1 . With over 125,000 followers, 34-year-old Oliver James is a star in the Book Tok community. And it all started with a simple
For most of the kids, school is a place where they can develop a relationship with learning in a
Reading
Starting his journey with a book of inspirational quotes gifted by his wife, James began reading bits out loud and
But perhaps the biggest
| A．title | B．goal | C．name | D．campaign |
| A．safe | B．dangerous | C．quiet | D．noisy |
| A．Putting up | B．Going up | C．Clearing up | D．Growing up |
| A．logical | B．mental | C．special | D．common |
| A．depended | B．turned | C．brought | D．focused |
| A．struggles | B．proposals | C．conflicts | D．regrets |
| A．developed | B．increased | C．reduced | D．damaged |
| A．leave | B．occupy | C．expand | D．forgive |
| A．commenting | B．posting | C．writing | D．connecting |
| A．Fans | B．Librarians | C．Speakers | D．Booksellers |
| A．weakness | B．outcome | C．threat | D．impact |
| A．ruined | B．shaped | C．ended | D．saved |
| A．collapsed | B．bonded | C．quarreled | D．argued |
| A．resource | B．barrier | C．preference | D．loan |
| A．unrealistic | B．greedy | C．ambitious | D．influential |
2 . When we decided to sell our flat, having been cheated by the previous owner, we thought it was really important to be completely honest with any potential buyers about having knotweed (蓼科杂草) in the garden. It had been such an unpleasant and stressful experience for us and we didn’t want to have anyone else suffer any longer.
We bought our two-bedroom flat in 2014, when it was just the two of us. But after having three kids it became too small, so we sold it last year. The flat has a small garden at the back, but we didn’t know the presence of knotweed until well after we moved in and had a note from our neighbor behind our flat saying that they thought we had knotweed. Then we had a look and found some very small offshoots for this was just around springtime. At that point my husband and I certainly didn’t realize quite how problematic it could be. But then we started reading all the horror stories and became really concerned — people couldn’t get a mortgage; they couldn’t sell; the plant was creeping through concrete etc.
Then we treated the offshoots with glyphosate and as far as we knew it was completely gone. Before we put the property on the market we had the house checked by some specialists, who thoroughly inspected everything, including the connecting garden, and couldn’t find anything at all. We signed a ten-year insurance-backed guarantee with the company that could be transferred to the new owners, then started marketing the property through an agent.
In fact we found a buyer pretty quickly and they didn’t beat us down on price as we’d already done much for the treatment. Knotweed doesn’t need to be a deal-breaker, as long as you’re upfront about it.
1. Why did the writer probably decide to sell the flat?| A．To remind others to be honest. | B．To escape the trouble of knotweed. |
| C．To avoid the crowded living space. | D．To relieve the anger of being cheated. |
| A．It is planted for home decoration. | B．It is a wild plant seen only in spring. |
| C．It would cause much trouble to people’s life. | D．It aroused writer’s attention at very beginning. |
| A．By showing tricks to the buyer. | B．By taking effort to treat the knotweed. |
| C．By finding a well-known property agent. | D．By decorating the flat with a fantastic garden. |
| A．Dependable and responsible. | B．Patient and modest. |
| C．Helpless and embarrassed. | D．Careless and greedy. |
A group of boys ran to small parts of mud to play. I joined them. One boy held up a worm(蠕虫), and with an extremely strong pull, he tore the poor creature in half.
How could anyone be so cruel? I ran to the nearest playground supervisor(主管人)to report the incident. The supervisor sighed and waved me away. Something had to be done.
When I returned to the mud, I inspected the two halves of the worm and was astonished to find that they were still moving. I quickly picked up the worms and a little extra dirt and put them into my jeans pocket.
A few minutes before lunch, I tiptoed to the bin that held the class’s lunch boxes, looking for the one that belonged to the Worm Ripper, the boy who had torn the worm cruelly. Fortunately for me, I recognized it immediately. I looked behind me to be sure no one saw me before slipping the worm pieces inside the plastic baggie that held his apple slices.
I held my breath as the Worm Ripper pulled the apple slices from his lunchbox. When he noticed the worm, he let out a sharp cry, which brought the lunchroom supervisors to him.
I should’ve felt triumphant(大获全胜的). Instead, my heart pounded in my chest. I knew what I had to do. I walked up to lunch supervisors and admitted, “It was me! I put the worm in his lunchbox.”
The Worm Ripper glared in my direction. One supervisor rubbed his back to comfort him, while the other ordered me to go to the headmistress’s office.
Headmistress Lehrer was a strict old woman. My best friend Ricky said she would look students in the eye, making them tell her everything bad they had ever done. Then they were punished by writing apologies until their hands fell off. I expected to at least receive a severe scolding(训斥).
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After I told her the truth, with a kind of strange smile on her lips, she went down on her knees.
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The next day, not allowed to go out for break, I stared out and watched a boy by the mud pile picking up a worm.
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4 . I am a patrolman (巡逻警察), sent to check on the family. The young woman sat
A flash of fear crossed the older child’s eyes as I
“Is that so, little lady?” I said. “I want you two to climb on those benches over there and order something to eat.”
After a while, they crossed to the benches, and I called the waitress to take their
We sat there
“The owner says no
“Officer, excuse me,” a man said to me. He was a big man in jeans next to the waitress standing by the
“Here,” he said, giving me a handful of paper money. “We made a
When I
A police officer sees the worst in people most of the time. It is good to be
| A．crying | B．eating | C．talking | D．phoning |
| A．repairmen | B．salesmen | C．cleaners | D．drivers |
| A．patiently | B．carelessly | C．anxiously | D．hopefully |
| A．declined | B．approached | C．comforted | D．recognized |
| A．once | B．just | C．still | D．ever |
| A．food | B．time | C．order | D．seat |
| A．advocating | B．exchanging | C．announcing | D．discussing |
| A．brought | B．introduced | C．treated | D．lifted |
| A．choice | B．problem | C．charge | D．wonder |
| A．counter | B．truck | C．highway | D．bathroom |
| A．laughing | B．staring | C．shouting | D．weeping |
| A．deal | B．living | C．donation | D．fortune |
| A．left | B．moved | C．handed | D．threw |
| A．evaluated | B．resolved | C．predicted | D．submitted |
| A．persuaded | B．questioned | C．required | D．reminded |
As my wife worked a late shift, my three small children looked at me expectantly. “What’s for dinner?” one of them said.
The last time I had made dinner was when I made ramen (拉面) in college. Now, I had three mouths to feed-aged two, six and nine-but I was crucially short on ideas. Like a deer in headlights, I searched for a possible answer.
“Where’s the Twister game?”
“Not Twister, ” Abby, my oldest, scolded. “Dinner. ”
I walked to the closet, pulled out the game, and tested the spinner (转盘). Then I slid a couple of sheets of paper between the plastic arrow and the cardboard base and sketched out four quadrants (90度圆弧). I looked at the kids. “Who wants chocolate?”
Alex, my youngest, screamed in delight.
Abby crossed her arms. “Dad, Mom wouldn’t let that happen. ”
“Mom’s not here. ”
I wrote in the upper right quadrant: chocolate.
Aiden, my middle child, asked, “Dad, what are you doing?”
“You’ll see in a second. ” I pointed at the second area. “How about ice cream?”
Alex started dancing around in a circle.
“When we get four options written on the spinner, we’ll spin to see what we do for dinner tonight. ”
My youngest said, “Dress up like superheroes. ”
“ Absolutely!” I wrote superheroes, with no idea how that would turn into a dinner idea. They debated the final section for a few seconds and then collectively decided on pizza. If they had suggested “Run around at the mall, ” I would have written it down.
I smoothed out the paper, tested the spinner, and then set it in the middle of the table.
We gathered around the spinner, and I held up my hands. “We are going to spin it once, and whatever we land on, that’s what we’ll do tonight. ”
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Abby shook her head. “I don’t think this is a good idea. ”
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Everyone screamed, “Hurray! Pizza. ”
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We have all heard the expression: “Remember to stop and smell the roses.” But, how often do we really take time out of our busy fast-paced lives to notice the world around us? I have reflected back on one situation many times since it happened and have learned several powerful lessons from it.
I’m as guilty as anyone of ignoring the world around in this manner, especially when I am driving on California’s overcrowded streets. A short time ago, however, I witnessed an event that showed me how being wrapped up in my own little world has kept me from being fully aware of the bigger world picture around me.
I was driving to a business appointment and, as usual, I was planning in my mind what I was going to say. I came to a very busy crossroads where the stoplight had just turned red. “All right,” I thought to myself, “I can beat the next light if I race ahead of the pack. ”My mind and car were in auto pilot, ready to go when suddenly my absent-minded state was broken by an unforgettable sight.
A young couple, both blind, was walking arm-in-arm across this busy crossroads with cars whizzing by in every direction. The woman was holding something tightly in her hands that sling to her chest, obviously carrying a child. Both of them had a white walking stick extended, searching for clues to direct them across the crossroads.
Initially I was moved. They were overcoming what I felt was one of the most feared handicaps — blindness. “Wouldn’t it be terrible to be blind?” I thought. Without realizing the danger they were in, they were walking right the path of oncoming cars. I was frightened for them because I didn’t know if the other drivers understood what was happening.
However, as I watched from the front line of traffic, I saw a miracle unfold before my eyes.
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Every car in every direction did the same thing.
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Never noticing something different, the couple adjusted their route as they followed the coaching.
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7 . My son struggles with his writing. He finds writing
“I can’t,” he says, proving that his father’s
We’re writing his letter to Santa. I tell him I’ll write the first part and he can
And then we’re
“Wow,” says my wife, “he did that all by himself?” I don’t
| A．dull | B．enjoyable | C．tough | D．sacred |
| A．treasure | B．discover | C．taste | D．master |
| A．fantasy | B．tendency | C．ambition | D．memory |
| A．blame | B．challenge | C．praise | D．trust |
| A．curious | B．confused | C．thrilled | D．hopeful |
| A．examples | B．duties | C．jobs | D．things |
| A．comes | B．drops | C．breaks | D．looks |
| A．buy | B．add | C．count | D．show |
| A．Still | B．Thus | C．Otherwise | D．Worse |
| A．unwilling | B．unable | C．unafraid | D．unhappy |
| A．blind | B．deaf | C．sick | D．old |
| A．count on | B．break down | C．work out | D．put forward |
| A．discouraged | B．forgotten | C．done | D．teased |
| A．judge | B．deny | C．impress | D．correct |
| A．tired | B．proud | C．afraid | D．critical |
It was an ordinary but unforgettable Saturday, and everything was nice and peaceful. The wind, soft but a little cool, clicked through tree branches and stirred the bushes. I was walking along the river, which is rushing and sparkling between green banks, and enjoying some hot chocolate with the sun shining down on me on this nice spring day. I was in the mood to do something nice for a stranger and started to look around for an opportunity to do a random act of kindness.
Two minutes later I was approached from across the pathway by a complete stranger. I wasn’t sure why he was approaching me, when from out of nowhere he started talking to me really rudely. I could tell he was probably drunk or high or who-knows-what, so I just stayed calm and kept walking ahead. There were hundreds of people sitting on benches nearby and walking along the South Bank with me, so I wasn’t really worried.
However, as I tried to walk along, he kept saying offensive things to me and trying to get my attention. I tried to change my course and he kept following me, coming closer each time, and just wouldn’t leave me alone. At one point, he literally cornered me near the rail next to the river at which point I got really scared and didn’t know what to do. Although there were people everywhere, I got worried that the bystander effect might kick in and nobody would do anything about what they were seeing. I was praying that one of the many people sitting on benches nearby who could hear everything and watched this whole episode unfold would be courageous enough to help me out of this situation. “What should I do? What should I do?” I was nearly sobbing.
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At this moment, a couple, probably my parents age, passed by me.
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Finally, the drunk man left, still saying something in his mouth.
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9 . The scars that Pat Pribble carried through life were formed nearly 50 years ago, caused by fellow students, who picked on him because he was different.
Pat’s parents had held him back in the fourth grade, so he ended up in the same class as his younger brother, Leo. Forever the oldest kid in the class, Pat tried to fit in. But he was always just not good enough for this; just not smart enough for that. Pat Pribble was a target. Now 65, he lives in a studio apartment with his dog, getting by on Social Security. From a distance, with his long gray hair and beard, Pat appears tough, the kind of man you might cross the street to avoid.
Last November, as Carey, one of the classmates, planned for the 45th reunion-postponed a year because of the pandemic-he decided to personally invite Pat, who had never been there before. “Even after all these years,” Carey says, “the mind remembers a voice. It was Pat.” With a bit of research, he called Pat and learned that Pat had been putting money aside each week to buy a bus ticket to visit Leo since he had terminal brain cancer with only months to live.
“Never underestimate people,” said Leo in his last moment of life. “We’re all different now than when we were kids.” His former classmates have kept their promise that after he was gone, they wouldn’t lose track of Pat. And they just did. Every week, one or more of them call Pat to see how he’s doing and even send him some “walking around money”.
Healing wounds from the past has allowed Pat to look to the future. “I’ll be at the next reunion,” he says. “These guys . . .” He pauses, stifling tears. “Let’s just say that everyone needs people like these guys in their lives.”
1. What do we know about Pat Pribble from the first two paragraphs?| A．A man who wore scars both mentally and physically. |
| B．A boy who was unique and welcomed in school. |
| C．A person who had no awareness of cleanness. |
| D．A student who felt lower and unconfident. |
| A．To show off his present happy life. |
| B．To let more people participate in the reunion. |
| C．To relieve his guilt towards Pat in school days. |
| D．To call on his classmates to donate money to Pat. |
| A．Beauty lies in the eyes of beholder. | B．Life is a process of personal growth. |
| C．Never judge a person by his appearance. | D．Scars can eventually be cured completely. |
| A．With Open Arms, at Last | B．In Different Ways, in Fact |
| C．Being Unforgettable, School Life | D．Looking to the Future, These Guys |
10 . One of the benefits of social media is that it allows us to witness little moments of joy all around the world. And this was just the
In a short video on TikTok, in front of
Kamar, who’s played at many well-known concerts,
In this short video, it’s lovely to see the pianist take the
It’s also
| A．principle | B．state | C．argument | D．case |
| A．nervous | B．curious | C．serious | D．anxious |
| A．crowds | B．actors | C．students | D．directors |
| A．quickly | B．silently | C．unstably | D．confidently |
| A．set off | B．get up | C．try on | D．give in |
| A．turn | B．guide | C．lesson | D．look |
| A．unwillingly | B．gladly | C．eagerly | D．cautiously |
| A．shaking | B．placing | C．holding | D．raising |
| A．notes | B．tastes | C．sounds | D．memories |
| A．chance | B．space | C．time | D．gift |
| A．power | B．quality | C．favor | D．practice |
| A．compete | B．complain | C．compare | D．combine |
| A．impossible | B．incredible | C．difficult | D．important |
| A．defend | B．encourage | C．comfort | D．challenge |
| A．wisdom | B．ambition | C．patience | D．kindness |
