“I grew up on Jackson’s music and I still have all his stuff on My iPod. I think that Michael Jackson will go down in history as one of our greatest entertainers. His brilliance as a performance also was paired with a tragic and in many ways,sad personal life.”
Michael Jackson was a singer,songwriter,dancer and celebrity icon with a vast catalog of hit records and countless awards to his credit. Beyond that,he had transfixed the world like few entertainers before or since. As a solo performer,he had enjoyed a level of superstardom previously known ——Barack Obama
only to Elvis Presley,the Beatles and Frank Sinatra.
Michael Jackson was unquestionably the biggest pop star of the 80s’,and certainly one of the most popular recording artists of all time.
Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29,1958.The fifth and youngest son of steelworker Joe Jackson,Michael displayed a talent for music and dance from an extremely young age. His father began to organize a family musical group around his three eldest sons in 1962,and Michael joined them the following year,quickly establishing himself as a dynamic stage performer. Dubbed the Jackson 5,the group signed to Motown in 1968 and issued their debut single in October 1969,when Michael was just 11 years old. I Want You Back,ABC,The Love You Save and I’ll Be There all hit number one in 1970,making the Jackson 5 the first group in pop history to have their first four singles top the charts. Later in 1972,Jackson had his first number one solo single,Ben. In 1977,he met producer/composer Quincy Jones for the first time. With Jones producing,Jackson recorded his first solo album as an adult,Off the Wall.
Released(发行) in 1982,the Quincy Jones produced Thriller refined the strengths of Off the Wall:the dance and rock tracks were more driving,the pop tunes and ballads softer and more soulful,and all of it was recognizably Michael. There was no surprise that Thriller was a hit;what was a surprise was its staying power .Jackson’s duet with McCartney,The Girl Is Mine,was a natural single choice,and it peaked at number two;then Billie Jean and the Van Halen track Beat It both hit number one,for seven and three weeks respectively.
Michael Jackson died from heart disease on June 25 at age 50.
1.What does Barack Obama mean by saying “His brilliance as a performance also was paired with a tragic and in many ways,sad personal life”?
A.Michael Joseph Jackson was a success in his career as well as in life.
B.Michael Joseph Jackson was a success in his career.
C.Michael Joseph Jackson led a happy life.
D.Michael Joseph Jackson gained a lot in his career,but he also suffered a lot in his life.
2.According to the passage,which of the following is NOT true?
A.Barack Obama likes Michael Jackson’s song very much.
B.Barack Obama and Michael Jackson are good friends.
C.Michael is good at music as well as at dance.
D.Michael Jackson had his first number one solo single when he was 14 years old.
3.Choose the right time order of the following events.
a.Barack Obama,President of the US,assessed the whole life of Michael Jackson.
b.The family musical group signed to Motown.
c.Michael joined the family musical group.
d.His father began to organize a family musical group.
e.Thriller became a hit.
A.a-c-e-b-d B.d-c-b-e-a
C.b-e-a-c-d D.d-e-b-c-a
4.What does the first paragraph mainly tell us?
A.Michael Jackson’s job. B.How Michael Jackson performed.
C.Michael Jackson’s great achievements. D.Michael Jackson’s life.
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“I grew up on Jackson’s music and I still have all his stuff on My iPod. I think that Michael Jackson will go down in history as one of our greatest entertainers. His brilliance as a performance also was paired with a tragic and in many ways,sad personal life.”
Michael Jackson was a singer,songwriter,dancer and celebrity icon with a vast catalog of hit records and countless awards to his credit. Beyond that,he had transfixed the world like few entertainers before or since. As a solo performer,he had enjoyed a level of superstardom previously known ——Barack Obama
only to Elvis Presley,the Beatles and Frank Sinatra.
Michael Jackson was unquestionably the biggest pop star of the 80s’,and certainly one of the most popular recording artists of all time.
Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29,1958.The fifth and youngest son of steelworker Joe Jackson,Michael displayed a talent for music and dance from an extremely young age. His father began to organize a family musical group around his three eldest sons in 1962,and Michael joined them the following year,quickly establishing himself as a dynamic stage performer. Dubbed the Jackson 5,the group signed to Motown in 1968 and issued their debut single in October 1969,when Michael was just 11 years old. I Want You Back,ABC,The Love You Save and I’ll Be There all hit number one in 1970,making the Jackson 5 the first group in pop history to have their first four singles top the charts. Later in 1972,Jackson had his first number one solo single,Ben. In 1977,he met producer/composer Quincy Jones for the first time. With Jones producing,Jackson recorded his first solo album as an adult,Off the Wall.
Released(发行) in 1982,the Quincy Jones produced Thriller refined the strengths of Off the Wall:the dance and rock tracks were more driving,the pop tunes and ballads softer and more soulful,and all of it was recognizably Michael. There was no surprise that Thriller was a hit;what was a surprise was its staying power .Jackson’s duet with McCartney,The Girl Is Mine,was a natural single choice,and it peaked at number two;then Billie Jean and the Van Halen track Beat It both hit number one,for seven and three weeks respectively.
Michael Jackson died from heart disease on June 25 at age 50.
1.What does Barack Obama mean by saying “His brilliance as a performance also was paired with a tragic and in many ways,sad personal life”?
A.Michael Joseph Jackson was a success in his career as well as in life.
B.Michael Joseph Jackson was a success in his career.
C.Michael Joseph Jackson led a happy life.
D.Michael Joseph Jackson gained a lot in his career,but he also suffered a lot in his life.
2.According to the passage,which of the following is NOT true?
A.Barack Obama likes Michael Jackson’s song very much.
B.Barack Obama and Michael Jackson are good friends.
C.Michael is good at music as well as at dance.
D.Michael Jackson had his first number one solo single when he was 14 years old.
3.Choose the right time order of the following events.
a.Barack Obama,President of the US,assessed the whole life of Michael Jackson.
b.The family musical group signed to Motown.
c.Michael joined the family musical group.
d.His father began to organize a family musical group.
e.Thriller became a hit.
A.a-c-e-b-d B.d-c-b-e-a
C.b-e-a-c-d D.d-e-b-c-a
4.What does the first paragraph mainly tell us?
A.Michael Jackson’s job. B.How Michael Jackson performed.
C.Michael Jackson’s great achievements. D.Michael Jackson’s life.
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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 in a big family—five brothers, three sisters and I –with just enough of all the right part to make a childhood well remembered. It was a very strict upbringing.
On the first day of my second grade, my father asked me if I could read well. “Yes, I can,” I said. So he gave me a hand-draw map with street names and directions on how to walk to school. The school was three miles away, and I had never been there by myself.
He handed me the map and my lunch box and said, “Don’t stop and don’t turn back.” I was standing, scared, but he kissed me goodbye and sent me out of the door. On my way to school, I couldn’t help crying, but I continued to walk. I didn’t know how long it would take me to get there, or how many fearful and anxious moments I would have, but I do remember forever how I felt when I came around the last corner, and saw my school.
My heart was filled with relief and joy. I made it! I wished I could tell my father right then that I had made it. When he got home, he said to me, “Hi, did you have fun?” I murmured, “Yes,” and waited for him to ask what had happened, but he never did.
Years later, I finally got the courage to ask him why he did that and why he didn’t care about what had happened. He just looked at me for a few minutes and then said, “I didn’t have to ask you, because I knew. I followed you the whole way. I saw you jump up and down at the last street corner. I felt what you felt.” Then I understood and cried.
1.According to the passage, how many children does the author’s father have?
A. Five B. Three
C. Eight D. Nine
2.Which of the following statements is TRUE on the first day of the author’s second grade?
A. The author asked her father’s permission to go to school on her own.
B. The author’s father gave the author lots of directions and guidance before he let her go to school alone.
C. The author cried because she couldn’t see her father and lost her way.
D. The author felt relieved and joyful when she finally reached school by herself.
3.We can know from the passage that __________.
A. the author misunderstood her father at first
B. the author hates her father because he was too strict with her
C. the author’s father didn’t care about the author’s feelings at all
D. the author’s father regretted for what he had done to his daughter
4.What does the passage mainly want to tell us?
A. Living in a big family is not good at all.
B. Parents’ love for their children is often unnoticed.
C. Children cannot grow up under parents’ protection.
D. We should be brave enough to accept challenge at a young age.
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He told me only when he grew up and became a father himself ________how much his parents had loved him.
A had he realized B did he realized C he had realized D he realized
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I grew up with a fat dad 450 pounds at his heavi-est. Every week he would try a new diet, and my familyended up eating whatever strange food he was trying atthat moment.
After my third-grade year, my dad landed a life-changing job in Manhattan. My mom, my little sister andI had to move away from our hometown, Chicago, andleave my grandmother and her beautiful food behind.
Leaving my grandmother was far more frighteningthan the move to New York City. There would be nomore special weekends at my grandmother 's house, the on-ly place I can remember feeling happy, safe and nourished (fÛ#JÁ). It was what I desired. In this new city, I felt ex-tremely alone and lost, and I missed my grandmother ter-ribly.
My grandmother knew just how I felt. And she knewthe cure. Every week, she would send me a card with a$ 20 bill, a recipe and a list of what to buy at the mar-ket. It kept us bonded, and her recipes filled my bodyand soul, I
Over the years, I have grown to better understandmy father' s struggles with weight and the toll (ftft> ittook on him and those who love him. I have come to real-ize he was driven not by vanity ( é fn ) or selfishness as much as by a deep pain, I And in spite of growing up insuch an unhealthy eating environment ( or perhaps be-cause 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(Kã). How he got there is a story I hope to share inthe coming weeks. More importantly. food is no longer a barrier that keepsus apart, but a bridge that keeps usconnected. There is nothing my dad enjoys more thantalking with me about dietary theories and his weight-loss victories. Andnow 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 nea- rest in meaning to______________.
A. solution B. concern
C. operation D. situation
4.The author became a nutrition consultant mainly be- cause_____________.
A. his father often talked with him about dietary theo- ries
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 im-pression
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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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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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I grew up in a small town and the main entertainment was football on Friday night. It was just a sleepy little town where parents wanted to raise their children away from crime and of a big city, and where teenagers like me leaving to find something bigger and better.
All that changed one summer night. My friend Lisa, Martin and Tyler held a party for my eighteenth birthday at Lisa’s house. they kept handing alcohol to me, I was pretty . I asked Tyler to take me home. With some , we made it out to his car and drove home. News came next morning. My friend Martin was in a car accident. That night after Tyler and I left, Martin, who was more drunk than me, got into his car and towards the highway to go home. Driving on the wrong side of the road, he never saw the truck coming. The driver didn’t see him to avoid the car. They hit head on. Martin died immediately, and the driver was thrown the truck windshield(挡风玻璃)and died a week later.
Whenever I back on that day, I can’t help thinking that it was my to drink so much that night. things would be different. I know Martin the choice to drink and drive that night, but I will always feel for what happened.
I may not change the world with my story, but I do hope that by my story I can make you_________ that you not only have a responsibility for yourself but also for others. Don’t ever think that your choices are yours . Every choice is like a stone dropped into water—each ripple (涟漪) represents someone who your choice . That’s quite an influence, isn’t it?
1.A. death B. danger C. fashion D. challenge
2.A. dreamed of B. succeeded in C. applied for D. approved of
3.A. When B. While C. As D. Although
4.A. numb B. sleepy C. frozen D. drunk
5.A. fun B. difficulties C. hope D. annoyance
6.A. died B. killed C. injured D. hurt
7.A. clearly B. frequently C. constantly D. equally
8.A. headed B. walked C. targeted D. fled
9.A. in trouble B. in danger C. in time D. in turn
10.A. above B. below C. into D. through
11.A. turn B. hold C. look D. get
12.A. desire B. fault C. privilege D. chance
13.A. Thus B. Otherwise C. Instead D. Therefore
14.A. made B. faced C. avoided D. regretted
15.A. disappointed B. relevant C. embarrassed D. responsible
16.A. remembering B. sharing C. declaring D. recommending
17.A. explain B. witness C. benefit D. realize
18.A. finally B. only C. alone D. merely
19.A. pure B. deep C. still D. fresh
20.A. affects B. inspires C. attracts D. urges
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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 ?
A.O’Keeffe was a distinctive modern American painter. |
B.O’Keeffe was the best painter of her generation. |
C.O’Keeffe liked to paint only what was familiar to her. |
D.O’Keeffe used colors and shapes that are too reduced and simple. |
2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an influence on O’Keeffe’s paintings ?
A.Her rural upbringing | B.Her life in the West |
C.The works of European artists | D.The appearance of the natural landscape |
3.Which of the following is most similar to O’Keeffe’s relationship with nature?
A.A photoghrapher’s relationship with a model. |
B.A writer’s relationship with a publisher. |
C.A student’s relationship with a teacher |
D.A carpenter’s relationship with a hammer. |
4.Why is O’Keeffe considered an artistic pioneer ?
A.Her work became influential in Europe. |
B.She painted the American Southwest. |
C.Her paintings had a definite American style. |
D.She painted things that were familiar to her. |
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I grew up in a house where the TV was seldom turned on and with one wall in my bedroom entirely lined with bookshelves, most of my childhood was spent on books I could get hold of. In fact, I grew up thinking of reading as natural as breathing and books unbelievably powerful in shaping perspectives (观点) by creating worlds we could step into, take part in and live in.
With this unshakable belief, I, at fourteen, decided to become a writer. Here too, reading became useful. Every writer starts off knowing that he has something to say, but being unable to find the right ways to say it. He has to find his ownvoiceby reading widely and discovering which parts of the writers he agrees or disagrees with, or agrees with so strongly that it reshapes his own world. He cannot write without loving to read, because only through reading other people’s writing can one discover what works, what doesn’t and, in the end, together with lots of practice, what voice he has.
Now I am in college, and have come to realize how important it is to read fiction (文学作品).As a. law student, my reading is in fact limited to subject matter—the volume (量) of what I have to read for classes every week means there is little time to read anything else. Such reading made it all the clearer to me that I live in a very small part in this great place called life. Reading fiction reminds me that there is life beyond my own. It allows me to travel across the high seas and along the Silk Road, all from the comfort of my own armchair, to experience, though secondhand, exciting experiences that I wouldn't necessarily be able to have in my lifetime.
1.What can be inferred about the author as a child?
A. He never watched TV.
B. He read what he had to.
C. He found reading unbelievable.
D. He considered reading part of his life.
2.The underlined word "voice" in the second paragraph most probably means “ ”.
A. an idea
B. a sound quality
C. a way of writing
D. a world to write about
3.What effect does reading have on the author?
A. It helps him to realize his dream.
B. It opens up a wider world for him.
C. It makes his college life more interesting.
D. It increases his interest in worldwide travel.
4.Which of the following can be the best title of this text?
A. Why do I read?
B. How do I read?
C. What do I read?
D. When do I read?
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