1 . 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. |
An Unforgivable Mistake
A few years ago, the company I work for sent my wife and me to live in New York for a year. I’ve always loved jogging, so I was really happy when I found the apartment they had rented for us was next to Central Park. This meant that every morning I could go for a run before I went to work.
Because a lot of people had told me to be careful of muggers (行凶抢劫者) in the park, I didn’t usually take anything with me. How could they rob me if I didn’t have anything? But one morning my wife asked me to buy some bread on the way home, so I put a $10 bill in my back pocket.
It was a beautiful morning and the park was quiet with very few people walking or jogging around. While I was running, another jogger bumped (撞) into me. He apologized and continued running. For a while, I didn’t think too much of it. However, when I noticed the wide path where I was running, I thought it was kind of strange. The warning of muggers in the park occurred to me. It could have been a mugger! I suddenly became alarmed, so I checked my pocket. The money was missing! I immediately started to run after the jogger. I finally caught up with and grabbed him firmly by the arm. I started shouting and demanding that he give me the $10 bill. I’m not usually a hot-headed person, but I really lost my temper at that moment. I couldn’t believe the robbery was actually happening to me. Filled with anger, I shook my fist at him. This seemed to frighten him. He quickly put his hand in his pocket and gave me the money. Then he ran away as fast as he could.
I bought the bread and went home. As soon as I got home, I couldn’t wait to tell my wife the story. “You won’t believe what happened to me,” I started with pride. She immediately interrupted (插话), “I know, you left the money for the bread on the kitchen table.”
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Looking at the money on the table, I stood there, shocked.
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For several days, I waited at the same place.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Jane Brown sat carefully putting papers into a folder. She had been at the Gateway Nature Center’s office all morning and was tired of filing. She wanted desperately to work with the animals. She had been a weekend volunteer that whole school year and had done extensive research, reading books and websites on natural history. But her mom, who was the assistant director of the center, said Jane was still too young.
Suddenly, the quiet was broken by Amy bursting in. She had been a volunteer a bit longer than Jane and wandered around like she owned the place. “Hurry up, Jane,” she ordered. Jane willed herself to remain still and just smiled back.
Just then, Jane’s mother rushed into the room with Mr. White, the manager. “The hurricane is now approaching the Gulf Shore Preserve,” Mrs. Brown reported. “It needs help preparing for it. I have to go down there with the staff. We’ll take the bridge, so we shouldn’t be gone long. I need you girls to help Mr. White get the storm shutters (护窗) down in the aviary (鸟舍). Then, stay inside with Mr. White. Call me on my cellphone if there’re any problems,” Mrs. Brown directed as she rushed out. Jane was excited to have an opportunity to help the birds.
Amy announced she was now “in charge”. Jane smiled again, saying nothing. Mr. White and the girls worked quickly and were soon back inside. But when Mr. White called Jane’s mother, a worried expression crossed his face. “A storm has flooded the bridge, and they’re stuck there. Also, the storm is heading our way,” he said. Amy was frightened. After silently considering for a few seconds, Jane said calmly, “We should move the birds to the reptile house (爬行动物馆). It’s on higher ground.” Mr. White and Amy nodded. They rushed out of the building. Once inside the aviary, Jane watched Amy lunge (猛冲) from cage to cage.
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Jane told Amy not to jump around so much because the birds would be scared by her sudden movements.
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After several hours, the storm stopped, and Mrs. Brown was able to return to the center.
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4 . I was doing well as a department head in a Mumbai firm, but my relationship with the boss had become strained (紧张的). Not wanting to
Then, one morning, a Situations Vacant ad I spotted
I rushed back to the
The
Three weeks passed. I
I soon got the job, and
I still think about my application
A.look up | B.take up | C.put up with | D.come up with |
A.anxious | B.proud | C.hopeless | D.curious |
A.dismissed | B.hired | C.missed | D.sought |
A.finally | B.neatly | C.completely | D.exactly |
A.addresses | B.instructions | C.directions | D.courses |
A.sorted | B.loaded | C.posted | D.corrected |
A.avoided | B.left | C.lost | D.joined |
A.falling | B.missing | C.broken | D.mistaken |
A.platform | B.yard | C.office | D.street |
A.memory | B.look | C.search | D.cleaning |
A.aimlessly | B.excitedly | C.angrily | D.impatiently |
A.meaningless | B.logical | C.valuable | D.difficult |
A.sign | B.fortune | C.result | D.mark |
A.expected | B.mailed | C.received | D.wrote |
A.dinner | B.walk | C.party | D.meeting |
A.surprised | B.disappointed | C.encouraged | D.worried |
A.arrived | B.moved | C.worked | D.helped |
A.pointing | B.reaching | C.touching | D.persuading |
A.important | B.hard | C.realistic | D.friendly |
A.imagined | B.responsible | C.hidden | D.unknown |
5 . A woman whose social media searching for a nurse who cared for her almost 40 years ago went viral this week has found the mystery woman—in only 24 hours.
Amanda Scarpinati has wondered all her life about a nurse who helped her in the Albany Medical Center in 1977. At three months old, Scarpinati caught a cold, so her parents put her on a couch near a hot steam humidifier. She was in the living room by herself and rolled off the couch and landed right on the humidifier. She remained there for a full minute, suffering third degree burns on her face and hands.
Scarpinati spent seven weeks in the hospital and went through many surgeries during her youth as a result. All through elementary school, she was picked on and laughed at because of it. But one person Scarpinati knows treated her with only loving care—a nurse at the burn unit, whose photo Scarpinati had seen for years. “There is a picture of us together in an annual report for Albany Medical Center from that year. I don’t know how our family got hold of it, but I’ve always had the report and I would stare at the picture and wonder who she was, ever since I was a kid. But I’ve never had a name to go with the face,” Scarpinati says.
Scarpinati says she tried to locate the nurse 20 years ago, but with no luck. “I went to Albany Medical Center and they did some research but weren’t really able to find anything,” she says. “I just wanted to thank her.”
Nurse’s work is important to Scarpinati, whose mother is also a nurse. “What they do is truly amazing. Most of the time it’s not the doctors who have the beside manner, it’s the nurses that comfort you. I remember as a kid having one surgery and my mother couldn’t be there but a nurse was,” Scarpinati says.
1. Why did Amanda Scarpinati stay in the Albany Medical Center?A.Because she caught a bad cold. | B.Because her parents didn’t raise her. |
C.Because she was burned badly. | D.Because she fixed the humidifier. |
A.She spent seven weeks in the hospital every year. |
B.She was made fun of by other students in her school. |
C.She was well treated by one person with loving care. |
D.She had no spend most of her time on the Internet. |
A.The picture on the medical center’s annual report. | B.The telephone number the nurse gave her. |
C.The living room they once lived together. | D.The name of the nurse who cared for her. |
A.Scarpinati’s mother is also a nurse. | B.Being a doctor is wonderful. |
C.Nurses should do much for patients. | D.Nurse’s job is very important. |
6 . The 65-year-old Steve Goodwin, suffering from early Alzheimer’s (阿尔茨海默症), was losing his memory.
As a keen lover of the piano, he was truly
Melissa, his daughter, insisted it’s
She told Steve she’d love to hear him play the
“It was amazingly
They met every other week. He’d move his fingers
Steve and Naomi spoke in music. He heard it, all of it, but just couldn’t play it.
However, working with Naomi did
Naomi managed to
In the months
By then, Steve was having a hard time remembering the names of his friends. He arrived and was
A.embarrassed | B.unconfident | C.harmonious | D.eager |
A.even if | B.as if | C.so that | D.what if |
A.other than | B.rather than | C.more than | D.less than |
A.appointed | B.ached | C.approved | D.avoided |
A.In fact | B.As a result | C.Beyond expectation | D.What’s worse |
A.guitar | B.violin | C.piano | D.studio |
A.waving | B.trembling | C.jumping | D.dancing |
A.pyramid | B.statue | C.recorder | D.speaker |
A.stranger | B.colleague | C.friend | D.child |
A.specific | B.admirable | C.efficient | D.stressful |
A.creatively | B.smoothly | C.awkwardly | D.professionally |
A.tended | B.contributed | C.demanded | D.struggled |
A.wonders | B.impressions | C.incidents | D.attempts |
A.what | B.which | C.that | D.when |
A.put up with | B.make up of | C.exchange with | D.find out |
A.appealing to | B.leading to | C.adapting to | D.applying to |
A.addicted | B.guilty | C.public | D.professional |
A.in agreement | B.in desperation | C.at risk | D.by design |
A.observed | B.assisted | C.identified | D.seated |
A.eyes | B.wrists | C.stomach | D.heart |
7 . Last Monday, someone I didn’t personally know messaged me and said that she was looking for a family to bless (祝福). She sent me $ 50, enough to
My
I went to the shop nearby to buy them food at once. When I
Tears started from my eyes seeing the joy on their faces
A.pick | B.buy | C.change | D.save |
A.ability | B.time | C.money | D.phone |
A.source | B.text | C.goal | D.plan |
A.Because of | B.As for | C.Except for | D.Instead of |
A.sharing | B.agreeing | C.comparing | D.fighting |
A.turn | B.reply | C.life | D.view |
A.water | B.coldness | C.silence | D.attention |
A.asked | B.lent | C.handed | D.posted |
A.applied | B.rushed | C.connected | D.added |
A.terrible | B.strange | C.general | D.warm |
A.especially | B.lastly | C.importantly | D.partly |
A.promising | B.difficult | C.comfortable | D.traditional |
A.poor | B.lucky | C.crying | D.amazing |
A.understand | B.shout | C.expect | D.celebrate |
A.list | B.desk | C.birthday | D.weekday |
“What will we be singing for the contest this year?” a student from my high school choir,a singing team, asked eagerly.
I hesitated this moment. “I was thinking,” I said, “maybe we’ll skip the contest and just work hard on the concerts this year. ”
“NO!” the kids protested.
“We’ve got to go to contest!”
“In Class A. ”
“It’s tradition!”
This was true. Awards lined the front wall of the music room from the past successes of large, talented classes. But a change in educational policies, with an emphasis on academics, had reduced my choir to a mere thirty-two students. My section leaders had graduated or been forced to drop music classes, leaving me with young, inexperienced kids who couldn’t read music, couldn’t hold their parts, and could sing only a simple melody or song.
“Maybe we could enter Class B this year,” I suggested, knowing even that would be a near-impossible mission.
“No!” the kids screamed. “Class A!”
I shook my head. “Class A is extremely difficult. ”
“We can do it!” they shouted. “We can do it!”
“I’ll have to think about it,” I said, hoping their enthusiasm would die off in a couple of weeks.
But that didn’t happen. If anything, the class became more fixed. Every day they begged and begged and they insisted. Because I had to protect their self-pride I couldn’t tell them they weren’t good enough. My efforts to prevent their eagerness, by showing them a difficult piece of music from the contest list, simply ended with, “It’s okay, Mrs. Pliszka, we’ll get it. ”
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I struggled to make a decision.
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When the contest day finally arrived, the kids felt ready to take on the world!
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9 . For most people, having things stolen feels like an offence. Robbie Pruitt admitted that he got
For Pruitt, a keen bicyclist, the first thing to do was
With that thought in mind, Pruitt
The day the post went live, Pruitt received thirty
Pruitt tries to give his donations to families that are
In addition to
“It’s a really great
A.amazed | B.mad | C.curious | D.frightened |
A.emotions | B.career | C.opinions | D.route |
A.ever | B.together | C.instead | D.yet |
A.ride | B.lock | C.repair | D.replace |
A.lack | B.variety | C.increase | D.quality |
A.instruction | B.qualification | C.transportation | D.permission |
A.came up with | B.stuck to | C.gave up | D.broke away from |
A.remembered | B.refused | C.hesitated | D.offered |
A.by accident | B.in advance | C.for free | D.on credit |
A.profit | B.budget | C.courage | D.excuse |
A.shared | B.used | C.expensive | D.modern |
A.inquiries | B.advertisements | C.notices | D.announcements |
A.exported | B.sold | C.lent | D.returned |
A.hardly | B.slightly | C.truly | D.instantly |
A.Without | B.Beyond | C.Upon | D.Among |
A.practical | B.commercial | C.mathematical | D.social |
A.Otherwise | B.However | C.Somehow | D.Meanwhile |
A.promise | B.celebration | C.comfort | D.experience |
A.competition | B.service | C.ceremony | D.suggestion |
A.process | B.impression | C.impact | D.progress |
10 . My 18-year-old daughter was admitted to hospital after a serious car accident.Her
Christmas was coming, and one day when I visited her, I was
When I brought the basket to the patients, they were
A few days later, I received a thank—you card and a box of chocolates from the patients for helping them with their basket. How touching it was! Oliver also bought me a beautiful Christmas gift,
This is a great
A.head | B.leg | C.arm | D.back |
A.unsolved | B.related | C.financial | D.social |
A.called | B.missed | C.visited | D.watched |
A.consistent | B.particular | C.normal | D.frequent |
A.week | B.decade | C.year | D.hour |
A.allowed | B.stopped | C.asked | D.promised |
A.tree | B.song | C.socks | D.basket |
A.money | B.time | C.space | D.energy |
A.office | B.classroom | C.store | D.hospital |
A.wanted | B.preferred | C.began | D.struggled |
A.gave up | B.took over | C.called off | D.set aside |
A.rather than | B.less than | C.more than | D.other than |
A.nurses | B.doctors | C.visitors | D.patients |
A.respected | B.confused | C.disappointed | D.touched |
A.looking for | B.caring for | C.paying for | D.catering for |
A.admitting | B.warning | C.saying | D.adding |
A.reminder | B.message | C.example | D.announcement |
A.Due to | B.Except for | C.Despite | D.Regarding |
A.sympathy | B.love | C.courage | D.understanding |
A.common | B.original | C.traditional | D.personal |