I remember the day when I first learned to ride a bike. It was a frightening, yet fun experience. My grandfather was the one who taught me and he helped me when I got hurt. The first time I got on a bike, I had no idea what I was doing, and just about everything went wrong. My grandfather told me to just put my feet on the pedals (脚蹬子) and start cycling. He also told me he would hold onto the back of the bike the whole time, yet he didn’t.
As soon as I started trying to balance myself, he let the bike go. I happened to look back just then. I was scared to death that I was going to fall and hurt myself. When I was scared, my mind went blank from cycling, and I just wanted off. I forgot how to use the brakes (车闸) and fell right off the bike. My grandfather kept encouraging me to get up and try again, and after about 15 minutes, I finally stopped crying, got up and tried again.
As soon as I started riding again, my pants got caught in the chain, and I fell flat on my face and hit my nose. My grandfather decided to call it a day and try again the next morning. The next morning I woke up brightly and early, and was very eager to try to ride my bike. My nose felt better, so I wasn’t that afraid of falling anymore.
Despite the fact that I knew there were a range of difficulties on the way to mastering the skills in riding a bike, I believed I could do well with my grandfather’s help. After all, riding a bike was indeed what I wanted to do eagerly.
1. How was the author when he was on the bike first?| A．He didn’t know where he would be going. |
| B．He thought balancing himself was easy. |
| C．He put his feet on the pedals and started cycling. |
| D．He was nervous and didn’t know what to do next. |
| A．Remember what happened this day. | B．Make the author feel happy. |
| C．Stop practicing bicycling. | D．Go on to ride a bike. |
| A．Grateful. | B．Positive. | C．Indifferent. | D．Negative. |
| A．The First Time I Got My Own Bike |
| B．The Experience of My First Riding a Bike |
| C．The Difficulty I Met with My Grandfather |
| D．The Happy Moment When I Stayed with My Grandfather |
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【推荐1】On a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the New York railway station, playing his violin. The music was so great that many people stopped to put some money into the hat of the young man.
The next day, the young artist came to the same place, and put his hat on the ground gracefully. Different from the day before, he took out a large piece of paper and laid it under his hat. Then he began to play the violin. It sounded more pleasant than ever.
Soon he was surrounded with people who were attracted by the words on that paper. It said, “Last night, a gentleman named George Sang put an important thing into my hat by mistake. Please come to get it soon.”
After about half an hour, a middle-aged man rushed through the crowd to the violinist and said, “Yes, it’s you. I knew that you were an honest man and would certainly come here.” The young violinist asked calmly, “Are you Mr George Sang?” The man nodded. The violinist asked, “Did you lose something?” “It’s a lottery ticket (彩票),” said the man. The violinist took out a lottery ticket and George Sang’s name was seen on it. “Is it?” he asked. George nodded and took the lottery ticket and kissed it, then danced with the violinist.
The violinist was a student at an arts college and had planned to attend advanced studies in Vienna. Later his classmate asked the violinist, “At that time you needed money to pay the tuition and you had to play the violin in the railway station every day to make money. Why didn’t you keep the lottery ticket for yourself?”
The violinist said, “Although I don’t have much money, I live happily. But if I lose honesty, I won’t be happy forever.” During our lives, we can gain a lot and lose so much. But being honest always be with us.
1. Which sentence below best explains the underlined sentence in paragraph two?| A．Because the violinist loved to play the violin at the station. |
| B．Because the artist felt happier when he did a good thing. |
| C．Because the violinist felt happy when people surrounded him. |
| D．Because he felt happy to attend advanced studies. |
| A．The paper asked a gentleman named George Sang to get his hat. |
| B．The paper was a lottery ticket and he needed to find the owner. |
| C．The paper asked a gentleman named George Sang to get his important thing. |
| D．The owner of the lottery ticket is unknown. |
| A．was afraid of blame if he kept it for himself | B．didn’t need the money |
| C．thought the lottery was worth nothing | D．chose to be honest |
| A．we should share with others if we find something valuable |
| B．keep the lottery if you find one |
| C．we should know the importance of honesty and lead a happy life |
| D．playing the violin could make you feel happy |
【推荐2】Marijana grew up in Serbia. Her parents made a living by picking vegetables and selling them on the market. Neither one of them ever got past primary school. “We were poor," Marijana says.
The Roma are Europe's largest minority (少数)group, numbering 8 to 12 million. They often face discrimination and have trouble getting basic rights and services. Many Roma families go hungry now and then. Roma children are often put into “special schools” for children with special educational needs. Without education, people can't find jobs, and they're poor for generations.
For Marijana and many other young Roma, both the chance for success and the pain of discrimination began in primary school. “It made me feel so bad," she says,"when my classmates' parents didn't want their children to sit with me." Sometimes she had to deal with teachers who picked on her simply because she was Roma. Once, she did an art project for a class.“But the teacher said, ‘You didn't do it, someone else did. You are Roma; it is in your character to lie,’ Marijana says.
But it was not all discrimination. “I had a very nice teacher of geography, ”Marijana says. “Because of the trust some teachers gave me, I felt I needed to keep going and succeed.”
Marijana is glad she went to mainstream schools, where the quality of education was better, but what really got her through school was that her parents believed in her. “Some people often said to my parents, ‘She'll get married. Why are you wasting your money and time on her?’ Nobody except my family believed I could do it,” she says.
Since university in Belgrade, Marijana has been working for the World Bank for 7 years. She deals with both Roma and non-Roma problems including education and social protection. But her most important impact might just come from her own history. “When I do field visits as part of my work, I always tell my own story to encourage Roma kids and their parents to go to school, and not to give up.”
1. What community did Marijana live in as a child?| A．A busy community. | B．A dangerous community. |
| C．A disadvantaged community. | D．A loving and caring community. |
| A．It was boring. | B．It was bittersweet. |
| C．It was generally fun. | D．It was a total failure. |
| A．They didn't care about that. | B．They were strongly against it. |
| C．They couldn't reach an agreement. | D．They knew it would get her somewhere. |
| A．She changes the way they study. | B．She sets a good example for them. |
| C．She prepares them for part-time jobs. | D．She makes them realize the importance of success. |
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
Charles Dickens (1812—1870), the great nineteenth century English novelist, was born near Portsmouth. His father ran heavily into debt (债) and when he was twelve, he had to go and work in a factory. The only formal education he received was a two-year schooling at a school for poor children. In fact, he had to teach himself all he knew. He worked for a time in a lawyer’s office. After that, he worked as a reporter in the law courts, and later for London newspapers. His life as a writer of novels began in 1833 with short stories and essays in newspapers, and in 1837 his novel “The Pickwick Papers” made him the most popular author at his time in England.
He was a great observer (观察者) of people and their places because he was concerned about life and conditions in mid-nineteenth century London. He wrote 19 novels all his life and in many of them, Dickens gave a picture of all classes of England society, showing deep concern for the poor.
Many of his novels like “Oliver Twist”, “David Copperfield”, “Nicholas Nickleby”, “Great Expectations”, “A Tale of Two Cities” and so on drew attention to the unfair social conditions that existed in England over a hundred years ago. Dickens wished to see improvement in the living conditions of the poor, but failed to find any useful method to achieve that goal.
1. Dickens only received a little formal education because ________.
| A．he wanted to teach himself |
| B．he wanted to work and made a lot of money |
| C．he was too poor to afford any more formal education |
| D．he needed some working experiences to become a writer |
| A．rich | B．just | C．comfortable | D．unfair |
| A．Oliver Twist. | B．The Pickwick Papers. |
| C．A Tale of Two Cities. | D．Great Expectations. |
| A．He studied writing novels at school. |
| B．He wrote more than twenty novels all his life. |
| C．He began to write fictions when he was 21 years old. |
| D．He found some good ways to improve the lives of the poor. |
【推荐1】One determined student stepped off the traditional job for blind people in China, and now challenges a new life at university in Britain. Being a massage therapist(按摩师) is a perfect job for many people with a visual disability, but for Zheng Jianwei, it was far from enough.
The 30-year-old former massage therapist gave up his hospital job in 2009 to prepare for admission to graduate school. He took IELTS(雅思考试), the language-fluency test necessary for university admission in the UK, in 2012 and scored 6.5 points. He was the first blind examinee to take the IELTS in the Southeast Chinese region. After about four years’struggle, Zheng successfully gained an offer from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom and became a graduate student.
However, Zheng’s path to graduate school was not easy. “I can’t take China’s national entrance exam for graduate school, which doesn’t provide study material(材料) for blind students,” he says.
He then turned to search for graduate school overseas. However, English became his nightmare. Zheng studied in special schools for visually challenged students since primary school, but foreign language was never a main subject.
Before giving up his job and learning English again in 2009, Zheng only knew the alphabet, a few words and some basic expressions. “Learning English again in my late 20s is not easy,” he says.
It took him three years of intensive study to gain entrance to a graduate school overseas. Because of the lack of study material, Zheng needs to spend hours and days looking for textbooks for the visually disabled and copying them, while it may take only five minutes for a sighted person to order a plain English textbook from Amazon.
In his parents’eyes, Zheng has been a sensible, independent and decisive man from a young age. Zheng made all the major decisions by himself, including studying abroad and choosing majors. “We just follow his decisions,” the mother says.
1. According to the first paragraph, a blind person in China is likely to ________.| A．go abroad for graduate school | B．work as a massage therapist |
| C．be far from pleased with life | D．enjoy a perfect job |
| A．can’t take the national entrance exam to college |
| B．can find less study material than normal students |
| C．can never learn a foreign language well |
| D．can’t afford the English textbooks for an national entrance exam |
| A．All mankind is created equal. |
| B．Many hands make light work. |
| C．Rome is not built in a day. |
| D．Nothing is impossible when mind is set. |
| A．parents have to follow any of his decisions |
| B．parents don’t understand or care about him |
| C．visual disability meant a hopeless damage to him |
| D．mind is healthy though physical disabled |
When I was a little girl, growing up in Anamosa, Iowa, my favorite thing to do was read the same as today. So when I thought about what I wanted to be when I grew up, I figured I'd be a librarian. Our town librarian, Mrs. Tonne, was really important to me becoming me. The library had a two-book limit, but she knew I'd blow through those in just a few days, so she always let me check out a big stack. And when I was in fourth grade, our school librarian, Mrs. Ketelsen, sent some poems I'd written about dinosaurs to Highlights magazine. My first published writing!
At the University of Iowa, majoring in journalism, I quickly learned that I did not want to be a newspaper reporter. I'm shy about interviewing people, which amuses almost everyone who knows me and thinks I'm outgoing. (I am, but only with people I know!) So I was thrilled when I was selected for a summer internship at Reader's Digest.
Ten years after that, I came back to RD to work as an editor. I've worked at other magazines too, but I've spent most of my career here, reading magazines, newspapers, websites, and books for stories; writing articles; even choosing jokes.
This issue seems like the perfect one to introduce myself to you all. “The Tractor War” (page 92) takes me home to the Midwest. “Something to Sneeze (打喷嚏) At” (page 47) reminds me of all the sneezing I did when I moved to New York City and was suddenly allergic (过敏)to grasses and trees. “Pet Besties” (page 58) makes me think about my cats, brothers Reggie and Smokey, who are sitting together at the window as I write. I relate to lots of our stories this month, and I hope you do too. Enjoy!
Jody L. Rohlena,
Deputy Editor
1. Which is true about the author?| A．She had her first writing published with the help of Mrs. Tonne. |
| B．She didn't want to be a journalist because she is thought to be shy. |
| C．She works as an editor in a magazine which appears monthly. |
| D．She has been working in RD since she began to work. |
| A．The letter written by the author. | B．The problem being discussed. |
| C．The magazine RD. | D．The magazine published this month. |
| A．The happy memories the author recalls. |
| B．The author's introduction to the issue and her hope. |
| C．A list of articles of this issue. |
| D．The author's connection to the magazine RD. |
【推荐3】It was with noble purpose that Eric Lichtblau came to write “ Return to the Reich” . He wanted to celebrate the anonymous, unsung heroes of World War Ⅱ. Eli Rosenbaum, a long-time Nazi hunter, suggested the author look up Freddy Mayer, who led one of the war's most successful spy efforts. Mr. Lichtblau seized on the advice and immediately set out to meet Mayer, who was by then 94.
During their conversation, the author learned how a Jewish kid from Freiburg fled Nazi Germany, arrived in America and eventually joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), to be dropped as a spy into occupied Austria. Later in life, he was asked by an interviewer what made him such a good spy. “Chutzpah!” he responded. “I was afraid of absolutely nothing.”
Mayer was only 11 years old in 1933 when Hitler became chancellor (JI) of Germany. The boy's father, a decorated war veteran, thought his prior service to his country would protect his family from the rising tide of anti-Jewish. This didn't stop a boy at school from calling Freddy a “stinking Jude” . Eventually he was forced out of school and in March of 1938 the Mayer family emigrated to the United States. In Brooklyn, New York, 16-year-old Freddy worked as an automobile mechanic, bouncing from job to job as he sought better wages to help support his family. In October 1942, Mayer finally succeeded in enlisting and left for basic training. He made himself a natural leader and an ingenious soldier with a remarkable ability to improvise in unexpected situations. Given that he was also trilingual — he spoke German, English and French — it's a wonder the OSS took so long to recruit him.
Mr. Lichtblau delivers the account with pure admiration for his hero. Despite his intention to reveal an untold story of bravery, Mr. Lichtblau does not furrow much new ground here. But one can understand why the author pursued it: Freddy Mayer, who died two months after his meeting with Mr. Lichtblau, is an irresistible subject, and he deserves a dozen more accounts of his adventures.
1. Why did Eric Lichtblau want to write “Return to the Reich” ?| A．Because he was a noble man. |
| B．Because he wanted to sing high praise for those unknown heroes in World War Ⅱ. |
| C．Because he enjoyed the experience of Freddy Mayer in World War Ⅱ very much. |
| D．Because he wanted his readers to know more about the secrets of World War Ⅱ. |
| A．Craziness. | B．Cleverness. |
| C．Fearlessness. | D．Devotion. |
| A．That his father was a decorated war veteran. |
| B．That a boy at school called Freddy a “stinking Jude” . |
| C．That he had to support his family with a high salary. |
| D．That he and his family were Jews. |
| A．Freddy Mayer once slipped into occupied Austria as a spy. |
| B．Young Freddy Mayer lived a hard life when he was in New York. |
| C．The OSS valued Freddy Mayer because he was a natural leader and an ingenious soldier. |
| D．Mr. Lichtblau revealed a lot of unknown stories of the hero's bravery in “Return to Reich” . |
