1 . My nephew came for a visit one hot,July weekend. I persuaded him to stay inside by joining him in a Nintendo game. After being mercilessly defeated by a more experienced player,I suggested that we relax for a while. He slipped out of the room and I caught a few moments of peace and quiet.
"Look,Alice," he said enthusiastically as he ran over to the chair where I was recovering." I found a kite. Could we go outside and fly it?"
Glancing out of a nearby window,I noticed there was not a breeze(微风). "T' m sorry, Tripper," I said, sad to see his disappointed eyes, but thankful for the short period of rest from more activities. "The wind is not blowing today.The kite won't fly."
The determined 10-year-old replied. "I think it's windy enough.I can get it to fly," he answered,as he hurried out through the back door.I peeked(窥视)through the curtains to watch determination in action.Up and down the yard he ran, pulling the kite attached to a small length of string.The plastic kite, proudly displaying a picture of Batman, remained about shoulder level. He ran back and forth, as hard as his ten-year-old legs would carry him, looking back hopefully at the kite trailing behind. After about ten minutes of unsuccessful determination, he came back in.
I asked, "How did it go?" "Fine, "he said," I got it to fly some." As he walked past me to return the kite to the closet shelf, I heard him say under his breath, "I guess I'll have to wait for the wind.”
At that moment I heard another voice speak to my heart. "Alice, sometimes you are just like that. You want to do it your way instead of waiting for the wind." And the voice was right. We usually want to use our own efforts to accomplish what we want to do. We wait for the wind only after we have done all we can and have exhausted our own strength. We must learn how to rely on Him in the first place!
1. Why did the writer refuse to fly the kite with his nephew that day?| A．Because he preferred to relax himself. |
| B．Because he was not good at flying kites. |
| C．Because he wanted to stay peaceful and quiet. |
| D．Because he found the weather was not suitable. |
| A．Tripper was unwilling to admit defeat. |
| B．Tripper felt unhappy and hopeless. |
| C．Tripper was hesitant to try it again. |
| D．Tripper lost interest in flying the kite. |
| A．Naughty and active. |
| B．Determined and insistent. |
| C．Brave and bright. |
| D．Weak and sensitive. |
| A．Fly a Kite in Life |
| B．Try Your Best |
| C．Wait for the Wind |
| D．Determine to Succeed |
2 . How do you kill your time when you go to work? Most of us stare at our cell phones, and refuse to make eye contact with others. We just read, chat with others online or play games online. Or maybe we’re using the time between stops to do our makeup, catch up on emails, or read a few chapters of a book. However, Dina Alfasi takes a very different approach.
Each day she has to travel hours on buses and trains to get to her engineering job at a hospital in Israel. Rather than look at her cell phone in silence, she uses one very special way to have connection with strangers. It is portraits of the people she meets on public transport every day that she is taking. The photographs catch those quiet and personal moments of people readying themselves for the day ahead. Some people lean (倚靠) their head against the window and go to sleep, some stare into space and have a daydream, and others sit quietly to read their documents or books. Each picture catches one tiny moment in people’s lives, ripe with potential for your imagination. It is wonderful for her to look at someone’s commute (上下班) and make up an entire story about the rest of their daily existence, from the father travelling with a baby to the woman welcoming a change.
“What inspires me very much are the little moments that happen every day,” Dina told My Modern Met. “My work is to tell stories through a single portrait, and it proves that all you need is just to look around and find those magic moments.”
1. What will most people do when going to work?| A．Enjoy reading a book loudly. |
| B．Make eye contact with others. |
| C．Have face-to-face talks with others. |
| D．Concentrate on their mobile phones. |
| A．Staring into the space and having a daydream. |
| B．Leaning against the window and relaxing herself. |
| C．Using her mobile phone to appreciate pictures she draws. |
| D．Drawing people while travelling on buses and trains to work. |
| A．Cool. | B．Careful. |
| C．Generous. | D．Considerate. |
| A．Little moments make Dina special. |
| B．Cell phone is used to take special portraits. |
| C．Dina takes portraits of others when commuting. |
| D．People go to work with different ways to kill time. |
3 . I always remember one Christmas when we
The day before Christmas was more
So, my dad and I
The drive back got even worse. We got stuck in a huge snowdrift. A(n)
We left the cars in the
Christmas was very
| A．hid | B．lived | C．relaxed | D．waited |
| A．or | B．so | C．but | D．since |
| A．predicted | B．discovered | C．remembered | D．experienced |
| A．bad | B．unique | C．cold | D．quiet |
| A．popular | B．enjoyable | C．important | D．memorable |
| A．ordered | B．forced | C．invited | D．refused |
| A．kind | B．strict | C．smart | D．curious |
| A．fact | B．result | C．problem | D．message |
| A．gave in | B．set out | C．moved on | D．turned back |
| A．working | B．waiting | C．sleeping | D．studying |
| A．wiser | B．crazier | C．more dangerous | D．more interesting |
| A．desired | B．expected | C．opposite | D．forward |
| A．excuse | B．promise | C．change | D．decision |
| A．call | B．warn | C．criticize | D．persuade |
| A．snow | B．garage | C．church | D．backyard |
| A．danced | B．drove | C．walked | D．stayed |
| A．woke up | B．got out | C．looked out | D．warmed up |
| A．safely | B．regularly | C．suddenly | D．proudly |
| A．busy | B．strange | C．special | D．traditional |
| A．rewards | B．meals | C．leaves | D．gifts |
4 . Nine years ago, a few days before Christmas, I was a director at a company in San Francisco, and I was called into a meeting that was already in progress. That meeting turned out to be my exit interview. I was 64 years old at the time. It wasn’t completely unexpected. I signed a pile of papers and left the company.
So, 40 plus years of employment was over. I had a good reputation and background. Retirement was not a choice for me. I wanted to do something. And then an idea came into my mind, born from my concern for our environment. I wanted to build my own business, designing and producing biodegradable(可生物降解的)packaging from waste. This is called clean technology, and it was really meaningful to me. It could help reduce billions of pounds of single-use plastic packaging wasted each year.
Five years later, I’m delighted and proud to share with you that our income has doubled every year and we have no debt. Meanwhile, I have a wonderful partner, and we’ve won more than 20 awards for the work that we’ve done.
And I am doing the most rewarding and meaningful work of my life right now. But what I really long for is to find other first-time entrepreneurs(企业家)who are my age. I want to connect with them.
So I want to do something about that in a few years. I want us to start talking more about people who don’t become entrepreneurs until they are seniors. And then connecting all of them across industries, regions and countries—building a community.
1. What happened to the author nine years ago?| A．He retired from his former company. | B．He failed an interview. |
| C．He had a good family background. | D．He changed his job to a better one. |
| A．It was beneficial to the environment. |
| B．It developed a clean technology. |
| C．It provided jobs for lots of people. |
| D．It brought in quite a lot of money. |
| A．Cautious. | B．Disappointed. | C．Ambiguous. | D．Positive. |
| A．To do something else about environment. |
| B．To help people who want to become successful. |
| C．To meet more people from different backgrounds. |
| D．To build a community for senior entrepreneurs. |
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We live in the countryside. Most of which we see is beauty and nature. One of the exceptions to the beauty is the litter some people throw out their windows as they are driving on the roads. One of the few drawbacks to living in the countryside is that public service, such as litter collection, are little available than they are closer to the city.
A helping habit that my family practise regularly are picking up litter in our surrounding area. We have become so accustomed to do this that my little brother will often say, “There's some litter, Daddy, stop the car!” And we would often pull over and pick it up. It may seem strange, and we actually enjoy it. We pick up litter in parks, on sidewalks, practically anywhere. Once I even saw a complete stranger picking up litter close to where we live in. He smiled at me and said, “I saw you doing it, and it seemed like the good idea.”
6 . Is smile just a facial expression? Of course not! It is not only used to express pleasure, affection, and friendliness, but also the commonest way to show our good will perfectly without saying anything. A Chinese saying runs：“Never hit a person who is smiling at you.” It is a time-proven fact that smile is a language all its own—a universal language—understood by the people of every nation in the world. We may not speak the same tongue as our foreign neighbors, but we smile in the same tongue. We need no interpreter for thus expressing love, happiness, or good will.
One day while shopping in a small town in southern California, it was my misfortune to be approached by a clerk whose personality conflicted with mine. He seemed quite unfriendly and not at all concerned about my intended purchase. I bought nothing, and marched angrily out of the store. On the outside stood a young man in his early twenties. His expressive brown eyes met and held mine, and in the next instant a beautiful, brilliant smile covered his face. The magic power of that smile made all bitterness within me melt, and I found the muscles in my own face happily responding. “Beautiful day, isn’t it?” I remarked, in passing. Then, obeying an impulse(冲动), I turned back. “I really owe you a debt of gratitude,” I said softly. His smile deepened, but he made no attempt to answer. A Mexican woman and two men were standing nearby. The woman stepped forward and eyed me inquiringly. “Carlos, he no speak English,” she volunteered. “You want I should tell him something?” At that moment I felt changed. Carlos’ smile had made a big person of me. My friendliness and good will toward all mankind stood ten feet tall. “Yes,” my reply was enthusiastic and sincere, “tell him I said, ‘Thank you!’’’ “Thank you?” The woman seemed slightly confused.
I gave her arm a friendly pat as I turned to leave. “Just tell him that.” I insisted. “He’ll understand, I am sure!”
Oh, what a smile can do! Although I have never seen that young man again, I shall never forget the lesson he taught me that morning. From that day on, I became smile-conscious, and I practice the art diligently, anywhere and everywhere, with everybody.
1. The writer marched angrily out of the store because________.| A．he bought nothing | B．he was unlucky to meet with a rigid clerk |
| C．he was unfriendly | D．he conflicted with the clerk in the store |
| A．Curious and sincere with good English. |
| B．Helpful and curious with poor English. |
| C．Enthusiastic and diligent with good English. |
| D．Warm-hearted and diligent with poor English. |
| A．how he used smile to solve problems |
| B．how hard he tried to look for the young man |
| C．the lesson Carols had taught him |
| D．how he became a big person of ten feet tall |
| A．A rigid clerk. | B．A powerful smile. |
| C．A helpful woman. | D．An impressive young man. |
