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I wasn’t particularly great at school. And 1 wasn’t the _________ boy because was quiet and shy. Mrs Kerswell was my English teacher. It’s hard to _________ her exact age. When you’re a child, every adult is _________. She must be past middle age, with grey hair and a(n) _________ face. Her lessons were in a totally stress-free environment. However, I was really _________ because I went from a _________ school with 28 people up to the sort of bigger town junior high school.
I didn’t _________ anyone. No one from my _________ school went there because we all went to different schools. I really struggled in my first year to _________. Thanks to Mrs Kerswell she was really the sort of humorous teacher you could have chats with, who read materials that weren’t on the syllabus (教学大纲) just for ____________.
She managed to make Beowulf interesting to a number of ____________. She was key in keeping my love of reading going. It certainly wasn’t a ____________ thing for a boy of that age to love ____________ as an entertainment. Actually, I just treated it as a learning task. But she reminded me that books were fun and they weren’t just about learning or the ____________.
When I was 13, I wasn’t excellent at writing. But she allowed and ____________ me to write in a natural way. Unlike my other teachers, she told me not to use the fanciest ____________. “Writing is not about flowery language but about real communication. ____________, you’re having a conversation on a page,” she said. So it made me realize that I didn’t have to ____________ about it too much.
I saw her once, over 10 years ago. My writing career was going well, and she was proud of my achievements and ____________ as a writer, and I really ____________ her for keeping the fame on.
1.A.fattest B.quietest C.naughtiest D.loneliest
2.A.leave out B.work out C.adapt to D.amount to
3.A.old B.friendly C.innocent D.lively
4.A.blue B.honest C.guilty D.kind
5.A.relaxed B.disappointed C.stressed D.relax
6.A.city B.league C.village D.town
7.A.assign B.accept C.acknowledge D.know
8.A.junior B.primary C.senior D.social
9.A.fit B.give C.break D.check
10.A.defense B.fun C.victory D.fame
11.A.writers B.teenagers C.celebrities D.teachers
12.A.cool B.flexible C.major D.painful
13.A.speaking B.writing C.reading D.learning
14.A.courses B.progress C.entertainment D.hobbies
15.A.commanded B.forbade C.warned D.encouraged
16.A.words B.means C.ways D.ideas
17.A.Gradually B.Basically C.Ridiculously D.Awkwardly
18.A.enquire B.bring C.doubt D.worry
19.A.habit B.interest C.privilege D.reputation
20.A.promoted B.criticized C.thanked D.dismissed
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Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a family of seven children, she often felt like she had “seven fathers,” because her six brothers, as well as her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated (躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.
In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because he thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university’s Writers’ Workshop, however, she felt lonely — a Mexican American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find her “creative voice”.
“It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn’t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That’s when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldn’t write about.”
Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book talks about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school to graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children’s book and a short-story collection.
1.What can we know about Cisneros in her childhood?
A.Her brothers disliked her.
B.She felt herself a nobody.
C.She was too shy to go to school.
D.She did not meet any good teachers.
2.The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to ________.
A.run away from her family B.develop her writing style
C.make a lot of friends D.search for a husband
3.According to Cisneros, what was the key factor in her success?
A.Her childhood experience.
B.Her training in the Workshop.
C.Her feeling of being different.
D.Her early years in college.
4.What do we learn about The House on Mango Street?
A.It enjoys great popularity among students.
B.It is a book of poetry written by Cisneros.
C.It wasn’t a success as it was written in Spanish.
D.It won an award when Cisneros was twenty-nine.
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Chuck was in my high-school English class.1.So, when he told me he had been accepted into the journalism program at the University of Missouri, I wasn’t surprised.
During the first year at college, Chuck stopped by school a few times. We talked about our work together several years before. We had raised money together for twenty-three sick and abandoned babies.2.. It was an activity that in some ways changed our formal relationship into a friendship.
In his second year in college, it was discovered that Chuck had lung cancer and had only a short while to live. So he left school and came home to be near to his loved ones.
About six weeks later, Chuck died.3.The youngest of nine children, Chuck was talented and full of promise. More importantly, he was a good person, a just man.
When I went to his funeral, his father asked to speak with me. He told me that before Chuck’s death, he chose six items to bury with him.4.He told me that Chuck had always kept the piece because he liked the message I had written to him at the bottom of the last page. In that little note, I affirmed his talent as a writer and I encouraged him to be responsible for the gift.
5.His taking my note with him forever offered me a great opportunity for influencing students’ lives. I felt inspired with a sense of purpose that was greater than ever: teachers have the power to affect hearts and minds for a long time.
A. It was a great loss for everyone, especially for his family.
B. Chuck helped to raise several thousand dollars.
C. Whenever I forget my purpose, I think of Chuck.
D. He was a writer of great promise.
E. My spirits were lifted up as Chuck was filled with the joy of life.
F. One of them was an essay he had written in my class some years before.
G. I was touched and grateful to Chuck who gave me a special gift that would change my life.
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1 个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
I have a successful career as an educational consultant. But my life wasn’t always so great. I had a learning disability from 1.early age and suffered a lot in public schools.
My life improved 2.(surprising) when I discovered art. The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words. I went to a workshop and gradually got good at 3.(produce) things with clay. Here I learned my first important lesson: 4.I was disabled in language, I could still be smart and well express myself with clay. And my confidence came along.
I got my next lesson from rock climbing. It was a fun thing but I was scared from the 5. (begin). I soon noticed it wasn’t a talent thing; it was practice. So I did it more. After about five years of climbing, I 6.(find) myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall. I learned that if you love something and do it all the time, you will get much 7.(good) at it.
Later I practiced reading and writing every day,8.I used to avoid as much as possible. After two hard years, I was literate (能读会写的).
After I 9.(go) through the long process over the years, now I’ve got to a point in my life where I know I’m smart enough 10.(dive) into an area that is totally unknown, hard, but interesting.
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What will higher education look like in 2050? That was the question addressed Tuesday night by Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University.
“We’re at the end of the fourth wave of change in higher education,” Crow began, arguing that research universities followed the initial establishment of higher education, Public colleges, and land-grant schools in the timeline of America.
In less than a half-century, he said, global market competition will be at its fastest rates of change ever, with several multitrillion — dollar economies worldwide. According to a recent projection, the nation’s population could reach 435 million, with a large percentage of those residents economically disadvantaged. In addition, climate change will be meaningfully uncontrollable in many parts of the world.
The everyday trends seen today, such as declining performance of students at all levels, particularly in math and science, and declining wages and employment among the less educated, will only continue. Crow maintained, and are to say the least, not contributing to fulfilling the dream of climbing the social ladder mobility, quality of life, sustainable environment, and longer life spans that most Americans share.
“How is it that we can have these great research universities and have negative-trending outcomes?” Crow said in a talk “I hold the universities accountable.... We are part of the problem.” Among the “things that we do that make the things that we teach less learnable,” Crow said, are the strict separation of disciplines, academic rigidity, and conservatism, the desire of universities to imitate schools at the top of the social ranks, and the lack of the computer system ability that would allow a large number of students to be educated for a small amount of money.
Since 2002, when Crow started being in charge at Arizona State — which he calls the “new American university” — he has led more than three dozen initiatives that aim to make the school “inclusive, scalable, fast, adaptive, challenge-focused, and willing to take risks.”
Among those initiatives were a restructuring of the engineering and life sciences schools to create more linkages between disciplines; the launch of the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the School of sustainability; the start of a Teachers College to address K-12 performance and increase the status of the Education Department at the university; and broadened access, increasing the freshman class size by 42 percent and the enrollment of students living below the poverty line by 500 percent.
Universities must start, Crow noted, “by becoming self-reflective architects, figuring out what we have and what we actually need instead of what legend tells us we have to be.” Research universities today have “run their course,” he added. “Now is the time for variety.”
During a discussion afterward, Crow clarified and expanded on some of his points. He discussed, for example, the school's distance-leading program. “Nearly 40 percent of undergraduates are taking at least one course online,” he said, which helps the school to keep costs down while advancing interactive learning technologies.
He said that Arizona State is working to increase the transfer and completion rates of community-college students, of whom only about 15 percent, historically, complete their later degrees. “We’ve built a system that will allow them to track into universities,” particularly where “culturally complex barriers” beyond finances limit even the most gifted students.
1.The fourth wave of change in America's higher education refers to ________.
A.public colleges B.land-grant schools
C.research universities D.initial higher education
2.Which is NOT part of the American dream most people share _________.
A.People enjoy a quality life. B.People live longer and longer.
C.The freedom to move around. D.An environment that is sustainable.
3.Which one is similar to the underlined word “architect” in meaning?
A.The author of the guidebook is an architect by profession.
B.If you want to refurnish the house, consult the architect.
C.Deng Xiaoping is one of the architects of the PRC.
D.Tom is considered one of the best landscape architect here.
4.With the distance-learning program, Arizona State University is able to ___________ .
A.enroll 40% of its students online
B.keep costs down without a loss of quality
C.provide an even greater number of courses
D.attract the most gifted students all over the world
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Though having seen such blunders many times before like “Redundancies (冗长)”, “Faulty capitalization (大写)” and “Lack of clarity (清晰) and specificity” in her 17 years of teaching English composition in Greenville’ public schools, Yvonne Mason wasn’t reading a student paper this time. She was reading a letter she received from President Donald Trump.
“I have never, ever, received a letter with this many silly mistakes,” Mason said. The former Mauldin High School teacher immediately did what she had done thousands of times before. She corrected the writing, and returned it—this one going back to the White Mouse.
A photo of Mason’s corrections has been widely shared on her Facebook. “When you get letters from the highest level of government, you expect them to be at least mechanically correct,” Mason said. She particularly repeated capitalizing “nation”, “federal”, “president” and “state”, turning these common nouns into proper nouns. Mason identified 11 instances of faulty capitalization in Trump’s letter, finally resisting the idea of attaching a grade to the letter. “If it had been written in middle school, I’d give it a C or C-plus,” she said. “If it had been written in high school, I’d give it a D.” Mason’s comments drew attention to redundant (多余) expressions and overuse of the pronoun “I” in Trump’s letter.
Mason recognized, of course, that the form letter she received from the President was very likely written by a staff member, not Trump himself, though the letter did, include Trump’s signature. It came in reply to a letter she’d written about the school shooting on Feb. 14 in Florida.
Trump’s letter doesn’t respond specifically to Mason’s earlier letter to the President. In her letter, Mason asked Trump to meet individually with the family members of the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Trump’s return letter talks in general terms about school safety. “It didn’t address the letter I wrote,” Mason said.
Mason, who taught English at Hughes Middle School and Mauldin High School for 17 years before retiring last year, is a devoted rhetorical (修辞) activist, writing letters, emails and faxes to state, local and federal officials often.
1.The underlined word “blunders” can be replaced by ________.
A.conditions B.comments
C.compositions D.mistakes
2.What was Mason’s attitude towards the letter she received?
A.Curious and content.
B.Serious and dissatisfied.
C.Impressed and respectful.
D.Surprised and understanding.
3.Mason mentioned the grades she would have given the letter to show that ________.
A.she had recognized the letter was written by a student
B.Trump’s staff members’ grammar needed improving
C.middle school education should be paid more attention
D.it was really difficult to bear so many silly mistakes
4.________ gave Mason the intention to write to the President earlier.
A.A photo of Mason’s corrections to the letter
B.Trump’s meeting with the family members of the victims
C.The school shooting in Florida
D.Trump’s talking about school safety
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People may have some unclear memories of their childhood， but almost everyone will remember the beautiful princess and the cruel queen in "Snow White"， the innocent little girl and the greedy big gray wolf in "Little Red Riding Hood"．1. For example， "True love can overcome anything"， and "Even a frog can turn into a prince"． However， at a certain age， we start to learn new things about life， particularly that love doesn't always win， and that a frog is just a frog．
2. Just look at animated films like "The Lion King" and "Frozen"， which have millions of fans young and old． And this year's Lucerne Festival in Switzerland - a classical music festival - will also feature the themes of "Childhood" and "Fairy tales"．
"Fairy tales endure because they are the stories of our lives in their most stripped down form，" wrote US author Laura Packer． "They are stories of love and loss， desire and death， riches and ruin．" 3. But if children only see just one side of reality， adults usually see the other． For example， in the movie "Maleficent"， we′re told the tale of Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the evil queen． 4. Instead， she suffers great losses growing up， leading to the creation of her "evil'' side． And in US author James Finn Gamer's book "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories "，he tells the classic story of "Little Red Riding Hood"， but with a modem touch．
5. They may usually start with "Once upon a time but as we grow older， we learn that every story doesn't always need a "happily ever after" to be a good one．
A.Fairy tales are all about reality．
B.But somehow， our love for fairy tales never dies．
C.Most of us get our earliest life lessons from fairy tales．
D.The theme of fairy tales is to teach people courage and kindness．
E.Fairy tales have been adapted into versions suitable for children．
F.It looks like fairy tales aren't just stories our parents read us at bedtime．
G.Unlike the children's version of the story， we see that the queen wasn't born evil．
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People may have some unclear memories of their childhood， but almost everyone will remember the beautiful princess and the cruel queen in "Snow White"， the innocent little girl and the greedy big gray wolf in "Little Red Riding Hood"．1. For example， "True love can overcome anything"， and "Even a frog can turn into a prince"． However， at a certain age， we start to learn new things about life， particularly that love doesn't always win， and that a frog is just a frog．
2. Just look at animated films like "The Lion King" and "Frozen"， which have millions of fans young and old． And this year's Lucerne Festival in Switzerland - a classical music festival - will also feature the themes of "Childhood" and "Fairy tales"．
"Fairy tales endure because they are the stories of our lives in their most stripped down form，" wrote US author Laura Packer． "They are stories of love and loss， desire and death， riches and ruin．" 3. But if children only see just one side of reality， adults usually see the other． For example， in the movie "Maleficent"， we′re told the tale of Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the evil queen． 4. Instead， she suffers great losses growing up， leading to the creation of her "evil'' side． And in US author James Finn Gamer's book "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories "，he tells the classic story of "Little Red Riding Hood"， but with a modem touch．
5. They may usually start with "Once upon a time but as we grow older， we learn that every story doesn't always need a "happily ever after" to be a good one．
A．Fairy tales are all about reality．
B．But somehow， our love for fairy tales never dies．
C．Most of us get our earliest life lessons from fairy tales．
D．The theme of fairy tales is to teach people courage and kindness．
E．Fairy tales have been adapted into versions suitable for children．
F．It looks like fairy tales aren't just stories our parents read us at bedtime．
G．Unlike the children's version of the story， we see that the queen wasn't born evil．
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阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。
I’m a 34-year-old man, married, lived in a nice house, and have a successful career as an educational consultant. But my life was not always so great. I had a learning disability from an early age. I went to a special school where I got plenty of extra help. Still, I suffered the rest of my school days in public schools.
My life improved remarkably when I discovered art. The art world gave me a chance to express myself without words. I went to a workshop and gradually got good at making things with clay(黏土). Here I learned my first important lesson: disabled as I was in language. I could still be smart and well express myself with clay. And my confidence came along.
I got my next lesson from rock climbing. It was a fun thing but I was scared from the start. I soon noticed it wasn’t a talent thing; it was practice. So I did it more. After about five years of climbing, I found myself in Yosemite Valley on a big wall. I learned that if you fall in love with something and do it all the time, you will get better at it.
Later I decided to apply my previous experience to learning how to read and write. Every day I practiced reading and writing, which I used to avoid as much as possible. After two hard years, I was literate.
Having gone through the long process with art, rock climbing, and reading and writing, now I’ve got to a point in my life where I know I am smart enough to dive into an area that is totally unknown, hard, but interesting.
1.What made the author’s school days difficult? (No more than 5 words)
2.Why did art give the author confidence? (No more than 10 words)
3.What lesson did the author learn from rock climbing? (No more than 15 words)
4.What is the meaning of the underlined part in Paragraph 4? (No more than 5 words)
5.How does the author’s story inspire you to overcome difficulties in life? Put it in your own words. (No more than 20 words)
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They may seem like ordinary people by day but in their spare time, these office, shop and school workers bring history to life. During the week they work in shops, offices, clinics and schools, but at weekends they transform into Vikings, Romans and Medieval peasants. The world of re-enactment (重演) is booming with more and more men and women taking up the hobby of travelling to bygone times.
Factory manager of a busy printers, Brett Freeman, 46, from Nottingham, changes into “Padmore,” a Victorian street-seller selling stationery (文具).
Already a veteran (老兵) of military re-enactments, Brett joined the “Ragged Victorians” when middle-age kicked in. “I was too old to portray a soldier but I wanted to get back into the hobby and the Ragged Victorians looked the best in terms of being genuine.”
At his first event, group members gave him “loaner gear” and a year to research his character. His teeth blackened with theatrical stain, in top hat and floppy coat, Brett looks every bit his Victorian image.
Seeking inspiration, Brett dipped into the works of Victorian journalist, Henry Mayhew, who wrote about the working people of London.
“My character is inspired by the description of a stationer in Mayhew’s London Labour and London Poor. I mixed that up with my own background in print, and local historical sources to create street stationer, Padmore, which is the name of my Victorian great-great grandfather.”
“Getting into kit (装备) helps immensely and once you are in the public area you try to remain in character wherever possible.” For extra authenticity, Brett combines his language with Victorian selling patter (顺口溜), replacing the word “envelope” with “hangflups.”
“Re-enacting is great fun, but we’re always glad of a hot shower and a comfortable bed at the end of the weekend,” says Brett. “Normal life can seem very dull after a particularly good weekend. It would be wonderful to go back in time for a visit, but studying the period as I have done, makes you realise just how hard life was for our ancestors.”
1.Why does Brett choose to be a Victorian street-seller?
A.He has already played a veteran.
B.Portraying a soldier no longer fit him.
C.He is a manager of a busy printers.
D.His blackened teeth make it real.
2.What does the underlined phrase “loaner gear” in paragraph 4 mean?
A.Stage costume lent to him. B.Money paid on loan.
C.Adequate time. D.An assistant.
3.Which of the following words can best describe Brett?
A.Brave and careful. B.Kind and positive.
C.Humorous and caring. D.Serious and devoted.
4.Where can you probably find the above passage?
A.In a research report. B.In a magazine.
C.In a travel brochure. D.In an advertisement.
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