I was on my way home from work, cutting through the Bryant Park. On that day, the sun seemed to set faster than usual, and suddenly I found myself walking in the dark. I was less than half a mile from my apartment, but the path would lead me over a bridge, across train tracks, and through an unlit underpass.
Then I heard him – a stranger running alongside me, partly obscured(遮掩) by the bushes. My mouth went dry; my legs felt like water. But I didn’t pick up my pace – instead, I stopped, turned, and faced him. He came out of the bushes and said he’d been watching me “for a long time”.
As he walked beside me, I guided us towards the edge of the park. When we reached the bridge, a train rumbled(轰鸣着缓慢行进) past, and he seized the moment, attacking me with a knife around my throat. The self-defense skills I had learned years before kicked in, and I pushed my finger into his eye, hard. And then came the shock: That didn’t frighten him away. My mind flashed back to a tip from an old guitar teacher: “Press the strings like you’re squeezing a flea(跳蚤).” I put all my strength into that finger, and finally he let go.
I was shaking with fear, but I looked him straight in the eye and began to back away. I turned to run the hell out of there, but then I remembered another self-defense lesson: Never run, because then you’re a target. So I walked away alone – through the dark tunnel as I dialed 911 with trembling fingers. If you ever find yourself in this situation, use these self-defense skills that you already know. They can really make all the difference to you.
1. Which of the following word best describes the author’s way home?| A．Well-traveled. | B．Risky. |
| C．Boring. | D．Well-protected. |
| A．The author was desperate to go home. |
| B．The author was exhausted and thirsty. |
| C．The author was in a state of fear. |
| D．The author’s legs were wet. |
| A．The man is a casual acquaintance of her. |
| B．She was guarded home by the police finally. |
| C．She might feel grateful for her self-defense skills. |
| D．The man injured his eye himself when making an attack. |
| A．How I survived an attack | B．Whether fortune smiles on me |
| C．What one should do when in danger | D．Why self-defense skills are important |
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【推荐1】Nowadays, we depend on advanced technology too much. However, a the saying goes, a coin has two sides. The tool bringing you convenience may also put you in trouble. Here is a modern-day horror story:
A young mother was employed in doing her writing when her son, aged 2, burst into tears somehow. She did all she could to ease her son. But in vain. She had no way to comfort him. Meanwhile, her iPhone rang aloud, which attracted his son's attention. He stopped crying temporarily. It occurred to her that the iPhone might help. Thus, she handed her iPhone to her son: What happened next? The child entered an incorrect passcode on his mother's phone so many times that the device became locked for 251 14984 minutes, about 47 years, making it absolutely useless to its formerly digitally connected owner. That's the scene now facing a Shanghai mother, identified only as Ms Lu by Chinese news reports, whose kid played with her phone and unfortunately began the process of disabling the device for, basically, forever. According to a news report, Ms Lu waited two months to see if the situation would improve, but the iPhone remained locked. “I couldn't really wait 47 years and tell my grandchild it was his father's mistake, ”she reportedly said. The alternative mode of accessing the phone is to wipe it with a factory reset. This is why you should always backup ( 备份) all your data.
iPhone can become locked with six failed attempts at entering a passcode on the locked screen, and the amount of time for which the phone is locked can compound (增加) with ongoing attempts to break in. So, for all the parents out there: see to it that you don't let your kid loose on your phone, assuming you want to still use it when he's done, of course.
1. Why did the young mother hand her phone to her son?| A．To focus on her housework. | B．To comfort her crying kid. |
| C．To let him answer the phone. | D．To play the phone with him. |
| A．The system of her iPhone broke down. |
| B．She couldn't use her iPhone back then. |
| C．Her iPhone was locked for two months. |
| D．She forgot the passcode of her iPhone. |
| A．backup all the data immediately |
| B．wipe the iPhone with a factory reset |
| C．enter the correct passcode for six, times |
| D．set a new passcode to unlock the iPhone |
| A．Don't hand your own phone to your young kid. |
| B．Let your kid feel loose when using your phone. |
| C．Make sure to set a passcode to lock your phone. |
| D．Be careful when your kid plays with your phone. |
【推荐2】Once on a dark winter’s day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, a Little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.
She leaned against her father, who held her in his arm, as she stared out of the window at the passing people with a queer (strange, odd) old-fashioned thoughtfulness in her big eyes.
Principally, she was thinking of what a queer thing it was that at one time one was in India in the blazing sun, and then in the middle of the ocean, and then driving in a strange vehicle through strange streets where the day was as dark as the night. She found this so puzzling that she moved closer to her father.
“What is it. darling?” Captain Crewe asked, holding her closer and looking down into her face.
During her short life only one thing had troubled her, and that thing was “the place” she was to be taken to some day. The climate of India was very bad for children, and as soon as possible they were sent away from it-generally to England and to school. She bad seen other children go away, and had heard their fathers and mothers talk about the letters they received from them1. She had known that she would be obliged to go also, and though sometimes her father’s stories of the voyage and the new country had attracted her, she had been troubled by the thought that he could not stay with her.
She had liked to think of that. To keep the house for her father; to ride with him, and sit at the head of his table when he had dinner parties; to talk to him and read his books - that would be what she would like most in the world, and if one must go away to “the place“ in England to attain it, she must make up her mind to go. She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
It was a big, dull, brick house, exactly like all the others in its row, but that on the front door there shone a brass plate on which was engraved in black letters:
MISS MINCHIN, Select Seminary for Young Ladies.
“I don’t like it, papa, ” she said. “But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones-don’t really like going into battle. ” Sara stood quietly, with her eyes fixed upon Miss Minchin’s face. She was thinking something odd, as usual.
1. What can we learn from the story?| A．Sara was bothered by her departure from her father. |
| B．Sara was about to be sent to London for a completely new life. |
| C．Sara was thinking of a way to escape being sent to a foreign country. |
| D．Sara was persuaded to receive further education in a prestigious school. |
| A．entertain | B．occupy |
| C．comfort | D．improve |
| A．She didn’t mind living with other girls. |
| B．She hated the idea of living independently. |
| C．She was positive about the new life at school. |
| D．She was confident to adapt to the new environment. |
| A．The author compares Sara’s bravery to that of the soldiers. |
| B．The description of the surroundings is to add horror to the story. |
| C．The image of Sara is depicted through appearance and language. |
| D．Body language is employed to show the character’s state of mind. |
One hot summer afternoon, he was taking a walk with a stick near his house when a thunderstorm started all at once. He stood under a large tree to avoid getting wet, but he was struck by the lightning. Witnesses thought he was dead but he woke up some 20 minutes later lying face down in muddy water at the base of the tree. He was trembling badly, but when he opened his eyes, he could hardly believe what he saw: a plough and a wall. When Mrs. Edwards came running up to him, shouting to their neighbors to call for help, he could see her and hear her voice for the first time in nearly ten years.
The news of Robert regaining his sight and hearing quickly spread, and many doctors came to examine him. Most of them said that he regained his sight and hearing from the shock he got from the lightning. However, none of them could give a convincing answer as to why this should have happened. The only reasonable explanation given by one doctor was that, since Robert lost his sight and hearing as a result of a sudden shock, perhaps, the only way for him to regain them was by another sudden shock.
1. The reason for Robert’s attempts to kill himself was that _________.
| A．a terrible traffic accident happened to him |
| B．he had to live in a dark and silent world |
| C．he was struck by the lightning once more |
| D．nobody in the world cared about him |
| A．Taking a walk with a stick. |
| B．Sheltering from the rain under a tree. |
| C．Driving a car. |
| D．Lying on the ground. |
| A．Robert’s wife sent for doctors immediately after the shock |
| B．many doctors came because Robert was badly injured |
| C．there was no exact explanation for Robert’s recovery |
| D．a sudden injury in the head led to Robert’s recovery |
| A．A Terrible Electrical Accident |
| B．Robert Edwards and His Wife |
| C．What a Sudden Shock |
| D．An Unforgettable Experience |
【推荐1】Cassandra Warren, a baby-sitter, was in a rush and feeling a little overcome with work and planning her 200-person wedding. As she was getting invitations for her weddings in the mail one day last year, she hurriedly addressed one to her aunt and uncle in Oregon.
A week later, the invitation came back, with a handwritten note on the return envelope: “I wish I knew you. Congratulations! I’ve been married for 40 years—it gets better with age.” A $ 20 bill was inside.
Cassandra was at a professional crossroads and had been having a tough day. In fact, she nearly broke down, telling her husband-to-be, Jesse Jones, about her depression just as she opened the misdirected envelope. And the magic envelope wasn’t finished with its surprises. Cassandra looked closer and saw that on the envelope were “Live long and prosper”, a nod to space-based film Star Trek (《星际迷航》).
Casandra and Jesse have no idea who the anonymous note writer is. But they figure the Star Trek reference was because the person noticed the “fandom” corner of their invitation, which had both a Star Wars light-saber (光剑) and a Harry Potter wand (魔杖). “She assumed we’d understand her message,” Cassandra says. “Which we did.”
The following night Casandra and Jesse went out o dinner with a friend who was going overseas with the military. They happily put the $20 toward their bill. Then Casandra stopped by a store and bought another card—a thank-you card. She wrote her aunt and uncle’s incorrect address on the envelope again to “Kind Stranger.” Inside, she wrote, “Thank you for the note and taking the time to send it. Not many people would have done that. It was a big blessing after the day I was having. I am thankful for people like you still being in the world.”
1. What is the best title for the text?| A．Welcome to Cassandra’s wedding. | B．What if you invite a kind stranger. |
| C．Take your time to write a right letter. | D．Wedding invitation to the wrong address |
| A．She suffered a disease. | B．She was in bad mood. |
| C．She quarreled with Jesse. | D．She lost her job as a baby-sitter. |
| A．Nameless. | B．Warm-hearted. | C．Peace-loving. | D．Doubtful. |
| A．Cassandra made the same mistake the second time. |
| B．The return letter might be from the military friend. |
| C．The second letter was wrongly addressed on purpose. |
| D．Cassandra doesn’t know her uncle and aunt’s address. |
In her senior year of high school, her English teacher was a Mrs. Dorothy Slaton, a demanding teacher with high standards. One day Mrs. Slaton asked this question: "If you had unlimited finances, unlimited access to the finest schools, unlimited talents and abilities, what would you do?" Jean felt a rush of the old enthusiasm, and with excitement she wrote down the very old dream.
The next thing that Mrs. Slaton said changed the course of Jean's life. The teacher leaned forward over her desk and said, "I have a little secret for you. You do have unlimited abilities and talents. When you leave school, if you don't go for your dreams, no one will do it for you. You can have what you want if you want it enough."
The hurt and fear of years of discouragement disappeared all of a sudden. Jean felt thrilled and told her about her dream of becoming a pilot. Mrs. Slaton slapped the desk top. "Then do it!" she said.
So Jean did. It didn't happen overnight. In her l0 years of hard work, even facing varieties of laugh, frustration and opposition, she never gave up her dream. Instead, she went on doing everything her third-grade teacher said was fairy-tale.
Eventually, Jean Harper became a Boeing 737 captain for the United Airline Company.
1. Jean’s third-grade teacher thought her dream to be ____________.
| A．great | B．impossible |
| C．challenging | D．reasonable |
| A．only some of her students have great potential |
| B．her students are good enough to be admitted to the best schools |
| C．belief contributes to realizing a dream |
| D．Jean was to have her dream realized |
| A．Jean’s dream was always in her deep heart |
| B．Jean owed her success to all her teachers |
| C．most people around Jean approved of her dream |
| D．Jean achieved her dream with ease |
| A．A Respectable Teacher | B．How to Realize a Dream |
| C．Hard Work Pays off | D．Reach for the Sky |
【推荐3】I have three kids and a great husband and I’m enjoying a career that I find challenging and fun. This feels like “Success” to the outside world. But there is still a voice in my heart asking if this is who I truly am. Only in silence do I hear the self and wonder who that person might be．
So I booked a trip to find out. I travelled, for the first time, without my husband or kids．I went to Iceland with a friend, who shares an appreciation for wilderness and silence．
For six days, we were immersed in wild, raw scenery and real weather—all kinds of weather. Climbing a mountain against rain and returning to a tent for a simple meal reminds you how little you actually need. And how strong it feels to be uncomfortable sometimes．
I found silence in Iceland，and time to consider the me outside of career and the me outside of kids as I shared stories with strangers．
When I stopped talking and just listened，I became more generous．I 1earned that choosing to be generous can create more space, more food and more warmth．
But I didn’t really gain any better appreciation of what I want from life or my job．I suspect the anxiety that drove me to seek silence in Iceland was losing sight of my ability to choose gratitude and joy，and to be present in the challenges I set in my career and my family．
I came home to noise，rush and love；with no less confusion on who I want to be．I know the answer isn’t waiting out there on the top of a mountain in Iceland. The answer is in front of me with every step on my own 1ife’s path, and in every choice I make．
1. Why did the author take a trip to Iceland?| A．To gain a new experience． |
| B．To enjoy family happiness． |
| C．To better understand herself． |
| D．To appreciate natural beauty． |
| A．Puzzling | B．Thrilling |
| C．Relaxing | D．Demanding |
| A．She became more positive | B．She became more energetic |
| C．She became even lonelier | D．She became more anxious |
| A．Withdraw back to nature． |
| B．Embrace reality bravely． |
| C．Travel to Iceland more often． |
| D．Pay less attention to her feelings． |
【推荐1】It’s often said that creative people see the world differently from the rest of us and a Harvard study is providing one explanation.Scientists studied brain scans of people after asking them to come up with creative uses for everyday objects.And they found a specific pattern of connectivity that correlated with the most creative responses.
“What this shows is that the creative brain works differently,”said Roger Beaty,the first author of the study.Beaty and colleagues examined brain data from previous studies and found that,by simply measuring the strength of connections in these people’s brain networks,they could estimate the originality of these people’s ideas.
While the data showed that regions across the brain were involved in creative thought,Beaty said the evidence pointed to three subnetworks.And they were the default mode(默认状态)network,the salience(突出)network and the executive(管理的)control network.They appear to play key roles in creative thought.The default mode network, he said,is involved in memory and mental acting,so the theory is that it plays an important role in processes like mind-wandering,imagination,and natural thinking.The salience network notices important information.When it comes to creativity,it may be responsible for arranging the ideas that come from the default mode network.Lastly,the executive control network works to help people keep their focus on useful ideas while getting rid of those that aren’t working.Beaty said,“People who think more flexibly and come up with more creative ideas are better able to use these networks that don’t typically work together and bring these systems online.”
Based on the results of that study,Beaty and colleagues developed a predictive model and tested against brain scan data collected for earlier studies on creativity.“We used already-published data...we found that based on how strong the connections are in these networks,we could guess pretty accurately how creative you’re going to be on a task,”Beaty said.He added,“It’s also not clear whether this can be modified with some kind of training.Creativity is complex,and we’re only working on the surface here.”
1. What were the participants asked to do in the study?| A．To tell scientists their different ways of seeing the world. |
| B．To show their special ways to connect with others. |
| C．To talk about their most exciting experiences. |
| D．To think of new uses of ordinary objects. |
| A．Improve. | B．Judge. | C．Spread. | D．Praise. |
| A．giving up useless ideas | B．organizing thoughts |
| C．making decisions | D．brainstorming |
| A．The study is very helpful in determining one’s creativity levels. |
| B．We can become more creative with the help of some training. |
| C．Enough work has been done to better understand creativity. |
| D．Some people can be born with higher levels of creativity. |
【推荐2】Given a choice, would Three Little Robots being chased by a big bad wolf A) build successively more wolf-resistant houses or B) kill the wolf with their nail gun? If you chose B), you're probably a robot who hasn't yet met Quixote, a learning system that teaches robots how not to kill by using fairy tales.
While Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates try to scare us with tales of robots killing humans, a team of researchers at Georgia Institute of' Technology is scaring robots by using fairy tales to teach them how to make proper decisions when faced with real-world dilemmas while lacking a moral （道德的）compass. They suggest robots can be taught moral behavior using books. Reading fairy tales or story books can help them learn what is good and bad and how to behave well in a society.
“Fables（寓言）from various cultures can provide artificial intelligence with social skills and role models essential to the peaceful coexistence of men and robots, "scientists at Georgia Institute of Technology claim in a new study.
According to researchers, to make a robot understand the actions of a human it must first turned the moral lessons contained in fables -into a specifically designed architecture of reasoning, compatible with artificial intelligence.
An early example of this reasoning is a system called "Quixote." named for the leading character of Miguel de Cervantes' classic novel. Quixote uses fable plots to give machine intelligence guidance for moral problem-solving and, depending on what deeds characters engage in, the system sends either reward or punishment signals, causing robots to act more humanely, researchers suggest.
The function of Quixote is dependent upon another system called "Scheherazade", a previous project started by the same team. Scheherazade collects different story plots from Internet and develops interactive stories. Those stories are then turned into decision flow-charts, providing a "huge number of branching paths" following every step taken.
Quixote is in the early development stage, according to researchers, noting that it works currently with robots that interact with humans in only a very small range of function.
1. What can we infer from paragraph 1?| A．Robots are afraid of wolves. | B．Robots are fond of fairy tales. |
| C．Robots are advancing. | D．Robots are constantly given choices. |
| A．It would be punished by Scheherazade. | B．It would apologize. |
| C．It would reason with human beings. | D．It would be rebuilt. |
| A．Quixote makes fables meaningful to A. I. | B．Quixote gives robots intelligence. |
| C．Quixote collects stories from Internet. | D．Quixote is an independent system. |
【推荐3】Women are friendly. But men are more competitive. Why? Researchers have found it’s all down to the hormone oxytocin(荷尔蒙催生素). Although known as the love hormone, it affects the sexes differently.
“Women tend to be social in their behavior. They often share with others. But men tend to be competitive. They are trying to improve their social status,” said Professor Ryan.
Generally, people believe that the hormone oxytocin is let out in our body in various social situations and our body creates a large amount of it during positive social interaction（互动）such as falling in love or giving birth.
But in a previous experiment Professor Ryan found that the hormone is also let out in our body during negative social interactions such as envy.
Further researches showed that in men the hormone oxytocin improves the ability to recognize competitive relationships, but in women it raises the ability to recognize friendship.
Professor Ryan’s recent experiment used 62 men and women aged 20 to 37. Half of the participants（参与者）received oxytocin. The other half received placebo（安慰剂）. After a week, the two groups switched with participants. They went through the same procedure with the other material.
Following each treatment, they were shown some video pictures with different social interactions. Then they were asked to analyze the relationships by answering some questions. The questions were about telling friendship from competition. And their answers should be based on gestures, body language and facial expressions.
The results indicated that, after treatment with oxytocin, men’s ability to correctly recognize competitive relationships improved, but in women it was the ability to correctly recognize friendship that got better.
Professor Ryan thus concluded: “ Our experiment proves that the hormone oxytocin can raise people’s abilities to better distinguish different social interactions. And the behavior differences between men and women are caused by biological factors（因素）that are mainly hormonal.”
1. What causes men and women to behave differently according to the text?| A．Placebo. | B．Oxytocin. |
| C．The gesture. | D．The social status. |
| A．Oxytocin affects our behavior in a different way. |
| B．Our body lets out oxytocin when we are deep in love. |
| C．Our body produces oxytocin when we feel unhappy about others' success. |
| D．Oxytocin improves our abilities to understand people's behavior differences. |
| A．To test the effect of oxytocin on the ability to recognize social interactions. |
| B．To know the differences between friendship and competition. |
| C．To know people's different abilities to answer questions. |
| D．To test people's understanding of body language. |
【推荐1】Many people do things we can't understand and that we would never do. Although there can be a number of different explanations for such behavior, one reason is a failure of empathy. And it seems that we're seeing increasing levels of this failure these days.
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. It is similar to but different from sympathy, which can mean sharing a certain feeling with someone-having the same feelings they do. According to Helen Riess, associate professor of psychiatry(精神病学)at Harvard Medical School, empathy plays an important role in our society's ability to function, promoting "a sharing of experiences, needs, and desires between individuals".
Our neural(神经)networks are set up to interact with the neural networks of others in order to both be aware and understand their feelings and to tell them apart from our own, which enables humans to live with one another without constantly fighting or feeling taken over by someone else.
Research has shown that empathy is not simply inborn, but can actually be taught. For example, it appears that medical, raining can actually diminish empathy, but on the other hand, physicians can be taught to be more empathic to their patients. Interestingly, their increased empathy also increases patient satisfaction and cooperation with treatment recommendations, thus leading to better treatment outcomes.
It seems to me that these techniques could work with a lot of people besides physicians. These days, I find myself thinking that we should be teaching empathy in school. Perhaps if we start in the early grades and keep teaching it through high school, problems and inappropriate behavior would reduce.
Empathy doesn't require burying of our own feelings. In fact, true empathy is about using our feelings to understand the feelings of someone else. We might not know exactly how they feel, but we might use our feelings to help us know something of what they are feeling. This kind of understanding, according to Reiss, can cross bridges and promote positive social behavior. Maybe we could use a little more empathy in our world.
1. According to the text, how does empathy benefit us?| A．It develops our sympathy. | B．It strengthens our neural system. |
| C．It helps our society function better. | D．It increases our level of confidence. |
| A．Reduce. | B．Increase. | C．Stop. | D．Produce. |
| A．He will behave himself better. | B．He will improve his academic grades. |
| C．He will choose to bury his feelings. | D．tie will feel satisfied with the school. |
| A．Empathy Helps You Win Out | B．Empathy Can Be Learned |
| C．Sympathy, Feeling-sharing of Others | D．Learn to Be an Empathic Doctor |
【推荐2】Scientists say they have found out a chemical produced by locusts（蝗虫）that causes the insects to join together in huge swarms（群）.
On their own, locusts are mostly harmless. But in large swarms, they can be extremely destructive. The new finding could lead to new methods to prevent locusts from joining swarms to destroy huge areas of crops.
A recent study published in Nature identifies a pheromone believed to be responsible for the insect’s swarming behavior. A pheromone is a chemical item produced by an animal that influences the behavior of another animal of the same kind.
The pheromone, known as 4VA, was found in the world’s most widespread kind of locust, the migratory locust. It powerfully drew locusts of both sexes and all ages, the research found. And it was produced when as few as four to five locusts came together.
Lead researcher Le Kang is with the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Zoology. He told Reuters news agency that migratory locusts are so widespread and dangerous, they represent"a serious threat to agriculture worldwide. " Kang said further research will be needed to find out if 4VA exists in other species, such as the desert locust.
Kang said a chemical could be developed to block 4VA’s effects to prevent swarming. A man-made version of the pheromone might also be developed to attract locusts into traps to be killed. Locusts could also be developed with genetic changes that would not react to 4VA, Kang added. Such locusts could be sent to the wild to build wild non-swarming populations.
Leslie Vosshall, head of Rockefeller University’s Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior in New York, said one of the most exciting developments would be finding a chemical that could block the reception of 4VA. She noted that there are still several unknowns about the research. These include whether 4VA is the only cause of swarm formation, and whether other locust species respond similarly to the chemical.
1. What is the new finding of the study?| A．New methods could be used to stop locusts. |
| B．Locusts do not cause much damage on their own. |
| C．A large number of locusts can destroy the crops terribly. |
| D．Locusts swarm because of a chemical produced by themselves. |
| A．It only exists in the migratory locust. | B．It is made at least in groups of forty. |
| C．It is to blame for the locust’s swarming. | D．It affects the behavior of other animals. |
| A．Pessimistic. | B．Optimistic. | C．Subjective. | D．Objective. |
| A．Can we kill locusts? | B．How do locusts destroy crops? |
| C．How do locusts get swarmed? | D．Can we control the locust’s damaging? |
【推荐3】""May I speak with Jeanne Kerr?" I said, crossing my fingers
"Who's asking?" the voice rose.
“It's Regina Louise, I think we may've met "I don't believe so," the stranger said, hanging up the phone.
I crossed out another Jeanne from my long list. The first time I met Jeanne was May 1, 1975 at Edgar Children's Shelter where I was disliked by all the social workers except Jeanne.
The last time I saw Jeanne was in 1977. I was 15 years old, standing in a courtroom (法 庭)，asking the court to allow Jeanne Kerr to adopt (收养)me. However, Jeanne's request to adopt me was refused because she was white and I was black. Then 1 was placed in a treatment center for disturbed girls .
By 2002, at age 40, I operated two successful hair salons. I wrote a book about my early teenage years from 13 to 15, a story that followed me through meeting Jeanne and losing her.
One evening, I checked my email and came across the words: "I am so proud of you, sweetheart!" My heart stopped. I opened the email, and it was from Jeanne . An old co-worker of hers had read my book and called Jeanne to tell her "Your Regina is looking for you.”
I dialed the number given in the email immediately. We chatted a lot excitedly. At last, she told me, “I want to make you my daughter.
Three weeks later, I stood in the same courtroom where Jeanne's first request to adopt me had been refused. After the judge told us to live with and love one another as mother and daughter for the rest of our lives, I turned to Jeanne and whispered, "Thank you 一 Mommy 一 for loving me, when no one else could."
1. Why did Jeanne fail to adopt Regina at first?| A．Because Jeanne worked at the Shelter. |
| B．Because Jeanne was of a different race. |
| C．Because Regina found her mother. |
| D．Because Regina behaved badly. |
| A．The treatment center. |
| B．The courtroom. |
| C．Regina's book. |
| D．Regina's hair salons. |
| A．I was adopted at 40. | B．A girl's road to success. |
| C．I fought for a good life | D．A girl's teenage years. |
