Though sometimes we may lose our ability to do something we love, passions don’t have to end. Suzelle Poole of Dallas, Texas is living proof of that. The 79-year-old has been dancing for more than seven decades.
Suzelle started ballet when she was just 7 years old, and her devotion only grew stronger as her talent increased in the following years. In fact, Suzelle was so talented that she went to perform all around the world! Like most professional ballerinas (芭蕾舞女），Suzelle expected a short-lived career. “When I was about 26,1 knew I only had a few years left,”she said. It’s simply the nature of the art form because the movements are so hard on people’s bodies. But Suzelle’s body didn’t wear out at 26 — or even 56! At one point, she broke her arm but she was dancing again by the following week.
Nowadays she focuses on teaching the next generation of ballerinas at the Royale Ballet Dance Academy, where she and her students regularly perform for senior residents in assisted living facilities.
Suzelle has become such an inspiration that CBS News reporter Steve Hartman and his 5-year-old daughter Meryl recently traveled to Dallas to interview her. Steve’s little girl couldn’t wait to meet and dance with the woman she wants to become.
During the interview, Suzelle shared a piece of wisdom: “Ballet helps everything,” she said. “If you’re not feeling very well, you go to a ballet class, and you feel better after.” Meryl nodded knowingly. She also added, “Ballet could always cheer me up whenever I feel depressed.”
It’s no wonder Suzelle has no plans to hang up her pointed shoes. Why would she give up something that brings her so much joy?
1.Why did Suzelle at her 26 think her career would end soon?
A.The nature of the body didn’t allow lasting performance.
B.The audience didn’t like her performance.
C.She injured her arm in a training course.
D.She had to look after her family.
2.Why did Steve Hartman take his daughter Meryl to meet Suzelle?
A.To help Meryl with her problems.
B.To make Meryl experience a reporter’s work.
C.To inspire Meryl to pursue her dancing dream.
D.To realise Meryl’s dream of dancing with famous people.
3.In Suzelle’s opinion, ballet dance ___________.
A.benefits people’s mental health
B.should be taught at primary school
C.is less attractive to the young
D.raises people’s interest in art
4.What does the underlined part in the last paragraph probably mean?
A.Suzelle will go to find other joy of life.
B.Suzelle will carry on her ballet career.
C.Suzelle will put away her ballet shoes.
D.Suzelle will devote herself to art teaching.
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Though sometimes we may lose our ability to do something we love, passions don’t have to end. Suzelle Poole of Dallas, Texas is living proof of that. The 79-year-old has been dancing for more than seven decades.
Suzelle started ballet when she was just 7 years old, and her devotion only grew stronger as her talent increased in the following years. In fact, Suzelle was so talented that she went to perform all around the world! Like most professional ballerinas (芭蕾舞女），Suzelle expected a short-lived career. “When I was about 26,1 knew I only had a few years left,”she said. It’s simply the nature of the art form because the movements are so hard on people’s bodies. But Suzelle’s body didn’t wear out at 26 — or even 56! At one point, she broke her arm but she was dancing again by the following week.
Nowadays she focuses on teaching the next generation of ballerinas at the Royale Ballet Dance Academy, where she and her students regularly perform for senior residents in assisted living facilities.
Suzelle has become such an inspiration that CBS News reporter Steve Hartman and his 5-year-old daughter Meryl recently traveled to Dallas to interview her. Steve’s little girl couldn’t wait to meet and dance with the woman she wants to become.
During the interview, Suzelle shared a piece of wisdom: “Ballet helps everything,” she said. “If you’re not feeling very well, you go to a ballet class, and you feel better after.” Meryl nodded knowingly. She also added, “Ballet could always cheer me up whenever I feel depressed.”
It’s no wonder Suzelle has no plans to hang up her pointed shoes. Why would she give up something that brings her so much joy?
1.Why did Suzelle at her 26 think her career would end soon?
A.The nature of the body didn’t allow lasting performance.
B.The audience didn’t like her performance.
C.She injured her arm in a training course.
D.She had to look after her family.
2.Why did Steve Hartman take his daughter Meryl to meet Suzelle?
A.To help Meryl with her problems.
B.To make Meryl experience a reporter’s work.
C.To inspire Meryl to pursue her dancing dream.
D.To realise Meryl’s dream of dancing with famous people.
3.In Suzelle’s opinion, ballet dance ___________.
A.benefits people’s mental health
B.should be taught at primary school
C.is less attractive to the young
D.raises people’s interest in art
4.What does the underlined part in the last paragraph probably mean?
A.Suzelle will go to find other joy of life.
B.Suzelle will carry on her ballet career.
C.Suzelle will put away her ballet shoes.
D.Suzelle will devote herself to art teaching.
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单词拼写
1.We must keep off _________ (毒品) because they do great harm to our health.
2.Though _________ (尴尬), she still held on to finishing it with a smile.
3.At the party the naughty boy _________ (模仿) his father’s behaviors, which made all the guests laugh.
4._________ (热情的) and lovely, the teacher is respected by her students.
5.He can speak English as _________ (流利) as an Englishman.
6.The fashion from country to country may show the c__________ differences.
7.A successful lecturer can communicate his complex ideas simply to the a_________.
8.You are not allowed to camp here without p__________.
9.In that big fire, all their houses were completely d__________, so they had to build new ones.
10.It took a long time for him to r_________ from a bad cold.
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Our English teacher Ms. White told us in her class _____ we should do something to stop water pollution at present in our city.
A. when B. why
C. what D. where
高一英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
Friends play an important part in our 1. (life). Though we may take friendship for granted, we often don’t clearly understand 2. we make friends. While we get on 3. (good) with many people, we are usually friends with only a few—for example, per student usually 4. (have) about 6 friends. In all the cases of friendly relationships, two people like one another and enjoy 5. (be) together. 6. fact, as we get to know people, we take into account things like age, race, economic condition, social position, and intelligence. Although these things are not of great 7. (important), 8. is more difficult to get on with people when there is an obvious difference in age and background. Compared with marriage, there are no friendship ceremonies to 9. (strong) the connection between two people. But the mutual（彼此的）understanding that results from common experiences and emotions does seem to create a powerful bond, 10. can overcome difference in background, and break down barriers（障碍）of age, class and race.
高一英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析
The young lady wanted to ______ she was warned not to do so .
A. lose her weight even though B. lose weight even though
C. lose weight even so D. lose her weight even that
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We all need friends in our life.What is important is that how long friendship lasts.Sometimes,it may be a few months,a few years or sometimes forever.1.Friends are the people who are always there ready to lend a helping hand to you.Let us find out the "best qualities" in friends.
Sharing is caring!
You can share everything with each other.Little kids share their crayons,toys.2.Not only opinions,good friends share things too!Like clothes,notes,coffee,you and your best friend shouldn't have second thoughts about sharing these things with each other.Because after all,sharing is caring.
Trust and Loyalty（忠诚）.
Friendship is a very special relationship based on trust and loyalty.You should be able to share your deepest secret with your best friend.If you don't feel that your friend is loyal to you,what is the whole point of being friends with that person?3.
Personal Adviser.
A best friend should be a friend who guides you to the right path,and knows what is good and what is bad for you.4.After all,for most of the people,friends are the first ones whom they turn to for advice.
Listener.
For all those sad days when we are feeling low,a best friend is always ready to listen to our problems.Of course, your friend would not surely have all the solutions to your problems or what to do next.But they give you a sense of belonging that you are not alone and they are always there for you.5.And also,they listen with interest.
A.Elders share their happiness,ideas or views.
B.Everybody wants friends to be in their life forever.
C.Your friend would never judge you on your mistakes.
D.A true friendship is a friendship in which you can trust each other.
E.Who would not want an honest opinion from their friends?
F.A friend should never be slow to give you advice on your matters.
G.A good friend is a friend in front of whom you can open your heart.
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Animal’s ability to act reasonably in its environment is believed to come partly from ______ we may call “genetic learning”.
A.how B.which C.what D.why
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We've all been blamed (责备) wrongly sometimes in our lives. How do we deal with it? Not with anger, hurt and tears, but in a collected way…
●If you are wrongly blamed, let others know of the true state of things at once. Do it calmly and clearly — if you lose your temper, people will stop listening or become defensive.
●If you don't find a sympathetic ear, find a person who will hear you out — a teacher, a parent, a friend, or a brother or sister who believes in you.
●If you've been in trouble before, it may be easy for people to doubt you. So win your respect back in their eyes by behaving with honesty.
●If what you are blamed for is something unimportant, sometimes it's better to smile it off.
●If you've been blamed for something serious, it's important to put your side of the story forward quickly and truthfully.
Just remember:
▲Respect your friends' secret if you don't want to be wrongly blamed for making them known.
▲Don't blame others without first getting proof of their wrong doing.
▲Putting the blame on someone else for what you have done wrong is weakness. Admit your mistake quickly.
▲If someone else is wrongly blamed, stand up for that person.
▲Don't pass the responsibility to others.
1.What’s the passage mainly about?
A. Tips on how to make an apology.
B. Ideas on how to get along with others.
C. Information on how to argue with others.
D. Advice on what to do when blamed wrongly.
2.The underlined phrase "a sympathetic ear" refers to a person who ______.
A. is willing to learn the truth B. looks down upon others
C. is impatient when listening D. likes listening to sad stories
3.What should you do if you are wrongly blamed for something important?
A. Fight back with anger.
B. Don't care much about it.
C. Explain yourself to others at once.
D. Don’t believe in others any more.
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We must ________ every chance we have to improve our communicating ability.
A. take care of B. get along with C. make use of D. think highly of
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Though war is something people hate, Director Feng Xiaoning often exposes his audience to it.
“If we don’t impress the audience, who are without the painful experience of war, with the cruel injury to life and human nature war causes, how can we bring them a love of peace and objection to war?” asked the director with a glance in his eyes.
After Red River Valley and Lover’s Grief over the Yellow River, both of which star Chinese model and actress Ning Jing, Feng drew a satisfactory full stop to his war trilogy (三部曲) last month with Purple Sunset.
The film tells a story which took place in 1945, at the very moment when World War II was drawing to an end. A Chinese peasant and a Soviet woman soldier flee into a forest, where they seize a Japanese girl. They follow the girl in the hope that she will take them out of the forest, but instead they arrive in a Japanese base. Humanity (人道主义) prevents them from killing the young, innocent (无辜的) victim of Japanese militarism. This humanity, the longing for peace and eagerness to survive, make the three unite.
“If people are touched by justice, tolerance and unselfishness, I think I have achieved my goal,” Feng said. Feng admits that there are violent and bloody scenes in the film, such as tanks fighting and Japanese burning Chinese people alive, to show the cruelty of the war. But that’s never his personal preference, he says.
“Everyone who has watched my films can tell how much I hate war,” he said. “I wrote all the things for my war films by myself. Whenever I finished one, I felt as though I had suffered great pain.”
Feng regards every one of his productions as an opportunity to learn about human nature and humanity. In spite of violent scenes which frighten and sicken the audience, a balance is sought with beautiful scenery. Just like the snowy mountains in Red River Valley and the grand plateau (高原) in Lover’s Grief over the Yellow River, a beautiful vast grassland appears in this film. “I used to study art, and I appreciate beautiful things,” Feng said. “I believe that films should offer the audience a chance to enjoy beauty.”
1.Director Feng Xiaoning shot war film because _____.
A. he was deeply interested in such a topic
B. he wanted to give the audience the painful experience of war
C. he hoped to arouse people’s love of peace and objection to war
D. he dreamed of becoming a world-famous director
2.All of the following belong to Feng’s war trilogy except _____.
A. Red River Valley B. Lover’s Grief over the Yellow River
C. Purple Sunset D. In the Mood for Love
3.A Chinese peasant and a Soviet woman solider seized a Japanese girl so that _____.
A. they could find the Japanese base easily
B. she could take them out of the forest
C. they could kill her for revenge
D. it would cause the Japanese militarism to give in
4.Scenes of Japanese burning Chinese people alive in the film are to ______.
A. show that war is cruel
B. attract people’s interest
C. show Feng’s personal preference in dealing with details
D. make the film moving and interesting
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