Not many 17-year-old girls know how to solder（焊）copper pipes together or light a pilot light. These are_____I’ve learned as an assistant to my______in his plumbing（管道）business.
My summer job deals with_______that constantly arise physical and mental discomfort, and the work______an attitude of determination and patience that I frequently struggle to adopt.
Each morning, I______myself into large-thick men’s jeans most girls would______to wear and climb into the plumber truck. As my classmates begin their_____babysitting, or selling groceries, my dad and I carry_____toolboxes and work in the dark basements. I often get ______in messy storage boxes looking for the water meter. Nothing around is beautiful or tidy.
Sometimes I______why I stand the dust and sweat when I could be in my air-conditioned house doing summer homework. Yet as much as I_______the mess of plumbing. I look down upon myself for being so easily annoyed by disorder.______, the world was built by people willing to get their hands_______.
Five such summers have______me that the messy parts of people’s houses______the messy parts of their lives. As I learn to_____the mess, I also learn to handle the_____and contradictions in my adolescence. Life is a process of accepting_______and learning to put it in order. Plumbing work is no different. You can see it in each newly soldered group of copper pipes. And when customers express______, I understand that, in a small way, we bring______to their lives.
1.A.manners B.skills C.facts D.rules
2.A.brother B.dad C.teacher D.friend
3.A.messes B.customers C.noises D.exercises
4.A.offers B.develops C.demands D.lacks
5.A.wrestle B.lower C.squeeze D.hide
6.A.need B.expect C.refuse D.choose
7.A.shifts B.studies C.meetings D.travels
8.A.fancy B.small C.expensive D.heavy
9.A.injured B.absorbed C.lost D.interested
10.A.know B.question C.imagine D.remember
11.A.see B.clean C.hate D.create
12.A.Or rather B.At least C.After all D.In addition
13.A.full B.dirty C.firm D.free
14.A.taught B.promised C.advised D.guaranteed
15.A.examine B.divide C.reduce D.reflect
16.A.sort out B.care about C.hunt for D.give up
17.A.arrangements B.uncertainties C.competitions D.expectations
18.A.failure B.help C.change D.chaos
19.A.sympathy B.suspicion C.disapproval D.appreciation
20.A.peace B.success C.wonder D.order
The structure in organizations has changed. It has transformed from a boss to a leader being at the top and from method directing to cooperation, _______ how many of us have actually made this _______ within ourselves?
Let's not get personal about any person or connect this to any _______ organization. Consider the _______ pattern on a social media website such as LinkedIn. We often see good articles written by junior-level employees which _______ new enthusiasm and new perspectives, but how many senior-level _______ go and "Like" the article? Not _______read it, but actually "Like” it. More often than not, the answer is none. Leaders read such articles, but they _______ to press the "Like" button due to some fear!
A friend of mine, who holds the _______ of Director of Human Resources in a reputed organization, happened to mention an article that his team member had written. I casually enquired ________ the absence of a "Like" or comment from him. His answer really ________ me! He said: "You know what my ________ is? I cannot be commenting or liking his article in public!" Amazed by this behavior, I did my research on this pattern on a few social media platforms. Yes, people want to “Like" or comment on articles and photos that are published by people with a（n） ________ level and do so as well.
While we are ________ the "Like" button on a junior-level employee's one — year anniversary, we jump to be one in a few hundreds to offer ________ on a senior-level leader's one — year completion. However, I think our precious “Like" for the employee ________ a lot and encourages him, while, on the other hand, it is ________ many hundreds and is not ________ noticed by the leader.
Encourage new talents and ________ them. If we do not exhibit this socially, I am sure we will not ________ it in our job either.
1.A.so B.otherwise C.yet D.while
2.A.organization B.method C.cooperation D.transformation
3.A.unusual B.ordinary C.common D.particular
4.A.behavioral B.online C.popular D.personal
5.A.oppose B.contain C.promote D.lack
6.A.leaders B.writers C.employers D.readers
7.A.precisely B.barely C.merely D.thoroughly
8.A.stop B.hope C.hesitate D.regret
9.A.name B.title C.faith D.honor
10.A.for lack of B.on account of C.in need of D.with regard to
11.A.confused B.astonished C.dissatisfied D.annoyed
12.A.team B.level C.habit D.reputation
13.A.superior B.different C.average D.junior
14.A.pressing B.missing C.skipping D.considering
15.A.congratulations B.suggestions C.opinions D.remarks
16.A.changes B.requires C.proves D.means
17.A.intended for B.replaced by C.judged by D.buried in
18.A.even B.just C.ever D.still
19.A.know B.motivate C.demand D.observe
20.A.represent B.like C.show D.notice
"What kind of stuff do you write? ''one student asked on my first day at the University of Massachusetts. After a decade away from the classroom, I was back to _______.
"I write creative nonfiction," I said, “as you'll be doing.”
It was a _______. I couldn't remember when I'd last written a _______ essay. But it must have been before my mother fell ill, leaving me feeling my family story wouldn't end _______. It seemed that nothing I wrote could change that. _______ I couldn't write my own stories, I could _______ my students to tell theirs. "You're going to keep a _______ in this class, and I want you to tell your stories like they _______ ."
“Why do they matter? ” a boy named Michael asked. Looking out at the roomful of students, I _______. No one said a word. Many of them, I learned, worked while in school. Most didn't know their stories did matter. They didn't even realize their stories were as __________ as their own lives.
Finally, I looked at Michael. “They matter because they' re what you have. Stories allow us to make meaning of what we've __________ I said. Michael didn't look __________, but he didn't challenge me, either.
In his first essay, Michael wrote about how his high school English teacher seeing his __________and helped him fill out a college __________. I had Michael read his essay out loud. After he finished, the class went so __________ that we could hear the sound of each other's ____________. I looked at him and saw a small __________ in his dark eyes. Then, I said, "That's why you tell your stories."
I went home that night and __________ my journal from where it lay, dusty and __________. For the first time in months, I had to __________ .
1.A.studying B.teaching C.traveling D.operating
2.A.lie B.joke C.game D.trick
3.A.moving B.creative C.useful D.fascinating
4.A.safely B.proudly C.happily D.perfectly
5.A.Once B.Unless C.Because D.Although
6.A.warn B.order C.permit D.encourage
7.A.book B.letter C.journal D.fiction
8.A.exist B.matter C.happen D.remember
9.A.nodded B.laughed C.hesitated D.responded
10.A.meaningful B.frustrating C.ridiculous D.satisfying
11.A.taken over B.turned over C.gone through D.broken through
12.A.worried B.frightened C.impressive D.convinced
13.A.weakness B.potential C.amusement D.difficulty
14.A.invitation B.suggestion C.application D.composition
15.A.still B.loud C.free D.alive
16.A.breath B.debate C.thought D.remark
17.A.flying B.doubting C.praising D.softening
18.A.got at B.picked up C.looked at D.kept up
19.A.amazed B.shocked C.disabled D.untouched
20.A.write B.sleep C.rest D.stop
Since the age of three, Chelsie Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. However, her _______ nearly ended one night in 2010. A car accident put the 17-year-old high school senior in the hospital for 51 days and left her paralyzed (瘫痪) from the _______ down.
For most people, that would have _______ any hope of a dancing career. For Hill, it was the beginning. Far from being a _______, her wheelchair brought out her bravery. She wanted to prove she was still “normal” by dancing. _______ Hill did it, rolling her wheelchair right alongside her nondisabled high school dance team. “It feels as if half of my body was _______ from me, and I have to move it with my hands,” Hill said. “It definitely took a lot of _______ and patience.”
After graduation, Hill wanted to _______ her dance network to include women like her. She began to meet people online who had suffered similar injuries but _______ her determination. Then in 2014, Hill moved to Los Angeles and formed a team of dancers with disabilities she calls the Rollettes. “I want to __________ the stereotype (刻板形象) of wheelchair users and show dance is dance, whether you’re walking or you’re __________.”
Dancing on wheels can be just as fast-paced, artful, and __________ as the foot-based variety. In disabled dance competitions around the country, her team danced to the popular tunes, __________ their upper bodies, shaking their heads to the special __________, striking poses, and __________ their wheelchairs in well-timed, dynamic, highly designed routines. They’re having fun, and as the audiences’ exuberant (热情洋溢的) reactions indicate, the fun is __________.
Hill has attained what many of us never will: her childhood __________. She’s a dancer. But the Rollettes have helped her find something else just as __________. Every year she holds a dance camp for other wheelchair users with an eye to helping them find their inner __________. In 2019, 173 participants from ten countries attended. For many, it was the first time they’d felt they __________.
1.A.effect B.reputation C.ambition D.performance
2.A.waist B.neck C.joint D.lap
3.A.aroused B.exposed C.destroyed D.seized
4.A.stage B.clue C.path D.barrier
5.A.Similarly B.Actually C.Necessarily D.Previously
6.A.torn down B.taken away C.picked up D.cut down
7.A.wisdom B.praying C.intelligence D.learning
8.A.dismiss B.expand C.narrow D.simplify
9.A.shared B.opposed C.shook D.ensured
10.A.call off B.bring in C.break down D.carry on
11.A.rolling B.driving C.lying D.playing
12.A.conventional B.artificial C.profitable D.fruitful
13.A.bearing B.freezing C.rocking D.fueling
14.A.voices B.notes C.lines D.beats
15.A.lifting B.operating C.stretching D.guiding
16.A.vain B.plain C.temporary D.infectious
17.A.career B.dream C.memory D.education
18.A.demanding B.tough C.meaningful D.flexible
19.A.strength B.beast C.label D.weakness
20.A.adventured B.suffered C.belonged D.volunteered
Bridging the gap
How does a principal investigator make communication among deaf and hearing colleagues easier? Moreover, how are the large number of field-specific technical terms _______— and communicated in sign language? These _______ differences are not remarkably challenging to work around.
Blumberg taught himself American Sign Language and has interpreters _______ in the lab during the day. For lab meetings, journal clubs and research seminars, he has two interpreters present t0 tag-team signing. Costs for the interpreters are _______ by the NIH's Office of Research Services. The only learning curve that he experienced, Blumberg says, was realizing he needed _______ interpreters, Before, when he had one deaf student, he could _______ the interpreting. As more deaf fellows joined, Blumberg _______ full-time interpreters for help.
Having interpreters around all day is not necessary though. " _______ . interpreters are only needed during the day if we're having lab meeting, classes, important functions or events, or _______ -poster presentations, student presentations, guest presentations from ________________ scientists, Lundberg says. "The rest of the day, I do not need an interpreter, ________________ I'm in lab and it's independent work.”
During his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, Lundberg used online chat platforms to ________________ with his adviser and colleagues. Or he wrote ________________ a whiteboard, scratch paper, or paper towels. His adviser later ________________ that he keep the scraps of paper, which “was really good advice," Lundberg says, "because they were really good notes."
The best way to arrange the most suitable accommodations for deaf individuals is to ask them ________________ they need, says Derek Braun, a former postdoctoral fellow with Blumberg and currently a professor of biology at Gallaudet University. One of his ongoing projects is a collaboration with Blumberg and Lundberg to investigate the role of Ras guanyl nucleotide (鸟苷核苷酸) — releasing proteins in cancer. ________________ deaf people sign, Braun says. "Some are oral. Really, we come in every flavor imaginable. The best judge of what that person needs is usually the person?
Signing scientific terms is not unusually challenging either. While no standardized set of signs for technical words exists, colleagues working in the same lab develop their own signs for the terms they frequently use. If each lab develops signs ________________, what happens when members of different labs meet?
Larry Pearce, a technician in Blumberg’s lab ________________ is deaf, explains to me, “ It's really not that difficult, because when an individual does not understand a sign we use, they'll ask for clarifications (说明) and I'll finger-spell. I’ll spell ________________ out. They will tell me what their sign is, and I'll tell them what our sign is. If I like their sign better, I might adopt it and use it every day, or vice-versa (反之亦然), and eventually it becomes more ________________
1.A.adapted B.adopted C.adjusted D.announced
2.A.culture B.pronunciation C.communication D.habit
3.A.stationed B.canned C.cupped D.capped
4.A.counted B.contained C.included D.covered
5.A.better B.fewer C.more D.less
6.A.carry out B.carry on C.make out D.make up
7.A.turned B.sought C.referred D.led
8.A.In particular B.In general C.In conclusion D.In word
9.A.colleagues B.interpreters C.presentations D.accommodations
10.A.another B.any C.others D.other
11.A.because B.though C.whether D.unless
12.A.write B.read C.listen D.speak
13.A.below B.on C.in D.beyond
14.A.knew B.suggested C.discovered D.noticed
15.A.which B.that C.what D.if
16.A.Not all B.All C.Few D.Not enough
17.A.independently B.dependently C.secretly D.occasionally
18.A.where B.which C.who D.when
19.A.them B.me C.myself D.it
20.A.essential B.particular C.related D.universal
I reach Lhakpa Sherpa's apartment at noon on a Sunday. She runs out of the front door, hugs me, and _______ me inside. The _______ apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ gymnastic _______.
Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to climb up Everest(珠穆朗玛峰)and back _______, which she _______ in the spring of 2000. With nine summits(登顶),she holds the world record for _______.
During the interview, I'm _______ by her achievements - but also her _______ of resources. How is it that a woman with such _______ achievement and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk ________ to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?
She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, ________ minimum wage. Unable to ________ or drive a car, she walks to work and ________ takes an Uber to training destinations. "Climbing is my ________ out of washing dishes," Lhakpa tells me. "It is also the way to make a better life for the ________. Besides washing dishes, she is often ________ to inspire others, particularly women and single parents.
Her ________ is to climb Everest again in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit she once tried to reach but ________ because of bad weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, ________ not crazy.
"Actually, all extreme ________ are crazy" she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too."
1.A.locks B.allows C.follows D.welcomes
2.A.small B.big C.comfortable D.messy
3.A.classes B.skills C.rules D.meets
4.A.alone B.alive C.stressed out D.tired out
5.A.challenged B.attempted C.accomplished D.explored
6.A.journalists B.workers C.men D.women
7.A.struck B.frightened C.excited D.surrounded
8.A.lack B.demand C.management D.waste
9.A.tiny B.great C.extra D.personal
10.A.nothing B.everything C.miles D.years
11.A.paying B.raising C.making D.spending
12.A.control B.start C.afford D.sell
13.A.occasionally B.immediately C.practically D.urgently
14.A.reason B.service C.confidence D.way
15.A.boys B.girls C.students D.viewers
16.A.expected B.informed C.driven D.forced
17.A.advice B.belief C.dream D.promise
18.A.fled B.feared C.fell D.failed
19.A.if B.when C.though D.since
20.A.women B.athletes C.things D.circumstances
