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1、 较难阅读&自编首字母A. 推荐： Open Letter to an EditorI had an interesting conversation with a reporter recently-one who works for you. In fact, hes one of your best reporters. He wants to quit.Your reporter gave me a copy of his resume (简历) and photocopies(复印件) of six stories that he wrote for you. The headlin
2、es showed you played them proudly. With great enthusiasm（热情）, he talked about how he finds topics, approaches them, and writes about them, which tells me he is one of your best. Im sure you would hate to lose him. Surprisingly, your reporter is not unhappy. In fact, he told me he really likes his jo
3、b. He has a great assignment(工作，任务), and said you run a great paper. It would be easy for you to keep him, he said. He knows that the paper values him. He appreciates（感激） the responsibility youve given him and enjoys his freedom.So why is he looking for a way out?He talked to me because he wants his
4、 editors to demand（需要） so much more of him. He wants to be pushed and challenged to new heights.The reporter believes that good stories spring from good questions, but his editors usually ask how long the story will be, when it will be in, where it can play, and what the budget is.He longs for（渴望） c
5、onversations with an editor who will help him turn his good ideas into great ones. He wants someone to get excited about what hes doing and to help him turn his story idea upside down and inside out, exploring the best ways to report it. He wants to be more valuable for your paper. Thats what you wa
6、nt for him, too, isnt it?So your reporter has made me think.Our best hope in keeping our best reporters, photographers, artists - everyone - is to work harder to make sure they get the help they are demanding to reach their potential（潜力）. If we cant do it, theyll find someone who can.1. What does th
7、e writer think of the reporter?A. Creative B. Imaginative.C. Ambitious.D. Proud.2. What does the reporter want most from his editors in their talks?A. Finding the news value of his stories.B. Giving him financial support.C. Helping him to find topics.D. Improving his good ideas.3. Who probably wrote
8、 the letter?A. An editor.B. An artist. C. A reporter. D. A reader.4. The letter aims to remind editors that they should A. keep their best reporters at all costs（不惜一切代价）B. give more freedom to their reporters so that they can do things they really likeC. be aware of their reporters professional deve
9、lopmentD. appreciate(感激) their reporters working styles and praise their hard workCDACB. 推荐： “Ive changed my mind. I wanted to have a telescope, but now I want my daddy back.” Lucien Lawrences letter to Father Christmas written after his schoolteacher father had been knifed to death outside his scho
10、ol gate must have touched every heart. Lucien went on to say that without his father he couldnt see the stars in the sky. When those whom we love depart(离开) from us, we cannot see the stars for a while.But Lucien, the stars are still there, and one day, when you are older and your tears have gone, y
11、ou will see them again. And, in a strange way, I expect that you will find your father is there too, in your mind and in your heart. I find that my parents, long dead now, still figure (出现) in many of my dreams and that I think of them perhaps more than I ever did when they were alive. I still live
12、to please them and Im still surprised by their reactions. I remember that when I became a professor, I was so proud, or rather so pleased with myself, that I couldnt wait to cable (发电报) my parents. The reply was a long time in coming, but when it did, all Mother said was “I hope this means that now
13、you will have more time for the children!” I havent forgotten. The values of my parents still live on.It makes me pause(停止) and think about how I will live on in the hearts and minds of my children and of those for whom I care. Would I have been as ready as Philip Lawrence have been to face the aggr
14、essors (挑衅者)，and to lay down my life for those in my care? How many people would want me back for Christmas? Its a serious thought, one to give me pause.Yet I know the death comes to us all, and sometimes comes suddenly. We must therefore plan to live forever, but live as if we would die tomorrow. W
15、e live on, Im sure, in the lives of those we loved, and therefore we ought to have a care for what they will remember and what they will treasure(珍惜). If more parents knew this in their hearts to be true, there might be fewer knives on our streets today.1. According to the whole text we can see that the first paragraph _.A. asks people to give a helping hand to the poor girl who lost her father B. shows the authors pity(同情) on the kidC. acts as an introduction to the following discussion D. makes a clear statement(陈述) of the authors views2. In the second paragraph the author mainly wants to
