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There were tours of the old school building and a picnic at Confederate Park. Several former teachers
were on hand to tell stories about the old days. Ms. Mabel Yates, the English teacher for over fifty years, was wheeled to the Park.
Some eyes rolled and there were a few low groans (嘟囔声) when Ms. Yates was about to speak.
Many started looking at their watches and coming up with excuses to be anywhere instead of preparing to
listen to a lecture from an old woman who had few kind words for her students and made them work
harder than all the other teachers combined.
Then Ms. Yates started to speak:
"I can"t tell you how pleased I"m to be here. I haven"t seen many of you since your graduation, but I
have followed your careers and enjoyed your victories as well as crying for your tragedies. I have a large
collection of newspaper photographs of my students. Although I haven"t appeared in person, I have
attended your college graduations, weddings and even the births of your children, in my imagination. "
Ms. Yates paused and started crying a bit. Then she continued:
"It was my belief that if I pushed you as hard as I could, some of you would succeed to please me and others would succeed to annoy me. Regardless of our motives, I can see that you have all been successful
in your chosen path."
"There is no greater comfort for an educator than to see the end result of his or her years of work. You have all been a great source of pleasure and pride for me and I want you to know I love you all from the
bottom of my heart."
There was a silence over the crowd for a few seconds and then someone started clapping. The
clapping turned into cheering, then into a deafening roar (呼喊). Lawyers, truck drivers, bankers and
models were rubbing their eyes or crying openly with no shame all because of the words from a long
forgotten English teacher from their hometown.
B. Politeness
C. Joy
D. Thankfulness
B. be used to hide true feelings
C. be used in the wrong places
D. show personal habits
B. Understand their cultural backgrounds
C. Find out about their past experience
D. Figure out what they will do next
B. Smiles and Relationships
C. Facial Expressiveness
D. Habits and Emotions
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sailing. Dad was quite skilled in sailing, but not good at 1 . As for me, I learned both before twelve
because of living close to Lake Ontario.
The last time Dad and I set sail together was really unforgettable. It was a perfect weekend after I
graduated from university. I came home and invited Dad to go sailing. Out we set soon on the calm lake.
Dad hadn"t 2 for years, but everything 3 well with the tiller(舵柄)in his hands.
When we were in the middle of the lake, a 4 wind came all of a sudden. The boat was hit violently. Dad was always at his best in any danger, 5 at this moment he froze.
"John! 6 !" he shouted in a trembling voice, with the tiller still in his hands.
In my memory he could fix any 7 . He was the one I always 8 to for strength and security.
Before I could respond, a wave of water got into the boat. I rushed to the tiller but it was too late. Another huge wall of water turned 9 the boat in a minute. We were thrown into the water, and Dad was
struggling aimlessly. At that moment, I felt fiercely protective of him.
I swam to Dad quickly and assisted him in climbing onto the hull(船壳)of the boat. Upon sitting on the hull, Dad was a little awkward about his flash of. 10 "It"s all right, Dad. We are safe now," I comforted him.
That was the first time Dad had counted on me in a moment of emergency. More importantly, I found it was my turn to start looking out for my father.
I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. However,
he did not teach me acceptance(接受) when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was 1 and ill.
My father was once a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness 2 all that away. Now
he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is 3 One night, I went to
visit him with my sisters. We started talking about life, and I told them about one of my 4 . I said that
we must very often give things up as we grow-our youth, our beauty, our friends-but it always 5 that
after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father 6 up. He said, "But, Peter. I gave up
7 ! What did I gain?" I thought and thought, but I could not think of anything to say. 8 , he answere
d his own question. "I 9 the love of my family." I looked at my sisters, and sawtears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness. I was also 10 by his words. After that, when I
began to feel irritated(激动的) at someone, I would remember his words and become 11 . He could
replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be 12 to give up my small
irritations. In this 13 , I learned
the power of acceptance from my father.Sometimes I 14 what other things I cold learn from him if I had listened more carefully when I was
a boy. For now, though, I am grateful(感谢的)for this 15 .
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| The town of Pressure and the town of Pleasure were neighbors but had_1 in common. Residents built walls to 2 influence from the 3 town. In Pressure, everyone struggled to be the very best. When women 4 birth, they would compete to have the baby with the 5 cry. There was violent competition in very aspect of life. Because_6_ was the index(指数)of success, people were always 7 making money, with no time for relaxation . Some young people couldn"t bear the intensity(紧张) and resorted to drink or drugs to escape. _ 8 , over in Pleasure, the motto was "as long as you like it, do it." People_9_ without pressure and could do anything_10 liked. Children played computer games day and night. At school, teachers didn"t care 11 _students showed up or not. Workers might sit around the office 12 _sipping coffee and doing nothing. _13_the lack of regulation, nobody worried about losing their jobs. It was pleasure that mattered. No one had the slightest thought of moving 14_, either for themselves or for the town. The computers they used 15_old models from Pressure. Some of the young were addicted to 16 because of the emptiness of their lives. Then, people in the two towns began asking themselves, "What is life_17_?" But, just before life in the two towns completely failed, there came a saint-Mr. Reason. He went from door to door, _18 with people and giving advice. People in Pressure learnt to be content with what they had, while people in Pleasure began to make plans. They_19 _the walls between them and built a road to connect the two. The townspeople 20 to realize the truth-there is no space between Pressure and Pleasure if don"t go to extremes. | |||
| ( )1.A. anything ( )2.A. keep out ( )3.A. another ( )4.A. gave ( )5.A. loud ( )6.A. health ( )7.A. busy ( )8.A. Meanwhile ( )9.A. got up ( )10.A. we ( )11.A. what ( )12.A. all way ( )13.A. Thanks to ( )14.A. backward ( )15.A. was ( )16.A. work ( )17.A. for ( )18.A. talked ( )19.A. pulled down ( )20.A. went | B. nothing B. look out B. any B. took B. louder B. healthy B. lazy B. At that time B. grew up B. you B. who B. all night B. Because B. forward B. were B. money B. at B. to talk B. put down B. returned | C. everything C. work out C. every C. offered C. loudest C. wealth C. easy C. At one time C. set up C. they C. where C. all way long C. Owe to C. upward C. is C. drugs C. in C. talks C. went down C. happened | D. something D. give out D. other D. brought D. loudly D. wealthy D. hard D. Once in a while D. brought up D. it D. whether D. all day long D. According to D. downward D. are D. books D. to D. talking D. wrote down D. came |
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| A great French writer has said that we should help everyone as much as possible because we often need help ourselves. The small even can help the great. To this effect , he tells the following simple story. An ant was drinking at a small stream and fell in. She made desperate efforts to reach the side, but made no progress at all. The poor ant, almost exhausted, was still bravely doing her best when a dove saw her. Moved with pity the bird threw her a blade(叶片) of grass, which supported her like a raft, and thus she reached the bank again. While she was resting and drying herself in the grass she heard a man approaching. He was walking along barefooted and carrying a gun in his hand. As soon as he saw the dove he wished to kill her, and he would certainly have done so, but the ant bit him in the foot just as he raised his gun to fire. He stopped to see what had bit him, and the dove immediately flew away. It was an animal much weaker and smaller than herself that had saved her life. | |||
| 1. According to the French writer, we often need help from others, therefore we should _______. | |||
| A. help others as much as we can B. help those who may be useful to us C. get as much help as possible D. help others in order to keep alive | |||
| 2. An ant fell in the stream and could not reach the bank ________. | |||
| A. because she did not try hard B. because she tried too hard C. because she did not cry for help D. no matter how hard she tried | |||
3. The ant finally got on the side _______. | |||
| A. when the water pushed her B. with the help of a blade of grass given by a dove C. with the help of a piece of wood D. when the dove reached out a leg for her | |||
| 4. According to the passage, which of the following does the author express? | |||
| A. the dove was quite brave B. the ant"s cleverness C. how an ant saved a bird D. that even the small can help the great | |||
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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: "Kernel, 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 took after him. We couldn"t afford all the necessary medicine 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 with anyone. I had seen people reacted to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. And even adults could be cruel. When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside 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. What does Kernel tell us about her father? | |||
| A.He had stayed in the hospital since he fell ill B.He depended on the nurses in his final days. C.He worked hard to pay for his medication. D.He told no one about his disease. | |||
| 2. What can we learn from the underlined sentence in Para. 3? | |||
| A.Kernel couldn"t understand her teacher. B.Kernel had special difficulty in hearing. C.Kernel was too troubled to focus on the lesson. D.Kernel was too tired to hear her teacher"s words. | |||
| 3. Why did Kernel keep her father"s disease a secret? | |||
| A.She was afraid of being looked down upon. B.She thought it was not shameful to have AIDS. C.She found no one willing to listen to her. D.She wanted to obey her mother. | |||
| 4. Why did Kernel write the passage? | |||
| A.To tell people about the sufferings of her father. B.To show how little people knew about AIDS. C.To draw people"s attention to AIDS. D.To remember her father. | |||