There are many people who could be Olympic Champions. I’d estimate (估计) five million people could have beaten me in the pole-vault(撑杆跳高) on the years when I won it, at least five million. Men were stronger, bigger, and faster than I could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, never made the efforts to vault their legs off the ground to try to get over the bar.
Greatness is all around us. It’s easy to be great because great people will help you. What was fantastic about all the conventions(大会) I went to was that the greatest in the business would come and share their ideas, their methods and their techniques with everyone else. I have seen the greatest salesmen showing young salesmen exactly how they did it. They didn’t hold back. I have also found it true in the world of sports.
I’ll never forget the time I was trying to break Dutch Warmer Dam’s record. I was about a foot below his record, so I called him on the phone. I said, “Dutch, can you help me? I seem to have leveled off. I can’t get any higher.”
He said, “Sure, Bob, come on up to visit me and I’ll give you all I got.” I spent three days with the master, the greatest pole-vaulter in the world. For three days, Dutch gave me everything he’d seen. There were things that I was doing wrong and he corrected them. To make a long story short, I went up eight inches. That great guy gave me the best that he had.
Great people will share. Great people will tell you their secrets. Look for them, call them on the phone or buy their books. Go where they are, get around them and talk to them. It is easy to be great when you get around great people.
1.What would be the best title for the passage?
A．Benefit from the Greatness around Us
B．Many Men Are Better than Me
C．Share Your Greatness with People around You
D．My Hearty Thanks to Warmer Dam
2.The author of this passage must be ________.
A．a world record holder in pole vault
B．a Dutch pole-vaulter
C．an Olympic Champion
D．a student of Warmer Dam’s
3.The underlined phrase “leveled off” in Paragraph 3 probably means ________.
A．go down in levelB．stayed in a certain level
C．gone up in levelD．progressed on
4.Why does the author think well of the conventions he attended?
A．Because many great people also attended them.
B．Because they were supported by many great businessmen.
C．Because he learned to share his greatness with others.
D．Because great people were willing to share.
“A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right", says Mollie Hunter. Born and brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people．She firmly believes that there is and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market is．In Mollie’s opinion, it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which is what every writer should be doing．"If you aren't telling a story, you’re a very dead writer indeed．" she says．With the chief function of a writer being to entertain, Mollie is indeed an entertainer．"I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language,’ she says, "This love goes back to early childhood．I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them, I said I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said ‘Nonsense, Mollie; dear, you’ll be a writer.’ So finally I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer．"
This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third person is clearly autobiographical（自传体的） and gives a picture both of Mollie’s ambition and her struggle towards its achievement．Thoughts of her childhood inevitably（不可避免地） brought thoughts of the time when her home was still a village with buttercup（金凤花）meadows and strawberry fields—sadly now covered with modern houses．"I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my childhood．I’ll never go back, "she said．"Never．When I set one of my books in Scotland” she said, “I can recall my romantic feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the village blacksmith at work．And that’s important because children now know so much so early that romance can't exist for them, as it did for us.”
1.What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book?
A．It should not aim at a narrow audience.
B．It should be attractive to young readers.
C．It should be based on original ideas.
D．It should not include too much conversation.
2.In Mollie Hunter’ s opinion, which of the following is one sign of a poor writer?
A．Being poor in life experience.
B．Being short of writing skills.
C．The weakness of description.
D．The absence of a story.
3.What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child?
A．She expected to become a writer.
B．She didn’t enjoy writing stories.
C．She didn’t have any particular life aims.
D．She didn’t respect her teacher’ views.
4.What’s the writer’s purpose in this text?
A．To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter’s book.
B．To introduce Mollie Hunter’s works to a wider audience．
C．To provide information for Mollie Hunter’s existing readers．
D．To describe Mollie Hunter’s most successful books．
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第24届冬季奥林匹克运动会将于2022年2月在北京和张家口市联合举行。现面向社会招募志愿者。假如你是李华，请根据自己的情况写一封申请信。内容包括：
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假定英语课上老师要求同学之间交换修改作文，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。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
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2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
The Internet consisted of millions of pages of data is the big source of information in the world. The World Wide Web is a computer network that allows computer users to have an access to information from millions of websites. It was invented in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee, he built his first computer while he was at university. He came up to the idea of the World Wide Web in 1989 while worked in Switzerland. Berners-Lee made possible for everyone to use the Internet. He designed the first "web browser", which allowed computer users to access document from other computers. The Internet had created thousands of millionaires. Besides, Berners-Lee is not one of them. He now only works as a lecturer in Boston.
1.The man is a ___________(crime). How can people elect him as a government official?
2.All the labs are furnished with modern ____________(equip).
3.In __________(conclude), shopping is a very different experience to what it used to be.
4.I was going to be _________(depend) and needed to learn this vital skill.
5.__________(addict) to the internet, as many adolescents do, will have a negative effect on their mental health.
6.The project _________(design) to help landless people didn’t work out as planned.
7.___________(anxious), she took the dress out of the package and tried it on, only to find it didn’t fit.
8.It is ___________ (legal) to read people’s private letters without permission.
9.The __________(normal) bleeding is your body's own red flag of danger.
10.He has been an active ____________(participate) in the discussion.
