When I ( Country singer Clint Black ) was 14, I was hired for an after-school job selling subscriptions to my hometown paper, the Houston Post. I was sent to some of the city's worst neighborhoods to ask door-to-door. Even though I was often struggling around after dark in bad areas searching for some place for the night, I was thankful for the work.
It was a hard job because people didn't like a stranger knocking on their door, especially a boy trying to get them to buy something. One time, a man shut his door heavily in my face and shouted, "I don't want any paper." I forced myself to knock again and was able to tell him how great the paper was. I ended up selling him a subscription. I was soon among the top sellers and, like other successful salesmen, was asked to train newcomers.
Around this time I started playing some musical instruments. Before long I was playing in a band at some and other events. When I turned 18, I fixed my attention on becoming a professional musician. I never give up this dream. I'm sure my perseverance came from what I learned knocking on strangers' doors.
That experience helped me in many ways. Early in my music job I was locked in a lawful quarrel with a former manager. He forced me to give in, but I refused.
Having all those doors closed in my face as a boy gave me the strength to stand up to this frightening person. Except this time there was one difference: I was the one saying no. And I won.
1. Which of the following statements is untrue according to paragraph 1 ?| A．He sold subscriptions in his spare time. |
| B．The places he went to was not good. |
| C．He found it hard to look for a place for the night. |
| D．He was not satisfied with the work. |
| A．he began to do the job much earlier than newcomers. |
| B．he had been asking door to door. |
| C．he was refused many times. |
| D．he was one of the best sellers. |
| A．devote his life to music. |
| B．knock on strangers’ doors. |
| C．play some musical instruments very well. |
| D．be the head of a famous band. |
| A．Because he thought he was stronger than the manager. |
| B．Because he used to knock strangers’ doors. |
| C．Because he became brave while working. |
| D．Because the manager was much older than he. |
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【推荐1】I was in the garden with Augie, my grandson, watching the bees. ''How do they make honey? '' Augie asked. ''Actually, Augie, I don't know, '' I replied. ''But, Grandma, you have your phone, '' he said. For Augie, holding a smartphone almost means knowing everything.
During my childhood I was crazy about books. Over time, reading hijacked my brain, as large areas once processing the real world adapted to processing the printed word. As far as I can tell, this early immersion (沉浸) didn't prevent my development.
Many parents worry that ''screen time'' will damage children’s development, but recent research suggests that most of the common fears about children and screens are unfounded. There is one exception: looking at screens before bed really disturbs sleep, in people of all ages. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) used to recommend strict restrictions on screen exposure. Last year, the organization examined the relevant science more thoroughly and changed its recommendations. The new guidelines stress that what matters is what children watch and with whom.
New tools have always led to panic guesses. The novel, the telephone, and the television were all declared to be the End of Civilization, particularly in the hands of the young. Part of the reason may be that adult brains require a lot of focus and effort to learn something new, while children's brains are designed to master new environments naturally. New technologies always seem disturbing to the adults attempting to master them, while attractive to those children like Augie.
When Augie's father got home, Augie rushed to meet him and said in excitement. ''Daddy, Daddy, look, '' he said, reaching for my phone. ''Do you know how bees make honey? I'll show you…''
1. Which of the following can best replace the underlined word ''hijacked'' in Paragraph 2?| A．occupied. | B．damaged. |
| C．improved. | D．relaxed. |
| A．The harm to children. | B．The content and context. |
| C．Children's sleep. | D．People's fears. |
| A．Opposed. | B．Doubtful. |
| C．Disappointed. | D．Favorable. |
【推荐2】My son was entering Grade 1. He was a bit nervous because he knew his best friend would not be in his new class. I explained to him that even though his best friend would not be in his class, he would still have some of his old classmates.
On the first day of school when the class list was posted, I was shocked! My son had zero former classmates in his class. None. Not one.
How could this happen?
I asked my friend who works with the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board. She explained , “Many largely populated schools often shuffle(重组) the kids around each year to encourage new friendships.”
If schools are actively trying to place two best friends in different classes simply to shake things up, I think it is a blunder.
I was lucky enough to attend the same primary school all the way through. It was a small class and our group of students moved through each grade together. We felt like brothers and sisters. It was wonderful.
While it may be good to shake things up a bit in the older grades, it seems almost cruel (残忍的) to separate good friends in the younger grades without good cause.
One mom named Karen says that her son is always starting a new grade without any close friends. At first , she thought it was a good idea. Then she realized one thing-her son does not have a “best friend ”, which makes her pretty worried. In fact, she thinks that he does not have any close friends because his classmates are always changing.
Part of a school’s responsibility is to provide a safe and comfortable space for children to learn and grow. If that environment is always changing-causing terrible results- perhaps it is time to rethink this practice.
1. The story in the first two paragraphs is used to ________.| A．offer some reasons | B．introduce the topic |
| C．show the author’s feelings | D．set an example |
| A．Mistake. | B．Reason. |
| C．Advance. | D．Improvement. |
| A．To prove that smaller classes are better. |
| B．To discuss the importance of good friends. |
| C．To explain how friendships are developed at school. |
| D．To show the advantage of having old classmates. |
| A．Objective | B．Surprised | C．Positive | D．Doubtful |
Recently, CCTV journalists have approached pedestrians with their cameras, held a microphone to their mouth and asked a simple question: “Are you happy?”
The question has caught many interviewees off guard. Even Mo Yan, who recently won a Nobel Prize, responded by saying: “I don’t know”.
While the question has become a buzz phrase and the Internet plays host to heated discussions, we ask: What exactly is happiness? And how do you measure it?
In the 1776 US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson set in writing the people’s unalienable right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. Last year, 235 years on, China’s Premier Wen Jiabao told the nation: “Everything we do is aimed at letting people live more happily.” At last year’s National People’s Congress, officials agreed that increasing happiness would be a top target for the 12th five-year plan.
US psychologist Ed Diener, author of Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth, describes happiness as “a combination of life satisfaction and having more positive than negative emotions”, according to US broadcasting network PBS. This may sound straightforward enough, but it still doesn’t explain what determines people’s happiness.
Many argue that happiness is elusive and that there is no single source. It also means different things to different people. For some, happiness can be as simple as having enough cash.
Researchers believe happiness can be separated into two types: daily experiences of hedonic(享乐的) well-being; and evaluative well-being, the way people think about their lives as a whole. The former refers to the quality of living, whereas the latter is about overall happiness, including life goals and achievements. Happiness can cross both dimensions.
Li Jun, a psychologist and mental therapy practitioner at a Beijing clinic, says: “Happiness can mean both the most basic human satisfaction or the highest level of spiritual pursuit. It’s a simple yet profound topic.”
Chen Shangyuan, 21, a junior English major at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, said his idea of happiness always evolves. “At present it relates to how productive I am in a day,” he said. “It might be linked to job security or leisure time after I graduate.”
Then there is the question of measuring happiness. Does it depend on how many friends we have, or whether we own the latest smart phone? Is it even quantifiable?
Economists are trying to measure happiness in people’s lives. Since 1972, Bhutan’s GDP measurement has been replaced by a Gross National Happiness index. It is calculated according to the peoples’ sense of being well-governed, their relationship with the environment, their satisfaction with economic development, and their sense of national belonging.
In 2009, US economist Joseph Stiglitz proposed “to shift emphasis from measuring economic production to measuring people’s well-being”. But is well-being more easily measured?
1. In the second paragraph, the writer gave an example to .
| A．support his idea that being famous is the reason to be happy |
| B．introduce his topic to be discussed |
| C．tell people winning a Nobel Prize is a great honour |
| D．show that the question was quite difficult |
| A．people’s happiness is determined by great people |
| B．people’s happiness is an important target for the development of a country |
| C．people in all countries have the right to ask the government for a happy life |
| D．People both in China and America are living a happy life |
| A．CCTV journalists are concerned about people’s happiness out of sympathy. |
| B．the question has led to heated discussions about who are the happiest people in China |
| C．Bhutan’s new index shows that people there are the happiest in the world |
| D．it is not easy for us to decide what determines people’s happiness |
| A．Available. |
| B．Easy to get |
| C．Hard to describe. |
| D．Unimaginable. |
| A．Are You Happy? |
| B．The Measurement of Happiness |
| C．GDP and Happiness |
| D．The Secret of Happiness |
“Someone once asked me, ‘What’s the tool you would want to give any student’? And I said, ‘A mask and snorkel (潜水通气管) set,’’’ the ocean biologist Thys says in a video. And Thys explains, “Ninety-eight percent of the living space on this planet is the ocean. It’s worth a view.”
Thys has devoted her career to seeing the ocean, and to helping others watch the great diversity of the underwater world. A big part of what motivates her work is the chance to let people develop a sense of respect for the grandness of the ocean, and to get people to participate in efforts to protect endangered ocean ecosystems.
Since studying ocean biology, Thys has focused her research on how sea animals live. One animal she particularly studies is the ocean sunfish. “It’s so different from any other fish,” says Thys. “It looks like a mistake. Where does the tail go?” Thys adds. “The sunfish provides an entry point to understanding more about the behavior of creatures in the ocean, and about how environmental changes impact underwater ecosystems.”
Thys’s work also takes her above ground, where she’s looking at ways to create new connections between human populations and natural environments to help address social and environmental challenges. For instance, she’s working on nature’s effects on mental well-being.
Thys’s passion for her work is evident in every lecture, video, and public appearance she makes. Using the media, Thys encourages people to learn about the ocean and love it. Due to many ocean research projects and activities from the media, Thys is up to her neck in work every day. She could hardly spare plenty of time for a good rest. Thys’s devotion to her work as an ocean scientist and ecological warrior is infectious. She’s a role model and an inspiring guide to ocean life.
1. Why would Thys like to send students a mask and snorkel set? (no more than 8 words)2. What greatly motivates Thys’s work according to Paragraph 2? (no more than 10 words)
3. What does Thys think of the ocean sunfish? (no more than 10 words)
4. What does the underlined part in the last paragraph mean? (no more than 5 words)
5. What’s your attitude towards Thys and her work? (no more than 20 words)
【推荐2】To find an entrance to the deserted plant without being noticed, George Wilson sneaked around the fence, a bag on his back and his hands in his pockets.
However, George thought twice when a guard dog appeared. “I’m not afraid of the gatekeeper—at least I can try to persuade him. But a dog? Forget it. I’ll find another way. "While planning his special visit to the plant, the 25-year-old did some research, but still failed to locate the entrance.
George is among the thousands who are crazy about “taking adventures”, which they call urban exploration, or “urbex”. The aim is to explore structures—usually abandoned ruins or “hidden parts of the man-made environments”.
One of the most common examples of urban exploration is venturing(冒险) into abandoned structures, which usually include amusement parks, factories, power plants, missile silos, fallout shelters, hospitals, asylums, schools and houses.
Urban explorers are interested in visiting such sites, as they can discover “other parts of a city” and get to understand its history from a different angle.
George, who worked for a German company in New York for six months, said he enjoyed the contrast between the city’s two sides—modern and crowded, compared with old-fashioned and silent—and wanted to learn more about the city during his short stay.
George said that he was able to finally sneak in through another entrance, yet he was still asked to leave by a gatekeeper shortly after. But he then managed to get into a newly built residential block, climbed to the top and took a picture of the factory ruins at sunset.
“I will come back another day,” he said.
1. What made George fail to enter the entrance first?| A．The gatekeeper. | B．The fence. | C．The bag. | D．The dog. |
| A．He is frightened of nothing. |
| B．He loves exploring natural environment. |
| C．He takes an interest in old buildings. |
| D．He enters a place easily every time. |
| A．Because they can know the history of the city. |
| B．Because they can visit different kinds of places. |
| C．Because they can move from one country to another. |
| D．Because they can do all the researches. |
| A．how to explore an abandoned plant. |
| B．a kind of adventurer—urban explorers. |
| C．Ye Tian’s love for abandoned structures. |
| D．how to explore a city’s history. |
A taxi driver taught me a million-dollar lesson in customer satisfaction and expectation. Motivational speakers charge thousands of dollars to give this kind of training to corporate executives (企业高管) and staff. It cost me a $12 taxi ride.
I had flown into Dallas for the only purpose of calling on a customer. Time was of the essence and my plan included a quick turnaround trip from and back to the airport. A spotless taxi pulled up.
The driver rushed to open the passenger door for me and made sure I was comfortably seated before he closed the door. As he got in the driver’s seat, he mentioned that the neatly folded “Wall Street Journal” next to me was for my use. He then showed me several tapes and asked me what type of music I would enjoy.
Well! I looked around for a “Candid Camera”! Wouldn’t you? I could not believe the service I was receiving! I took the opportunity to say, “Obviously you take great pride in your work. You must have a story to tell.”
“You bet,” he replied, “I used to be in Corporate America. But I got tired of thinking my best would never be good enough. I decided to find my niche in life where I could feel proud of being the best I could be. I knew I would never be a rocket scientist, but I love driving cars, being of service and feeling like I have done a full day’s work and done it well. So I became a taxi driver. One thing I know for sure, to be good in my business I could simply just meet the expectations of my passengers. But, to be GREAT in my business, I have to EXCEED the customer’s expectations! I like both the sound and the return of being ‘great’ better than just getting by on ‘average’”.
1. Why did the author fly to Dallas? (no more than 5 words)2. What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about? (no more than 10 words)
3. What does the underlined word in Paragraph 5 probably mean? (1 word)
4. According to the driver’s words in Paragraph 5, what made him become a taxi driver? (no more than 10 words)
5. What’s your dream job? And how would you do it to go from “GOOD” to “GREAT”? (no more than 20 words)
【推荐1】Navarre Scott Momaday became the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize after publishing his first novel, House Made of Dawn, in 1968.
Momaday didn’t feel that the recognition was as deserving as others thought. The Kiowa writer had always considered himself a poet above all else. “I don’t think of myself as a novelist,” he told the Los Angeles Times’s Edward Iwata. “I still feel poetry is the highest form of literature.” Many years after House Made of Dawn’s publication, he still saw its success as an accident.
Momaday died at age 89, and he left behind an astonishing literary achievement. His barrier-breaking novel paved the way for a new generation of Native American authors, including James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich and Joy Harjo. His distinctive style and vivid descriptions make the comparison to poetry appropriate. “That’s exactly what it was,” says Kevin Gover, a citizen of the Pawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. “It really reads like poetry. It is quite unique. I’ve seen very little that’s like it before or since.”
Momaday was born on February 27, 1934, in Lawton, Oklahoma. When he was a baby, the family relocated to a reservation in Arizona. They moved once again to Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico, when he was 12. Momaday has said that the main character of his first novel is a combination of the troubled individuals he knew as a child at Jemez Pueblo. After earning a master’s degree and PhD in English from Stanford University, Momaday taught at several institutions. He wrote House Made of Dawn in the mornings before class.
“House Made of Dawn was about what it means to be Native in contemporary circumstances,” says Gover, who remembers following the novel’s publication and rise to literary praise when he was a child. “Momaday was from my part of the country, down in southwest Oklahoma. I remember we were all amazed — not that we could appreciate when we were kids the quality of his work — but just the fact that somebody like us had produced something that was winning such praise.”
1. What did Momaday think of his winning the Pulitzer Prize?| A．It’s rewarding. | B．It’s honorable. |
| C．It’s unexpected. | D．It’s challenging. |
| A．To compare Momaday with them. |
| B．To emphasize Momaday’s influence on them. |
| C．To help readers understand Momaday’s book. |
| D．To tell Momaday’s writing style comes from them. |
| A．Lawton, Oklahoma. | B．Stanford University. |
| C．The reservation in Arizona. | D．Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico. |
| A．It’s hard for Native American authors to succeed. |
| B．Modern society favors the literary creation. |
| C．House Made of Dawn wasn’t a hit at first. |
| D．He has loved literature since childhood. |
【推荐2】What does the average 15-year-old do with her free time? Most teenagers are hanging out with friends, talking on their smart phones or playing games on their computer. But Swetha Prabakaran is different. She enjoys spending her time making the use of technology easier for all.
It’s called coding “Coding, in the most simplest terms, is just you tell a computer to do what you want. It’s just like telling a dog to sit. You’re telling a computer to do something and just like we write in English a ‘to do’ list or directions, you write a language for computers.”
Swetha Prabakaran loves to code and she likes the details of how to teach computers to make life easier for people.“I
focus on computer science, specifically in application development with phones and websites on computers, developing little games or applications that make other people’s lives easier.”
A junior at top-rated Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in Virginia, Swetha Prabakaran learned about coding while taking a computer programming class.“I really like computer science with which I can be really creative and have a lot of flexibility to do the things that I want to do with and build something new that can help people with what I created”
Swetha is the founder of Everybody Code Now! It works to empower the next generation of youth to become engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs. It works with students, currently in various states, to bring introductory computer science lessons and exposure to technology to students through their schools and partnerships with teachers.
Swetha is working on an app which will help other non-profit organizations.“So I’m working on a couple of apps right
now that might help local non-profit organizations reach more people or make it easier for people to find such non-profits through a websites or apps because everybody has a phone now and so we want to be able to make them these super tools that you can use for anything.”
Swetha says he finds teaching others to code satisfying. She says she will continue to encourage other girls to give coding a try and see the power coding gives you right at their fingertips.
1. How did the writer develop the second paragraph .| A．By comparing with English learning. | B．By giving a few examples. |
| C．By making some suggestions. | D．By giving a simple explanation. |
| A．Because it gave her freedom to create new things. |
| B．Because she could pay computer games freely. |
| C．Because it made her free to do anything at class. |
| D．Because she enjoyed learning science a lot. |
| A．To encourage teachers to teach with technology. |
| B．To encourage teens for science careers in the future. |
| C．To inspire teens’ interest in school lesso |
| D．To introduce computer science lessons to everyone. |
| A．Girls are good at coding actually. |
| B．Swetha had a gift for coding. |
| C．Swetha was content at her teaching. |
| D．Everyone has the power to code. |
| A．Coding is a Mixture of Power and Talent. |
| B．Girls Can Get Confidence from Coding. |
| C．Everybody Cody Now is Growing Worldwide. |
| D．Teen CEO Says Everyone Should Code. |
【推荐3】At eleven, I decided to learn to swim. There was a pool at the Y.M.C.A. offering exactly the opportunity. Mother continually warned against it, and kept fresh in my mind the details of each drowning in the river. But the Y.M.C.A. pool was safe.
I had a childhood fear of water. This started when I was three years old and father took me to the beach. The huge waves knocked me down and swept over me.
The pool was quiet. I was afraid of going in all alone, so I sat on the side of the pool to wait for others. Then came a big boy. He yelled, “Hi, Skinny! How’d you like to be ducked?” With that he picked me up and threw me into the deep end. I landed in a sitting position, and swallowed water. But I was not frightened out of my wits — when my feet hit the bottom, I would make a big jump, come out of the surface. It seemed a long way down. I gathered all my strength when I landed and made what I thought was a great spring upwards. Then I opened my eyes and saw nothing but water. I tried to yell but no sound came out. I went down, down, endlessly.
When I came to consciousness, I found myself lying on the bed in the hospital. I never went back to the pool. I avoided water whenever I could. This misadventure stayed with me as the years rolled by. It deprived me of the joy of boating and swimming. Finally, I decided to get an instructor. Piece by piece, he built a swimmer. Several months later, the instructor was finished, but I was not. Sometimes terror would return.
This went on until July. I swam across the Lake Wentworth. Only once did the terror return. When I was in the middle of the lake, I put my face under and saw nothing but bottomless water. I laughed and said, “Well, Mr. Terror, what do you think you can do to me?” I had conquered my fear of water.
1. The author’s original fear of water was caused by ___________.| A．his poor skill in swimming | B．his mother's warning of drowning |
| C．an outing to the beach with his father | D．an unpleasant memory of the pool |
| A．My father. | B．My mother. | C．The big boy. | D．The instructor. |
| A．he was still a poor swimmer | B．he had not overcome the fear yet |
| C．he was not afraid of drowning any more | D．he was not satisfied with the swimming training |
| A．Goodbye, Mr. Terror | B．Hello, Childhood Fear |
| C．A Swimming Adventure | D．My Passion for Swimming |
【推荐1】Don’t Blame Robots for Low Wages
The other day I found myself at a conference discussing declining wages and increasing inequality. One thing that struck me was how many of the participants just assumed that robots are a big part of the problem. But automation just isn’t a big part of the story what happened to American workers over the past 40 years. We do have a big problem, but it has very little to do with technology, and a lot to do with politics and power.
Economically speaking, a robot is anything that uses technology to do work formerly done by human beings. And robots in that sense have been transforming our economy for centuries. David Ricardo, a founding father of economics, wrote about the destructive effects of machinery in 1821. These days, when people talk about the robot destruction, they don’t usually think of things like strip mining(露天采矿) and mountaintop removal(削山开采). Yet these technologies completely transformed coal mining: Coal production almost doubled between 1950 and 2000, yet the number of coal miners fell from 470,000 to fewer than 80,000.
So the destruction brought by technological change is an old story. What’s new is the failure of workers to share in the fruits of that technological change. I’m not saying that coping with change was ever easy. But while there have always been some victims of technological progress, until the 1970s rising productivity translated into rising wages for a great majority of workers. Then the connection was broken. And it wasn’t the robots that did it.
What did? There is a growing agreement among economists that a key factor in wage decreasing has been worker’s declining bargaining power—a decline whose roots are ultimately political. Most obviously, the federal minimum wage has fallen by a third over the past half century, even as worker productivity has risen 150 percent, which rooted in politics, pure and simple.
The decline of unions, which covered a quarter of private-sector workers in 1973 but only 6 percent now, may not be as obviously political. But other countries haven’t seen the same kind of decline. What made America exceptional was a political environment deeply unfriendly to labor organizing and friendly toward union-destroying employers. And the decline of unions has made a huge difference. Consider trucking, which used to be a good job but now pays a third less than it did in the 1970s, with terrible working conditions. What made the difference? Deunionization was a big part of the story.
American workers can and should be getting a much better deal than they are. And to the extent that they aren’t, the fault lies not in our robots, but in our political leader.
1. The people present at the conference about lower wages and increasing inequality _________.| A．believed that robots have contributed to wage decline |
| B．agreed that robots should be used to help increase wages |
| C．predicted that lower wages and increasing inequality would relate to robots |
| D．assumed that lower wages and increasing inequality rooted in politics and power |
| A．the robot destruction started from coal mining |
| B．the influence of the technology on jobs is not a new phenomenon |
| C．the number of jobs increases as a result of technological advancement |
| D．strip mining and mountaintop removal completely changed the coal mining industry |
| A．the destructive effects of machinery started in 1821 |
| B．25% of private-sector workers were covered by unions in 1973 |
| C．rising productivity didn’t bring about rising wages until the 1970s |
| D．the minimum wage has decreased with the dropping of worker productivity |
| A．Technological changes have resulted in lower wages. |
| B．Political leaders have intended to shift people’s attention from robots. |
| C．The decline in wages has resulted from bad policies rather than the application of robots. |
| D．Technological changes have contributed to rising wages instead of causing unemployment. |
【推荐2】The world's oceans make life possible on this planet.They help regulate the global climate, absorb carbon dioxide and provide food and livelihood for billions of people.
But even though they cover more than 70% of the Earth's surface, our oceans are being ruined by lots of plastics, overfishing and increasing temperatures brought about by climate change and if there is one message this year's World,'s Oceans Summit tries to send it's that something must be done now to protect them.
The news that we have had from our scientists is that we are marching into a very hazardous situation.It's pretty obvious what is required is not just short-term change sometimes soon -these advocates are calling for complete change now.
But we have still got time over the next 10 years to lower our greenhouse gas emission(排放) to a level at which we will not reach that 2 degree warming stage.As you would know, once we get to 2 degrees, we lose all coral reefs in the world,for example.We're now training towards 3 degrees.
The biggest declaration to come out of the summit is the Blue Prosperity Coalition, which has the ambitious goal to ban 30% of the world,s ocean fishing by 2030.We've over-fished the oceans, and we have five to ten years to really reverse the trends as before or it's going to be too late.
We rely on the oceans for so many things, livelihoods, the food we eat and the air we breathe The oceans absorb a ton of carbon and if we don't fix the oceans now, it's going to be too late.
The coalition needs a lot more support from world governments and coalition members say with smart management they can achieve their goals while keeping fishing production without causing much economic hardship.
1. Which of the following best explains"hazardous"underlined in Paragraph 3?| A．dangerous. | B．Brilliant. |
| C．Hopeless. | D．Promising. |
| A．Make a plan later. | B．Stop using plastics. |
| C．Ban fishing completely. | D．Reduce the greenhouse gas emission. |
| A．It's too late to protect the oceans now. |
| B．We will not reach 3 degree warming stage. |
| C．Great economic hardship will be unavoidable. |
| D．A joint effort is needed by the world governments. |
| A．To emphasize the importance of the oceans. |
| B．To call for complete change to protect the oceans. |
| C．To show the alarming pollution of the oceans. |
| D．To talk about the bad effects of climate change. |
【推荐3】I never meant to be a teacher. I watched my mother over the years, and I knew it wasn’t for me.
Going back to school to learn French and then teach the language, our mother had changed the center of her world when we were pre-teens.
When we went to bed, I knew how worried she could be over her students when they were troubled and how much of their stress she took on herself.
What I didn’t realize was this life she’d chosen offered her deep rewards.
As I grew up, I fell in love with a French-speaking Swiss man who asked me to marry him and move to Switzerland. Years later, when I found myself back in my hometown with a small child and a love of my second language, a chance arose for me to join my mother’s world of education, and I accepted.
I landed in a primary school in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. From the first week, I knew I’d stick with teaching. This is the most challenging experience I’ve ever had, and absolutely the best. I teach French, and I have never felt so much excitement as when I receive smiles from children, or praise from other teachers.
Most of my students have not traveled outside the town where they live, and for some, a trip to the city museum proves the most adventurous experience in their lives. If I could somehow open the world to these children, and if I could push them a bit, to dream of living in a bigger word, they may work harder and maybe one day venture beyond their neighborhood.
I work late into each night creating lessons and activities for the following day, trying to come up with ways to attract my students and connect them to the larger world. I also plan to go back to school for further study so that I can also teach science, math, social studies, reading and writing.
1. Why did the author say no to teaching at first?| A．She didn’t like to work with children. |
| B．It would take up too much of her time and energy. |
| C．Her mother wanted her to do something else. |
| D．She wasn’t sure if she could do it well. |
| A．When she had her own child. |
| B．During the time when she lived abroad. |
| C．Immediately after she started teaching. |
| D．When she learnt about her students’ dreams. |
| A．Their lives are mostly limited to their hometown. |
| B．Most of them come from poor families. |
| C．They knew nothing about French in the beginning. |
| D．They work hard and dream big. |
| A．Work in her mother’s school. |
| B．Experiment with new teaching methods. |
| C．Teach more languages besides French. |
| D．Receive further education in teaching. |
