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Denielle 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 can work on up to five. Her research comes before writing takes at least three years. Once she has fully studied her subjects, she can spend twenty hours nonstop at her desk.
Denielle Steel comes from New York and was sent to France for her education. After graduation, she worked in the public relations and advertising industries. Later she started a job as a writer which she was best fit for. Her achievements are unbelievable, 390 million copies of books in print, nearly fifty New York Times best-selling novels, and a series of “Max and Martha" picture books for children to help them deal with the real-life problem of death, new babies and new schools. Her book published in 1998 about the death of her was shot to the top of the New York Times best-selling list as soon as it came out. Twenty-eight of her books have been made into films. She is listed in the Guinness Books of World Records for one of her books being the Times best-seller for 381 weeks straight.
Not content with a big house, a loving family, and a view of the Golden Gate Bridge, Denielle Steel considers her readers to be the most important resource and has kept in touch with them by-email. While she is often compared to the heroines of her own invention, her life is undoubtedly much quieter. But if she does have anything in common with them, it is her strength of will and her inimitable (独特的 ) style. There is only one, Denielle Steel!
1.What is the main idea of the passage? (No more than 10 words)
2.Please explain the underlined word "content" in English. (No more than 5 words)
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3.What may children know after they have read "Max and Martha" picture books? (No more than 20 words)
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4.List at least three Danielle Steel's achievements in book business? (No more than 30 words)
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5.Why aid Danielle Steel value her readers a lot? (No more than 25 words)
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One day, when I was working as a psychologist in England, an adolescent boy showed up in my office. It was David. He kept walking up and down restlessly, his face pale, and his hands shaking slightly. His head teacher had referred him to me. "This boy has lost his family," he wrote. "He is understandably very sad and refuses to talk to others, and I'm very worried about him. Can you help?" '
I looked at David and showed him to a chair. How could I help him? There are problems psychology doesn't have the answer to, and which no words can describe. Sometimes the best thing one can do is to listen openly and sympathetically.
The first two times we met David didn't say a word. He sat there, only looking up to look at the children’s drawings on the wall behind me. I suggested we play a game of chess. He nodded. After that he played chess with me every Wednesday afternoon - in complete silence and without looking at me. It's not easy to cheat in chess, but I admit I made sure David won once or twice.
Usually, he arrived earlier than agreed, took the chess board and pieces from the shelf and began setting them up before I even got a chance to sit down. It seemed as if he enjoyed my company. But why did he never look at me?
"Perhaps he simply needs someone to share his pain with," I thought. "Perhaps he senses that I respect his suffering." Some months later, when we were playing chess, he looked up at me suddenly.
"It's your turn," he said.
After that day, David started talking. He got friends in school and joined a bicycle club. He wrote to me a few times about his biking with some friends, an d about his plan to get into university. Now he had really started to live his own life.
Maybe I gave David something. But I also learned that one - without any words – can reach out to another person. All it takes is a hug, a shoulder to cry' on, a friendly touch, and an ear that listens.
1.When he first met the author, David________.
A. felt a little excited
B. walked energetically
C. looked a little nervous
D. showed up with his teacher
2.As a psychologist, the author_______ .
A. was ready to listen to David
B. was skeptical about psychology
C. was able to describe David's problem
D. was sure of handling David's problem
3.David enjoyed being with the author because he ______.
A. wanted to ask the author for advice
B. need to share sorrow with the author
C. liked the children's drawings in the office
D. beat the author many times in the chess game
4.What can be inferred about David?
A. He recovered after months of treatment.
B. He liked biking before he lost his family.
C. He went into university soon after starting to talk.
D. He got friends in school before he met the author.
5.What made David change?
A. His teacher's help.
B. The author's friendship.
C. His exchange of letters with the author.
D. The author's silent communication with him.
Although similar in appearance to hyenas(土狼), African wild dogs are nevertheless true wild canine(犬). They are a mixture of black, yellow, and white in such a wide variety of patterns that no two individuals look exactly alike. African wild dogs are widely distributed across the African plains but they do not live in jungle areas.
They are social animals, living in groups of usually from 2 to 45 individuals. A hierarchy（统团） exists within the group, but the animals are friendly to one another. The young and the infirm（体弱的） are given special privileges within the group.
African wild dogs use their sense of sight, not smell, to find their prey. They can run up to 55 km/h for several kilometers. In eastern Africa, they mostly hunt Thomson's gazelles, but they will also attack calves, warthogs, zebras, impalas, and the young of large antelopes such as the gnu.
Growing human populations have decreased or degraded the African wild dog's habitat and also diminished their available prey. Road kill and human persecution（迫害） have also had a negative impact on African wild dog populations. This species is also susceptible to a variety of diseases such as distemper, which is controlled in domestic .dogs. Conservation of the African wild dog's natural habitat must have the highest priority, as these dogs suffer in habitats modified by human intrusion（干扰）．
1.What does the underlined word "susceptible" mean?
A. easily affected or suffered B. badly doubtful
C. seriously harmful D. highly dangerous
2.What factors affect the population of the wild dogs?
a. the distribution of the dogs b. social living
c. highly increasing human populations d. human's killing the dogs
e. many diseases f. the changes of their habitats
g. domestic dogs h. food reduction
A. a. b, c, d, e B. b, c, d, e, f C. c, d, e, f, h D. d, e, f, g, h
3.From the passage we can conclude that_______.
A. African wild dogs are completely different from domestic dogs in size, weight
B. African wild dogs are living in groups
C. African wild dogs use their eyes mostly when sleeping to guard
D. African wild dogs use their noses to find their food in most cases
4.What can we know about African wild dogs?
A. In a pack there may be about 90 wild dogs and no leader.
B. There are no such wild dogs that are different.
C. African wild dogs can run at a speed of about 15 m/s for a long distance.
D. All African wild dogs kill zebras, impalas, and antelopes as their food.
5. What can we infer from the passage?
A. African wild dogs are not in danger, because there are such a wide variety of patterns.
B. African wild dogs are not in danger, because are widely distributed across the African plains.
C. African wild dogs are in danger, because human's activities have a great effect on them.
D. African wild dogs are in danger, because their habitats have been changed much.
On the night of November 14, 1978,a six-year-old Korean boy was flying to the United States. All he knew was that he was on a plane heading for somewhere. The plane landed at Kennedy International Airport, where he was greeted by a family. This young boy was me.
I have grown up in a town where there were few Asians, so I stuck out in the crowd. I made friends quickly and they treated me just like anyone else. You may ask if anyone made fun of my appearance. Well, of course, I met that' kind of person. I just shrugged it off.
As an adopted child, I have something that others don't have. I have had the benefit of two families. I'm lucky to have got a chance to start a new life. But we must try never to forget our past. Someday I will go back to Korea to find out what kind of culture I left behind.
There is only one thing that I regret about being adopted. When I argue with my parents and they realize they are losing the argument, they sometimes wonder what I would be doing if I were back in Korea. I don't understand this because I thought the purpose of adopting someone was to give them a better chance of growing up in a family. Some day when I am older, I want to adopt a girl and raise her the way my parents have raised me, but I would do it better, for I know what went well and what did not.
1.We learn that when the writer was on the way to his new family,______.
A. he was with his own parents
B. he was very happy and excited
C. he was about ten years old then
D. he didn't know he was going to be adopted
2.If someone sticks out in the crowd, it means that he/she_______.
A. is very good-looking
B. is very kind-hearted
C. is easily noticed by others
D. is disliked by others
3.When the writer was made fun of by others, he _______.
A. was deeply hurt
B. wanted to go back to Korea
C. didn’t care about it that much
D. tried to make friends with them
4.What can we learn from Paragraph 3?
A. The writer wants to forget his past.
B. The writer isn't sad about being adopted.
C. The writer isn't interested in Korean culture.
D. The writer aren't know anything about Korea.
5.What does the writer want to do when he is older?
A Go back to live with his parents in Korea.
B. Tell his parents what they have done wrong.
C. Find out how to raise children in a better way.
D. Adopt a girl and raise her in a good way.
Last Christmas while staying with my parents, I across some old love letters that my parents wrote to each other. These letters were all pilled up in a basket, dirty and With dust. to read and sort them, I asked them if I could take the letters back to my Illinois home. They agreed.
As I carefully opened each letter, all of them with age, I discovered a new page unknown to me in this private chapter of my parents' lives.
My father used to in the army. So his letters were full of frontline of the things about the war. Each of my mother's letters was marked with her 1944 dark red lipstick kiss. I was to these letters like a magnet (磁铁).
Just six weeks after our Christmas visit, Daddy became very . and was hospitalized. This time, he was fighting a . kind of war. As I sat by his bedside, we discussed the . He told me how much receiving those lipstick-kissed letters had to him when he had been so far from home.
It so happened that the next day would he February 14. From the letters I chose the card my father had sent Mother in 1944 and brought it to my father's bedside.
At his bedside, I joked with him, saying , "Today is Valentine's Day, don't you want to send Mother a present?" He became more when I handed him the old . He carefully opened it and took out the card, and when he it, his eyes were filled with tears.
My father, in a voice tight with read the loving he'd sent to my mother fifty-six years earlier. And this time, he could read it to her .
1.A came B. hit C. drew D. fell
2.A. hidden B. covered C. buried D. filled
3.A. Pretending B. Suggesting C. Preferring D. Deciding
4.A. delicate B. tasty C. useful D. tender
5.A. recently B. usually C. previously D. occasionally
6.A.work B. study C. serve D. report
7.A. accounts B. documents C. introductions D. occupations
8.A. devoted B. abandoned C. thrown D. drawn
9.A. depressed B. dead. C. dangerous D.ill
10.A. typical B. traditional C. different D. familiar
11.A. wars B. illnesses C. letters D. prescriptions
12.A. meant B. intended C, planned D. said
13.A. divided B. sorted C. separated D. updated
14.A. sadly B. angrily C. softly D. loudly
15.A. curious B. enthusiastic C. fantastic D. positive
16.A. Christmas card B. envelope C. basket D. lipstick
17.A. found B. wrote C. recognized D. missed
18.A. astonishment B. sorrow C. sickness D. emotion
19.A. story B. message C. speech D. motto
20.A. in person B. in private C. in danger D. in peace
---Do you believe a person will be alive forever?
---_______ It's just a fantasy.
A. Not really B. Of course C. Not especially D. My pleasure
