My six-year-old granddaughter stares at me as...

My six-year-old granddaughter stares at me as if she is seeing me1.the first time."Grandma,you are an antique,because you are old,"she says.I explain,"An antique is not only just old; it's an object2.(belong) to earlier times.Antiques are valuable.”

We look around the house for antiques.There is a large desk that3.(hand) down from an aunt to our family. "It's very old,"I tell Jenny."I try to keep it4.(polish),and I show it off whenever I can."When Jenny5.(get) older, I might also tell her that whenever I look at the desk or touch it,I am reminded of the aunt who was dear to me.I remember myself as a little girl standing against this antique,6.(listen) to one of her stories.

Our tour of antiques continues.There is a picture on the wall,7.dates from 1867,and it is not in very good condition.There is a vase on the floor.I'm not certain where it came from,8.I didn't buy it new."The one thing about antiques,"I explain to Jenny,"is that they usually have a story."

For a moment Jenny looks9.(thought)."I don't have any antiques but you,"she says.Then10.(she)face brightens."Could I take you to school for our antiques show?"

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My six-year-old granddaughter stared at me as if she were seeing me for the first time.”Grandma, you are an antique(古董),”she said. "You are old. Antiques are old. You are my antique."

I was not satisfied to let the matter rest there. I took out the Webster's Dictionary and read the definition(定义)to Jenny.I explained, "An antique is not only old, it's an object existing since or belonging to earlier times...a work of art... piece of furniture. Antiques are treasured,"I told Jenny as I put away the dictionary. "They have to be handled carefully because they sometimes are very valuable. In order to qualify as an antique, the object has to be at least 100 years old."

"I'm only 67,"I renunded Jenny.

We looked around the house for other antiques, besides me. There was a desk that was handed down from rone aunt to another and finally to our family. "It's very old,"I told Jenny.“I try to keep it polished and I show it off whenever I can. You do that with antiques."

There was a picture on the wall purchased at a garage sale. It was dated 1867. "Now  that's an antique," I boasted. "Over 100 years old." Of course it was marked up and scratched and not in very good condition. "Sometimes age does that," I told Jenny. "But the marks are good marks. They show living, being around. That's something to display with pride. In fact, sometimes, the more an object shows age, the more valuable it can become." It was important that I believed this for my own self-esteem.

Our tour of antiques continued. There was a vase on the floor. It had been in my house for a long time. I was not certain where it came from but I didn't buy it new. One thing about antiques, I explained to Jenny, was that they usually had a story. They'd been in one home and then another, handed down from one family to another, traveling all over the place. They'd lasted through years and years. They could have been tossed away, or ignored. or destroyed, or lost. But instead, they survived.

For a moment, Jenny looked thoughtful. “l don't have any antiques but you," she said. Then her face brightened. "Could I take you to school for show and tell?"

"Only if I fit into your backpack," I answered. And then Jenny's antique lifted her up and embraced her in a hug that would last through the years.

1.Grandma read the definition of "antique" to Jenny in order to.

A．list all the important characteristics of antiques

B．tell Jenny the importance of protecting antiques

C．change Jenny's shallow understanding of antiques

D．express her disappointment at being called "antique"

2.Which of the following information did grandma convey to Jenny?

A．The desk reminded her of her dear relatives.

B．The marks on the picture showed its age and value.

C．There was usually a sad story behind each antique.

D．She planned to buy a new vase to replace the old one.

3.By saying "I don't have any antiques but you" (Paragraph 7), Jenny meant.

A．grandma was a treasure to her

B．antiques were rare and valuable

C．she had nothing but a few possessions

D．grandma and antiques had a lot in common

4.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A．Grandma was too old to lift Jenny up.

B．Jenny had a strong desire for grandma's love.

C．Jenny was too young to know grandma's humor.

D．Grandma had a deep long-lasting love for Jenny.

5.What can be the best title for the passage?

A．Jenny's Antique                        B．A Story of Antiques

C．A Tour of Antiques                      D．Grandma's Antique

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I don’t know why she’s looking at me________she knew me. I’ve never seen her before in my life.

A．as             B．although       C．as if          D．even if

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I stared into the blackness and wondered if he was as aware of my presence as I________.

A．was of his         B．did of him         C．was him           D．did his

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Mrs Amatuli was my teacher in the fourth grade. One day at lunch time, Mrs Amatuli asked me if she could36my sandwiches. She explained that I could use the money to buy a 37lunch from the cafeteria（自助餐厅）. I was 38. I never bought my lunch at the cafeteria. It was39expensive for my family, and I always carried my lunch and brought the bag back home to40again the next day.

You can understand my 41  when I had the opportunity to buy a hot lunch. Kids always  42about the cafeteria food but I was very43of them.

When we44lunch that day, Mrs Amatuli took me aside and said she wanted to 45 why she had bought my sandwiches. I really didn't care why, 46it gave me a few minutes of her precious47 so I was very quiet as she explained.

You48, she was a Catholic(天主教徒) and she told me that Catholics didn’t eat red meat on Fridays—they ate49on Fridays.

Oh, I couldn't 50to get home and tell my Mom that from then on I wanted fish on Fridays.51my Mom understood why, she gladly fixed fish for me on Fridays. From then on, every Friday I could get in52with the rest of the kids for a hot lunch. I didn’t care how many of the kids complained about the cafeteria food—it53great to me!

I realize now that Mrs Amatuli 54 have fixed herself a fish sandwich on Fridays. She bought my sandwiches because she saw a little girl who was pleased over the simple

55of having a hot lunch.

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When I walk through the streets of San Francisco’s business districts, white people stare at me as if I were a circus clown.

Their staring eyes don’t see that I get ____1____ A’s in school, or that I am a captain of the football team, or that I belong to ___2____youth organizations. All they see is that I am 6-foot-4, young ,black, and male-----a potential ____3____to them.

White men look at me as if I am up to no good, or as if they are ____4____to me. White women just look at me with____5____, say, sometimes they cross the street when they see my friends and me coming, or walk in the street and only get back on the sidewalk after we ____6____.

Many people come to San Francisco to get away from the stereotypes(成见) of the cities they were born and ____7_____ in. The majority of the blacks and Latinos who live in this city don’t have that luxury.

How can you feel at home when people are_____8_____telling you to get back to Africa or Mexico ----or just back to “where you belong”?

My way of dealing with this kind of thing has _____9_____over the years. In the past, when my friends and I would walk the streets and a hundred pairs of white eyes would look at me as if we were the lowest form of dirt, it would make us angry enough to hurt or ____10____them.

Now I’m more likely to use ____11____ to defend myself against those eyes. To women who clutch their purse in terror, I’ll say, “Man, I ain’t gonna do anything to you, I got money in my pocket!” My cousin has even started wearing a T-shirt ____12_____ in big letters, “NO, WHITE LADY, I DON'T’ WANT YOUR PURSE.”

The most painful thing is when we get those___13____ stares from black people, especially elderly ones. I want o say to them, “We’re black too. Why would we do something to you?”

Usually I react more ____14____to all of this than a lot of my friends do. Some of them, so brainwashed, just think it’s part of life and that there is nothing you can do.

But for me, that’s not good enough. I just can’t stand it when every day a hundred pair of eyes tell you you’re not_____15_____.

1.A. almost     B. mostly     C. merely     D. particularly

2.A. social      B. local      C. positive    D. new

3.A. danger     B. treasure    C. gift        D. neighbor

4.A. better      B. close      C. perfect     D. superior

5.A. fear       B. interest     C. honor      D. despair

6.A. run        B. walk       C. pass       D. move

7.A. known     B. developed    C. raised     D. located

8.A. honestly   B. constantly    C. hopefully   D. freely

9.A. changed    B. formed      C. strengthened  D. increased

10.A. kill       B. rob         C. damage     D. steal

11.A. actions    B. deeds       C. signs       D. words

12.A. writing    B. printing     C. telling      D. saying

13.A. fearful     B. doubtful     C. pitiful      D. impressive

14.A. strongly     B. actively    C. disappointedly   D. casually

15.A. sincere      B. mature     C. welcome       D. gentle

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Last week, my granddaughter started kindergarten,and ,as is conventional, I wished her every success ,But part of me didn’t.

I actually wanted her to fail in some ways because I believe that failure can be good for our learning process, Success is proving that you can do something that you already know you can do , First –time success is usually a fluke （侥幸）,First-time failure ,by contrast,is expected ;it is the natural order of things Failure is how we learn.

In Africa they describe a good cook as “she who has broken many bots”,If you’ve spent enough time in the kitchen to break a lot of pots ,probably you know a lot about cooking ,I once had dinner with a group of cooks and they spent a lot of time comparing knife wounds and burn scars ,They Knew how much their failures gave them.

I earn my living by writing a daily newspaper column, Each week I am aware that one column I write lill be my sores , I don’t set out to write it ; I try my best every day. I have learned to cherish that column ,A good column usually means that I am discussing a familiar topic, writing in a style I am used to or saying the same things as someons else but in fancy way.

Ny younger daughter is a trapeze artist（杂技荡秋千演员），She spent three years putting together a show and she did it successfully for years ,There was no reason for her to change it-but she did anyway, She said she was no longer learning anything new and she was boued; and if she was bored ,there was no point in subjecting her body to all that stress

My granddaughter is a perfectionist She will feel her failures ,and I will want to comfort her, But I sill also ,I hope ,remind her of what she learned ,and how she can do better next time ,I hope I can tell her ,though ,that it’s not the end of the world ,Indeed,  with juck ,it is the beginning.

1.Why did the author want his granddaughter to fail?

A．Success is boring though beneficial

B．She would learn more from failure

C．It is impossible to do everything successfully

D．He wanted her to be strong enough to face hardships

2.What’s the author’s attitude toward his daughter changing her show/

A．Negative          B．Worried           C．Positive           D．Excited

3.The author develops the article mainly by ________

A．giving examples

B．following the time order

C．comparing different opinions

D．analyxing cause and effect

4.The writer talks about his own experience to show that________

A．we cannot depend on luck to live a good life

B．we shoule try every possible way to avoid failure

C．past failures prevented him from taking risks in writing

D．the thought of failure will make you work even harder

5.Which of the following can be the best title of the text?

A．Learn from failure

B．How to be a good cook

C．My daughter and granddaughter

D．A good column makes a good writer

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The walls of failure surrounded me.My teacher's eyes stared at my every move.My mom's blank expression showed1.(disappoint).“He is not giving his full potential,”I heard my teacher say.I gazed down,afraid,ashamed, and2.(determine).My determination was not to put my best effort to improve but to give up.

My native language is Spanish.3.hard I tried,English would not take root in my brain.I tried hours on end 4.(improve) my grammar,pronunciation,and vocabulary.After the parent-teacher conference,my mother5.(tell) that I was totally lacking interest.I spent that whole afternoon listening to my mother tell me6.I should try.“You can never achieve what you do not try,she told me.The simple statement stuck deeply7.my rune-year-old mind.

The next day,I found myself learning English words I never knew.A simple change in attitude made me successfully learn those words.My teacher's welcoming smile,patience,and bright attitude,in addition to my desire to learn,were enough to make8.difference.Within days,I found9.(I) having complete conversations in English and even10.(use) idioms correctly.My mother's words helped me to learn that success in life requires desire.

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My grandma is good at gardening. She could make anything bloom(开花). _　　 __ me. In my eyes, she was inspiring and __　　 __. For most of her life, she lived on a farm, where she brought up four children, and buried my grandpa.

I visited her on weekends. After the gardening work, I was __　　 __ to climb the mountain, singing songs and gathering flowers. Sometimes the plants scratched me. She would say, "Beauty has a ___. I hope it was worth it."

"Yes, ma' ma," I'd say. "_　　 __ was."

I loved gathering flowers on my own. But what I loved best was gathering them with her. Even then, as a child, I knew what I wanted most from my grandma was not her flowers, but her __　　 __. She's been gone for years, but sometimes, when I __　　 __down to pick a flower or pull a weed, I see her __　　 __, not mine.

I thought I'd grow up to be a gardener too. I told myself, someday my children had children, I'd be a gardening grandma. Then the grandbabies started showing up, and I discovered 1'd much rather run after them __　　 __ go digging. Actually I'm no gardener. I'm a __　　 __, not a planter. I differ from my grandma in lots of ways, but this: I will always carry __　　 __ me a heart she made from her own.

I needn’t plant a garden. My children are my flowers. They delight and complete me with a beauty that is worth any price. All I need to do is __　　 __ them with time, water them with love, and hope that someday, when they hold their first grandchild, they might see my hand.

1.A. Not    B. Even    C. Only    D. Often

2.A. famous    B. humorous    C. caring    D. amusing

3.A. determined    B. anxious    C. curious    D. free

4.A. standard    B. range    C. price    D. quality

5.A. It    B. I    C. She    D. That

6.A. possession    B. promise    C. beauty    D. time

7.A. climb    B. reach    C. look    D. sit

8.A. smile    B. spirit    C. soul    D. hand

9.A. than    B. until    C. unless    D. since

10.A. worker    B. teacher    C. picker    D. farmer

11.A.to    B. within    C. beyond    D. for

12.A. attend    B. miss    C. promote    D. influence

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Lily is popular among her classmates ______ she can be annoying at times.

A. in case                B. even if                 C. as if                            D. so that

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