His father was born in a farm in the middle west.（)

D.H. Lawrence was ______.

A．a coal-miner

B．a teacher of English

C．an English writer

D．anyone but a miner

Later he went to a school for blind and deaf children. There the teachers also encouraged him to study music. Sadly, while he was still at school, his mother died. He left school and in the early 1950s Charles organized a group of players. He sang, played the piano and wrote music.

He made many classical CDs with famous artists such as Elton John and the Beatles. In 2003 a film of his life Ray was made. The part of Charles was played by a younger actor and musician called Jamie Foxx. The film director brought Foxx to meet Charles. After they had been playing together for two hours, Charles, then aged 73, jumped up and said: “He’s the one ... he can do it.” A year later Charles died aged 74. The film of his life has been as popular as his songs and means that the memory of Charles’ music will live on.

(1)What can we learn from Ray’s childhood story？

A、His father died when he was 5 years old.

B、He started to go blind at the age of 7.

C、He was born in a rich musician family.

D、He started to learn the piano at the age of 6.

(2)Ray Charles’ mother encouraged him to play music because ().

A、his father was a musician as well

B、because it would help him get used to being blind

C、it was a good way for a blind person to get money

D、his teacher thought he was a genius

(3) Ray Charles went to a school for ().

A、normal children

B、deaf and blind children

C、talented children only

D、children without parents

(4)Ray Charles thought that Jamie Foxx ().

A、was the right person to play him in the film

B、was a good film maker

C、was the wrong person to play him in the film

D、was a good director

(5) What is the main idea of the last paragraph？

A、Becoming a musician.

B、Childhood story.

C、The film of Ray’s life.

D、Master of many styles.

Jim Thorpe was a Native American. He was born in 1888 in an Indian Territory(印第安人 保护区)that is now Oklahoma. Like most Native American children then, he liked to fish, hunt, swim, and play games outdoors. (76) He was healthy and strong, but he had very little formal education. In 1950, Jim Thorpe was named the greatest American football player. He was also an Olympic gold medal winner. But Thorpe had many tragedies in his life. Jim had a twin brother who died when he was nine years old. By the time he was 16, his mother and father were also dead, Jim then went to a special school in Pennsylvania for Native American children. There, he learned to read and write and also began to play sports. Jim was poor, so he left school for two years to earn some money. During this time, he played on a baseball team. (77)The team paid him only $ 15 a week. Soon he returned to school to complete his education. Jim was a star athlete (运动员) in several sports, including baseball, running, and football. He won many awards for his athletic ability, mainly for football. In many games, he scored all or most of the points for his team. In 1912, when Jim Thorpe was 24 years old, he became part of the U.S Olympic team. He competed in two very difficult events: the pentathlon and the decathlon. Both require great ability and strength. The pentathlon has five track and filed events, including the long jump and the 1500-meter race. The decathlon has ten track and field events, with running, jumping and throwing contests. People thought it was impossible for an athlete to compete in both the pentathlon and the decathlon. So everyone was surprised when Thorpe won gold medals in both events. When the King of Sweden presented Thorpe with his two gold medals , he said, “Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world. ” Thorpe was a simple and honest man. He just answered, “Thanks, King. ” From the passage we learn that Jim Thorpe was born in _______.

A.India

B.Pennsylvania

C.Oklahoma

D.Sweden

“There have been so many things, so many memories that at times it’s hard to recall them all,” says Daniel. “But I guess one of the best ones was the London premiere for the Philosopher’s Stone. It was just amazing, one of the best nights of my life.”

“But I’ve had such a great time doing The Chamber of Secrets. I love doing the work. I love meeting new people and being part of the team. It’s been great.”

Daniel has changed. He turned 14 in July, 2002. He is taller, his voice is deeper and his frame. is filling out as he begins his teenage years, and he has become an excellent actor, too.

Daniel was born in London where his father, Alan, worked as an agent and his mother, Marcia, as a casting director, and both have been an essential guiding influence on their only child.

1. How old was Daniel Radcliff in 2003？

A. 15 B

. 16

C. 14

D. 13

2. What is Daniel Radcliff’s memory about the past year according to the passage？

A. He didn’t remember anything about it.

B. He had so many bad memories about it.

C. There were amazing experiences in the past year.

D. There were not many unforgetable things in the past year.

3. Which of the following is not mentioned as a liking by Daniel？

A. Making friends.

B. Being an actor.

C. Being part of the team.

D. Becoming a director.

4. Which of the following is true according to the passage？

A. Daniel’s parents are all film stars.

B. Daniel’s parents influenced Daniel greatly.

C. Daniel has never had any influence from his parents.

D. Daniel has brothers and sisters.

5. Daniel was born in _________.

A. New York

B. Beijing

C. Paris

D. London

As a __3__ at Harvard, Sidis displayed phenomenal knowledge in the field of mathematics, often amazing his professors. He graduated with honors __4__ the age of 16 and became a full professor of mathematics at the university at 19.

The story of William J. Sidis unfortunately, does not end happily.

This brilliant ex-genius died a lonely death in 1943 in a hotel room __5__ New York.

1)、A.student

B.at

C.in

D.old

E.His

2)、A.student

B.at

C.in

D.old

E.His

3)、A.student

B.at

C.in

D.old

E.His

4)、A.student

B.at

C.in

D.old

E.His

5)、A.student

B.at

C.in

D.old

E.His

七选五：[A]The first published sketch, "A Dinner at Poplar Walk" brought tears to Dickens's eyes when he discovered it in the pages of The Monthly Magazine. From then on his sketches ,which appeared under the pen name "Boz" in The Evening Chronicle, earned him a modest reputation.

[B]The runaway success of The Pickwick Papers, as it is generally known today, secured Dickens's fame. There were Pickwick coats and Pickwick cigars, and the plump, spectacled hero, Samuel Pickwick, became a national figure.

[C]Soon after Sketches by Boz appeared, a publishing firm approached Dickens to write a story in monthly installments, as a backdrop for a series of woodcuts by the ten-famous artist Robert Seymour, who had originated the idea for the story. With characteristic confidence, Dickens successfully insisted that Seymour's pictures illustrate his own story instead. After the first installment, Dickens wrote to the artist and asked him to correct a drawing Dickens felt was not faithful enough to his prose. Seymour made the change, went into his backyard, and expressed his displeasure by committing suicide. Dickens and his publishers simply pressed on with a new artist. The comic novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, appeared serially in 1836 and 1837, and was first published in book form. in 1837.

[D]Charles Dickens is probably the best-known and, to many people, the greatest English novelist of the 19th century. A moralist, satirist, and social reformer. Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama of English society.

[E]Soon after his father's release from prison, Dickens got a better job as errand boy in law offices. He taught himself shorthand to get an even better job later as a court stenographer and as a reporter in Parliament. At the same time, Dickens, who had a reporter's eye for transcribing the life around him especially anything comic or odd, submitted short sketches to obscure magazines.

[F] Dickens was born in Portsmouth, on England's southern coast. His father was a clerk in the British navy pay office -a respectable position, but wish little social status. His paternal grandparents, a steward and a housekeeper possessed even less status, having been servants, and Dickens later concealed their background. Dicken's mother supposedly came from a more respectable family. Yet two years before Dicken's birth, his mother's father was caught stealing and fled to Europe, never to return. The family's increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren's Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as "the young gentleman." His father was then imprisoned for debt. The humiliations of his father's imprisonment and his labor in the blacking factory formed Dicken's greatest wound and became his deepest secret. He could not confide them even to his wife, although they provide the unacknowledged foundation of his fiction.

[G] After Pickwick, Dickens plunged into a bleaker world. In Oliver Twist, e traces an orphan's progress from the workhouse to the criminal slums of London. Nicholas Nickleby, his next novel, combines the darkness of Oliver Twist with the sunlight of Pickwick. The popularity of these novels consolidated Dichens' as a nationally and internationally celebrated man of letters.

If you ask Daniel Radcliffe who acted Harry Potter to pick a special moment from the lat year of his life, you will find it almost impossible.

“Oh, wow, that’s really difficult,” he says with a smile. “There so many things, so many memories that at times it’s hard to recall them all,”says Daniel. “But I guess one of the best ones was the London Premiere for The Philosopher’s Stone. It was just amazing, one of the best nights of my life.”“But I’ve had such a great time doing The Chamber of Secrets. I love doing the work. I love meeting new people and being part of the team. It’s been great.” Daniel has changed. He turned 14 in July,2002. He is taller, his voice is deeper and his frame. is filling out as he begins his teenage years, and he has become an excellent actor, too.

Daniel was born in London where his father, Alan, worked as an agent and his mother, Marcia, as a casting director, and both have been an essential guiding influence on their only child.

1. How old was Daniel Radcliff in 2003？

A. 15

B. 16

C. 14

D. 13

2. What is Daniel Radcliff’s memory about the past year according to the passage？

A. He didn’t remember anything about it.

B. He had so many bad memories about it.

C. There were amazing experiences in the past year.

D. There were not many unforgettable things in the past year.

3. Which of the following is not mentioned as a liking by Daniel？

A. Making friends.

B. Being an actor.

C. Being part of the team.

D. Becoming a director.

4. Which of the following is true according to the passage？

A. Daniel’s parents are all film stars.

B. Daniel’s parents influenced Daniel greatly.

C. Daniel has never had any influence from his parents.

D. Daniel has brothers and sisters.

5. Daniel was born in _______.

A. New York

B. Beijing

C. Paris

D. London

By age six, Yani had made over 4,000 paintings.She loved to draw animals, especially monkeys and cats.Although her father was good at drawing, he didn't give her any art lessons.He even stopped painting his own pictures.Instead.he often took the little girl to parks and zoos to get ideas for her work.In this way, Yani developed her own style. of painting with bright colors.All her pictures were different from others.At the age of 8, one of her monkey paintings was made into, Chinese stamp.Later, she started to draw pictures of country scenery and people.

And when she was just 14, she became the youngest person person to have personal shows in Washington D.C.an many other cities around the world.

6.Wang Yani pictures were first shown in Gongcheng.()

A.T

B.F

7.She was especially good at drawing monkeys and A cats before she was eight.()

A.T

B.F

8.Her father took her to zoos and parks because he wanted the girl to get idea.()

A.Te

B.F

9.Yani had her personal shows in Washington D.C.A at the age of 14.()

A.T

B.F

10.Yani's father often gave her art lessons.()

A.T

B.F