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once I received it I would know how good a writer I really am.
When the paper arrived at my classroom, I nearly knocked down five of my classmates to get to the
first paper. With a school paper in my hands, I returned to my seat. About a month earlier, I had handed
in one of, what I believed to be, my best stories. I named it Symbol of Success. The head of the English
Department at my school, Professor Cullen had said that she would include some reviews of students"
stories in the latest school paper. Professor Cullen was known for her rough criticism. Impressing her
was very hard but I wanted to be the first to do so.
I sat at the edge of my seat as I read through the other story reviews. There wasn"t one story that got
more than three stars .I became calm and wasn"t anxious to know my review. It was long after that I
heard someone shout out "Five stars?! Seriously !" from behind me. I turned around and saw the
shocked expression of Gene"s face, "Peter, your story got five stars!" I couldn"t believe what I was
hearing. I turned my attention back to my story and saw the five stars at the end of the review that I had
not read yet. I looked through the review written by Professor Cullen. She wrote that I had a gift for
story writing.
I was proud that I achieved what I thought was impossible .For so long I believed I wasn"t as good as
I thought I was and that my talent was not enough to cover up my lack of wring skills .But this review
proved that I was truly a good writer and that there was a future ahead of me in the field of fiction writing. The review and the five stars meant the world of me. Those five stars became the symbol of my success.
B. The publisher sent it to him first
C. His friend helped him get the first one.
D. He rushed ahead to get the first one by himself.
B. She seldom praised her students.
C. She was very cold to her students.
D. She was respected by her students.
B. was always anxious to know the review about him
C. didn"t know he got five stars until others told him
D. looked through a few stories that had got four stars
B. She thought it was just so-so
C. She thought it was extremely bad
D. She doubted if it was written by him.
B. Because they made him happy for some time
C. Because they helped him enter a key university
D. Because they made him see his writing talents.
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thousand other people while a famous rock band plays on a stage so far away that the performers look
like ants?
It may sound strange but that is what many hundreds of thousands of young people in the UK do every
summer. Why? Because summer is the time for outdoor music festivals.
Held on a farm, the Glastonbury Festival is the most well-known and popular festival in the UK. It
began in 1970 and the first festival was attended by one thousand five hundred people each paying an
admission price of ￡1 - the ticket included free milk from the farm.
Since then the Glastonbury Festival has gone from strength to strength - in 2004 one hundred and fifty
thousand fans attended, paying ￡112 each for a ticket to the three-day event. Tickets for the event sold
out within three hours. Performers included superstars, such as Paul McCartney and James Brown, as
well as new talent, like Franz Ferdinand and Joss Stone.
Although many summer festivals are run on a profit-making basis, Glastonbury is a charity event,
donating millions of pounds to local and international charities.
Glastonbury is not unique(独特的) in using live music to raise money to fight global poverty. In July
of this year, the Live 8 concerts were held simultaneously (同时) in London, Paris, Rome and Berlin.
Superstars such as Madonna, Sir Elton John and Stevie Wonder performed in order to highlight
international poverty and debt.
B. Great efforts have been made to hold the festival.
C. The festival has brought in a large amount of money.
D. There have been thousands of fans attending the festival.
B. Tickets for the 2004 Glastonbury Festival were in great demand despite the high price.
C. Both James Brown and Joss Stone were born in poor families.
D. In the 1970 Glastonbury Festival, one could have lunch on the farm for free.
B. the Live 8 concerts are held every year in London
C. London, Paris, Rome and Berlin are famous for outdoor music festivals
D. some superstars are concerned about global poverty
B. Charity events around the world
C. The Glastonbury Festival
D. Superstars" performances in charity events
swimming hole behind his house. In a hurry to dive into the cool water, he ran out of the back door,
leaving behind shoes, socks, and shirt as he went.
He flew into the water, not realizing that as he swam toward the middle of the lake, a crocodile was
swimming toward him. His mother in the house was looking out of the window and saw the two. In great
fear, she ran toward the water, shouting to her son as loudly as she could. Hearing her voice, the little
boy became alarmed and made a U-turn to swim to his mother. It was too late. Just as he reached her,
the crocodile reached him. From the shore, the mother grabbed her little boy by the arms just as the
crocodile snatched his legs. That began an incredible tug-of-war between the two. The crocodile was
much stronger than the mother, but the mother was much too passionate to let go. A farmer happened
to drive by, heard their screams, raced from his truck, took aim and shot the crocodile.
Remarkably, after weeks and weeks in the hospital, the little boy survived. His legs were extremely
scarred by the attack of the animal. And, on his arms, were deep scratches where his mother"s fingernails
dug into his flesh in her effort to hang on to the son she loved.
The newspaper reporter, who interviewed the boy, asked if he would show him his scars. The boy
lifted his legs. And then, with obvious pride, he said to the reporter, "But look at my arms. I have great
scars on my arms, too. I have them because my Mom wouldn"t let go. "
Never judge another person"s scars, because you don"t know how they were made.
wants to show__________.
B. what a brave and courageous boy he was
C. how many scars and scratches he had
D. how great and beloved his mother was
B. didn"t stop swimming forwards
C. swam back towards the shore
D. was ready to fight the crocodile
B. The crocodile bit the arms of the boy when it reached him.
C. There is always an interesting story behind every scar.
D. It was the farmer who shot the crocodile.
B. Women Hold up Half the Sky
C. A Terrible Experience
D. Don"t Judge by Appearances
kitchen. Mother was pulling out quilt (被子) after quilt from the boxes, proudly showing me their beauties. She was preparing for a quilt show at the Elmhurst Church. When we began to fold and put them back
into the boxes, I noticed something at the bottom of one box. I pulled it out. "What is this?" I asked.
"Oh?" Mom said, "That"s Mama"s quilt." I spread the quilt. It looked as if a group of school children
had pieced it together; irregular designs, childish pictures, a crooked line on the right.
"Grandmother made this?" I said, surprised. My grandmother was a master at making quilts. This
certainly didn"t look like any of the quilts she had made.
"Yes, right before she died. I brought it home with me last year and made some changes," she said.
"I"m still working on it. See, this is what I"ve done so far."
I looked at it more closely. She had made straight a crooked line. At the center of the quilt, she had
stitched (缝)a piece of cloth with these words: "My mother made many quilts. She didn"t get all lines
straight. But I think this is beautiful. I want to see it finished. Her last quilt."
"Oh, this is so nice, Mom, "I said. It occurred to me that by completing my grandmother"s quilt, my
mother was honoring her own mother. I realized, too, that I held in my hands a family treasure. It started
with the loving hands of one woman, and continued with the loving hands of another.
B. To help prepare for a show.
C. To get together for the family dinner.
D. To discuss her grandmother"s life.
B. her grandmother liked the quilt
C. the quilt was the best she had seen
D. her mother had made some changes
B. broken
C. bent
D. unusual
B. Mother"s Home
C. A Monday Dinner
D. Grandmother"s Quilt
bricks, ensuring that they were level and that every row of b
ricks was 2 . He worked and worked. His progress was 3 , due to the great care in his work, but he wasn"t 4 . He was going to build a beautiful
brick wall, his first brick wall.
Finally, the day dawned(破晓) when he 5 his wall. But 6 he stood back and admired the fruits of
his labor, something caught his eye and made him very 7 . Despite the great 8 he took in his work, 9 , he had overlooked(忽视) two bricks that were laid slanted(倾斜的). Worst of all, the bricks
were right in the centre of the wall. Since then, whenever visitors came to the temple, the young monk
would 10 them around to all places, except the brick wall that he had built.
One day, two elderly monks came to the temple. No matter 11 the young monk tried to detour
(绕路) to 12 the ugly brick wall, the elderly monks 13 touring the area around that brick wall .
14 , the young monk brought them to the brick wall.
"Oh, this is such a(n) 15 brick wall!" one of the elderly monks commented.
"Are you 16 ? Haven"t you seen the two ugly bricks in the middle of the wall?" the young monk
said in 17 .
"Yes, I have." replied the elderly monk.
"But I also saw the remaining 98 good bricks that 18 this a beautiful wall!"
You see, most of the time, we only care for things that went wrong or didn"t 19 our expectations.
We"ve forgotten the fact that they are only two bad bricks in the wall and we should not overlook the
20 of the remaining 98 bricks.
| ( )1. A. moving ( )2. A. even(整齐的) ( )3. A. wonderful ( )4. A. satisfied ( )5. A. constructed ( )6. A. unless ( )7. A. relaxed ( )8. A. care ( )9. A. so ( )10. A. show ( )11. A. when ( )12. A. leave ( )13. A. gave up ( )14. A. Gladly ( )15. A. strong ( )16. A. clear ( )17. A. fear ( )18. A. made ( )19. A. come up with(提出) ( )20. A. effect | B. building B. hard B. great B. bothered B. designed B. once B. angry B. effort B. somehow B. turn B. where B. prevent B. insist on B. Unwillingly B. ugly B. ready B. surprise B. helped B. live up to(实现) B. use | C. laying C. still C. slow C. pleased C. completed C. as C. delighted C. notice C. therefore C. stop C. how C. avoid C. kept on C. Honestly C. thick C. real C. sadness C. became C. make up for C. function | D. burning D. enough D. terrible D. puzzled D. painted D. until D. excited D. pleasure D. besides D. follow D. what D. protect D. went on D. Helplessly D. beautiful D. sure D. peace D. changed D. fill up with D. beauty |
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| Tom was a clever boy, but his parents were poor, so he had to work in his spare time and during his holidays to pay for his education. In spite of this, he managed to get to the university, but it was so expensive to study there that during the holiday he found it necessary to get two jobs at the same time so as to make enough money to pay for his studies. One summer he managed to get a job in a butcher"s shop(肉店) during the day-time, and another in a hospital at night. In the shop, he learnt to cut meat quite nicely, so the butcher often left him to do all the serving while he went to the back room to do the accounts(账目). In the hospital , on the other hand, he was , of course , allowed to do the simplist jobs, like helping to lift people and to carry them from one part of the hospital to another. Both at the butcher"s shop and at the hospital, Tom had to wear white clothes. One evening at the hospital, Tom had to carry a woman from her bed to the place where she was to have an operation. The woman was already feeling frightened at the thought of the operation before he came to get her, but when she saw Tom, that finished her. "No! No!" she cried. "Not my butcher! I won"t be operated on by my butcher!" and fainted away (昏厥). | |||
| 1. Tom made enough money by ________. | |||
| A. studying in the university B. working in a butcher"s shop C. doing two jobs D. cutting meat well | |||
| 2. Tom was a student, but at the same time he was__________. | |||
| A. a butcher and a doctor B. a manager and a doctor C. an assistant D. a manager | |||
| 3. The woman patient recognized Tom because ____________. | |||
| A. he was wearing white clothes B. he had sold meat to her C. he was now working in the hospital D. he was going to operate on her | |||
| 4. When she saw Tom, that finished her, because the sight of Tom _________. | |||
| A. plunged(使进入) her into deep sorrow B. made her decide not to have an operation C. broke her heart D. took all her strength and courage away | |||