| The driver can adjust the heating in winter and the air conditioning in summer to suit his own ________. |
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| We can never expect ________ bluer sky unless we create ________ less polluted world. |
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| —How about your journey to Mount Emei? —Everything was wonderful except that our car ________ twice on the way. |
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| A. slowed down B. broke down C. got down D. put down |
| China has got a good ________ for fighting against the flu with its careful and smooth organization. |
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| A. reputation B. influence C. impression D. knowledge |
| In those days, our ________ concern was to provide people who were stopped by the snowstorm with food and health care. |
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| A. normal B. constant C. permanent D. primary |
| —Shall I open the window, Mum? —________ It's blowing hard outside. |
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| A. Sure, go ahead. B. I'd rather not. C. I'd rather you didn't. D. Yes, do as you please. |
| A witness gave a ________ description of the thief, because of which the police quickly found him. |
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| A. abstract B. realistic C. detailed D. brief |
| I ________ that we'll all meet again soon. |
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| A. wish B. hope C. wish for D. dream of |
| Although the average reader spends more than 4,000 pounds on books in their lifetime, 55 percent say they buy them for decoration and have no ________ of reading them. |
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| A. advantage B. attempt C. evidence D. intention |
| So sudden ________ that the enemy had no time to escape. |
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| A. did the attack B. the attack did C. was the attack D. the attack was |
| How I wish that you could attend the party, even though you ________ busy. |
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| A. had been B. would be C. were D. are |
| —John always thinks of others instead of himself. —So he does. It is________ of him to want to help others. |
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| A. aggressive B. evident C. typical D. conventional |
| —Mary was being badly treated when John happened to pass by and helped her out. —I think it was not a pure ________ but had been well planned. |
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| A. coincidence B. occurrence C. arrangement D. incident |
| I think what ________ to me about her performance is her walking way and sweet voice. |
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| A. attracts B. contributes C. belongs D. appeals |
| I desire to make friends with him, but ________ I am worried that I can't get along well with him. |
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| A. on the whole B. on the other hand C. as a matter of fact D. first of all |
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| Like that of her own character, Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling's life is like a fairy tale. Divorced, living on public assistance in a tiny Edinburgh flat with her infant daughter, Rowling __1__ Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone __2__ a table in a caf? during her daughter's naps-and it was Harry Potter __3__ rescued her. Rowling __4__ that she always wanted to write and that the first __5__ she actually wrote down, when she was five or six, was a story about a rabbit __6__ Rabbit. Many of her favorite __7__ center around readinghearing The Wind in the Willows __8__ aloud by her father when she had the measles (麻疹), enjoying the fantastic adventure stories of E. Nesbit, and her favorite story of all, The Little White Horse. At Exeter University Rowling took her degree in French and __9__ one year studying in Paris. After college she moved to London to __10__ as a researcher and bilingual secretary. The best thing about working in an office, she has said, was __11__ up stories on the computer when no one was __12__. During this time, on a particularly long train ride from Manchester to London in the summer of 1990, the idea __13__ her of a boy who is a wizard and doesn't know it. He __14__ a school for wizardry-she could see him very plainly in her mind. By the time the train __15__ into King's Cross station four hours later, many of the characters and the early stages of the plot were fully __16__ in her head. The story took further shape as she continued working on it in __17__ and cafes over her lunch hours. After her marriage to a Portuguese TV journalist ended in divorce, Rowling returned to Britain with her infant daughter and a suitcase full of Harry Potter notes and __18__. She settled in Edinburgh to be near her sister and __19__ to finish the book before looking for a teaching job. Wheeling her daughter's carriage around the city to escape their __20__, cold apartment, she would duck into coffee shops to write when the baby fell asleep. In this way she finished the book and started sending it to publishers. | ||||
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| Taylor Bernard and her twin sister were born 12 weeks early. As a result, Taylor suffers from cerebral palsy (CP). It is a condition that affects the brain. Kids who are born with CP have trouble controlling the muscles in their body. Taylor is 8 years old now. She uses a powerwheelchair to get around. Her twin sister Sydney participates in sports, but Taylor has a different interest: art. Taylor submitted(提交) a watercolor painting of a sunset in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, to an art contest. Of the more than 5,500 students who took park in the contest, only 51 were selected. Taylor was one of them. Her winning painting is now being displayed in Union Station, in Washington, D. C. After leaving Union Station, the exhibit will tour the country. The contest was sponsored by VSA, the international organization on arts and disability. The nonprofit group was started to give people with disabilities an opportunity to participate in the arts. Submissions for the contest came from students with and without disabilities. The exhibition is part of VSA's International Arts Festival and was also sponsored by CVS Caremark's All Kids Can program. Art Changed Her Life Amanda LaMunyon represented Oklahoma in the exhibition. She just finished her freshman year of high school. When Amanda was in elementary school, she had problems focusing and following rules. She has Asperger Syndrome, which is a form of autism. "People started looking at her differently," her mother, Sherry LaMunyon, said. "They stopped looking at her as a girl who was struggling and started looking at her as an artist. It's changed her whole life." The president of VSA, Soula Antoniou, said that the point of the exhibition is to focus on students' abilities, rather than their disabilities. "What we're trying to do is make sure each student finds something they're good at," she said. That's exactly what Taylor's done. While she has some difficulty with fine motor skills, she's found that she's talented with wide brush strokes(笔画) in painting. Inspiring Others Before finding painting, Amanda said she had trouble fitting in. "I didn't have anything that I felt was my talent," she said. Now she's more focused on school and is interested in studying fashion design and theater. Amanda hopes that the exhibition will show others that even if they have disabilities, they have abilities they don't even know yet. You can see more of Amanda's artwork at amandalamunyon.com. |
| 1. How could Amanda's mother feel when they learned Amanda could paint? |
| A. Disappointed. B. Surprised. C. Doubt. D. Pleased. |
| 2. What is the text mainly about? |
| A. Students with disabilities show their creativity at an international art festival in Washington, D. C. B. Students with disabilities are more talented in art according to the result of an international art festival in Washington, D. C. C. An international art festival in Washington, D. C. gives people with disabilities an opportunity to participate in the arts. D. More than 5,500 students submitted their paintings at an international art festival in Washington, D. C. |
| 3. We may infer from the passage that ________. |
| A. Amanda had Asperger Syndrome before she went to the elementary school B. Some children who are disabled even don't know their situation C. Taylor has trouble controlling the muscles, but her sister is healthy D. Amanda is good at painting with wide brush strokes |
| 4. Where could this passage come from? |
| A. In a newspaper. B. In a magazine. C. On the Internet. D. In a report. |