If John Hess hadn't raced his locomotive into town with the whistle tied down, the flood w
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A.didn' t I
B.didn' t you
C.hadn' t you
A.hasn’t he
B.doesn’t he
C.hadn’t he
D.didn’t he
A.you would meet John already
B.you won’t have missed John
C.you will have met John
D.you would have met John
听力原文:M: If the traffic hadn't been so busy, I could have been home by 6:00.
W: What a pity! John was here to see you.
Q: What happened to the man?
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A.He had to work overtime.
B.He was held up in traffic.
C.His car ran out of gas.
D.He had a traffic accident.
听力原文: When John Weston awoke that morning, he remembered that his mother was going, into hospital. He hadn't worked out quite what was wrong with her. He knew, though, that she hadn't been well for some time now.Their own doctor, who she had. finally gone to for advice, had sent her to a specialist who knew all about these things, and had told her that just as soon as there is a bed for her, she would have to come into his hospital where he could look after her himself.
During the weeks since then the pains had come even more frequently. And his mother began losing her temper over little things, thus John's father kept his thought to himself more and more. John, always considerate, tried to think what it would be like to have toothache all the time and how bad-tempered that would make you.
So his mother would go into hospital for a few days.John was going to stay with his Aunt Daisy till his mother came back, and his father would stay on at home by himself. That was the arrangement, and John didn't care much for it. Apart from missing his mother, he wasn't very fond of his Aunt Daisy because she was even more bad-tempered than his mother.
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A.As soon as she realized that something was wrong.
B.Only after her husband advised her to.
C.A long time after the trouble began.
D.When John asked what was wrong with her.
During the weeks since then the pains had come even more frequently, and the narrowed eyes became an almost permanent part of her expression. Always rather sharp, she began losing her temper over little things so that John's father kept his thoughts to himself more and more. John, as ready as possible to make allowances, tried to think what it would be like to have toothache all the time and how bad-tempered that would make him.
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A.As soon as she realized that something was wrong.
B.Only when her husband advised her to.
C.A long time after the trouble began.
D.When John asked what was wrong with her.
During the weeks since then the pains had come ever more frequently, and the narrowed eyes be came an almost lasting part of her expression. Always rather sharp, she began losing her temper over little things so that John's father kept his thoughts to himself more and more. John, as ready as possible to make allowances (体谅), tried to think what it would be like to have toothache all the time and how bad-tempered that would make you.
So his mother would go into hospital for a few days. He was going to stay with his Aunt Daisy till she came back, and his father would stay on at home by himself. John's cousin, Mona, was to come in and make the bed and wash the pots and dust round, now and again. That was the arrangement, and John didn't care much for it. Apart from missing his mother (and she was glad she was going away be cause they would make her better), he wasn't very fond of his Aunt Daisy because she was even more bad-tempered than her mother.
Mrs, Weston went to see her doctor ______.
A.as soon as she realized that something was wrong
B.only after her husband advised her to
C.a long time after the trouble began
D.when John asked what was wrong with her
Take to the Hills!
The rider galloped at top speed down the hill and on into the valley, through the pouring rain. "The dam is going!" A few residents of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, took the rider's advice —and lived. Thousands of people, however, either never got the rider's message or chose to disregard it. Many of those who didn't heed the warning paid with their lives.
The citizens of Johnstown in 1889 had good reason for ignoring the advice. Once a year the old South Fork Dam seemed about to burst. The cry, "Take to the hills." had become an annual false alarm.
This time, however, the rider's warning should have been taken in earnest. The rider was John G. Parke, a civil engineer who was in charge of the dam.
The Great South Fork Dam was a huge earthen dike holding back the waters of an artificial lake. The dam had been constructed without any stone or cement. It had been built by piling up layer upon layer of soil, until the dam was 100 feet high. It was 90 feet wide at its base.
The dam had passed through the hands of a series of owners. In recent years the dam and the lake behind it had been bought by a group of millionaires. The millionaires called themselves the Great South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club. They spent thousands of dollars stocking the lake with fish. They also added screens to prevent the fish from getting out through the dam's drainage holes.
Fishing was good, and the lake had never been higher than that spring of 1889. May had been an unusually rainy month. The streets in the lower parts of Johnstown were already flooded with six feet of water. Behind the dam, the lake had been rising at the rate of one foot per hour. The owners of the fishing club sent workers to pile more dirt on top of the dam to keep it from overflowing. The owners also ordered the workers to remove the screens, which had become jammed with fish, sticks, and other debris. The workers tried hard to clear the jam, but John Parke's trained engineer's eye could see that their efforts would be useless. Parke saddled a horse and began his ride through the valley warning people of the arriving floodwater.
The rain continued to pour. At noon, the water washed over the top of the dam. Almost immediately a big notch developed in the top of the dike. Then, according to witnesses, the whole dam simply disappeared. One minute there was a dam, and the next minute —nothing. The lake moved into the valley like a living thing. In little more than half an hour, the dam emptied completely, sending 45 billion gallons of water down the valley toward Johnstown. A wave of water reaching 125 feet high raced toward the city, leaping forward at the rate of 22 feet per second.
The huge wall of water approached East Conemaugh, a suburb of Johnstown. As it did, railroad engineer John Hess looked up from the string of freight cars his locomotive was pushing. He saw the water bearing down on him, now moving at 50 miles per hour. Hess moved the locomotive's throttle to wide open. Still pushing a string of freight cars before him, he raced the advancing flood into East Conemaugh. Hess tied down the locomotive's whistle, and its screaming blast preceded the train into the village. Johnstown was a railroad city. People in the whole Johnstown area knew that a tied-down whistle could only mean a disaster. And the already flooded streets told them what kind of disaster it was. Many people who had ignored earlier warnings now headed for the hills. Unable to reach the center of Johnstown, railroader Hess jumped from the locomotive cab in East Conemaugh, ran into his house, and roused his family. The Hesses made their way up the side of a hill just before the flood hit the village.
As the great tumbling hill of water roared on toward the center of Johnstown, it ran into the East Conemaugh rail yard. In the yard was a roundhouse (机车库) contain
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Schoolboys gained their skill in Latin in a bitter way.They kept in mind the rules to make learning by heart easier.They first made a word-for-word translation and then an idiomatic translation into English.As they increased their skill they translated their English back into Latin without referring to the book and then compared their translation with the original.The schoolmaster was always at hand to encourage them.All schoolmasters believed Latin should be beaten in .
After several years of study the boys began to write compositions in imitation of the Latin writers they read.And as they began to read Latin poems they began to write poems in Latin.Because Milton was already a poet at ten his poems were much better than those painfully put together by the other boys.During the seven years Milton spent at university he made regular use of his command of Latin.He wrote some excellent Latin poems which he published among his works in 1645.
1.What does the passage mainly tell about?[]
A.How John Milton wrote“Paradise Lost”
B.How John Milton studied Latin
C.How John Milton became famous
D.How John Milton became a poet
2.Which of the following is true of John Milton’s pronunciation of Latin?[]
A.It has a strong Italian accent
B.It has an uncommon accent
C.It was natural and easy to understand
D.It was bad and difficult to understand
3.It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A.Milton’s training in Latin was similar to that of the other boys
B.Milton hadn’t learned any foreign language except Latin before going to college
C.Milton’s Italian friends helped him with Latin when talking
D.Milton's classmates learned Latin harder but worse than Milton
4.Which of the following is suggested in the passage?[]
A.The schoolmaster mainly helped those who were bad at Latin
B.The schoolmaster usually stood beside the schoolboys with a stick in his hand
C.The schoolboys could repeat Latin grammar rules from memory
D.Some of the schoolboys were quick at writing compositions in Latin
5.What is the meaning of the underlined part“Latin should be beaten in”that the writer wishes you to understand?[]
A.Schoolboys should be punished if they were lazy to learn Latin
B.Schoolboys should be encouraged if they had difficulty in learning Latin
C.Schoolboys were expected to master Latin in a short time
D.Schoolboys had to study Latin in a hard way
A.hadn’t fixed
B.hadn’t fixed it
C.doesn’t fix it
D.wouldn’t fix it