1 . Nearly 20 years after
Carolyn, a single mother, shared that although she’d always been
It was sometimes difficult for Carolyn to
The mother and son supported one another and
| A．devoting | B．permitting | C．requesting | D．admitting |
| A．promised | B．intended | C．managed | D．attempted |
| A．motivated | B．urged | C．convinced | D．reminded |
| A．opposed | B．noticed | C．pictured | D．prevented |
| A．roll | B．access | C．realize | D．apply |
| A．broad | B．smooth | C．beneficial | D．aware |
| A．focus on | B．agree on | C．rely on | D．decide on |
| A．retire | B．resign | C．decline | D．quit |
| A．threats | B．conflicts | C．difficulties | D．mysteries |
| A．fear | B．support | C．belief | D．doubt |
| A．besides | B．eventually | C．therefore | D．however |
| A．surprise | B．beauty | C．ideal | D．inspiration |
| A．joyful | B．silent | C．fresh | D．bitter |
| A．behaving | B．moving | C．cheering | D．shinning |
| A．angle | B．track | C．pace | D．rule |
I was a shy 13-year-old boy that year, afraid to speak before people and poor at communicating with others. My parents were worried so they introduced a part-time job in a restaurant tome during the summer vacation, hoping it would make a difference to me. Although I hated it and didn’t believe it would bring any change to me, I had to accept it. The part-time job fell on Monday of each week.
On the first Monday, I simply dared not look at people in the restaurant. And when I was speaking with them, my face turned red and my voice was low. On my way back home, I felt so bad. But when I reached home, my bad feelings disappeared. I found my parents had brought home a pet cat, which I had expected to get for a long period of time. The cat was so lovely.
However, one Thursday, he secretly ran out and disappeared. We looked for him everywhere the whole day but found nothing. We lived in the city, close to a high-traffic road, and this cat didn’t have “street smarts”. I guessed he would probably die and wouldn’t be home again. And after three days of looking for the cat with no sign of him, I quite believed he wouldn’t be home again. My parents told me “A miracle (奇迹) may happen as long as you don’t give up.” However, I quite doubted it.
On the morning of the following Monday, I left for work 45 minutes earlier and started walking to the bus stop a block away. While waiting for the bus there, I thought about the work and felt upset. It wouldn’t be helpful to me and it was tiring! How much I wanted to quit the job! And thinking of the cat, I felt even worse.
Since it was still early, I suddenly wanted to spare some time to look for the cat again though I had little hope. I told myself, “If I still fail to find him this time, I won’t look for him again.” Then, I decided to walk to the next bus stop to look for him around. Minutes later, suddenly, a dirty and weak cat sitting by a tree caught my eye.
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My eyes widened, and I was surprised to find it was just our cat.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Encouraged, I rushed to the bus stop and decided not to give up the part-time job.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3 . In 2005, a sheepherder (牧羊人), Sanu Sherpa, in a remote village of Nepal’s eastern mountain region came to Kathmandu.
Sanu Sherpa had
The 47-year-old Sherpa has become the first climber in the world to
Sanu’s journey has its own
“A climbing Sherpa is a hero. That really
“I didn’t think I could stand on peaks again and again when I was a porter. So for people who admire others and feel
| A．dreamt | B．approved | C．heard | D．spoken |
| A．goal | B．task | C．right | D．chance |
| A．title | B．job | C．field | D．honour |
| A．hurriedly | B．anxiously | C．successfully | D．cautiously |
| A．stage | B．attempt | C．section | D．contest |
| A．appreciate | B．discover | C．observe | D．challenge |
| A．achieved | B．remembered | C．imagined | D．predicted |
| A．advantages | B．approaches | C．limitations | D．adventures |
| A．depressing | B．arguable | C．interesting | D．impressive |
| A．persuading | B．guiding | C．inviting | D．pushing |
| A．changes | B．improves | C．surprises | D．attracts |
| A．constantly | B．originally | C．occasionally | D．finally |
| A．doubtfully | B．reliably | C．firmly | D．faithfully |
| A．disappointed | B．regretful | C．impatient | D．unconfident |
| A．express | B．remove | C．share | D．control |
Peter woke up early in the morning. He went downstairs in a hurry and started to have his breakfast as quickly as possible.
“Why are you in such a hurry, early bird?” Mum asked him. “We will have an English spelling test today, Mum,” Peter said. “Mr. White promised to offer prizes to those who get 100 scores. I’ve been studying the word list since last week. Although the words are difficult, I am well prepared for them.”
Peter reviewed the spelling of each word once more carefully when Dad drove him to school. At last, it was time for the students to have a test. “Responsibility,” Mr. White started. Peter wrote it on his test paper quickly and confidently.
“The second word: contribution,” Mr. White said.
“So easy,” Peter thought. He quickly wrote the word down.
Thirty words later, the test papers were collected by Mr. White. “I am to mark your papers now,” he told the class. After marking the test papers, Mr. White said, “Three of you won a prize today for excellent test scores. Peter, David and Mary got full marks on the spelling test!”
Mr. White praised them. Meanwhile, he gave the three students each a dictionary. Peter’s was an English-Chinese dictionary—the one he liked best. Peter was so excited that he held it high when his classmates cheered. “This is my happiest moment,” Peter thought.
After Mr. White gave the test paper back, Peter had a look at the words, feeling proud of his spelling. All of a sudden, the word “contribusion” confused him. It didn’t seem right. Peter began to compare them after taking out the word list. “C-O-N-T-R-I-B-U-S-I-O-N,” he whispered. He spelled it wrong.
“What am I to do?” Peter said to himself. “I expect my classmates to think I’m a master at spelling. If I tell Mr. White one of my spelling words is wrong, I’ll have to give my prize back, or I will become an example for telling a lie.”
Staring at the full marks written on his test paper, Peter was lost in thought. After a while, he remembered a lesson Mum used to teach him, “We ought to be an honest person.”
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Peter looked around.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5 . My teacher held up a piece of broken glass and asked, “Who broke this window?”
Thirty boys tried to think about not only what they had done, but also what the teacher might have found out. She seldom became angry, but she was this time.
“Oh,” I thought. I was the one who broke the window. It was caused by a naughty throw of a baseball. If I admitted guilt, I would be in a lot of trouble. How would I be able to pay for a big window like that? I didn’t even get an allowance. “My father is going to have a fit as a result of it,” I thought. I didn’t want to raise my hand, but some force much stronger than I was pulled it skyward (朝向天空). I told the truth, “I did it.” It was hard enough to say what I had done.
My teacher took down a book from one of our library shelves and I had never known my teacher to strike a student, but I feared she was going to start with me.
“I know how much you like birds,” she said as she stood looking down at my guilt-ridden face. “Here is the field guide about birds that you are constantly checking out. It is yours now. It’s time we got a new one for the school anyway. You will not be punished, but remember that I am not rewarding you for your misdeed (恶行), but I am rewarding you for your truthfulness.”
I couldn’t believe it! I wasn’t being punished and I was getting my own bird field guide — the very one that I had been saving up money to buy.
The lesson my teacher taught me stays with me every day, and it will echo forever.
1. From the story, we can learn that the boy .| A．didn’t break the window on purpose |
| B．lacked the courage to admit his guilt |
| C．tried to think about what he had done |
| D．didn’t know what the teacher had found out |
| A．be punished by the teacher |
| B．make his father angry |
| C．pay for the broken window |
| D．get a bird field guide |
| A．Afraid—Surprised—Thankful. |
| B．Frightened—Amazed—Proud. |
| C．Regretful—Guilty—Excited. |
| D．Nervous—Afraid—Satisfied. |
| A．Every coin has two sides. |
| B．Honesty is always valued. |
| C．Bad luck never comes alone. |
| D．You can’t be too careful. |
6 . A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her, and she did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose.
Her father, a cook, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In one he placed carrots, in the second he placed eggs, and in the last he placed ground coffee beans. He let them sit and boil, without saying a word.
The daughter impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. In about twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them on a plate. Then he ladled the coffee out and placed it in a glass. Turning to her, he asked, “Darling, what do you see?” “Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she replied.
He brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to taste the coffee. She smiled, as she tasted it.
“What does it mean, father?” she asked. He explained that each of them had faced the same adversity, boiling water, but each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong end hard. But after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they changed the water.
“Which are you?” he asked his daughter. When adversity knocks on your door in your life, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?
1. What can be known from the first paragraph?| A．She found her life full of difficulties and she could do nothing about them. |
| B．They were very poor and the daughter complained about it. |
| C．She was fighting and struggling with her classmates so she was not satisfied. |
| D．The daughter complained about her food. |
| A．The carrot was hard as it had been. | B．The egg became soft and fragile. |
| C．There was a different change in every pot. | D．Similar changes happened in the three |
| A．Temperature | B．difficulty | C．Requirement | D．attitude |
| A．that it is natural for people to complain about their difficulties in life |
| B．that a father taught her daughter how to cook at home |
| C．how carrots, eggs and coffee beans change when they are cooked |
| D．what we should do when facing difficulties |
Milo is a rescue dog, adopted by twenty-year-old Mary Swift. But the dog is also a rescuer.
One morning in November 2021, Swift was ready to go jogging as usual, with Milo following her happily. To her surprise, as soon as she opened the front door, Milo took off running towards the gate quickly. It was very unusual. He always ran after his master.
Outside the gate, Milo was looking around the neighborhood, looking a little alert. Suddenly, he ran straightly to the house across the street, barking loudly and sniffing around. He seemed unsatisfied with this house. He quickly ran to the one next door. He stopped there and turned to Swift, barking more loudly, with his tail swinging crazily. Swift followed him, shouting sharply “Stop, Milo!” Some passing neighbors were looking disapprovingly (不满地) at them.
Swift was kind of embarrassed. Not everyone wanted a strange dog on their property and liked hearing a dog’s barks in the quiet morning. She tried to get Milo to go back, but Milo seemed not to follow the master’s order. He started to scratch on the front door. Swift wondered, “Why is he trying to break into the house?” She looked at the house, which belonged to Sherry Starr, who was 85 years old and seldom walked out of her house. It was the time for her to trim her bushes in the garden. Somehow, she wasn’t there that day.
Although Swift was a little doubtful, she still tried to drag Milo away. But at this time she could hear a sound coming through an open upstairs window.
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It was a voice yelling “Help”.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________The story started when the Marches were driving home on a cold winter evening.
It was almost 11:00 pm. They were waiting at a red traffic light when they spotted a middle-aged man walking across the road. He dragged his leg, wrapped up his overcoat and hurried by, looking tired and depressed.
The couple felt a need to give him a hand. Then they pulled over and offered him a lift. The man felt surprised at first but soon he accepted their offer and showed his appreciation.
On the way home, they had a chat. They learned the man called Bill was a security guard of a company, which was on the other side of the city. Every day it would take him about 3 hours to travel there by public transportation and the same time back home. The long trip left him only time for work and sleep. Sometimes if he missed the last bus, just as that day, he would have no time to sleep. He had had a car, but because of several hardships in his family, he had to sell it for money.
The Marches didn’t return until they sent Bill to his home. That might have been the end of the story, but they couldn’t take Bill’s 6-hour daily trip and his hardship off their minds. His experience reminded the couple of their own previous struggles in their early life. Short of money, they counted every coin to cover the cost. In order to support life, they walked to the office in the distance, despite hot or cold. Hopelessness and disappointment clouded their life. This time, they thought the trip with Bill wasn’t over.
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The Marches thought of ways to raise money.
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Then they handed the keys of the car to Bill.
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9 . David Durow, 80, a retired former head teacher, needed to adapt to a new way of life after his wife’s death. Durow was hit not only by sadness, but also a sense of the part he had played in his marriage and in society. “Suddenly, I had to think about cooking, cleaning and washing,” he says.
Facing the single life made him realise that he had been “locked” in “a male-dominated society”. “So I started to turn my life upside down and inside out with basically life-changing values. I’d mostly been a common male, leaving for work at 7am and getting home at 7pm, expecting a prepared meal.” It was a shock to realise that, from Monday to Friday, he had “spent more time with co-workers than with my wife and children”.
“What’s frightening is that it’s only happening in the latter part of my life. Where have I been for the last 75 years?” Durow has been devoted to extracurricular activities, from setting up youth groups for children with disabilities to opening a residential home for the cross-generational. He was buried in works by Elizabeth Strout, Sarah Waters and Rebecca Solnit’s article Men Explain Things to Me. Sometimes, he would wake at 3am,get up and write poems with the words he had read in head, which threw light on him, “How I was sorry for thinking that women didn’t know.”
Durow met Jean by online dating. He shared his new thinking with her. “I don’t think she would have ever considered becoming my partner without it. They both cook; Durow does the cleaning. They have joined a book group, where Durow is the only man. He tries to avoid “taking over”, a habit in him after years of lecturing. Sometimes, when a rider disparages(轻视)a female driver, Durow will hear himself say, “Don’t you make the same kind of errors?”
The journey of re-considering his role in relationships has helped him have a fresh understanding of what it is to be a man.
1. What can happen in a “male-dominated society”?| A．Men live with life-changing values. |
| B．Men spend most of their time with family. |
| C．Women do most of the housework. |
| D．Women go out to work. |
| A．Durow was devoted to volunteering. |
| B．Durow liked reading classics on poems. |
| C．Durow felt upset about the latter part of his life. |
| D．Durow began to change his understanding of women. |
| A．He used to join book groups. |
| B．He plays a key part in lecturing. |
| C．He stops others making the same error. |
| D．He took on more family responsibilities. |
| A．Life and Society. | B．Sports and Health, |
| C．Literature and Art. | D．Education and Culture. |
10 . The trainers in my gym are mainly students, working alongside their studies at the local sport and health university, so most of them are
Being one of their regular
But today my trainer told me that he had a
She had quite a long commute (通勤) and we
So today I learned that she
| A．obviously | B．specifically | C．fairly | D．likely |
| A．customers | B．trainers | C．owners | D．employees |
| A．listened | B．talked | C．mastered | D．sensed |
| A．mistakes | B．decisions | C．changes | D．suggestions |
| A．worked | B．mattered | C．continued | D．solved |
| A．notice | B．note | C．letter | D．word |
| A．requested | B．asked | C．commented | D．debated |
| A．amazed | B．annoyed | C．confused | D．frightened |
| A．destroying | B．establishing | C．ruining | D．preserving |
| A．finished | B．accepted | C．agreed | D．quit |
| A．shorter | B．longer | C．farther | D．better |
| A．gave | B．sent | C．left | D．passed |
| A．making sure | B．making up | C．making up of | D．making out |
| A．vocabulary | B．sentences | C．phrases | D．words |
| A．happiness | B．day | C．moment | D．time |
