When I was in the 8th grade in Ohio，a girl named Helen in my class had a terrible accident. As she was _____ to the bus in order not to miss it，she slipped on some ice and fell under the back wheels of the bus. She _____ the accident，but was paralyzed(瘫痪)from the waist down. I went to see her，in my 13yearold _____ thinking she wouldn't live _____ from then on.
Over the years，I moved and didn't ______ much about Helen after that. Three years ago，in Florida，my oldest son was hit by a car while riding his bike，causing a terrible brain(脑)______.While I was looking after my son，a lady who said she was the hospital's social worker ______.It was a particularly annoying day. I _____ tears for no reason and hang up.
A short time later，a beautiful woman，in a wheelchair，_____ into my son's room with a box of tissues(纸巾)．After 16 years，I still recognized Helen. She smiled，handed me the tissues and ______ me. I told her who I was，and after we both got through the ______ of that，she began to tell me about her life since we last saw each other. She had married，had children and gotten her degree so that she could ______ the path for those who were less _33__ than her. She told me that if there was _34__ she could give me，it would be ______.
Looking at this wonderful，______ person，I felt small. But I also felt the first hope I had ______ since learning that my son was hurt. From this person that I thought would have ______ quality of life，I learned that ______ there is life，there is hope. My son luckily recovered and we moved back _____，but I owe Helen a debt that I can never repay.
1.A. getting B. going C. running D. walking
2.A. escaped B. survived C. hated D. met
3.A. heart B. head C. memory D. mind
4.A. normally B. surprisingly C. formally D. commonly
5.A. care B. talk C. think D. forget
6.A. damage B. loss C. influence D. injury
7.A. came B. called C. appeared D. spoke
8.A. brought into B. brought out C. burst into D. burst out
9.A. rolled B. looked C. ran D. climbed
10.A. comforted B. greeted C. pleased D. hugged
11.A. surprise B. shock C. sadness D. happiness
12.A. find B. clear C. create D. smooth
13.A. fortunate B. happy C. painless D. patient
14.A. something B. nothing C. anything D. everything
15.A. future B. hope C. experience D. expectation
16.A. easygoing B. friendly C. big D. giving
17.A. felt B. caught C. taken D. missed
18.A. little B. no C. much D. great
19.A. where B. once C. though D. because
20.A. east B. south C. north D. West
1..You probably think you will never be a top student, this is not necessarily so, however. Anyone can become a better student he or she wants to . Here’s how:
Plan your time carefully. When planning your week, you should make a list of things that you have to do. After making this list , you should make a plan of your time. First, your time for eating, sleeping, dressing, etc. Then decide a good, regular time for studying. 2.A weekly plan may not work out all your problems, but it will push you to realize what is happening to your time.
Find a good place to study. Look around the house for a good study place. Keep this space, which may be a desk or simply a corner of your room, free of everything but study materials. No game, radio, or television! When you sit down to study, concentrate on your subject.
Make good use of your time in class. 3.Really listening in class means less work later. Taking notes will help you remember what the teacher says.
Study regularly. When you get home from school, go over your notes. Review the important points that your teacher is going to discuss the next day, read that material.4. If you do these things regularly ,the material will become more meaningful, and you will remember it longer.
Develop a good attitude to tests. The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject. They help you remember your new knowledge. The world won’t end if you don’t pass a test, so don’t be over-worried.
5.You will probably find many others after you have tried these
A. Don’t forget to set aside enough time for entertainment.
B. Listen to everything the teacher says.
C. No one can become a top student unless he or she works hard..
D. Maybe you are an average student.
E. This will help you understand the next class.
F. Make full use of time to take notes of what the teacher says in class.
G. There are other methods that might help you with your studying
The common cold is the world's most widespread illness, which is a plague that man receives.
The most widespread mistake of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one. If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated Arctic regions, explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.
During the First World War, soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches, cold and wet, seldom caught colds.
In the Second World War, prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp, naked and starved, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds.
At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in a room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.
If then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in winter? Despite the most hard research, no one has yet found out the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and that makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.
No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain-killers such as aspirin, but all that they do is to relieve the symptoms.
1.The writer offered ___ examples to support his argument.
A. 4 B. 5
C. 6 D. 3
2.Arctic explorers may catch colds when___.
A. they are working in the isolated Arctic regions
B. they are writing reports in terribly cold weather
C. they are free from work in the isolated Arctic regions
D. they are coming into touch again with the outside world
3.Volunteers taking part in the experiments in the Common Cold Research Unit___.
A. suffered a lot B. never caught colds
C. often caught colds D. became very strong
4.The passage mainly discusses___.
A. the experiments on the common cold
B. the fallacy about the common cold
C. the reason and the way people catch colds
D. the continued spread of common colds
Dubai boasts(夸口) that it has just built a “new global landmark”---the Dubai Tower, which stands 512.1 meters high now and has just become the tallest building in the world.
The Dubai Tower now surpasses Taiwan’s Taipei 101, which is 508 meters tall, and has 141 storeys, more than any other building in the world.
The Dubai Tower, being built by South Korea’s Samsung Corporation and scheduled for completion next year, is one of a series of great projects taking shape in Dubai. The final projected height of the tower has remained a secret since the project was launched in January 2004; however, it is rumored that the tower will be more than 700 meters tall and have more than 160 storeys.
The Dubai Tower has become the tallest building in the world in just 1,276 days, leaving behind other tall buildings.
The Dubai Tower will house 30,000 apartments in addition to the world’s largest shopping mall. It is the centerpiece(重要工程) of the 20-billion-dollar venture. Another venture gradually emerging across the desert sands is Dubailand, a series of multi-billion-dollar projects claimed to be the Middle East’s very own Orlando. Dubai also paid 100 million dollars to buy the Queen Elizabeth II, one of the world’s superb cruise liners(游轮), which it plans to turn into a luxury floating hotel.
Faced with decreasing oil wealth, the Western-oriented emirate(酋长国) has raced to turn itself into a business and leisure hub and it aims to more than double the number of tourists to 15 million by 2015.
1.The underlined word “surpasses” in the second paragraph means____.
A. is equal to B. matches
C. is left behind by D. is higher than
2.Which building was the tallest in the world before the Dubai Tower began to be built?
A. Dubai land B. Orlando
C. Taiwan’s Taipei 101 D. The Twin Towers
3.Why has the Western-oriented emirate paid more attention to becoming a business and leisure center?
A. Because it wants to attract more tourists to its places of interest.
B. Because it produces less oil than ever.
C. Because it aims to race with other countries to show its wealth.
D. Because it wants to set a new world record.
4.Which of the following statements about the Dubai Tower is TRUE according the passage ?
A. The Dubai Tower is 508 meters tall and has more than 141 storeys.
B. The final height of the Dubai Tower is over 700 meters tall.
C. Samsung Corporation has completed building the Dubai Tower.
D. The Dubai Tower has apartments and a shopping mall.
That year , in the local school, there was a new math teacher, as well as some new pupils. One of the new kids was the stupidest child anyone had ever seen. It made no difference how quickly or how slowly they tried explaining numbers to him; he would always end up saying something enormously stupid. Like two plus two was five, seven times three was twenty-seven, or a triangle had thirty corners……
Before this boy arrived, math lessons had been the most boring of all. Now they were great fun. Encouraged by the new teacher, the children would listen to the pieces of nonsense spouted by the new kid, and they would have to correct his mistakes.
Whenever the new teacher asked questions, the stupid kid would stand up but made the wrong answers, the other students all wanted to be the first to find his mistakes, and then think up the most original ways to explain them. To do this they used all kinds of stuff : sweets, playing cards, oranges, paper planes, etc. It didn’t seem like any of this bothered the new kid.
However, Little Lewis was sure that it was bound to make him feel sad inside. Lewis was sure he would see him crying. So, one day, he decided to follow the new kid home after school. On leaving school, the new kid walked a few minutes to a local park, and there he waited for a while, until someone came along to meet him……
It was the new teacher!
The teacher gave the new kid a hug, and off they went, hand in hand. Following from a distance, Lewis could hear they were talking about math.
1.The math lessons became interesting again because of the new teacher’s ___________.
A. creativity B. imagination
C. responsibility D. curiosity
2.The passage implies that the stupidest child____________________________.
A. was in great need of math teacher’s help after class
B. knew much more about math than other classmates
C. had no much gift for math and was slow to learn it
D. disliked both the new math teacher and his lessons
3.According to the passage, Lewis followed the stupidest in order to ______________.
A. learn about where he lived B. find out if he felt upset
C. say something to comfort him D. make friends with him
4.What does the underlined word “this” in the third paragraph refer to ?
A. To find the stupidest kid’s mistakes.
B. To think up the most original ways to explain.
C. To use all kinds of stuff.
D. To follow him home after school.
“I never expected that I would be so busy. Why can’t there be 25 hours in a day?” complained Liu Ran in Hong Kong as mid-term exams were going on.
The 18-year-old was Shandong Province’s top scorer in this year’s college entrance examination. After graduating from Tai’an No.1 High School, she chose the Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学), although both Peking University and Tsinghua University promised her a place.
“I want to experience a more international school and social life in Hong Kong. I’m majoring in journalism, so Hong Kong will surely help widen my horizons,” Liu said.
It is two months since Liu first set foot on Hong Kong. She missed home a lot at the beginning, because of the food and language problems.
“The canteen offers mostly Western or Guangdong food, but it’s convenient to cook for ourselves in our dorm if we like. People speak Cantonese and almost all classes are in English,” Liu explained.
Her English and Cantonese are now both improving, but she still needs more time to adapt to the new environment.
“I’m happy that I made the right decision to study here. With a mix of the Eastern and Western cultures, there is so much to discover and learn,” she said.
Liu has 18 credit hours(学分) of classes every week and 23 non-credit hours every other week. She has signed up for four associations including the Chinese Language Debating Team and the drama club. Essays, book reports and presentations also take plenty of time to prepare. And , of course, there are various parties to attend.
“I wasn’t a party animal before, but that may be interesting part of college. I sense myself changing,” Liu said.
1.Liu Ran chose the Chinese University of Hong Kong, because___________.
A. she couldn’t be admitted to Peking University
B. Hong Kong is a good place
C. she wants to be far from her homeland
D. the Chinese University of Hong Kong can widen her horizons
2.According to the last paragraph, we can infer__________.
A. now Liu Ran is an animal
B. Liu Ran hates the busy life in the Chinese University of Hong Kong
C. Liu Ran likes the food there
D. the busy and full life makes Liu Ran feel good
3.Liu Ran had to overcome the difficulties in many aspects EXCEPT_______________.
A. food B. language
C. missing home D. no friends
