阅读理解。 The island Fiji has always been around me in my life. My parents met i
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teacher as a Peace Corps volunteer and my mother a student. They taught me about its people, culture,
foods and religious beliefs.
At the age of two, I made my first trip across the Pacific Ocean to Fiji. My mother and I made that
trip unexpectedly because my grandma was ill and longed to see her American granddaughter. Although
I have few memories of that first trip, I do remember grandma braiding(编辫子) my hair every day. The
brush gliding through my hair is a feeling I will treasure forever because she passed away soon. I returned
to America when I was five years old. This time I had a brother, Martin, who was two.
I resisted my third trip to Fiji when I was 15, being a teenager who did not want to spend the summer
away from friends. It was this trip, however, that made me realize that Fiji is not just a place to visit but a
part of who I am. The smells and sounds and sights came back to me, but the best part was getting to
know my relatives.
Vishal was one cousin I quickly bonded with(与…合拍). Born two days before me, I had only
known him through pictures before. Though raised oceans apart in different cultures, we talked and
laughed about everything from American sports to Fijian dancing. I was able to form close ties with all
my cousins, and when I talk about them now, it"s as if I have known them my whole life. Spending time
with them helped me understand the traditions and values my mother grew up with. Hospitality (热情)
and care and respect for family members are central values in Fijian culture.
I truly enjoyed learning about my roots during this trip. Fuji is just like a second home, and I will never
forget the time I have spent there.
B. the author had lived in Fiji for about five years
C. the author had no memories of her grandma
D. people value family in Fijian culture
B. she didn"t know her cousins there very well
C. she didn"t want to separate from her American friends
D. her grandma had passed away
B. The author had met him on her first trip to Fiji.
C. He and the author had lots of common interests.
D. He and the author held different opinions about Fijian culture.
B. Discovering My Fijian Origins
C. My Understanding of Fijian Culture
D. My Memories of Fiji
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than enthusiastic. "They said, "I don"t know how you"ll be able to do it," she recalls. ""You won"t be able
to do it. ""
But Brittany, now a junior at Strath Haven High School near Philadelphia, persisted(坚持). And when
the junior team cheerleaders won a tournament last year, she was right there, dancing and cheering with
the rest of the team.
Not bad for someone whose legs were cut off below the knee when she was two years old.
Brittany, 18, was born without shinbones(胫骨)-"just blood and muscle tissue", as she puts it. When she
tried to walk, her legs twisted.
After the operation, she adapted quickly. "From day one, I basically jumped up and wanted to do
everything," she says. Prosthetic legs(假腿) allowed her to move around upright, but too slowly to keep
up with her friends. Brittany"s solution: take the legs off and walk on her knees-sometimes she still does
when safety and comfort permit.
She"s rarely daunted. Other children laughed at her through the years, especially in junior high school,
but she says the challenge only made her stronger. Now she"s trying to convince her coaches to let her
remove the prostheses and be a flyer, the cheerleader who"s thrown in the air and caught by her
teammates.
Brittany doesn"t think her problems are more difficult than the next person"s. "My disability was the
first thing I had to get through, and that"s going to prepare me for the future," she says. "It"s all just a test:
If someone throws you a curve ball(给你出难题), what are you going to do?"
B. Doubtful
C. Opposed
D. Curious
B. She practiced hard every day.
C. She walked on her knees.
D. She asked her friends for help
B. angry
C. confident
D. fortunate
B. takes a positive attitude towards life
C. likes the challenge of learning new things
D. thinks that her problems are more difficult than other"s.
restaurants.To the management of Disneyland Paris , he was a very welcome guest, even
though he was only 12 years old．In the end, the police discovered that the schoolboy was
living the high life on the ?10,000 stolen from his father’s safe.
The boy, named only Lamine, had disappeared from the family hotel in Paris 10 days
earlier. While police all over France searched for him, he was living it up at a 250-a-night
Disneyland hotel. He went on all the rides and went on every other attraction in the place.
And when he’d had enough of Disneyland for a while, he paid 650 to hire a large and
very comfortable car which is usually used by very rich or important people to take him to
a park for a day. Then he was driven back to Disneyland, where he treated new-found friends
to expensive rides and dinner. By the time the truth about him was discovered, Lamine had
spent 7,000 of his father’s money.
B．A way of living that is as good as that of other people.
C．A way of living that draws attention from the police.
D．A way of living that is envied by young and rich people.
B．He family found that the boy was lost and called the police for help.
C. The police thought that it was dangerous to live an expensive life.
D．The family wanted Lamine to go back to school.
B．because he liked the riders in the Disneyland.
C. because he made the Disneyland famous
D．because he spent a lot of money on Disneyland.
B．The police began to search Lamine when they discovered that he stole his father’s money.
C．Lamine was found ten days after he left his parents.
D．Lamine had made some new friends and went to a park with them.
B．his father
C．the police
D．Lamine
assigned(指定)a seat by the teacher, I always 2 to sit at the back of the classroom.
All this 3 after I joined a sports team. It began when a teacher suggested I try out for the
basketball team. At first I thought it was a crazy 4 because I didn"t have a good sense of balance, nor
did I have the 5 to keep pace with the others on the team and they would laugh at me. Without the
teacher who kept insisting on my " 6 for it", I wouldn"t have decided to give a try.
Getting up the courage to go to the tryouts was only the 7 of it! When I first started 8 the
practice sessions (练习赛), I didn"t 9 know the rules of the game, not to mention what I was doing.
Sometimes I"d get 10 and take a shot at the wrong direction-which made me feel really stupid. 1 ,
I wasn"t the only one "new" at the game, so I decided to 2 on learning the game, do my best at each
practice session, and not be too hard on myself for the things I didn"t 3 "just yet".
I practiced and practiced. Soon I knew the 4 and the "moves". Being part of a team was fun and
motivating. Very soon the competitive 5 in me was winning over my lack of confidence. With time, I
learned how to play and made friends in the process (过程) - friends who respected my 6 to work
hard and be a team player. I never had so much fun!
With my 7 self-confidence comes more praise (赞扬) from teachers and classmates. I have gone
from " 8 " in the back of the classroom and not wanting to call attention to myself, 19 raising my
hand-even when I sometimes wasn"t and not 100 percent 20 I had the right answer. Now I have more
self-confidence in myself.
| ( )1.A. as ( )2.A. hoped ( )3.A. continued ( )4.A. idea ( )5.A. right ( )6.A. going ( )7.A. point ( )8.A. enjoying ( )9.A. even ( )10. A. terrified ( )11. A. Interestingly ( )12. A. focus ( )13. A. want ( )14. A. steps ( )15. A. roles ( )16. A. efforts ( )17. A. expressed ( )18. A. dreaming ( )19. A. by ( )20. A. lucky | B. until B. agreed B. changed B. plan B. chance B. looking B. half B. preparing B. still B. exhausted B. Fortunately B. spy B. do B. orders B. part B. curiosity B. improved B. playing B. for B. happy | C. unless C. meant C. settled C. belief C. ability C. cheering C. rest C. attending C. yet C. pleased C. Obviously C. rely C. support C. rules C. mind C. wish C. confirmed C. relaxing C. with C. sure | D. once D. chose D. started D. saying D. patience D. applying D. basis D. watching D. ever D. puzzled D. Hopefully D. try D. know D. games D. value D. strength D. recognized D. hiding D. to D. satisfied |
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| For almost two months Dominic York, a 23-year-old hairdresser, wandered about hospitals all night, wearing a white coat and pretending he was a doctor. Yesterday he proudly claimed in court that despite his complete lack of medical experience or qualifications, he had saved several people"s lives. He had even been allowed to assist a surgeon during an emergency operation on a patient who was about to die on something she had swallowed. "I watched one of those TV dramas about a hospital and suddenly I felt like playing one of the roles myself. So I put on a white jacket and a stethoscope(听诊器)and walked around one of the biggest hospital in London. At first I just watched. Once you learn how doctors talk to patients, nurses and others doctors, it"s easy to take people in," he said. One of the patients he treated was Laura Kennan. She had been knocked down by a car and fainted. When she came to in hospital, York was standing over her. "He looked very professional. He told me his name was Doctor Simon. Then he gave me some sort of injection," she said. And then he suddenly cleared off when a nurse asked who he was. She didn"t think there was anything wrong. "I would never have  realized he was a fake if a policewomanhadn"t showed me his photograph a week later. When the policewoman told me who he really was, I could hardly believe my cars." Judge Raymond Adams told York that he was. " shocked and horrified" that he got away with his deceiving for so long, and then sentenced him to eighteen months in a special prison for criminal with mental disorders. "I can only hope that this will not lead to further problems. After all, you will have considerable opportunity to study the behaviour of the psychiatrists(精神科医生)who will look after you while you are there. If you try to persuade people that you yourself are a psychiatrist after you are set free, I shall make sure that you are given a much longer sentence." Judge Adams warned York. | |||
| 1. York was proud of the fact that ___________. | |||
| A. a surgeon let him watch an operation. B. he could perform some duties of a doctor. C. he had cheated doctors for so long D. people thought he could become a real doctor | |||
| 2. York learned how to behave like a doctor by __________. | |||
| A. watching other doctors work B. talking to doctors and nurses C. getting some training and experience D. observing doctors while he was a patient | |||
| 3. Why was Laura Kennan in hospital? | |||
| A. She had swallowed something and almost died. B. She had to have and emergency operati  on.C. She had been injured in a road accident. D. She had lost consciousness while driving. | |||
4. The judge"s remark implied that York would be more severely punished if he __ _. | |||
| A. pretended to be a psychiatrist B. tried to get away from prison C. was proud of what he had done D. studied the behaviour of the psychiatrist | |||
| 完形填空。 | |||
| I used to watch her from my kitchen window. She seemed so 1 as she muscled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. The school was 2 the street from our home and I would often 3 the kids as they played during breaks. I remember the first day I saw her playing basketball. I watched in 4 as she ran circles around the other kids. She managed to shoot jump shots just 5 their heads and into the net. The boys always tried to stop her but nobody could. I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone. She would practice dribbling(运球)and shooting over and over again, sometimes 6 dark. One day I asked her why she practiced so much. She looked me in eyes and without a moment of 7 she said, "I want to go to college. The only way I can go is if I get a scholarship. I like basketball. I 8 that if I were good enough, I would get a scholarship. I am going to play college basketball. I want to be the best. My 9 told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don"t count." Then she smiled and ran towards the court to repeat the routine. Well, I had to admit that she was 10 . I watched her through those junior high years and into high school. Every week, she led her school team to victory. One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head in arms. I walked across the street and sat down in the cool grass beside her. 11 I asked what was wrong. "Oh, nothing," came a soft reply. "I am just too 12 ." The coaches (教练) told her that at 5"5" she would probably 13get to play for a top ranked team- much less offered a scholarship - so she should stop dreaming about college. She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat tighten as I 14her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She 15 her head from her hands and told me that her father said those 16 were wrong. They just did not understand the 17 of a dream. He told her that if she really wanted to play for a good college and if she truly wanted a scholarship, nothing could stop her except one thing-her own 18 . He told her again, "If the dream is big enough, the facts don"t count." The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college basketball coach. She was indeed offered a 19 , and admitted to the college team. She was going to get the college education that she had 20 of and worked toward for all those years. It"s true: If the dream is big enough, the facts don"t count. |