One summer, when I was young, my dad built me a lemonade stand. On sunny days I would set up outside the local car wash with a cooler and my little black safe. I didn’t get many customers but I always had fun, whether I was reading a book or adding paint decorations to the safe and signs.
One customer I did have was an elderly gentleman who lived across the street from the car wash.
He would come every day where I set up and buy a glass of lemonade for his wife. Even though I only charged 25 cents, he always paid me with a $1 Sacagawea coin. I built up quite a collection by the end of the summer!
Now, as a college student, I make a point of stopping at as many lemonade stands as I can, always paying more than the kids charge me. This has been going on for almost three years now but this week, I didn’t have any money with me when I stopped at a little girl’s stand. I dug around in my car thoroughly and eventually opened up one of my moving boxes showing a black safe covered in soft cloth painted rainbows and hearts. I opened it up and sure enough, there were my Sacagawea coins. I almost shut the lid again because they mean so much to me, but then I realized that this is exactly why I had to pay with the coin. When I gave that little girl the shiny gold coin, I said, “You hang on to this one; they don’t make them any more!” And her face lit up. As I drove away, I saw her running to her sister to show her the gold coin and I knew that I had made her just as happy as I was when I was a little girl.
1.What did the gentleman pay the author for the lemonade?
A.25 cents every time. B.A collection of gold coins.
C.A one-dollar gold coin each time. D.A little black safe with many gold coins.
2.Why did the author pay the little girl with a gold coin?
A.To pass the kindness. B.To show her wealth.
C.To help the poor girl. D.To make the girl happy.
3.How did the author feel when she gave the girl the coin?
A.Unwilling and hesitant. B.Excited and willing.
C.Serious and pleased. D.Peaceful and pleased.
4.What can be a suitable title for the passage?
A.A Kind Young Lady B.A Shiny Gold Coin
C.A Wealthy Gentleman D.A Happy Lemonade Stand
Here's a list of books I'm looking forward to this fall season. Not all of them will rise to the level of the advertisement, but it's an abundant crop.
"Home After Dark" by David Small (Liveright, Sept. 11 )
In 2009, Small published a celebrated graphic memoir (回忆录) called"Stitches". Now the Caldecott Medal winner is back with a graphic novel about a motherless 13-year-old boy brought up in an unhappy home in California. This is a tale told in few words and many striking images. On Sept. 11 at 3p.m., Small will be at Amazonbooks at Union Market. More information at www. amazon.com/graph-tale.
"Waiting for Eden" by Elliot Ackerman (Knopf, Sept. 25)
This brief novel is related by a dead soldier who is watching over a horribly burned partner in a Texas hospital. That sounds embarrassingly emotional, but Ackerman, who served in a Navy in Iraq and Afghanistan, is one of the best soldier-writers of his generation. More information at www. amazon. com/military-essay.
"All You Can Ever Know" by Nicole Chung (Catapult, Oct. 2)
Chung, the editor of the literary magazine Catapult, was adopted as a baby by a white family in Oregon. In this memoir, she writes about her childhood, her Asian American identity and her search for the Korean parents who gave her up. More information at www. amazon. com/politics-prose.
"Unsheltered" by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper, Oct. 16)
Alternating between past and present, this novel tells the story of a woman investigating a late-19th-century science teacher who was caught up in the controversy over Darwinism. Like her other novels, this one promises to explore social and scientific problems. Visit www. amazon. com/tech-science for more information.
1.If you hope for a signature of the author, you will probably buy a copy of ________.
A.All You Can Ever Know
B.Waiting for Eden
C.Home After Dark
D.Unsheltered
2.Who joined the army and was sent to the Middle East?
A.Elliot Ackerman.
B.David Small.
C.Barbara Kingsolver.
D.Nicole Chung.
3.If you want to read books about non-fiction, you can surf________.
A.www. amazon. com/graph-tale
B.www. amazon. com/politics-prose
C.www. amazon. com/military-essay
D.www. amazon. com/tech-science
假定你是李华，你的美国朋友Peter希望成为2022年北京冬奥会志愿者，他向你写信询问冬奥会相关情况，并求助怎样学好汉语。请给他回信，要点如下：
1. 收到来信，获悉求助；
2. 冬奥盛会，北京张家口合办；
3. 学好汉语的两条建议。
Dear Peter,
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
单句改错
1.Have you adapted to live in a different country?
2.Although he was well aware of the danger to his own health, he found this difficult to quit smoking.
3.It was not until I got to the office then I found I left the key at home.
4.From the flats we have an easy access to shops and schools.
5.With several problems remained to be solved, we still needed to hold another meeting as soon as possible.
When _______ the two countries, we’ve found they have much in common.
A.compared B.compare C.being compared D.comparing
The long-lasting war, filled with blood and deaths, ended in people’s sadness, _______no result.
A.reached B.to reach
C.would reach D.reaching
