"Mom,guess what I've learned in Scouts(童子軍營) today!" shouted Ruth Perkins' daugh?ter Ann-Marie. Ruth smiled at her daughter's 1 As the 12-year-old girl went on and on a-bout the Heimlich Maneuver(海姆利克氏急救法) ，mom nodded 2 . Little did she guess how well her daughter 3 it!

  Three weeks later, Ann-Marie and her mom 4 for lunch at a restaurant on their way home. As the 5set down their water, Ann-Marie heard a gasping(氣踹吁吁的) sound be?hind her.

  "Someone can't 6   ！" She thought. Turning, she saw Peter, the restaurant owner, 7 a man on the back. Eighty-four-year-old Bill Russell had recently lost his 8 and had come here to help himself 9 the day―his wedding anniversary. Now he was choking on a piece of 10   . Just then,one customer yelled, "Does anyone know the Heimlich Maneu?ver?"

  In the crowded restaurant, only Ann-Marie's hand shot up―and it was 11 "I hope I remember everything they 12 me," she thought. "I have to try!"

  "I need him to stand up," Ann-Marie said,and Peter and Ruth 13 the 150-pound man. Then Ann-Marie planted her leg between Bill's feet and locked her arms around him. Pla?cing her hands just above his14 ，she made a fist with her right hand and cupped it with her left.

"Please, please let this be 15 " Ann-Marie prayed. Gathering all her 16 ， she gave Bill a forceful thrust(猛推) ，and the piece of meat was dislodged at last. Bill sank into a chair. "It's 17   ！" he cried, "Thank you!"

  Just then，doctors arrived and 18 Bill，who refused to go to the hospital，saying he felt19 .

  "You did the right thing,and you did it well!" a doctor told her.

  At a statewide conference last month, Ann-Marie was  20 . "I'm so glad I was there,”said Ann-Marie，" and that I knew just what to do！”

(   ) 1.A. determination   B. curiosity   C. friendship   D. excitement

(   ) 2.A. honestly   B. politely   C. proudly   D. slowly

(   ) 3.A. knew   B. answered   C. guided   D. improved

(   ) 4.A. prepared   B. begged   C. stopped   D. expressed

(   ) 5.A. owner   B. waitress   C. customer   D. friend

(   ) 6.A. drink   B. listen   C. breathe   D. talk

(   ) 7.A. taking   B. watching   C. touching   D. hitting

(   ) 8.A. son.   B. wife   C. job   D. home

(   ) 9.A. get through   B. get on   C. get away from   D. get over

(   ) 10.A. rice   B. meat   C. fish   D. bone

(   ) 11.A. speeding   B. shaking   C. trembling   D. breaking

(   ) 12.A. gave   B. passed   C. offered   D. taught

(   ) 13.A. lifted   B. avoided   C. followed   D. encouraged

(   ) 14.A. head   B. stomach   C. feet   D. eyes

(   ) 15.A. simple   B. different   C. fast   D. right

(   ) 16.A. power   B. energy   C. strength   D. force

(   ) 17.A. gone   B. broken   C. trapped   D. pushed

(   ) 18.A. comforted   B. checked   C. reminded   D. Cured

(   ) 19.A. patient   B. successful   C. hopeful   D. fine

(   ) 20.A. honored   B. inspired   C. respected   D. inspected

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 I'll never forget that interview with the "Careers" department at school when they asked me "What do you want to be when you grow up?" For me,it was always obvious. From a very young age,I wanted to be a journalist and write for a living.

  My mother still has the very first stories I ever wrote，including a tale about a young girl who cheered up a sad angel, When I went to university, I really didn't learn half as much as I did until I was in the world of work. It's only until you get your first job that you'll begin to un?derstand your career. Knowing what you want to do with your working life will only get you so far. It's knowing how to become something that counts(有價值，重要) .

  Choose the right course

  You don't have to study media or journalism but it does help. Particularly as the journalism industry is so competitive and there aren't enough jobs to meet demand. You want your CV to stand out from the crowd，so make sure you take a relevant course or degree and work hard to get decent grades.

  Get the right stuff(素質(zhì))

  Being a journalist does require some necessary personality traits. You have to have a " nose for news". You also have to have a lot of confidence as you could be interviewing top business leaders, celebrities and even politicians.

  Start your own blog

  Journalists need to know how to blog，so start your own and get into the habit of writing on a regular basis every day if you can. News editors will be looking for digital journalists these days,so make sure you get blogging while reading as many influential blogs as you can.

(   ) 5. The main purpose of the writer is to tell us        .

    A. his own experience working as a journalist

    B.the challenges of being a journalist

   C.how to be a journalist

   D.how a journalist works

(   ) 6. We learn from the second paragraph that the author        .

   A.got many stories published when he was young

   B.only learned the trick of journalism when he started working-

   C.believed what he learned at college is the most important

   D.didn't work hard at university

(   ) 7. In order to be a journalist, you have to        .

   A.know what you want to do when you grow up

   B.start writing as early as possible

   C.study media or journalism

   D.take a relevant course

(   ) 8. A journalist should be quite confident because        .

   A.they can be in very tough situations

   B.they will interview very important or famous figures

   C.the journalism industry is full of competition

   D.you have to stand out in journalism

 "If there is one thing I'm sure about, it is that in a hundred years from now we will still be reading newspapers. It is not that newspapers are a necessity. Even now some people get most of their news from television or radio. Many buy a paper only on Saturday or Sunday. But for most people reading a newspaper has become a habit passed down from generation to genera?tion.

  The nature of what is news may change. What basically makes news is what affects our lives―the big political stories, the coverage of the wars,earthquakes and other disasters, will continue much the same. I think there will be more coverage of scientific research, though. It's already happening in areas that may directly affect our lives, like genetic(基因的) engineering. In the future，I think there will be more coverage of scientific explanations of why we feel as we do―as we develop a better understanding of how the brain operates and what our feelings really are.

  It's quite possible that in the next century newspapers will be transmitted electronically from Fleet Street and printed out in our own home. In fact,I'm pretty sure that it will happen in the future. You will probably be able to choose from a menu,making up your own newspaper by picking out the things you want to read―sport and international news,etc.

  I think people have got it wrong when they talk about competition between the different media(媒體) .They actually feed off each other. Some people once foresaw that television would kill off newspapers, but that hasn't happened. What is read on the printed page lasts lon?ger than pictures on a screen or sound lost in the air. And as for the Internet, it's never really pleasant to read something just on a screen.

(   ) 1. In the writer's opinion， in the future，        .

   A.more big political affairs, wars and disasters will make news

   B.newspapers will not be printed in publishing houses any longer

   C.newspapers will cover more scientific research

   D.more and more people will watch TV

(   ) 2. From the passage, we can infer that        .

   A.newspapers will win the competition among the different media

   B.newspapers will stay with us together with other media

   C.television will take the place of the newspaper

   D.the writer believes some media will die out

(   ) 3. The phrase "feed off" in the last paragraph means "        _".

   A. depend on   B. compete with   C. fight with   D. kill off

(   ) 4. What is the best title for the passage?

    A. The Best Way to Get News.   B. The Changes of Media.

   C. Make Your Own newspaper.   D. The Future of Newspaper.

 One day a friend who was not a Christian stopped at the little gorge(山谷) to talk to the blacksmith who gave his heart to God. 1 with him in some of his trials(麻煩事) ，the friend said, "It seems 2 to me that so much affliction(苦惱) should pass over you just at the time when you have become a Christian. Of course, I don't want to 3 your faith in God or any?thing like that. But here you are,under God's help and guidance, and 4 things seem to be getting steadily worse. I can't help 5 why it is."

  The blacksmith did not answer immediately，and it was 6 that he had thought the same question before. But finally, he said, "You see here the raw 7 which I have to make into horseshoes. You know how I 8it? I take a piece and heat it in the fire until it is red,al?most white with the 9 . Then I hammer it unmercifully to 10 it as I know it should be shaped. Then I throw it into a pail(桶) of cold water to temper it. Then I 11 it again and hammer it some more. And this I do until it is finished."

"But sometimes I find a piece of iron that won't 12 under this treatment. The heat and the hammering and the cold water are 13for it. I don't know why it fails in the 14 ， but I know it will never make a good horseshoe."

 He 15a heap of scrap(廢品) iron that was near the door of his shop. " When I get a piece that cannot take the shape and 16 ，I throw it out on the scrap heap. It will never be 17 for anything.”

He went on, "I know that God has been holding me in the fire of affliction and I have felt His 18 upon me. But I don't mind, 19he can bring me to what I should be. And so,in all these hard things my 20 is simply this;Try me in any way you wish,Lord,only don't throw me on the scrap heap."

(   ) 1.A. Appreciating   B. Providing

   C. Sympathizing   D. Noticing

(   ) 2.A. impossible   B. necessary   C. strange   D. true

(   ) 3.A. have   B. make   C. strengthen   D. weaken

(   ) 4.A. yet   B. therefore   C. then   D. already

(   ) 5.A. telling   B. examining   C. knowing   D. wondering

(   ) 6.A. unlikely   B. evident   C. easy   D. difficult

(   ) 7.A. iron   B. plastics   C. shoes   D. wood

(   ) 8.A. think of   B. make with   C. do with   D. get from

(   ) 9.A. smell   B. heat   C. taste   D. color

(   ) 10.A. lengthen   B. shape     C.widen   D. harden

(   ) 11.A. heat   B. cool   C. place   D. throw

(   ) 12.A. stand out   B. stand up   C. stand by   D. stand in

(   ) 13.A. too much   B. so easy   C. too early   D. quite soon

(   ) 14.A. season   B. situation   C. process   D. state

(   ) 15.A. pointed out   B. made out   C. found out   D. pointed to

(   ) 16.A. temper   B. size   C. age   D. style

(   ) 17.A. possible   B. good   C. serious   D. necessary

(   ) 18.A. lessons   B. hammer   C. kindness   D. belief

(   ) 19.A. if only   B. only if   C. in case   D. so that

(   ) 20.A. faith   B. idea   C. order   D. prayer

10. The next time your friend does not get one of your jokes, there is       

being a lamebrain. ( accuse)

下次你的朋友聽不懂你講的笑話時，沒有必要笑人家笨。

9. My educated poor dad told me        . At least 25 cents an hour.(demand)

我那受過教育的爸爸要我去爭取應(yīng)有的待遇，每小時至少25美分。

8.I have no doubt that the American people         and indeed deplore it.(approve)

我很肯定美國人民不贊成這種行為，而且為此而悲痛。

7.More manpower，material and financial resources should be devoted to agriculture     . (as)

應(yīng)該把更多的人力、物力、財力投入農(nóng)業(yè)，才能促進它的發(fā)展。

6.Whether a true answer is needed         between the people concerned. (depend)

是否需要如實回答，取決于兩人的關(guān)系。