高三英语毕业班暑期适应性练习题八(2)

The plane crash took place after Bishop took off without permission. He was taking a flying lesson at an airport, about 30 kilometers from Tampa, on January 5. Bishop had been taking flying lessons since March 2001.

Only Bishop died. No one in the building was injured. The damage was limited to the 28th floor and the neighboring ones. The building reopened on January 7, except for the two offices directly hit.

It is not clear yet whether Bishop was suffering with depression (抑郁).

The incident came as a huge shock to a nation still recovering from the World Trade Center attacks. Surely now Americans cannot help but wonder what could happen if a teenage boy can still fly a plane into a building. 41. What did the boy do in this story?

A. He killed himself without telling others.

B. He crashed a small plane without telling others.

C. He killed himself because he didn't want to live any longer.

D. He wrote a note saying that he was going to die and crashed a plane. 42. How did the boy's friend think of him? A. He thought he was a bad guy.

B. He thought he was a very troubled young man. C. He thought he was the teacher's dog. D. He thought he was a very good boy. 43. What's the result of the plane crash?

A. The boy and some other people were killed in the plane. B. The building was seriously damaged.

C. The boy was killed and only a small part of the building was damaged. D. The boy and the building were all right.

44. What's the cause of the plane crash, according to the boy? A. The boy's hatred to the U. S.

B. The boy's love toward Osama Bin Laden. C. The boy's dislike of the building. D. For no reason at all.

(C)

Harry Houdini was one of the greatest American entertainers in the theatre this century. He was a man famous for his escapes-from prison cells (牢房), from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theatres all over Europe and America. Crowds came to see the great Houdini and his \

Of course, his secret was not magic or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had ability to move his toes as well as his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted.

Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo performed card tricks in a New York club. They called themselves the Houdini brothers. When Harry married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant, but for a long time they were not successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape, in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to escape from the prison, and he invited the local newspaperman to watch.

It was the publicity (名声) that came from this that started Harry Houdini's success. Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs (手铐) and toes trained to escape from ankle chains, but his biggest secret was how he unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck and a small skeleton key, which was a key that fitted many locks passed quickly from her mouth to his.

Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local jail of every town he visited. In the afternoon the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and in the evening every seat in the local theatre would be full. What was the result? World-wide fame, and a name remembered today. 45. What did Houdini's success in prison escapes depend on? A. His magic tricks and inhuman powers. B. His unusual ability and skeleton key. C. His special tricks and a skeleton key. D. His inhuman talents and magic tricks.

46. How did Houdini get the key which helped him unlock prison doors? A. He took the key from his wife's mouth.

B. His wife passed it to his hand while kissing him. C. His wife gave it to him by magic trick.

D. He got it in his mouth through a kiss from his wife.

47. It can he inferred from the passage that Houdini became famous _____________. A. when he was about 17 B. after the year 1894 C. when he was about 24 D. before the year 1898

48. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? A. Houdini was first recognized widely in Chicago. B. Houdini used to be a famous magician in Britain.

C. Houdini entered the entertainment world together with his wife. D. Houdini owed his great success to his small skeleton key. (D)