Ben, at the age of 23 ,was the youngest man to ski solo to the North Pole. He dragged a 180-kilogramme sledge (雪橇) over 1,420 miles through the worst Arctic conditions. This year, Ben plans to ski solo from the Antarctic coast to the South Pole and back in the autumn, carrying all his supplies on his sledge.
Ben Saunders was fired after persuading the firm to support his disorganized first adventure. “Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. We didn’t get to the Pole, so we had no media interest. No one heard about it.”
“People said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole. I said, “No, I can get there,” and I did. Self-belief, I see it as being a bit like a muscle — it's my belief that the more you stretch yourself the stronger it gets. If you never do anything that's uncomfortable or risky then your self-belief gets weaker. So that's one of the lessons I’ve figured out along the way.
“My Antarctic adventure is just practicable and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn’t be interested." Why? “Personally I'm attracted by the human performance element to it. Not that long ago, running a marathon was seen as the top point of human attempt, and now I wouldn’t be that surprised if my mum said she was going to run one."
People’s horizons are changing. “I'm not particularly gifted. I’ve just chosen this one goal to achieve and I’ve been working hard to realize it. And that’s the thing that attracts me: with enough training and enough determination, enough focus and preparation, how far can we go? And I don，t think I've found out yet.”
1.What do we know about Ben Saunders’ first adventure?
A. It was ruined by his company.
B. There was no press coverage.
C. It was well planned and organized.
D. He actually reached the North Pole.
2.According to Ben Saunders, if you want to stretch your self-belief, you should______ .
A. often test your confidence
B. try something adventurous
C. aim to reach the North Pole
D. always stretch your muscles
3.Ben Saunders was excited about his Antarctic adventure because_______ .
A. he liked running a marathon
B. he wanted to exercise his body
C. he knew it might be achievable
D. he was sure he could do it easily
4.What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. We have to change our views about adventure.
B. We can never know our possibilities and energies.
C. We should have a reason for going on an adventure.
D. We have to be especially talented to have an adventure.
假如你是红星中学的李华，收到来自英国学生Mark的电子邮件，咨询你校暑期为异国学生举办汉语夏令营活动，请通过电子邮件向Mark介绍本次活动，其内容如下：
1.活动时间：7月10日到7月30日：地点：红星中学。
2.活动内容：
•学习日常汉语，可与当地人交流。
•举办各种晚会，了解中国历史和中国传统文化，例如节日…...
•参观博物馆，长城等......
3.活动意义......
注意：
1.词数不少于100；
2.可适当的加入细节，以使内容充实，行文连贯；
3.开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Mark,
I feel delighted to get your email,
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Yours,
Li Hua
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For students learned instruments summer is always a “music season”. During vacation time, we are always busy attending various of lessons, taking exams and participating in competitions. This summer I joined in a music competition but was lucky to get the second place. It was the first time that I have played on the stage. In front of the stage was my excited schoolmates. Facing such many people, I felt very upset at first, but the encourage from my teacher kept me going ahead. Fortunate, I was given a silver medal, that increased my confidence. In short, nothing is impossible to willing heart.
My deskmate admires my fluent English very much and I usually feel 1.(encourage) by his compliments.
One day, 2. we learned the new word “eccentric” in class, we 3. make a sentence with it. I volunteered to do it by saying “My deskmate is an eccentric boy 4. clothe never fit him.” Hearing this, the whole class burst into 5. (laugh) and my deskmate’s face turned red. 6. class, I learned from the teacher that my deskmate 7. (drop) out of school if he hadn’t been helped by others. My mindless words must 8. (hurt) him deeply.
Not until then did 1 realize words could be powerful in 9. positive and negative ways. We should avoid 10. (hurt) others if we can’t always be encouraging them when we speak.
1.So ______ (impress) was the lecture that there were no empty seats m the hall, which made a deep impression on us.
2.We obtained permission from the directors to use some of our funds, which ______ (permit) us to do more purchases.
3.Nowadays, women can have children and jobs as well. It’s good to have the two ______ (combine).
4.1 have bought the same dress ______ she is wearing.
5.They walked off, leaving me ______ (seat) there all by myself.
6.The book mainly deals with the trouble teens might have ______ (distinguish) right from wrong.
7.He set sail once again, this time with 25 ships, ______ which only 14 made it to Greenland.
8.Everything ______ (arrange) as you wished, your concert is bound to be successful.
9.We were driving on the road when a big rock rolled down the hill and we only just escaped ______ (hit).
10.Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous prehistoric monuments which ______ (date) back to over 5,000 years.
One morning in early fall, I spotted a pair of wild geese on our pond. The beautiful sight caught me by ______. because we’d never seen geese there before. I wondered where they came from and why they’d ______ our pond.
“As the days passed, I couldn’t ______ getting a closer look and started talking to the geese. They craned their necks and raised their heads ______ but seemed to realize I was a ______ and not an enemy. I felt ______ we were bonding.
One day as they were ______ in the grass near the driveway, I discovered the reason for their ______ —the male had a broken left wing. He was ______ to fly, and his lifelong mate would not leave him ______. I marveled (惊叹) at the ______ between them.
I asked a wildlife biologist friend what I should ______. He explained that sometime a broken wing will heal by itself and suggested letting ______ take its course.
On the first day of November, I was ______ in the vicinity (邻近) of the geese with my tractor. I caught some ______ from the comer of my eye.
Both geese were running toward the pond, wings beating ______. The geese gained enough altitude to clear a neighbor’s house, then ______ back toward me, flying no more than 50 feet over my head as if to say goodbye. Then they were out of ______.
I grew ______ them during their stay at our pond, and I miss them. I’ll never forget their ______ to each other. We could all learn a lesson or two from this pair.
1.A. anger B. surprise C. terror D. sorrow
2.A. cleared B. destroyed C. chosen D. disturbed
3.A. resist B. imagine C. escape D. admit
4.A. naturally B. happily C. sadly D. cautiously
5.A. hunter B. helper C. friend D. guard
6.A. whether B. even if C. how D. as though
7.A. jumping B. feeding C. working D. growing
8.A. absence B. delay C. visit D. departure
9.A. unable B. curious C. eager D. afraid
10.A. mad B. calm C. around D. behind
11.A. bond B. quarrel C. conflict D. competition
12.A. do B. cure C. share D. check
13.A. chance B. nature C. fate D. knowledge
14.A. playing B. experimenting C. working D. fighting
15.A. atmosphere B. division C. response D. movement
16.A. wildly B. occasionally C. slowly D. aimlessly
17.A. floated B. circled C. slid D. skipped
18.A. order B. place C. sight D. control
19.A. angry with B. fond of C. tired of D. grateful to
20.A. sympathy B. objection C. adjustment D. devotion
