Sally jumped up as soon as she saw the doctor come out of the operating room. She ____ towards the doctor and asked, “How is my little boy?”
The doctor replied ____, “I’m sorry. We did all we could. Would you like some time with your son ____ he’s transported to the university?”
Sally nodded yes and asked the doctor to stay with her while she said ____ to her son. She ____ a lock of the boy’s hair and put it in a plastic bag. She said, “It was Jimmy’s ____ to donate (捐献) his body to the ____ for study. He said it might ____ somebody else.” She went on, “My Jimmy had a heart of gold. He always ____ to help others if he could.”
Sally walked out of the hospital and put the bag with Jimmy’s stuff (物品) in her car. The drive home was ____. It was even harder to ____ the empty house. She carried Jimmy’s stuff, and the ____ bag with the lock of his hair to his room. There she ____ a letter, which said:
Dear Mom,
I know you’re going to ____ me; but don t think that I will ever ____ you, or stop loving you, just because I’m not ____ to say I LOVE YOU. I will always love you, even more with each day. I don’t ____ if you want to adopt (收养) a little boy. He can have my room and old stuff to play with. But, if you decide to get a girl ____, she probably wouldn’t like the ____ things we boys do. You’ll have to buy her dolls and stuff girls ____, you know. Just take care of yourself.
Loving you,
Jimmy
1.A. walked B. ran C. jumped D. turned
2.A. nervously B. angrily C. worriedly D. sadly
3.A. after B. before C. unless D. if
4.A. goodbye B. hello C. thank-you D. sorry
5.A. touched B. tidied C. cut D. covered
6.A. idea B. effort C. duty D. purpose
7.A. hospital B. library C. university D. laboratory
8.A. encourage B. satisfy C. surprise D. help
9.A. agreed B. promised C. continued D. wanted
10.A. special B. difficult C. strange D. different
11.A. sell B. clean C. enter D. see
12.A. plastic B. golden C. big D. beautiful
13.A. wrote B. found C. printed D. copied
14.A. need B. support C. miss D. praise
15.A. hate B. lose C. beg D. forget
16.A. awake B. around C. fit D. happy
17.A. remember B. argue C. mind D. ask
18.A. instead B. again C. too D. only
19.A. real B. same C. exciting D. interesting
20.A. make B. try C. learn D. like
After Steve Jobs died, his friend Larry Ellison said something like this. “There will never be another Steve Jobs.” 1. Larry wrote this list of Steve’s life lessons to remind us all.
1. Love what you do.
Sure Steve became a billionaire when he brought Apple back. Apple was his calling --- even after he got fired from the company. We all have bad jobs at one point in our lives. But the question is: am I in the right job? Have I found the right company? Life doesn’t go on forever. 2.
2. Don’t do it all by yourself.
Steve learned a great leader can’t do it all by himself. He needs people. They must be talented. 3.They must be given the opportunity to succeed and fail. In short, we have to learn to be a great leader if we want to see our great ideas and hard work truly have an influence on the world.
3. 4.
Apple was always the best at creating a new product that meets the exact needs of users. It’s empathy (同理心) that helps Apple achieve this. Whenever the user has the first touch with a new Apple product, he says “Wow, it’s just what I need.” Remember: you’re King in the business world if you know exactly what consumers (消费者) desire.
4. Don’t mess around with your health.
5.That’s the most important lesson from Steve’s life. It’s great to learn from him but, the fact is that he should still be here if he had treated his cancer properly. Instead, Steve chose a naturopathic (自然疗法) solution that wasn’t effective. When he finally decided to take his doctor’s original advice, it was too late.
A. They must be inspired.
B. Be the best in your field.
C. Take your health seriously.
D. Get on our right path now.
E. Will this lead to a successful career?
F. Put yourself in the other person’s shoes.
G. What are the key things that we could learn from him?
After four silent years, the 27-year-old British singer Adele Adkins has finally introduced herself to the world again with Hello, the opening song from her third album (专辑) 25, which will come out on Nov. 20.
Although Adele is a very successful singer now, music wasn’t always what she saw herself doing. At age 10, when she saw her grandmother’s pain over the death of Adele’s grandfather, she pictured herself as a heart surgeon.
“I want to fix people’s hearts,” she told the UK music website i-D, remembering the childhood interest she’d had in biology classes until she found out that her real talent was for singing.
Adele didn’t go to medical school, but many would agree that she still has healing (治愈) powers. “Her songs find the kind of memory every listener holds somewhere in their hearts. This kind of feeling is what people have always liked in Adele,” said The Telegraph. “She writes a pop diary, sharing the simple secrets of her heart.”
Most successful pop stars make albums at a fast pace, but not Adele. After her second album 21 won the 2012 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, she made it clear with her label that she would spend “four or five years” making her next album. She told Vogue magazine, “I won’t come out with new music until it’s better than 21.”
Instead of seeking fame, Adele remained silent and moved to the countryside. In her free time, she loved to watch TV series Teen Mom, American Horror Story, and The Waling Dead.
Living life as normally as possible is important to the singer’s art. “Nobody wants to listen to a record from someone who’s not living in the real world,” Adele told i-D, “So I live a low-key life for my fans.”
1.What does the text mainly tell us?
A. The popularity of Adele’s album 25.
B. The healing powers of Adele’s music.
C. The secrets of Adele’s success in music.
D. The reason for Adele’s becoming a singer.
2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Adele wasn’t interested in music.
B. Adele wasn’t good at music at first.
C. Music wasn’t very important in Adele’s life.
D. Music wasn’t all Adele wanted to be devoted to.
3.Why doesn’t Adele want to make albums at a fast pace?
A. To live a low-key life.
B. To win the Grammy Award.
C. To make sure the quality of her music.
D. To share the secrets of her heart as a musician.
4.What can we know about Adele?
A. Her album Hello will come out on Nov. 20.
B. She has kept a diary since childhood.
C. She moved to the countryside before 2012.
D. Her works are based on real life.
If you read and listen to one article every day, your reading and listening skills can improve fast. You can learn quickly and after some time you will not have to translate it into your own language. You will simply understand. Why should you do this?
When you listen to your native language, you do not translate. You simply understand. The same has to be in English. When you learn English, you have to learn the whole sentences in the context (语境).
Students, who translate English texts, do exercises and do tests, are very good at translating, doing exercises and doing tests, but they have problems with understanding English in real life. In real life, nobody waits for your translation. People usually use simple English when they speak but they speak it fast. You have to understand with no translation into your native language. If you translate, you cannot be part of communication because you are thinking about the language too much.
You also have to hear every new word 5 to 10 times if you want to remember it. That’s why we use the same words at one level. If you read and hear the same words again and again, you will understand them and remember them. If you know words from one level perfectly well, you can go to a higher level and learn new words. It is important to go step by step, and read and listen to words which are used in English often.
We are trying to do everything possible to help you learn English fast and understand it. That’s why we prepare easy English news for you. If you can use this website every day, you can learn 5,000 words which you need for communication with anybody. Now click the OK button to start.
1.When we read or listen to English, we usually ________.
A. have a lot of difficulties B. only remember new words
C. change it into our own language D. learn some useful sentences in the context
2.Translating, doing exercises and tests ________.
A. can help us make greater progress
B. can help us speak fast in English
C. can help us learn English quickly
D. can’t help us improve our English understanding fast
3.It can be learned from the passage that ________.
A. translation is necessary when we learn English
B. words must be repeated many times before we can remember them
C. different levels of English news use the same words
D. listening is the most important part in learning English
4.What is the purpose of easy English news?
A. To help us learn English fast.
B. To help us learn about the world.
C. To teach us how to pass the tests.
D. To help us learn how to communicate.
Our lifestyles today are very busy. We have family, school, sports, entertainment and social activities to fit into a time that seems never enough. We need to be healthy to meet the demands of daily life. But what does it mean to have a healthy lifestyle?
To have a healthy lifestyle, we need to:
♦ eat different kinds of healthy food most of the time
♦ do exercise often
♦ have time to relax
♦ get enough sleep to give our bodies time to grow healthy and strong
Read about a normal day in the lives of two children.
Abbey gets up at 7:00 am, feeds the dog, and has cereal and a glass of juice for breakfast. She walks to school with her friend, Julia. She has a bag of chips for a morning snack, drinks water, and has a chicken and lettuce sandwich with a banana for lunch. She likes to play soccer with her friends at lunch and morning break time. She walks home with Julia, has some crackers with cheese and juice for afternoon snack and plays with the dog for a while. She plays computer games for an hour or two before dinner, then has a shower and does her homework. She watches her favorite television show for an hour, then usually goes to bed at about 9:30 pm.
Carl gets up at 8:30 am and has two pieces of bread with jam and a glass of milk for breakfast. His mother drives him to school on her way to work. He eats cookies with juice for morning snack and a pot pie ordered from the school lunch room with juice for lunch. He likes to play card games with his friends at lunchtime and climb the fixed equipment at morning break time. He catches the bus home, has a cereal bar and a can of soda for afternoon snack, then watches some television. He has a shower before dinner, then plays the computer for an hour or two. He goes to bed at about 10:30 pm.
1.About a healthy lifestyle, the writer doesn’t talk about ________.
A. diet B. exercise
C. relaxation D. medicine
2.What can we learn from the article?
A. Carl goes to school by bus every day.
B. Abbey does her homework first after school.
C. Abbey plays soccer with her friends at school.
D. Carl has juice for breakfast.
3.Where is the article probably from?
A. A health magazine. B. A clothing website.
C. A sports guidebook. D. A travel advertisement.
Teachers’ Day is, interestingly, not celebrated on the same day all over the world. In some countries it is marked by a holiday; in others it is a working day.
International Teachers’ Day is celebrated on October 5. Being held ever since 1994, it is in honor of teachers’ organizations worldwide. Its aim is to encourage supports for teachers and to meet the needs of students.
China --- In 1939, Teachers’ Day was set for August 27, Confucius’ birthday. In 1951, the celebration was stopped. However, it was founded again in 1985, and the day was changed to September 10.
India --- Teachers’ Day is celebrated on September 5 in honor of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the second president of India, whose birthday falls on that day.
Russia — In Russia, Teachers’ Day was celebrated on the first Sunday of October between 1965 and 1994. Since 1994, the day is observed on October 5, just the same day as World Teachers’ Day.
The US - In the US, Teachers’ Day is non-official holiday. It is celebrated on the Tuesday of the first full week of May. A number of activities are organized in schools to honor teachers. The celebrations can continue for the whole week of May.
Thailand --- In Thailand, National Teachers’ Day is celebrated every year on January 16. The first Teachers’ Day was held in 1957. The day is a holiday in schools.
1.Which country celebrates Teachers’ Day in October?
A. India B. The US.
C. China D. Russia
2.Which of the following has the same meaning as the underlined word “observed”?
A. stopped B. celebrated
C. held D. fell
3.Which of the following is true?
A. China has celebrated Teachers’ Day since the year 1931.
B. Teachers’ Day is an official holiday in the United States.
C. Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s birthday is in September.
D. Teachers’ Day is a working day in schools of Thailand.
4.From the passage we can learn that ________.
A. The first Teachers’ Day was held in 1965 in Thailand
B. Teachers’ Day falls on Confucius’ birthday in China
C. International Teachers’ Day aims to attract supports for teachers and benefit students
D. A lot of activities are held on Teachers’ Day across the world
