1. 一些人认为财富能带来快乐
2. 另一些人认为钱多了不是一件好事
3. Your own opinion. (Your opinion should be positive.)
注意：
1. 对前两点进行适当拓展；你的看法至少写两点。
2. 词数为150左右。
Wealth and Happiness
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2 . The official line on Marie-Eve Chainey in the women’s high jump read “NH” — shorthand for “No Height” — not exactly a fitting designation for an athlete who truly jumped very high.
For some athletes at the Canadian track and field championships in August 2010, a prideful return meant posting fast times after a slow season. For Chainey, it meant returning to top competition after a nine-year battle with kidney (肾) disease. Three years ago, she was unable to walk and even had no strength to wash her hair.
As a 14-year-old, Chainey would often travel 820 kilometres from Kapuskasing to Toronto to train under coach Gary Lubin at York University. At 18, Chainey went to Spain to learn the language and continue her high-jump training. While there, she became so dizzy (晕) she had to be hospitalized. That’s when she got the news: Her kidneys were no longer working. She hasn’t known life without dialysis (透析) since.
Healthy kidneys remove waste products from the blood. In dialysis treatment, a machine cleans the blood at regular periods, for example, three times a week. Chainey has been using nightly dialysis, which works while she sleeps.
Since her original diagnosis, Chainey has had to face four returns and countless other difficulties, including going blind for two months. She was told over and over she’d never jump again because her muscles were too damaged. But for Chainey, jumping is like breathing.
“From when I got sick, the goal that I had was to just be back jumping,” she said. “Jumping was basically my happy place. Even now more so. Because I’m sick and there’s so much going on, when I go to high jump, I don’t think about anything else than just high jump and enjoying it. It is surely my getaway. I feel normal because I don’t have to think about anything else.”
So on the eve of the national championships, the 27-year-old was not about to be deterred by a difficult night of dialysis. “I’m very stubborn (执着), I’m very hard-headed … I just had to find a way that I would be able to jump, no matter what.”
Chainey certainly felt nervous at the championships; her hands wouldn’t stop shaking once the competition began. She didn’t clear the starting height of 1.50 meters, which she had managed to get over in practice. Still, you’d be hard pressed to find a happier last-place finisher anywhere.
“Just being out there, especially when they lined us up and they introduced us to the crowd, it was a special moment that I’ll always remember,” she said. “I didn’t feel comfortable at first because I didn’t feel I belonged. But although I didn’t get a height, I still feel I belonged there. It felt wonderful just to have the opportunity and experience this.”
Chainey says kidney disease has cured her of her perfectionism. “I’ve always been a straight A student, always done well in sports and piano,” she said. “So when I got sick, my life wasn’t perfect anymore. I had to learn how to live with what you have, that I had limits. That was a very good lesson for me, to know that things aren’t always perfect but you can still make the best of it.”
Lubin is not surprised by her determination. “She used to come down from Kapuskasing, a 12-hour train ride... in order to train. When I talk to my athletes about devotion, I say, ‘Don’t tell me you came from Burlington. You think that’s far? How about Kapuskasing?’ This is the type of person she is.”
1. Early on, how did Chainey prove her devotion to high jumping?| A．She went to Kapuskasing to train competitively. |
| B．She competed at the Canadian track and field championships. |
| C．She frequently travelled long distances to train at York University. |
| D．She competed even though she had received dialysis treatments. |
| A．cause and effect | B．present to past |
| C．similarities and differences | D．more important to less important |
| A．Chainey does not like jumping at all. | B．It’s OK that Chainey can’t jump. |
| C．Chainey is fond of jumping. | D．It’s dangerous for Chainey to jump. |
| A．stopped | B．punished | C．confused | D．influenced |
| A．Chainey became dissatisfied with anything less than a win. |
| B．Chainey stopped using jumping as an escape from her troubles. |
| C．Chainey no longer expected to be perfect in what she attempted. |
| D．Chainey valued her fellow competitors as encouraging supporters. |
| A．She had jumped her personal best. | B．She had met her coach’s expectations. |
| C．She had defeated her closest competitor. | D．She had returned to the sport she enjoyed. |
1. 可容纳20人的房间
2. 过低碳生活
3. 满足某人的需求
4. 对……小心谨慎
5. 指控某人犯有某事（2种）
6. 为慈善集资
7. 绝不
8. 抓某人的衣领
9. 索求回报
10. 和……相结合（2种）
11. 英语掌握得好
12. 致力于做某事
13. 一个非常复杂的问题
14. 生活条件
15. 她不适应那儿的气候。
—Try to guess the meaning of it whenever you ________ a new word in reading.
| A．come in | B．come at | C．come across | D．come about |
| A．cheat; out of | B．cheating; in | C．cheat; into | D．cheats; to |
| A．carry off | B．carry on | C．carry with | D．carry out |
| A．clarify | B．test | C．strengthen | D．announce |
—It ________ be Mike’s. It’s ________ small for him.
| A．can’t, much too | B．needn’t, too many |
| C．mustn’t; too much | D．won’t, too much |
| A．200 head cattle | B．200 head of cattle |
| C．200 head cattles | D．200 heads of cattle |
| A．can be too careful | B．can't be too careful |
| C．can be too careless | D．can’t be careful |
