One day Mr. Parker said to himself, "I haven't seen my brother David __21__ a long time, and he's living in a new house now. I'm going to drive there and see him this afternoon."

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Mr. Richards worked in a shop which sold, cleaned and repaired hearing－aids（助听器).
Mr. Richards worked in a shop which sold, cleaned and repaired hearing-aids(助听器). One day an old gentleman entered and put one down in front of him without saying a word.
"What's the matter with it？" Mr. Richards said. The man did not answer. Of course Mr. Richards thought that the man must be deaf and that his hearing-aid must be faulty, so he said again, more loudly, 'What's wrong with your hearing-aid, sir？' again the man said nothing, so Mr. Richards shouted his question again as loudly as he could.
The man then took a pen and a piece of paper and wrote: "It isn't necessary to shout when you're speaking to me. My ears are as good as yours. This hearing-aid is my wife's, not mine. I've just had a throat operation, and my problem is not that I can't hear, but that I can't speak."
1)、An old gentleman bring a hearing-aid to Mr. Richards one day.
A.T
B.F
2)、Mr. Richards thought the old man was a deaf.
A.T
B.F
3)、The old man shouted as loudly as he could to make Mr. Richards understand what he wanted.
A.T
B.F
4)、The old man was too angry to speak any more to Mr. Richards.
A.T
B.F
5)、The story takes place in a hospital.
A.T
B.F

I went to a Catholic boys school in Blackpool in the North of England. In my first year in the senior school I was a nerdy kid, with spectacles and short trousers. For one hour a week the class had elocution lessons from an old, portly teacher called Mr. Priestley. He had a hard task wrestling with our flat northern vowels and trying to get us to speak the Queen’s English. One day he came up to me and said, "Sloane, I want to put you in for a speaking festival." "Why me " I grumbled. "Because I think you can do it," was his reply. I had to learn to recite a poem. It was "Play up, Play up and Play the game" by Sir Henry Newbolt, a classic motivational poem ringing with the heroic values of the British Empire. I had to practise it in front of the class, which was rather embarrassing; especially when dear old Mr. Priestly said, "That’s good but you need to pause and to put feeling and emotion into it." Eleven year old boys are unwilling to express feelings. The Saturday of the festival came and I went there on the bus (my parents never had a ear). I gave it my best shot but there were other children there who were more polished or experienced than I was and they scooped all the prizes. So I had to return to school on Monday and tell Mr. Priestley and the class that I had not won. I was then, and still am, very competitive so it felt like a failure to me. We did not have Mr. Priestley again after that year and I never thanked him for that intervention. It is too late to do so now. In my work I go around the world giving keynote talks on leadership and innovation and I often address large, prestigious audiences. Part of the reason that I can do that is because one teacher took the initiative and gave me a challenge. He asked me to do something I had never done and helped me to learn how to do it. Education is not about league tables or exam results. It is about opening doors for people and showing them rooms that that would otherwise be hidden. If we can challenge children to try things and to learn what they can achieve then maybe one day we will be remembered with the gratitude that I hold for Mr. Priestley.Mr. Priestley wanted the author to take part in the festival most probably because ().

Mr. White lived in a small village（怀特先生住在一个小乡村里). His parents hadn't
Mr. White lived in a small village(怀特先生住在一个小乡村里). His parents hadn't enough money to send him to school. He had to help them to do something in the fields. But he didn't like to live in the poor place. When he was sixteen, he got to the town and found work in a factory. Three years later he became tall and strong. So he was sent to Africa as a soldier. He stayed there for five years and got some money. Then he came back to England and bought a shop in a small town. No people in the town went to Africa except him. And he hoped they thought he was a famous man and that they could respect him. The children often asked him to tell them some stories and his life in Africa.
One day a few children asked him to tell them something about the animals in Africa. He told them how he fought with the tigers and elephants. His stories surprised them all and some policemen and workers went to listen to him. It made him happier. Just a man who taught geography in a middle school passed there. He stopped to listen to him for a while and then said, "Could you please tell us a rare animal, sir？"
"Certainly," said Mr. Turner. "One day I met a rhinoceros(犀牛) by a river…"
"Please wait a minute, sir," said the man. "There aren't any rhinoceros in Africa at all!"
"It's rare just because there aren't any!"
(1)、Mr. White was born in a farmer's family.
A：T
B：F
(2)、Mr. White hoped to be respected because he was the richest man in their town.
A：T
B：F
(3)、The children often asked him to tell them something interesting because he knew more than any other person in the town.
A：T
B：F
(4)、All people believed Mr. White except the children.
A：T
B：F
(5)、Mr. White wouldn't like to admit that he was wrong.
A：T
B：F

Mr. Clarke lives at the foot of the mountain. He keeps the forest for a rich farmer there. The only road to the forest is just in front of his house. He can easily see the people who want to go into the forest. Sometimes he has to be on duty at night. When he hears some sound, he has to get up to see if anyone cuts the trees.
One day he bought a strong dog in the town. He loves it very much and often gives some meat or bread to it. And when a strange man walks close to his house, it barks loudly. So he can soon know about it and goes out to find out who it is. But last week something was wrong with Mr. Clarke. He didn’t feel well and couldn’t fall asleep in the evening. He had to go to a hospital in the town. The doctor looked him over and then asked, “Have you got a dog, sir？” “Yes, I have got one.” “You have got skin disease,” said the doctor. “I am sure your dog infected(感染) it to you. You can’t come in touch with it any longer.” When he came out of the hospital, Mr. Clarke said to himself, “I will see another doctor. It’s much easier to find a doctor than to buy a good dog!
(1)Mr. Clarke’s job is to ().
A. hear some sound and see if anyone cuts the trees
B. stop people from cutting trees in the forest
C. live at the foot of the mountain
D. stop the people going into the forest(2)The owner of the forest is ().
A. Mr. Clarke
B. a friend of Mr. Clarke’s
C. a rich farmer
D. the doctor(3)The strong dog can help Mr. Clarke to ().
A. do some housework
B. see if anyone will kill him
C. cut tree
D. find if anyone is cutting trees(4)The doctor ().
A. loves a dog, too.
B. is really a good one
C. has got skin disease, too
D. has infected the disease to Mr. Clarke(5)Mr. Clarke ().
A. doesn’t think the doctor is the best
B. doesn’t think he is infected
C. will be cured in a short time
D. will kill the dog as soon as he comes back

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The archivists requested a donkey, but what they got from the mayor’s office were four wary black sheep,which, as of Wednesday morning, were chewing away at a lumpy field of grass beside the municipal archives building as the City of Paris’s newest, shaggiest lawn mowers. Mayor Bertrand Delano has made the environment a priority since his election in 2001, with popular bike- and car-sharing programs, an expanded network of designated lanes for bicycles and buses, and an enormous project to pedestrianize the banks along much of the Seine.
The sheep, which are to mow (and, not inconsequentially, fertilize) an airy half-acre patch in the 19th District intended in the same spirit. City Hall refers to the project as “eco-grazing,” and it notes that the four ewes will prevent the use of noisy, gas-guzzling mowers and cut down on the use of herbicides. Paris has plans for a slightly larger eco-grazing project not far from the archives building, assuming all goes well; similar projects have been under way in smaller towns in the region in recent years.
The sheep, from a rare, diminutive Breton breed called Ouessant, stand just about two feet high. Chosen for their hardiness, city officials said, they will pasture here until October inside a three-foot-high, yellow electrified fence.
“This is really not a one-shot deal,” insisted René Dutrey, the adjunct mayor for the environment and sustainable development. Mr. Dutrey, a fast-talking man in orange-striped Adidas Samba sneakers, noted that the sheep had cost the city a total of just about $335, though no further economic projections have been drawn up for the time being.
A metal fence surrounds the grounds of the archives, and a security guard stands watch at the gate, so there is little risk that local predators — large, unleashed dogs, for instance — will be able to reach the ewes.
Curious humans, however, are encouraged to visit the sheep, and perhaps the archives, too. The eco-grazing project began as an initiative to attract the public to the archives, and informational panels have been put in place to explain what, exactly, the sheep are doing here.
“Myself, I wanted a donkey,” said Agnès Masson, the director of the archives, an ultramodern 1990 edifice built of concrete and glass. Sheep, it was decided, would be more appropriate.
But the archivists have had to be trained to care for the animals. In the unlikely event that a ewe should flip onto her back, Ms. Masson said, someone must rush to put her back on her feet.
Norman Joseph Woodland was born in Atlantic City on Sept. 6, 1921. As a Boy Scout he learned Morse code, the spark that would ignite his invention.
After spending World War II on the Manhattan Project , Mr. Woodland resumed his studies at the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia (it is now Drexel University), earning a bachelor’s degree in 1947.
As an undergraduate, Mr. Woodland perfected a system for delivering elevator music efficiently. He planned to pursue the project commercially, but his father, who had come of age in “Boardwalk Empire”-era Atlantic City, forbade it: elevator music, he said, was controlled by the mob, and no son of his was going to come within spitting distance.
The younger Mr. Woodland returned to Drexel for a master’s degree. In 1948, a local supermarket executive visited the campus, where he implored a dean to develop an efficient means of encoding product data. The dean demurred, but Mr. Silver, a fellow graduate student who overheard their conversation, was intrigued. He conscripted Mr. Woodland.
An early idea of theirs, which involved printing product information in fluorescent ink and reading it with ultraviolet light, proved unworkable.
But Mr. Woodland, convinced that a solution was close at hand, quit graduate school to devote himself to the problem. He holed up at his grandparents’ home in Miami Beach, where he spent the winter of 1948-49 in a chair in the sand, thinking.
To represent information visually, he realized, he would need a code. The only code he knew was the one he had learned in the Boy Scouts.
What would happen, Mr. Woodland wondered one day, if Morse code, with its elegant simplicity and limitless combinatorial potential, were adapted graphically？ He began trailing his fingers idly through the sand.
“What I’m going to tell you sounds like a fairy tale,” Mr. Woodland told Smithsonian magazine in 1999. “I poked my four fingers into the sand and for whatever reason — I didn’t know — I pulled my hand toward me and drew four lines. I said: ‘Golly! Now I have four lines, and they could be wide lines and narrow lines instead of dots and dashes.’”
Today, bar codes appears on the surface of almost every product of contemporary life.All because a bright young man, his mind ablaze with dots and dashes, one day raked his fingers through the sand.


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Do-it-Yourself has become one of Mr. Miller's hobbies.A．TrueB．Fasle
Do-it-Yourself has become one of Mr. Miller's hobbies.
A．True
B．Fasle

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The US dollar reached an all-time low against the euro yesterday for the fourth straight day, briefly pushing the European currency above $1.33 before recovering slightly, amid concerns about the twin US deficits and the lack of any central bank action to stop the dollar's decline.
The dollar also dipped to a nearly five-year low against the yen, but later regained ground.
Yesterday, the euro rose to $1.3329 in early trading before dipping back to $1.3290 later in New York. The euro topped $1.32 for the first time the day before in European trading. US markets were closed Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday.
The dollar also traded near its lowest levels since December 1999 against the Japanese yen yesterday, slipping to 102.56 yen, down from 102.81 late Wednesday in New York.
One reason the euro has kept rising is a lack of concerted action by central banks to support the dollar by selling holdings of the other major currencies.
"$1.35 is definitely on the cards now, as for how soon we'll get there, I'm not sure," said Riz Din, a currency analyst with Barclay's Capital in London.
"It increasingly looks as if, despite weaker data in the euro area, the prospects for intervention, are very, very low at current rates."
The latest dollar collapse, fueled by concerns over the US trade and budget deficits, has taken the euro from around $1.20 about two months ago.
Because the euro's rise tends to make European products more expensive, European leaders have voiced fears that it might hurt the continent's export-driven economic recovery. The European Central Bank's president has called the rapid increase "brutal".
But the dollar's weakness is good news for US exporters, helping make American products less expensive overseas.
Commerzbank economist Michael Schubert said speculation against the dollar was making its slide "a bit faster than I had expected".
"Obviously, it's difficult to stop the train," Mr. Schubert said in Frankfurt. A combination of intervention by central banks and positive US economic data could apply the brakes, he added.
Economists say the European Central Bank (ECB) is wary of intervening in the currency markets on its own and the United States Would be unlikely to join in such a move.
According to the text, the dollar
A．has reached its lowest level against euro yesterday.
B．was lower than euro in the past four continuous days.
C．is still staying in a worse position than the yen.
D．kept failing despite the central bank's adoption of active measures.

Which one(s) is/are correct about employee procedure manuals?()

THE ivory-billed woodpecker is not large, as birds go: It is about the size of a crow, but flashier, its claim to fame is that, though it had been thought extinct since 1944, a lone kayaker spotted it about two years ago, flying around among the cypress trees in the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge. And that sighting may prove the death-blow to a $319m irrigation project in the Arkansas corner of the Delta.
The Grand Prairie Area Demonstration Project seemed, at first, a fine idea. The Grand Prairie is the fourth-largest rice-bowl in the world, with 363,000 acres under paddies. But it is running out of water, with farmers driving wells deeper and deeper into the underlying aquifer. The new project, dreamed up around a decade ago, would tap excess water from the White river when it floods and pumps it, at the rate of about one billion gallons a day, to storage tanks on around 1000 rice farms.
Unfortunately, it would also divert water from the region's huge, swampy wildlife refuges, home to black bears and alligators and the pallid sturgeon. Tiny swamp towns like Clarendon and Brinkley, which are heavily black and almost destitute, rely on nature tourism for the little economic activity they have. In Brinkley, the barber offers an "ivorybill" haircut that makes you look like one.
The project has some powerful local backers. They include Blanche Lincoln, the state's senior senator, who grew up on a rice farm in Helena, and Dale Bumpers, a former four-term senator and governor of Arkansas. Mr. Bumpers, long an icon of the environmental movement and prominent in the efforts to establish the refuges, now believes the water project is important for national security in food and trade, and that it will not damage the forests he has worked to protect.
Opponents worry that the project, apart from its environmental risks, will overwhelm the innovative water conservation methods that rice-farmers are already using, and give the biggest water users an unfair advantage. They also object that it means using subsidised pumps to provide subsidised water for a crop that doesn't pay. Rice is one of the most heavily assisted crops in America; rice payments cost taxpayers almost $10 billion between 1995 and 2004, and rich farmers round Stuttgart in Arkansas County (an efficient and politically shrewd group) took in $21.2m in subsidies in 2004 alone.
It can be inferred from the first paragraph that ______.
A．an ivory-billed woodpecker was shot by a lone kayaker two years ago.
B．the ivory-billed woodpecker was accustomed to living among cypress trees.
C．the irrigation project is probably broken off by the ivory-billed woodpecker.
D．the appearance of the ivory-billed woodpecker may make the irrigation project terminated.