1 . Bloggers (写博客的人) are sometimes accused of being egomaniacs (after all, what could make one more proud than to assume that the whole world is interested in your thoughts?) and some are the source of ridicule. With more than half of all blogs on the Internet written by under-19s, parents are increasingly worried that their youngsters are putting their personal safety at risk.

Perhaps parents should focus on the positive. For a lucky few, blogging has led to fame and fortune on a scale that most people can only dream of. One of the best-known of these is Maisie Lim, whose fashion blog Style Cookie is read by such famous people as Miuccia Prada, Anna Wintour and Lady Gaga. Maisie is regularly invited to top fashion shows around the world and has thousands of fans.

Due to the fact that Maisie is only 15 years old, her parents have received a lot of criticism for letting her achieve so much at such a young age. Some people think it is inappropriate for a teen to become so heavily involved in the “adult” world. Maisie, though, is just one example of a growing phenomenon: the teen blogger businessperson.

“I was shopping at discount shops, taking photos of my clothes and writing down my thoughts. Starting a style blog seemed like the next logical step because it was a way to share things that inspired me jellyfish with a global audience. I started when I was 11, which was before blogs became big. I never dreamed it would take off.” says Maisie.

Besides updating her blog, Maisie spends time running a web magazine for teenage girls and employs four editors as well as numerous writers, illustrators and photographers.

For more inspiration, look at Suke Smith’s lifestyle blog Pay it Forward. Due to the success followers on Twitter. At 16, Suke is considered experienced on the blogging scene.

Despite the success of the teenage bloggers like Maisie and Suke, it can be tough for teens to be taken seriously because of their age. “But if you’re offering something a bit different, and you’re passionate about what you do, people will notice you,” explains Maisie.

1. The word “egomaniacs” (paragraph 1) most probably refers to bloggers who ________.

A．like to	B．worry about their parents
C．spend too much time online	D．have too much self-importance

2. When Maisie’s blog became successful, she felt ________.

A．concerned

B．surprised

C．uncomfortable

D．grateful

3. One reason Maisie gives for her success as a blogger is that ________.

A．she employs a team of helpers

B．she is often invited to top fashion shows

C．she takes a tough attitude toward criticism

D．she shares things with great enthusiasm

4. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A．Inspirational Teen Blogging	B．An Issue of Parental Concern
C．Different Views on Teenagers	D．Professional Fashion Bloggers

2 .

[1] I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability-to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this… [2] When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a marvellous vacation trip-to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make wonderful plans: the Coloseum①, the Michelangelo② David, the gondolas③ in Venice, etc. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting. [3] After months of eager expectation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The airhostess comes in and says, “Welcome to the Netherlands.” [4] “The Netherlands?!” you say. “What do you mean, the Netherlands?? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy.” [5] But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in the Netherlands and there you must stay. [6] The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, awful, dirty place, full of diseases. It’s just a different place. [7] So you must go out and buy new guidebooks. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. [8] It’s just a place. It’s slower paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around and you begin to notice that the Netherlands④ …and the Netherlands has tulips⑤. The Netherlands even has Rembrandts⑥. [9] But everyone you coming and going from Italy and they’re all boasting about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say, “Yes, that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned. [10] And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away because the loss of that dream is a very, very significant loss. [11] But if you spend your life regretting the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things about the Netherlands.

① ② (1475~1564) Italian artist and architect ③ ④ ⑤ ⑥(1606~1669) Dutch painter

1. The author compares her motherhood to ________.

A．her involvement in traveling abroad

B．her experience with an unfamiliar task

C．her dream of enjoying beautiful scenery

D．her journey to an unplanned destination

2. By “you begin to notice that the Netherlands has windmills ... and the Netherlands has tulips’’ (paragraph 8), the author actually means that ________.

A．the Netherlands has many scenic spots to visit and enjoy

B．the Netherlands is a country with many paintings to appreciate

C．a mother of a disabled child can also feel the bright side of her life

D．a mother who has traveled a lot can receive a special treat from her child

3. From paragraph 9, we can tell that other mothers are ________.

A．proud

B．anxious

C．sociable

D．sensible

4. To the author, the special experience of being a mother is ________.

A．beyond her endurance	B．more a gift than a loss
C．worthy of others’ sympathy	D．preferable to going to Italy

3 . There is some evidence, scientists report, ________ eating garlic may guard against cancer.

A．which

B．that

C．as

D．who

4 . Scientists are studying animals to look for proof _____ they have feelings similar to ours.

A．that

B．what

C．whether

D．which

5 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Bill Drayton believes we’re in the middle of a necessary but painful historical transition. For millenniums most people’s lives had a certain     1    . You went to school to learn a trade or a skill-baking, farming or accounting. Then you could go into the workforce and make a good living repeating the same skill over the course of your career.

But these days machines can do pretty much anything that’s     2    . The new world requires a different sort of person. Drayton calls this new sort of personal changemaker.

Changemakers are people who can see the patterns around them, identify the problems in any situation, figure out ways to solve the problems in any situation, figure out ways to solve the problem, organize fluid teams, lead collective action and then     3     adapt as situations change.

For example, Ashoka fellow Andrés Gallardo is a Mexican who lived in a high crime neighborhood. He created an app, called Haus, that allows people to     4     with their neighbors. The app has a panic button that     5     everybody in the neighborhood when a crime is happening. It allows neighbors to organize, chat, share crime statistics and work together.

To form and lead this community of communities, Gallardo had to possess what Drayton calls “cognitive empathy-based living for the good of all.” Congnitive empathy is the ability to perceive how people are feeling in     6     circumstances. “For the good of all” is the capacity to build teams.

It doesn’t matter if you are working in the cafeteria or the inspection line of a plant, companies will now only hire people who can     7     problems and organize responses.

Millions of people already live with the mind-set. But a lot of people still inhabit the world of following rules and repetitive skills. They hear society telling them: We don’t need you. We don’t need your kids, either.” Of course, those people go into reactionary mode and strike back.

The central     8     of our time, Drayton says, is to make everyone a changemaker. In an earlier era, he says, society realized it needed universal     9    . Today, schools have to develop the curriculums and assessments to make the changemaking mentality universal. They have to understand this is their criteria for success.

Ashoka has studied social movements to find out how this kind of     10     shift can be promoted. It turns out that successful movements take similar steps.