Aaron Carter isn’t like other 12-year-olds. He doesn’t go to school, and he’s already got a job. He is a big pop star. A few years ago he started his singing with Crazy Little Party Girl, which became a hit at once. Now he goes around the world and his songs are in the tops.
Because he’s traveling around all the time Aaron doesn’t have to go to school, but don’t envy him too much — he still has to do lessons and homework. And he is good at learning.
“I have to fit my schoolwork around my singing,” he explains. “But I’m lucky because I have a private tutor who travels with me. I sometimes have to have lessons on a plane. That’s really interesting!”
Aaron’s favorite subject is math but he hates history. He knows clearly that having a good singing career doesn’t mean he can go without schoolwork.
“It would be easy to think that I don’t need to do well in exams, but that would be crazy,” he says. “It’s important to get my qualifications (资格) so that I have something to fall back on. Besides, it’s interesting to learn about other people and cultures.”
Aaron’s favorite type of music is rock ‘n’ roll. “The best thing about being a singer” he says, “is that you get to travel all around the world. But the worst thing is that you’re away from home so much that you don’t get to see your friends or family.”
1. According to the passage, we learn that Aaron Carter is________.| A．a composer | B．a successful singer | C．a history lover | D．a young businessman |
| A．Aaron Carter doesn’t go to school because he likes singing better. |
| B．Aaron Carter has his own teacher. |
| C．Aaron likes math as well as history. |
| D．Aaron Carter likes traveling all around the world and dislikes seeing friends and family. |
| A．check in | B．return to | C．depend on | D．decide on |
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【推荐1】When the sand began kicking up and hitting our faces, I started to worry that maybe we had made a mistake.
That afternoon, my dad had stood on the deck (露台) of our home and laughed as our neighbors packed up their cars and headed inland. They left to spend the night in motels or at friends’ homes that were out of range of approaching summer storm.
Challenging the weather that threatened to damping our spirits, we lit a fire on the beach. Dad told jokes and we had a good time. When it was 6:30 p.m., all laughter disappeared. Our eyes were drawn to the sky. A tornado (龙卷风) was headed straight for us! In a flash, we were all on our feet. The wind started screaming and now we were running to the cottage. My mom stopped next to the front door. “Where can we go?” She shouted at my dad.
Most cottages on this part of Lake Michigan had been built without basements. Ours was no exception. The huge windows and the cottage itself wouldn’t offer safety from high wind.
“Follow me!” my dad yelled. We crawled (爬) beneath the deck, pressing ourselves against the foundation of the cottage. Between the deck supports, we watched the approaching storm in silent terror.
My dad shouted, “Hold on!” and something else I couldn’t hear over the screaming wind. I think he was praying. By the time it reached our cottage, it was nothing more than a strong wind. The rest of the storm lasted for an hour and then simply blew away.
“Next time, we’ll stay inland at Grandma’s. Okay?” my dad said.
1. What did the family do before the storm came?| A．They left the motels. | B．They packed up the cars. |
| C．They stayed on the beach. | D．They visited their neighbors. |
| A．Closing their eyes tightly. | B．Praying in silent terror. |
| C．Crawling on the ground. | D．Running away at once. |
| A．Under a deck. | B．In a basement. |
| C．Inside the car. | D．Behind a door. |
| A．Life on the beach | B．An Unusual Cottage |
| C．Surviving a Storm | D．My Admirable Family |
【推荐2】As a young man, AI was a skilled artist. He had a wife and two fine sons. One night,his oldest son developed a stomachache. Thinking it was only some common illness,neither AI nor his wife took the condition very seriously. But the illness became acute and the boy died suddenly that night.
Knowing the death could have been prevented if he had only realized the seriousness of the situation,AI’s emotional health was weakened under the effect of his guilt. To make matters worse,his wife left him a short time later, leaving him alone with his six-year-old younger son. The hurt and pain of the two situations were more than AI could handle and he became an alcoholic (酒鬼).
As the alcoholism progressed, AI began to lose everything he had — his home, his land, his art objects, everything. Eventually AI died alone in a San Francisco motel room.
When I heard of AI’s death, I thought he was a loser because he ended his life with nothing material to show for it.
As time went by, I began to change my judgment. You see, I knew AI’s now adult son, Ernie. He is one of the kindest, most caring, most loving men I have ever known. I watched Ernie with his children and saw the free flow of love between them. I knew that kindness and caring had to come from somewhere.
One day, Ernie told me, “From my earliest memories as a child until I left home at 18, my dad came into my room every night, gave me a kiss and said,’I love you,son.’”
Tears came to my eyes as I realized what a fool I had been to judge AI as a failure. He had not left any material possessions behind. But he left love to his son,who became one of the finest,most giving men I have ever known.
1. The underlined word in Paragraph 1 can best be replaced by “________”.| A．common | B．light | C．serious | D．better |
| A．One. | B．None. | C．Three. | D．Two. |
| A．He became an alcoholic. |
| B．The death could have been prevented. |
| C．His wife left him a short time later. |
| D．His son’s illness became acute. |
| A．An unloving man. | B．A strange man. |
| C．A good man. | D．A funny man. |
| A．Ernie and His Father |
| B．An Alcoholic’s Death |
| C．Love Is the Best Gift |
| D．How to Be a Good Man |
【推荐3】As a young boy, I knew what people said was not always what they meant or were feeling. And I knew it was possible to get others to do what I wanted if I read their real feelings and responded suitably to their needs. At the age of eleven, I sold sponge rubber door-to-door after school and quickly worked out how to tell if someone was likely to buy from me. When I knocked on a door, if someone told me to go away but their hands were open and they showed their palms, I knew it was safe to continue with my show because they weren’t angry or threatening although they may have a cold attitude. If someone told me to go away in a soft voice but used a pointed finger or closed hand, I knew it was time to leave.
As a teenager, I became a pots and pans salesperson, and my ability to read people earned me enough money to buy my first house. Selling gave me the chance to meet people and study them close and to know whether they would buy or not, simply by watching their body language.
I joined the life insurance (保险) business at the age of twenty. And I went on to break several sales records for my company, becoming the youngest person to sell over a million dollars’ worth of business in my first year. This achievement allowed me to become a member of the well-known Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT). I was lucky that the skills I’d learned as a boy in watching body language while selling pots and pans could be used in this new area, and were directly related to the success I could have in any business closely connected with people.
1. What does the author seem to share in Paragraph 1?.| A．His present feelings. | B．His positive life attitude. |
| C．His language ability. | D．His earlier experience. |
| A．The life insurance business. | B．The pots and pans industry. |
| C．The study of body language. | D．The work of the MDRT. |
| A．Listening to customers. | B．Arguing with customers. |
| C．Studying customers’ words. | D．Reading customers’ body language. |
| A．By following the order of space. | B．By following the order of time. |
| C．By giving examples. | D．By giving reasons. |
【推荐1】Born in Guangzhou in October 1936, Zhong Nanshan is one of the greatest doctors in China, as well as an academic at the Chinese Academy of Engineering. After graduating from Medical College in Beijing in 1960, he worked as a teacher.
For years as a leading Chinese specialist in respiratory (呼吸道) diseases, Zhong was well-known, but the outbreak of SARS has turned him into a household name across the country. Zhong was one of a limited number of doctors informed of the disease from the moment the first few cases were reported through the inner medical network in Guangdong. He and his colleagues had been busy fighting it for more than a month before he appeared at the press conference in Guangzhou. Under his guidance, an effective treatment method was discovered not long after, and Guangdong achieved the lowest death rate and highest recovery rate for SARS in China.
In 2010, in order to reform medical education and cultivate (培养) more medical talents, Zhong interviewed and selected students for a 32-student “Nanshan class”. Zhong worked as a headteacher. The class aimed to provide more hands-on training, student-teacher interaction and international viewpoints than the average course. Chinese medical students are often taught in big groups and seldom get the chance to perform clinical practice. “I hope that all of you can have more contact with patients from the very beginning. We should make ourselves practical and creative, not just fluent English-speakers who work as high-ranking employees in foreign laboratories,” Zhong said at the course opening ceremony.
Zhong’s working attitude left a deep impression on his colleagues. “What impresses me most is his double-tube stethoscope (听诊器). Compared with other ones, it’s much heavier, but it works more precisely, so Mr. Zhong carries it with him wherever he goes,” said Li Huiling, a post-doctorate fellow at the respiratory diseases research center in Guangzhou.
1. What did Zhong and his colleagues achieve under his guidance?| A．They reported the first SARS case. | B．They held a successful press conference. |
| C．They found a way to treat SARS. | D．They achieved zero death rate for SARS. |
| A．To train more excellent talents. | B．To interview students in person. |
| C．To make students taught in groups. | D．To help students enter foreign labs. |
| A．Zhong got well on with his colleagues. | B．Li Huiling impressed Zhong most. |
| C．Zhong liked heavier stethoscopes. | D．Zhong worked hard and carefully, |
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【推荐2】 There is a famous story about how Walt Disney was inspired to build Disneyland. The story goes that during an afternoon visit to Griffith Pack located near the Burbank Studios, Walt took a scat while his two young daughters rode the merry-go-round. Walt thought there should be a place where both children and their parents could enjoy spending some time together in an environment that would be both entertaining and pleasing to the eye, so with this thought came the idea for Disneyland.
Walt’s original plan was to build an eight-acre park located near the Burbank Studios that would be a place for his employees and their families. Those plans were put on hold because of the start of World War Ⅱ. By 1952, Walt had created a special department to build the park.
Finally in 1953, the first steps in building the park happened when Walt hired the Stanford Research Institute to make a survey to determine the best possible location for the future park. Considering population growth and the future freeway construction, they finally found a location in Anaheim and 160 acres of land were bought for the site of the new park.
The building of the park was very expensive and to create funding for the project Walt developed the idea of the “Walt Disney’s Disneyland” television show. It turned out to be a marvelous idea — not only gaining the money to build the park but also presenting the park to the American public.
Construction officially began on July 21, 1954, and it was an ambitious (野心勃勃的) building schedule of less than one year to complete the new park for the projected opening day. Walt watched over the park’s construction and progress continued with just a few minor hold-ups. Finally, the park was ready for the Opening Day on July 17, 1955.
1. What inspired Walt Disney to build Disneyland?| A．The special design of Griffith Park. | B．Requests from his family and employees. |
| C．A trip to a park with his daughters. | D．The idea to build a park for his daughters. |
| A．Local traffic. | B．The natural environment. |
| C．The advice of the public. | D．Walt Disney’s personal preference. |
| A．It was influenced by a shortage of money. | B．It was affected by World War Ⅱ. |
| C．It was completed later than expected. | D．It was smooth generally. |
Jessica Tandy was born in London in 1909. After her father died, her mother taught and took other jobs at night to make extra money to raise her, three children. Jessica’s older brothers showed an interest in the theater and often put on shows at home. Jessica said later that she was terrible in all of them. But she said taking part in those plays as a child created a desire in her to be someone else.
Jessica loved going to the theater. This love led her to attend an acting school in 1924. She performed in her first play called The Manderson Girls at 18. But few people watched this play. In 1932, she married the famous actor Jack Hawkins. Their wedding pictures were on the front page of many British newspapers. In the same year, critics in London recognized her great acting skill in her performance in the play Children in Uniform.
In 1940, Jessica ended her first marriage and moved to the USA. In New York, she met actor Hume Cronyn. Two years later, they married and moved to Hollywood.
Her turning point came in 1947 when she played the lead part in Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire. Tandy won the first of her four Tony awards for best actress in it. After that Hollywood producers began to choose her to be in the movie.
Jessica Tandy said she hated seeing herself in the movies. She was surprised when she won the Academy Award for Driving Miss Daisy. She said that the wonderful part she had made up for her lack of experience in movies.
1. Jessica’s early interest in acting came from __________.
| A．her natural gift for acting | B．her brothers’ influence |
| C．her hope of helping raise her family | D．her mother’s encouragement |
| A．Attending an acting school. |
| B．Her first play The Manderson Girls. |
| C．Her marriage with Jack Hawkins. |
| D．Her wonderful performance in Driving Miss Daisy. |
a. Jessica performed in The Manderson Girls.
b. Jessica married Hume Cronyn
c. Jessica played the lead part in A Streetcar Named Desire.
d. Jessica moved to the USA.
| A．a, d, b, c | B．a, b, c, d | C．b, d, a, c | D．b, c, a, d |
| A．Jessica wasn’t interested in acting in movies |
| B．winning the Academy Award was a surprise to Jessica |
| C．Jessica would perform better if given a better part |
| D．Jessica was as confident as commonly considered |
