As a teenager in 1972, Bill Gates boasted that he would be a millionaire by the time he was 20. While he did not quite achieve that goal, only 15 years later, he was a millionaire. And by 1992, as head of the Microsoft company, he became the richest man in America with assets（资产）of nearly US $ 6.3 billion.
Born in Seattle, Washington on 28, October, 1956, Gates was named William Henry after his father and grandfather. From the beginning, he was an extremely energetic and intelligent child. He had read the entire world book encyclopedia（百科全书）by the age of nine. His favorite subjects at school were science and math and his favorite pastime was "thinking".
Gates first started to play with computers at the age of 13. Before long he became an expert at working the school's computer. After his graduation from secondary school, Gates was accepted by the three top universities in the USA-Princeton, Harvard and Yale. He chose Harvard and began classes there the next autunm, majoring maths. But he was still obsessed（占据心里）with computers and spent as much time in the computer laboratories as he did in the lecture halls.
By 1975, Gates and a partner, Paul Allen, had developed a software program called BASIC. This was not the first program ever created, but its inventors were the first to decide that people who wanted to use it should pay for it.
BASIC was a success because until it came along, there had been no efficient way of getting computers to carry out instructions. Although he had not completed his degree, Gates left university and went to work full time for the new company he had formed called Microsoft.
His next project was the software program that made him famous and very rich. It was called DOS, short for Disk Operating System, and it was purchased by IBM in 1980. Today it is the operating system used in more than 14 million personal computers around the world.
As chief executive officer（首席行政长官）of Microsoft, Gates is known as a bright man, but one who is not easily satisfied. He is quick to criticize his staff and hates to be questioned about decisions he has made. He was regarded as a loner and unfashionable boring computer nut until his marriage to Microsoft manager Melinda French on New Year's Day 1994. Yet to many people now, Gates, is a person who is, in spite of his great wealth, humble（谦恭）and ordinary. He spends his money carefully. He eats in fast food restaurants and flies economy class. And when praised for Microsoft's great success, he has been heard to say, "All we do is put software in a box and if people see it in the stores and like it, they buy it."
【小题1】When he was a teenager, Bill Gates wanted to be a ______.
| A．teacher | B．doctor | C．businessman | D．professor |
| A．was only interested in maths |
| B．spent most of his time in computer laboratories |
| C．developed the first computer software program |
| D．divided his time between his maths studies and the computer laboratories |
| A．no one was interested in computer software |
| B．software programs were not considered commercial projects |
| C．software programs were very expensive |
| D．no one wanted to pay for computer software |
| A．Bill was so strong-minded that no one could change his mind |
| B．The only thing that could interest Bill in his life was computer |
| C．Bill was such a boring young man that nobody would like to talk to him |
| D．Bill couldn't work out the boring computer programs |
| A．a crazy person | B．a person obsessed with making money |
| C．someone who spends money freely | D．a quite common, normal person |
【小题1】C
【小题2】D
【小题3】B
【小题4】B
【小题5】D
解析试题分析：本文介绍了Bill Gates的人生经历以及他创办微软公司的过程，特别介绍了他对于计算机的热爱。
【小题1】C 细节题。根据文章1,2行As a teenager in 1972, Bill Gates boasted that he would be a millionaire by the time he was 20.说明他年轻的时候就希望自己成为百万富翁。成为一个商人，故C正确。
【小题2】D 细节题。根据第三段He chose Harvard and began classes there the next autunm, majoring maths. But he was still obsessed（占据心里）with computers and spent as much time in the computer laboratories as he did in the lecture halls.说明他主修数学同时也把很多的时间都花在计算机上，故D正确。
【小题3】B 细节题。根据This was not the first program ever created, but its inventors were the first to decide that people who wanted to use it should pay for it.说明之前没有人想到把Basic用于商业用途，故B正确。
【小题4】B 推理题。根据Gates is known as a bright man, but one who is not easily satisfied. He is quick to criticize his staff and hates to be questioned about decisions he has made. He was regarded as a loner and unfashionable boring computer nut说明他是一个对计算机很痴狂的人在他的生命中只有计算机，故B正确。
【小题5】D 细节题。根据文章倒数3,4,5行Gates, is a person who is, in spite of his great wealth, humble（谦恭）and ordinary. He spends his money carefully. He eats in fast food restaurants and flies economy class.说明在外表上他是一个很普通的人，人们很难想象他是一个百万富翁。故D正确。
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科目：高中英语 来源：高考三人行·英语 题型：050
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When the mills and mines were still open around Hebden Bridge, a northern English town, playing children showered the streets with sparks from the iron plates on their woodenclogs (木底鞋), the only shoos they could afford.
“At one time, they were the cheapest kind of footwear, ”said master clog-maker John Merrick, 62. “They used to use clogs in the mills. You would walk to Work in the morning and all you could hear was the chick-clock of the sales.”
Merrick, who has been making clogs since he started as a teenage apprentice (学徒) 47 years ago, can remember when he was paid just 1.50 pounds (US $ 2) for a dozen pairs of the shoos, whose leather tops and iron bottoms are nailed to wooden soles. Three decades ago, he sold 500 pairs of metal tipped industrial clogs a week to the Ford Motor Company for workers to wear in their factories.“That’s before they got all those robots,(机械设备)” he said, swinging his arms to imitate automation (自动控制). “We used to be really, really busy.”
Today, clogs cost 30 pounds (US $ 42) to 50 pounds a pair. Merrick, who can nail together a shoe in minutes, makes about 100 pairs a week.
One of the last clog-makers in Britain-he knows of only two others-Merrick says he does not know when he retires. He will have to train his successor (继承者)at Walkley’s Clog Factory in Hebden Bridge how to pull leather over wooden soles an tap on the traditional horseshoe-shaped irons underneath.
In his workshop by a canal, Merrick sells wooden-soledpatent leather (漆皮) clogs, open-toed sandals (凉鞋),industrial steel-toed work boots and mini-clogs that customers can hang over the dashboards (汽车的仪表板) of their cars. Enthusiasts can pick up a clog purse or even a pair of clog earrings(耳饰). Merrick said he still gets orders from brickyards(砖厂)and glass companies for industrial clogs.
1．When Merrick was an apprentice, a pair of clogs cost ________.
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2．The word“shower” ( in Para. 1)most probably means ________.
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3．Today, Merrick sells his clogs to ________.
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4．Comparing to 3 decades ago, the different situation in making clogs is ________.
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A．more and more people become enthusiastic about clogs
B．Merrick becomes busier and busier
C．clogs cost more and mare
D．Merrick got mare. and more orders from brickyard
5．which of the following statements is true?
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A．Merrick is the only one who masters the skill of clog-making.
B．Merrick will give way to his successor very soon.
C．Merrick can make different kinds of clogs.
D．The children in the past liked clogs more than the children today.
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第二节：完型填空（共20 小题；每小题1分；满分20分）
She was a four-year-old girl with very fine golden hair when I first met her. She was carrying a bowl of soup. I was 29 at that time and 11 from the flu.
Her mom and I had been friends for years. 12 that friendship grew into care, from care into 13 and marriage. Marriage brought the three of us together as a 14 . At first I was afraid to be a “stepfather”. Therefore, I tried not to come 15 my future daughter and her 16 father. I acted in that way in order to be liked. However, 17 she was growing up, I found it increasingly hard to 18 with her.
Once her school required the parents to individually(个别的) write an open and 19 letter to our children. I wrote a letter about a little golden-haired girl who had 20 me a bowl of soup when I needed 21 .
A week later, all the parents 22 together with our children. The students were allowed to make a few statements. I was 23 to hear what my daughter would say.
Finally my daughter 24 make her way up to the microphone. She said something like others and then 25 , “At this very moment, I just want to say …I love you, Father.”
Immediately people around me started 26 at me. For a teenage girl to say 27 in front of so many people, “I love you,” took a great deal of courage.
Since then I have 28 to understand I didn’t need to have any 29 about being a stepfather. I can still 30 honest love with the same little girl I met so many years before － carrying a bowl full of what turned out to be kindness. I can also be friends with the girl － my dear daughter.
11. A. hurting B. attacking C. suffering D. experiencing
12. A. Immediately B. Finally C. Especially D. Generally
13. A. like B. pleasure C. excitement D. love
14. A. union B. group C. family D. whole
15. A. between B. among C. from D. for
16. A. natural B. following C. untrue D. old
17. A. after B. as C. with D. before
18. A. connect B. share C. communicate D. argue
19. A. honest B. formal C. powerful D. responsible
20. A. taken B. shown C. shared D. brought
21. A. cure B. care C. help D. friend
22. A. presented B. invited C. gathered D. asked
23. A. glad B. hopeful C. serious D. anxious
24. A. determinedly B. independently C. patiently D. unexpectedly
25. A. lasted B. declared C. continued D. responded
26. A. hugging B. smiling C. kissing D. celebrating
27. A. quietly B. openly C. brightly D. attractively
28. A. used B. stepped C. desired D. come
29. A. courage B. fear C. happiness D. idea
30. A. exchange B. send C. expect D. fall
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第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
One day a small group of young people were at a wildlife park on a field trip.
“Oh, look at her, she's so beautiful.” All of us 21 a cheetah（印度豹）named Subira in respect－except a teenage boy called Cory in the back row, who seemed to be 22 to himself in impatience. When several members of the group turned in his 23 , he brushed the front of his T-shirt as though to 24 dust, and, in a gesture clearly meaning to 25 us, rolled up the right sleeve (袖子）of his shirt, further showing his well-developed 26 .
Cory had 27 of playing professional baseball someday. No one doubted Cory's 28 . But that was before the car accident. Not only did Cory lose a 29 in the accident but his hope and his spirit.
Seeing such a large audience, Subira couldn’t wait to give the crowd a 30 of her skills. “How fast she runs!” one shouted. “But she only has three legs.” one cried.
No one was more 31 than Cory. He stared at the animal with the missing leg and he smiled, tears of hope in his 32 .
Looking 33 into Cory' s face, the organizer explained “It was soon after she came to us that she showed her own worth－a 34 gift of love and spirit. In the past few years, the gift of Subira has 35 people around the world，and without words Subria has become our most persuasive 36 , and the most priceless gift.”
Cory asked 37 , “Can I touch her?”
As the rest of the group looked on in amazement, the boy wheeled himself over to the large gate and 38 to push it open. The expression on his face was one of great 39 . It was clear that Cory had 40 the gift of Subira.
21. A. listened to B. laughed at C. smiled at D. stared at
22. A. talking B. wondering C. sitting D. lying
23. A. face B. direction C. way D. attitude
24. A. clear B. feel C. remove D. catch
25. A. amuse B. impress C. satisfy D. frighten
26. A. fingers B. body C. hands D. muscles
27. A. talked B. dreamed C. decided D. expected
28. A. smartness B. speed C. ability D. mind
29. A. leg B. arm C. hand D. promise
30. A. memory B. speed C. show D. quality
31. A. astonished B. interrupted C. terrified D. disappointed
32. A. heart B. face C. expression D. eyes
33. A. bravely B. frankly C. directly D. immediately
34. A. unique B. common C. right D. difficult
35. A. excited B. warned C. described D. touched
36. A. newspaper B. spokesman C. program D. teacher
37. A. calmly B. softly C. bitterly D. proudly
38. A. wished B. decided C. begged D. struggled
39. A. puzzle B. disappointment C. satisfaction D. shame
40. A. received B. refused C. seen D. found
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He's definitely NOT James Bond—nor even Austin Powers.And now the world's worst spy, codenamed Piglet,is facing 14 years in prison after bungling (办槽)an attempt to sell secrets to the Russians.
Aircraft engineer Ian Parr,46,tried to pass on secrets of seven sensitive projects for￡l30. 000 to a man he thought was a Russian agent called Aleksey.
But it turned out that Parr—once nicknamed "Hazard" by colleagues-actually handed over the secrets to all M15(军情五处)agent. As the father-of-two sat in the pub drinking a pint of lager to celebrate the￡25,000 he had just been given,police swooped and arrested him for spying.
But his troubles were not over. While in Belmar's Prison,he,who had given himself the codename Piglet,tried to kill himself.He wired his spectacles to the mains to try to electrocute himself-but he only succeeded in leaving an outline of his glasses bummed on to his face.
Parr had a reputation for being a bungler long before his spying exempt.
As a teenage he joined the Army,where he earned his nickname"Hazard".
An excolleague said."If you wanted a job doing,Hazard would do it badly.He blew up the barracks washing machine by overloading it."
"He was forever injuring himself when loading shells(炮弹)into the gun turret(炮塔)of the tank. I lost count of the number of times I saw him with bandages and plasters on his fingers."
"You'd hear him clanging around and there'd be a yelp and he'd squeal,'Oh,my bloody fingers.'He's very lucky to have all his fingers left."
Parr eared ￡25,000 a year at BAE(bachelor of aeronautical engineering(航空工程学士) Systems.It is thought that he tried to make money from spying because of worries about being dismissed at the firm.
73. According to the passage,the world's worst spy Is________.
A. James Bond B. Austin Powers C. lan Parr D. Aleksei
74. Piglet actually passed the secrets on to________.
A. Aleksei,the Russian agent B. an agent
C. nobody D. somebody whose nickname was"Hazard"
75. The underlined word"swooped"in paragraph 4 most probably means________.
A. attacked suddenly and unexpectedly B. at tack evincing crowds
C. cameos planned D. walked slowly and secretly
76. If he had succeeded in selling the secrets,he would have earned________.
A. ￡25,000 B. ￡155,000 C. ￡130,000 D. ￡105,000
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with a steady stream of brightly dressed tourists. He smiles as a teenage girl in a pink sweater puts her hand on his shoulder
and flashes a peace sign at the camera.
"Everybody wants to understand what Mo Yan'' s life used to be like, when we were young," says Guan, lead-ing a small crowd inside the abandoned house to a dusty room where Mo, now 57, was married. A broken antique radio – a wedding gift, Guan says – sits on a crumbling concrete bed, untouched for decades.
Gaomi people are extremely proud of their Nobel prizewinner, whom they fondly refer to as "Teacher Mo Yan". Long red banners（横幅）congratulating Mo hang from the sides of concrete homes along major streets.
Guan Moxin recalls one tourist who ate a bean from a vine（腾）near their childhood home, threw his arms in the air, and declared that he had consumed a tiny piece of Mo’s Nobel miracle.
“Mo Yan’s works have elements from Gaomi’s culture，”says Mao Weijie，an official who over-sees the newly-built Mo’Yan museum in a local high school．“He writes about Gaomi paper-cutting，for example，and sometimes he writes using our Gaomi dialect．”
Guan Yifan，Mo’s father，says that Mo does not come hack home often，but when he does，“we just talk about what’8 happening our home hew the tomatoes are growing，that type of thing．”Inside the house，faded family pictures hang on newspaper-covered walls；outside，his courtyard over-flows with corn，the fruits of a good harvest．
Although Guan says that he has never read his son’s books，he is proud of Mo’s achievements．“We’re all just happy，”he says．“Very，very happy．”
66．How many years younger is Mo Yan than his brother according to this news item?
A．28 years B．5 years C．8 years D．10 years
67．The teenage girl in a pink sweater is most probably_________________.
A．Guan Moxin’s daughter B．Mo Yah’s daughter
C．a tourist D．a news reporter
68．Which of the following best describes the house where Mo Yah got married?
A．Shabby． B．New． C．Large．D．Clean．
69．Which of the following is true according to the passage？
A．Few people asked Guan Moxin about his brother’s childhood life．
B．The tourist who ate a bean near Mo Yan’s home went crazy．
C．Mo Yan often talks about his writing with his relatives
D．Someone gave Mo Yan a radio as a gift when he got married．
70．From this news item we can learn________________________．
A．Mo Yan’s father and brother are now very rich farmers
B．Mo Yan’s home town has obvious influence on' his writings
C．Mo Yan received a very good education as a child
D．Mo Yan’s father does not like reading his son’s books
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