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Long before Barack Obama became president of the United States, he wrote a book1. (call) Dream from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, which has since become2.bestseller. It is an3. (appeal) book that includes what he went through during4. (he) childhood. Obama has little contact with his father5.roots were in Kenya because he left home when Obama was very young. His mother got married6.a student from Indonesia shortly after the family moved to Jakarta. A few years later, Obama came back with his grandparents to Hawaii, where he7. (attend) a private high school. 8. (study) at Columbia in New York City, he then entered Harvard Law School. This autobiography also touches9. (heavy) on Obama’s exposure to racism. Readers will find his reflections of childhood10. (experience) which involved racial discrimination to be especially moving.
It was my first day to Miss Hargrove’s seventh grade. Past “newcomer experiences” had been difficult, so I was very__to fit in. After being introduced to the class, I bravely put on a smile and___my seat.
Lunchtime was a(n)___surprise when the girls all crowded around my table. They were friendly, so I began to___.My new classmates told me about the school, the teachers and the other kids.They___out the class nerd（书呆子）to me: Mary Lou. She was a pretty girl with dark eyes and olive-skin,___she wore a long woolen skirt and an old-fashioned blouse. She looked stupid. The girls whispered and laughed___Mary Lou walked by. She ate alone.
After school, the girls invited me to___them in front of the school. I was___to be a member of the club. We waited. For what, I didn’t know. Then Mary Lou came down the school steps. The girls started____her, shouting rudely, biting comments. I____,and then joined right in. Mean remarks____from my lips. No one could tell I’d never done this before. The other girls stepped back and started cheering for me. Feeling____,I pulled on her backpack and then pushed her. Her backpack broke. Mary Lou fell and I backed off. Everyone was laughing. I____in. I was a leader.
I was not proud. Something inside me hurt. If you’ve ever picked a wing off a butterfly, you know how I felt. Mary Lou got up, gathered her books and left without a tear or saying anything. She held her head____as blood ran down from her knee. I____her struggle away down the street.
I turned to leave with my____friends and noticed a man standing beside his car. He must have been Mary Lou’s father—he had the same olive skin, dark hair and handsome look. He remained still and watched the____girl walk toward him. Only his eyes—shining with both sadness and pride—followed. As I passed, he looked at me in silence with burning tears that reminded me of my____.
Mary Lou’s father’s eyes taught me a good lesson that day. I never again hurt someone for my own____.
1.A. excited B. curious C. frightened D. anxious
2.A. reserved B. had C. took D. put
3.A. pleasant B. terrible C. disappointing D. expected
4.A. relax B. hesitate C. read D. suspect
5.A. found B. picked C. worked D. pointed
6.A. because B. but C. and D. so
7.A. since B. before C. until D. as
8.A. play B. ask C. join D. study
9.A. scared B. thrilled C. careful D. afraid
10.A. making fun of B. speaking well of C. looking up to D. going back to
11.A. refused B. paused C. hurried D. escaped
12.A. said B. received C. fell D. spoke
13.A. ashamed B. guilty C. enthusiastic D. encouraged
14.A. turned B. fitted C. took D. went
15.A. cautiously B. casually C. lowly D. high
16.A. watched B. heard C. glared D. sensed
17.A. caring B. puzzling C. laughing D. satisfying
18.A. lonely B. only C. silly D. friendly
19.A. pain B. shame C. weakness D. pity
20.A. gain B. loss C. effort D. duty
The Four-step Approaches to Managing Anger
If something happens that makes you feel angry, try these following steps.1..Maybe it will help you prevent angry feelings from building up inside.
Identify the problem. Start by noticing what you’re angry about and why. 2.. Ask yourself: What’s got you angry? What’s your feeling and why? You can do this either in your mind or out loud, but it needs to be clear and specific.
Think of potential solutions. This is where you stop for a minute to give yourself time to manage your anger. It’s also where you start thinking of how you might react—but without reacting yet. Ask yourself: What can you do? Think of at least three things. 3.. This is where you think about what is likely to result from each of the different reactions you came up with. Ask yourself: What will happen for each one of these options?
Make a decision. This is where you take action by choosing one of the three things you could do.4.. Ask yourself: What’s your best choice? Once you choose your solution, then it’s time to act.
Check your progress.5.. Ask yourself: How did you do? Did things work out as you expected? If not, why not? Are you satisfied with the choice you made? Taking some time to reflect on how things worked out after it’s all over is a very important step. It helps you learn about yourself and it allows you to test which problem-solving approaches work best in different situations.
A. Learn to receive the fact.
B. They help you cool down when you feel like your anger might explode.
C. Put into words what’s making you upset so you can act rather than react.
D. Look at the list and pick the one that is likely to be the most effective.
E. It’s called a problem-solving approach.
F. After you’ve acted and the situation is over, spend some time thinking about how it went.
G. After that you should consider the consequences of each solution.
Walk through the Amazon rainforest today and you will find it is steamy, warm, damp and thick. But if you had been around 15,000 years ago, during the last ice age, would it have been the same? For more than 30 years, scientists have been arguing about how rainforests like the Amazon might have reacted to the cold, dry climates of the ice ages, but until now, no one has reached a satisfying answer.
Rainforests like the Amazon are important for mopping up CO2 from the atmosphere and helping to slow global warming. Currently the trees in the Amazon take in around 500 million tons of CO2 each year: equal to the total amount of CO2 giving off in the UK each year. But how will the Amazon react to future climate change? If it gets drier, will it still survive and continue to draw down CO2 ?
Scientists hope that they will be able to learn in advance how the rainforest will manage in the future by understanding how rainforests reacted to climate change in the past. Unfortunately, getting into the Amazon rainforest and collecting information are very difficult. To study past climate, scientists need to look at fossilized pollen, kept in lake mud. Going back to the last ice age means drilling deep down into lake sediments （沉淀物）which requires specialized equipment and heavy machinery. There are very few roads and paths, or places to land helicopters and aeroplanes. Rivers tend to be the easiest way to enter the forest, but this still leaves vast areas between the rivers completely unsampled（未取样）.So far, only a handful of cores have been drilled that go back to the last ice age and none of them provide enough information to prove how the Amazon rainforest reacts to climate change.
1.What does the underlined phrase “mopping up” in the second paragraph mean?
A. Giving up. B. Giving out.
C. Wiping out. D. Taking in.
2.How will the Amazon rainforest react to future climate change?
A. It’ll get drier and continue to remove CO2 .
B. There is no exact answer up to present.
C. It’ll get warmer and then colder and drier.
D. It’ll remain steamy, warm, damp and thick.
3.What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. It’s important to drill deep down into lake sediments to collect information.
B. It’s impossible to prove how climate changes in the Amazon rainforest.
C. It’s hard to collect information for studies of the past climate in the Amazon rainforest.
D. It’s necessary to have specialized equipment and machinery to study the past climate.
4.What is the best title for this passage?
A. Studies of the Rainforests
B. Climates of the Amazon
C. Secrets of the Ice Age
D. Changes of the Rainforests
With golden sunshine and a gentle breeze（微风）, autumn is the most beautiful seasons in the year. This is a great time to go outside and have fun. Go to a valley to see red maple trees,go and pick fruit in an orchard or find an open field to fly your kite in.
However, for many high school students, these great activities may be just a dream. With plenty of work to do, they spend all their hours indoors, struggling for a high mark in their exams. Of course, study is one of the most important things for teenagers. But life is definitely much more than that.
Sometimes we spend so much time studying that we forget how to make life wonderful. In doing so, we lose the real purpose of life —to be a valuable and happy person. To enjoy just how great it is to be alive, we have to put down our books and pens and look around us. Students, take some exercise to improve your health, talk with your parents and friends for understanding and walk around outside to refresh（振作）our body and mind.
Going out and enjoying the beautiful countryside often helps our creativity in our work. Chinese craftsman, Lu Ban created a saw to help woodworkers. But if he hadn’t walked outside, he would not have been inspired by a kind of toothed（锯齿状的）grass. We could also suppose if Newton hadn’t rested under that apple tree, then he wouldn’t have been hit by an apple, and his classic（经典的）theories would not have come out.
Going out is not only a break from hard work, but a chance to add to life experience. So come on, give your brain a good rest. Step out of the books and get your bag ready for an autumn outing. We are sure you will get much more than knowledge from the exciting journey.
1.In which paragraph does the writer make a summary about his opinion?
A. Paragraph 1. B. Paragraph 2.
C. Paragraph 4. D. Paragraph 5.
2.Why is going out a dream for many high school students?
A. They are unhappy to do so.
B. They have too much work to do for getting high marks in the exams.
C. Their parents don’t allow them to do so.
D. They think study is the most important thing for them.
3.The passage is developed mainly by______________.
A. describing the beautiful scenery in Autumn
B. pointing out the present situation of high school students
C. making predictions
D. reasoning and giving examples
4.What message can you learn from the passage?
A. Going out can make high school students get more.
B. Nature is power.
C. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
D. The author isn’t happy with our education at all.
Compassion（同情）is a desire within us to help others. With effort, we can translate compassion into action. An experience last weekend showed me this is true. I work part-time in supermarket across from a building for the elderly. These old people are our main customers, and it’s not hard to lose patience over their slowness. But last Sunday, one aged gentleman appeared to teach me a valuable lesson. This untidy man walked up to my register（收款机）with a box of biscuits. He said he was out of cash, had just moved into his room, and had nothing in his cupboards. He asked if we could let him have the food on trust. He promised to repay me the next day.
I couldn’t help staring at him. I wondered what kind of person he had been ten or twenty years before, and what he would be like if fortune had gone his way. I had a hurt in my heart for this kind of human soul, all alone in the world. I told him that I was sorry, but store rules didn’t allow me to do so. I felt stupid and unkind saying this, but I valued my job.
Just then, another man, standing behind the first, spoke up. If anything, he looked more pitiable, “Charge it to me,” was all he said.
What I had been feeling was pity. Pity is soft and safe and easy. Compassion, on the other hand, is caring in action. I thanked the second man but told him that was not allowed either. Then I reached into my pocket and paid for the biscuits myself. I reached into my pocket because these two men had reached into my heart and taught me compassion.
1.The aged gentleman who wanted to buy the biscuits______.
A. promised to obey the store rules
B. hoped to have the food first and pay later
C. forgot to take his credit card with him
D. could not afford anything more expensive
2.Which of the following best describes the old gentleman?
A. Kind and lucky. B. Friendly and helpful.
C. Poor and lonely. D. Hurt and disappointed.
3.Why did the author refuse the old gentle man’s request first?
A. He considered the old man dishonest.
B. He felt no pity for the old gentleman.
C. He wanted to keep his present job.
D. He expected someone else to pay for the old man.
4.What lesson did the author learn from this experience?
A. Obeying the rules means more than compassion.
B. Wealth is most important in older age.
C. Experience is better gained through practice.
D. Compassion means helping in some way.
