1 . Dream is strength. The strength can bring us wherever we want to get to and it can bring us a lot of wonders on our way to the place in our dreams.
Dream is beauty. Maybe you can see the things full of magic and maybe you will be moved by your own dream.
Everyone has his dreams and dreams are especially important to teenagers. As teenagers, you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as winning the Nobel Prize. Or they can be small,for example, you may just want to become one of the ten best students in your class.
Andrew Matthews, an Australian writer, tells us that making our dreams come true is the biggest challenge in our life.
You must never give up your dreams.
| A．These kinds of thoughts stop you realizing your dream |
| B．There will be many difficulties on the road to your dreams |
| C．Once you find a dream |
| D．You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects |
| E．Both big dreams and small ones are very important to our lives |
| F．The world is so real that the dreams seem weak |
| G．Your talent is one of the most important factors in living your dreams |
2 . I’11 never forget that“very important meeting”with a guidance counselor(咨询师)during my senior year of high schoo1.I gladly
At that moment in my eighteenth year，I started to be
I was
| A．discussed | B．shared | C．showed | D．chose |
| A．practical | B．delicate | C．elegant | D．different |
| A．possibly | B．originally | C．equally | D．similarly |
| A．image | B．dream | C．means | D．1evel |
| A．if | B．unless | C．though | D．as |
| A．adopt | B．understand | C．evaluate | D．consider |
| A．patient | B．strict | C．determined | D．reliable |
| A．subject | B．course | C．chance | D．career |
| A．responsible | B．suitable | C．grateful | D．famous |
| A．habit | B．interest | C．friendship | D．relationship |
| A．mind | B．promise | C．wish | D．choice |
| A．worked for | B．attended to | C．applied to | D．focused upon |
| A．invited | B．welcomed | C．devoted | D．admitted |
| A．unsuitable | B．right | C．personal | D．initial |
| A．spreading | B．ranging | C．setting | D．existing |
| A．stuck | B．ended | C．graduated | D．met |
| A．degree | B．skill | C．ability | D．grade |
| A．permanent | B．natural | C．rare | D．part-time |
| A．field | B．power | C．1ife | D．delight |
| A．work out | B．give away | C．come alive | D．come true |
1. Why doesn’t the boy want to be the president in the end?
| A．He doesn’t want to get up early. |
| B．He doesn’t want to travel much. |
| C．He doesn’t want to be very busy. |
| A．Mother and son. | B．Teacher and student. | C．Aunt and nephew. |
1. Where does the man dream about going?
| A．To a desert. | B．To a big city. | C．To a quiet island. |
| A．For around half a year. | B．For at least a whole year. |
| C．For about six years. | |
| A．He was a travel agent. | B．He was a fisherman. |
| C．He ran his own Internet business. | |
| A．She is impressed. | B．She isn’t interested at all. |
| C．She will do the same thing. | |
Your mother and I don’t yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future. Your new life is full of promise, and we hope you will be happy and healthy so you can explore it fully. You’ve already given us a reason to reflect on the world we hope you live in.
Like all parents, we want you to grow up in a world better than ours today. While newspapers often focus on what’s wrong, in many ways the world is getting better. Health is improving. The number of poor families is decreasing. Knowledge is growing. People are connecting. Technological progress in every field means your life should be much better than ours today.
We will do our part to make this happen, not only because we love you, but also because we have a responsibility to all children in the next generation. We believe all lives have equal value. Our society has its duty to improve the lives of all those coming into this world, not just those already here.
Today, most people die from five things — heart disease, cancer, stroke, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases — and we can make faster progress on these and other problems. Once we recognize that your generation and your children’s generation may not have to suffer from disease, we collectively have a responsibility to increase our investments (投资) a bit more towards the future to make this reality. Your mother and I want to do our part. Curing disease will take time. Over short periods of five or ten years, it may not seem like we’re making much of a difference. But over the long term, seeds planted now will grow, and one day, you or your children will see what we can only imagine: a world without suffering from disease.
There are so many opportunities just like this. If society focuses more of its energy on these great challenges, we will leave your generation a much better world. Our hopes for your generation focus on two ideas: advancing human potential (潜能) and equality. Our society must do this not only for justice or charity, but for the greatness of human progress.
Today your mother and I are devoted to spending our lives doing our small part to help solve these challenges. I, Zuckerberg, will continue to serve as Facebook’s CEO for many, many years to come, but these things are too important to wait until you or we are older to begin this work.
We will give away 99% of our Facebook shares — now about $45 billion — during our lives to advance this mission. We know this is a small contribution compared to all the resources and talents of those already working on these matters. But we want to do what we can, working alongside many others.
As we become parents and enter this next chapter（篇章）of our lives, we want to share our deep appreciation for everyone who makes this possible. We can make progress towards these opportunities only by standing on the shoulders of experts. And we can only focus on serving this community and this mission because we are surrounded by loving family, supportive friends and amazing colleagues. We hope you will have such deep and inspiring relationships in your life too.
Max, we love you and feel a great responsibility to leave the world a better place for you and all children. We wish you a life filled with the same love, hope and joy you give us. We can’t wait to see what you bring to this world.
Love,
Mom and Dad
1. When might the letter be written?| A．When Zuckerberg got married. | B．When people suffered from diseases. |
| C．After Zuckerberg’s daughter was born. | D．After Zuckerberg increased his investment. |
| A．people’s health is improving | B．poor families become fewer than before |
| C．technology makes progress in few fields | D．people communicate with others more |
| A．Because he is the CEO of Facebook company. | B．Because he is devoted to helping those who are poor. |
| C．Because he hopes that his daughter will live a rich life. | D．Because he hopes future generations won’t suffer from diseases. |
| A．positive | B．negative | C．objective | D．subjective |
| A．Zuckerberg and his wife have inspiring relationships in their life. |
| B．People can’t make much of a difference within 5 years. |
| C．Society is only responsible for those already in the world. |
| D．People have made faster progress on five main deadly diseases. |
| A．tell his baby that he will donate 99% shares of Facebook |
| B．call on people to make efforts to improve living conditions |
| C．tell people that he is willing to make contributions to the world |
| D．express love for his daughter and what he will do for the future |
1. What relation is Ms Leska to the woman?
| A．Her roommate. | B．Her cousin. | C．Her workmate. |
| A．Claudia. | B．Tara. | C．Albee. |
| A．Meet the man. | B．Look after Ms Leska. | C．Teach a class. |
| A．He prefers to keep the window closed. |
| B．He is too busy to open the window. |
| C．He agrees to open the window at once. |
| A．A tennis game. | B．An online game. | C．A shooting game. |
9 . Children start out as natural scientists, eager to look into the world around them. Helping them enjoy science can be easy; there’s no need for a lot of scientific terms or expensive lab equipment. You only have to share your children’s curiosity. Firstly, listen to their questions. I once visited a classroom of seven-year-olds to talk about science as a job. The children asked me “textbook questions” about schooling, salary and whether I liked my job. When I finished answering, we sat facing one another in silence. Finally I said, “Now that we’re finished with your lists, do you have questions of your own about science?”
After a long pause, a boy raised his hand, “Have you ever seen a grasshopper （蚱蜢）eat? When I try eating leaves like that, I get a stomachache. Why?”
This began a set of questions that lasted nearly two hours.
Secondly, give them time to think. Studies over the past 30 years have shown that, after asking a question, adults typically wait only one second or less for an answer, no time for a child to think. When adults increase their “wait time” to three seconds or more, children give more logical, complete and creative answers.
Thirdly, watch your language. Once you have a child involved in a science discussion, don’t jump in with “That’s right” or “Very good”. These words work well when it comes to encouraging good behavior. But in talking about science, quick praise can signal that discussion is over. Instead, keep things going by saying “That’s interesting” or “I’d never thought of it that way before”, or coming up with more questions or ideas.
Never push a child to “Think”. It doesn’t make sense, children are always thinking, without your telling them to. What’s more, this can turn a conversation into a performance. The child will try to find the answer you want, in as few words as possible, so that he will be a smaller target for your disagreement.
Lastly, show; don’t tell. Real-life impressions of nature are far more impressive than any lesson children can learn from a book or a television program. Let children look at their fingertips through a magnifying glass（放大镜）, and they’ll understand why you want them to wash before dinner. Rather than saying that water evaporates（蒸发）, set a pot of water to boil and let them watch the water level drop.
1. According to the passage, children can answer questions in a more logical, complete and creative way if adults ________.| A．ask them to answer quickly |
| B．wait for one or two seconds after a question |
| C．tell them to answer the next day |
| D．wait at least for three seconds after a question |
| A．any questions | B．any problems |
| C．questions from textbooks | D．any number of questions |
| A．tell their children stories instead of reciting facts |
| B．offer their children chances to see things for themselves |
| C．be patient enough when their children answer questions |
| D．encourage their children to ask questions of their own |
| A．to take them to travel around the world |
| B．to share the children’s curiosity |
| C．to explain difficult phrases about science |
| D．to supply the children with lab equipment |
10 . If you are hungry, what will you do? Grab a piece of your favorite meal and stay quiet after that? Just like stomach, even your mind will be hungry. But it never lets you know, because you keep it busy thinking about your dream lover, favorite star and many such absurd things. So it silently begins to hide your needs and never lets itself grow. When mind loses its freedom to grow, creativity gets its full stop. This might be the reason why we all sometimes think “What happens next？”， “Why can't I think？”， “Why am I always given the difficult problems？” Well, this is the aftereffect of using our brain for thinking of notsoworthy things.
Hunger of the mind can be actually satisfied through extensive reading. But why is it reading but not watching TV? Because reading has been the most educational tool used by us right from the childhood. Just like that to develop other aspects of our life, we have to turn to reading for help. You have a number of books in the world which will answer all your “howto” questions. Once you read a book, you just don't run your eyes through the lines, but your mind decodes (译解) it and explains it to you. The interesting part of the book is stored in your mind as a seed. Now this seed is unknowingly used by you in your future to develop new ideas. The same seed, if used many times, can help you link and relate a lot of things, which you would never think of in your wildest dreams！This is nothing but creativity. The more books you read, the wider your mind will become. Also this improves your oratorical (speechmaking) skills to a large extent and also makes a significant contribution to your vocabulary. When you start speaking English or any other language fluently with your friends or other people, you never seem to run out of the right words at the right time.
Actually, I had a problem in speaking English fluently，but as I read, I could improve significantly. So guys, do join me and give food for your thoughts by reading, reading and more reading. Now what are you waiting for? Go, grab a book and let me know!
1. What's the best title of the passage?| A．Hunger of the mind |
| B．Stomach and Mind |
| C．Feed your Mind by reading |
| D．Reading or Watching TV |
| A．you are not hungry |
| B．you keep it thinking of silly things |
| C．your creativity gets a full stop |
| D．you always meet with difficult problems |
| A．Reading can make your dream come true. |
| B．Reading can contribute to your vocabulary. |
| C．Reading can improve your spoken ability. |
| D．Reading can make people creative. |
| A．comment and blame | B．introduce and describe |
| C．explain and persuade | D．advise and inform |
