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When I got up on this morning, I had a strange feeling that it isn’t going to be my day. First, I got up later, missing breakfast. Then, dashed to the bus stop, I slipped and fell on the ground. To make matters bad, the bus didn’t stop for me because it was overcrowded. It had no choice but to take a taxi. Not until the taxi got to my school I realize I have left my wallet at home. After I did lots of explain and apologizing, the driver let me go. In a end, I reached the school gate. To my astonishment, I suddenly realized it was a school holiday.
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Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing skill was something she picked 1. by herself. She became a part-time writer for IBM after 2.(graduate) from college. Then, writing stories was 3.(simple)a personal interest. Tracy sent three of her stories to a publisher. 4.(interest), they immediately suggested that she put them together 5.(make)a single one long story and paid Tracy $ 50, 000 in advance, which was a pretty money for an unknown writer.
Even though Tracy’s 6.(character) are interesting, her stories sometimes leave readers uneasy: those about the supernatural. “My mother believed I could connect with the afterlife world,” she told a close friend. “She used to have me speak with my grandmother, 7. died many years ago.”
“Can I? I don’t think I can,” Tracy said with a laugh. “But I do have moments when things come to me for no reason.” Once, she 8.(wonder) how to complete a scene set in ancient China when the doorbell suddenly rang. It was a FedEx delivery man, with a copy of a book on Chinese history. 9. came without her having ordered it!
Though she has published 10 books, Tracy has remained unchanged by her fame. She lives in the same way she lived 27 years ago — although in a 10.(big) house. There’s more room for joy in her life — and it wasn’t just writing.
It’s 27 years since my last conversation with my mother, who didn’t finish school like many of her contemporary girls. She often told me, “I never got my ________ but one day you will.”
Pointing to a tree or cow, she asked me to ________ their English names after her. Feeling ________, I asked, “Mama, why do I have to learn these ________ phrases?” She held her pen right before my eyes. “Hold it firmly,” she ________ me, “for this pen and the new foreign language will be your compass to ________ around the world.” Sadly, my mother died of breast cancer when I was six.
Turning seven, I traveled 30 miles to live closer to my school. But “closer” is a ________ term in Uganda, which ________ I had to get up as the ________ sun rose and then ran 8. 8 miles barefoot to school. Also, I needed to carry a stick in ________ of snakes and dogs. During the ________ season, the path to school was ________ daily and I’d swim with one hand, using the other hand to ________ the book bag on my head.
Research shows 70 percent of poor children don’t ________ primary school in Uganda. Reasons for this ________ dropout rate includes the long ________ some children must ________ among many other reasons.
Fortunately, I’ve made it. Whenever I see the sun rise, I am ________ of the wisdom of my mother, who ________ me to dream big and to use the ________ of the pen to make my dream come true.
1.A. degree B. scholarship C. recommendation D. admission
2.A. recite B. use C. repeat D. guess
3.A. anxious B. curious C. disappointed D. annoyed
4.A. tough B. new C. foreign D. old
5.A. encouraged B. consulted C. blamed D. frightened
6.A. fly B. turn C. walk D. sail
7.A. relative B. real C. simple D. technical
8.A. shows B. means C. proves D. states
9.A. warm B. early C. bright D. hot
10.A. search B. possession C. spite D. case
11.A. summer B. cold C. rainy D. dry
12.A. damaged B. repaired C. blocked D. flooded
13.A. drag B. hold C. put D. seize
14.A. attend B. enter C. complete D. continue
15.A. constant B. steady C. low D. high
16.A. distances B. periods C. lists D. stories
17.A. cover B. consider C. judge D. measure
18.A. informed B. warned C. reminded D. told
19.A. enabled B. inspired C. expected D. intended
20.A. value B. power C. symbol D. length
When I was nine years old, I learned how to make a coin disappear. I’d read The Lord of the Rings and adventured into the adult section of the library to search for a book of magics — nine being that curious age at which you’re old enough to work through more than 1, 200 pages of mysterious fantasy literature. The book I found instead taught basic techniques. 1.
At first it wasn’t even magic but just a bad trick. 2. I tossed the coin over and over, and after two weeks of this my mom got a carpet sample from the hardware store and placed it under the mirror to remove the sound of the coin falling again and again.
I had heard my dad work through passages of new music on the piano, so I knew how to practice — slowly, deliberately, going for preciseness rather than speed. 3. It did not look like a magic trick. It looked like a miracle.
4. Everyone went crazy. The teacher on duty crossed the field to see what was going on. Usually, Mrs. Tanner filled her classroom with an appetite for punishment and an oversize plastic golf club she waved like a weapon, knocking it down on the desks of the unruly and sleepy students. 5. The coin disappeared for her too. She asked to do it again. I did. I’m sure my hands were sweating, but when I looked up, everything had changed. I will remember the look on her face — the look of wide-eyed, open-mouthed wonder — forever.
A. I was soon absorbed in the plot.
B. I devoted the next months to practice.
C. She was really angry about the whole thing.
D. One day I made the coin disappear on the playground.
E. At last I tried before the mirror and the coin disappeared.
F. Now she marched toward me and demanded to know what was going on.
G. I spent hours each day running through the secret moves in front of the mirror.
On September 10, 2018, Jack Ma, founder and chairman of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, announced his successor(继任者)at the company he founded 19 years ago. Surprisingly, in a country where 70 to 80 percent of private companies are still family run, Mr. Ma did not name a family member. Rather, one of the world’s largest e-commerce companies will be led by Daniel Zhang, an 11-year Alibaba old hand chosen only for his “professional talent.”
The history of many countries can be marked by a trend away from dependence on family succession in business, or the belief that qualities of leadership flow through bloodlines. Ma is a true innovator(创新者)in many ways, most famously for building an innovative online shopping market worth more than the economies of most countries. But his legacy(遗产)may lie in showing how China as well as much of Asia can produce founders of successful organizations unwilling to pass the torch to relatives.
“Alibaba was never about Jack Ma,” he stated in announcing his succession plan. Instead, the former schoolteacher who came from lowly origins is stepping back from day-to-day operations because he has built a system that takes root in a company culture based on innovation, transparency, and responsibility. “For the last 10 years, we kept working on these ingredients,” he stated.
The company’s future will depend on developing a wealth of talent that drives innovation, he said. And in a society with a long tradition of cautious distrust toward those outside the family circle, Ma has built an “architecture of trust” with customers, who number over half a billion. Chinese now readily rely on Alibaba’s online payment system, its ratings of products and services, and other trust-building systems or methods pioneered by the company.
China’s rapid growth now produces a new billionaire almost every day. Many of them, like Ma, have favored systems of management based on talent and honesty. As many countries have discovered as they progress, it is better to swim in a talent pool, not a gene(基因)pool.
1.What do we know about Daniel Zhang from the passage?
A. He’s a talented professor.
B. He’s an experienced manager.
C. He’s a successful founder.
D. He’s Chairman of Alibaba.
2.Where does Ma’s legacy lie in?
A. Becoming a successful innovative founder.
B. Casting doubt on traditional succession plan.
C. Providing creative answers to succession problems.
D. Representing trends towards non-family-run companies.
3.What seems to be the recipe for the company’s future success?
A. Trust-building methods.
B. The “architecture of trust”.
C. A culture of talent development.
D. The latest successful innovations.
4.What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Prefer Qualities to Blood.
B. Train a Potential Successor.
C. Favor Genes over Talents.
D. Provide New Management.
Parents tend to favour children of one sex in certain situations — or so evolutionary biologists tell us. A new study used colored backpack sales data to show that parental wealth may influence spending on sons different from daughters.
In 1973 biologist Robert Trivers and computer scientist Dan Willard published a paper suggesting that parents invest(投入)more resources, such as food and effort, in male children when times are good, and in female children when times are bad. According to the Trivers-Willard hypothesis(假说), a son given lots of resources can become a gentleman — but parents with few resources tend to invest them in daughters, who generally find it easier to be a fair maiden.
Studying parental investment after birth is difficult, however. The new study looked for a standard of measurement of such investment that met several criteria: it shouldn’t be affected by sex differences in the need for resources; it should measure investment rather than outcomes; and it should be objective.
Study author Shige Song, a sociologist at Queens College, City University of New York, examined spending on pink and blue backpacks purchased in China in 2015 from a large retailer, JD. com. He narrowed the data to about 5, 000 bags: blue backpacks bought by families known to have at least one boy and pink ones bought by families known to have at least one girl. The results showed that wealthier families spent more on blue than pink backpacks — suggesting greater investment in sons. Poorer families spent more on pink packs than blue ones. The findings were published in Evolution and Human Behavior.
Song’s evidence for the Trivers-Willard hypothesis is “indirect” but “pretty convincing,” says Rosemary Hopcroft, a sociologist at the. University of North Carolina at Charlotte, who was not connected with the new study. Hopcroft reported in 2016 that U. S. fathers with high-status occupations were more likely to send their sons to private school than their daughters, while fathers with lower-status jobs more often enrolled their female children. Although the new study does not prove the families were buying the blue backpacks for boys and pink ones for girls, Hopcroft notes that “it’s a clever and interesting paper, and it’s a rather unusual use of big data.”
1.What does the writer intend to do in Paragraph 2?
A. Introduce an earlier study.
B. Identify children’s needs.
C. Assess the influence of a study.
D. Explore into parental investment.
2.What offers a challenge for the new study?
A. The investment meeting several criteria.
B. The measurement of eventual outcomes.
C. Different demands for resources between sexes.
D. Consistent standards in measuring parental investment.
3.What can be learned from Song’s research?
A. The new study was done in 2015.
B. Big data was sampled for research.
C. Preference was offered to consumers.
D. Blue packs were favored over pink ones.
4.Which of the following is likely to match Hopcroft’s remark on Song’s research?
A. It’s entertaining. B. It’s well-designed.
C. It’s unbelievable. D. It’s unusual.
