When Houdini tried to call his mother, he was told that ______.
Everyone left the scene when they found that Houdini had failed to escape.
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
听力原文:M: Have you called John to come and fix the TV?
W: I tried reaching him again and again, but it seemed his phone was out of order.
Q: Why couldn't the woman get John to come?
(13)
A.John's phone wasn't working.
B.John wasn't at home when she called.
C.The woman didn't get the right phone number of John's.
D.John was too busy to come.
Houdini managed to get out of the trunk, but couldn' t find the hole cut in the ice.
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
Very little happened while Adams was President. It was an unhappy time for him, and he wasn' t very effective, when his term ended, he went back to the Congress and served as a representative(众议院议员). While he was in Congress, people began to respect him more than they had done while he was President. Adams was strongly against slavery and tried to outlaw it in Washington@D@@C@People began to look back on his presidency with a different view. Now they saw that he was an independent man with high ideal who loved his country and hated slavery. Adams died in 1848 while speaking in the House of Representative.
When Adams served as the sixth U. S. President, ______.
A.his people didn' t regard him as a great man
B.he tried a lot of means to get rid of slavery
C.his high ideal made an impression on American people
D.he did a lot of things against laws
Of course, his secret was not magic or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability to move his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted.
Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo performed card tricks in a club in New York. They called themselves the Houdini Brothers. When Harry married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant. But for a long time they were not very successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape, in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to escape from the prison, and he invited the local newspapermen to watch.
It was the publicity (宣传) that came from this that started Harry Houdini's success. Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape ankle chins. But his biggest secret was how he unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck—and a small skeleton key, which is a key that fits many locks, pass quickly from her mouth to his.
Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local prison of every town he visited. In the afternoon, the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full. What was the result? World-wild fame and a name remembered today.
According to the passage, Houdini's success in prison escapes depends on______.
A.his special tricks and supernatural powers
B.his unusual ability and a skeleton key
C.his magic tricks and unhuman powers
D.his wisdom and magic tricks
听力原文:M: Did you watch" Undersea Discovery" last night?
W: No, I missed it. Did you?
M: Yeah. It was pretty good--it was about barnacles.
W: Hmm.
M: You know how they stick themselves to stuff in the ocean-like rocks or boats?
W: Uh-huh.
M: Well, they do that when they're young, and then they stay in the same place forever.
W: It figures. Have you ever tried removing one of those things? Last summer I tried to scrape some off a pier—I had to give up after a while. You'd think they wouldn't be able to stick like that underwater.
M: Yeah. These biomedical researchers were talking about its possible uses. Orthopedists could use it for mending broken bones; or it could be used in dentistry.
W: I wish I'd seen that.
(20)
A.The reproductive cycle of barnacles.
B.A new source of protein.
C.Types of sea animals.
D.The adhesive quality of barnacles.
Mary began playing the violin when she was only six. Her father came across a really old instrument at his aunt’ s house, and he brought it back home with him. Mary loved it and immediately tried to play it.After a few months she began to have lessons. She got on very well with the violin. When she was about eleven, she really needed a better violin.One day she took part in a concert, and a man went up to her parents and talked to them about her. He said that she had real talent and pointed out that she needed a better violin. When he found out that they couldn’ t afford one, he offered to buy one for her. Later, when she was about 16, she set up her own group. She named it after the man who gaveher the violin----she called it the Erio Sound.
(1)Mary’ s father ____.
A.bought the violin from a shop
B.borrowed the violin from a friend
C.got the violin from his aunt
36、36()
A.brain
B.heart
C.mind
D.sight
39()A.differ
B.develop
C.exist
D.work
40()A.if
B.how
C.where
D.why
42 ()A.bear
B.notice
C.serve
D.understand
44()A.talk
B.tell
C.say
D.speak
45()A.advice
B.promise
C.advise
D.suggest
38 ()A.hard
B.simple
C.important
D.attractive
41()A.sure
B.able
C.liable
D.righ
43()A.new
B.past
C.future
D.current
37()A.find
B.link
C.make
D.repai
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听力原文:W: Bob, you weren't at home last Saturday, were you? I tried to call you.
M: Oh, that's right, I went shopping, I suppose you phoned me in the morning, didn't you?
W: Yes, it was late in the morning when I phoned.
M: Yes, Carolyn, I was out shopping. Why did you phone me,?
W: I wanted to ask if you'd like to come to dinner on Sunday.
M: Oh, what a pity! I wish I had come bur—actually, I were on a river trip practically the whole day Sunday.
W: How was the trip?
M: Very worthwhile. By the way, how did rite dinner party go?
W: Well, we had a wonderful time. I thought you might have enjoyed it too ff you had come. Tom Welsh and his wife were with us. You've met them before, haven' t you?
M: Tom Welsh, yes, I rather liked him.
W: And we had a lovely dinner with green cabbage, cucumber soup and fresh salad.
M: Very nice.
W: And they asked about you.
M: And how're they getting on?
W: Oh, very well. They enjoyed the party very much.
M: Ah, good.
(20)
A.On Saturday.
B.On Sunday.
C.On Monday.
D.On Friday.