1 . As online schooling took effect in the US, parents noted many children lacked learning space at home. So, they got
In Mitch Couch’s home in California, his daughter and son kept
“I spent only $20—significantly less than what stores charge for desks that are suddenly in
A grocery store saw Couch’s
Couch says the messages of
| A．upset | B．busy | C．nervous | D．careful |
| A．enabling | B．appointing | C．providing | D．easing |
| A．leaving behind | B．putting out | C．taking up | D．moving around |
| A．opportunity | B．approach | C．option | D．inspiration |
| A．inexpensive | B．uncommon | C．sufficient | D．recyclable |
| A．met the standard | B．set an example | C．take effect | D．made a bet |
| A．share | B．store | C．illustrate | D．use |
| A．favour | B．question | C．sight | D．demand |
| A．attract | B．guide | C．convince | D．remind |
| A．achievements | B．donations | C．children | D．appeals |
| A．thanked | B．informed | C．organized | D．contacted |
| A．sought | B．increased | C．decreased | D．permitted |
| A．practiced | B．devoted | C．proud | D．prepared |
| A．encouragement | B．concern | C．appreciation | D．trust |
| A．expecting | B．understanding | C．focusing | D．exploring |
2 . Every time I reach for a book at Rydal Mount, I feel I should ask William Wordsworth’s permission. It’s 9 pm on a Friday night in March, and I’m about to spend a night in the former home of the poet—the first journalist to do so. I’ve said goodnight to the young curator(馆长) Leo Finighan. And now it’s just me and one of the most influential writers, alone together in his library.
On and off from 1813 to 1850, he was here, receiving visitors and editing his work. I can’t help feeling his spirit is still around.
“This is still, in part, a family house and we’re probably not as precious about it as we should be,” Chris Andrew had told me. He is Wordsworth’s great-great-great-great-grandson and the main promoter of a plan to open Rydal Mount to overnight guests for the first time. “But we prefer it this way,” he added. “It preserves the closeness to the poet. We can offer a more personal connection as a result.”
As I take a copy of his complete works back to my chair, they all seem to be gathering round. Here comes the poet. He’s back from the garden, where he would pace the path, composing lines. Upstairs Dorothy, his sister, is unwell. It’s an extraordinary feeling, as though at any moment I’m going to hear someone’s voice. By 9:30 pm, I’m in bed. I have a sound sleep in the best bedroom in the house. It’s the one that Wordsworth and his wife Mary used.
Before I have to go the next morning, there’s still time for a poem and I choose The Tables Turned from Lyrical Ballads. It begins with “Up! up! my friend, and quit your books” and I can’t help smiling at the volumes in front of me. It feels like he’s talking directly to me. Not surprising, really, given the fact I’m sitting in his bedroom.
1. Why does the author head for Rydal Mount?| A．To visit his friend Leo Finighan. |
| B．To report an annual event as a journalist. |
| C．To show admiration for Wordsworth. |
| D．To attend a conference for influential writers. |
| A．Objective. | B．Favourable. | C．Doubtful. | D．Disapproving. |
| A．He paces the path in Wordsworth’s garden. |
| B．He sleeps in Wordsworth and Mary’s bedroom. |
| C．He chats with Wordsworth’s sister upstairs. |
| D．He copies Wordsworth’s poems. |
| A．Sounds. | B．His works. | C．Guests. | D．His family. |
| A．He feels as if Wordsworth were on the scene. |
| B．He feels surprised at Wordsworth’s humour. |
| C．He feels as if Wordsworth were enthusiastic about talking. |
| D．He feels Wordsworth might have been too particular about words. |
3 . Fatima has been the only woman working as a tour guide in Afghanistan (阿富汗). She grew up in rural Gohr Province, where there was no schooling available to girls. But she insisted on listening to BBC radio, which she could
“My sisters were forced to get married. I decided that I would not continue ind their
She joined Facebook groups for history fans.
Of course, being a
Fatima says that the
| A．take up | B．pick up | C．turn up | D．build up |
| A．life | B．choice | C．tradition | D．business |
| A．work | B．live | C．study | D．travel |
| A．Afraid | B．Delighted | C．Certain | D．Tired |
| A．posts | B．letters | C．novels | D．speeches |
| A．responses | B．donation | C．lessons | D．guidance |
| A．teaching | B．settling | C．travelling | D．serving |
| A．similarly | B．obviously | C．hopefully | D．eventually |
| A．promoted | B．instructed | C．hired | D．trained |
| A．intelligent | B．devoted | C．efficient | D．professional |
| A．researcher | B．pioneer | C．specialist | D．celebrity |
| A．definitely | B．especially | C．actually | D．regularly |
| A．support | B．patience | C．protection | D．contribution |
| A．which | B．who | C．why | D．what |
| A．win | B．survive | C．start | D．quit |
Jane was a busy mom. One cold winter day, after her husband left for work, she decided to spare some time to go shopping. She drove to a store, with her son, a little baby, sitting beside her.
On parking her car, she took her little son and rushed into the store. When picking groceries, she found her son quite wanted to have a sleep. She decided to quicken her speed of shopping and then return to her car to put her son on the comfortable car seat so he could easily fall asleep.
So she quickly finished selecting groceries. Then she carried them and her baby and rushed towards her car. When she stepped forward to open the car door, she was shocked to find that her keys were gone. After minutes of checking around, she realized she had locked them inside the car with her bag.
She wasn’t sure what to do. So she carried her son and went back inside the store. She had to use their phone to call her husband for the spare key because her phone was in the bag she had left in the car. After many calls with no answer, she was getting very anxious. Her son was tired. But unable to fall asleep, he got very impatient and nervous. Jane herself was tired from last night’s sleepless night.
Now looking at her impatient baby, Jane felt sad. Suddenly, her baby burst out crying, and she felt tears coming down her face, too. Just then, an employee at the store tapped Jane on the shoulder and asked her to come with her, Jane was embarrassed, thinking she was going to be blamed by this employee. The employee took her, to her surprise, to the cafe inside the store. Then, she asked Jane kindly if she’d like a cup of coffee.
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Still surprised, Jane nodded.
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When she got back home, Jane decided to do something to thank the employee.
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5 . Here’s what happens when one mom is determined to make every child feel some birthday joy. In 2008, pregnant Paige was looking for
Influenced by Paige, her daughter, now seven, often
| A．exhibition | B．reason | C．inspiration | D．fund |
| A．grew | B．faded | C．arose | D．stayed |
| A．image | B．excitement | C．joy | D．children |
| A．injured | B．disabled | C．hopeless | D．homeless |
| A．Normally | B．Finally | C．Generally | D．Directly |
| A．decision | B．difference | C．choice | D．request |
| A．prepared | B．remembered | C．celebrated | D．described |
| A．hosting | B．missing | C．organizing | D．attending |
| A．turned out | B．ran out | C．broke out | D．got out |
| A．competing | B．agreeing | C．arguing | D．working |
| A．make | B．dream | C．talk | D．win |
| A．duty | B．happiness | C．achievement | D．direction |
| A．owns | B．experiences | C．deserves | D．throws |
| A．helps out | B．dresses up | C．shows off | D．runs about |
| A．generous | B．brave | C．innocent | D．creative |
6 . We were standing at the top of a church tower. I saw twisting streets leading to the square. “See, my dear,” Father said gently. “There is more than one way to the square.”
Father’s words always guided me. Dreaming of becoming a fashion designer, I came to Paris, but without luck. Then one day I met a friend wearing a beautiful sweater. “What an interesting stitch!” I cried. “It was done by Mrs. Vidian,” my friend explained. “She learned the stitch in Armenia, her native country.” Suddenly I had a daring idea. Why not design, make and sell my own clothes?
I drew a butterfly pattern and asked Mrs. Vidian to knit it into a sweater. It proved a success. A New York store wanted 40 sweaters to be ready in two weeks. I accepted the order. My happiness disappeared, however, when Mrs. Vidian told me it took her almost a week to knit one sweater.
I was crushed. Then I remembered father’s words. There must be other Armenian women in Paris who mastered the special stitch. Then I searched for any Armenians living in Paris. At last I tracked down several. Two weeks later, the first shipment was on its way to the United States!
From that day on orders poured in. Then came another test. As I was busy getting ready to show my winter fashions, the sewing girls were called out on strike. Where was the way out this time? I wondered and worried. Then it dawned on me.
I worked hurriedly. And right on time, my show took place. Some coats had no sleeves; some were only patterns made of heavy cotton cloth, but on these I attached material to show what colors and textures the clothes would have when they were finished. What a show! Once again father’s words helped me.
1. What problem did the writer face after accepting the order?| A．It was impossible for Vidian to meet the deadline. | B．The sewing girls were called out on strike. |
| C．She found it hard to track Armenians living in Paris. | D．There was a shortage of suitable cloth. |
| A．Raw materials. | B．More orders. | C．The forty sweaters. | D．The special stitch. |
| A．She put off the show. | B．She showed the clothes unfinished. |
| C．She employed more sewing girls. | D．She completed the clothes in a hurry. |
| A．Practice makes perfect. | B．Like father, like son. |
| C．Easier said than done. | D．All roads lead to Rome. |
Sometimes when you are a kid, it is easy to feel pretty helpless. Indeed, if you stop and think about it, there are so many things that you can’t do. You can’t play sports as well as your football or basketball heroes. You can’t do some of the stunts (特技动作) that other kids do at the skate park. Sometimes it is hard to see that you even have the potential to develop any of these abilities. What you want to achieve may seem such a long way in the future that it feels you will never reach it.
Well, I once beard an inspiring story—a true story, I believe—about a boy named Trevor. It shows there are little things kids can do that make a big difference. One night Trevor was doing what a lot of other 13-year-old kids would be doing: He was watching TV. On the news he saw a story about some homeless people sleeping out in the cold on the streets, in a downtown area of Philadelphia where he lived. Trevor had never really stopped to think how fortunate he was to live in a fairly well-to-do suburb(郊区) of the same city. The story of the homeless people touched his heart and he began to wonder what he could do to help these people.
It might have been easy for Trevor to forget about it. There are so many sad stories that you see on TV at times. This could have been just another that he ignored.
Trevor also might have thought, “Well, what can I do about it? I’m just a kid’‘, but he didn’t. Instead he began to wonder how he might help and that led him to remember there were some spare, unused blankets in their garage.
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So he went to his father and asked whether he could take the blankets to the homeless down town for the night.
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To collect more blankets, the next day Trevor went to some public places where there were notice boards.
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One day, Henry,
9 . Despite the fact that motherhood has not been easy, Maxi Aubi believes that her son, Gianluca, has taught her much.
Gianluca was born 13 years ago with Angelman Syndrome (天使综合症), a genetic disease. Maxi was never afraid about the fact that she did not know what this condition was about. She had to get out there and face the music. “When he was a newborn baby, he used to cry all day long. He wouldn’t eat or sleep. It was an endless cycle. We ran some tests and doctors told us his progress depended on us. But it was clear that something was wrong with him. So we visited several doctors and ran some other tests until he was five,” she explains.
Despite all of this, Maxi designed a treatment plan for Gianluca. It did not matter what he was suffering from; she believed love was the “medicine” that could cure him. She formed a group of ten people of different ages outside her family who were willing to help Gianluca’s development. These people would come to her house in shifts from 9 AM to 7 PM with only one goal: to show Gianluca that he could achieve whatever he wanted. “We started encouraging him with games. During those two or three years, he learnt how to walk and he made huge progress,” she remembers.
Learning about her child’s diagnosis (诊断) was a starting point for Maxi. To help relieve the pain of parents whose children suffered from the same condition, she created the Association for Parents coping with Angelman Syndrome(APSA)which currently has about a hundred families. Living with these children is very enriching. This is why the association is not only working to provide support and guidance for the families of children with this condition; it also wants to tell people that they can also learn from these children. “We want them to come and experience what we learnt from our children,“ she says.
1. What does the underlined phrase “face the music” in the second paragraph mean?| A．Enjoy the music. | B．Finish one’s work. |
| C．Accept the situation. | D．Share the burden. |
| A．She was afraid. |
| B．She felt helpless. |
| C．She cried a lot about her son’s suffering. |
| D．She made a treatment plan for her son. |
| A．were Maxi’s relatives and friends |
| B．helped Gianluca to design a study plan |
| C．visited Maxi’s house to look after Gianluca in turn |
| D．were doctors contributing to the treatment of rare diseases |
| A．The association is aimed at win-win results. |
| B．Parents don’t need to learn from these children. |
| C．Gianluca made great progress because of love. |
| D．Developing Angelman Syndrome is personal adversity. |
10 . It was a hot day in June of 1968 when we realized that this summer was going to be different from previous ones. Grandpa was working up on the farmhouse roof, loudly complaining about a crow (乌鸦) dropping frogs down the chimney. Grandma came outside to watch. “I wondered what was putting the fire out! That crow!” The crow landed on the roof and introduced himself, “CAW!” This was the start of our family’s love-hate relationship with a naughty crow we called Fred.
We kids would be playing in the yard and Fred would be playing too. He’d jump up and swing from the laundry Grandma had hung on the clothesline. Grandma would make him go away, but he’d soon be back, stealing clothespins (晾衣夹) off the line. There would be laundry all over the yard. We kids thought it was hilarious—Grandma, not so much.
Sometimes things weren’t so funny, though. We would hear one of the girls screaming and immediately know it was because of Fred. The girl would be seen running down the path with Fred dive-bombing her.
Hair clips (夹子) weren’t the only thing Fred wanted. He also loved jewelry and anything shiny. Everyone learned to never leave anything we valued on the picnic table. We kids also blamed the crow for everything that summer. “I don’t know. Fred must have taken it” was a familiar response. But I just knew there was a tree back in the woods filled with Fred’s treasures.
Fred flew away sometime that summer and never came back. We still got excited at any crow flying around, but always knew it wasn’t Fred. He would have dived down for a visit and tried to steal something. That summer was more than 50 years ago, but I still call out to any crow I see, “Fred, is that you, Fred?”
1. What does the underlined word “hilarious” in the second paragraph probably mean?| A．Amusing. | B．Attracting. | C．Annoying. | D．Astonishing. |
| A．To scare them away. | B．To get their hair clips. |
| C．To play tricks on them. | D．To lead them down the path. |
| A．She names all crows Fred. | B．She misses Fred very much. |
| C．She looks for Fred every day. | D．She hates Fred stealing from her. |
| A．To show the damage that a crow can cause. |
| B．To stress the importance of protecting animals. |
| C．To recall a crow that brought her unforgettable memories. |
| D．To illustrate the relationship between animals and humans. |
