unin8 A person of great determination(下)

I.Listen for three times and finish filling the blanks.（It can help Ss concentrate on listening.）

Down the well!

You are going to listen to a story which happened in a village.The story is told by Jack,who worked on a farm.

It was an evening in October,1920.I was up at the top part of the farm looking after the horses.

Everyone else had gone home for their tea,and I was the only one around. I’d given the horses their food and I needed to pump up some water.I went over to the well and stood on the wooden cover and took the iron handle in my hands. It was always a hard job to get the pump going and I set to work as hard as I could. After working the pump handle a few times, there was a luod noise and the cover broke. No warning at all! It disappeared under my feet and I followed it,down the well!It was a frightening fall, I can tell you,going down into the darkness.The rough stones on the sides of the well tore my shirt and tore the skin off my back.Crash! I landed at the bottom with my legs either side of a metal bar that ran across the bottom of the well just a couple of feet above the water. The pain was so great that everything went black for a few minutes.A bit later I looked up to the top of the well. I could see a circle of light and the evening sky above it .There was a face at the top of the well,making little noises. It was my dog Teg.I shouted at it”Go and get help!”but it didn’t move.I shouted once or twice but I knew no one would be up here before morning. I had to climb out by myself. Luckily the sides of the well were rough enough for me to climb, and I pulled myself up the water pipe that ran down the side of the well.I got to the top and managed to walk home.When I woke up, the doctor was at my bedside.

II.完形填空

Billy is fourteen fears old and in the ninth grade. He has a  1  job which gets him _2__   every morning at five o'clock. He is a newspaper boy.

Each morning, Billy  3   the house at 5:15 to go to the corner  4  the newspapers are. The newspapers were delivered to the corner by truck at midnight. He always takes a wagon （手推車）to carry them.

In the   5   it is still dark when he gets up, but during he rest of the year it is   6  . Billy must deliver the newspapers to the houses of people on his route   7   all kinds of weather. He tries to put each   8   on the porch （門廊）where it will be protected from wind and rain or snow. His   9  think he does a good job. Sometimes they give him tips.

Billy 10  about $ 70 per month, and he is  11  some of the money to go to college. He spends the rest  12  records and clothes. Once a month, he has to  13  money from his customers. Since many of them work during the day, Billy has to collect the money  14  .Sometimes, when Billy is   15   , his older brother has to  16  the newspapers. Once Billy's father had to help.

Billy has seventy customers now,  17  he hopes to get more soon. Some day, if he gets 18   more customers, Billy might win a prize for being an outstanding （杰出的）newspaper boy. He wants to win a  19  to Europe, but he will also be happy  20  he wins a new bicycle.

1.A. full-time        B. strange    C. good         D. part-time

［解析］首句交代Billy是一中學生，所以推斷出他只能是“半工半讀”。

答案：D

2.A. to carry papers      B. to go to work  

C. to go to school     D. up

［解析］從下文看，Billy五點一刻出門，那么五點鐘只能是“起床”的時間，不可能干另外三項事。答案：D

3.A. leaves     B. reached   C. left       D. reaches

［解析］由下文to the corner 可知此處為“離家”；由全文時態背景判斷應用現在時。答案：A

4.A. that      B. where   C. which       D. whether

［解析］關系副詞where引導定語從句，說明取報的地點。答案：B

5.A. east      B. winter   C. morning    D. summer

［解析］由常識推測，又從下文the rest of the year 可知此處指一年中天亮得最晚的冬季。

答案：B

6.A. light     B. cloudy    C. sunny     D. cold

［解析］表示轉折，故選dark的反義詞 light。答案：A

7.A. by     B. on      C. in       D. with   答案：C

8.A. paper    B. magazine     C. letter     D. newspapers

［解析］既為送報，又有each,自然選paper。答案：A

9.A. teachers    B. parents     C. bosses    D. customers

［解析］與下空聯系起來看：顧客給小費。    答案：D

10.A. earns     B. saves       C. spends    D. pays    答案：A

11.A. borrowing    B. collecting    C. making     D. saving

［解析］應了解西方青年主張自主，自己存錢上大學這類常情。答案：D

12.A. in       B. at    C. to       D. on     答案：D

13.A. give     B. borrow    C. collect            D. seize

［解析］每月上門收款；下文也有提示。答案：C

14.A. in the morning    B. at night    C. in the afternoon   D. at noon

［解析］與上文during the day 相對照。  答案：B

15.A. sick            B. angry    C. at school        D. sad

［解析］從全文可知Billy是個好報童，只有“生病”才可能是他中斷送報的原因。

答案：A

16.A. carry     B. collect    C. deliver       D. sell  答案：C

17.A. thus      B. but      C. so           D. for

［解析］認為已有70名顧客還不夠……，此處為轉折語氣.  答案：B

18.A. much     B. even    C. many        D. still

［解析］more后為復數名詞customers，故用many。   答案：C

19.A. trip      B. car      C. bicycle      D. job

［解析］最后這兩句說明，Billy如當上an outstanding newspaper boy（最佳報童），則可能得到a prize；a trip to Europe，也可能是a new bicycle。  答案：A

20.A. because        B. whether          C. unless         D. if

［解析］ 此處并非確有其事，只是假設。    答案：D

探究活動

Premier Zhu Rongji is meeting the press in the Great Hall of the People Friday morning and will answer questions on domestic(國內的) and international issues（事件）.
The press conference（記者招待會）, held by the just－concluded Fifth Session of the Ninth National People's Congress（五屆人大五次會議）, is expected（預計） to last about one hour.

Three teenagers seek advice from a woman doctor at the teenager clinic on March 2. The clinic, attached to（隸屬于） the Beijing No. 2 Hospital, was the first one in China for teenagers to cater to （滿足） their special needs, and people under the age of 23 will be taught rudiments（初步） on physiological growth, making friends of opposite sex, pregnancy（懷孕） and safe sex（性安全）.