1 . It was my first day of sixth grade. I looked at my schedule and saw that I had Mrs.Foxwell and this made me happy. Over the next three years, Mrs.Foxwell taught me many important things that I will never forget.
Of all of the teachers and coaches I have had in my life, Mrs.Foxwell has been my favorite leader. In her class, she taught me how to be a successful leader. She also taught me that good leaders earn everyone’s respect.
Mrs.Foxwell is one of the most respected and respectful people I know. She is always kind to everyone and she treats others the way that she wants to be treated. She taught me respect in many different ways, but mainly how to be respectful in the business world. She told me that I needed to have a firm handshake and that I should always look people in the eye when I talk to them. Mrs.Foxwell also taught me that you could earn someone’s respect by working hard to achieve your goals.
In addition to working at Brandywine Springs, Mrs.Foxwell once worked at a bank as a manager but she gave that up to teach kids how to be successful. Mrs.Foxwell told our class how she would cry because of the amount of work she had to do in very little time. She taught our class that working all night at something you don’t love is very stressful, so you should try and do something you love. In the end, she taught me that you have to keep your head high and pull through. I don’t think I have ever worked as hard in any class as I did in her class. We created our own 28-page business plan to share with her, our parents, other teachers and our classmates. Although creating a business from nothing was a lot of hard work, I really enjoyed it and learned several lessons that will help me throughout life.
I have had a lot of role models in my life, but one of the biggest is Eva Foxwell. She taught me leadership qualities, how to be respectful and why you should work hard. She changed my life for the better and I desire to be like her.
1. Mrs.Foxwell taught the writer to show respect by_________.| A．working hard to achieve goals | B．looking at people’s laces |
| C．shaking people’s hands firmly | D．greeting people with joy |
| A．used to be a bank manager | B．was a business planner |
| C．never cried while lacing difficulties | D．insisted on doing everything well |
| A．outgoing and polite | B．kind and patient |
| C．gentle and humorous | D．admirable and helpful |
| A．engineer and coworker | B．educator and role model |
| C．parent and leader | D．coach and manager |
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| A．Documentary Camp | B．Screenwriting Camp |
| C．Game Design Camp | D．3D Animation Camp |
| A．Screenwriting Camp requires experienced students |
| B．Documentary Camp provides a three-week program |
| C．students in Game Design Camp learn to play video games |
| D．students in 3D Animation Camp receive professional instructions |
| A．provide information | B．make comparisons |
| C．give some advice | D．express opinions |
3 . Frances Stevens Reese Wooldland Trail Guide
The Woodland Trail was opened to the public on October 21, 1997. Boscobel’s Board of Directors adopted a formal decision of naming the Woodland Trail in honor of former Boscobel board member, Fances Stevens Reese (1917-2003), one year after his death.
The trail(小径) is approximately 10 miles in length, leading down to Constitution Forest. When the West Point Glass Factory was operating during the Civil War, trees for miles around were cleared to provide firewood. Walking out of the forest, you will find a large mass of native hard rock about three billion years old.
Throughout this country path, you will find picture boards identifying birds and plants local to this region. You will also find signs with historic and environmental information written by area specialists.
When you take a walk through this “undiscovered” forest land, please be a considerate guest.
Before walking the trail, please purchase a pass in the Carriage House. Plan ahead, so you will be back by closing time.
Follow the trail markers and remain on the trail. Besides protecting the fragile forest ecosystem, you will reduce the risk of poison plants and snakes.
Leave rocks, plants, animals and art works where you see them so that the person behind you can have the same experience.
Carry out whatever you carry in because there are no rubbish containers on the trail. If you happen to see a piece of litter, be a good guest and pick it up.
1. When was the trail named to honor Frances Stevens Reese?| A．In 1997. | B．In 1917 |
| C．In 2003 | D．In 2004 |
| A．An old battle field. | B．A glass factory. |
| C．Information signs. | D．Rock houses. |
| A．Leave the wildlife undisturbed. |
| B．Throw the rubbish into the dustbins. |
| C．Make reservations in the Carriage House. |
| D．Protect the markers of the Woodland Trail. |
4 . Once upon a time，there was a little boy who wanted to meet the king. He set off，walking towards the king’s castle. After many years of walking，the king’s castle came into his view. However，as the boy drew closer to the outside of the castle，the guards took notice of him.
“Get out of here！” commanded the guards.
Well，the little boy didn’t have to be told twice. He turned...and ran right away. All he wanted to do was to tell the king wonderful things，and see all the beautiful things in the king’s house. But he couldn’t even get near the castle! The boy finally stopped running，sat down and cried.
A young man happened to be coming down the path at the very moment. He saw the little boy and came up.“What’s wrong，young man？” he asked.
“Sir，I walked and walked just to see the king. But these guards made me frightened. I wanted to tell the king how lovely everything is and just tell the king that I just wanted to see him！”
The man looked at the little boy thoughtfully.“Look，why don’t you try again. Don’t lose heart. I ’ll come with you this time.”
The little boy got up and took the man’s hand. The king’s guards spotted them.
“Look，mister，we don’t have to do this...I don’t want you to get hurt. We can just turn around now.”
The man held the little boy’s hand and went on. The boy really thought the man might be crazy until he looked back up at the guards. They were all smiling now. The little boy was surprised.
“Who are you？” asked the little boy in surprise.
“Why，I’m the king’s son. You can enter the castle and be with the king，” said the man.
The little boy broke into a huge smile.
1. Why did the boy want to see the king?| A．To ask the king to play with him. |
| B．To get some help from the king. |
| C．To invite the king to visit his beautiful village. |
| D．To share wonderful things with the king. |
| A．The little boy understood the guards’ words right away. |
| B．The little boy didn’t understand the guards’ words at first. |
| C．The guards repeated the words to the boy. |
| D．The little boy had been to the castle twice. |
| A．determined | B．stubborn |
| C．warmhearted | D．mean |
| A．Never judge a book by its cover. |
| B．Anything is possible if one tried hard enough. |
| C．Life can sometimes be unfair. |
| D．Make new friends and keep the old. |
5 . On my first day of high school, I asked an eleventh grader where my class was. And he told me it was “on the fourth floor, next to the pool.” I found out five minutes later that we don’t even have a fourth floor and there’s no pool either! Besides that, I didn’t have any trouble with the older kid.
I think the biggest difference between middle and high school is the homework load (工作量) and size of the school. I went from maybe fifteen minutes of homework a night to several hours, so I had to learn how to make full use of time! Our class size is around 550, but joining in clubs, sports, music, and other activities at school makes it easier to get to know people in every grade.
The best advice I can give about the years you spend in high school is to learn things for yourself, not just to get a good grade. There have been so many tests that I’ve prepared for the night before, gotten an A, and not remembered anything later. I’ve changed that this year, and I enjoy school so much more. Don’t take easy classes just to have a simple year. If you have a choice between chemistry and sports, the first will prove to be a lot more useful!
While drinking and smoking might be present in some middle schools, they’re also around in high school. I have a lot of friends who promised they’d never drink or smoke, but are now partying every weekend. If you have “fun” and spend your nights wasted instead of studying, you will regret it when you’re applying for (申请) college. The “friends” who say you’re a loser for not partying are really not your friends at all. It’s hard to see your closest friends grow apart and go in different directions, but don’t follow their footsteps. Create your own path in life and make your own decisions.
1. What does the author think of high school?| A．There are very few activities. |
| B．It’s hard to meet new people there. |
| C．It requires hard work. |
| D．There isn’t enough time for homework. |
| A．get ready for tests the night before |
| B．give up sports |
| C．choose useful classes |
| D．try their best to get good grades |
| A．a high school student | B．a chemistry teacher |
| C．a college student | D．a sports player |
| A．about the trouble caused by drinking and smoking |
| B．not to go to any party in high school |
| C．not to lose ourselves in high school |
| D．about the importance of making friends |
6 . One night in 1966, Michael Chapman rushed into a folk-music club in Cornwall, England to get out of the rain, and soon found himself onstage playing the guitar.
“They offered me a job to play for the rest of the summer. And I’ve been playing ever since,” Chapman says. “I’ve told that story so many times, but it’s absolutely true. If it hadn’t been raining that night, I wouldn’t be talking to you.”
The British guitar player has spent the 50 years since then on the road. He released some praised albums in the 1970s, but his health went downhill in the 80s and 90s. Like a lot of British artists in the 1960s, Chapman taught himself to play the guitar by listening to American jazz and blues records.
Chapman actually taught photography, but quit when he was 26 to play music full time. When he was starting out, he was often compared to other British acoustic (原声的) guitar heroes of the time, like John Martyn and Bert Jansch.
“The fascinating thing about Michael Chapman is that he doesn’t fit in with those guys of his generation,” says Andrew Male, a music journalist. “He’s always- been an outsider. He never moved to London.”
And while he never became part of the London music scene, Chapman was noticed by those musicians. “The 70s caught up with him in the 80s,” Male says. “He had a huge heart attack at the end of the 80s that nearly finished him off. When he made his way back into the world in the early 90s, people had forgotten about him.”
But not everyone. A younger generation of musicians in America, including Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and a younger singer and guitarist named Steve Gumi, recently rediscovered Chapman.
“We wanted to capture Michael’s voice and character where he is now. You know, it’s a little road-weary, but he still has it,” Gunn says. “For me, it was really important to get that right,” “He’s the right old musician for present times,” Male says. “I think the music he makes seems quite in tune with where we’re at.”
1. What word can best describe Michael Chapman’s first involvement in music?| A．Untrue. | B．Accidental. |
| C．Unfortunate. | D．Reasonable. |
| A．He used to teach photography full time. |
| B．He cannot get along well with other musicians. |
| C．He may be very familiar with American jazz and blues. |
| D．He may be one of the best guitar players in the early 90s. |
| A．He lost his special voice. |
| B．He suffered from a severe heart attack. |
| C．He got tired of competing with others. |
| D．He was almost forgotten by everyone. |
| A．The Rise and Fall of Guitar Music |
| B．The Sad Story of a Guitar Musician |
| C．A New Generation Helps an Old Guitar Musician |
| D．A Guitar Musician’s Back with the Help of a New Generation |
7 . When Jenny Benson was eight, her mother took her to soccer practice for the first time.
“She’s never played soccer before,” Mrs Benson told the coach.“I’m not sure how she’ll do.”
Jenny ran onto the field and joined the other players. Over the next hour, Mrs Benson and the coach watched as Jenny outran many of the more experienced players.
“I knew then that soccer would be Jenny’s sport.” Mrs Benson recalls. And she was right.
It may have helped that Jenny had spent much of her time trying to keep up with her three brothers.“I wanted to be just like them,” Jenny says.“My family has inspired me for my entire life.”
Jenny has retired from the United States women’s national soccer team. She started out on her professional career in the Philadelphia Charge, a team in the Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA)．Later on, she joined FC Energy Voronezh, and then New Jersey Wildcats.
When the WUSA was being formed, league officials watched many college soccer games, looking for players good enough to join the league. They were very interested in Jenny, who played for the University of Nebraska.
“Throughout that college season, I knew I was being watched,” Jenny says, “I knew I couldn’t be perfect, so I just tried to be very consistent and have fun.”
As a professional, Jenny relied on her focused but funloving attitude. “In a game, I try never to put too much pressure on myself. The more I concentrate on having fun, the better I play.” She says. “I have good and bad days, just like everyone else, but I know the sun will always come up after a bad day. So all I have to do is to adjust myself, either to the change of my inner feelings or to the change of circumstances.That helps me get through anything.”
1. What can we learn from Jenny’s first soccer practice?| A．She was not sure how to play soccer. |
| B．She was gifted in playing soccer. |
| C．She was instructed by the soccer coach. |
| D．She was more experienced than other players. |
| A．New Jersey Wildcats. |
| B．FC Energy Voronezh. |
| C．The University of Nebraska. |
| D．The Philadelphia Charge. |
| A．Talented but impatient. |
| B．Confident and considerate. |
| C．Concentrated and adaptable. |
| D．Absorbed but selfcentered. |
| A．How Jenny developed her soccer career. |
| B．Why Jenny retired from the national team. |
| C．How Jenny’s brothers influenced her career. |
| D．What made Jenny a good soccer player. |
8 . Alan Naiman was known for being very careful about how he spent his money. But even those closest to him had no knowledge of the fortune he quietly gathered and the last act he had planned.
Naiman died of cancer at age 63 last January. The man from the American state of Washington gave most of his money to groups that help the poor, sick, disabled and abandoned children.
He gave them $11 million. The large amount of his fortune shocked the groups that received his gifts and even his best friends. That is because Naiman had been known to repair his own shoes with duct tape. He had sought deals to buy food from grocery stores at closing time and taken friends out to lunch at low cost restaurants.
Naiman died unmarried and childless. He loved children but also was intensely private. He saved, invested and worked extra jobs to gather money. He rarely spent the money on himself after seeing how unfair life could be for children who suffer most.
Naiman was a former banker who worked for the past 20 years at the state Department of Social and Health Services. He earned $67,234 a year and also took on side jobs. Sometimes, he worked as many as three at a time. He saved and invested enough to make several millions of dollars. He also received millions more from his parents after they died.
He left $2.5 million to the Pediatric Interim Care Center in Washington. The center is a private organization that cares for babies born to mothers who abused drugs and children with drug dependency. The center used the money to pay off its mortgage (按揭) and buy a new vehicle to transport the children.
Naiman gave $900, 000 to the Treehouse, where children without parents can choose toys and necessities for free. Treehouse is using Naiman’s money to expand its college and career support services Statewide.
1. Why were Naiman’s best friends shocked at his donation?| A．He left nothing to his relatives. |
| B．He was dishonest in his economic conditions. |
| C．He received wealth from his parents secretly. |
| D．He used to be very careful to spend money. |
| A．his money | B．his career |
| C．children in trouble | D．life after retirement |
| A．Why Naiman’s parents turned rich. |
| B．Where Naiman’s fortune came from. |
| C．How hard Naiman worked all his life. |
| D．How clever Naiman was to gather money. |
| A．It improved its transport system. |
| B．It offered more toys to children. |
| C．It sent more children to college. |
| D．It helped more women give up drugs. |
9 . I remember sitting in an airport one day, waiting for my flight. 1 was
“Let me help,”I said to her.
“Gate 20, ”she said, and showed me her ticket. Seat 24B.
“Oh, we are on the same flight.’’
Boarding started, and I
“Are you sure'?”she asked.
“Yes, just take my ticket and give me yours. I really don’t
“That’s very kind of you,”she said, and expressed her
Then we boarded the plane.I was surprised at the good
| A．excited | B．bored | C．sad | D．worried |
| A．smaller | B．bigger | C．dirtier | D．shorter |
| A．asked | B．learned | C．noticed | D．thought |
| A．Seriously | B．Successfully | C．Secretly | D．Suddenly |
| A．finding | B．1ifting | C．putting | D．changing |
| A．knocked | B．threw | C．pulled | D．hung |
| A．hoped | B．regretted | C．realized | D．suggested |
| A．strange | B．easy | C．hard | D．funny |
| A．mind | B．understand | C．want | D．stand |
| A．pity | B．fear | C．advice | D．thanks |
| A．taste | B．chance | C．memory | D．feeling |
| A．however | B．whatever | C．wherever | D．whoever |
| A．got up | B．put up | C．turned up | D．took up |
| A．all | B．both | C．either | D．neither |
| A．popular | B．terrible | C．straight | D．comfortable |
10 . Look out of the window of your workplace. Is the view pleasing? Can you see trees and grassy areas, or rubbish bins? Do you enjoy leaving the building at lunchtime or would you rather stay in your office?
Indoor work environments (in particular factors like light, noise and temperature) have an effect on working quality. Attractive offices, with common areas and relaxing activities, will appeal to businesses and workers. If a positive office indoor environment helps, it makes sense that a nice outdoor one should do the job, too.
Those who work in a big city are complaining about crowded conditions, surrounded by busy roads. But there are exceptions. Chiswick Park in west London is the kind of area that local people like to frequent on their days off. It has its own waterfall and lake, where ducks have settled, and there are tree-shaded lawns where one can picnic on sunny summer days. The actively minded can head for a special area to play basketball or football. The autumn brings firework shows and when the weather is good, the site holds food fairs, concerts or other events.
During the week, however, 9,000 people flood into the park’s 12 office buildings. They are home to 73 businesses, including big companies like Paramount and Sony.
Anyone who has visited the main office of a tech company will be surprised to find comfortable chairs, pool tables and even guitars or bikes for hire, like those in a big hotel. The worry about such services is that they aim to keep employees in the office for as long as possible. If you can eat, go to the gym and even get your dry cleaning done at work, why go home?
The danger, as with many aspects of the future economy, is of another class divide. In addition to fat pay checks, well-decorated offices with top-class services located in attractive parks for the fortunate few who program for big tech groups or run large companies; dissatisfying jobs in “satisfying centers” and busy roads outside for the rest. On the bright side, office workers in the latter will at least still have a reason to head home.
1. Why does the writer raise those questions in paragraph 1?| A．To encourage readers to find answers all by themselves. |
| B．To point out the trouble in improving working conditions. |
| C．To attract readers’ attention to the topic of the article. |
| D．To remind readers to share their comfortable offices. |
| A．It is regarded as local people’s favorite park. |
| B．Indoor events and ball games can be held here. |
| C．Its unique natural beauty is beyond compare. |
| D．Employees enjoy a pleasing environment here. |
| A．Employees are eager to give up family life for work. |
| B．Employees feel superior to those in regular offices. |
| C．Employees get cheated into working with less salary. |
| D．Employees experience differences in social positions. |
| A．An office with a view | B．An unusual business park |
| C．A call for office services | D．A new style in decoration |
