Growing up, I was always totally in love with fashion. I’m the type of girl who follows Fashion Weck trends and spends much money on clothes. And while I have dreamed about building a career in fashion, I’m well aware that it’s not easy to make a name for yourself in the field. Despite this, I decided against studying medicine to follow my dream and went to West Virginia University for Fashion Design.
When I got a part-time job at Girl’s Lift last summer holiday. I was excited to be able to write articles for the website, sit in on editorial meetings and help pick the cover for the August/ September issue. But when GL editor-in-chief Karen asked if anyone wanted to help out in the fashion room for all the clothes, accessories, shoes and beauty products used for shoots(拍 摄). I jumped at the opportunity. After spending so much time with the clothes, I knew I just had to go on site for the shoot. My parents always told me to speak up when I want something, so I gathered up the courage to ask Karen if I could help out on the shoot. Not only did she say yes, but she told me that I could help out at another the following week.
The next day, when the photographer asked me to help him test the lightning for a few shoots, I was super excited. When one of the two models didn’t show up, I was asked to step in for her. Before I knew it, I was sitting in hair and makeup, being fitted for my clothes for the rest of my life. Never in a million years did I think I would be in a magazine. Let alone on four pages of a major fashion magazine. I am really grateful for this opportunity, but it would never have happened if I didn’t speak up and ask to be a part of it.
1. The writer’s dream is to ________.A.become a model for Fashion Week | B.take up a job in fashion |
C.study in West Virginal University | D.be an expert on medicine |
A.problem | B.subject | C.magazine | D.newspaper |
A.her parents | B.the models | C.the photographer | D.Karen |
A.It’s amazing to appear in a fashion magazine. |
B.It’s not easy to become famous in one’s career. |
C.Speak up for what you want and you will get it soon. |
D.Stick to your dream and try everything you can for it. |
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【推荐1】In my childhood, my mother spent her evening hours doing something for someone else. Sometimes she knitted(编织)hats for babies, and at other times, she cooked chicken soup for sick neighbors. Therefore, I wasn’t surprised when one evening my mother announced she had undertaken a new project.
“I am going to telephone seniors,” said my mother. “Every night? But you don’t even know these people.” “It doesn’t matter,” she said, “What’s important is that I listen.”
I was sixteen years old and couldn’t understand why my mother was willing to spend her evenings talking to strangers. She had friends and my two older sisters to call if she felt lonely. “They will talk your ear off. Some people didn’t even stop to catch breath.” I said.
My attitude didn’t stop my mother’s enthusiasm for the project. That evening, she settled on the sofa and dialed. When she finished the call, I said, “Why do you care whether she had cookies or rice pudding for dessert? ” My mother grasped one of my hands and said in a proud tune, “I’m the only person she talked to today.”
It took me more than thirty years to fully understand the meaning of that statement. Now, as my mother is near eighty, I find myself thinking about those nightly calls she used to make. I am often the only person who telephones my mother, and sometimes I’m the only person she speaks to all day. I ask her what she cooked for dinner, but mostly I just listen as she describes a walk she took, or how her dog Lucky stole foods from the refrigerator. I realize that my mother’s calls were life lines that ensured housebound seniors remained connected to the world. Without her, their world would have been empty.
1. What is the mother’s purpose of calling the seniors?A.To improve their living conditions. |
B.To inquire their eating habits. |
C.To ease their loneliness. |
D.To teach them surviving skills. |
A.Speak all the time. | B.Blame others’ behaviours. |
C.Miss important information. | D.Hurt your hearing. |
A.The author started to telephone seniors as her mother. |
B.The author realized the value of her mother’s efforts. |
C.The author’s mother preferred to live alone. |
D.The author’s mother remained connected to the world. |
A.Seniors’comfort | B.Mother’s evenings | C.Aging:my concern | D.Nightly calls, lifeline calls |
【推荐2】One day a poor farmer was taking a bag of rice to town. Suddenly the bag fell off his horse on the road. He didn’t know what to do about it because it was too heavy for him to carry it by himself. He only hoped that somebody would soon pass by and help him.
Just at this moment a man riding a horse came up to him. But the farmer was very disappointed (失望) when he saw who he was. It was a great man living nearby (附近). The farmer had hoped to ask another farmer or a poor man like him.
But to his surprise, the great man got off his horse as soon as he came near. He said to the farmer, “I see you need help, friend. How good it is that I’m here just at the right time.” Then he took one end of the bag, the farmer took the other. They together carried and put it on the horse.
“Sir,” asked the farmer, “how can I pay you? ”
“It’s quite easy,” the great man answered with a smile, “wherever you see anyone else in trouble (有困难) do the same for him.”
1. What happened when the famer went to town?A.The farmer lost his bag. | B.The bag fell from his horse. |
C.His horse’s leg was hurt. | D.The horse was ill. |
A.the bag was broken | B.the horse ran away |
C.the bag was too heavy | D.the farmer was too old |
A.was riding a bike | B.was walking |
C.was driving a car | D.was riding a horse |
A.A poor man. | B.Another farmer. |
C.The great man. | D.A friend of the farmer’s. |
A.I’ll volunteer (自愿) to help him or her. |
B.I’ll give some help if I know him or her. |
C.I won’t give any help unless he or she pays me money. |
D.I’ll go away as soon as possible because I don’t want any trouble. |
【推荐3】Alice Walker makes her living by writing. And her poems, short stories, and novels have won many prizes for her. She was born in Eatonton, Georgia; she went to public schools there, and then to Spelman College in Atlanta before coming to New York to attend Sarah Lawrence College, from which she graduated in 1965.For a time she lived in Jackson, Mississippi, with her lawyer husband and small daughter.
About Langston Hughes: American Poet, her first book for children, she says,“ After my first meeting with Langston Hughes, I promised I would write a book for children someday. Why? Because I, at twenty-two, knew next to nothing of his work, and he didn’t scold me. He just gave me a pile of his books. And he was kind to me. I will always be thankful that in his warmth he fulfilled my deepest dream (and need) of what a poet should be.”
“To me he is not dead at all. Hardly a day goes by when I don’t think of him or speak of him. Once, just before he died, when he was sick with the flu, I took him a full basket of oranges. The joy I felt in giving that simple gift is undiminished (没有减弱) by time. He said he liked oranges, too.”
1. In the passage, Alice Walker is ______.A.a researcher at Sarah Lawrence College |
B.a professor at Sarah Lawrence College |
C.a prize-winning writer |
D.a writer of plays for children |
A.she moved to Jackson, Mississippi |
B.she moved to New York |
C.she first met with Langston Hughes |
D.Langston Hughes died |
A.Langston Hughes’ books about Alice Walker. |
B.The childhood of Alice Walker and Langston Hughes. |
C.Langston Hughes, American poet. |
D.Alice Walker’s reflection on Langston Hughes. |
【推荐1】“The moment before they called my name, I was really nervous because the other finalists’ presentations are really good and I thought they would win,” Kara Fan, 14, who has won America’ s Top Young Scientist, told Yahoo Finance. “When they announced my name, I was really surprised actually.”
To win that claim, Fan’ s nano-particle liquid bandage had to surpass the experiments of hundreds of fifth to eighth graders as well as nine other finalists. Fan started developing her liquid bandage in April 2019 to fight the overuse of antibiotics (抗生素).
According to the CDC, roughly 2 million people every year suffer a bacterial infection in the U. S. and about 23, 000 passed away as a result. If left alone, a UN study reported, drug- resistant diseases or the “superbug” could lead to 10 million deaths across the globe by 2050. When Fan’ s sprayable bandage dries on a person’ s skin, it creates a thin layer that protects the wounded area while breaking the cell wall and killing the bacteria on the skin. After experimenting with copper nitrate (硝酸铜) to fight bacteria, switching to the silver nitrate ended up being the major catalyst (催化剂) to seeing results for her award-winning project.
“Thousands of years ago, ancient people would use copper and silver to eat with and they would drink water from like copper bowls to kill bacteria,” Fan explained. “I found out that it didn’t work. So I used nano silver.”
Sir Alexander Fleming’ s discovery of penicillin— a type of antibiotic— is Fan’ s favorite scientific discovery. That said, she doesn’ t think humans should rely too heavily on penicillin.
Following her years at Westview High School, Fan hopes to continue her biology track at Stanford University. Along with the $ 25, 000 cash prize she won on October 29, becoming America’ s Top Young Scientist may help get the private university’ s attention.
1. How did Kara Fan feel about her winning the prize?A.Confident. | B.Regretful. | C.Proud. | D.Unexpected. |
A.To fight overuse of antibiotics. | B.To enter a national contest. |
C.To reduce deaths from injuries. | D.To get into a good university. |
A.Copper nitrate. | B.Copper. | C.Silver. | D.Nano silver. |
A.Addictive. | B.Valuable. | C.Useless. | D.Irreplaceable. |
【推荐2】When I was thirteen years old, I became very interested in shopping. After a while being just a buyer, I wanted to sell something. I had many things around the house from my childhood that I no longer needed. I knew, with the help of my father, I could make money. So far months and months I enjoyed myself by selling things on my dad’s account (账户).
On December 9, 2020, I opened my own account and began to start my own business. Things were going great and then I realized that selling things around house wasn’t making me the kind of money that I wanted to make, so I decided to turn my business into a resale shop. I went around to the garage sale (旧货出售处) and bought items at low prices and sold them at higher prices.
Last November, I went to a garage sale that was a little bit different. A single lady had many nice items that I knew I would sell quickly. I went up to her and started a conversation with her. Through the conversation, I knew she was jobless at the moment and needed money to support her family. I decided to sell any of her things for her to help her out. She looked at me for a moment and then broke into tears. I took away some of her things and over the next month I made over $1,500 for her! She was so thankful for all of my help.
I have never felt so happy to help someone in my life. I felt as if I had made a difference in this world and that my skills could be used to help someone who would really need it.
1. At first, __________ helped her make money by selling things.A.the girl’s bank | B.the girl’s father |
C.the girl’s teacher | D.a single lady |
A.meet single ladies | B.sell things she no longer needed |
C.help others | D.buy things for her resale shop |
A.the lady’s items were nice | B.the lady lived a hard life |
C.she liked the lady very much | D.the lady asked the author for help |
A.disappointed | B.amazed | C.proud | D.thankful |
【推荐3】I asked three of my friends how they had changed since they came to our middle school.And here are their answers.
Robin | I didn’t do well in my study before, but since I began to study in this school, things have changed. The teachers here are all energetic, active and helpful. They always encourage me by saying “I’m sure you can make it” or “You are one of the cleverest students I have ever met”. These words really mean a lot to me. Now I’m one of the top students in my class, and I like studying as well. |
Dick | I used to be a fat boy who could hardly run 500 meters. When I entered the middle school, my father worried that I would be laughed at by my new classmates, so he decided to do morning exercises with me every day. It really worked. Now I’m used to running and exercising in the morning, and I am slim and strong. Besides, my P. E. teacher thinks I can be a good runner in the future! |
Jason | I used to like to be alone and didn’t feel like talking to anyone. But when I met Robin and Dick, I found that they were really good people. Then gradually we became closer and finally became good friends. Thanks to them, I’m talkative and outgoing now, and I have made many other friends. I talk and play with my friends every day and each day I feel happy. |
A.His teachers. | B.His friends. |
C.His parents. | D.His classmates. |
A.Because he wanted to lose weight. |
B.Because he wanted his son to be healthy. |
C.Because he worried that his son would be laughed at at school. |
D.Because he didn’t want his son to be lonely. |
A.爱开玩笑的 | B.兴奋的 |
C.健谈的 | D.吵闹的 |