As Victor Hugo once said, "Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face", and up to now nobody has been able to do this better than Charlie Chaplin. He brightened the lives of Americans and British through two world wars and the hard years in between. He made people laugh at a time 1., so they could feel more content with their lives.
Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed and produced the films he starred in. In 1972 he was given a special Oscar for his outstanding work in films. He lived in England and the USA but spent his last years in Switzerland, where he was buried in 1977. He is loved and remembered as a great actor who could 2. .
Which theme park would you like to visit? There are 3. theme parks, with a different park for almost everything: food, culture, science, cartoons, movies or history. Some parks are famous for having the biggest or longest roller coasters, others for 4. and sounds of a culture. 5. , there is a theme park for you!
1.An artist i_（受启发）by the scene painted this beautiful picture.
2.Jane Goodall devoted most of her time to o_ the behaviors of chimps.
3.It is no use a_with others about this issue, since everyone holds different opinions.
4.Our factory is e _ with modern machines, thus increasing the production a lot.
5.It began as just an_（平常的）Monday, but soon became a day I would never forget.
6.They _（拥抱）each other when they met at the airport.
7.The machine will not f_ properly if it is not kept well-oiled.
8.Please accept the present as a_（纪念品）for our friendship.
9.The boy _（摇摆）his arms as he walked.
10.The children got _（晒伤的）from a day on the beach.
A new football competition，Man V Fat，has been organize recently in England．1. (judge) from the name, it is easy to guess that players can only join if they are fat. They can only win when they score or lose 2.(pound) after each game．So，the aim of this competition is 3.(get) overweight men to do regular exercise．
Jay Ali，a bank manager，4.(find) it a brilliant idea．He said，“I don’t want to go to weight loss classes in 5.almost all participants are women．And I don’t want to play football with my friends who are all 6. (fat)than me，so this gives me the perfect opportunity to exercise with guys who are the same7. me．Here，no one judges me，so I don’t have to get8.(embarrass)”．Mr Shanahan from Staffordshire shared the same opinion，“I took part in the competition after getting fed up with weight loss classes which were 9.(main) filled with women．”
10. seems that this football competition has offered overweight men an effective way to lose weight．
Children with learning disabilities (LD) often have problems. For many, strong ____ of anger, shame, sadness, or disappointment can ____ psychological difficulties such as anxiety, depression or low self-esteem.
These problems can be far more than the ____ challenges themselves.
Several heading experts in the field of LD have offered suggestions on ways to help ____ children from these problems.
To be most effective in supporting ____ , it can help to understand some primary ____ for the psychological and emotional challenges they may face.
First, it is not difficult to see ____ children with LD are at greater risk for developing psychological difficulties if one considers the repeated failure they ____ . Although they make efforts to “try harder,” children with LD may receive little ____ feedback（反馈）. Their academic struggles and failures are often met with ___ by teachers, peers and parents. Such disapproval can take the form of unpleasant labeling（标签）of a child ___ “slow,” “lazy” or “dumb.” ____ developing a sense of pride in their accomplishments, children with LD may ____ in disappointment and shame. Low self-esteem and a lack of confidence only ____ prevent learning and academic success.
The second reason is the ____ difficulties they often experience. Research indicates that as many as 75% of kids with LD have such ____ as making and keeping friends. Children with LD are less ___ and often rejected by their peers. Teachers and other adults also may _____ to have negative views of them.
Such social rejection can result in _____ of self-esteem and feelings of loneliness, which, ____ , may lead to psychological difficulties such as anxiety and depression.
1.A. feelings B. opinions C. ideas D. attitudes
2.A. get B. cause C. solve D. overcome
3.A. physical B. mental C. potential D. academic
4.A. preview B. protect C. remove D. separate
5.A. children B. experts C. teachers D. parents
6.A. rules B. ways C. reasons D. directions
7.A. why B. where C. which D. when
8.A. experience B. practise C. possess D. find
9.A. timely B. hopeful C. subjective D. positive
10.A. courage B. sympathy C. disapproval D. respect
11.A. for B. as C. with D. to
12.A. In favor of B. Instead of C. Because of D. In terms of
13.A. work out B. turn away C. break off D. end up
14.A. further B. hardly C. even D. slightly
15.A. social B. general C. personal D. cultural
16.A. mistakes B. values C. chances D. difficulties
17.A. controlled B. requested C. submitted D. accepted
18.A. tend B. mean C. prefer D. pretend
19.A. need B. pride C. loss D. awareness
20.A. in general B. in particular C. in total D. in turn
Third-Culture Kids
Did you grow up in one culture, your parents came from another, and you are now living in a totally different country? If so, then you are a third-culture kid!
The term “third-culture kid” (or TCK) was coined in the 1960s by Dr. Ruth. She first came across this phenomenon when she researched North American children living in India. Caught between two cultures, they form their very own. 1. About 90 percent of them have a university degree, while 40 percent pursue a postgraduate or doctor degree. They usually benefit from their intercultural experience, which helps them to grow into successful academics and professionals.
2. In fact many hardships may arise from this phenomenon. A third-culture kid may not be able to adapt themselves completely to their new surroundings as expected. Instead, they may always remain an outsider in different host cultures. Max, for example, experienced this fundamental feeling of strangeness throughout his life as a third-culture kid. 3. While this can be a way to create a network of friends all around the world, it can be difficult for a third-culture kid like Max to maintain close friendships and relationships.
For a third-culture kid, it is often easier to move to a new foreign country than to return to their “home” country. After living in Australia and South Korea for many years, Louis finally returned to Turkey as a teenager. But she felt out of place when she returned to the country where she was born. 4. She did not share the same values as her friends’ even years after going back home.
While a third-culture kid must let go of their identity as foreigner when he/she returns, the home country can prove to be more foreign than anything he/she came across before. The peer group they face does not match the idealized image children have of “home”.5.
As a part of the growing “culture”, TCKs may find it a great challenge for them to feel at home in many places.
A. Yet being a third-culture kid is not always easy.
B. In general, they often reach excellent academic results.
C. This often makes it hard for them to form their own identity.
D. However, their parents can help them see the opportunities of a mobile lifestyle.
E. Their experience abroad helps them to gain a better understanding of cultural differences.
F. Unlike other teens of her age, she didn’t know anything about current TV shows or fashion trends.
G. Additionally, making new friends and saying goodbye to old ones will at some point become routine for a third-culture kid.
B
He is a lesson to every boy who ever picked up a basketball and dreamed that it would change his life.
The lights were never brighter and the crowds were never bigger for a homegrown sports hero than they were a quarter-century ago for Ray Hall. But his athletic achievements, as impressive as they are, are to my mind not what is most admirable about the man.
Known as “Sugar Ray” in his teens, Hall was rated among the country’s top 25 high school basketball players. An inner-city kid from a solid family, Hall took on the challenge of lifting Canisius College — still recovering from its failure — back to respectability, rejecting more favorable offers. His status of a savior (救世主) brought more pressure than any 18-year-old should have to handle. However, I watched him mature into the player who led Canisius back to daylight.
After college Hall played professionally in Italy and Greece for over 10 years until a car accident at 32 ended his basketball career. The news that he would never play again shocked Hall but unlike so many others he was ready for life after basketball. When I met Hall — still fit at 46 — for lunch Monday, he wore a cut-sharp gray suit, designer tie and blazing white shirt that screamed Success. “That was always the question — when the cheers end, where do you go? Who do you turn to?” he said. “It starts and ends with that person in the mirror.”
Hall got the concept of academics-first from his parents. He graduated from Canisius a semester early. “No matter how good of an athlete you are, you are just one injury away from losing it all,” he said. “But if you take care of things academically, you are prepared until you leave this earth.”
For the past 14 years, he has been in a computer sales job at Ingram Micro. He married his college sweetheart. They have three kids and a nice house in the suburbs. He figured out early what others learn too late: Athletics is part of a journey, not the destination.
Congratulations, Ray, you made it. In more ways than one.
1.Ray was regarded as a savior because ________.
A. he liked to take on challenges
B. he helped his team to regain its glory
C. he was faithful to his hometown city
D. he fought hard against failure at a young age
2.According to the writer, which of the following best describes Ray’s success?
A. Unlike other athletes, he was academically superior.
B. He defeated his injury and returned to the playground.
C. He enjoys a successful job and a happy family.
D. He has gained impressive athletic achievements.
3.What’s the right order of the events related to Ray?
a. He was rated among the best high school basketball players.
b. He was in a car accident.
c. He graduated from Canisius College.
d. He started his computer sales job.
e. He gave up his athletic career.
A. a, c, b, e, d B. a, c, e, b, d C. c, a, b, d, e D. c, a, e, b, d
4.We can learn from the passage that ________.
A. Ray was from an academic family
B. Ray was very mature in his teens
C. Ray was once desperate facing the cruel reality
D. athletics was not Ray’s final goal in life
5.What was the writer’s intention in writing this passage?
A. To describe the difficulties of being a professional athlete.
B. To explain the importance of choosing the right college.
C. To emphasize the need for a good education.
D. To warn against playing professional basketball.
