—What was the first day of your job like, Ton...

—What was the first day of your job like, Tony?

—Oh, _____. It was as good as could be expected.

A.don’t mention it B.I can’t complain C.it makes no difference D.I’ll see to it

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Like a lot of young people. Joanna Rakoff took the first job she was offered. She decided to work at one of New York’s oldest literary agencies. Yet she had no idea that it would be the first stepping stone on the way to becoming a writer, and later, the novelist she is today.

In the face of the ups and downs, she gave it her all. She can still remember that her boss was very challenging. “The thing that worked when my boss was being difficult was remembering it wasn’t personal. Usually, it’s not about you, it’s them,” she advises anyone in a similar situation.

Being a manager and editor herself later in her career also helped to make sense of what happened years before. “It’s really hard managing a lot of people. I had a lot more sympathy for my former boss after that. You don’t know everything that’s going on with them, and remember: they’re a person, too,” she says.

After only a year, Rakoff realized she was not “an agency person” as her manager had believed, but the seed had been planted. She left with dreams of becoming a writer and a real understanding of the world of glossy (亮丽光鲜的) magazines.

Rakoff rose from writing magazine articles to features editor, and later editor-in-chief. Dreams of one day writing fiction remained. “Writing pieces for magazines really helped me to become an author. It helped make writing less scary. When you write regularly and have deadlines, it really teaches you that sometimes you have to sit down and just do it,” she says.

With all the pressure on young people these days, it is important to remember you don’t have to be in the perfect job right away. What’s more, you don’t need to know what you want to be or do for a career as soon as you finish high school or college. Rakoff explains how many of her very successful friends found different paths toward becoming fiction writers. There is nothing wrong with having a job to keep you busy and pay the bills while you figure out your passions, she says.

1.When Joanna Rakoff was offered the first job. she 　　　　 .

A. gave it up to seek for some better opportunities

B. left it at once because the boss was too demanding

C. agreed to work for the old literacy agency in New York

D. accepted it believing it would lead to her future success

2.How could Rakoff understand her boss in the literary agency?

A. She thought her boss was under great pressure.

B. She believed her boss expected her to work better.

C. She knew her colleagues were doing well enough.

D. She became a manager and editor herself later on.

3.Rakoff left the literary agency with the ambition of 　　　　 .

A. working as a manager

B. writing for magazines

C. becoming a fiction writer

D. being an agency person

4.What can we learn from Rakoff’s experience?

A. The grass is always greener on the other side.

B. Keep on what you are doing until you succeed.

C. Land the best job as soon as you graduate from college.

D. A seemingly imperfect job may as well lead to success.

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Dear Mr. Rupp,

The day I met you was the first day of high school. We liked each other immediately. You gave me a lot of advice over the next four years, like how I should get my ass to Berkeley where I belonged. I’m still there, by the way. I wish you were still around, too.

I remember your laugh, which would start with a rough guffaw(狂笑) and end with a hacking smoker’s cough that would make even the most rebellious (叛逆的) teenager decide to lay off the cigarettes. I remember the way you didn’t lower your standards, yet still refused to give up on us. You were tough on us, and we were tough on you. Love is tough sometimes.

The last time I wrote you a letter, it was 2005—four years after I graduated. I had just become a teacher, like you, and it had given me a new appreciation for the work you did with countless high school students over the years.

It’s hard to say what I’ll miss the most about you. There are simply too many memories to sort through those four years, and it hurts to think you’ll never read this letter. I want to believe that you knew how much you meant to your family, your students, your community, and your colleagues, but that would be a lot of realization to handle, even for you.

You changed the lives of everyone around you. Even now, you are reminding me to cherish life and its brevity and beauty, and to tell the people I love how much they mean to me before it is too late.

Dear teacher, dear mentor, and dear friend—I miss you and all that is about you. God bless you in Heaven.

To infinity and beyond,

Teresea

1.What does the underlined phrase “lay off” in Paragraph 2 most probably mean?

A. like            B. get into            C. give out            D. throw away

2.When did the author meet her teacher—Mr. Rupp?

A. In 1997.        B. In 2001.            C. In 2005.            D. In 2009.

3.Why did the author write a letter to her teacher in 2005?

A. She wanted to tell her teacher that she had become a teacher.

B. She had some difficulties in study and needed her teacher’s help.

C. She wanted to be a teacher and needed her teacher’s instruction.

D. She wanted to borrow some books from her teacher.

4.When the author wrote this letter, her teacher—Mr. Rupp was_______.

A. about to die                        B. seriously ill

C. dead                                D. in good shape

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August 1990, Boston

Dear Maya Shao-ming,

To me, June 6, 1990 is a special day. My long-awaited dream came true the minute your father cried, “A girl!” You are more than just a second child, more than just a girl to match our boy. You, little daughter, are the link to our female line, the legacy of another woman’s pain and sacrifice 31 years ago.

Let me tell you about your Chinese grandmother. Somewhere in Hong Kong, in the late fifties, a young waitress found herself pregnant (怀孕) by a cook, probably a co-worker at her restaurant. She carried the baby to term, suffered to give it birth, and kept the little girl for the first three months of her life. I like to think that my mother—your grandmother—loved me and fought to raise me on her own, but that the daily struggle was too hard. Worn down by the demands of the new baby and perhaps the constant threat of starvation, she made the painful decision to give away her girl so that both of us might have a chance for a better life.

More likely, I was dropped at the orphanage (孤儿院) steps or somewhere else. I will probably never know the truth. Having a baby in her unmarried state would have brought shame on the family in China, so she probably kept my existence a secret. Once I was out of her life, it was as if I had never been born. And so you and your brother and I are the missing leaves on a family tree.

Do they ever wonder if we exist?

Before I was two, I was adopted by an Anglo couple. Fed three square meals a day, I grew like a wild weed and grasped all the opportunities they had to offer—books, music, education, church life and community activities. In a family of blue-eyed blonds, though, I stood out like a sore thumb. Whether from jealousy or fear of someone who looked so different, my older brothers sometimes teased me about my unpleasing skin, or made fun of my clumsy walk. Moody and impatient, burdened by fears that none of us realized resulted from my early years of need, I was not an easy child to love. My mother and I conflicted countless times over the years, but gradually came to see one another as real human beings with faults and talents, and as women of strength in our own right. Lacking a mirror image in the mother who raised me, I had to seek my identity as a woman on my own. The Asian American community has helped me regain my double identity.

But part of me will always be missing: my beginnings, my personal history, all the delicate details that give a person her origin. Nevertheless, someone gave me a lucky name “Siu Wai”. “Siu” means “little”, and “Wai” means “clever”. Therefore, my baby name was “Clever little one.” Who chose those words? Who cared enough to note my arrival in the world?

I lost my Chinese name for 18 years. It was Americanized for convenience to “Sue”. But like an ill-fitting coat, it made me uncomfortable. I hated the name. But even more, I hated being Chinese. It took many years to become proud of my Asian origin and work up the courage to take back my birth-name. That, plus a little knowledge of classroom Cantonese is all the Chinese culture I have to offer you. Not white, certainly, but not really Asian, I try to pave the way between the two worlds and bridge the gap for you. Your name, “Shao-ming”, is very much like mine—“Shao” means “little”. And “ming” is “bright”, as in a shining sun or moon. Whose lives will you brighten, little Maya? Your past is more complete than mine, and each day I cradle you in your babyhood, generously giving you the loving care I lacked for my first two years. When I pat you, I comfort the lost baby inside me who still cries for her mother.

Sweet Maya, it doesn’t matter what you “become” later on. You have already fulfilled my wildest dreams.

I love you.

Mammy

1.Why is June 6, 1990 a special day for Mommy?

A.Her dream of being a mother came true. B.She found her origin from her Chinese mother.

C.She wrote the letter to her daughter. D.Her female line was well linked.

2.How does Mommy feel about her being given away?

A.It is bitter and disappointing. B.It is painful but understandable.

C.She feels sorry but sympathetic. D.She feels hurt and angry.

3.What does “I stood out like a sore thumb” in Paragraph 5 mean?

A.I walked clumsily out of pains. B.I was not easy to love due to jealousy.

C.I was impatient out of fear. D.I looked different from others.

4.What can be inferred from Mommy’s Anglo family life?

A.She used to experience an identity crisis. B.She fought against her American identity.

C.She forgot the pains of her early years. D.She kept her love for Asia from childhood.

5.Why did Mommy name her daughter “Shao-ming”?

A.To match her own birth-name. B.To brighten the lives of the family.

C.To identify her with Chinese origin. D.To justify her pride in Chinese culture.

6.By “Your past is more complete than mine,” Mommy means______.

A.her past was completed earlier than Shao-ming’s

B.Shao-ming has got motherly care and a sense of roots

C.her mother didn’t comfort her the way she did Shao-ming

D.her past was spent brokenly, first in Asia, then in the US

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August 1990,Boston

Dear Maya Shao-ming,

To me,June 6,1990 is a special day.My long-awaited dream came true the minute your father cried,“A girl!” You are more than just a second child,more than just a girl to match our boy.You,little daughter,are the link to our female line,the legacy of another woman’s pain and sacrifice 31 years ago.

Let me tell you about your Chinese grandmother.Somewhere in Hong Kong,in the late fifties,a young waitress found herself pregnant(怀孕)by a cook,probably a co-worker at her restaurant.She carried the baby to term,suffered to give it birth,and kept the little girl for the first three months of her life.I like to think that my mother—your grandmother—loved me and fought to raise me on her own,but that the daily struggle was too hard.Worn down by the demands of the new baby and perhaps the constant threat of starvation,she made the painful decision to give away her girl so that both of us might have a chance for a better life.

More likely,I was dropped at the orphanage(孤儿院)steps or somewhere else.I will probably never know the truth.Having a baby in her unmarried state would have brought shame on the family in China,so she probably kept my existence a secret.Once I was out of her life,it was as if I had never been born.And so you and your brother and I are the missing leaves on a family tree.

Do they ever wonder if we exist?

Before I was two,I was adopted by an Anglo couple.Fed three square meals a day,I grew like a wild weed and grasped all the opportunities they had to offer—books,music,education,church life and community activities.In a family of blue-eyed blonds,though,I stood out like a sore thumb.Whether from jealousy or fear of someone who looked so different,my older brothers sometimes teased me about my unpleasing skin,or made fun of my clumsy walk.Moody and impatient,burdened by fears that none of us realized resulted from my early years of need,I was not an easy child to love.My mother and I conflicted countless times over the years,but gradually came to see one another as real human beings with faults and talents,and as women of strength in our own right.Lacking a mirror image in the mother who raised me,I had to seek my identity as a woman on my own.The Asian American community has helped me regain my double identity.

But part of me will always be missing:my beginnings,my personal history,all the delicate details that give a person her origin.Nevertheless,someone gave me a lucky name“Siu Wai”.“Siu”means“little”,and“Wai”means“clever”.Therefore,my baby name was“Clever little one.”Who chose those words?Who cared enough to note my arrival in the world?

I lost my Chinese name for 18 years.It was Americanized for convenience to“Sue”.But like an ill-fitting coat,it made me uncomfortable.I hated the name.But even more,I hated being Chinese.It took many years to become proud of my Asian origin and work up the courage to take back my birth-name.That,plus a little knowledge of classroom Cantonese is all the Chinese culture I have to offer you.Not white,certainly,but not really Asian,I try to pave the way between the two worlds and bridge the gap for you.Your name,“Shao-ming”,is very much like mine—“Shao”means“little”.And“ming”is“bright”,as in a shining sun or moon.Whose lives will you brighten,little Maya?Your past is more complete than mine,and each day I cradle you in your babyhood,generously giving you the loving care I lacked for my first two years.When I pat you,I comfort the lost baby inside me who still cries for her mother.

Sweet Maya,it doesn’t matter what you“become”later on.You have already fulfilled my wildest dreams.

I love you.

Mammy

1.Why is June 6,1990 a special day for Mommy?

A.Her dream of being a mother came true.

B.She found her origin from her Chinese mother.

C.She wrote the letter to her daughter.

D.Her female line was well linked.

2.How does Mommy feel about her being given away?

A.It is bitter and disappointing.

B.It is painful but understandable.

C.She feels sorry but sympathetic.

D.She feels hurt and angry.

3.What does“I stood out like a sore thumb”in Paragraph 5 mean?

A.I walked clumsily out of pains.

B.I was not easy to love due to jealousy.

C.I was impatient out of fear.

D.I looked different from others.

4.What can be inferred from Mommy’s Anglo family life?

A.She used to experience an identity crisis.

B.She fought against her American identity.

C.She forgot the pains of her early years.

D.She kept her love for Asia from childhood.

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—What do you think of your life in China?

—The first year was　　 , but things have gotten better.

A. classic 　　　　　　 B. rough

C. optimistic 　　　　 D. comfortable

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"Hey, Dad," one of my kids asked the other day, "what was your favourite fast food when you were growing up?"

"We didn't have fast food when I was growing up," I informed him．"All the food was slow．" "Where did you eat?" "It was a place called 'at home'．" I explained．"Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I liked it．"

Some parents never owned their own houses, set foot on a golf course, travelled out of the country or had a credit card．

My parents have never driven me to soccer practice．This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer．I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed．We didn't have a television in our house until I was 11．I was 13 when I tasted my first pizza; it was called "pizza pie"．When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered（粘贴）itself against my chin and burned that, too．It's still the best pizza I ever had．

I delivered newspapers, six days a week ．The paper cost 7 cents, of which I got to keep 2 cents．I had to get up at 4:00 a．m．every morning．On Saturday, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers．My favourite customers were the ones who gave me 50 cents and told me to keep the change．

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren．

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

1.By saying "All the food was slow", the writer implies that ____．

A．when he was growing up, he never ate fast food

B．he didn't like fast food when he was growing up

C．his grandma made food slowly

D．he had to wait for a long time for the fast food

2.When the writer didn't like the food his grandma cooked when he was growing up, _______．

A．his grandma would make something he liked

B．his grandma would buy him fast food

C．he would sit there waiting for his favourite pizza pie

D．he had to eat it or go without

3.The writer's purpose of writing this passage is to _____.

A．tell his children there was no fast food in the past

B．tell us that life has been changing

C．tell us how hard it is to deliver newspapers

D．made us understand the meaning of life

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Dr Almeida left school at 16 with little formal education but got a job as a laboratory technician in histopathology ( 组织病理学 ) at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Later she moved to London to further her career and in 1954 married Enriques Almeida, an artist.

The couple and their young daughter moved to Toronto in Canada and it was at the Ontario Cancer Institute that Dr Almeida developed her outstanding skills with an electron microscope.

She pioneered a method which better visualized ( 成像 ) viruses by using antibodies to gather them. Her talents were recognized in the UK and she was invited to work at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School in London.

On her return, she began to cooperate with Dr David Tyrrell. Dr Tyrrell and his team were able to grow quite a few common cold-associated viruses. One sample, known as B814, was discovered in 1960. They found that they were able to transmit ( 传染 ) common cold symptoms to volunteers but they were unable to grow it in routine cell culture ( 细胞培养 ). However, volunteer studies showed its growth in organ cultures ( 器官培养 ). Dr Tyrrell wondered if it could be seen by an electron microscope. They sent samples to Almeida who found that they were like flu viruses but not exactly the same. She identified what became known as the first human coronavirus ( 冠状病毒 ).

Dr Almeida had actually seen particles ( 微粒 ) like this before while investigating viruses in mice and chickens. However, when she sent her paper about this discovery to a medical journal, it was rejected. It was two years later that the first photographs of the virus she had seen were published in Journal of General Virology. It was named coronavirus because of the crown surrounding it on the viral image.

1.Why did Dr Almeida return to work in the UK ?

A.Because her family did not like Toronto.

B.Because the UK appreciated her talents.

C.Because she bettered an electron microscope.

D.Because she was the first one to visualize viruses.

2.What can we know about B814?

A.It could be grown in routine cell culture.

B.It was unable to develop in organ cultures.

C.It’s exactly the same with influenza viruses.

D.It was identified as the first human coronavirus.

3.What can we connect with the name “coronavirus”?

A.Its viral image.

B.Its deadly power.

C.It original sample.

D.Its first appearance.

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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。

1.What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. The first day at a new job.

B. A usual day at work.

C. A new boss.

2.What does the woman think of her boss?

A. Indifferent.

B. Supportive.

C. Inexperienced.

3.What do we know about the woman?

A. She has a good overtime pay.

B. She often works late at night.

C. She had a hard time at work today.

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“Beauty isn't about having a pretty face,” begins a motivational quote. “It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul. Oh, and pretty nails!”

That may be Angela Peters' motto. Last July, Peters, rolled her wheelchair into a nail salon (沙龙) at the Walmart shopping center in Burton to have her nails done. But Peters, who has cerebral palsy (脑瘫), was turned away. The salon told her that they were afraid it would be too difficult to properly paint her nails given that her hands kept shaking. What was meant to be a day of beauty for Peters was now a disappointment.

A Walmart cashier about to go on her break happened to see this. Ebony Harris recognized Peters as a Walmart regular. “She's just like everyone else. She wants to look pretty. So why can't she?” Harris said.

Harris approached Peters. “Do you want me to do your nails?” she asked.

A smile spread across Peters' face. “Yeah!” Harris led Peters into the supermarket, where they shopped for nail polish. They settled on a color that would catch every eye. They then made their way into a neighboring Subway, found a table for two, and started. Harris gently took Peters' hand into hers and carefully began painting her nails. “She moved her hands a little bit, and she kept saying she was sorry,” Harris said. “I told her, ‘Don't say that. You're fine.’ She makes me look at life and appreciate it much more than I have.”

Watching it all with surprise and admiration was Subway employee Tasia Smith. Smith was so taken by the scene that she wrote about it on Facebook. “She was so patient with her,” she wrote. “Thanks to the Walmart worker for making this beautiful girl's day!”

1.Why does the author mention the quote in the first paragraph?

A.To compare different views. B.To introduce the topic of the passage.

C.To show the importance of beauty. D.To share his opinion about beauty.

2.The nail salon refused Peters' request because 　　 .

A.she had to use a wheelchair B.they were too busy to serve her

C.she couldn't keep her hands still D.they hadn't the color she wanted

3.Which of the following words can best describe Harris?

A.Brave and generous. B.Careful and fair-minded.

C.Honest and considerate. D.Patient and warm-hearted.

4.What can be inferred about Tasia Smith from the last paragraph?

A.She thought highly of Harris' behavior.

B.She wrote a thank-you letter to Walmart.

C.She regretted not lending Peters a helping hand.

D.She misunderstood Harris' relationship with Peters.

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