Take your time—it’s just _____ short distance from here to _____ restaurant.
A. /; the B. a; the C. the; a D. /; a
每个人都行走在自己的路上, 有着不同的经历和收获。请你以“On my way to…”为题写一篇英语作文，向学校英语报投稿，要求包括以下内容：
1. 叙述在路上你的经历；
2. 谈谈你的收获和感想。
注意：
1. ）词数100词左右。
2. ）文中不能出现可能透露考生真实身份的任何信息。
假定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(
)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用(＼)划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Today is Sunday. I’ve been in Russia for two months. This is the first time that I’ve been away my family for such a long time. With the help of Annie, a roommate of me, I soon get used to live without my parents around. Annie, like many other Russian girls, are nice and lively. We became friends shortly after we met each other. Although his English is a little hardly to understand, we enjoy chatting and we usually talk a lot about our friends. We’re both surprising that Chinese culture and Russian culture were so different. Now, we are planning a small party for the next Sunday. There, Annie will introduce me to some of her friends, one of who has been to China several times. I just can’t wait.
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday 1. India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai for their struggles 2. the suppression（压迫）of children and for young people's rights, 3. (include) the right to education.
Yousafzai came to 4. (globe) attention after she 5. (shoot) in the head by the Taliban two years ago forher efforts 6. (promote) education for girls in Pakistan.
Through her heroic struggle, Yousafzai has become a 7. (lead) spokeswoman for girls’ rights to education. According to the Nobel committee, at 17 she’s the youngest ever peace prize winner. “I’m proud that I’m the first Pakistani or the first young woman 8. gets this award,” she said in Birmingham, England.
She doesn’t believe that she deserves the award but considers 9. an encouragement to continue her campaign. Awarding the Peace Prize to a Pakistani Muslim and an Indian Hindu 10. (give) a message to people of love between Pakistan and India, and between different religions.
The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during the break. She seemed so small as she pushed her way the crowd of boys on the playground. She from them all.
I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing . She would practice dribbling (运球) and shooting over and over again, sometimes until . One day I asked her she practiced so much. She looked in my eyes and without a moment of hesitation she said, “I want to go to college. The only way I can is if I get a scholarship, I am going to play college basketball. I want to be . My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”
Well, I had to give it in to her—she was . One day, I saw her sitting in the grass, head in her arms. I walked toward her and quietly asked what was “Oh, nothing,” came a soft reply. “I am just too short.” The coach told her that at her height she would probably get to play for a top ranked team, offered a scholarship. So she stop dreaming about college.
She was and I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just did not the power of a dream. He told her she really wanted to play for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship, could stop her except one thing — her own attitude. He told her again, “If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”
The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college recruiter (招聘人员). She was indeed offered a . She was going to get the college education that she had and worked toward it for all those years.
1.A. through B. across C. over D. into
2.A. brought out B. showed out C. stood out D. worked out
3.A. only B. lonely C. simply D. alone
4.A. dark B. dawn C. midnight D. daybreak
5.A. how B. when C. why D. what
6.A. worriedly B. shyly C. quietly D. directly
7.A. go B. meet C. enter D. attend
8.A. worse B. better C. the best D. the worst
9.A. determined B. encouraged C. fixed D. fascinated
10.A. covered B. enclosed C. dropped D. buried
11.A. the affair B. wrong with C. the thing D. the matter
12.A. ever B. even C. once D. never
13.A. far more B. much less C. more less D. many more
14.A. should B. must C. can D. may
15.A. overjoyed B. moved C. embarrassed D. heartbroken
16.A. understand B. experience C. learn D. believe
17.A. even if B. as if C. that if D. only if
18.A. anything B. nothing C. something D. everything
19.A. prize B. medal C. scholarship D. position
20.A. dreamed of B. relied on C. thought of D. looked forward
Choosing a Career After High School
1. Start thinking early about what kind of work you may want to explore after high school, remembering that you can change careers several times throughout your work life. Your exact choice should take into consideration your interests, personality and personal goals. Read on for some general options to think about when you are choosing a career after high school.
1. Take a personality and interest test. 2. The Keirsey Temperament Sorter assumes that you have your own patterns of attitude and actions that are as unique to you as the build of your body. The Keirsey test gives you 71 multiple-choice questions to determine exactly how you interact with the world.
2. 3. Careers in the professions and most government work require a college education, with a minimum of a bachelor's degree. Other careers do not require a college education, but rather offer on-the-job training and start you out in an entry-level position from which you can grow.
3. Take vocational training courses. Vocational training prepares you for a specific job and can usually be completed in six months to one year. This may not be a very good option if you struggled with your grades in high school. Vocational training programs are usually modeled after academic training, but are much more hands-on as they allow you to actually do the work while you learn.
4. Join the military. 4. The military pays for your future university education and offers you an attractive enlistment(应征入伍) bonus. You will be trained to learn a variety of skills, so be prepared for a highly structured environment that demands self-discipline and hard work.
5. Start a business. It is important that you enter a career that makes you want to devote yourself wholly to. 5. This option takes serious discipline and focus, and it requires you to learn basic business skills in addition to the skills of your particular kind of work.
A. Personality varies from person to person.
B. You become qualified to join at the age of 18.
C. Find out the educational requirements for your career choices.
D. Starting a business can be a great challenge for them.
E. There are many good online tests that will help you discover what kind of career suits your personality.
F. If you cannot find the right fit in an existing job, then you may be able to create your job through self-employment.
G. When you graduate from high school, you can either choose to continue your schooling or pursue a career, with all its seemingly endless choices.
