Have you ever had a dream to make your home a happier place? Maybe there are some points you can follow.
1. When you want to dress in a modern way, your mum doesn’t like you wearing a mini-skirt. When you are making phone calls to friends, they ask if you’re speaking to a boy or a girl. Sometimes it seems that you’re not as close to your parents as you used to be. How can you become close again?
Closing the Gap by American writer Jay McGraw gives advice on how to have a better relationship with your parents. 2. When you think, “My parents don’t want me to have any fun,” that usually means your parents want you to be safe. 3. They need to feel they are important and loved. You should tell your parents your needs, and find out what their needs are. Then, you can think of a way to make all of you happy. He gives you some ideas:
(1) 4. You could talk about your school life and your plans for the future.
(2) Keep a diary. This is to help you understand more about yourself and your feelings.
(3) Show your parents you are growing up. 5.
Your parents will feel that you are no longer a little child. If you follow these steps, soon you will be able to break down the walls between your parents and yourself.
A. Make time to talk.
B. They seldom talk with each other.
C. Both parents and children have needs.
D. Wash your clothes and help clean the house.
E. A generation gap has become a serious problem.
F. He gives ways to help you understand your parents.
G. Sometimes you don’t think your parents are fair to you.
Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the United States today because it is about simple but strong human feelings and events---love, sadness, good times, and bad times. It tells real-life, stories and sounds the way people really talk. As life becomes more complicated(复杂), it is good to hear music about ordinary people.
Country music, sometimes called country-western, comes from two kinds of music. One is the traditional music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern Unite States. The other is traditional cowboy music from the west. The singers usually play guitars, and in the 1920s they started using electric guitars. At first city people said country music was low class. It was popular mostly in the South. But during World War II, thousands of Southerners went to the Northeast and Midwest to work in the factories. They took their music with them. Soldiers from the rest of the country went to army camps（军营）in the South. They learned country music. Slowly it became popular all over the country.
Today country music is also popular everywhere in the United States and Canada—in small towns and in New York City, among black and white, and among educated and uneducated people. About 1, 200 radio stations broadcast country music twenty-four hours a day. English stars sing it in British English, and people in other countries sing it in their own languages. The music that started with cowboys and poor southerners is now popular all over the world.
1.It can be learned from the passage that country music comes from_____ .
A. the Northeast and Midwest
B. factories and army camps in the South
C. the Appalachian Mountains and the West
D. real-life stories in small towns
2.Before World War II country music was popular mainly in_____ .
A. the south B. the north
C. the Midwest D. the Northeast
3.During World War II many Southerners went to the Northeast and the Mid-west because _____.
A. they wanted to take music with them
B. they wanted to make other people like country music
C. they wanted to work in the factories there
D. they wanted to make country music popular
4.Country music is one of the most popular kinds of music in the world today because_______.
A. city people said it was low class
B. people could sing it in many different languages
C. it started with cowboys and poor Southerners
D. it is loved by different kinds of people in the world
5.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Country music is about human feelings and events.
B. Country music is sung by stars all in English.
C. Country music is popular among city people today.
D.City people didn’t like country music at first.
About ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way. Women are luckier; only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman!
There are different forms of color blindness. In some cases a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shadows of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of green － a strange world indeed.
Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones”. These help us to see in a bright light and to tell difference between colors. There are also millions of “rods”, but these are used for seeing when it is near dark. They show us shape but no color.
Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes prefer blue to yellow. A red light will not attract insects, but a blue lamp will. In a similar way human beings also have favorite colors. Yet we are lucky. With the aid of the cones in our eyes we can see many beautiful colors by day, and with the aid of the rods we can see shapes at night. One day we may even learn more about the invisible colors around us.
1.The passage is mainly about _____________.
A. color and its surprising effects.
B. women being luckier than men
C. danger caused by color blindness
D. some information on color blindness
2.According to the passage, with the help of the “cones”, we can ___________.
A. tell different shapes B. see in a weak light
C. kill mosquitoes D. tell orange from yellow
3.Why do some people say it is safer to be driven by women?
A. Women are more careful.
B. There are fewer color-blind women
C. Women are fonder of driving than men.
D. Women are weaker but quicker in thinking.
4.Which of the statements about the color- blind is true?
A. Neither men nor women can see deep red.
B. All of them see everything in shades of green.
C. None of them can tell the difference between blue and green.
D. Not all of them have the same problem in recognizing color.
5.We can attract and kill mosquitoes by using a _____________.
A. red light B. yellow light
C. blue light D. green light
Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and moved to New York City when she was ten years old. One day she decided that she wanted to become a doctor. That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century. After writing many letters asking for admission(录取) to medical schools, she was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia. She was so determined that she taught school and gave music lessons to get money for the cost of schooling.
In 1849, after graduation from a medical school. she decided to further her education in Paris. She wanted to be a surgeon(外科医师) , but a serious eye problem forced her to give up the idea.
Upon returning to the United States, she found it difficult to start her own practice because she was a woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor, along with another woman doctor, managed to open a new hospital, the first for women and children Besides being the first woman physician and founding her own hospital , she also set up the first medical school for women.
1.Why couldn’t Elizabeth Blackwell realize her dream of becoming a surgeon?
A. She couldn’t get admitted to a medical school.
B. She decided to further her education in Paris.
C. A serious eye problem stopped her.
D. It was difficult for her to start a practice in the United States.
2.What main obstacle(障碍) almost destroyed Elizabeth’s chances for becoming a doctor?
A. She was a woman.
B. She wrote too many letters.
C. She couldn’t graduate from a medical school.
D. She couldn’t set up her hospital.
3.How many years passed between her graduation from a medical school and the opening of her hospital?
A. Eight years B. Ten years
C. Nineteen years D. Thirty-six years
4.According to the passage, all of the following are “firsts” in the life of Elizabeth Blacekwell, except that she ______.
A. became the first woman physician
B. was the first woman doctor
C. founded the first hospital for women and children
D. set up the first medical school for women
5.Eilzabeth Blackwell spent most of her life in _______.
A. England B. Paris
C. the United States D. New York City
As a senior in high school, Emily Raleigh wrote a short book to her younger sister, an incoming freshman. This book taught her sister the ins and outs to surviving high school and told her to be the person she could be. Her family told her to this book, but she wanted to do something a little more. , she took a different route and an online organization for girls across the country.
Now, as a sophomore in college, Emily and owns The Smart Girls Group, a one-stop shop for the next generation of superstar women. This website provides and articles for girls aged 12-25. Once run by just eight girls, this organization has to over 300 girls, including myself. The of The Smart Girls Group is to and empower girls all throughout the world via many mediums. From the online blog and magazine classes and book clubs, The Smart Girls Group the needs of many girls, and has over 4,000 worldwide. Besides the listed above, this organization has campus chapters（分会） located throughout the US and Europe, and has become a to many girls throughout our world.
No one ever told her she start The Smart Girls Group because it was a school assignment. Rather, Emily started it because she wanted to girls across the country be better versions of themselves and help break the glass ceiling that females face in today’s society.
Without Emily, I would not be where I am today. Without the help of all the girls at The Smart Girls Group, I would not have found all the that I am now involved in. Because of this group, it has helped me decide what I want to do with my . I used to want to be a publisher, but now I becoming a lawyer for women’s rights. It brought me to a new view, and I see things in a light.
1.A. favorite B. best C. famous D. humorous
2.A. publish B. sell C. donate D. collect
3.A. Besides B. Anyhow C. Instead D. Therefore
4.A. bought B. created C. attended D. found
5.A. joins B. follows C. plans D. runs
6.A. happiness B. information C. entertainment D. value
7.A. developed B. formed C. succeeded D. turned
8.A. importance B. concern C. quality D. purpose
9.A. praise B. encourage C. attract D. impress
10.A. at B. in C. to D. for
11.A. meet B. require C. order D. want
12.A. customers B. workers C. volunteers D. readers
13.A. topics B. articles C. presents D. resources（资源）
14.A. hotel B. home C. gym D. place
15.A. had to B. used to C. was able to D. decided to
16.A. educate B. admit C. help D. affect
17.A. chances B. dreams C. performances D. stages
18.A. reality B. pain C. future D. trouble
19.A. are used to B. are against C. am devoted to D. pay attention to
20.A. difficult B. magic C. colorful D. different
They are______ interesting novels _______ I want to read them once again.
A. so; that B. such; as
C. so; as D. such; that
