I recently came in contact with celebrity magazines. My family isn’t one to give money for pictures of skinny, drunk celebrities with paragraphs about their relationships and shopping cart times. Thus, I was excited to finally get a chance to read about other people’s attractive yet troubled lives.
Right away I noticed how each magazine seemed to be a copy of the other. They had headlines and pictures that were almost the same. Still, the pictures of perfectly constructed faces with cute designers outfits going on with their daily lives made me read on..
Wait, celebrities taking their dogs for walk? Spending an afternoon at a park? All of these things seemed so ordinary---things my own family and I do together often. I suddenly realized how unextraordinary the people in these magazines were. They are simply normal people who happen to have a cool job and much money. For some reason, pictures of them doing things like buying milk at the store appeal to millions of readers. Then, when these regular people mess up, their mistakes is painted onto hundreds of newspapers and internet sites.
What if every time we made a mistake, it was made public? Have you ever failed a test? Imagine seeing pictures of you on the front of a newspaper with headlines like, “Regular Schooling Isn’t Enough”. You’d be embarrassed. Now, I’m not necessarily taking the celebrity’s side. I’m more realizing the fact that these people we were crazy about are just ordinary human beings with many photographs following them around. Role models? I’d think not. Personally, I’d rather look up to people in any community who have accomplished a lot instead of an ordinary person walking his dog in Berverly Hills.
1.What do we know about the author’s family?
A. They admire celebrities very much.
B. They often buy celebrity magazines.
C. They are not interested in celebrities.
D. They are curious about the life of celebrities.
2.What does the author think of celebrities?
A. They live happy life.
B. They seldom do usual things.
C. They deserve people’s admiration.
D. They are just ordinary people like us.
3.Who is most likely to be the author’s role model?
A. Celebrities who live ordinary live.
B. Common people who do great things.
C. Extraordinary people who accomplish a lot.
D. People who make great contributions to communities.
4.What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?
A. To describe the actual life of celebrities.
B. To ask us to be realistic about other’s mistakes.
C. To show people’s different attitudes towards celebrities.
D. To advise us to have a right attitude towards celebrities.
Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28,1926. Since Lee’s mother was mentally ill, she was raised by her father. She became very close to her father.
The naughty Lee loved reading, and would make up stories with Truman, her neighbour who was two years older than her. Seeing her daughter’s imagination, Lee’s father gave her a typewriter.
Before her final year in the university of Alabama, Lee dropped out to become a writer. She moved to New York City where her childhood friend Truman was already established as a famous writer. While there, she worked on her first book---To Kill a Mockingbird. It won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was made into an Academy Award winning movie the following year.To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of six-year-old Scout and her brother who lived in the town of Maycomb Alabama with their single father Attics. Attics is a lawyer who defends the blacks . At a young age, Scout is exposed to the terrors of segregation(宗族隔离)。Then, in 2014, the first draft of a new book---Go Set a Watchman was discovered among Lee’s papers. It is the story of 26-year-old Scout who returns to Maycomb to visit her father. She is shocked to find her father a changed man. Attics has turned into a segregationists! The story shows the mixed feelings Scout has for the changes that have taken place in her hometown and father.
A loner for most of her life, Lee stayed unmarried, preferring to lead a small town life. On February 19,2015, Lee passed away at the age of 89.
1.What can we learn about Lee?
A. She became a professional writer at college.
B. She developed a gift for writing in childhood.
C. She was persuaded to become a writer by Truman
D. She got interested in writing after getting a typewriter.
2.What did the characters Lee described show?
A. Her love for writing stories.
B. The effect of having an ill mother
C. Her experience of living in a small town
D. Her childhood relationship with her father
3.What happened to Scout’s father in Go Set a Watchman?
A. He had complex feelings towards the black.
B. He struggled for the equal right of the black
C. He supported segregating the blacks and the whites.
D. He failed to get used to the changes of his hometown
4.What can we infer about Lee?
A. She has no taste for social life.
B. She write only a book in her life.
C. She feels lonely for most of her life.
D. She enjoys the fame for her successful book.
There is an old saying----“The only good snake is a dead snake“ I disagree .I know some people like their smooth pets，but I hate them. I shake from head to foot even whenＩ see them on TV
One day I stepped over one in my front yard,, and I probably set a record for the fastest runner and the loudest screamer in my town. And I almost had a heart attack when I walked through my house that night after I saw the snake. For that my husband received a serious warning about leaving his belt on the floor. So you can imagine my response when I saw the news about the lost 8-foot long cobra of a zoo in the Orlando area where I had lived a few weeks ago and it still frightened me . After days of search, they gave up. Then a few days ago, I read about its return. A young lady went out to the car in her garage. There she heard hissing coming from under the car. She immediately called the officers at Animal Control. You guessed it. An 8--foot king cobra was hanging out under the car. It was frightening.
We might not have a king cobra hanging out around us, but maybe a snake is hiding around to see how it can damage us. We need to keep our guard up. I think if the young lady had kept her garage door shut, the king cobra might not have made it to the garage.
1.What almost caused the author to get a heart attack?
A. Seeing a snake on TV
B. Seeing her husband’s belt on the floor.
C. Stepping over a snake in her front yard.
D. Reading the news about the lost king cobra.
2.What happened to that 8--foot king cobra?
A. It was killed by the young lady.
B. It was sent back to the wild.
C. It ran away from the garage.
D. It was returned to the zoo.
3.In the last paragraph, the author mainly suggests that we_____.
A. kill all snakes.
B. watch out for snakes.
C. know where snakes are.
D. always keep our doors shut
假定你是美国留学生李华，最近在当地报纸上看到一则游泳培训班的广告，称其有资历丰富的教练，一周包会。你会一点游泳，想在暑假参加训练提升技巧。请你写信了解相关情况，要点如下：
1.训练的具体时间和地点；
2.条件和费用；
3.其他特别注意事项。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have read your advertisement in the newspaper, which is really appealing to me.
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Yours faithfully,
Li Hua
1.Math is on the school c________ for both arts and science students.
2.I'm not sure. That is m________ a guess of mine.
3.She bought a new car and r________ it in her name.
4.The small case is h_________ for use when traveling.
5.It was in the school that we learned the truth that air is a m________ for sound.
6.We cannot g_________ the punctual arrivals of trains in foggy weather.
7.Her face was r________ with terror as she saw a snake lying on the ground.
8.He is such a fantastic driving i________ that it is easy for his students to get a driver's license.
9.The plane is carrying twenty passengers and five ________ (机组人员).
10.I have been ________ (通信) with several experts in the field.
11.The house was reported to be ________(蓄意地) set fire to.
12.This dictionary is available in ________(电子) version.
13.Police believe they have found out the man responsible for a series of car ________ (偷窃).
14.That they used special chemicals to ________(加速) the growth of crops is proved to be illegal.
15.He made that mistake ________(无意地). Don’ t be angry with him.
16.As the wages were low, there were no ________(申请人) for the job.
It was a dreadfully cold and cloudy afternoon. I was on the bus with my children, aged four and two, 1.(head) home when it started to rain. I realized this would mean a wet walk home 2. the bus stop.
3. my house was only two blocks away, it was not a pleasant walk with one small boy asleep in the pram (手推婴儿车), the other one in a raincoat and no umbrella for myself. A pick-up truck passed us on the road. I tried to thumb a ride but failed. My little boy woke up with a start and began to cry. I 4.(convince) that things might become worse and nobody would bother to help on such a terrible day. A few minutes later, 5.truck drove by, but to my surprise, I saw it pulling back and the driver looking directly at us. A young man put the window down. “Hey, here’s an umbrella for you, please take 6..” He called out. I stood there7.(astonish), barely believing that the man 8. existence was unknown to me only moments ago, could be so 9.(consider). “Come on, give this to your mummy,” he said to my older son. I accepted the offer and expressed my gratitude to him.
This man might have needed the umbrella for himself later during the day but preferred to give it to me. It was a lesson to me 10. it’s possible to give without expecting anything in return.
