题型:阅读理解 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
河南省创新发展联盟2017-2018学年高二下学期英语期末考试试卷
My mother raised me as best as she could, taking on odd jobs in the neighborhood for money. Still without a father to tell me how to act and what was expected of me, I felt lost. I wandered for years and got involved with tough guys on the East Side of New York. They would fight madly over a dropped coin. They would steal to get what they wanted. I wanted to be like them.
It was lucky for me that I left the city and entered a world of discipline (纪律), after following my mother's advice. During three years of military service, I had time to rethink my life, and my thoughts often ran to my mother. I realized suddenly just how much of a heartache I must have been to her, how little I had noticed her suffering. When my father left this world, my mother was completely alone. To support us, my mother cleaned apartments and took in washing and ironing from the neighbors. And as she worked hard at this labor, she kept her head high. Each week she would bring a pile of books home from the library and read to us. My mother had wanted nothing more, than for me to turn into an honest responsible man. But I had acted against her. Finally, almost too late I had the sense to feel shame.
Ten years passed and I returned to the apartment on the East Side. I knew I wouldn't fall back in with the wrong people, although I still wasn't sure where I was heading. My mother, I could tell, was worried about me. In my neighborhood, to become a police officer or a firefighter was a mark of significant social success and achievement. For me it was an opportunity for a real start in life. I wondered if I was up to it, but I knew that it was time to try. When I found myself in the big hall raising my hands to take the firefighters oath (誓言) of office, my mother was sitting a few rows behind with a smile of relief. She knew that at last I was off on life's road and moving steadily. Her smile said, “My job is finally done.”
USING YOUR GOLDEN ARROW MULTIPURPOSE CALCULATOR TO DETERMINE THE DATE AND TIME AT YOUR LOCATION AS WELL AS LOCATIONS AROUND THE GLOBE SEETING THE DATE AND TIME FOR YOUR LOCATION
Use the TIME ZONE chart below to locate code that corresponds with the time zone in which you live. Select the major city that shares your time zone. Press the code that corresponds to that city (e.g. ,if you live in Washington ,Oregon California, or Nevada, all of which are located in the Pacific time zone, you would choose Los Angeles and press the corresponding code which is the 1 key).
⒈Press TIME twice. The two digits representing hours will begin to flash.
⒉Depress and hold the ▲or▼ key until the desired hour flashes. Then release.
⒊Press SET. The two digits representing minutes will begin to flash.
⒋Depress and hold the ▲or▼ key until the desired minute fleshes. Then release.
⒌Press SET. The two digits representing seconds will begin to flash.
⒍Depress and hold the ▲or▼ key until 00 flashes. The release.
⒎Press SET. To set the year, month, and day press DATE three times. Then repeat steps 2 through 7.
NOTE: At this point, hour, minutes and seconds will change to year, month, and day.
DETERMINAING DATE AND TIME FOR THE WORLD'S16 TIME ZONES
⒈PRESS ZONE TWICE.
⒉Use the TIME ZONE chart below to locate the code that corresponds to the time zone for which you desire the date and time. Press that code (e.g., press = to determine the date and time in Hong Kong). The selected date and time will alternately display for 10 seconds and then return automatically to your home date and time.
CODE |
CITY |
TIME |
0 |
Honolulu |
-10 |
1 |
Los Angeles |
-8 |
2 |
Denver |
-7 |
3 |
Chicago |
-6 |
4 |
New York |
-5 |
5 |
Rio de Janeiro |
-3 |
6 |
London |
0 |
7 |
Paris |
+1 |
CODE |
CITY |
TIME |
8 |
Cairo |
+2 |
9 |
Moscow |
+3 |
+ |
Karachi |
+5 |
- |
Bangkok |
+7 |
= |
Hong Kong |
+8 |
* |
Tokyo |
+9 |
/ |
Sydney |
+10 |
# |
Wellington |
+12 |
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