I was never neat, while my roommate Kate was extremely organized. Each of her projects had its place, but mine always hid somewhere. She even labeled everything. I always looked for everything. Over time, Kate got neater and I got messier. She would push my dirty clothing over, and I would lay my books on her tidy desk. We both get tired of each other.
War broke out one evening. Kate came into the room. Soon, I heard her screaming, “ take your shoes away! Why under my bed!” Deafened, I saw my shoes flying at me. I jumped to my feet and started yelling. She yelled back louder.
The room was filled with anger. We could not have stayed together for a single minute but for a phone call. Kate answered it. From her end of the conversation, I could tell right away her grandma was seriously ill. When she hung up, she quickly crawled under her covers, sobbing. Obviously, that was something she should not go through alone. All of a sudden, a warm feeling of sympathy rose up in my heart.
Slowly, I collected the pencils, took back the books, made my bed, cleaned the socks and swept the floor, even on her side. I got so into my work that I even didn’t notice Kate had sat up. She was watching, her tears dried and her expression one of disbelief. Then, she reached out her hands to grasp mine. I looked up into her eyes. She smiled at me, “thanks.”
Kate and I stayed roommates for the rest of the year. We didn’t always agree, but we learned the key to living together; giving in, cleaning up and holding on.
1.How is Paragraph 1 mainly developed?
A. By listing facts. B. By doing comparison
C. By giving examples D. By drawing a conclusion
2.What made Kate so angry that evening?
A. She got the news that her grandmother was ill.
B. She couldn’t find her shoes.
C. She heard the author shouting loud.
D. She saw the author’s shoes under her bed.
3.What was the author’s attitude to Kate but for the call?
A. Annoyed B. Envious
C. tolerant D. Sympathetic
4.What might be the best title for the story?
A. How to be organized B. My Friend Kate
C. Learning to Be Roommates D. Hard Work Pays Off.
Few of us haven’t read Cinderella, the story of a young woman living in poverty who meets the prince of her dreams. Some might not want to admit it, but there is a hidden Cinderella in everyone’s heart－we all wish we could achieve recognition or success after a period of obscurity.
Mary Santiago has that secret dream, too. Her story is shown in Another Cinderella Story, a film set in a US high school.
Mary is shy but loves to dance. Compared with other girls, she is invisible. However, her world changes completely when a famous teenager pop singer, Joey Parker, appears.
Joey is everything the rest of the boys in her class are not－kind, handsome and desirable. Mary and Joey’s paths cross at a ball. They meet and fall in love with each other. But when Mary has to rush back home, she leaves behind her MP3 player, which becomes the only clue Joey has to find the girl. Of course, there is a wicked stepmother, Dominique. She takes in Mary after her dancer mother dies. Dominique treats Mary like a maid and does everything she can to make sure Mary doesn’t get into the top dance school. Her two daughters are equally determined to stop Joey finding Mary, even if that means embarrassing them.
The story, though it mostly follows Cinderella, does add a few modern-day twists to the classic fairy tale. Refreshingly, the film, unlike many high school films, does not focus on looks, although the actors are all beautiful. There is a lot less materialism in Another Cinderella Story than in many similar movies.
“The movie takes the Cinderella fairy tale as its jumping off point,” writes movie critic Amber Wilkinson, “Yet the focus is firmly on following your dream.”
1.The first paragraph is mainly to
A. raise a question on poverty
B. remind us of a fairy tale inform us of the importance of dream
D. build our interest about the following movie
2.What can we infer from the passage .
A. Joey is just like other boys in Mary’s class
B. Mary’s mother used to be a singer
C. The MP3 player helps Joey find Mary
D. Another Cinderella Story is just another copy of Cinderella
3. What does the underlined word “obscurity” probably mean?
A.being popular B. being unknown
C. being famous D. being silent
4.The passage is mainly about
A.An advertisement of Another Cinderella Story
B. An essay about dreams
C. A review about a movie
D. A fairy tale
Guide to Stockholm University Library
Our library offers different types of studying places and provides a good studying environment.
Zones
The library is divided into different zones. The upper floor is a quiet zone with over a thousand places for silent reading, and places where you can sit and work with your own computer. The reading places consist mostly of tables and chairs. The ground floor is the zone where you can talk. Here you can find sofas and armchairs for group work.
Computers
You can use your own computer to connect to the wifi specially prepared for notebook computers; you can also use library computers, which contain the most commonly used applications, such as Microsoft Office. They are situated in the area known as the Experimental Field on the ground floor.
Group-study places
If you want to discuss freely without disturbing others, you can book a study room or sit at a table on the ground floor. Some study rooms are for 2-3 people and others can hold up to 6-8 people. All rooms are marked on the library maps.
There are 40 group-study rooms that must be booked via the website. To book, you need an active University account and a valid University card. You can use a room three hours per day, nine hours at most per week.
Storage of Study Material
The library has lockers for students to store course literature. When you have obtained at least 40 credits(学分)，you may rent a locker and pay 400 SEK for a year’s rental period.
Rules to be Followed
Mobile phone conversations are not permitted anywhere in the library. Keep your phone on silent as if you were in a lecture and exit the library if you need to receive calls.
Please note that food and fruit are forbidden in the library , but you are allowed to have drinks and sweets with you.
1. The library’s ground floor is mainly for students to _______.
A. read in a quiet place. B. have group discussions.
C. get their computers fixed. D. have a sweet snap.
2.What is required when booking a group-study room?
A. A group must consist of 8 people.
B. Three-hour use per day is the minimum.
C. Applicants must mark the room on the map.
D. One should first register at the university.
3. What should not be brought into the library?
A. Mobile phones B. Orange juice
C. Apples D. Candy
4.A student can rent a locker in the library if he ______.
A. has earned the required credits
B. can afford the rental fees
C. attends certain courses
D. has nowhere to put his books
Dear son,
The day that you see me old and I am already not in good health, have patience and try to understand me.
If I get dirty when eating, if I can not dress, have patience and remember the hours I spent teaching it to you. If, when I speak to you, I repeat the same things thousand and one times, do not interrupt me, listen to me. When you were small, I had to read to you thousand and one times the same story until you got to sleep. When I do not want to have a shower, neither shame me nor scold me. Remember when I had to chase you with thousand excuses I invented, in order that you wanted to breathe. When you see my knowing little about new technologies, give me the necessary time and do not look at me with your mocking(嘲弄) smile. I taught you how to do so many things: to eat good, to dress well, to confront life… When at some moment I lose the memory or the thread of our conversation, let me have the necessary time to remember, and if I cannot do it, do not become nervous, as the most important thing is not our conversation but surely to be with you and to have you listening to me.
If ever I do not want to eat, do not force me. I know well when I need to and when not. When my tired legs do not allow me to walk, give me your hand, the same way I did when you made your first step. And when someday I say to you that I do not want to live anymore—that I want to rest forever, do not get angry. Someday you will understand.
Try to understand that my age is not lived but survived. Some day you will discover that, despite my mistakes, I always wanted the best thing for you and that I tried to prepare the way for you. You must not feel sad, angry or impotent for seeing me near you. You must be next to me, try to understand me and to help me as I did it when you starting living. I will pay you by a smile and by the immense love I have had always for you.
1.What does the second paragraph mainly talk about?
A. To show that he needs his son’s understanding.
B. To show he has educated his son well.
C. To teach his son how to be a good father.
D. To tell his son why he couldn’t behave well.
2.What does the underlined sentence mean?
A. My life is so hard that I cannot live longer.
B. I cannot live so long for my old age.
C. If you treat me better, I can live longer.
D. I cannot live so long although I am in good health.
3. What does the father mainly want to say to his son in short?
A. “ Help me to understand my life.”
B. “ Teach you how to live and survive.”
C. “ Share you how I taught you.”
D. “ Help to end my way with your love and patience.”
以“The Way to Keep Healthy”为题
内容如下：1.有益：新鲜水果和蔬菜，有规律的锻炼，每天睡眠应约八小时；2. 有害：过量的糖果和咖啡，香烟，工作过度劳累
1.He is heavily ____ _____.他负债累累。
2.When she was in trouble, I did _____ I could _____ help her.
她陷入困境时，我尽一切帮助她
3.I’m _____ _____ ____ cleaning at home. 在家我负责清扫工作。
4.Please move that curtain as it _____ ______ ______ the light.
请移动一下窗帘，它挡住光线了
5.In spite of these insults, she _____ _____ to get angry.
尽管受到这些侮辱，她还是忍住了没发火。
