I lived in Dallas, Texas nearly all my life with my mom, dad and older sister. W
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I lived in Dallas, Texas nearly all my life with my mom, dad and older sister. We were 41 to respect others, value education, and get all that we could out of life. My parents always say, “ 42 hard and the world is yours.” They are never without a 43 word of advice or a bit of encouragement when life gets tough.
My parents always 44 me to go to college. However, when I 45 at 16 years old that I’d rather get married to a man than go to college, they 46 stopped telling me they loved me and I could anything I wanted to. 47 , they persuaded me. I graduated from high school and currently 48 the University of Oklahoma studying medicine. I want to make the 49 a better place to live in.
Every time I call home to tell them about a 50 I received in Chemistry Lab or Microeconomics or whichever 51 it is that I’m working hardest for at the moment, they tell me how 52 of me they are. I know there are college kids out there that have no one to call home when they an “A” on a project and I feel incredibly 53 to have my parents.
Don’t get me wrong: We’ve had our share of 54 . I was the angry teenager and they were the awful 55 that wouldn’t let me stay out all night or let me get my tongue pierced（扎洞）.But somehow, we 56 to work through those issues. They never 57 loving in me or believing in me.
I 58 everything I am to my parents. Without their 59 love and encouragement, I wouldn’t believe I can change the world. My parents taught me to always 60 for what I believe in. So I’m working toward something really great and can only hope I continue to make them proud.
| 小题1: | | A．brought | B．introduced | C．raised | D．ordered |
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| 小题2: | | A．Educate | B．Work | C．Train | D．Practise |
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| 小题3: | | A．basic | B．brilliant | C．popular | D．meaningful |
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| 小题4: | | A．reminded | B．expected | C．supposed | D．chose |
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| 小题5: | | A．arranged | B．judged | C．wished | D．decided |
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| 小题6: | | A．never | B．ever | C．seldom | D．hardly |
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| 小题7: | | A．Carefully | B．Hopefully | C．Thankfully | D．Delightfully |
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| 小题8: | | A．serve | B．attend | C．visit | D．join |
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| 小题9: | | A．fortune | B．house | C．universe | D．world |
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| 小题10: | | A．grade | B．present | C．failure | D．value |
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| 小题11: | | A．job | B．item | C．course | D．task |
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| 小题12: | | A．fond | B．proud | C．sure | D．nervous |
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| 小题13: | | A．satisfied | B．encouraged | C．relaxed | D．blessed |
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| 小题14: | | A．lessons | B．problems | C．moments | D．experiences |
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| 小题15: | | A．teachers | B．directors | C．couple | D．staff |
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| 小题16: | | A．managed | B．attempted | C．allowed | D．requested |
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| 小题17: | | A．admitted | B．minded | C．kept | D．stopped |
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| 小题19: | | A．romantic | B．wild | C．constant | D．faithful |
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| 小题20: | | A．fight | B．look | C．wait | D．care |
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小题1:C
小题1:B
小题1:D
小题1:B
小题1:D
小题1:A
小题1:C
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小题1:D
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解析
小题1:C。从全文可以看出本文的主题是父母对子女的教育。raise抚养,此处用过去分词表示被动。
小题1:B。父母总是教育“我们”：努力工作,世界是你们的。
小题1:D。helpful有益的,有用的,与后面的“a bit of encouragement”照应。
小题1:B。从下文的“they persuaded me”可知,他们期望“我”上大学。expect期望,期待。
小题1:D。从语境可知这里应用decided：作者在16岁时决定结婚而不是上大学。
小题1:A。虽然“我”作出了违背他们意愿的决定,但他们从来没有停止告诉“我”他们爱我。
小题1:C。根据语境可知,对于父母的劝说,作者心存感激。
小题1:B。从persuaded一词可以看出,作者没有弃学,因此,这里表示她高中毕业后上了一所大学。attend a university上大学。
小题1:D。作者主修医学,她希望使这个世界成为一个更适合人们生活的地方。globe指地球或地球仪。
小题1:A。从本段不难看出作者时常把学业上取得的成绩告诉父母。grade成绩等级。
小题1:C。whichever修饰class,无论哪一门课。
小题1:B。本句含有一个感叹句式的宾语从句,父母对子女取得的成绩当然会感到高兴和自豪。proud of为习惯用法,表示“以……自豪”。
小题1:D。这里作者把自己在这方面的情况和那些得了A而无人可告知的同学相比,认为自己有这样的父母是非常幸福的。blessed幸福的。
小题1:B。从本段首句“Don’t get me wrong” (不要误会/误解“我”)可知,作者与父母之间也并不是一点问题或矛盾都没有的。这一点从本段的“work through those issues”也可以知晓。
小题1:C。不难看出句中的they指的就是作者的父母。
小题1:A。但是我们设法成功地解决了那些问题。联系But的转折含义可以看出应该用manage to do sth.表示“成功地做了某事”。
小题1:D。联系文章的中心可知,他们并不因为这些问题或分歧就停止对我的爱。第二段第二句也有暗示。
小题1:B。owe sth. to sb.把……归功于某人,这里作者表示自己的一切都应归功于父母。
小题1:C。和文章首段呼应,再次阐述父母的爱和鼓励的重要性。
小题1:A。联系文章开头的“Work hard and the world is yours”可知,父母一直都在教育子女去为理想而奋斗。fight for为……而奋斗。 |
举一反三
Going to school means learning new skills and facts in different subjects. Teachers teach and students learn, and many scientists are interested in finding ways to improve both teaching and learning processes.
Sian Beilock and Susan Leving, two psychologists at the University of Chicago, are trying to learn about learning. In a new study about the way kids learn math in elementary school, Beilock and Levine found a surprising relationship between what female teachers think and what female students learn: If a female teacher is uncomfortable with her own math skills, then her female students are more likely to believe that boys are better than girls at math. “If these girls keep getting math-anxious female teachers in later grades, it may create a snowball effect on their math achievement,” Levine told Science News. The study suggests that if these girls grow up believing that boys are better at math than girls are, then these girls may not do as well as they would have if they were more confident.
Just as students find certain subjects to be difficult, teachers can find certain subjects to be difficult to learn—and teach. The subject of math can be particularly difficult for everyone.
The new study involved 65 girls, 52 boys and 17 first-and second-grade teachers in elementary schools in the Midwest. The students took math achievement tests at the beginning and end of the school year, and the researchers compared the scores.
The researchers also gave the students tests to tell whether the students believed a math superstar had to be a boy. Then the researchers turned to the teachers: To find out which teachers were anxious about math, the researchers asked the teachers how they felt at times when they came across math, such as when reading a sales receipt. A teacher who got nervous looking at the numbers on a sales receipt, for example, was probably anxious about math.
Boys, on average, were unaffected by a teacher’s anxiety. On average, girls with math-anxious teachers scored lower on the end-of-the-year math tests than other girls in the study did. Plus, on the test showing whether someone thought a math superstar had to be a boy, 20 girls showed feeling that boys would be better at math—and all of these girls had been taught by female teachers with math anxiety.
According to surveys done before this one, college students who want to become elementary school teachers have the highest levels of anxiety about math. Plus, nine of every 10 elementary teachers are women, Levine said.
小题1:Sian Beilock and Susan Levine carried out the new research in order to ___________.| A．know the effects of teaching on learning | | B．study students’ ways of learning math | | C．prove women teachers are unfit to teach math | | D．find better teaching methods for teachers |
小题2:The underlined part in paragraph 2 most probably means that girls may ___________.| A．end up learning math anxiety from their teachers | | B．study the ways their female teachers behave | | C．have an influence on their math-anxious female teachers | | D．gain unexpected achievement in such subjects as math |
小题3: In the study, what were the teachers required to do?| A．Prepare two math achievement tests for the students | | B．Tell their feelings about math problems | | C．Answer whether a math superstar had to be a boy | | D．Compare the students’ scores after the math tests |
小题4:What is the finding of the new study?| A．No male students were affected by their teachers’ anxiety | | B．Almost all the girls got lower scores in the tests than the boys | | C．About 30% of the girls thought boys are better at math than girls | | D．Girls with math-anxious teachers all failed in the math tests |
小题5: Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?| A．117 students and teachers took part in the new study | | B．The researchers felt surprised at the findings of their study | | C．Beilock and Levine are interested in teaching math | | D．Men teachers are better at teaching math than women teachers |
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Though I have traveled in hundreds of trains, few unusual things have ever happened to me. But one day in a train something did happen. I do not mean that I was hurt: no one was hurt.
I do my work in a hot country far away from England. Every September I go there to do my business, and every July I come back to England to have a rest. So every September I go to Paris and take a train from the great French city to Mendova, and at Mendova I catch my ship.
There is one very fast train from Paris to Mendova, and it suits me well. It goes as far as Endoran, but it stops at Mendova for a few minutes to let travelers get out or in. It is called The Flying Bluebird. It reaches Mendova at seven minutes past nine in the morning, and it is never late.
A ship leaves Mendova at half past eleven, and so you will understand that The Flying Bluebird suits me very well. I always travel by it, and I have nearly two and a half hours at Mendova to go from the station to the ship. That is more than enough time.
Well, one September night, I took my place in The Flying Bluebird as usual. The train leaves Paris at nine o’clock every night, and I was in my place soon after half past eight. There were three or four people there with me, but very soon a lot of others got into the train. When no more people could sit down, they began to stand up near us and also in the corridor（走廊）. In a short time the corridor was full too, and it was impossible for any more travelers to get into the train.
I could see a lot of other people outside the corridor windows, but they could not get in, and the train left Paris without them. The man sitting next to me started to ask all kinds of questions: “Where do you work? How long does it take you to get there? Are you married? How many children do you have? How much money do they pay you every year? How much do you have in the bank? How much do you spend every month?”
He asked questions for about twenty minutes but I did not give him any clear answers, and at last he stopped and began to read the paper.
I usually sleep quite well in the train, but this time I slept only a little. There were too many people, and there were too many things: small bags, large bags, coats, hats, boxes, newspapers and food. As usual, we got angry about the window. Most people wanted it shut, and two of us wanted it open. But that always happens. It was shut all night, as usual.
When I awoke in the early morning I felt hot and dirty, and glad that the journey was reaching its end. At seven minutes past nine The Flying Bluebird stopped. We were at Mendova, and I stood up thankfully. I took my two suitcases, held one in each hand, and tried to move towards the door into the corridor. In order to get out of the train, I had to pass down the corridor to the door at the far end. There was no other way out.
I could not even into the corridor. There was a suitcase on the floor by my feet, and three men were standing in my way. I felt a touch of fear. I had to get out, you see; I had to catch my ship, which left at half past eleven. And the train did not stop again until it reached Endoran, two hundred miles away.
“I must get out!” I cried. Everyone there understood me, but no one could move.
At last I was able to put one foot over the suitcase on the floor, and I nearly reached the door into the corridor. But then, very slowly, the train began to move. It was taking me away!
“Stop!” I cried. “I want to get out!” But no one outside the train could hear me, and the people inside did not care much. The train moved a little faster. What could I do? I was not even in the corridor.
Fear made me think quickly. In front of my eyes, just, above the door, was a notice that told everyone how to stop the train. I had to pull an iron thing near the notice. I did not waste time. I pulled it.
Well, a noise started above our heads. That was to show everyone that there was something wrong. It was not a small sound. Possibly the men in my ship two miles away could hear it. Then the train stopped.
No one likes to stop a train if there is no need. But I had to catch my ship. That was the only thought in my mind: to get out and catch my ship.
小题1:The purpose of the author writing the first paragraph is to __________. | A．answer some questions | B．express some unusual feelings | | C．arouse the readers’ curiosity | D．give some advice in advance |
小题2:What do we know about the author and the man sitting next to him?| A．They talked with each other all night | | B．They got angry about the window | | C．The author didn’t understand the man’s words | | D．The author didn’t like the man’s foolish questions |
小题3:On this journey on The Flying Bluebird, the author felt uncomfortable because ___________.| A．he couldn’t find a seat by the window | | B．he was angry with the man sitting next to him | | C．there were too many people on the train | | D．the window was kept shut all night |
小题4:It can be learned from Para. 10 that the author was afraid that ____________.| A．he would have to spend another sleepless night on the train | | B．he would miss the ship that went where he worked | | C．more people might crowd into the train | | D．he would have to buy another ticket |
小题5:The noise in the underlined sentence “a noise started above our heads”（Para.15）was made by __________.| A．the angry passengers shouting at the top of their voices | | B．the ship that was lying two miles away | | C．the falling of boxes and suitcases to the floor | | D．the train itself telling people that something was wrong |
小题6:What would be the best title for the text?| A．A Bad Experience on the Train | B．A Train that Is Never Late | | C．A Quick and Wise Decision | D．A Journey to Mendova |
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I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be 1 Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d 2 ?” Just when I started to 3 that there would not be a Christmas that year, three women 4 at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of 5 that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn’t 6 . Somebody had thought enough of me to bring me a gift.
Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my 7 Christmas there special and memorable, I 8 remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of 9 for as many children as I could possibly reach.
So I 10 a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans (孤儿) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, 11 with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were special. Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I 12 them that they couldn’t open their presents until every child had come forward. Finally the 13 they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles 14 up the room. The 15 in the room was obvious, and it wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling –the feeling I knew from that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter.
| 小题1: | | A．sending | B．receiving | C．making | D．exchanging |
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| 小题2: | | A．found | B．prepared | C．got | D．expected |
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| 小题3: | | A．doubt | B．hope | C．suggest | D．accept |
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| 小题4: | | A．broke in | B．settled down | C．turned up | D．showed off |
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| 小题5: | | A．relief | B．loss | C．achievement | D．justice |
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| 小题6: | | A．blamed | B．loved | C．forgotten | D．affected |
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| 小题7: | | A．present | B．first | C．recent | D．previous |
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| 小题8: | | A．hardly | B．instantly | C．regularly | D．occasionally |
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| 小题9: | | A．strength | B．independence | C．importance | D．safety |
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| 小题10: | | A．kept up with | B．caught up with | C．came up with | D．put up with |
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| 小题12: | | A．reminded | B．guaranteed | C．convinced | D．promised |
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| 小题13: | | A．chance | B．gift | C．moment | D．reward |
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| 小题14: | | A．lit | B．took | C．burned | D．cheered |
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| 小题15: | | A．atmosphere | B．sympathy | C．calmness | D．joy |
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Everybody has one of those days when everything goes wrong. This is what happened to Harry.
He got up one morning very late because he had forgotten to wind up his alarm clock（闹钟）. He tried to shave（刮脸）quickly and cut himself. When he got dressed he got blood all over his clean shirt, so he had to find another one. The only other shirt that was clean needed ironing（熨）, so he ironed it. While he was ironing it, there was a knock at the door. It was the man to read the electricity meter（表）. He showed him where the meter was, said good-bye and found that the iron had burnt a hole in his shirt. So he had to wear the one with the blood on it after all. By this time it was very late, so he decided he couldn’t go to work by bus. He telephoned for a taxi to take him to work. The taxi arrived and Harry got in and began to read the newspaper.
In another part of the town, a man had killed a woman with a knife and was seen to run away in a taxi. When Harry’s taxi stopped outside his office, a policeman happened to be standing there. He saw the blood on Harry’s shirt, and took him to the police station. He was kept till 3 o’clock in the afternoon before the police were sure that he was not the man they wanted. When he finally arrived at the office at about four, his boss took a look at him and told him to go away and find another job.
小题1:Harry had __________.| A．a lucky day | B．an unlucky day | C．a busy day | D．a good day |
小题2:Put the following sentences into correct order according to the passage.
a. The man who read the electricity meter came.
b. Harry ironed his shirt.
c. Harry got blood all over his clean shirt.
d. There was a knock at the door.
e. Harry wore the shirt with blood on it.| A．a, b, c, d, e | B．b, a, d, c, e | C．b, a, c, d, e | D．c, b, d, a, e |
小题3:Why did Harry wear the shirt with blood on it?| A．The iron had burnt a hole in his clean shirt. | | B．The only other needed ironing. | | C．He had only one shirt. | | D．He cut himself and got blood all over his shirt. |
小题4:Harry was taken to the police station because __________.| A．his taxi stopped outside his office and a policeman happened to be there | | B．there was blood on his shirt and he was in a taxi | | C．a man killed a woman with a knife | | D．the murderer（***人犯）was seen to run a away in a taxi |
小题5:His boss told him to go away and find another job because __________.| A．he had been kept by the police | B．there was blood on his shirt | | C．he was late for work | D．he had killed a woman |
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With only fish and birds for company, Eric Erden has been rowing across the Pacific Ocean to Australia in his 23-foot-long boat since he left California on July 10, 2009.
This is the first part of Eric’s trip around the world using only his own energy. He will row, bike, and walk without help from any motors at all. His plan includes climbing the tallest mountain on each of the six continents he visits, to honour the memory of a fellow climber.
He says he is doing this to show kids that they can achieve any goal, but he also hopes to have some great adventures along the way.
Storms and huge waves regularly force him in the wrong direction and even threaten to overturn his boat. “Sometimes I really feel scared,” says a somewhat embarrassed Eric. “But that’s part of the journey. I knew this wouldn’t be easy when I started.”
Protein bars give him energy, and he boils water to heat freeze-dried meals on a one-burner stove. A sun-powered machine removes salt from ocean water so he can drink it, but when that fails he sometimes tries to collect rainwater in a bucket.
He’s not bothered by any of the hardships. Eric sees the world as a laboratory where there is much to learn. And when his trip around the world takes him across land, he enjoys meeting people — especially children. He has already visited several schools and shared his story.
小题1:Why is Eric making this trip?| A．To encourage children to reach for their goal. | | B．To learn to overcome various hardships. | | C．To do experiments all over the world. | | D．To honour the memory of a fellow climber. |
小题2:What does Eric plan to do on each of the six continents he will visit?| A．Visit schools to share his story. | | B．Study the culture of the local people. | | C．Climb the tallest mountain. | | D．Cycle from one end to the other. |
小题3:How does Eric mainly get drinking water?| A．He boils the seawater on a stove. | | B．He has brought fresh water with him. | | C．He collects rain water in a bucket. | | D．He uses a special machine to make seawater fresh. |
小题4:Which of the following words best describes Eric’s character?| A．Determined. | B．Intelligent. | C．Fearless. | D．Lonely. |
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