Yesterday evening I was watching the evening news on TV. The news was about a prize for scientific discoveries. The 1 said something that caught my 2 . "All great discoveries," he said, "are made by people between the ages of 25 and 30." Being a little over 30 myself, I wanted to 3 with him. Nobody wants to think that he has passed the age of making any 4 . The next day I went to the public library, spending several hours, and 5 to find the ages of famous people and their discoveries. The announcer was right! First, I looked at some of the 6 discoveries. One of the earliest, the famous one that 7 that bodies of different weights 8 at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started her research that led to a Nobel Prize when she was 28. Einstein was 26 when he 9 his world-changing Theory of Relativity. Well, 10 of that. Yet I wondered if those "best years" were true in other 11 . Then how about this in 12 ? Surely it needs the wisdom of 13 to make a good leader. Perhaps it does, but look when these people 14 their careers. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln 15 the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government at what age? Twenty-six! But why don"t best years come after 30? After 30, I 16 , most people don"t want to take risks or try new ways. Then I thought of people 17 Shakespeare and Picasso. The 18 was writing wonderful 19 at the late age of 50, 20 the latter was still trying new ways of painting when he was 90! Perhaps there is still hope for me. |
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| D. hostess D. surprise D. advise D. fortune D. managed D. modern D. showed D. fall D. made D. all D. ages D. society D. leadership D. defeated D. gave up D. agree D. about D. former D. works D. after | 完形填空 | It was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom with my favorite shirt on.A __1__ came, "Nice shirt, " I smiled from ear to ear. T hen another voice said, "That shirt belonged to my dad. Greg"s mother works for my family. We were going to __2__ that shirt away, but gave it to her __3__." I was speechless. I wanted to hide. I __4__ the shirt in the back of the closet and told my mum what had happened. She then dialed her __5__, "I will no longer work for your family," she told him. That night, Mom told my dad that she couldn"t clean anymore; she knew her life"s __6__ was something greater. The next morning, she __7__ with the personnel manager at the Board of Education. He told her that without a proper education, she could not teach. So Mom decided to __8__ a university. After the first year in college, she went back to the personnel manager. He said, "You are __9__, aren"t you? I think I have a __10__ for you as a teacher"s assistant. This opportunity deals with children who are mentally challenged with little or no chance of__11__." Mom accepted the opportunity very __12__. For almost five years, as a teacher"s assistant, she saw teacher after teacher give up on the children and quit, feeling __13__. Then one day, the personnel manager and the principal __14__ in her classroom. The principal said, "We have watched how you __15__ the children and how they communicate with you and admire your hardworking __16__ over the last five years. We are all in agreement that you __17__ be the teacher of this class." My mom spent more than 20 years there.__18__ her career, she was voted Teacher of the Year. All of this came about because of the __19__ comment made in the classroom that day. Mom showed me how to handle __20__ situations and never give up. | ( )1. A. noise ( )2. A. get ( )3. A. otherwise ( )4. A. settled ( )5. A. teacher ( )6. A. purpose ( )7. A. went ( )8. A. visit ( )9. A. serious ( )10. A. career ( )11. A. learning ( )12. A. patiently ( )13. A. upset ( )14. A. looked up ( )15. A. believe ( )16. A. spirit ( )17. A. must ( )18. A. At ( )19. A. worthless ( )20. A. challenging | B. voice B. take B. anyhow B. pushed B. employer B. encouragement B. met B. continue B. fortunate B. duty B. judging B. eagerly B. frightened B went up B. protect B. intention B. would B. During B. thoughtless B. different | C. sound C. carry C. instead C. stored C. director C. achievement C. worked C. attend C. careful C. position C. obeying C. successfully C. guilty C. took up C. treat C. action C. might C. On C. hopeless C. dangerous | D. tune D. throw D. actually D. put D. adviser D. victory D. stayed D. prepare D. responsible D. part D. imagining D. skillfully D. ashamed D. showed up D. receive D. attempt D. should D. With D. helpless D. strange | 完形填空 | I ran into a stranger as he passed by. "Oh, excuse me please" was my _1 . He said: "Please excuse me too; I wasn"t watching for you." We were very 2 , this stranger and I. We went on our way and we said goodbye. But at home a 3 story is told. Later that day, when I was cooking the evening meal, my daughter stood beside me very 4 . When I 5 , I nearly knocked her down. "Move out of the 6 ," I said with a frown. She walked away, her little heart broken. I didn"t 7 how harshly (严厉地) I"d spoken. While I lay awake in bed that evening, my husband said to me, "While 8 a stranger, you are polite, but with the girl you love, you are 9 . Go look on the kitchen floor; you"ll find some flowers by the door. Those are the flowers she brought for 10 . She picked them herself: pink, yellow and blue. She stood quietly not to 11 the surprise, and you 12 saw the tears in her eyes." _13 , my tears began to fall. I quietly went and knelt down by her bed. "Wake up, little girl," I said. "Are these flowers you picked for me?" She smiled: "I found them out by the tree. I picked them 14 they"re pretty like you. I knew you"d like them, especially the blue." I said: "Daughter, I"m sorry for the way I 15 today. I 16 have yelled at you that way." She said: "Oh Mom, that"s okay. I love you anyway." I said: "Daughter, I love you too. And I do like the flowers, especially the blue." I had got the world 17 again. I"d 18 to be polite to people in the street - good 19 make society work. But a stranger is someone we bump into once and then never see again - and 20 is for life. | ( )1. A. answer ( )2. A. careful ( )3. A. interesting ( )4. A. still ( )5. A. called ( )6. A. house ( )7. A. realize ( )8. A. referring to ( )9. A. anxious ( )10. A. us ( )11. A. ruin ( )12. A. seldom ( )13. A. By this time ( )14. A. while ( )15. A. considered ( )16. A. shouldn"t ( )17. A. clear ( )18. A. begin ( )19. A. manners ( )20. A. lover | B. words B. polite B. meaningful B. noisy B. turned B. space B. care B. listening to B. patient B. you B. expect B. simply B. At one time B. so B. acted B. couldn"t B. right B. learn B. habits B. companion | C. response C. serious C. similar C. upset C. returned C. way C. prove C. dealing with C. disappointed C. the family C. announce C. even C. For a time C. unless C. developed C. wouldn"t C. beautiful C. continue C. lifestyles C. family | D. speech D. unhappy D. different D. excited D. removed D. area D. understand D. picking up D. unkind D. her friends D. handle D. never D. At the same time D. because D. performed D. mustn"t D. meaningful D. change D. behaviors D. friend | 阅读理解 | I have this old clock that belonged to my mom. My dad gave it to me years ago after mom passed away. I have mixed feelings about having the clock. I love it because it was my mom"s, but it also holds some bad memories. You see, it chimes. It counts out the hour and rings once on the half hour. Or at least it used to. Now you never know what number it will ring. When my mother was at home dying from cancer, she asked for the clock to be unplugged. Hearing the hours count down really angered and frightened her. Mom passed away. I decided I wanted to get the clock fixed so I could remember the good hours we had with her. I took it to a local clock shop the other day. "I know this has no particular value as a clock, but it was my mom"s and I need to get it fixed," I said to the shop owner. I went on to describe the problem. "We get a lot of these in," he told me. "Here"s what I do. We remove the clock works (机件) and replace it with a battery-operated movement (机芯) that chimes electronically," he told me. "You can"t fix this?" "No, we don"t have the time nor the parts." I thanked him and went home. I called a few other places and was told the same thing. "How incredibly sad," I told the last one disappointedly. How incredibly sad that we have become a society that replaces craftsmanship with convenience and easy fixes. We copy the original instead of creating something new. We duplicate (复制); we don"t originate (发明). Sadly, the same goes for our attitude to life itself. Each of us is an original, one of a kind. But we find it so much easier to copy another style than to develop our own. We are wannabes (崇拜别人的人) rather than hey-world-look-at-mes. We fail to see the real value in who we are, so we spend our lives trying to be someone else.
1. Why did the author decide to get the clock fixed? A. Because it was a really old and valuable clock. B. Because it was the only thing that her mother had left her. C. Because it brought her memories of being with her mother. D. Because it left the author with mixed feelings.
2. What did the clock shop owners tell the author? A. The parts that the clock needed were electronic. B. It would cost a lot to repair the clock. C. They had never repaired a clock like this before. D. They could only make the clock electronic.
3. The author intends to ________. A. criticize the irresponsible clock shop owners B. criticize people who do not value things with a history C. criticize people who do not have a creative attitude toward life D. criticize people"s ignorance of traditional craftsmanship |
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