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When people ask me what Down Syndrome(唐氏综合症) is, I tell them it’s an extra chromosome(染色体). A doctor would tell you the extra chromosome causes an intellectual disability that makes it harder for me to learn things.
Even though I have Down Syndrome, my life is a lot like yours. I read books and watch TV. I listen to music with my friends. I’m on the swim team and in chorus at school. I think about the future, and I like the one who I’ll marry. And I get along with my sisters---except when they take CDs without asking! I’m a hard worker, a good person, and I care about my friends.
Some of my classes are with typical kids, and 
some are with kids with learning disabilities. I have an aid who goes with me to my harder classes, like math and biology. She helps me take notes and gives me tips on how I should study for tests. It really helps, but I also challenge myself to do well. For instance, my goal was to be in a typical English class by 12th grade. That’s exactly what happened this year!
It’s true that I don’t learn some things as fast as other people do. But that won’t stop me from trying. I just know that if I work really hard and by myself I can do almost anything.
I can’t change the fact that I have Down Syndrome, but one thing I would change is what people think of me. I’d tell them, “Judge me as a whole person, not just the person you see. Treat me with respect, and accept me for who I am. The most important---just be my friend.”
1.A person with Down Syndrome ____________according to the passage.
A. can learn things almost as fast as normal people do
B. has one more chromosome than normal people
C. is hard to get along with
D. is easy to get along with
2.The writer tries to picture himself as a __________teenager.
A. normal B. perfect C. lovely D. special
3.The writer feels ________about his life.
A. confused B. hopeful C. unhappy D. curious
4.What is the purpose of the passage?
A. To prove people with Down Syndrome are a lot like healthy ones
B. To show the writer’s honesty and optimism
C. To change people’s attitude towards people with Down Syndrome
D. To describe the life of a student with learning disabilities
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Joshua, my son, is fifteen years old. He was born with Down Syndrome (唐氏综合症). In the last fifteen years. I have experienced many difficult and stories. However, right now I want to just stick to the topic of . When Joshua was born, the doctor us not to “waste our time, energy or money". They claimed that our son would never accomplish anything. They told us he would never walk, talk or learn to use the toilet. , we were not about to accept the words. However, we weren’t really sure what to expect.
Therefore, we expected him to develop at his own pace, with a lot of help and encouragement, but only to develop little. We decided that we saw progress we could never give up. Very early on, we knew in our hearts that we had to have high expectations, but how high? We could not set goals for him that he could not ever possibly reach. , if we did not have high hopes, the chances would be very slim for him to work to his potential.
When Joshua was four and a half years old, his younger sister, CJ, was three and attended the same preschool in a younger class. The school an art contest and all the children in it presented pictures. The pictures were hung on the wall and the president of the local church, who was not personally with the children, was appointed to be the .
On the day of the contest, I made my through the crowded parents to see Cf’s picture, it was likely to be hung there, but Joshua's class pictures were not yet up and I didn’t think twice about seeing his picture leaving the building. You see, I had no expectation that Joshua would win; it was for me to know that he was able to draw a picture and have it with those of the other children.
Well, when I returned to the kids, you can image my when I discovered that Joshua was the winner from his class! Proud and excited, he told everyone, “I won the contest! I it! ”
CJ kept insisting that she had won too and it was certainly a feeling to know that Joshua had achieved something that his sister had not. After that I decided to keep my expectations . It seems that most people work to whatever expectations are set for them. Why should Joshua be any ?
1.A. inspiring B. frustrating C. encouraging D. exciting
2.A. expectation B. love C. education D. instruction
3.A. suggested B. hoped C. persuaded D. advised
4.A, Luckily B. Unfortunately C. Naturally D. Generally
5.A. due to B. as long as C. so far as D. in case
6.A. However B. Besides C. Thus D. Therefore
7.A. charged B. prepared C. engaged D. ran
8.A. familiar B. similar C. friendly D. close
9.A. host B. teacher C. headmaster D. judge
10.A. effect B. way C. force D. Struggle
11.A. where B. as C. when D. that
12.A. after B. during C. before D. once
13.A. excited B. enough C. amazing D. pleased
14.A. displayed B. hanged C. taken D. replaced
15.A. take up B. keep up C. get up D. pick up
16.A. surprise B. expectation C. joy D. amusement
17.A. got B. drew C. made D. defeated
18.A. special B. extraordinary C. curious D. mixing
19.A. on B. high C. great D. easy
20.A. difficult B. upset C. disappointed D. different
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Tim Harris, a young man with Down’s syndrome(唐氏综合症), hasn’t let his disability stop him from opening a restaurant in New Mexico.
Tim’s Place, a restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico, serves up traditional diner favorites such as blueberry pancakes, bacon, eggs, and cheeseburgers—all with hugs. Considered as the “world’s friendliest restaurant,” it has served more than 32,400 hugs to hungry customers. The restaurant’s owner, Tim Harris, has made it his mission to hug every visitor who comes in.
Harris, who has Down’s syndrome, has never let his disability get in his way. Since age 14, he’s promised to own a restaurant. He got a part-time job and worked as a restaurant host when he was in high school, and then graduated from Eastern New Mexico University with certificates in Food Service and Office Skills. After that, with his family’s help and support, Harris’ childhood dream became a reality. Alongside the Mexican and traditional American food, Tim’s Place’s menu offers “calorie-free” and “guilt-free” hugs.
“I love giving all the customers a hug because I want them to feel comfortable and connected and being around friends,” Harris told Albuquerque The Magazine. Customers seem to love it too. Many of the regulars have been going every week ever since the restaurant opened. To his family’s knowledge, Harris is the only restaurant owner in the United States with Down’s syndrome. But they’re hoping he won’t be the last.
Harris wants to show other people with disabilities what’s possible. “We’ve had several families with young children with disabilities who have come in or written, saying they never thought this would be possible for their sons or daughters. It’s altering the way they’re thinking as they’re raising their young children.” Harris’ mother, Jeanne, told KRQE News 13.
1.Why is Tim’s Place called the “world’s friendliest restaurant”? (no more than 8 words)
2.What is the customers’ attitude towards Harris’ service? (no more than 5 words)
3.What message does Harris want to deliver to the disabled? (no more than 10 words)
4.What does the underlined word “altering” in Paragraph 5 mean? (1 word)
5.Would you like to have breakfast in Tim’s restaurant? Why? (no more than 15 words)
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When I am down, my parents will do what every parent will do, _______ is to hug me tighter and tell me I am the best.
A．which B．what C．that D．who
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When Jeff Sparkman draws his cartoon superheroes, he often has to ask other people to tell him what color his characters turned out to be because he's color-blind. Now, a new smart phone application can help him figure out what colors he's using and how the picture looks to others.
The DanKam app, available for iPhone and Android for $2.99, is an application that makes the vague colors that one percent of the population with color-blindness sees more like the "true" colors as everyone else sees them. In America, around 32 million color-blind Americans---95% are males---can soon have their life improved.
"DanKam takes the stream of data coming in through the phone's camera and changes the colors slightly so they fall within the range that people who are color-blind see," developer Dan Kaminsky told CNET. He came up with the idea after watching the film Star Trek with a color-blind friend.
It was then that he got to know more about colorblindness like its varying types and degrees. A vast majority, for instance, have trouble seeing red or green due to a genetic defect(缺陷). Blue-yellow colorblindness, however, is rarer and develops later in life because of aging, illness or head injuries, etc.
What the DanKam app attempts to do is to clean up the color space of the image signal so that colors can be seen to those suffering from viewing problems. “You can customize the app to fit your needs. There is a range and not everyone who is color-blind sees things the same.” Says Kaminsky.
Sparkman, a copy editor at CNET, tried out the app and was pleased with the results. "It would be useful for dressing for a job interview," he said. But using it for his art is “the most practical application." It worked well on LED and other lights on electronic devices, which means Sparkman can now identify the power light on his computer display as green.
1.According to passage, DanKam ___________.
A.was developed by Jeff Sparkman. B.appeared in the movie Star Trek.
C.is designed to help the blind. D.can be purchased with a fee
2.It can be known from the passage that colorblindness __________.
A.causes trouble in telling all colors B.occurs more commonly in females
C.is not necessarily an inborn disease D.leaves people unable to see clearly
3.How does the DanKam app work?
A.It makes vague colors become vivid ones. B.It operates in a fixed color model.
C.It shows images with an adjusted color space. D.It puts LED lights on electronic devices.
4.Which of the following serves as the best title for the passage?
A.Dankam: A New Treatment For Colorblindness.
B.DanKam: Augmented(增强) Reality For Colorblindness.
C.Dan Kaminsky: A Campaign Against Colorblindness.
D..Jeff Sparkman: Satisfaction Guaranteed By DanKam.
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Some people have it easy. When their kids ask them what they do at work, they can give a simple, direct answer: “I put out fires” or “I teach primary school”. As a theoretical physicist, I never had this luck. Society has come to expect many things from the physicists. It used to be that we only had to discover the basic laws of the world and supply the techniques that would power the next Silicon Valley. With these expectations we were fairly comfortable: they are the sorts of things we think we know how to do. What makes us uncomfortable and what makes it hard for us to tell our kids what we’re up to is that in this century we have become, though unwillingly, gurus on questions such as “What is the nature of Reality?”
We now deal with a whole new class of problems. We ask how the world began and what the nature of matter is. The answers we are coming up with are just not easy to comprehend for the average person.
So, when physicists get out of their cars in the morning, have a cup of coffee and sit down in front of their computers, they leave a familiar world and enter a place where things act in strange ways that are impossible for ordinary people to understand.
72. According to the passage, in a way physicists are ________ .
A. honest B. comfortable C. strange D. unlucky
73. By what the writer says about physicists, we know that physicists ________ .
A. don’t like their careers
B. live in two different worlds
C. are coming up with new answers to old questions
D. don’t have to tell people what they are doing
74. From the passage we can conclude that theoretical physicists ________ .
A. contributed to the new industry in Silicon Valley
B. only have to answer the basic questions about the world
C. have disappointed the expectations of many people
D. have found it hard to make themselves popular
75. What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. Society seems to know a bit about physicists’ work.
B. Most people are expecting to know what physicists are doing.
C. Physicists are doing more and more difficult jobs.
D. It’s impossible for average people to know physicists’ work.
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What to Do when Someone Doesn’t Like You
When someone tells me, “I don’t care if people like me,” they are showing me the emotional wall they use to block the hurt of rejection.
As humans are social animals, all of us care if people like us. Based on the need for social connections, your reactions to rejection and negative judgment can range from minor hurt to breakouts of depression. 1.
The first step to handle a negative situation is to recognize your reaction. Ask yourself, “What am I feeling?”. 2. Any betrayal (背叛) or embarrassment in your heart? Identify what feeling has shown up in your body, so you can choose what to do next.
3. When you sense yourself being shut out or feel defensive, ask yourself what the person actually means to do to you. Does he truly mean to offend you, or make fun of you? Your brain works very hard to keep you safe, so it will judge a situation threatening if there is any possibility of social harm.
When our brains sense a possible threat, we react as if we were personally attacked. Take a breath to relieve (减轻) the stress. 4.
Finally, if you believe the person doesn’t like you, ask yourself if this matters. 5. If not, what can you do to release your need to be liked by this person? And, what can you do to stay neutral and not return the dislike? The more you can come to accept others as who they are, the more you can move forward with your goals regardless of whether someone likes you or not.
A. If you can, look the person in his eyes.
B. Do you feel any fear or anger in your head?
C. Ask yourself what is true about the situation.
D. Often people do not realize the impact of their words.
E. Will the person’s judgment of you impact your work or life?
F. The ability to let a show of dislike roll off your back is a learned skill.
G. This will help you relax at present and take you out of your trembling mind.
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What to Do When Someone Doesn’t Like You
When someone tells me , “I don’t care if people like me,” they are showing me the emotional wall they use to block the hurt of rejection.
As humans are social animals, all of us care if people like us. Based on the need for social connection, your reactions to rejection and negative judgment can range from minor hurt to breakouts of depression. 1.
The first step to handle a negative situation is to recognize your reaction. Ask yourself, “What am I feeling?”. 2.Any betrayal (背叛) or embarrassments in your heart? Identify what feeling has shown up in your body? so you can choose what to do next.
3.When you sense yourself shutting down or feeling defensive, ask yourself what the person actually meant to do to you, Did they truly mean to offend you, or make fun of you ? Your brain works very hard to keep you safe , so it will judge a situation as threatening if there is any possibility of social harm.
When our brains sense a possible threat, we react as if we were personally attacked. Take a breath to relieve the stress, 4.
Finally, if you believe the person doesn’t like you , ask yourself if this matters. 5.If not, what can you do to release your need to be liked by this person? And, what can you do to stay neutral and not return the dislike? The more you can come to accept others as who they are , the more you can move forward with your goals regardless if someone likes you or not.
A. If you can , look the person in their eyes.
B. Do you feel any fear or anger in your head ?
C. Ask yourself what is true about the situation.
D. Often people do not realize the impact of their words.
E. Will the person’s judgment of you impact your work or life?
F. The ability to let a show of dislike roll off your back is a learned skill.
G. This will ground you in the present and take you out of your trembling mind.
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When people find out that I am a journalist, they often ask me: What do you think about the future of newspapers?
I tell them that I think the future of communications is moving online. People expect me to be fearful for the future of print. After all, in some people’s minds I wouldn’t be able to build a career in journalism if it all moves online. However, strangely enough, I’m actually comforted by the fact that online journalism is becoming usual. I am a blogger who has always been able to find a home for my writing online.
Since I began writing blogs, I have become aware of how many people you can reach with online writing. Compare this to the newspapers circulation base, and you will have a strong reason for online journalism.
In her successful blog post titled The Job I have spent the last year learning is not the one I will have, author Jenny Surane states, “Print is an expensive product to love. And general managers, publishers and editors must now figure out a profitable way to get their news into readers’ heads,” She goes on to state that people don’t feel like picking up a newspaper now and would rather scroll(滚屏) through their Twitter feed, and get new from many different sources.
If print is dying, then a new form of communicating information is being born. The need for information has not died. If anything, it has increased. What has died, rather, is the way in which information is presented.
Now more than ever, in this age of information, there is a desire for stories on the same topic from different points of view. The printing industry can keep pace with the need of providing a variety of sources, if it chooses to.
Now more than ever, in this age of information, there is a desire for stories on the same topic from different points of view. The printing industry can keep pace with the need of providing a variety of sources, if it chooses to.
Is the future of print grim? Maybe. But is the future of journalism of communicating information to people, grim as well? Definitely not.
1.According to Paragraph 2, the author feels ________.
A. confident about the future of his career
B. worried about the future of print
C. tired of being a newspaper journalist
D. embarrassed about online writing
2.What information is conveyed in Jenny’s blog post?
A. Twitter is not very popular.
B. It is hard to manage online journalism.
C. Print still has its own advantages.
D. People have more options to get information.
3.What does the underlined word “grim” in the last paragraph probably mean?
A. Promising B. Depressing
C. Unforgiving D. Encouraging
4.What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?
A. To explore the future of journalism.
B. To analyze the cause of print decline.
C. To explain the bright future of a journalist.
D. To introduce a successful blog post about print.
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They asked him to tell them everything ________ he saw at the front.
A. what B. that C. which D. where
some are with kids with learning disabilities. I have an aid who goes with me to my harder classes, like math and biology. She helps me take notes and gives me tips on how I should study for tests. It really helps, but I also challenge myself to do well. For instance, my goal was to be in a typical English class by 12th grade. That’s exactly what happened this year!