Endurance (耐力) cyclist Mark Beaumont has announced plans to go around the world in 80 days on his bike, which would break the present record. To be successful, Beaumont will have to complete the 18,000 mile route in less than half the time he took when he set the record nine years ago. He will also have to knock about 40 days off the present world record.
Beaumont, 34, will begin his difficult journey on 2 July and will have to travel 240 miles a day to get around the world on time. Beaumont set the world record in 2008, completing his cycle around the globe in 194 days.
As a warm-up to the trip, he will first cycle around the coastline of Britain. The 3,500-mile, 15-day training ride will be at “80 days” pace and will see Beaumont cycle for 16 hours and 240 miles per day.
The cyclist said his average day would see him on the bike at 4:00 and riding for four sets of four hours with half-hour breaks in between. “I’ll get off the bike at 9:30 at night, get some sleep until the alarm goes off at 3:30 and then get back on the bike.”
He said: “I cycled around the world nine years ago but that was unsupported, wild man-style, trying to find clean water and a place to sleep. This time it is Tour De France-style. I have a support team behind me and it is just about performance. That makes a huge difference.”
Beaumont said he thought cycling round the world “sounds like a good idea”. He said he had cycled across Scotland as a 12-year-old boy and had been doing endurance rides for the past 20 years. “I know what I’m taking on,” he said. “It scares me, but I believe this is possible.”
1. What’s the present around-the-world-cycling record?| A．About 40 days. | B．80 days. |
| C．About 120 days. | D．194 days. |
| A．He will take part in a 15-day training first. |
| B．He cycles16 hours and 240 miles per day. |
| C．He starts cycling at 3:30 am every day. |
| D．He will have two breaks during the cycling every day. |
| A．Beaumont has a support team |
| B．it will probably cost less money |
| C．Beaumont needn’t find places to sleep |
| D．the cycling equipment is more advanced |
| A．Excited. | B．Scared. |
| C．Confident. | D．Uncertain. |
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【推荐1】On the website of the EU Prize for Women Innovators, there are dozens of inspiring stories of female leaders alongside pictures of these professional-looking women wearing single color business suits. But when we move the page down a little further, Ailbhe and Izzy’s pictures pop off the page, with their eye-catching colors and bright rainbow patterns, which is entirely in line with their company belief “If you can’t stand up, stand out.” The fashionable sisters took the world by storm with their personalized wheelchair decorations.
Ailbhe, now 25, was four years old when she became a big sister to Izzy. Although Izzy was born disabled and couldn’t move from the waist down, her courage and energy deeply impressed Ailbhe and the two sisters developed a lifelong friendship. They spent hours as children decorating Izzy’s wheelchairs and her other mobility devices. So when Ailbhe graduated from the National College of Art and had to complete a final year project, she knew what to choose-dress up a wheelchair’s wheels! Ailbhe said, “The wheelchair itself didn’t show Izzy’s attitudes to life, or her energetic personality. It was ugly and made you lose confidence. I thought there might be a way of bridging that gap.”
Ailbhe’s project was extremely well received at her school’s design show. Izzy loved the new wheels as well. A state organization helped the sisters work with fashion designers and get their business to take off. The next step for the sisters was partnering with big companies which were interested in representing people with disabilities. They turned to Disney. After all, this cooperation would involve one of their favorite activities-watching Disney movies! Besides, Disney was willing to donate 10% of profits to a charity that helps disabled children. In addition, the company promised to realize the dreams of children with disabilities.
The sisters are excited for their creativity to make life in a wheelchair more fashionable, fun and personalized.
1. What helped the sisters win the EU prize?| A．The fashionable company. | B．The eye-catching pictures. |
| C．Their colorful business suits. | D．Their decorated wheelchairs. |
| A．Her duty to be an elder sister. |
| B．Her desire to show a real Izzy. |
| C．Her pity for Izzy’s disability. |
| D．Her admiration for great women. |
| A．To earn money. | B．To make movies. |
| C．To help disabled kids. | D．To become designers. |
| A．Nothing can prevent a determined heart. |
| B．Creativity makes the disabled stand out. |
| C．Every advantage has its disadvantage. |
| D．Technology brings people together. |
【推荐2】In 2015, Chennai was destroyed by one of the worst floods in over a century, leaving thousands without food, water and supplies. During the flood, many heroes arose, one of whom was Santosh, a young man who owned a take-out restaurant in Chennai.
When the first flood hit in November, he got a call from a company called Naga Rava. The company asked him to prepare 5,000 packets of food and give them to the flood victims. He, with his partners, took the order, cooked for 14 hours and delivered(递送) them. But that night, as they sat together discussing the event of the day, they actually felt ashamed(羞愧). “Here was a man not even from Chennai and he was going out of his way to help the affected people. We, while living here, had not really done anything ourselves for our own people,” said Santosh later.
He then began the groundwork for a collection to help cook more dishes. Little did he know that the November flood was just the beginning, and the real show was about to begin. The December flood affected them all. His own house got flooded and his family was trapped on the second floor. They lost phone connection and electricity. In spite of this, Santosh went back out into the flood, creating a kitchen and preparing food all by himself for the victims.
He did not sleep for four days, taking a one-hour break every day as he kept on cooking. As word got out about this man’s effort, others stepped out to join him. From children to the elderly, strangers came to help him in cooking, packing and transporting food. Up to 300 volunteers worked together to make it all happen. By the time the fourth day finally came to an end, Santosh and his team had prepared 170,000 food boxes and delivered them to people in need.
1. What inspired Santosh to help the affected people?| A．A call for help. | B．His cooking skills. |
| C．An act of kindness of a stranger. | D．The encouragement from his partners. |
| A．The help and support. | B．The severer flood. |
| C．Santosh’s family suffering. | D．Santosh’s cooking more food. |
| A．Energetic and helpful. | B．Determined and clever. |
| C．Selfless and caring. | D．Kind and wise. |
| A．Many Hands Make Light Work |
| B．Kindness Is Its Own Reward |
| C．Major Floods Brought Challenges To People |
| D．A Man Cooked 170,000 Meals For The Affected |
【推荐3】Gone are the days when you and your best friend shared everything about your life. Whether you’re at fault or she is, mending a broken friendship is far from easy. If the relationship means a lot and you aren’t willing to simply throw it away, fixing it is possible. That’s what I have learned in the past months.
When I first moved to Florida, I felt so out of place. I had come from a small town and was so unsure of myself. Luckily, my husband and I moved into a friendly neighbourhood, and things became better.
For many years, my neighbour across the street and I shared happy times. But then a misunderstanding occurred, and she quit speaking to me. I tried many times to speak to her about the issue and tell her how sorry I was that I had let her down. But she refused to take my phone calls and avoided me when I was outside.
During our conflict, my husband and I put our house up for sale. We weren’t leaving the neighbourhood because of a feeling of hurt; we were having twins and needed more room for our growing family.
Months later, I moved away without talking to her and putting an end to our misunderstanding. It always made me sad when I thought of how poorly it had ended. For many times I wished we had renewed our friendship. I just hated the feelings left from our unsolved conflict. It was like a scab(痂) that kept reopening and worsening with pain and upset.
About eight months after we moved, I decided to take a drive back into the old neighbourhood. As I drove down my street, I saw my former neighbour washing her car in her front yard. I knew that I needed to stop and greet her. I opened the car door and got out. To my surprise, she came up and gave me a big hug. We both apologized for our actions, and I felt that I finally achieved closure. I was able to say I was sorry and have it accepted.
1. What does the underlined phrase “out of place” in Paragraph 2 mean?| A．Excited. | B．Uncomfortable. |
| C．Amazed. | D．Disappointed. |
| A．She had a violent quarrel with her neighbour. |
| B．The whole neighbourhood hurt her family badly. |
| C．Her husband insisted that they should move away. |
| D．The house didn’t have enough space for their family. |
| A．regretted not resolving the misunderstanding before moving |
| B．felt mad at her neighbour when she moved away |
| C．didn’t know how to get along with her neighbour |
| D．found peace whenever she recalled the memory |
| A．Mending a Friendship |
| B．Saying Goodbye to a Friend |
| C．Argument with a Beloved Neighbour |
| D．A Friendship with an Unexpected Ending |
【推荐1】In the Commonwealth Games England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have separate Olympics teams, unlike the Olympics where they compete together as Britain.
What are the Commonwealth Games?
The Commonwealth Games are held every four years between members of the Commonwealth of Nations—a group of independent countries, most of which used to be part of the Britain. The Games were first held in 1930 in Hamilton, Canada. The event was named the Commonwealth Games in 1978.
The history of the Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games have been held every four years since they started and have grown much bigger. At the first Commonwealth Games, only 11 nations and 400 athletes were involved in six sports. For a long time, the Games only included individual sports such as athletics, boxing and swimming. In 1998, team sports such as cricket, hockey and netball were introduced. The Commonwealth Games have featured many fantastic feats and the athletes have broken a wide range of records.
Paralympic progress
At the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games, Canadian athlete Chantal Petitclerc became the first athlete with a disability to win a gold medal in the wheelchair 800-meter race. She said, “It meant so much to me that the Commonwealth Games decided that a performance is a performance-and it doesn’t matter if you accomplish it in a wheelchair. Paralympic athletes continue to take part in the Commonwealth Cames’ main sports programs, and many have broken records and made history.
1. Which countries take part in the Commonwealth Games?| A．Independent countries. | B．Members of the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| C．The former members of the Britain. | D．All the countries from around the world. |
| A．11. | B．4. | C．6. | D．400. |
| A．To make historic records. | B．To enjoy sports programs with other athletes. |
| C．To show their disabilities. | D．To prove themselves with good performance. |
【推荐2】Recent studies suggest that people who suffer multiple brain injuries are at significant risk for developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disorder that causes a variety of dangerous mental and emotional problems to arise weeks, months, or even years after the initial injury. These psychological problems can include depression, anxiety, memory loss, inability to concentrate and so on. The majority of people who develop these issues are athletes who participate in popular high-impact sports, especially football.
Although new sports regulations and improvements in helmet technology can help protect players, amateur leagues, the sports media, and fans all bear some of the responsibility for reducing brain injuries. In response to the growing understanding of this danger, the National Football League (NFL) has revised its safety regulations. In an effort to diminish the amount of head and neck injuries on the field. NFL officials began enforcing stricter penalty calls for helmet-to-helmet contact, leading with the head, and hitting a defenseless player. Furthermore, as of 2010, if a player’s helmet is accidentally wrenched from his head during play, the ball is immediately whistled dead. It is hoped that these new regulations, coupled with advances in helmet design, will reduce the number of brain injuries, and thus curb further cases of CTE.
However, new regulations at the professional level cannot protect amateur players, especially young people. Deadly cases of CTE have been reported in victims as young as 21. Youth, high school and college leagues should also adopt safety rules even stricter than those of the NFL. Furthermore, young athletes should be educated about the serious dangers of head injuries at an early age. Perhaps the most important factor in reducing the number of brain injuries, however, lies not with the players,the coaches, or the administrators, but with the media and fans. Sports media producers have become accustomed to showcasing the most aggressive tackles and the most intense plays. NFL broadcasts often replay especially violent collisions while the commentators marvel at the players physical prowess. Some sports highlights television programs even feature weekly countdowns of the “hardest hits”. When the media exalts such dangerous behavior, professionals are rewarded for injuring each other on the field and amateurs become more likely to try to imitate their favorite NFL athletes. Announcers, commentators, television producers, and sportswriters should engage in a collective effort to cease glorifying brutal plays. In turn, fans should stop expecting their favorite players to put their lives on the line for the purposes of entertainment.
1. Based on information in the passage, it can be inferred that all of the following statements are true except that____________.| A．brain injuries can lead to various mental and emotional problems |
| B．NFL officials have done little to address the problem of CTE |
| C．it is not enough to adopt new regulations to reduce brain injuries at the professional level |
| D．sports media is to blame for encouraging brutal plays that often result in brain injuries |
| A．inconsistent application of safety regulations for all levels. |
| B．lack of education about the dangers of head injuries. |
| C．amateur players’ desire to imitate professionals. |
| D．the adoption of stricter safety rules by youth, high school, and college leagues. |
| A．praises |
| B．criticizes |
| C．shows |
| D．mentions |
| A．share his knowledge about CET caused by brain injuries |
| B．warn his readers against playing football to avoid brain injuries |
| C．call public attention to the new regulations adopted by NFL |
| D．convey his ideas about the problem of CET |
【推荐3】The Winter Olympics is also called the White Olympics. At this time, many colorful stamps are published to mark the great Games. The first stamps marking the opening came out on January 25, 1932 in the United States for the 3rd White Olympics. From then on, publishing stamps during the White Olympics became a rule. During the 4th Winter Olympic Games a group of stamps were published in Germany in November 1936. The five rings of Olympics were drawn on the front of the sportswear. It was the first time that the rings appeared on the stamps of the White Olympics. In the 1950’s, the stamps of this kind became more colorful.
When the White Olympics came, the host countries (东道国) as well as the non-host countries published stamps to mark those Games. China also published four stamps in February 1980, when the Chinese sports men began to take part in the White Olympics. Japan is the only Asian country that has ever held the White Olympics. Altogether 14,500 million stamps were sold to raise money for this sports meet. Different kinds of sports were drawn on these small stamps. People can enjoy the beauty of the wonderful movements of some sportsmen.
1. The White Olympics and the Winter Olympics _______.| A．are the same thing | B．are different games |
| C．are not held in winter | D．are held in summer |
| A．after the year 1936 | B．after the 3rd White Olympics |
| C．before the 3rd White Olympics | D．before the year 1932 |
| A．every two years | B．every three years |
| C．every four years | D．every five years |
| A．Only the host countries can publish stamps to mark those Games. |
| B．Only the non-host countries can publish stamps to mark those Games. |
| C．All the countries can publish stamps to mark those Games. |
| D．Japan can’t publish stamps to mark those Games. |
| A．Basketball. | B．Table tennis. | C．Football. | D．Skating. |
【推荐1】I have been drawing for as long as I can remember. When I was a little girl, my parents were very busy. In order to entertain myself. I found pens and paper and started drawing.
At that time, I thought of drawing just as a hobby. When I was tired of doing homework, I wanted to do something creative. One day, it hit me. How nice would it be if I could do something I love for a living? I did research on the best art schools around the world. One of my friends studied art in the USA. She advised me to go to Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
Luckily, I was accepted into RISD. At first, I felt a little down. I didn’t have my own style. I tried many different things. Finally, Chris Baselli, one of my teachers helped me find it.
Now, I’ve been working as a full-time illustrator (插图画家) for ten years. I’ve drawn for newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times and The New Yorker. I often get letters from readers. They love my style.
I’m still in the early part of my career (职业). The biggest fear that I have is losing the excitement. I hope that will never happen so that I can keep creating wonderful artworks in the long period.
1. The writer started to draw in order to ______.| A．make money | B．entertain herself |
| C．help her parents | D．help her mother |
| A．she helped her find a good job |
| B．she helped her find her own drawing style |
| C．she got her interested I being an illustrator. |
| D．she helped her make money |
| A．She is worried, she will lose her job. |
| B．She reads newspapers and magazines every day. |
| C．She feels she still has a long way to go in her career. |
| D．She reads book every day. |
【推荐2】Growing up, Steph Clemence didn’t live in any one place for long because her mother was always on the move. By the time she was a senior in high school, Steph had lived in 25 places. Still, she had good grades and thought she would be going to college. But when her father died in a car accident, leaving her mother to support three daughters, paying for college was out of the question.
Steph found a job and tried to work out what to do with a life that had deviated(偏离) from the plan she’d carefully laid out.
The answer came one afternoon when she was cleaning her drawer (抽屉) and found a handout titled “Mrs. Clark’s Book List.” It was from the English teacher she’d had in her junior year at McKenzie High School in Vida, Oregon. One afternoon, Mrs. Clark walked into the classroom carrying a pile (摞) of handouts. She asked each student to take one. It could be a road map, she said. “Some of you mightn’t go on to higher education,” Mrs. Clark said, “but you can continue to learn.” She’d spent months creating a list of 153 books from the United States and abroad.
Steph studied the list. And so it began. “I was hopeful and decided to improve myself,” Steph says. “I would read every book in the order they appeared.”
Over the years, the reading list was a constant (不变的事物) in her life, traveling with her even on vacations. When the original (原先的) list wore out, she typed up a new copy. And then another.
Now Steph is 70, and she never did get to college. But she has only four books left to read from the list. She expects to finish them sometime in 2023. “Each of the books has added something to who I am and how I see the world,” she says. “They’ve opened so many doors for me about the environment, history, etc. I’m no expert, but I now have the background to see why things happened and what they might mean.”
1. What did Steph dream of doing as a senior in high school?| A．Going to college. |
| B．Landing a good job. |
| C．Making a lot of money. |
| D．Traveling around the world. |
| A．She loved reading so much. |
| B．She had almost forgotten her goal. |
| C．She had been living a meaningless life. |
| D．She could continue to learn even without school. |
| A．She has made it to college. |
| B．She hopes to write her own books. |
| C．She has almost read all the books on the list. |
| D．She plans to create a new reading list for herself. |
| A．It has made a difference to her. |
| B．It allows her to become an expert. |
| C．It is a habit everyone should develop. |
| D．It has become the main part of her life. |
【推荐3】Born and raised in Michigan, I knew the move to Phoenix would bring profound changes to my life. Accustomed to a lifetime in a state with a beautiful landscape, I wondered about the life I’d find in the desert southwest.
The first weekend after my arrival, my new relatives hosted a “welcome to the family” party for me. Standing in the backyard, amazed by the “dry heat” in August, I watched in frozen fascination as a flying creature came from nowhere and buzzed my head!
I swatted (拍打) at it so hard that I spun myself around, lost balance and fell onto the lawn—in front of my new family! My husband ran over to me and as he helped me get up, asked what had happened. “The biggest bee I ever saw just dive-bombed my head, so I tried to swat him away!” He broke out in laughter and pointed to the hummingbird feeder. “You mean that? Just then, I realized that swatting at a hummingbird taught me a profound lesson.
In our lives, many times good things come to us in unexpected ways. Pleasant surprises, happy coincidences and even “dumb luck” impact our well being. Often, we don’t even know the gifts exist, much less do we hold any expectation of receiving them, and consequently we travel through life unprepared to receive the good that comes into our lives “out of the blue”.
The hummingbird symbolizes something new and beautiful entering into our lives. Our first reaction may be to push it away, denying a gift from Spirit in whatever form it takes because we can’t accept something we’ve never experienced before.
When I grew to appreciate the desert with beautiful flowers fully open, I realized the tiny bird’s contribution to the delicate balance of the life cycle. Only then did I understand how essential its role is in the desert natural habitat.
When we can figure out what the new good means to us, then we can appreciate the gift and include it in our daily enjoyment. Adding positive elements to our world excludes nothing, but rather makes the flight around the sun much more enjoyable!
1. Why did the family hold a party for the author?| A．It was her first time to leave Michigan. |
| B．It was her first time to see hummingbirds. |
| C．She could enjoy her first weekend. |
| D．She was a new member of the family. |
| A．new good things that seem dangerous |
| B．unfamiliar things in a new environment |
| C．new good things that are unexpected |
| D．small things that contribute much to our lives |
| A．Plants. | B．Bees. |
| C．A family party. | D．New things. |
| A．To show her new life in Phoenix. |
| B．To introduce hummingbirds. |
| C．To share a life lesson. |
| D．To talk about her past mistake. |
【推荐1】The Dragon Boat Festival is the holiday the honours the tragic death of Qu Yuan, who died in 278 BC. In the Warring States period, Qu Yuan was a poet and statesman. He was the number one advisor of the Chu State. But people were jealous of his position and said lots of bad words behind his back. The king wouldn't take his advice in the end and was captured by the enemy of the neighbouring kingdom and finally died there. However, the new king continued to enjoy the luxury life and didn't like Qu Yuan, either. He ordered Qu Yuan to leave his homeland. Later, when Qu Yuan heard the news that Qin had defeated the Chu State, he was very sad and threw himself into the Miluo River at last.
The legend goes that many people tried to rescue their honoured statesman by chasing him down the river, beating drums to scare away the fish and throwing rice dumplings into the river so that the fish would not eat his body. The dragon boat race is one of the customs, which symbolises citizens of the Chu State who raced down the river to save Qu Yuan then.
Also,there are many other customs like eating rice dumplings(zongzi), hanging icons of Zhong Kui (amythic guardian figure), hanging mugworts (艾草)and calamus (菖蒲) and wearing perfumed medicine bags.
All of these customs were regarded by the ancient people as an effective way of preventing diseases and evils, promoting good health and well-being.
The Dragon Boat Festival is a public holiday observed widely in China, And now this festival has gone global. The international dragon boat races are held all over Asia and the United States. In the US,they can be found in Boston, New York, etc.
1. Why did Qu Yuan throw himself into the Miluo River?| A．He fell into the river accidentally. |
| B．The old king wouldn't take his advice. |
| C．The old king was caught during fighting. |
| D．He was not favoured by the new king and his country was defeated later. |
| A．The dragon boat race represents people who tried to save Qu Yuan. |
| B．The dragon boat race was an act of opposing the new king. |
| C．The dragon boat race is really dangerous. |
| D．The dragon boat race is only held in China. |
| A．To share his experience in the Dragon Boat Festival. |
| B．To tell us the story of Qu Yuan. |
| C．To introduce dragon boat races to us. |
| D．To introduce the Dragon Boat Festival to us. |
【推荐2】At Englands University of Plymouth, Professor Eduardo Miranda has been programming pairs of robots to compose music. Miranda's robots have simple “ vocal cords”(声带)and are programmed to sing and to listen to each other. The robots' unique warbling sounds (颤音) do not perfectly match the human voice, but each machine is exactly sharing music with the other in a new and unique way.
Each robot is equipped with speakers, software that mimics the human voice, a mouth that opens as it “sings,” a microphone for ears, and a camera for eyes. The robots also move. Miranda hopes that by studying his robot vocalists, he can discover something about how and why humans create, perform, and listen to music.
When the robots sing, first one robot makes six random sounds. Its partner responds with more sounds. The first robot analyzes the sounds to see if their sequences (序列)) are similar. If they are, it nods its head and commits the sounds to memory, and the second robot notices and “memorizes” the musical sequence, too. If the first robot thinks the sounds are too different, it shakes its head and both robots ignore the sounds. Then the process continues.
Miranda set up an experiment in which he left the two robots alone in his study for two weeks. When he returned, his little warblers had, by imitating each other, not only shared notes but combined them. The product of their cooperation was far from symphonic, but the robots had begun to combine the notes into their own self-developed “songs”.
With the help of his warbling robots, one of Miranda's goals is to create music that no human would ever compose. Miranda believes the robots are ideal for this purpose because they would not be influenced by any existing musical styles or rules.
1. Which is closest in meaning to the underlined word “mimics” in Paragraph 2?| A．Substitutes. | B．Interrupts. |
| C．Controls. | D．Copies. |
| A．They interacted with each other. |
| B．They ignored the unique sound. |
| C．They learned to sing better than humans. |
| D．They committed random sounds to memory. |
| A．Sing as well as humans do. | B．Create new styles of music. |
| C．Memorize a variety of music. | D．Promote traditional musical forms. |
| A．Future robots. | B．Special songs. |
| C．Music by robots. | D．Experiments by Miranda. |
【推荐3】What are some of your favourite memories of the University?
In preparation for each 50th reunion, members of the milestone class are asked to recall campus memories for an annual Memory Book.
Here's a small selection of some memories from the Class of 1969.
Phyllis Jo Baunach
“...I cannot forget the endless hours studying, researching, and learning in the middle of the musty books in the stacks. We did everything by hand! But the joys of ideas coming to life and understanding thorny concepts are priceless.
Additionally, I cannot forget the joyful hours of Co-Kast rehearsals for student-written-and- directed plays, and the thrill of audiences’ responses to our efforts. Nor will I ever forget taking voice lessons at the Eastman School of Music. This course gave me confidence to try new musical approaches and to think on my feet.”
Paul Boehm
“... many sweet and lasting memories—five feet of deep snow, getting stranded on the Thruway, music at Hylie Morris's Alley, and, of course, I met my wife of 48 years, Ellen Blazer Boehm from the Class of 1972, when she was a freshman and I was a senior. As a five-year chemical engineering major, I had one elective to spare, and Ellen said, “How about oceanography?” So, I enrolled in oceanography with Dr. Taro Takahashi（the famous climate scientist）, which awakened my environmental justices, and changed my professional direction.”
Farel Vella McClure
“...I truly loved my four undergraduate years at the University of Rochester. In fact, I loved it so much that I stayed an extra year to get a master's degree! I was very fortunate to have been totally immersed in student life on campus. My memories include campaigning and winning a seat on the student government during my freshman year. Other memories include the Susan B. Anthony banquet, and sleeping in the comfy chairs in the library. I was also privileged to be selected as a student representative on the design team for the new Wilson Commons. I. M. Pei, the famous architect who designed the Louvre Pyramid, was the architect for Wilson Commons. We even visited his offices in New York to see the “master” at work.”
1. According to the passage, Paul Boehm ______.| A．married Ellen Blazer in 1972 |
| B．disliked his major in university |
| C．became a famous climate scientist later |
| D．discovered his interest in environmental science |
| A．She was a world-famous designer. |
| B．She was active in school activities. |
| C．She had a hard time getting her master's. |
| D．She once met I. M. Pei at the Louvre Pyramid. |
| A．their beloved professors | B．their great friendship |
| C．their learning experiences | D．their beautiful campus |
