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7、Jean Driscoll can go faster in her wheelchair than the world’s best marathoners(马拉松运动员) can run!
In April， Jean finished the Boston Marathon in 1 hour 34 minutes 22 seconds. That’s about 33 minutes faster than the winning male runner! She competed on the track， too. She was second in the 800 meter wheelchair race at the 1992 Olympics.
Jean doesn’t like to be told she’s brave. “I’m in sports because I’m a competitive person!” Jean was born with spina befida(脊柱裂)， a birth illness that damages the spine（脊椎）. She began to use a wheelchair to get around in high school. Then she tried wheelchair race and was amazed.” Players crashed into each other and fell out of their chairs，” she says， “It was fun.”
Jean tried other wheelchair sports. At the University of Illinois， her wheelchair basketball team won two national titles.
Now Jean coaches and teaches. She tries to get people to set goals. “When I sign my a utograph（亲笔签名），says Jean， “I write， dream big and work hard.”
61．What made Jean take part in sports?
A．She was brave.
B．She was competitive.
C．She was strong.
D．She was disabled.
62．What kind of education did she receive?
A．High school.
B．Junior middle school.
C．High education.
D．Primary school.
63．What is Jean’s advice on how to succeed?
A．Work hard.B．Hope for the best.
C．Dream a lot.D．Have great wishes and work hard.
BCD
8、The clock struck eleven at night. The whole house was quiet. Everyone was in bed except me. Under the strong light， I looked sadly before a huge pile of troublesome stuff they call “books”.
I was going to have my examination the next day. ”When can I go to bed?” I asked myself. I didn’t answer， in fact I dared not.
The clock struck 12.”Oh， dear!” I cried， ”ten more books to read before I can go to bed!” We pupils are the most wretched creatures in the world. Dad does not agree with me on this. He did not have to work so hard when he was a boy .”
The clock struck one. I was quite hopeless now. I forgot all I had learnt. I was too tired to go on. I did the only thing I could. I prayed， “Oh， God， Please help me pass the exam tomorrow. I do promise to work hard afterwards， Amen.” My eyes were heavy， so heavy that I could hardly open them. A few minutes later， with my head on the desk， I fell asleep.
56. When the author was going over his lessons， all the others in the house were_____ .
A. asleepB. working in bed
C. outsideD. quietly laughing at him
57.Reviewing his lessons didn’t help him because ________..
A. it was too late at nightB. he was very tired
C. his eyes l ids were so heavy that he couldn’t keep them open
D. he hadn’t studied hard before the examination
58. What do you suppose happened to the author？
A. He went to a church to pray again
B. He passed the exam by luck
C. He failed in the examD. He was punished by his teacher
59. The best title for the passage would be __________ .
A. The Night Before the ExaminationB. Working Far into the Night
C. A Slow StudentD. Going Over My Lessons
ADCA
9、F . Scott Fitzgerald， born on September 24，1896， an American novelist， was once a student of St.Paul Academy， the Newman School and attended Princeton. University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama， where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.
His life with her was full of great happiness， as he wrote in his diary:“ My own happiness in the past often got such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”
This side of paradise， his first novel， was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success， Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922)， a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922)， and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was the novel The Great Gatsby， published in 1925， which quick brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then， in 1926， he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.
However， Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda had an effect on his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life， but failed. By 1930， his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The love of the last Tycoon in 1940. While his wife was in hospital in the United States， he got totally addicted to(沉迷于) alcohol. Sheila Graham， his dear friend， helped him fight his alcoholism.
72. How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage ?
A. 5B. 6C. 7D. 8
73. Which of the following is the correct order to describe Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage?
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