1 . My father told me a family story about his mother, my grandmother.
In 1949, my father had just returned home from the war. On every American highway you could see soldiers in uniform hitchhiking home to their families, as was the custom at that time in America.
Sadly, the excitement of this reunion with his family soon disappeared. My grandmother became very ill and had to be in hospital. The doctors told my father that she needed a blood transfusion immediately or she wouldn’t live through the night. The problem was that Grandmother’s blood types was AB-, a very rare type even today, but even harder to get then because there were no blood banks or air flights to ship blood. All the family members had their blood tested, but not one member was a match. So the doctors gave the family no hope; my grandmother was dying.
My father left the hospital in tears to gather up all the family members, so that everyone would get a chance to tell Grandmother good-bye. As my father was driving down the highway, he passed a soldier in uniform hitch-hiking home to his family. Deep in sadness, my father had no inclination at that moment to do a good deed. Yet it was almost as if something outside himself pulled him to a stop, and he waited as the stranger climbed into the car.
My father was too upset to even ask the soldier his name, but the soldier noticed my father’s tears right away and asked why. My father told this total stranger everything.
It got very quiet in the car. Then this soldier reached his hand out to my father, in which rested the dog tags from around his neck. The blood type on the tags was AB-. The soldier told my father to turn the car around and get him to the hospital.
My grandmother lived until 1996, and to this day no one in our family knows the soldier’s name. But my father has often wondered, was he a soldier or an angel in uniform?
1. Why did the author’s father leave the hospital ?| A．To buy something necessary for Grandmother. |
| B．To ask the family members to have their blood tested |
| C．To pick up a soldier whose blood type was the same as Grandmother’s |
| D．To gather the family members to pay their last respects to Grandmother |
| A．After her serious illness, Grandmother lived 47 years. |
| B．Grandmother’s children refused to help her. |
| C．My father has forgotten the soldier. |
| D．The doctors didn’t try to save Grandmother. |
| A．arrangement | B．design | C．schedule | D．willingness |
| A．A Strange Soldier | B．An Unexpected Gift |
| C．An Angel in Uniform | D．An Unknown Soldier |
2 . On June 12,1942,Anne Frank’s parents gave her a small diary for her 13th birthday.She and her family had been living in Amsterdam for nine years after fleeing their native country in 1933.They could not escape the influence of the war sweeping across Europe.
On July 6,1942,her family was forced to go into hiding.For the next two years,Anne put down her innermost thoughts and feelings to her diary.Her reports of daily life painted a picture of a bright girl.She described her love of writing and her desire to make a career of it one day,saying,“I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people,even those I’ve never met.I want to go on living even after my death.”
She got her wish far too soon.Her diary came to an abrupt end in August of 1944,when she and others hiding in the“Secret Annex”were discovered,arrested,and sent to prison.Tragically,Anne,her sister and her mother,all died there.
Her father,Otto,the only survivor among those who hid in Annex,returned to Amsterdam after the war.He was deeply moved by his daughter’descriptions of life in Annex and her feelings about her family and other residents.He devoted the rest of his life to sharing her story with the world so that the same tragedy that happened to his family might never be repeated.Through her courage,her hope,and her unshakable faith in the goodness of people,her short life left a long legacy(遗产),touching and inspiring generation after generation of people she never met.
I would never forget visiting the Anne Frank House when I was just 23 and thought that I had already been alive eight years longer than she had been.Like millions of people moved by Anne Frank’s story,I have tried my best since then to live my life.We all would do well to remember the wisdom of a young girl who taught us that our differences make life more interesting,but our common men matter more.
1. Why did the Franks leave their native country in 1933?| A．To make a living | B．To look for equality. |
| C．To fight for their civil rights. | D．To escape the bad effect of the war. |
| A．She wants to live forever. |
| B．She wants to get her diary published. |
| C．She wants to have a good influence on people by writing. |
| D．She wants to make a fortune by writing. |
| A．13. | B．15. | C．23. | D．31. |
| A．Anne Frank has an unlucky life experience. |
| B．The writer has the same life experience as Anne. |
| C．We should try our best to make our life meaningful. |
| D．Common human beings can’t make life more meaningful. |
3 . Short video applications are not only developing rapidly and successfully in China, but gaining more strength as people across various age groups and geographical locations are using them to kill time, record lives, and even make a fortune.
Douyin, the most popular short video app in the country, said on Monday that the number of daily active users on its app had risen to 400 million by January, 2020. That represented awhoppingrise from the 250 million recorded during the same period a year ago. Such an achievement is successful, considering that the app first appeared in 2016.
People of almost all ages use the app, and they double as both viewers and content creators, the company said. For instance, those in their 50s were. more keen on creating dance-related videos and enjoyed watching video clips on wedding scenes. Those born in the 1980s liked recording childhood memories with phones and watching beautiful scenery while teenagers and younger customers were keen on videos about animes (日本动漫), comics (漫画) and cute pets.
As an emotional bond, Douyin saw 1.76 million new born babies, 180,000 college entrance exams, 380,000 graduations and 7.09 million shares, of weddings as users chose to record and upload videos of these important occasions in their life onto the platform.
With flowers increasing at high seed for top influencers, businesses are also sensing marketing opportunities. This year more marketing dollars will be given to short videos for better contact with customers and the creation of interesting content, according to Maggie Wang, president of data marketing technology firm AdMaster.
“For social marketing, it has become more important to create original content,” she said. “It’s highly likely to turn clicks into cash if the contents are to viewers’ tastes.”
1. The underlined word “whopping” in Paragraph 2 most probably means “__________”.| A．gentle | B．gradual | C．popular | D．huge |
| A．Most of the people just watched video clips on Douyin. |
| B．People in their 30s liked watching beautiful scenery on Douyin. |
| C．The number of daily active users on Douyin was about 150 million in 2019. |
| D．The users preferred to upload funny videos on Douyin. |
| A．Short videos will get more financial (金融的) support this year. |
| B．All of the users of Douyin will be given money this year. |
| C．The viewers will pay for the contents that are to their tastes. |
| D．The more videos the viewers watch, the more dollars they’ll be given. |
| A．Douyin: An App for People to Record Lives. |
| B．Douyin: The Most Popular App around the World. |
| C．Short Videos Apps: Fast Becoming Popular in China. |
| D．Social Marketing: An Important Key to Business. |
