1 . Writer Andrew Leland started losing his sight 20 years ago, when he was in high school, as a result of a progressive eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa (色素性视网膜炎). His first experience of loss of sight happened temporarily at night, in which he was confused that everyone else seemed to see in the dark so much better than he did. Over the years, his disease has progressed gradually. He’s now legally blind, although he still has a narrow field of vision, which allows him to see about 6% of what a fully sighted person sees.
Leland analogized his vision to the view you might get by looking through a toilet paper tube or a keyhole. He said, “Imagine having that toilet paper tube tied to your head and trying to walk down the street; there’s a whole bunch of things you don’t see but that you really ought to, like dogs.”
In his new book, The Country of the Blind, Leland writes about losing his vision and preparing for blindness, how his condition impacts his identity, how the world sees him and his marriage, and something valuable he has learned.
He said he was not going to try to tell people that having vision was not an unbelievably useful thing for a human being for many reasons. When talking about the experience of being alive and being conscious, he referred to James Joyce — Joyce believed that he was only losing one world among many, and that vision was only a tiny part of experiences when he was going blind.
He thought if you looked at the things that blind people were capable of imagining, like John Milton writing Paradise Lost as a blind person, there was this unbelievable richness in humans’ consciousness that vision had nothing to do with. Other realms (领域) such as the mental and emotional realms were all so rich that they could also help unfold things on earth before you.
1. What do we know about Leland?| A．He went totally blind in high school. |
| B．He experienced night blindness at first. |
| C．He was born with a narrow field of vision. |
| D．He was aware of his condition throughout. |
| A．Connected. | B．Reduced. | C．Compared. | D．Exposed. |
| A．To help explain an opinion. |
| B．To stress the value of good vision. |
| C．To state his considerable influence. |
| D．To show the inconvenience of blindness. |
| A．Practice is the best teacher. |
| B．The blind have more vivid imagination. |
| C．Things are not set in concrete. |
| D．Vision is not the only window in the world. |
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3 . How to release your art potential? Traditionally, people may bury themselves in learning painting skills at a studio and begin from drawing lines. However, Maggie Wiebe, a 21-year-old girl from Stamps School of Art& Design at the University of Michigan, has her own method.
Wiebe and her school friend Jessie Rice are trying to do something that shows their love for art and also benefits the environment. For the past year or so, they have tended a garden at their campus farm, planting a variety of colorful flowers, as well as flax (亚麻) to make linen (亚麻布) and paper to be used in art.
Inspired by a group of old ladies in Canada who plant sustainable art materials and post their videos on social platform YouTube, Wiebe learned about how to plant, harvest and separate fibers. She planted different fruits and vegetables traditionally used to dye (给……染色) fabrics (织物) . She then put their peels (外皮) into boiled water and added hot pressurized air to make a dye. For her, it’s a demanding but enjoyable process.
Wiebe and Rice plan to eventually buy some land in Detroit to grow these sustainable art materials — a dye, fiber and pigment (颜料) garden —— “a bigger version of what we’re already doing”, Wiebe told Minnesota News. “We’d set it up like an organization where artists can volunteer a few hours a week and then use all of the plants that we grow.”
Wiebe also likes fiber-based art, such as quilting, weaving and sewing. She has applied those techniques to her recent works, displayed as part of the annual Senior Exhibition at her school. During her sophomore (高中或大学二年级) year, Wiebe joined the Michigan Daily as an illustrator, learning to conceptualize and complete complex illustrations on tight deadlines. Wiebe’s works received a lot of help from others. “Because the art school doesn’t have departments, we have studio coordinators who take care of each studio,” she said. “I see them every day, and they’ve helped me a lot.”
1. What can we learn about Wiebe from the first two paragraphs?| A．She failed to realize her potential. | B．She longed to be a gardener. |
| C．She was fond of growing plants. | D．She had an environmentally friendly mind. |
| A．To get fibers eventually. | B．To peel fabrics skillfully |
| C．To grow plants traditionally. | D．To dye fabrics individually. |
| A．To review Wiebe’s achievements. | B．To present Wiebe’s contribution. |
| C．To display Wiebe’s future prospect. | D．To promote an application of Wiebe’s idea. |
| A．Practice makes perfect. | B．Creativity is productivity. |
| C．Unity is strength. | D．Curiosity is motivation. |
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Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5 . When I was little, my mom put her love into making traditional Chinese soups for me. I’m talking Ching bo leung (清凉补), with a lot of herbal(中草药的) ingredients that give the soup a
As a kid, I never
First, she would state all the health benefits that the soup has.
“How can this strange water improve my
Then, she’d tell me it tasted
Lastly, she’d bribe (贿赂) me with a piece of candy.
And somehow that would
I
She’d always say, “I
When I was young, I
But as I got older, I
Recently, I recalled (回忆起) this
My daughter was
I told her, “Because I love eating them.”
1.| A．good | B．real | C．strange | D．natural |
| A．enjoyed | B．minded | C．regretted | D．stopped |
| A．teach | B．promise | C．allow | D．encourage |
| A．skill | B．grade | C．health | D．situation |
| A．common | B．different | C．cheap | D．cold |
| A．disappear | B．work | C．happen | D．increase |
| A．advise | B．forget | C．begin | D．avoid |
| A．wondered | B．understood | C．realized | D．explained |
| A．buy | B．prepare | C．stand | D．find |
| A．keep | B．love | C．imagine | D．consider |
| A．honestly | B．hardly | C．secretly | D．eagerly |
| A．doubted | B．hoped | C．agreed | D．knew |
| A．dream | B．plan | C．memory | D．show |
| A．threw | B．cut | C．planted | D．ate |
| A．angry | B．surprised | C．excited | D．ready |
6 . Bill Gates was born in 1955. He grew up in Seattle, Washington. When he was young, he was good at science and maths. And he wanted to be a scientist.
Bill started to play with computers when he was 13. At that time, computers were very large machines. Once he was interested in a very old computer. He and some of his friends spent lots of time doing unusual things with it. In the end, they worked out a software program with the old machine. Bill sold it for 4,200 dollars when he was only 17.
In 1973, Bill went to Harvard University. He developed the Basic Language for the first microcomputer. In his third year, he left Harvard. Bill began his company in 1975 with his friend Paul Allen. They thought that the computer would be a very important tool in every office and in every home, so they began developing software for personal computers. They developed the software to make it easier for people to use computers.
In 1999, Bill wrote a book. In the book, he told people how computer technology could solve business problems in new ways. It was one of the best-sellers on The New York Times’ list. Bill Gates has many hobbies. He enjoyed reading very much. He also enjoys playing golf and bridge.
1. When did Bill begin to play with computers?| A．In 1968. | B．In 1966. | C．In 1965. | D．In 1972. |
| A．how to do unusual things. |
| B．how to play computer games. |
| C．how to work out a software program. |
| D．how to solve business problems with the help of computers in new ways. |
| A．Bill worked for Microsoft before he went to Harvard University. |
| B．Bill sold his first software program for 420 dollars. |
| C．Reading is one of Bill’s hobbies. |
| D．Bill began his company in 1976 with his friend. |
| A．Bill Gates developed the Basic Language for the first microcomputer. |
| B．Bill Gates enjoys playing computer games. |
| C．Bill Gates wrote many science books. |
| D．Bill Gates books are on the top of best-sellers. |
7 . It was 1:20 a. m. I had just gone to bed, a bit
I was awakened by the
Shaking in darkness, I
I took
In the end, I think the experience made me
| A．relieved | B．drunk | C．excited | D．satisfied |
| A．stones | B．sandbags | C．wood | D．boxes |
| A．in doubt | B．in return | C．in turn | D．in case |
| A．thundering | B．snowing | C．pouring | D．blowing |
| A．roar | B．taste | C．rhythm | D．smell |
| A．appearing | B．spreading | C．freezing | D．rising |
| A．grabbed | B．adjusted | C．dropped | D．studied |
| A．realize | B．guess | C．see | D．check |
| A．extremely | B．violently | C．narrowly | D．certainly |
| A．get out | B．check out | C．calm down | D．help out |
| A．brave | B．immediate | C．determined | D．calculated |
| A．fear | B．annoyance | C．stress | D．responsibility |
| A．active | B．proud | C．grateful | D．amazed |
| A．ask | B．ensure | C．hear | D．follow |
| A．loved | B．forgave | C．survived | D．graduated |
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Yours,
Li Hua
1. What instrument did the speaker play when she was young?
| A．The piano. | B．The guitar. | C．The violin. |
| A．In London. | B．In Sydney. | C．In New York. |
| A．They’ll meet famous performers. |
| B．They’ll have a brighter future. |
| C．They’ll get a chance to travel the world. |
| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Seven. |
1. What is the man doing?
| A．Preparing for a meeting. | B．Exercising. | C．Cooking. |
| A．Serious. | B．Surprised. | C．Happy. |
| A．By train. | B．By bus. | C．By bike. |
| A．Make salads for her. | B．Go jogging with her. | C．Lend a book to her. |
