The simplest way to say it is this: I believe in my mother. My __1__ began when I was just a kid．I __2__ becoming a doctor.
My mother was a domestic．Through her work, she observed that __3__ people spent a lot more time reading than they __4_ watching television. She announced that my brother and I __5__ watch two to three pre-selected TV programs during the week. With our free time, we had to read two books each from the Detroit Public Library and __6__ to her written book reports. She would mark them up with check marks and highlights. Years later we realized her marks were a __7__. My mother was illiterate.
When I entered high school I was a(n) __8__, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to __9__ with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student. One night my mother came home from __10__ her various jobs and I complained about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, "Okay, I'll give you all the money I make this week scrubbing floors and cleaning bathrooms, and you can buy __11__ food and pay the bills. With everything __12__, you can have all the Italian knit shirts you want." I was very __13__ with that arrangement but once I got through allocating money, there was __14__ left. I realized my mother was a financial genius to be able to __15__ a roof over our heads and any kind of food on the table, __16__ buy clothes. I also realized that immediate satisfaction wasn't going to get me anywhere. Success required intellectual preparation. I went back to my _17__ and became an A-student again, and eventually I __18__ my dream and I became a doctor.
My story is really my mother's story-a woman with __19__ formal education or property who used her position as a parent to change the lives of many people around the globe. There is no job __20__ than parenting. This I believe.
1. A．belief B．work C．education D．promise
2. A．majored in B．got used to C．dreamed of D．got tired of
3. A．lazy B．easy-going C．successful D．reliable
4. A．cost B．paid C．took D．did
5. A．could only B．could not C．must not D．should often
6. A．read B．present C．teach D．explain
7. A．joke B．means C．tool D．trick
8. A．A-student B．B-student C．C-student D．D-student
9. A．get along B．hang out C．break away D．keep in touch
10. A．making B．stopping C．working D．getting
11. A．your brother B．yourself C．your sister D．the family
12. A．left over B．paid off C．used up D．carried out
13. A．angry B．pleased C．disappointed D．bored
14. A．anything B．everything C．something D．nothing
15. A．take B．give C．keep D．get
16. A．let alone B．let out C．let in D．leave alone
17. A．guys B．mother C．studies D．play
18. A．made B．fulfilled C．changed D．tried
19. A．little B．much C．few D．high
20. A．more interesting B．less important C．more important D．less interesting
近期，雾霾天气频频发生，PM2.5（可入肺颗粒物）与PM10（可吸入颗料物）这两个此前不被人熟知的词最近一直被许多人提及，环境保护越来越受到人们的关注。作为一名青少年，我们如何尽可能自己的微薄之力来保护环境，请以学生会的名义发出一个倡议。
要点；
1、环保受到人们更多的关注；
2、环境的现状；
3、应采取的措施。
提示：雾霾天气：Dust-haze weather
注意：词数120词左右（格式已给出，不计入总词数）。
My fellow students,
The Students’Union
[1]Listening is one of the most important skills we can ever learn and an essential part of communication; not only does it help you to build close relations with other people, it’s also away of showing respect for others, When people feel respected, it’s very easy to build long, happy relationships , We all know people who are really had listeners, They love the sound of their own voices so much that you can’t get a chance to speak ,What’s important is active listening; paying attention, and then demonstrating your understanding of a conversation by repeating key points in your responses, People just want to feel like they are understood, Here are some ways to improve you listening skills.
[2]never talk over people
This shows a real lack of respect ,By talking over someone what you’re basically saying is “I don’t care what you’re saying—what I have to say is more important”.
[3]Don’t finish other people’s sentences.
I used to do this a lot thinking I was helpfully finishing people’s sentences for them, Wrong, Research has shown by doing this you are discouraging the other person because you are taking control of the conversation, so bite you tongue !
[4]Paraphrase（改述）
If you want to show that you have really understood someone, then paraphrasing is a great too1, All you have to do is repeat back to someone what they have just said , before you comment yourself, Here’s an example：“So Barney ,what I’m hearing is that results are the number one objective for you fight now and we need to find some fast solutions for you?”
[5]Listen actively
Focus on active listening instead of passive listening , The difference is that active listening means you engage and respond to the other person based on what they have said while passive listening is simply the act of listening
[6]Maintain eye contact
By looking at the other person in the eye , you are proving that you’ re interested in what they’re saying , This also keeps you focused and less distracted (思想不集中的)
1.What is main idea of the passage?(no more than 10 words)
2.Why is listening an essential part of communication?(no more than 15 words)
3.What does the underlined phrase in Paragraph 3 mean in English?
4.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 5 with proper words to complete the sentence(no more than 10 words)
5.What does the writer advocate to do for your listening skills according to the text?(no more than 3 words for each)
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Last week, my granddaughter started kindergarten,and ,as is conventional, I wished her every success ,But part of me didn’t.
I actually wanted her to fail in some ways because I believe that failure can be good for our learning process, Success is proving that you can do something that you already know you can do , First –time success is usually a fluke （侥幸）,First-time failure ,by contrast,is expected ;it is the natural order of things Failure is how we learn.
In Africa they describe a good cook as “she who has broken many bots”,If you’ve spent enough time in the kitchen to break a lot of pots ,probably you know a lot about cooking ,I once had dinner with a group of cooks and they spent a lot of time comparing knife wounds and burn scars ,They Knew how much their failures gave them.
I earn my living by writing a daily newspaper column, Each week I am aware that one column I write lill be my sores , I don’t set out to write it ; I try my best every day. I have learned to cherish that column ,A good column usually means that I am discussing a familiar topic, writing in a style I am used to or saying the same things as someons else but in fancy way.
Ny younger daughter is a trapeze artist（杂技荡秋千演员），She spent three years putting together a show and she did it successfully for years ,There was no reason for her to change it-but she did anyway, She said she was no longer learning anything new and she was boued; and if she was bored ,there was no point in subjecting her body to all that stress
My granddaughter is a perfectionist She will feel her failures ,and I will want to comfort her, But I sill also ,I hope ,remind her of what she learned ,and how she can do better next time ,I hope I can tell her ,though ,that it’s not the end of the world ,Indeed, with juck ,it is the beginning.
1.Why did the author want his granddaughter to fail?
A．Success is boring though beneficial
B．She would learn more from failure
C．It is impossible to do everything successfully
D．He wanted her to be strong enough to face hardships
2.What’s the author’s attitude toward his daughter changing her show/
A．Negative B．Worried C．Positive D．Excited
3.The author develops the article mainly by
A．giving examples
B．following the time order
C．comparing different opinions
D．analyxing cause and effect
4.The writer talks about his own experience to show that
A．we cannot depend on luck to live a good life
B．we shoule try every possible way to avoid failure
C．past failures prevented him from taking risks in writing
D．the thought of failure will make you work even harder
5.Which of the following can be the best title of the text?
A．Learn from failure
B．How to be a good cook
C．My daughter and granddaughter
D．A good column makes a good writer
Up, Up, and Away!
An adventurer who became the first person to fly across the English Channel on a cluster（簇）of balloons has launched a house into the sky just like in the hit movie Up-in reparation for a more ambitious journey and a new record
Fearless Trappe , from North Carolina, stepped into the cartoon themed home before flying above the leon International Balloon Festivel in Mexico more than a week ago.
The 38-year-old Trappe was using the event as a warm-up for his planned trans-Atlantic flight scheduled for next summer ,He aims to complete the 2,500-mile journey in a seven-foot lifeboat carried by 365 huge helium（氦气）ballooms
The brave man is learning to sail a lifeboat ,in case he meeds to ditch (在海中迫降)into the ocean during the danger-filled adventure
He sill fly at between 18,000 feet and 25,000 feet , beating his previous world altitude record of 21,600 feet ,and must fly uninterrupted a distance ten times longer than his previous world record of 230 miles in order to succeed.
The adventurer Trappe ,who holes records for crossing the Alps, flying the most cluster balloons, and the longest distance , has opent his entire carreer ,building up to this ambitious plan.
“I didn’t wake up one day and think：‘I’ going to fly across the Atlantic, ’”he said “he said Every attempt before this was prepared for this fight ,I’ve been training for a long time”
1.The adventurer flew across the English Channel to
A．test the balloons
B．launch a house
C．shoot a hit movie
D．prepare for breaking a record
2.To finish the journey ,he will fly a distance of
A．2500 miles B．18,000 feet C．25,000 feet D．230 miles
3.About the ambitious journey ,which is NIT mentioned in the passage?
A．When he will fly B．How high he sill fly
C．How far he will fly D．How long it will take him
4.How many world records does Jonathan hold?
A．Two B．Three C．Four D．Five
5.What does he last paragraph imply?
A．Trappe can’t sleep worrying about the adventure
B．Trappe was born to set world records
C．Trappe always keeps his ambition in mind
D．Trappe never thought of crossing the Ataantic before
A Swedish man aws dug out alive after being snowed in car on a forest track for rwo months with no food, police and local media reported on Saturday, The 45-year-old from southern Sweden was found on Friday , Fedruary 17, Too weak to say more than a rew wouds, He was found not far from the city of UImea in the north of Sweden by snowmobilers who thought they had come across a ruined car until they dug their way to a window and wawmovement inside.
The man ,who was lying in the back seat in a sleeping bag ,said he had been in the car since December 19.
“Just incredible that he’s alive considering that he had no food,but also since it’s been ,really cold for some time after Christmas,” a rescue team member told regional daily Vasterbottens - Kuriren ,which broke the news.
Ebbe Nyberg, duty officer at the Umea police , said police waw no reason to doubt that the man had been stuck in the car for a very long time,“We sould not make up something like this, The rescue services were on site too and saw the same as us”,he told Vasterbottens-Kuriren.
Umea University Hospital ,where the man is recovering after being rescued by police and a rescue team , said in a statement he was doing well considering the circumstances.
Doctors at the hospital said humans would normally be able to survive for about four weeks without food ,Besides eating snow , the man probably survived by going into a dormant-like（休息似的）state ,physician Stefan Branth told Vasterbottens-Knriren ,“He probably had a body temperature of around 31 degrees which the body adjusted to ,Due to the low temperature ,not much energy was used up”
1.Who found the Swedish man in the snow?
A．Snowmobilers B．The police C．A rescue team D．Local people
2.“Police saw no reason to doubt that the man had been stuck in the car for a very long time”implies that
A．police didn’t think it true
B．police were sure of the fact
C．police had some doubt on the fact
D．police had reasons to doubt the fact
3.The reason shy the man could survive was most probably that
A．he was only forty –five –year old B．he did not use any energy
C．he slept in the sleeping bag D．he was in a dormant-like state
4.Which is the correct order of the following evernts?
a、The Swedish man was stuck in the snow
b、He was went to Umea University Hospital
c、He was found by snowmobilers
d、He was recovering after treatment
e、He stayed in his car for nearly two months
f、He was dug out by people
A．eackfb B．aecfbd C．afcebd D．ecfadb
5.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A．A Traffic Accident B．A long Sleep in Winter
C．An Incredible Survival D．A Successful Rescue
