江苏省淮安市范集中学高三英语艺术班作业018.doc

淮安市范集中学2012届高三英语艺术班作业纸课题revision日期athere was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. i guess that would have been when i was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orphanage(孤儿院) turned me into an old man. i would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that i had become and then i would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory. after breakfast one saturday morning i returned to the dormitory and saw the house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies who lived by the hundreds in the bushes scattered around the orphanage. i carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after another, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings, pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet. how cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. i had walked many times out into the bushes, all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head, face and hands so i could look at them up close. when the telephone rang the house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement（水泥）step and went inside to answer the phone. i walked up to the cardboard and looked at the one butterfly who he had just pinned to the large paper. it was still moving about so i reached down and touched it on the wing causing one of the pins to fall out. it started flying around and around trying to get away but it was still pinned by the one wing with the other straight pin. finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground and just trembled. i picked up the torn wing and the butterfly and i spat on its wing and tried to get it to stick back on so it could fly away and be free before the house parent came back. but it would not stay on him. 51. the author set the living butterfly free because_. a. he liked it very much b. he had sympathy for the beautiful butterfly c. he couldnt bear a butterfly dying in his favorite bushes d. its wing broke off52. according to the passage, the authors life in the orphanage was_. a. dull and full of strict rules b. simple and easyc. happy and full of hope d. hard and busy53. what is the authors attitude towards the house parents pinning some butterflies on the cardboard? a. tolerant b. unconcerned c. disgusted d. discouraged 54. we know from the passage that_. a. the author lived alone in the dormitory b. there were one hundred butterflies living in the bushes c. the cardboard paper was left on the step so as to be watched d. the author failed to stick the worn wing onto the butterfly with his spit bi was born in brooklyn. my father was a small-business man and we never had much money. he supported the family, moved us to merrick on long island, when i was 11. he just recently died at age 96. he was still driving and playing golf right to the end. he was the only guy i knew who at age 90 could shoot under his age. i guess that taught me something about perseverance. i went to the university of michigan as an engineering student in 1960. i was standing outside the student union building when senator john f. kennedy made a campaign speech that essentially announced his plan for the peace corps. he talked about how students could provide service for the country. it was an important moment for me. after i graduated, i worked as a computer programmer for i.b.m. for two years. by then, the vietnam war was in full swing and the draft(征兵) had accelerated. i didnt agree with the war and was interested in finding alternatives. i.b.m. applied for a delay for me twice but the application failed. i went to work at m.i.t.s instrumentation labs on a project designed to create a rescue vehicle for lost submarines（潜水艇）. i thought this job would keep me out of the draft, but m.i.t. hadnt put in the proper paperwork and i got called in for my physical. the day before my physical, i broke my ankle playing tennis and, of course, my draft board didnt believe a word of it. i had to provide x-rays. i had tears in my eyes from the pain, but a smile on my face. i started john snow inc. in 1978 (dr. snow is considered the father of modern epidemiology because he traced the source of a cholera epidemic in the 1850s). we had a very clear vision of what we would be. it would not be about making the most money but having the most impact. my goal was to attract talented people who had that passion to focus on primary care, womens health, child health, and to do great work.i also run a nonprofit called world education, which focuses on literacy. what motivates me is going to the field, either in the united states or overseas, and seeing the people whose lives we affect. i didnt grow up rich but had the advantage of growing up in the united states and getting a good education. i couldnt have started j.s.i. in many other places. and i believe there is a duty to try and assist people who are struggling against tough situations. 55. what kept the author trying to achieve his goal? a. his fathers good health when he lived to be over 90. b. his poor family. c. his fathers keeping living an active life to the end. d. kennedys speech about his plan for the peace corps.56. the author wasnt enlisted into the army because_. a. he didnt pass the physical examination b. he worked at m.i.t.s instrumentation labs c. he objected to the vietnam war d. he couldnt play tennis well57. which of the following best describes the author of the passage? a. he is a businessman who has made a lot of money. b. he is a caring man with a strong sense of social responsibility.c. he is successful in starting his companies overseas. d. he is a talented engineer who has trained many college students. 58. according to the passage, we know that_. a. the author father taught him to play golf b. the author was disappointed to have failed physical examination c. john snow inc. was started by the father of modern epidemiology d. the author feels lucky to have grown up in the united states ckirk watson, then austins mayor, remembers it this way:“i was at the gym working out and going back and forth between different machines, doing different things. i was on a treadmill(踏车), my head down and a guy on another treadmill cried out, mayor, is that the world trade center?”moments later, watson was in another part of the gym, away from televisions. “another guy said another one hit.” he recalled.watson, now a state senator, recalls every detail, every emotion of sept. 11, 2001.“i will never forget the feeling of watching the towers fall,” he said, recalling going into mayor mode when it became clear our nation was under attack.you, too, remember the details, the emotions of 9/11. five weeks from today, on the 10th anniversary of that awful day, we will provide a forum for central texans to share their memories. at times, the memories are so vivid, it seems impossible it was so long ago. and there are times the memories are so horrific that it can be hard to comprehend that such a thing actually happened.for many of us, the 9/11 attacks on our homeland are the equivalent(等同) of what the attack on pearl harbor was for americans on dec. 7, 1941. the events were comparable, but the outcome was different. does it seem to you america was in a better place 10 years after pearl harbor than we are 10 years after 9/11? we remain at war on two fronts. our nations economy is shrinking. too many americans are unemployed. we face challenges so deep that some americans inheritors of a national spirit long marked by eternal optimism about a boundless future are thinking about whether our best days are behind us.“sept. 11, 2001 was our day that will live in evil,” watson said. “we need to make sure our children and grandchildren will say we reacted to our day that lived in evil at least as well as that generation that came before us reacted to pearl harbor.”have we done that? wed like to share your thoughts in a project planned for these pages on sunday, sept. 11. are your memories consumed by the horror of the sights of that day? and, like watson, do the emotions of the day still burn within you?59. when america was under attack on sept 11, 2001, kirk watson was_. a. in the office having