I grew up in a middle-class family. Dad worked hard to support our family and Mom tried to save money while making sure we had enough food to eat and clothes to wear. One of their greatest desires was to raise decent, loving children who had an opportunity to finish college
My brother, Gene. never hesitated to learn new things. He had an artistic hand, so he went into fine arts for a while. He also did a lot of screens about computers. He became so good at it that the school hired him to teach there after he completed his studies. My younger brother also pursued computers, following in his footsteps.
Gene did not have a history of any health problems from his very young age to adulthood. One day. he came home from teaching, ate his dinner and went to bed. That evening,my“healthy”brother died suddenly of a cardiac arrest(心跳骤停).My parents were extremely sad.
At the viewing in the funeral house, amidst the sadness, my parents felt so much pride. So many people came and each was relating a story of how they were touched by Gene
A cleaner came to say that practically every day Gene brought him a sandwich. Finally, Mom found out why Gene had taken so many sandwiches to school! Then there was a man who came in bringing money, saying that Gene had lent him some when he was down and out. Gene had never asked him for the money back.
From the school president to the guard. people came. And because of his good heart and deeds, my younger brother was awarded a full scholarship in the school as a tribute to my dead brother.
In the end, my parents realized that even at the young age of 26, my brother had lived a full life and was very instrumental in helping others live theirs a little better.
1.What was the biggest wish of the authors parents?
A. To have a better life
B. To save enough money for the future
C. To give their children a college education
D. To raise their children to be respectable people
2.The authors parents felt proud in the funeral house because______.
A. many people from all walks of life came
B. Gene was praised by the school president
C. Genes brother was awarded a full scholarship
D. they heard about many good deeds done by Gene
3.What can we learn about Gene from the passage?
A. He took many sandwiches to school to share with others
B. He lent a man some money and then asked for it back
C. He was not in very good health from an early age.
D. He taught fine arts in his school
4.What is the message conveyed in the passage?
A. Good deeds deserve praise.
B. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
C. Kindness in students should be encouraged
D. The meaning of life consists in its dedication, not its length.
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I grew up in a middle-class family. Dad worked hard to support our family and Mom tried to save money while making sure we had enough food to eat and clothes to wear. One of their greatest desires was to raise decent, loving children who had an opportunity to finish college
My brother, Gene. never hesitated to learn new things. He had an artistic hand, so he went into fine arts for a while. He also did a lot of screens about computers. He became so good at it that the school hired him to teach there after he completed his studies. My younger brother also pursued computers, following in his footsteps.
Gene did not have a history of any health problems from his very young age to adulthood. One day. he came home from teaching, ate his dinner and went to bed. That evening,my“healthy”brother died suddenly of a cardiac arrest(心跳骤停).My parents were extremely sad.
At the viewing in the funeral house, amidst the sadness, my parents felt so much pride. So many people came and each was relating a story of how they were touched by Gene
A cleaner came to say that practically every day Gene brought him a sandwich. Finally, Mom found out why Gene had taken so many sandwiches to school! Then there was a man who came in bringing money, saying that Gene had lent him some when he was down and out. Gene had never asked him for the money back.
From the school president to the guard. people came. And because of his good heart and deeds, my younger brother was awarded a full scholarship in the school as a tribute to my dead brother.
In the end, my parents realized that even at the young age of 26, my brother had lived a full life and was very instrumental in helping others live theirs a little better.
1.What was the biggest wish of the authors parents?
A. To have a better life
B. To save enough money for the future
C. To give their children a college education
D. To raise their children to be respectable people
2.The authors parents felt proud in the funeral house because______.
A. many people from all walks of life came
B. Gene was praised by the school president
C. Genes brother was awarded a full scholarship
D. they heard about many good deeds done by Gene
3.What can we learn about Gene from the passage?
A. He took many sandwiches to school to share with others
B. He lent a man some money and then asked for it back
C. He was not in very good health from an early age.
D. He taught fine arts in his school
4.What is the message conveyed in the passage?
A. Good deeds deserve praise.
B. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
C. Kindness in students should be encouraged
D. The meaning of life consists in its dedication, not its length.
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I grew up in a middle﹣class family. Dad worked hard to support our family and Mom tried to save money while making sure we had enough food to eat and clothes to wear. One of their greatest desires was to raise decent, loving children who had an opportunity to finish college.
My brother, Gene, never hesitated to learn new things. He had an artistic hand, so he went into fine arts for a while. He also did a lot of screens about computers. He became so good at it that the school hired him to teach there after he completed his studies. My younger brother also pursued computers, following in his footsteps.
Gene did not have a history of any health problems from his very young age to adulthood. One day, he came home from teaching, ate his dinner and went to bed. That evening,my "healthy" brother died suddenly of a cardiac arrest(心跳骤停).My parents were extremely sad.
At the viewing in the funeral house, amidst the sadness, my parents felt so much pride. So many people came and each was relating a story of how they were touched by Gene.
A cleaner came to say that practically every day Gene brought him a sandwich. Finally, Mom found out why Gene had taken so many sandwiches to school! Then there was a man who came in bringing money, saying that Gene had lent him some when he was down and out. Gene had never asked him for the money back.
From the school president to the guard, people came. And because of his good heart and deeds, my younger brother was awarded a full scholarship in the school as a tribute to my dead brother.
In the end, my parents realized that even at the young age of 26, my brother had lived a full life and was very instrumental in helping others live theirs a little better.
1.What was the biggest wish of the author's parents?
A. To have a better life.
B. To save enough money for the future.
C. To give their children a college education.
D. To raise their children to be respectable people.
2.The author's parents felt proud in the funeral house because .
A. many people from all walks of life came.
B. Gene was praised by the school president.
C. Gene's brother was awarded a full scholarship.
D. they heard about many good deeds done by Gene.
3.What can we learn about Gene from the passage?
A. He took many sandwiches to school to share with others.
B. He lent a man some money and then asked for it back.
C. He was not in very good health from an early age.
D. He taught fine arts in his school.
4.What is the message conveyed in the passage?
A. Good deeds deserve praise.
B. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
C. Kindness in students should be encouraged.
D. The meaning of life consists in its devotion, not its length.
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Peter Wiggins grew up in a poor family. He worked diligently at his ____ job as teaching assistant in a private kindergarten and put in three more hours at night as a parttime cashier at a ___. By the time Peter walked home with slow and heavy steps every day,it was often close to ____.
Peter worked very hard in order to ____ his aged parents who had retired as restroom cleaners with ____ savings left after putting Peter and his sister through school. Peter was the only ___, for his sister, Beth, was often in poor health.
One day, as Peter was walking home from ACE Supermarket where he ____, he stumbled(绊脚) upon a small brown packet on the pavement. The package was slightly ____.
So he picked it up to examine it more closely. To his ____, it contained fiftydollar bills. Peter knew it was not his to keep and that the ____ might urgently need the money.
Without ____, Peter walked quickly to the nearest police station and handed it over to Mr. Roberts who was the police officer ____ for that night. Surprised to see someone hand in such a large amount of cash ____,the police officer said that Peter was indeed a role model others could ____.
“It's nothing really...I was doing what ____ would have done,” Peter's face turned red as the officer continued to ask for his name and contact number so that the owner could ____ thank him. The next day, Peter received a ____. The owner of the lost money was none other than Peter's ____ at the ACE Supermarket! He had found out about Peter from Roberts and had decided to ____ Peter to the position of manager with a handsome increase in salary. He had also decided to pay for Beth's ___.Peter was overjoyed.
1.A.anytime B.shorttime
C.daytime D.nighttime
2.A.supermarket B.night school
C.restaurant D.hotel
3.A.morning B.noon
C.evening D.midnight
4.A.settle B.impress
C.support D.treat
5.A.more B.some
C.little D.much
6.A.son B.breadwinner
C.one D.assistant
7.A.stayed B.shopped
C.worked D.visited
8.A.old B.torn
C.familiar D.heavy
9.A.joy B.disappointment
C.shock D.relief
10.A.leader B.assistant
C.boss D.owner
11.A.success B.fear
C.hesitation D.doubt
12.A.on behalf B.on duty
C.on watch D.on purpose
13.A.unfinished B.unused
C.untouched D.unexpected
14.A.look at B.look up to
C.look down on D.look forward to
15.A.few B.none
C.anybody D.policemen
16.A.independently B.personally
C.cautiously D.regularly
17.A.letter B.notice
C.call D.packet
18.A.colleague B.boss
C.consumer D.enemy
19.A.introduce B.expose
C.promote D.lead
20.A.university education B.travel costs
C.holiday parties D.medical treatment
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I grew up with a fat dad—450 pounds at his heaviest.Every week he would try a new diet,and my family ended up eating whatever strange food he was trying at that moment.
After my thirdgrade year,my dad landed a lifechanging job in Manhattan.My mom,my little sister and I had to move away from our hometown,Chicago,and leave my grandmother and her beautiful food behind.
Leaving my grandmother was far more frightening than the move to New York City.There would be no more special weekends at my grandmother’s house,the only place I can remember feeling happy,safe and nourished (有营养的).It was what I desired.In this new city,I felt extremely alone and lost,and I missed my grandmother terribly.
My grandmother knew just how I felt—And she knew the cure.Every week,she would send me a card with a $20 bill,a recipe and a list of what to buy at the market.It kept us bonded,and her recipes filled my body and soul.
Over the years,I have grown to better understand my father’s struggles with weight and the toll (代价) it took on him and those who love him.I have come to realize he was driven not by vanity (自负) or selfishness as much as by a deep pain.And in spite of growing up in such an unhealthy eating environment (or perhaps because of it),as an adult I found a passion and a career as a nutrition consultant.
Today,my father weighs 220 pounds and is a vegan (素食者).How he got there is a story I hope to share in the coming weeks.More importantly,food is no longer a barrier that keeps us apart,but a bridge that keep us connected.There is nothing my dad enjoys more than talking with me about dietary theories and his weightloss victories.And now I am the one regularly sending recipe cards to my father’s house,just as my grandmother did for me.
1.What kind of person was actually the author’s father?
A.He was a man of vanity and selfishness.
B.He didn’t like to eat with his family.
C.He was more painful than selfish.
D.He forced his family to eat what he liked.
2.The author desired to go to his grandmother’s________.
A.to see his father B.for tasty food
C.for pocket money D.to avoid his family
3.The underlined word “cure” in Paragraph 4 is the nearest in meaning to “________”.
A.solution B.concern
C.operation D.situation
4.The author became a nutrition consultant mainly because________.
A.his father often talked with him about dietary theories
B.he was determined to change his own daily habits
C.he wanted to study the recipes his grandmother had given him
D.his childhood experiences gave him too deep an impression
5.What can we learn about the author from the last paragraph?
A.He often quarreled with his father about food
B.His father will tell him his story in the following weeks
C.The most he talks about with his father is nourishment
D.He often sends recipe cards to his grandmother in return
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In order to support the big family, he worked so hard that he made himself ill.
A. occasionally B. purposefully C. normally D. eventually
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My dad loved pennies, especially those with wheat. Those were the pennies he grew up with in Iowa and he didn’t have many.
When I was a kid, Dad and I would go for walks together. We’d spy coins along the way. Whenever I picked up a penny, he'd ask, "Is it a wheat?" It always thrilled him when we found one of those special coins produced between 1909 and 1958, the year of my birth. He told me he often dreamed of finding coins. “I have that dream too!” I told him. It was our secret connection.
Dad died in 2002. One grey day, not long after his death, I was walking down Fifth Avenue and I found myself in front of the oldest church in Manhattan, which my father had been attending. I was greeted in warmly. The song was Dad's favorite, one we’d sung at his funeral.
After the service, I walked out, stepped onto the sidewalk—and there was a penny. I picked it up, and sure enough, it was a wheat, a 1944, a year my father was serving on a ship in the South Pacific. Then, wheat pennies began turning up on the sidewalks everywhere. I got most of the important years: his birth year, the war years, the year he met my mom, the year they got married. But, no 1958 penny-my year.
The next Sunday, after the service, I was walking up Fifth Avenue and spotted a penny in the middle of the street. It was a busy street, but I risked my safety and got it.
A wheat! There was my birthday.
I found 21 wheat pennies on the streets of Manhattan in the year after my father died, and I don't think that's a coincidence.
1.What is the best title for the text?
A. Pennies from Heaven
B. My loving Dad
C. My happy childhood
D. Days in New York
2.What do we know about Dad in the text?
A. Dad helped to build the old church.
B. Dad was once in the navy during the war.
C. Dad had enough money to spend as a kid.
D. Dad was greedy for he always looked for pennies.
3.How did the author find the penny with his year?
A. He searched hard and found it.
B. He dug in the street in order to get it.
C. He sang a religious song in order to find it.
D. He found it by chance but got it by trying hard.
4.What does the author mean by the last sentence?
A. Dad buried the pennies before passing away.
B. Our life is fixed and no one can change it.
C. The author thinks 21 pennies is a lot of money.
D. The pennies started for father’s love from heaven.
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In order to support the big family, he worked so hard that___________ he made himself ill.
A.occasionally | B.purposefully | C.normally | D.eventually |
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I grew up one of ten children on a farm in Wyoming.After my dad’s service in World War Ⅱ,he was ____ again to fight during the Korean War,and when he returned home,he couldn’t drink ____ to numb(麻痹) his terrible memories.He struggled to ____ for his growing family.
On our occasional trips to town,I ____ out boxfuls of books from the library.When I opened a book,I could ____ myself in unknown places—where children weren’t hungry and were in ____ of little.
When I wasn’t daydreaming,my ____ was the life I shared with my brothers and sisters.At night I hid under the covers ____ to silence the sounds of life in an alcoholic home.Classmates asked ____ we didn’t have electricity or a telephone.I suppose my explanations were ____ more than lies,but the stories I told improved ____ every book I read.
Starting at a very young age,my siblings(兄弟姐妹) and I sometimes got jobs to earn money—to put more food on the family table.We ____ newspapers,babysat,and cleaned other people’s houses.
Mom grew vegetables,raised chickens,and baked bread,so we seldom went hungry,even when supper was only a pot of beans.____ my real hunger wasn’t for food—it was a hunger for a better life.It was a hunger for knowledge about the world ___ our simple existence.It was a hunger to prove Dad ____ when he told us we would never amount to anything.
Hunger motivated my brothers and sisters to achieve much ____ than our parents expected ___ us.We devoured(如饥似渴地吸取) the offerings of the public schools because we realized that ____ would be our steppingstone into a brighter future.
Now I’m ____ of the accomplishments of my siblings:an art professor;a wellknown doctor;plus business owners.And me,I’m the keeper of the family stores.I’ll never know if we would have so many accumulated successes if we had not known ____ as children.But this I do know:I believe it can be a good thing.
1.A.drafted B.dismissed
C.invited D.involved
2.A.well B.plenty
C.enough D.heavily
3.A.search B.provide
C.hope D.leave
4.A.brought B.checked
C.gave D.carried
5.A.remind B.help
C.devote D.find
6.A.memory B.favor
C.possession D.need
7.A.reality B.fantasy
C.satisfaction D.affection
8.A.refusing B.pretending
C.attempting D.preparing
9.A.whether B.how
C.when D.why
10.A.something B.anything
C.nothing D.everything
11.A.as B.with
C.for D.at
12.A.sent B.delivered
C.published D.released
13.A.But B.And
C.Then D.Otherwise
14.A.above B.around
C.within D.beyond
15.A.right B.mean
C.wrong D.nice
16.A.more B.further
C.greater D.better
17.A.in B.for
C.of D.on
18.A.ambition B.dream
C.enthusiasm D.education
19.A.hunger B.suffering
C.desperation D.poverty
20.A.fond B.proud
C.aware D.confident
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I grew up in a community called Estepona. I was 16 when one morning, Dad told me I could drive him into a 31 village called Mijas, on condition that I took the car in to be 32 at a nearby garage. I readily accepted. I drove Dad into Mijas, and 33 to pick him up at 4 pm, then dropped off the car at the 34. With several hours to spare. I went to a theater. 35, when the last movie finished, it was six. I was two hours late!
I knew Day would be angry if he 36 I’d been watching movies. So I decided not to tell him the truth. When I 37 there I apologized for being late, and told him I’d 38 as quickly as I could, but that the car had needed some major repairs. I’ll never forget the 39 he gave me. “I’m disappointed you 40 you have to lie to me, Jason.” Dad looked at me again. “When you didn’t 41. I called the garage to ask if there were any 42, and they told me you hadn’t yet picked up the car. ” I felt 43 as I weakly told him the real reason. A 44 passed through Dad as he listened attentively. “I’m angry with 45. I realize I’ve failed as a father. I’m going to walk home now and think seriously about 46 I’ve gone wrong all these years.” “But Day, it’s 18 miles!” My protests and apologies were 47. Dad walked home that day. I drove behind him, 48 him all the way, but he walked silently.
Seeing Dad in so much 49 and emotional pain was my most painful experience. However, it was 50 the most successful lesson. I have never lied since.
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6..
A.realized | B.found out | C.thought | D.figured out |
7..
A.went | B.ran | C.walked | D.hurried |
8..
A.started | B.left | C.arrived | D.come |
9..
A.word | B.face | C.look | D.appearance |
10..
A.find | B.decide | C.believe | D.feel |
11..
A.turn up | B.drive out | C.go away | D.come out |
12. questions B. problems C. mistakes D. faults
13..
A.ashamed | B.frightened | C.nervous | D.surprised |
14..
A.nervousness | B.sadness | C.silence | D.thought |
15..
A.you | B.myself | C.me | D.yourself |
16..
A.where | B.how | C.why | D.when |
17.. A meaningless B. useless C. helpless D. worthless
18..
A.asking | B.persuading | C.begging | D.following |
19..
A.physical | B.practical | C.personal | D.natural |
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A.indeed | B.always | C.also | D.almost |
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I grew up in a family that ate dinner together every evening. Although my parents enjoyed wine, they rarely drank during the week and always in moderation(节制).As for myself,1 wasn't interested in alcoholic drinks and neither were my high school friends.
So when I arrived on campus for my first year of university life, I was a bit shocked. Many different events had been organized for the freshmen, but they all had one thing in common-alcohol, and plenty of .it wanting to be left out, I joined a few of the events. But I always returned home early, feeling disappointed. Your personality, interests and experiences didn't matter at all, only how many alcoholic drinks you could absorb before passing out(喝醉). It seemed shallow to me. I wanted to get to know my new coursemates, not how fast they. could down a pint of beer.
Gradually, however, I realized that real friends don't judge you by how much you can drink and there were other ways of making friends. I joined a photography society, took a first aid course, and every weekend l went cycling with a coursemate. I found that by engaging in these activities and sharing the fun of learning new skills together in a group ,I formed much stronger bonds with my new friends than even the strongest alcoholic drinks could encourage.
Another valuable lesson I learned is that it's perfectly okay to say "No" if you don't want to drink. However, in many Western societies, especially the UK, binge drinking(狂喝)has become the norm. Many people who drink don't necessarily want to, but they give in to the peer pressure(同伴压力)-they're afraid to say "No".
1.What shocked the author when he entered university?
A. The strange campus. B. The popularity of alcohol.
C. The drunken coursemates. D. The limited activities.
2.Why did the author return home early from the events at first?
A. He wasn't good at drinking.
B. He had no familiar coursemates.
C. He hated the way people got along.
D. He was left out by the organizers.
3.How did the author finally make real friends at university?
A. By saying "No" to alcoholic drinks.
B. By staying away from group activities.
C. By giving in to the peer pressure.
D. By joining people with common interests.
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