According to the report, this gentleman is ________ to be the next prime minister of the country．
A．possible B．likely C．probable D．perhaps
Tom didn’t break the glass by accident．It was _________．
A．intend B．intention C．intentional D．intentionally
—What do you think made the girl so depressed？
—_____ with her boyfriend．
A．As she broke up B．Break up C．Breaking up D．Because of breaking up
___________ that he was in great danger, Eric walked deeper into the forest．
A．Not realized B．Not to realize C．Not realizing D．Not to have realized
Barditch High School decided to hold an All-School Reunion. Over 450 people came to the event. There were tours of the old school building and a picnic at Confederate Park. Several former teachers were on hands to tell stories about the old days. Ms. Mabel Yates, the English teacher for fifty years, was wheeled to the Park.
Some eyes rolled and there were a few low groans(嘟囔声)when Ms.Yates was about to speak. Many started looking at their watches and coming up with excuses to be anywhere instead of preparing to listen to a lecture from an old woman who had few kind words for her students and made them work harder than all the other teachers combined.
Then Ms. Yates started to speak:
“I can’t tell you how pleased I am to be here. I haven’t seen many of you since your graduation, but I have followed your careers and enjoyed your victories as well as crying for your tragedies. I have a large collection of newspaper photographs of my students. Although I haven’t appeared in person, I have attended your college graduations, weddings and even the birth your children, in my imagination.”
Ms. Yates paused and started crying a bit. Then she continued:
“It was my belief that if I pushed you as hard as I could, some of you would succeed to please me and others would succeed to annoy me. Regardless of our motives, I can see that you have all been successful in you chosen path.”
“There is no greater comfort for an educator than to see the end result of his or her years of work. You have all been a great source of pleasure and pride for me and I want you to know I love you all from the bottom of my heart.”
There was a silence over the crowd for a few seconds and then someone started clapping. The clapping turned into cheering, then into a deafening roar(呼喊). Lawyers, truck drivers, bankers and models were rubbing their eyes or crying openly with no shame all because of the words from a long forgotten English teacher from their hometown.
1.What activity was organized for the school reunion?
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A．Sightseeing in the park. |
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B．A picnic on the school playground. |
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C．Telling stories about past events. |
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D．Graduates’ reports in the old building. |
2.What can be inferred from Paragraph 2?
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A．Some graduates were too busy to listen to Ms. Yates’ speech. |
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B．Many graduates disliked Ms. Yates’ ways of teaching. |
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C．Some people got tired from the reunion activities. |
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D．Most people had little interest in the reunion. |
3.We can learn from Ms. Yates’ speech that she _____________.
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A．kept track of her students’ progress |
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B．gave her students advice on their careers |
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C．attended her students’ college graduations |
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D．went to her students’ wedding ceremonies |
4.What was Ms.Yates’ belief in teaching teenagers?
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A．Teachers’ knowledge is the key to students’ achievements. |
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B．Pressure on students from teachers should be reduced. |
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C．Hard-pushed students are more likely to succeed. |
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D．Students’ respect is the best reward for teachers. |
I left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I wanted to do. Over the next six years, I was treading water, just trying to earn an income. I tried journalism, but I didn’t think I was any good, then finance, which I hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working with books, although the job that I did was dull.
I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55,000 words.
It takes confidence to make a new start — there’s a dark period in-between where you’re neither one thing nor the other. You’re out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you’re too ashamed to say, “Well, I’m writing a novel, but I’m not quite sure if I’m going to get there.” My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside.
Then I met an agent（代理商）who said I should send my novel out to agents. So, I did and, to my surprise, got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hope that I might actually become a published writer and, after signing with an agent, I finished the second half of the novel.
The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no income, just waiting and wondering, a publisher offered me a book deal — that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for.
It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck — of fate, really. When you set out to do something different, there’s no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract（合同）of the publisher — to be a published writer — is unbelievably rewarding（有回报的）.
1.What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 mean?
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A．I was waiting for good fortune. |
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B．I was trying to find an admirable job. |
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C．I was being aimless about a suitable job. |
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D．I was doing several jobs for more pay at a time. |
2.The author decided to write a novel ______ .
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A．to finish the writing course |
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B．to realize her own dream |
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C．to satisfy readers’ wish |
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D．to earn more money |
3.How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?
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A．Disturbed. |
B．Ashamed. |
C．Confident. |
D．Uncertain. |
4.What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph?
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A．It pays to stick to one’s goal. |
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B．Hard work can lead to success. |
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C．She feels like being unexpectedly lucky. |
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D．There is no end in sight when starting to do something. |
