Once again, I was in a new school. So was a girl in my class named Lisa. Th
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I was tall and she was small. My thick black hair had been recently cut short into an untidy style. Her
natural blonde hair flowed to her waist and looked great. I was 12 and one of the oldest in the class while
she was 11 and the youngest. I was awkward and shy. She wasn"t. I couldn"t stand her, considering her
my enemy. But she liked me and wanted to be friends.
One day, she invited me over and I said yes-I was too shocked to answer any other way. My family
had moved six times in six years, and I had never managed to develop any friendships. But this girl who
wore the latest fashions wanted me to go home with her after school..
She lived in a fun part of town that had two pizza places, an all-right bookstore, a movie theater and
a park. As we walked from the school bus stop through her neighborhood, I tried to guess which house
might be hers. Was it the white one with the perfect lawn or the three -story house with a front porch? I
got very surprised when she led me into an old apartment building. She lived on the fourth floor in a
two-room place with her mother, her stepfather, her two brothers and her sister.
When we got into the room she shared with her sister, she took out a big case of Barbies, which was
my next surprise. I had never played with them. We sat on the floor, laughing as we made up crazy stories about the Barbies. We found out that we both wanted to be writers when we were older and both had
wild imaginations. We had a great day that afternoon.
Lisa was loved by the whole neighborhood. The bookstore owners lent her fashion magazines; the
movie theater gave her free tickets…Soon I was included in her magic world. We slept over at each
other"s houses and spent every free moment together.
Lisa, my first real friend since childhood, helped me get through the rough years of early adolescence
and taught me an amazing and very surprising thing about making friends: your worst enemy can turn out
to be your best friend.
B. they had the same hair styles
C. they were both new students
D. they were of the same age
B. to go to walk in a park
C. to go to her home
D. to go to a pizza place
B. rich and happy
C. quiet and lonely
D. awkward and shy
B. How to deal with enemies.
C. How to live a better life.
D. How to make friends.
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seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake
his cakes. Lieberman improved his kitchen skills greatly during a year abroad before college, learning
from a cook in Italy and studying local specialties(地方特色菜)in Germany, Spain and France. At Yale,
he was known for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for
dozens of friends. Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine
about his cooking. Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmates how to do things like
making drinks out of dining-hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students.
They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were
passed around, with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.
Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He
says Lieberman"s charisma is key. "Food TV isn"t about food anymore," says Flay. "It"s about your
personality and finding a way to keep people"s eyeballs on your show."
But Lieberman isn"t putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new show,
Lieberman was back in his own small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company was looking
for some one to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flights,
Lieberman got the job.
B own a restaurant.
C. love cooking at home
D. often hold parties
B. from his teachers
C. at one of his parties
D. on a television program
B. A way to show one"s achievement.
C. Lieberman"s after-class interest.
D. A natural ability to attract others.
B. He could cook cheap, delicious and simple meals.
C. He was good at using eggs to make sandwiches.
D. He was famous for his shows on Food TV.
B. He is clever but lonely.
C. He enjoys traveling around.
D. He often changes his menus.
become used to suddenly disappears. __1 _, for example, the neatly-dressed woman I __2 _ to see -- or
look at -- on my way to work each morning.
For three years, no matter __3 _ the weather was like, she was always waiting at the bus stop around 8:00 a.m. On __4 _ days, she wore heavy clothes and a pair of woolen gloves. Summertime __5 _ out
neat, belted cotton dresses and a hat pulled low over her sunglasses. __6 _, she was an ordinary working
woman. Of course, I __7__ all this only after she was seen no more. It was then that I realized how
__8__ I expected to see her each morning. You might say I __9__ her.
"Did she have an accident? Something __10 ?" I thought to myself about her _11 _. Now that she was
gone, I felt I had __12 her. I began to realize that part of our _13 _ life probably includes such chance
meetings with familiar _14 _: the milkman you see at dawn, the woman who _15 _ walks her dog along the
street every morning, the twin brothers you see at the library. Such people are _16 _ markers in our lives.
They add weight to our _17 of place and belonging.
Think about it
. _18 _ while walking to work, we mark where we are by _19__ a certain building, why should we not mark where we are when we pass a familiar, though _20 _ person?
( ) 2. A. happened
( ) 3. A. what
( ) 4. A. sunny
( ) 5. A. took
( ) 6. A. Clearly
( ) 7. A. believed
( ) 8. A. long
( ) 9. A. respected
( )10. A. better
( )11. A. disappearance
( )12. A. forgotten
( )13. A. happy
( )14. A. friends
( )15. A. regularly
( )16. A. common
( )17. A. choice
( )18. A. Because
( )19. A. keeping
( )20. A. unnamed
B. wanted
B. how
B. rainy
B. brought
B. Particularly
B. expressed
B. often
B. missed
B. worse
B. appearance
B. lost
B. enjoyable
B. strangers
B. actually
B. pleasant
B. knowledge
B. If
B. changing
B. unforgettable
C. used
C. which
C. cloudy
C. carried
C. Luckily
C. remembered
C. soon
C. praised
C. more
C. misfortune
C. known
C. usual
C. tourists
C. hardly
C. important
C. decision
C. Although
C. passing
C. unbelievable
D. tried
D. when
D. snowy
D. turned
D. Especially
D. wondered
D. much
D. admired
D. less
D. fortune
D. hurt
D. daily
D. guests
D. probably
D. faithful
D. sense
D. However
D. mentioning
D. unreal
cleaner, cleaning offices in a big building.
She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill.“I would have
liked to go back to it, but the shifts（工作班次） are all wrong for me, as I have to be home to get the
children up
and off to school.”So she works as a cleaner instead, from 9 p.m.till 6 a.m.five nights a week for just ￡90, before tax
and insurance.“It’s better than it was last year, but I still think that people who work ‘unsocial hours’
should get a bit extra.”
The hours she’ s chosen to work mean that she sees plenty of the children, but very little of her
husband.However, she doesn’t think that puts any pressure on their relationship.
Her work isn’t physically very hard, but it’s not exactly pleasant, either.“I do get angry with people
who leave their offices like a place for raising pigs.If they realized people like me have to do it, perhaps
they’d be a bit more careful.”
The fact that she’s working all night doesn’t worry Margaret at all.Unlike some dark buildings at
night, the building where she works is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three.“Since I’ve got to
be here, I try to enjoy myself-and I usually do, because of the other girls.We all have a good laugh, so the
time never drags.”
Another challenge Margaret has to face is the reaction of other people when she tells them what she
does for a living.“They think you’re a cleaner because you don’t know how to read and write,” said
Margaret.“I used to think what my parents would say if they knew what I’d been doing, but I don’t think
that way any more.I don’t dislike the work though I can’t say I’m mad about it.”
B.she had suffered a lot of mental pressure
C.she needed the right time to look after her children
D.she felt tired of taking care of patients
B.
they look down upon cleanersC.they never do their work carefully
D.they always make a mess in their offices
A.light-hearted because of her fellow workers
B.happy because the building is fully lit
C.tired because of the heavy workload
D.bored because time passes slowly
B.regret what they had said
C.show sympathy for her
D.feel disappointed in her
Ben and his wife Susan were on their way to have dinner with their friends, Ian and Betty. It was a
dark, 1 night, and they did not know the road very well. They 2 through Cookstown, until they
found 3 they thought was the road to Dorling, 4 Ian and Betty lived. 5 it soon became clear that
they were not on the road to 6 at all. The road that they were on was getting 7 , and there were not
other 8 on it. The wind was blowing 9 with every minute that passed.
They came to a small 10 . They drove past a church, and then two houses without lights on. There
was 11 about to tell them where they 12 , or where the road went. Just then Ben saw a
telephone-box, fifty metres or so further on. While he walked 13 along the road to see if there was a
name outside the church, Susan 14 Ian and Betty to tell that they were still 15 .
Betty was just saying that the 16 as already rather dry, when Ben came back to the 17 , his head
down 18 the wind. He said that there was a tree 19 across the road, and that the telephone lines
were down, Susan heard 20 more from Betty about the dinner.
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| When I met Mr Jim Lemon I was a seventeen-year-old freshman at Houston"s Jackson Junior High.The chances of my finishing high school were __1 _. I was a troubled teenage. Mr Lemon taught American history and was quite __2 _ from the other teachers I had known. Not only was he __3 _, but also he was a great teacher. He pushed and never tolerated the mediocrity(平庸) that had become my standard. On the occasion of our first semester report cards, Mr Lemon __4__ me aside and asked how it was possible that I was a B student in his class and a C student in the __5 _ of my classes. I passionately told him about my __6 _ parents, the local gangs, the drugs, the fights, the police---all of the evils I had been _7 __ to. It was then that Mr Lemon __8__ explained that the only person __9 _ for my situation was me. And the only person with the __10 to change my situation was me. He __11 me that I was failing not because I was a failure. He inspired me to become a better student and he __12 my life. Ten years later I was preparing to graduate from a university when I spoke to him again ._ 13 I did get him on the phone, I told him that I had been saving money so that I could invite him to come to Hawaii at my__14_ to be a part of my graduation. I"ll never forget his __15_. He said,"Who is this again?" I was just one of hundreds of the students whose life he changed __16_ he had no idea of his influence. Mr Lemon never came to my graduation, but his __17 taught me another valuable lesson. His final lesson for me was that we will never know or understand the __18 we have on other people"s lives. He taught me that we all have the __19 to effect people"s lives for the __20 ... Or for the worse. | |||
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