She was sitting up at four months, walking at eight months and completing 100-piece jigsaw puzzles(拼图玩具)at 15 months. So it is no surprise that Abigail Wilson, 15, from Connecticut, USA, recently made history when she became the youngest black girl ever accepted into an American university! “I’m proud of myself for getting in, but I usually find it hard to get excited. It’s pretty cool, I guess,” said Abigail.
Her mother, Nancy, said that Abigail was a quiet baby, born two weeks late on Christmas Day. She didn’t speak her first words until she was 22 months old! Nancy and her husband thought something must be wrong, but when she started to talk, her speech was perfect. She already knew her colours, letters and was able to read. Her parents read her normal bedtime stories and they didn’t know she was learning all of it.
Abigail has always been the youngest person in her class. At six she was in the fourth grade, at ten she took her first high school class in Maths. She has studied several languages, including Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, Arabic and German.
Abigail says that she doesn’t usually plan when she studies, she calls herself scatterbrained(注意力不集中的)and she always delays(拖延)things up to the last minute. This gives her the motivation to really do something.
In her free time, Abigail plays basketball, surfs the Internet, reads, cooks and hangs out with her friends: they are all 17 and 18.She has also studied music. Her mother says that Abigail’s music lessons helped her to be a normal teen. She believes that Abigail needed to be in a situation where she had to fail in order to learn. “She found playing the piano very difficult, but it made her learn better,” said Nancy. “She can’t always be successful, she won’t be able to learn anything! People always learn more from their failures than from their successes”.
1.Why is it no surprise that Abigail went to university at 15?
A. She was a hard-working girl.
B. She was always ahead of other kids.
C. She was brought up in a special way.
D. She was no different than other black girls.
2.What can we learn about Abigail?
A. She is crazy about sports.
B. She has a gift for language.
C. Her favourite subject is maths.
D. Her success is due to good habits.
3.According to the passage, which of the following is true?
A. Abigail has a better education than others.
B. Abigail won’t be a normal girl without music.
C. Nancy didn’t like Abigail when she was a baby.
D. Abigail usually does things when they are emergent.
4.What did Nancy’s words mean?
A. Abigail failed to have a normal life.
B. Abigail needed to learn from failures.
C. Abigail was good at playing the piano.
D. Abigail wanted to always be successful.
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She was sitting up at four months, walking at eight months and completing 100-piece jigsaw puzzles(拼图玩具)at 15 months. So it is no surprise that Abigail Wilson, 15, from Connecticut, USA, recently made history when she became the youngest black girl ever accepted into an American university! “I’m proud of myself for getting in, but I usually find it hard to get excited. It’s pretty cool, I guess,” said Abigail.
Her mother, Nancy, said that Abigail was a quiet baby, born two weeks late on Christmas Day. She didn’t speak her first words until she was 22 months old! Nancy and her husband thought something must be wrong, but when she started to talk, her speech was perfect. She already knew her colours, letters and was able to read. Her parents read her normal bedtime stories and they didn’t know she was learning all of it.
Abigail has always been the youngest person in her class. At six she was in the fourth grade, at ten she took her first high school class in Maths. She has studied several languages, including Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, Arabic and German.
Abigail says that she doesn’t usually plan when she studies, she calls herself scatterbrained(注意力不集中的)and she always delays(拖延)things up to the last minute. This gives her the motivation to really do something.
In her free time, Abigail plays basketball, surfs the Internet, reads, cooks and hangs out with her friends: they are all 17 and 18.She has also studied music. Her mother says that Abigail’s music lessons helped her to be a normal teen. She believes that Abigail needed to be in a situation where she had to fail in order to learn. “She found playing the piano very difficult, but it made her learn better,” said Nancy. “She can’t always be successful, she won’t be able to learn anything! People always learn more from their failures than from their successes”.
1.Why is it no surprise that Abigail went to university at 15?
A. She was a hard-working girl.
B. She was always ahead of other kids.
C. She was brought up in a special way.
D. She was no different than other black girls.
2.What can we learn about Abigail?
A. She is crazy about sports.
B. She has a gift for language.
C. Her favourite subject is maths.
D. Her success is due to good habits.
3.According to the passage, which of the following is true?
A. Abigail has a better education than others.
B. Abigail won’t be a normal girl without music.
C. Nancy didn’t like Abigail when she was a baby.
D. Abigail usually does things when they are emergent.
4.What did Nancy’s words mean?
A. Abigail failed to have a normal life.
B. Abigail needed to learn from failures.
C. Abigail was good at playing the piano.
D. Abigail wanted to always be successful.
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“Good morning!” said a woman as she walked up to an old man sitting on the ground. The man slowly looked up. He was Jack, who had been begging around here for a couple of years.
“See that cafeteria(自助餐厅)over there?” she asked. “I’m going to get you something to eat and get you out of the cold for a while.”
She sat down at the table across from her amazed dinner guest. She stared at him intently. “Jack, do you remember me?” Old Jack thought hard and said, “I think so--I mean you do look familiar.”
“I was thin and hungry,” she said. “Maybe I’ve filled out now more than when you worked here. That was when I was just out of college. I had come to the city looking for a job, but I couldn’t find anything. Finally I was down to my last few cents and had been kicked out of my apartment. I walked in the streets for days, cold and hungry. I saw this place and walked in hoping that I could satisfy my hunger.”
Jack lit up with a smile. “Now I remember,” he said. “I was behind the serving counter. You came up and asked me if you could work for something to eat. I said it was against company’s policy.”
The woman continued, “Then you made me the biggest roast beef sandwich, gave me a cup of coffee, and told me to go over to a corner table and enjoy it. I was afraid that you would get into trouble. Then, I saw you put the price of my food in the cash register.”
“So you started your own business?” old Jack said. “I got a job that very afternoon. I worked my way up. Eventually I started my own business that, with the help of God, prospered.” She opened her purse and pulled out a business card. “When you are finished here, I want you to pay a visit to a Mr. Lyons, the personnel director of my company. He’ll find something for you to do around the office.” She smiled, “If you ever need anything, my door is always open to you.”
There were tears in the old man’s eyes, “How can I ever thank you?” he said. “Don’t thank me;” the woman answered, “thank yourself. It was your kindness that let me know you.”
1.Why did the woman invite the beggar to dinner?
A.The beggar was once her friend.
B.She felt very pity for the beggar.
C.The beggar once offered her a free meal.
D.She once worked with the beggar.
2.What does the underlined phrase “fill out” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?
A.wear a beautiful dress. B.change one’s features.
C.have a very high position. D.become larger or fatter.
3.Years ago the woman walked into the place she caught sight of to __________.
A.find a job there B.get herself out of cold
C.get something to eat D.meet with the man
4.What conclusion can you draw from this passage?
A.Kindness is an investment that never fails.
B.Nothing is difficult for the man who will try.
C.Don’t judge a person from his/her appearance.
D.God helps those who help themselves.
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It was a cold evening. My daughter and I were walking up Broadway. I didn’t notice a guy sitting inside a cardboard box. But Nora . She wasn’t even four, but she at my coat and said, “That man’s cold. Daddy, can we take him home?”
I don’t remember my . But I do remember a sudden feeling inside me. I had always been delighted at how much my daughter noticed in her , whether it was flying or children playing. But now she was noticing and beggary.
A fewdays later, I saw an article in the newspaper about volunteers who picked up a food package from a nearby school on a Sunday morning and it to an elderly person. It was quick and easy. I signed us up. Nora was about it. She could understand the importance of food, so she could easily see how our job was. When Sunday came, she was ready, but I had to myself to leave the house to fetch the food package. On my way to the school, I fought an urge (强烈愿望) to turn . The Sunday paper and coffee were waiting for me at home. Why do this? , we phoned the elderly person we’d been appointed. She us right over.
The building was in a bad state. Facing us was a silver-haired woman in an old dress. She took the package and asked us to come in. Nora ran inside. I unwillingly followed. walking inside, I saw that the department belonged to someone poor. Our hostess showed us some photos. Nora played and when it came time to say goodbye, we three hugged. I walked home .
Professionals call such a(n) “a volunteer opportunity”. They are opportunities and I’ve come to see. Where else but as volunteers do you have the opportunity to do something that’s good for others as well as for yourself? Nora and I often serve meals to needy people and 54 clothes for the homeless. Yet, as I’ve her grow over these past four years, I still wonder—which of us has benefited more?
1.A. was B. did C. has D. had
2.A. aimed B. replaced C. waved D. pulled
3.A. settlement B. explanation C. reply D. expression
4.A. heavy B. funny C. general D. imaginative
5.A. web B. dream C. castle D. world
6.A. birds B. animals C. plants D. insects
7.A. coldness B. suffering C. illness D. appearance
8.A. represented B. returned C. sent D. posted
9.A. concerned B. sorry C. excited D. worried
10.A. creative B. valuable C. shocking D. simple
11.A. push B. stop C. allow D. warn
12.A. back B. away C. up D. out
13.A. Therefore B. However C. But D. Also
14.A. requested B. invited C. promised D. helped
15.A. By B. For C. At D. On
16.A. in surprise B. in tears C. in reality D. in amazement
17.A. stay B. reception C. visit D. challenge
18.A. attractive B. famous C. difficult D. enjoyable
19.A. design B. make C. order D. collect
20.A. let B. made C. watched D. suggest
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At three a.m., Jack Mills was sitting at the controls of the mail train. The train was made up of 13 cars. At the end of the train, 71 mailmen sat sorting the mail. Inside the second car, there were only five mailmen and 128 bags full of five-pound notes. This train had run more than 100 years without being robbed(抢劫). At three minutes past three, Mills and his helper, David Whitby, saw a yellow warning light. They slowed the train, and then stopped. Whitby went to the telephone beside the track. It was out of order. Then he saw a man moving between the second and the third cars. Before Whitby could give a warning, he was knocked down by two men. Mills’ cars with all the mailmen had been disconnected by the robbers. At the bridge, the bags of money were unloaded from the train and thrown into waiting trucks. One of the robbers who obviously knew the schedules(时刻表) of all the trains kept looking at his watch. At 3:45 he said, “That will have to be enough.” The robbers drove away with more than 2,500,000 pounds.
41. The robbery took place______.
A. before 3:03 B. in the early morning
C. after three o’clock in the afternoon D. after 3:45
42. The robbers_____ before the train stopped.
A. were all in the train B. forced Mills to stop the train
C. were waiting for the train to stop D. ordered Mills to go on driving
43. Why didn’t the other mailmen help the mailmen in the second car when the robbery happened?
A. Because they were busy sorting the mail.
B. Because they didn’t want to help the mailmen in the second car.
C. Because the last eleven cars were separated from the front cars.
D. Because they knew nothing about the robbery.
44. One of the robbers kept looking at his watch because________.
A. he wanted to know the exact time B. he enjoyed looking at his watch
C. he didn’t know when another train would come
D. they had to leave before another train came
45. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The train was out of order.
B. The telephone was put out of order by the robbers
C. Whitby had an assistant driver.
D. The robbers carried the money away by truck.
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Mariah, 35, was a single mother. She had four kids under the age 9, and was hardly keeping up payments on her small two-bedroom home by working extra weekend hours as a waitress. There were times when she lay in bed and cried. She didn’t know how she could pay that bill. But she knew she must find a way to change her life.
She knew how hard it was to mop(拖)the floor. “I was tired of bending down, putting my hands in dirty water and wringing (拧)out a mop,” Mariah says. “So, I got a better way.” How about a “self-wringing” mop? She designed a special tool. You could twist in two directions and still keep your hands clean and dry.
She set out to sell her mops, but the mops didn’t sell well at the market. Then Mariah met with the media. But would people buy a mop by reading an advertisement? They gave it a try, and it failed. Mariah was sure it would sell well if they let her do the on-camera show. “Get me on that stage, and I will sell this mop because it’s a great thing,” said Mariah. So QVC let her have a try. “I got on the stage and the phones went crazy. We sold every mop in minutes.”
Today Mariah is the president of Ingenious designs, a multimillion-dollar company, and one of the stars of HSN, the Home Shopping Network. Talking about hr household inventions is as natural for her it is for parents to talk about their child.
Today one of her favorite products is Huggable Hangers(衣架). The thin, space-saving tool are the most successful goods ever sold on HSN, with 100 million hanging out in closets across the country.
1.According to Paragraph 1, Mariah _______.
A. had no way to take care of her children
B. lived a hard life but she didn’t give up
C. was depressed for she couldn’t pay the bill
D. did a part-time job every day to support her family
2.What was the secret of Mariah’s success?
A. She worked hard enough
B. She sold the mops herself
C. She had a lot of friends
D. She knew the needs of the market
3.From the passage we know that HSN__________.
A. is a famous TV station
B. is run by Mariah
C. sells some home-use goods
D. makes people show goods on the stages
4.It can be inferred from the passage that _______.
A. Mariah loves her career very much
B. Huggable Hangers is Mariah’s best invention
C. one cannot succeed without the help of others
D. Mariah is very popular in her country
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Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table, reading his book. His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to copy him in every way he could.
One day the grandson asked, “Grandpa, I try to read the book just like you, but I don’t understand it, and I forget what I understand as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the book do?”
The grandpa quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and replied, “Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water.”
The boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he got back to the house. The grandpa laughed and said, “You’ll have to move a little faster next time,” and sent him back to the river with the basket to try again. This time the boy ran faster, but again the basket was empty before he returned. Out of breath, he told his grandpa that it was impossible to carry water in a basket, so he went to get a bucket instead. The grandpa said, “I don’t want a bucket of water; I want a basket of water. You’re just not trying hard enough.” The boy again dipped the basket into the river and ran hard, but when he reached his grandpa the basket was empty again. Out of breath, he said, “Grandpa, it’s useless!”
“So, you think it is useless?” the grandpa said, “Look at the basket.”
The boy looked at the basket and for the first time he realized that the basket was different. It had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket and was now clean.
“Grandson, that’s what happens when you read the book. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it, you’ll be changed, inside and out.”
1.What puzzled the grandson most was _________.
A.why he forgot what he read soon B.whether it was useful to read books
C.what kind of book he could understand D.how he could read books like his grandpa
2.Why did Grandpa ask his grandson to fetch a basket of water?
A.To get him to realize the use of reading books. B.To punish him for not reading carefully.
C.To clean the dirty basket in the river. D.To train him to run faster.
3.What lesson can we learn from the story?
A.The old are always wiser than the young. B.It is foolish to carry water with a basket.
C.You can’t expect to remember all you read. D.Reading books can change a person gradually.
4.What can be the best title for the text?
A.Grandpa and Grandson B.Carrying Water in a Basket
C.Baskets and Books D.Reading for Total Changing
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What she spends a month at university___________ no more than 500 yuan.
A.adds up B.adds up to C.adds to D.adds that
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His grandpa was so poor at that time that he had to get up at dawn every day and walk to the factory in distance.
A. /; / B. /; the
C. a; the D. the; the
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She was so angry at all ____ he was doing _____she walked out and said nothing.
A. that; that B. what; that
C. what; as D. that; which
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She was so angry at all _____ he was doing _____ she walked out, and closed the door behind her.
A. that; that B. what; that C. what; as D. what; which
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