1 . “Where could Michael be?” I wondered aloud.
Michael was my classmate. He liked playing tricks on others.
He once put a sign that said “Sing to Me!” on
Another time, he embarrassed Nicole during sharing time. Nicole was shy. She
It was Valentine’s Day that day. I was sure Michael was up to something somewhere,
I
“Hurry and help me,” said Michael as soon as he
At first, I thought he was stealing valentines from Michael Rogers’s box. However, the more I watched, the more puzzled I became. He was putting valentines
Seeing my expressions, he told me that he found Michael Rogers’s box was
I suddenly realized I had also
“But everyone made one for me,” Michael continued, “So I’m giving him my
I stood there, not quite believing
| A．my | B．his | C．her | D．its |
| A．tired | B．bored | C．angry | D．nervous |
| A．often | B．never | C．always | D．sometimes |
| A．mind | B．record | C．notice | D．decide |
| A．or | B．but | C．unless | D．as |
| A．stayed with | B．talked about | C．shouted at | D．looked for |
| A．box | B．pocket | C．wallet | D．school bag |
| A．saw | B．met | C．found | D．caught |
| A．up | B．in | C．away | D．back |
| A．old | B．pretty | C．empty | D．special |
| A．nobody | B．anybody | C．somebody | D．everybody |
| A．refused | B．forgotten | C．expected | D．remembered |
| A．list | B．desk | C．signs | D．cards |
| A．how | B．why | C．what | D．where |
| A．polite | B．sweet | C．honest | D．patient |
2 . Have you ever been sad because of failure? Please remember, for quite often achieving what you set out to do is not the most important thing.
A boy decided to dig a deep hole behind his house. As he was working, a couple of older boys stopped by to watch. “What are you doing?” asked one of the visitors. “Want to dig a hole all the way through the earth!” the boy answered excitedly. The older boys began to laugh, telling him that digging a hole all the way through the earth was impossible. After a while, the boy picked up a jar. He showed it to the visitors. It was full of all kinds of stones and insects. Then he said calmly and confidently, “Maybe I can’t finish digging all the way through the earth, but look at what I’ve found during this period!”
The boy’s goal was far too difficult, but it did cause him to go on. And that is what a goal is for---to cause us to move in the direction we have chosen, in other words, to cause us to keep working!
Not every goal will be fully achieved. Not every job will end up with success. Not every dream will come true. But when you fall short of your aim, maybe you can say, “Yes, but look at what I’ve found along the way! There are so many wonderful things having come into my life because I tried to do something!” It is in the digging that life is lived. It is the unexpected joy on the journey that really makes sense.
1. The older boys laughed at the boy because he was thought to be________.| A．brave | B．impolite |
| C．foolish | D．warm-hearted |
| A．To drive them away. |
| B．To show what he had found in the digging. |
| C．To show how beautiful the jar was. |
| D．To attract them to join him in the work. |
| A．No dream can come true. |
| B．All work will end successfully. |
| C．Goals shouldn’t be set too high. |
| D．Goals will benefit us a lot. |
| A．A Boy Dug a Hole. |
| B．A Brave Boy. |
| C．No Pain, No Gain. |
| D．Failure Is the Mother of Success. |
Tamara opened her eyes and jumped out of bed. Most days she hated getting up early. But today was different. Tamara was wide awake and excited because today her family was going on a hike and having a picnic. This was Tamara’s first hike. She put on her new boots her mother had bought just for the hike.
Tamara ran down the stairs. Her mother and elder brother James were there at the bottom. James was moving up and down impatiently. Everyone was ready for the hike.
Tamara’s family drove for two hours until they were far away from the city. Once they left the city and the suburbs, there weren’t many buildings beside the road. Instead there were trees and fields. Tamara saw groups of cows chewing on grass. The road climbed up. They were driving into the mountains. Tamara rolled down her window. The air was cool, and she liked it. Soon, Tamara’s mother parked the car.
“Are we here? Is this the hike?” asked Tamara.
“Yes,” said James. “See that trail (小路)? That’s where we’ll start hiking.”James had hiked this trail before, and it was one of his favorites.
Tamara looked at the trail. It was a dirt path and went into the forest. Tall trees and tiny flowers lined both sides of the path. Tamara, her mother, and her brother began to walk. Butterflies and bees flew over the flowers. At first the bees made Tamara nervous, but soon she saw that they were more interested in the flowers than they were in her.
Tamara’s mother talked about the other times the family had gone hiking. James talked about the time he went camping with the Boy Scouts (童子军). Tamara wanted to talk, but she felt out of breath. The trail was steep. They had been walking uphill for an hour by now. Tamara took hold of her mother’s hand. “I’m tired,” she said.
“Come on, Tamara,” said her brother. “You can do it! You’re ten years old. That’s old enough to hike.”
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If her brother said she could do it, Tamara knew she could.
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“Look, Tamara! There is a pool!” her brother called suddenly.
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4 . One morning, I was jogging and I noticed a person in front of me about 1/4 mile. I could
After passing him, I realized I had been so focused on competing against him that I had
In reality, we spend our time and
| A．forget | B．tell | C．admit | D．argue |
| A．fool | B．warn | C．catch | D．encourage |
| A．before | B．because | C．once | D．although |
| A．secretly | B．finally | C．possibly | D．gradually |
| A．ignoring | B．doubting | C．imagining | D．announcing |
| A．find | B．remember | C．make | D．control |
| A．resting | B．racing | C．standing | D．singing |
| A．took | B．changed | C．valued | D．missed |
| A．turn around | B．turn on | C．turn up | D．turn down |
| A．proud | B．successful | C．adventurous | D．helpful |
| A．health | B．dream | C．wealth | D．energy |
| A．problem | B．possibility | C．requirement | D．influence |
| A．next to | B．ahead of | C．close to | D．angry with |
| A．sorry | B．afraid | C．confident | D．curious |
| A．given | B．spent | C．taken | D．used |
During my sixth-grade year, I was nervous about many things. I was afraid of being a role model on campus. I was afraid of going to a middle school the following year. But nothing compared to my biggest fear of all… puberty (青春期). I was getting to the age where my voice would start changing. At first, I was excited for my voice to get deeper. But then I learned that before your voice gets deeper, it can sometimes crack(嘶哑).
The first time it happened to me I was so embarrassed, but to my surprise, my friends didn’t make fun of me. In fact, they didn’t even mention it. That was reality. But in my self- conscious sixth-grade mind I was certain they were going to spend all day making fun of me behind my back. They were not having the same problem controlling their voices.
After my first voice crack experience, I was determined to make sure it wouldn’t happen again. At least not in public. So, I began clearing my throat before I spoke. Limiting how much I spoke and clearing my voice before I spoke made my break and lunch experiences much less stressful. This was great but there was a larger problem. I was more scared about having a voice crack during class.
There were reasons why having a voice crack in class was scarier. One of these reasons was that our class had a group of popular girls. Having a voice crack in front of them was a fear. Unfortunately, one day my worst frightening dream came true. It was about halfway through the year, when I was happy to have made it so long without a bad voice crack incident.
That day, when I walked through the door, the first thing I noticed was that we had a substitute(代课)teacher. I immediately started thinking about how the sub would need to take attendance. My permanent (长期的)teacher never had to. Since he already knew each student and where they sat, he just had everyone sit down in their assigned seat, and marked “absent” the students whose seats were empty.
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I started to feel frightened.
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The whole class turned to look at me.
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One evening after supper, Mom or I went to our little vegetable garden, only to find quite a few cucumbers were destroyed. Dried leaf were left on the ground, making us to feel sad. Observing careful, we found some animal footprints here. We guessed that it must be a pet dog that had made the mess.
Several days later, to our great excite, the damaged vegetables begin to grow again. Some even had little cucumbers, which goes as the saying “Misfortune may be an actual good thing!”. This taught him a good lesson—we should treat a bad thing in positive way instead of turn angry.
Liang Shi is 55 years old. He will be taking the gaokao
Liang,
After learning
“I just turned 55, and I’m still young, ”Liang said.“And I am having no trouble
While some people find it silly, many others would
8 . Sun Xiaojun was born in a small village in Guizhou. When he was 9, he got hurt while playing basketball and later doctors found he had a serious problem so that they had to have his right leg amputated (截肢). “It was really unlucky for me and my family. I disliked studying before the amputation. But my father told me that I could only find a job by studying hard since I would not be able to farm like him,” said Sun
The young boy faced life bravely and made up his mind to study hard. In2006, he went to study in Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan. In 2009, he went to study at Japan’s Tohoku University.
“I started to wear a prosthesis (假肢) two years after I began studying in Japan, said Sun. The experience wasn’t very comfortable for him because the knee of the prosthesis didn’t bend (弯曲). He would sometimes fall over when he tried to walk too fast.
Sun came up with the idea for a smart prosthesis in 2013 while he was studying at the University of Tokyo.He did many researches on it. After years of hard work. he succeeded. In order to help more people with disabilities enjoy life, Sun started BionicM in Shenzhen in 2018. Different from traditional prostheses, Sun’s prostheses work a bit like adding muscle (肌肉) to the mechanical parts (机械部位) and allow people to move more easily.
Sun said that his prostheses are still expensive. He hopes that by raising more money, he’ll be able to increase production and make them cheaper.
1. What happened when Sun was 9?| A．He lost his right leg. | B．He had a car accident. |
| C．He fell in love with basketball. | D．He started to farm with his father. |
| A．It was smart. | B．It was expensive. |
| C．It was convenient. | D．It was uncomfortable. |
| A．Sun’s future plans for BionicM. |
| B．People’s opinions on Sun’s invention. |
| C．How Sun came up with the idea for his invention. |
| D．How Sun’s prostheses are different from traditional ones. |
| A．To show how important health is. |
| B．To tell the story of a disabled inventor. |
| C．To ask readers to care about the disabled. |
| D．To introduce the development of prostheses. |
9 . I remember the first day when I saw Sally playing basketball. I watched in wonder as she struggled her way through the crowd of boys on the playground. She seemed so
I began to notice Sally at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone. She practiced dribbling (运球) and
One day I asked Sally why she
I
I felt she was extremely
The next year, Sally was seen by a college basketball coach after a big game. She was
It’s true: if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.
1.| A．silent | B．small | C．strong | D．huge |
| A．but | B．and | C．so | D．for |
| A．passing | B．running | C．shooting | D．struggling |
| A．studied | B．practised | C．expected | D．improved |
| A．title | B．prize | C．scholarship | D．reward |
| A．start | B．talk | C．appear | D．matter |
| A．encouraged | B．respected | C．watched | D．helped |
| A．victory | B．confidence | C．responsibility | D．profession |
| A．dropped | B．buried | C．covered | D．sunk |
| A．suggested | B．sent | C．promised | D．offered |
| A．worried | B．excited | C．disappointed | D．surprised |
| A．great | B．wrong | C．strict | D．cruel |
| A．stress | B．value | C．cause | D．power |
| A．exactly | B．naturally | C．really | D．normally |
| A．taken | B．admitted | C．introduced | D．appointed |
10 . Alex Elman runs a big business—something hard to imagine after she lost her sight in her twenties. But Elman says that losing her sight helped her focus on finding success.
Elman’s father planted a hillside vineyard in western Massachusetts in 1981. It’s where Elman fled during the darkest period of her life. When she was 27 years old, she went blind due to complications from juvenile diabetes (幼年型糖尿病) 17 years ago. She recalled, “I hid in my home. I hid in the place, to me, that was the safest place in the world.”
Elman is now the founder of Alex Elman Wines, a growing portfolio (股份) of organic wines from all around the world: Chianti from Italy, Torrontes from Argentina. Elman doesn’t work alone. Her assistant a guide dog named Hanley, is something of a wine snob, and quite a beggar. Hanley travels to all of the wineries that Elman does, from South America to Europe.
At first, Elman resisted the idea of a seeing-eye dog. Now it’s hard to imagine her life, or her business, without him. She said, “When someone tells me something is organic and I don’t really believe it because I taste something funny on it, I’ll put it in front of his face and if he likes the wine, he’ll actually go in and sniff (嗅) it. If it’s not right, he’ll turn his head away...He gets in the dirt with me. He scratches around. He makes sure that we see earthworms and butterflies. That’s how we know that the soil is actually organic, that there are no chemicals.”
Elman told CBS News she believes the loss of her vision was a gift. She said, “It allowed me to pay attention to what I thought was important and also to be able to teach people that the broken hang nail is not a big deal, you know what I mean? Don’t sweat the small stuff. Don’t sweat the big stuff either.”
1. Elman hid herself in her father’s vineyard probably because she ________.| A．suffered from juvenile diabetes |
| B．was extremely painful for her blindness |
| C．would like to help her father with the work |
| D．expected to recover her sight sooner or later |
| A．has earned a large amount of money |
| B．plans to operate organic wine companies |
| C．has become successful with Hanley’s help |
| D．has travelled around the world with Hanley |
| A．a nail which is of no use | B．a disadvantage you have in your life |
| C．a person who is hard to deal with | D．a task that is not easy to accomplish |
| A．Alex Elman leads a miserable life |
| B．Hanley brings Alex Elman much fun |
| C．Alex Elman gets along well with her pet |
| D．a blind woman tastes success in wine business |
