1 . If you have that one friend, you're rich. That one friend is different from all the others, dear as they may be.
I met Jeanine on my
Heard a girl's
When I saw her — tiny, delicate, with beautiful eyelashes — I
“Well, I'm nobody,” Jeanine said.
That was it.The two of us were instant
Jeanine wanted to sing on the Broadway stage,
As high school
A.last | B.first | C.next | D.second |
A.put | B.stood | C.signed | D.turned |
A.lost | B.met | C.found | D.forgot |
A.Walking | B.running | C.Standing | D.Jumping |
A.noise | B.sound | C.rumour | D.voice |
A.smiled | B.laughed | C.cried | D.wept |
A.everybody | B.anybody | C.nobody | D.each |
A.enemies | B.friends | C.classmates | D.roommates |
A.happiness | B.Surprise | C.shocks | D.sorrows |
A.feelings | B.Emotions | C.dreams | D.hopes |
A.while | B.since | C.every time | D.meanwhile |
A.went | B.lost | C.progressed | D.missed |
A.loved | B.preferred | C.satisfied | D.hated |
A.devotion | B.Loyalty | C.sincerity | D.treasure |
A.opposites | B.similarities | C.mistakes | D.friends |
2 . My best friend traveled to stay with our family last weekend. When she arrived, she went straight to the kitchen and, without asking, ate a spoonful of raspberry jam and some dried fruit. She wasn’t being rude. I knew she would do this. We’ve known each other for almost 20 years. She can eat anything she wants from my kitchen. Indeed, I bought her favorite fruits and snacks at the shop that morning.
Our long weekend together was luxuriously (惬意地) simple. I was recovering from surgery (手术) and couldn’t go to shopping malls. We passed the time running errands (做杂事), going to the post office and collecting dry cleaning. We drank way too many cappuccinos. But we talked about every little detail of our lives.
There’s never been a quiet moment in our friendship. We’ve lived in different cities for almost a decade. Reunions demand constant conversation. our personalities are matched, to be sure, and a shared history is indescribably valuable. We were competitors in high school before bonding over a bad experience. Then we discovered the many interests that we had in common. Our friendship cemented (巩固) itself quickly. We stayed companions through law school, through our first jobs and our first boyfriends. We supported each other through break-ups and breakthroughs. Ours is a friendship for the ages.
There is something special about friends who know everyone and everything about you. They are rare. These are the people you’ve chosen to witness your life. They have seen the bright lights of achievement, the depths of despair (绝望) and the boring routine (平淡乏味) of the in-between.
It’s special to unpack feelings and frustrations without wasting time filling in the blanks. As my long weekend shows, with such friends we don’t have to “do”, we simply have to “be”. We drop the act, the performance, the public version of ourselves.
The special friendships are those which never fail to delight, the continuation of which is worth the extra effort, despite distance and difference sneaking (溜进) into your separate lives. I had the very great joy of this reminder last weekend. I’m lucky to have found this friend, to see a future where her companionship remains. Being together is perfection.
1. What happened during her best friend’s visit?A.They enjoyed an eventful long weekend. | B.They bonded by having long conversations. |
C.They made their favorite snacks and coffee. | D.They talked about recent news events. |
A.they help each other deal with the boredom of life |
B.they prefer to witness each other’s lives from far away |
C.they try to show each other their best selves |
D.they are comfortable being themselves when together |
A.Charm comes from differences. | B.Politeness brings best friends closer. |
C.Good friendships last naturally. | D.Good friendships need devotion. |
A.describe what her best friend is like | B.tell about the friendship she treasures |
C.explore the key aspects of friendship | D.express thanks to her best friend |
3 . Sometimes people around you can change your life. The change may not be sudden or
One thing I’ve learned from Julia is how to balance
Last year I hated studying vocabulary, but I loved playing on my computer. Julia
If it weren’t for Julia I probably wouldn’t have
A.simple | B.impressive | C.necessary | D.slight |
A.changes | B.pictures | C.ideas | D.advances |
A.attitude | B.character | C.life | D.habit |
A.taught | B.served | C.offered | D.bought |
A.work | B.money | C.study | D.time |
A.plan | B.keep | C.move | D.run |
A.never | B.seldom | C.yet | D.still |
A.brave | B.determined | C.careful | D.patient |
A.important | B.easy | C.possible | D.interesting |
A.shared | B.remembered | C.combined | D.separated |
A.practice | B.play | C.invent | D.improve |
A.challenged | B.invited | C.permitted | D.reminded |
A.washing up | B.looking for | C.filling up | D.fighting for |
A.words | B.speeches | C.sentences | D.stories |
A.recognized | B.observed | C.imagined | D.realized |
4 . It is a blue, cotton shirt. The shirt belonged to my
We shared the shirt, and as days
At times David also talked about his father. Usually it was late at night, in the dormitory just before bed, and the
Time passed and we had to say goodbye to each other. After lots of hugging, and words of thanks, we eventually departed. It was on my
I put aside the note, with
A.colleague | B.brother | C.roommate | D.professor |
A.Because | B.Unless | C.While | D.Even if |
A.came across | B.went by | C.ran out | D.came up |
A.victories | B.belongings | C.scholarships | D.stories |
A.happened | B.refused | C.struggled | D.failed |
A.turn out | B.stand out | C.figure out | D.drop out |
A.interview | B.discussion | C.conversation | D.debate |
A.failure | B.depression | C.poverty | D.illness |
A.connection | B.distance | C.difference | D.conflict |
A.first | B.last | C.next | D.second |
A.touched | B.pulled | C.removed | D.folded |
A.attached | B.applied | C.adjusted | D.admitted |
A.guidance | B.devotion | C.friendship | D.mercy |
A.less than | B.other than | C.more than | D.rather than |
A.sympathetic | B.grateful | C.joyful | D.painful |
1. 表达感激之情;2. 回忆各种收获;3. 发出邀请。
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Dear Peter,
I am writing to
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Yours,
Li Hua
6 . Michael Todd wore the same old clothes for the first three weeks of school. When some kids began to
The kids taking the
"He looked
Reflecting on the day he was called to the hall, Todd said it "marked the
A.recall | B.notice | C.doubt | D.confirm |
A.criticism | B.concern | C.laughter | D.assistance |
A.lead | B.chance | C.risk | D.interest |
A.privately | B.occasionally | C.essentially | D.constantly |
A.clicked | B.emerged | C.passed | D.lasted |
A.once | B.if | C.when | D.before |
A.hatched | B.recommended | C.demanded | D.promised |
A.rushed | B.wandered | C.saw | D.hunted |
A.classroom | B.canteen | C.hall | D.restroom |
A.innocent | B.scared | C.aggressive | D.amazed |
A.struggle | B.apology | C.preparation | D.excuse |
A.get down to | B.go on with | C.make up for | D.keep away from |
A.blown away | B.turned away | C.struck down | D.let down |
A.challenge | B.routine | C.expectation | D.transformation |
A.hungry | B.alone | C.helpless | D.different |
Boys like to be considered to be brave, but what kind of things can be considered to be brave? It is not a question that can be answered by words, but by the actual deed. A boy with the name Henry gave us a good example. Ronny and Henry were two friends in the same class. They always played together and went home together. One day as Ronny and Henry were going home after school, they saw some people fighting in the street corner. Ronny said excitedly, “Some people are fighting! Let’s go and have a look!” But Henry refused, “It’s none of our business. We’d better go home and don’t get close to them. Also our parents are expecting to have dinner with us together at home and I don’t want them to worry about me.”
“You are a coward, and afraid to go,” said Ronny, and off he ran to the spot with some other boys. Henry had to go home alone and didn't think about it anymore.
But Ronny thought Henry was a coward and told all the boys that. They laughed at him a great deal. From then on, they looked down upon Henry and didn’t want to play with him.
Henry was sad but he wasn’t angry with Ronny for his rude behavior, because he had learned that true courage was shown most in bearing misunderstanding when it was not deserved, and that he ought to be afraid of nothing but doing wrong. Thus, he just ignored the other boys’ laughter and continued to stick to his thought and go to school and study as well. However, Ronny didn’t invite Henry to go home with him anymore. Instead, he had his new friends who also thought Henry was a coward. Every day after school, they didn't go home directly but went to the river or somewhere to play games and had lots of fun.
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A few days later, something terrible happened to Ronny.
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At that moment, Henry happened to pass by.
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关键词:adjust to 适应,communicate with,交流,class activity 班级活动
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Fifteen years ago, I was born in a big family. I had been taught that money couldn't buy everything ever since I was a little kid. My parents are the most hard-working people I have ever seen. As much as my parents tried to teach me these values, some could only be learned through personal experiences.
As a child, I would sit in the church trying to concentrate on the words of the priest (牧师), but my attention was soon attracted by the shining gold and the diamonds worn by the Saturday churchgoers. As my eyes began to wander, I noticed men dressed in their tailored suits and shirts accompanied by women in their designer dresses with matching handbags and shoes.
My family, on the other hand, was the opposite of rich. Our hand-me-down clothes had been washed so many times that the colors had become dull and lifeless. Although this revealed the money struggles of our large family, our faces were always washed and hair neatly combed. When sitting on the old big red and white truck after the service, I pictured the lives led by those driving their brand-new cars, wishing I would be one of them.
I never stopped those fantasies, even when I was in middle school. Since it was a private school, most of the children came from wealthy families. As a result, I constantly felt ashamed. Although I could hide my lack of wealth at school by wearing our school uniforms, my poverty was embarrassingly apparent on weekends with my classmates wearing designer jeans and I had no choice but to wear my sisters’ old jeans. I never fitted in with my classmates. To my relief, there was only one girl named Julie who opened her heart to me. I was attached to her like a shadow. Soon, her birthday was approaching. Julie invited me to attend her birthday party.
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However, I grew upset as I couldn't afford a gift.
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When she opened the gift box, my heart was too nervous to beat.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________10 . Life continually requires that we write down a few words of thanks: for holidays, meals, presents or people’s place in our hearts. However, too often, our messages end up flat or somewhat unconvincing. To make our messages more effective, we might take a lesson from the history of art.
To some extent, what distinguishes great from common art is the level of detail with which the world has been studied. A talented artist is, first and foremost, someone who takes us into the specifics of the reasons why an experience or a place felt valuable. They don’t merely tell us that spring is ‘nice’, they zero in on the particular contributing factors to this niceness: leaves that have the softness of a newborn’s hands, the contrast between a warm sun and a sharp breeze, the soft cry of baby blackbirds....
Some of the reason why great artists are rare is that our minds are not well set up to understand why we feel as we do. But we can be confident if our minds have been affected, the reasons why they’ve been so will be somewhere, waiting to be uncovered. We stand to realise that it wasn’t so much that the food was ‘delicious’; but that the potatoes in particular had a charming rosemary and garlic flavour. A friend wasn’t just ‘nice’; they brought in a hugely sensitive and generous tone to bear in asking us what it had been like for us when we suffered. The details will be there, waiting for us to catch them.
We don’t have to be great artists to send effective thank-you notes. We just need to locate and hold on tightly to two or three highly detailed reasons for our gratitude.
1. What can we infer from paragraph 1?A.We seldom express gratitude by writing. |
B.We usually find messages of thanks touching. |
C.We should take a course for message writing. |
D.We may draw inspiration for thank-yous from arts. |
A.Leave out. | B.Clear up. | C.Focus on. | D.Hold back. |
A.By classification. | B.By example. | C.By definition. | D.By process. |
A.I am blessed to have such a wonderful week. |
B.Your caring and warm smile lights up my day. |
C.Thank you so much for your great present. |
D.This is the most delicious dinner I’ve ever had. |