听力原文: He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929. He was black. He lived onl
When was he born?
A.On January 15, 1929.
B.On January 15, 1920.
C.On June 15, 1929.
D.On July 15, 1920.
When was he born?
A.On January 15, 1929.
B.On January 15, 1920.
C.On June 15, 1929.
D.On July 15, 1920.
听力原文:M: My parents like Beijing very much, because they were born there.
F: Oh, really? So Beijing is their hometown.
What do you know about the man?
A.He was not born in Beijing.
B.His parents like Beijing better than he does.
C.Beijing is the place where his parents were born.
听力原文: Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809. He was president of the United States from 1861 until he died 1865. Lincoln was a very tall man. He was 6 feet 4 inches tall. Even his feet were big. They were 13 inches long. Lincoln was too tall to fit most beds. When he was president the people from his hometown gave him a special bed. It was 9 feet long. That bed was big enough for president Lincoln. Lincoln liked to laugh. He liked to make other people laugh too. People said that he was so funny that he made eats laugh. Many people thought Abraham Lincoln was very ugly. Right before he became president an 11-year-old girl wrote him a letter. She said that she wanted him to grow a beard. Abraham Lincoln thought this over and he said that it was a good idea. That is why in most pictures of Lincoln, he has a short beard.
When was Lincoln born?
A.In 1819.
B.In 1861.
C.In 1909.
Gaddafi made headlines in 1998 by surrendering two Libyan suspects who plotted the bombing of an American jumbo jet.
A.正确
B.错误
听力原文: Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809. -He was president of the United States from 1861 until he died 1865. Lincoln was a very tall man. He was 6 foot 4 inches tall. Even his feet were big. They were 13 inches long. Lincoln was too tall to fit most beds. When he was president the people from his hometown gave him a special bed. It was 9 feet long. That bed was big enough for president Lincoln. Lincoln liked to laugh. He liked to make other people laugh too. People said that he was so funny that he made cats laugh. Many people thought Abraham Lincoln was very ugly. Right before he became president an 11-year-old girl wrote him a letter. She said that she wanted him to grow a beard. Abraham Lincoln thought this over and he said that it was a good
idea. That is why in most pictures of Lincoln he has a short beard.
When was Lincoln born?
A.In 1819.
B.In 1861.
C.In 1809.
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A.I don't think we should open our local branch here in Shanghai.
B.I cannot appoint Mr. Brown to the post although he was born in Shanghai.
C.I believe Mr. Brown can easily be connected as he is now living in Shanghai.
D.I recommend that Mr. Brown be in charge of our local branch in Shanghai.
听力原文: I wasn't in school yesterday. I was absent. I was visiting my grandparents. They have a beautiful farm in the country. The farmhouse is beautiful too. It's not very big, but it's very nice. My mother was born there. My grandfather was born there, too.
My grandparents are getting old now, but they're still working. My grandfather is about sixty. He's still farming. My grandmother is still taking care of the house. She is a very good cook. I always have a good time there. I always like to see my grandparents and I like to eat, too — especially grandmother's cookies.
Why wasn't the author in school yesterday?
A.Because he was visiting his grandparents.
B.Because he was ill.
C.Because he didn't like his teacher.
听力原文: Gates was born and brought up in Seattle. [29]At the age of 14, he founded a computer programming company with three friends and they had earned $20,000 by selling their traffic-counting system to local governments. In 1975, he dropped out of his law course at Harvard to found the Microsoft Software Company in Washington. Gates" domination of the emerging computer industry began in 1980-1981, when he devised an operating system and licensed it to IBM. [30]MS-DOS became the standard operating system for nearly all IBM personal computers. During the 1980s, Microsoft also developed more specialized software. When the company went public in 1986,[31]Gates became a multimillionaire at the age of 31. Five years later, he was ranked as the world's richest man. In the 1990s, Gates made a fresh fortune from sales of Windows, a system that enables a computer to be operated with on-screen symbols rather than complex keyboard commands. A revised version was launched amid huge publicity in 1995.
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A.He sold traffic-counting system to local governments.
B.He dropped out of his law course at Harvard University.
C.He founded his own company--Microsoft Software company.
D.He devised an operating system for IBM.
According to the speaker, Appleton obtained a degree in natural sciences from Cambridge in 1913 and one year later joined the Royal Engineers where he was trained in radio technology invented by Marconi.
A.正确
B.错误
听力原文: Poe was born in Boston in 1809. He attended the University of Virginia, where he was a distinguished student and developed his lifelong taste for liquor. Afterward, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and rose to the rank of sergeant major. He was expelled from West Point after a year, loosing his hopes of becoming a career officer.
Poe started publishing his poetry and stories in the early 1830s and pursued a career in journalism to ensure some sort of financial security. In 1843, he published several works, including "The Tell Tale Heart" and "The Gold Bug," which won a $100 prize in a contest sponsored by the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper. The story made Poe famous with the fiction--reading public His poem "The Raven," which appeared in the New York Evening Mirror in January 1845, was a critical and commercial success. Along with "To Helen" and "Annabel Lee," "The Raven" is considered one of Poe's finest poems. "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" are arguably two of his best short stories. But both Poe's and his wife Virginia's poor health kept the pair in financial and e motional distress. Poe died in 1849.
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A.In the early 1810s.
B.In the early 1820s.
C.In the early 1830s.
D.In the early 1840s.
听力原文: Gates was born and brought up in Seattle. [29] At the age of 14, he founded a computer programming company with three friends, and they had earned $20,000 by selling their traffic-counting system to local governments. In 1975, he dropped out of his law course at Harvard to found the Microsoft Software Company in Washington. Gates' domination of the emerging computer industry began in 1980-1981, when he devised an operating system and licensed it to IBM. [30] 6MS-DOS became the standard operating system for nearly all IBM personal computers. During the 1980s, Microsoft also developed more specialized software. When the company went public in 1986, [31] Gates became a multimillionaire at the age of 31. Five years later, he was ranked as the world's richest man. In the 1990s, Gates made a fresh fortune from sales of Windows, a system that enables a computer to be operated with on-screen symbols rather than complex keyboard commands. A revised version was launched amid huge publicity in 1995.
(30)
A.He sold traffic-counting system to local governments.
B.He dropped out of his law course at Harvard University.
C.He founded his own company--Microsoft Software company.
D.He devised an operating system for IBM.