1 . Our church has a way of helping those who have
There came a time when my husband and I were among those who needed
A year later, our seventeen-year-old son who
Finally, in tears, and with great reluctance (勉强), my son
A.mental | B.physical | C.financial | D.spiritual |
A.hardly | B.never | C.seldom | D.always |
A.assistance | B.faith | C.equipment | D.respect |
A.returned | B.exported | C.offered | D.directed |
A.significant | B.pleased | C.graceful | D.curious |
A.graduated | B.failed | C.retired | D.settled |
A.enough | B.empty | C.available | D.full |
A.typical | B.absolute | C.lucky | D.unbelievable |
A.schooling | B.job | C.dance | D.interest |
A.in time | B.on purpose | C.at risk | D.on earth |
A.made | B.gone | C.torn | D.stolen |
A.admitted | B.expected | C.proved | D.discovered |
A.gifts | B.achievements | C.savings | D.collections |
A.angry | B.voiceless | C.nervous | D.desperate |
A.for | B.toward | C.without | D.of |
Once upon a time, a young girl whose name was Lily, lived in a small village in the heart of a forest. She was known throughout the village for her kind heart. She spent her days helping her neighbors, taking care of the animals and exploring the forests.
One day, as she was walking through the forest, she came across a small, injured bird lying on the ground. Its wing was broken, and it looked up at her with painful eyes. Lily knew she had to help the bird, so she carefully picked it up and put it in her arms.
She took the bird back to her house and dealt with its wounds. She fed it and gave it water, and soon the bird was on the way to recovering (康复). As the days passed, Lily came to love the bird. But she knew it belonged to the forest, so she helped the bird fly back to the forest.
Another day, Lily happened to see a group of children playing a joke on a young boy for his height, and the boy seemed to cry. Seeing that, Lily realized she had to do something to help.
She walked to the group of children and asked them to stop laughing at the boy. They looked at her doubtfully, but Lily seriously told them that it wasn’t kind to make fun of others. Finally, the children listened to her. They stopped laughing at the boy and even apologized (道歉) to him. Lily smiled, feeling proud of herself for standing up for what was right.
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As the years went by, Lily continued to spread kindness throughout the village.
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___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3 . I remember the first day I saw her playing basketball. I watched in wonder as she ran circles around the other kids. She managed to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into the net. The boys always tried to stop her but no one could.
I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone, sometimes until dark. One day I asked her why she practiced so much. She looked directly in my eyes and without a moment of hesitation she said, “I want to go to college. The only way I can go is if I get a scholarship. I like basketball. I decided that if I were good enough, I would get a scholarship. I am going to play college basketball. I want to be the best. My daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count. Then she smiled and ran towards the court to repeat the routine I had seen her over and over again.
One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head cradled in her arms. I walked across the street and sat down in the cool grass beside her. Quietly, I asked what was wrong. “Oh, nothing,” came a soft reply, “I’m just too short.” The coach told her that because of her height she would probably never get to play for a top ranked team — much less offered a scholarship — so she should stop dreaming about college.
She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat tighten as I sensed her disappointment. I asked whether she had talked to her dad about it yet. She lifted her head from her hands and told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just didn’t understand the power of a dream. He told her that if she really wanted to play for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship, that nothing could stop her except one thing — her own attitude. He told her again, “if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”
The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college recruiter. She was indeed offered a full scholarship to a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) women’s basketball team. She was going to get the college education that she had dreamed of and worked toward for all those years.
It’s true: If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.
1. Which of the following is TRUE about the girl according to the passage?A.She sometimes played basketball alone because she had no friends. |
B.She believed that girls had to pay a bit more than boys to succeed. |
C.She played basketball so well that she could compete against some boys. |
D.She felt sad when her coach didn’t allow her to play for the college team. |
A.Because he thought her height was of little advantage. |
B.Because he thought her confidence in her ability had gone away. |
C.Because he thought she had been good enough to get a scholarship. |
D.Because he thought she couldn’t get along well with her teammates. |
A.Competitive. | B.Determined. | C.Demanding. | D.Humorous. |
A.Failure is the mother of success. |
B.Whoever wants to succeed must work hard. |
C.Only if you have a good result can you succeed. |
D.Follow your dream and you’ll make it sooner or later. |
4 . Xing Yifan and his parents were thrilled to learn that he had been admitted to Beihang University with a score of 645 out of a possible 750 points in this (2021) year’s national college entrance examination, or gaokao. It would take most high school graduates great effort to score that high.
But the challenge for 18-year-old Xing was greater, as he was born with congenital muscular dystrophy (营养不良), a group of disorders characterized by muscle weakness and problems with the eyes and central nervous system.
After the Spring Festival in 2004, the Xing couple took Yifan to Beijing for treatment, and he was finally diagnosed with CMD (先天性肌营养不良亚型) at Peking University First Hospital.
When relatives and friends heard the news,they advised the couple to have another baby, but they were determined to pour all their love and care into their son.
“Yifan is an angel who came to our family,” the father said. “He might have broken wings, but we will never give him up.”
The young man’s health continued to deteriorate (恶化). As a result of his condition,he is unable to grow much muscle, so his skeleton (骨骼) suffers from a lack of support and protection.
“He has never walked independently and can only sit against a support,” said Xing Dacheng.
“And every 30minutes,he has to lie down to rest,even in the classroom.”
The condition has also deformed Xing Yifan’s spine and fingers, making it difficult for him to write. “His teachers and principals from primary school to senior high school never refused him. The opportunity of education gave us lots of help,” his father added.
Hou Suyun, head teacher at Xing Yifan’s primary school,carried him up and down stairs during the six years he spent at the school.
Yang Weihong, head teacher at Xing Yifan’s junior high school, gave him extra care but subjected him to the same strict academic requirements as his classmates. “I tried everything I could to stimulate his desire to study, hoping to give him more confidence,” Yang said. “I also hoped he would discover his own sense of worth.”
Yang’s methods worked. Xing Yifan got the highest score in his school for the senior high school entrance examination in 2018.
1. Which word can take the place of the underlined word “thrilled” in Paragraph 1?A.Excited. | B.Relaxed. | C.Moved. | D.Astonished. |
A.In 2001. | B.In 2002. | C.In 2003. | D.In 2004. |
A.His parents never gave him up. |
B.He’s suffered a lot from sickness since his birth. |
C.His teachers helped him a lot. |
D.He studied harder than his classmates. |
A.Head teacher at Xing’s primary school. |
B.Kind and careful, like Xing’s mother. |
C.Responsible for Xing’s life at school. |
D.A strict teacher with wisdom and strategies. |
5 . There was a boy who was sent by his parents to a boarding school (寄宿学校)
But the boy changed after
His parents started
They sat on the bank of the lake near the school. The father started asking him some casual questions about his classes, teachers and
The boy answered back, “To
“No, no,” his dad replied. “I am here to tell you that you are the most
These words
Now the boy had
A.After | B.Before | C.When | D.While |
A.hardest | B.naughtiest | C.brightest | D.dullest |
A.exam | B.activity | C.game | D.class |
A.coming | B.returning | C.leaving | D.reaching |
A.rising | B.increasing | C.reducing | D.dropping |
A.group | B.term | C.company | D.party |
A.led to | B.felt like | C.thought back | D.looked for |
A.worthless | B.careless | C.concerned | D.annoyed |
A.caring | B.turning | C.worrying | D.speaking |
A.crazy | B.true | C.possible | D.wrong |
A.talk with | B.listen to | C.tell to | D.care about |
A.family | B.friends | C.study | D.grades |
A.realize | B.analyze | C.check | D.test |
A.outstanding | B.important | C.famous | D.familiar |
A.happy | B.excellent | C.interested | D.satisfied |
A.caused | B.wanted | C.encouraged | D.forced |
A.answered | B.ignored | C.hated | D.hugged |
A.nothing | B.something | C.everything | D.anything |
A.showed | B.meant | C.intended | D.expressed |
A.sad | B.angry | C.pleasant | D.joyful |
6 . On January 9, 2022, it was another cold morning. Temperatures reached lows of 17. 6 °F (-8℃). Dusti Talavera, a housewife in the south suburbs of Denver, was washing dishes in her kitchen when she witnessed a frightening scene outside her kitchen window. Glancing out her kitchen window, she noticed a group of young children playing on an icy pond. Moments later, the children fell through the ice.
Dusti’s heart raced as she saw the children fall through the ice, and she immediately grabbed her shoes to run outside. Submerged(淹没)in the freezing water, the children had lost the strength to stay above the surface. Their fingers were only visible as they desperately tried to grab onto the edges of the ice.
Without hesitation, Dusti placed her own life at risk by stepping on the thin, unstable ice to try to reach the three children. As she reached her hands out to grab them, she also broke the ice and fell into the 15-foot deep pond.
Dusti was first able to reach and pull out the 4-year-old girl and 11-year-old boy. She struggled to reach the last child, a 6-year-old girl. After hearing the loud screams for help, the young girl’s 16-year-old cousin suddenly arrived on scene. He threw Dusti a rope, which she used to drag herself and the young girl out of the water.
All three children were pulled out of the icy water as first responders arrived on scene. The 6-year-old girl was not breathing and had no pulse after being submerged in the icy water for two minutes. First responders performed life-saving CPR. Once the girl was able to breathe on her own, the EMTs (emergency medical technicians) rushed her to the hospital.
1. What did Dusti witness outside her kitchen window?A.The pond was frozen overnight. | B.Her children fell into the icy pond. |
C.A couple of kids were in danger. | D.Temperatures reached a new low. |
A.Generous. | B.Brave. |
C.Demanding. | D.Impatient. |
A.He cried out for help, | B.He called the EMTs. |
C.He performed CPR. | D.He got a rope to come to the rescue. |
A.Three children were found playing on the ice. |
B.A woman risked her life to save three children. |
C.EMTs did a great job at the moment of truth. |
D.Life-saving CPR got spread everywhere. |
7 . In a post on Love What Matters, Hanss Mujica, 24, explains how he surprised his family by announcing he’d be graduating from college.
Mujica says he wasn’t a hard-working student in high school, but was able to pass his classes. “ In high school, teachers are always on top of you to see if you turned in your work or if you read the assigned book,” Mujica writes on the post. But when he went to college, that wasn’t the case.
“Professors tell you the work that needs to get done and it is up to you to decide if you want to do it or not. After all you are the ones that are paying to be there. That, I believe, was my downfall as a college student. My behavior caused me to be suspended(被暂时停学)from the university.”
Mujica says that at that time, he had a 1.47 grade point average. “When my parents got the news, the looks on their faces completely broke my heart.”
Then Mujica explains how he got his schooling back on track: he went in with a different attitude, applied himself, and worked at a company to pay for school.
“Since I was suspended from the university, my federal aid was suspended as well. I was paying out of pocket and it got to the point where I had to get emergency loans(贷款) from the university. Summer 2015 came by and I could not pay back the loans so I was dropped from my fall 2015 courses. I got out another year from the university and in summer of 2016 I decided to work upstate(在州的乡野地区) to raise the money I needed.
Fortunately, with help from the university dance program and the money he earned at work, Mujica returned to school in fall 2016.
In 2018, Mujica was ready to graduate. He left his parents a letter and two tickets for graduation to surprise them with. “I spent six years in and out of the university but seeing the reactions on their faces was worth every sleepless night,”says Mujica.
1. What do we know about Mujica from the first two paragraphs?A.He couldn’t adapt to the college life. |
B.He used to be a good high school student. |
C.He has finally become a college graduate. |
D.He was sometimes ignored by his teachers. |
A.Too much pressure. | B.His wrong attitude. |
C.Bad scores at high school. | D.Lack of professors’ instruction. |
A.How he paid back the loans in 2015. |
B.Why he decided to refuse his federal aid. |
C.How he got emergency loans from the university. |
D.Why he was dropped from the university for another year. |
A.24-year-old finally wins his parents’ support. |
B.Six-year college life puts Mujica under pressure. |
C.College student surprises parents with the graduation. |
D.A moving story on Love What Matters attracts attention. |