速测(十二) 完形填空+阅读理解B+任务型阅读+词语运用
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Ⅰ.完形填空
Everyone uses his or her own special words to show his or her ideas and feelings. Some of these expressions are 1 used for many years. 2 are popular for just a short time. Such an American expression is “Where is the beef?” It is used when something is not as good as it 3 to be. In the early 1980s, “Where is the beef?” was one of 4 expressions in the United States. It seemed as if everyone was using it at that time.
We all know “McDonald's” was famous for a hamburger made 5 beef. 6 some businessmen saw it, they opened their own hamburger restaurants. One company called. “Wendy's” said its hamburgers were bigger than the ones sold by McDonald's or 7 . The company began to use the expression “Where is the beef?” to make people 8 that Wendy's hamburgers were the biggest. The television showed three old women eating hamburgers. The bread 9 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 is the beef?” She shouted in a funny way. The idea for Wendy's hamburger restaurant was a 10 . As we said, it seemed everyone began using the expression “Where is the beef?”
( )1.A.common B.commonly
C.in common D.commons
( )2.A.Other B.The other
C.Others D.Another
( )3.A.says B.said
C.saying D.is said
( )4.A.popular B.more popular
C.most popular D.the most popular
( )5.A.of B.from
C.by D.in
( )6.A.Though B.Before
C.When D.Because
( )7.A.someone else B.someone else's
C.anyone else D.anyone else's
( )8.A.know B.knows
C.knowing D.knew
( )9.A.who B.whose
C.which D.why
( )10.A.succeed B.success
C.successful D.successfully
Ⅱ.阅读理解
Clara Daly was sitting on an Alaska Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles when she heard a worried voice over the loudspeaker: “Does anyone on board know American Sign Language?”
Clara, 15 at the time, pressed the call button. An air hostess came by and explained the situation. “We have a passenger on the plane who's blind and deaf,” she said. The passenger seemed to want something, but he was traveling alone and the air hostesses couldn't understand what he needed.
Clara had been studying ASL for the past year to help blind and deaf people and she knew she'd be able to finger spell into the man's palm. So she rose from her seat, walked toward the front of the plane, and knelt by the seat of Tim Cook, then 64.Gently taking his hand, she signed, “How are you? Are you OK?” Cook asked for some water.
When it arrived, Clara returned to her seat. She came by again a bit later because he wanted to know the time. On her third visit, she stopped and stayed for a while.
“He didn't need anything. He was lonely and wanted to talk,” Clara said.
So for the next hour, she talked about her family and her plans for the future. Cook told Clara how he had become blind over time and shared stories of his days as a traveling salesman. Even though he couldn't see her, she “looked attentively at his face with such kindness,” a passenger reported.
