The mother of the 13-year-old Dutch girl Laura Dekker, whose plans to make a solo(单独的) sailing trip around the world have recently made world headlines, has spoken out against the trip. “It breaks my heart to think that because of this I could lose contact with my daughter,” she said in an interview. “I have never before made such a difficult decision. But I must accept the consequences. I would rather have a live daughter who I will never see again than a dead daughter.”
It is the first time that Laura’s mother, Babs Muller, has spoken out against the trip. Laura’s parents are divorced and the girl has lived with her father since she was six. Her father Dick Dekker supports Laura’s plans. However, the Dutch Child Protection Board has decided to place the girl under supervision (监督) for two months to find out whether she is mentally and physically able to take the journey. Ms Muller says she is confident that Laura is technically capable of making the journey. “She can sail like the devil. That’s not the problem.” However, she is afraid of the problems a 13-year-old girl can meet in the harbors of Third-World countries and of the psychological (心理上的) pressure of being alone for such a long period on the ocean. “The most important thing, in my eyes, is that she is not yet an adult.”
Ms Muller says she told Laura once before that she was against the idea. Her daughter replied, “If you forbid me, you will have ruined my entire life. Then I’ll never want to see you again.” However, Laura’s mother says that reports that a camera team is planning to follow her around the world could change her opinion about the trip.
1.Laura Dekker’s plans to sail solo around the world _________.
A. made her father unhappy
B. made her parents divorce
C . have attracted wide attention
D. were difficult decisions to make
2.We can learn that the Dutch Child Protection Board _________.
A. cares about Laura’s safety
B. doesn’t believe in Laura at all
C. will train Laura for two months
D. will help Laura realize her dream
3. It can be inferred that Laura Dekker and her mother_________.
A. might have a quarrel.
B. have reached an agreement.
C. have lost touch with each other.
D. are angry with Dick Dekker.
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The mother of the 13-year-old Dutch girl Laura Dekker, whose plans to make a solo(单独的) sailing trip around the world have recently made world headlines, has spoken out against the trip. “It breaks my heart to think that because of this I could lose contact with my daughter,” she said in an interview. “I have never before made such a difficult decision. But I must accept the consequences. I would rather have a live daughter who I will never see again than a dead daughter.”
It is the first time that Laura’s mother, Babs Muller, has spoken out against the trip. Laura’s parents are divorced and the girl has lived with her father since she was six. Her father Dick Dekker supports Laura’s plans. However, the Dutch Child Protection Board has decided to place the girl under supervision (监督) for two months to find out whether she is mentally and physically able to take the journey. Ms Muller says she is confident that Laura is technically capable of making the journey. “She can sail like the devil. That’s not the problem.” However, she is afraid of the problems a 13-year-old girl can meet in the harbors of Third-World countries and of the psychological (心理上的) pressure of being alone for such a long period on the ocean. “The most important thing, in my eyes, is that she is not yet an adult.”
Ms Muller says she told Laura once before that she was against the idea. Her daughter replied, “If you forbid me, you will have ruined my entire life. Then I’ll never want to see you again.” However, Laura’s mother says that reports that a camera team is planning to follow her around the world could change her opinion about the trip.
1.Laura Dekker’s plans to sail solo around the world _________.
A. made her father unhappy
B. made her parents divorce
C . have attracted wide attention
D. were difficult decisions to make
2.We can learn that the Dutch Child Protection Board _________.
A. cares about Laura’s safety
B. doesn’t believe in Laura at all
C. will train Laura for two months
D. will help Laura realize her dream
3. It can be inferred that Laura Dekker and her mother_________.
A. might have a quarrel.
B. have reached an agreement.
C. have lost touch with each other.
D. are angry with Dick Dekker.
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After a year of being prepared, Laura Dekker can’t wait to set sail .Last August ,the Dutch government decided that Laura Dekker was too young to take on the challenge of sailing around the world alone. But after a year of preparing herself , Laura has been allowed to sail.
”I was so happy I almost jump into the water,” Laura said , after learning of the court’s judgement. She was born on a yacht(游艇) in the South Pacific ,and now lives with her father in a boat. When Dutch child protection groups first heard about her plan to sail alone , they stopped her from doing so .
Since the decision, though, Laura had been preparing with her father to persuade the courts that she was ready. Last week she received the books and other materials she would need for school while she was at sea. She added safety equipment to a new, big ship. And she took her first aid course to learn several survival skills, like how to put out fires on the boat, take care of her own injuries and deal with lack of sleep. She also planned a safer course --- adding alternate routes(备用路径) to avoid pirate(海盗) attacks, and planning a course that would have her on dry land as she moved from port to port across the world.
Laura is using a larger and more safer boat. If she finished successfully in less than two years, she will take the title from current record-holder Jessica Watson, of Australia, who was 16 when she completed the journey.
1.Why didn’t the Dutch government allow Laura Dekker to sail alone ?
A.She was too old to take care of herself
B.She was too young to sail alone.
C. She was not well prepared
D. It would cause trouble to the government.
2.It can be inferred that Laura’s sailing plan was first ______.
A. not allowed by her father and mother
B. supported by her father and mother
C. not allowed by Dutch child protection groups
D. supported by Dutch child protection groups
3.When Laura is at sea ,she might _____.
A. learn some lessons by herself
B. learn some lessons with the help of her father
C. stop her school lessons for some time
D. not learn any lessons of her schooling
4.According to the passage , Laura made good preparations in the following EXCEPT _____.
A, struggling against sharks
B. learning knowledge in first aid
C. improving the yacht
D. improving herself with survival skills
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After a year at sea, 16-year-old Laura Dekker can finally say, “Mission accomplished!” Last month, she finished a daring trip around the world aboard her 38-foot boat, Guppy. Dekker, who is from the Netherlands, traveled more than 30,000 miles all by herself. She is the youngest person ever to sail around the globe alone.
Dekker had wanted to lake on this challenge when she was even younger. She first tried to set sail at the age of 13, but a court in the Netherlands stopped her. They said that she was too young to make such a risky trip by herself. But Dekker insisted she had the navigation skills and patience of an adult sailor.
She finally took off on January 20, 2011. During her trip, Dekker battled loneliness, storms, and worries about pirates. But she also got to surf, scuba dive, and started a new hobby: playing the flute. Although Dekker didn’t spend all of her time at sea—she stopped at ports along the way—she did spend her 16lh birthday on the open ocean. To celebrate, she ale doughnuts for breakfast.
But Dekker didn’t sail into the record books. Guinness World Records and the World Sailing Speed Record Council no longer recognize records for “youngest” sailors. They dropped the category in 2009 to discourage children from attempting such dangerous feats (壮举) But that didn’t stop Dekker，who was born on a yacht during a seven-year world voyage undertaken by her parents.
Dekker doesn’t mind that she won’t hold an official record. She says it was a personal goal, and she is happy she achieved it.
“I am not disappointed at all that Guinness World Record won’t recognize my attempt.” Dekker wrote on her website. “I did not start on my trip to achieve any record…I did it just for myself.”
1.Dekker wasn’t allowed to sail at the age of 13 because .
A. people were concerned about her safety
B. she didn’t learn any sailing skills well
C. she had to continue her study at school
D. she didn’t have enough patience for long trips
2.What does the underlined word “accomplished” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A. Failed. B. Completed.
C. Continued. D. Started.
3.In 2009 records for youngest sailors were canceled in order to .
A. set a higher sailing standard for teen sailors
B. stop children entering Guinness World Records
C. encourage parents to sail with their children
D. prevent children making dangerous attempts
4.What could be the best title for this passage?
A. A New Guinness World Record in Sailing
B. A New Sailing Standard for Teen Sailors
C. A Teen Girl Sailing Alone Around the World
D. The Youngest Sailor in Guinness World Records
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Miep Gies, the woman who hid the Dutch girl Anne Frank’s diary from the Nazis to become one of the world’s most-read books, died after a brief illness at the age of 100.
It was Gies who guarded Anne’s diary, and presented it to the girl’s father, Otto, when he returned from the Auschwitz concentration camp(奥斯威辛集中营) at the end of World War Ⅱ—the only one of his family to survive.
In her diary, Anne Frank wrote about her teenage life hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam from 1942 to 1944, when the Nazi police discovered her and her family’s hiding place. The diary, first published in 1947, has been translated into 70 languages.
Anne Frank expressed a great wish to live on after her death. Miep Gies saw it as her duty to help in making this happen.
Born in Vienna in 1909, Gies moved to the Netherlands at the age of 11. In 1933, she began working for Otto Frank at his trading company. At great risk to her own safety, she and four other helpers brought food and supplies to the Frank family hiding in a secret office building for more than two years.
When she turned 100, Gies tried to play down her own role. “I’m not a hero,” she said. “It wasn’t something I planned in advance. I simply did what I could to help.”
Every day she received letters from all over the world with questions about her relationship with Anne Frank and her role as a helper. Gies received many honors for her role, including from the Netherlands, Germany and Israel.
1.When did Miep Gies move to the Netherlands?
A.In 1909. B.In 1947.
C.In 1920. D.In 1933.
2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.Only Miep Gies helped the Frank family.
B.Anne’s father Otto survived World War Ⅱ.
C.Anne’s hiding place was discovered in 1943.
D.Miep Gies wasn’t highly honored until her death.
3.By saying “Gies tried to play down her own role”, the writer means Gies ________.
A.didn’t play a role in saving the diary. B.regretted saving the diary.
C.was proud of what she had done. D.thought she was overpraised.
4.What’s the best title for the passage?
A.Woman who saved Anne’s diary dies at 100.
B.Anne Frank’s diary.
C.Survivors of World War Ⅱ.
D.The story of Miep Gies and Anne Frank.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.What is the name of the woman’s mother?
A. Betty. B. Laura. C. Josephine.
2.What does the man want his daughter to be like?
A. Innocent. B. Beautiful. C. Tough.
3.What is the woman’s attitude toward names?
A. All girls’ names are attractive.
B. Babies should be named after relatives.
C. Names don’t influence personality.
4.What will the speakers probably do?
A. Name the baby Victoria.
B. Let grandma name the baby.
C. Continue to search for the right name.
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(CBS/AP)Lawyers for the stepfather of an 11-year-old girl tried to convince Massachusetts’ highest court on Tuesday that he should have a say on whether his stepdaughter is removed from life support. If the girl dies, Jason Strickland could face a murder charge for illegally taking part in the beating that left her comatose(昏迷).
Jason Strickland is asking the court to overturn a juvenile(少年) court judge’s decision allowing the state to remove Haleigh Poutre from her ventilator (呼吸机) and feeding tube.
Haleigh Poutre was hospitalized in September after her stepfather and adoptive mother kicked her and beat her nearly to death with a baseball bat.
Within two weeks of being charged, the adoptive mother, who was also Haleigh’s aunt, was found dead.
Strickland is free on bail(保释) while awaiting trial.
Sharyn Alfonsi from CBS reports that the girl’s biological mother, Allison Avrett, gave up her parental right years ago and now she has no say in what happens to Halleigh—but she wants life support to be relieved.
“I want her to rest,” Avrett told Alfonsi．“Being kept alive like that, it’s not a life.”
The state Department of Social Services wants to remove her from life support, according to opinions from her doctors that the girl is in a permanent vegetative(植物人状态的) state．And Strickland could face a murder charge if she dies.
Both of Haleigh’s doctors agree that she should be removed from the ventilator, but they can’t decide whether her feeding tube should be disconnected．They have said that with her feeding tube alone, Haleigh could live as long as two months.
Haleigh was adopted by her aunt about five years ago her biological mother moved to Virginia with a new boyfriend．Jason Strickland never formally adopted the girl, but is arguing that as the stepfather, he should be a de facto parent and allowed to have a say in whether she lives or dies.
1.CBS/AP are most probably ________.
A．two news reporters
B．a newspaper and a news reporter
C．a news agency and a newspaper
D．two news agencies
2.Which of the following is the right order of the events in the story?
a．Haleigh was adopted by her aunt．
b．Haleigh became comatose.
c．Haleigh was kicked and beaten badly
d．Haleigh’s aunt died.
e．Haleigh was put into hospital
f．Haleigh’s biological mother left her
A．c, e, b, f, a, d
B．f, a, c, b, e, d
C．b, c, a, f, d, e
D．b, c, e, f, a, d
3.Why did Haleigh’s stepfather demand that her life support not be removed?
A．Because he might be accused of murder if she died.
B．Because she might be comatose if the life support was removed.
C．Because Haleigh’s biological mother hopes so too.
D．Because he hopes that Haleigh will live with him.
4.The underlined word “de facto” most probably means ________.
A．existing in fact B．the second
C．the only existing D．admitted by law
5.The passage is mainly about ________.
A．the stepfather of a girl
B．the adoptive mother of a girl
C．a girl beaten nearly to death
D．a juvenile court judge’s decision
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The family of a 6-year-old adopted Chinese girl who badly needs a bone marrow transplant (骨髓移植) believes they have found a match in China.
Kailee Wells suffers from a serious aplastic anemia (再生障碍性贫血), which prevents bone marrow from producing new blood cells. She has taken courses of treatment but has shown little sign of recovery.
The best help for such patients is a transplant of healthy marrow or blood cells from a suitable donor. Certain tissue of the patient and the donor must match.
Kailee’s mother, Linda Wells, made her second trip to China earlier this month to find a donor. Her husband, Owen Wells, said that his wife believed doctors there had found a match.
“For these last 22 months, we’ve been living in fear that Kailee would take a turn for the worse and there would be nothing we could do about it,” he said. “Now we have something we can use and save our little girl. We are just about ready to start jumping up and down and rejoicing.”
Wells said a Chinese girl who is about a year old has a blood sample that matches Kailee’s perfectly. The next step, he said, would be to make sure the sample is safely harvested and protected for transplant, the details of which have yet to be worked out.
Linda Wells first traveled to China in February to try to locate the girl’s birth mother, who is likely to be a match. But she found no relatives and decided to try again this month.
“This gives us so much encouragement because now we found what we thought we would never be able to find for Kailee,” Owen Wells said. “We’re going to continue our blood donor drive to try to continue to help as many people as we possibly can. We’re just so happy.”
1.What do we know about Kailee Wells?
A. She was adopted by a Chinese family.
B. She has a one-year-old sister in China.
C. She was recovering from aplastic anemia.
D. She is unable to produce new blood cells.
2.The underlined word “rejoicing” in Paragraph 5 can be best replaced by “_____”.
A. waving B. moving
C. cheering D. crying
3.What can we infer from the text?
A. Linda Wells has found the girl’s birth mother.
B. Owen and Linda tried every means to cure Kailee.
C. Doctors have worked out plans to protect the sample.
D. Owen and Linda visited China twice to find a perfect match.
4.What would be the best title for the text?
A. Long and deep friendship between two families. B. Faith leads to hope.
C. Match found for a bone marrow transplant. D. The journey to China.
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Philip was a nine-year-old boy in a Sunday school class of 8-year-old girls and boys. Sometimes the third graders didn’t welcome Philip into their group and usually tricked him. This was not because he was older, but because he was “different”. You see, Philip suffered from a condition called Downs’s Syndrome. This made him “different”, with his facial characteristics, slow responses and mental problems.
One Sunday after Easter, the Sunday school teacher gathered some plastic eggs that pulled apart in the middle. The teacher gave one to each child. On that beautiful spring day, the children were to go out and discover for themselves some symbol of “new life” and place it inside the plastic eggs.
After the children returned to the classroom, the teacher opened their eggs one by one, asking each child to explain that symbol of “new life”. The first opened egg contained a flower. Everyone cheered. In another was a butterfly…. When the teacher opened the last egg, it was empty. “That’s stupid,” said someone. The teacher felt a pull at his shirt. It was Philip. Looking up, Philip said, “It’s mine. I did it. It’s empty. I have new life, because the tomb is empty.” Not a sound was heard in class at all. From that day on, Philip became a real part of the group. They welcomed him, and whatever made him different was never mentioned again.
1.The underlined word “condition” in the first paragraph probably means ________.
A．grade B．status C．health D．disease
2.It can be inferred from the first paragraph that ________.
A．The 8-year-olds were sometimes cruel
B．The 8-year-olds were friendly to Philip
C．Philip was really different in school
D．Philip was older and more sensitive
3.The teacher gave each child one plastic egg to let them ________.
A．play around on that beautiful spring day
B．put some symbol of “new life” into it
C．try to pull it apart in the middle
D．go out and discover themselves
4.After Philip explained his new life, ________.
A．The class thought he was clever. B．The class fell silent.
C．He began to study in the class. D．He felt dying.
5.We learn from the passage that ________.
A．The teacher used to have classes outdoors
B．The Philip’s new life wish was empty
C．Philip was healthy as a whole
D．Philip was accepted by his classmates in the end
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An 8-year-old boy achieved the wish of his late (已故的) mother to climb Jade Mountain. Tzou Ze Gang, along with his father, _________ their two-day climbing _________ on August 18. Along the way the boy _________ a photo of his late mother. They _________ to reach the top of Jade Mountain on August 20. Standing at 3, 952 meters above sea level, Jade Mountain is seen as the _________ mountain in Taiwan.
Tzou was only 4 years old when he first _________ Jade Mountain and he had dreamed of climbing it ever since. For the locals, the mountain is _________ believed the home of the Goddess of Life.
The boy was _________ by the mountain and promised his mother that they would both climb it one day. _________, years later his mother had to __________ leg surgery (手术), which made her unable to __________ the mountain. “When you __________ the world in the future, you can bring Mummy’s things along,” his mother told him. Unluckily, she __________ last year. Tzou’s father __________ the child during their training by saying, “Jade Mountain is the highest point in Taiwan. I’m sure we’ll be __________ to Mummy over there.”
The climb was __________ for Tzou. He felt __________ and was out of breath (气喘吁吁). He __________ felt sick even after resting. But Tzou’s father said Tzou felt much better when they were on their last __________, adding that the final 200 meters was a piece of cake for him.
Upon reaching the top, Tzou pulled out his mother’s __________ and shouted, “Mummy! We’ve reached the top. I carried you to the top of Jade Mountain!”
1.A.shared B.started C.enjoyed D.described
2.A.competition B.event C.program D.experience
3.A.watched B.kept C.carried D.lost
4.A.managed B.tried C.preferred D.promised
5.A.highest B.smallest C.farthest D.coldest
6.A.searched B.walked down C.removed D.heard of
7.A.foolishly B.secretly C.truly D.wrongly
8.A.troubled B.attracted C.moved D.frightened
9.A.However B.As a result C.Instead D.What’s more
10.A.join in B.beg for C.carry out D.go through
11.A.climb B.imagine C.reach D.notice
12.A.save B.understand C.explore D.create
13.A.fell ill B.passed away C.got injured D.broke down
14.A.rewarded B.encouraged C.raised D.punished
15.A.more honest B.kinder C.more polite D.closer
16.A.easy B.exciting C.difficult D.relaxing
17.A.unhappy B.secure C.uncomfortable D.enjoyable
18.A.quickly B.never C.hardly D.just
19.A.point B.half C.day D.part
20.A.book B.photo C.gift D.phone
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There were a family of nine: the father, the mother, two boys and five girls. The father worked as a kitchen cleaner at a local school and the rest of the family did the same job-----clean people’s yards.________1.________
Then one day, the father lost his job at the school. He asked me if I could allow him to clean my yard.________2.________ He and his family came to our house three times a week to clean the yard.
One Sunday morning, the father suffered a stroke and died in the hospital two days later. The poor family had lost their main bread-winner. The eldest boy had just completed high school and was getting ready to go to college.________3.________
For the following years, Andrew, my husband and I did all our best to help make sure the family got their education, and provided some daily needs, like clothes.
________4.________. They didn’t have a toilet in their home! Imagine! A mother, a fifteen-year-old girl, and four smaller children without a toilet or bathroom!
The next morning, my friend Peter came to my house. Then I told him I wanted to do something for the poor family. As a helpful man, he promised to offer some money. So together we built a bathroom and a toilet for this family in three days.________5.________. And we felt happy, too.
A．Clearly, they lived a poor life.
B．The others were just little kids
C．Realizing his situation, I offered him the job at once.
D．This brought a lot of smiles and happiness to the family.
E.Every day we gave her some pocket money.
F.We visited the family once and one thing made us greatly surprised.
G.You would be surprised to know that this poor family lived in just two rooms!
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