In the depths of my memory, many things I did with my father still live. These things come to represent, in fact, what I call joy and love.
I don’t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did love the water. Any kind of boat ride seemed to give him pleasure. And he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father did. I liked being in the water, moving through it, having it all around me. I was not a strong swimmer, or one who learned to swim early, for I had my fears. But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and spending those summer days with my father, who would come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the only person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go inside his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me play with anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk while he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his office things. But my father always showed up and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s fine.” Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get myself an ice cream.
A poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood; the rest is memory.” And I think it is not only what we “look at once, in childhood” that decides our memories, but who, in that childhood, looks at us.
1. What was probably the author’s father?| A．A poet. | B．A professor. | C．A fisherman. | D．An ice-cream man. |
| A．she was interested in her father’s office things |
| B．she wanted her father to buy her some ice-cream |
| C．she loved showing her progress in swimming to her father |
| D．she wanted others to know how much her father loved her |
| A．The author loved her father deeply. |
| B．The author’s father was quite fond of fishing. |
| C．The author didn’t start to swim very young. |
| D．The author’s father was very strict with her. |
| A．Swimming, my favourite sport | B．Father, source of joy and love |
| C．Memories of past days | D．Interesting summer activities |
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【推荐1】One morning in July, Tina came downstairs and saw Mom and Dad talking at the kitchen table. Mom saw Tina standing at the doorway. She smiled at Tina, but her smile was missing in the sunshine.
“Good morning, my little treasure,” Dad said. “Could I talk to you about something?” “OK.” Tina said. “You know that Dad has a very important job,” Mom said. Tina nodded. “He helps keep people safe.” Tina said.
“That’s right,” Dad said. “Sometimes that means I need to help people who live far away from us,” he paused (停顿).
“When I do that, I have to leave you and Mom for a while.” Tina looked at Mom then at Dad. ”Are you going away?” she asked. Dad nodded. “Dad, how long is a while?” “In order to really help,” he said, “I have to go back home in July next year.” After Dad said this, Tina couldn’t hear anything but the tick-tock of the clock on the wall. Then Tina felt tears started to roll down her cheeks.
Tina didn’t want her dad to leave her. That’s because Dad is her favorite person. Dad and Tina do lots of fun things together. They can spend a whole day playing table tennis. They play musical instruments together. Dad plays the drums, and Tina plays the cymbals. Mother calls them “rock stars”.
“But if you are away for that long,” said Tina, “won’t you forget me?” Mom put her hand on Tina’s back and Dad pulled her and Tina into a big hug. “No, honey,” Mom said, “Dad could never forget you.”
1. Why was Tina’s mother’s smile missing in the sunshine?| A．Because the weather was cloudy on that day in July. |
| B．Because her daughter did not get up early on that morning. |
| C．Because she didn’t want her daughter to know Dad would leave. |
| D．Because her husband had to be away from them for a long time. |
| A．At the university. | B．In the army. |
| C．On the farm. | D．At the hotel. |
| A．For about a year. | B．For about a month. |
| C．For about a week. | D．For about a season. |
| A．a kind of sport | B．a kind of rock |
| C．a kind of toy | D．a kind of instrument |
| A．Tina’s father’s job is to keep people healthy. |
| B．Tina’s mother has no time to play with Tina. |
| C．Tina’s parents are both good at playing table tennis. |
| D．A big hug of the family shows the true love from Tina’s father. |
【推荐2】Influenced by many negative reports, some people usually regard teenagers as lacking a sense of responsibility, concern for others, and awareness of life. To break the stereotype (刻板印象), I'm going to talk about the story of Jordan Rice.
Probably you've got no idea about who Jordan Rice is. Actually Jordan Rice was a 13-year-old boy who lived with his mom,dad.and little brother Blake in Toowoomba.Australia. He went to buy school uniform this Monday with his mom and brother. It was around 2 p.m., when they were in the car on the way back from the shops. Not an unusual day.
Unexpectedly, a huge flood poured into the area. The water rose high enough to shut off the engine.Unfortunately,they were trapped in floodwaters. Mom got into a panic, and Jordan was frightened because he couldn't swim. No one came to help them out until an old man grabbed a rope,tied it to his body , and jumped into the water. Hopes were growing for the survival of Jordan the old man was swimming toward him. Instead of seizing the chance, Jordan pushed Blake for ward, saying "Save my brother first."
There was no time for arguing. The old man tied the rope around Blake and carried him a- shore.Then he swam back to save the other two. But the strain of the flood and the weight of two people were too much for the rope. It broke and so did Jordan and his mother's hope. They were carried away by the brown water. Though they managed to hold on to a tree for a little while, they finally loosened their grip and accepted their fate. Being the only survivor of the trip, Blake was re-united with his father to become a family of two.
Jordan Rice was a 13-year-old boy from Toowoomba, Australia. During the destructive floods of Oueensland, Jordan Rice sacrificed (奉献) his life for his little brother. He is a hero and deserves to be remembered.
1. What does the author think of some people's opinion about teenagers?| A．It's a reasonable belief. | B．It's a fair evaluation (评价). |
| C．It's an out-of-date view. | D．It's a prejudiced (有偏见的) idea. |
①The rope broke.
② An old man saved Blake
③A flood hit Toowoomba.
④ Jordan and his mom were swept away.
⑤Jordan and his mom and brother went to buy school uniform
| A．③⑤①④② | B．③⑤②①④ | C．⑤③②①④ | D．⑤③①④② |
| A．Your Voice. | B．Star Stories. | C．News Express. | D．Magic World. |
| A．Save my brother | B．Meet the challenge |
| C．Be brave, boy | D．Accept your fate, teenagers |
【推荐3】Night after night, mom came to my bed and said good night, even long after my childhood years. As part of her nightly routine she would lean down, push my long hair out of the way and then kiss my forehead.
I can’t remember when it first started annoying me-her hands pushing my hair that way. But it did annoy me anyway for they felt rough against my young skin. Finally, one night, I lashed out at her, “Stop doing that-your hands are too rough!” She didn’t say anything in reply, and never did she end ml y day with that special expression of love again. That night, I found myself lying awake long after she left my room. Regrettably, I never told her I was sorry.
Time after time, with the passing years, my thought would often return to that night. I missed my mother’s hands, and her goodnight kiss upon my forehead, sometimes the memory of that unspeakable night seemed very close and sometimes far away. It was always there in the back of my mind.
Years have passed, I’m no longer a young girl, and mom is in her mid-seventies. Those hands I once thought to he rough are still taking care of me and my family. Over the years, those hands have reached into a medicine cabinet for the remedy that would calm a young girl’s upset stomach or soothe boys painful knee. The very same hands have also cooked the best fried chicken in the world, gotten stains out of my jeans and dished out ice cream on a hot summer day.
Now my own children are all grown and gone, and mom no longer has clad. On special days, I find myself drawn to her house to spend the night with her. On the Eve of one Thanksgiving, as I was about to fall asleep in my old bedroom, a rough, but loving hand, hesitantly stole across my face and brushed the hair from my forehead. Then a kiss, ever so gently, touched my eyebrow.
For the thousandth time I recalled the night when my young voice and gratefully complained, “Stop doing that-your hands are too rough!” then I caught Mom’s hand in mine involuntarily with the deepest regret, I told her how sorry I had felt about that night all those years. To my surprise, Mom didn’t know what I was talking about. She had forgiven and forgotten long ago. That night, I fell asleep with new appreciation for my gentle mother and her caring hands. The guilt that I had felt for so long suddenly disappeared, and nowhere was it to be found.
1. What message does the writer try to carry in her story?| A．A Mother’s hands are always rough. |
| B．A mother should stay home and take care of her children. |
| C．A child should be grateful for his or her mother’s love. |
| D．A child will never learn to appreciate his or her mother’s love. |
| A．get stains out of the family’s clothes | B．dish out ice cream for the family |
| C．soothe the writer’s painful knee | D．kiss the writer the forehead before she fell asleep |
| A．told her mother she was sorry at once |
| B．had been missing her mother’s hands and goodnight kiss |
| C．went to her mother’s bedroom and said good night |
| D．caught her mom’s hands in hers |
| A．Night after night, Mom came to my bed and said goodnight. |
| B．That night, I found myself lying awake long after she left my room. |
| C．Sometimes, the memory of that unspeakable night seemed very close and sometimes far away. |
| D．Now my own children are all grown and gone and mom no longer has dad. |
【推荐1】Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.
During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone. He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.
He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.
Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can(垃圾桶) that had been left out on the footpath.
My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers. Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.
That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.
1. What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in Sydney?| A．Go shopping | B．Find a house |
| C．Join his family | D．Take a vacation |
| A．a friend of his family | B．a Sydney policeman |
| C．a letter in his papers | D．a stranger in Sydney |
| A．Showed | B．Sent out |
| C．Delivered | D．Gave back |
| A．From India to Australia. | B．Living in a New Country |
| C．Turning Trash to Treasure. | D．In Search of New Friends. |
【推荐2】Jase’s family had his twin sisters, Milly and Rosie, his dad, Peter, and his mom, Lydia. They were happy in their comfortable small home.
When Jase ran down the stairs, he saw a large Christmas tree in the living room and a great number of present, boxes under it. He knew it was finally Christmas. The excited little boy rummaged through the presents for a good ten minutes before finding his.
“A fire truck!” he shouted so excitedly and loudly that his father, who was outside clearing snow, and his mother, who was in the kitchen, rushed into the living room. Jase had learned at school that firefighters were true heroes who saved people from danger. So the little boy wished to be a firefighter, and all his favorite toys were also related to firefighters! Jase was so happy with his Christmas present that he spent the whole day driving his toy truck. He also gave his little sisters a ride in it, and they loved it.
After dinner that night, when everyone was asleep, Jase was up and decided to take his truck down to the living room and play with it. Trying not to make a noise, he reached the living room. He sat inside his toy truck and began driving it around, imagining how he would do it if he were a real firefighter.
Suddenly, Jase felt something strange—a mixture of smoke, heat, and light. Jase’s parents had forgotten to put out some candles, which had caught the tree and the living room curtains on fire.
The fire was spreading fast, and Jase panicked. He shouted as he rushed upstairs to wake up his twin sisters. Milly woke up and ran downstairs with him, but Rosie was asleep, so he carried her in his arms. He then put his sisters in the truck and rushed to Peter and Lydia’s room.
Peter and Lydia called 911, and firefighters arrived and put out the fire.
1. What does the underlined phrase “rummaged through” in paragraph mean?| A．Collected. | B．Observed. |
| C．Searched for. | D．Prepared for. |
| A．His ambition was to become a brave firefighter. |
| B．His parents expected him to be a firefighter. |
| C．He didn’t have a toy concerning firefighters. |
| D．He wished to share such a toy with his sisters. |
| A．The Christmas tree caught fire easily. |
| B．His parents left the candles burning. |
| C．The children played with a fire nearby. |
| D．The tree was near the window curtains. |
| A．Positive and generous. |
| B．Ambitious and humorous. |
| C．Inspiring and hardworking. |
| D．Considerate and brave. |
【推荐3】When Ryan Boyland graduated from medical school this spring, his parents, Michelle and Roosevelt Boyland, wanted to do something special to mark their son’s achievement as the first person in their family to become a doctor.
Michelle Boyland came up with the brilliant idea of renting out a billboard after seeing a story on TV.
“Everybody knew about it except Ryan. And I told him that I needed to talk to him and we’re going to meet at his older brother’s apartment in the parking lot,” Michelle Boyland explained, adding that the parking lot was near where the billboard was located. “Ryan had tons of questions as usual. ‘Why are we meeting? How come we can’t talk about it right now over the phone?’ I said, ‘This is very important. I need to see your face.’”
When his mother, brother and sister took him to see the billboard in person, Ryan Boyland had no idea what was going to happen until he finally looked up and saw his photo towering above the roadway.
“The first thing I thought was, how long it had been there and how many people had already seen me before I had seen me? A moment of mild panic kind of entered me,” he recalled. “In the past, I have been a little bit hesitant about receiving such attention and seeing my head 20 feet off the ground was a bit of a shock.”
The billboard, which reads, “Congratulations Doctor Ryan Boyland Class of 2023 University of Nebraska Medical Center,” stands tall in front of Bellevue University in Bellevue, Nebraska.
“I chose that location because it’s right down the street from the church that we attend, as wellas right down the street from the high school that Ryan went to 10 years ago,” Michelle Boyland said, adding, “I wanted it to inspire our community. I wanted it to inspire the kids, little kids, middle schoolers that they can be doctors too.”
Ryan Boyland has gotten ready to move to Denver to begin his career as an emergency medicine residency(住院医生) in Denver Health.
“He’s accomplished a lot in a very short period of time and I’m looking forward to many more accomplishments in the future. Hopefully, he’ll start taking credit for it a little bit better,” dad Roosevelt Boyland said.
1. How did Ryan Boyland feel when hearing the meeting place?| A．Nervous. | B．Excited. | C．Confused. | D．Ridiculous. |
| A．Because it is where Ryan graduated. |
| B．Because it is a place with large flow of people. |
| C．Because it is the most obvious place in the city. |
| D．Because it is a good place to inspire students in the neighbourhood. |
| A．He has high hopes for his son. |
| B．He believes his son will be the best doctor. |
| C．He believes the billboard will inspire his son. |
| D．He is not satisfied with what his son has achieved. |
