星期4 ThursdayThe good seaman is known in bad weather.惊涛骇浪中，方显英雄本色。学习内容题 材词 数建议时间错误统计做题备忘Text A历史人物类4246分钟/4Text B日常生活类4266.5分钟/5Text C学校教育类4185.5分钟/5Text D文物考古类4967分钟/6今日练习Text A Edgar Snow was a reporter and a journalist. He was a doer, a seeker of facts. His mature years were spent in communicating to people he was an opener of minds, a bright pair of eyes on what went on about him. Fortunately, he went to many places, knew many people, saw many things; thus he communicated from depth and involvement. Suspicious of dogma, he stated in his autobiography, “What interested me was chiefly people, all kinds of people, and what they thought and said and how they lived rather than official, and what they said in their interviews and handouts about what the people thought and said.” In writing about people and the events which shaped or misshaped their lives, his point of view was essentially honest and searching founded on his own inquiry and resting on a body of truth perceived with vision and with compassion. His valued friend and editor, Mary Heathcoat, stated that to Edgar Snow, “True professionalism meant telling the truth as one saw it, with as many of the reasons for its existence as one could find out and as much empathy as possible for the people experiencing it.” “Edgar Snow,” she added, “was a respecter of all persons, and he knew the world had billions of important people in it.”That he is remembered mostly through Red Star Over China is understandable. The accounts in that book were of international importance and the experience for the author in getting those accounts was perhaps the most significant one in his life. Though it is typical of him that, after the acclaim the book received, he commented, “I simply wrote down what I was told by the extraordinary young men and women with whom it was my privilege to live at age thirty, and from whom I learned a great deal.” That “great deal” spread from the pages of Red Star to alter the thinking of countless people including many citizens of China who were led by it to action that drastically affected their own lives and the course of their countrys future. An awesome realization of personal responsibility also came about at this point for the young journalist, one he was cognizant of the rest of his life the discovery, as he heard of friends and students killed in a war they had been moved to join largely because of his reports, that his writing had taken on the nature of political action and that he, as a writer, had to be personally answerable for all he wrote.1. Which of the following is NOT true about Edgar Snow?A He respects grass roots.B He is interested in officials words.C He fulfills the true professionalism.D He values fact and his honest searching.2. Edgar Snows books were all written withA his ignorance of the circumstances around him.B his prejudice towards the people he was not familiar with.C his deep involvement and understanding of the people around him.D his own experience in making himself a well-known man of the world.3. Why is Edgar Snow remembered mostly through Red Star Over China？ A It is written in Chinese.B It is the only book that tells about China.C The wording of this book is extraordinary.D It has an important influence over the international world.4. Red Star Over China is all of the following EXCEPTA fulfilling Snows political stand.B inspiring Chinese youth to take action.C motivating Snows personal responsibility.D reflecting his characteristics and professionalism.Text BAnna liked the look of the house as soon as she saw it. Jack knew that before she said anything. The plain white walls, the black window frames and door the good taste of that combination had always pleased her.“Its a nice family house,” she said, “one can see its been well lived in.”Fifty-seven Eden Square was a tall narrow house of three storeys in the middle of a row facing a small park. It was in what a house agent would call a popular rather than a fashionable area. The little front gate was open, broken. They went in and up a few stone steps to the front door. They could see in through one of the sitting-room windows from which a net curtain had fallen at one side. The large room was almost bare. A dirty green carpet half covered the floor. From an old brick fireplace a gas-fire had been pulled out into the room. The wallpaper was dark green, dirty and damp-looking. There was no furniture. Silently they stared in. Then Jack tried the front door. It was locked.“Its been empty a long while,” he said, “all last winter at least. Is it worth going to the agent to get the keys? Wed have to do an awful lot of cleaning up.”“Any empty house up for sale needs cleaning.” said Anna, “Thats part of the fun of buying. You can make it look so different. This place will be a lot better