Simone was born in Ohio, but grew up in Texas...

Simone was born in Ohio, but grew up in Texas. Early on, she and her siblings (兄妹) were adopted by her grandparents, who she says support her in everything. She first realized she wanted to be a gymnast at the age of 6 when she and her classmates went on a field trip to a local gym. A coach at the gym saw her natural talent and wrote a letter to her grandparents urging them to get her involved. The sport she signed up for “for fun” soon turned into her life’s enthusiasm.

Simone is energetic, so it’s no surprise that she’s got a few medals in her time. Her ten world gold medals are the most ever achieved by a woman in gymnastics history. She is also the first woman to win four medals at the same World Championships, which happened in her second year performing in 2014.

In 2015 Simone became the first gymnast to win three constant all-around titles at the World Gymnastic Championships. She even amazed herself, telling the interviewer “I blew my own mind.” and posting to social media “breaking history is kind of cool.”

What surprised everyone most though, was that she was performing perfectly as she usually does—her skill is so beyond everyone else that she can’t be beaten even when she trips up!

1.What does the first paragraph mainly talk about?

A. Simone’s early experience.　　 B. Simone’s sports life.

C. Simone’s gymnastics coach.　　 D. Simone’s family.

2.What is Simone’s greatest achievement?

A. She got four gold medals at the Olympic Games.

B. She won the first woman championship in gymnastics.

C. She won ten world gold medals in gymnastics history.

D. She got the first gold medal at the World Championships.

3.What does the phrase “I blew my own mind” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A. I lost heart.　　 B. I was beaten.

C. I tried my best.　　 D. I surprised myself.

4.What purpose is the passage written for?

A. To make readers interested in great gym players.

B. To praise Simone for her skills and Olympic spirits.

C. To list Simone’s gold medals in the World Cups.

D. To give brief introduction to Simone’s achievements.

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The painter Georgia O’keeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1887 and grew up on her family’s farm. At seventeen she decided she wanted to be an artist and left the farm for schools in Chicago and New York, but she never lost her bond with the land. Like most painters, O’Keeffe painted the things that were most important to her, and nearly all her works are simplified portrayals of nature.

O’Keeffe became famous when her paintings were discovered and exhibited in New York by the photographer Levered Stieglitz, whom she married in 1924. During a visit to New York in 1929, O’Keeffe was so moved by the bleak（荒凉的） landscape and broad skies of the Western desert that she began to paint its images. Cows’ skulls and other bleached（变白的） bones found in the desert figured prominently（突出的） in her paintings. When her husband died in 1946, she moved to New Mexico permanently and used the horizon lines of the desert, colorful flowers, rocks, barren(贫瘠的) hills, and the sky as subjects for her paintings. Although O’Keeffe painted her best known works in the 1920’s, 1930’s and 1940’s, she continued to produce tributes（贡品、颂词） to the Western desert until her death in 1986.

O’Keeffe is widely considered to have been a pioneering American modernist painter. While most early modern American artists were strongly influenced by European art, O’Keeffe’s position was more independent. She established her own vision and preferred to view her painting as a private endeavor. Almost from the beginning, her work was more indentifiably American than that of her contemporaries in its simplified and idealized treatment of color, light, space, and natural forms.

1. Which of the following best tells what this passage is about ?

2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an influence on O’Keeffe’s paintings ?

3.Which of the following is most similar to O’Keeffe’s relationship with nature?

4.Why is O’Keeffe considered an artistic pioneer ?

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Bill Gates was born on October 28th, 1955. He and his two sisters grew up in Seattle. Their father, William H. Gates II, was a Seattle lawyer. Mary Gates, their late mother, was a school teacher.

Gates attended public elementary school before moving on to the private Lakeside School in North Seattle. It was at Lakeside that Gates began his career in personal computer soft  ware, programming computers at age 13.

In 1973, Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman, where he lived down the hall from Steve Ballmer, who is now Microsoft's president. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version (版本) of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer---the MITS Astair. In his junior year, Gates dropped out of Harvard to devote his energies full-time to Microsoft, a company he had started in 1975 with his boyhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the personal computer would be a valuable tool on every office desk-top and in every home, they began developing software for personal computers.

Gates' foresight has led to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. He plays an important role in the technical development of new products. Much of his time is devoted to meeting with customers and staying in touch with Microsoft employees around the world through e-mail.

In the dozen years since Microsoft went public, Gates has donated more than $ 800 million to charities, including $ 200 million to the Gates Library Foundation to help libraries in North America make use of new technologies and the Information Age.

1.Where did Bill Gates begin his career in personal computer software?

A．At public elementary school.               B．At the private Lakeside School.

C．At Harvard University.                    D．At Microsoft Company.

2.Why did he drop out of Harvard?

A．To change school.                       B．To spend all his energies to Microsoft.

C．To find a full-time job.                    D．To earn money.

3.How does Gates spend much of his time?

A．Meeting with people.

B．Travelling around the world.

C．E-mailing some friends.

D．Meeting with customers and e-mailing Microsoft employees.

4.What does the underlined word “donated” in the last paragraph mean?

A．gave.             B．earned.           C．made.            D．received.

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I grew up on a farm outside Port Clinton, Ohio. I was the youngest son, with four brothers and four sisters, plus a girl my folks took in. By the late 60s, most of us were ______and had families of our own. One day, ______ we were visiting my parents in late summer or early fall, Dad mentioned he’d ______wanted a Crimson King maple tree for the yard. Mom agreed that they were pretty.

Like many parents, mine were______to shop for something, so I ______this was a great ______to get them something they’d appreciate. I also thought if they wanted one tree, two would be even better. I ______the price at work and decided it was a bit more than I could ______-but all of my siblings agreed to give a hand.

In northern Ohio, we don’t plant maple trees at Christmas, so we decided to surprise Mom and Dad with a ______Christmas in October before the ground froze. We asked my aunt _____she’d help us with the deception(欺骗), and she called my parents in ______to say she was coming for a Sunday visit. Then my sisters and sisters-in-law went into ______, planning a big holiday turkey dinner.

On the ______Sunday, we all met at my house and loaded the trees in a pickup truck. I ___ up as Santa Claus. Then off we went, nine or 10 cars ______with people and food, plus the pickup.

When the caravan(队伍) ______my folks’ house, Dad came rushing out of the back door, convinced something was ______. He and Mom were ______when we told them why we were there.

When Christmas ______, of course, we couldn’t go to our parents’ house empty handed, so Mom and Dad got double presents that year. Almost half a century later, I still drive by the old farmhouse(农庄) and smile when I see those big, handsome ______and remember giving a special gift to special people on Christmas in October.

1.A. divorced　　 B. married　　 C. born　　 D. friendly

2.A. once　　 B. since　　 C. while　　 D. if

3.A. casually　　 B. occasionally　　 C. hardly　　 D. always

4.A. hard　　 B. convenient　　 C. available　　 D. anxious

5.A. performed　　 B. figured　　 C. promoted　　 D. guaranteed

6.A. opportunity　　 B. performance　　 C. permission　　 D. access

7.A. watched　　 B. checked　　 C. noticed　　 D. tested

8.A. account　　 B. acquire　　 C. afford　　 D. advocate

9.A. common　　 B. usual　　 C. ordinary　　 D. special

10.A. if　　 B. why　　 C. that　　 D. what

11.A. detail　　 B. surprise　　 C. advance　　 D. excitement

12.A. fashion　　 B. direction　　 C. instruction　　 D. action

13.A. greeting　　 B. adjusted　　 C. chosen　　 D. predicted

14.A. looked up　　 B. took up　　 C. turned up　　 D. dressed up

15.A. covered　　 B. loaded　　 C. surrounded　　 D. crowded

16.A. arrived at　　 B. reached for　　 C. left for　　 D. headed for

17.A. adequate　　 B. wrong　　 C. beautiful　　 D. invisible

18.A. amazed　　 B. delighted　　 C. amused　　 D. confused

19.A. faded away　　 B. turned around　　 C. rolled away　　 D. rolled around

20.A. folks　　 B. pickups　　 C. trees　　 D. trucks

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Bill Robinson is on trial for murder（因谋杀而受审）．He grew up in a small town in Ohio and then went to Kent State University for one year．When he was nineteen years old，he was asked to join the army and was soon sent to fight in Vietnam．He was very unhappy there as he hated the war and he hated killing people．Two years later he returned home and tried to pick up where he had left off，but things were never quite the same again for the young black man．For one thing，he always had terrible dreams about the war．He could not concentrate on his studies and soon he had to leave school．Then he was fired from one job after another．He wanted to meet someone nice and get married，but he just couldn't seem to get close to anyone．He became angry easily and people avoided him．He was always lonely．Finally one day，while eating at a restaurant，Bill lost control of himself and shot someone for no reason at all．Bill's lawyer hopes that he will not be held responsible for the shooting．He hopes that the judge and the jury（陪审团）will understand that Bill was“temporarily insane（一时精神错乱）”and did not really choose to kill anyone．

1.What did Bill Robinson do after he returned from abroad？

2.He failed to complete his college education because he ____ ．

3.He never married because ____ ．

4.The best title for this article is ____ ．

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Orville Wright was born on August 19, 1871 in Dayton, Ohio, USA and died on January 30, 1948. Together with his brother, Wilbur, he was the first airplane builder. The brothers created the first controlled, powered and heavier-than-air human flight.

His parents were Milton Wright and Susan Catherine Koerner and besides the two famous brothers they had five children. One day after a trip his father brought as a gift a small helicopter. The kids loved it and as they played daily with it after a while it broke. The brothers managed to create a new one. Wright even let go his plans of attending Yale. He spent his time helping his ill mother and reading in his father’s library.

In 1884 the family decided to move to Dayton and they remained there until the 1870’s. A printing press was built by the two and Wilbur was an editor. In 1892 they started being fascinated by the aeronautical （航空的） events of that time. Then they started to create an airplane and Wilbur was considered the head of the team. They were the inventors of “three axis-control”, which permitted the pilot to steer the aircraft’s balance.

In 1900 they had their first attempts to make a functional glider（滑翔机）— of course it didn’t have a pilot. After three years they thought of introducing an engine to the glider. At first, their patent(专利) application was refused in 1903, but after one year it was accepted.

Orville’s first flight lasted 12 seconds and had 36.5 meters. He was responsible with the public shows near Washington in the United States. On September 9, 1908 his flight was 62 minutes and 15 seconds long and the success was huge.

1.What might make Wright brothers interested in the plane?

A. The pleasant trip.                        B. Catherine’s education.

C. The political events.                    D. Their father’s gift.

2.Wright didn’t go to Yale probably because ________.

A. he had to create a plane

B. he didn’t have enough money

C. he would like to learn by himself

D. his mother asked him to stay at home

3.The underlined word “steer” (in Paragraph 3) probably means ________.

A. keep                B. drive                C. learn                D. enjoy

4.This passage tells us about ________.

A. the plane’s history　　　　　　 　 B. Milton and his children

C. Orville Wright’s life　　　　　　 D. the development of science

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She ________ to catch the early train，but she didn’t get up in time.

A．intended                              B．was intended

C．had intended                          D．was intending

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Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Ohio, a state in the

US with a l______________ population. He didn’t have much school education

1.____________

because the m______________ of his teachers thought he was not clever enough,

2. ____________

and his o_____________ of success is merely a dream. However, he became one

3.____________

of the greatest ________________ (发明家) with a list of 1,093 U.S. patents. In

4. ____________

fact, there was evidence indicating that Edison was to distinguish ____________

5. ____________

later in life. The boy had a great d____________ for knowledge and was curious

6. ____________

about things. He did a lot of reading in the library while ___________ a living by

7. ____________

selling newspapers on trains. He often __________ (实验)with different things. All

8. ____________

these made him so extraordinarily ________________ (成功). Many people think

9. ____________

that we owe our way of life _________ his ideas and efforts.

10.____________

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Welcome to the world-famous house where William Shakespeare was born in l564 and

where he grew up .The property (房产) remained in the ownership of Shakespeare’s family until 1806 .The House has welcomed visitors travelling from all over the world for over 250 years.

◆Enter through the Visitors’ Centre and see the highly-praised exhibition Shakespeare's World，a lively and full introduction to the life and work of Shakespeare.

◆Stand in the rooms where Shakespeare grew up.

◆Discover examples of furniture and needlework from

Shakespeare’s period.

◆Enjoy the traditional　 English garden，planted with trees and flower mentioned in the poet’s works.

The Birthplace is within easy walking distance of all the car parks shown on the map；nearest is Windsor Street(3 minutes’ Walk).

The House may present difficulties but the Visitors’ Centre，its exhibition,and the garden are accessible (可进入的)to wheelchair users.

The Shakespeare Coffee House (opposite the Birthplace).

1.How much is the admission for a family of two grown-ups and two children？

A．￡9.80．　　 B．￡12.00．　　 C．￡14.20．　　　 D．￡16.40．

2.Where is the nearest parking place to Shakespeare’s Birthplace？

A．Behind the exhibition hall．

B．Opposite the Visitors’ Centre．

C．At Windsor Street．

D．Near the Coffee House．

3.A wheelchair user may need help to enter　　　　 ．

A．the House　 　　　　　　　　 B．the garden

C．the Visitors’ Centre　 D．the exhibition hall

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Lilly was a French Canadian girl who grew up in the farming community.When she was 16, her father ____ her to drop out of school to contribute to the family income.With English as her second language and ___ education, the ____ didn’t look bright for Lilly.

Lilly’s father was a stubborn man who ____ took “no” for an answer.He ___ Lilly to find a job.With small hope of gaining ____， each day she would just ride to the city, walk ____ about and return home at dusk.

On one of her ____， Lilly saw a sign at a big company.____， she knocked on the very first door.In her ____ English, Lilly told the office manager she was interested in the secretarial position.The manager ____ to give the girl a chance.He directed her to type a letter, and then ____ .Lilly looked at the clock and saw it was 11：40 am.She thought everyone would be leaving for ____ at noon, when she could ____ away in the crowd.But she knew she should ____ the letter.

On her first try, Lilly ____ one line of five words and made four mistakes.On her second attempt, she completed a full paragraph, but still made many mistakes.She looked at the clock: 11: 55 — five minutes to ____ .Just then, the manager walked in.He came directly to Lilly, read the letter and said,　 “Lilly, you’re doing ____ work！”

With those simple words of encouragement, her desire to escape disappeared and her ____ began to grow.Lilly thought, “Well, if he thinks it’s good, then it must be good.I　 think I’ll stay！” Lilly did stay — all because someone had given a ____ and uncertain girl the gift of self­confidence when she knocked on the door.

1.A.reminded　　　　 　　 B．helped　　 C．encouraged　 D．forced

2.A.good　 B．formal　　　 C．poor　　 D．modern

3.A.advice　　 B．future 　　 C．promise　 D．change

4.A.always　　 B．never　　 C．sometimes　　 D．usually

5.A.warned　　 B．begged　　 C．allowed　　 D．told

6.A.employment　　 B．experience　　　 C．judgment　　 D．independence

7.A.carefully　　 B．happily　　　 C．aimlessly　　 D．rapidly

8.A.steps　　 B．trips　　　 C．purposes　　 D．choices

9.A.Bravely　　 B．Proudly　　　　 C．Calmly　　 D．Cautiously

10.A.broken　　 B．perfect　　　 C．written　　 D．fluent

11.A.refused　　 B．decided　　　　 C．pretended　　 D．failed

12.A.stopped　　 B．continued　　　 C．left　　 D．sighed

13.A.lunch　　 B．life　　　 C．fun　　 D．luck

14.A.break　　 B．run　　　 C．pass　　 D．drive

15.A.read　　 B．write　　　　 C．attempt　　 D．deliver

16.A.went over　　 B．picked up　　　 C．gave away　　 D．got through

17.A.freedom　　 B．success　　　　 C．discussion　　 D．reward

18.A.terrible　　 B．excellent　　　 C．honest　　 D．easy

19.A.belief　　 B．patience　　　 C．confidence　　 D．strength

20.A.shy　　 B．lonely　　　　 C．selfless　　 D．modest

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