Guana was born from a family with 7 children....

Guana was born from a family with 7 children. His parents had two jobs to make ends meet and struggled to pay for basic expenses. Guana was once a cleaner at a school but now he is a superintendent(教育学监), leading the Byron Union School District in rural northern California.

Guana always remembers when he wanted to give up, someone would encourage him. One was the cleaner at his school when he was a boy. He called her “Nike” because she wore Nike shoes. Guana wanted those kinds of shoes, too, but his parents could not afford them. Young Gauna liked how Nike made everything so clean. He told her he wanted to be a cleaner, too. Nike said, “it’s good if you want to be a cleaner, but make sure that you go to college and make this as one of your steps there.”

Guana also looked up to the principal(校长), the leader at his school. He was a tall, friendly and good-looking man. He told Guana about his job helping students and teachers. And he said, “Well if you don’t give up, you’ll get there.” Guana did get there, and two men remain friends. But before Guana became a school principal, he followed in Nike’s footsteps and become a cleaner. He worked for three schools in Lodi, California, which helped him earn the money needed for his first two years of college. He earned a high-level university education and gained a doctor’s degree. Then he worked as a campus safety officer, teacher, counselor, administrator, and now superintendent.

Even though Guana has had a successful career, he never forgets where he came from, or how he felt. He uses his life experiences to guide him as a leader.

For example, Guana’s younger sister needs a wheelchair to get around. To this day, her disability helps him as a school administrator to help and support special children. In Guana’s school system today, everyone is important and invited to parties and events.

1.What made Guana have the idea to become a cleaner?

A.He appreciated Nike’s excellent cleaning work.

B.He wanted to buy Nike shoes with his efforts.

C.He planned to work to support his poor family.

D.He was eager to earn money to go to college.

2.What is the third paragraph mainly about?

A.How Guana overcame the difficulties.

B.How Guana received the doctor’s degree.

C.How Guana became a leader from a cleaner.

D.How Guana got help from the previous principal.

3.Why did the author mention Guana’s sister in the last paragraph?

A.To tell us that Guana was a kind and considerate man.

B.To encourage us to help those in need like Guana.

C.To inform us that Guana’s sister had such a difficult life.

D.To show Guana’s experiences were beneficial to his success.

4.What can we learn from the text?

A.Strike while the iron is hot. B.Where there is a will, there is a way.

C.A friend in need is a friend indeed. D.Great minds think alike.

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听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1.Why did Reyes Guana stay in the car when his parents were working?

A.He was very young. B.He didn’t like working. C.He looked after brothers.

2.What did Reyes Guana learn from cleaning the school?

A.How to make money. B.How to respect others. C.How to move up the ranks.

3.How many jobs has Reyes Guana had?

A.3. B.4. C.5.

4.What is the guide in Reyes Guana’s current job?

A.His Mexican origin. B.His life experience. C.His college education.

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Tyler was born infected with HIV and his mother was also infected. From the very beginning of his life, he was dependent on medications (药物) to enable him to survive. When he was five, he had a tube surgically(外科手术上) inserted in a vein(静脉) in his chest. This tube was connected to a pump, which he carried in a small backpack on his back. Medications were connected to this pump and were continuously supplied through this tube to his bloodstream. At times, he also needed supplemented oxygen to support his breathing.

Tyler wasn't willing to give up one single moment of his childhood to this deadly disease. It was not unusual to find him playing and racing around his backyard, wearing his backpack and dragging his tank of oxygen behind him in his little wagon(小推车). All of us who knew Tyler were amazed at his pure joy in being alive and the energy it gave him. Tyler's mom often made jokes on him by telling him that he moved so fast she needed to dress him in red. That way, when she peered through the window to check on him playing in the yard, she could quickly spot him.

This terrible disease eventually wore him down. He grew quite ill and, unfortunately, so did his HIV-infected mother. When it became clear that he wasn't going to survive, Tyler's mom talked to him about death. She comforted him by telling Tyler that she was dying too, and that she would be with him soon in heaven.

A few days before his death, Tyler beckoned(召唤) me over to his hospital bed and whispered, "I might die soon. I'm not scared. When I die, please dress me in red. Mom promised she's coming to heaven, too. I'll be playing when she gets there, and I want to make sure she can find me."

1.Why did Tyler wear a backpack on his back when he was young?

A. Because his mother gave it to him as a gift.

B. Because he had no right to choose but to wear it.

C. Because he wanted to be different from the other kids.

D. Because there was a pump in it, which could help with his disease.

2.Tyler asked the writer to dress him in red when he died in order to ________.

A. show red is his favorite color.

B. see the writer again in the hospital.

C. make his mother recognize him easily.

D. persuade his mother to keep her promise.

3.What’s Tyler’s attitude towards death?

A. Excited.　　 B. Fearful.　　 C. Doubtful.　　 D. Optimistic.

4.What does the writer want to tell us by writing this passage?

A. Even a child can teach us a lot.

B. Patients should be treated with respect.

C. People should have great courage to face the problems.

D. We should try our best to help those who are infected with HIV.

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Dr. Scott Witt was at home with his family when he received a call from the hospital he works at informing him that they were going to evacuate(疏散) the patients because a deadly wildfire was spreading.

Witt decided to head to the hospital since he needed to make sure his patients were safe. He felt like these patients were like his own families. ＂The only way I could take was to get on my motorcycle,＂ said Witt, who failed to get to the hospital in his truck since the parts of the roads were closed off or impassable in big vehicles. ＂I had to avoid where the fire had spread to,＂ he said.

By the time he arrived, the fire was reaching the parking lot. The hospital already smelled with a lot of smoke and he wanted to move everybody to safety. With the hospital staff’s help, Witt managed to evacuate all his eight patients into an ambulance that rushed them to a nearby hospital. Even though Witt had done more than enough, he decided to follow the ambulance onto the freeway to make sure the patients would be made to the hospital. ＂At one point, there was some fire and live wire on the freeway,＂ Witt said. ＂After getting far away from the fire, I said to the ambulance driver, ‘I don’t know if it’s the most scary thing I’ve seen but close to it.'＂

After sending the patients to safety, Witt then went back to check on his home, which was burned to the ground by the time he got back. Fortunately, he was grateful his family was unharmed in spite of their blame.

Now, Witt is being known as a hero, but he insists he just did what he felt was right.

1.What is Dr. Scott Witt’s purpose to go to the hospital?

A. He must escape from the wildfire to safety.

B. He was evacuated by the local government.

C. He wanted to move his patients from danger.

D. He had to deal with the injured in the wildfire.

2.Which of the following words can best describes Scott Witt？

A. Selfless. B. Professional.

C. Experienced. D. Undetermined.

3.According to Scott Witt, what is the wildfire like?

A. It was impossible to be put out.

B. It was very horrible for him.

C. It spread less quickly than expected.

D. It was sure to cause many injuries and deaths.

4.How would Scott Witt’s family feel about his behavior?

A. Dangerous. B. Responsible.

C. Praiseworthy. D. Complaining.

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Not far from the club, there was a garden, ____ owner seated in it playing bridge with his children every afternoon.

A. whose         B. its         C. which          D. that

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Not far from the club was there a garden, _____ owner seated in it playing bridge with his children every afternoon.

A. whose　　 B. its

C. which　　 D. that

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Not far from the club there was a garden, ____ owner seated in it playing bridge with his children every afternoon.

A. whose               B. its                                C. which                D. that

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According to a survey, few children from single-parent families have a hobby and that hobby ______ last for only a year or two.

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Boomerang children who return to live with their parents after university can be good for families, leading to closer, more supportive relationships and increased contact between the generations, a study has found.

The findings contradict research published earlier this year showing that returning adult children trigger a significant decline in their parents’ quality of life and wellbeing.

The young adults taking part in the study were “more positive than might have been expected” about moving back home – the shame is reduced as so many of their peers are in the same position, and they acknowledged the benefits of their parents’ financial and emotional support. Daughters were happier than sons, often slipping back easily into teenage patterns of behaviour, the study found.

Parents on the whole were more uncertain, expressing concern about the likely duration of the arrangement and how to manage it. But they acknowledged that things were different for graduates today, who leave university with huge debts and fewer job opportunities.

The families featured in the study were middle-class and tended to view the achievement of adult independence for their children as a “family project”. Parents accepted that their children required support as university students and then as graduates returning home, as they tried to find jobs paying enough to enable them to move out and get on the housing ladder.

“However,” the study says, “day-to-day tensions about the prospects of achieving different dimensions of independence, which in a few extreme cases came close to conflict, characterised the experience of a majority of parents and a little over half the graduates”.

Areas of disagreement included chores, money and social life. While parents were keen to help, they also wanted different relationships from those they had with their own parents, and continuing to support their adult children allowed them to remain close.

1.What is the finding of the previous research?

A. Boomerang children made their parents happier.

B. The parents were looking forward to their children’s return.

C. The parents’ quality of life became worse than before.

D. Boomerang children never did any housework.

2.The underlined word “trigger” in Paragraph 2 may be best replaced by .

A. cause

B. defeat

C. arise

D. allow

3.What is the attitude of the college graduates towards returning home?

A. They are ashamed of turning to their parents for help.

B. They are glad that they could come back.

C. They are doubtful about whether they should return.

D. They are proud to be independent from the family.

4.What can be inferred as the reason for the “boomerang children” phenomenon?

A. The children want to keep in closer touch with their parents.

B. The parents are willing to provide support to their children.

C. It is harder for the children to secure a satisfying job.

D. There is more house work needed to be done by the children.

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Dior was born in Normandy in 1905, and his family’s original plans for him included a career in the diplomatic service, but by the time he was twenty-three, with his parents’money, he opened a small art gallery in Paris. By 1931, the money had been used up. Dior’s friends in the art gallery, asked him to draw and he took his first step at designing and drawing. His first job was with Lucien Lelong from whom Dior learned his craft（手艺）.

In February,1947, Dior started the New Look in his first major Paris collection. He was backed by a famous textile producer, Boussac, who looked after the dollars, while Dior looked after the fashions. Dior knew nothing about cutting and sewing, but he was good at fashion design.

The New Look started an entirely different look to costume, with a tiny waist, a rounded shoulder and a shapely bust（胸围）, usually with a low-cut neckline and a long full skirt. To women who had lived through the war years, the femaleness of the New look was a great success, for people were tired of tile extremely plain, wartime restrictive fashions.

It is said that dresses by Dior were “constructed like buildings”, but young people were attracted to his design, and all over the western world, manufacturers plunged(投入) into the production of his new style. Dior’s revolutionary designs lighted up a whole cycle of fashion, rounded, gentle, feminine, a delight in elegance. A New Look House of Dior opened in 1948, followed by one in London. Considered as King of Couture（women’s clothing）for years, the Dior empire grew until it covered every country in the western world, and included furs, hosiery, jewelry, perfumes, men’s wear and on and on. More than 1,000 people worked at the Paris headquarters then.

His sudden death in 1957 when he was 53 years old did not stop the growth of the House of Dior. Even now, so many years after his death, his name is closely connected with fashion throughout the world, and indeed is one of the most recognized names in the world, His first, great New Look, with its long skirts was an expression of freedom in the late 1940s.

1.Which of the following designs is close to Dior’s?

A.              B.                 C.                D.

2.According to the passage. in Dior’s life, he did NOT___________.

A. make creative fashion designs                          B. work in a diplomatic service

C. 1earn craft as his first job                                      D. open a New Look House

3.We can infer from the passage that _________.

A. Dior and his supporter had different interests in business

B. Dior’s New Look had little influence on people then

C. Dior is only a brand of women’s fashion

D. Dior’s fashion was not accepted at first

4.What is probably the best title for the passage?         .

A. The History of the New Look                         B. The Growth of the Dior Empire

C. An Expression of Freedom—Dior                 D. The Founder of the New Look—Dior

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