“I was in the ICU. I’d been told I’d be released the next day. The worst, it seemed, was behind me.” Jake Ryan didn’t know it at the time, but the worst was not totally behind him. After his open heart surgery, he was about to enter a different and difficult journey on the road to physical and emotional recovery.
Upon discharge (出院), the hospital gave Jake a “care package.” “I miss my 3-year-old twins. I remember thinking how much I wished there was a book in the package that would offer guidance for how to be a dad following surgery. There wasn’t, but it was out of that thought that this book was born.”
Dear Diary Franklin is a novel written in the voice of 11-year-old Hannah Brody, whose father had suddenly collapsed on a gym floor and was in need of serious medical attention. The book is written in diary format, which gets readers deep inside the head and heart of its young heroine.
Through her diary, readers hear about Hannah’s feelings and frustrations as she copes with the anger, fear and confusion of the impact of her father’s surgery. What are they keeping from me? And why? She repeatedly hears the catchall cliché (陈词滥调) “everything is going to be fine” so many times that she can only think anything but. Her own translation: “Normal was over.” While her dad does his best to keep things as normal as possible, his recovery, as you’d imagine, is slow and his routine changes. Meanwhile, there’s the matter of school and Hannah’s place within what for some is a terrifying social universe—she has few friends.
While Ryan said his motivation was to help men (or parents in general) deal with the aftereffects of major surgery in their families and themselves, he has delivered a valuable story for children and grownups alike in how to tackle a difficult life event that nobody can truly prepare you for.
1. What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph l refer to?| A．That he was sent to the ICU. |
| B．That he had got past the worst things. |
| C．That he would go through a tough recovery. |
| D．That he would be discharged from the hospital. |
| A．To share a personal journey of recovery. |
| B．To provide support for parents after surgery. |
| C．To explore the challenges of post-surgery life. |
| D．To offer guidance for children with sick parents. |
| A．She terrifies her friends away. | B．She buys what is told to her. |
| C．She changes her father’s routine. | D．She suffers lots of hardships. |
| A．A news report. | B．A child’s diary. |
| C．An advertisement. | D．A book review. |
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【推荐1】The elephant was lying heavily on its side, fast asleep. A few dogs started barking at it. The elephant woke up in a terrible anger: it chased the dogs into the village where they ran for safety. That didn’t stop the elephant. It destroyed a dozen houses and injured several people. The villagers were scared and angry. Then someone suggested calling Parbati, the elephant princess.
Parbati Barua’s father was a hunter of tigers and an elephant tamer (驯兽者). He taught Parbati to ride an elephant before she could even walk. He also taught her the dangerous art of the elephant round-up—how to catch wild elephants.
Parbati hasn’t always lived in the jungle. After a happy childhood hunting with her father, she was sent to a boarding school in the city. But Parbati never got used to being there and many years later she went back to her old life. “Life in the city is too dull. Catching elephants is an adventure and the excitement lasts for days after the chase,” she says.
But Parbati doesn’t catch elephants just for fun. “My work,” she says, “is to rescue man from the elephants, and to keep the elephants safe from man.” And this is exactly what Parbati has been doing for many years. Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land. It is now fighting back. Whenever wild elephants enter a tea garden or a village, Parbati is called to guide the animals back to the jungle before they can be killed.
The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. A good elephant tamer will spend hours a day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant.“Eventually they grow to love their tamers and never forget them. They are also more loyal than humans,” she said, as she climbed up one of her elephants and sat on the giant, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed!
1. For Parbati, catching elephants is mainly to ________.| A．get long lasting excitement |
| B．make the angry elephants tame |
| C．send them back to the jungle |
| D．keep both man and elephants safe |
| A．they are caught and sent for heavy work |
| B．illegal hunters capture them and kill them |
| C．they are attacked and their land gets limited |
| D．dogs often bark at them and chase them |
| A．people easily fall victims (受害者) to elephants attacks |
| B．dogs are as powerful as elephants |
| C．elephant tamers are in short supply |
| D．the man-elephant relationship is getting worse |
【推荐2】When Owen Vaccaro, star of The House with a Clock in Its Walls, thinks about the start of his acting career (事业), he thinks about his first-grade teacher and his dislike of sports and other activities that many children enjoy.
“She knew we had tried every single sport and activity for me,” the 13-year-old actor said about his teacher. “Nothing really worked. So she said we should try out a theater company called MZ Stageworks. I went into it with really low hopes. I didn’t think I was going to like it any more than I had liked anything else.”
Now an eighth-grader, Owen still remembers the excitement of discovering those early theater classes in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. “I loved it and couldn’t wait until the next class.”
Soon, the theater classes led to his first auditions (试镜), which finally landed him his first film part, A Product of Me, six years ago. In the years since, Owen has been in eight more movies.
In The House with a Clock in Its Walls, an adaptation (改编) of a 1973 children’ s book by John Bellairs, Owen plays Lewis Barnavelt, the lead character. After losing his parents, Lewis is sent to live with his uncle Jonathan (Jack Black). Lewis quickly discovers that Jonathan and his best friend and neighbor, Mrs. Zimmerman (Cate Blanchett), actually have magic powers, and there’s something strange going on in Lewis s new house.
“It’s a film about amazing powers and family and fighting evil (邪恶) with the people you love,”' Owen said. “It is a starter horror (恐怖) movie for teens and older.”
Working with Black and Blanchett, who are both parents, “was marvelous,” Owen said. He even got to know their families. “I love them. Cate brought her kids to set. One of them, Iggy, and I would play games together,” he said. “And as for Jack, I went to Six Flags with his kids, and it was a ton of fun.”
1. What does Owen think of his first-grade teacher?| A．She is a person of wide interest. |
| B．She is a good actress. |
| C．She is helpful. |
| D．She is creative. |
| A．At age 6. | B．At age 7. |
| C．At age 8. | D．At age 13. |
| A．It is an action movie. | B．It is filled with magic. |
| C．The story happens in 1973. | D．It is directed by John Bellairs. |
| A．Useful. | B．Difficult. |
| C．Important. | D．Wonderful. |
【推荐3】Chef Xiang Chunqin lowered the fire on the stove where she was cooking her Cantonese meal. She added all the necessary ingredients, including the seafood, shrimp. She quickly lowered the fire and turned toward a phone camera as hundreds of people watched her online. "It ruins the dish if you burn the breadcrumbs, "She advised her live-stream video watchers.
Many people in China are restricted to their homes in the effort to stop the spread of coronavirus. Millions of them are finding a new interest in cooking. People watching television and online cooking shows are learning how to make Chinese and Western foods. They are also pushing up the sale of special cookware on online markets, because cooking tools matter to some recipes. Downloads of the top five recipe apps doubled in February, said research company Sensor Tower, i.e. more than 2 million downloads. The Chinese video streaming company Billibilli said it has had more than 580 million views of its cooking videos in the two months since the coronavirus began to spread in China.
Another online cooking show producer DayDayCook told reporters its number of new users increased 200 percent from January to February. A recipe for bean curd and shrimp received the most views. We have never gained new users with such speed since we launched the service in 2012," said founder and leader Tan Xiaoyong.
Many new home cooks are young people living in cities, say industry leaders. This group is used to eating in restaurants or getting food delivery. Now these people are cooking at home.Huang Yifeng, is a 28-year-old who works in Beijing, the capital. She was among those trapped at home in February. She says she spent a lot of time online, learning how to make bread and other foods. Chef Xiang explained that many of her online viewers expressed interest in discussing more than just food. "In the past, users were only interested in learning cooking tricks, but now we talk about all kinds of subjects."
1. What does the underlined word in the second paragraph probably refer to?| A．pans and pots | B．cooks and viewers |
| C．salt and oil | D．books and recipes |
| A．Bilibili has more viewers than DayDayCook after the coronavirus broke out. |
| B．The recipe for bean curd and shrimp had the most purchasers. |
| C．People were only interested in learning cooking tricks when restricted to their homes. |
| D．In February, much more people than before had access to the trending cooking apps. |
| A．To provide readers with an example of how hot online cooking apps have become. |
| B．To serve as the background information of the passage. |
| C．To show it's easy to do business during the coronavirus outbreak. |
| D．To advertise the app DayDayCook. |
| A．The reason why people are used to eating in restaurants or getting food delivery. |
| B．The number of DayDayCook's new users from January to February. |
| C．The fact that western food is getting increasingly popular. |
| D．The trend of learning cooking tricks when trapped at home. |
【推荐1】When Tara Wood brought her daughter to a grocery store to buy the four-year-old some cupcakes, she had no idea that would be a life—changing experience.
As Tara pushed her daughter Norah around the store last month, she passed an old man. The old man looked cold, until Norah shouted to him, “Hi! It's my birthday today!” The man stopped and his countenance changed from distant and serious to warm and friendly. “How old are you today?” the man asked. After some time talking together, Norah asked her mom to take a picture of her with her new friend “Mr Dan”, Dan Peterson, 82. They hugged and after ten minutes went their separate ways. That could have been the end of the story. But it is actually the beginning of a special relationship.
Tara posted the picture of her daughter and Mr. Dan on Facebook and someone who recognized him reached out to her with his contact information. It turned out that Mr. Dan's wife died in March and he had been suffering from depression and anxiety ever since. The person on Facebook told Tara that it was the first time they had seen Mr. Dan smile since the death of his wife. Knowing that, Tara contacted Mr. Dan, and ever since Norah and the 82-year-old have developed a friendship unlike any other. “She has shown me a depth of love, a depth that I didn't know existed,” Mr. Dan told the reporter.
Mr. Dan told Tara that after meeting Norah, he now sleeps soundly. For Mr. Dan's 82nd birthday on October 20, the mother and the daughter brought balloons and presents—and, of course, cupcakes. “If you don't take the time to notice people, you will never know how you can positively impact a life,” Tara Wood said.
1. Mr. Dan looked cold because ________.| A．he felt lonely | B．he disliked little kids |
| C．nobody had hugged him | D．he knew little about Norah |
| A．words | B．body | C．thoughts | D．expression |
| A．From a news reporter | B．From a stranger |
| C．From a shop assistant. | D．From his neighbor. |
| A．Giving makes a real difference. | B．It is important to respect each other. |
| C．We should not judge a person by his behavior. | D．Good things will happen if one keeps trying. |
【推荐2】In a coffee shop in Lagos, Nigeria, the visual artist Ekene Ngige was meeting with some colleagues when he had an accidental moment that would change his career.
Ngige knocked over his cappuccino, making a mess of the notepad in front of him. He quickly noticed that the drink created random patterns on paper, so he thought: what if he used coffee to create art?
Ngige said, “It was supposed to be a mistake, but I loved the mistake. ”Back in the studio, Ngige began mixing instant coffee with water, creating a jelly-like paste that allowed him to paint with it—first drawing with a pencil and then layering it with different shades of instant or ground coffee mixtures, and sometimes adding the whole coffee bean.
He continues painting realistic portraits(肖像)of people and objects. Ngige says on average, it takes him about two weeks to a month to finish a coffee portrait. He says his paintings may depend on what the event is at that moment, or may sometimes be inspired by his emotions.
Through his works, the artist shares a message of peace, encouraging people to forget their differences and embrace peace. “The best part of creating art is being able to reach the whole world, ” he says. “I have had calls and messages from all around the world, from people that have been touched by the topics of the paintings I make. It warms my heart. It makes me feel that Iam fulfilling a purpose. ”
1. What inspired Ngige to create art with coffee?| A．Some colleagues in the coffee shop. |
| B．A laptop in front of him. |
| C．Random pictures caused by a cup ofoverturned coffee. |
| D．A cup of cappuccino. |
| A．A jelly-like paste. |
| B．A pencil. |
| C．Instant coffee mixtures. |
| D．Coffee beans. |
| A．Ngige’s realistic works may include a castle. |
| B．It takes Ngige half a month to finish a coffee portrait. |
| C．Ngige’s paintings always depend on his emotions. |
| D．Ngige is a realistic man. |
| A．Serious and peaceful. |
| B．Active and creative. |
| C．Peace-loving and creative. |
| D．Curious and outgoing |
【推荐3】I’d been asked to go to an editor’s office with the old program “We have a story we think you’d be perfect for”. Here was the topic: We want you to write about how middle-aged men have no friends. Seeing that, I couldn’t help thinking, “Excuse me? I have plenty of friends.” Then the editor told me there were all sorts of evidence out there to show how men, as they age, let their close friendships go, and that the fact can cause all sorts of problems and have a terrible impact on their health.
As I walked back to my desk in the newsroom--a distance of maybe 100 yards--I quickly search for my friend list. First of all, there was my friend Mark. Wait, how often do we actually hang out? Maybe four or five times a year? And then there was another best friend from high school, Rory, and. . . I actually could not remember the last time I’d seen him.
There were all those other good friends who seemed as if they’re still in my life because we follow one another via social media, but as I ran down the list of those I considered real, true, lifelong friends, I realized that it had been years since I saw many of them, even decades for a few.
By the time I got back to my desk, I realized that I was indeed perfect for this story, not because I was unusual in any way, but because my story was very, very typical. And as I looked into what that means, I realized that in the long term, I was heading down a path that was very, very dangerous. And I knew I needed a change.
1. What was the author’s first reaction to the topic?| A．He thought it was perfect for him. | B．He knew the editor was joking. |
| C．He felt surprised and doubtful. | D．He showed an interest in it. |
| A．To solve health problems. | B．To change a dangerous path. |
| C．To attach importance to friendship. | D．To prove the author’s writing ability. |
| A．He realized the topic worth writing. | B．He wasn’t popular with others. |
| C．He had close friends in his life. | D．He didn’t make any true friends. |
| A．Through letters. | B．Through the Internet. |
| C．By phoning each other. | D．By partying regularly. |
