A.Store staff and customer. | B.Policeman and lost kid. | C.Brother and sister. |
A.A new office. | B.A change of their jobs. | C.A former colleague. |
A.He was late to meet her. |
B.He didn’t tell her his location. |
C.He didn’t return the book on time. |
4 . I'm still very much figuring out what I want to do with my life, but I can honestly say now that I feel very proud of where I am right now. I've written about the teachers in high school and college I had that made a big impact on me, but I haven't mentioned the person that make the biggest difference.
Growing up, Mom was always there for me. People think of Asian mothers as scary and demanding, but my mother was nothing like that. During the summers, we had some math and Chinese lessons every day before we could go outside and play, which may sound dull, but somehow Mom made it fun. She took our education very seriously and spent countless hours copying math problems into notebooks with colored pens. She made hundreds of index(索引)cards, each with a Chinese character on it, which we would rearrange to make sentences. I still smile when I open up my math notebooks and see those colorful pages of math problems—if I got them all right, I'd get a smiling face and "100%!" or "Next Einstein!" on the top with sticker. If I didn't do so well, I'd get a Pretty Good!"
I was the only girl on the Math Counts team in middle school. I came home one day from middle school and told her that some of the boys in my class made fun of me because I was doing better than them in math. She went to my teacher and told her that she didn't want her daughter to feel like she couldn't be good at math or to be teased because of it. I didn't know this until recently my mom told me that she herself was the only female engineer where she started working, and gained the respect of her coworkers.
1. Who made the lasting and deepest influence on the author?A.Her teachers in high school. |
B.Her teachers in college. |
C.Her friends in college. |
D.Her mom. |
A.fun with Mom's wonderful instructions |
B.dull without classmates to study together |
C.hopeless to keep up with other classmates |
D.more confused since mom wasn't a teacher |
A.She liked to play word games with Mom at home. |
B.Mom always encouraged her whatever happened. |
C.She knew Mom liked playing tricks on her. |
D.Mom drew many smiling faces for her. |
A.Because her math was better than the boys. |
B.Because no other girls liked to learn math. |
C.Because her mother wasn't good at math. |
D.Because she failed in the math contest. |
5 . The Friends of Charles Dickens
Dickens was born in 1812. His father, a clerk in the navy pay office, was thrown into debtors' prison. The miserable treatment of children and the institution of the debtors' jail became topics of several of Dickens, novels。.
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
Although twelve years younger than Dickens Wilkie Collins became one of Dickens best friends. Collins was a popular novelist who developed the mystery novel style. The Moonstone is one of his best. He and Dickens wrote The Frozen Deep . Wilkie was the son of the painter William Collins. He was born in London and lived in Italy and France as a child.
John Elliotson (1791-1868)
Elliotson was Dickens's family doctor for many years and thus they became good friends. Elliotson was an early advocate for the use of the stethoscope (听诊器). He also believed in the use of acupuncture (针灸).
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Poe was an American author best known for his poems and short fiction. The Fall of the House of Usher and The Murders in the Rue Morgue are two of his most popular works Dickens and Poe's friendship began in Philadelphia while Dickens was on his first tour of the United States. They talked about literature and seemed to enjoy one another's company However,two years later Poe broke off the relationship because he was angry about an article on American poetry. The article was written by Thackeray, but Poe believed that Dickens was behind the article.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
William Makepeace Thackeray was a novelist His best known work is Vanity Fair. He was also a friend of Charles Dickens. While Dickens and Thackeray were friends, the relation ship wasn't always smooth. They had several serious quarrels. One quarrel involved Dickens siding with Edmund Yates after Yates insulted Thackeray.
1. Who had taken care of Dickens' health for years?A.Collins. | B.Poe. | C.Elliotson. | D.Thackeray. |
A.A traffic accident. | B.Their ideas on running companies. |
C.A poem written by Dickens. | D.An article written by Thackeray. |
A.Vanity Fair. | B.The Moonstone. |
C.The Fall of the House of Usher. | D.The Murders in the Rue Morgue. |
6 . Last summer, we went to Hawaii for holiday. During my week-long trip with my husband, we spent most of our time
We didn’t take any
As we stood in line at the check-in, we noticed the
We watched the children become unworried while they were playing cards. But the mother stared at her knees,
I suddenly
A.flying | B.travelling | C.swimming | D.walking |
A.action | B.children | C.photos | D.friends |
A.before | B.ago | C.now | D.yet |
A.sea | B.airport | C.destination | D.station |
A.traveled | B.left | C.missed | D.forgotten |
A.class | B.parent | C.passenger | D.family |
A.Therefore | B.Otherwise | C.However | D.Then |
A.hit | B.discovered | C.forbidden | D.killed |
A.nervously | B.bravely | C.confidently | D.proudly |
A.unable | B.likely | C.willing | D.afraid |
A.never | B.ever | C.almost | D.hardly |
A.feeling | B.experiencing | C.fighting | D.ignoring |
A.wiped out | B.eased off | C.broken up | D.turned into |
A.regretted | B.decided | C.remembered | D.discovered |
A.created | B.valued | C.shared | D.planned |
A.Have dinner with Mike. | B.Go out with her parents. | C.Stay at home with her brother. |