阅读理解 Taylor Bernard and her twin sister were born 12 weeks early. As a resul
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Taylor Bernard and her twin sister were born 12 weeks early. As a result, Taylor suffers from
cerebral palsy (CP). It is a condition that affects the brain. Kids who are born with CP have trouble
controlling the muscles in their body. Taylor is 8 years old now. She uses a powerwheelchair to get
around. Her twin sister Sydney participates in sports, but Taylor has a different interest: art.
Taylor submitted(提交) a watercolor painting of a sunset in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, to an art
contest. Of the more than 5,500 students who took park in the contest, only 51 were selected. Taylor
was one of them. Her winning painting is now being displayed in Union Station, in Washington, D. C.
After leaving Union Station, the exhibit will tour the country.
The contest was sponsored by VSA, the international organization on arts and disability. The
nonprofit group was started to give people with disabilities an opportunity to participate in the arts.
Submissions for the contest came from students with and without disabilities. The exhibition is part of
VSA"s International Arts Festival and was also sponsored by CVS Caremark"s All Kids Can program.
Art Changed Her Life
Amanda LaMunyon represented Oklahoma in the exhibition. She just finished her freshman year of
high school. When Amanda was in elementary school, she had problems focusing and following rules.
She has Asperger Syndrome, which is a form of autism.
"People started looking at her differently," her mother, Sherry LaMunyon, said. "They stopped
looking at her as a girl who was struggling and started looking at her as an artist. It"s changed her whole
life."
The president of VSA, Soula Antoniou, said that the point of the exhibition is to focus on students"
abilities, rather than their disabilities. "What we"re trying to do is make sure each student finds something
they"re good at," she said.
That"s exactly what Taylor"s done. While she has some difficulty with fine motor skills, she"s found that
she"s talented with wide brush strokes(笔画) in painting.
Inspiring Others
Before finding painting, Amanda said she had trouble fitting in. "I didn"t have anything that I felt was my talent," she said. Now she"s more focused on school and is interested in studying fashion design and
theater.
Amanda hopes that the exhibition will show others that even if they have disabilities, they have abilities
they don"t even know yet. You can see more of Amanda"s artwork at amandalamunyon.com. |
| 1. How could Amanda"s mother feel when they learned Amanda could paint? |
A. Disappointed.
B. Surprised.
C. Doubt.
D. Pleased. |
| 2. What is the text mainly about? |
A. Students with disabilities show their creativity at an international art festival in Washington, D. C.
B. Students with disabilities are more talented in art according to the result of an international art festival
in Washington, D. C.
C. An international art festival in Washington, D. C. gives people with disabilities an opportunity to
participate in the arts.
D. More than 5,500 students submitted their paintings at an international art festival in Washington, D. C. |
| 3. We may infer from the passage that ________. |
A. Amanda had Asperger Syndrome before she went to the elementary school
B. Some children who are disabled even don"t know their situation
C. Taylor has trouble controlling the muscles, but her sister is healthy
D. Amanda is good at painting with wide brush strokes |
| 4. Where could this passage come from? |
A. In a newspaper.
B. In a magazine.
C. On the Internet.
D. In a report. |
答案
| 1-4: D A C C |
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Russ was a lovable kid with a variety of communication challenges-a speech impediment(语言障碍),
dyslexia(诵读困难), and auditory problems.__1__today he is walking confidently, standing tall to make
an acceptance__2__for having been chosen one of the "Outstanding Young Citizens" in Ocean County,
New Jersey__3__his remarkable volunteer service in the town of Toms River.
As I listened, I closed my eyes.I found myself __4__ those memorable moments.My mind was full of
warm images of Russ as a loving, caring youth, a gentle soul, __5__ his challenges.And now, as he stood
at the platform, I knew his heart __6__be racing.As Russ continued to speak, I thought about the fateful
day when he was diagnosed with all those impairments(损伤) and how__7__ his tutors would be if they
could see him today.Here he was at twentynine, being honored for ten years of service as a volunteer
__8__.Russ was__9__for organizing clothing for the homeless, teaching preschool children about fire
safety, and for playing Santa Claus for very sick children by driving up in a fire truck.
Russ thanked his parents for providing him with dignity and for teaching him about morals.Then, pausing for a few seconds, he __10__ us by surprise by touching lovingly on the __11__ of his nephew, Austin.
Austin was just three years old when he died from an incurable disease.At that moment, I had to close my eyes again__12__ a different set of tears ran down my cheeks.A silence__13__ the room as Russ owed
his volunteer award to Austin.He __14__his address by lifting up the audience with these words, "Austin
taught me how to love."
I have never thought of this day.__15__, no one had ever thought that Russ would made __16__ as the star of the football team, and he had never been voted "most likely to succeed", but he__17__ to be a true "star" in his community.Russ became a man of strong character __18__ his unselfish service to others.With so many impairments, Russ now sees and acts __19__ with his heart.His words and deeds inspire
everyone who knows him.It is Russ, our son, who has shown us what__20__ is. |
( )1. A.And
( )2. A.point
( )3. A.in spite of
( )4. A.recalling
( )5. A.facing up to
( )6. A.could
( )7. A.nervous
( )8. A.policeman
( )9. A.grateful
( )10. A.took
( )11. A.birth
( )12. A.since
( )13. A.dropped down
( )14. A.concluded
( )15. A.Generally
( )16. A.it
( )17. A.happened
( )18. A.at
( )19. A.cautiously
( )20. A.sharing | B. While
B. speech
B. regardless of
B. recording
B. concerning about
B. might
B. excited
B. tailor
B. responsible
B. got
B. achievement
B. after
B. got up
B. wrote
B. Surprisingly
B. him
B. rose
B. on
B. generously
B. love | C. As
C. call
C. because of
C. seizing
C. escaping from
C. would
C. proud
C. tutor
C. anxious
C. shocked
C. loss
C. when
C. took off
C. delivered
C. Actually
C. one
C. appeared
C. by
C. closely
C. sacrifice | D. But
D. appeal
D. in face of
D. expecting
D. putting up with
D. must
D. surprised
D. fireman
D. fit
D. moved
D. disease
D. before
D. fell over
D. started
D. However
D. that
D. reduced
D. in
D. clearly
D. confidence |
| 完型填空。 |
Tears clouded my eyes as I stood in our washing room, holding Brett"s jeans and shirt full of burn
holes.
Tired and defeated, I 1 to the floor. The clothes were just one more thing Brett had 2 .He often
got almost everything in the house out of 3 . Many windows in our house needed repair due to his
breaking 4 to steal money when he chose to live on the street. Yet none of this could compare to the
emotional 5 Brett had done to our once quiet home.
Brett came to live with us when he was 12 years old. During the next few years I had dealt with Brett
as 6 as possible, but inside I was shouting,"I don"t want him in my house another day, Lord! I just can"t
7 him!" Having wiped my tears, I continued 8 him as before.
When Brett was nearly 18, he landed again in Juvenile Hall (少管所). After that, my husband and I had to send Brett to a boarding school for helping 9 teens. At the 10 ceremony, each graduate held a
white rose to give to the person who had 11 the most to him or her.
Brett spoke 12 to his parents and then spoke to me, "You did so much. You were always there, no matter 13 . My mom and dad, I am their kid. But you, 14 troubled enough by me, always 15
me such love. And I want you to know I love you for it.”
16 , I stood as Brett placed the white rose in my hand and hugged me 17 .
At that moment, tears 18 in my eyes again, this time not for disappointment but for 19 . Although I had struggled with silent 20 toward my stepson, Brett had seen only my actions. Love is action. We may not always have positive feelings about certain people in our lives, but we can love them. |
( )1．A.sat
( )2．A. lost
( )3．A.order
( )4．A.off
( )5．A.pain
( )6．A.patiently
( )7．A.forgive
( )8．A.feeding
( )9．A.lazy
( )10．A.opening
( )11．A.afforded
( )12．A.lovingly
( )13．A.where
( )14．A.although
( )15．A.cost
( )16．A.Astonished
( )17．A.surely
( )18．A.fell
( )19．A.pity
( )20．A.love | B．bent
B．ruined
B．place
B．in
B．injury
B．willingly
B．stand
B．pardoning
B．disappointing
B．official
B．meant
B．sadly
B．how
B．unless
B．lent
B．Puzzled
B．tightly
B．flowed
B．luck
B．anxiety | C．sank
C．torn
C．trouble
C．up
C．harm
C．strictly
C．educate
C．comforting
C．troublesome
C．graduation
C．supplied
C．proudly
C．who
C．because
C．showed
C．Encouraged
C．roughly
C．moved
C．happiness
C．care | D．dropped
D．broken
D．danger
D．away
D．damage
D．rudely
D．control
D．parenting
D．careless
D．victory
D．owed
D．nervously
D．what
D．when
D．taught
D．Interested
D．fiercely
D．gathered
D．success
D．anger |
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A businesswoman got into a taxi in midtown.As it was the rush hour and she was in a__1__to catch
a train, she__2__a quick way to reach it.“I have been a taxi driver for 15 years!" the driver said__3__."
You don"t think I know the best way to go?"
The woman tried to explain that she hadn"t __4__to annoy him, but the driver kept__5__. She finally
realized that he was too annoyed to be__6__, so she changed her__7__. "You know, you are right," she
told him. "It must seem__8__for me not to think you know the best way__9__the city."
__10__, the driver glanced at his__11__in the rearview mirror, turned down the street she wanted
and got her to the train on time. "He didn"t say another word the rest of the ride," she said. "__12__I got
out and paid him.Then he thanked me."
When you find yourself__13__with people like the taxi driver, you will always try to__14__your idea.
It can lead to longer arguments，the loss of job chances or the__15__of marriages. I have discovered
one simple__16__extremely unlikely method that can prevent the disagreement or other difficult situations
from__17__in a disaster.
The__18__is to put yourself in the other person"s shoes and look for the__19__in what that person is
saying. Find a way to__20__, and the result may surprise you. |
( )1. A. hurry
( )2. A. chose
( )3. A. jokingly
( )4. A. supposed
( )5. A. apologizing
( )6. A. reasonable
( )7. A. road
( )8. A. strange
( )9. A. across
( )10. A. Surprised
( )11. A. rider
( )12. A. until
( )13. A. satisfied
( )14. A. give up
( )15. A. combination
( )16. A. and
( )17. A. lying
( )18. A. problem
( )19. A. fact
( )20. A. agree | B. rush
B. made
B. angrily
B. believed
B. driving
B. thoughtful
B. mind
B. wrong
B. in
B. Worried
B. speaker
B. after
B. concerned
B. turn down
B. destruction
B. that
B. resulting
B. importance
B. meaning
B. argue | C. moment
C. found
C. anxiously
C. meant
C. asking
C. normal
C. direction
C. terrible
C. through
C. Annoyed
C. helper
C. because
C. crowded
C. stick to
C. suffering
C. while
C. setting
C. key
C. expression
C. explain | D. way
D. suggested
D. curiously
D. decided
D. shouting
D. practical
D. manner
D. stupid
D. along
D. Disappointed
D. comer
D. since
D. faced
D. point out
D. division
D. though
D. lead
D. reply
D. truth
D. escape | | 阅读理解 | The elephant was lying heavily on its side, fast asleep. A few dogs started barking at it. The elephant
woke up in a terrible anger: it chased the dogs into the village where they ran for safety. That didn"t stop
the elephant. It destroyed a dozen houses and injured several people. The villagers were scared and
angry. Then someone suggested calling Parbati，the elephant princess.
Parbati Barua"s father was a hunter of tigers and an elephant tamer. He taught Parbati to ride an
elephant before she could even walk. He also taught her the dangerous art of the elephant roundup-how
to catch wild elephants.
Parbati hasn"t always lived in the jungle. After a happy childhood hunting with her father, she was
sent to a boarding school in the city. But Parbati never got used to being there and many years later she
went back to her old life. "Life in the city is too dull. Catching elephants is an adventure and the
excitement lasts for days after the chase," she says.
But Parbati doesn"t catch elephants just for fun. "My work," she says, "is to rescue man from the
elephants, and to keep the elephants safe from man." And this is exactly what Parbati has been doing for
many years. Increasingly，the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it
and its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land. It is now fighting back. Whenever
wild elephants enter a tea garden or a village, Parbati is called to guide the animals back to the jungle
before they can kill.
The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. A good elephant tamer will spend
hours a day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant. "Eventually they grow to love their tamers
and never forget them. They are also more loyal than humans," she said, as she climbed up one of her
elephants and sat on the giant, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed! | | 1. For Parbati, catching elephants is mainly to________. | A. get long lasting excitement
B. keep both man and elephants safe
C. send them back to the jungle
D. make the angry elephants tame | | 2. Before Parbati studied in a boarding school, ________. | A. she spent her time hunting with her father
B. she learned how to sing love songs
C. she had already been called an elephant princess
D. she was taught how to hunt tigers | | 3. Indian elephants are getting increasingly angry and they revenge because________. | A. they are caught and sent for heavy work
B. illegal hunters capture them and kill them
C. they are attacked and their land gets limited
D. dogs often bark at them and chase them | | 4. The passage starts with an elephant story in order to explain that in India ________. | A. people easily fall victim to elephants" attacks
B. the manelephant relationship is getting worse
C. elephant tamers are in short supply
D. dogs are as powerful as elephants | | 完形填空。 | One day I pulled up to my apartment building and noticed there was a father and daughter
__1__ some things from a moving truck. Normally I"m shy away from contact with __2__.
That particular day, though, something was in me; I can"t explain __3__, but I felt like I should
just help these people, even __4__ something as seemingly unimportant as unloading a truck.
So I __5__ and introduced myself, welcomed them to the town, and asked them to give me
a(n) __6__ to put some proper shoes on. After I had flipflops(夹趾拖鞋)on, I went over and
helped them move all of their __7__ into the apartment.
After we finished, we talked some and I got to know my new __8__. It might seem unimportant,
but it seems like people are less __9__ and friendly to their neighbors these days; I wanted to
__10__ that, at least in my small __11__ block. So we did talk,and they"re from Florida, just
like me.
At that __12__ time in my life, I was going through a really difficult __13__ with my girlfriend
of 7 years. I didn"t feel like helping anyone or doing anything __14__, but I figured why not?And
I"m glad I did. Also, as __15__ would have it, their daughter is my age(college student)and we
each had a mutual(相互的)__16__in one another. This developed into a friendship, and in the
coming months, probably more.
The __17__ was the act itself, though. I got to know my new neighbors and made some new
friends in the __18__. And I felt really good about it. Since then, I"ve tried __19__ my comfort
zone to perform other unplanned acts of __20__. So far, so good.I"d encourage everyone else
to do the same! | ( )1.A.stealing
( )2.A.teachers
( )3.A.which
( )4.A.with
( )5.A.came up
( )6.A.moment
( )7.A.treasure
( )8.A.neighbors
( )9.A.open
( )10.A.change
( )11.A.house
( )12.A.particular
( )13.A.breakout
( )14.A.primitive
( )15.A.luck
( )16.A.choice
( )17.A.award
( )18.A.game
( )19.A.expanding
( )20.A.success | B．burdening
B．strangers
B．why
B．about
B．came on
B．hand
B．goods
B．girlfriend
B．afraid
B．accept
B．school
B．common
B．breakup
B．positive
B．accident
B．habit
B．chance
B．process
B．decreasing
B．courage | C．unloading
C．friends
C．what
C．for
C．came out
C．hour
C．furniture
C．students
C．curious
C．receive
C．apartment
C．normal
C．breakthrough
C．meaningless
C．success
C．love
C．reward
C．program
C．reducing
C．kindness | D．packing
D．parents
D．when
D．on
D．came back
D．break
D．belongings
D．classmates
D．lucky
D．observe
D．company
D．usual
D．breakdown
D．important
D．result
D．interest
D．prize
D．direction
D．closing
D．consideration | 最新试题
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