My father and I started our morning by moving quickly into the local store. I waited in line at the Starbucks counter while he shopped around to pick up a few things.
As I was standing there I became aware of an elderly woman, with untidy hair, wearing layers upon layers of old clothing, hunchbacked (弯背的) behind me in line. She had a few things for washing and seemed to want the Starbucks cashier to ring up since that queue was shorter than the queues in the store.
At some point I became aware of her edging (慢慢挪动) closer behind me — closer than I was comfortable with! I instinctively ( 本能地) placed a hand over my purse and drew it closer to me. My fear and imagination raced creating wild stories about this homeless woman who might try to steal from me.
Then it was my turn to order. As the cashier rang up my total, I discovered I was 67 cents short. I called my father but he was hard of hearing. He asked me to repeat what I said but he still couldn’t make me out. At that point, a long, grey arm, with holes in its sleeves, reached over from behind me. She laid 67 cents out on the counter, saying, we all need some help sometimes.
I was stunned! Here was a woman who clearly had very little to give and was in great need herself. I had judged her wrongly and she had offered to reach out to help me!
What an amazing gift and lesson this woman gave me about judging others！Thank you, God!
1.From the passage, we can learn that the elderly woman ______.
A.probably lived a poor life
B.tried to steal money from the writer
C.always followed close behind the writer
D.often went to the store to buy a few things
2.When seeing the elderly woman behind, the writer ______ .
A.thought of her grandmother B.wondered what she would do
C.called her father right away D.was on the watch for her
3.The elderly woman decided to help the writer ______.
A.the moment she saw the writer
B.when she noticed the writer watching her
C.after the writer failed to get help from her father
D.when the writer discovered she was 67 cents short
4.The underlined word “stunned” in Paragraph 5 probably means “______”.
A.happy B.surprised
C.angry D.disappointed
5.What lesson does the writer learn from the story?
A.We should look at things from two sides.
B.It’s wise to give help to those in need.
C.The world is full of love and surprises.
D.Never judge a person from his appearance.
An experience in a national park is exciting. But to make sure of a safe and pleasant trip, you should remember the following rules; Always keep food in safe and sealed containers.
Leaving food in the open is an invitation to animals. It is best to keep food in closed containers in a locked car. Garbage should be treated in the same way. Be careful with the park environment while walking.
To avoid meeting with bears –make your presence known. Make loud noises, shout and sing. Be especially careful in a thick bush or along streams where water makes noises.
Bells are not suggested as the sound does not carry well.
Do not approach wild animals.
Visitors have been attacked by wild animals. They may appear tame but are wild and dangerous. Many animals run faster than you can imagine.
Always put out campfires.
They are dangerous when left unattended and can cause forest fires. Always put the campfires out completely with water before leaving the area.
Be sure to carry plenty of water.
Cool, clear stream water is not as clean as it looks! Drinking untreated water can make you ill. You’d better carry enough drinking water. If you must use water from lakes or streams, boil it for one minute.
Seat belts are required by law.
Always wear your seat belts while driving! Slow down at dawn and drive carefully when it is dark. Watch carefully at all times for people and animals on roadways.
Do not feed the wildlife.
They’ll lose their desire for natural foods and become beggars. They may bite, and/or spread disease.
1.How many rules are mentioned in the passage?
A.Five B.Six
C.Seven D.Eight.
2.What does the underlined word “sealed” mean in the passage?
A.Closed. B.Large.
C.Metal. D.Special
3.To avoid meeting with bears, we should ______ .
A.stay in the bush B.make loud noises
C.take bells with us D.walk down the streams.
4.Which of the following is TRUE?
A.Wild animals are friendly to the visitors
B.Stream water is clean enough to drink.
C.Unattended campfires can cause forest fires
D.animals have lost interest in natural foods.
5.Which would be the best title for the passage?
A.A Dangerous Trip in a National Park
B.Tips for a Safe Experience in a National Park
C.How to Treat Wild Animals in a National Park
D.Protecting Wild Animals in a National Park
阅读下面短文，结合图表内容，按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的短文。
Every year, many college students graduate and they feel distressed and confused because they do not know whether they should choose to continue their postgraduate studies or get employed? In fact, either option has its own advantages and disadvantages.
If you are passionate about learning and can devote yourself to it, then choose to apply for a postgraduate course. Of course, you can also enter into society to sharpen your skills and enrich your experience after graduation from college or university.
[写作内容]
1. 用约30个词概括上述图文内容；
2. 结合上述信息，简要分析大学生毕业后考研和就业人数变化的原因；
3. 请联系自身谈谈你将来大学毕业后的选择(就业还是读研)并说明理由(不少于两点)。
（写作要求）
1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3. 不必写标题。
（评分标准）
内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
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请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题纸上相应题号的横线上。
Should I live in the city or the suburbs?
There are three different kinds of areas you can live in: urban, suburban, and rural. You can describe living in a rural area as living out in the sticks or the county. This type of living is seen as idyllic (田园生活的) for those seeking reprieve (暂时缓解) from crowds. Rural areas generally have small, self-sustaining populations.
Urban living is city living: active nightlife, full of noise, sophisticated public transit system and sometimes small and expensive city apartments. Urban areas tend to be densely (密集地) populated and have more intense traffic and pollution as a result.
For those seeking an intermediary between urban and rural living, the suburbs might be just the thing. Suburbs are large residential areas away from the core of town yet close enough to the city center.
Can you afford to live in the city?
Choosing whether to live in the city or the suburbs is often a matter of budget — where can you afford to live? By and large, living in the city is more expensive than living in the suburbs, though that’s not always the case. For instance, in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and a few other cities, suburban living is not always better on your wallet.
Your lifestyle influences your happiness in the city or suburbs.
For someone who enjoys five-star restaurants, vibrant (充满活力的) nightlife, and fast-paced living, residing in an urban hub is a dream come true. On the other hand, if you find crowds and tons of noise unbearable, then a large city might feel like purgatory (炼狱).
Your lifestyle is one of the primary considerations in deciding where you ought to live. If you are into fishing, hiking, and spending time outdoors, then realize that you may have to drive several hours to enjoy your hobbies if you choose city living.
Is your career better suited for the city or suburbs?
Your career should also strongly influence your choice about whether to live in the city or in the suburbs. For example, if your job is in landscape, you might find it difficult to find work in the city because there is not a high demand for landscape artists. The fact of the matter is that most city homes don’t have large yards with grass to cut, and competition for landscaping contracts is probably fierce. Similarly, a business executive (主管) may find that the suburbs do not offer the convenience afforded by city living.
The debate of whether to live in the suburbs or the city is long lasting and never-ending. When it all boils down to it, it is a matter of preference and budget, so go with your gut (决心) and you’ll make the right choice.
Passage outline | Supporting details |
1. of living in three kinds of areas | ◆ Living in rural areas helps people escape from 2.streets and public transportation. ◆ Living in urban are can mean active nightlife but has many 3. like noise, pollution and so on. ◆ The suburbs might appeal to those seeking to achieve a 4. between urban and rural living. |
Affordability | Generally, city living 5. more than suburban living, but in some cases, urban living is less expensive. |
Lifestyle | ◆ When choosing where to live, you should take your lifestyle into 6.. ◆You can settle in a big city if you prefer modern life. However, if you want to 7. your hobbies like fishing and hiking, you’d better avoid city living. |
Career | ◆ Your profession plays a great role in helping you 8. on where to live. ◆ A landscape artist has difficulty finding work in the city while a business executive finds it not 9. to live in the suburbs. |
Conclusion | Anyway, you’ll make the right decision if you 10. your choice on your preference and budget. |
Fred Rogers was a curious man, six feet tall and without pretense (虚伪). He liked to pray, to play the piano, to swim, and to write, and he somehow lived in a different world than I did. We became friends for some 20 years, and I made lifelong friends with his wife, Joanne. I remember thinking that it seemed as if Fred had access to another realm (领域) like the way pigeons have some special magnetic compass that helps them find home.
Fred died in 2003, somewhat quickly, of stomach cancer. He was 74. “Just don’t make Fred into a saint (圣人),” That has become Joanne’s refrain (叠句). 91 now, still full of energy, she lives alone in the same roomy apartment, in the university section of Pittsburgh, that she and Fred moved into after they raised their two boys. Throughout her 50-year marriage to Fred, she wasn’t the type to hang out on the set or attend production meetings. That was Fred’s thing. He had his career, and she had hers as a concert pianist. For decades she toured the country with her college classmate, Jeannine Morrison, as a piano duo; they didn’t retire the performance until 2008.
“If you make him out to be a saint, people might not know how hard he worked,” Joanne said. Disciplined, focused; a perfectionist — an artist. That was the Fred she and the cast and crew knew. “I think people think of Fred as a child-development expert,” David Newell, the actor who played Mr. “Speedy Delivery” McFeely, told me recently. “As a moral example maybe. But as an artist? I don’t think they think of that.” that was the Fred I came to know. Creating, the creative impulse (冲动), and the creative process were our common interests. He wrote or co-wrote all the scripts for the program — all 33 years of it. He wrote the melodies. He wrote the lyrics. He structured a week of programming around a single theme, many of them difficult topics, like war, divorce, or death.
I don’t know that he cared whether people saw him as an artist. He seemed more intent (急切的) that people not see him at all. The focus was always on you. Or children. Or the tiny things. It was hard to see Fred.
I like you just the way you are. One day he told me where that core message came from. His grandfather, Fred Brooks McFeely, who like the rest of the Rogers family lived in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles east of Pittsburgh. “He was a character,” he said. “Oh, a lot of me came from him.”
His grandfather represented a life of risk and adventure, the very things Fred’s boyhood lacked. He was a lonely kid, an only child until he was 11, when his sister came. He was bullied. Here comes Fat Freddie! He was sickly. He had asthma. He was not allowed to play outside by himself. He spent much of his childhood in his bedroom.
He had music, and he had puppets to keep himself amused. He didn’t need much. He was expected to fill his father’s shoes, become his business partner at the brick company. “My dad was pretty much Mr. Latrobe,” he told me. “He worked hard to accomplish all that he did, and I’ve always felt that that was way beyond me. And yet I’m so grateful that he didn’t push me to do the kinds of things that he did or to become a miniature (缩小的) version of him. It certainly would have been miniature.”
Fred wanted to be like his grandfather. “He taught me all kinds of really neat stuff!” he told me. “I remember one day my grandmother and my mother were telling me to get down, or not to climb, and my grandfather said: ‘Let the kid climb on the wall! He’s got to learn to do things for himself!’ I heard that. I will never forget that. What a support that was. He had a lot of stone walls on his place.” “I think it was when I was leaving one time to go home after our time together,” Fred told me, “that my grandfather said to me: ‘You know, you made this day a really special day. Just by being yourself. There’s only one person in the world like you. And I happen to like you just the way you are.”
1.What is the author’s impression of Fred?
A.Fred had many lifelong friends.
B.Fred lived in a strange world.
C.Fred could always find way home.
D.Fred was an amazing person.
2.Why does Joanne try to persuade people not to make Fred into a saint?
A.To show the great success the couple achieved.
B.To underline the great pains Fred spared at work.
C.To remind people of the contributions she made.
D.To keep the weaknesses of Fred’s character hidden.
3.Who may think Fred a moral example?
A.David Newell. B.The author. C.Common people. D.Joanne.
4.What did Fred prefer to do according to the author?
A.Write scripts and music on his own.
B.Act as the man behind the curtain.
C.Focus more on difficult topics.
D.Present himself as an artist.
5.Which of following might have the greatest influence on Fred’s growth?
A.His poor health condition. B.His father’s expectation.
C.His unhappy childhood. D.His grandfather’s attitude.
6.What is mainly talked about in the passage?
A.The making of Fred Rogers.
B.The importance of a good wife.
C.The influence of a moral example.
D.The achievements of Fred and his wife.
Sweet potato plants don't have spines or poisons to defend themselves. But some have evolved a clever way to let hungry herbivores (食草动物) know they aren't an all-you-can-eat buffet, a new study finds. When one leaf injured, it produces a chemical that warms the rest of the plant and its neighbors to make themselves inedible (不宜食用的)to bugs. Sweet potato breeders could potentially engineer plants to produce the chemical as an all-natural pest defense.
Plant ecologists led by Axel Mithofer of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, started to look into sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) defenses after they noticed something interesting about two varieties of the plant grown in Taiwan: The yellow-skinned, yellow-fleshed Tainong 57 is generally herbivore-resistant, but its darker orange cousin, Tainong 66, is plagued (造成麻烦) by insect pests.
To find out why, the team offered up Tainong 57 and 66 plants to hungry African cotton leafworm caterpillars (毛虫).Both plants released at least 40 airborne compounds as the caterpillars snacked on their leaves. But Tainong 57 produced a lot more of a chemical called DMNT, which has a very distinct smell, the team details this month in Scientific Reports. (“The smell is not nice,” Mithofer says. “You wouldn't want it as a perfume.”)
DMNT isn't a new compound; researchers have isolated (分离出) the smelly chemical from other plants such as corn and cabbage, and it is known to induce defense responses in some species.
To determine whether this was happening in sweet potatoes, scientists set up two experiments. First, they put two plants next to each other and wounded one so it produced DMNT. Then, they exposed healthy Tainong 57 plants to DMNT they had synthesized (合成).In both cases, the DMNT caused the exposed plants to produce more of a protein called sporamin in their leaves. (Tainong 66 did not have the same reaction.) When the caterpillar’s snack on sporamin, “they immediately stop eating because they don't feel well,” Mithofer says.
Sporamin is the main protein in sweet potato tubers (块茎),and is indigestible raw, which is why sweet potatoes must be cooked for humans to enjoy them. “If the caterpillars could cook it, they could eat it,” Mithofer says. Theoretically, he says, sweet potato breeders could use genetic engineering to make different varieties of sweet potato produce as much DMNT as Tainong 57, and display the same defense responses.
Still, the research isn't ready for prime time, cautions plant ecologist Martin Heil. DMNT might work in the lab, but in the field, airborne chemicals can be “blown away in seconds,” says Heil, who studies plant-insect interactions at the National Polytechnic Institute in Irapuato, Mexico.
Mithofer himself has no plans now to create genetically engineered sweet potato plants, because they would not be a viable (能活下去的) crop in Europe, where genetically modified crops are outlawed. So for now, Tainong 66 will have to put up with being a caterpillar salad bar.
1.What is the purpose of the experiment carried out by Axel's team?
A.To find out why DMNT has a very distinct smell.
B.To determine which sweet potato suits caterpillars better.
C.To find out why Tainong 57 resists bugs while Tainong 66 doesn't.
D.To determine what compounds are released when bugs eat sweet potatoes.
2.Which is an example of the underlined words “defense response” in Paragraph 4?
A.Researcher isolated the smelly chemical from plants.
B.Corn produces a chemical to avoid being eaten by bugs.
C.Two plants are put next to each other for an experiment.
D.Caterpillars have stomach trouble when they snack on sporamin.
3.The tone of the this passage can be described as .
A.humorous B.serious C.causal D.subjective
4.What's the author's attitude towards GM Tainong 66?
A.Supportive. B.Objective. C.Opposed. D.Skeptical.
