Gen and her 5-year-old daughter found a fox cub (幼崽) trapped between her and her neighbour’s fence. The poor cub looked as though it had fallen down between the fence. It was stuck on its back with its limbs in the air.
Gen put gloves on and carefully freed the cub from the fence, but it was clear that it was shocked and injured. When she put it down, it couldn’t even move. She contacted their local wildlife rescue charity soon, but they said they couldn’t help because they didn’t have enough staff members. “We shouldn’t leave it there to die,” Gen said to her daughter. So they took it back and tried their best to look after it.
They fed the fox cub and kept it warm and clean. The fox cub slowly began to regain its strength and was able to walk, only a few feet at first, though. Once the fox cub had recovered, Gen felt clear that it wanted to look for its family, so they put it in a box outside in the garden for periods of time with some food and water, hoping its family might come to look for it.
At first, there was no sign of the mother fox. But then one night, something had visited Gen and her husband David’s garden. The next morning, the family were shocked to see the garden had been torn apart. They thought the mother fox must have had come looking for her cub.
“The mother fox was angry,” said David. “Trying to think about what she must have been going through to destroy so much of our stuff,” said Gen. They thought they had to create a good chance to get them back together. Then a genius idea came to them.
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David attached a washing basket to a long piece of rope and placed the fox cub underneath it.
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After observing the garden for just 15 minutes, the mother fox appeared.
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2 . According to CBS Minnesota, the golden retriever (寻回犬) named Marvel was the only one in her litter born without a front right paw (爪子). She’s since been taken in by the Williams family in Waconia, whose 7-year-old son, Paxton Williams, had his right leg cut away three years ago.
Rolling Oaks Goldens breeder Barb Felt found the Williams family through a friend, Paxton’s doctor. “When she was born, we knew right away she had a special purpose,” Felt said. “We wanted her to go in a home with someone who had a limb (肢体) difference.”
Paxton was born before the time was enough, which caused the boy to develop a serious problem in his right leg, which stunted the limb’s growth. Three years ago, Paxton’s parents made the difficult decision to have the boy’s right leg amputated and replaced with an artificial limb. Paxton’s mother, Stephanie, appreciates how their new pet addition helps her son normalize his physical differences.
“It gives him the opportunity to tell the kids, ‘Oh, she’s missing a paw, she’s like me,’” the mom explained. “Just like it gives him that voice to advocate for himself.”
Blaine, Paxton’s father, has also been moved by seeing Paxton and Marvel enjoy walks together on trails near their house. “It’s like they knew they were special,” Blaine said. “The amount of emotions was running through me at the time,” he continued. “It was just awesome because she was in the perfect place at the perfect time.”
Marvel might need a wheelchair or an artificial paw of her own as she grows larger and gets older. The family hopes that Paxton will someday be able to run with his artificial leg and that Marvel will be there to run beside him.
1. When did Paxton lose one of his limbs?| A．When he was born. | B．When he met the pet. |
| C．When he was four years old. | D．When he was seven years old. |
| A．Making something grow healthily. |
| B．Stopping something from growing normally. |
| C．Helping something to develop rapidly. |
| D．Forcing something to develop partly. |
| A．Horrible. | B．Grateful. | C．Addictive. | D．Uncertain. |
| A．A boy found a pet dog in the street. |
| B．The golden retriever saved her owner. |
| C．The Williams adopted a golden retriever. |
| D．A disabled boy adopted a dog without a paw. |
3 . Some cancer survivors (幸存者) in New Jersey are fighting back by staying fit in the group they call “Team Survivor”. The ladies are amazing, training for a sprint triathlon (短距离铁人三项) in Sandy Hook. Team Survivor has members all over the country, and each one has an inspiring story.
“It has taught me not to fear life,” Team Survivor member Janice Caldwell said. “It has taught me to wake up every morning and be grateful(感激的) that I feel good.” Caldwell got breast cancer four years ago, and she’s been fighting against it with the help of Team Survivor. It is a non-profit group of women with all types of cancer who help each other by promoting (促进) exercise in just about any sport imaginable. At 52, Caldwell just completed her first marathon.
Judy Petsonk is 65, and she’s training for her eighth triathlon. She said the support she got from her teammates removed the unpleasant feelings she had about breast cancer. She loves the motto “I didn’t choose cancer; I choose to be here.” “You can choose what’s going to happen to your body,”Petsonk said. “You can’t choose everything, but you can choose to become stronger day by day, and that’s what I’m choosing.”
Team Survivor has members of every age and athletic ability. Donna Gunderson couldn’t swim when she joined, but she took classes for one year with a volunteer coach. “Now I can go to the pool. I can swim for an hour, and I have no problem with it now,” Gunderson said, “So for those people who say they can’t swim, let me tell you—Yes, you can!” Gunderson now helps her teammates with swimming. “You can’t say ‘I’m sad, and I’m a cancer survivor,’ ”she said. “Instead, you should say ‘No, I’m going to go out there and conquer the world in some form or other. You can do anything you want.’”
1. What do we know about Team Survivor?| A．It contains only a group of men and women with cancer. |
| B．It is made up of members of cancer survivors around the world. |
| C．It encourages people to face life bravely by doing exercise. |
| D．It requires its members to have a high athletic ability. |
| A．has suffered from breast cancer for two years |
| B．attended Team Survivor five years ago |
| C．feels happy although she suffers from cancer |
| D．has taken part in marathon for eight times |
| A．They have known more about the disease with the help of the group. |
| B．They get athletic abilities from the volunteer coaches. |
| C．They can’t choose what’s going to happen to their bodies. |
| D．Though suffering from cancer, they are fighting against the disease actively. |
| A．She is helping her teammates learn to swim. |
| B．She is training for a sprint triathlon. |
| C．She is fighting against cancer in hospital. |
| D．She is learning to swim by herself. |
4 . A family visited the public elementary school where I taught students with a listening defect(缺点，缺陷). They said they would
After a few weeks with Katherine, I found her a very
One day Katherine got off the bus and stood in front of the school
That day Katherine discovered the
| A．look into | B．refer to | C．move to | D．travel around |
| A．thankful | B．upset | C．afraid | D．pleased |
| A．opinions | B．values | C．worries | D．hopes |
| A．sound | B．wish | C．face | D．speech |
| A．dull | B．naughty | C．rude | D．bright |
| A．success | B．struggle | C．hobby | D．reason |
| A．introduce | B．command | C．interest | D．amaze |
| A．sweets | B．towels | C．pencils | D．toys |
| A．refuse | B．expect | C．manage | D．decide |
| A．hearing | B．waiting | C．reading | D．crying |
| A．common sense | B．sign language | C．oral English | D．science knowledge |
| A．street | B．bus | C．office | D．house |
| A．read | B．wrote | C．shouted | D．learned |
| A．Strangely | B．Unexpectedly | C．Immediately | D．Unluckily |
| A．power | B．future | C．nature | D．style |
Jenny is a fifth - grader. She is one of the most popular girls in her class because she is among the brightest in her class . She can do the most cartwheels (侧手翻) in a row , but most of all , she has the talent to dance well .
Last year, she entered the school’s dance competition and won first place. Since that day, she has been the class attraction. This year, the school is holding another dance competition, but there has been a change. The competition has to be done in pairs.
Jenny’s class was expecting her to win again this year. But Jenny was unsure. She wanted to enter the competition, but she had never danced with a partner before. She decided to ask some of the boys in her class to enter with her. They all said no because they did not know how to dance .
She finally decided to turn to one of her closest friends, Carl. Carl was unwilling to join at first because he also didn’t know how to dance. But Jenny insisted and he finally agreed. However, she was still worried because she knew it was going to be more of a challenge because Carl was not a good dancer. The competition was in two months , and only time could tell whether they would win or not.
Jenny and Carl spent the first two weeks memorizing the steps of their dance with the help of their teacher. Carl was pretty clumsy at first . Jenny had to devote some time to helping Carl improve his skill. Fortunately, he finally got the hang of it. They spent the rest of the time perfecting their moves. The day of the competition was near. Jenny and Carl were beginning to get nervous.
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The day of the competition arrived.
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They were off to a great start.
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One day in summer vacation, I was in the chemist’s shop with my son who is fifteen years old. My son is talkative and his dream is becoming a famous speaker. So he loves engaging with strangers in public if they are friendly and safe. That day he said “Hi” to a kid and began a pleasant conversation. The kid called Jack was wearing the uniform of the senior high school my son would attend next month so I pointed that out to my son. When we were leaving. Jack said, “See you at school.”
On the first day of school, Jack, who was in Senior Two, greeted my son at the school gate. They soon became good friends. When I went to pick up my son after school, they walked out side by side. Jack’s mother stopped her car, too. However, as I was packing my car with groceries, I found my son’s new uniforms were missing and we felt extremely anxious. Seeing the scene like this, Jack’s mother constantly comforted us. She drove up behind me and promised to offer me a bag of uniforms that no longer fitted her son. She gave me those clothes for nothing! I was overjoyed and I went and picked them up from her the next afternoon.
This may seem like a small kindness to some people but for me it is huge! I have been stressing quite a lot about the cost of uniforms for school. We are attempting to start a business with no capital and have financial difficulties at the moment. I also suffer from severe depression and anxiety and have had the really worst year in my life. I cannot even begin to explain how much I appreciate this small gesture from a complete stranger. It has relieved a bit of a burden from my shoulders. You never know when the small kindnesses, even simply a smile on the street, can be incredibly uplifting to a complete stranger
I asked Jack’s mother for her contact information, and in the following days we kept in touch, and gradually we became good friends, too.
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I decided to invite Jack and his mother to dinner at home,
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Years later, as Jack was graduating, his mother invited us to her home in return.
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7 . All Olympic medalists work incredibly hard to reach their goals, but Maria Andrejczyk went through some serious struggles before reaching the platform. The Polish javelin(标枪) thrower missed her chance at the 2016 Olympic Games by just 2 centimeters. Sidelined by a shoulder injury in 2017, she then learned she had bone cancer. Showing true fighting spirit, Maria powered through her recovery in time to qualify for the 2020 Games in Tokyo, Japan, All of her effort was worth it when she earned her first Olympic medal ever, a silver!
Back at home, she heard about an 8- month-old baby named Miloszek Maysa, who desperately needed to go to the U.s. for a surgery that could save his life. Miloszek was born with a serious heart disease, which wasn’t detected in time to correct in the first weeks of his life. Baby Miloszek’s condition was too serious to be treated in his home country, but doctors at Stanford University Medical Center in California were able to take his case.
Unfortunately, they required 80 percent of the payment up front, a sum the Maysa’s family simply could not afford. That’s when Maria stepped in to help! Just week after returning from Japan, the athlete shared a message on Facebook announcing that she would be auctioning off her silver medal to raise money for Miloszek’s surgery.
Days later, a Polish convenience store called Zabka purchased the medal for $125,000, which was more than Maria had hoped to get. Not only that, but when her story broke, more people began donating to the fundraiser. In the end, they pulled in more than enough cash to cover Miloszek’s trip to America! And the goodwill doesn’t end there. Zabka announced that they would let Maria keep her medal after all!
1. What can we know about Maria in Paragraph 1?| A．She won a gold medal in 2020. |
| B．She spent a miserable childhood. |
| C．She beat his bone cancer in 2016. |
| D．She kept fighting against the difficult life. |
| A．He was too young. |
| B．His home condition was poor. |
| C．His home country abandoned him. |
| D．Doctors at Stanford University could treat him. |
| A．Selling. | B．Lending. | C．Making. | D．Returning. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Supportive. | C．Ambiguous. | D．Disapproving. |
It was a January afternoon. My wife, Savitri and I sat on the Sahyadri Express. As the train pulled out of the station, we could barely hide our excitement. We were finally on the way to a honeymoon to Matheran! This was the first time we had enough savings to go on a trip together.
The train stopped at Neral, where we were forced out of our reverie (白日梦). As we stepped out and started making inquiries, we realized it was unlikely that we would find a train to take us to the misty hill station we had been dreaming of for months. The afternoon gradually settled into a pink dusk as we sat in a corner at the station, waiting for news of the train services as the cold winter breeze rattled (使紧张)our bones. We unwrapped some biscuits when a little girl, no more than five or six, went past us, screaming, “But I want food! I am hungry!”
Savitri's eyes turned to the girl’s family. Smiling, she called out-her name was Mehrunisa，we overheard-and asked her to seek her parent’s permission to accept biscuits from us. Left with no option, her family accepted, And we began chatting.
After several hours, the train finally arrived. We entered alongside. As the short uphill journey progressed, Savitri and I softly discussed our trouble. It seemed unlikely that our reservation at Ragdi Hotel would still be held. As the train arrived and we rose to bid the family goodbye, Mehrunisa’s father, Viraaz, suggested that he would accompany us to make sure that we had a place to spend the night. He had overheard our anxious exchange.
His family headed to their guesthouse and Viraaz came with us to look for a hotel. To no one’s surprise, Ragdi Hotel was packed with people. The manager offered assistance by placing a few beds in the coal storage room but the cold made it uninhabitable. A gradual dread(恐惧)started to appear in my mind.
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Sensing our helplessness, Viraaz offered to put us up in their accommodation for the night.
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Our friendship has since continued for decades.
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Once there lived a little girl named Tara, with her mother in a small hut near the forest. Tara was a good-natured and kind-hearted little girl. Every day she would go to the forest along with her mother to collect woods. That day as usual Tara accompanied her mother to the forest and while her mother was busy collecting woods in the forest, Tara sat there on a piece of log looking at the beautiful trees and birds flying around it. Suddenly a cute little rabbit grabbed her attention and she ran towards the rabbit. As soon as the rabbit saw Tara coming close, it ran towards the jungle and Tara playfully began chasing the rabbit. Tara ran fast and finally caught hold of the rabbit. As soon as Tara held the rabbit in her arms, it suddenly disappeared from her hands and in the air appeared a beautiful fairy. The little girl was taken by surprise and she could not believe her eyes. She asked the fairy, “Who are you?”
The fairy told Tara that a wicked witch（女巫）had cursed her and transformed her into a rabbit. The witch told the fairy that she would return to her original form only if an innocent and kind-hearted person touches her. And when Tara touched the rabbit, the spell of the wicked witch was broken and the fairy was able to return to her original form. The fairy said to the little girl, "Ask for a wish, I will grant you the same.”
Tara could not say a single word as she could still not believe what she saw and heard just now. Understanding Tara's condition, the fairy gave her a magic stick and told Tara that whenever she wants her wish to be fulfilled, just wave the magic stick in the air and ask for the wish. Her wish would be granted at once. The fairy told Tara that only one wish will be fulfilled and disappeared.
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When Tara and her mother came back home，they saw a badly injured baby elephant lying in front of her house.
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And suddenly the baby elephant's wound disappeared.
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10 . A tornado hit Granbury, Texas in 2013. A man named Jerry Shuttlesworth was living in a trailer (拖车) park. Without a basement or a place to
The tornado
By no small miracle, the local animal shelter
| A．live | B．stay | C．park | D．hide |
| A．finally | B．directly | C．hardly | D．recently |
| A．described | B．imagined | C．estimated | D．treated |
| A．looked | B．broke | C．flew | D．turned |
| A．catch up with | B．get rid of | C．take care of | D．hold on to |
| A．feet | B．eyes | C．arms | D．fingers |
| A．dropped | B．met | C．noticed | D．kept |
| A．darkness | B．wind | C．world | D．city |
| A．above | B．around | C．behind | D．before |
| A．injured | B．rescued | C．prepared | D．trapped |
| A．story | B．topic | C．letter | D．photo |
| A．surprised | B．liked | C．found | D．recognized |
| A．friends | B．actors | C．journalists | D．pets |
| A．neighbors | B．reporters | C．viewers | D．police |
| A．animals | B．humans | C．birds | D．dogs |
