“A bird with a broken wing will never fly as ...

“A bird with a broken wing will never fly as high. ” I’m sure T. J,　 Ware was made to feel this way almost every day in school.

By high school, T, J. was the most celebrated troublemaker in his town. Teachers literally cringed when they saw his name posted on their classroom lists.

I met T. J. for the first time when all the students at school were attending ACE training.　 At first, he showed no interest in the discussion.　 But slowly, the interactive games drew him in.　 T. J.　 had some brilliant thoughts on those situations, which were welcomed by his group.　 By the end of the activity, the other students on the team were impressed with his concern and ideas and elected T. J.　 co-chairman of the team.

When T. J. showed up at school on Monday morning, a group of teachers were expressing their disagreements to the school principal about his being elected co-chairman. The principal reminded them that the purpose of the program was to uncover any positive feeling and strengthen its practice until true change can take place. The teachers left the meeting, firmly convinced that failure was unavoidable.

Two weeks later, T. J.　 and his friends led a group of 70 students to collect food　 They collected a school record: 2,854 cans of food in just two hours.　 The local newspaper covered the event with a full-page article the next day. That newspaper story was posted on the main bulletin board at school, where everyone could see it.　

T. J. ,s picture was up there for doing something great.

T. J. started showing up at school every day and answered questions from teachers for the first time.　 The event he started now yields 9,000 cans of food in one day, taking care of 70 percent of the need for food for one year.

T, J. reminds us that a bird with a broken wing only needs mending.　 But once it has healed, it can fly higher than the rest.　 T. J.　 got a job.　 He became productive.　 He is flying quite nicely these days.

1.What do we know about T.J. before he attended the training?

A. He was talkative in class.

B. He didn't have a good fame.

C. His ideas were quite impressive.

D. He showed up at school every day.

2.Why did the team members elect T.J. co-chairman?

A. He promised them a bright future.

B. They wanted to offer him a chance.

C. They thought the job was quite easy.

D. He was considered qualified for the job.

3.What do we know about people's attitude towards T. J. 's being elected?

A. Uncaring.　　 B. Favorable.

C. Controversial.　　 D. Doubtful.

4.What does the author try to convey with this story?

A. No pain, no gain.　　 B. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

C. Don't judge a book by its cover.　　 D. Treat others as you want to be treated.

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You’ll surly make progress  _______ you work with a strong will.

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These motorized bikes are highly effective for city traffic as you will never run out of ______ to park.

A.options B.patience C.resources D.universe

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California Condor’s Shocking Recovery

California condors are North America’s largest birds, with wing-length of up to 3 meters. In the 1980s, electrical lines and lead poisoning(铅中毒) nearly drove them to dying out. Now, electric shock training and medical treatment are helping to rescue these big birds.

In the late 1980s, the last few condors were taken from the wild, and there are now more than 150 flying over California and nearby Arizona, Utah and Baja in Mexico.

Electrical lines have been killing them off. “As they go in to rest for the night, they just don’t see the power lines,” says Bruce Rideout of San Diego Zoo. Their wings can bridge the gap between lines, resulting in electrocution(电死) if they touch two lines at once.

So scientists have come up with a shocking idea. Tall poles, placed in large training areas, teach the birds to stay clear of electrical lines by giving them a painful but undeadly electric shock. Before the training was introduced, 66% of set-freed condors died of electrocution. This has now dropped to 18%.

Lead poisonous has proved more difficult to deal with. When condors eat dead bodies of other animals containing lead, they absorb large quantities of lead. This affects their nervous systems and ability to produce baby birds, and can lead to kidney(肾) failures and death. So condors with high levels of lead are sent to Los Angeles Zoo, where they are treated with calcium EDTA, a chemical that removes lead from the blood over several days. This work is starting to pay off. The annual death rate for adult condors has dropped from 38% in 2000 to 5.4% in 2011.

Rideout’s team thinks that the California condors’ average survival time in the wild is now just under eight years. “Although these measures are not effective forever, they are vital for now,” he says. “They are truly good birds that are worth every effort we put into recovering them. ”

1.California condors attract researchers’ interest because they .

A.are active at night

B.had to be bred in the wild

C.are found on in California

D.almost died out in the 1980s

2.Researchers have found electrical lines are.

A.blocking condors’ journey home　

B. big killers of Califorbnia condoras

C. rest places for condors at night

D. used to keep condors away

3.According to Paraghaph 5 ,lead poisoning.

A.makes condors too nervous to fly　　　　

B. has little effect on condors’ kidneys

C. can hardly be gotten rid of form condors’ blood

D. makes it different for condors to produce baby birds

4.The passage shows that .

A.the average survival time of condors is satisfactory

B.Rideout’s research interest lies in electric engineering

C.the efforts to protect condors have brought good results

D.researchers have found the final answers to the problem

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An old man found a sparrow with a broken wing. He brought it home and nursed it back to  26 . Afterwards, though it could fly, the sparrow 27  to leave the house. The old man`s wife asked her husband to get rid of the bird as it was 28  the house.But he wouldn`t listen.

One day while her husband was asleep, the woman 29  the sparrow, took it far away from the house,and let it go,warning it never to 30  . The old man missed his friend and hoped it would come back, 31  it never did. Then one day,several weeks later,he was walking past an old house when he heard a 32  sound.He looked up and there was the 33 , sitting on the gate.The sparrow gave the old man a gold 34 it had found in the house.

The old man did not 35   much about money,but his wife was 36 when she saw the coin,and made up her mind to get more from the sparrow. 37 ,early the next morning she slipped out of her house and made her 38  to the old house.When she saw the sparrow she  39  it to return.

“If you have found 40  __,bring it along and I`ll spend it all on you.”she promised.

The sparrow brought her an old 41   with the help of its friends.The basket was 42  but the woman did not wait to find out what was in it.She grabbed it and ran,43  that the sparrow would follow and take up residence(住所）in her house again.

The moment she reached home,she 44 the basket,expecting it to be filled to the eaves(屋檐）with gold and silver.Instead,out 45 dozens of sparrows.

The woman spent the rest of her life trying to drive the sparrows out.

1.A. danger                         B. life                          C. health                      D. help

2.A. refused                        B. decided                    C. managed                  D. failed

3.A. cleaning                      B. sweeping                  C. building                   D. dirtying

4.A. fed                              B. noticed                     C. caught                      D. killed

5.A. return                          B.fly                            C. stay                         D. cry

6.A. and                             B. if                             C. but                          D. until

7.A. strange                        B. sweet                       C.loud                          D. familiar

8.A. cat                              B. sparrow                    C. basket                      D. stick

9.A. coin                            B. watch                       C. ring                         D. cup

10.A. bring                         B. take                         C. care                         D. put

11.A. afraid                        B.sad                           C. nervous                    D.excited

12.A. However                    B. Therefore                 C. Instead                     D. Luckily

13.A. way                           B. mark                        C. picture                     D. sign

14.A. forbade                      B. forced                      C. begged                     D. helped

15.A. food                          B. treasure                    C. rooms                      D.plant

16.A. bowl                         B. box                          C. chair                        D. basket

17.A. covered                     B. empty                      C. big                          D. small

18.A. pleased                      B. afraid                       C. anxious                    D. hopeful

19.A. laid                           B. broke                       C. hid                          D. opened

20.A. walked                      B. ran                          C. flew                         D. jumped

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As motorways become more and more blocked up with traffic, a new generation on flying cars will be needed to ferry people along skyways. That is the conclusion of engineers from the US space agency and aeronautical firms, who envision future commuters traveling by “skycar”.

These could look much like the concept skycar shown in the picture, designed by Boeing research and development. However, such vehicles could be some 25 years from appearing on the market. Efforts to build flying vehicles in the past have not been very successful. Such vehicles would not only be expensive and require the skills of a trained pilot to fly, but there are significant engineering challenges involved in developing them. “When you try to combine them you get the worst of both worlds: a very heavy, slow, expensive vehicle that’s hard to use,” said Mark Moore, head of the personal air vehicle(PAV) division of the vehicle systems program at Nasa’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, US. But Boeing is also considering how to police the airways-and prevent total pandemonium(吵杂狂乱的喧闹)-if thousands of flying cars enter the skies.

“The neat, gee-whiz part is thinking about what the vehicle itself would look like,” said Dick Paul, a vice president with Phantom Works, Boeing’s research and development arm. “But we’re trying to think through all the consequences of what it would take to deploy(散开) a fleet of these.”

Past proposals to solve this problem have included artificial intelligence systems to prevent collisions between air traffic. Nasa is working on flying vehicles with the initial goal of transforming small plane travel. Small planes are generally costly, loud, and require months of training and lots of money to operate, making flying to work impractical for most people. But within five years, Nasa researchers hope to develop technology for a small plane that can fly out of regional airports, costs less than $100,000(£55,725), is as quiet as a motorcycle and as simple to operate as a car.

Although it would not have any road-driving capabilities, it would bring this form of travel within the grasp of a wider section of people. The new technology would automate many of the pilot’s functions. This Small Aircraft Transportation System(Sats) would divert pressure away from the “hub-and-spoke(中心辐射型)” model of air travel. Hub-and-spoke refers to the typically US model of passengers being processed through large “hub” airports and then on to secondary flights to “spoke” airports near their final destinations.

1.The best title for this text would be ________.

2. The underlined word “envision” in Paragraph 1 most probably means “________”.

3.When engineers develop the skycars, they have to deal with the following difficulties except ________.

4. Now Nasa researchers’ aim is to ________.

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From the moment the iron bird landed in the roaring noise of Logan Airport with its wings proudly spread, my wings withered quietly in this unfamiliar country.

“I think... I don’t know... I just want to say ...” My voice _______　 into the noise of the grand dining hall of Deerfield Academy, _______ listening. Like most of the Asian students, I found myself able to　 ___________　 my head, only in math class. All this made me puzzled and _______ .

“Helen, what is your name in Chinese?” Rosie asked me one morning as I_______ my backpack onto the seat next to her.

“Gao Yuxin”, I_______ clearly in standard Chinese, slightly surprised by the _______.　　 “Why?”

“Just interested. Can you write it there?” She_______ at the board.

I printed my name in Chinese characters “高雨莘” in the center of the board.

“ Yuxin (雨莘) is my _______ name. Yu (雨) means ‘to give rain’ and ‘xin’ means ‘many’. ‘To give rain to the many’________ my parents’ hope that I can nourish the many people around　 me.”

Mild laughter, even one or two whistles ________from the silence. “Wow.” “Cool!”

“But I am new.” I murmured, “I think I need your　 ________more than you need mine...”

“So, what are the four little　 ________in the character ‘rain’?” Rosie asked.

“They are rain drops.”

“ ________I put eight dots in it?”

“Hmm...Big rain, then.” I answered ________.

For the first time since my ________ at the school, I laughed with such abandon and my old __________. Helen Keller, after whom I __________　 myself in English—a privilege __________　 for most Asian students coming West—magically managed to________ with the world and “ nourished the many” despite her loss of vision and hearing.

1.A.picked up B.died away C.sent out D.carried away

2.A.anybody B.somebody C.nobody D.everybody

3.A.raise B.hold C.turn D.shake

4.A.sensitive B.innocent C.conservative D.upset

5.A.seized B.cast C.dropped D.found

6.A.pronounced B.wrote C.announced D.yelled

7.A.expression B.request C.command D.question

8.A.glared B.aimed C.kept D.pointed

9.A.full B.first C.family D.original

10.A.stands by B.stands out C.stands for D.stands back

11.A.rose B.ranged C.escaped D.made

12.A.comfort B.help C.sympathy D.contribution

13.A.characters B.signs C.signals D.dots

14.A.How about B.How come C.What if D.What about

15.A.carefully B.jokingly C.frankly D.angrily

16.A.arrival B.departure C.application D.approach

17.A.patience B.caution C.ease D.interest

18.A.taught B.prepared C.devoted D.named

19.A.reserved B.swapped C.served D.compensated

20.A.communicate B.consult C.discuss D.live

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The creation of art can fly with the wings of________, but make sure art workers walk on solid earth.

A. imagination　　 B. determination

C. seriousness　　　 D. realization

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观察下面的一幅漫画，用英语写一篇100-120左右题为"Birds with Weak Wings"的短文。

要求：1、简要描述漫画内容；    2、说明图示所反映的社会现状；

3、发表自己的观点和看法；4、参考词汇：农民工(off-farm workers)。

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You have never seen him,but they're with you every time you fly.They record where you are going,how fast you're traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally.Their ability to withstand（经受得住）almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a magic book.They're known as the black box.

When planes fall from the sky,as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean June 30,2009,the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong.So when a French submarine（潜水艇）detected the device's homing signal five days later,the discovery marked a huge step toward determining the cause of a tragedy in which 152 passengers were killed.

In 1958,Australian scientist David Warren developed a flight-memory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction.That was the first mode for a black box,which became a requirement on all U.S.commercial flights by 1960.Early models often failed to withstand crashes,however,so in 1965 the device（装置）was completely redesigned and moved to the back of the plane-the area least affected bu impact-from its original position in the landing wells（起落架舱). The same year, the Federal Aviation Authority required that the boxes,which were never actually black,be painted orange or yellow to aid visibility.

Modern airplanes have two black boxes: a voice recorder,which tracks pilots' conversations,and a flight-data recorder,which monitors fuel levels,engine noises and other operating functions that help investigators reconstruct the aircraft's final moments.Placed in an insulated ( 隔绝的) case and surrounded by a quarter-inch-thick panels of stainless steel,the boxes can withstand massive force and temperatures up to 2,000℉.When in deep water,they're also able to emit signals from depths of 20,000 ft.Experts believe the boxes from Air France Flight 447,which crashed near Brazil on June 1,2009,are in water nearly that deep,but statistics say they're still likely to turn up.In the approximately 20 deep-sea crashes over the past 30 years,only one plane's black boxes were never recovered.

1.In Paragraph 1，the author wants to say the black box_________.

A. comes from a comic book　　 B. is an necessary device on an airplane

C. can prevent disasters　　 D. can control the function of an airplane

2.From the black box on the Yemeni airliner _________ could be found.

A. the scene of the crash and the degree of the damage　　 B. the total number of passengers on board

C. homing signals sent by the pilot before the crash　　 D. data for analyzing the cause of the crash

3.Why was the black box redesigned in 1965?

A. The early models often got damaged in the crash.　　 B. New materials became available by that time.

C. Too much space was needed for its device.　　 D. The early models didn't provide the needed data.

4.What do we know about the black boxes from Air France Flight 447?

A. They have stopped sending homing signals.　　 B. There is an urgent need for them to be reconstructed.

C. There is still a good chance of their being recovered.　　 D. They were destroyed somewhere near Brazil.

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