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Dear Mommy.
Happy Mother's Day! This is a special holiday because that it is a day for you to feel the appreciation for all you have done for Amy and 1. I am most thankful for all the sacrifices you had made in order for us live the most comfortable lives possible. You put yourself in difficulty situations so that we have food to eat, clean clothes to wear and a warm home to sleep in. Thank you for your endless love and hard works. Your efforts are never taking for granted. I really couldn’t ask for the better mom. Through you, I am able to understand which true love is: loving someone unconditional for what they were, are and will be.
Love,
Anna
Memories of my sophomore (高二学生）dance 1. (be) still vivid in my mind.
It was 5 o’clock in the afternoon, and I had put on my red party dress and my host mother was doing up my hair. My schoolmate Chris 2.(show) up at the front door 3. his suit and tie. He handed me a red corsage (小花束）that 4. (perfect) matched my dress. We headed for school, and started our dance? To be honest, I am not sure 5. I should call what we did “dancing”. We jumped, yelled and laughed with people we knew or had just met for the first time. We twirled in circles, threw our arms in the air and, as my English teacher later put it, ran wild around the place. In those few 6. (hour)，nothing seemed to matter 7. than having fun.
With music playing and everybody 8. (have) a good time, Chris asked me a question, "How is the dance different from dances in China?"
“Well, we don’t usually have dances in China.”
“What? How do you express 9. (you) then?”
10. (lose) in thought. I was silent for a while.
Now, I have an idea for everyone: Just dance.
One random act of kindness can make someone’s day, but a man in Florida knows a good ______ isn’t a one-time thing.
After spending three months in and out of the hospital with numerous health issues, Donald Austin had his ______ partially cut off. He was relieved to finally be able to go home after just four days recovering from the ______. When he reached his porch, though, the ______ disappeared.
Donald thought he’d be able to ______ up the steps to the front door on crutches (拐杖), but he found he was too weak to keep his ______. He had to sit in the wheelchair, but the wheelchair was too heavy for his wife, Jennifer Austin, to lift up the steps, even when his mom pitched in. Donald ended up on the ground，the family feeling totally ______.
Just then, a car caught the family’s eye. It had driven past ______ was slowly circling back. The stranger, Steven Smith,______ and asked if he could help.______, the family watched Smith lift Donald inside and lay him ______ on a couch.
But the good man knew there was ______ to do.
Smith ______ this wasn’t the only time Donald would need to climb those ______. So the next day, Smith came back and asked if he could build a ramp (坡道) in front of the house. With his dad and a couple more ______, Smith set up a ramp ______ the steps to make the house ______ to the wheelchair. The act of kindness brought the family to ______.
“This stranger has saved the day for us ______ within 24 hours. He also ______ our spirits that had become increasingly dimmed over the difficult months.” Jennifer wrote on Facebook.
1.A. deed B. manner C. deal D. performance
2.A. leg B. arm C. back D. face
3.A. injury B. depression C. operation D. shock
4.A. regret B. headache C. belief D. joy
5.A. try it B. make it C. put it D. take it
6.A. breath B. balance C. distance D. promise
7.A. at a loss B. in the dark C. for nothing D. out of mind
8.A. though B. while C. but D. when
9.A. broke up B. cut in C. pulled up D. called on
10.A. Horrified B. Embarrassed C. Refreshed D. Relieved
11.A. blindly B. painfully C. carelessly D. safely
12.A. less B. more C. something D. nothing
13.A. figured B. pointed C. commented D. suspected
14.A. roads B. ladders C. rails D. steps
15.A. passers-by B. useful equipment C. honored guests D. helping hands
16.A. around B. over C. under D. into
17.A. accessible B. avoidable C. available D. valuable
18.A. life B. justice C. tears D. normal
19.A. forever B. twice C. once in a while D. at all times
20.A. brightened B. took up C. brought up D. worsened
You may use banknotes every day. But did you know that there is a lot of science behind the money? 1.
Australia was the first country to use polymer(聚合物）banknotes in 1988. 2.
They can stop water from making them wet. They are also cleaner because bacteria don’t grow easily on them.
Now, the Australians have improved their banknotes again by creating a new 5-dollar note. The new one has a clear window in the middle in which there are pictures of an Australian bird and a building. 3.
Tilt (倾斜）the note a little and you will see the bird flapping its wings as if trying to fly away. Turn the note from side to side and you will notice the building come to life and spin. While these features are impressive and entertaining, that was not the reason why the Australian Government spent ten years perfecting them. Their primary purpose was to make it impossible to fake a banknote.
4. The new $ 5 bill now has a raised bump alongside the two long edges, enabling the blind or those with limited vision, to quickly determine its value.
The Australian government will give the new 10-dollar note the same features in a year’s time. 5.
A. Note makers still have a long way to go.
B. Other notes will have them in the future.
C. The magic of the new features lies in them.
D. They have many advantages over paper notes.
E. The new Australian 5-dollar note is a good example.
F. The new note is also the first touchable Australian banknote.
G. Their material and pattern set them apart from ordinary banknotes.
“Birds” and “airports” are two words that, paired together, don’t normally paint the most harmonious picture. So it really raises some eyebrows when China announces plans to build an airport that’s for birds.
Described as the world’s first-ever bird airport, the proposed Lingang Bird Sanctuary(保护区) in the northern coastal city of Tianjin is，of course，not an actual airport. Rather, it’s a wetland preserve specifically designed to accommodate hundreds — even thousands — of daily takeoffs and landings by birds traveling along the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. Over 50 species of migratory (迁徙的）water birds, some endangered, will stop and feed at the protected sanctuary before continuing their long journey along the flyway.
Located on a former landfill site, the 61-hectare (150-acre) airport is also open to human travelers. (Half a million visitors are expected annually.) However, instead of duty-free shopping, the main attraction for non-egg-laying creatures at Tianjin’s newest airport will be a green-roofed education and research center, a series of raised “observation platforms” and a network of scenic walking and cycling paths and trails totaling over 4 miles.
The proposed Bird Airport will be a globally significant sanctuary for endangered migratory bird species, while providing new green lungs for the city of Tianjin,” Adrian McGregor of Australian landscape architecture firm McGregor Coxall explained of .the design. Frequently blanketed in smog so thick that it has shut down real airports, Tianjin is a city — China’s fourth most populous — that would certainly benefit from a new pair of healthy green lungs.
1.The underlined phrase 4 “non-egg-laying creatures” in Paragraph 3 refers to ________?
A. endangered water birds B. planes
C. visitors D. designers
2.What do we know about the airport according to the passage?
A. It is located on a landfill site.
B. People cannot watch birds up close here.
C. It provides migratory birds with food and shelter.
D. It functions as an actual airport and a wetland preserve at the same time.
3.What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. Tianjin will win worldwide fame in the future.
B. Tianjin will be able to accommodate more people.
C. The airport will become a permanent home for birds.
D. Tianjin’ air quality will improve thanks to the airport.
4.What is this passage mainly about?
A. China is to open the first Bird Airport.
B. Airports turn into green lungs.
C. Birds are no longer enemies to airports.
D. Airports shut down and open up.
“How’s it going? ” I ask the barista(服务生). “How’s your day been?”
“Ah, not too busy. What are you up to?”
“Not much. Just readin. ”
This，small talk, is one of the key rituals(规矩）of American life. It has taken me only a decade to master.
I immigrated to the United States in 2001, for college. I brought only my Indian experience in dealing with shopkeepers and tea sellers. In Delhi, where I grew up, when doing business, people don't ask each other how the other's day has been. They might not even smile. The customer doesn't tremble before complaining about how cold his food is. Each side believes the other will cheat him.
“God, Mahajan, you’re so rude to waiters!” Tom, an American friend, said, laughing, after he watched me ordering food at a restaurant, in the West Village, years ago. Considering myself a mild and friendly person, I was surprised. Tom always asked servers how they were doing or praised their shirts or made jokes about the menu. At that time, this seemed dishonest to me. Did he really like what they were wearing?
American life is based on a principle that we like one another but won’t violate one another’s privacies. This makes it a land of small talk. Two people greet each other happily, with friendliness, but might know each other for years before asking basic questions about each other’s backgrounds. The opposite is true of Indians. At least three people I’ve sat next to on planes to and from India have asked me, within minutes, how much I earn as a writer (only to turn away in disappointment when I tell them).
Living in Brooklyn and then in Austin, Texas. I made coffee shops the places of my movements. Meeting the same baristas day after day produced context, and I got practice. I was beginning to fit in. It felt good and didn’t seem fake anymore.
1.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. The author takes pride in everything of his homeland.
B. The author still thinks the American way of treating strangers is not sincere.
C. The author finally got used to small talk after a lot of practice in America.
D. It only took the author a short time to learn the real ritual of American life.
2.What do people in the US tend to do in a restaurant?
A. They have friendly small talk with the servers.
B. They ask if the servers are satisfied with their pay.
C. They complain about the food and service straightforwardly.
D. They make objective comments on the servers’ clothing.
3.What do we know about Indians according to Paragraph 7?
A. Indians don’t like each other.
B. Indians live in a land of small talk.
C. Indians show little respect for others; privacy.
D. Indians know little about their friends’ backgrounds.
4.What might be the best title of this passage?
A. A Rude Indian in America
B. Small Talk and Great Friendship
C. My Struggle with American Small Talk
D. Cultural Differences between Countries
