1.I’m so g___________ for all your past kindness.
2.He has studied English for ten years and now he can speak English f__________ and accurately.
3.It is reported that this disease __________the central nervous system.(攻击).
4.Her success is owing to her positive a ___________towards her work
5.The refugees’ main requirements are food and ______________. (避身之所).
6.8加4等于12.
4 ________________ 8 is 12.
7.我们必须精通所学的知识，这样更有可能在未来有所创新。
We must ________________ the knowledge we have learned so that we’ll be more likely to innovate in the future.
8.与其乘汽车，我宁愿步行。
_________________ travel by car, I prefer to walk.
9.入侵者把城镇变成废墟。
The invader laid towns and villages _________________.
10.我送给他一份礼物以回报他的帮助。
I sent him a present ____________ his help.
11.Don’t get off the bus until it _____________(stop).
12.My pen _________________(write) smoothly and it doesn’t need to be repaired.
13.She was seen _________________(enter)the manager’s office ten minutes ago.
14.His book ____________(publish) last month if based on a true story.
15.You ______________(tell)me about it earlier. If I had known the truth, I would have helped her out.
Bank of China and Alibaba are the dream employers for Chinese students, according to a new survey.
The survey of more than 55,000 students, 1.(conduct) by a research firm Universum, found that 2.(rough)a quarter want to work for an international company, while only 9% want to work for a start-up. Five percent want to start 3.own business.
When it comes to desirable companies, business students4.(name)Bank of China the top choice for seven years, and it shows no signs of 5.(give)up its lead.
William Wu, manager of Universum, said that banking remains6.attractive industry for young Chinese. “China’s government is now emphasizing the revolution of finance industry, 7.leaves the younger generation with the impression that though banking is a 8.(tradition)industry, there are still a lot of development 9.(opportunity),” Wu said.
Alibaba improved six places from 2014, 10.(rank)second among business students. It held a record-breaking $25 billion IPO in September.
Human growth is a process of experimentation, trial, and error eventually leading to wisdom. Each time you choose to trust yourself and take action, you can never quite be certain how the situation will ______.
Sometimes you are victorious, and sometimes you become disappointed. The_______experiments, however, are no less valuable than the experiments that finally prove successful; in fact, you______learn more from your “failures” than you do from your ______. If you have made what you think to be a mistake or failed to live up to your own ____, you will most likely put up a barrier between your essence and the part of your that is the alleged(声称的)wrong-doer.
However, viewing past actions as _____implies guilt and blame, and it is not possible to learn anything meaningful while you are engaged in blaming. ______, forgiveness is required when you are severely judging yourself. Forgiveness is the act of erasing an______debt. There are four kinds of forgiveness.
The first is beginner forgiveness for yourself.
The second of forgiveness is beginner forgiveness for another.
The third kind of forgiveness is ______forgiveness of yourself. This is for serious misbehaviors, the ones you carry with deep ____ . When you do something that violates your own values and principles, you create a gap between your standards and your actual ______.
In such a case, you need to work very hard at _______yourself for these deeds so that you can close this gap. This does not _____that you should rush to forgive yourself or shouldn’t feel regret, ______taking pleasure in these feelings for a prolonged period of time is not healthy.
The _______and perhaps most difficult one of the advanced forgiveness of another.
At some time of our life, you may have been severely wronged or hurt by another person to such a degree that forgiveness seems ______ .
However, harboring anger and revenge fantasies only keeps you _____ in victimhood. Under such a circumstance, you should force yourself to see the bigger picture. By so doing, you will be able to_______the focus away from the anger and resentment.
It is only through forgiveness that you can erase wrongdoing and ______the memory. When you can ______release the situation, you may come to see it as a necessary part of your growth.
1.A. turn out B. turn up C. break up D. break out
2.A. important B. engaged C. failed D. successful
3.A. obviously B. necessarily C. continuously D. usually
4.A. success B. failure C. fault D. benefit
5.A. ability B. expectations C. belief D. experiences
6.A. mistakes B. victories C. experiments D. fantasies
7.A. Still B. Therefore C. Instead D. However
8.A. absurd B. original C. emotional D. unusual
9.A. ordinary B. advanced C. alternative D. certain
10.A. wisdom B. mercy C. injury D. shame
11.A. thought B. approach C. behavior D. purpose
12.A. punishing B. forgiving C. blaming D. praising
13.A. mean B. prove C. reflect D. represent
14.A. and B. or C. but D. so
15.A. uncertain B. premier C. next D. last
16.A. essential B. valuable C. impossible D. unavoidable
17.A. trapped B. located C. lost D. occupied
18.A. drive B. drag C. put D. shift
19.A. keep B. refresh C. weaken D. clean
20.A. naturally B. finally C. definitely D. initially
When you ask people how to make friends as an adult, they usually give you suggestions like, “just get out there,” “join a dance class,” or , “try speed dating.” 1..
After all, making friends does require us to get out into the world and take a few emotional risks. Most of the time, however, we are not lacking for ideas on where to meet people. 2.
For this reason, most people find that reconnecting with themselves is a first step towards reconnecting with others.
If you feel tired, out of shape, or sad, most of the time, making friends is going to be extremely difficult. 3.
Start small. Use the1-minute technique to gradually increase your commitment to exercise. Get out into nature. Set a timer to remind yourself to get up every hour to stretch. Try gentle yoga.
While you build up your body, don’t forget to nourish your mind. Write down one thing every day that you are grateful for. 4.
Learn to become your own best friend.
5.Instead of relying on our social circumstances to bring people into our lives, we need to change ourselves first and then invite people into our lives.
A. On the surface, these are fine suggestions.
B. Spend a few minutes every day in reflection.
C. It will be even more difficult when you are an adult.
D. We only need to know how to start a conversation with strangers.
E. We are missing the motivation and self-confidence to get started.
F. Making friends as an adult is possible, but it requires a new approach.
G. Fortunately there are plenty of simple things that you can do to increase your physical and emotional resources.
Not so long ago, most people didn’t know who Shelly Ann Francis Pryce was going to become. She was just an average high school athlete. There was every indication that she was just another Jamaican teenager without much of a future. However, one person wants to change this. Stephen Francis observed then eighteen-year-old Shelly Ann as a track meet and was convinced that he had seen the beginning of true greatness. Her time were not exactly impressive, but even so, he seemed there was something trying to get out, something the other coaches had overlooked when they had assessed her and found her lacking. He decided to offer Shelly Ann a place in his very strict training seasons. Their cooperation quickly produced results, and a few year later at Jamaica’s Olympic games in early 2008, Shelly Ann, who at that time only ranked number 70 in the world, beat Jamaica’s unchallenged queen of the sprint(短跑).
“Where did she come from?” asked an astonished sprinting world, before concluding that she must be one of those one-hit wonders that spring up from time to time, only to disappear again without signs. But Shelly Ann was to prove that she was anything but a one-hit wonder. At the Beijing Olympic she swept away any doubts about her ability to perform consistently by becoming the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 meters Olympic gold. She did it again one year on at the World Championship in Briton, becoming world champion with a time of 10.73—the fourth record ever.
Shelly-Ann is a little woman with a big smile. She has a mental toughness that did not come about by chance. Her journey to becoming the fastest woman on earth has been anything but smooth and effortless. She grew up in one of Jamaica’s toughest inner-city communities known as Waterhouse, where she lived in a one-room apartment, sleeping four in a bed with her mother and two brothers. Waterhouse, one of the poorest communities in Jamaica, is a really violent and overpopulated place. Several of Shelly-Ann’s friends and family were caught up in the killings; one of her cousins was shot dead only a few streets away from where she lived. Sometimes her family didn’t have enough to eat. She ran at the school championships barefooted because she couldn’t afford shoes. Her mother Maxime, one of a family of fourteen, had been an athlete herself as a young girl but, like so many other girls in Waterhouse, had to stop after she had her first baby. Maxime’s early entry into the adult world with its responsibilities gave her the determination to ensure that her kids would not end up in Waterhouse’s roundabout of poverty. One of the first things Maxime used to do with Shelly-Ann was taking her to the track, and she was ready to sacrifice everything.
It didn’t take long for Shelly-Ann to realize that sports could be her way out of Waterhouse. On a summer evening in Beijing in 2008, all those long, hard hours of work and commitment finally bore fruit. The barefoot kid who just a few years previously had been living in poverty, surrounded by criminals and violence, had written a new chapter in the history of sports.
But Shelly-Ann’s victory was far greater than that. The night she won Olympic gold in Beijing, the routine murders in Waterhouse and the drug wars in the neighboring streets stopped. The dark cloud above one of the world’s toughest criminal neighborhoods simply disappeared for a few days. “I have so much fire burning for my country,” Shelly said. She plans to start a foundation for homeless children and wants to build a community centre in Waterhouse. She hopes to inspire the Jamaicans to lay down their weapons. She intends to fight to make it a woman’s as well as a man’s world.
As Muhammad Ali puts it, “Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them. A desire, a dream, a vision.” One of the things Shelly-Ann can be proud of is her understanding of this truth.
1.Why did Stephen Francis decide to coach Shelly-Ann?
A. He had a strong desire to free her family from trouble.
B. She suffered a lot of defeats at the previous track meets.
C. She had big problems maintaining her performance.
D. He sensed a great potential in her despite her weaknesses.
2.What did the sprinting world think of Shelly-Ann before the 2008 Olympic Games?
A. Her sprinting career would not last long.
B. She badly needed to set higher goals.
C. She would become a promising star.
D. Her talent for sprinting was known to all.
3.What made Maxime decide to train her daughter on the track?
A. Her wish to get Shelly-Ann out of poverty.
B. Her early entrance into the sprinting world.
C. Her success and lessons in her career.
D. Her interest in Shelly-Ann’s quick profit.
4.By mentioning Muhammad Ali’s words, the author intends to tell us that ________.
A. players should be highly inspired by coaches
B. motivation allows great athletes to be on the top
C. hard work is necessary in one’s achievements
D. great athletes need to concentrate on patience
5.What is the best title for the passage?
A. The Key to High Performance
B. The Dream for Championship
C. The Making of a Great Athlete
D. The Power of Full Responsibility
In the depths of the French Guianese rainforest, there still remain unusual groups of indigenous(土著的)people. Surprisingly, these people live largely by their own laws and their own social customs. And yet, people in this area are in fact French citizens because it has been a colony of the French Republic since 1946. In theory, they should live by the French law. However, their remote locations mean that the French law is often ignored or unknown, thus making them into an interesting area of “lawlessness” in the world.
The lives of these people have finally been recorded thanks to the effects of a Frenchman form Paris called Gin. Gin spent five months in early 2015 exploring the most remote corners of this area, which sits on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, with half its population of only 250,000 living in its capital, Cayenne.
“I have a special love for the French Guianese people. I have worked there on and off for almost ten years,” says Gin. “I’ve been able to keep firm friendships with them. Thus I have been allowed to gain access to their living environment. I don’t see it as a lawless land. But rather I see it as an area of freedom.”
“I wanted to show the audience a photographic record touching upon the uncivilized life,” continues Gin. “I prefer to work in black and white, which allows me to show different specific worlds more clearly.”
His black-and-white pictures present a world almost lost in time. These pictures show people seemingly pushed into a world that they were unprepared for. These local citizens now have to balance their traditional self-supporting hunting lifestyle with the lifestyle offered by the modern French Republic, which brings with it not only necessary state welfare, but also alcoholism, betrayal and even suicide.
1.Why does the author feel surprised about the indigenous people in French Guiana?
A. They are separated from the modern world.
B. They often ignore the Guianese law.
C. They seldom follow the French law.
D. They are both Guianese and French citizens.
2.Gin introduced the special world of the indigenous Guianese as _________.
A. a tour guide B. a photographer
C. a film director D. a geographer
3.What is Gin’s attitude towards the lives of the indigenous Guianese?
A. Cautious. B. Appreciative.
C. Uninterested. D. Doubtful.
4.What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refer to?
A. The uncivilized world. B. The self-supporting hunting.
C. The modern French lifestyle. D. The French Republic.
