Diana Velex does everything with maximum effort — and at maximum speed. That 41
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Diana Velex does everything with maximum effort — and at maximum speed. That 41 learning a new language, completing two certificates and opening a store.
When arriving in Canada in 2008, she had one 42 : to have what she had back home in Colombia. “I didn’t want to 43 what I do, like so many who come to a new country.” she said. “I 44 to open a store here in Canada but knew I had to 45 myself properly.”
Diana quickly realize that making her dream of shop ownership in Canada a 46 meant going to school to get the 47 education and certification. “My experience of owning a shop and working as a designer in Colombia gave me 48 in my abilities. But I couldn’t speak the language and I had to 49 how to do things in Canada. It was like having to 50 all over again,” said Diana.
51 , she found just the help she needed for relaunch（重新开张） 52 continuing education at George Brown College. She began taking 53 for both the Essential Skills in Fashion Certificate and the image Consulting Certificate in May 2009. 54 Diana met with the language barrier, she was always going 55 while at college.
By the end of October 2009, she had completed all certificate requirements. Within two years after her 56 in Canada, Diana at last achieved her 57 goal when her new store opened its doors in Toronto’s Sheppard Center．She was on the fast-track to 58 .
Looking back, Diana, a fashion designer, 59 her achievements to the goal she set, the education she received from the college, and 60 the efforts she made. Now Diana is very happy doing what she is doing.
| 小题1: | | A．requires | B．encourages | C．includes | D．advises |
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| 小题2: | | A．goal | B．memory | C．choice | D．problem |
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| 小题3: | | A．continue | B．choose | C．change | D．lose |
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| 小题4: | | A．demanded | B．decided | C．agreed | D．hesitated |
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| 小题5: | | A．teach | B．prepare | C．enjoy | D．persuade |
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| 小题6: | | A．reality | B．fact | C．challenge | D．wonder |
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| 小题7: | | A．physical | B．private | C．primary | D．necessary |
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| 小题8: | | A．pressure | B．judgement | C．influence | D．confidence |
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| 小题9: | | A．put away | B．depend on | C．learn about | D．look into |
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| 小题10: | | A．advance | B．start | C．suffer | D．work |
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| 小题11: | | A．Naturally | B．Gradually | C．Luckily | D．Clearly |
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| 小题12: | | A．through | B．for | C．before | D．with |
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| 小题13: | | A．notes | B．responsibilities | C．chances | D．courses |
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| 小题14: | | A．Though | B．As | C．Since | D．Once |
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| 小题15: | | A．around | B．back | C．ahead | D．out |
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| 小题16: | | A．adventure | B．arrival | C．performance | D．journey |
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| 小题17: | | A．original | B．common | C．another | D．distant |
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| 小题18: | | A．success | B．wealth | C．glory | D．happiness |
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| 小题19: | | A．adds | B．connects | C．devotes | D．owes |
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| 小题20: | | A．after all | B．above all | C．at least | D．at first |
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小题1:C
小题1:A
小题1:C
小题1:B
小题1:B
小题1:A
小题1:D
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小题1:C
小题1:B
小题1:C
小题1:A
小题1:D
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小题1:A
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解析
本文讲述的是哥伦比亚设计师戴安娜到加拿大，克服种种困难，发展事业，最后通过自己的努力实现目标的故事。
小题1:戴安娜以最高的效率和最快的速度完成每件事，这些事包括……
小题2:戴安娜有一个目标，就是拥有她在哥伦比亚所拥有的事业。
小题3:句意：我不想改变我所做的。change改变；continue继续；choose选择；lose遗失，错过。根据第二段第一句和第三段第二句可知，戴安娜曾经在哥伦比亚开一家商店，而且是一位设计师，她在加拿大不想改变她在家时所从事的一切。所以正确答案为C项。
小题4:她决定在加拿大开一个商店。
小题5:在加拿大开商店需要做好准备。prepare oneself properly意为“使自己为……做好准备”。
小题6:戴安娜意识到使梦想变为现实就意味着要获得必要的教育和证书。“reality现实”与 “dream梦想” 对应， 本题要避免误选“fact事实”。
小题7:根据上下文，此处应填“必要的”。
小题8:在哥伦比亚拥有一家商店和从事设计的经历使戴安娜对自己的能力充满信心。
小题9:虽然有经验，但是在加拿大这个陌生的地方戴安娜还得学习如何处理事情。
小题10:从上文可知戴安娜需要学习语言，还要学习如何处理事情，就好像一切都要重新开始。
小题11:根据下文，戴安娜获得重新开张所需的帮助，可知她是幸运的。
小题12:根据下文，戴安娜是在大学继续教育期间得到所需的帮助，因此应选through。
小题13:戴安娜在2009年5月开始学习有关的课程。take courses 学习课程。
小题14:虽然戴安娜遇到语言障碍，但是在大学学习时她总是勇往直前，从不后退。
小题15:go ahead前进。
小题16:在她到加拿大两年之后，戴安娜实现了她最初的目标。
小题17:original 原来的；common 常见的；distant 远的。
小题18:综前所述，戴安娜尽最大的努力和用最快的速度实现自己的梦想，所以她处在成功的快车道。
小题19:回想往事，戴安娜把自己的成功归功于自己所设的目标……owe…to 归功于。
小题20:戴安娜认为努力是最重要的。above all 最重要的是。 |
举一反三
Einstein was the greatest scientist of his age. But he was almost as strange as his Theory of Relativity.
Once, while riding a street car in Berlin, he told the conductor that he had been given too much change. The conductor counted the change again and found it to be correct, so he handed it back to Einstein, saying “The trouble with you is you don’t know your figures.”
He had nothing and thought little of the things most people set their hearts on— fame and money. He didn’t want money or praise. He made his own happiness out of such simple things as his work and playing the violin and sailing his boat. Einstein’s violin brought him more joy than anything else in life.
He led a very simple sort of life, went around in old clothes that needed pressing, seldom wore a hat, He shaved （刮胡子）with the same soap that he used for his bath. The man who was trying to solve the most difficult problems of the universe said that using two kinds of soap made his life completely too complicated（复杂的）.
小题1:From the second paragraph we know Einstein _____.| A．wasn’t good at maths | | B．enjoyed playing jokes | | C．had some trouble with figures | | D．didn’t care about money at all |
小题2:Einstein was most interested in ______ in life.| A．sailing his boat | B．fame and money | | C．playing the violin | D．work |
小题3:“…using two kinds of soap made his life completely too complicated” in the last paragraph suggests that Einstein ______.| A．preferred to live a simple life | | B．was a man of humor | | C．was too poor to buy more soaps | | D．liked to do something different |
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I bent down in the shade under a sixty-foot-tall cactus（仙人掌）, waiting for them to appear. The time was eight thirty in the morning. For seven mornings I had come to the same distant spot in the Sonoran Desert, in southern Arizona. I was here to watch the roadrunner, a small fast-running bird.
I spotted two birds under a bush with red flowers. The roadrunners rushed out from under it. The birds moved rapidly on long skinny legs. Their feathers were brown and black. Their tails were seven inches long. Roadrunners use the tail for balance when running.
That day, the roadrunners performed a courtship（求婚）dance. They ran in wild circles. Suddenly, one stopped and stood still, its round eyes full of light. The second bird took hold of a small stick off the ground and presented it to the first, a gift serving as a symbol of their partnership.
I returned to the spot each day, leaving bits of boiled chicken hoping they would return. Roadrunners eat snakes, lizards, mice, beetles, and spiders. Food is in short supply in the desert, so my offerings were welcome. The pair grew used to me.
Soon after the pair finished building their nest six white eggs appeared in the nest bowl. In about three weeks, six roadrunner chicks, skin as black as coal, cried for food. Their parents brought food such as fence lizards and stink bugs. They fed their young until they were a month and a half old.
Early one morning, a coyote（丛林狼）came around, nose to the ground, for fresh bird meat. The roadrunners fearlessly drove the coyote away, but it was soon back. After three attacks the coyote went away for good, tail between its legs.
I stopped watching the nest when the little roadrunners, at two months of age, were ready to live on their own. It was hard to break away from “my roadrunner family.” Whenever I see a roadrunner now, rushing over the ground, I say hello to it as an old friend.
小题1:The author went to the Sonoran Desert to .| A．go on a tour of the desert | | B．carry out research into some animals in the desert | | C．make an observation about a kind of bird | | D．enjoy an adventure in southern Arizona |
小题2:What can we learn about roadrunners from the text?| A．They have short tails and legs. | | B．They move at a fast pace. | | C．Their feathers are red and brown. | | D．They don’t like boiled chicken. |
小题3:We can learn from the last but one paragraph that the roadrunners were .| A．brave | B．clever | C．easily-frightened | D．lazy |
小题4:Which of the following would be the best title for the text?| A．How do roadrunners seek a partner? | | B．My close friendship with roadrunners. | | C．Roadrunner family in the Sonoran Desert. | | D．How did I find roadrunners in Arizona? |
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Some people believe that a Robin Hood is at work, others that a wealthy person simply wants to distribute（分发）his or her fortune before dying. But the donator who started sending envelopes with cash to deserving causes, accompanied by an article from the local paper, has made a northern German city believe in fairytales（童话）.
The first envelope was sent to a victim support group. It contained €10,000 with a cutting from the Braunschweiger Zeitung about how the group supported a woman who was robbed of her handbag; similar plain white anonymous（匿名）envelopes, each containing €10,000, then arrived at a kindergarten and a church.
The envelopes keep coming, and so far at least €190,000 has been distributed. Last month, one of them was sent to the newspaper’s own office. It came after a story it published about Tom, a 14-year-old boy who was severely disabled in a swimming accident. The receptionist at the Braunschweiger Zeitung opened an anonymous white envelope to find 20 notes of €500 inside, with a copy of the article. The name of the family was underlined.
“I was driving when I heard the news,” Claudia Neumann, the boy’s mother, told Der Spiegel magazine. “I had to park on the side of the road; I was speechless.”
The money will be used to make the entrance to their house wheelchair-accessible and for a course of treatment that their insurance company refused to pay for.
“For someone to act so selflessly, for this to happen in such a society in which everyone thinks of himself, was astonishing,” Mrs. Neumann said. Her family wonder whether the donator is a Robin Hood character, taking from banks to give to the needy.
Henning Noske, the editor of the Braunschweiger Zeitung, said: “Maybe it is an old person who is about to die. We just do not know.” However, he has told his reporters not to look for the city’s hero, for fear that discovery may stop the donations.
小题1:The Braunschweiger Zeitung is name of _____.| A．a church | B．a bank | C．a magazine | D．a newspaper |
小题2:Which of the following is TURE about the donation to Tom?| A．The donation amounted to €190,000. | | B．The donation was sent directly to his house. | | C．His mother felt greatly surprised at the donation. | | D．All the money will be used for his treatment. |
小题3:It can be inferred from the passage that .| A．the donation will continue to come | | B．the donator is a rich old man | | C．the donation comes from the newspaper | | D．the donator will soon be found out |
小题4:What would be the best title for the passage?| A．Money Is Raised by the Newspaper. | | B．Unknown Hero Spreads Love in Envelopes. | | C．Newspaper Distributes Money to the Needy. | | D．Robin Hood Returns to the city. |
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At exactly eleven Sir Percival knocked and entered, with anxiety and worry in every line of his face. This meeting would decide his future life, and he obviously knew it.
“You may wonder, Sir Percival,” said Laura calmly, “if I am going to ask to be released（免除）from my promise to marry you. I am not going to ask this. I respect my father’s wishes too much.”
His face relaxed a little, but one of his feet kept beating the carpet.
“No, if we are going to withdraw（退出）from our planned marriage, it will be because of your wish, not mine. ”
“Mine?” he said in great surprise. “What reason could I have for withdrawing?”
“A reason that is very hard to tell you,” she answered. “There is a change in me.”
His face went so pale that even his lips lost their color. He turned his head to one side.
“What change?” he asked, trying to appear calm.
“When the promise was made two years ago”, she said, “my love did not belong to anyone. Will you forgive me, Sir Percival, if I tell you that it now belongs to another person?”
“I wish you to understand”, Laura continued, “that I will never see this person again, and that if you leave me, you only allow me to remain a single woman for the rest of my life. All I ask is that you forgive me and keep my secret.”
“I will do both those things,” he said. Then he looked at Laura, as if he was waiting to hear more.
“I think I have said enough to give you reason to withdraw from our marriage,” she added quietly.
“No. You have said enough to make it the dearest wish of my life to marry you,” he said.
小题1:How did Percival feel during his meeting with Laura?| A．Angry. | B．Calm. | C．Excited. | D．Nervous. |
小题2:We can learn from the passage that ______. | A．Laura’s father wished to end her marriage | | B．Laura had once promised to marry Percival | | C．Percival had been married to Laura for two years | | D．Percival asked to be released from the marriage |
小题3:What do you think is the ending of the story? | A．Laura was married to Percival. | | B．Laura was married to another man. | | C．Percival was married to another woman. | | D．Both Percival and Laura remained single for the rest of their lives. |
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One sunny afternoon, a seven-year-old girl went for a walk．She crossed a large area of grassland into the woods before she realized that she was lost．
Sitting on a rock and __41 what to do, she began crying．After a while, she__42__ to walk along a wide path lined with tall trees and thick bushes．When it was getting dark, she saw a small, dark wooden house．She opened the door and __43__ stepped in．Suddenly, she heard a strange noise, and she ran out of the door and back to the __44__．Cold and tired, she fell asleep near a __45_．
The girl’s parents were out and her dog, Laddy, was at home．Laddy __46__ that his mistrees（女主人）was in danger．He jumped through a window, breaking the glass．He looked in the fields．But he couldn’t find his mistress anywhere．However, from the ground came a __47__ scent (气味) as he lowered his head．He __48__ the scent and walked across the grassland．Barking loudly into the air, the dog _49__ through the woods until he found the __50_．But the girl was not there, so he headed back to the woods．Much to his __51__ , he saw his mistress’ blue shirt in the distance．He jumped over some bushes and saw the little stream, where the girl was __52__．
When she opened her eyes and 53 her dog standing beside her, the girl said, “you 54 me, Laddy,” and she kissed him several times．Seeing their daughter and dog coming back, the parents burst into tears of 55 ．That night Laddy had a heror’s supper: a huge meal of steak
| 小题1: | | A．forgetting | B．wondering | C．remembering | D．regretting |
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| 小题2: | | A．preferred | B．expected | C．failed | D．decided |
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| 小题3: | | A．cautiously | B．carelessly | C．hopelessly | D．unwillingly |
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| 小题4: | | A．trees | B．bushes | C．woods | D．grasses |
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| 小题5: | | A．stream | B．rock | C．tree | D．house |
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| 小题6: | | A．found | B．heard | C．sensed | D．smelt |
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| 小题7: | | A．terrible | B．strange | C．pleasant | D．familiar |
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| 小题8: | | A．missed | B．discovered | C．followed | D．ignored |
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| 小题9: | | A．searched | B．wandered | C．looked | D．travelled |
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| 小题10: | | A．window | B．girl | C．house | D．hero |
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| 小题11: | | A．satisfaction | B．delight | C．disappointment | D．embarrassment |
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| 小题12: | | A．awake | B．abandoned | C．available | D．asleep |
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| 小题13: | | A．spotted | B．watched | C．observed | D．saw |
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| 小题14: | | A．rescued | B．disturbed | C．comforted | D．scared |
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| 小题15: | | A．pain | B．shock | C．relief | D．sorrow |
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