In 1991, he became a trainee with Manchester United. This meant that he could practice football as much as he wanted to and play for the highly successful Manchester United Youth Cup team and Under-21 team. In April, 1995 he played his first football league game against Leeds Untied. During 1995 and 1996, David became a regular member of the team and Manchester United won in both football seasons, with David scoring many goals.
His goals made him a household name. In the first game of the 1996~1997 season, he scored a surprising goal from beyond the halfway line; seeing the goalkeeper a little way out of his goal, Beckham became famous overnight. He continued to score astonishing goals, especially from free kicks. The speed of one of his shots was timed at 157 kph. He also had the ability to make the ball go from left to fight, or fight to left, whenever he chose. Goalkeepers were never sure where the ball was going, and it regularly ended up in the goal.
Which word can take the place of the underlined word "fervency" in paragraph 1 ?
A.success
B.interest
C.prize
D.skill
D
David Beckham was born in 1975 in London, at a place called Leytonstone. When he was a young boy,' his greatest fervency was in football. He played it whenever he had the chance. Some- times he would go and watch a game with his friends. When David Beckham was 12 years old, he won the Bobby Charlton Soccer Skills award. This was an important step forward for this young boy, and it led him to go for a visit to a football training camp in Spain. As a boy he played for schools of Essex and also for his county team.
In 1991, he became a trainee with Manchester United. This meant that he could practice foot- ball as much as he wanted to and play for the highly successful Manchester United Youth Cup team and Under-21 team. In April, 1995 he played his first football league game against Leeds Untied. During 1995 and 1996 , David became a regular member of the team and Manchester United won in
both football seasons, with David scoring many goals.
His goals made him a household name. In the first game of the 1996 - 1997 season, he scored a surprising goal from beyond the halfway line; seeing the goalkeeper a little way out of his goal, Beckham became famous ovemight. He continued to score astonishing goals, especially from free kicks. The speed of one of his shots was timed at 157 kph. He also had the ability to make the ball go from left to right, or right to left, whenever he chose. Goalkeepers were never sure where the ball was going, and it regularly ended up in the goal.
68. Which word can take the place of the underlined word 6'fervency " in paragraph 1?
[A]success
[B]interest
[C]prize
[D]skill
Finding a Job
At sixteen Ron Mackie might have stayed at school, but the future called to him excitedly. "Get out of the classroom into a job, " it said, and Ron obeyeD.His father, supporting the decision, found a place for him in a supermarket. "You're lucky, Ron," he saiD."For every boy with a job these days, there's a dozen without. " So Ron joined the working world at twenty pounds a week.
For a year he spent his days filling shelves with tins of fooD.By the end of that time he was looking back on his school days as a time of great variety and satisfaction. He searched for an interest in his work, with little success.
One fine day instead of going to work Ron got a lift on a lorry going south. With nine pounds in his pocket,a full heart and a great longing for the sea, he set out to make a better way for himself. That evening, in Bournem0uth, he had a sandwich and a drink in a care run by an elderly man and his wife. Before he had finished the sandwich, the woman had taken him on for the rest of the summer, at twenty pounds a week, a room upstairs and three meals a day. The ease and speed of it rather took Ron's breath away. At quiet times Ron had to check the old man's arithmetic in the records of the business.
At the end of the season, he stayed on the coast. He was again surprised how straightforward it was for a boy of seventeen to make a living. He worked in shops mostly, but once he took a job in a hotel for three weeks. Late in October he was taken on by the sick manager of a shoe shop. Ron soon found himself in charge there;he was, the only one who could keep the books.
第 36 题 Why did Ron Mackie leave school at sixteen?
A.His father made him leave
B.He had reached the age when he had to leave.
C.He left because he was worried about the future.
D.He left because he wanted to start work.
We should ______ the little boy in his attempts to become a nurse. (courage)
The little boy loves ______ to the restaurant this evening.
A.to take B.being taken C.taking D.to be taken
______ how to do, the little boy cried.
A.Not knowing
B.Don't know
C.Knowing not
D.Not known
The game is ______ the little boy could not play by himself.
A.too difficult that
B.such difficult that
C.difficult that
D.so difficult that
A.A.exhilarated
B.B.exasperated