Jean was a single mother with a young son. She taught the first grade and worked very hard. She drove a small old car. One August, the teachers returned from a summer break to see Jean drive up to school with three children The two girls were Jean’s former students who had lost their parents. They did not want to enter a foster care center. They turned to Jean—their first grade teacher—for help. Though she and her son lived in a small house, Jean took the girls in.
During lunch, while other teachers shared life stories, Jean never complained about her new responsibilities. She did, however, speak about her car. With three children to transport, the car was too small and slow. It even burned engine oil. Jean needed something new. However, she couldn’t buy one with three children in her home.
As a good friend, I listened to her concerns. At that time, did not have much money. But I wanted to help Jean buy a car. An idea hit me when I watched a TV show.
One day, Jean received an invitation to TV show. She was surprised but decided to attend it. Midway through the show the host called Jean to the stage. He explained he had received a letter, knowing her need for a new car. The audience listened to the details of Jean’s story and were all moved. Then the host said that Jean would receive a new car for her family. Cheers filled the studio and Jean shook with disbelief.
Six hundred miles away, I watched the joy of it all from the television in my living room. Jean’s big heart taught me many lessons that year. I did nothing but share her story.
1. What can we infer about Jean according to the first paragraph?A.She knew the girls’ parents. |
B.She was very kind-hearted. |
C.She wanted to sell her small car. |
D.She didn’t have summer break as other teachers. |
A.She couldn’t afford to buy a new car. |
B.She found it hard to raise three kids alone. |
C.She couldn’t spare more time for her students. |
D.She had no time to transport her kids to school. |
A.The author turned to the show for help. |
B.The school wanted to make her story known. |
C.The school rewarded her for her hard work. |
D.The show picked some single mothers to report randomly. |
A.A letter from my friend | B.Helping my friend get a car |
C.Inviting my friend to show | D.A single mother with three kids |
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【推荐1】Everyone needs friends. We all like to feel close to someone. It is nice to have a friend to talk, laugh, and do things with. Surely, there are times when we need to be alone. We don't always want people around. But we would feel lonely if we never had a friend.
No two people are just the same. Sometimes friends don't get along well. That doesn't mean that they no longer like each other. Most of the time they will make_up and go on being friends.
Sometimes friends move away. Then we feel very sad. We miss them very much. But we can call and write to them. It could be that we would never see them again. And we can make new friends. It is surprising to find out how much we like new people when we get to know them.
Families sometimes name their children after a close friend. Many places are named after men and women who have been friendly to people in a town. Some libraries are named this way. So are some schools. We think of these people when we go to these places.
There's more good news for people who have friends. They live longer than people who don't. Why? It could be that they are happier. Being happy helps you stay well. Or it could be just knowing that someone cares. If someone cares about you, you take better care of yourself.
1. The first paragraph tells us________.A.none needs friends |
B.we always need friends around us |
C.making friends is the need in people's life |
D.we need to be alone |
A.People are not happy when their friends leave them. |
B.People will never see their friends after their friends move away. |
C.People can know their friends in different ways. |
D.People like their new friends very much when they get to know them. |
A.become friends again after a quarrel |
B.put some special powder on the face |
C.invent something in order to cheat someone |
D.put something together from several different places |
A.they feel happier and are healthy |
B.they get a lot of help from their friends |
C.they take better care of themselves |
D.both A and C |
A.people are all friends |
B.people need friends |
C.how to get to know friends |
D.how to name a place |
【推荐2】Clark and Dale were staying in the same room in hospital. Clark was so sick that he could not even move his body. He had to spend all his time lying on his back. Dale could sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon. His bed was next to the room’s only window.
Over time, Clark and Dale became good friends. Every afternoon, Dale would look out of the room’s only window, describing the scenery outside for his friend. He told Clark about the flowers in a park outside the window, the people walking by, the green trees beside the roads-anything that might interest a man.
One morning, when a nurse came only to check the two men, she found that Dale had died in his sleep. As soon as the room seemed tidy again. Clark asked if he could move to the bed next to the window so that he could look out of the window himself. The nurse agreed. Slowly, he could take his first look at the world outside. To his surprise, he could see nothing but a blank wall of another building.
The nurse explained that Dale had been blind. He had never seen anything outside the window at all-but he described beautiful scenes to help his friend feel better.
1. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph One mean?A.Clark was too sick to move his body. |
B.Although Clark was sick, he could move his body. |
C.Clark was sick, so he didn’t want to move his body. |
D.Although Clark was sick, he was asked to move his body. |
A.The doctor. | B.The nurse. | C.His family. | D.His friend Dale. |
A.Because he missed his friend very much. | B.The bed there was tidier than his. |
C.He wanted to look at the world outside. | D.Because he felt worse and worse. |
A.The flowers in a park. | B.The green trees beside roads. |
C.The people walking by. | D.A blank wall of another building. |
①Clark was so sick.
②Dale described the scenery outside for his friend.
③Clark and Dale became good friends.
④Dale had died in his sleep.
A.①②③④ | B.①③②④ | C.③②①④ | D.③①②④ |
【推荐3】How to Help a Friend with a Broken Heart
It can be difficult to see a friend in pain, especially if she's just suffered a broken heart.
Work out.
Working out is a healthy way for your friend to process her emotions, because it increases the chemicals in her brain that produce pleasing feelings.
Listen
It's important for your friend to have someone she can trust. People who are hurting can benefit from(受益于) feeling heard and understood, aiding in their catharsis(发泄). If you're not sure how to be a good listener for your friend, ask her what she needs.
Help your friend make a list.
Sometimes you just need a moment to be a little funny, a little serious and a little healing. If you have a releasing ceremony with your friend, it can provide all of these aspects. What you do is take objects that remind your friend of her ex(前任),have your friend write a letter releasing her ex, or take a picture of your friend’s ex and throw it away.
A.Have a releasing ceremony. |
B.Break-ups have hurt your friend |
C.Set up times to meet up with your friend at the gym. |
D.She may have trouble finding enjoyment in life |
E.See if she wants advice and respect her answer. |
F.Lists are a great way to get your brain on a roll. |
G.Felling sad is a natural response to a break-up. |
【推荐1】My wife and I were at a crowded grocery store not long ago. It was a weekday evening, cold and wet-and tense. People were carelessly blocking aisles, complaining and cutting one another off with their carts.
Things got worse at the checkout line. The cashier scanned a man’s discount card, but he misread the savings on her screen as an additional charge. He decided she was acting deliberately and began to argue.
“She is being spiteful (恶意的) !” he yelled. “This is unbelievable.”
Other customers looked away as the cashier tried to reason with him. She called a manager, who accompanied him to customer service. Shaken, she moved to the next customer in line.
We’ve all witnessed uncomfortable scenes like this in public places. The grocery scene was another example of how our trust in others has eroded. But it was also a teachable moment on how we can rebuild our faith-starting with just one person.
Back at the grocery store, my wife and I reached our uneasy cashier. I grabbed a bottle of water from a nearby cooler and handed it to her. “We felt bad about how that man treated you and wanted to buy this for you.” I said. Her face lit up, and we talked as she scanned our items. She told us she had been working that evening through severe foot pain and would be having surgery later that week. We wished her well in her recovery, and she thanked us as we left.
Those are the balancing acts, the moments of responding social and emotional pain with healing, which will add up to restore trust among people. You can start that pattern in someone else’s life, even in a place as ordinary as the neighborhood grocery store.
1. Why did the man at the checkout line argue with the cashier?A.The cashier called a manager to help her. |
B.Someone jumped the queue waiting to check out. |
C.There was something wrong with his discount card. |
D.He believed the cashier charged him more on purpose. |
A.changed | B.increased |
C.faded | D.formed |
A.he thought the cashier might feel a little bit thirsty |
B.he knew she had gone through much trouble recently |
C.he wanted to restore the trust between her and the man |
D.he wanted to comfort her after the terrible experience just now |
A.add a warning | B.make a suggestion |
C.introduce a topic | D.present an argument |
【推荐2】Ten years ago, The Make-A-Wish Foundation paid a visit to 5-year-old Miles Scott living in San Francisco, who was diagnosed (诊断) with leukemia just over 1 year old and battled it from then on. Leukemia is the most common type of childhood cancer that kills a large number of children every year. Fortunately, Scott successfully went through treatment to give himself the best possible chance. But those precious years of childhood could not come back. That’s why Make-A-Wish came and tried to bring some magic back to his life.
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When asked what his dream was, Scott shyly said it was to be Batman. The Foundation stepped up to make it happen. “It’s probably one of our most challenging wishes,” said Jen Wilson, marketing manager for Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area, in 2013. “It’s very unusual. It’s one that’s taken several months to plan and countless people to get involved in, from volunteers who play the roles of the bad guys to those who provide services of all kinds. We’ve had a big interest in helping with this wish.”
Finally, the day came when San Francisco was transformed into Gotham City (where Batman lives) and in need of a super hero, and Scott took on the role of “Batkid.” In this amazing project, Make-A-Wish and the city of San Francisco created a real-life adventure for Scott to complete, including fighting bad guys, saving citizens, and earning the key to the city from the mayor himself. Thousands of people went to San Francisco to watch this event and countless people offered to help out and bring it to life, including a local major newspaper The San Francisco Chronicle publishing a special “Gotham City Chronicle” newspaper for the day.
Years after saving Gotham City, Batkid Scott is now 15. He plays baseball for his high school and enjoys living his cancer-free life, looking forward to other adventures in his future.
1. Why did the Make-A-Wish Foundation visit Miles Scott?A.To provide him with treatment. | B.To help him realize his dream. |
C.To show magic tricks to him. | D.To invite him to act as Batkid. |
A.Recovering from Leukemia. | B.Having a carefree childhood. |
C.Getting Make-A-Wish’s help. | D.Playing the role of a hero. |
A.It was the most difficult project he carried out. |
B.Volunteers spent months planning the project. |
C.It took him a long time to decide to help Scott. |
D.His staff were pleased to take the challenge. |
A.The city became really dangerous. | B.Scott was received by the mayor. |
C.The project earned lots of profits. | D.A major newspaper was founded. |
【推荐3】A clever technologist took steamboat inventions and turned them into the first commercial steamboat service.
Although Robert Fulton did not invent the steamboat, as is commonly believed, he played an important role in making steamboat travel a reality. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1765. As a young man, he set out to make his name as a portrait painter. His career took him to Europe and into the orbit of people with the power to support him politically and financially.
Fulton entered London society after he painted Benjamin Franklin’s portrait. While abroad, Fulton left the arts for a career in shipbuilding. He was interested in the recently-invented steam engine, and thought it could be used to power ships. Fulton’s vision was not original; many others had entered the field, and the unfortunate inventor John Fitch had built a working steamship already. But like Henry Ford, Fulton’s talent lay not in the invention but in the product’s application in the marketplace.
Fulton didn’t focus entirely on the steamboat. In 1804, he tested the first submarine successfully, which he had built for the British Royal Navy. His invention would make him a celebrity upon his return to the United States two years later. Fulton’s partner Robert Livingston obtained an exclusive license for steamboat services on New York’s Hudson River. It was time for Fulton to deliver.
To build an efficient, reliable steamboat, Fulton used a special English steam engine. The ship’s bottom was flat and its stern was square. The steamboat Clermont made its debut (首次亮相) on August 17, 1807, steaming up the river from New York to Albany, and it soon entered commercial services. The hilly terrain of New York made water transport faster than land transport, and Fulton’s boat - formerly known as the “North River Steamboat” - was a hit. Within five years, Fulton would be running services on six major rivers plus the Chesapeake Bay, and bring in great profits.
1. What can be inferred from Paragraph 3?A.Henry Ford was as unfortunate as John Fitch. |
B.Henry Ford was talented in product application. |
C.Fulton left the arts as he couldn’t support himself. |
D.Fulton was the first to create a working steamship. |
A.In 1804. | B.In 1806. | C.In 1807. | D.In 1812. |
A.It operated for five years. |
B.It earned Fault much money. |
C.It had an American steam engine. |
D.It was not accepted by people at first. |