Although he is only eleven years old, James h...

Although he is only eleven years old, James helps the aged. Every day, he goes to Redhill 1. train to help three old people with housework and shopping. In this way, he has made their lives much easier. It is through James’ hard work that a Neighbourhood Care Program has been started. So far, James and his friends 2. (form) a group of young volunteers to seek out the people 3. need help. They do this without funding and without recognition. Their main aim is 4. (make) a difference through personal sacrifice.

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You mean the boy is only 12 years old? He seems much taller ______ his age.

A. for              B. on               C. at                   D. with

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Timmy was only 11 years old, but he is already 1.7 meters tall. He is too tall __________ his age, I think.

A. at                                           B. in                                                  C. about                                D. for

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Although he was disabled when he was only ten years of age, yet he aimed _____, for which his classmates spoke _______ of him.

A．high; high         B．highly; highly       C．highly; high        D．high; highly

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Pierre is a 25-year-old penguin at the California Academy of Sciences. Due to his old age, he was going bald, which made him feel too cold to swim in the pool. Therefore, biologists at the academy had a wetsuit created for this penguin to help him get back in the swimming pool.

Unlike marine mammals, which have a layer of fat to keep them warm, penguins depend on their waterproof feathers. Without them, Pierre was unwilling to jump into the swimming pool and ended up trembling on the side of the pool while his 19 peers played in the water.

"He was cold; he would shake," said Pam Schaller, a senior biologist. Schaller first tried a heat lamp to keep Pierre warm. Then she got another idea: if wetsuits keep humans warm in the cold Pacific, why not make one for Pierre?

Schaller designed the suit, which covered Pierre’s body and had small openings for his flippers.

“I would walk behind him and look at where there were any gaps, and cut and refit and cut and refit until it looked like it was extremely suitable,” she said.

One concern was that the other penguins would reject Pierre in his new suit, but in fact, they accepted his new look. He swam freely and got along with others well, although he was the only penguin with a black stomach.

Schaller couldn’t say for sure whether the wetsuit allowed Pierre to recover his fine feathers, but “certainly we were able to keep him comfortable during a period of time that would have been very difficult for him to stay comfortable”.

Pierre will take off his suit after his new feathers grow back.

1.Pierre felt too cold to swim in the pool because of _____.

A. not having a layer of blubber            B. having few feathers due to old age

C. having no wetsuit                        D. others penguins rejecting him

2.The idea of making a wetsuit for Pierre came from _____.

A. total invention                          B. waterproof feathers

C. the use of wetsuit on humans             D. the use of heat lamp

3.Schaller followed Pierre in order to see _____.

A. whether other penguins would reject him

B. if anywhere of wetsuit needed to be cut and refit

C. if the wetsuit kept warm

D. whether the wetsuit would keep the feathers from recovering

4.The best title of the passage is _____.

A. Wetsuit for An Old Penguin           B. Old Penguin Getting Bald

C. Unwilling to Swim                    D. Strange Look of Pierre

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Although she is only 16 years old, she ______ to drugs for two years.

A. addicts　　 B. had been addicted

C. has addicted　　 D. has been addicted

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400-year-old plants from the Little Ice Age were brought back to life, which could help us understand how the Earth will deal with climate change.

Moss(藓类植物) found buried beneath the Teardrop glacier(冰川) on Ellesmere Island in Canada has been brought back to life. Findings suggest that these plants could help repopulate regions exposed by melting ice caps. Plants that were buried beneath thick ice in Canada more than 400 years ago and were thought to have frozen to death have been brought back to life by Canadian scientists.

Samples of the moss plant, covered by the glacier during the Little Ice Age of 1550 to 1850 AD, were replanted in a lab at the University of Alberta and grew new stems(茎). Researchers now think these findings can give indication as to how regions can recover as the ice covering them melts.

Biologist Dr. Catherine La Farge and her team at the University of Alberta were exploring the region around the Teardrop glacier on Ellesmere Island. Ice on Ellesmere Island region has been melting at around four meters each year for the past nine years. This means that many areas of land that were previously covered by ice have since been exposed. Many ecosystems that were thought to have been destroyed during the Little Ice Age between 1550 and 1850 AD can now be studied, including many species that have never been studied before.

While examining an exposed area of land, La Farge and her team discovered a small area of moss called Aulacomnium turgidum. It is a type of bryophyte(苔藓类植物) plant that mainly grows across Canada, the US and the Highlands of Scotland.

Dr La Farge noticed that the moss had small patches of green stems, suggesting it is either growing again or can be encouraged to repopulate. Dr La Farge told the BBC, “When we looked at the samples in detail and brought them to the lab, I could see some of the stems actually had new growth of green branches, suggesting that these plants are growing again, and that blew my mind. When we think of thick areas of ice covering the landscape, we’ve always thought that plants have to come from refugia(濒绝生物保护区), never considering that land plants come from underneath a glacier. It’s a whole world of what’s coming out from underneath the glacier that really needs to be studied. The ice is disappearing pretty fast. We really have not examined all the biological systems that exist in the world; we don’t know it all.”

Dr La Farge took samples of the moss and, using carbon-dating techniques, discovered that the plants date back to the Little Ice Age. Dr La Farge’s team took the samples, planted them in dishes full of nutrient-rich potting soil and fed them with water.

The samples were from four separate species including Aulacomnium turgidum, Distichium capillaceum, Encalypta procera and Syntrichia ruralis. The moss plants found by Dr La Farge are types of bryophytes. Bryophytes can survive long winters and regrow when the weather gets warmer.

However, Dr La Farge was surprised that the plants buried under ice have survived into the twenty-first century. Her findings appear in proceedings（论文集）of the National Academy of Sciences.

1.Dr La Farge’s research is of great importance to ________.

A. knowing what the plants during the Little Ice Age were like

B. understanding how ecosystems recover from glaciers.

C. regrowing many species that have been destroyed before.

D. figuring out the effects of melting ice caps on moss.

2.The underlined part “blew my mind” in Paragraph 6 can best be replaced by “________”.

A. surprised me                   B. greatly frightened me

C. put my doubt out of my mind    D. was exactly what I had in my mind

3.According to the passage, Aulacomnium turgidum ________.

A. lives better in small groups

B. is very active in hot weather

C. is strong enough to survive coldness

D. is chosen from Canadian refugia

4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Bryophyte ecology is greatly affected by climate change.

B. 400-year-old moss’s survival is a mystery to solve.

C. Moss in ancient times was discovered in Canada.

D. 400-year-old plants were brought back to life.

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Recently Stiles aged 17 took her 3-year-old brother, James, to her high school. A family emergency prevented her parents from being able to pick up James. So they asked Stiles to step in.

''This was a one-time event; we have never had her get him from school other than this day But it was an emergency, '' her mother said. ''I figured she had gone to get him and taken him home Later that day I saw the picture online and realized that she had taken him back to school. ''

Little James quickly fell asleep in his big sister's arms at the high school.

She didn't want to be counted absent or miss any work. Stiles was studying to be a nurse. She was in her class, and the teacher gladly welcomed her little brother in. He was so tired from his school that he slept most of the class. She not only helped her family out but returned to her responsibility at school.

Her teacher was very supportive and didn't mind him being in the class at all. He slept most of the time and if he had become a problem she would have taken him out. She attends an amazing school that clearly sees the value in family and education.

Her mom said she can now put to rest any worries she's had that the 14-year age gap between Stiles and James would keep them from being close. As a mom, she was thankful that they had this kind of relationship, and she prayed it would always stay this way.

1.Why did Stiles' parents ask her for help?

A.Her family had an emergency.

B.Her parents couldn't collect James.

C.Her brother refused to attend school.

D.She was close to being an adult.

2.Where did Stiles want to work when she grew up?

A.In a hospital.

B.In a school.

C.In a factory.

D.In a shop.

3.What was Stiles' teacher's attitude to her act?

A.Opposed.

B.Critical.

C.Ambiguous.

D.Supportive.

4.What once made Stiles' mother concerned?

A.Stiles' identity of being a senior high student.

B.Stiles' terrible relationship with her classmates.

C.The age difference between Stiles and her brother.

D.Stiles' bad performance in the key school.

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My grandfather insists on getting me coffee. He is ninety-two years old, but he _______ my help and rolls his wheelchair over to the _______ in the corner, filling a cup with boiling black　　 _______.

His room at the nursing home is _______, nothing more than a bed and a bathroom. His walls are covered in _______ of his six children and nineteen grandchildren. I _______ my own face, seven years old and covered in chocolate. When I _______ the photo, he laughs. “You were the fattest little kid. Your mom was so _______.”

I tell him that I’m here for a piece for my journalism class, that the assignment is to _______ a family member and that I pick him because he has the best ________. This gets a small, almost childlike smile. He is proud of being ________. My grandfather has many fine ________, but wisdom is not one of them.

I ask about his experience in the war. He makes a face, ________ on the wheels of his chair as he thinks. “Have I told you about Noel?” I say no. I remember ________ the name, maybe fifteen years ago. He ________ me a lot, which are so ________ that it makes me all the more excited to visit him. Noel was Grandpa’s best friend. As Grandpa talks about him, his eyes glaze a little and his mouth lifts up at the corner. You can see in his ________ that they are the kind of friends whose relationship ________ an admirable, platonic（柏拉图式的）sort of love affair.

This is the story I get today in this dirty and messy bedroom with only one table and it lives up to those of my ________. I think, suddenly, that he has just ________ an amount of time unimaginable to me. I think, the rest of my life, the stories I will live, are unimaginable to him.

1.A.appreciates B.admits C.understands D.refuses

2.A.table B.stand C.balcony D.sofa

3.A.gas B.liquid C.tea D.solid

4.A.clean B.bright C.simple D.quiet

5.A.patterns B.signs C.decorations D.pictures

6.A.spot B.recognize C.doubt D.remember

7.A.point out B.take away C.look through D.comment on

8.A.excited B.embarrassed C.surprised D.worried

9.A.create B.interview C.summarize D.explain

10.A.stories B.choices C.evidences D.opportunities

11.A.witnessed B.chosen C.studied D.found

12.A.goals B.situations C.qualities D.types

13.A.rocking B.carrying C.pushing D.taking

14.A.silently B.entirely C.vaguely D.obviously

15.A.expects B.requests C.tells D.permits

16.A.ambiguous B.apparent C.conclusive D.vivid

17.A.hand B.face C.heart D.head

18.A.uses B.adopts C.reaches D.edits

19.A.neighborhood B.brotherhood C.adulthood D.childhood

20.A.described B.relived C.conveyed D.introduced

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My son Gilbert was eight years old and had been in the Cub Scouts (童子军团) only a short time. Once he was handed a sheet of paper, a block of wood and four tires and told to return home and give them all to his father. That was not an easy task for Gilbert to do. The piece of paper was a set of instructions about how to build a wooden racing car. Gilbert's father laughed when he read the instructions. The block of wood remained untouched as the weeks passed.

Finally, I stepped in to see if I could figure it all out. Having no skills, I decided it would be best if I simply read the instructions and let Gilbert do the work. And he did. Within days, his block of wood was turning into a pinewood racing car.

Then the big night came. With his pinewood racing car in his hand and pride in his heart we headed to the big race. As the race was done in elimination fashion (淘汰赛形式), you could keep racing as long as you were the winner.

Finally, it was between Gilbert and the fastest­looking car there. As the race was about to begin, Gilbert asked if they could stop for a minute, because he wanted to pray. Then the race stopped.

Gilbert prayed in earnest for a very long minute. The Master came up to Gilbert and asked the obvious question, “So you prayed to win, Gilbert？”

My young son answered, “Oh, no Sir. It wouldn't be fair to ask God to help you beat someone else. I just asked him to make it so I don't cry when I lose.”

Children seem to have wisdom far beyond us. Perhaps we spend too much of our prayer time asking God to control the race, make us the champion, or remove us from the struggle, when we should be seeking God's strength to get through what lies in our way.

1.Gilbert's father thought the task given by the Cub Scouts could________．

A. be no trouble at all

B. be too easy for Gilbert

C. be beyond Gilbert's ability

D. require no skills

2.Who finally made the pinewood racing car?

A. Gilbert.　　　　　 　　 B. Gilbert's father.

C. Gilbert's mother.　　 D. The whole family.

3.What can we learn about Gilbert?

A. He made it in the final race.

B. His performance inspired his mom.

C. He thought the Master unfair.

D. He was very afraid of losing the race.

4.The author writes this passage to tell us that ________．

A. adults should communicate more with children

B. we should have faith in our ability to win

C. victory is the power to overcome difficulties

D. friendship is more important than winning

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