1 . Pennsylvania-When Connie Beck and her husband awoke to strange noises last weekend, they thought high winds were rattling their home. What they found was even more unexpected: A deer was taking a bubble bath in their bathtub. “I wasn’t exactly dressed for company,” Mrs. Beck said. “We were just waking up.” The deer burst through the front door early on Saturday, ran past the couple’s bedroom and into the bathroom. Somehow he managed to turn on the water in the bathtub and knock over a bottle of bubble bath into the bathtub. He then got himself into the bubbly water. “You could hear the water running over the kicking,” Beck said. The Becks called State Game Commission officials, who arrived with tranquilizers and a lot of laughter. “A guy said, ‘There’s nothing wrong… he’s just in there taking a bubble bath,’” Mrs. Beck said. The animal was soon brought under control, removed from the house and released. “He was unharmed except for a little cut above the eye,” said Mrs. Beck. “We were also fortunate. There wasn’t much damage, except for the front door, some marks on the tub, and a few hoof prints on the floor.”
1. When did the story take place?A.On the night of Friday. | B.On the late night of Saturday. |
C.On the early morning of Saturday. | D.On Sunday evening. |
A.was joking about the incident | B.meant she never liked people to visit |
C.explained she was about to go to work | D.wished she could have new clothes |
A.managed to cover himself with bubbles | B.kicked over the tub |
C.began to swim in the tub | D.happened to turn on the bath taps |
A.the deer was set free |
B.the deer destroyed the tub and the floor |
C.the officials made fun of the couple |
D.the officials discovered the deer was badly injured in the eye |
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4 . Born in California and representing the United States before switching to China, teenager Gu Ailing will be most likely to be one of the faces of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
The 17-year-old is a freeskier(自由式滑雪运动员) and grade-A student with an American father and Chinese mother. She grew up and still lives in the United States, but in June 2019 she made the “quite difficult” decision to compete for China. She wrote on Instagram that she was “proud of my heritage and equally proud of my American upbringings (培养)”.
As for the decision to compete on behalf of China, she said it is “valuable opportunity to help inspire millions of young people in China where my mom was born.”
Gu graduated from a San Francisco high school last year and is focusing on her Beijing 2022 training. It is reported that She scored 1,580 points out of a maximum 1,600 in the SAT (美国大学入学考试), and has been offered a place at Stanford.
Gu started on the snow at the age of 3, was competing in national competitions at 9 and won her first World Cup event at 15. She won two gold medals and a silver for China at the 2020 Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland. On Jan. 30th, 2021, Gu made her debut(首次亮 相) at the X Games in Aspen, Colorado and won two golds and a bronze.
“My goal is to win Olympic gold,” she told the official Olympic website. “It’s the top achievement. And that would be rewarding for all the work that I’ve done to achieve greatness in the sport.”
1. What do we know about Gu Ailing?A.She grew up in China. | B.She is an average student. |
C.She will graduate from a high school. | D.She decided to compete for China. |
A.Helpful and knowledgeable. | B.Modest and hard-working. |
C.Clever and ambitious. | D.Creative and confident. |
A.Gu Ailing won her first World Cup event at 15. |
B.Gu Ailing’s achievements as a freeskier. |
C.Gu Ailing’s training when she was young. |
D.Gu Ailing learned to do snow sports in China. |
A.Gu Ailing—An American Freeskier | B.Gu Ailing—A Stanford Graduate |
C.Gu Ailing—A talented Chinese Freeskier | D.Gu Ailing—An Olympic Champion |