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     When I was twelve years old, my family were the first black people to move into an all white part of

Grand Rapids, Michigan. Many of our new neighbors weren't very welcoming. Some of them said angrily

that we should return to where we came from. The children sometimes threw stones at me or drove me

home from school.

     Most of my teachers simply took no notice of me, but not Dorothy Bean, my history teacher. Miss Bean

was angry at how badly I was being treated, but she didn't say this to me. Miss Bean showed her respect

for me by teaching me just like anyone else. Instead of being unnoticed, I was given a chance to show that

I was clever. Miss Bean was the first teacher who ever made me think for myself. She always wanted to

know what I thought about difficult questions. Was Thomas Jefferson right to buy Louisiana from France?

Why? She expected me to have my own idea. Miss Bean was teaching me that thinking for oneself was the

real key to education.

     One day, when I was not paying attention in class, Miss Bean suddenly threw an eraser at me. The eraser

hit me right on the hand and sent my pencil flying. The whole class were very surprised at first, then started

laughing. This event became famous in the school and, because it happened to me, the students wanted to

get to know me. So that's the story of how Dorothy Bean made me her target (靶子), and how I became

just another kid in school.

1. Before the writer's family moved to the new place, _________.

A. some other black people were there

B. there were no black people there

C. the other black people had gone

D. the people there had known them

2. Many people treated the writer badly because he was _________.

A. a new comer

B. not clever

C. a black

D. poor

3. Miss Bean was a teacher who was _________.

A. active and warm-hearted

B. helpful but boring

C. friendly and helpful

D. warm-hearted but careless

4. The underlined words "real key" in the last sentence of Paragraph 2 means _________.

A. important way

B. correct answer

C. free road

D. open door

5. The event that happened between the writer and Miss Bean _________.

A. broke their relationship (关系)

B. made the writer feel worse

C. made the writer a successful man

D. made the writer famous in school

答案

1-5        BCCAD

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The Man of Many Secrets—Harry Houdini—was one of the greatest American entertainers in the theater next century. He was a man famous for his escapes—from prison cells, from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America. Crowds came to see the great Houdini and his "magic" tricks.

Of course, his secret was not magic, or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability to move his toes as well as he moved 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 club in New York. 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 very 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 newspapermen to watch.

It was the publicity that came from this that started Harry Houdini’s success. Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape ankle chins. 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 is a key that fits many locks, pass quickly from her mouth to his.

Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local prison 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 theater would be full. What was the result World-wild fame, and a name remembered today.

In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word "this" refers to ().

A. his first prison escape

B. the year 1898

C. the publicity

D. Harry Houdini’s success