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A warm story has been taking place on one end of Islington Road.
Glenda and Raphael Savitz met with each other in 2011 in Boston. They fell in love and got married in the fall of 2013. In the summer of 2016, the couple moved to Auburndale, Florida. Three months later, their daughter Samantha was born..
However, within a week, the doctor told them that their newborn baby was deaf. It was a hard blow to the couple. What should they do? They had no choice but to help her learn sign language. "We are going to learn it, too. It is important for her growth and development," the mother said.
But they didn't expect it when their neighbors all started to learn sign language. " We were excited that this new baby was coming," said Jill McNeil, one of the neighbors. "But it's frustrating （令人沮丧的）not to be able to say, " Oh, Samantha, I love your pretty pink pants. " To communicate with the cute girl, they had to know her language. So these neighbors hired a tutor without letting Glenda and Raphael know.
Go. Like. Want. Eat. Play. Have. Make. These adult-students started with simple words. They then learnt to ask questions in sign language, such as " Who do you live with?" and " Where does your family live?"
Now the American Sign Language has become a second tongue in the neighborhood. These kind neighbors practice it with the girl almost every day.
Growing up in such a warm neighborhood, Samantha is now a happy and energetic（充满活力的）girl. She greets her neighbors every time she sees them. It's an amazing situation, since deaf children can be shy.
Samantha is a lucky girl. She has found real family among all those people next door.
1.Which of the following words CANNOT describe the couple's feeling when they knew that their daughter was deaf?
A.Sad. B.Hopeless. C.Worried. D.Happy.
2.Which of the following is a sign language?
A.A B.B C.C D.D
3.What does the underlined word "hired" mean in the passage?
A.派遣 B.聘用 C.命令 D.指导
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A.The story took place in Boston.
B.None of Samantha's neighbors like her.
C.Samantha's neighbors learnt sign language secretly.
D.A teacher advised Samantha to learn sign language with her neighbors.
5.The writer wants to tell us ______________________.
A.Samantha was very unlucky because she was born deaf
B.Samantha's parents expected people around her to learn deaf language
C.Samantha was a lucky girl because her neighbors tried to help her
D.Samantha was unhappy because she couldn't talk with her neighbors
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Sad ending unites two families
The story of Romeo and Juliet takes place in Verona in Italy. Two families, the Montagues and the Capulets, hate each other so much that they fight on the street whenever they meet.
One of these families, the Capulets, holds a big party. They introduce their daughter Juliet to a rich nobleman (贵族), Count (伯爵) Paris, who has asked to marry her. Juliet is nearly 14, and her parents are keen for her to marry soon.
That night, at the party, Romeo, the son of the Montague family, meets Juliet and they fall in love at first sight. However, Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, knows Romeo is from the Montague family and wants to kill him. Romeo hides in the garden and talks to Juliet when she appears on her balcony. The next day they go to a priest (神父) called Friar Lawrence, who marries them in secret.
Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, gets angry very easily. He starts a fight with Romeo’s best friend. When Romeo steps in to break up the fight between the two men, his best friend is accidentally killed. Romeo runs after Tybalt in anger and kills him. Romeo is sent away from Verona.But Friar Lawrence, the priest who organized the secret wedding between Romeo and Juliet, arranges for them to spend one night together as husband and wife.
Meanwhile, the Capulets decide that Juliet must marry Count Paris at once. When Juliet says that she doesn’t want to, her parents are very angry with her. Of course, they do not know that she has already secretly married Romeo. Juliet asks Friar Lawrence to help her to see Romeo again. Friar Lawrence has an idea － he gives Juliet a drug which will make everyone think that she is dead. But in fact she’s only in a long, deep sleep. While Juliet is sleeping, Friar Lawrence sends a message to Romeo to tell him to come to her tomb (坟墓) and take her away.
When the guests arrive for Juliet’s wedding the next day, they find Juliet’s lifeless body. Believing she is dead, her family put her in their tomb. Sadly, Romeo never gets Friar Lawrence’s message that Juliet has taken a drug and is really alive. He only hears that she is dead. Romeo returns to Verona, and goes to Juliet’s tomb. There, inside the tomb, he meets Count Paris, who has also come to say goodbye to Juliet. The two fight and Romeo kills him. Romeo still believes that Juliet is dead, so he drinks poison (毒药) and dies. But soon after this, Juliet’s drug stops working and she wakes up. She sees that Romeo is dead, takes his knife, and kills herself, too.
1.Where did the story take place?
A. In England. B. In Italy. C. In France. D. In America
2.Which of the following is TRUE about the two families?
A. Juliet comes from the Capulet family.
B. The Montagues and the Capulets are friends.
C. The Montague family organizes the big party.
D. Romeo and Juliet have been friends since they were little.
3.What can you learn from Paragraph 4?
A. Romeo’s best friend kills Juliet’s cousin Tybalt.
B. Romeo accidentally kills his best friend in a fight.
C. The priest hopes Romeo and Juliet can be husband and wife.
D. Friar Lawrence is a nobleman who wants to marry Juliet.
4.Which is the right order of events of the last two paragraphs?
a. Romeo took the poison and died.
b. Romeo went to Juliet’s tomb.
c. Juliet drank the drug and fell asleep.
d. Juliet woke up and killed herself with the knife.
e. Romeo killed Count Paris.
A. c-b-e-a-d B. b-d-a-e-c C. c-e-a-b-d D. e-b-a-c-d
5.What is the ending of the story ?
A. Two families held a wedding party for the couple.
B. Two families promised to have another marriage.
C. Two families complained each other and fought often.
D. Two families made peace and built a monument(纪念碑) for the two.
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If you enjoy American stories，you'll find that quite _____ of them take place on the road．
A.few B.a few C.little D.a little
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Chiang Mai (清迈) has been one of tourist places for Chinese since the movie Lost in Thailand (《泰囧》) was shown.
A.hot B.hotter C.hottest D.the hottest
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Chiang Mai (清迈) has been one of tourist places for Chinese since the movie Lost in Thailand (《泰囧》) was shown.
A. hot B. hotter C. hottest D. the hottest
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Chiang Mai (清迈) has been one of ________ tourist places for Chinese since the movie Lost in Thailand (《泰囧》) was shown.
A. hot B. hotter C. hottest D. the hottest
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An old woman has two large pots, one on each end of a pole（扁担）. She carried the pole with the pots（壶）__ __ her neck.
One of the pots had a crack（裂缝）in it while the other pot was perfect and always filled a full pot of water. At the end of the long __ _ from the well（井）to the house, the cracked pot _ only half-full left.
For two years this happened daily, with the woman bringing home only __ ___ pots of water. Of course, the perfect pot was _ __. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection.
One day, the cracked pot spoke to the woman _ __ the well:“I am ashamed of myself because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your __ __.”
The old woman smiled:“Did you notice that there are ___ __ on your side of the path, but not on __ __ pot’s side? That’s because I have __ _ known about your crack, so I __ __ flower seeds（籽）on your side of the path. And every day while we walk back, you ___ __ them.” She added, “ For _ _ years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate（装饰）the table. Without you, being just the 
___ ___ you are, I would not have this beauty.”
Each of us has our own cracks. But it’s these __ _ that make our lives together so interesting and meaningful.
1.A. cross B. across C. past D. through
2.A. travel B. ride C. walk D. trip
3.A. arrived B. held C. reached D. meant
4.A. one or two B. one and a half C. two D. half and one
5.A. proud B. sad C. happy D. worried
6.A. with B. from C. by D. in
7.A. field B. side C. well D. house
8.A. seeds B. pots C. plants D. flowers
9.A. other B. the other C. another D. others
10.A. never B. ever C. always D. often
11.A. took B. made C. planted D. kept
12.A. water B. see C. visit D. understand
13.A. many B. a few C. two D. three
14.A. road B. side C. path D. way
15.A. decorations B. seeds C. flowers D. cracks
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passenger off rest including on one’s own
1.Wenzhou has many places of interest, _________ the Yandang Mountain and Nanxi River.
2.All the __________went through the door and got their suitcases.
3.We will have three days _________. We can have a good rest.
4.Tony _________ when someone knocked at the door.
5.I can’t finish the work_________. I need some help.
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—Will you take part in the football game on Sunday afternoon?
—No.It has been because of the rain.
A. refused B. controlled C. canceled D. served
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—Will you take part in the football game on Sunday afternoon?
—Yes，but it has been ________because of the rain.
A. refused B. controlled C. cancelled
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