1 . Until a few years ago, I was a calm person. If you were going to offend me or verbally
Then, one day, I met my husband and I fell in love with him, a proud
I felt this had to change and the conversation went
Me: “Either you change your
Him: “Did you
The connection he suggested is to be
A.praise | B.impress | C.attack | D.defend |
A.in turn | B.in public | C.in secret | D.in time |
A.Chinese | B.American | C.Canadian | D.Italian |
A.disagreeing | B.operating | C.working | D.trying |
A.boiling | B.struggling | C.controlling | D.preparing |
A.inner | B.outer | C.extra | D.distinct |
A.up and down | B.by and by | C.sooner or later | D.more or less |
A.vision | B.viewpoint | C.attitude | D.attention |
A.improve | B.affect | C.mend | D.clarify |
A.learn from | B.worry about | C.hear about | D.hear from |
A.mobile | B.relevant | C.solid | D.similar |
A.temperature | B.sound | C.level | D.environment |
A.explode | B.burst | C.freeze | D.flow |
A.suspected | B.proven | C.inspected | D.created |
A.money | B.water | C.treasure | D.dust |
2 . As I walked to the market this morning, I saw a poorly dressed old man with a towel covering his face sitting in front of a shop. I
A few feet away was a young man on the pavement
As I stood there,
He noticed that I was still there so he said , “That young boy has not eaten for two days and has no energy even to sit up. That is why he
A.decided | B.suspected | C.recalled | D.admitted |
A.food | B.opportunity | C.change | D.job |
A.suddenly | B.obviously | C.probably | D.gradually |
A.chance | B.picture | C.advantage | D.notice |
A.wasted | B.made | C.earned | D.raised |
A.towards | B.over | C.past | D.for |
A.shouted | B.insisted | C.compromised | D.commanded |
A.jealous | B.confident | C.proud | D.hopeful |
A.showing | B.leaving | C.handing | D.asking |
A.joy | B.amazement | C.thrill | D.disappointment |
A.delivered | B.shared | C.collected | D.brought |
A.sit | B.lie | C.stand | D.wash |
A.begged | B.collapsed | C.died | D.slept |
A.sad | B.down | C.great | D.small |
A.patience | B.tolerance | C.integrity | D.generosity |
3 . A video of Tommy Carroll skating near his home has been viewed millions of times around the globe, gaining him fame as a skateboarder. He can’t see, but he can pull off some of the most incredible
Carroll, was born with the retinal (视网膜) cancer and lost his
“I am always constantly using the sound of my wheels to
Though courageous, Carroll learns to be
A.images | B.tricks | C.rides | D.jumps |
A.curiosity | B.complaint | C.fear | D.interest |
A.weaken | B.spot | C.avoid | D.overcome |
A.vision | B.patience | C.mind | D.touch |
A.hoped | B.started | C.plotted | D.hesitated |
A.navigate | B.transfer | C.balance | D.distinguish |
A.prove | B.see | C.explore | D.check |
A.achievement | B.security | C.direction | D.danger |
A.affection | B.reason | C.talent | D.capacity |
A.discouraged | B.misunderstood | C.motivated | D.abused |
A.forgave | B.defeated | C.mouthed | D.ignored |
A.modest | B.brave | C.safe | D.confident |
A.helps | B.familiarizes | C.compares | D.connects |
A.demanding | B.beneficial | C.complicated | D.thrilling |
A.childish | B.wrong | C.impolite | D.incompetent |
4 . British teen Kitty Tait wakes up at 5 am every day to bake bread, but it’s not just any old bread. The young girl who runs the Orange Bakery in her home town, with her dad Alex, adds a little humor to her bakes.
“If something is fun to eat, it makes it even tastier!” the teen baking star, who overcame depression after discovering the art of bread making, said. It was watching her dad make a simple loaf of white bread that changed her life forever. “Something that was so unpromising — a bit like how my brain felt at the time — had turned into something so magical,” she recalls.
Soon, Kitty was baking loaves for her neighbors. And before she knew it, there was a subscription service followed by a pop-up in her neighbor’s garage where she sold almost 100 loaves of bread and doughnuts (甜甜圈) in half an hour. “At that moment, I realized that this was what I wanted to do with my life,” she says.
A few months later, after raising enough money through crowdfunding,the teen rented a small retail space in town and her dad quit his job to become her business partner. They’ve been running the Orange Bakery ever since, selling everything from Marmite and cheese swirls to Danish pastries.
“I’m just really excited about people eating good bread, whether it is made by themselves or bought from a bakery,” says Kitty. “My main mission is to make bread inclusive and joyful because I have found so much joy in it.”
Today, the Taits are part of the global baking community, running baking classes at local schools.
1. What can we learn about Kitty before her picking up baking?A.She worked part-time at a bakery. |
B.She suffered from a mental illness. |
C.She turned something magical into reality. |
D.She learned baking from her mom and neighbors. |
A.Popular. |
B.Graceful. |
C.Updated. |
D.Ordinary. |
A.He had ever been a good teacher. |
B.He bought the Orange Bakery for Kitty. |
C.He made a contribution to Kitty's cause. |
D.He had ever done foreign trade in a company. |
A.Making baking a fun thing. |
B.Earning as much as possible. |
C.Running joyful baking classes. |
D.Thinking up better ways of baking. |
5 . My mother spent at least 12 hours every day rolling country cigarettes to support our family. One day she showed me her wage book,
As I watched her finally
When I was 13, I read the autobiography of Helen Keller. I
At the age of 22, I came back to my village to set up an institution that
Of course, to change people’s mind is challenging. The quickest way to
A.pointing | B.asking | C.testing | D.giving |
A.keep | B.break | C.play | D.remember |
A.order | B.suppose | C.teach | D.advise |
A.try | B.refuse | C.manage | D.pretend |
A.agreement | B.complement | C.development | D.excitement |
A.difference | B.plan | C.mistake | D.decision |
A.dream | B.trouble | C.curiosity | D.demand |
A.priceless | B.careless | C.fearless | D.worthless |
A.abandoned | B.admired | C.conveyed | D.inspired |
A.hometown | B.community | C.downtown | D.college |
A.hesitated | B.applied | C.hated | D.agreed |
A.activity | B.program | C.library | D.campaign |
A.give out | B.turn out | C.step out | D.break out |
A.changed | B.finished | C.fulfilled | D.connected |
A.beautiful | B.joyful | C.useful | D.careful |
A.supported | B.arranged | C.protected | D.introduced |
A.recognition | B.invitation | C.examination | D.education |
A.debate | B.question | C.argue | D.convince |
A.gift | B.treat | C.job | D.bargain |
A.affecting | B.receiving | C.suffering | D.improving |
6 . In high school, I did a scientific experiment. The experiment made me
One of my
If I am lucky and given the
I know I will be able to achieve my
A.doubt | B.wonder | C.realize | D.value |
A.school | B.origin | C.growth | D.study |
A.refused | B.volunteered | C.continued | D.decided |
A.especially | B.possibly | C.properly | D.separately |
A.happy | B.popular | C.real | D.careful |
A.experiences | B.persuasions | C.generations | D.inspirations |
A.attempt | B.career | C.praise | D.tradition |
A.devoted | B.invited | C.limited | D.reduced |
A.reason | B.freedom | C.right | D.opportunity |
A.heard | B.expected | C.discovered | D.awarded |
A.set out | B.figure out | C.stick out | D.take out |
A.dream | B.reward | C.fame | D.stage |
A.fortune | B.location | C.light | D.secret |
A.bright | B.capable | C.proud | D.brave |
A.lesson | B.present | C.mind | D.heart |
7 . Wang Fang, a Suzhou native, has given her heart and soul to Kunqu Opera. Wang, who has twice won the Plum Performance Award — China’s top award for theater and opera performances-started to learn the traditional art form in 1977.
Born with a melodic voice, Wang loved to sing and dance when she was little. She performed frequently, and was recruited by the Suzhou Kunqu Opera Troupe (剧团) when she was in middle school. However, her parents refused the troupe’s invitation, insisting that she should concentrate on her studies and not drop out of school. After members of the troupe visited the parents repeatedly and showed great sincerity,Wang’s parents finally agreed.
Learning the traditional art form was never easy. She started to learn how to pronounce words, sing them lyrically and make gestures gently. As an actress playing martial artists roles at first, she had to spend extra time practicing kung fu movements. Years later, Wang used the word “unimaginable” to describe how hard the days were when she first learned Kunqu. She was soaked in sweat when practicing movements in summer, while in winter she often had chilblains (冻疮) on her hands when training in shabby classrooms with broken windows. “But I was young and determined at the time. No matter how difficult, I always got up early the next morning to practice,” Wang recalls.
Wang says she did not love Kunqu at first, but in her early 20s,when she watched the show Peony Pavilion performed by Zhang Jiqing, a master of the art form, it clicked. “I was shocked,” Wang says. “Her every movement was full of elegance and delicacy. Each of her lines and songs was perfect. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of Kunqu for the first time in my life, and it has stayed with me since.” Now, Wang has herself become a master of Kunqu. Her performances have impressed generations and helped to promote the art form among young people.
1. Why did Wang’s parents turn down the troupe’s invitation at first?A.They didn’t think Wang had artistic talent. |
B.They saw no future in learning Kunqu Opera. |
C.They didn’t want Wang to ignore her studies. |
D.They regarded members of the troupe as insincere. |
A.Wang has made great efforts to learn Kunqu well. |
B.Artists should be given more attention and care. |
C.Traditional culture needs to be further promoted. |
D.Wang has played a key role in the development of Kunqu. |
A.Winning the Plum Performance Award. |
B.Joining the Suzhou Kunqu Opera Troupe. |
C.Watching Zhang’s masterly performance. |
D.Being greatly admired by the audience. |
A.It is never too late to learn. | B.Rome was not built in a day. |
C.Doing is better than saying. | D.Don’t judge a book by its cover. |
On a beautiful Thursday this April, Amy and Alan Green took their daughter Abbey out for a walk in the neighborhood. On their way back, Amy picked up a kite for Abbey from the Dollar Tree, blue with rainbows—there are a lot of rainbows decorating homes around the region these days, which helps make life less dull during the coronavirus pandemic.
In the afternoon, Abbey took the kite out for its first flight. At first, the wind was perfect. It took the kite high in the sky. However, suddenly, the wind became much stronger and pulled the kite out of Abbey’s hands in a moment. It flew farther and farther and finally got stuck on the power lines next to a big tree, wrapping itself over and over again around the wires. Since the kite was too high for them to reach, the Greens could do nothing about it. Worried less about the kite than the danger it might present to the lines, Amy called National Grid (国家电网) to report the incident.
About one hour later, Mike, a worker from the power company arrived. He carefully removed the kite line from the wires. After about 10 minutes’ effort, he successfully freed it. But unfortunately, as the kite was wrapped so tightly, there was some unpreventable damage. Still, he gave it back to Alan Green. As he was leaving, he noticed Abbey taking the kite to the backyard. Out of curiosity, he stood there for a while to see how the girl would deal with it. Surprisingly, she dug a hole and buried the kite in a shoebox. Even though he could not see the girl’s face clearly, he knew exactly how sad Abbey was. He really felt bad for her. And it was at that moment that he decided to do something.
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The next day, Alan went out to get the mail as usual and found a box.
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Deeply moved by this act of kindness, Alan posted the whole story on the Internet.
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In the first grade in senior high school, I was extremely shy, I had friends, but it just wasn’t in my personality to be very outgoing, even when I knew someone. I was afraid I would do or say something wrong, so usually I just smiled and listened to other people’s conversations.
I did well in school and I loved to write. However, I would escape into my writing, where I could be myself and never had to worry about what other people thought of me. In my stories, I was never shy, I often imagined that I was the main character in the story. My teacher, Mrs. Sather, always encouraged me to write more and be myself. She told our class to go after our dreams and dig in with great efforts. I thoughts he was one of the first people to see my inner strength.
One day, she showed us a play she had written and announccd that our class was going to perform it. “I’ll begin to choose all the performers tomorrow” she said, “I need someone who is not afraid to be onstage in front of a lot of people to play the lead part of Dorothy. Anybody wants to try?” A few excited hands shot up -mine, of course, was not one of them and Mrs. Sather smiled. “We’ll talk more about it later,” she said. Then the bell rang and my classmates slowly left the classroom.
“I will never do that,” I thought. But after rereading the play, I was deeply attracted by the story and couldn’t help imagining myself to be the main character Dorothy. There seemed to be a new person inside me, a much more daring, outgoing person who had been hidden all along, just waiting for the opportunity to appear. However, I still felt shy and could never picture myself acting in a play in front of two hundred people. Having struggled for a few minutes, I still did not know how to make the decision.
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When I was packing my schoolbag, Mrs Sather asked me to go to her.
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One week later, it was time for me to perform on the stage.
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10 . At the school Art Festival, I was asked to design the costumes for three school plays. Everyone was
After much thought, I decided to
After graduation, I will
A.determined | B.amazed | C.awkward | D.expected |
A.drawing | B.acting | C.sculpture | D.communication |
A.challenge | B.admire | C.pursue | D.aid |
A.provide | B.compare | C.create | D.combine |
A.get into | B.get through | C.get over | D.get from |
A.training | B.research | C.quiz | D.schedule |
A.checked | B.persuaded | C.recognized | D.forecasted |
A.head | B.eye | C.back | D.foot |
A.flexibility | B.standards | C.drawbacks | D.qualities |
A.apply | B.demonstrate | C.improve | D.acquire |
A.learn | B.result | C.benefit | D.obtain |
A.motion | B.action | C.position | D.operation |
A.attend | B.equip | C.design | D.organize |
A.conduct | B.submit | C.land | D.perform |
A.accounting | B.consulting | C.cleaning | D.clothing |