I used to watch her from my kitchen window.She seemed so small as she struggled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground.The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during break.I remember the first day I saw her playing basketball.I watched in wonder as she ran circles a- round the other kids.She managed to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into the net.The boys always tried to stop her but no one could.I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone.
One day I asked her why she practiced so much.Without a moment of hesitation she said, "I want to go to college.The only way I can go is to get a scholarship to save money for our family.I am going to play college basketball.I want to be the best.My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don't count." Well, I had to give it to her ?she was determined.I watched her through those junior high years and into high school.Every week, she led her school team to victory.
One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head in her arms.I walked up and sat down in the cool grass beside her.Quietly I asked what was wrong. "Oh, nothing," came a soft reply, "I am just too short." The coach told her that she would probably never get to play for a top ranked team ?much less offered a scholarship —so she should stop dreaming about college.She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat tighten as I sensed her disappointment.I asked her if she had talked to Father about it yet.She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong.They just did not understand the power of a dream.He told her that if she truly wanted a scholar-ship, nothing could stop her except one thing —her own attitude.
The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was offered a scholarship and joined the college team.She was going to get the college education that she had dreamed of.
1..
The author was probably the girl's____________.
A.neighbor B.friend C.teacher D.mother
2..
.Why was the girl's heart broken?
A.She was considered too short to be a top player.
B.Her coach stopped her training because of her height.
C.She couldn't be on a college basketball team.
D.She wouldn't be admitted by her basketball friends.
3..
We can learn from the passage that ____________.
A.her family wouldn't like to pay her college fee
B.her father forced her to play basketball in collage
C.being a top basketball player can win a scholarship for college
D.she wouldn't like to turn to his father for help when in difficulty
4..
.Which proverb best matches the story?
A.Practice makes perfect.
B.Rome was not built in a day.
C.Where there is a will, there is a way.
D.Pride comes before a fall.
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We can all contribute to a greener world.Just follow these ten golden rules:
●Stop getting junk mail.Billions of junk mail can be sent every year.Half of it is never opened.Get-your name off mailing lists.If 100,000 people stopped getting junk mail today, it would save 150,000 trees a year.
●Stop reading newspapers.All over the world, millions of newspapers are thrown away every day, 44 million newspapers in the USA alone —that's half a million trees a week.Either recycle your newspapers or read the hews online.
●Buy clothes made from organic materials.Conventional cotton farming seriously pollutes the environment, most of which uses chemical pesticides (农药) and fertilizers. Organic is better!
●Switch to solar energy.In one day, the sun will provide enough energy to power the planet.Why aren't we using it?
●If you have to drive, share the ride.Most cars in the USA have only one occupant.Also, 25 percent of car rides are less than 1.5 kilometres.Get out and walk!
●Unplug your PC, TV and VCR.Simply turning them off isn't enough.Sets left on standby are still using 25 percent of their power.
●Hold on to your balloons.Helium-filled balloons which fly away usually end up in a lake or river, where they can choke aquatic (水生的) creatures.Save your balloons and use them again.Or better still, don't use them at all.
●Feed the birds.Wild birds need food, especially in v/inter when other sources can be scarce.The greater the range of foodstuffs you put out for them, the more types of birds you will attract.
●Plant a garden at your school.Learn the connection between the land and the table.Plant vegetables to eat, flowers to admire and trees to improve the air.
1..
What is the main purpose of the passage?
A.To provide some health advice on how to work.
B.To suggest some ways how to make full use of solar energy.
C.To advise protecting environment and saving energy.
D.To advise on how to recycle waste and save energy.
2..
.The underlined expression "left on standby" in the sixth rule means____________.
A.ready to start and use electricity B.ready to be turned off
C.ready to be repaired D.ready to be.put away
3..
.Which of the following will NOT protect trees from being cut down to make paper?
A.Not buying newspapers. B.Don't accept junk mail.
C.Read your newspaper online. D.Read only one newspaper.
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We can make mistakes at any age.Some mistakes we make are about money.But most mistakes are about people.One might say, "Did Jerry really care when I broke up with Helen?" "When I got that great job, did Jim really feel good about it, as a friend? Or did he envy my luck?" When we look back, doubts like these can make us feel bad.
Why do we go wrong about our friends? Sometimes what people want to say hides their real meaning.And if we don't really listen, we miss the feeling behind the words. Suppose someone tells you, "You're a lucky dog." Is he really on your side? If he says, "You are a lucky guy", that's being friendly.But if he says "a lucky dog", there's a bit of envy in those words.Maybe he doesn't see it himself.But he puts you down a little if he brings in the "dog".What he may be saying is that he doesn't think you deserve your luck.
"Just think of all the things you have to be thankful for" is another noise that says one thing and means another.It could mean that the speaker is trying to get you to see your problem as part of your life as a whole.But is he trying to? Wrapped up in this phrase is the thought that your problem isn't important.It's telling you to think of all the starving people in the world when you haven't got a date for Saturday night.
How can you tell the real meaning behind someone's words? One way is to take a good look at the person talking.Do his words fit the way he looks? Does what he says agree with the tone of voice, his posture, or the look in his eyes? Stop and think.The minute you spend thinking about the real meaning of what people say to you may save another mistake.
Therefore, when you hear someone saying, please try to know what he really means.Don't just listen to what he says with your ears but feel the words he uses with your head.In this way you may make fewer mistakes.
1..
.In the 1st paragraph, the writer says something that happened between him and his friends ____.
A.He feels happy, thinking of how nice his friends were to him
B.He feels he may not have read his friends' true feelings correctly
C.He doesn't think it was a mistake to have broken up with his friend
D.He is sorry that his friends let him down
2..
This passage is mainly about ____________.
A.how to avoid mistakes about money and friends
B.what to do when you listen to others talking
C.how to avoid mistakes in understanding what people tell you
D.why you keep people friendly without trusting them
3..
.According to the author, the reason why we go wrong about our friends is that
A.we fail to listen carefully when they talk
B.people tend to be angry when we check what they say
C.people usually state one thing but mean another
D.we tend to doubt what our friends say
4..
.The underlined word "it" in the second paragraph refers to____________.
A.being friendly B.a bit of envy
C.a lucky dog D.your luck
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It’s hard to find Alice Munro in the media. Even after she won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Canadian writer just appeared for a quick interview and then dropped out of sight. On Dec 29th, she still didn’t seek the spotlight when she was named one of the five Women of the Year by the Financial Times.
In Munro’s eyes, ordinary lives always hide larger dramas. So she records what we casually think of as the everyday actions of normal people. She often focuses on life in her hometown, a small village in Ontario which she is most familiar with. She writes about the ordinary things in the village — trees in the Ontario wilderness, poor country schools and long last illnesses. Above all, she talks about girls and women who have seemingly ordinary lives but struggle against daily misfortune.
She has a special talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary. These are ordinary people, ordinary stories, but she has the magic. Her precise language, depth of detail and the logic of her storytelling have made her stories inviting.
Runaway, one of Munro’s representative works, is a good example of her writing style. One of the stories centers on the life of an ordinary woman Carla, who lives in a small Canadian town with her husband Clark. The story slowly forms a picture of Carla, trapped in a bad marriage, her unhappiness building into desperation until she decides to flee. The story of Carla is a story of the power and betrayals of love. It is about lost children and lost chances that we can all find in life. There is pain beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart.
Since she published her first collection of short stories in 1968, Munro has won many awards, with the Nobel Prize being her biggest honor. On Oct 10th, 2013, the Nobel Prize committee named Munro the “master of the contemporary short story”.
1.We learn from Paragraph 1 that Alice Munro ________. .
A. didn’t get on well with the media
B. was surprised at winning the Nobel Prize
C. didn’t value the title of Women of the Year
D. remained modest though very successful
2.Many of Alice Munro’s works ________. .
A. center on the happy life of country women
B. are about betrayals of love and violence
C. focus on everyday life of ordinary people
D. are romantic stories setting in her hometown
3.What makes Alice Munro’s stories fascinating according to the text?
A. The complicated plots.
B. Her rich imagination.
C. The humorous language.
D. Her writing techniques.
4.What is the text mainly about?
A. Alice Munro and her hometown.
B. Alice Munro and her writing style.
C. Alice Munro's representative works.
D. The awards Alice Munro won.
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Guide to Stockholm University Library
Our library offers different types of studying places and provides a good studying environment.
Zones
The library is divided into different zones. The upper floor is a quiet zone with over a thousand places for silent reading, and places where you can sit and work with your own computer. The reading places consist mostly of tables and chairs. The ground floor is the zone where you can talk. Here you can find sofas and armchairs for group work.
Computers
You can use your own computer to connect to the wi-fi specially prepared for notebook computers; you can also use library computers, which contain the most commonly used applications, such as Microsoft Office. They are situated in the area known as the Experimental Field on the ground floor.
Group-study Places
If you want to discuss freely without disturbing others, you can book a study room or sit at a table on the ground floor. Some study rooms are for 2-3 people and others can hold up to 6-8 people. All rooms are marked on the library maps.
There are 40 group-study rooms that must be booked via the website. To book, you need an active University account and a valid University card. You can use a room three hours per day, nine hours at most per week.
Storage of Study Material
The library has lockers for students to store course literature. When you have obtained at least 40 credits, you may rent a locker and pay 400 SEK for a year’s rental period.
Rules to be Followed
Mobile phone conversations are not permitted anywhere in the library. Keep your phone on silent as if you were in a lecture and exit the library if you need to receive calls.
Please note that food and fruit are forbidden in the library, but you are allowed to have drinks and sweets with you.
1.Library computers on the ground floor .
A. help students with their field experiments
B. contain software essential for schoolwork
C. are for those who want to access the wi-fi
D. are mostly used for filling out application forms
2.A student can rent a locker in the library if he .
A. can afford the rental fee
B. attends certain courses
C. has nowhere to put his books
D. has earned the required credits
3.What should NOT be brought into the library?
A. Mobile phones. B. Orange juice.
C. Candy. D. Sandwiches.
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On Sunday morning in Rio, when Chinese women’s volleyball team took on Serbia for the Olympic title, 70 percent of Chinese families watched live broadcast on TV, easily beating the audience rating for Lunar New Year Gala. As team captain Hui Ruoqi hit a powerful spike to seal it 19-25, 25-17, 25-22, 25-23 on Sunday morning in Rio, applause and cheers almost blew off the roof of Maracanazinho. China’s news program Xinwen Lianbo spent seven of 30 minutes reliving the story. This is their third Olympic gold medal the Chinese women’s volleyball team has won since the 1980s.
In Rio, the Chinese women’s volleyball team was assigned to the so-called group of death and faced several strong competitors. But the team never gave up. When the team lost its Rio Olympic opener to the Netherlands on Aug 6, Lang Ping urged her players to support one another through the ups and downs. When China lost to Serbia and the United States, finishing fourth to get a narrow escape from Group B and had to face host Brazil in the quarters, Lang Ping helped her players grow from each defeat on the pressure-packed Olympic stage.
Lang Ping, nicknamed “Iron Hammer”, is a national heroine as well as a legend in world sports. She made histories in coaching many clubs and national teams to top level. She resigned due to health reasons in 1998. However, when the Chinese women’s volleyball faced difficulties after the Beijing Olympics, the 52-year-old lady came back in 2013 and took the coaching position. She dug out a group of young talents including Rio 2016 MVP Zhu Ting to help seasoned players Hui Ruoqi and Xu Yunli. But more importantly, she passed on the spirit to them.
Among all the Chinese sports teams, the women’s volleyball remain the most special one, whose victories fueled Chinese confidence in the 1980s and still represent the best things that sports can offer to the Chinese: perseverance, courage and unity.
1.What can we learn from Paragraph 1?
A. The game against Serbia attracted more Chinese audience than Lunar New Year Gala.
B. China’s Xinwen Lianbo reported the team’s victory for 30 minutes.
C. The roof of Maracanazinho was blown off by the excited audience.
D. The Chinese women’s volleyball team was beaten by Serbia.
2.It can be inferred from the text that ________.
A. the team beat the Netherlands on Aug 6
B. Lang resigned from a club due to health problems in 2013
C. Lang brought the Chinese women’s volleyball back to the Olympic glory
D. after the Rio Olympic opener, the team experienced non-stop victories
3.Who does the underline word “she” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Zhu Ting. B. Hui Ruoqi. C. Xu Yunli. D. Lang Ping.
4.What make the Chinese women’s volleyball team so special?
A. The coach and strong competitors. B. Some young talents and seasoned players.
C. Each defeat and pressure. D. The teams’ success and spirits.
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He was once referred to as the Picasso of poetry. Beloved by Chileans of all classes, he is one of the most widely read and respected poets in history. And this year is the 100th birthday of Pablo Neruda(1904—1973).
Born with the name Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basolto, he was a tall, shy and lonely boy. He loved to read and started to write poetry when he was ten. The American poet Walt Whitman, whose framed picture Neruda later kept on his table became a major influence on his work.
However, his father did not like the idea of having a poet for a son and tried to discourage him from writing. To cover up (掩饰) the publication of his first poem, he took the pen name Pablo Neruda.
In 1924 Neruda gained fame with his most widely read work “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.” Yet his rich experience as a diplomat and exile(流犯) made him go beyond the theme of love. His work also reflected the political struggle of the left and development of South America. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
Neruda loved the sea which he saw as creative, destructive and forever moving. He found inspiration in the power and freedom of the waves and the seabirds on the coast. “I need the sea because it teaches me,” he wrote. “I move in the university of the waves.” He loved how the sea forever renewed itself, a renewal echoed in his work.
1. The underlined word “Picasso” can probably be replaced by“________”.
A. most important person
B. famous person from Picasso
C. freedom fighter in Picasso
D. poem fans
2. Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basolto took the pen name Pablo Neruda because________.
A. literary greats usually used the pen name
B. his father encouraged him to use the name
C. he wanted to prevent his father knowing the publication
D. he was greatly influenced by other poets
3. Which of the following is not the theme of his works?
A. Love. B. Political struggle.
C. Social reform. D. Development of South America.
4. The last paragraph mainly tells us________.
A. the sea gave Neruda vast writing inspiration
B. the beautiful scenery along the Chile coast
C. Neruda's poems were widely read overseas
D. Neruda loved to write his poems near the sea
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The Shiants, remote, cliff-edged islands off the coast of Scotland are home to 350,000 seabirds. This is the starting point for National Geographic contributor Adam Nicolson’s new book, The Seabirds Cry. Celebrating 10 species in detail, he describes the unbelievable recovery of seabirds and the many adaptations that have enabled them to survive and navigate the oceans, while sounding a loud call for their conservation among severely falling numbers.
Speaking from his home in Sussex, England, Nicolson explains why guillemot (海雀) colonies are information exchange centers: how new research is showing that those long-distance travelers. The shearwaters, "smell" their way across the globe; and what we can do to support seabird populations.
National Geographic has just kicked off Year of the Bird with a cover story by Jonathan Franzen titled "Why Birds Matter ". The beginning of Year of the Bird is beneficial to birds. Nicolson said, "Ill ask you the same question-why? For me, these seabirds are symbols of uniqueness. There is so much on the land where the rest of the living world seems to be controlled by us, but when you go to seabird colonies, there is this pumping, loud and raging uniqueness. It's a glance of the untouched world. ”
“The reason why it's untouched is that, until recently, we have not controlled the oceans that the seabirds depend on. More of them have survived in greater numbers than most other creatures in the developed world, where huge amounts of the animal kingdom have been removed by us. And so one reason these birds matter is that they are symbols of what the world might be if we hadn't done so much damage to it. "He added.
“Seabirds also tend to disappear; they’re not reliably of our world, due to their migration and habits of life. Very deep in our consciousness is a sense that they are ambassadors from another world. And witnessing and feeling that is, I think, one of the great enlargers of life.” Nicolson explained.
1.What is the book The Seabirds Cry mainly about?
A. Seabirds on an island. B. The extinction of seabirds.
C. The importance of seabird. D. Seabirds in the author's hometown.
2.What can we learn from Nicolson’s speech?
A. The wisdom of seabirds. B. Ways to protect seabird.
C. Migration routes of seabirds. D. The harder situation of seabirds.
3.What does the underlined phrase "kicked off" in paragraph 3 mean?
A. Watched out for B. Cut across
C. Expressed D. Started
4.Which is a lucky thing for seabirds in Nicolson’s view?
A. The sea is too large to be polluted.
B. The sea isn't entirely governed by humans.
C. The seabirds are able to fit the environment.
D. The seabirds are living in the developed world.
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Angad Rekhi, a graduate student and an assistant professor of electrical engineering, has developed a wake-up receiver. This wake-up receiver has many potential applications, particularly in designing the next generation of net worked devices, including so called “smart” devices that can communicate directly with one another without human intervention (介入).
Once attached to a device, a wake-up receiver listens for a unique ultrasonic(超声波)pattern that tells it when to turn the device on. It needs only a very small amount of power to maintain this constant listening, so it still saves energy overall while extending the battery life of the larger device. A well-designed wake-up receiver also allows the device to be turned on from a significant distance.
Given the increased interest in networked devices, researchers and industry organizations are starting to define what features and techniques will become standard. Regardless of whether this ultrasound wake-up receiver is among these standard designs, it is likely wake-up receivers of some kind will be combined into commercial applications soon.
By comparison, the ultrasound wake-up receiver requires a battery but has much greater range than the wirelessly powered devices, while still maintaining a long lifetime due to extremely low power draw. These two technologies-wireless power and wake-up receivers-would likely serve different purposes but both indicate at a turning point in devices that make up the Internet of Things.
“In light of a long-promised future where interconnected, autonomous, widespread and unremarkable technologies make life easier, the networked devices available now, like video doorbells and app-enabled lights, seem like rather slight advances.” the researchers said. They believe technologies like theirs could help cross the gap between the Internet of Things as we know it and the Internet of Things at its best-whatever that may be.
1.Which of the following is an advantage of the wake-up receiver?
A. It requires no signal. B. It is very power saving.
C. It can make the battery larger. D. It must be fixed to another device.
2.What do we know about by comparing the wireless power with wake-up receivers?
A. One can replace the other. B. The wake-up receiver is better.
C. Both have their own advantages. D. The wirelessly powered device has more uses.
3.What do the researchers feel about their technologies mentioned in the last paragraph?
A. They make the Internet cheaper.
B. They make the Internet more popular.
C. They are not useful devices for the Internet.
D. They are beneficial to the use of the Internet.
4.What can be the best title for the text?
A. Wide Use of Advanced Equipment B. Development of the Internet Devices
C. New Technique for Waking Up Devices D. Difference between Two Wake-up Receives
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Alaska’s state fair, which runs until September 5th, began as a celebration among residents of the Mantanuska Colony, a project under which 200 farm families were moved to Alaska to see whether agriculture could be possible in the coldest state. The state fair lives on, but little more than a decade after the start of the project most of the participants had abandoned their farms. The project was widely seen as a flop.
In this state, glaciers cover 300 times more acres than farms. Only 5% of the food consumed is grown locally, compared with 81% nationwide. The growing season is short and summer temperatures chilly. Tomato plants wither(凋谢). Fruit trees, in most parts of the state, are just a dream.
Enter the high tunnel: a greenhouse consisting of a metal frame with plastic stretched across it. Its few millimeters of plastic separate crops inside from the great outdoors. But this is enough for Alaskan growers to produce tomatoes as well as sweetcorn, peaches and kiwi fruit, and to boost production of crops by a quarter or more.
In a place where no one blinks(眨眼) if you call yourself a fisherman, boat captain or gold miner, an increasing number of Alaskans are thinking of themselves as people who grow food. Since the start of the programme, the number of farms registered(登记)with the state has nearly doubled. Local restaurants have begun shaping their menus around what neighboring farms can grow.
Eight decades ago, the Mantanuska Colony tried to turn farmers into Alaskans. Today, the high tunnels are turning Alaskans into farmers.
1.Which can replace the underlined word “flop” in Paragraph 1?
A. failure B. surprise
C. worry D. problem
2.How did the Matanuska project try to help Alaska’s agriculture?
A. By planting trees.
B. By moving farmers.
C. By building high tunnels.
D. By holding nationwide fairs.
3.What can we infer about Alaska today?
A. Few people are needed for farming.
B. Fishing industries are being ignored.
C. Locally-grown tomatoes are on menus.
D. Most agricultural fields are abandoned.
4.What is the text mainly about?
A. Alaska’s new residential programme.
B. Alaska as a chilly and barren state.
C. A dream realized in Alaska.
D. Food sources of Alaska.
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