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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 caf?s 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. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. Only the disabled students can enter the art contest sponsored by VSA. B. Amanda, Taylor's sister, has trouble in focusing and following rules. C. Amanda has improved a lot in study after finding painting. D. Sydney prefers art to sport because of her disability in the brain. 3. 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. 4. 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 |
| 完成句子 阅读下列各小题,根据每句后的汉语提示,用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子. 1. Not until then____________________to concentrate less on religious themes and adopted a more humanistic attitude to life. (begin) 直到那时,人们才开始较少关注宗教主题,而采取一种更人性化的生活态度. 2. I'd rather you____________________,because I can not bear the idea of your being in an airplane in such bad weather. (go) 我宁愿你乘火车去,因为我无法忍受你的在这种糟糕的天气还要坐飞机的想法. 3. Last month he sold out the house__________________his father secretly and used the cash to buy drugs.(belong) 上个月他偷偷地把属于他父亲的房子卖掉了,然后用那些钱去买毒品. 4. When you came to my room, you__________________your shoes, as I didn't care. (take) 你进我的房间时没有必要脱掉你的鞋子,因为我不在意. 5. He has two brothers, ____________________members in local government.(serve) 他有两个兄弟,两个都是当地政府的成员. 6. It was not until ____________________the boy began to prepare his lessons.(come) 直到他爸爸走进来,这个男孩才开始准备功课. 7. Had we been able to find out the cause earlier, more infections ____________________. (avoid) 如果我们能早点找出起因的话,就能够避免更多的感染了. 8. ____________________ has the chance to get a film ticket in the New Year's Party. (give) 在新年晚会上,任何回答正确的人都有机会得到电影票. 9. ____________________is that the continued presence of water allowed the earth to dissolve harmful gases and acids in it to the oceans and seas.(believe) 科学家们相信正是水的不断出现才使得有害气体和酸溶解到了海洋中. 10. English, as well as Chinese and maths, ____________________. (importance) 英语、语文和数学都很重要. |