| ( )1. A. consider ( )2. A. Since ( )3. A. other ( )4. A. worthless ( )5. A. fight ( )6. A. something ( )7. A. sympathy ( )8. A. respond ( )9. A. scared ( )10. A. less than ( )11. A. why ( )12. A. bench ( )13. A. waiting ( )14. A. proudly ( )15. A. decision ( )16. A. compete ( )17. A. because ( )18. A. joy ( )19. A. so ( )20. A. above all | B. wonder B. During B. next B. hopeless B. quit B. nothing B. encouragement B. perform B. nervous B. more than B. how B. sport B. watching B. bravely B. plan B. stick B. if B. patience B. as B. after all | C. think C. After C. first C. helpless C. transform C. anything C. permission C. promote C. upset C. other than C. whether C. drill C. leaning C. unfortunately C. game C. live C. as C. challenge C. but C. and all | D. hesitate D. Before D. last D. careless D. retire D. everything D. faith D. practice D. amazed D. rather than D. what D. battle D. playing D. painfully D. project D. represent D. though D. position D. like D. all in all |
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| Like most big projects, learning to manage your mother well is what you should do. Here are what I believe the best steps towards a better relationship with her. They are not necessarily surprising or revolutionary, but they have worked for many people. Try them. Remember your mother"s age. As children, we often do not think of our mother as having an age. Even when we become conscious of her as an individual, age does not change our view; she is still our mother. Knowing our mother"s age, not just in numbers of years but in terms of her psychological and physical state, often helps us to understand her better. Listen to your mother. I have found that sometimes the things my mother told me long ago are remarkably useful. If your mother knows that you respect her point of view, even if you do not share it, it will help her feel close to you. Remember that your mother has a past. A key step in managing our relationship with our mother is to find out about her early life.In learning about our mother"s past, we know that it can encourage us to think about her whole life. Ask your mother about your childhood history. My grandparents died when I was young. If you are fortunate enough to have living family, think of your life as a jigsaw puzzle and ask as many questions as you can to put the picture together. Understanding your roots and your childhood can help you know more clearly who you are, as part of a family which you share with your mother. Remember that managing your mother is really about managing yourself. Taking any measure to managing our mother is the issue of how we manage ourselves. No matter how difficult we find her, it is important to remember that it is not her behavior itself that is causing us discomfort, but the way we feel about her behavior. We should follow the way of her life. At the heart of managing your mother is being able to accept your flawed self. Only then are you able to accept your mother-with all her failings. 1.What does the underlined phrase "a jigsaw puzzle" mean? A. 拼图玩具 B. 浏览迷宫 C. 填充字谜 D. 游戏人生 2.Which of the following is implied but not stated in the passage? A.You will have a better relationship with your mother if you respect her opinion. B. Knowing your mother"s age is a useful piece of advice. C. The key measure of managing our mother is how we manage ourselves. D. It is unreasonable to expect our mother to change totally from the way she was brought up. 3. The main purpose of writing the text is _______. A. to give information about how you think of your mother B. to improve the relationship with your mother C. to keep a sense of humor about your mother all day long D. to accept your mother-----with all her failings | |||
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| Bernice Gallego sat down one day this summer, as she does pretty much every day,and began listing items on eBay. She dug into a box and pulled out a baseball card. She stopped for a moment and admired the picture. "Red Stocking B. B. Club of Cincinnatti," the card read, under the reddish brown color photo of ten men with their socks pulled up to their knees. As a collector and seller, it"s her job to spot old items that might have value today. It"s what Bernice, 72, and her husband, Al Gallego, 80, have been doing since 1974 at their California antique store. This card, she figured, was worth selling on eBay. She took a picture, wrote a description and put it up for auction.She put a $10 price tag on it, deciding against $15 because it would have cost her an extra 20 cents. Later that night she got a few odd inquiries---someone wanting to know whether the card was real, someone wanting her to end the caution and sell him the card immediately. The card is actually 139 years old. Sports card collectors call the find "extremely rare" and estimate the card could fetch five, or perhaps, six figures at caution. Just like that, Bernice is the least likely character ever for a rare-baseball card story. "I didn"t even know baseball existed that far back," Gallego says, "I don"t think that I"ve ever been to a baseball game." The theory is that the card came out of a storage space they bought a few years back. It is not uncommon in their line of work to buy the entire contents of storage units for around $200. When she met with card trader Rick Mirigian, she found out what the card was-an 1869 advertisement with a picture of the first professional baseball team, the Cincinnatti Red Stocking. "When I came to meet her and she took it out of a sandwich bag and she was smoking a cigarette, I almost fainted," Mirigian says. " They"ve uncovered a piece of history that few people will ever be able to imagine. That card is history. It"s like unearthing a Mona Lisa or a Picasso." 1.What can we conclude from paragraph 3? A. Bernice had to pay some fees for her card on eBay. B. Bernice wanted to end the caution that night. C. Bernice decided to sell the card for $15. D. EBay charged her 20 cents for the card. 2. The underlined word "fetch" in paragraph 4 most probably means "_______". A. go and bring B. add up to C. go down to D. be sold for 3. From the passage we may learn that _______. A. Bernice is a baseball fan B. Bernice is the last person to purchase the rare-baseball card C. Bernice unexpectedly became the owner of the rare-baseball card D. Bernice didn"t realize the value of the card until she put it up for auction 4.What would be the best title for the passage? A. A Surprisingly Valuable Discovery B. The History of the Baseball Card C. Bernice Gallego-A lucky collector D. Sports Card Collectors | |||
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| Choosing the right job is probably one of the most important decisions we have to make in life, and it is frequently one of the hardest decisions we have to make. 1 There are people who can answer an insignificant(无关紧要) advertisement in the local paper and land the best job in the world; others writes to all sorts of places, and never seem to get a reply at all,and then there are those who, through no active decision of their own, just seem to be in the right place at the right time. 2 He used to spend a lot of his free time down by the sea watching the tall ships, but never thinking that he might one day sail one of them.One day, on his usual wandering, he heard the captain of a ship complaining that he could not sail because one member of his crew was sick. Without stopping to think, the young man offered to take his place. 3 This story also illustrates the importance of seizing an opportunity when it presents itself. If the young man had gone home to ponder(考虑) his decision for a week, he might have missed his chance. It is one thing to be offered an opportunity. 4 Sometimes we hear stories about people who break all rules and still seem to land the well-paid jobs.When you go for a jod interview or fill out an application,you are expected to say nice things about the company to which you are applying. 5 And within a year this person had become general manager of the company. A. But there was one person who landed an excellent job by telling the interviewer all the company"s faults. B. It is very important to seize an opportunity when it presents itself. C. It is another thing to take it and use it well. D. He spent the rest of his life happily sailing the ships he had always loved. E. It"s almost impossible to find a good job by answering advertisements in newspapers. F. Take the young man who wanted to be a sailor for example. G. People find jobs in a great number of ways. | |||
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| When I was a girl of 16, I met a common boy who would make jokes at you and then you would run after him and his guys and beat them up(打闹). After that first meeting, we kept on meeting and beating each other up at the fence. We would meet at the fence all the time and we were always together. I would tell him all my secrets. I found him easy to talk to and I could talk to him about everything. In school we had separate friends. One day I told him that a guy I liked hurt me and broke my heart. He just comforted me and said everything would be okay. He gave me words of encouragement and helped me get over him. I was happy and thought of him as a real friend. But I knew that there was something else about him that I liked. I thought of it that night and figured it was just a kind of friend that I was feeling. All through high school and even through graduation we"re always together and of course I thought of it as being friends. But I knew deep inside that I really felt it differently. On graduation night even though we had different dates to the dance I wanted to be with him. That night after everybody went home, I went to his house and wanted to tell him that I wanted to see him. Well, that night was my big chance and all I did was just sit there with him watching the stars and talking about what I was going to do and what he was going to do. I looked into his eyes and listened to him talk about what his dream was, and how he wanted to get married and settle down. He said how he wanted to be rich and successful. All I could do was to tell him my dream and sit next to him. I went home hurting because I didn"t tell him how I was feeling. 1. The first sentence in Paragraph 1 describes a kind of relationship. A. normal B. special C. dangerous D. harmful 2. From the Paragraph 2, we can learn the following are boy"s advantages but . A. communicating with others B. understanding others C. giving girls better impression D. comforting others 3. The author tells the story in a way of . A. anger B. regret C. excitement D. anxiety 4. The author felt hurt on graduation night because . A. they would have no opportunity to meet again B. she failed to express her true feeling C. the boy did understand her D. she got poor grades in her study | |||
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| There are some differences in replying to compliment between Chinese and Americans. Americans tend to accept the compliment while Chinese generally murmur(低语)some reply about not being worthy of the praise. Here are two examples. A young Chinese woman in the U.S. was complimented for the lovely dress that she was wearing. "It"s graceful. The colors are so beautiful!" She was pleased but somewhat embarrassed. In typical Chinese fashion, she replied, "Oh, it"s just an ordinary dress that I bought in China." At a reception in an American college, a newly-arrived Chinese scholar was chatting with the hostess, who was an old friend. As an acquaintance(熟人)of hers came up, she said, "Ron, let me introduce Mr. Chen, an outstanding physicist and one of the nicest people I know." Mr. Chen offered his hand to the newcomer but looked at his hostess and said with a smile, "Should I feel ashamed, or should I tell him you don"t really mean it?" In both cases, the words of the Chinese conveyed a message quite different from what was intended. In the case of the Chinese woman, the reply could have meant that the one paying the compliment did not know what a really good dress is; otherwise, how could she get so excited about an ordinary dress? The implication(暗示)was that the American woman"s taste in clothing was questionable. In the second case, if Chen had not been smiling, he could have meant "You"re just saying that to be polite; you don"t really mean that." So in one case, the person had poor judgment. In the other case, the hostess was not sincere. Quite a gap between intention and message! 1. Which word can best replace the underlined word compliment in Paragraph 1? A. praise B. complaint C. explanation D. blame 2. Two examples are given in the passage to . A. amuse the readers B. draw readers" attention C. support the author"s opinion D. arouse readers" interest 3. The following statements are true except . A. both stories happened in the USA B. Mr. Chen achieved achievements in physics C. the dress was a beautiful one D. Mr. Chen worked in the USA for long 4. The passage mainly tells us . A. Americans like to praise people B. Chinese people are very modest C. culture varies in different countries D. people should respect each other |