江苏省镇江市2014高三英语上学期期末考试试题牛津译林版(4)

Most people who get in trouble do know the rules and facts but manage to fool themselves about the risks they?re taking by using excuses: “Everyone else does it,” or “I really need this grade.” Excuses can get very elaborate: “I know I?m looking at another?s exam, but that?s not cheating because I?m just checking my answers, not copying.” We must be honest about our actions and avoid excuses.

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To avoid fooling yourself, watch out for excuses and try this test: Ask how you would feel if your actions were public and anyone could be watching over your shoulder. If you?d rather hide your actions, that?s an indication that you?re taking a risk and rationalizing it to yourself. Evaluating Risks

To decide whether a risk is worth taking, you must examine the consequences, in the future as well as right now, negative as well as positive, and to others as well as to yourself. Those who take risks they later regret usually focus on immediate benefits and simply haven?t considered what might go wrong. The

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consequences of getting caught are serious and may include a “0” on a test or assignment, an “F” in the class, suspension or dismissal from school and a ruined reputation. This is an extremely vulnerable position. There may be some matters of life and death or highest principle, which might justify such a risk, but there aren?t many things that fall in this category.

63. What role does integrity play in personal and professional relationships? A. It inspires mutual respect. B. It helps to create team spirit. C. It is the basis of mutual trust. D. It facilitates communication.

64. What should one do if he doesn?t wish to fool himself? A. Avoid making excuses. B. Make his intensions public.

C. Listen to other people?s advice. D. Have others watch over his shoulder. 65. Those who take risks they regret later on. A. are usually very aggressive B. value immediate benefits most C. may lose everything in the end D. will often become more cautious

D

Buck lived in Mr. Miller?s big house in the sunny Santa Clara valley. There were large gardens and fields of fruit trees around the house, and a river nearby. In a big place like this, of course, there were many dogs. There were house dogs and farm dogs, but they were not important. Buck was chief dog; he was born here, and this was his place. He was four years old and weighed sixty kilos. He went swimming with Mr. Miller?s sons, and walking with his daughters. He carried the grandchildren on his back, and he sat at Mr. Miller?s feet in front of the fire in winter.

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But this was 1897, and Buck did not know that men and dogs were hurrying to north-west Canada to look for gold. And he did not know that Manuel, one of Mr. Miller?s gardeners, needed money for his large family. One day, when Mr. Miller was out, Manuel and Buck left the garden together. It was just an evening walk, Buck thought. No one saw them go, and only one man saw them arrive at the railway station. This man talked to Manuel, and gave him some money. Then he tied a piece of rope around Buck?s neck. Buck growled, and was surprised when the rope was pulled hard around his neck. He jumped at the man. The man caught him and suddenly Buck was on his back with his tongue out of his mouth. For a few moments he was unable to move, and it was easy for the two men to put him into the train.

When Buck woke up, the train was still moving. The man was sitting and watching him, but Buck was too quick for him and he bit the man?s hand hard. Then the rope was pulled again and Buck had to let go. That evening, the man took Buck to the back room of a bar in San Francisco. He took off Buck?s rope and pushed him into a wooden box. The next day Buck was carried in the box to the railway station and put on a train to the north. For two days and nights the train traveled north, and for two days and nights Buck neither ate nor drank. For two days and nights Buck got angrier and hungrier and thirstier. His eyes grew red and he bit anything that moved.

In Seattle four men took Buck to a small, high-walled back garden, where a fat man in an old red coat was wait ng. Buck was now very angry indeed and he jumped and bit at the sides of his box. The fat man

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smiled and went to get an ax and a club. As the fat man hit the box with his ax, Buck jumped at the sides, growling and biting, pulling with his teeth at the pieces of broken wood. After a few minutes there was a hole big enough for Buck to get out.

“Now, come here, red eyes,” said the fat man, dropping his ax and taking the club in his right hand.

Buck jumped at the man, sixty kilos of anger, his mouth wide open, ready to bite the man?s neck. Just before his teeth touched the skin, the man hit him with the club. Buck fell to the ground. It was the first time anyone had hit him with a club and he did not understand. He stood up, and jumped again. Again the club hit him and he crashed to the ground. There was blood on his nose and mouth and ears. Then the fat man walked up and hit him again, very hard, on the nose. The pain was terrible. Again, Buck jumped at the man and again he was hit to the ground. At last when he jumped, the man knocked him down and he did not move.

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“His name is Buck,” said the fat man to himself, reading the letter that had come with the box. “Well, Buck, my boy,” he said in a friendly voice, “we?ve argued a little, and I think the best thing to do now is to stop. Be a good dog and we?ll be friends. But if you?re a bad dog, ...”

As he spoke, he touched Buck?s head, and although Buck was angry inside, he did not move. When the man brought him water and meat, Buck drank and then ate the meat, piece by piece, from the man?s hand.

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