When I was about 12, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my shortcomin
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When I was about 12, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings. Week by week her list 小题1: : I was very thin; I wasn’t a 小题2: student; I talked too much; I was too 小题3:, always feeling superior to(胜过) others, and so on. I tried to hear all as long as I could. 小题4:, I became very angry. I ran to my father with 小题5: in my eyes.
He listened to me 小题6: , and then he asked,“Are the things she says true or not? Janet, don’t you ever wonder 小题7: you’re really like? Well, you now have that girl’s 小题8: . Go and 小题9:a list of everything she said and mark the points that are 小题10: . Pay no attention to the other things she said.”
I did小题11:he told me. To my great 小题12:, I discovered that about half the things were true. Some of them I couldn’t 小题13: (like being very thin),but a good number I could--- and suddenly I wanted to change. For the first time I went to a fairly 小题14: picture of myself.
I brought the list back to Daddy. He 小题15:to take it.“That’s just for you,” he said，“You know 小题16: than anyone else the truth about yourself. But you have to learn to 小题17:, not just close your ears in anger, feeling 小题18: when something said about you is true, you will find it of help to you. Our world is full of people who think they know your affairs. Don’t shut your 小题19:. Listen to them all, but hear the truth and do what you know is the right thing to do.”
Daddy’s advice has always 小题20: to me at many important moments. In my life, I’ve never had a better piece of advice.
| 小题21: | | A．collected | B．added | C．grew | D．continued |
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| 小题22: | | A．good | B．bad | C．short | D．greedy |
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| 小题23: | | A．silly | B．friendly | C．dull | D．proud |
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| 小题24: | | A．In other words | B．Above all | C．As a result | D．At last |
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| 小题25: | | A．tears | B．happiness | C．promises | D．wishes |
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| 小题26: | | A．coldly | B．quietly | C．eagerly | D．happily |
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| 小题28: | | A．excuse | B．opinion | C．talk | D．advice |
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| 小题29: | | A．take | B．make | C．create | D．receive |
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| 小题30: | | A．wrong | B．correct | C．big | D．true |
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| 小题32: | | A．joy | B．pleasure | C．surprise | D．anger |
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| 小题34: | | A．wonderful | B．clear | C．interesting | D．beautiful |
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| 小题35: | | A．promised | B．refused | C．expected | D．agreed |
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| 小题36: | | A．wider | B．higher | C．better | D．worse |
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| 小题37: | | A．listen | B．stand | C．speak | D．share |
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| 小题38: | | A．hurt | B．sad | C．shy | D．excited |
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| 小题39: | | A．words | B．mouths | C．eyes | D．ears |
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| 小题40: | | A．returned | B．gone | C．appeared | D．happened |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:D
小题5:A
小题6:B
小题7:C
小题8:B
小题9:B
小题10:D
小题11:A
小题12:C
小题13:D
小题14:B
小题15:B
小题16:C
小题17:A
小题18:A
小题19:D
小题20:A |
解析
试题分析：通过阅读短文可知，面对自己的抱怨，这个父亲面只是要求孩子检讨自己，从而让孩子认识到自己的不足，学会倾听别人的意见。
小题1:考查动词：A. collected收集B. added增加C. grew增加D. continued继续，一周一周的，她列的单子增加了。选C
小题2:考查形容词：A. good好的B. bad坏的C. short短的D. greedy贪婪的，我不是个好学生。选A
小题3:考查形容词：A. silly 愚蠢的B. friendly友好的C. dull枯燥的，D. proud骄傲的，从下面的always feeling superior to(胜过) others,可知选D
小题4:考查词组：A. In other words换句话说B. Above all最重要的是C. As a result因此 D. At last最后，从前面的I tried to hear all as long as I could.可知最后我生气了。选D
小题5:考查名词：A. tears眼泪B. happiness快乐C. promises许诺D. wishes希望。我眼里含着眼泪跑到爸爸那里。选A
小题6:考查副词：A. coldly冷冷地B. quietly安静地C. eagerly渴望地D. happily快乐地。爸爸安静地听我说。选B
小题7:考查疑问词： what…be like？象…样子？难道你不想知道你是什么样子的吗？选C
小题8:考查名词：A. excuse借口B. opinion观点C. talk谈论D. advice建议，现在你有了这个女孩的观点。选B
小题9:考查动词：A. take拿B. make制作C. create创造D. receive接受，make a list of列出，选B
小题10:考查形容词：A. wrong错的B. correct正确的C. big大的D. true真实的，标出真实的几点。下文的I discovered that about half the things were true.也有暗示，选D
小题11:考查连词：A. as正如，按照B. so因此C. before 在…前面D. till直到，我按照他说的去做。选A
小题12:考查名词：A. joy快乐B. pleasure愉快C. surprise惊讶D. anger愤怒，使我惊讶的是，她说的一半都是真的，选C
小题13:考查动词：A. say说B. like喜欢C. do做D. change改变，其中一些我不能改变（象瘦）。选D
小题14:考查形容词：A. wonderful精彩的B. clear清楚的C. interesting有趣的D. beautiful美丽的，我第一次看见自己的清楚的样子。选B
小题15:考查动词：A. promised 许诺B. refused拒绝C. expected期望D. agreed同意，从后面的句子：“That’s just for you,”可知爸爸拒绝接受它。选B
小题16:考查形容词：A. wider更宽B. higher更高C. better更好D. worse更坏，你比任何人都了解自己。选C
小题17:考查动词：A. listen听B. stand站立C. speak说话D. share分享，你得学会听。选A
小题18:考查形容词：A. hurt受伤的B. sad难过的C. shy 害羞的D. excited兴奋的，从前面的句子：not just close your ears in anger,可知是感觉受了伤害。选A
小题19:考查名词：A. words单词B. mouths嘴C. eyes眼睛D. ears耳朵，从后面的句子：Listen to them all, but hear the truth 可知选D
小题20:考查动词：A. returned 归还，回来B. gone走C. appeared出现D. happened发生，爸爸的建议经常在重要的时刻回到我这儿。选A
点评：本文主要是测试学生综合运用语言的能力，即从语篇的角度综合测试阅读理解能力、词汇的掌握和对英语习惯用语的熟悉程度、以及语法规则的灵活运用。考生做题时必须时刻从上下文考虑，不应该只看到所添的词在短语或句子内是否可行。因此，在做题时最好将全文通读一下，了解了全文的意思以后再作答。整个完形填空大题，设空科学合理，考生不难从中领会大意，从而下手会比较顺利，从选项中可以看出，本大题主要还是考查了联系上下文语境的运用。 |
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It is three in the morning on a Tuesday, and I’m walking toward table eighteen, the one I call home. I pass the waiters, give a brief nod to the 小题1: and take my seat. I 小题2: the “usual,” water and peanut butter pie. Yes, I’m at an all-night diner.
I start to take out my books, 小题3: full well that I will be 小题4: on the same page of Socrates that I’ve been on for the better part of the semester. Of course, it’s 小题5: —for my group that is. I wait for the empty chairs around me to be 小题6: .
Just as the Muzak songs start to repeat themselves, Shana and Jenny walk in. I am 小题7: with the usual big hugs and smiles. 小题8: , the diner stops being a twenty-for-hour restaurant with bad service and becomes my place—my home 小题9: the prisonlike dorm room. For the next couple of hours, we will joke about people we know, talk about books, reflect on the meaning of life, quote movies and 小题10: new private jokes. Table number eighteen is our 小题11: home.
During my senior year of college, I started going to the diner for a temporary escape from a dorm room that felt like it was closing in on me. Not to 小题12: the phones, the stereo and the computer. How could anyone seriously 小题13: to have good study habits? Some friends of mine told me about the place; they went there to study, and they really liked it.
So I tried it. It felt remarkably freeing. I start going there every night (except weekends, of course), and, believe me it was not because the pies were 小题14: great either. Maybe it would force me to open my books and my 小题15: would improve. Right? Well….
But that’s not the 小题16: . I mean, anyone who has gone to college knows that it’s not only about forcing yourself to wake up at 7:45 A.M. (after you had gone to sleep two hours earlier) to listen to a professor spoon-feeding you information 小题17: the significance of the Battle of Hastings. It is 小题18: about finding a little haven where you can create what will be the most important thing in your life—yourself. At a school of thirty-five thousand people, I found a small place that was as 小题19: to me as my Social Security number.
Through laughter, tears, learning, growing and the 小题20: free ice cream, we found a sanctuary. A place where we could be ourselves.
| 小题21: | | A．friends | B．strangers | C．regulars | D．waiters |
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| 小题22: | | A．make | B．take | C．bring | D．order |
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| 小题23: | | A．remembering | B．knowing | C．deciding | D．learning |
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| 小题24: | | A．stuck | B．focused . | C．fixed | D．turned |
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| 小题25: | | A．certain | B．early | C．late | D．clear |
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| 小题26: | | A．washed | B．cleaned | C．filled | D．covered |
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| 小题27: | | A．armed | B．satisfied | C．occupied | D．greeted |
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| 小题28: | | A．Finally | B．Suddenly | C．Actually | D．Particularly |
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| 小题29: | | A．away from | B．similar to | C．apart from | D．close to |
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| 小题30: | | A．create | B．play | C．write | D．hear |
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| 小题31: | | A．inner | B．outer | C．warmer | D．smaller |
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| 小题32: | | A．answer | B．talk | C．mention | D．mend |
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| 小题33: | | A．choose | B．determine | C．pretend | D．expect |
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| 小题34: | | A．pretty | B．that | C．too | D．rather |
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| 小题35: | | A．health | B．friendship | C．conditions | D．grades |
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| 小题36: | | A．place | B．benefit | C．point | D．view |
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| 小题37: | | A．relate | B．requiring | C．reflecting | D．regarding |
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| 小题38: | | A．also | B．still | C． more | D．even |
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| 小题39: | | A．available | B．beneficial | C．familiar | D．encouraging |
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| 小题40: | | A．special | B．occasional | C．unusual | D．natural |
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Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I hardly went to bed before midnight, and I would always get up late the next morning.
But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high relationship between success and rising early. On those rare occasions where I did get up early, I noticed that my productivity (效率) was always higher. So I set out to become a habitual early riser. But whenever my alarm went off, my first thought was always to stop that noise and go back to sleep. Eventually some sleep research showed that my strategy was wrong.
The most common wrong strategy is this: supposing you’re going to get up earlier, you’d better go to bed earlier. It sounds very reasonable, but will usually fail.
There are two main schools (流派) of thought on sleep patterns. One is that you should go to bed and get up at the same time every day. The second school says you should go to bed when you’re tired and get up when you naturally wake up. However, I have found both are wrong if you care about productivity. If you sleep at fixed hours, you’ll sometimes go to bed when you aren’t sleepy enough. You’re wasting time lying in bed awake.
My solution is to combine both methods. I go to bed when I’m sleepy and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time. So I always get up at the same time (in my case 5 a.m.), but I go to bed at different times every night.
However, going to bed only when I’m sleepy, and getting up at a fixed time every morning are my ways. If you want to become an early riser, you can try your own.
小题1:According to the passage, the underlined phrase refers to ________.| A．people who stay up until the next morning | | B．people who get up early in the morning | | C．people who feel sleepy in the morning | | D．people whose productivity is the lowest in the morning |
小题2:Why did the author want to become a habitual early riser?| A．Because he / she wanted to have more sleep time. | | B．Because he / she wanted to do morning exercise. | | C．Because he / she wanted to test which school is better. | | D．Because he / she found that the productivity was higher. |
小题3:The author experienced all the following EXCEPT ________.| A．going to bed after midnight | | B．asking scholars for advice on sleeping habits | | C．getting up early occasionally | | D．pressing off the alarm to go on sleeping |
小题4:What’s the author’s sleep pattern?| A．Going to bed early and getting up early. | | B．Going to bed late and getting up late. | | C．Going to bed when sleepy and getting up at a fixed early time. | | D．Going to bed early and getting up late. |
小题5:The passage is mainly about ________.| A．main schools of thought on sleep patterns | B．how to have a good sleep | | C．wrong strategies for getting up early | D．how to become an early riser |
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When I was learning calligraphy (书法), my teacher told me a story.
A calligrapher taught handwriting. One of his students who often practiced handwriting with old sheets of newspaper complained that he made very little progress though he had learned it with the calligrapher for a long time. His teacher said to him, “Try to use the best paper. Maybe you"ll write better.”
The student did as he was told. It really worked. He made headway not long afterwards and felt curious. He asked his teacher about the reason. The calligrapher answered，“When you used old newspaper to practice handwriting, you would think you were writing a draft. It didn"t matter if you wrote badly as old newspaper was plenty in supply. In that case you wouldn"t pay much attention to it. Now you use the best paper and you"ll treasure it. Each time you write you feel strongly about the rarity of chances and you"ll devote to it with all your heart and soul; you"ll do the handwriting much more attentively than practicing. Of course you"ve made rapid progress.”
Indeed, we spend our ordinary days just as they are worthless “old newspaper”．We don"t care if we scrawl and waste it, thinking that it will come endlessly—the “old newspaper” is inexhaustible. In such a mood we may each day pass by opportunities but fail to catch any of them.
Life is not a military exercise but an actual war in which real weapons are used. In everyday life there"s no chance for us to draft. That"s because what we call “draft” actually is the answer sheet we write that cannot be changed.
Every day of our life is something new. Let us take every day as a sheet of the best paper.
小题1:The calligrapher in the story told the student to write on the best paper because he thought ________.| A．the student would practice more carefully on the best paper | | B．it was comfortable to write on the best paper | | C．the student had enough money to buy the best paper | | D．the student could write more on the best paper |
小题2:The student didn"t make much progress at first because ________.| A．he didn"t follow his teacher"s advice | | B．he was too poor to buy better paper to write on | | C．he regarded his writing on old newspaper just as a draft | | D．he was not used to the calligrapher"s teaching manner |
小题3:We learn from the passage that ________.| A．the student finally gave up | | B．the student made rapid progress by practicing more carefully | | C．the calligrapher was strict with his students | | D．old newspaper is not useful |
小题4:Which of the following is true according to the passage?| A．What teachers say is always true. | | B．Success calls for attentiveness. | | C．Handwriting is easy to practice. | | D．New things are always better than old ones. |
小题5:The writer wants to tell us that ________.| A．there are some good ways to practice handwriting | | B．life is like old newspaper | | C．we should learn from the student in the story | | D．life will not give us a chance to draw a draft |
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Growing up, I remember my father as a silent, strict man—not the kind of person around whom one could laugh. As a teenager knowing little about life, I wanted a father who could 小题1: the mysteries of the human journey. In college, when friends called home for 小题2:, I would become 小题3: for what I didn’t have.
Then one night after my move back home, I overheard my father on the telephone. There was some trouble. Later, he 小题4: the problem with me. Obviously my knowledge of law helped him a lot. I talked through the problem with him, 小题5: the motives of the people involved and offering several negotiation strategies.
He 小题6: patiently before finally admitting, “I can’t think like that. I’m a 小题7: man.”
My father is a 小题8: scientist who has a good knowledge of the building blocks of nature. 小题9:, human nature is a mystery to him. That night I realized he was simply not skilled at 小题10: people. It’s not in his 小题11: to understand human desires.
It was no one’s 小题12: that my father showed no interest in human emotions while I placed great importance on them. We are sometimes born more sensitive, and dreamy than our 小题13: and become more curious, and idealistic than them. 小题14: I, who knew my father as an intelligent man, had never understood his intelligence didn’t cover all of my 小题15: feelings.
I believe that coming home has 小题16: me years of questions and confusion. I nowadays consider my parents as people who have other relationships than just being my parents, relationships that 小题17: and define them.
Best of all, I nowadays regard my parents as 小题18:: people who ask me for advice; people who need my 小题19: and understanding. And I’ve come to see my past in a 小题20: view. Knowing them makes me feel safe in where I come from and where I’m going.
| 小题21: | | A．think | B．produce | C．explain | D．explore |
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| 小题22: | | A．money | B．advice | C．love | D．agreement |
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| 小题23: | | A．unhappy | B．unhelpful | C．unknown | D．unpopular |
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| 小题24: | | A．exchanged | B．solved | C．found | D．shared |
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| 小题25: | | A．proving | B．recording | C．analyzing | D．guessing |
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| 小题26: | | A．replied | B．learned | C．chatted | D．listened |
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| 小题27: | | A．simple | B．weak | C．lazy | D．blind |
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| 小题28: | | A．special | B．lively | C．brilliant | D．humorous |
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| 小题29: | | A．Therefore | B．However | C．Indeed | D．Anyhow |
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| 小题30: | | A．meeting with | B．dealing with | C．talking with | D．fighting with |
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| 小题31: | | A．nature | B．plan | C．wish | D．major |
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| 小题32: | | A．relief | B．secret | C．pity | D．fault |
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| 小题33: | | A．relatives | B．classmates | C．parents | D．families |
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| 小题34: | | A．Besides | B．And | C．However | D．For |
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| 小题35: | | A．strong | B．strange | C．different | D．unique |
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| 小题36: | | A．told | B．gave | C．added | D．saved |
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| 小题37: | | A．raise | B．protect | C．shape | D．enjoy |
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| 小题38: | | A．friends | B．teachers | C．travelers | D．leaders |
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| 小题39: | | A．visit | B．support | C．wisdom | D．knowledge |
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| 小题40: | | A．richer | B．harder | C．rougher | D．clearer |
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“I didn"t hear them call my name," explained Shelley Hennig to Active Teens (AT) as she talked about that exciting moment on national television when she won the honor of Miss Teen USA 2004. "Are you ready?" is what she heard. Then she said, "I shook my head no, and then they said "yes" and it was announced again."
It was four days after that life changing moment for the seventeen-year-old high school student from Destrehan, Louisiana -- she was still on cloud nine.
"I was so shocked! I never believed that it could actually really happen." Present in the audience (观众) that day were: her mother and father, older brother, her friends, and her dance teacher.
Understanding why members of her family and her friends would be there, AT asked why her dance teacher had traveled so far to see her compete (比赛). "She"s always been my role model. I"ve danced with her since I was six. She"s been through so many difficulties and came through them all. I"ve learned to get over bad life"s experiences and learned how to move on because of her."
One of those bad life"s experiences for Shelley happened three years ago when her brother Brad was killed in a drunk driving accident. He was 18. She found writing helped her get through the rough days. She said, "I write a lot about my brother. I write a lot, a lot, a lot..."
As Miss Louisiana Teen, she traveled around the state speaking to teens (青少年) about the dangers of drinking and driving. In her role as Miss Teen USA, Shelley will continue to speak to youth about safe driving, in addition to many other things to help the youth.
When AT asked Miss Teen USA if she had any advice for our readers, she said, "Don"t let anyone change you. Hang out with people that make you feel good about yourself. That way, it is easy to be yourself."
小题1:What do the words "on cloud nine" in Paragraph 2 probably mean?| A．frightened | B．troubled | C．very happy | D．very angry |
小题2:Shelley takes her dance teacher as a role model mainly because she is ________.| A．determined | B．friendly | C．strict | D．experienced |
小题3:How many children did the Hennigs have according to the text?小题4:What did Shelley often do after she became Miss Louisiana Teen?| A．She visited drunken drivers. | | B．She gave dance performance. | | C．She made speeches on safe driving. | | D．She helped other teens with their studies. |
小题5:What suggestion does Shelley give to the teens?| A．Be yourself with the support of friends. | | B．Meet friends whenever possible. | | C．Go easy on yourself and others. | | D．Have a good role model |
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