1 . Growing up, I never wore makeup and I was always more afraid of the mirror than anything else. I hadn't thought makeup was meant for me, a disabled woman, until I saw Ulta's new advertisement:a huge full-color photo of a model in a wheelchair.
The world of fashion and beauty is rarely related to disabilities, and even though Hollywood has made steps toward greater inclusion and clothing brand Aerie has featured women with disabilities in their advertisements, seeing disabilities in the mainstream is definitely unusual. The reason why these things make headlines is that they're so rare.
I learned from a very young age that because of my disability, I would never be connected with beauty or charm. I'd spent so long feeling separated from so many parts of society, but Ulta is sending a powerful message with a single photo: It's time to challenge conventional beauty standards because beauty comes in all forms.
We all want to feel included. When it comes to disabilities, it is so important, especially for children and teens with disabilities. I was well into my 30s when I rolled into a makeup store for the first time. I had no idea what I was doing and felt like entering a new world without a map; I felt like I was out of place, as if I was peeking at a club without being invited. Imagine how my experience would have been different if I had seen a model in a wheelchair, smiling, as if to say, “Welcome. Yes, you belong!”
That message of inclusion was loud and clear for Maren Anderson, a 4-year-old girl who has a rare genetic disease and just started using a wheelchair. The moment she spotted the advertisement was caught on camera by her mom Carolyn Anderson, and quickly spread last month on Facebook. “It's just really saying that she feels included, and she feels like she identifies with that, and belongs here just like everybody else. So, thank you, Ulta,” said Carolyn Anderson.
1. What can be learned from paragraph 2?| A．There will be more products for the disabled. |
| B．Aerie is the author's favorite clothing brand. |
| C．Hollywood works with Ulta to help the disabled. |
| D．It's hard for the public to associate beauty with disabilities. |
| A．It creates a new trend in the fashion world. |
| B．It makes society offer more jobs to the disabled. |
| C．It helps make the disabled feel confident and involved. |
| D．It breaks the barrier between the disabled and the able-bodied. |
| A．Nervous and embarrassed. | B．Sad and lonely. |
| C．Excited and proud. | D．Lost and bored. |
| A．To expose the condition of the disabled. |
| B．To show the effect of Ulta's advertisement. |
| C．To emphasize the sense of belonging. |
| D．To explore the contemporary beauty standards. |
A while ago, when I was a 25-year-old youth, I traveled across the United States on a journey to make a film. During that trip, I ended up in Seattle where I met Laddie McCrea.
Laddie was a hobo (流浪汉). He was about 60-70 years old and looked 100. Laddie had shoulder length white hair covered with weeds from the preious might's bedding (垫草). He was in rags with an unpleasant smell of alcohol and garbage.
When I first met Laddie, he was standing on a busy downtown Seattle sidewalk. He greeted every passer-by, with a smile, a pleasant greeting and an extended palm (手掌). Each day, society was rushing past Laddie, either unaware of his existence or avoiding him, a smelly, begging hobo.
I found Laddie to be an excellent character for my movie, so I wanted to pay him to allow me to stand in the background and film him. However, He rejected the money but accepted my requirement. Then, I spent three days hidden among the crowd, filming Laddie. Most of the time he was unaware of my existence. Each day he stood in a busy section of town greeting the world with a smile and an extended palm, in order to earn enough change for the evening's night cap.
One special day, as I watched from a bench off in the distance, a young girl, around 6 or 7, with a pretty dress, approached Laddie from behind and tugged on his shirt. Laddie turned to the girl. She then reached up and handed him something. At that, Laddie showed his happiness and reached in his pocket, gave her something and the girl ran back to her parents excitedly showing them what she had received.
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I was curious about the exchange.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________I asked Laddie why he refused to take my money and kept smiling.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________It was a dull, cold and cloudy Monday morning. I had planned to take a journey and visit my grandfather who lived in Tennessee. As I set out on my journey and boarded the bus whose final destination was Tennessee, joy was written all over my face.It had been quite a long time since I last visited the countryside. Though the road leading to Tennessee was quietly rocky, the journey was interesting and fantastic. I enjoyed myself so much since I was able to take pictures of wild animals like giraffe and antelopes(羚羊）and along the way.
After about five hours’ drive, we were finally at Tennessee. I carried my luggage and followed the other passengers. However, I realized that there were many people at the bus station who had come to meet their relatives. My grandfather had informed me that there was no need for anyone to come for me as I would easily find my way to his home.
I tried to talk to a few people to ask about the road leading to my grandfather’s home, but unfortunately, we couldn’t understand each other because of the language barrier. I had to make signs, pointing towards the direction where my grandfather lived to see if they could help me. However, the people I asked seemed not to understand me very well, and ended up giving me mixed directions. I felt so desperate because it was already getting late. What’s worse, the countryside had network problems, so I could not reach my grandfather over the phone. I had no option but to look for a suitable place of shelter for the night. I carefully walked through the bushes, along the road and found a tree that had a lot of thick bushes around it. I felt that this was a nice place for me to hide for the night before daybreak.
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Luckily enough, before I could close my eyes, I heard the sound of a vehicle in the distance.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________The couple told me that day they were on their way back home from their son’s wedding. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4 . Tips for Choosing a Career
Choosing a career is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. Most people spend half or more of their waking hours five days a week at their jobs. While selecting a career can be a difficult process, the following tips can make this process easier for you.
Extensive reading about potential careers is vital.
Find a mentor. Many colleges and employers have a formal mentoring program.
Interviewing people in the field is an excellent way to learn about the various aspects of a career.
The skills required for a career are an essential factor for an individual’s potential for success in that career. Write a list of the skills needed for a particular field. Place a check next to each skill you possess.
Your skills should be a vital factor in your career selection process. A satisfying career is often built upon a match with what you are naturally good at. Natural strengths allow an individual to work with ease and acquire expertise faster.
| A．Also, formal mentoring organizations are available that match mentors with individuals. |
| B．Doing this may also provide good social communication opportunities. |
| C．At last, please count the number of checks you have. |
| D．Potential careers are the jobs which you will have in the future. |
| E．You will discover details about careers that you were not aware of. |
| F．The more checks you make, the more likely this field is right for you. |
| G．Look for lists of “hot jobs” on the Internet and in magazines. |
Brady was a recently retired search and rescue dog. He was not happy and missed his owner Al because Al had gone out on a rescue mission without him. Al’s nephew Steve took Brady along when he and his friend Zach went on a overnight hike. But suddenly Steve and Zach smelled something burning and they realized that lightning had set the woods on fire. Wind-blown flame had leaped from the top of one tree to another. The long dry summer had turned the forest into a tinderbox and the thunderstorm wasn’t helping much. It had more wind and lightning than rain. Zach pulled Steve’s arm.“Let’s go! We can make it back to the river we crossed today.” Steve pulled Brady’s leash and their heads down against the strong fire-wind, they hurried down the path they had followed earlier. The air was full of smoke，and pine branches broke from burning trees with a crisp sound. Steve kept his eyes on the route. All they had to do was to make it down to the river…
Brady barked a sharp warning. Ahead of them lay a dense curtain of smoke across the path. They’d never make it through that. They would have to find another escape route. The dog was pulling at his leash trying to draw them away from the smoke. This was what Brady was trained to do, and yet Steve was uneasy. It seemed to him they were moving away from the river.
Brady lifted his head and smelled the smoky wind. Suddenly, the dog ran away and disappeared. The boys yelled and shouted for him，but he didn’t come back.
They had no choice but to leave him behind. Heartsick, Steve and Zach went up a slope. He couldn’t blame Brady for panicking and escaping. He himself wanted to run even though he didn’t have a clue which way. They hadn’t gone far when there was a familiar bark, and Brady came running toward him.
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“Where’ve you been?” Steve cried .
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Brady led them back down the slope and into the trees.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________6 . Foreseeing a time when a patient's own cells may be harvested, multiplied, and fashioned into a replacement organ, researchers in Boston have successfully transplanted laboratory grown bladders (肾) into six dogs.
For a century, physicians have replaced diseased or damaged bladders by removing sections of a person's intestines (肠子）and shaping them into a substitute bladder. While the procedure offers some relief to patients, complications often develop because nature designs intestinal tissue for a purpose-absorbing nutrients-other than holding waste liquid of the body. “You start absorbing stuff that should be removed," says Anthony Atala of the Children's Hospital in Boston.
Other physicians have turned to human-made materials to create artificial bladders, but those efforts have also run into problems. Consequently, to build a better bladder, Atala and his colleagues decided to employ the organ's own cells.
To turn the cells into an organ, the researchers first form plastic which can break down naturally into bladder-shaped shell. They then coat its outside and inside with layers of cells needed.
To test this strategy, Atala's group obtained bladder tissue from dogs and grew it into organs. After removing the dogs' bladders, the investigators implanted(移植）the artificial ones coming from the dogs' own cells. Within a month, the organs began to perform like normal bladders.
Within three months, the plastic shells had broken down naturally, and the implanted organs were hard to distinguish from natural ones, Blood vessels(血管） quickly grew into them. Moreover, nerves seem to form proper connections with the new organs, allowing the dogs to regain normal control of their bladders. Some dogs have had the artificial bladders for nearly a year without any problems nearly a year without any problems.
While the bladders of dogs closely resemble those of people, Atala warns that more testing of this transplant strategy must occur before artificial bladders are ready for the clinic.
1. The traditional method of shaping parts of intestines into a substitute bladder ________.| A．allows the patient to absorb useless things |
| B．brings the patient a lot of sufferings |
| C．prevents the patient from absorbing nutrients |
| D．worsens both the function of the intestines and the bladder |
| A．worked perfectly as long as three months |
| B．began to work as well as a normal one in a few weeks |
| C．proved to be able to work for several years |
| D．did not work properly until after a month |
| A．What suits dogs' bladders will also suit human bladders. |
| B．Dogs' bladders can be implanted into human bodies. |
| C．Human bladders may well be different from dogs. |
| D．Artificial bladders grown in dogs can be used for human beings |
| A．The way of turning intestines into bladders. |
| B．The prospect of manufacturing plastic bladders. |
| C．The history of making artificial bladders. |
| D．The possibility of making bladders from their own cells. |
7 . Guanmei, a 65-year-old woman of the Dong ethnic group, is the inheritor of the Grand Song of Dong (侗族大歌), a national intangible cultural heritage in China. Her hometown Zaidai Village in Guizhou, southwestern China, is home to the Grand Song of the Dong ethnic group.
The Grand Song of Dong dates from more than 2,500 years ago. The way Dong singers use their vocal cords (声带) is different from how formally trained singers do. It is a folk chorus with multi-parts, no conductor, and no accompaniment. Organically growing from their natural surroundings, it is recognized internationally as “the sound of Nature.”
Before the Dong people had a writing system in 1958, the Dong culture, their history and stories were all recorded by means of songs. As a Dong saying goes, “Rice feeds the body and songs enrich the soul”. The Dong people sing right from their childhood. While not singing, they all work in their rice field.
Guanmei has been singing the Grand Song of Dong all her life, making her a famous singing teacher in her hometown and nearby areas. “The songs are our means of passing on wisdom, knowledge and life experiences to others. I will not exist in this world 100 years later, but Grand songs will. I’m honored to do this job, ” Guanmei said.
Kind-hearted, Guanmei has been volunteering to teach the Grand Song of Dong to the Dong children for over 30 years. Now she has more than 300 students. Guanmei is pleased to see the village children come to her house willingly when they have free time.
“Nowadays, more and more young people leave the village and settle in cities. Decades later, the Dong children out of the village might know nothing about Grand songs. We should do something just now. It’s our mission. What is once lost might be lost forever,” added Guanmei.
1. What makes the Grand Song of Dong known as “the sound of Nature”?| A．The outstanding conductor. |
| B．The special musical instrument. |
| C．The attractive natural environment. |
| D．The inspiration from nature. |
| A．The Dong singers are professionals. |
| B．The Dong culture before 1958 has been largely lost. |
| C．Singing is of vital importance to the Dong people. |
| D．They have a written language with a history of over 2,500 years. |
| A．Concerned. | B．Sympathetic. |
| C．Optimistic. | D．Satisfied. |
| A．To call on young people to return to the Dong village. |
| B．To guide the Dong children to learn the Grand Song of Dong. |
| C．To show a woman’s efforts to keep the Dong culture alive. |
| D．To instruct people to appreciate the Grand Song of Dong. |
