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Greg Gadson, a lieutenant colonel in the Army’s Warrior Transition Brigade, is a natural leader—the kind of guy you’d be looking for on the battlefield. He’s also the kind of guy Mike Sullivan, a coach for the New York Giants, whose thought could make a difference to his losing football team. The two men had gone to US Military Academy at West Point together but hadn’t been in touch much afterward, until Sullivan walked into Gadson’s hospital room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, outside Washington, D.C., last June. Friends had told Sullivan that his former Army football teammate had suffered serious injuries in Iraq—resulting in both of Gadson’s legs being amputated above the knee.
"This man had suffered so much," Sullivan recalls, "yet he was so happy to see me." The coach, who brought his old friend a signed Giants jersey with the number 98 on it, watched as Gadson interacted with the other patients
A. strained
B. cut off
C. held up
D. swollen

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Greg Gadson, a lieutenant colonel in the Army’s Warrior Transition Brigade, is a natural leader—the kind of guy you’d be looking for on the battlefield. He’s also the kind of guy Mike Sullivan, a coach for the New York Giants, whose thought could make a difference to his losing football team. The two men had gone to US Military Academy at West Point together but hadn’t been in touch much afterward, until Sullivan walked into Gadson’s hospital room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, outside Washington, D.C., last June. Friends had told Sullivan that his former Army football teammate had suffered serious injuries in Iraq—resulting in both of Gadson’s legs being amputated above the knee.
"This man had suffered so much," Sullivan recalls, "yet he was so happy to see me." The coach, who brought his old friend a signed Giants jersey with the number 98 on it, watched as Gadson interacted with the other patients
A. schoolmate
B. football coach
C. superior in the army
D. fellow worker

[单项选择]Greg sells gaskets. On three sales, Greg has received commissions of $385, $70, and $190, and he has one additional sale pending. If Greg is to receive an average (arithmetic mean) commission of exactly $220 on the four sales, then the fourth commission must be:（）.
A. $135
B. $155
C. $220
D. $235
E. $645

[单项选择]When the colonel learned that headquarters had been unable to send him reinforcements, he （）the order for the scheduled attack.
A. countermanded
B. relinquished
C. rephrased
D. invalidated

[单项选择]From: ACA Events
To: Greg Underwood
Subject: Registration forthe ACA Business Management Seminar
Dear Mr. Underwood,
You have successfully signed up for the ACA Business Management Seminar at the Harwood Hotel, Boston, on March 14. Your details are recorded in our files as follows:
Name: Greg Underwood
Position: Retail Manager
ACA Member: No
Registration Fee: Paid
Booking Number: 77609
Accommodation: Booked
If there are any errors or problems with this information, please email inquiries@thinkfast.com.us and let us know.
Please find attached a schedule of events. As the date of the seminar approaches, you will be forwarded a copy of the seminar materials. It is hoped attendees will all make an effort to read these materials so that discussion at the event can be as engaging as possible.
The ACA Events Team

A. connected
B. interesting
C. winning
D. preoccupied

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Who is Colonel Sanders a. The founder of KFC. b. The president of KFC. c. The general manager of KFC. d. A customer of KFC.

[填空题]Greg Louganis:
These were the trials for the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea. Until this dive, I had been ahead. But now, something else was more significant than winning. I might have endangered other divers’ lives if I have spilled blood in the pool. For what I knew—that few others knew—was that I was HIV-positive. AIDS forced me to stop diving; I had to quit diving professionally after the Olympics.
Margaret Chan:
It is reported that almost three million people in developing countries are now receiving drugs for HIV. This is an increase of almost one million people from two thousand and six. Still, the hope was to reach three million by two thousand and five. But antiretroviral therapy, or ART, alone will not solve the problem. For every two persons we manage to provide them with ART, another five persons get infected. So again, we cannot underestimate the power of prevention.
Paula Green:
The disease robs th

[单项选择]Greg Woodburn, a sophomore at the University of Southern California, spends a lot of time cleaning sneakers. Some of them once belonged to him; some belonged to his friends. But soon the shoes will have new owners: underprivileged children in the United States and 20 other countries, thanks to Woodburn’s Share Our Soles (S.O.S.) charity.
"I started thinking about all the things I got from running—the health benefits, the friendships, the confidence," he says. "And I realized there are children who don’t even have shoes." Woodburn gathered up his own stash of slightly worn sneakers, then put out a call to teammates and the town. His goal was to have 100 pairs by this Christmas. When the count climbed to more than 500 pairs, he decided to turn the shoe drive into a year-round endeavor.
Back then, the sneakers came from donation boxes at the YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association) and the local sporting goods store and from door-to-door pickups. Woodburn has now set up collecti
A. Because he believed running can bring good health, friendships and confidence.
B. Because he thought it was a waste of money to get rid of worn shoes.
C. Because he wanted to help the poor children who don’t even have shoes.
D. Because he hoped more children would like to help strangers as him.

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Greg Focker, played by Ben Stiller, represents a generation of American kids (1) in the 1980s on the philosophy that any achievement, however slight, (2) a ribbon. (3) replaced punishment; criticism became a dirty word. In Texas, teachers were advised to (4) using red ink, the colour of (5) . In California, a task force was set up to (6) the concept of self worth into the education system. Swathing youngsters in a (7) shield of self-esteem, went the philosophy, would protect them from the nasty things in life, such as bad school grades, underage sex, drug abuse, dead-end jobs and criminality.
(8) that the ninth-place ribbons are in danger of strangling the (9) children they were supposed to help. America’s (10) with self-esteem--like all developments in psychology, it gradually (11) its way to Britain--has turned children who were (12) with (13) into adults who (14) at
A. compliments
B. complacency
C. flattering
D. boast