The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during the break. She seemed so small as she pushed her way 1 the crowd of boys on the playground. She 2 from them all. I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing 3 . She would practice dribbling (运球) and shooting over and over again, sometimes until 4 . One day I asked her 5 she practiced so much. She looked 6 in my eyes and without a moment of hesitation she said, "I want to go to college. The only way I can 7 is if I get a scholarship. I am going to play college basketball. I want to be 8 . My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don"t count." Well, I had to give it in to her-she was 9 . One day, I saw her sitting in the grass, head 10 in her arms. I walked toward her and quietly asked what was 11 . "Oh, nothing," came a soft reply. "I am just too short." The coach told her that at her height she would probably 12 get to play for a top ranked team, 13 offered a scholarship. So she 14 stop dreaming about college. She was 15 and I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just did not 16 the power of a dream. He told her 17 she really wanted to play for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship, 18 could stop her except one thing-her own attitude. 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 recruiter (招聘人员). She was indeed offered a 19 . She was going to get the college education that she had 20 and worked toward it for all those years. |
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阅读理解。 | My wife passed away a few years ago, and I went through the worst time in my life. I even wanted to kill myself. Just for kids, I had to continue to live and work as small-town doctor at my medical clinic in Hawaii. My kids had gone to live on the mainland, and I was alone. Then they asked me to have a family trip. On our trip, we turned on the TV at the motel and saw the second plane crash into the World Trade Center. Seeing it falling down, I said to my kids:"I"m going to Afghanistan". And a few weeks later, international Medical Corps sent me to set up 20 clinics in provinces where people had no health care. In these field clinics surrounded by frightening shoots or deadly bombs, we were eventually serving 27,000 patients a month in a very busy schedule. Tired and nervous, I gradually had a sense of achievement, a sense of purpose, and my depression went away. In the years to follow, I went to Indonesia after the tsunami, Pakistan after the earthquakes, Sudan after the civil warm and Iraq after more and more bombs. Each time after disasters one after another, hundreds of people were killed, wounded and many more had to flee. We once set up movable clinics in an area with 19,000 refugees, and it was supposed to hold 13,000 originally. Flu broke out, one of the biggest killers of kids in refugee camps, and it spread like wildfire. Water and food were also serious problems."Adventures or not?" I often asked myself. When my wife passed away, I thought my life was done. But in reality, it was just getting started. At the end of her life, she went unconscious. I held her head in my hands and told her of all the places we would visit and the exciting adventures we would have. I think about the moment many times during my "adventures". I didn"t know how predictive those words would be. But I know that she is still with me. | 1. Where has the doctor been in the past few years? | A. Some countries where he could set up clinics. B. Some African countries where flu broke out. C. The places where the earthquakes happened. D. The places that the horrible disasters struck. | 2. How would the doctor describe his life after he had worked in Afghanistan? | A. Tired and troublesome. B. Busy and risky. C. Meaningful and helpful D. Frightening and depressing. | 3. The underlined word "refugees" means people ______. | A. who are robbed, killed, or wounded B. who suffer from flu in movable clinics C. who like to take adventures D. who have lost homes because of disasters. | 4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? | A. the doctor"s wife encouraged him to work in foreign countries. B. What the doctor said to his wife before her death became reality. C. The doctor"s adventures made him understand the love of his wife. D. With the true love of his wife, the doctor started to change his life. | 完形填空。 | Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important 1 : giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You need not worry if you 2 money. his is how I 3 with giving-away. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store 4 to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the 5 . If an accident takes place, the 6 of which I think the local police could use, I 7 him up and tell him about it, though I am not in 8 here. One discovery I made about this world is to give 9 getting something back, though the 10 often comes in an unexpected form. One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important special letter to my home, though it was 11 to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of 12 . More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was 13 . I was told at the window that there were 14 boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long 15 list. As I was about to 16 the post office, the postmaster appeared in the 17 ."Wasn"t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering an 18 delivery to your home?" I said it was."Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office 19 we make one for you. You don"t know what a letter like that means to us. We 20 get nothing but complaints." | ( )1. A. decision ( )2. A. earn ( )3. A. experienced ( )4. A. happens ( )5. A. customer ( )6. A. story ( )7. A. call ( )8. A. need ( )9. A. plus ( )10. A. process ( )11. A. replied ( )12. A. invitation ( )13. A. dealing ( )14. A. enough ( )15. A. admitting ( )16. A. leave ( )17. A. window ( )18. A. unfamiliar ( )19. A. in case ( )20. A. even | B. research B. lack B. connected B. occurs B. headmaster B. damage B. hold B. trouble B. without B. goal B. addressed B. apology B. providing B. some B. relating B. shout B. doorway B. unexpected B. now that B. hardly | C. speech C. spend C. cooperated C. sticks C. storekeeper C. challenge C. break C. common C. for C. return C. driven C. complaint C. applying C. no C. examining C. guess C. home C. unknown C. even if C. usually | D. discovery D. steal D. agreed D. leads D. policeman D. material D. pick D. charge D. before D. concern D. brought D. appreciation D. starting D. more D. waiting D. act D. yard D. uncertain D. as if D. rather | 阅读理解。 | Public schools in Washington, D.C. provide students with musical instruments for free. When something goes wrong with an instrument, Charles West and Larry Jernigan do the repairs. Both men approach their work with a passion. For them, it"s important that students have a joyful experience with music. The two have worked together for almost 20 years. This year alone, they"ve fixed about 450 instruments. Both men are musicians and music lovers, so learning to do repairs came naturally. "I have been a musician all my life." says West. "I played in an orchestra here in the city. I majored in music in college. I played in an army band." Jernigan"s musical interests are varied. "I was formerly trained in the piano and guitar. The alto sax, and the flute, I picked up while working here." In addition to fixing instruments, the two also go to schools to instruct teachers and students on how to make minor repairs on their own. West believes if children start early and stay involved with music, it enriches other areas of their lives. "I see that in other kids. I see it in myself. I have seen it hundreds of times and it works," he says. "They learn teamwork. They learn patience and respect." But West has concerns about the future of music in the electronic age. "This instant age has taken away from the sit-down, the patience. And to learn to play an instrument, it takes patience, it takes diligence, it takes time." Being able to enjoy music on the job is one of the benefits of the job. Both men agree their best rewards are the students" performances. | 1. What"s the job of West and Jernigan at school? | A. Teaching music. B. Writing music. C. Making musical instruments. D. Repairing musical instruments. | 2. They love the job because they can _____. | A. earn more money B. learn repair skills C. enjoy music D. watch performances | 3. Which of the following is true of the two men? | A. They have fixed 450 instruments in the past 20 years. B. They can play and repair musical instruments. C. Jernigan used to play in an army band. D. West was trained to play the piano. | 4. According to West, what can people learn from music? | A. Teamwork and patience. B. The value of time. C. The truth of society. D. Diligence and confidence. | 5. What is mainly talked about in the text? | A. How to repair musical instruments. B. Learning experiences of two repairmen. C. How to prepare a musical performance. D. The enjoyable job of two music lovers. | 完形填空。 | Jane raced onto the train platform and asked a porter, "Is this the train to Rochester?" "Yes," said the porter, "but only the …Hey! Wait." He was too 1 . Jane had raced off 2 he had finished speaking. She had just 3 herself in a seat when the train 4 out of the station. Jane got out her book and settled down to read. After about an hour or so, she looked 5 and glanced out of the window. "That"s 6 ." she thought."the landscape (景色) doesn"t look 7 , and it should; I"ve 8 this route so many times." She was getting 9 when the big, red-faced conductor walked up and asked for her 10 . One glance was enough. He 11 his head in friendly reproach(责备) and said,"Now, young lady, what did you do a fool thing like that for? This is the 12 ticket. You 13 have sat at the back of the train. The Rochester-bound (开往) section was 14 at the last station. Jane"s face grew red. "I"m sorry," she said, "I guess I was in too much of a 15 to find out…" "Well," said the conductor,"don"t 16 . You shouldn"t have been in such a hurry, but I dare say we can 17 you a train going in the right 18 at Syracuse. You"ll be a couple of hours late 19 , though." When Jane finally stepped onto the Rochester platform, her mother 20 up to her. "Oh, Jane, we have been so worried. What on earth happened?" "Well, Mom," said Jane,"it"s a long story......." | ( )1. A. busy ( )2. A. when ( )3. A. settled ( )4. A. pushed ( )5. A. around ( )6. A. exciting ( )7. A. familiar ( )8. A. walked ( )9. A. uneasy ( )10. A. money ( )11. A. put ( )12. A. wrong ( )13. A. would ( )14. A. joined ( )15. A. hurry ( )16. A. sorry ( )17. A. make ( )18. A. time ( )19. A. arriving ( )20. A. called | B. early B. then B. took B. pulled B. about B. interesting B. beautiful B. gone B. calm B. ticket B. shook B. used B. must B. turned B. trouble B. worry B. give B. place B. leaving B. picked | C. late C. after C. made C. left C. up C. strange C. nice C. followed C. angry C. book C. raised C. only C. should C. connected C. worry C. hurry C. find C. station C. going C. rushed | D. quick D. before D. gave D. started D. down D. right D. alike D. traveled D. unhappy D. name D. nodded D. right D. could D. separated D. difficulty D. regret D. get D. direction D. returning D. pushed | 阅读理解。 | About a hundred yards along the path, we came to a deep valley (山谷). On the far side of it, the path led into some very thick bushes, rather than push through up again and rejoin the path on the far side of the bushes. As I climbed down into the valley a bird flew off a rock on which I had put my hand. On looking at the spot from which the bird had risen I saw two eggs. They were a kind that I did not have in my collection, so I placed them carefully in my bag, wrapped in a little dry grass. As we went further down the valley the sides became steeper (陡峭) and not far from where I had entered it came to drop of about twelve to fourteen feet. The water that rushed down all these small valleys in the rainy season had worn (磨损,冲刷) the rock as smooth as glass. As it was too deep to climb down, I handed my gun to one of them and slid down it. My feet had hardly touched the sandy bottom when the two men jumped down, one on each side of me. They quickly gave me the gun and asked me if I had heard the tiger. In fact, I had heard nothing, possibly because of the noise I made sliding down the rock. The men said they had heard a tiger growling (咆哮) somewhere nearby, but they did not know which direction the noise had come from. | 1. According to the passage we know that _______. | A. the writer decided to cut down the thick bushes B. the writer decided to walk along the valley C. the writer wanted to stop climbing D. the writer tried to find two eggs | 2. When the writer found the eggs, he _______. | A. wrapped them in dry grass and left it on the rock B. wrapped them in dry grass and took them with him C. tried to find the bird D. made the bird fly off | 3. The reason why the rock was hard to get down was that _______. | A. it had been worn smooth B. there was no grass on it C. it was wet and slippery (滑) D. it was soft and sandy | 4. At the end of the story, the writer knew that _______. | A. a tiger had run away B. a tiger was close to them C. the men had seen a tiger D. a tiger had seen them |
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