The boy told his mother that he （) to school but found nobody there.

听力原文： One spring shortly before the period of Civil War, a boy appeared at the prosperous farm of a man named Worthy Taylor in Portage County, Ohio. The boy was looking for work. Taylor did not know anything about the boy but as spring was a busy season on a farm, Taylor hired him. The boy's name was Jim. Jim worked on the farm all through that spring and summer. He helped with the planting, cut wood and took the cow to posture. He was a good worker but quiet and retiring. He ate in the kitchen and slept in the barn on a pile of hay. He kept very much to himself.

Before the end of summer, however, young Jim had fallen in love with one of Taylor's daughters, a pretty young girl about his own age. He wanted to marry her. Taylor told him very plainly that he did not intend to let his daughter marry any young man without money, without name, and without prospects of any kind for the future. Jim said nothing in answer to this, but that night he packed his few things together and disappeared. No one in that section ever saw him or heard from him again.

About thirty years later, Taylor was tearing down his old barn in order to build a new one. On one of the wooden beams above the place where Jim used to sleep, Taylor noticed this name cut into the wood with penknife: James A. Garfield. "Jim" was now the President of the United States!

(26)

A．Before the Civil War.

B．After the Civil War.

C．During the Civil War.

D．Thirty years ago.

ainful enough. And psychologists say Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez's anxiety is probably being worsened by the persistent public attention he has received since arriving in Miami. Both in the United States and Cuba, protesters chant (吟唱) (29)6-year-old Elian's name and carry his picture on posters. News helicopters buzz his temporary home and crowds of reporters, photographers and TV cameramen follow him everywhere-to his school, to his birthday party, to amusement parks.

Elian was dragged from the Atlantic on November 25,1999． (30)He had been floating on an inner tube for two days after a Smugglers’ boat bringing illegal migrants to Florida capsized(翻船). His mother was one of the 11 people w ho died in the disaster. A custody battle between his father in Cuba and relatives in Miami has been raging in the full glare of the news media. “We do know that the effects of traumatic stress can persist for years,” said Alan Delamater, professor of pediatrics and psychology at the University of Miami. Elian is especially vulnerable because of his young age and probably does not understand fully what is going on, they said. His Miami relatives did not immediately tell him that (31)US immigration authorities had decided last Wednesday that he should be returned to Cuba. They told him they were playing hide-and-seek with the helicopters that buzzed over his house after the ruling was issued.

(30)

A．An American protester.

B．A 6-year-old Cuban boy.

C．A TV cameraman.

D．A psychologist.

inful enough. And psychologists say Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez's anxiety is probably being worsened by the persistent public attention he has received since arriving in Miami. Both in the United States and Cuba, protesters chant (吟唱) (29)6-year-old Elian's name and carry his picture on posters. News helicopters buzz his temporary home and crowds of reporters, photographers and TV cameramen follow him everywhere-to his school, to his birthday party, to amusement parks.

Elian was dragged from the Atlantic on November 25,1999. (30)He had been floating on an inner tube for two days after a smugglers' boat bringing illegal migrants to Florida capsized (翻船). His mother was one of the 11 people who died in the disaster. A custody battle between his father in Cuba and relatives in Miami has been raging in the full glare of the news media. "We do know that the effects of traumatic stress can persist for years," said Alan Delamater, professor of pediatrics and psychology at the University o{ Miami. Elian is especially vulnerable because of his young age and probably does not understand fully what is going on, they said. His Miami relatives did not immediately tell him that(31)US immigration authorities had decided last Wednesday that he should be returned to Cuba. They told him they were playing hide-and-seek with the helicopters that buzzed over his house after the ruling was issued.

(30)

A．An American protester.

B．A 6-year-old Cuban boy.

C．A TV cameraman.

D．A psychologist.

of the best mutual funds (互惠基金) of the last decade.He is the only fund manager to perform. the best for nine years in a row.

Cooper's interests in stocks(证券) began at the age of nine, when he noticed his father reading something in the newspaper.So Bill asked his father what it was.His father explained that he was reading the financial pages.His father pointed to a column with some company's logo in it."If you owned a share of this company," he told his young boy, you have 25 cents more today than you had yesterday." Young Cooper asked, "You can make money without doing any work？" His father replied yes.So Bill responded, "Well, that's what I want to do."

With this idea, he made his way out of his secondary school and into the university.He worked very hard at his studies of finance.When he got his first job in a bank, he found that a university degree is not a sign that one in a finished product, but an indication a person is prepared for his career.He is now making big money, yet he knows clearly that is based on hard work.

21.In the last sentence of the first paragraph, the phrase "for nine years in a row" means().

A.for nine years in a line

B.for nine years continuously

C.for nine years as if rowing a boat

22.It was that Bill got an impression on finance when he was only nine years old().

A.through his father's explanation

B.from the financial pages in the newspaper

C.from his father's reading

23.It was the idea that that attracted the young boy()

A.one can make money without working in a bank

B.one can make money through buying stocks

C.one can make money without buying any stocks

24.From the passage, we know that Bill's success lied in his().

A.good luck

B.hard work

C.his father's help

25.Bill Cooper soon learnt after his graduation that a university degree().

A.meant nothing in a bank

B.did mean that one was finished

C.only indicated that one was ready to start his career

A.the boy was homesick

B.he hoped his son would like oysters as much as he did

C.it tasted better than a bacon sandwich

D.the boy was feeling as gloomy as the skies and the sea

A．Because the boy was not a full-time worker.

B．Because the boy had made some mistakes.

C．Because he thought the boy had failed to meet his requirements.

D．Because he thought it was his son who should pay him.

A.from

B.off

C.away

D.to

The tendency of a boy to become attached to his mother and to resent his father ______(被称作) the "Oedipus Complex".

The boy had certainly done wrong, but his father ______.(因他年轻而不计较)。

A．The boy and his parents should be sent to jail.

B．No criminal charges will be filed to the boy.

C．The family should give out their house to the victims.

D．The boy will be sued for civil charges.

The little boy was on the ______ of tears when his teacher asked him what he had done.

A．verge

B．fringe

C．margin

D．rim