Emily White was born seventeen years ago with so many birth problems in her body. Some of her organs, bones and muscles were out of shape. No one expected her to survive. She did make it but with her strange body figure, everyone could recognize her, even from a distance.
In Emily White’s hometown, there was a yearly outdoor performance in the school auditorium (大礼堂). It had been performed for so many years and actually had become one of the most important events of the Christmas season for many of the town’s people.
Many people tried out each year for it, but so many were turned away. It can only include the most excellent people in the field.
Emily had a beautiful singing voice. Last year she went to Mrs. Owens — her music teacher to ask to join in the performance. Without letting her sing, Mrs. Owens took a look at Amy’s body and said, “Child, you just don’t fit. Everyone would stare at you and that would make you uncomfortable. It would make them uncomfortable, too.”
Without singing a single note, Emily was sent back through the door of the choral room. Hurt and upset, she decided never to try out again. But Mrs. Owens then retired.
This year, there came a new music teacher, Mr. Buttler. He heard about Emily and suggested that she have a try.
Emily didn’t want to be rejected again, so she hesitated a little about it. As Emily struggled, the door was pushed open and Mr. Buttler called, “Emily, you’re next.” Although kind of nervous, Emily did as Mr. Buttler told her to do. Mr. Buttler sat by the piano to keep Emily company. When Emily finished her testing performance, she thanked Mr. Buttler and knew the result would be posted on the door of the choral room the next day.
Emily couldn’t sleep that night. She was suffering from the feelings that she didn’t fit and the great need to be accepted. By the next morning, her stomach was even in pain because of stress.
注意：续写词数应为150左右Paragraph 1: The next day, Emily nervously glanced at the list on the door of the choral room.
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_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2 . I was born in a poor community on the north side of Boston, US, raised by a single mother who didn’t finish 3rd grade, lived each day on food stamps and attended what the media called “the most dysfunctional (功能失调的) public school district”. Not many people expected much of me, so I had to expect.
On my 13th birthday, I bought a poster of Harvard to hang in my room. Being at Harvard became what I dreamt about. Even if my electricity was cut off, I still woke up at 5:30, because I knew that my poster of Harvard was still hanging only two feet away from me.
Reminding myself of my goal each day made it easy to say no to the same choices I saw my peers making, because those paths wouldn’t have had me closer to my goal. Being poor could not take away my power to decide what I choose to do with my day. The poster gave me the courage to send emails to about 50 Harvard students to ask for feedback on my application essays; it gave me the energy to study just one more hour on my SATs when my friends were asleep; and it gave me the determination to submit just one more scholarship application when 180 others had already turned me down.
Every day, I could feel myself getting closer and closer to my goal as my writing got better, my SAT score increased, and my scholarship checks started coming in. Finally, an email arrived from Harvard. The first word was “Congratulations!” A month later, Harvard flew me up to visit the campus where for the first time I stepped onto my dreaming land.
Who you are today is the result of the decisions you made yesterday, and who you will be tomorrow will be the result of the choices you make today. Who do you want to be tomorrow?
1. What can we learn about the author from the first two paragraphs?| A．All people expected too much of him. |
| B．He grew up in a happy family. |
| C．He accepted the greatest education. |
| D．He had high expectation of himself. |
| A．He spent more time preparing for the exams. |
| B．He learnt from his peers from time to time. |
| C．He often wrote feedbacks on others’ essays. |
| D．He turned to his teacher when facing problems. |
| A．Intelligent and humorous. | B．Generous and selfless. |
| C．Determined and hardworking. | D．Courageous and friendly. |
| A．Failure is the mother of success. |
| B．Perseverance can help realize your dream. |
| C．Easier said than done. |
| D．It’s never too late to study. |
1、感谢老师三年来特别是初三一年无微不至的关怀和帮助。
2、自己近期学习一直十分刻苦，进步不小，中考(senior high school entrance examination)很顺利，发挥出了自己的水平，希望老师放心。
3、高中学习和生活虽然肯定会有困难和挑战，自己一定会不辜负老师的教导尽快适应，并努力考上心仪的大学，不辜负老师的期望。
Dear Ms. Wang,
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4 . Toy kitchen is hugely popular with young children. It can be a great base for creative and imaginative role playing for children and their parents.
Solo (独自的) freestyle play is what a child plays on their own with the toy kitchen. It is a source of amusement for parents to see their children imitate (模仿) many of their sayings and phrases during this sort of play. You may discover some phrases you didn’t know you had! Children will often cook and create food for their toys to eat. Joining in freestyle play while allowing the child to take charge is fun for the child as well as adults. There are many ways to turn this type of play into something more educational. Parents can demand a certain number of vegetables on their plate and the child can use their knowledge of what’s a fruit and what’s a vegetable, as well as their counting skills to carry out this simple task.
You can also play the sorting game. Asking a child to sort out the fruit and vegetables into different piles is fun and will get easier for the child each time. Always reward children with praise when they do well, and encouragement when they don’t do quite well.
Counting is an obvious game. You can start the basics of maths in the kitchen play with adding, subtracting (减) and even dividing! Your child can use the toy food to work out sums and enjoy counting! They will be picking up good basic number skills during this type of play.
You can also bring up healthy eating subjects asking them which fruit is their favorite and asking which ones they want to try for their next snack. This type of game can continue in the supermarket and be used as a method of introducing new foods to their diet.
1. Games using a toy kitchen can develop children’s ________.| A．health and habit | B．creation and imagination |
| C．counting skills and honesty | D．number skills and good manners |
| A．it difficult for children to sort out the fruit and vegetables |
| B．it fun for children to cook and create food for themselves to eat |
| C．some words and expressions you forgot using before |
| D．children pick up good basic number skills by using the real food |
| A．enriching healthy eating | B．training working ability |
| C．counting | D．sorting |
| A．Parents. | B．Teachers. | C．Children. | D．Experts. |
I have been in Taiyuan, the provincial capital of Shanxi, for two years since I
Over the two years, I found myself falling in love with Shanxi and China as I got more
My favorite sport is cycling and I find China is very cyclist-friendly because it is
The city has a history of more than 2,500 years, the
I hope more international students come to study in Shanxi University and to live and work in China as the country is full of
6 . When we think of food farming we usually think of green fields in the country, outside the city. Sam Chee works on a very different type of farm, in the center of the Canadian city of Toronto. “We grow fruit, vegetables and herbs,” says Sam. “But not many people know the farm is here. You can’t see it from the street. We’re on top of an office building, 50 meters above the ground.”
Rooftop farming is becoming popular in cities like Toronto, New York and London. The roofs of buildings are often just wasted space, but this space can be used for growing good fresh food, right in the middle of the city. Sam explains how it works. “We grow everything in big boxes —there are hundreds of them. We catch rainwater to water the plants when the weather is dry.”
The rooftop farm where Sam works belongs to a restaurant called Green Garden, on the ground floor of the building. The farm produces about half the restaurant’s fruit and vegetables. Sam believes that the rooftop farm is what makes Green Garden special. “We help to keep food production local. We don’t need to transport this food from anywhere and that saves energy. It’s better for the environment.”
The food from the rooftop is fresher too. “When the fruit and vegetables are ripe we can pick them and use them right away. They taste better when they’re really fresh,” says Sam. “I hope that there will be more rooftop farms in the city soon. It could be the farming of the future.”
1. Green Garden’s rooftop farm is ________.| A．the only one in the world | B．in the middle of a small town |
| C．one of many in cities around the world | D．near the countryside of a city |
| A．it is much cheaper and fresher | B．it tastes better and is better for the environment |
| C．it uses space which was being wasted | D．it can’t be bought in the local stores |
| A．The farm is on the top of a teaching building 50 meters above the ground. |
| B．The plants are watered by collected rainwater when necessary. |
| C．You can find more rooftop farms in the country than in the city. |
| D．When they pick the fruit and vegetables, they won’t use them at once. |
| A．To describe what rooftop farming is by giving an example. |
| B．To describe why rooftop farming has become very popular in Canada. |
| C．To tell the story of the man who first started rooftop farming. |
| D．To encourage people to build as many rooftop farms as possible |
7 . Many say their most painful moments are saying goodbye to those they love. After watching Cheryl, my cousin, watch her mother suffer for six months before dying, I think the most painful moments can be in waiting to say goodbye.
Cheryl made the two-hour trip over and over to be with her mother. They spent long afternoons holding hands and sharing memories.
Each time she kissed her mother before leaving, her mother would feel sad and say, “I’m sorry you drove so far and sat for so long, and I didn’t stay up long to talk with you.”
Cheryl would tell her not to worry. It didn’t matter. But still her mother felt she had let her down and said sorry at each goodbye.
“Mom, do you remember when I made the high school basketball team?”
Cheryl’s mother nodded.
“You’d drive so far and sit for so long, and I never even left the bench to play. You waited for me after every game and each time I felt bad and said sorry to you for wasting your time.” Cheryl gently took her mother’s hand.
“Do you remember what you’d say to me?”
“I would say I didn’t come to see you play. I came to see you.”
“And you meant those words, didn’t you?”
“Yes, I really did.”
“Well, now I say the same words to you. I didn’t come to see you talk. I came to see you.”
Her mother understood and smiled as she fell asleep.
Their afternoons together passed quietly into days, weeks, and months. To the last day they cared each other in silence, love given and received just by seeing each other.
1. According to the writer, the most painful moment is ________.| A．saying goodbye to those they love | B．watching one’s mother leave and say goodbye |
| C．waiting to speak to those they love | D．waiting to say goodbye to those they love |
| A．Her disease had cost Cheryl much money. |
| B．Cheryl had cried too many times for her. |
| C．Cheryl hadn’t stayed with her every day. |
| D．She felt sorry for being unable to talk much. |
| A．Visiting your sick parents is meaningful. |
| B．Saying sorry is necessary between loved ones. |
| C．Love means being there with loved ones. |
| D．Children and parents need understanding. |
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1. If you hope to visit Castle Dungeon, you should ________.| A．buy the ticket on the day | B．dial 0870 442 2375 |
| C．book the ticket from Warwick-Castle. com | D．book the ticket two days in advance |
| A．You don’t have to wait in queue. | B．You can save £20 at most. |
| C．The ticket includes the Castle Dungeon. | D．The ticket is available at any time. |
| A．you should use promotional voucher | B．bookings can be made by emails |
| C．there should be at least 20 people | D．you should dial 08704422371 |
| A．a newspaper | B．a magazine |
| C．a geography book | D．a website |
9 . What could be perfect for the partner, who embarrasses you on the dance floor? Smart socks, which can teach people to dance, may be the answer for anyone with two left feet.
At first, the socks have been developed as a running tool to help runners improve their skills. Thanks to the socks, users can accurately record not only how far and fast they run but also how well. It means the user maximizes their performance, and reduces damage to body and prevents hurt. The hi-tech socks are made of special fibers (纤维) that watch the movements of your feet. They look, feel and can be washed like normal clothes.
Sensors record each movement and send it by an ankle transmitter (脚踝发射器) to a smart phone. Then a “virtual coach” application shows the information and can tell the user what they are doing wrong, and help to improve skill in any task with feet.
The socks should be useful to athletes and weekend joggers. “People think running is so easy and of course everybody can do it but not necessarily safely and well,” Dr Davide Vigano said. A recent study showed that between 60 and 80 percent of runners got hurt per year. This is petty much more than any other human activity. Researchers say the technology can also be developed to teach people how to dance, play sports such as golf, or even to help to teach women to walk better in high heels.
Mr. Vigano said, “People could all benefit from the idea. We have had interest from all sorts of sports, like skiing, football, cycling and golf. Anything where you have to use your feet can use it. It could even be put in high heels to help women walk in them safely.”
Socks are just the start, and the technology could be used in gloves, hats and bots. The socks, anklet and software package, are expected to be sold for around £120, which will go on sale in March.
1. What does the underlined part “anyone with two left feet” refer to in paragraph 1?| A．People who are disabled. | B．People who do not like dancing. |
| C．People who are good at dancing. | D．People who are poor at dancing. |
| A．To help women walk safely. | B．To teach people to dance. |
| C．To improve runners’ performance | D．To record dance movement. |
| A．They are expensive to produce. |
| B．They can monitor the movement of feet. |
| C．They feel much softer than normal clothes. |
| D．They should be washed in a special washing machine |
| A．The technology could bring a potential market. |
| B．All people can run safely and well thanks to the socks. |
| C．The technology has been widely used in all sorts of sports. |
| D．Only professional athletes can benefit from the technology. |
| A．measures | B．principles | C．policies | D．strategies |
