1. How often does the woman watch a football match?
A.Every day. | B.Once a week. | C.Once a month. |
A.Football. | B.Basketball. | C.Volleyball. |
A.She does not play football. |
B.She’s a good basketball player. |
C.She used to watch football a lot. |
A.She is a fast worker. |
B.She has not finished her work. |
C.She didn’t do the homework on her own. |
A.The seafood. | B.The medicine. | C.The cold. |
A.At a store. | B.At a zoo. | C.At a theater. |
A.She doesn’t like the style. |
B.She wants one of the right size. |
C.She doesn’t like the colour. |
6 . My name is Jimmy. One Thursday afternoon, when I was in senior one, a new boy came into my classroom. He was short and thin. He walked up to the teacher and told her, very seriously, that he was new. His name was Christian. He sat down, took a look at me, and then looked away. I didn’t think he was very nice and I was sure he wasn’t the type I would like to become friends with.
During that year, I didn’t talk to him much, but he smiled at me when our eyes met, always shyly. He never ate lunch with anybody, and he never talked to anybody but me.
But one day I joined those unkind kids who were making fun of him. We made fun of him though I thought it was wrong.
“Haven’t you got any friends?” a kid asked Christian, who had walked past us alone, head down.
“No, he hasn’t got any friends. He’s too stupid and shy,” I said. Then Christian looked up at me with the saddest dog eyes I had ever seen. I felt very sorry at that moment.
That night, I couldn’t sleep because I couldn’t get Christian’s face out of my mind. In the weeks that followed, he never met my eyes in class and never smiled at me. It was really hard for me to decide to write him a note asking him to forgive (原谅) me. But I thought I should.
The next day in class, I wrote him a note telling him how sorry I felt. About five minutes later, I turned and saw tears in his eyes. “You will never realize what your apology (道歉) has meant to me, Jimmy.” he said to me. “I hope we can become friends.”
We had lunch together that noon and we had the best talk I had ever had. Over the years at high school, we were close friends.
When I think back, I realize that, if I had not apologized, I would never have known what a lovely person Christian was.
Apologies can really change your life, so never miss the chance to tell somebody you are sorry.
1. What do we about know Christian from the passage?A.He was tall and fat. | B.He was short and thin. |
C.He was short and active. | D.He was lovely and fat. |
A.He didn’t think Christian was the type he wanted to become friends with. |
B.Christian wasn’t nice to people around him after he came to the new class. |
C.Christian made friends with others. |
D.Christian had the saddest dog eyes. |
A.Happy. | B.Interested. | C.Sorry. | D.Bored. |
A.To tell us it is important to make an apology when we hurt others. |
B.To show Jimmy’s apology was unimportant to Christian. |
C.To introduce Christian wasn’t lovely in fact. |
D.To tell us it is unimportant to say sorry to others. |
9 . Looking back, Geoff Banks of Devon, England can hardly even remember how he first started writing to his American friend, Celesta Byrne.
Geoff and Celesta were given each other's names and addresses as part of a school pen pal program back in 1938. They're both now 100 years old, and a lot has changed in the past 84 years: their age changed: their appearance changed; but one thing has not—they still use the traditional way to contact.
“I honestly struggle to remember something, but I was talking to Celesta recently and I think it was something to do with an American school's scheme, Geoff said.” They matched us up with Americans for a pen pal relationship, and somehow I ended up with this letter from an American girl, and we've just kept corresponding(通信)ever since. "
Geoff and Celesta's relationship never turned romantic, but they shared a lot over the decades. They kept up their correspondence through World War II, sending updates about their families, friends, and work. In 2002, they finally got a chance to meet in person during a trip to New York City. Two years later, they met up again, but ever since then they've gone back to pen and paper.
Recently, they've switched to digital forms of communication to stay in touch, something that's easier has been easier on their eyes and hands. Their children have helped them set up email accounts.
“I've known this new thing called Zoom, I think, now to chat with her, but I leave all the technology to younger people. Deep down, I refuse to use Zoom. Writing to Celesta has been a source of great satisfaction'for me over the years,” said Geoff.
Celesta says their relationship is “like people who live next door”. “You know how they're doing, you say a few words, and then you both go to work,” she explained. “She's always been there to write to, even if it was just birthday cards and Christmas cards,” Geoff added.
1. What do Geoff and Celesta insist on doing over the 80 years?A.Enjoying telling jokes. | B.Writing to each other. |
C.Creating a program. | D.Keeping a secret. |
A.How they got in touch. | B.Why they liked writing. |
C.What they both liked to do. | D.When they ran a scheme. |
A.Supportive. | B.Unclear. | C.Doubtful. | D.Disapproving. |
A.To introduce a way to make friends. | B.To teach us skills of writing letters. |
C.To tell us a tale of lifelong friends. | D.To stress the power of technology. |
10 . Jon Pedley is making a big change. He is giving up his life as a businessman for a life of helping others. He is trading his beautiful farmhouse in England for life in a mud hut (小屋) in Uganda, East Africa.
Pedley admitted that he had not always led a very positive life. At times he drank too much and got in trouble with the law. “I had always put the pursuit (追求) of money in front of everything else. As long as I was all right, I didn’t care who I was hurting,” says Pedley.
But a visit to Uganda in 2007 gave Pedley a new outlook on life. He was amazed at what he saw and how much the people there appreciated the work he was doing. “I worked there for a few days and these people who have nothing were thanking me by giving me bags of potatoes, which are a fortune for them,” he said. Now Pedley is selling his business, his $1.5 million farmhouse, and his expensive car—and moving into a hut made of mud and boards in a small Ugandan village. There he will help run an organisation that hopes to improve the quality of life for people in the village of Kigazi. He will help to build schoolrooms for children and tanks to hold clean water for villagers. Today, people in Kigazi must walk two miles to a hospital, so Pedley will help to build doctors’ offices, too.
Pedley’s organisation will also work with English teenagers who are in trouble. The teens will be sent to a “camp” in Uganda that Pedley will run. The teens will live in mud huts and help to build water, health, and education facilities (设施) for kids in Kigazi, many of whom have lost their parents to poverty or disease. Pedley hopes the teens will see a side of life that might help them turn around their own lives and set them on a new and more positive path.
1. Which of the following best describes Pedley in the past?A.Negative. | B.Creative. | C.Positive. | D.Selfish. |
A.Do business with the local people. |
B.Help farmers increase potato output. |
C.Help villagers with building work. |
D.Introduce tools to improve English teaching. |
A.To encourage them to make friends with locals. |
B.To inspire them to live a more positive life. |
C.To train them to become doctors in the future. |
D.To make them learn about different cultures. |
A.From a millionaire to living in a mud hut. | B.A life-changing adventure. |
C.A rich man becoming homeless. | D.More money, more worries. |