This summer I travelled from noisy Beijing to Wuzhen, a beautiful village in Zhejiang Province. Unfolded before me was 1. unique image of this water country—the stone bridge and the water flowing, all like fairy tales to me.
However,2. impressed me most was not the natural scenery but the scene of a grandma bathing a little baby in a wooden basin with the door open. My friends couldn’t help 3.(take) pictures of them. To my surprise, the grandma smiled and waved at us. All of a sudden, my heart was filled with 4. (warm).
I shared the photo and my 5. (forget) experience with my friends. They were 6.(simple) moved as I was, but at the same time they reminded me of the unpleasant experiences in big cities. We feel embarrassed to see people quarreling in public because they 7. (step) on accidentally by strangers.
According to a recent survey 8. (make) in November 2016: 45 percent of the residents don’t know the names of their neighbors; 63 percent have never devoted 9. (they) to talking to their neighbors; 67 percent think that the relationship between them and their neighbors is just so-so, or even bad.
Wouldn’t it be beautiful to say hello to our neighbors who just came back 10. work give them a smile?
We all love college reunion(再聚). I feel very lucky to have been able to ______ my 25th anniversary reunion. The meals were ______ welcomed. The celebration was inspiring,______ an overview of the past years. And the ______ of my four years on campus were satisfying and ______.
One of my favourite parts was ______ about the lives of my classmates. Their ______ lives-families, relationships-and also their professional work. There’s the classmate who is an organic farmer and a leader in the effort to ______ other farmers about organic farming skills; the classmate who ______ over her family’s power plant; the classmate who ______ her own company; the classmate who went to a(n)______ school and now works as a delivery nurse. All are inspirational. What they also ______ is a commitment to learning, leading, challenging and contributing, all things we learned the value of in college.
Then there is our classmate who passed away in January 2017. He shared the commitment to all the ______ listed above, as well as to the value of adventure and positive thinking. He was missed ______ words. As a class, we ______ him on Saturday evening and as a college, we did honor to him, along with other classmates who have passed away in the past five years, at a memorial service on Sunday morning. I was honored, on ______ of our class and our college, to read his name and ______ a candle for him at the service. This classmate was an ______ throughout his short life.
I have been ______ on my 25th reunion and on my college days and all the days since. I am ______ for the lessons I have learned so far. And I am inspired.
1.A. watch B. attend C. prepare D. visit
2.A. normally B. deeply C. regularly D. hopefully
3.A. supporting B. providing C. earning D. making
4.A. experiments B. incidents C. memories D. behaviors
5.A. appreciated B. considered C. discussed D. searched
6.A. seeing B. leaving C. looking D. learning
7.A. daily B. social C. personal D. official
8.A. ignore B. encourage C. congratulate D. educate
9.A. watched B. took C. called D. got
10.A. forms B. reunites C. runs D. spoils
11.A. art B. graduate C. nursing D. law
12.A. supply B. explore C. admit D. share
13.A. styles B. qualities C. evidence D. relics
14.A. throughout B. over C. by D. beyond
15.A. honored B. voted C. released D. removed
16.A. top B. account C. call D. behalf
17.A. light B. make C. blow D. mop
18.A. application B. inspiration C. reception D. protection
19.A. depending B. passing C. reflecting D. taking
20.A. peaceful B. faithful C. hopeful D. grateful
Crossroads International
How does crossroads work?
Crosswords is a resource network. We take goods Hong Kong doesn’t want and give them to people who badly need them. We collect those goods and give them out in the welfare agencies in Hong Kong, Mainland China, elsewhere in Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. 1.
Who do we help?
2. They are grass-root groups who have seen a need and tried to meet it. They can’t get the job done without backup, though, so our task is to help them do their task. Our warehouse (仓库) is full of goods, from computers to high chairs, clothing to books, cupboards to dining sets. They send us a list of their needs and we try to match it with the resource we have in stock.
3.
Crossroads itself also operates on a low budget. We do not buy the goods we send. They are donated. Similarly, rather than raising funds for freight (货运), we ask transport companies to donate their services.4. Even our full-time staff work on a voluntary basis.
What can you do?
5. While we receive large quantities of goods and there is never a short supply of requests for them, we are always in need of hands to help sort and prepare them for shipping. If you are volunteering regularly, we can offer work in some of the categories, some of the time.
A. What do we need?
B. How do we operate?
C. So Crossroads is just that: a Crossroads between need and resource.
D. Nobody in our organization receives a salary.
E. One resource that we are always in need of is people.
F. welfare agencies we help do not run on large budgets.
G. All volunteer work is done at our warehouse.
In the movie Alice in Wonderland, Alice comes across a Cheshire cat and asks the cat which road she should take. The cat responds, “Well, that depends on where you’re trying to get to.” Alice replies, “I don’t know.” The cat responds, “Then any road will do.”
You see, knowing where you’re going increases your chances dramatically of getting there, and there is no better way of “GETTING THERE” than setting your goals for the upcoming year. Think of your goals as destinations and the action steps as your GPS guiding and directing you. If you are like many other people, for years you have resisted the need to set goals and even laughed at the thought that setting goals and, even more importantly, committing them to writing have positive effects on your life. However, a closer look might convince you that setting goals is a sensible thing to do.
In 1979, a class of Harvard MBA students was asked: Have you set clear, written goals for your future and made an action plan to accomplish them? The following will astonish you. Only 3 percent of the class had written goals and a plan in place, 13% just had goals, and an amazing 84% had no specific goals at all.
Ten years later the numbers of the class were interviewed once again and the following results will no doubt give the reason for our setting goals. The findings were that the 13% who had goals were earning, on average, twice as much as the 84% who had no goals at all. And the 3 percent who had clear, written goals with a plan to achieve them were achieving ten times as much as the entire 97% combined.
Goal setting will increase your chances of arriving successfully at your destination. Remember, always set SMART goals. Goals should be: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-bound!
1.Why does the author mention Alice in Wonderland?
A. To introduce the topic.
B. To recommend it to readers.
C. To show its popularity.
D. To criticize those with no goals.
2.What does the underlined word “them” refer to?
A. Action steps.
B. People.
C. Goals.
D. Effects.
3.What did the second interview find out?
A. Action helped with the realization of goals.
B. People with goals were certain to succeed.
C. The income gap among students was bigger.
D. People with goals earned the most.
4.Which of the following can best serve as the title?
A. Why we set goals
B. How to set goals
C. How to be successful
D. What SMART goals are
One day when I was 12, my mother gave me an order: I was to walk to the public library, and borrow at least one book for the summer. This was one more weapon for her to defeat my strange problem—inability to read.
In the library, I found my way into the “Children’s Room.” I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the shelf at random. The cover of a book caught my eye. It presented a picture of a beagle. I had recently had a beagle, the first and only animal companion I ever had as a child. He was my secret sharer, but one morning, he was gone, given away to someone who had the space and the money to care for him. I never forgot my beagle.
There on the book’s cover was a beagle which looked identical (相同的) to my dog. I ran my fingers over the picture of the dog on the cover. My eyes ran across the title, Amos, the Beagle with a Plan. Unknowingly, I had read the title. Without opening the book, I borrowed it from the library for the summer.
Under the shade of a bush, I started to read about Amos. I read very, very slowly with difficulty. Though pages were turned slowly, I got the main idea of the story about a dog who, like mine, had been separated from his family and who finally found his way back home. The dog was my dog, and I was the little boy in the book. At the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of reunion, on and on, until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together.
My mother’s call returned me to the real world. I suddenly realized something: I had read a book, and I had loved reading that book. Everyone knew I could not read. But I had read it. Books could be incredibly wonderful and I was going to read them.
I never told my mother about my “miraculous” (奇迹般的) experience that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable improvement in my classroom performance during the next year. And years later, she was proud that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature, and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction. The power of the words was held.
1.The author’s mother told him to borrow a book in order to .
A. encourage him to do more walking
B. let him spend a meaningful summer
C. help cure him of his reading problems
D. make him learn more about weapons
2.The book caught the author’s eye because .
A. it contained pretty pictures of animals
B. it reminded him of his own dog
C. he found its title easy to understand
D. he liked children’s stories very much
3.Why could the author manage to read the book through?
A. He was forced by his mother to read it.
B. The happy ending of the story attracted him.
C. The book told the story of his pet dog.
D. He identified with the story in the book.
4.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. The author has become a successful writer.
B. The author’s mother read the same book.
C. The author’s mother rewarded him with books.
D. The author has had happy summers ever since.
People aren’t walking any more-if they can figure out a way to avoid it.
I felt superior about this matter until the other day I took my car to mail a small parcel. The journey is a matter of 281 steps. But I used the car. And I wasn’t in any hurry, either. I had merely become one more victim of a national sickness: motorosis.
It is an illness to which T had thought myself immune(免疫的), for I was bred in the tradition of going to places on my own two legs. At that time, we regarded 25 miles as a good day’s walk and the ability to cover such a distance in ten hours as a sign of strength and skill. It did not occur to us that walking was a hardship. And the effect was lasting. When I was 45 years old I raced—and beat-a teenage football player the 168 steps up the Statue of Liberty.
Such enterprises today are regarded by many middle-aged persons as bad for the heart. But a well-known British physician, Sir Adolphe Abrahams, pointed out recently that hearts and bodies need proper exercise. A person who avoids exercise is more likely to have illness than one who exercises regularly. And walking is an ideal form of exercise-the most familiar and natural of all.
It was Henry Thoreau who showed mankind the richness of going on foot. The man walking can learn the trees, flowers, insects, birds and animals, the significance of seasons, the very feel of himself as a living creature in a living world. He cannot learn in a car.
The car is convenient means of transport, but we have made it our way of life. Many people don’t dare to approach Nature any more; to them the world they were born to enjoy is all threat. To them security is a steel river thundering on a concrete (混凝土) road. And much of their thinking takes place while waiting for the traffic to turn green.
I say that the green of forests is the mind’s best light. And none but the man on foot can evaluate what is basic and everlasting.
1.What is the national sickness?
A. Walking too much.
B. Traveling too much.
C. Driving cars too much.
D. Climbing stairs too much.
2.What was life like when the author was young?
A. People usually went around on foot.
B. People often walked 25 miles a day.
C. People used to climb the Statue of Liberty.
D. People considered a ten-hour walk as a hardship.
3.The author mentions Henry Thoreau to prove that .
A. middle-aged people like getting back to nature
B. walking in nature helps enrich one’s mind
C. people need regular exercise to keep fit
D. going on foot prevents heart disease
4.What is compared to “a steel river” in Paragraph 6?
A. A queue of cars.
B. A ray of traffic light.
C. A flash of lightning.
D. A stream of people.
