His friends and family have given him a lot of support. While Washington lay in a coma in hospital, friends and family filled his room during visits. They celebrated his 18th birthday in July while he was still unconscious.Two days after Thanksgiving, eight friends from high school visited Washington at his home. The friends looked through photos on Facebook, showing them all to Washington. As he sat in his wheelchair, friends asked him to recognize the people in the photos, helping him recover his brain.
Washington’s popularity doesn’t come from nowhere. He was determined to become a police officer after college and behaved like a respectable police officer at school.His high school principal (校长), Eric Markinson, said Washington was always a gentleman. “He was incredibly gracious (和善的) and incredibly helpful,”he said.
His accident has damaged Washington’s brain. It has caused his left side, from his face to his feet, to all but shut down. His personality has also changed. The serious police-officer behavior is gone. He laughs a lot and smiles when he sees children, his mom said.
Now Washington is working hard on all-day rehabilitation. So far, he has made tremendous (巨大的) improvement, said his therapist Lindsay Sims.“I try to live as independently as possible,”Washington said slowly but firmly.
1. What happened to Delvin Washington last May?
A.He started to make improvements in his speech therapy. |
B.He was seriously injured in a car accident. |
C.He graduated from high school with good grades. |
D.He suffered a heart attack and went into a coma. |
A.They helped Washington make up for the lesson s he had missed. |
B.They worked together to collect money for Washington on campus. |
C.They helped Washington realize his dream of becoming a police officer. |
D.They regularly visited Washington and helped him with his rehabilitation. |
A.strong—willed | B.energetic |
C.pessimistic | D.depressed |
A.Washington’s friendship with his friends. |
B.Washington making great efforts to achieve his dream. |
C.What makes Washington so popular at school. |
D.How Washington is recovering his brain. |
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【推荐1】In dreaming up the programme Tennis and Literacy for Youth, as a mother, I had hoped to share two of my passions, tennis and reading, with children. Throughout the year, I had advertised for participants at local elementary schools and recruited (招收) volunteers at local high schools. With the help of kind people, I applied for money. I was even able to secure a site for the program.
But on the first day of camp, in spite of my careful planning, things did not go the way I had hoped. Hector and Adrian exchanged blows with their racquet (球拍). Hector struggled to his feet moments later, covering a bloody nose with one hand. Georgie and Eduardo threw balls at each other. Then during reading time, I raced from joyless child to demanding child, unable to convince even one to open a book. They would rather be watching Nickelodeon at home, Eli told me, than “learning stupid tennis and reading boring books.”
I dragged myself home that afternoon. That evening, I called my volunteers together for a meeting, and redesigned the entire curriculum. We created a good-fellow system, where each volunteer paired with a camper to help him or her during reading time. To emphasize praise and progress, we established weekly prize ceremonies, presenting awards for most improved reading, tennis and behavior.
Then Mylea shut the book and asked me, “Can I take this to read it to my mom tonight?” Peering up at her eager face, I couldn’t help myself. I jumped to my feet and wrapped her in a hug, lifting her right off the ground. “It’s all yours!” I said.
Somehow, in the midst of the chaos and the schedule changes and the meetings, these children, in bad mood during reading time, untouched books in their laps, began to find joy in reading a story.
1. What happened the first day of the programme?A.Participants watched TV at home. |
B.The programme worked out badly. |
C.Volunteers failed to do their duties. |
D.The plan lived up to the expectation. |
A.She recruited new volunteers. |
B.She replaced the books used. |
C.She made adjustments to the plan. |
D.She established volunteers’ leading part. |
A.She sensed something was wrong. |
B.She thought Mylea needed comfort. |
C.Mylea’s boredom in reading discouraged her. |
D.Mylea’s great passion for reading amazed her. |
A.An initiative of being volunteers. |
B.An innovation to the teaching method. |
C.An insight into helping kids overcome difficulties. |
D.An experience of introducing reading and tennis to kids. |
【推荐2】Eighteen years ago, Terry Grahl, was pregnant with her fourth child. “Money was very tight,” Terry recalls. So when her mom called to ask if she’d like to go shopping at the local fabric (布料) store for the coming Christmas, she couldn’t say no because she knew she badly needed some fabrics to make new clothes for her children. “I remember walking around, gazing at all this beautiful fabric, wondering whether there is anything cheap that I could afford. And I could still get some money left to buy Christmas gifts for my family.”
Well, Terry’s mom must have known what Terry was thinking. Smiling kindly, she whispered to Terry, “You pick any fabrics you like. It’s your Christmas gift from me.” Terry’s eyes were filed with tears as the cart began to overflow with many fabrics, but not because Terry was planning on making herself a pretty dress or a pair of curtains for the kitchen. Rather, Terry’s mom’s kindness had inspired some holiday gift ideas in Terry, and it didn’t take long for Terry to figure out what she was going to do with all that fabric.
“I was going to make my first quilt (被子),” she explains. “Every night I would work on this queen-size quilt. With every stitch (一针), I thought about all that my mom had done for me over the course of my childhood, during which we were always battling homelessness, but Mom somehow managed to fill our lives with love and make everything okay.”
On Christmas day, just five days after her baby girl was born, Terry handed her mom a gift box. Inside was the quilt she had sewn, from the fabric her mother had given her as a gift.
1. What do we know about Terry eighteen years ago?A.Terry made a living by making clothes. | B.Terry had a bad relationship with her mom. |
C.Terry and her family lived a hard life at that time. | D.Terry often went shopping at the local fabric store. |
A.Strict. | B.Critical. | C.Faithful. | D.Considerate. |
A.The value of the fabric. | B.The responsibility for her family. |
C.The memory of her childhood. | D.The endless love from her mother. |
A.A Christmas Day | B.The First Quilt | C.Colorful Fabrics | D.Hard Childhood |
【推荐3】Maria Belon was lying by the pool, reading a novel at the Orchid Resort Hotel in Khao Lak, Thailand. Her children, Lucas, Tomas and Simon, played in the water with their dad nearby.
Belon and her husband, Enrique Alvarez, had taken their children overseas for the Christmas holidays.
“We started to hear a horrible sound. I was looking around, thinking this was just in my mind. It felt like the earth was coming apart (分崩离析), but everything looked perfect,” Belon told The Mirror.
Moments later, however, the Belon-Alvarez family was hit by the fierce force of the Indian Ocean tsunami. Belon was separated from her husband and sons who were in the swimming pool. But as she held onto a palm (棕榈树), she saw her oldest son floating nearby. “When I saw Lucas, I thought. ‘Okay. I have an incredible reason to be alive,’ she said. ‘We were in the water struggling, and Lucas was screaming.’ I said to myself, ‘We need to be brave, we need to take care of each other, but we will not die.’” she said.
While Belon held on for her son, her injuries were slowly killing her. “I was dying. I could feel it happening to me. When I was up in the tree, bleeding very heavily with deep wounds. I could feel the dying process.” she told The Mirror.
Luckily, Belon and her eldest son were then rescued by a Thai man and taken to hospital. “The man wouldn’t allow me to die. He dragged me through the mud for a long time until he was sure I was safe,” she said.
After the tsunami struck the area, Enrique Alvarez lost his two youngest sons, who had been in his arms, after a wave tore them apart. He got washed and later grabbed onto a palm tree, feeling sad about the loss of his children. Minutes later, he heard a voice. “Papa! Mama! Lucas! Simon!” Thomas shouted, according to The Mirror.
The family reunited two days later. While Belon and her family survived the natural disaster, she insisted it was their fortune.
“There is no difference between me and thousands of mums who are under the sea. I feel pain and compassion for so many others who didn’t come back up or lost their loved ones.” she told The Mirror.
1. How did Belon react when she began to hear the terrible sound?A.She couldn’t believe it. | B.She escaped immediately. |
C.She climbed up a palm tree. | D.She shouted at her children. |
A.She could deal with her injuries. | B.The tsunami was not so severe. |
C.Her husband encouraged her. | D.She caught sight of her son. |
A.She was safe enough. | B.She was close to death. |
C.She felt quite relieved. | D.She felt quite ashamed. |
A.strong will | B.good luck |
C.surviving skills | D.receiving medical treatment |
【推荐1】When I was little, I was really little. But my dream was big. I dreamed of being a basketball player. I tried out for the teams at school, but I was never given a chance.
As I got older, I did grow a little bigger, but not a lot bigger. On my 12th birthday, I decided to try a new sport: running. I told Grandpa. “I’m going to be an athlete.”
“Dave.” Grandpa began gently, “if you can’t be big, you can do something big.”
I ran 12 miles on my 12th birthday. On my 13th birthday, I did it again, but I added an extra mile. On my 14th birthday, I ran 14 miles. 15 on my 15th, 16 on my 16th, and you guessed it—17 miles on my 17th birthday.
All this running inspired (激发) another big dream. Someday, I’d run the Boston Marathon (波士顿马拉松赛). I told Grandpa about my decision.
“But, Dave, you haven’t trained for the marathon. Are you sure you’re ready?” Grandpa asked. But he still promised to walk over and cheer me on.
I ran fast that day. But I fell at Mile 18 and was driven to the hospital. Later that night, I called Grandpa and told him I failed.
“No,” he said calmly, “you didn’t fail. You discovered something.”
“I did?” I asked.
“Yes, you discovered that big dreams don’t just come true. They take work. If you train and work hard, I promise to wait for you next year and cheer you on.”
I trained every day, running miles and miles. Sadly, just two months into my training, Grandpa died. He wouldn’t be waiting for my second Boston Marathon. I decided I’d run for him.
That day, I ran fast. “Keep going! You can do it!” His words filled my head as I forced my legs to make each painful step. As I crossed the finish line, I threw my arms in the air and cried, “Grandpa, we did it!”
1. Why did Dave fail to join the school basketball team?A.He couldn’t run fast. | B.He didn’t work hard. |
C.He was not tall enough. | D.He wasn’t a quick learner. |
A.Adding an extra mile. | B.Running on his birthday. |
C.Training for the marathon. | D.Trying out for the basketball team. |
A.Creative. | B.Modest. |
C.Generous. | D.Encouraging. |
A.Dream Big. | B.The Boston Marathon. |
C.Think Twice. | D.The Story of Grandpa. |
【推荐2】Former National Football League player and children’s author Tim Green has added another book to his list of accomplishments: Unstoppable. The book tells the story of a 12 year-old boy named Harrison, who survives life in a cruel lobster-home(寄养家庭)before he finally finds a loving family. Then he settles in and realizes his natural football ability but he loses his leg due to a deadly bone cancer. Unstoppable follows Harrison’s difficult life journey.
Tim Green said he decided to write a novel about a kid facing cancer after watching how his wife fought to survive her own illness. “Her mental and physical toughness were more heroic to me than anything I’d ever seen in the national sports leagues,” Green told TFK.
Green said, he knew he needed to write about a person who struggled through a serious illness. But because the target age for his books is the teen, he needed to tell the story through the eyes of someone of that age. He needed a perfect real story on which to base his book.
When friends introduced Green to Jeffrey Keith, Green knew he had found the right person to help him “capture(捕捉)the heroism that it takes to fight cancer”, Cancer- survivor Jeffrey Keith lost his leg at the age of twelve, but went on to be the goalkeeper and was also the first amputee(被截肢者)to run 3,300 miles across the country.
TFK asked Keith what it felt like to read Unstoppable for the first time. “Tim captured what it felt like for me to go through this experience and battle back, “Keith said.” Tim’s look sends a message to all the kids across the country that are facing challenges and that have nothing to do with cancer; you are all unstoppable, as long as you believe it.”
1. What does paragraph I mainly intend to say about Harrisons life?A.It is poor but colorful. | B.It is full of challenges. |
C.It is filled with chances. | D.It is peaceful but boring. |
A.He was impressed by Harrison’s encouraging life. |
B.He intended to make Jeffrey Keith’s story well known. |
C.He was inspired by his wife’s struggle with her illness. |
D.He wished to encourage adults to light against illness bravely. |
A.It is based on his life experiences. |
B.It is written by him and Tim Green. |
C.He offered great advice to its author. |
D.He has introduced it to many people. |
A.Worried. | B.Cautious. |
C.Uncertain. | D.Favorable. |
【推荐3】Just being smart doesn’t mean someone will be successful. And just because someone is less smart doesn’t mean that person will fail. That’s one take-home message from the work of people like Angela Duckworth.
She works at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Like many other researchers, Duckworth wondered what makes one person more successful than another. When digging deeper, Duckworth found that the people who performed best shared a quality (品质) independent of smarts. They had what she now calls grit (毅力). Duckworth developed a set of questions to test it.
In one study of people 25 and older, she found that as people age, they become more likely to stick with a project. She also found that grit increases with education. People who had finished college scored higher in the grit test than people who quit before graduation did. People who went to graduate school after college scored even higher.
She then did another study with college students. Duckworth wanted to see how smarts and grit influenced performance in school. So she compared scores on college-entrance exams, which test IQ, to school grades and someone’s score in the grit test. Students with higher grades seem to have more grit. That’s not surprising. Getting good grades takes both smarts and hard work.
But some people counter that this grit means success. Among those people is Marcus Credé, a teacher at Iowa State University in Ames. He recently showed the results of 88 studies on grit. Together, nearly 67,000 people took part in these studies. And grit did not predict success, Credé found.
However, he thinks grit is very similar to someone’s ability to set goals, work toward them and think things through before acting. It’s a basic personality quality, Credé notes — not something that can be changed.
“Study habits and skills, test anxiety and class attendance are far more strongly connected to school grades than grit,” Credé says. “We can teach students how to study well. We can help them with their test anxiety,” he adds. “I’m not sure we can do that with grit.”
1. What can we know from the first two paragraphs?A.Grit decides how smart one might be. |
B.Grit is a quality dependent (依赖的) on smarts. |
C.Success has nothing to do with smarts. |
D.Smart people may not succeed. |
A.Lifestyles. | B.Family tradition. | C.Education. | D.Personality types. |
A.Doubt. | B.Reply. | C.Accept. | D.Warn. |
A.It is strongly related to test anxiety. |
B.It can hardly be taught in school. |
C.It should be paid no attention to in teaching. |
D.It can’t influence students’ school grades. |
【推荐1】The day before we met, Juliette Binoche was in the French Alps. Today , she’s sitting in her room in Berlin’s Hotel Marriott.“We arrived last night at 12,”she says, casually brushing off her tight schedule. It ‘s been this way for four decades now , ever since she became a real hit at the Cannes FilmFestival as a 21-year-old , starring in 1985’s Rendez-vous. The film was well received and“La Binochas the French call her , was born.
Almost immediately, people were deeply attracted by this charming young lady. “After Rendez-vous,when I started , somebody asked me about doing an autobiography of my life… when I was 21 !”she reveals , quite shocked at this absurd(荒唐的)idea.”Some people actually thought about it.”
Instead , Binoche concentrated on a constant rise through the ranks of world cinema. Rather than addicted to the fame and wealth brought by Hollywood,Binoche simply continued working with celebrated filmmakers from-around the globe ,developing a reputation as a risk-taker.“For me, the risk is to repeat myself or get into a comfort zone that is not opening my horizons(视野),”she says.
Now 58, there isn’t much this extraordinary artist hasn ‘t done. On stage, she starred with Akram Khan at London ‘s National Theatre in dance piece In-i.”When you’re not a dancer , then you see that you need courage , you need trust and you need magic that is inside you that is going to take place,”she says. She also sang in the show It ‘s Almost Nothing and would love to film a musical. Which one? “I would never answer that,”she smiles.“ A film is a connection of different people.”In other words,about creative magic.
1. What do we know about Juliette Binoche in Paragraph 1 ?A.She stayed busy after gaining fame. |
B.She acted as a film star in Rendez-vous. |
C.She went sightseeing in European countries. |
D.She was named“La Binoche”by the German. |
A.She wrote an autobiography. |
B.She worked in her comfort zone. |
C.She kept climbing the career ladder. |
D.She sought more fame and fortune. |
A.Youth time passes in an instant. |
B.Fame and wealth make no sense. |
C.Suffering is the best teacher of life. |
D.Life needs challenge and innovation. |
A.A magazine. |
B.A novel. |
C.diary. |
D.A guidebook. |
In fact, anyone can achieve what they have wanted to achieve. It is about beliefs. Everyone is a born winner. It is this belief that drives an individual to be successful in his or her own field. All successful individuals have strong beliefs and it is one of the bases for their success. If we start to believe in ourselves, the things that we can achieve will definitely give us a pleasant surprise.
Other than having a strong belief, it is the attitude that drives the individual to create their own history. The devotion towards themselves and the drive must also be present. Imagine having a strong belief in oneself and having a poor attitude towards life. Then how would that individual turn out to be? One’s attitude
Start believing in yourself and you will achieve your goals and with the right positive attitude, you will definitely be able to create the miracle that you have always dreamt of.
1. Which of the following is the best summary of Paragraph 2?
A.Good begun is half done. |
B.Where there is a will, there is a way. |
C.No pains, no gains. |
D.God helps those who help themselves. |
A.serve as | B.belongs to | C.stands for | D.consists of |
A.attitudes can be learned from one’s parents |
B.copying other’s behaviors is a good way to succeed |
C.only strong beliefs can’t ensure you a promising future |
D.attitudes can only be learned through one’s success |
A.Differences Between Beliefs and Attitudes |
B.The Nature of Beliefs and Positive Attitudes |
C.Relationship Between Beliefs and Attitudes |
D.The Power of Beliefs and Positive Attitudes |
【推荐3】When my daughter Sara was in the fifth grade, she came to me with a problem. “Marcy hates me!” she cried. “Because Kathy is my friend, too. She wants me to be her friend and nobody else’s. You talk to Marcy. You tell her that I want to be her friend, but I can have other friends, too!”
Oh! I looked at her for a few moments, wondering how I got into this mess (困境), when suddenly an idea came to me.
Picking up two baskets from the living room, I explained, “When everyone is born, he or she has a little basket. This little one here is yours. The big one is mine. As you grow, so does the basket. You can see your little basket is inside mine because when you were born, there were too many things you couldn’t do for yourself. I did everything you couldn’t do on your own.”
She nodded.
“Well, as you grew older and began to do some things on your own, I began placing a few more things in your basket. When you learned to tie your shoes, that went in your basket.”
She said softly, “I can tie my own shoes.”
“Right. As you grow older, there will be more and more things you must do on your own.” As I spoke, I gradually took her basket out of mine and handed it to her. “You will finally carry your own basket with things only you can do.”
She looked up at me and said, “I understand. There are some things that I have to do for myself because they are in my basket.”
1. What was Sara’s problem?A.She didn’t have a basket. |
B.She didn’t want her own basket. |
C.She couldn’t deal with her friendship. |
D.Her mother was too hard on her. |
A.Interesting. | B.Exciting. | C.Moving. | D.Challenging. |
A.would talk to Marcy herself |
B.wouldn’t make friends with Kathy |
C.was too young to deal with anything |
D.managed to persuade her mother to help her |
A.gifts given by God when everyone is born |
B.something that people use to keep vegetables |
C.growing abilities as you grow up |
D.friendship that needs repairing |