1 . How to Make Friends at a New School
Starting with a new school can be difficult. Everything seems to be different, and you don’t even know where to go for your own classes.
Remember to be nice to the people you meet at your new school. If you think that you will say something that may make them feel sad, do not say anything and just nod your head if they talk to you. Also, remember to be as helpful as possible!
Believe in yourselfA smile goes a long way. When you walk in the halls, don’t keep your eyes on the floor. Raise your head and make eye contact with other people.
You like it when people use your name, and so do other people.
| A．Be friendly to others. |
| B．Making new friends can be hard, too. |
| C．Join after-school activities like |
| D．Never change what you are to try and fit in. |
| E．If you see someone you know, smile or say “Hi”. |
| F．People may become angry if you just begin by saying ”Hey“ each time. |
| G．Don ‘t sit at the back of the classroom where other people don’t notice you! |
2 . Today, I’m sending Sally away for a week of summer camp. She never actually asked to go. This was all my
Living on a farm without any neighbors, I’ve chosen a life that is quieter than a
After we eat, I drive Sally to Hawk Circle. Once there, we get a tour of the grounds and are introduced to Sally’s fellow
It’s not until that drive home that I finally feel it. I begin to
| A．task | B．idea | C．matter | D．work |
| A．typical | B．popular | C．healthy | D．serious |
| A．help | B．safety | C．space | D．support |
| A．effort | B．wisdom | C．presence | D．expectation |
| A．amazes | B．delights | C．promotes | D．frightens |
| A．reveals | B．abandons | C．pursues | D．assesses |
| A．how | B．why | C．where | D．when |
| A．participants | B．colleagues | C．sponsors | D．competitors |
| A．service | B．reward | C．demand | D．courage |
| A．hardly | B．gently | C．tightly | D．immediately |
| A．convince | B．refuse | C．choose | D．introduce |
| A．teach | B．warn | C．save | D．meet |
| A．disappear | B．return | C．look | D．jump |
| A．shake | B．laugh | C．escape | D．change |
| A．patience | B．strength | C．enthusiasm | D．concentration |
| A．evidence | B．path | C．course | D．manner |
| A．admiration | B．shadow | C．review | D．consideration |
| A．free | B．fresh | C．normal | D．homeless |
| A．motivation | B．behavior | C．improvement | D．personality |
| A．spiritually | B．personally | C．constantly | D．carefully |
3 . My daughter graduated from college this year. I couldn’t be more proud of her. Through countless hours of study, books read, papers written, and tests taken, her hard work has paid off. She is no longer a little girl. She has become a wise, giving, caring, and loving adult. She has learned so much and is ready to start the rest of her life.
I think the things I take most pride in her learning, though, aren’t the ones she learned in the classroom. They are the ones she learned through living her life. My daughter already knows things that it took me much longer to learn. She knows that money can’t buy happiness. She knows that laughter exercises the lungs and love opens up the heart. She knows that doing what you love and loving what you do turns work into play. She knows that children are life’s most precious (珍贵的) gift and that every child should be treated with kindness and love.
My daughter knows that life often isn’t fair, that society often isn’t wise, and that everyone of us will face our share of problems. She also knows, however, that with love in our hearts we can bring learning, laughter, and joy to even the toughest days. She knows that life is a journey taken on a rocky road and that sometimes we stumble. She knows that we can pick ourselves up each time and even help someone else up as well. Most of all she knows that she is still learning, just as we all are. May she always know too just how much I love her.
1. How did the author feel when her daughter graduated from college?| A．Grateful. | B．Satisfied. | C．Calm. | D．Concerned. |
| A．Her daughter is ready to start a new life. |
| B．Her daughter knows a lot about society. |
| C．Her daughter’s knowledge learnt through living her life. |
| D．Her daughter’s achievements in the classroom. |
| A．you should love work as well as play |
| B．it’s important for one to turn work into play |
| C．your work will become interesting if you love it |
| D．what you love and what you do are totally different |
| A．her mother is well educated |
| B．her mother loves her very much |
| C．she is cleverer than her mother |
| D．she has to keep learning all her life |
| A．Fall. | B．Climb. | C．Control. | D．Shock. |
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Siew Boon
During her fight with breast cancer，focusing on creating beautiful 3D jelly cakes helped to turn her focus away
Every piece is created upside down and takes up to 4 hours to complete．The flowers are made with special tools．It takes a lot of creativity and
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5 . How to Bring Family Closer
Strong family bonds (纽带) can encourage better behaviors in children and teach them how to be a good friend.
Set aside time for family.
Eat meals together. Choose a few nights during the week when you expect everyone to gather around the dinner table. Studies have shown that eating meals together has a positive effect on children’s physical and mental well-being.
Encourage support. Feeling supported by your family is one of the most important things in building strong family bonds. Bonds like these will last your kids a lifetime. They will enjoy these strong bonds when they are your age and even after you are gone.
| A．Do housework as a family. |
| B．Try to set aside a regular day every week. |
| C．That’s why you create a sense of support. |
| D．As a result, never feel bad about taking a break. |
| E．Remember that your children learn by example. |
| F．Just eat a meal and have a conversation together. |
| G．Here are some tips to help bring your family closer. |
6 . My husband is more a kid at heart. He insists we find gifts for the grandkids while on a trip to Savannah.
I can be a kid at heart, too, but I also can be a mathematician — and even cheap, ugly gifts add up quickly when you have 11 grandkids.
Children like gifts and they want them. So we are digging through piles of cheap key fobs (钥匙链), plastic sun hats, chocolate treats that will melt in the heat, and funny T-shirts, finding nothing.
We go with two hats for the boys but are still empty-handed for the nine girls. Then I spot small bracelets (手链) in a rainbow of colors. He turns one over a couple of times and says, “Nice.”
The bracelets are made of small balls shaped like starfish and turtles. They all look like rock candy, which can be eaten and was popular when we were kids. We buy nine and make a mental note: tell the girls not to eat them.
As the clerk wraps the bracelets, I remember a gift I had as a girl. Once we could choose one thing in a shop to remember our trip. What I selected was a blue plastic soapbox with the lid (盖子) and topped with a pink flamingo (火烈鸟). It was cheap and tacky (俗气的) and I believed it was the loveliest thing a girl could own. It was too beautiful to put soap inside, so it sat in a dresser drawer year after year, slowly aging, yellowing, as a reminder of a family trip long ago.
The girls are married and have families of their own, and those gifts are still in the dresser drawers in their old bedrooms, but I have came to realize that every gift may have its worth and value, saying we are together even though we were apart. That’s always a good deal.
1. Why did the author say she was a mathematician?| A．Because their family was not rich enough to buy gifts. |
| B．Because she was good at choosing gifts for kids. |
| C．Because she ever studied mathematics in university. |
| D．Because she found it expensive to buy 11 gifts. |
| A．Shiny and costly. | B．Foreign and attractive. |
| C．Beautiful and ordinary. | D．Useful and cheap. |
| A．The great family memories. | B．The experience in giving gifts. |
| C．The best gift she ever had. | D．The trip when she fell in love. |
| A．Good reminders of our life. | B．How to choose gifts for kids. |
| C．The meaning of a gift. | D．What to expect on a family trip. |
7 . I think a close friend is someone you get on really well with, who helps you when you have problems, who gives you advice, and who always has time for you.I didn't use to have many close friends when I was at school or at university as I was very shy, but now I have several.They are all women—I think it's difficult to have a close friend of the opposite sex (异性)．
—Marie
I don't really have any close friends.I know a lot of people but mainly through work, and the kind of social occasions (场合) when we meet are business dinners and evening parties.I think if you come from a really close family, then friends are a bit unnecessary.I prefer to spend the little free time I have with my family.
—Richard
I think a close friend is someone who you've known for a long time, and who you still get on with.They probably have similar hobbies to you so you can do things together.I've got three close friends whom I was at high school with and we often go away together (without our parents of course).We always go camping and somewhere we can go walking, play football and be outside in the open air.
—David
For me close friends are the people you spend your free time with.I go out at weekends with a group of people—there are about seven of us, and I'd say we are all close friends.We also live near each other.I don't think you can have close friends at a distance (在远处); you need to be able to see each other often. But I don't think you need to be doing the same things.I mean I'm at university but none of my friends are.
—Anna
1. What does Richard say about friends?| A．It's hard to make friends at work. |
| B．They're less important than family. |
| C．Friends need to have a lot in common. |
| D．Women and men can't be close friends. |
| A．Physical activities. |
| B．Parent－child camps. |
| C．Going to evening parties. |
| D．Playing out in the open alone. |
| A．They are college students. |
| B．They are doing the same things. |
| C．They don't live far away. |
| D．They don't see each other often. |
| A．Anna. | B．David. |
| C．Richard. | D．Marie. |
It was eight o’clock on a cold spring night. Our apartment was full of the artwork of an energeic five-year-old. The house was in a mess.
I was so tired that night. I had depended on a walking stick to go anywhere for seven weeks, recovering from an operation, and I couldn’t find a way to cheer myself up.
The phone rang - for the sixth time in less than an hour. I knew who it was. My mother had been suffering from dementia (痴呆). Though we visited her every few days, she believed that her daughters had not visited in months. She thought that her friend Jimmy never wanted to see her again, but he called her and visited weekly.
She had no idea that she had repeated the things she was about to say a million times today and a million times the day before. She had no idea that I had an operation, nor could she remember her own grandaughter’s name. She forgot most of her own past and she drifted in the present. Also, she was lonely.
This time I cast my anger at the easiest target: my mother, the very victim of this chance horror. “Mom!” I shouted. “We visited two days ago! You have to believe me, and even if you don’t, I cannot talk anymore! Everything is fine!”
Silence. Then: “I was only calling to say hi. Why are you shouting?!” she continued. “Do you have a minute?”
“No, Mom, I don’t. I can’t stand this!”
I sat on the couch, defeated. I was suddenly aware of all that my daughter was watching me shouting at my mother and losing my patience. I have failed at being a good example to my daughter.
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My daughter approached me, saying, “Can I talk to Grandma Ellie?”
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After many kissing noises, they eventually hung up.
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Desiree, a 4-year-old girl, was sobbing quietly over her father, Ken, who had died nine months earlier. She was hugging a photograph of her father with her fingers running around his face. “Daddy”, she said softly, “Why won't you come back?”
Instead of gradually adjusting to her father's death, Desiree refused to accept it “Daddy will be home soon,” she'd tell her mother. “He's at work.” When she played with her toy telephone, she pretended she was chatting with her father “I miss you, Daddy,” she'd say. “When will you come back?” Desiree's situation made her mother worried.
Days later, it was Ken's birthday. “How will I send him a card?” Desiree asked her mother “How about if we tie a litter to a balloon.” her mother said, “and send it up to heaven?” Desiree's eyes immediately lit up.
Her mother took her to a store and Desiree picked out a balloon with HAPPY BIRTHDAY above a drawing of The Little Mermaid (美人鱼). Desire and her father had often watched it.
The child's eyes shone as they were on the way to Ken's grave. Then Desiree dictated (口述) a letter to her Dad. “Daddy, Happy birthday, I love you and miss you,” she rattled off (快速说). “I hope you get this and can write to me on my birthday in January.”
Her mother wrote the message and their address on a small piece of paper, which was then wrapped in plastic and tied to the end of the string on the balloon. Finally, Desiree let fly the balloon. For almost an hour, they watched the shining spot of silver grow smaller and smaller till disappear. “Now Dad's going to write back to me,” Desiree said confidently.
Every day since they'd flew the balloon, Desiree had asked her mother, “Do you think Daddy has my balloon yet?” Several weeks passed, and she stopped asking.
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