For many runners, a marathon can often be a challenge—but sometimes what gets a runner through the tough 26.2 miles is looking out into the crowd and seeing his or her loved one holding up a sign and shouting words of encouragement. For one mom, though, her loved one was a bit more hands-on.
While running the REVEL Big Cottonwood Marathon in Salt Lake City, Courtney Rich, a self-taught baker and mother of two, was beginning to run out of energy just yards from the end when she was suddenly joined by her 10-year-old daughter, Avery.
The touching moment, caught on video and posted on social media, shows Avery running to her mother’s side to support her as she approached the end of the race. Rich’s face lit up when Avery joined her and helped her cross the finish line.
Rich later said in the video’s caption that being joined by her daughter to finish the race was “a moment I hope neither of us ever forget”. Rich said that her daughter could tell she was struggling after a phone call near the end of the race. “She knew I had struggled the last few miles,” Rich said. “She saw tears in my eyes when I called on mile 24.”
In the video, Rich’s facial expression changes from tiredness to a smile after seeing her daughter emerge from the crowd to join her. Then, Rich and her daughter ran hand-in-hand to the finish line. “Nothing could have prepared me for the moment my 10-year-old daughter would jump out of the crowd and run with me to the finish line,” she said. When the race was done, the two hugged each other at the finish line. The video ends with a final caption, “And then she just held me. She held me.”
In the past, the REVEL Big Cottonwood Marathon has had other memorable moments of mothers caring for their children, but perhaps not as hands-on as this one.
1. What happened to Rich when she was coming to the finish line?A.She felt herself struggling. | B.She was far behind others. |
C.She fell down all of a sudden. | D.She was interrupted by Avery. |
A.She ran the rest in place of Rich. | B.She tried to call for help at once. |
C.She helped Rich run to the finish line. | D.She shouted encouraging words to Rich. |
A.Doubtful. | B.Content. | C.Concerned. | D.Expected. |
A.A Daughter Cheered For Her Mother By Joining In Her Race |
B.A Mother Encouraged Her Daughter To Pursue Her Dream |
C.A Daughter Got Involved In Her Mother’s Race By Mistake |
D.A Mother Would Never Give Up On Her Marathon Dream |
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【推荐1】Katie always wanted to be a performer.She, the youngest of the three kids from Cleveland, was crazy about musicals and Disney movies from an early age and would often watch them singing with her mom, Karen.However, Katie's happy childhood took a-turn when her mother was diagnosed(诊断)with cancer.When the doctor informed the family that Karen's disease was terminal, they decided to make a trip to Disney World.
The family spared no expense for their once-in-a-lifetime vacation and stayed at Disney's hotel for eight nights.They spent their days in the parks, seeing the sights, greeting characters, all the while pushing Karen in her wheelchair and watching her face light up with joy.They all shared in the merriment of experiencing the parks for the first time with Karen.The trip to Disney World at the height of Karen's battle with cancer allowed them to escape into a world of magic and laughter.This was the day Katie decided she wanted to work for Disney.
Sadly, Karen lost the battle and died later, but the whole family remembered her every day and often thought of that Disney vacation.Katie went on to go after her dream.After she received her degree in musical theater, she struggled for years, working as a waitress and trying to be a performer.Her hard work finally paid off when she was hired to work for Disney.
As a Disney performer, Katie is aware that many other families visit the parks and have similar stories to her own.She encourages everyone, especially children, who may be experiencing a hard time.“Every moment is meant for you, even the painful ones.” she says.“It's just like in your favorite Disney movie: There is always some kind of conflict or hardship or pressure.Remember to celebrate those moments, too, because they are taking you to whatever your version of a happy ending is.”
1. Why did Katie's family decide to go to Disney World?A.Katie always loved Disney movies. | B.Katie had a happy childhood. |
C.Katie's mother got seriously ill. | D.Katie dreamed of being a performer. |
A.The dream that she wanted to live a life full of magic. |
B.The memory that she watched Disney movies as a kid. |
C.The great joy the Disney vacation brought to her family. |
D.The great courage her mother showed in fighting cancer. |
A.Kind and curious. | B.Patient and helpful. |
C.Strict and independent. | D.Tough and determined. |
A.Sweet is pleasure after pain. | B.Experience must be bought. |
C.Many drops make a shower. | D.Good medicine tastes bitter. |
【推荐2】Looking for some fun activities to do as a family? Why not play games together with your relatives!
Next to learning life skills, playing family games aids future academic performance.
Playing family games together can prevent antisocial behavior.
Last but not least, playing games together is a fantastic way of spending time together! It helps to bond emotionally with your kids, parents, or siblings and strengthens the overall health of the family. People tend to build respect between each other when getting to know them better, adding to the family’s unity.
A.Games need energy and teamwork. |
B.Playing games together is helpful to academic success. |
C.Playing games together is not only fun, but also beneficial. |
D.Playing games together allows parents to model essential life skills. |
E.When playing, kids learn how to control their emotions by waiting for their turn. |
F.It’s great to create some family traditions that your kids hopefully recreate later on. |
G.Some games help kids grow the skills they need in school, like memory and logic. |
One out of many important things for the whole family to do is to have dinner together. Researchers began reporting the benefits of family dinner about a decade ago, focusing mainly on how it affects children. Studies show that those families who eat dinner at least 3 or 4 times a week together, benefit in many ways.
Eating together helps families achieve open communication and build stronger and healthier relationships. Children have better grades at school and are better adjusted as teens and adults, and the entire family enjoys healthier nutrition. For many families, eating dinner together proves to be a good and effective way to reduce the risk of youth rates of addiction, and helps to nurture healthier children. It is also a great time to share the events of the day, discuss news and ideas and just be together and enjoy each other’s company.
During dinner time parents have better opportunity to show that they are the prior to their children. Sitting at the same table and sharing meals is where and when parents can find out more about their children’s school performance, daily activities and attitudes toward life. When parents have all this information they can better direct their kids toward positive things in life. They also have better chance to reduce the possibility that children will get involved with alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs.
However, family researchers say that the benefits of family dinner by no means can be considered as automatic. Parents can sit down to dinner with their kids every day and achieve nothing. Family dinner may not benefit if there is too much arguing going on, if there is no meaningful conversation or, what is even worse, if there is just plain silence during gathering.
1. What may be the best title for this passage? (no more than 8 words)2. What benefits can children get from eating together? (no more than 15 words)
3. How do you explain the underlined word “nurture” in Paragraph 2? (no more than 2 words)
4. What information can parents probably get about their children at family dinner? (no more than 15 words)
5. What should be avoided at the dinner table according to the author? And why? (no more than 15 words)
【推荐1】What would it be like to live on the moon? Students in the 2021 Future City competition were challenged to find out. Nine middle school students from Houston, Texas, took the grand prize home in the international competition.
Middle school teams from 37 regions in the United States, as well as Canada, Nigeria and China, took part in the 29th annual competition, which began last fall. The students used their STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) skills to create a lunar habitat 100 years in the future.
“In our city, we make full use of our SLR-MAP system, which stands for Smart Lunar Resources Management and Processing System,” said Mohammad Ali Rizvi, one of the winning students.
Extracting minerals and other resources on the moon helped the team with organic solutions to maintaining life on the planet, including providing enough oxygen and water, as well as hydrogen for fuel. When asked if they would like to live in their lunar city in the future, the students were excited and passionate about the potential relocation from the earth. They state “Living on the Moon” was the theme of this year's Future City competition, an annual event designed to encourage middle-school students to develop STEM skills.
Syeda Batool, the team teacher, encouraged the students to use their brains and provided practical advice for their project. The students then elaborated on their ideas in a 1,500-word essay. They created a model of their city with recycled materials and a brief video presentation. They also took part in an online Q&A session with technical judges.
“The most important thing we learned from this experience was teamwork,” said Mohammad Hani Mirza, who is a seventh-grader. “That's one thing we were missing because we all came from different backgrounds with different ideas, and we worked together to create one beautiful city.”
1. What can we learn about the 2021 Future City competition?A.It was intended for English adults. | B.It encouraged students to choose arts. |
C.It put students' STEM skills into full play. | D.It was merely attended by American teenagers. |
A.Eager. | B.Grateful. | C.Doubtful. | D.Unconcerned. |
A.Gave up. | B.Complained about. | C.Hid in despair. | D.Explained in detail. |
A.Boring. | B.Relaxing. | C.Disappointing. | D.Rewarding. |
I am seeking a babysitter for my 6-month-old son. A few hours on Saturdays and Sundays to help me and then additional times as needed. Applicant should be over 18, responsible, loving, warm, drug-free, and have experience caring for babies. A college student looking for a part-time job is also OK. The pay is $ 10 an hour.
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Office Manager wanted
A company is looking for a full-time manager to be in charge of the business aspects. Strong skills are needed in organization and business management. The office manager is responsible for keeping financial records, so he/she should be familiar with computer.
Please send your resume to jim @ californiaaquatics. com or call 800-6978.
Waiter/ Waitress wanted
Specialty Restaurant is looking for an experienced and well seasoned waiter/ waitress. A knowledge of wines and fine dining experience are necessary. Must work well under pressure and understand the basics of fine dining and customer service.
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Office Cleaner Wanted
Looking for Part-time work?
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1. The position of a(n) ___________ is full-time job.
A.babysitter | B.office manager |
C.waiter/ waitress | D.office cleaner |
A.job-p3b7u-1365632206 @ craigslist.org |
B.job-tkupe 1329358152 @ craigslist. org. |
C.jim @ californiaaquatics. Com |
D.rebecharv @ aol.com |
A.Being familiar with computers. |
B.Having a knowledge of wines. |
C.Knowing more about menus. |
D.Working well under pressure. |
【推荐3】My dad, Greg Newman, had wanted to be a race car driver, but things didn’t work out for him. So I guess having a son who could become a race car driver was the next best thing. Don’t get me wrong — Dad didn’t push me into racing. In fact, when I was about 10 years old, my dad was afraid that driving a car wasn’t my dream. So he took the racing away from me. I wasn’t very happy with that decision. It wasn’t long before Dad realized that racing was what I loved.
At four, Dad bought me my first Quarter Midget (袖珍赛车) and that’s really where it started for us. Back then, Dad coached me. He would stick out (伸出) his foot in the path of the race car, and then tell me to exactly hit his foot. By repeating this again and again, Dad believed that I would be faster and sharper on the race track.
Dad worked really long hours at his car repair business to make money so that I could race each weekend. I can remember that every night before he turned off the lights in the garage, Dad would tell me: “Don’t forget to kiss your race car good night.” He was trying to teach me that if I show respect, it’s returned. He wanted me to show thankfulness and respect for my race car and for all the hard work that we and many others had put into the dream.
My dad, my mom and my sister gave up a lot of things to help me race. For us, there was no better moment than winning the 50th running of the Daytona 500 in 2018. That evening in February 2018, I knew I had gotten a good push. I could hear the excitement. My father couldn’t speak a word, and when he got to Victory Lane (车道), he nearly knocked me over and gave me such a big hug.
1. Why did Greg Newman stop his son to race when his son was 10 years old?A.Because he thought racing was dangerous. |
B.Because he worried that his son didn’t like racing. |
C.Because he didn’t want his son to fail like he did. |
D.Because he couldn’t afford the money. |
A.training his son to race |
B.working hard to make money |
C.buying his son a mini racing car |
D.changing his job as a race car driver |
A.To improve his son’s skill. | B.To help his son to be braver. |
C.To have fun with his son. | D.To make his son more careful. |
A.get help from his family |
B.treat the race car as his son |
C.feel grateful that he could follow his dream |
D.develop a close relationship with his race car |
A.disappointed | B.surprised | C.sad | D.excited |
【推荐1】A new plan for getting children to and from school is being started by a local government in Eastern England.This could end many parents’worries fearful for their children’s safety on the roads.
Until now the local government have only been prepared to provide bus services for children living more than three miles from their school,or sometimes less if special reasons existed.Now it has been decided that if a group of parents ask for help in organizing transport they will be prepared to go ahead,as long as the arrangement will not lose money and children taking part will attend their nearest school.
The new plan is to be fired out this term for children living at Milton who attend Impington School.The children live just within the three-mile limit and the local government said in the past that they would not undertake to provide free transport to the school.But now they have agreed to offer a sum of money for a bus service from Milton to Impington and back,a plan which has the support of the school’s headmaster.Between 50 and 60 parents have said they would like their children to take part.Final calculations have still to be carried out,but a government official has said the cost to parents should be less than£20 a term.They have been able to arrange the service at a low cost because there is already an agreement with the bus company for a bus to take children who live further away to Impington.The same bus would now just make one more journey to pick up the Milton children.The official said they would get in touch with other groups of parents who in had asked if transport could be provided for their children,to see if they would like to take part in the new plan.
1. What is the aim of the plan?A.To prevent the students’road accidents | B.To relieve the traffic pressure |
C.To save time for the parents and students | D.To help the parents save money |
A.By letting the bus run in the morning only. |
B.By limiting the number of the students |
C.By getting the support from the headmaster |
D.By linking the new bus service with the existing one |
A.The bus company will make much more money |
B.The children can choose whatever school they like |
C.The parents can get rid of their worries |
D.The students in Impington School can have free bus rides |
A.a personal letter. | B.an advertisement |
C.headmaster’s report. | D.a newspaper article |
【推荐2】Slobodchikoff, a biologist who has spent years working to better understand the calls of dogs, used that knowledge to help people who were having trouble with their pets.
A man reported his dog wanted to bite him. So Slobodchikoff went to the man’s house. He watched as the owner walked over to the dog, towered over the pet and then said, “Good dog!” in a low-pitched(音高) voice. “The dog ran into a corner,” Slobodchikoff recalled. The owner had scared the dog. Slobodchikoff recommended that the man should do the opposite. The owner took that advice—and ended up developing a great relationship with his pet.
Not everyone has the time to study dog communications or the money to bring in an expert. Slobodchikoff thinks tech could help. He thinks a cell phone app or device that you could point at a dog. This would record video and audio(音频) of a dog’s behavior and then upload it.An artificial intelligence(AI)system would later analyze it.
The AI “ would translate this for you into English or any other language,” says Slobodchikoff. The result, he explains, may be something like “‘I’m hungry’ or ‘I need to go outside to pee’ or ‘I want to go for a walk.’”
To train the AI system, Slobodchikoff planned to get data directly from pet dogs, but for some reason, he hasn’t yet restarted the project to date, but hopes to soon.
Search an app store for a pet translator and you’ll find plenty. Some are completely unscientific and silly. MeowTalk, however, is a cat-translation app based on an AI model. In 2021, its creators reported that the AI model achieved 90 percent accuracy at identifying nine different emotional states in meows. These included angry, happy, hunting, pain and rest. The app picks conversational phrases based on these emotions, like “nice to see you,” or “let me rest.”
People who have tried the app say it doesn’t always work well. But better translations of barks and meows may be just around the corner.
1. What might the man do to calm the dog?A.Tower over the pet dog. | B.Follow the dog to the corner. |
C.Give the dog delicious food. | D.Speak in a high-pitched voice. |
A.To analyze data. | B.To train a dog. |
C.To record a dog’s behavior. | D.To collect data from a dog. |
A.It can communicate with cats. | B.It can judge cats’ state of mood. |
C.It can store 90 conversational phrases. | D.It can be used to track pet cats. |
A.A biologist’s puzzle. | B.Slobodchikoff’s achievements. |
C.Trials of animal translator technology. | D.The invention of Slobodchikoff. |
【推荐3】The announcement that Indhu Rubasingham is to be the artist director of the Royal National Theatre (NT) in 2025 has been met with cheers, within the industry and without.
Workmates at the Kiln theatre in Brent, where Rubasingham has been director since 2012, describe her as inspiring, risk-taking and tough. Rufus Norris has called her “an exceptional artist who I respect and admire hugely”.
Rubasingham may be the NT’s female artistic director and the first person of colour in the role, but her own achievements contribute to her position. From a theatre with just 292 seats, she has commissioned (委托) and created productions of international quality. There has been Florian Zeller’s trilogy The father, The Mother and the Son and her production of Zadie Smith’s The Wife of Willesden. A recent success is Ryan Calais Cameron’s civil rights story Retrograde.
Rubasingham is not new to National Theatre: as Norris says, “it’s a place she knows well, having directed successfully in each of the three theatres”. However, it’s a big leap from the 292 seats of the Kiln to the challenges of NT, with 2,450 seats, plus outreach, educational and digital programs. All this has to be done against the worst financial (金融的) situations since the NT was founded in 1963.Today, any director of a national arts organization in the UK faces a hard time, with the financial black hole left by the pandemic (疫情).
Rubasingham, however, is all about the artists: the play-writers and actors and many other creative talents who make her theatre what it is. That’s the special talent she brings to this position. She herself has described it as “the best job in the world”.
1. What can we learn about Rubasingham from the first two paragraphs?A.She is envied by Rufus Norris. |
B.She is welcomed to take the position. |
C.She doesn’t get along with workmates. |
D.She has moved from the Kiln to the NT. |
A.To praise her success in directing. |
B.To promote her works internationally. |
C.To introduce her understanding of art. |
D.To show her relationship with play-writers. |
A.The pandemic. | B.Little experience. |
C.Lack of money. | D.Technological problems. |
A.Expert and creative. | B.Flexible and generous. |
C.Energetic and efficient. | D.Well-meaning and well-rounded. |