Two brothers decided to dig a deep hole behind their house. As they were working,a couple of older boys1. (stop) by to watch.
“What are you doing?” asked one of the 2. (visitor) curiously.
“We plan3. (dig) a hole all the way through the earth!”one of the brothers said 4. (excited).
The older boys began to laugh,telling the 5. (young) ones that it was impossible.
After a long 6. (silent), one of the diggers picked up 7. box full of spiders and insects. He showed the wonderful things 8. the older boys.
Then he said confidently, “Even if we don’t dig all the way through the earth, look at what we found along the way!”
9. (they) dream was far too big,but it did cause them to dig. And that is what a dream is for—to cause us to move in the direction we have chosen.
Not every dream will be realized. But when you couldn’t get what you wanted, perhaps you can say, “Yes,but look at the wonderful things 10. have come into my life because I tried to do something! ”
根据句意和括号内的提示，写出每个句子中划线部分单词的正确形式。
1.Life is like a long race where we ______ with others to go beyond ourselves. (to try to be more successful or better)
2.I shall be very likely to be _________ to my dream university.(allow somebody to become a member of a school)
3.They ________ their beloved old cars with expensive new sports cars.(put something new in the place of the old one)
4.He is a responsible writer, and _________to be respected.(get something because of what you have done)
5.The________ of Olympic Games is “Swifter，higher and further.”(short sentence or phrase expressing the beliefs of a person or group)
6.It is __________ visiting the art museum. (be useful, helpful, interesting, enjoyable etc.)
7.My father's ship was ______ in World War II.( goes below the surface of the water or sea, etc.)
8.She was upset that the valuable necklace __________ to her was lost yesterday. (be the property of)
9.Her parents died in the accident,but she _______.(to manage to live or continue in difficulties)
10.During the spring festival, you can see different kinds of _________.(the thing that makes something look more attractive on special occasions)
As she waited at the edge of the ice for her music to start, Peggy took a quick look at her father standing nearby with a group of parents and teachers. He smiled at her. Then she ____ out at the audience, ____ to see her mother. These two, Alvert and Doris Flemint, had ____ all the way from California more than 2,000 miles away, to see their ____ compete in this sports meet in Cleveland, Ohio.
The music ____ and Peggy moved onto the ice, letting the music ____ her along into her turns, and she began skating with much ____ in herself. The cold fear she always had in the ____ seconds before skating onto the ice was ____. She was feeling the movement of the ____ and letting it carry her. She skated easily, ____ did some jumps, a final turn and her performance was _____.
The crowd loved it and cheered ____ she skated off the ice. “Nice job,” said one of the other ____. It was the remark that ____ came after a free-skating performance. But what should the ____ say? Standing beside her father, Peggy ____ for the scoring to be finished. On all sides were other young skaters, some waiting _____ alone, others with a parent. Shortly before 10 o’clock the results were ____. The new United States Women’s Figure Skating Champion was Peggy Fleming of Passdena, ____.
1.A.looked B.watched C.found D.stepped
2.A.failing B.looking forward C.wanting D.hoping
3.A.bicycled B.driven C.run D.walked
4.A.friend B.children C.son D.daughter
5.A.started B.played C.developed D.sang
6.A.allow B.set out C.carry D.support
7.A.thought B.belief C.success D.design
8.A.following B.last C.recent D.past
9.A.lost B.present C.strong D.gone
10.A.music B.fear C.ice D.audiences
11.A.so B.or C.before D.then
12.A.satisfied B.unsatisfactory C.finished D.welcome
13.A.because B.until C.before D.as
14.A.skaters B.parents C.judges D.parents
15.A.always B.seldom C.again D.hardly
16.A.players B.audience C.judges D.parents
17.A.waited B.looked C.wished D.asked
18.A.comfortably B.hurriedly C.happily D.anxiously
19.A.cried out B.let out C.announced D.declared
20.A.England B.Cleveland C.Ohio D.California
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。The pine tree is a special kind of tree. 1. This is because many people put pine trees in their homes at Christmas time. They decorate the tree with colored lights, and put Christmas presents under the tree.Pine trees are different from other trees because most other trees lose their leaves in winter. 2.So pine trees are also called evergreens.3. They have hard, thin leaves called needles. Pine trees also have pine cones. Pine cones look like hard berries. If you walk in a forest, you will see many pine cones on the ground. 4. When the seeds fall to the ground, a new tree starts to grow.5. The wood is used to make furniture and boats. Many kinds of birds build their nests in pine trees. The seeds of pine trees are food for small animals such as squirrels and mice and for bigger animals such as rabbits and black bears. The needles are good food for large animals such as deer and moose when they cannot find anything to eat in the winter.If you walk in a forest of pine trees, the air has a wonderful smell. In winter, the white snow on the dark green trees looks very beautiful.
A. Pine trees stay green all year long, even in winter. |
B. Pine trees do not have soft leaves like the maple tree. |
C. Some people call the pine tree a Christmas tree. |
D. Pine trees are very beautiful all year round. |
E. Pine trees are valuable for many reasons. |
F. Inside the pine cones are seeds. |
G. The seeds inside the pine cones are the favorite food for some animals. |
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Sport is not only physically challenging, but can also be mentally challenging. Criticism from coaches, parents and other teammates, as well as pressure to win can create too much anxiety or stress for young athletes. Stress can be physical, emotional, or psychological and research has indicated that it can lead to burnout. Burnout has been described as dropping or quitting of an activity that was at one time enjoyable.
The early years of development are critical years for learning about oneself. The sport setting is one where valuable experiences can take place. Young athletes can, for example, learn how to cooperate with others, make friends, and gain other social skills that will be used throughout their lives. Coaches and parents should be aware, at all times, that their feedback to youngsters can greatly affect their children. Youngsters may take their parents and coaches’ criticisms to heart and find faults in themselves.
Coaches and parents should also pay attention that youth sport participation does not become work for children. The outcome of the game should not be more important than the process of learning the sport and other life lessons. In today’s youth sport setting young athletes may be worrying more about who will win instead of enjoying themselves and the sport. Following a game many parents and coaches focus on the outcome and find faults with youngsters’ performances. Positive support should be provided regardless of the outcome. Research indicates that positive support motivates and has a greater effect on learning than criticism. Again, criticism can create high levels of stress, which can lead to burnout.
1.An effective way to prevent the burnout of young athletes is_____________.
A.to make sport less competitive
B.to increase their sense of success
C.to reduce their mental stress
D.to make sport more challenging
2.According to the passage, sport is positive for young people in that_____________.
A.it can help them learn more about society
B.it enables them to find faults in themselves
C.it can provide them with valuable experiences
D.it teaches them how to set realistic goals for themselves
3.Many coaches and parents are in the habit of criticizing young athletes_____________.
A.believing that criticism does good to their early development
B.without realizing criticism may destroy their selfconfidence
C.in order to make them remember life’s lessons
D.so as to put more pressure on them
4.According to the passage parents and coaches should_____________.
A.pay more attention to letting children enjoy sport
B.help children to win every game
C.train children to cope with stress
D.enable children to understand the positive aspect of sport
Americans wear black for mourning (哀悼) while Chinese wear white. Westerners think of dragons as monsters. Chinese honor them as symbols of God. Chinese civilization has often shown such polarities (对立)with the West, as though each stands at extreme ends of a global string. Now in the University of California, Berkeley, a psychologist, has discovered deeper polarities between Chinese and American cultures—polarities that go to the heart of how we reason and discover truth.
His findings go far toward explaining why American cultures seem to be aggressive and Chinese cultures so passive, when compared to each other. More importantly, the research opens the way for the peoples of the East and the West to learn from each other in basic ways. The Chinese could learn much from Western methods for determining scientific truth, said Kaiping Peng, a former Beijing Scholar, who is now a UC Berkley assistant professor of psychology. And Americans could profit enormously from the Chinese tolerance for accepting contradictions in social and personal life, he said.
“Americans have a terrible need to find out who is right in an argument,” said Peng. “The problem is that at the interpersonal level you really don’t need to find the truth, or maybe there isn’t any.” Chinese people, said Peng, are far more content to think that both sides have advantages and disadvantages, because they have a whole awareness that life is full of contradictions. They do far less blaming of the individual than do Americans, he added.
In studies of interpersonal (人际的) argument, for example, when subjects were asked to deal with contradictory information resulting from conflict between a mother and a daughter or a student and a school, Peng found that Americans were “non-compromising (折中), blaming one side—usually the mother—for the causes of the problems, demanding changes from one side to attain a solution and offering no compromise” in dealing with the conflict. Compared to this angry, blaming American method, the Chinese were paragons (模范) of compromise, finding fault on both sides and looking for solutions that moved both sides to the middle.
1.In Paragraph 1, the author sets examples in order to ____.
A.expose the contradiction between Chinese and Americans
B.show the differences between Chinese culture and American culture
C.find the reason for the differences
D.generalize the main idea of the passage
2.In the opinion of Peng, compared with Americans, Chinese are____.
A.likely to find the truth in life
B.unwilling to admit their own failure
C.unwilling to have a general idea of things
D.likely to know advantages and disadvantages of things
3.The studies show___.
A.an American treats his or her mother badly
B.different ideas of treating the aged
C.different personality of Chinese and Americans
D.different hobbies of Americans and Chinese
4.The main idea of the passage is___.
A.polarities between American and Chinese cultures
B.extreme ends of the string
C.different attitudes towards the aged
D.different manners in social occasions
