试题列表18-人物传记类阅读-高中英语-n多题

人物传记类阅读的试题列表

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I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a freezing cold wet day in the winter of 1975. I remember the right moment, hiding behind a fragile mud wall, I remember one Thanksgiving when our family had no money and no food, and someone came knocking on our door. A man was ___36____ there with a huge box of food, Mom was a teacher most of her life. When she wasn’t in the classroom, she was educating her children or grandchildren: correcting our grammar; starting us on How to Become Cleverer Once a boy came to ask a fisherman how to become cleverer, because his mother always called him “foolish boy”. “That’s easy,” answered t In the kitchen of my mother’s houses there has always been a wooden stand (木架) with a small notepad (记事本)and a hole for a pencil.I’m looking for paper on When a first-time father saw his newborn son, he immediately noticed the baby's ears obviously standing out from his head. He expressed his concern to the nurs Norah has a cottage on a cliff above a big bay. In winter it could be very nasty because of strong winds and sea spray. In fact, when a gale was blowing, Norah A farmer went to town to sell his vegetable. But it was snowing that afternoon, and there_26_ few people in the street. So when his vegetable was sold out, it One day as a boy and his father were taking a walk in the woods, they saw lying beside a half-fallen tree a pair of shoes. An old workman was cooling his feet i There once was a farmer who lost his watch in his barn（谷仓）. The watch was very cheap but it was very 1to him because it was a gift from his father.After 2the My grandfather Jack is 96 years old, and he has had an interesting life. He has traveled a lot in his life in the Far East. He visited the Taj Mahal（泰姬陵） in I made up my mind to drive to South Carolina to meet my friends in my used car. Though I had only been there once 1 and did not know the 2 very well. I was on One day, President Lincoln went to a party. At the gathering, a man called Douglas was repeatedly talking about Lincoln’s low position in life and saying that It was my first year teaching in a special needs class, and I wasn’t sure what to expect at our yearly Special Olympics sports meeting. My 36had some challenge Ashley and Chris work in the same department designing postcards. Chris had a college degree in art and deeply felt that the degree of his designs was excellent 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 21 .Ja On a Friday 11, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin.The music was 12, and many people 13and put some money into the Isn’t it cool to surf (冲浪) in summer? You catch a wave and enjoy the ride. Surfing is not only our favorite sport, though. A group of penguins (企鹅) enjoy From the time I was seven, I had a dream of becoming a member of the Students Union. I always 1__my school leaders for taking responsibility for all of us. So What makes a gift special? Is it the price you see on the gift receipt(收据)? Or is it the look on the recipient's face when they receive it that determines t A long time ago，there was a tiger in the forest. He was the__26__of the animals. One day the tiger asked a little cat to see__27__his palace was built. After Another person’s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person was my stepmother.I was nine years old when she entered our It was 20 years ago. I was driving home with my 4-year-old son. Traffic was light. I was singing quietly along 36the song playing on the radio. I 37at the in For most people, graduation is an exciting day, but my graduation day was not.I remember that weekend two years ago. Family and friends had flown in from acros One weekend afternoon I toured an art museum while waiting for my husband to finish a business meeting．I was looking forward to a quiet 36of the splendid artwork A wise man was visiting the Ganges, a river which flows through northern India to take a bath. He found a group of family members on the 26, shouting angrily at Renata Di Pietro was studying to be an opera singer. But at 23, while on a music scholarship at the University of Iowa in 1976, her sight began to fail. Soon, A long time ago, there was an emperor(皇帝). One day he told his horseman that if he could ride on his horse and 26 as much land area as he liked, he would give Nick was not the kind of boy I had expected to spend my summer with. I was hoping to have a 36 this summer before my busy senior year, but my mother asked me to A boy lost his arms in an accident and had to depend on hisbrother for almost everything. His younger brother became his 1, never leaving him alone for years. I pulled into the driveway of my Mum’s house and saw my two-year-old daughter’s smiling face staring out the window at me. Vanessa had stayed with her grandma Among the more colorful characters of Leadville’s golden age were H. A. W. Tabor and his wife, Elizabeth McCourt, better known as “Baby Doe”. Their history Danielle Steel,America’s sweetheart,is one of the hardest working women in the book business.Unlike other productive authors who write one book at a time,she c Adventure is in my blood. And I had been considering how I was going to celebrate my high school graduation. I didn’t just want a small __21___ in the backyar The unwanted disturbing of a mobile phone ringing at a critical moment has led to some famously strong reactions British actor Richard Grif-fiths，stopped a perf My husband and I arrived in a new country just a month ago, We were sort of 16about what was waiting for us, However, when we 17at the airport ,a tall man with s Linda Evans was my best friend –like the sister I never had ,We did everything to— gether ：piano lessons ,movies, swimming , horseback riding.When I was 13, my Audrey Hepburn（奥黛丽·赫本）won an Academy Award as Best Actress for her first major American movie, Roman Holiday, which was released in 1953,But she is remem be Half a year before graduation from college, my son began to seek a job. __1__ the financial crisis(危机), fewer companies would like to __2__ new staff. My son This year’s World Food Prize will honor two leaders of hunger-fighting groups based in the United States. The winners are David Beckmann of Bread for the World I made up my mind to drive to South Carolina to meet my friends in my used car. Though I had only been there once 36and did not know the 37very well. I was on The year was 1932. Amelia Earhart was flying alone from North America to England in a small single-engined aeroplane. At midnight, several hours after she had Pulling heavy suitcases all day in the summer is hard work, especially when you're a thin 14-year-old.That was me in 1940-the youngest and smallest baggage boy Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children．In spite of the hopeless condition, two of the children, A One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods from door to door found that he only had one dime left. He was hungry so he de As a banker, Chip Paillex had never planted so much until he moved to rural Pittstown, New Jersey, seven years ago. __36__ by farms, he quickly became intereste The Doll and the White Rose I was walking around in a mall, when I saw a cashier hand this little boy some money back．The cashier said, "I'm sorry, but you don 阅读下面短文.从短文后各题所给的四个选项《A、B. C和D》中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项小涂黑。Telling the truth is a very good habit. If you 3 Midas was a powerful king, both rich and greedy. Once he did a great favor for Bacchus, the god of wine. Bacchus offered Midas his choice of a reward. Midas a Another secret of animals’ survival is telepathy（心灵感应）. This sense becomes atrophied（衰退） in man, but a(n) 1thought-communication functions in animals. E After the birth of my second child, I got a job at a restaurant. Having worked with an experienced 16for a few days. I was 17to wait tables on my own. All wen In 1859，during the Gold Rush，a twenty- year-old immigrant（移民）from Bavaria named Levi Strauss stepped off the boat in San Francisco. He had with him a specia 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。An old man had three children, all boys. When they had grown up, he called them together an From my first day, I was attending press conferences and other media events all over town. I got to attend events at places I had never thought I’d get to: the English was always my favorite subject. In my freshman year of high school, I could write a killer composition. In my second year, my 36 allowed me to give spe One day I visited an art museum while waiting for my husband to finish a business meeting. I was expecting a quiet 36of the splendid artwork.A young 37viewing I was at the post office early that morning, hoping to be in and out in a short while．Yet, I 36myself standing in a queue that went all the way into the hallway．Edgar felt quite excited at the thought of his first swim of the summer. With the sun shining down so strongly, the sea was certain to be warm enough. He walke 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。It was 20 years ago. I was driving home with my 4-year-old son. Traffic w A month after Hurricane Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans. There lay my house, reduced towaist-high ruins, smelly and dirty.Before the trip, I’d had my When Andrea Peterson landed her first teaching job, she faced the daunting task of creating a music program with almost no money for equipment or supplies in a c Kerry and Alice were both artists in Britain．They taught drawing and painting at Cambridge University．Although they were friends，each thought oneself to be the The family had just moved. The young woman was feeling a little__31__. It was Mother's Day — and 800 miles separated her from her parents. She had called the I’d always dreamed of exploring Africa, ever since I read my first Tarzan（《人猿泰山》）comic as a child. Finally, in 2004, to celebrate my 60th birthday, I went On the Iraq-Syria border, a pack of wild dogs circled a group of American soldiers for food. The 1 of the pack was a gray-and-white dog. The soldiers 2 him Nub Dear Mr Brown, “Do you like my dress?" A little girl asked a passing stranger. "My mommy made it just for me." She said with tears in her eyes. "Well, I There were once three little butterfly（蝴蝶）brothers, one white, one red, and one yellow. They played among the flowers in the garden, but never grew tired beca The secret of happinessAn old man walked slowly with a cane(手杖)into the restaurant .His old jacket, worn-out shoes and warm personality made him stand out fro A year ago I paid no attention to English idioms, 36 ___my teacher said again and again that it was important.One day, I happened to37 ___an Englishman on the r I was working as a consultant(顾问) in a beer company, helping the president and senior vice-presidents with something important. It was a big 16. At the same My wife and I used to feel that it was impossible to be a true friend to someone whose name we didn't know. How wrong we were! Years of Sunday-morning bus trip Like lots of small-business owners, Lola Gonzalez had to decide to cut down her company’s nine-person staff (员工) when the economic recovery began to fail last One day, a farmer’s donkey fell into a dried up well. The animal cried16for hours as the farmer tried to 17 what to do. Finally, he decided that the animal wa Once my friend Peterson bought a pack of chicken, the brand of which was very famous at that time. But when he got home he found that the chicken had gone bad.阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出合适填入对应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。I had been playing hockey (冰球)for about 10 years,Once again, I was in a new school. So was a girl in my class named Paris. That's where the similarities ended.I was tall and she was small. My thick, black My husband and I insisted that our children were old enough to clean their rooms and make their beds. But they thought 11. My complaints, even self-justified（自 The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the WinD.first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it tell a story of love and Robeson was born in a very poor family. At seven, he had to pick coal in a deserted mine near his home, then he sold 1he had picked and earned a few coins to he As a solo artist，Brightman has sold 26 million albums and two million DVDs in 34 countries. Her musical styles put opera, pop and jazz together. She is popula In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernardino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location.I am Sergey Brin! I was born in Moscow. In 1979, when I was 5, my family immigrated to the United States. I remember that on my 9th birthday I got my first com Bissel is a small village of the West Sahara. It lies next to a l.5-square-kilometer oasis（绿洲）, from where three days and nights are generally required to go It was the afternoon of December 24, the day before Christmas; and as the newest doctor in our office, I had to work. The only thing that brightened my day was A boy and a girl were a couple of lovers. The girl liked feeling rain, so the boy was always holding the umbrella when it rained and most part of the umbrella w The other day I was talking to a stranger on the bus; he told me that he had a good 36in Chicago and he wondered if, by any chance, I 37to know him . For a mom Every night, my mother would come to my room, lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead．I don't remember when it first started 26 me It was January lst, the first day of the year and a holiday for me．I went to the bank to get the bank work out of the way. The bank clerk nodded and I sat in fr There is a small shop about 200 meters from where I live that sells groceries, meat and other basic necessities. About 10 years ago, there was a beggar who woul I really hadn't meant to yell at them. But that grey afternoon saw it just as my son and daughter were making a terrible mess on the floor in the kitchen.With On a cold winter day, two men walked along a valley.Finally, they stopped at a grave（坟墓）, which was covered with thick 1. The gravestone looked very 2. The It's a name that needs no address.Everyone knows Santa Claus lives at the North Pole.So letters sent to Santa Claus find their way to the small town of the No 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给出的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。As I held my father’s hands one night, I couldn’t help bu Who designed the first helicopter(直升机)? Who __1___some of most famous pictures in the world? Who knew more about the human body than most ___2___of his time Baseball (棒球) MatchMr. Jenkins works in a middle school. There he teaches his students English. He works hard and is very busy. After supper, when his fami Tom was going home at five yesterday. He got on a bus. A mother with her little boy was sitting nearby. Suddenly the boy cried. His mother tried her best to On April 1st, Mike decided to fool(愚弄) his friends. At lunch time he said to Tom, “I think we’re going to have a test this afternoon.” “Test?” said Tom, “R When I was fifteen, I announced to my English class that I was going to write my own books. Half the students sneered（冷笑）, the 36 nearly fell out of their cha Betty Friedan, born in 1921 in Peoria, Illinois, attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She finished her studies in psychology in 1942. After co Michael froze as he heard the voice on the radio saying that a man had been murdered by a bullet that had come from the sky. Thinking that the shot they had fir

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Coin confusionRachel looked through troubled eyes at his sister and said, “1 wouldn't have thought Eric would be a thief. His sister Sarah replied, “Whoa, that At the age of three, I wasdiscovered to be totally deaf. Having consulted many specialists, my parents made a(n) that would forever alter my future. sending me When my mom came home from the hospital with twins, I was excited at the very beginning. I couldn’t __ to play with them and be the best big sister ever.Every One afternoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant , waiting for the food I had ordered to arrive . Suddenly I that a man sitting at a table near 阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A teacher teaching maths to seven-year-old Laiq a I was parked in front of the mall wiping off my car．I had just come from the car wash and was waiting for my wife to get out of work．Coming my way from across th 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。My husband and I arrived in a new country just a mo Linda Evans was my best friend—like the sister I never had. We did everything together: piano lessons, movies, swimming, horseback riding.When I was 13, my fam Audrey Hepburn (奥黛丽·赫本) won an Academy Award as Best Actress for her firstmajor American movie, Roman Holiday, which was released in 1953. But she is remem My parents always raised me to have strong values and hold firm to my confidence in life, and this was never more proved than when a situation arose when it woul 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。The Keeper of the RiverAn old man had been working for many years for a t 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。There are thousands of people across the United States without any food or Farah was sitting in the kitchen going over the party list with her mother.The exams were over and Farah wanted to invite her friends for a party.“Farah，aren’Is there anything more important than health？I don’t think so.You can’t be good at your studies or work when you are ill.If you have a headache，or a bad cou Have you ever thought of taking a train and having an adventure(奇遇)？Riding the train can be a real adventure.That is how I feel every time I take Amtrak.I of Around twenty years ago I was living in York. I had a lot of experience and a Master’s degree, I could not find work. I was a school bus to make ends meet and I was riding my special motorbike this past weekend and stopped at a convenience store. As I was getting my wheelchair off the back, a man watched me from his c “The Lord of the Rings”, one of the best sellers in the new millennium（千年）, was made up of three parts——“The Fellowship of the Ring”, “Two Towers”, and “The Re Half a year before graduation from college, my son began to seek a job. the financial crisis, fewer companies would like to new staff. My son targeted a compan Early this morning, I got up to make cookies for my neighbor. But actually she hardly greeted me when we saw each other.Last Monday, she called the firefighter For a lang time,a boy wonder why his next-desk-pal was always the first in the class , whereas he could only rank the 21st.At home,he asked his mom：“Am I more s Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, was a good and tireless writer, and he wrote The Declaration of Independence. There is much we can l When I was about 6 years old I lived in Kenya. There was a lot of and there were always street children on the roads asking for money. There was such a big div Emilio and Michi spread the colorful tablecloth on the table. They made room for Drew, who was carrying a dish. “Watch out,” Drew warned. “This is pretty hot.On a number of drives throughout my childhood, my mother would suddenly pull over the car to examine a flower by the side of the road or rescue a beetle from tra “Mom, I have cancer.” These four words catapulted my son and me on a journey that lasted two years. On that day I felt a wave of paralyzing fear.Scott was the Yesterday I went to our local grocery store. I often go to their deli counter, and I understand that it can get a little confused for the workers. So normally 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。It was at a concert that I happened to find David. He was holding his head My husband and I arrived in a new country just a month ago. We were sort of about what was waiting for us. However，when we at the airport, a tall man with smi There are stories about two US Presidents，Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren，which attempt to explain the American English term OK. We don't know if either Adrian's “Amazing Race” started early when his parents realized that he, as a baby, couldn't hear a thing, not even loud noises. In a special school for the h Michael Greenberg is a very popular New Yorker. He is not famous in sports or the arts, But people in the streets him, especially those who are.For those peopl I’ve always had strong opinions of how love should be expressed, but others had their own ways of showing care. What I most about visiting my boyfriend’s pare 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从l6-35各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。When I was about 13, my father would take me on short outings on Saturdays.On My childhood and adolescence were a joyous outpouring of energy, an endless pursuit for expression, skill, and experience. was only a background to the great de The other day, I happened to meet someone I hadn’t seen for many years. I couldn’t believe the change in him. As a matter of fact, he didn’t even seem like Tony Bennett, the American singer recently touring Britain, can’t remember how many times he has sung his standard hit “I left My Heart in San Fransisco”. He s 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从36~55各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。You Did More Than Carry My BooksMark was It’s Pigs’ HometownThe story happened during the Second World War. An old man lived in a small town of Germany. He had three sons and they all worked in the The captain of a ship and a merchant（商人）were friends．The merchant had a young son，who wanted to be a sailor（水手），so the captain took him for voyages in his Who designed the first helicopter(直升机)? Who _____some of most famous pictures in the world? Who knew more about the human body than most ______of his time?Steve, a twelve¬-year¬-old boy with alcoholic parents, was failing. Surprisingly, he could read,yet, ____ his reading skills, Steve had been failing s I have a good memory of my grandfather，Jack. He was sitting in his armchair in the front room.I sat next to him. We were reading aloud，our heads bent over t Several months ago I was involved in a car accident. That momentmy views on life.All my life I had been waitingI could get my driver’sand my first car. When A well-dressed man came to a famous jewelry shop. He explained that he wished to buy a pearl for his wife’s birthday. The price didn’t matter. Since busines Jean-Michael Lourdis was a promising young pianist. But when the young man played, it seemed to him, as if his hands were iron. He worried so much about his pl 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 I’d been proud that I’d never lost my cellphone until my husband Jack go Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1904. He was famous because of the books he wrote for children. They combine funny words, pictur 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。I was in the fifth grade in a small town in Utah. The other day I was talking to a stranger on the bus; he told me that he had a good in Chicago and he wondered if, by any chance, Ito know him. For a moment, I Christian Eijkman, a Dutch doctor, left the Netherlands for the island of Java. Many people on the island had a disease（疾病） called beri-beri. He was going th Two weeks before Christmas a nine-year-old girl was walking with her friend down the street, sliding on the ice. They were talking about what they hoped toat Ch Michael was a farmer in Texas. His parents moved to the USA from Ireland in the 1940’s, and they became very rich. Michael decided to go back to Ireland to me My mother always says that I’m born to dance ballet. But that September when I was in a ballet class and went to do a turn, something just happened. I heard i Galaxy saw a man and a woman who communicated with the sign language at the train station when she was on the way home one evening. She noticed that the woman a I used to believe in the American Dream, which meant a job, a mortgage (按揭), credit cards, success. I wanted it and worked toward it like everyone else, all o 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。One sunny afternoon, a seven-year-old girl went for On the first day of college our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know.I stood up to look around when a g Some years ago the captain of a ship was very interestedmedicine.He alwaysmedical books to sea and liked to talk about different diseases.One day a lazy sailor At Priya's wedding party, her mother gave her a newly opened bankbook and said, "Priya, keep it as a of your marriage life. When something __ happens, put som One day I was driving to a business appointment and, as usual, I was planning in my mind what I was going to say. I came to a very busy crossroad where the stop I sat next to my close friend，Tina，in my history class．Our teacher，Miss Turner announced a new．We were to create aabout cultures．As required，we wrote the nam 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。When I was fifteen, I announced to my English class t Rocky Lyons was five years old when his mother, Kelly, was driving along the country road with him. He was asleep on the front seat of their truck, with his fe Once upon a time there was a monster（怪兽）. He was very ugly and had no friends. No one wanted to talk to him. Even other monsters thought he was ugly. He li A flock of hungry pigeons were flying across the sky in search of food. Having traveled a long distance, they felt tired and settled down on a tree. Just belo The Johnson family from England believe they are lucky to be alive after surviving an incredible incident off the coast of Australia. The Johnsons had been ____Baroness Thatcher, Britain’s greatest post-war prime minister, died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke (a disease related to blood vessels in the brain),I had been playing hockey（冰球）for about10 years. I wasalways the one sittingat the end of the bench, and got into a game. I went to all the and showed up even 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 I walked into the grocery store not particularly When Russell Lyons volunteered for the first time, he read Goodnight Moon to a class of San Diego preschoolers. And it wasn’t reading－he’d memorized the book 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41-60各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。I will never forget that night, when I pulled into my drivewayafter a busy d When I was in the seventh grade, I was a candy striper (义工) at a local hospital in my town. I volunteered(自愿做) about 30 to 40 hours a week during the summe The opening scene of The King’s Speech was, in a word, terrifying. The moment King George VI—wonderfully played by Colin Firth—stepped up to the microphone at That morning, I got the train as always. I was a publishing director and was looking forward to embracing a new day of work, as usual. I would always turn to t David’s HaircutWhen David steps out of the front door he is blinded for a moment by the white, strong sunlight and reaches for his dad’s hand automatically. I Having searched for many years, a truth seeker was told to go to a cave, where he would find a well. “Ask the well what is, ” he was advised, “and the well will A few weeks after my first wife, Georgia, was called to heaven, I was cooking dinner for my son and myself. For a _, I had decided on frozen peas. As I was cu 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。I ran into a stranger as he passed by. “I’m so sorry!” was my . Then he F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton Univers 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—40题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。We have been driving in fog all morning, but the Brief IntroductionVirginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941)(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist, regarded as one of I first heard this story a few years ago from a girl. Probably the story is one of those mysterious bits of folklore that reappear every few years. However, I One day I decided to quit．I quitted my job, my relationship, myspirituality. I wanted to quit my life.I went to the to have one last talk with God． "Can you g 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并从答题卡上将该选项涂黑。I had been playing hockey（冰球）for about10 years.It was already late when we set out for the next town, according to the map was about fifteen miles away on the other side of the .There we felt that we would f At times my mom has been uncomfortable seeing these qualities in me. For example, when I was 12, I went to Puerto Rico all by myself to stay with my grandmother As a teaching student, I was sent on my first practice at a high school．During my practice, I realized high school hadn't changed since I was there and still an When I began teaching in a university, I was invited to a workshop for new professors. I had ____ a long time learning what to teach, but not learning how to __When I was 8, a gentleman came to my orphanage（孤儿院）and taught us how to do woodworking projects.I remember my first project—a small table. I was so of it th When the swim season began, my 11-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, and I cut a deal. She would go to practice three times a week and try really hard, and I wouldn’My father was Chief engineer of a merchant ship, which was sunk in World War II. The book Night of the U-boats told the story.MemoriesIn September, 1940, my mo The story goes that some time ago, a man had a very lovely little daughter. One day the man ____ his 3-year-old daughter for ____ a roll of gold wrapping paper.A traveler lost his way and got off the highway to see where he was. As he drove by, he saw rows and rows of pigpens and pigs running in fields. Suddenly, his I have been very lucky to have won the Nobel Prize twice. It is, of course, very exciting to have such an important recognition of my work, but the real pleasur 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项（A,B,C和D）中，选出一个最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。As I held my father’s hands one night, I couldn’Once a farmer had some puppies to sell. He painted a(n)____ advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of hisyard.____he was driving t Where we live，on the eastern shore of Maryland，the gentle waters run in and out like fingers slimming at the tips.The Canada geese know this place，as do the Inventor，physicist，surveyor，astronomer，biologist，artist... Robert Hooke was all these and more. Some say he was the greatest experimental scientist of t The event happened many years ago , but I will never forget it . The memory of it remains _______ in my mind . The event occurred ______ a hot , humid May morn

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阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的四个选项中, 选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。The other day I decided to come home early because it was such Anais Nin was a famous writer. Nin was born French-Cuban but lived in the United States in her later years of life till she died. Nin’s works had her relation 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑Half a year before graduation from college, my son be It was a very cold evening. The old man’s beard was almost icy. He was waiting for a ____ across the river. The wait seemed ____. The old man sat on the gro An African-American man named John Henry was the hero of former slaves and the people who built the railroads in the US in the 19th century.John Henry was born A long time ago, there was an emperor(皇帝). One day he told his horseman that if he could ride on his horse and as much land area as he liked, he would give hi 阅读下面短文，从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。The story is told about what happened on a flight between a passenger and an air hostess. The pa A friend of mine named Paul received an expensive car from his brother as a Christmas present．On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office，a street urchin I wish there would be a way to describe China in simple terms but that’s impossible. For the most part Chinese people are friendly, easy-going and optimistic.I was watching a TV series one night when I took in one scene. A young man was seeking his community votes, and people wanted to know why they should give him t One day, I received a call from a colleague. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physical problem, while the student claimed a perfect sco My Way to SuccessFrom the day I signed up for theNaumburg Competition, everything changed. I had made a decision to start again, to save my life, and that meant 15-year-old Tom reached school, waiting outside his classroom for his classmates to.It was a cold,wet day. Tom stared at the. Then his eyes fell upon the 18-m Last summer Tom and his friends George and Bill wanted to take a vacation, but they did not have much. They decided that a short mountain climbing expedition(探 A little boy went to a farmer who had some puppies (小狗）to sell and said, “I want to buy one of your puppies.” Then reaching deep into his pocket, he pulled ou On a sunny spring morning, a seven-year-old girl was sharpening(削) a beautiful pencil., the wind was so strong as to blow open the door. The girl stood up to There was a rich man who wanted to choose a husband for his only child from a great number of pursuers. The man all the pursuers to a river and pointed to the c Poet Dean Young has dealt with impermanence (无常) a lot in his career, but it’s a particularly strong theme in Young’s latest collection, Fall Higher. The ne 阅读下面短文.从短文后各题所给的四个选项A、B. C和D中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项小涂黑。One day Reuben saw something in a shop window that A young woman was driving alone through the country. Itdark and raining. Suddenly she saw an old woman by the side of the road, holding her hand out as if she 阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。A group of frogs was traveling through the woods and two of them fell into a pit(坑). All th In the 1950s, a family that owned a farm near Beulah, Michigan kept a bull chained to an elm (榆树). The bull paced around the tree, dragging the heavy iron cha 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。I was hard at work on a museum project when the client(客户) suddenly cance Angela at the age of 11years old was badly ill and she was attacked by a rare disease influencing her nerve system(神经系统). She was unable to and her movement Richard’s father died when he was five. Later on he his mother again. The poor boy had to live on his own, so he went to work for a rich farmer, who paid him I will never forget the lesson about my window. Four years ago, I moved to a house in a large town. One of my new neighbors’ house was only a few feet away fr When Ben Franklin was only a boy, he always wanted to know about things. He was always asking his father and brothers ‘What?’ and ‘How?’ and ‘Why?’They The True Story of Treasure IslandIt was always thought that Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevenson's imagination. ____, recent research has 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 When I was in primary school, I got into a major a In 1970, my five brothers, my sister and I lived in the housing projects of Toronto with our parents. My father was a factory worker, and my mother stayed at ho 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项填入答题卡。A feeling of excitement overcame me as I looked around the stadium Frank laughed as he tried to tear at the wrapping paper on his birthday present. He was so ! Finally, he would have the coolest pair of name-brand basketball sh A man wanted to make an investment. An idea struck him: “Why don’t I plant a small mango tree and enjoy the benefits when it grows into a big one?” So he went One day my math teacher asked me to help him save backup copies of his work in the computer. I then realized I was able to the grades for all of his classes. I My grandmother became a widow in 1970. Shortly after that, we went to theshelter to pick out a dog to keep her. Grandma decided on a little dog with a reddish-Four years ago my sweet mom went to be with her Lord．She did it her way．I got the call at work, and I headed home quickly．Mom and Dad lived on a small farm that 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。I had a very special teacher in high school many years ago and suddenly her husband I was very disappointed not to be able to go to the jazz（爵士音乐） concert last Friday. The advertisement（广告） in the paper said that you could buy tickets at 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。My ears are recently full of praising words from my 阅读下面短文，从短文后面各题所给的四个选项（A，B，C，D）中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。My husband used to be a workaholic(工作狂)．Nothing One afternoon in January in 1998, Susan Sharp, 43, and her 8-year-old son David, were walking across an icy square, when Susan's cane(手杖) slipped on the ice.The Town of Pressure and the Town of Pleasure were neighbors but had nothing in common. Residents built walls to influence from the other town.In Pressure, str Several years ago, I had to replace a receptionist for my unit. Before I advertised for the position, I was approached by another manager, and asked if l would 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Growing up is not always easy. When facing difficu Lilian Hanson, a college student, expects to graduate in about two years. What makes Mrs Hanson different from her classmates is her age — 73 years. She has be I know I should have told the headmaster at the time. That was my real .He had gone out of the study for some , leaving me alone. In his absence I looked to s Charles Plumb, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, was a jet fighter pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb A Love Note To My MomWhen I was a little girl, I would often follow you as you modeled (做模特) for fashion magazine. It was years later that I finally understo That cold January night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco. There I was, walking home at one in the morning after a tiring at the theatre. With o Rachel Carson, born in rural Pennsylvania in 1907, had a great impact on the environment. Carson earned a master’s degree in zoology in 1932. It was as a wri 从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen in almost a mont When was the last time someone unexpectedly did something nice for you ? Not someone you knew, but a total stranger? It’s happened to me a few times, but two When Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her, “Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesn't work out, you'll I arrived at my mother's home for our Monday family dinner. The smells of food over from the kitchen. Mother was pulling out quilt (被子) after quilt from the The 30-mile road that runs through the mountains of Willie Valley makes most drivers′ hands sweat. But Andersen, a 46-year-old father of four, wasn’t expecting 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。After the earthquake hit northeast Japan on March 1 One day a man found a cocoon（茧）of a butterfly in the forest. He sat there for several hours and watched the butterfly. Suddenly a small opening appeared, and There was once a man called Mr. Flowers, and flowers were his only joy in life. He spent all his free time in one of his four glass-houses and grew flowers of Michael Scofield has won fans all over the world. The star of the hit show Prison Break is kind, clever and good-looking. But what about the man the character?I will be the first to say that I am not materialistic. My friends regard me as a goody-goody; my parents say I am conservative and modest when it comes to clo Last Friday, after doing all the family shopping in the town, I wanted to have a rest before catching the train. I ____ a newspaper and some chocolate and ____ A businessman was deep in debt (欠债)and could see no way out. He sat on the park bench, 21 in hands, wondering if anything could his company. Suddenly an old I felt excited, curious and nervous at the same time. I was excited because I would be skipping(跳级)two grades. I was curious because I didn't know how high My friend Jessie and I have known each other since we were very young. After we both got married we seldom had time to get together I always promised myself tha Moving can bring out the best and the worst in people, I’m finding. And I’ve discovered where a very generous spirit lives: Defiance, Ohio.After suffering th Eighty-year-old retired tailor, James McKay, spent Saturday night in jail after thirty-year-old Keith Smith over the head his walking stick. McKay's wife, Laur I was on a long drive last weekend and stopped for a rest．At that moment,I noticed a man in a wheelchair by the stop sign．He held a sign in hand，“Trying to make That warm day was the only day of the week without rain．I opened the door,took a seat and began to enjoy the wonderful sunshine．Suddenly,I noticed that the house A famous Renoir had been stolen from a museum. Detective Earl Blackman was to work on the case.Everyone was in the dark before an art professor came to point o Frank was walking down the 6th Street on a hot sunny day when he saw smoke coming out of the street. He could the smoke, and it was getting thicker. Seeing the She looked at the man walking along the sidewalk next to the nice houses. He didn't live in any of those houses. She had seen this man several times before. Every day, 15-year-old Martha wrote on the Internet about the meal she ate at school. She also took pictures of the food. However, Martha was very honest about A few days ago, my sister Liz and I talked about Dad, and we decided to get him a little something for Father's Day. We talked about the times when we were up A flock of wild ducks were flying in formation, heading south for the winter. They formed a beautiful V in the sky, and were admired by everyone who saw them fr I’d been 16 for six days and was already prepared to deal with failure.I remember that, when my mum me that morning, her voice wasn’t as screaming as it usual Lynn is the publisher of Indiana Living Green magazine, a local Indiana-based publication focusing on all issues related to leading a sustainable lifestyle. Her On August 26, 1999, New York City experienced a torrential downpour. The rain caused the streets to ____ and the subway system almost came to a stop.Unfortunat Last week after a long day of traveling, I found myself delayed at a bus station. The bus was running two hours late! I was a little ____ and had to wait there I grew up poor－living with my wonderful mother. We had little money, but plenty of love and attention. I was and energetic. I understood that no matter how po A cancer-stricken British teenage girl said Thursday she had been moved by messages of support from around the world after writing an online "Bucket List" of t One March evening I together with my friends was on a bus. The driver didn'tto start the bus soon because it was not yet.A mid-aged woman got on. Tired and s 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Once upon a time, there was a bird made of stone. She was beautiful and magic. She li It was very cold at 7 am that Monday morning in Harvard Square. I was nearly mad because I had just the bus, and was standing out in the freezing cold waiting f I took a trip after lunch and on my way home I stopped at a park in this beautiful little town. I really wanted to enjoy the _ wind of one of the last days of s A person may have a false idea about himself that will stop him from doing good work. He may have the belief that he is unable to do it. A child may think he i Children today are crazy about roller skating（溜冰）, for it's easy and fun. After supper on week days, anytime on weekends and especially any day in school hol 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选取出适合填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。When Glen Kruger picked a small cat from an animal s When an NBA player is young, he thinks he can win the championship by himself. It is only later ______ he has aged and been through many battles that he learns I made a pledge(发誓) to myself on the way down to the vacation beach cottage. For two weeks I would try to be a loving husband and father. The idea had come t They say love can cover a lot of crimes; yet never have I seen it more beautifully showed than in the life of a dog named Jessie. Jessie came into our lives at I am a social worker. I wanted to tell everyone about my very dear friend who passed away a few months ago.I met him many years ago while doing my internship （When Sally Ride was ten years old, she had no idea that she would some day grow up to be one of America’s first woman astronauts. In fact, if you had asked her Twenty years is just a blink in time. But 20 years is also long enough for a man to grow up. It is always painful. For Andrew Agassi, maturing in the spotligh Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only one family between the ticket office an Lu Xun is one of the greatest Chinese writers of the 20th century. Besides his famous stories, he also wrote many influential articles about the living conditio In the middle of the night, Peter's wife suddenly fell ill. She couldn’t help crying,“Oh, my stomach (胃)! Get the !” Peter, awaking from a deep sleep, though We often hear people talking about a generation gap (代沟). The name is new,but the idea is old. Young people and their parents don’t understand each other. Many years ago, when I was fresh out of school and working in Denver, I was driving to my parents’ home in Missouri for Christmas. I stopped at a gas station a Mr. and Mrs. Moore were invited to a Christmas party at a hotel one year. Theytheir car outside and went in. Mr. Moore had never got drunk (醉) before, so h Jess really felt very happy. When he arrived at his seat in the classroom that morning, he found an invitation on his desk. It was from several of his classmat

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A couple of years ago, I decided it was time to take a break. I was about to ,and I wanted to reward myself for all those college years.As I was curiouslydiffe My mind seems always to return to the day when I met Carl. The city bus stopped at a corner to pick up the daily commuters (someone who travels regularly to and Bobby Moresco grew up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, a poor working-class neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side. But Hell’s Kitchen lies right next door to B One sunny afternoon, a seven-year-old girl went for a walk. She crossed a large area of grassland into the woods __ __ she realized that she was lost.Sitting o “Hey, Jenna, do you think we’ll still be friends when we’re eighty-two?” I asked my friend．It was clear that she was wondering where I had come up with such a 通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各题所给的A、 B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。Unchangeable LoveOne day I visited an art museum while waiting for my husband Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B,C and D. Fill in each blank with a word or phrase that best fits Many television programmes are very realistic. One who watches TV often feels that whatever happened in the film could well happen to him. With only a little i Dear Cary,I’m writing because I’ve understood you’ve struggled with alcoholism(酗酒)．I’ve been fighting mine ever since I went through 9-11．After that，I’ve 请阅读下面短文，选择最佳答案，将其标号在答题卡上涂黑。There are many kinds of friends. Some are always you, but don't understand you. Some say only a few word There was a little boy his grandparents on their farm. He was given a slingshot（弹弓）to play with, out in the woods. Hein the woods, but he could never hit the It was a rather hot day. Everybody seemed to be looking for some kind of relief, so an ice cream store was a natural place to stop at. A little girl, holding h My teenage son Karl became withdrawn(孤僻) after his father died. As a single parent, I tried to do my best to talk to him. But the more I tried, the more he p My father was in the navy, which meant that my mother was married to both my father and the sea. As was often the , we had to pack our belongings into boxes and The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know.I stood up to look around when a gentl Andy was born with a developmental(发展的disorder.The two sides of his brain were notnormally together.The right side of hiscould not communicate with the left Paul couldn’t sleep last night. He woke up early and sat up, and then he lay down again. He felt terrible. “I must be sick,” he thought. “but I must study f I met Billy the last summer before college. He was handsome and his irreverence(玩世不恭) wasto me. We liked each other the first instant we met. , I was a st About one year ago, a couple with three children moved into the apartment next door to me. I never heard any noise form the children, but I often heard the pare I opened my new patient's chart and headed for her room. My son, Eric, had just brought home a disappointing report card, and my daughter, Shannon, and I had a The largest campaign of killing rats in history is set to poison millions of rats on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. Scientists say the campaign plan One Sunday, a picture in the newspaper touched me. A young woman stood in front of a totally destroyed home. A little boy stood beside her with his head. Hold In 1970, at the age of 35, my father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. There was not muchdone at that time and my father had to rely on the medication an 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、Ｂ、Ｃ和Ｄ）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。I still remember my first job in the city center.Long ago there were two people--- a young father and an old neighbor. One day the young father was visiting the old neighbor. They were standing in the old man Our house was directly across the street from the clinic entrance of John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. We lived downstairs and rented the upstairs rooms to th This week Faith Lapidus and Doug Johnson will tell you about Chuck Berry．Chuck Berry，born on October 18，1926，is often called the father of rock and roll．He is A year ago, August, Dave Fuss lost his job driving a truck for a small company in west Michigan. His wife, Gerrie, was still working in the local school cafeter Long ago there was a poor farmer in Russia. He had been very with everything he had. However, when he found his elder brother was than him, he felt disappointe On a Sunday morning, I was driving down a road and saw something I couldn’t believe. A little girl, less than two, was pushing her stroller (婴儿车) across the One day a student was taking a walk with his teacher. As they went along, they saw a pair of old shoes lying in the path. They were a poor farmer’s, who was w Hello! My name is Lisa, and I am a lioness. I live on the open grasslands of Africa with my family. Lions living in a group are called a pride. My father is s Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in her class and was ready for newin high school., high school was different. In the fir A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours before her flight. She bought a book and a bag of cookies in the airport shop, and found a Megan's Library of Love book drive began in 2006, in memory of a student who passed away. The to send books to a schoolwas created by Megan's classmates at Ce As a single mother，I had to do two jobs，which kept me very busy. Two months ago，I went to a ____ with Alice. Since I ____went out with her，she seemed very My father died in December. He had spent the last several years in hospital, and my mother spent a lot of her time him. That is without doubt, asituation for a As I was busy working on my work plan in my bedroom, I could hear my four children playing upstairs. Suddenly, I heard the children running down the stairs and Dear Mr. Watson,CLAIM AL54323432–-STORM DAMAGE TO ROOFI received a cheque for $623 dated 26 January in payment of my recent claim(索赔). However, I wish to tel I had the meanest mother in the whole world. While other kids ate candy for breakfast, I had to have cereal, eggs or toast. While others had Cokes and candy fo A young and successful executive was traveling down a street , going a bit too fast in his new car; He wasfor kids rushing out from between parked cars and slow Two years ago ,Hannah Mighall ,then 13, survived a great white shark attack on Tasmania’s north-east coast, but despite the terrible scars ,the shy yet courageo During the next several weeks I went completely to the wolves. I took a tiny tent and set it up on the shore of bay. The big telescope was set up in the mouth I have always wanted to share this story because it is one of the things that I will remember for my entire life. And I’m sure person feels the same.We had a When I was young, I went looking for gold in California. I never found enough to make a rich strike. But I did discover a beautiful part of the country called Cheerful Charlie was a very special boy. When he was still in his mother’s tummy, she had an accident, which meant that Charlie couldn’t walk. But that had n Mark had been scolded before for touching his father’s equipment. But his curiosity was difficult to control and this new computer really puzzled him.It was a The “Doorman”On a trip to California, my family stopped for lunch. As we walked toward the entrance to the restaurant, a man, with a beard and dirty hair, jumpe Last year, around Labor Day, I read a “Happy Ad” in our local newspaper. There was a lady in a local nursing home, who was celebrating her 90th birthday and her 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A lady and her husband stepped off the train in Bos “Well, we’re in our new house. Let’s get a new pet to go along with it,” Mrs. Brown said to her husband.“That sounds like a very good idea,” he answered. “A little girl lived in a simple and poor house on a hill. Usually she _____ play in the small garden. She could see over the garden fence and across the valley It was a cold, wet day on June 6th, 2007, when 14-year-old Wasana arrived at school. Waiting outside his classroom for his classmates to ,Wasana stared at the ,阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将选项标号涂黑。On the night of my birthday, I went to the nearest dr One Sunday morning, when I was driving along a road, I saw something I couldn’t believe. A little girl, who was less than two years old, was pushing her stroll Not long ago, a rock band called the Backstreet Boys made a big splash on the music scene. Young people everywhere loved their songs. One of the band’s bigges 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A daughter to her father about her life and how things were so John von Neumann was the oldest of 3 children of an banker, and his speed of learning new ideas and solving problems stood out early. At 17, his father tired to I'd been travelling for long hours on a lonely country road when I had a flat tire. So I had to stop and get the tools to the problem. It certainly wasn’t do As the plane circled over the airport, everyone guessed that something was wrong. The plane was moving unsteadily (不稳定地) through the , and the passengers we It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. Every day, my husband would the process of trying to get water to the Today I’m known for my voice. No one believes that I used to stuttered (口吃) badly when I was young. It is Professor Crouch’s trick that my life completely.Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people，but I also explain that there's a big difference between “being a writer”Looking out of the window, my son saw a tree whose branches were strongly swaying back and forth. “How does the tree move its branches like that?” He asked.Wi I decided to go back to school in the fall of 2008 after not being happy with my current job and financial status. I obtained my Associate’s Degree in May 2002 Regarded as one of the English language’s most gifted poets, John Keats wrote poetry that concentrated on imagery, human nature, and philosophy. Although Keats On my first visit to India with my husband, we met a really nice woman named Uma on the plane. Talking with her made the long flightmuch faster. When we arrive Nursing at Beth Israel Hospital produces the best patient care. If we are to solve the nursing shortage. hospital administration and doctors everywhere would d Every year, I tell my sons what I'd like for Mother's Day: a letter. Something written from the heart and offered freely rather than bought from a store and w It was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom with my favorite shirt on.Acame, “Nice shirt,” I smiled from ear to ear. Something roared like thunder. The earth shook a little and we heard the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire. "Father!" Hassan cried. We sprung to our feet and raced o On Sundays my father always wore that gray apron(围裙)—the one with the race cars all over it. The ritual (老规矩) began. breakfast when Dad always announced, I remembered that when I was a little child, I used to look for Sunday of the week. Yes, I was so looking forward to an adventure.Now, I still have a strong af Not too long ago, our teacher, being a “tree-hugger” (as the kids call her), had us write an essay on an environmental issue . I was eager to start, but somethi It was late in the afternoon. Several hundred villagers left their houses and gathered in the open air outside the village. They were staring __ __ at the moun Richard Wagner was a German musician has been a very controversial(有争议的) person, but he has gained great fame by writing opera, a form of performance combin A man was driving at 70 miles in a 40-mile zone, when a came behind him. Right away the man started thinking of to give.As the policeman came to him, he said, As a young social worker in a New York City psychiatric clinic, I was asked to see Roz, a 20-year-old woman who had been referred to us from another psychiatric 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Once there was a poor little girl living near a forest. She had no family That year, in the local school, there was a new math teacher, as well as some new pupils. One of the new kids was the stupidest child that anyone had ever seen.A tall figure appeared from the dark door of the tent. It was a smoking young man about twenty three or four. He had an almost black face, though smooth. His It has taken 90 years since she was born in a poor house in County Limerick for a woman considered America’s oldest illegal immigrant to get her Irish passport.Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One time I arrived in the middle of the night for a pickup at a building that was except for a single light in a I received a call today asking if I would be willing to bring food to a family in need. The mother was having a major operation and would be lying down for seve When a rather dirty, poorly dressed person kneels at your feet and puts out his hands to beg a few coins, do you hurry on, not what to do, or do you feel sad and I just finished the household chores for the night and was preparing to go to bed, when I heard a noise in the front of the house. I opened the door to the fron Carly Zalenski’s eyes were filled with tears as the dusty bus ran down a dirt road in southern Vietnam. She and her parents had travelled to Ho Chi Minh City b Nearly a quarter-century after a German boy threw a message in a bottle off a ship in the Baltic Sea, he’s received an answer. A 13-year-old Russian, Daniil Ko I spend a lot of time backpacking and hiking the outdoors and there are two pieces of equipment that are with me on each trip: an Adventure Medical Kits Weekende Instead of a normal court hearing, the trial on Wednesday appeared more like a prepared drama. Hundreds of reporters waited outside the court, in the hope of le 请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。On a Friday, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subwa Computer programmer David Jones earned￡35,000 ayear designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a check card, he has been to I suddenly heard an elephant crying as though frightened. Looking down，I immediately recognized that something was wrong，and ran down to the edge of the near One day I visited an art museum while waiting for my husband to finish a business meeting. I was expecting a quietof the splendid artwork.A youngviewing the pa To celebrate the end of our exams, my friends and I went to a fast food restaurant. We ______ hamburgers and Coca Colar at the counter. When our ____ came, I s On a stormy day last August, Tim heard some shouting. Looking out to the sea carefully, he saw a couple of kids in a rowboat w ere being pulled out to sea.Two Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing ____ was something she picked up by herself. After her first____, teaching disabled childre When I was 8, a gentleman came to my orphanage（孤儿院）and taught us how to do woodworking projects. I remember my first project—a small table. I was so of it t 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36－55各题所给的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Years ago, I worked at the Ringling Brothers Barnum &a This parable（寓言）is told of a farmer who owned an old mule（骡子）. The mule fell into the farmer’s well. The farmer heard the mule praying for whatever mules