Who is over there?
A.Tom. B.Henry. C.Alice’s brother.
What will the woman do?
A.Stay at home. B.Visit a clothes shop. C.Go to a fashion show.
What are the speakers talking about?
A.A film. B.A journey. C.Unexpected news.
假设你是某中学的学生谢飞，你校国际部将选拔一些学生志愿者，参与国际部接待学访团 等外事活动的策划和组织。你欲参选，请根据以下提示，写一篇竞选演讲稿。
* 个人优势介绍（如性格，特长等）；
* 接待学访学生的活动安排（校内，校外）；
* 表达当选的愿望。 注意：
1. 词数不少于 100；
2. 请勿提及真实学校名称；
3. 可适当加入细节，以使内容充实、行文连贯；
4. 开头、结尾已给出，不计入总词数。 参考词汇：
竞选 run for…; 学访学生 students on the exchange program
Good afternoon, my dear friends, My name is Xie Fei.
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Thank you!
阅读表达
“Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy---they're given after all. Choices can be hard.”
I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2300 percent per year. I'd never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30, and I’d been married for a year. I told my wife that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn't work since most start-ups don’t and I wasn't sure what to expect. She told me I should go for it. As a young boy, I had been a garage inventor. I had always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.
I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people and a brilliant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him that I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park，listened carefully to me and finally said,“That sounds like a really good idea，but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn't already have a good job.”That logic made some sense to me，and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice，but ultimately, I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn't think I would regret trying and failing. And I suspected that I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.
After much consideration, I took the less secure path to follow my passion, and I'm proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choices.
1.What inspired the author to start Amazon 16 years ago? (No more than 15 words)
2.How did the author’s wife respond to his crazy idea of building an online bookstore? (No more than 10 words)
3.What was the attitude of the author’s boss towards his starting a company online? (No more than 10 words)
4.What’s your understanding of the underlined sentence in the last paragraph? (No more than 15 words)
5.What is the most important factor when you make your career choice? Give your reasons. (No more than 20 words)
I’m a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories.
I grew up reading British and American children’s books. When I began to write, I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they ate apples and talked a lot about the weather, despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria. We ate mangoes, and we never talked about the weather. Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to have foreigners in them. Things changed when I discovered African books. Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye, I went through a mental shift in my idea of literature. I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, could also exist in literature. I started to write about things I recognized. So what the discovery of African writers did for me was this: It saved me from having a single story of what books are. The year I turned eight, we got a new house boy Fide from a nearby rural village. The only thing my mother told us about him was that his family was very poor. And when I didn’t finish my dinner, my mother would say, “Finish your food! Don’t you know? People like Fide’s family have nothing.” So I felt enormous pity for Fide’s family. Then one Saturday, we went to his village to visit, and his mother showed us a beautifully patterned basket that his brother had made. I was astonished. It had not occurred to me that anybody in his family could actually make something. Their poverty was my single story of them.
Years later, when I left Nigeria to go to university in the United States, my American roommate asked where I had learned to speak English so well, and was confused when I said that Nigeria happened to have English as its official language. What struck me was this: She had felt sorry for me even before she saw me. My roommate had a single story of Africa: a single story of catastrophe.
Of course, Africa is a continent full of catastrophes. But there are other stories that are not about catastrophe, and it is very important, it is just as important, to talk about them. The consequence of the single story is this: It robs people of dignity. It makes our recognition of our equal humanity difficult. It emphasizes how we are different rather than how we are similar.
So what if my mother had told us that Fide’s family was poor and hardworking? What if we had an African television network that broadcast diverse African stories all over the world? What if my roommate knew about my Nigerian publisher, Muhtar Bakare, a remarkable man who left his job in a bank to follow his dream and start a publishing house? What if my roommate knew about my friend Funmi Iyanda, a fearless woman who hosts a TV show, and is determined to tell the stories that we prefer to forget?
My Nigerian publisher and I have just started a non-profit called Farafina Trust, and we have big dreams of building libraries and providing books for state schools, and also of organizing lots of workshops in reading and writing, for all the people who are eager to tell our many stories.
Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity. When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.
1.What is probably people’s first impression of the writer when it comes to her nationality?
A.She mainly eats apples and mangoes.
B.She may not speak fluent English.
C.She comes from a place free of catastrophes.
D.She prefers stories based on foreign characters.
2.The underlined phrase “a mental shift” in Paragraph 2 refers to the writer’s ________.
A.discovery of African books with characters of her skin color
B.acquaintance with local African writers like Chinua Achebe
C.realization that not only foreign characters exist in literature
D.change that she started to write about things she recognized
3.How many personal stories has the writer mentioned in the passage?
A.Two. B.Three.
C.Four. D.Five.
4.The writer uses several single stories in the passage to illustrate that the single story ________.
A.matters in keeping listeners well informed
B.tends to convey a prejudiced idea to listeners
C.gets increasingly popular among story tellers
D.fails to produce a lasting effect on listeners
5.The writer lists many “what ifs” in Paragraph 6 to ________.
A.emphasize our differences rather than similarities
B.indicate the way that stories are used to break dignity
C.show the hardship of recognizing our equal humanity
D.stress the importance of telling diverse, balanced stories
6.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A.The danger of the single story B.The importance of telling stories
C.The single stories that matter D.Stories that can repair broken dignity
