Not so long ago, Shelly Ann Francis Pryce was just an average high school athlete. There was every indication that she was just another American teenager without much of a future. However, Stephen Francis observed then eighteen-year-old Shelly Ann and was convinced that he had seen the beginning of true greatness. Her time was not exactly impressive, but even so, he believed there was something the other coaches had overlooked when they had assessed her and found her lacking. He decided to offer Shelly Ann a place in his very strict training seasons. Their cooperation quickly produced results, and at Jamaica’s Olympic games in early 2008, Shelly Annbeat Jamaica’s unchallenged queen of the sprint(短跑).
Then, at the Beijing Olympic she became the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 meters Olympic gold. She did it again one year on at the World Championship in Briton, becoming world champion with a time of 10.73—the fourth record ever.
Shelly-Anner’s journey to becoming the fastest woman on earth has been anything but smooth and effortless. She grew up in one of Jamaica’s toughest inner-city communities known as Waterhouse, where she lived in a one-room apartment, sleeping four in a bed with her mother and two brothers. Waterhouse, one of the poorest communities in Jamaica, is a really violent and overpopulated place. Her mother Maxime, one of a family of fourteen, had been an athlete herself as a young girl but had to stop after she had her first baby. However, Maxime determined to ensure that her kids would not end up in Waterhouse’s poverty. One of the first things Maxime used to do was taking Shelly-Ann to the track.
Shelly-Ann’s victory was far greater than personal glory. The night she won Olympic gold, the routine murders in Waterhouse and the drug wars in the neighbouring streets stopped. The dark cloud above one of the world’s toughest criminal neighbourhoods simply disappeared for a few days. “I have so much fire burning for my country,” Shelly said. She plans to start a foundation for homeless children and wants to build a community centre in Waterhouse. She hopes to inspire the Jamaicans to lay down their weapons. She intends to fight to make it a woman’s as well as a man’s world.
1.Why did Stephen Francis decide to coach Shelly-Ann?
A.He had a strong desire to free her family from trouble.
B.He sensed a great potential in her despite her weaknesses.
C.She had big problems maintaining her performance.
D.She suffered a lot of defeats at the previous track meets.
2.What made Maxime decide to train her daughter on the track?
A.Her success and lessons in her career.
B.Her wish to get Shelly-Ann out of poverty.
C.Her interest in Shelly-Ann’s quick profit.
D.Her early entrance into the sprinting world.
3.What can we infer from Shelly-Ann’s statement underlined in Paragraph 4?
A.She was highly rewarded for her efforts.
B.She was eager to do more for her country.
C.She became an athletic star in her country.
D.She was the envy of the whole community.
4.What is the best title for the passage?
A.The Making of a Great Athlete B.The Dream for Championship
C.The Key to High Performance D.The Power of Full Responsibility
It’s time to reevaluate how women handle conflict at work. Being overworked or over-committed at home and on the job will not get you where you want to be in life. It will only slow you down and hinder(阻碍) your career goals.
Did you know women are more likely than men to feel exhausted? Nearly twice as many women than men ages 18-44 reported feeling drained of energy, according to a recent study.
This may not be surprising given that this is the age range when women have children. It’s also the age range when many women are trying to balance careers and home. One reason women may feel exhausted is that they have a hard time saying “no.” Women want to be able to do it all—volunteer for school parties or cook delicious meals—and so their answer to any request is often “Yes, I can.”
Women struggle to say “no” in the workplace for similar reasons, including the desire to be liked by their colleagues. Unfortunately, this inability to say “no” may be hurting women’s health as well as their career.
At the workplace, men use conflict as a way to position themselves, while women often avoid conflict or strive to be the peacemaker, because they don’t want to be viewed as aggressive at work. For example, there’s a problem that needs to be addressed immediately, resulting in a dispute over who should be the one to fix it. Men are more likely to face that dispute from the perspective of what benefits them most, whereas women may approach the same dispute from the perspective of what’s the easiest and quickest way to resolve the problem—even if that means doing the boring work themselves.
This difference in handling conflict could be the deciding factor on who gets promoted to a leadership position and who does not. Leaders have to be able to assign tasks and manage resources wisely. Shouldering more of the workload may not earn you that promotion. Instead, it may highlight you inability to effectively make use of what you have.
1.What does the author say is the problem with women?
A.They are often unclear about the career goals to reach.
B.They are usually more committed at home than on the job.
C.They tend to be over-optimistic about how far they could go.
D.They tend to push themselves beyond the limits of their ability.
2.The underlined word s “drained of energy” can be replaced by________
A.weak B.unhappy C.stressful D.tired
3.What do we learn about the difference of men and women on the job?
A.That women usually avoid conflict and strive to be the peacemaker is because their men colleagues are more aggressive.
B.When there is an urgent problem to address, women are more likely to do the task as they usually respond quicker than man.
C.Men and women differ in their approach to resolving workplace conflicts in that women are more ready to compromise.
D.Men have more chances to be leaders because they are able take advantage of others and shoulder less workload.
4.Which of the following event will the author have most interest to take part in?
A.A training course teaching women to say “no”.
B.A campaign for more women rights.
C.A debate on whether woman is capable of working on the job.
D.A sharing on how woman can balance work and family.
Aging happens to all of us, and is widely thought of as a natural part of life. It would seem silly to call such a thing a “disease.”
On the other hand, scientists are increasingly learning that aging and biological age are two different things, and that the former is a key risk factor for conditions such as heart disease, cancer and many more. In that light, aging itself might be seen as something treatable, the way you would treat high blood pressure or a vitamin deficiency(不足).
Biophysicist Alex Zhavoronkov believes that aging should be considered a disease. He said that describing aging as a disease creates incentives(动机) to develop treatments.
“It unties the hands of the pharmaceutical (制药的) industry so that they can begin treating the disease and not just the side effects,” he said.
“Right now, people think of aging as natural and something you can’t control,” he said. “In academic circles, people take aging research as just an interest area where they can try to develop interventions（介入，参与）. The medical community also takes aging for granted, and can do nothing about it except keep people within a certain health range.”
But if aging were recognized as a disease, he said, “It would attract funding and change the way we do health care. What matters is understand that aging is curable.”
“It was always known that the body accumulates damage,” he added. “The only way to cure aging is to find ways to repair that damage. I think of it as preventive medicine for age-related conditions.”
Leonard Hayflick, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, said the idea that aging can be cured implies the human lifespan can be increased, which some researchers suggest is possible. Hayflick is not among them.
“There’re many people who recover from cancer, stroke, or heart disease. But they continue to age, because aging is separate from their disease,” Hayflick said. “Even if those causes of death were removed, life expectancy would still not go much beyond 92 years.”
1.What do people generally believe about aging?
A.It should cause no alarm whatsoever.
B.They just cannot do anything about it.
C.It should be regarded as a kind of disease.
D.They can delay it with advances in science.
2.What does Alex Zhavoronkov think of “describing aging as a disease”?
A.It will urge people to take aging more seriously.
B.It will greatly help reduce the side effects of aging.
C.It will free pharmacists from the conventional beliefs about aging.
D.It will motivate doctors and pharmacists to find ways to treat aging.
3.What do we learn about the medical community?
A.They now have a strong interest in research on aging.
B.They differ from the academic circles in their view on aging.
C.They can contribute to people’s health only to a limited extent.
D.They have ways to intervene in people’s aging process.
4.What does Professor Leonard Hayflick believe?
A.The human lifespan cannot be lengthened.
B.Aging is hardly separable from disease.
C.Few people can live up to the age of 92.
D.Heart disease is the major cause of aging.
1.According to the Code, visitors should act _______ .
A.with care and respect B.with relief and pleasure
C.with caution and calmness D.with attention and observation
2.What are you encouraged to do when travelling in New Zealand?
A.Take your own camping facilities. B.Bury glass far away from rivers.
C.Follow the track for the sake of plants. D.Observe signs to approach nesting birds.
3.Where is the code most likely read?
A.A letter from your pen pal in New Zealand.
B.An advertisement put by a travel agency.
C.A brochure handed out by New Zealand Tourism Bureau.
D.A poster on the gate of the New Zealand’s national park.
假设你是李华。你的两位朋友Tom与Peter几天前产生了误会。Peter的生日即将来临，Tom想送他一个礼物来缓和关系，修复友情；特地发来邮件寻求你的建议。请你根据以下要点给Tom回一封邮件：
1. 礼物选择；
2. 你的理由；
3. 其他建议。
注意：1. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
2. 词数70左右（信的开头和结尾已为你写好，但不计入总词数）。
Dear Tom,
I’m glad to hear that you are considering making up with Peter.
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Best wishes.
Yours,
Li Hua
假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处错误。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（A), 并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Yesterday, in the Palace Museum, I met a young man, that came from the USA. It was first time that I had met a foreigner, so I went to greet her in English. He told me that he was a college student travel in China and he liked China very much. I volunteered to show him around to the museum. He was impressed by the Chinese buildings and busy taking photo all the time. He said he hadn’t seen so beautiful buildings before. After that, we go boating on a lake but had a good time together. I was very glad to have the chance to improve my speaking English.
