1 . In the first class of college, our teacher gave us a special task — get to know someone we didn’t know before. When I looked around, I found a wrinkled, little old lady
From that day on, we became
At the end of the term, Rose was invited to
Finally, Rose finished the college degree successfully. A month after graduation Rose died
| A．improving | B．approaching | C．reminding | D．donating |
| A．jokingly | B．absolutely | C．entirely | D．obviously |
| A．sensitive | B．scared | C．awkward | D．curious |
| A．consequence | B．application | C．challenge | D．strategy |
| A．general | B．distant | C．instant | D．generous |
| A．addicted | B．interested | C．excited | D．moved |
| A．character | B．arrangement | C．opportunity | D．experience |
| A．remove | B．deliver | C．inform | D．protest |
| A．calls for | B．contributes to | C．turns up | D．lies in |
| A．journal | B．profit | C．talent | D．image |
| A．complaints | B．regrets | C．wishes | D．goals |
| A．impress | B．survive | C．fear | D．confirm |
| A．peacefully | B．patiently | C．faithfully | D．sincerely |
| A．in favor of | B．in honor of | C．in spite of | D．in charge of |
| A．phenomenon | B．destination | C．comment | D．lesson |
2 . Jane had lived her entire life in a small town.
On her 65th birthday, Jane made a brave decision. She sold all her
Yet, after a few weeks, she began feeling
It
About twenty minutes later, she collected her
As we journey
So don’t lose
| A．When | B．Although | C．If | D．Because |
| A．belongings | B．goods | C．materials | D．decorations |
| A．boring | B．normal | C．familiar | D．amazing |
| A．curious | B．nervous | C．painful | D．shocked |
| A．Regularly | B．Eventually | C．Currently | D．Originally |
| A．showed | B．happened | C．seemed | D．proved |
| A．disappeared | B．moved | C．responded | D．apologized |
| A．happiness | B．doubt | C．sadness | D．pride |
| A．limited | B．missed | C．ended | D．gone |
| A．emotions | B．memories | C．comments | D．tips |
| A．now and then | B．all of a sudden | C．sooner or later | D．as usual |
| A．impressed | B．peaceful | C．concerned | D．thankful |
| A．across | B．around | C．through | D．toward |
| A．However | B．Therefore | C．Thus | D．Besides |
| A．chance | B．balance | C．heart | D．interest |
A few years ago, the company I worked for sent my wife and me to live in New York for a year.
I’ve always loved running, so I was really happy when I found out I lived next to Central Park. It meant that every morning I could go for a run before I went to work. Because a lot of people had told me to be careful of robbers in the park, so usually I didn’t take anything with me. How could they rob me if I didn’t have anything?
But one morning, my wife gave me a $10 bill and asked me to buy some bread on the way. It was a beautiful morning and the park was quiet with very few people walking or jogging around. While I was running through the park, another jogger knocked into me. He apologized and continued running. For a while, I didn’t think too much of it. However, when I noticed the wide path where I was running, I thought it was kind of strange. The warning of robbers in the park occurred to me. “It could have been a robber!” I suddenly became alarmed, so I checked my pocket and found that the money was missing. Without thinking twice, I ran after that jogger. I finally caught up and held him by the arm. I shouted, “Give me the $10 bill! Now!” I am not usually a hot-headed (性急的) person, but I got really angry this time. I couldn’t believe the robbery was actually happening to me. Filled with anger, I shook my fist at him. This seemed to frighten him. He quickly put his hand in his pocket and gave me the money. Then he ran away as fast as he could.
I bought the bread and went home. As soon as I got home, I couldn’t wait to tell my wife my story. “You won’t believe what happened to me,” I started with pride. She immediately stopped me, “I know, you left the money for the bread on the kitchen table.”
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Looking at the money on the table, I stood there, shocked.
____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________For several days, I waited at the same place.
____________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________I had been waiting with my fellow graduating students for the moment when I would walk out onto the stage to receive my degree certificate. I was happy and relieved, yet worried and anxious about the future. What was my first job going to be like? This short walk was going to launch me into a whole new world. How would I manage? Would I be able to carve out a career for myself? My name was called and I moved into the lights. I heard the applause. I knew my parents would be watching and smiling at each other and I tried to relax. I held my certificate against my breast and smiled at the camera. Before I knew it, the ceremony was over and the curtain had come down on my university life. Where had the time gone? Four years had disappeared in a flash. I stood with my certificate in hand and reflected on those four years.
I remembered arriving at university on my very first day, pausing at the gate to look down the long drive. I could feel my hands sweating slightly and I had to hold on tight to my suitcase. Would I be able to fit in? Did this new phase of my life mean that I was now mature enough to be entirely responsible for my own successes and failures? I took a few seconds to compose myself and to take in the scene that was laid out before me. The campus was alive with people. Anxious parents and excited students were talking in small groups, carrying suitcases or walking in and out of dormitory buildings. I wondered if the first day of school was always such a circus. I took a deep breath and carried on into the heart of the campus. Little did I know that I was about to experience the best four years of my life.
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I remembered cooperating with my classmates on group projects.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________I heard my parents’ voices calling me and I returned to the moment.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5 . Do you want to be a successful person? Would you like to know how successful people usually think and what drives them? Here I am going to tell you the key to success that successful people share.
First of all, successful people never blame someone or something outside of themselves for their failure to move ahead. They realize that their future lies in their own hands. They understand that they can’t control things in life, such as nature, the past and other people. At the same time, they are well aware that they can control their own thoughts and actions. They take responsibility for their life.
Perhaps what most separates successful people from others is that they live life “on purpose” — they are doing what they believe they are put here to do. In their opinion, having a purpose in their life is the most important element that enables them to deal with things around them. They hold the view that when they live their life “on purpose”, their main concern is to do the job right. They love what they do. People want to do business with them because of their commitment. To live their life “on purpose”, successful people find a cause they believe in and create a business around it.
Besides, they never give up easily. Once they have set up goals in their life, they are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals. Top achievers always bear in mind what they don’t have forever. Rather than see this as negative or depressing, they would use the knowledge to spur themselves on and go after what they want energetically and passionately.
So keep in mind what successful people always hold to be true so that you will have a clear idea of what you should do to be successful in life.
1. The underlined word “spur” in Paragraph 4 probably means “_____”.| A．interest | B．equip | C．depend | D．inspire |
| A．Taking responsibility for their life. | B．Never giving up easily. |
| C．Having a goal in life. | D．Controlling things in life. |
| A．you should set up a realistic goal |
| B．you should know your strengths and weaknesses |
| C．you shouldn’t blame others for your failure |
| D．you shouldn’t waste time |
| A．explain the exact meaning of success | B．share with readers the key to success |
| C．tell his experience of achieving success | D．encourage readers to learn from failure |
6 . Most people as they get older start to take life a little slower and enjoy a leisurely pace. But it is not for Kerry, who
The super fit gran
“At the age of 47 I made a list of things I wanted to
| A．kept on | B．took up | C．hoped for | D．subscribed to |
| A．intentions | B．doubts | C．tasks | D．feelings |
| A．promised | B．predicted | C．checked | D．claimed |
| A．remembered | B．indicated | C．battled | D．regretted |
| A．shape | B．hobby | C．emotion | D．aspect |
| A．occasionally | B．permanently | C．constantly | D．purposely |
| A．curious | B．competitive | C．confident | D．awkward |
| A．make | B．try | C．quit | D．win |
| A．old | B．fat | C．weak | D．sensitive |
| A．Still | B．Hardly | C．Never | D．Only |
| A．cross | B．cut | C．see | D．drop |
| A．races | B．parades | C．parties | D．shows |
| A．opinion | B．strategy | C．path | D．dream |
| A．memory | B．danger | C．power | D．negativity |
| A．contact | B．protect | C．inspire | D．warn |
The watch was my grandfather’s. He hung it by his bed. The face was marked with elegant Roman numbers and the case was gold. My grandfather got it after his fifty years of devotion to his company. I often gazed at it longingly as I sat with my grandfather after school.
The day I told him of my success in the examinations, he was pleased, “You’ll be going to the new school next, Peter. Remember you’ll need plenty of patience. That’s the right way.” I nodded when handing him the watch.
The next morning my mother told me he had died in his sleep and left me his watch. For safety, my mother was to put it away until she considered me old enough to look after it. I protested so strongly that she finally agreed to hang it in the kitchen where I could always see it.
The summer soon ended and it was time for me to enter the new school. I never made friends easily, and for a time I got along well with some boys. One of them was a rich fellow whose way of impressing us was to parade his belongings before us. Everything Crawley had was better than ours — until he showed off his watch.
“I have a better watch than that,” I announced, attempting to impress them. “Well, show it to us,” Crawley sneered (冷笑) in disbelief. Embarrassed, I promised to bring it to them that afternoon.
Considering there was no way to persuade my mother to let me take the watch, I decided to wait for her to step outside and slip the watch into my pocket. So I did. After lunch, as I was too excited to wait for the return bus, I got on my bike.
I rode fast, excitement crowding in. At the sight of school, I sped up. Then out of nowhere, a little dog ran out into my path. I pulled at my brakes (刹车) so hard that the bike stopped suddenly and I fell over. I picked myself up and put a trembling hand into my pocket. Empty!
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Searching for the watch anxiously, I was about to burst into tears when I spotted something shiny.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Anger, awkwardness and sadness seized (抓住) me.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________8 . “You like pottery (陶艺) more than you like science,” a family member said. I knew the comment was made lightly, but I felt frustrated and disappointed. I had worked so hard to achieve a balance between my scientific and artistic pursuits. Why was my creative side still seen as a weakness and a disturbance, in opposition to my science?
As a little girl, I created art by breaking up eggshells, dying them, and gluing them to a cloth. I also conducted science experiments with my mom, a high school science teacher, on the back porch. In college, I loved my chemistry courses and research work, and I regarded cooking as my creative outlet, hosting weekly dinner parties for friends.
Yet I heard time and again that creative expression and science were not possible together. When my college roommate concluded with a personality test that I was the “creative” type, the rest of my friends said that couldn’t be right, because “I was a scientist and therefore was not creative.” As I was preparing for graduate school and studying for the chemistry GRE test, I realized I talked about science the same way I would paint a picture, explaining concepts in broad strokes (粗线条地) — in part because I struggled to remember technical scientific terminology. I worried my way of thinking wouldn’t fit in with “proper” scientists. In the end, though, my desire to pursue a scientific career won out. I figured I would continue to find a way to balance my research with my creative pursuits, regardless of what others thought.
When in graduate school I found pottery, which I could pursue on evenings and weekends. After my first class, I was attracted. It has inspired me to more intentionally mix my art with my science. I keep a notebook at my lab table filled with words of mug (马克杯) designs inspired by my experiments. Through the challenge of getting my paper into its core concepts in such a way that it could be displayed on a mug, I gained a better understanding of my project. Pottery has now turned into a way for me to train my brain to be creative and think outside the box.
1. What did the family member think of the author’s pottery?| A．It still had room for improvement. |
| B．It would relax the author in her work. |
| C．It made up for the author’s weakness. |
| D．It did no good to the author’s career. |
| A．By dying eggshells. |
| B．By performing science experiments. |
| C．By doing some cooking. |
| D．By attending social parties. |
| A．She didn’t get along well with her classmates in college. |
| B．She nearly gave up her pursuit of art. |
| C．She once doubted her way of understanding science. |
| D．She was angry about being misunderstood by friends. |
| A．The notebook. | B．The design of the mug. |
| C．The challenge of the paper. | D．The author’s science research. |
9 . I grew up in a small North Dakota town. Dad was a farmer, so we kids were taught
One summer day, Dad asked me to back his truck up.
As a teenager, I usually worked part-time on Uncle Jim’s farm in my
The “can do”
| A．early | B．hard | C．recently | D．fast |
| A．Frankly | B．Skillfully | C．Intentionally | D．Unfortunately |
| A．curious | B．scared | C．embarrassed | D．hesitant |
| A．mad | B．pleased | C．worried | D．proud |
| A．entire | B．quality | C．spare | D．limited |
| A．emptied | B．operated | C．placed | D．transformed |
| A．built up | B．ran into | C．tore down | D．passed by |
| A．claimed | B．doubted | C．worried | D．assumed |
| A．disappointment | B．surprise | C．fright | D．satisfaction |
| A．decline | B．suffer | C．grow | D．change |
| A．admiration | B．judgment | C．affection | D．attitude |
| A．tough | B．confusing | C．relaxing | D．valuable |
| A．comment | B．expectation | C．reflection | D．plan |
| A．broken | B．recognized | C．refreshed | D．raised |
| A．justice | B．belief | C．interest | D．courage |
10 . There are a lot of good and logical reasons not to say what you think, especially when others disagree. Offending people isn’t nice, and it can lead to social consequences. Nodding along might seem practical or charitable, despite the fact that you are screaming disagreement on the inside. However, the true act of charity is to say what you really think. Your committing to complete honesty can be an act of love.
One of my friends takes honesty to the extreme. He calls talks with others that get to the complete truth of things, even difficult admissions in views, “love conversations”. Once two people have such a conversation, his theory goes, they can understand each other and act accordingly. As a philosophical matter, my friend’s belief of “love conversations” is Kantian. The German philosopher Kant argued that lying to others prevents them from making choices based on the truth, which is contradictory with friendship and love.
In the 1990s, Brad Blanton argued when the truth is hard to accept, telling it can have costs, including social disapproval and broken relationships. But it is worth the consequences because it can reduce stress, deepen connections with others, and reduce emotional reactivity.
Both sides can’t be right here. Either Kant, Blanton, and my friend are embracing a faulty theory, or our society is missing a big opportunity for moral growth. You might say that little white lies are a society lubricant (润滑剂). They can even seem virtuous. After telling a white lie, I sometimes pat myself on the back, turning my evil into a virtue inside my own head. Some lies might make life easier, but they don’t necessarily make life happier. I wouldn’t want my wife to tell me what she thinks I want to hear, as if we were strangers avoiding conflict, and finding out that she had done so would make me feel distrusted and therefore hurt our relationship. I don’t want a stranger to tell me she likes my writing if she doesn’t, because unreal compliments make me suspicious.
1. What can we learn from “my friend” in Paragraph 2?| A．He admits other’s views with great honest. | B．He practices Kant’s philosophical theories. |
| C．He loves to discuss philosophy with others. | D．He prevents himself from difficult choices. |
| A．stressful and emotional | B．unacceptable and harmful |
| C．thoughtless but courageous | D．challenging but deserving |
| A．To distinguish his wife from a stranger. | B．To show his wife’s honesty and virtue. |
| C．To argue for the importance of frankness. | D．To stress avoiding suspicion in marriage. |
| A．Telling the truth can be an act of love. | B．The route to happier life lies in lies. |
| C．Little white lies are actually virtuous. | D．Our society is being corrupted by lies. |
