I can still remember the afternoon when we climbed the mountain as if it were yesterday.
It was a sunny day. Eager to spend some time outside, I went up the mountain with my uncle. The mountain was hard
On the way back down, my uncle asked me a question,
“I have no idea,” I answered
“There is no doubt that a person
I once wanted to be a top student but the hard work needed meant
2 . Two enterprising graduates are selling advertising space on their faces to pay off a combined student debt of almost ￡50,000. Faced with a challenging job market, former Cambridge students Ed Moyse and Ross Harper are painting different company logos on to their faces.
Anyone can buy the advertising space, from businesses to individuals or groups, on a day-to-day basis. The logos — which can be viewed at www.buymyface.co.uk — are then seen by everyone they pass as they go about their daily business.
The graduates, who met on their first day at Selwyn College, Cambridge, started the business on October 1 and said they made ￡3,500 in the first 10 days. The boys said they are “armed only with massive student debt and a firm grasp of the principles of viral advertising” as they attempt to survive for a year merely on income earned by transforming themselves into walking advertisements.
Mr. Harper, 21, from Greenwich, south London, who studied neuroscience, said, “It’s our untraditional way of paying off our student debt. The graduate job market is incredibly unfriendly, and so we thought we’d try and go through it altogether. We’ve seen so many students unsuccessfully applying for jobs, only to eventually settle in a career that they never really wanted. It’s just something a bit different and has taken off quite nicely.”
Mr. Moyse, 22, from Poole, Dorset, said, “It is well beyond our expectations, but we always knew it had value and is novel and crazy.”
“So far, one of the main contributors has been online betting agency, Paddy Power,” Mr. Harper said.
Mr. Moyse, who studied economics, and Mr. Harper came up with the idea after graduating in the summer as a scheme that would not require much investment.
1. The two graduates set up a business of selling advertising space on their faces because ________.| A．they both have handsome faces | B．they have gained best education |
| C．they have student loan to repay | D．they can possibly find no jobs |
| A．earned them a lot of money | B．helped them to pay off the debt |
| C．increased their exposure | D．met their wildest expectations |
| A．customer | B．debtor | C．investor | D．designer |
| A．fictional | B．meaningful | C．unusual | D．critical |
3 . When ten-year-old Reese Osterberg lost her Fresno County, California, home to one of the largest wildfires in state history early last fall, she had a very pressing concern: did anyone grab her baseball cards?
No one had. With a houseful of kids and dogs and a farm’s worth of horses to evacuate, the family forgot the cards during the stress. Naturally, the diehard (顽固的) San Francisco Giants and Little League lefty with a swing as smooth as butter was upset. When she watched the Giants on TV, she would lay out each player’s card on the floor in his corresponding field position. “I like baseball cards because they are pictures of people doing happy stuff — doing what they love, and what I love.” said Reese.
Reese’s loss touched the hearts of the Fresno County fire department, which posted her story on its Facebook page with a request to help Reese restore her baseball card collection. That, in turn, touched the heart of Kevin Ashford.
Ashford knew exactly where Reese could find replacement cards: in his garage. He had more than 25,000 in his collection, with an exact value of 35,000 to 50,000. Ashford had been thinking about selling them when he saw the fire department’s post. “I wasn’t really doing anything with them,” said Ashford,“I thought I could take care of this problem rather quickly.”
First volunteers transported the cards from Ashford’s garage to theirs and then surprised Reese during a tour of the firehouse. Towers of Ashford’s cards were piled in front of the fire engine. After thanking Ashford, Reese was quick to share the thousands of baseball cards she received from Ashford and donors around the country with other kids affected by California’s Creek Fire.
She’s gotten so many, in fact, that she started Cards From Reese, an organization that collects cards and donates them to those in need. Reese is especially happy to part with Los Angeles Dodgers cards. As she explains it: “Go Giants!”
1. Why did Reese lose her baseball cards?| A．She had a very large concern. |
| B．The family forgot where Reese put the cards. |
| C．Her house was burnt by the destructive. |
| D．Someone from a houseful of kids took away her cards. |
| A．flee | B．resettle | C．raise | D．withdraw |
| A．wanted to sell the cards to the department. |
| B．transported the cards to the firehouse |
| C．decided to donate his cards to Reese |
| D．prepared to sell his cards to Reese In his his garage |
| A．Give cards to people in need |
| B．share her passion for baseball with others |
| C．collect all her cards for some benefits |
| D．get help from the Fresno County Fire department |
Couponing for Charity
Feeding 5,000 people every month is a tall order. For Lauren Puryear — single mother, full-time mental health therapist, and founder of the nonprofit For the Love of Others — the secret ingredient is coupons. Lots and lots of coupons(优惠券).
The meals themselves are often quite impressive. 29-year-old Puryear prides
Still, she manages to do it all for nothing,
Puryear inherited her passion
Puryear got into the act when she was ten. If there were leftovers from dinner, Smith would put them in a container,
When Puryear founded her nonprofit, she chose the name For the Love of Others to honor her grandmother, who passed away in 2012. “Love was just the central core of her being,’’ Puryear says.
Mrs. Smith would certainly be proud of her granddaughter’s efforts and her impact. At one meal in Baltimore, three boys asked
“Stories like that, that’s why we do what we do,” Puryear says. “Something as simple as couponing,
5 . Intentions matter
When my daughter was very young, she broke my favorite cup. She was moving it aside, and it slipped from her hand and broke on the floor. I loved that cup and was really disappointed, but
I can’t help but feel that our modern world does not
There are
A friend of mine says, “It’s not how the message is intended; it’s how it’s received.” He means that we need to be
We all at times express ourselves poorly, make errors of judgment or have a moment of
The internet is full of people seeking to make things worse.
I get that there is much to be angry about. The world is full of injustice. The actions and words of other people can cause harm;
But intention has to matter too, for us to make sense of the world, and for us to effect change.
On a more practical level, understanding intention can help us respond to people with
Did the person throw the cup, or did it slip from their hands? Now, more than ever, I think the answer matters.
1.| A．of course | B．after all | C．above all | D．for example |
| A．choose | B．happen | C．mean | D．expect |
| A．learn from | B．object to | C．come across | D．care for |
| A．business | B．intentions | C．emotions | D．relationships |
| A．endless | B．unique | C．golden | D．ideal |
| A．hopeful | B．careful | C．cheerful | D．helpful |
| A．misinterpreted | B．reported | C．explained | D．commented |
| A．weakness | B．madness | C．carelessness | D．hopelessness |
| A．So | B．But | C．Or | D．And |
| A．purposefully | B．generally | C．hardly | D．occasionally |
| A．however | B．besides | C．therefore | D．although |
| A．Expressing | B．Understanding | C．Indicating | D．Returning |
| A．sadness | B．kindness | C．happiness | D．illness |
| A．make use of | B．look forward to | C．talk about | D．shut down |
| A．rarely | B．specially | C．suddenly | D．simply |
6 . Peanuts to This
Proudly reading my words, I glanced around the room, only to find my classmates bearing big smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes. Confused, I glanced toward my stone-faced teacher. Having no choice, I slowly raised the report I had slaved over, hoping to hide myself. “What could be causing everyone to act this way?”
Quickly, I flashed back to the day Miss Lancelot gave me the task. This was the first real talk I received in my new school. It seemed simple: go on the Internet and find information about a man named George Washington. Since my idea of history came from an ancient teacher in my home country, I had never heard of that name before. As I searched the name of this fellow, it became obvious that there were two people having the same name who looked completely different! One invented hundreds of uses for peanuts, while the other led some sort of army across America. I stared at the screen, wondering which one my teacher meant. I called my grandfather for a golden piece of advice: flip (掷) a coin. Heads—the commander, and tails—the peanuts guy. Ah! Tails, my report would be about the great man who invented peanut butter, George Washington Carver.
But now, I was totally lost. Oh well, I lowered the paper and sat down at my desk, burning to find out what I had done wrong. As a classmate began his report, it all became clear, “My report is on George Washington, the man who started the American Revolution.” The whole world became quite! How could I know that she meant that George Washington?
Obviously, my grade was awful. Heartbroken but fearless, I decided to turn this around. I talked to Miss Lancelot, but she insisted: No re-dos; no new grade. I felt that the punishment was not justified, and I believed I should have a second chance. Consequently, I threw myself heartily into my work for the rest of the school year. Ten months later, that chance unfolded as I found myself sitting in the headmaster’s office with my grandfather, now having an entirely different conversation. I smiled and flashed back to the embarrassing moment at the beginning of the year as the headmaster informed me of my decision to skip the sixth grade. Justice is sweet!
1. What did the author’s classmates think about his report?| A．Adequate. | B．Ridiculous. | C．Boring. | D．Puzzling. |
| A．He knew little about American history. |
| B．He followed the advice and flipped a coin. |
| C．He forgot his teacher’s instruction. |
| D．He was new at the school. |
| A．annoyed | B．ashamed | C．ready | D．eager |
| A．by redoing his task | B．through his own efforts |
| C．with the help of his grandfather | D．under the guidance of his headmaster |
7 . The Bus Crash Angel
My wife Susan and my daughter Alyce was once involved in a serious traffic accident. When I arrived on the scene of accident, I saw my daughter was standing on the corner crying, covered in tiny pieces of glass but uninjured. Susan wasn’t so lucky. But she was alive. It turned out she had broken nearly every bone in her body.
More than two years later, when Susan and I were at an event at our temple, we were lucky enough to find an African American woman there who had lent us a helping hand. She had seen Alyce standing by the side of the wrecked car, crying, and approached her, asking, “Is that your mom in there?”
Alyce nodded, and the woman said, “Let’s pray together.” Sweet, innocent Alyce looked at this woman wearing a cross around her neck and said, “OK, but you should know I’m Jewish.” The woman smiled. She took Alyce’s hand, held it to her chest, and said, “That’s OK. In here we’re all the same.”
After the accident, she said, she had continued to pray for our family. We had our picture taken together, and we realized we had never been formally introduced, so I told her my name was Doug, and she paused, as if maybe she hadn’t heard me. I repeated, “Doug, like Douglas.” She looked at us and said, “Wait, your name is Susan?” Susan nodded. “And your name is Douglas?” The woman put her hand over her heart. “Oh my goodness,” she said. “My name is Susan Douglas.”
1. Which of the following statement is true?| A．The author’s wife and daughter lost their lives in a serious traffic accident. |
| B．Alyce refused to pray with the woman. |
| C．The African American woman volunteered to help Alyce. |
| D．The Dougs met Susan Douglas in the temple as planned. |
| A．both she and Alyce wanted to reach the author at that time |
| B．she and Alyce were both angels in this unexpected bus crash |
| C．despite their different religious belief, she and Alyce had the same wish |
| D．it was a coincidence that she and the author’s wife had the same first name |
| A．disappointed | B．surprised | C．honored | D．confused |
Hidden History
In 1939 Miriam Brookfield’s life in Germany took an unexpected turn. The 14-year - old’s father was arrested by Nazi authorities, and he was told he would
“If we
Her mother found out about a steamship
“It saved my life,” Brookfield, now 97, says. “It gave me experiences that I’ll never forget.”
The hardships of many Shanghai refugees such as Brookfield’s were a central part of an exhibition titled “Hidden History: Recounting the Shanghai Jewish Story”, in the Holocaust Museum LA that ran from April until the end of August.
“We called the exhibition hidden history,
The exhibition pieced together a convincing tale of struggle and survival of resettled Jews in Shanghai during World War II. It explored a chapter in history that is little known to Jews and non-Jews in the US, Gessler says.
Although the exhibition has ended, it drew so much public interest that the museum decided to make
Another half-dozen kites had taken flight. People had started to gather in, with tea cups in their hands, eyes
I balanced the spool (线轴) in my left hand and fed about three feet of string. The yellow kite dangled
Around, kids chased each other, and
10 . To celebrate his friend’s birthday, Luke Fortune drove from a small town in Central Oregon to Portland, where he parked his car in a paid garage overnight. The next morning, he discovered that the car’s window had been smashed, along with his dreams for the future: His backpack and computer were gone.
“Everything important to me was on that computer,” said Fortune, 21, who is studying to become a paramedic.
Two days after the theft, another young man was standing outside his apartment, also in Portland. Masoud Almazrouei, 29, was an exchange student from the United Arab Emirates. He had been approached by a man who said he had a computer for sale. Only $200. Almazrouei, who had been in the United States for only a year, admits now that he was naïve. But he needed a computer so he bought it, took it home, and turned it on. Within seconds, he saw files and photographs.
“I wondered who would sell a computer with all of this on it,” he said. “I realized it could be stolen.” Almazrouei found what appeared to be the owner’s cell phone number and called it.
Fortune didn’t trust this guy with a thick accent and thought it was a scam.
Soon after, a police officer called Fortune to say that a man had dropped the computer off and had said he was sorry. He passed along the man’s number.
Fortune called and thanked Almazrouei and insisted on paying him a reward of $200, the money he was out. Almazrouei refused. He said it was his mistake to buy the computer from someone he didn’t know. More important, he said, it was his honor and duty as a Muslim to return the property to the rightful owner. “I saw a photo of this man in his paramedic uniform,” Almazrouei said. “They help people. He is a good man. I don’t want my money back.”
Still, the encounter produced its own kind of rewards. For Fortune, it was a lesson in cultural awareness amid the sometimes bitter national debate about immigrants, especially from the Arab world. “I’m from a small mainly white town,” Fortune said. “I’ve never met a Muslim. He’s a good man.”
Almazrouei’s lesson was perhaps more complex. When a story about the two young men’s encounter made it to the local papers, Almazrouei received a call from Wim Wiewel, the president of Portland State University, where Almazrouei is studying economics.
“We thought since you gave back the laptop, we should give you a laptop so that you’ll have one,” Wiewel told him. “We’re very proud of you. It was a great story, but you did the right thing.”
1. What is the correct order of the events that happened?①The computer was stolen in a paid garage.
②Almazmouei found a lot of files and photographs in the computer.
③Unsuspecting, Almazrouei bought the computer at $200.
④Almazrouei called Fortune but it didn’t work.
| A．①②③④ | B．①③②④ | C．③④②① | D．②①③④ |
| A．trick | B．game | C．gamble | D．accident |
| A．Kindness will eventually pay off one day. |
| B．Almazrouei got admitted into a renowned university. |
| C．Fortune could seek his dream with his computer back. |
| D．Both of the young men learned something in their own way. |
| A．Theft is common in Portland. |
| B．Almazrouei was short of money. |
| C．Fortune could not realize his dreams without his computer. |
| D．Fortune used to discriminate against Muslims. |
