When he was small,Hill was a famous bad boy.
At the age of 9,his father married his stepmother.At that time they lived poorly in the countryside while his stepmother was from a wealthy family.
His father introduced Hill to his stepmother and he said,“Dear,please notice that in the entire shire this is the worst boy,who has made me have no other way.Maybe before tomorrow morning he will throw a stone at you,or do a bad thing you will never imagine.”
To Hill’s surprise,his stepmother went up to him with a smile,held up his head and looked at him carefully.She then turned around to tell her husband,“You’re wrong.He is not the worst boy in the entire shire,but the cleverest and creative boy.Only he doesn’t find a place to show himself.”
His stepmother’s words warmed his heart,his eyes full of tears.With this,he started building friendship with his stepmother.And this became the drive of his life,making him create 28 successful golden rules,which helped tens of thousands of ordinary people walk on the road to success.
Before his stepmother came,no one praised him smart,and his father and neighbors considered him as a bad boy.However,his stepmother’s words changed his life.
When Hill was 14 years old,his stepmother bought him a used typewriter and said to him,“I believe you will become a writer.” Hill accepted his stepmother’s gift and expectation,and started writing things to a local newspaper.He understood his stepmother’s strong feeling of interest in his family while he saw with his own eyes she had changed his family.Therefore,he would do as well as she expected him to.
The strength from his stepmother made him a rich man and famous writer in the United States and one of the most important persons in the 20th century.
Praise will never be unnecessary,especially for children.A sincere (真诚的)praise may be better than 10,000 bad words.
1. What did people think of Hill before the age of nine?A.Clever. | B.Creative. |
C.Unfriendly. | D.Foolish. |
A.smiled at him |
B.looked at him carefully |
C.said good words about him |
D.said bad words about him |
A.He accepted his stepmother’s typewriter. |
B.He failed to do as he was expected. |
C.He started writing to a local newspaper. |
D.He understood his stepmother. |
A.children should be praised |
B.Hill’s father married again |
C.Hill’s stepmother was kind to him |
D.Hill’s father was cruel to him |
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【推荐1】I have no memory of December 27. 2015; but I can tell you this much ̶̶̶̶̶̶̶̶ ̶ it was the day my five-year-old son, Dane, saved my life. All the practicing Dane and I had done came together that day. Teaching him to learn our home address, how to use the phone, how to dial 911, and how to answer the questions a 911 operator might ask him if he did have to call ̶̶ ̶ paid off.
At about 3:30 that afternoon, I wasn’t feeling well and had been lying on the sofa. At some point, I went to the bathroom and it was there that I fell down and went unconsciousness. When I fell, my face hit the floor, causing two of my teeth to break off. And my body blocked the door.
Dane must have heard me fall, because he came to the bathroom and called out to me. When I did not answer him, he looked in through a gap in the door and saw the blood from my injured mouth. That’s when his “training” kicked in. First, Dane phoned my mother ̶ ̶ his grandma ̶ ̶ and when Grandma didn’t answer the phone, he called 911. Dane remained calm, stayed on the line and told the operator what had happened and where we lived. He turned on the outside light and opened the door for police and paramedics (医务人员), and then led them to me.
Recently, emergency responders in Taber, the town where we live, honored Dane at his school during an assembly (集会) of his kindergarten classmates and other students. The Taber Police Service praised my son and give him a certificate (证书) in recognition of his “knowing exactly what to do in an emergency situation.”
Dane saved my life, and he is my angel! If I had not taught my son how to react if there was ever an emergency in our home, I am quite certain that I would not be alive now. I strongly suggest other parents understand the life-and -death importance of taking the time to teach their kids these skills, too. Children can learn these things at a very young age. I know this first-hand, as Dane was three years old when I started teaching him.
1. According to the text, Dane________.A.won a certificate for excellent test scores |
B.taught himself emergency knowledge at 3 |
C.once saved his father with his mother’s help |
D.began to learn emergency knowledge in 2013 |
A.hard-working but proud |
B.honest and careful |
C.skilled and calm |
D.shy and helpful |
A.Emergency does happen often in our everyday life. |
B.Parents should teach their young children how to deal with emergency. |
C.Parents must learn to be paramedics before learning emergency knowledge. |
D.It doesn’t take much time and patience to teach children emergency knowledge. |
As a young man, Al was a skilled artist, a potter. He had a wife and two fine sons. One night, his older son developed a severe stomachache. Thinking it was only some common intestinal (肠的) disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition very seriously. But the disease was actually acute appendicitis (阑尾炎), and the boy died suddenly that night.
Knowing the death could have been prevented if he had only realized the seriousness of the situation, Al’s emotional health declined under the enormous burden 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 Al could handle, and he became an alcoholic.
As the alcoholism progressed, Al began to lose everything he possessed—his home, his land, his art objects, everything. Eventually Al died alone in a San Francisco motel room.
When I heard of Al’s death, I thought, “What a complete failure! What a totally wasted life. ”
As time went by, I began to re-evaluate my earlier harsh judgment. You see, I knew Al’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.
I hadn’t heard Ernie talk much about his father. One day I worked up my courage to ask him. “I’m really puzzled by something, ”I said. “I know your father was basically the only one to raise you. What on earth did he do so that you became such a special person? ”
Ernie sat quietly and reflected for a few moments. Then he said, “From my earliest memories as a child until I left home at 18, Al 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 Al as a failure. He had not left any material possessions behind, but he had been a kind loving father, and he left behind one of the finest, most giving man I have ever known.
1. Why was Al in guilt? (no more than 15 words)
2. Where did Al die? (no more than 5 words)
3. What made Al addicted to alcohol? (no more than 10 words)
4. What does the underlined word “enormous” most probably mean? (1 word)
5. What did Al’s son Ernie learn from his father? (no more than 15 words)
【推荐3】“When I was a boy of 14,my father was so ignorant (无知的) that I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in 7 years. “—Mark Twain
My 23-year-old daughter and I are the female version of the above quote. When I left her father about 12 years ago she chose to stay with him. Her father was quite angry at our breakup and so was my daughter. She exactly had nothing to do with me for about 5 years, no contact, no presents to me, no overnight stays. It broke my heart.
Now she works near my home. She has often slept on the sofa in my home and I so love this.
Last week I turned my study into a bedroom for her. Today a new bed and mattress(床垫) arrived and I went to Belfast to buy quilts, pillows, cushions, curtains, lampshade etc to make this into the room my daughter should have had in my home 12 years ago. She has really loved being able to input into this room for her and I have really loved creating a little special personal space for her in my home.
In the end, l worked it out but I can tell you I really learned so much by way of practicing patience in those painful early days.
I hope my little daughter who is now a young 23-year-old woman never distances herself from me again, no child should be without a Mother’s love.
1. What do you know about Mark Twain?A.He didn’t realize his father’s good characters. |
B.He didn't admire his father in his childhood. |
C.He couldn't learn knowledge from his father. |
D.He regretted leaving his father as a child. |
A.To make up for love to her daughter. |
B.To recover what the room used to be. |
C.To attract her daughter to live there. |
D.To meet her daughter’s tastes. |
A.lives close to | B.struggles against |
C.thinks highly of | D.keeps a distance from |
【推荐1】Raelene Heldt, a friend of my grandmother, if she were alive today, would never be able to deal with a visit to the modern supermarket, especially endless kinds of milk. It would be too much for her. She’d feel cheated. Because back in her day, in India, she was known among the vendors(商贩) who went selling their wares from door-to-door.
You had to bring her the genuine article(真货), or you simply would not receive her custom(惠顾). In the 60s, custom was a huge thing. “She had a way with people,” my granny used to say. “If you mess with her, you get told off and never ever again enjoy her custom.’
The freshest fish, the best meat, the juiciest … they all went to Raelene first and only after she’d had her pick was the rest taken to be sold to others. How did this all come about? Well, it began with the milkman.
The milkman made his rounds around the colony with a huge can of milk on his bicycle. Raelene’s house happened to be at the milkman’s run. Once he got there, he’d take the bowl placed outside the Raelene’s door and measure a litre of milk. In most cases, it was just a routine business exchange.
However, one day, Raelene happened to be drinking tea at her friend Jill’s place. The milk in the cup was so thick it gave the tea such a rich taste. “Show me your milk, Jill,” said Raelene. Jill let her have a look. And something things in her mind.
Jill happened to live at the very head of the village so she got the first delivery(递送) of milk, which was very good, pure, thick. But by the time the milk reached Raelene’s door, it had water added.
This Raelene found out about. And once “the cat was out of the bag”, Raelene said to the milkman, “If you want to keep my custom, you’ll bring your cow with you to my door and milk it right before my eyes. Otherwise, I’m not interested.”
And you know what? The milkman agreed. Those were, indeed, different times.
1. What can be learned from Paragraph2?A.Raelene got on well with people. |
B.Customers got on well with vendors. |
C.Raelene was good at dealing with vendors. |
D.Vendors were looked down upon in the 60s. |
A.The milkman cheated her. | B.Jill added water to her milk. |
C.Jill was skilled at preparing tea. | D.The milkman added waler to Jill's milk. |
A.He gave her a cow. | B.He tried to avoid her. |
C.He refused to sell milk to her. | D.He provided her with good milk. |
A.She is smart. | B.She is horrible. |
C.She is shallow. | D.She is well -meaning. |
【推荐2】Laura
Laura Stanley is only 15 and has already produced an impressive collection of poems and short stories. But she also used to enjoy singing and was a great artist and dancer. For a long time she thought she might follow one of those paths as a career, as at the time she didn't really know whether she was good enough at writing. But in the end she has decided that writing is what she loves.
Haruki
Haruki Kato is a highly enthusiastic young sculptor (刻师).At the age of 16, he has already had his work shown in galleries and won several competitions. He says he is encouraged not by successful artists, but by anyone who is driven and determined to get where they want. I have a lot of people around me who have helped me and made sure I improve and grow as an artist. In the future, I’d like to do the same for children like me who have a talent but need.
Elena
Elena Mancini is 17-year-old make-up artist with plans for the future. She’s already working in local theatres and has even helped on a film set. "People in our village have always put on plays and my mom does all the make-up. I used to ask her to let me help her. If she had stopped me from helping, I wouldn’t have found out how much I enjoy doing make-up. "
Joel
Joel Bailey, who is 15, wants to be a music journalist and he has already had some interviews published in music magazines. "I’m a big fan of rock music. I enjoy writing as well, and one day I just came up with the idea that I could be a journalist and specialise in music. So I started writing articles and sending them off to magazines. Some I didn't even get paid for, but I didn't mind, because if you want to succeed in any business, you have to get recognized and learn your skills. "
1. What does Haruki want to do in the future?A.Write some short stories. |
B.Give support to children. |
C.Meet world-famous artists. |
D.Develop an interest in the arts. |
A.Polite. | B.Friendly. | C.Responsible. | D.Determined. |
A.They are pioneers in science. |
B.They are good at teaching kids. |
C.They are professional future planners. |
D.They are on the way to successful careers. |
【推荐3】I didn’t quite know what I was looking for when I flew to Mongolia for a term abroad. I just needed something different, far from the late-night libraries of my college town. Most different, I hoped, would be my rural homestay: two weeks in central Mongolia with a family of nomadic(游牧的) herders.
I was studying Mongolian at the time, but still, there was so much I couldn’t say or understand. As we walked in the snow behind the goats, my host mom would ask me if I was cold, then giggle (咯咯地笑) and copy a big shiver to make sure I understood. In the evenings, she showed me how to make dumplings with her fingers. My host siblings would talk with me, speaking too fast for me to understand, as we explored the rocks around our tent; I’d listen and nod.
This verbal(言语的) barrier was strangely freeing. In the crowded dining hall at home, meeting new people made me anxious. I’d stay quiet, measuring out my words, struggling for something to say that wouldn’t expose me as unfunny or boring. In Mongolia, I couldn’t perfect my words. I could only smile, and try out one of the phrases I’d mastered: “May I help?” “Where is the dog?” “Are you tired?” My host family laughed at my pronunciation, at the way I threw up my hands and eyebrows in a frequent gesture of confusion. But in their laughter, I felt safe, unembarrassed.
With my Mongolian family on the grassland, I found a feeling of ease I’d never felt before. We were so different, they and I, and not just in language. Their skin was hardened and darkened by sun; I’d been hidden under hats and sunscreen since birth. My host siblings(兄弟姐妹) grew up drawing water from frozen streams and jogging behind herds of sheep; I spent summers at tennis camp.
For me, these gaps made all the difference. Without shared social measures, I wasted no time wondering how I was measuring up. Only real things—kindness, helpfulness—mattered.
1. Why did the author go to Mongolia for a term abroad?A.She dreamed of living a nomadic life. | B.She was tired of studying late at night. |
C.She had to study Mongolians’ normal life. | D.She was collecting information for libraries. |
A.Hug. | B.Smile. | C.Attack. | D.Shake. |
A.She felt at ease in the crowd. | B.She usually weighed her words. |
C.She asked a lot of funny questions. | D.She often made others laugh with jokes. |
A.You are judged wherever you go. | B.Nature makes humans feel insignificant. |
C.Appearance reflects one’s standard of life. | D.Being kind is the common social standard. |
【推荐1】One April evening, when Marilla came home late after visiting her friends, she found that the kitchen was empty and no supper was on the table.
“Where’s Anne?” she thought. “I told her to get the supper ready before I returned. Where is she?” She hurried upstairs to Anne’s room, and found the girl crying loudly on her bed. “Don’t look at me, Marilla!” Anne cried. “What’s the matter?” asked Marilla. “Are you ill now? Or have you met another problem?”
“Oh, Marilla, I just want to die! Just look at my hair!” Marilla saw that Anne’s long thick red hair was just a horrible dark green. “Oh, Anne!” she said. “What have you done?” “I… I bought a bottle of something special from a man who came to the door. He said it would change my hair from red to black! Oh, I know it was stupid! But what shall I do? Marilla! Everybody in Avonlea will laugh at me for this!” Marilla smiled and touched Anne’s hair. “No, they won’t, Anne! We can wash it; maybe it will become red again.”
They washed Anne’s hair three times, but it was still green. Anne stayed at home for a week, saw nobody and washed her hair every day. But at the end of the week, Marilla said, “I’m sorry, Anne, we’ll have to cut it all off. You can’t go to school with green hair.”
Anne had to agree. “Perhaps this will teach me not to think about being beautiful,” she said sadly. Everybody was surprised to see Anne with very short hair, but no one knew the secret. Several weeks later, there were some new, dark red curls (卷发), which pleased Anne very much.
1. Why did Anne cry on her bed?A.She hadn’t prepared supper. |
B.She got a problem with her hair. |
C.Marilla thought ill of her. |
D.Her hair became thin. |
A.short | B.special | C.ugly | D.nice |
A.Marilla treated Anne badly. |
B.Anne had her own room upstairs. |
C.Anne stayed at home for ten days. |
D.Marilla helped Anne cut her hair. |
【推荐2】After spending his career as a chef and working as the Vice President of Food and Beverage at FireKeepers Casino Hotel in Battle Creek, Michigan, Michael McFarlen saw how much food would get thrown away from the Casino’s restaurant every day.
Unfortunately, throwing away perfectly good food is extremely common within the restaurant industry. Yet it was always something that bothered McFarlen about his work. Actions point, McFarlen decided to get involved with the South Central Food Bank of Michigan Inc. to help give back to those in need. He then became the president on the board and came up with a plan to open a restaurant in the community that would also help support a food bank on the property.
In April of 2016, the FireKeepers Casino Hotel and its owners, the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, bought Fire Station No. 4, a historic firehouse near down town Battle Creek that had been closed for years and was set to be demolished. However, the group bought it before that happened and started to give the historic building a new life.
Renovations on the property lasted about a year. Then on April 19, 2017, the restaurant, which they named The Fire Hub, opened to the public for the first time. At the same time, the food bank, which they named the Kendall Street Food bank, opened its door in the back of the building.
“Anytime you open a new restaurant, you just have to figure a way through that first year,” George said. However, the first year of operation was beyond their expectations. Not only did the restaurant attract customers because of its popularity and sustainability, but the food bank helped more people in the first year than they ever imagined would need its services.
In total, about 375 to 400 households get help from the food bank every single month. “We’re able to cater to people who are working, but still need a little help during the month,” McFarlen told Second Wave media. To better fit the need of the majority of people using their services, the food bank was designed to look like a small market.
1. What bothered McFarlen as a chef?A.A lack of cooks. |
B.Waste of good food. |
C.Involvement in food banks. |
D.Shortage of food in some areas. |
A.Built up. | B.Torn down. | C.Broken up. | D.Knocked off. |
A.It worked out well. |
B.It had branches set up. |
C.It stuck to good quality. |
D.It didn’t last for a year. |
A.Patient and careful. |
B.Loving and devoted. |
C.Enthusiastic and diligent. |
D.Cautious and understanding. |
【推荐3】For her 85th birthday, I gave my mother an iPad. She’d never used a computer. She had a trying relationship with her TV remote control and a miserable track record with her cell.
She was keeping on a tablet because she knew people who had them and she believed that if she couldn’t keep up with technology, she’d one day find herself in a computerized kitchen, “unable to open a can of soup”.
Our first task was email. She quickly learned the fundamentals, but couldn’t see the point of emailing when she could phone or visit in person.
Next, we tackled Netflix. Mom was a movie lover with an appetite for murder mysteries. She was astonished by the amount of crime thrillers that Netflix has on offer. One Saturday she called because she was having trouble logging onto Netflix. I suggested it might require an update. “They probably have fewer people working as it’s a long weekend,” she told me.
Mom is a reader, so we downloaded the library app and signed her up for an ecard. Now she regularly downloads e-books herself. When they are not immediately available, she puts them on hold and forgets about them.
She became curious about all the icons, so we set up a weekly tutorial, which takes place over the phone, each of us with our iPads. One day, I struggled for 45 minutes to help her find he search bar. “It looks like a magnifying glass,” I kept saying. Finally, she asked: “You mean the frying pan?”
We speak on the phone every day. Now, we also FaceTime, Zoom and email. She powers through e-books, marveling that she can check them out in the middle of the night. She watches TV series and knows what’s trending. But she has not yet successfully surfed the Net. She would like to read the newspaper, but pop-up ads and sidebars are problematic. She “accidentally” touches them and then ends up on some strange pages.
I can’t wait for the day when we can sit down in person and surf the Net together. Meanwhile, it’s great to see how much her confidence has grown. Yesterday, she FaceTimed me. “I’ve made a resolution,” she announced. “I’m going to learn how to operate every piece of technology in the apartment — including the TV remote.”
1. Why did the author’s mother decide to learn to use the tablet?A.To keep pace with times. | B.To connect with her family. |
C.To follow her friends’ advice. | D.To better organize her kitchen. |
A.She no longer emailed others. | B.She was addicted to e-books. |
C.She could identify all of the icons. | D.She was troubled by the pop-up ads. |
A.Fun and creative. | B.Brave and hardworking. |
C.Patient and honest. | D.Curious and determined. |
A.It’s never too late to learn. | B.Time and tide wait for no man. |
C.Actions speak louder than words. | D.Technology is a double edged sword. |