My parents love tennis and they’re members of a tennis club. My older brother was really good at it and they supported him—taking him to lessons all the time. So when I announced I wanted to be a tennis champion when I grew up, I just intended for them to notice me. My mother laughed. She knew I couldn't possibly be serious, for I was just a 4-year-old kid!
Later, I joined the club’s junior coaching group and eventually took part in my first proper contest, believing that my team would do well. We won, which was fantastic, but I wasn’t so successful. I didn’t even want to be in the team photo because I didn't feel I deserved to be. When my coach asked what happened in my final match, I didn’t know what to say. I couldn’t believe I’d lost. I thought I was the better player. But every time I attacked, the other player defended well. I couldn’t explain the result.
After that, I decided to listen more carefully to my coach because he had lots of tips. I realised that I need the right attitude to be a winner. On the court I have a plan but sometimes the other guy will do something unexpected so I’ll change it. If I lose a point, I do my best to forget it and find a way to win the next one.
At tournaments, it’s impossible to avoid players who explode in anger. Lots of players can be negative, including myself sometimes. Once I felt angry and nearly broke my racket! But my coach has helped me develop ways to control those feelings. After all, the judges have a hard job and you just have to accept their decisions.
My coach demands that I train in the gym to make sure I'm strong right to the end of a tournament. I’m getting good results; my shots are more accurate and there’s a chance that I could be a champion one day with hard work.
1. The author said that he was going to be a tennis champion in order to________.| A．please his parents | B．annoy his older brother |
| C．get parents’ attention | D．persuade people that he was serious |
| A．Confused. | B．Nervous. |
| C．Excited. | D．Relaxed. |
| A．Don’t keep thinking about his mistakes. | B．Respect the other players. |
| C．Don’t let the other players surprise him. | D．Follow his game plan. |
| A．He found it difficult to deal with judges’ decisions. |
| B．He broke his racket once when he was angry. |
| C．He stayed away from players who behaved badly. |
| D．He tried to keep calm during the game. |
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1. If you are going on the Walking Tour, don’t forget .
| A．your comfortable shoes |
| B．your beautiful walk |
| C．your learning about local history |
| D．your worries |
| A．At City College. | B．At Museum Theatre. |
| C．At City Theatre. | D．At Central Park. |
| A．at City Hall | B．at Rose Hall |
| C．at City College | D．at Central Park |
【推荐2】Why play games? Because they are fun, and a lot more besides, following the rules, planning your next move, acting as a team member…. These are all “game” ideas that you will come across throughout your life.
Think about some of the games you played as a young child, such as rope-jumping and hide-and-seek. Such games are entertaining and fun. But perhaps more importantly, they translate life into exciting dramas that teach children some of the basic rules they will be expected to follow the rest of their lives, such as taking turns and cooperating.
Many children’s games have a practical side. Children around the world play games that prepare them for work they will do as grown-ups. For instance, some Saudi Arabian children play a game called bones，which sharpens the hand-eye coordination(协调)needed in hunting.
Many sports encourage national or local pride. The most famous games of all, the Olympic Games, bring athletes from around the world together to take part in friendly competition. People who watch the event wave flags, knowing that a gold medal is a win for an entire country, not just the athlete who earned it. For countries experiencing natural disasters or war, an Olympic win can mean so much.
Sports are also an event that unites people. Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. People on all continents play it—some for fun and some for a living. Nicolette Iribarne, a Californian soccer player, has discovered a way to spread hope through soccer. He created a foundation to provide poor children with not only soccer balls but also a promising future.
Next time you play your favorite game or sport, think about why you enjoy it, what skills are needed, and whether these skills will help you in other aspects of your life.
1. Through playing hide-and-seek, children are expected to learn to .| A．be a team leader |
| B．act as a grown-up |
| C．obey the basic rules |
| D．predict possible danger |
| A．describe life in an exciting way |
| B．turn real-life experiences into a play |
| C．change people’s views of sporting events |
| D．make learning life skills more interesting |
| A．It proves the exceptional skills of the winners. |
| B．It inspires people’s deep love for the country. |
| C．It helps the country out of natural disasters. |
| D．It earns the winners fame and fortune. |
| A．bring fun to poor kids |
| B．provide soccer balls for children |
| C．give poor kids a chance for a better life |
| D．appeal to soccer players to help poor kids |
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1. What is true about Montana?| A．It has many elephant discoveries. |
| B．It is Lewis and Clark’s hometown. |
| C．Its Native American tribes share the same culture. |
| D．It is home to many species of plants and animals. |
| A．be over 14 years old |
| B．send a photo with your essay |
| C．have rich exploration experience |
| D．write an English article over 300 words |
| A．To provide travel information. | B．To describe Montana’s scenery. |
| C．To announce a kid competition. | D．To suggest some outdoor activities. |
【推荐1】As a teenager, when my family took a vacation, I wrote postcards to show my friends the new places I had explored. I considered postcards as simply a way to share travels until I came across my grandmother’s postcard album.
It was a dark gray leather album, where most of the postcards had pictures that did not reflect a holiday or a travel destination. Instead, the notes were mostly invitations to a dinner party or a walk the next day.
"Why do these postcards ask you to come to tea?" I asked my grandmother.
"Because this is how we communicated before we had a telephone," she said. "I would pop a postcard in the morning mail, and a friend would receive it that afternoon. Then she’d post a reply that arrived in my mail the next morning."
I was surprised. Life without a phone sounded like something out of the book Little House on the Prairie. Connecting by postcards seemed as unexpected as using a carrier pigeon.
I had forgotten about my grandmother’s postcards until lockdowns restricted our trips to seeing our three granddaughters. Remembering my grandmother’s album, I bought several sets of cards and every few weeks, I’d write notes and mail them. The girls occasionally responded with brief thankyou texts.
Then one day I opened my mailbox and spied three hand-addressed envelopes. They were from my granddaughters, each thanking me for the postcards. The notes captured their disappointment with the pandemic and how my messages had comforted them.
I had been thinking how my grandmother had accepted the telephone as a new way to keep relationships. Like her, I accepted the girls’ preferred mode of communication and texted my thanks for their letters. Yet, even as the lockdowns end, I will continue to send them postcards because everyone enjoys receiving a real letter in the mail.
1. Why did the author’s grandmother write postcards?| A．To share travel experiences. | B．To connect with people. |
| C．To pass the time. | D．To show love and care. |
| A．It was strange and hard to imagine. | B．It was peaceful. |
| C．It was exciting. | D．It was attractive. |
| A．Puzzled. | B．Regretful. | C．Delighted. | D．Crazy. |
| A．Attraction of Postcards | B．New Ways of Communication |
| C．Love during Lockdowns | D．An Old Postcard Album |
【推荐2】Emma Watson entered our lives as the perfect Hermione Granger in 2001, and 16 years later, we’re just as much in love with this charming, intelligent British girl, as ever. You may or may not be a Potter head, but a lot of people are charmed by Emma Watson’s perfection.
Despite being a star performer at the young age of 11, she’s never gone the Hollywood spoiled child route. In fact, she made all attempts to stay as normal as possible. She said, “Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn’t advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn’t wise to share a bathroom with eight oilier people in a dormitory. Looking back, I think that was crazy.”
She added, “I was very well-educated. My dad paid for me to go to a very good school, so I worked hard every single day at that school to make him proud of me. And I did, and I still do.”
If we had to imagine what Hermione Granger would have grown up to be like, we would say she’d be the Emma Watson of the Potter universe because there really is no way to separate the two. In the last few years, Emma has added more feathers to her cap than we imagined being humanly possible, which include actor, scholar, model arid UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. In her role as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, she’d supported powerful causes to the best of her ability and brought them all the attention they deserve.
Emma Watson gave us the most accurate description of our favorite girl from the Potter universe. “Young girls are told you have to be a delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be a warrior.”
1. After Emma Watson became an actress, she .| A．followed most of the Hollywood child route |
| B．had a preference for a normal life |
| C．became rebellious in a funny way |
| D．went to a good college instead |
| A．Emma has earned more titles. |
| B．Emma wears a cap with feathers. |
| C．Emma is expert at designing caps. |
| D．Emma has been more absorbed in her job. |
| A．Emma Watson: You Can Be the Best Actress. |
| B．Emma Watson: You Can Be a Warrior. |
| C．The Way to Be a Delicate Princess. |
| D．The Way to Be a Good Performer. |
| A．Critical. | B．Objective. |
| C．Cautious. | D．Appreciative, |
【推荐3】Summer is coming. How will you spend your summer holidays? Will you go camping, do sports or go on with your studies? Why not try some part-time jobs during the summer?
When I was in senior high school, many of my friends held part-time jobs. The most common jobs for teenagers were restaurant jobs. Working in the kitchen, waiting tables and washing dishes were a few of the most typical ones. But my first part-time job was working at a bookstore. I went to the bookstore every day after school to look for new books and hang out with my friends, so I thought, why not work there and make some money?
One of the reasons why these jobs are often worked by teenagers is that they pay low wages. But the wage is still ok. When I worked at the bookstore, I spent my entire salary in the same store buying books. It was almost like my boss paid me in books instead of money. But at the time, that was perfectly fine by me. By doing the part-time job, I made some money, met different people and became independent and responsible.
1. What does the writer advise us to try in the summer holidays?| A．Studying. | B．Doing sports. |
| C．Going camping. | D．Doing part-time jobs. |
| A．Selling books. | B．Washing dishes. |
| C．Paying wages. | D．Mending tables. |
| A．In a school. | B．In a library. |
| C．In a bookstore. | D．In a restaurant. |
| A．Teenagers often got high pay. |
| B．The boss paid the writer in books. |
| C．The writer benefited a lot from the job. |
| D．People became independent by reading. |
【推荐1】Parking in the CBD of any Australian city is expensive, hard to come by and often an unavoidable headache.
But Rylan Kindness, a 16-year-old entrepreneur (企业家) from Brisbane, thinks he might have the answer to this problem.
It was after Rylan realized his parents were spending hours to try and find parking deals in the city that he came up with the idea for a centralized system. This system shows users the best price for parking in the area they want and offers users a daily deal with a discount.
Rylan now doubles as a high school student and the CEO of Parking Deals Australia, a role he took on four months ago when he launched the business from his bedroom.
Parking Deals Australia isn’t even Rylan’s first business. When he was barely 11, Rylan came up with an idea to sell wholesale (批发的) scooter parts (儿童滑板车配件) online, purely because he just wanted some extra money. On the side, he’s succeeding in other passions as well.
And despite Rylan clearly being a high-achiever and having a knack (诀 窍) for business, he admitted it hasn’t always been smooth sailing.
“I’ve learned so many crazy things through trial and error. Every day I fail somewhere but I always try to get better. My biggest failure was when I first set up everything and thought it was what everyone else would like but it’s a shock when you see people not enjoying what you’re doing. It makes you want to cry a little bit but then you polish the product and keep going, ” he said.
While Rylan didn’t want to say exactly how much his now-bustling company is worth, he did admit he’s making a tidy profit.
“I earn more in one day than I was earning for three months work in a cafe but I’m investing it all back into the business. What I’ve learned is that if you’re starting a business just to make money, you’re definitely going to fail. I’m there to help millions of people and that’s what really gets me going, ” he said.
Rylan’s goal with Parking Deals Australia is to take it countrywide.
“We want to be everyone’s second step in their parking journey and save millions of people millions of dollars,” he said.
1. According to the article, the centralized system can ________.| A．find free parking areas | B．analyze users’ parking habits |
| C．show the nearest parking lot for drivers | D．recommend the cheapest parking spaces |
| A．His parents asked him to develop the centralized system. |
| B．He started to display a talent for business when he was about 11. |
| C．He left school to run his own company four months ago. |
| D．He started his first business by setting up Parking Deals Australia. |
| A．has shown him that the beginning is the most difficult time |
| B．has taught him to work through failures by improving |
| C．has helped him finish his high school study. |
| D．has inspired him not to care too much about others’ opinions |
| A．To earn some extra money for making bigger investments. |
| B．To become one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Australia. |
| C．To help people while making a profit. |
| D．To expand his influence on a national scale. |
The other day I was having coffee and catching up with Brian, a friend I hadn’t seen in over a year, when he asked me this question: “Do you regret leaving Google?” “Of course, I don’t regret it,” I answered. But when I reflected more deeply on his question, I arrived at this realization: We cannot regret something that has taught us valuable lessons in life.
Truth is, not every decision we make will be the right choice for us. I learned later that quitting my one and only source of income to start an e-commerce business from nothing was a recipe for financial disaster. No, that decision was not the right one at the time. Perhaps I should’ve followed the advice I give today: Build your business while working a full-time job so that you can work from a place of stability. But then again, I wouldn’t have learned such a valuable lesson had I not acted upon what was truly important to me at the time—the freedom of pursuing my own dream, on my own terms.
We regret what’s in the past and can’t be changed. We compare the choices we made yesterday to an ideal path that we think we should have taken—we simply imagine it to be a better path. What is worse is when stuck in regret, we lose our control over what matters most: What we do with our time, today.
There’s a much better way to look at regret—a more mindful way—and it can be seen at a place where action, reflection, and gratitude meet.
So whenever you find yourself caught in regret, stop and ask yourself these two questions: “What have I learned from this? And how have I grown because of it?” Perhaps you might just shift your viewpoint from that of being upset and regretful to being appreciative and grateful.
1. What did Brian’s question make the writer realize?2. List the two words the author uses to describe the viewpoint people should take when facing regret.
3. Please decide which part is false in the following statement, then underline it and explain why.
When people get stuck in regret, what makes the situation worse is that past choices can’t be changed.
4. What has been your biggest regret during your high school life? What have you learned from this? (In about 40 words)
【推荐3】I’m a huge fan of the Pacific Northwest and its bright green forests, rough coastline, and beaches decorated with wood, but visiting a top national park in summer often brings the opposite of what I come for — being alone — as huge crowds try hard to park and take photos. So, my last visit to Olympic National Park was in mid-September. I ended up bathing in the peace and quiet of forest among ancient trees and staying close enough to nearby communities to feel safe.
I thought that taking the jump from my comfortable hotel room in the park into the great outdoors was unpleasant at first. However, once I began walking slowly and aimlessly along the Hoh River Trail there and slowing down to observe beautiful sunlight and tiny mushrooms that looked like colorful umbrellas, I felt my breath deepen and my nervous system begin to relax for the first time in a long time. What I want to say is that just because the world seems obviously set up for twosomes doesn’t mean you have to let such a standard keep you from living your dreams right now. Solo travel has made me stronger and braver than I ever thought possible. It has opened up my worldview by throwing me out of my comfort zone again and again.
When it comes to living conditions, the national park not only offers 15 campgrounds across its huge area, it’s also home to five other choices for guests who would prefer not to sleep alone inside a tent — the small national park houses. Although I enjoy being alone, I have to admit that one of the coolest things about these small houses is that they are there to strengthen connection among strangers, and as such, there is usually a big fireplace next to excellent armchairs and sofas where guests can move around and make small talks at night. In one small house called Lake Quinault, I talked with grey-haired seniors about the best old-growth forest walks and asked hotel workers about the Roosevelt Dining Room (so named after Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the president during 1933-1945, came to visit), right next door.
1. What made the author avoid visiting Olympic National Park in summer?| A．The wish to stay close to communities. |
| B．The likelihood to meet crowds of people. |
| C．The quiet environment in an ancient forest. |
| D．The rough coastlines and the woody beaches. |
| A．keep opening up her worldview | B．slow her down in living her dreams |
| C．stop her leaving her comfortable zone | D．give her a chance to stay in hotel rooms |
| A．Seniors in Lake Quinault are the best forest walkers there. |
| B．The park offers five completely different places to stay in. |
| C．Big fireplaces in houses are meant to strengthen connection. |
| D．The author stayed in a house next door to a famous president. |
| A．the author’s love for the Pacific Northwest |
| B．the author’s solo trip to Olympic National Park |
| C．the greatest tourist attractions in Olympic National Park |
| D．the brief comparison between group travel and solo ones |
