1 . Many years ago I lived in New York City. One Sunday morning I decided to
Forty years later, both my parents now passed away; I decided to
They were
Kindness
| A．find | B．visit | C．contact | D．protect |
| A．broke down | B．showed up | C．pulled away | D．took off |
| A．promised | B．happened | C．refused | D．stopped |
| A．met | B．cheered | C．chatted | D．passed |
| A．shared | B．heard | C．thought | D．imagined |
| A．gifts | B．cards | C．ideas | D．messages |
| A．situation | B．patience | C．courage | D．kindness |
| A．clean | B．sell | C．decorate | D．repair |
| A．mentioned | B．considered | C．remembered | D．informed |
| A．Undoubtedly | B．Suddenly | C．Frankly | D．Unluckily |
| A．but | B．because | C．since | D．unless |
| A．town | B．program | C．business | D．industry |
| A．brave | B．happy | C．nervous | D．worried |
| A．friend | B．stranger | C．competitor | D．customer |
| A．matters | B．changes | C．continues | D．disappears |
2 . My faith in human nature has never been so great as it was last weekend after our family get-together in the town of Vail.
On Saturday, we all went to the market right in the middle of the town. Near the end, we all
After we returned to the hotel late in the afternoon, my 7-year-old son Ponder
Ponder has never lost anything. So we just take for granted that he needs no guidance on managing his
He was upset, not about the Gameboy, but about the watch. “But Dad,” he said, through massive
Our dinner reservation was at a restaurant just on the other side of the bridge, so I
As we exited from the parking garage, we could see the fountain as we walked down the long staircase. I saw something black
“See it, Dad?” Ponder shouted. “Don’t get too excited because that may not be it,” I said. But that was it. It had been five or six hours since we left the fountain, and it was still there. There was no ID in it, and it looked like someone had looked through it and then set it right out where all could
I literally
What a charmed life, eh? I believe this was a perfect lesson for a child in losing something important. . . lose it and feel the full
| A．drove | B．hiked | C．met | D．united |
| A．landed | B．left | C．settled | D．slept |
| A．responded | B．recognized | C．realised | D．recalled |
| A．contained | B．combined | C．comprised | D．covered |
| A．preparation | B．checkup | C．revision | D．search |
| A．emotion | B．time | C．money | D．stuff |
| A．tears | B．fists | C．reliefs | D．outbreaks |
| A．promised | B．informed | C．warned | D．taught |
| A．worm out | B．caught up | C．put away | D．turned in |
| A．hiding | B．sitting | C．swinging | D．flowing |
| A．assess | B．declare | C．tell | D．predict |
| A．take | B．see | C．touch | D．protect |
| A．panicked | B．exploded | C．collapsed | D．cried |
| A．dreams | B．claims | C．efforts | D．passions |
| A．range | B．pressure | C．weight | D．harvest |
In our weekly staff meeting, our editor Ashley was not pleased with the quality of our reporting. “Our readership is way down. We need better stories for this Thursday’s school newspaper. Does anybody have any ideas?” she said.
I handed her my article about our basketball team beating Deerfield High School the previous night by one point. “Sports stories are fun,” she said, “but not good enough for the front page. We need something to really get people ‘s attention.”
After our meeting, we left the newsroom together and heard someone screaming, “Perry is missing!” Perry was a big red parrot and had been our school mascot (吉祥物) for ten years. He played an important role in students’ lives, both in and out of class. He had also been a constant presence at school events, inspiring a sense of unity among students.
Everyone gathered around Perry’s empty cage, heartbroken. Suddenly, a student from the crowd came over and showed me a photo. “You’re a reporter for the school paper, right? I happened to take this yesterday,” he said. In the photo was a Deerfield High School basketball player with something large hidden under his shirt around the size of a parrot.
“He must have stolen Perry to get back at us for winning the game!” Ashley cried. We hurried back to the newsroom, agreeing to run the photo on the front page with the headline “Deerfeld Stole Perry.” “This is just the story we need. Everyone will read it,” Ashley said confidently.
After she left, I took a closer look at the photo. The clock in the background read 4:15 pm, but our game against Deerfield hadn’t started until 4:30 pm. Why would the boy have taken Perry before we even played? An uneasy feeling came over me that we might have falsely accused someone.
I went to Perry’s usual caretaker to ask if he knew Perry was missing. ”He’s not missing. He’s retired. He’s ready for some quieter days,“ he said. Learning the truth, I immediately told Ashley and suggested writing a story to say goodbye to Perry.
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To my surprise, Ashley insisted on reporting the “Deerfield Stole Perry” story.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________On Thursday, the paper came out with the headline “Bye-Bye, Perry” on the front page.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________I was visiting my sister Mary, who has two boys, aged seven and five. They were throwing a ball around the living room. She asked them several times to stop, but they didn’t listen to her. Finally, one of the boys threw the ball and knocked over a lamp. She shouted loudly at them for several times. Then, she sent them to their room. She looked at me and said, “They never listen to me.”
Carmen
Dear Carmen,
Your sister needs to be clear to her children what behaviour she expects. She should tell her boys, “Don’t throw the ball in the house. If you throw the ball again, I’m going to take it.” Then she needs to do what she says. Her boys will soon learn to listen to her.
Dr. Bob
Dear Dr. Bob,
I walked into my two-year-old daughter’s bedroom and found her coloring on the wall again with her crayons. I told her, “No! No! Never write on the wall with your crayons. You can only write on paper.” My husband thinks I was too easy on her and that she needed a punishment. What’s your opinion?
Debbie
Dear Debbie,
You dealt with the situation well. Children this age are too little to understand the relationship between their actions and a punishment. Use this as a warning; it’s time to babyproof your home. Now that your little one is more active and curious, what else can she reach? Check her room and your home for crayons, paints, medicines, cleaning products, and other things that might interest her.
Dr. Bob
1. What was wrong with Mary’s children?| A．They threw a ball at Carmen. |
| B．They turned a deaf ear to her words. |
| C．They had a fight over a ball. |
| D．They often shouted loudly at her. |
| A．giving your baby a punishment |
| B．getting crayons out of your home |
| C．making your home safe for babies |
| D．teaching your baby to behave well |
| A．ask their children to follow rules |
| B．stop their children from telling lies |
| C．get their children to go to bed on time |
| D．develop their children’s interest in reading |
5 . Young boys often dream of superpowers to solve their problems. “If I could just click my fingers, my homework would be done,” many have imagined. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster put their ideas down on paper.
It was 1933, and while the country was in the throes of the Great Depression, Cleveland was thriving. Jerry and Joe, growing up in a middle-class neighborhood, became friends on the high school. They escaped potentially embarrassing encounters by becoming crazy about comics.
Joe was the artist and drew all the time, using bits of any kind of paper he could find. He hung out at newsstands poring over magazines, especially Amazing Stories, and then recreated them at home with a pencil or pen. Jerry was the storyteller and the more ambitious of the two. He describes how the creation of Superman came to him in the middle of a sleepless summer night: I hop out of bed and write this down, and then I go back and think some more for about two hours, then get up again and write that down. The inspiration for Superman’s origin story started taking shape, and the next morning, I ran to Joe’s place and showed it to him, we just sat down, and I worked straight through.
As is often the case, when we experience something traumatic in life, we deal with the feelings through creative expression. Jerry’s father had owned a store and died during a robbery. A young child might process that experience by wishing something could have prevented it. For Jerry, out came the Man of Steel, who had superpowers and bravery to protect innocent people. Creating storylines must have helped Jerry with the grieving process.
The story of Superman has inspired kids for generations. It has calmed their fears and driven their dreams. Most importantly, the Man of Steel has inspired us all to find our superpowers and use them to help others.
1. What happened to Jerry and Joe during the Great Depression?| A．They were forced to quit school. | B．They became addicted to comics. |
| C．They went broke and lost their jobs. | D．They moved to Cleveland with friends. |
| A．Jerry was much more talented. | B．They co-created the Superman. |
| C．Joe was better at telling stories. | D．They produced their own magazine. |
| A．Painful. | B．Strange. | C．Wonderful. | D．Adventurous. |
| A．A Lifelong Friendship | B．The Best Comics Ever |
| C．The Birth of Superman | D．A Little Boy’s Last Wish |
6 . A 23-year-old woman has achieved an unbelievable feat that many of us dream of — visiting every country on Earth.
Lexie Alford was born into a family of travel agents, which gave her the opportunity to
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“I also loved visiting Northern Pakistan, for the natural beauty of the mountains and kindness of the locals were astonishing,” Lexie Alford said. “The most pleasant surprise about travelling to all these misunderstood areas of the world was that the countries that I had the
“My
| A．remark | B．settle | C．tour | D．love |
| A．fund | B．quit | C．deliver | D．register |
| A．powerful | B．ideal | C．developed | D．remaining |
| A．ranked | B．mastered | C．followed | D．criticized |
| A．inspire | B．admire | C．understand | D．accompany |
| A．Occasionally | B．Honestly | C．Completely | D．Temporarily |
| A．dream | B．content | C．family | D．growth |
| A．platform | B．agency | C．process | D．country |
| A．frightening | B．official | C．advanced | D．challenging |
| A．adult | B．youth | C．bosses | D．agents |
| A．most | B．least | C．greatest | D．worst |
| A．started with | B．showed off | C．ended up | D．searched for |
| A．advice | B．compromise | C．belief | D．information |
| A．put | B．save | C．find | D．make |
| A．honor | B．career | C．time | D．money |
Once upon a time, there lived a poor but cheerful shoemaker. He was so happy that he sang all day long. The children loved to stand around his window to listen to him.
Next door to the shoemaker lived a rich man. He used to sit up all night to count his gold. In the morning, he went to bed, but he could not sleep because of the sound of the shoemaker’s singing. One day, he thought of a way to stop the singing. He wrote a letter to the shoemaker inviting him over for a cup of tea.
The shoemaker came at once, and to his great surprise, the rich man gave him a bag of gold as a gift. The shoemaker took the bag and thanked the rich man. When he returned home, the shoemaker couldn’t wait to open the bag. He had never seen so much gold in his life! He sat down at his bench and began, carefully, to count it. The children watched through the window.
There was so much there that the shoemaker was afraid to let it out of his sight. So he took it to bed with him. But he could not sleep for worrying about it. So he got out of bed and went to hide it in the attic (阁楼), but he was not sure if that was a good place.
Very early in the morning, he got up and brought his gold down from the attic. He had decided to hide it up the chimney (烟囱) instead. But after breakfast, he thought it would be safer in the chicken house. So he hid it there. But he was still uneasy, and in a little while he dug a hole in the garden and buried his bag of gold in it.
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He was in no mood for singing and found it difficult to focus on his work.
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At last the shoemaker felt so unhappy that he took his bag of gold and ran next door to the rich man.
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Sports are more than competitions.I used to be very shy and often felt lonely. Although I did well in all the academic subjects, I was afraid of physical education. Even kids in the neighborhood would laugh at me. “Look at that girl,” they said. “Her feet don’t leave the ground when she runs!” Their words embarrassed me. At school, whenever the teacher organized some competitive games, no one in the class would choose me as their partner or team member. As a result, I often ended up looking at others enjoy their games.
Things would go on like that if not for a sports meet in my high school. By mistake, my name was put on the list of those who would compete in the women’s 1500 meters race. By the time people found the mistake, it was too late to change.
My deskmate, Mary, was a natural athlete. She said to me, “I couldn’t run that race in your place, because I have signed up for three items already.” I nearly broke down. 1500 meters! Running against the best runners in front of the whole school! It would be the worst nightmare I’d ever have!
“You still have time to catch up because there is still one month before the sports meet,” Mary patted me on the shoulder, “That is cool! You will run for our class! And we will do training together.” Yes, this is not just for myself, but for my class. But still, 1500 meters to me was like Mount Everest (珠穆朗玛峰) to a beginning climber. I had no idea even how to start my preparation.
Mary invited me to join in their training. Every afternoon after class, several of us ran together. When the fear of being laughed at flooded over me, I saw others running right beside or stand by the tracks cheering for us. They gave me strengths.
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Before I could realize how fast one month went by, I was standing behind the start line of the sports meet.
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As expected, I was almost the last to cross the finish line.
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9 . “Is this all? Where arc the rest of the presents? ”asked my twelve-year-old daughter, Allison, and Blake, one year older than his sister.
Money was“Next year we will celebrate Christmas in a whole new way!” I announced,
As Christmas
On Christmas Eve, we reached the house of the family and were welcomed with smiles and homemade bread. We accepted the
The parents let their children put the
When saying goodbye to the family, I could tell our visit had
The way home was quiet. On arriving, Allison and Blake turned to me, “Thanks, Mom.”
| A．tight | B．loose | C．enough | D．available |
| A．case | B．view | C．reason | D．problem |
| A．moved | B．delighted | C．embarrassed | D．determined |
| A．Months | B．Years | C．Ages | D．Decades |
| A．referred | B．arranged | C．promoted | D．contacted |
| A．addicted | B．separated | C．forgotten | D．unemployed |
| A．set | B．drew | C．mounted | D．scheduled |
| A．amazed | B．excited | C．confused | D．frightened |
| A．last | B．escape | C．survive | D．congratulate |
| A．treat | B．effort | C．request | D．accommodation |
| A．toys | B．lists | C．snacks | D．packages |
| A．Strangely | B．Gradually | C．Generally | D．Extremely |
| A．struck | B．unified | C．shocked | D．identified |
| A．Event | B．Point | C．Mission | D．Challenge |
| A．lost | B．buried | C．trapped | D．hidden |
10 . Tiny New neighbors
One day in 2022, 72-year-old Don Powell was pulling
Don
But a few days later, the small couple did not
Now, Mary and Shelley are still living in the
Don says he now doesn’t want to know who is
| A．emails | B．envelopes | C．food | D．dolls |
| A．unusual | B．horrible | C．meaningful | D．normal |
| A．finally | B．fortunately | C．honestly | D．originally |
| A．in advance | B．with effort | C．by mistake | D．by design |
| A．measures | B．equals | C．builds | D．fits |
| A．wind | B．sand | C．light | D．rain |
| A．melt | B．upgrade | C．disappear | D．respond |
| A．showed off | B．showed through | C．showed around | D．showed up |
| A．tree | B．basket | C．book | D．flower |
| A．mailbox | B．village | C．house | D．neighborhood |
| A．styles | B．updates | C．advice | D．targets |
| A．created. | B．hung | C．placed | D．deserted |
| A．building | B．nest | C．settlement | D．home |
| A．charged | B．responsible | C．fit | D．eager |
| A．end | B．repeat | C．continue | D．suffer |
