1 . The second-hand car that I bought just three months ago wouldn’t start the other day. The factory battery that came along with it showed that it had worked long enough to “face death”. My kind-hearted neighbor gave it a try, but the battery wouldn’t hold the charge. After giving another try, I headed to the local car store to buy a new one. Fixing it was more difficult than we thought, so I took it to a local repairman who finally got the new battery in and the car started running once again.
Driving it this morning, though, I noticed that the time on the screen had suddenly gone back to nine years, resetting to the date of the first time when it was started. While my son smartly found out how to program it back to today, I thought about how I had wished I could turn back time and make up for some of the errors I had made and the missteps I had taken in my own life during my boyhood time.
How many of us wish that we could go back to a certain time and change things? Like most middle-aged fathers, I have ever wished that. Yet, when I look back on my life today, I think that I won’t change anything. Every choice I have made, every step I have taken, and every road I have taken has led me to where I am now. Many of my choices have brought me pain in the past, but they have also guided me in the present. I won’t want to change things as they will change me. All that I have learned comes from the roads I have taken.
When you look at your own life, you can remember your past sadness, bout don’t regret the roads you took. Instead, celebrate the path you are on. Keep your feet moving forward.
1. How did the author get the car to work?A.by accepting his neighbor’s battery. |
B.By asking a man to repair it at home. |
C.By sending it to its production factory. |
D.By changing is battery for a new one. |
A.His past mistakes. |
B.His happy childhood days. |
C.His difficulty in the car repair. |
D.His experience of buying the car. |
A.It is confusing. | B.It is valuable. |
C.It is uncommon. | D.It is unimaginable. |
A.We shouldn’t remember the past. |
B.No one can make up for mistakes. |
C.No one wants to go back and live once again. |
D.We shouldn’t regret the past but should move on. |
2 . Colin Coleman was a 16-year-old employee who had been working for 6 months at a Kroger grocery store where Josh York
One day when Josh went to Kroger for his
Another customer saw this
Josh York really
A.occasionally | B.regularly | C.accidentally | D.seldom |
A.concerned | B.bored | C.familiar | D.patient |
A.smell | B.vision | C.hearing | D.balance |
A.painful | B.slow | C.last | D.normal |
A.valued | B.needed | C.lost | D.ordered |
A.list | B.card | C.parcel | D.information |
A.vehicles | B.furniture | C.objects | D.rubbish |
A.struggle | B.success | C.test | D.helpfulness |
A.brave | B.confident | C.rude | D.generous |
A.department | B.organization | C.team | D.building |
A.ended up | B.aimed at | C.carried on | D.contributed to |
A.approved | B.appreciated | C.stressed | D.expected |
A.share | B.treat | C.describe | D.prove |
A.customers | B.passengers | C.employers | D.colleagues |
A.loads | B.depressions | C.spirits | D.incomes |
Violet and Tilly were two sisters. Tilly was so stuck with her sister that she always followed her elder sister, Violet, everywhere. For example, when Violet was painting, she would paint by her side. Every time, Violet looked at her angrily. Couldn’t she find her own thing to do? This time, it was Tilly’s first week at gymnastics, while Violet had done gymnastics for the past two years.
Violet sat on the gym floor, waiting for her turn to do somersaults (翻筋斗). She frowned at her little sister across the room. Why couldn’t Tilly always find her own thing to do? “Violet, you’re up!” called Violet’s instructor, Miss Taylor. Violet came over and pushed off with her legs and straightened her arms. She did one, two, three somersaults. Miss Taylor clapped. “Perfect!”
Violet noticed that Tilly had stepped away from the younger group to watch Violet’s somersaults. “Tilly!” called Tilly’s instructor, Miss Brooke, from across the room. Tilly didn’t seem to hear. Not until she was called three times did she run back to her group. “ Your turn to do somersaults. ” Miss Brooke put an arm around her. Tilly walked to the mat with her face turning red like a tomato. She bent down to start a somersault. When she rolled, she fell heavily on the mat. Kids laughed in surprise at the noise.
Tilly stood uncomfortably and then ran towards the restroom. She was gone from the gym, as Violet had wanted. But it didn’t feel right. After telling Miss Taylor where she was going, Violet hurried to the restroom. She found Tilly crying hard. Violet put an arm around her sister. Seeing Violet, Tilly cried even harder. Tilly sniffed “I don’t want to do gymnastics any more.” She wiped away the tears with the back of her hand. This was Violet’s chance. If she said nothing to her sister, Tilly might quit gymnastics forever.
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But Violet knew how excited Tilly had been about joining in gymnastics.
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Seeing a smile on Tilly’s face, Violet said, “What about giving it another try?”
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I grew up in a small town where the primary school was a ten-minute walk from my house. When the noon bell rang, I would race breathlessly home. My mother would be standing at the top of the stairs, smiling down at me.
One lunchtime when I was in the third grade will stay with me always. I had been picked to be the princess in the school play, and for weeks my mother had rehearsed (排练) my lines so hard with me. But no matter how easily I acted at home, as soon as I stepped onstage, every word disappeared from my head. Finally, my teacher took me aside. She explained that she had written a narrator’s (旁白的) part to the play, and asked me to change roles. Her words, kindly expressed, still hurt, especially when I saw my part go to another girl.
I didn’t tell my mother what had happened when I went home for lunch that day. But she sensed my pain. Instead of suggesting we practice my lines, she asked if I wanted to walk in the yard.
It was a lovely spring day and the rose vine (藤蔓) was turning green. Under the huge trees, we could see yellow dandelions (蒲公英) in the grass in bunch, as if a painter had touched our landscape with gold. I watched my mother casually bend down by one dandelion. “I think I’m going to dig up all these weeds,” she said, pulling it up by its roots. “From now on, we’ll have only roses in this garden.”
“But I like dandelions,” I protested. “All flowers are beautiful-even dandelions.”
My mother looked at me seriously. “Yes, every flower gives pleasure in its own way, doesn’t it?” She asked thoughtfully. I nodded, pleased that I had won her over. “And that is true of people too,” she added. “Not everyone can be a princess, but there is no shame in that.” Relieved that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry as I told her what had happened. She listened and smiled.
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“But you will be a beautiful narrator,” she said, encouraging and comforting me as usual.
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After the play, I took home the flower.
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A little girl’s day turned into an unforgettable one after she found a sweet note from a stranger in a supermarket.The girl
The girl’s dad wrote about
Since it was posted, the picture
Farm life can be quite fun and memorable. One day down on the farm, something funny happened and my cousin and I got into big trouble with sheep.
It was one of those hot and
We two knew nothing about farm work, not to mention
We hurried to the cottage for more wood, but when we got back, we were
We were exhausted, but we found farm work rather interesting and we enjoyed it a lot. What
7 . One day, an expert in time management was speaking to a group of business students. He used an illustration to express his point.
With his beginning words, “time for a quiz”, he pulled out a wide-mouthed jar and set it on the table. Then he carefully placed about a dozen fist-sized rocks into the jar until it was filled to the top, he asked, “Is this jar full?” Everyone in the class said, “Yes!” “Really?” He then reached under the table, pulled out a bucket of gravel (石子), put some in and shook the jar, causing pieces of gravel to work down into the spaces between the big rocks. Then he asked again, “Is the jar full?” “Probably not,” one answered.
“Good!” He answered. Once more he reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand. He started dumping (倾倒) the sand in the jar and it went into all of the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel. Once more he asked, “Is this jar full?” “No!” the class shouted. “Good!” Then he grabbed a can of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the edge.
Then he asked the class, “What is the point of this illustration?” One eager student replied, “The point is, however full your schedule is, if you try really hard you can always fit some more things in it!”
“No,” the speaker answered, “The truth is: If you don’t put the big rocks in first, you’ll never get them in at all. So do things you love; schedule for yourself; make clear what are the big rocks in your life. Then, put those in your jar first.”
1. What does the underlined word in paragraph 1 probably mean?A.Strategy. | B.Example. | C.Registration. | D.Impression. |
A.He enjoyed giving students a quiz. | B.He might teach in a normal school. |
C.He was used to making experiments. | D.He was especially good at managing time. |
A.To show his idea. | B.To offer a solution. |
C.To contain the gravel. | D.To make an experiment. |
A.A Good Activity. | B.A Jar-Filling Design. |
C.The Story Of Big Rocks. | D.The Lesson For Source Arrangement. |
8 . Alwan, owner of a Bronx corner store named Lucky Candy, aims to help kids in the neighborhood from needy families—and keep their math skills sharp too. The
For Alwan,
“I think about questions I used to get
When a young math genius gets an answer
Alwan
At present, Alwan’s story is
A.purpose | B.cause | C.challenge | D.vocabulary |
A.hold | B.strike | C.touch | D.grab |
A.by accident | B.for free | C.in short | D.at once |
A.island | B.resource | C.desert | D.container |
A.joy | B.snack | C.math | D.appetite |
A.prepared | B.checked | C.asked | D.interviewed |
A.comes up with | B.makes a note of | C.pays attention to | D.thinks highly of |
A.available | B.ready | C.better | D.right |
A.blame | B.stop | C.seize | D.describe |
A.magazines | B.potatoes | C.sweets | D.toys |
A.pays | B.assists | C.rewards | D.covers |
A.playing | B.contributing | C.competing | D.reacting |
A.toughest | B.greatest | C.quietest | D.neatest |
A.surrounding | B.spreading | C.turning | D.tracking |
A.father | B.store | C.community | D.trial |
One night, Ryder saw his mother crying and learned she could no longer afford her last chemotherapy (化疗) treatment. He broke his piggy bank and offered her all his savings. Although it touched Annie’s heart, she told him it wasn’t enough. Ryder was so disappointed and hurried to the washroom to cry alone. It hurt him terribly to see his mother, who had long hair, and was now bald (秃头的) .
In an attempt to emotionally support her, Ryder brought an electric shaver and shaved his head. “Oh my God, Ryder!” Annie cried after seeing him. She was moved by what her son had done by sacrificing his hair. “Mom, I am with you in this. And you are not alone,” Ryder cried along, knowing little he would be laughed at by his best friends the next day.
A school fair had been organized on the playground, and many people, including parents, were gathering around the stalls (摊位). “Hey, look, someone in our class has lost all his hair!” Ryder’s friends laughed when he arrived.
“I got to carry on,” said Ryder, shyly covering his head in a hat. He was carrying two bags stuffed with some of his favorite toys, books, and recycled craft items he intended to sell at the fair.
As time passed, things were quickly getting sold in all the other stalls except Ryder’s. He did not find time to put up a fancy display or banner (横幅) to attract buyers. But he was determined to make a sale for his mother. So he took out a pen and a giant piece of paper and decided to create a sign that read: Help My Mom Fight Cancer.
“Please help me. I shaved my head to support my mother. But all are making fun of me without understanding me. And I have to sell these items and help her with some money. Please don’t let me down,” he shouted. The fair was about to end, and fortunately Ryder had managed to successfully sell most of his items.
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He was about to leave when his three friends surrounded him.
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“Ryder, please take this as well,” he heard a parent calling him.
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Charlie was a little boy of ten. He was such a good boy that everyone loved him a lot. Due to his father’s job, his family shifted to a new city, where he was admitted into a new school. As Charlie was a good boy, most of his new classmates became his good friends soon. The teachers also praised Charlie for his intelligence and good behavior.
But there was one boy in the class who did not like Charlie at all! His name was Bill and he was a very naughty boy, so no one liked him at all. He found that Charlie was a quiet boy, so he started making trouble for his new classmate. But Charlie still kept quiet and did not complain to the class teacher. When Charlie’s parents learned about Bill, they wanted to go to school and complain about this naughty boy’s behavior. But Charlie stopped them and said, “Mom, Dad, please do not worry. Everything will be all right.”
Days went by and the time came for the annual sports meeting at the school. Charlie was also good at sports and he was participating in a number of events. Bill was participating in the sack race (套袋跑), though he could not run very fast due to his fat body. When Bill saw that Charlie won first prize in the 100-meter race, he felt very jealous (妒忌的) and decided that he would not let it happen in the sack race.
As planned, Bill tried to push Charlie while jumping on the track during the sack race. But he lost his balance and fell down! His leg was badly injured and he could not even stand up by himself. But as he was unpopular among his friends, no one turned up to help him!
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Charlie noticed what had happened.
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Charlie took Bill to the school doctor.
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