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1、高中英语黄金阅读(高二版)Golden Reading for Senior Middle School Students一、人物类 (1) Computer programmer David Jones earned 35, 000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a check card. Instead, he has been told to wait another two years until he is 18. He works for
2、 a small firm in Liverpool, where most young people of his age are finding jobs. Davids biggest headache is what to do with his money. Though he has high payment, he cannot drive a car, or get credit cards(信用卡). David got his job four months ago, a year after leaving school with six O-levels(普通成绩) a
3、nd working for a time in a computer shop. “I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs, ” he said. “I suppose 35, 000 sounds a lot but I hope it will come to more than that this year.” He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mo
4、ther 20 a week as he lives with his parents. But most of his spare time is spent working. “Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school, ” he said. “But I had been studying it in books and magazines for four years in my spare time. I knew what I wanted to do and never considered st
5、aying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway. I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement(退休) is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear.” 1. Why is David so different from other young people of his age A. He earns an extremely hig
6、h paymentB. He has got a jobC. He lives at home with his parentsD. He does not go out much2. Davids greatest problem is that _. A. he cant be treated as an adult by the bank B. he doesnt make as many games as he wishesC. he doesnt know what to buy with the money D. he is too young to drive a car3. H
7、e was employed by the company because _. A. he had worked in a computer shop B. he had written some computer programsC. he is clever and works hard at his lessons D. he had learnt to use computers at school4. He left school after taking six O-levels because _. A. he was afraid of getting too old to
8、start computing B. he did not enjoy schoolC. he wanted to work with computers D. he wanted to earn a lot of money5. Why does David think he might retire early A. He thinks computer games might not always sell so well B. He wants to stop working when he is a millionaireC. One has to be young to write
9、 computer programs D. He thinks his firm might close down(2) If Catlin was the painter of the American Indians and Bierstadt the painter of the Rocky Mountains, the artist of the Western cowboys and settlers was Remington. Born in New York, the son of a wealthy publisher, Remington was a boxer and a
10、 football player at Yale University the last man would expect to become the artist of the Old West. But as a boy he loved horses and fed on the journals of some famous writers. At the age of nineteen, he left college to look for adventures. He traveled from Montana to Texas as a prospector(勘探者). Rem
11、ington had always been interested in journalism. Now he began to write about and to paint and draw what he saw. The subject of the “Winning of the West” attracted the East. Magazines and newspapers were filled with account of prospectors adventures, and of battles with cattle thieves and other outla
12、ws all the tales that were then news and have become legends since. There were also stories by many other writers. Often these were presented by drawings and paintings from Remingtons hand, but it was as a successful journalist that Remington was a great artist. 1. In his pictures, Remington often p
13、ainted _. A. the prospectors stories B. mountains and rivers C. horse races D. American Indians2. From the text, we can learn that Remington based his art on the _. A. stories he had read in the newspaper B. things he had seen and experienced C. ideas he had learned at Yale University D. paintings h
14、e had copied from early settlers3. During his youth, Remington _.A. showed his gift as an artistB. was influenced by his father C. enjoyed sports and readingD. learned journalism at Yale University4. The paragraphs before this passage most probably discussed _.A. cowboys in American art history B. w
15、orks of Catlin and BierstadtC. the problem of “Winning the West” D. magazines about the west(3)American magician David Blaine left the glass box in which he had lived for 44 days without food on October 19. Hundreds of people came to watch the end of his starvation experiment, which had become one of Londons main tourist attractions.Looking thinner and darker, 30 year-old Blaine was taken out of his box over the River Thames(泰晤士河) and immediately sent to hospital. He was then slowly reintroduced to food, a process(过程) doctors said could be life threaten
