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Suddenly screams echo through the forest as alarmed animals warn each other of a predator’s (食肉动物) approach. Lying on my stomach with my camera in front of me, I’ve been watching a nearby stream for hours, waiting. This may be it!

Yes! A 380-pound lioness steps from the trees, heading towards the stream. She crouches (蹲伏) down to drink. She’s only 50 yards away. She stands up and begins to walk towards me, not knowing I’m there. When she’s just about 20 yards away, I move my camera slightly. I don’t want to shock or panic her. She freezes for a moment, then take a crouching position and continues towards me. I’m thinking, “Uh-oh, I’m about to become cat food!” I’ve approached lions before, but now the lion approaches me.

If I stand up and yell, will she leave? Maybe not. If I stand up and run, will she chase me? Probably! So I decided to stay put.

The lioness comes closer. Now she’s only about four yards from me—the closest distance that still allows me to focus my camera lens. Surprisingly, she lies down, posing like a statue in front of me. This makes me feel very small and humble (卑微的). Then she rolls over and looks at me upside down! She seems a little puzzled and appears to be trying to figure me out —Hmm, are you suitable to be eaten? You don’t look dangerous.

Breathe slowly, I remind myself, with my heart beating fast. I carefully back up my tripod (三脚架) just a bit to focus and shoot the picture. Suddenly, she leaps up. In a flash, she runs away, leaving me overwhelmed with emotion.

Getting this photograph took a long time. I spent two years waiting for a permit to track the extremely rare Asiatic lions in the Gir Forest of India and spent three months on foot searching for them. The experience felt like a gift from the forest.

1. After coming close to the author, the lioness ________.
A.pretends to be dead
B.stays and then goes away
C.tries to find the moment to attack him
D.recognizes the author and stares at him.
2. What do we know about the author?
A.He used to live in the forest.
B.He stops working when he sees the lioness.
C.He makes great efforts to get the photograph.
D.He congratulates himself upon his narrow escape.
3. The underlined words stay put in Paragraph 3 probably mean ________.
A.step forwardB.stand up
C.stay stillD.put off

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【推荐1】We were sitting in her classroom, giggling each other and talking about the latest information of the day. Mrs Virginia De View, whose physical appearance made her an easy target for snickers (窃笑) and cruel jokes among students, cleared her throat and asked us to be silent.

“Now, Mrs.” Virginia De View said smiling, “we are going to discover our professions.” The class seemed to be greatly surprised. We were only 13 and 14 years old!

“Yes, you will all be searching for your future professions.”she said.

“You will have to do a research paper on your upcoming career. Each of you will have to interview someone in your field, plus give an oral report.”

Finally, I picked print journalism, and interviewed a true-blue newspaper reporter in the flesh. After a few days, I gave my oral report totally from memory in class. I got an A on the entire project.

Years later, I forgot all about Virginia De View and the careers we selected. I was in college looking around for a new career. but with no success. Then I remembered Virginia De View and my desire at 13 to be a journalist. And I called my parents. They didn't stop me. They just reminded me how competitive the field was. This was true. But journalism did something to me; it was in my blood. For the past 12 years, I've had the most incredible and satisfying reporting career .

I get asked all the time: “How did you pick journalism?”

“Well, you see, there was this teacher...” I always start out. Virginia Deview will probably never know without her help, I would not have become a journalist and a writer. I wonder now how many other students benefited from that career project.

I believe that when people reflect back over their school days, there will be their very own Virginia De View. Perhaps you can thank her before it's too late.

1. What did the students think of Mrs Virginia's project in her class?
A.HarmfulB.Crazy
C.BeneficialD.Flexible
2. What is Virginia Deview’s project?
A.Career planningB.Oral ability
C.Paper researchD.Interviewing skills
3. What can be inferred about the author?
A.He keeps in touch with Mrs. Virginia.
B.He practiced as a journalist in college.
C.His parents were against his decision.
D.He enjoys working as a journalist
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D.To look for his previous classmates.
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文章大意:本文是一篇记叙文。八旬老人Hazell为了打发自我隔离的无聊时光,将自己收集的几百条围巾背后的故事写到了博客中,没想到收获了上千阅读量。

【推荐2】Like many old people, Hazell Jacobs has spent most of the past few months alone. A mini-stroke (小中风) forced her to begin self-isolating (自我隔离) earlier than most, and as the country went into lockdown, she realised she might need something to kill time.

One morning, she opened her wardrobe (衣橱) and pulled out boxes and boxes of scarves. Hazell has hundreds of them, collected throughout her life over decades spent travelling the world with her late husband Godfrey, a land surveyor who died in 2004, and whose work took them from Hong Kong to California. Each scarf is woven with memories. Hazell began to write the stories behind these scarves. “I’ve had a very interesting life, with a lot of adventures, and there were sad things, too,” says Hazell.

With the help of her granddaughter, Ella, who volunteered to take care of the technical side of things, Hazell started Scarf Aid, a blog designed to see her through the months of isolation. Quite unexpectedly, she soon attracted followers from all over the world. After The New York Times featured her blog, her readership shot up to more than 3,000.

If Hazell is to be believed, she has done all this for her granddaughter, Ella. “It’s really about finding something that Ella can do with me.” Speaking to Ella over the phone from Manchester, where she is in her final year studying graphic design, it’s clear the feeling is entirely mutual (相互的). “It’s been such a positive experience for me as well as her. The bond between us has grown so much stronger,” she says.

Hazell has many more scarves to go through and more stories to go with them. She hopes, that one day Scarf Aid — which weaves deeply personal stories with accounts of historical events — might be seen as a memoir. “Maybe my scarf collection will be a historical thing for a museum or something? But I suspect my kids will want some of the scarves,” she says.

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4. What does Hazell expect of Scarf Aid?
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【推荐3】Pablo Picasso was born on October 25 in Malaga, Spain in 1881. Taking after his father, Picasso shared a passion (热爱) for painting and art. Even though he wasn't the best student in school, Picasso excelled at drawing. Noticing his amazing talent, Picasso's father, an artist, taught him everything he knew. Before long, Picasso could paint and draw much better than his father. With this rich talent, Picasso paid less and less attention to his schoolwork and spent the majority of his day sketching and drawing in notepads and sketchbooks.

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Picasso inspires us to be always thinking. He tells us to think outside the box and come up with fresh new ideas that can change the world. He surely plays an important role in the art field.

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B.He was very proud of his paintings.
C.He showed great talent for drawing.
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2. What did Picasso's father do when he found Picasso's gift?
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C.He asked Picasso to finish his work on time.
D.He tried his best to help Picasso.
3. What was Picasso's attitude towards the special techniques at that time?
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4. What does the author tell us in the last two paragraphs?
A.Picasso decided to go to Paris to sell his drawings.
B.Picasso has greatly changed the world a lot.
C.Picasso is a highly creative and influential artist.
D.Picasso can do anything he wants to.
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