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When he was a little boy, Christopher Cockerell once noticed his mother turning the wheel of her sewing machine with her hand. “Won’t it work quickly if a machine1.(turn) the wheel for you?” he asked. “I suppose it will.” said his mother, without paying any attention to him. Christopher knew she always had a lot of work and that she was2. stubborn that he could hardly do anything to change3.mind. But he wanted to help. In his bedroom there was a toy steam engine4.(buy) by his father as a gift to him. “I will make better use of it,” little Christopher said to himself. So, when his mother was not using her sewing machine, he decided to fix the toy steam engine onto it. When he finished5.(do) it, he was quite pleased, thinking his mother would like it. “Very clever,” his mother said when she saw it. But then she sat down and went on turning the wheel6.hand. “I7.(work) like this for too many years,” she explained. Christopher felt very8.(disappoint). He couldn’t understand his mother’s9.(behave).
This teaches Christopher a lesson, 10.made him depressed for several days. It is that anyone who tries to improve anything has to learn: many people don’t like new ideas.
One young person, who was well educated, went for a job as a manager in a big company. The president did the final _______.
He discovered the youth was _______ and felt satisfied. Then the president asked who paid for his school fees. The youth answered, “My mother did it. She worked as a clothes _______.”
The president requested the youth to _______ his hands. So the youth did. They were smooth. Then he asked, “Have you ever _______ your mother wash the clothes before?” The youth answered, “Never, my mother always wanted me to _______.”
“Go and clean your mother’s _______ when you go back today, and then _______ me tomorrow morning,” the president said _______.
The youth felt his chance of getting the job was high, so when he went back, he ________ requested his mother to let him clean her hands. However, his tears fell ________ he cleaned his mother’s hands slowly. It was the first time he had ________ that his mother’s hands were so wrinkled (布满皱纹的). After that, the youth didn’t say a word and washed all the remaining clothes for his mother ________. That night, Mother and Son ________ for a very long time, longer than any talk before.
The next ________, the youth went to the president’s office. The president noticed the tears in the youth’s eyes and asked: “Please tell me how you ________ about helping your mother.” The youth said, “Number One, I know now what ________ is. Without my mother, I wouldn’t be successful today. Number Two, by helping my mother, I realize how ________ it is to get something done. Number Three, I’ve come to realize the ________ of family relationship.”
The president said, “You are ________. This is what I’m looking for to be my manager.”
1.A.election B.test C.interview D.competition
2.A.strong B.excellent C.humorous D.cute
3.A.maker B.cleaner C.mender D.seller
4.A.wash B.hide C.show D.dry
5.A.found B.let C.helped D.watched
6.A.study B.ignore C.work D.rest
7.A.clothes B.hands C.feet D.shoes
8.A.see B.move C.recognize D.answer
9.A.on purpose B.in patience C.by chance D.at last
10.A.carefully B.nervously C.happily D.shyly
11.A.after B.until C.because D.as
12.A.believed B.sensed C.noticed D.expected
13.A.quietly B.sadly C.excitedly D.angrily
14.A.thought B.slept C.sat D.talked
15.A.morning B.noon C.afternoon D.evening
16.A.worried B.felt C.brought D.spoke
17.A.courage B.appreciation C.success D.family
18.A.important B.difficult C.different D.impossible
19.A.value B.secret C.type D.change
20.A.educated B.respected C.trusted D.hired
Spring and summer are the best seasons of the year for lots of activities, especially jogging(慢跑). This kind of running is the choice of many people who live in the city, work in the office and want to keep healthy. 1.
1. Make good preparations before jogging.
2.There, you’ll have an opportunity to find and buy all the necessary sportsware. Pay attention to the selection of jogging shoes, if you don’t want to suffer from the feeling of heaviness, pain and leg swelling after the run. With all these pieces of wisdom. your body will be truly grateful to you.
2. Do fitting warming-up activities
Every runner, especially the beginners should know that all physical activities without proper warming up can cause a terrible pain and result in harm to muscles. It will probably lead to a final discomfort in your body or even disease. 3.Actually, it usually just takes you 15 minutes to increase the range of motion of our joints and warm up every muscle of the body.
3.4.When running, you usually feel physical and mental pleasure. Sometimes this pleasure can be replaced by negative feelings or even some kind of pain. No matter how healthy you’re, you should always pay attention to how your body reacts. If something is wrong during your jog or run, the body will certainly let you know by giving you some hints(暗示). Watchfulness can help you avoid all possible aftereffects of over exercise.
Every type of sport is special and useful in its own way. While jogging can sometimes bring pain and discomfort, it really offers you greater joy and satisfaction. So don’t step back.5.I hope these tips will help you prepare yourself for jogging and avoid any serious issues.
A. Listen to your body signals.
B. Never give in to difficulties while jogging
C. However, jogging without preparation will bring great harm.
D. One of the best ways to prepare is to go to specialized (专门的) shops.
E. Just go in for jogging, but remember to follow the above rules
F. Therefore, you should make it a habit to warm up before jogging
G. Here are some basic rules to make jogging safe, useful and comfortable
Having a smart phone may not be as smart as you think.They may let you surf the Internet,listen to music and take photos wherever you are…but they also turn you into a workaholic（工作狂）,it seems.
A study suggests that,by giving you access to emails at all times,the smart phone adds as much as two hours to your working day. Experts found that British people work an additional 460 hours a year on average as they are able to respond to emails on their mobiles.The study shows the average UK working day is between 9 and 10 hours,but 2 more hours is spent responding to or sending work emails,or making work calls.
Almost one in ten admits spending up to three hours outside their normal working day checking work emails. Some workers say they are on call almost 24 hours a day. Nearly two-thirds say they often check work emails just before they go to bed and as soon as they wake up, while over a third have replied to one in the middle of the night.The average time for first checking emails is between 6 a.m and 7 a.m, with more than a third checking their first email in the period, and a quarter checking them between 11p.m.and midnight.
Ghadi Hobeika,marketing director of Pixmania,said:“The ability to access millions of Apps has made smart phone invaluable for many people.However,there are disadvantages.Many companies expect their employees to be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week,and smart phones mean that people cannot get away from work.The more frequently in contact we become,the more is expected of us in a work capacity.”
1.With a smart phone the average UK working day is .
A.11 to 12 hours B.9 to 10 hours
C.8 hours D.2 hours
2.We can learn from the text that the British people .
A.prefer to check emails in the morning B.are crazy about different smart phone
C.work more hours with smart phones D.shorten their normal working hours
3.What does the underlined word “invaluable” mean?
A.useless B.necessary
C.expensive D.cheap
4.What does Ghadi Hobeika feel about smart phones?
A.They are unimportant for most of people.
B.They have disadvantages for some companies.
C.They are useful to improve a work ability.
D.They make it impossible for people to rest.
What will man be like in the future--in 5000 or even 50,000 years from now? We can only make guesses, of course, but we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, for man is slowly changing all the time.
Let us take an obvious example, Man, even five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today. Now, on average, men are about three inches taller. Five hundred years is a relatively short period of time, so we may assume that man will continue to grow taller. Again, in the modern world we use our brains a great deal. Even so, we still make use of only about 20% of the brain’s capacity. As time goes on, however, we shall have to use our brains more and more, and eventually we shall need larger ones! This is likely to bring about a physical change too: the head, in particular the forehead, will grow larger.
Nowadays our eyes are in constant use. In fact, we use them so much that very often they become weaker and we have to wear glasses. But over a very long period of time it is likely that man's eyes will grow stronger.
On the other hand, we tend to make less use of our arms and legs. These, as a result, are likely to grow weaker. At the same time, however, our fingers will grow more sensitive because they are used a great deal in modern life.
But what about hair? This will probably disappear from the body altogether in course of time because it does not serve a useful purpose any longer. In the future, then, both sexes are likely to be bald (光秃的).
Perhaps all this gives the impression that future man will not be a very attractive creature to look at! This may well be true. But in spite of all these changes, future man will still have a lot in common with us. He will still be a human being, with thoughts and emotions similar to our own.
1.The passage mainly tells us that ________.
A.humans needn't wear glasses in the future.
B.man's life will be different in the future.
C.future man will look quite different from us.
D.man is growing taller and uglier as time passes.
2.It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A.future life is always predictable (可预测的)
B.human beings will become less attractive in the future
C.less use of a bodily organ (器官) may lead to its degeneration (退化)
D.human beings hope for a change in the future life
3.Future man will be similar to us in ________.
A.Colour and height B.size and appearance
C.thought and observation D.thought and emotion
John，a very thin boy, loved football with all his heart when he was very young．Practice after practice，he eagerly gave everything he had．But being half the size of the other boys，he could only sit on the bench and hardly ever played in games．Even though the son was always on the bench，his father was always standing with cheers and encouraging him．
When John went to college, he decided to try out for the football team as a “walk-on”．Everyone was sure he could never make the cut，but he did．The coach thought he could provide the other members with the spirit they needed．
The news that he had survived the cut excited him so much that he rushed to the nearest phone and called his father．His father shared his excitement and was sent season tickets for all the college games．
It was the end of this last football season．One day John received a telegram and asked one week off．Nobody knew what happened except the coach．The coach said，“Don't plan to come back to the game on Saturday．”
Saturday arrived，and the game was not going well：When the team was ten points behind，John came back．“Coach，please let me play．I’ve just got to play today,”said John．The coach pretended not to hear him．But John persisted，and finally feeling sorry for the kid，the coach gave in．
Before long everyone could not believe their eyes. John was doing everything to fight. The opposing team could not stop him. He ran, he passed and blocked like a star. And at last his team won the game．
After the game，John looked at the coach，with tears in his eyes，and said，“Well,you knew my dad died,but did you know that my dad was blind?''John swallowed hard and forced a smile, “Dad came to all my games, but today was the first time he could see me play, and I wanted to show him that I could do it.”
1.Why did John hardly have any chance to play in games?
A.Because he had no time to practice．
B.Because he was too young to play games．
C.Because everyone looked down upon him．
D.Because his body condition was not good．
2.The underlined phrase “make the cut” in the second paragraph can be replaced by “ “
A.make progress B.be allowed to join the team
C.cut himself D.be refused by the coach
3.From the text we can know that ．
A.John felt very depressed as a “walk-on”
B.John's father always taught him how to play
C.John's father went to most of his college games
D.the coach was sure John would be the best player one day
