Six people were travelling in a compartment on a train. Five of them were quiet and well behaved, but the sixth was a rude young man who was causing a lot of trouble to the other passengers.
At a station this young man got out with his two heavy bags. None of the other passengers helped him, but one of them waited until the rude young man was very far away. Then he opened the window and shouted to the young man, “You left something behind in the compartment!” Then he closed the windows again.
The young man turned around and hurried back with his two bags. He was very tired when he arrived, but he shouted through the window, “What did I leave behind?”
As the train began to move again, the passenger who had called him back opened the window and said, “A very bad impression!”
1. Which of the following can best describe the behaviour of the young man?| A．Quiet. | B．Troublesome. |
| C．Not at all polite. | D．Both B and C. |
| A．The other five passengers | B．One of the passengers |
| C．The porter | D．Nobody |
| A．worried | B．frightened | C．tired | D．sad |
| A．nothing important | B．something unpleasant |
| C．his ticket | D．a bag |
| A．The young man caused a lot of trouble. |
| B．The young man went back to the train again. |
| C．The young man said goodbye to the other passengers. |
| D．The young man shouted through the window. |
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【推荐1】One day, a woman walked into a pet store to buy a bird for her Thanksgiving Day party. The guy said, “We only have one parrot. But I think you do not want it because it can talk…” The woman said happily, “That’s great. I’ve always wanted a talking bird.” So the guy said, “Since you are a nice lady, I’ll give it to you as a gift.”
And the lady went home and put the bird on her bed and walked out of the room. But as soon as she walked into the kitchen, the bird started to speak dirty words as loud as it could. The woman walked back into the room thinking, “I can’t have this at my party!” So she took the bird and put it in the fridge. A few hours later, while the woman was eating, she remembered that her bird was still in the fridge. Quickly, she opened the door and found it was shivering. Then she took out the bird at once. She said to the bird, “I’ll keep you out of there if you don’t use that language again. Do you agree with me?”
The bird nodded and asked, “Can I just ask a quick question?” The lady nodded and said, “Yes, you may.” The bird pointed at the turkey behind him and asked, “What did he do?”
1. The woman went into the pet store because ________.| A．there were lots of nice birds in it |
| B．she wanted to buy a bird to make a big meal |
| C．she wanted to buy a bird for Thanksgiving Day party |
| D．she wanted to buy a bird for his son’s birthday |
| A．发抖 | B．睡觉 | C．生气 | D．跳动 |
| A．how the turkey was put into the fridge. | B．why itself was in the fridge. |
| C．who could be in the fridge. | D．why the turkey was in the fridge. |
| A．she wanted to cook it on Thanksgiving Day | B．the bird spoke dirty words |
| C．the bird liked living in the cold place | D．she thought it’s the best place for it to live in |
【推荐2】You must know what BYD stands for? Yes, Build Your Dream. Have you built your dream and spare no effort to achieve it? Here is an inspiring story from http//www.naijamotiveation.com
Eddie Arcaro dreamed of becoming the world’s greatest jockey(赛马骑师). But after watching him ride a horse for five minutes, reality reflected a rough contradiction. He was awkward and clumsy, and in his early years in the saddle(马鞍)he couldn’t do one thing right.
In his first 100 races he never even came close to winning. Still, he got right back on and trained again. Even as a schoolboy, Arcaro had set his own track in life. Because he was only a little over five feet tall (1.5 meters) and weighed barely 80 pounds (36kg), the other students picked on him. So he skipped school, hanging out at the local race track where a trainer let him ride horses.
His father reluctantly agreed to let him pursue a career as a jockey. The trainer had told him so. “Send him back to school,” he said. “He’ll never be a rider.” In spite of that, Arcaro was determined not just to ride, but to become the world’s greatest jockey. But first someone would have to give him a chance.
He finally got to ride in a real race. Before it was over, he’d lost his whip and his cap and had almost fallen off the saddle. By the time he finished the race, the other horses were on their way to the stables(马厩). He’d come in dead last. Nevertheless, Arcaro went from track to track, looking for any opportunity to ride.
Finally, a trainer who pitied him took him in and gave him a chance. One hundred losses later, he was still giving him chances. He saw something in this unlucky jockey, something he couldn’t define.
There were many brushes with death and several broken bones. Every time he would return to the saddle. Then Arcaro began to win. In thirty years of riding, he won 4, 779 races, becoming the only jockey in history to win the Kentucky Derby five times. By the time he retired in 1962 he was a millionaire and a legend in his own lifetime.
1. The underlined phrase “picked on” in the passage probably means _______.| A．paid attention to | B．made fun of |
| C．offered help to | D．took special care of |
| A．Arcaro had shown great talents in horse racing |
| B．he thought all that Arcaro needed was a bit of luck |
| C．he had sympathy for Arcaro for his unfortunate experiences |
| D．he was impressed by the way Arcaro stuck to his dream |
| A．a man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds |
| B．you can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf |
| C．winners in life set goals and follow through on them |
| D．life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you hold. |
| A．The Man With The One Track Mind |
| B．A Star With Many Skills |
| C．An Inspiring Website Story |
| D．Inspiration Is Around Us |
【推荐3】Ben Francis didn’t become wealthy through a family inheritance (遗产). Instead, the CEO and co-founder of Gymshark used his earnings as a Pizza Hut delivery guy to buy a sewing machine and start his fitness apparel company at 19.
Eleven years later, his adolescent strategy literally paid off. Francis, 30, who has a reported net worth of $1.3 billion, joined Forbes’ billionaires list. He’s in rare company: The list’s average age is 65 years old.
Originally, Francis and co-founder Lewis Morgan launched Gymshark as a website selling fitness supplements. But after getting fed up with his ill-fitting clothes, Francis suggested pivoting the company.
Francis and Morgan bought a sewing machine. The pair brought Gymshark to a bodybuilding exhibition in 2013. but didn’t have any money to spend on advertising. On a whim (一时兴起), they decided to give popular fitness YouTubers free products. “My heroes were on YouTube. “ Francis said. “So it would be so cool if my heroes could come to be with Gymshark at this event. I didn’t really think that much about it. “Some of those influencers went on to wear the apparel on their channels, launching Gymshark’s I sales to $1,000 per day, up from just $ 450.
Franos quit the CEO role in 2017. “CEO was not the right role for me when I was in my early 20. “ Francis said. “That I’d started a business that had grown very quickly didn’t mean I was the most competent chief executive. “He spent the next four years supporting leadership roles within Gymshark — including chief product officer and chief marketing officer — to learn more about the ins and outs of the business. before, returning as CEO in 2021.
That year, the company was valued at 1.45 billion. Still, the company’s billion- dollar valuation is a small percentage of the market value of competitors like Nike and Lululemon. “I really think Gymshark can be the U. K.’s answer to those brands,” Francis said. “But that’s not saying that the U. K. is where it starts and ends for us. We also want to be a truly global brand.
1. What makes Ben Francis special on Forbes’ billionaires list?| A．His age. | B．His wealth. |
| C．The way he succeeded. | D．The business he took up. |
| A．Taking control of. | B．Making the best of. |
| C．Making changes to. | D．Attaching importance to. |
| A．To sing the praises of their heroes on YouTube. |
| B．To win the support of popular YouTubers. |
| C．To build a good relationship with YouTube. |
| D．To popularize their products in a cheap way. |
| A．Gymshark: From a website to a big company |
| B．Francis: From a Pizza Hut delivery guy to a billionaire |
| C．Francis: Starting the U. K.’s fastest-growing company |
| D．Gymshark: Taking the lead in fitness clothing |
【推荐1】The world’s oldest pen pals have both turned 100 after 84 years of transatlantic(大西洋彼岸的)letters and have now switched to Zoom.
Geoff Banks from Honiton, Devon, and Celesta Byme, from US, started writing to each other aged just 16 in 1938. They met as part of an educational project to put British and American students in contact-and 84 years later they are still corresponding.
Geoff, a retired engineer, said, “I honestly struggle to remember how we got in touch, but I was talking to Celesta recently and I think it was something to do with an American school’s scheme(计划), which matched us up with Americans for a pen pal relationship, and somehow I ended up with this letter from an American girl, and we just kept corresponding ever since. There were a couple of years when we struggled to keep in touch because of the war. Now of course she is partially sighted, so I correspond mainly by email to one of her daughters who lives nearby. Email is much easier for me these days too because I can’t write very well anymore. We just talk about daily lives and our families really. She’s always been there to write to, even if it was just birthday cards and Christmas cards.”
Despite having chatted for decades, the pair has only ever met twice—first in 2002 while Geoff visited New York aged 80, and then again two years later. Geoff is now a great grandfather, having sadly outlived(比……活得长)his daughter but still having three sons scattered across the world and many more grandchildren.
Geoff said, “We actually met up again in 2004 when she invited me to her house for lunch. I have this new thing called Zoom I think now to chat with her, but I leave all the technology to younger people. They’re much better at pressing all buttons.”
1. What brought Geoff Banks and Celesta Byrne together to be pen pals?| A．The war in the 1930s. | B．An American school’s scheme. |
| C．Communication technology. | D．Geoff’s visit to New York. |
| A．He suffered from eye disease. | B．He had trouble pressing buttons. |
| C．He was unable to write well. | D．He relied on Zoom to chat. |
| A．True friendship outlives time and space. | B．Letters were not permitted during the war. |
| C．Pen pals are true friends. | D．Technology strengthens friendships. |
| A．Pen Pals Meet after 84 years | B．Pen Pal Relationship Lasts a Century |
| C．90 Years of Chat: from Letter to Zoom | D．Oldest Pen Pals in the world |
【推荐2】The famous director of a big and expensive movie planned to film a beautiful sunset over the ocean, so that the audience could see his hero and heroine in front of it at the end of the film as they said goodbye to each other for ever. He sent camera team out one evening to film the sunset for him.
The next morning he said to the men, “Have you provided me with that sunset?”
“No, Sir,” the men answered.
The director was angry. “Why not?” he asked.
“Well,” one of the men answered, “we are on the east coast here, and the sun sets in the west. We can get you a sunrise over the sea, if necessary, but not a sunset.”
“But I want a sunset!” the director shouted. “Go to the airport, take the next flight to the west coast, and get one.”
But then a young secretary had an idea. “Why don’t you photograph a sunrise,” she suggested, “and then play it backwards, Then it’ll look like a sunset.” “That’s a very good idea!” the director said. Then he turned to the camera team and said, “Tomorrow morning I want you to get me a beautiful sunrise over the sea.”
The camera team went out early the next morning and filmed a bright sunrise over the beach in the middle of a beautiful bay. Then at nine o'clock they took it to the director. “Here it is, Sir,” they said, and give it to him. He was very pleased.
They all went into the studio. “All right,” the director explained, “now our hero and heroine are going to say goodbye. Run the film backwards so that we can see the sunset behind them.”
The “sunset” began, but after a quarter of a minute, the director suddenly put his face in his hands and shouted to the camera team to stop.
The birds in the film were flying backwards away from the beach.
1. One evening, the director sent his camera team out ______.| A．to watch a beautiful sunset |
| B．to find an actor and an actress |
| C．to film a scene on the sea |
| D．to meet the audience |
| A．Because he changed his mind about getting a sunset |
| B．Because he was angry about his team |
| C．Because it was his secretary’s suggestion |
| D．Because he wanted to get a scene of sunset |
| A．The team followed the secretary’s advice. |
| B．If you want to see a sunrise, the east coast is a place to go to. |
| C．The camera team wasn’t able to film the scene the first day. |
| D．The director ordered his team to stop filming the “sunset” |
| A．it went well with the separation of the hero and heroine |
| B．when they arrived at the beach it was already in the evening |
| C．it was more moving than a sunrise |
| D．the ocean looked more than a sunrise |
| A．because he was moved to tears |
| B．as he saw everything in the film moving backwards |
| C．as the sunrise did not look as beautiful as he had imagined |
| D．because he was disappointed with the performance of the hero and the heroine |
【推荐3】Mother liked Roger because he was fun, paid attention to me, and was generous. He paid for her to come to see me several times when she was in New Orleans, and he probably paid for the train trips Mammaw and I took to see Mother.
Papaw liked Roger because he was nice both to me and to him. For a while after my grandfather quit the icehouse because of severe bronchial problems, he started running a liquor store. Near the end of the war, Hempstead County, of which Hope is the county seat, voted to go “dry.” That’s when my grandfather opened his grocery store. I later learned that Papaw sold liquor under the counter to the doctors, lawyers, and other respectable people who didn’t want to drive the thirty-three miles to the nearest legal liquor store in Texarkana, and that Roger was his supplier.
Mammaw really disliked Roger because she thought he was not the kind of man her daughter and grandson should be tied to. She had a dark side her husband and daughter lacked, but it enabled her to see the darkness in others that they missed. She thought Roger Clinton was nothing but trouble. She was right about the trouble part, but not the “nothing but.” There was more to him than that, which makes his story even sadder.
As for me, all I knew was that he was good to me and had a big brown and black German shepherd, Susie, that he brought to play with me. Susie was a big part of my childhood, and started my lifelong love affair with dogs.
Mother and Roger got married in Hot Springs in June 1950, shortly after her twenty-seventh birthday. Only Gabe and Virginia Crawford were there. Then Mother and I left her parents’ home and moved with my new stepfather, whom I soon began to call Daddy, into a little white wooden house on the south end of town at 321 Thirteenth Street at the corner of Walker Street. Not long afterward, I started calling myself Billy Clinton.
1. According to the article, which of the following statements is NOT true?| A．Papaw is the writer’s grandfather. | B．Susie is the name of a dog. |
| C．Hope is the name of a place. | D．Roger is Mammaw’s son. |
| A．was a perfect man | B．meant nothing but trouble |
| C．was not wealthy at all | D．cared about him |
| A．the author’s grandfather sold alcohol secretly |
| B．the weather was very dry at the time |
| C．the author’s grandfather ran a grocery store for health reasons |
| D．Roger was a regular customer of the author’s grandfather’s |
| A．How Mother Liked Roger Clinton | B．How Roger Became My Stepfather |
| C．How Good Roger Was to My Family | D．How My Grandparents Disliked Roger |
