阅读理解。 All of my childhood and early adult life, my mom weighed over 220 poun
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kilograms). I could feel the pain that my mom experienced with her fatness.
I was never uncomfortable about my mother, but I think she was uncomfortable about herself, and that
feeling was painful for all of us. And she began to lose weight.
After more than twenty years of battling obesity(肥胖), my mother completed a forceful
eighteen-month diet that left her ninety pounds lighter than before. A new woman was born! At age
twenty-eight, I got a new mom! For the first time, I met the woman my mother truly was, the beautiful
little lady under the fatness. It wasn"t so much her new body that was the surprise, but rather her new
spirit.
To celebrate her new size and to devote herself to dancing again, my mother joined a "Mrs. Forty-Plus" competition, where she would have to model, give a speech and provide a dance performance. She told
our family that she did not care if she won - she simply had always wanted to perform on stage.
She told each one of us, "I"m not doing it to win; I"m doing it to dance!"
The competition was exciting! I prayed that my mom would win, but while watching her on stage I was
simply overjoyed just by her effort. To me, she had already won. She posed to perfection, her speech
brought tears to everyone"s eyes, and her performance was wonderful.
That night, at age fifty-three, my mother was crowned (为......加冕) "Mrs. Forty-Plus". She was the
first person in our family to ever win such a title.
B. painful
C. comfortable
D. fat
B. 41 kilograms
C. 130 pounds
D. 90 pounds
following EXCEPT______.
B. telling a funny story about herself
C. giving a speech to a large number of people
D. wearing special clothes to show to people
B. the author"s mom"s performance was very wonderful
C. the author"s mom was not successful in modeling
D. the author"s mom succeeded in making a speech
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that homelessness is everywhere. For example, how many of us would expect to see people living on the
streets of a 2 country like Germany?
Kurt Muller and his wife Rita have spent eleven years making 3 for the homeless of Berlin, Germany"s
capital. They first 4 one long hot summer when most Germans were 5 on holiday. Kurt and his wife
stayed at home, made sandwiches, 6 a table in the street and gave food to the homeless.
The Mullers soon realized that food and clothing weren"t 7 . "What these people also need is
warmth and 8 ," says Rita. The Mullers didn"t 9 to give their phone number to the street people and
told them to phone anytime. Rita 10 there was somebody at home to answer the phone and their home was always 11 to anyone who couldn"t face another night on the street.
The couple were soon 12 all their time and money, so Kurt visited food and clothing companies
to 13 donations. Today, over thirty companies 14 donate food and other goods to the cause and
volunteers help to 15 them to the homeless. The public also give clothes and money and a shoe producer 16 new shoes.
Kurt and Rita receive no 17 for their hard work. " We feel like parents," says Rita, "and parents
shouldn"t 18 money for helping their children. The love we get on the streets is our salary." Though Rita
admits she often gets 19 . she says she will continue with her work because she likes the feeling of having made a 20 in the world.
| ( )1. A. result ( )2. A. traditional ( )3. A. preparations ( )4. A. began ( )5. A. asleep ( )6. A. brought up ( )7. A. enough ( )8. A. fame ( )9. A. hesitate ( )10. A. make sense ( )11. A. open ( )12. A. costing ( )13. A. pay for ( )14. A. completely ( )15. A. advertise ( )16. A. donates ( )17. A. permission ( )18. A. borrow ( )19. A. surprised ( )20. A. profit | B. truth B. developing B. houses B. met B. alone B. set up B. necessary B. freedom B. agree B. found out B. crowded B. wasting B. ask for B. calmly B. sell B. produces B. payment B. raise B. excited B. difference | C. reason C. typical C. meals C. called C. across C. put aside C. helpful C. courage C. pretend C. make sure C. noisy C. taking C. look into C. regularly C. deliver C. designs C. direction C. save C. tired C. decision | D. idea D. wealthy D. suggestions D. left D. away D. gave away D. expensive D. caring D. intend D. worked out D. near D. spending D. carry out D. roughly D. lend D. collects D. support D. expect D. amused D. rule | ||||||||||||||
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| [1] Ashley Power"s mother bought a computer for her when she was eight. When she was thirteen, she was surfing the Internet regularly, but she couldn"t find anywhere for teenagers to meet and talk. And one day she thought, "If I had my own website, I"d make it a really interesting site for teenagers." [2]So, when Ashley was sixteen, she launched her own website, called Goosehead. She had no idea how big a success it would be, but three years later, the site was the most successful teen site in the USA! It was getting 100,000 hits every day, and Ashley had about 30 employees. [3] After a few years, the website closed down. Then Ashley, who lives in Los Angeles, was asked to write a book called The Goosehead Guide to Life. The book is about how to design a website and start a business. It begins with a section called "All About Ashley," where Ashley tells readers what it is like to be the boss of a company when you are only sixteen. " I was so happy. But it was crazy in a lot of ways. I got very stressed. I mean, I was only sixteen - I didn"t even have a car! If you were sixteen and you had your own company, you"d be stressed, too!" [4] In an interview Ashley gave advice to teenagers who wanted to start their own business, "Just be strong and have your dreams and work hard at them. And don"t listen when _______, because I heard "no" a lot. Just keep going until you hear "yes"!" | |||||||||||||||||
| 1. For what purpose did Ashley create GooseHead?(no more than 10 words) _________________________________________________________________________ 2. What is the main idea of Paragraph 2? (no more than 6 words) _________________________________________________________________________ 3. According to paragraph 3, what did Ashley do after GooseHead closed down?(no more than 10 words) ________________________________________________________________________ 4. How did Ashley feel as a young boss of a company?(no more than 5 words) ________________________________________________________________________ 5. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words. ________________________________________________________________________ | |||||||||||||||||
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| I became a gardener when I was twelve. My early 1 of gardening may not have originated from my love for nature. It was to 2 my parents. At that time, we had a big yard in which a beautiful maple tree stood. But my mother often looked with 3 at this work of natural art. Those golden leaves seemed like tons of rubbish her, "something else to 4 !"Seeing the neighbors busy with gardening, my father ever thought it a waste of time. At that age, I always did something 5 to whatever my parents did! If gardening were something they found 6 ,I would plant a garden! I planted some lily (百合花) seeds in the yard. But they failed to 7 . I continued to sunflower seeds and roses, Wild 8 joy, I found the first rose bloom(开花).One by one, the flowers bloomed their heads off. 9 , I was touched by this land of wonder. 10 , my parents showed no interest in my garden. My father even 11 at me because found it was 12 to move around my garden to the driveway. To my mother"s 13 , I put her vase my real roses which, in her eyes, were simply weeds 14 flowers. Regardless of their 15 , I kept on planting my garden and 16 to enjoy the pleasure gardening. Plants make such good companions: they breathe, they bloom,they 17 to care and love. It has been many years since I made my first garden out of my desire to 18 my parent .Today I become known as Mrs. Greenthumbs, teaching gardening and hosting a gardening show which makes my parents feel very 19 . And now I could say it is my affection for 20 that makes me a real gardener. | |||||||||||||||||
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,1958, Mum gave birth to Richard. After she brought him home from hospital,