[简答题]One day in the dead of winter, I looked out my back window and saw a chicken. It was jet-black with a crimson wattle, and it seemed unaware that it was in New York City. In classic barnyard fashion, It was scratching, pecking and clucking. I shrugged off the apparition. Birds come and go. Usually they’re pigeons, not chickens, but like other birds, this one had wings and it would probably use them. Or so I thought. {{U}}The protagonist of this story is known simply as the chicken. How it came to a small backyard here, remains a matter of conjecture. The chicken made its first appearance next door, at the home of a multitude of cabdrivers from Bangladesh. My wife, Nancy, and I figured they had bought the chicken and were fattening it for a feast. That hypothesis fell into doubt when the chicken hopped the fence and began pacing the perimeter of our yard with a proprietary air. Eating it was out of the question. As a restaurant critic and an animal lover, I subscribe to a pol

[单项选择]One day before my final exam, my dad gave me a gift. It completely changed my life.
On that day I had a (16) with my friends and it was a difficult time with my studies. I was unhappy. Then I noticed the gift. I (17) it and saw a DVD inside. Its name was "THE SECRET". However, I was in no mood(心情) to watch it. I sat down to study, but the (18) in my life—the fight, the sleepless nights and my poor health...Everything came to my mind. I wanted an answer but I wondered (19) there was any. Just then,I saw the DVD again. Maybe it would be helpful. I (20) my DVD player. I had no words to describe the feelings I experienced while watching it. The moving(动人的) stories of human beings made me so moved that I wouldn’t (21) any of them.
Thanks to my father’s gift "THE SECRET", I discovered (22) . Everybody has difficulties in their lives. The important thing is that you should be (23) enough to face them. Now I have
A. trip
B. party
C. talk
D. fight

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One day in January, my uncle, my cousin and I decided to go hunting. We left by car in the afternoon. It was a Range Rover with four-wheel drive. It took us three hours to get there. After we arrived at 5:15 p. m. , we fixed the tent, then made coffee and had a short rest. After that, we went hunting, using a falcon(猎鹰). We spent two hours without finding anything. On our way back to the camp, my cousin saw a rabbit. I removed the falcon’s head cover and let go of the aggressive falcon. When the rabbit saw the falcon, it ran fast, but my falcon was a professional hunter. He flew up and came down to trick the rabbit. After two minutes, the rabbit was caught. We took it back to the camp to cook our dinner. We ate the delicious food, drank Arabic coffee, and sat around the fire talking until 10:30 p. m.
We left the camp the next day at 7 o’clock in the morning. We went north. However, around 10. 00 a. m., our car got stuck in the sand! We spent about three hours
A. Disappointed.
B. Enjoyable.
C. Comfortable.
D. Exhausted.

[单项选择] One day in my class, Maria shared her feelings about money, "Money worries me. I think I want to live without money because I hate it. I HATE MONEY." We were all touched by Maria’s words as they reminded us of the spiritual burdens that money managing can bring to us. After class I offered to help Maria deal with her financial problems. She hesitated to accept my offer, and I could see from the expression on her face that she was afraid of what it might involve. I quickly assured her that I wouldn’t make her do more than she was able to. I told her frankly that I didn’t enjoy managing my money any more than she did hers and wouldn’t burden her with guilt, judgments, or impossible tasks. All I would ask her to do was to let me help her look at her fears and try to make some sense of them. Maria still resisted my offer, and I can remember the excuses she gave me as they were the repeated complaints I had heard from so many people. "I’ll never understand money," she said. "My fac
A. convincing
B. instructive
C. shocking
D. shameful