Where’s the beef?”means      .
A. the beef in hamburgers is not as much as it is said to be
B. the hamburgers are not as good as they are said to be
C. something is not so good as one says
D. Wendy’s is the biggest

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