. My father likes outdoor activities,_______ ...

. My father likes outdoor activities,_______ my mother prefers staying at home.

A. when      B. while    C. after    D. before

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Collecting stamps ______ my father’s favorite hobby and reading novels ______ my mother’s favorite pastime.

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My father was a St. Bernard (圣伯纳犬), and my mother was a collie (科利牧羊犬). This was what my mother had told me. I did not know these nice differences myself. My mother like to say them and see other dogs look surprised and jealous(嫉妒的), wondering how she got so much education. But, indeed, it was not real education.

She got the words by listening in the dining room and the sitting room when there were people talking, and by going with the children to school and listening there. Whenever she heard a word showing great knowledge, she said it to herself many times so that she could keep it until there was a meeting in the neighbourhood. Then, she would show off her knowledge and surprise them all, from small-sized dogs to large-sized dogs.

If there was a stranger being doubtful and getting his breath to ask her what it meant, she always explained to him in detail. He had never expected this but thought he would make fool of her. However, in the end, he was the one who was fooled. The others knew what was going to happen, because they had experienced that. When she explained the meaning of a big world, no dogs doubted if it was right. It was natural, because, for one thing, she answered very quickly and confidently, and for another, there were no knowledgeable dogs pointing out the answer was wrong.

When I was older, she brought home the word, “unintellectual”, and worked on it very hard all the week at different meetings. It was at this time that I realized she made up a fresh meaning of the same word every time. It showed that she was more calm than knowledgeable.

(From A Dog’s Tale, by Mark Twain)

1.Why were other dogs jealous of “my” mother?

A. Because her child was not a dog.

B. Because “my” mother knew everything.

C. Because they knew nothing about “me”.

D. Because they thought “my” mother was educated.

2.Where did “my” mother learn the words?

A. She made up the words by herself.

B. She learnt the words studying at school.

C. She listened and memorized when others were talking.

D. She attended meetings to learnt the words from other dogs.

3.How could “my” mother always fool other dogs?

A. Other dogs all liked to be fooled.

B. She could explain anything in detail correctly.

C. She learnt a lot of tricks to make fool of others.

D. Other dogs were not knowledgeable enough to find out her mistakes.

4.What words can be used to describe “my” mother?

A. friendly and clever                    B. calm and confident

C. quick and experienced                D. devoted and knowledgeable

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One spring, when I was 10, during one of my father’s layoffs (失业), I could tell my mother was unhappy. I decided to cheer her up by buying her a special Mother’s Day gift.

One day after school I rode my bike to the Agins, which, I learned years later, was known for its high-end fashions (时尚) and styles. I introduced myself to Sylvia Agins, telling her I was looking for a Mother’s Day present.

“Do you think she’d like a purse?” she asked. I told her. I thought she might.

She took out an Italian handbag made of leather. She asked me what I thought, and I told her that my mom would like it.

“How much money do you have?” she asked.

“Twelve dollars,” I said.

“You’re in luck,” she told me. “It’s only $11. You have a dollar left over for the card.” She gift-wrapped the purse and thanked me for my business, and I rode off home with the package under my arm.

When my mother opened the gift the next Sunday morning, she asked in an accusing tone, “Where did you get this?”

“I bought it at the Agins. It cost me $11.” I said.

My mother was shocked into silence.

It wasn’t until many years later, when I learned that the purse was worth several hundred dollars, that I appreciated just how wonderful Sylvia Agins had been to me. I always felt bad that I never had a chance to properly thank her.

“You know, my son, what really amazes me to this day,” my mother said, “Letting you have the purse for just a few dollars was unbelievable enough. But the fact that she let you leave the store with a dollar for the card was a touch of kindness that I’ll never forget.”

1.The author bought his mother a purse to ________.

A. surprise his mother　　 B. make his mother happy

C. show his ability of making money　　 D. thank his mother for buying him a bike

2.Why was the author’s mother shocked into silence?

A. She wasn’t expecting a gift from her son.

B. The purse was bought from the Agins.

C. The author bought a card to go with the purse.

D. The Agins charged so little money for the purse.

3.Sylvia Agins’ behavior shows that________.

A. she is good at making money　　 B. she is kind and thoughtful

C. she knows how to choose presents　　 D. she is critical and mean

4.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A. An Unforgettable Event　　 B. A Considerate Mother

C. A Priceless Mother’s Day Gift　　 D. A Kind-hearted Shop Owner

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I was 9 years old when I found out my father was ill. It was 1994, but I can remember my mother's words as if it were yesterday: “Kerrel, I don't want you to take food from your father, because he has AIDS. Be very careful when you are around him.”

AIDS wasn't something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on, I knew that this would be a family secret. My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone. For a while, he could take care of himself. But when I was 12, his condition worsened. My father's other children lived far away, so it fell to me to look after him.

We couldn't afford all the necessary medication for him, and because Dad was unable to work, I had no money for school supplies and often couldn't even buy food for dinner. I would sit in class feeling completely lost, the teacher's words muffled as I tried to figure out how I was going to manage.

I did not share my burden (负担) with anyone. I had seen how people reacted to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. And even adults could be cold. When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside table even though he was too weak to feed himself.

I had known that he was going to die, but after so many years of keeping his condition a secret, I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days. Sad and hopeless, I called a woman at the nonprofit National AIDS Support. That day, she kept me on the phone for hours. I was so lucky to find someone who cared. She saved my life.

I was 15 when my father died. He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me. He didn't want to call attention to AIDS. I do.

1.Which of the following statements about Kerrel’s father is true?

A．He had stayed in the hospital since he fell ill.

B．He depended on the nurses in his final days.

C．He told no one about his disease.

D．He worked hard to pay for his medication.

2.What can we learn from the underlined sentence?

A．Kerrel couldn't understand her teacher.

B．Kerrel had special difficulty in hearing.

C．Kerrel was too troubled to focus on the lesson.

D．Kerrel was too tired to hear her teacher's words.

3.Why did Kerrel keep her father's disease a secret?

A．She was afraid of being looked down upon.

B．She thought it was shameful to have AIDS.

C．She found no one willing to listen to her.

D．She wanted to obey her mother.

4.The purpose of the passage is ________.

A．To tell people about the sufferings of her father.

B．To show how little people knew about AIDS.

C．To remember her father.

D．To draw people's attention to AIDS.

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I come from a family that loves sports. My father coaches Little League baseball. My mother swims nearly every weekend. My brother is on his high-school basketball team, and I am the best hitter on my middle-school volleyball team. All of us have benefited (受益) from sports. One of the most common ways for kids to take part in sports is to join a team. Joining a sports team should be a school requirement.

Playing sports is good for both the body and mind. Everyone knows that exercise helps people stay fit. For example, swimming helps your heart work better and it also helps build muscle strength (肌肉力量). In addition, school athletes often have a healthy diet. I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables and avoid fatty foods because I must stay in great condition.

Being on a team allows students to enjoy a healthier social life. They often make more friends and can be some of the most popular kids in school. Since joining the basketball team, my brother has made friends with a lot of his teammates and has showed more interest in spending time with them.

Kids who take part in school teams sometimes earn college scholarships (奖学金). My brother’s friend, Justin, played football in high school. His family did not have money to send him to college. However, a college invited him to play on its team. The college is paying for him to go to school. Joining a team turned out to be one of the best decisions he had ever made. Now he studies at a great college and plays on its football team. Not every school athlete gets a college scholarship, but joining a school team makes it possible.

Although some people may not like the idea of forcing students to join a school team, its many benefits such as keeping kids healthy, new friendships, and possible scholarships cannot be denied (否认).

1.What does the author mainly tell us in Paragraph 2?

A.Playing sports has health benefits.

B.Students should spend more time exercising.

C.Swimming is an excellent sport for students.

D.School athletes must try to eat a healthy diet.

2.How did the author’s brother change after joining the team?

A.He had a busier life.

B.He got more chances.

C.He worked much harder.

D.He became more sociable.

3.What can we infer about Justin?

A.He is a good football player.

B.He will be given a scholarship.

C.He is managing a school team.

D.He comes from a wealthy family.

4.What is the author’s attitude to making students join school teams?

A.He doubts it.

B.He is in support of it.

C.He is worried about it.

D.He pays little attention to it.

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My mother really knows how to get others to do what she suggests. Besides my father, her neighbors and even a stranger in a grocery store, has fallen under her 36.

One day we were shopping in a supermarket. When we were passing by the baby aisle(过道), she 37a young mother browsing through different brands of powdered milk. Her baby was playing with a toy. My mother 38babies so she went up to the woman and chatted with her.

My mother is an easy person to like. She has the kindest eyes in the world, so it isn’t 39

to trust her. She 40with the baby a little bit and told the woman about how I used to be cute at that age, too. They laughed together.

The woman was about to put Brand X Milk Powder in her cart when my mother suggested Brand Y 41because it obviously had better vitamins. Would you believe the woman actually

42      brands just like that?

She really does know how to influence people. But what about her getting other people to

43     whatever she tells them?

My father and I actually had a long conversation about her 44on how to influence people. According to my father, my mother is just a really likeable person, and she has 45been

like that, even when he first met her. Chatting people up is natural for her.

During our conversation, I realized that what my mother has is the 46to build rapport(亲善) with other people. With rapport comes47. People are more likely to be influenced by those who they think understand their viewpoints or share their opinions.

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Every morning my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every evening my mother looks through magazines at home. And every night, I look at the posters with photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep. Can we imagine life without paper or print?

Paper was first created about 2,000 years ago, and has been made from silk, cotton, bamboo, and, since the 19th century, from wood. People learned to write words on paper to make a book. But in those days, books could only be produced one at a time by hand. As a result, they were expensive and rare. And because there weren’t many books, few people learned to read.

Then printing was invented in China. When printing was developed greatly at the beginning of the 11th century, books could be produced more quickly and cheaply. As a result, more people learned to read. After that, knowledge and ideas spread quickly.

Today information can be received online, downloaded from the Internet rather than found in books, and information can be kept on CD-ROMs or machines such as MP3 players.

Computers are already used in classrooms, and newspapers and magazines can already be read online. So will books be replaced by computers one day? No, I don’t think the Yao Ming poster on my bedroom wall will ever be replaced by a computer two metres high!

1.What does the writer do before he goes to sleep’?

A. He reads books.　　 B. He reads newspapers

C. He looks at the posters on the wall.　　 D. He looks through magazines

2.What happened after books became cheaper?

A. People didn’t want to buy books.　　 B. Printing was invented in China.

C. The Internet was introduced to people soon　　 D. Knowledge and ideas spread quickly.

3.What is the writer’s opinion about books and computers’?

A. Books won’t be replaced by computers.

B. People won’t need books any more

C. People prefer to find information in books.

D. Computers have already replaced books.

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My father died when I was nine, and I remember doing the household chores to help my mother. I hated changing the vacuum cleaner (真空吸尘器) bag and picking up things the machine did not suck up.

Twenty years later, in 1978, I was doing chores at home alongside my wife. One day the vacuum cleaner was screaming away, and I had to empty the bag because I could not find a replacement for it. With this lifelong hatred of the way the machine worked, I decided to make a bagless vacuum cleaner.

Easier said than done, of course. I didn’t realize that I would spend the next five years perfecting my design, a process that resulted in 5,127 different prototypes (设计原型). By the time I made my 15th prototype, my third child was born. By 2,627, my wife and I were really counting our pennies. By 3,727, my wife was giving art lessons for some extra cash, and we were getting further and further into debt. These were tough times, but each failure brought me closer to solving the problem.

I just had a passion for the vacuum cleaner as a product, but I never thought of going into a business with it. In the early 1980s, I started trying to get licensing agreements (许可协议) for my technology. The reality was very different, however. The major vacuum makers had built a business model based on the profits from bags and filters (滤网). No one would license my idea, not because it was a bad one, but because it was bad for business.

That gave me the courage to keep going, but soon after, the companies that I had talked with started making machines like mine. I had to fight legal battles on both sides of the Atlantic to protect the patents on my vacuum cleaner. However, I was still in financial difficulties until 1993, when my bank manager personally persuaded Lloyds Bank to lend me $1 million. Then I was able to go into production. Within two years, the Dyson vacuum cleaner became a best-seller in Britain.

Today, I still embrace risk and the potential for failure as part of the process. Nothing beats the excitement of invention. Go out and brainstorm your ideas. You are not bound to any rules — in fact, the stranger and riskier your idea, the better.

1.According to the article, which of the following statements about James Dyson is NOT true?

A.He lost his father during his childhood and lived with his mother.

B.He decided to develop an innovative vacuum cleaner for his wife while in his thirties.

C.He built over five thousand prototypes of the vacuum cleaner between 1978 and 1983.

D.The vacuum cleaner he reinvented became popular with British customers as soon as it arrived on the market.

2.According to the article, Dyson’s bagless vacuum cleaner was produced in large numbers _______

A.in the carly 1980s

B.before he obtained a patent on the product

C.after his bank manager agreed to lend him $I million

D.after he managed to get a S1 million loan

3.It can be inferred from the article that _______.

A.Dyson was a born businessman

B.Dyson's invention might have ended up in failure without his wife

C.Dyson had no confidence in his vacuum cleaner initially

D.Dyson's vacuum cleaner was never recognized by other vacuum makers

4.According to the article, which of the following would most likely be Dyson’s motto?

A.We are all failures — at least the best of us are.

B.The foundation stones for a success are honesty, faith, love and loyalty.

C.It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves.

D.The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

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On March 28th, 2017 my mother received a call. It was from Metro Country Jail. It was my father calling her，saying that he had been put into prison ____ not having a driving license and speeding. He told my mother that he needed her ____ to get out. So the next day my mother got him a lawyer. The lawyer told my mother how things were going to be with my father, and that he would ____ her how things were going. When my mother and I went to ____ my father she always tried not to ____；she would tell him ____ things. She always said that when he ____ she would prepare his favorite dishes and that we were going to be ____ soon.

Easter came, and my mother and I thought that my father ____ be out, but he wasn't. My brother was very sad ____ he wanted to be with my father. Once，when we got home from the park, my mother went to the bathroom and started to cry ____. She was there for about 10 or 15 minutes. When she came out she had a big　 ____ on her face and told me that　 ___ was going to be okay. Then she went to my　 ____ room and started to play with him. Suddenly, my father's ________ called and told my mother that the judge had given my father a____to go home. But he had to take some classes and he also couldn’t ____.

When my father came home, my mother gave him a big hug, then she said, “I ____you that soon we were going to be together, and everything was going to be back to normal or even ____. Nothing can separate us again.”

My mother is a ____ woman, and she never gave up when the hard times came.

1.A. with　　 B. on　　 C. for　　 D. instead

2.A. money　　 B. guidance　　 C. suggestion　　 D. help

3.A. remember　　 B. understand　　 C. inform　　 D. predict

4.A. educate　　 B. visit　　 C. search　　 D. teach

5.A. lie　　 B. cry　　 C. regret　　 D. explain

6.A. amazing　　 B. positive　　 C. strange　　 D. upsetting

7.A. put out　　 B. came out　　 C. reached out　　 D. gave out

8.A. well　　 B. together　　 C. hard　　 D. high

9.A. had to　　 B. would　　 C. need　　 D. dare

10.A. unless　　 B. before　　 C. until　　 D. because

11.A. secretly　　 B. eagerly　　 C. patiently　　 D. nervously

12.A. expression　　 B. movement　　 C. smile　　 D. doubt

13.A. something　　 B. nothing　　 C. anybody　　 D. everything

14.A. father’s　　 B. brother's　　 C. sister’s　　 D. friend’s

15.A. colleague　　 B. doctor　　 C. lawyer　　 D. assistant

16.A. warning　　 B. chance　　 C. promise　　 D. license

17.A. fly　　 B. walk　　 C. drive　　 D. run

18.A. permitted　　 B. told　　 C. suggested　　 D. reminded

19.A. better　　 B. cooler　　 C. warmer　　 D. quicker

20.A. fortunate　　 B. strong　　 C. clever　　 D. young

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