Mr. Fern was born in a big city. His father owned several companies and earned a lot of money. He could give his son all the young man wanted. He was busy with his business and never asked him how he got along with his studies. So the boy spent most time in the restaurants or cinemas. Of course he was not good at his lessons and learned nothing at school. He made many friends but none of them was good and when they knew he came from a rich family, they began to teach him to gamble(赌博). Of course he lost much money.
Now Mr. Fern was twenty and finished middle school. He could do nothing. But his father didn’ t mind it until one day he found the young man had sold one of his companies. He became so angry that he made him leave his house. The young man couldn’ t gamble any longer. His friends made him pay his debt. He had to ask his mother to help him and the woman often gave him some money. But one evening his father happened to find it. The old man stopped his
A. he was sure his son was good at his lessons
B. he spent all his energies on his business
C. he knew nothing about the education
D. his wife looked after their son
Mr. Fern was born in a big city. His father owned several companies and earned a lot of money. He could give his son all the young man wanted. He was busy with his business and never asked him how he got along with his studies. So the boy spent most time in the restaurants or cinemas. Of course he was not good at his lessons and learned nothing at school. He made many friends but none of them was good and when they knew he came from a rich family, they began to teach him to gamble(赌博). Of course he lost much money.
Now Mr. Fern was twenty and finished middle school. He could do nothing. But his father didn’ t mind it until one day he found the young man had sold one of his companies. He became so angry that he made him leave his house. The young man couldn’ t gamble any longer. His friends made him pay his debt. He had to ask his mother to help him and the woman often gave him some money. But one evening his father happened to find it. The old man stopped his
A. his son had learned nothing at school
B. his son was weak at all his lessons
C. his son couldn’t do anything in the companies
D. his son had sold one of his companies
| Jim was born after his elder brother
and sister. He could learn many things from them. Soon, he developed his own way
of doing things by developing his mind through his interest in creating stories.
He read more than most children and he gathered his inspiration from history
books. In school, his athletic interests were basketball and bike, especially
high jump. When he found he could jump a little higher than most students, he
decided that jumping over a high bar would be his specialty. Jim continued his learning interest in history which included serious college study, and a Master’s degree. He is now a university professor at a small university. In the United States there are many schools that have history departments. There are large universities with as many as 60 thousand students and small universities with as few as 2 000 A. Jim is the second child in his family. B. Jim bas a younger sister. C. Jim is the third child in his family. D. Jim is the only child in his family. [单项选择]
Itzhak Perlman was born in Israel. But his music has made him a citizen of the world. He has played in (16) every large city. He has won fifteen Grammy Awards and four Emmys.
Anyone who has attended (出席) h [单项选择]3.Born to be Big
In 2006 scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health reported that the prevalence of obesity (肥胖) in infants under 6 months had risen 73 percent since 1980. "This epidemic of obese 6 - month - olds," as Robert Lustig of the University of California, San Francisco, calls it, poses a problem for conventional explanations of the fattening of America. "Since they’ re eating only formula (配方奶) or breast milk, and never exactly got a lot of exercise, the obvious explanations for obesity don’t work for babies," he points out. "You have to look beyond the obvious. " The search for the non - obvious has led to an early - life exposure to Paces of chemicals in the environment. Evidence has been steadily accumulating that certain hormone - mimicking pollutants (污染物质), ubiquitous (到处存在的) in the food chain, have two previously effects. They act on genes in the developing fetus (胎儿) and newborn to turn more precursor (前体) cells into fat cells, which stay with you for A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned 我来回答: 提交
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