Last March my dad told us that there was a chance he would be deployed （部署，派遣）overseas. My brother and I didn't think anything of it and forgot his _____. Two weeks later, Dad didn't come home on time. We didn't think it was serious _____it wasn't the first time. We waited, and _____at midnight Dad came in. We asked where he'd been. He just _______, “I am leaving tomorrow for Afghanistan（阿富汗）.”
Hearing that, we were in _____, thinking that this could not be happening to us. But when he started _____ his desert uniforms we knew it was for real.
He sat us all down and my brothers and I had a discussion about _____ we were going to do while he was away. And then we _____ and helped him get ready. We _____his uniforms and talked more about what we needed to do. We didn't get to sleep ______ 4 a.m. Therefore, my dad called school to _____ we were not going to be there that day.
We took off for Madison _____he would check in and get ready to leave. When we got there the official told us that he _____ leave until 5 p.m. We had our last _____together and then headed to the airport. We were told it was time to leave. We hugged him and said _____.
“_____is going to happen to me, and I love you,” he said. Then he was _____. We left the airport not saying anything to each other.
My dad is _____gone, and he won't be home for a while. He talks to us ____ on the phone. I hope that my story makes you think about your own family now and what _____to you.
1.A. promise B. words C. birthday D. appointment
2.A. when B. though C. that D. since
3.A. finally B. gradually C. constantly D. actually
4.A. whispered B. wept C. replied D. screamed
5.A. excitement B. shock C. relief D. peace
6.A. packing B. wearing C. searching D. mending
7.A. how B. when C. whether D. what
8.A. woke up B. cheered up C. stayed up D. turned up
9.A. removed B. ironed C. sewed D. chose
10.A. until B. over C. in D. after
11.A. confirm B. announce C. deny D. explain
12.A. when B. that C. where D. why
13.A. couldn’t B. wouldn’t C. needn’t D. mustn’t
14.A. meal B. weekend C. talk D. lesson
15.A. apology B. hello C. thanks D. good-bye
16.A. Anything B. Everything C. Nothing D. Something
17.A. missing B. gone C. lost D. puzzled
18.A. still B. even C. ever D. yet
19.A. seriously B. frequently C. loudly D. occasionally
20.A. belongs B. appeals C. counts D. happens
When I say I believe all children can learn, people sometimes misunderstand. Because I have been working with poor children in Harlem for the last 25 years, some people think I am saying that if you give a bright kid from a poor family a good ____ support system, he or she can succeed. That’s absolutely true, ____ that’
s not what I mean. You see I truly believe that all kids can learn. I believe it, I’ve seen it, and I’ve even _____it.
Back in 1975 I worked in a summer camp ____ for kids with real problems. They are kids that everyone – ____ their parents – had given up on.
We would ____ with the kids. These children didn’t know the difference between baking powder (面粉) and salt, but ____ they had eaten a warm biscuit out of the oven, they wanted to learn how to make some more.
___ , kids who couldn’t sit ____ were carefully looking at ingredients as we measured them out, learning the simple math and spelling lessons we could along the way. By the end of the summer, I remember parents crying when they saw how their children had ____ .
The biscuits , ____ , were delicious, and I can still remember the taste of them today. More importantly, I still remember the lesson they taught me: that if we, the ____, can find the right ____ for a child, there’s hope for their education. That starts with looking hard at each child, finding out what ____ them, and taking advantage of that excitement.
When I was growing up poor in the south Bronx, one of four boys ____ by a single mom, I probably looked like I was ____ nowhere, getting into trouble. And I would have ____ dead or in prison, like many of my friends, if it hadn’t been for a couple of teachers who ____ my fascination with reading and made sure I had great books to read.
Because of that, I have ____ myself to going into the poorest communities in America and making sure kids like me can _____ and succeed.
My first taste of success came at that summer camp. It came with a plate of hot biscuits that tasted so good that they could have brought a tear to your eye.
1.A. cultural B. educational C. emotional D. physical
2.A. but B. and C. so D. for
3.A. trusted B. showed C. tasted D. smelled
4.A. intended B. reserved C. served D. provided
5.A. as B. even C. still D. always
6.A. cook B. chat C. act D. play
7.A. before B. while C. when D. once
8.A. Suddenly B. Unfortunately C. Expectedly D. Constantly
9.A. close B. still C. firm D. hard
10.A. exchanged B. challenged C. improved D. promoted
11.A. for example B. above all C. by the way D. in other words
12.A. adults B. experts C. researchers D. parents
13.A. conclusion B. motivation C. determination D. attention
14.A. amuses B. excites C. upsets D. comforts
15.A. cared B. supported C. protected D. raised
16.A. planning B. relying C. heading D. stopping
17.A. escaped from B. turned into C. led to D. ended up
18.A. explored B. admitted C. spotted D. permitted
19.A. applied B. buried C. absorbed D. persuaded
20.A. cook B. help C. work D. learn
Tips on Young Adult Life
As you grow rapidly through your teenage years, you will experience a lot of changes. The changes may seem difficult. 1. Don’t panic! You will deal successfully with them! You are a young adult now!
With more responsibility, you will find more freedom to make your own choices. This is a time to be well informed about making choices. In this way you can make healthy balanced decisions. 2. You may already know your career path or you may have no idea at all what you want to do. Both situations are fine! Work hard and the right opportunity will present itself to you.
Young adulthood means greater freedom and more choices. 3. But try not to shut your family out of your life. You school learn to think of others even though you are old enough to look after yourself.
It is also perfectly natural at this time for you to spend more time with your friends than your family 4. A true friend will stand by you no matter what happens.
This period is a part of the life cycle. There are some people who will be with you throughout life’s journey. There will be some people with whom you part and go separate ways. Leaving school can be hard. The reality is that you may not even see all of your classmates again.
You are a young adult. It is your life. No one can live it for you. 5. So making the right choices will be important to you. Life is for living. Enjoy your life wisely!
A．Choose your friends wisely.
B．They will help shape the future.
C．They may seem to happen quickly.
D．You will probably want to be independent.
E．You may appreciate what you have in your own life.
F．The choices that you make from now on will be your choices.
G．Your family has been with you since you came into this world.
Energy independence. It has a nice ring to it. Doesn’t it? If you think so, you’re not alone, because energy independence has been the dream of American president for decades, and never more so than in the past few years, when the most recent oil price shock has been partly responsible for kicking off the great recession(经济衰退).
“Energy independence” and its rhetorical (修辞的) companion “energy security” are, however, slippery concepts that are rarely though through. What is it we want independence from, exactly?
Most people would probably say that they want to be independent from imported oil. But there are reasons that we buy all that old from elsewhere.
The first reason is that we need it to keep our economy running. Yes, there is a trickle（涓涓细流）of biofuel（生物燃料）available, and more may become available, but most biofuels cause economic waste and environmental destruction.
Second, Americans have basically decided that they don’t really want to produce all their own oil. They value the environmental quality they preserve over their oil imports from abroad. Vast areas of the United States are off-limits to oil exploration and production in the name of environmental protection. To what extent are Americans really willing to endure the environmental impacts of domestic energy production in order to cut back imports?
Third, there are benefits to trade. It allows for economic efficiency, and when we buy things from places that have lower production costs than we do, we benefit. And although you don’t read about this much, the United States is also a large exporter of oil products, selling about 2 million barrels of petroleum products per day to about 90 countries.
There is no question that the United States imports a great deal of energy and, in fact, relies on that steady flow to maintain its economy. When that flow is interrupted, we feel the pain in short supplies and higher prices, At the same time, we derive massive economic benefits when we buy the most affordable energy on the world market and when we engage in energy trade around the world.
1.What does the author say about energy independence for America?
A. It sounds very attractive.
B. It will bring oil prices down.
C. It ensures national security.
D. It has long been everyone’s dream.
2.What does the author think of biofuels?
A. They keep America’s economy running healthily.
B. They prove to be a good alternative to petroleum.
C. They do not provide a sustainable energy supply.
D. They cause serious damage to the environment.
3.Why does America rely heavily on oil imports?
A. It wants to expand its storage of crude oil.
B. Its own oil reserves are quickly running out.
C. It wants to keep its own environment undamaged.
D. Its own oil production falls short of demand.
4.What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
A. To justify America’s dependence on oil imports.
B. To arouse Americans’ awareness of the energy crisis.
C. To stress the importance of energy conservation.
D. To explain the increase of international oil trade.
It is true that good writers rewrite and rewrite and then rewrite some more. But in order to work up the desire to rewrite，it is important to learn to like what you write at the early stage.
I am surprised at the number of famous writers I know who say that they so dislike reading their own writing later that they even hate to look over the publishers' opinions. One reason we may dislike reading our own work is that we're often disappointed that the rich ideas in our minds seem very thin and plain when first written down. Jerry Fodor and Steven Pinker suggest that this fact may be a result of how our minds work.
Different from popular belief，we do not usually think in the words and sentences of ordinary language but in symbols for ideas (known as ‘mentalese’ )，and writing our ideas down is an act of translation from that symbolic language. But while mentalese contains our thoughts in the form of a complex tapestry (织锦)，writing can only be composed one thread at a time. Therefore it should not be surprising that our first attempt at expressing ideas should look so simple. It is only by repeatedly rewriting that we produce new threads and connect them to get closer to the ideas formed in our minds.
When people write as if some strict critics (批评家) are looking over their shoulder，they are so worried about what this critic might say that they get stuck before they even start. Peter Elbow makes an excellent suggestion to deal with this problem. When writing we should have two different minds. At the first stage，we should see every idea，as well as the words we use to express it，as wonderful and worth putting down. It is only during rewrites that we should examine what we excitedly wrote in the first stage and check for weaknesses.
1.What do we learn from the text about those famous writers?
A. They often regret writing poor works.
B. Some of them write surprisingly much.
C. Many of them hate reading their own works.
D. They are happy to review the publishers' opinions.
2.What do people generally believe about the way human minds work?
A. People think in words and sentences.
B. Human ideas are translated into symbols.
C. People think by connecting threads of ideas.
D. Human thoughts are expressed through pictures.
3.What can we conclude from the text?
A. Most people believe we think in symbols.
B. Loving our own writing is scientifically reasonable.
C. The writers and critics can never reach an agreement.
D. Thinking and writing are different stages of mind at work.
In his new show, Evan Ruggiero plays guitar, sings pop standards and shows everybody his fine footwork. What makes all of these especially unusual is that Ruggiero, 24, has only one leg.
When he was a 19-year-old musical theater student at New Jersey's Montclair State University, Ruggiero had a rare bone cancer in his right leg. Finally his leg would have to be amputated（截）below the knee.
Such a setback could have easily ended the career of a less tough person, but Ruggiero, who has been dancing since he was five, now puts the experience into his performance. His show, "The One-Legged Song and Dance Man: Volume 3", explains how he returned to dance just 18 months after the amputation. His dance now relies on the use of a peg leg(假肢),he explains.
The secret to his surprising success, he says, was being a "stubborn" patient who refused to give up on his dance and performing studies, despite the advice of his doctor.
“It was a real setback, but after it was all over, I said, ' You know what? I need to pick up right where I left off and continue my career, '” Ruggiero said.
Ruggiero has come to view his peg leg as an instrument. "Tap dancers-they're always calling themselves musicians, and their feet are their instrument, " he said.
Noting that many audience members will never have seen a one-legged dancer before coming to his show, Ruggiero says he won't shy away from the physical "weakness" his performance shows because of his condition.
"A lot of people have come up to me, and they always say, 'You're such a role model and an inspiration, ' "he said. "I'm honored when people say that, of course, but I'm just trying to get on with my life."
1.What makes Ruggiero's new show unusual?
A. One-legged dance. B. His own artworks.
C. The use of instrument. D. Songs of pop standard.
2.According to the passage, it is true that__________.
A. Ruggiero is a tough person with a strong will
B. the setback has ended Ruggiero's dance career
C. Ruggiero is dancing relying on others' support
D. his doctor agreed he kept on dancing and studying
3.When audience attend his performance, they may notice_______.
A. Ruggiero plays piano, sings and dances
B. Ruggiero is a dancer with the help of a peg leg
C. there are many tap dancers in the performance
D. Ruggiero pretends to be a physically normal person
4.What's the author's attitude to Evan?
A. Worry B. Sympathy
C. Encouragement D. Pity
