A mouse, because of an 1.(luck) chance, made close friends with an evil frog. One day, 2.frog played a trick on the mouse by 3.(tie) a foot of the mouse to his own. At first, both of them joined together and the frog4. (lead) his friend toward the pool in which he lived, and didn’t stop5.he reached the side of the water. Then the frog suddenly jumped into the water and the mouse was pulled in with6.(he). The frog enjoyed the water and swam in it around, happily crying7.if he had done a great deed. The unhappy mouse died soon in the water, and his dead body floated around on the surface,8.(fasten) to the foot of the frog. A hawk saw the dead mouse, suddenly flew down towards it, caught it and flew away. The frog, still tied to the leg of the mouse, was also carried off as a9.(prison), and it10.(eat) by the hawk. Harm hatch, harm catch.
Skylynn always had a love for reading. For her, stories served as ______ to new worlds. As she surrounded herself with ______ tales, Skylynn developed a ______ for writing as well. Nowadays she can often be found writing stories in her room or ______ at the library. After being ______ by her love of reading, she published her own book ______ Sky’s the Limit.
Sky’s the Limit is about a little girl who wants to become a famous playwright and ______ challenges that come her way by staying ______ throughout the story. The tale is based on actual ______ in Skylynn’s life and Skylynn identifies strongly with the ______ of her book. In fact, she, too, has been bullied (欺凌) before and laughed at. Sometimes people would claim her dreams were ______ and she would come home crying. In the end, ______, just like the little girl in her book, she never let the ______ stop her.
Skylynn stays strong by ______ herself. Whenever she is feeling down, she tries to think positive thoughts and ______ herself with positive people. Her mother tells her that this “waterfall of positive attitudes” can ______ the bulling. By believing in herself and others, Skylyn ______ blocks out the voices of intimidators (威吓者).
She hopes that her story will inspire ______ to develop the same belief in themselves. In Skylynn’s opinion, everyone has the capability to ______ that which they put their mind to. Dreams can be reached if we are willing to ______ them. As for Skylynn, her happiness as a result of the process proves how meaningful pursuing dreams can be.
1.A.pictures B.actions C.tickets D.devotions
2.A.magical B.childish C.long D.complicated
3.A.regret B.method C.power D.trend
4.A.sometimes B.seldom C.always D.never
5.A.disappointed B.instructed C.inspired D.moved
6.A.renamed B.given C.underlined D.titled
7.A.overcomes B.avoids C.suggests D.keeps
8.A.kind B.positive C.awake D.healthy
9.A.opinions B.plans C.events D.opportunities
10.A.heroine B.plots C.lines D.construction
11.A.boring B.interesting C.wonderful D.unrealistic
12.A.therefore B.then C.though D.still
13.A.work B.darkness C.distance D.story
14.A.believing in B.referring to C.attending to D.pointing at
15.A.hide B.blame C.follow D.surround
16.A.match B.conquer C.lose D.examine
17.A.slightly B.firstly C.successfully D.hardly
18.A.readers B.writers C.girls D.students
19.A.introduce B.acknowledge C.copy D.accomplish
20.A.remember B.chase C.admire D.value
Unless you think you're the smartest, who doesn't want to be smarter? Of course I want to be smarter too. So I try to find out who's the real smart guy that maybe I can learn from.1.
▲ They probably do social media. Not always, but probably.2.. They also use this to ensure they can feed their brains with things they otherwise wouldn't have come across.
▲ 3. They never bother their head about the problem of "work-life balance" and somehow manage to seem 100% engaged in what they're doing, on all fronts simultaneously(同时)，even though you know they're taking appropriate steps behind the scenes to make sure their lives are well balanced.
▲ They know they are the smartest in the room, but they don't spend much time talking about that.4. That is, they challenge themselves to make everyone else in the room the smartest person too.
▲ They never, ever, under any circumstances, make you look stupid, even though it would be easy to do so. They've learned through bitter experience that the only thing that happens when you make someone look bad is that you look bad yourself.
▲ If they are managers, they will make every effort to get people more connected and more popular than them in their teams.5. They 're not threatened because they know that smartness is synergistic.(相互促进的）
A.It is not only a chance to listen.
B.They know it is an advantage to them.
C.They take it as a personal challenge instead.
D.They will be smiling even when things go wrong.
E.Now I've got an answer about whether someone's smart.
F.They also ensure their smart people look smarter than them.
G.They deal with home, work and personal interests perfectly.
Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family，and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck.I'm not going to say luck，talent，and circumstances don't come into play because they do.Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence，and that's just the reality of how life is.
However，to succeed in life，one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical.And，in addition to that，in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practising. To become great at certain things, it'll require even more time，time that most people won't put in.
This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don't enjoy what you do，it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.
When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success，you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost.It's sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent，but thinking that way does you no good，and there's a huge chance that you're wrong anyway.
Whatever you do，if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out，almost to the point of addiction，and over a long period of time.If you're not willing to put in the time and work，don't expect to receive any rewards.Consistent, hard work won't guarantee you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.
1.Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ________.
A. the reasons for success B. the meaning of success
C. the standards of success D. the importance of success
2.Successful people suggest doing what one loves because ________.
A. work makes one feel pain B. one tends to enjoy his work
C. one gives up his work easily D. it takes a lot of time to succeed
3.What can we infer from Paragraph 4?
A. Successful people like to show their great skills.
B. People sometimes succeed without luck or talent.
C. People need to achieve success at the cost of life.
D. It helps to think that luck or talent leads to success.
4.What is the main theme of the passage?
A. Having a goal is vital to success.
B. Being good is different from being great.
C. One cannot succeed without time and practice.
D. Luck，talent and family help to achieve success.
Oxford and Cambridge have now decided to remove the words CAN'T and IMPOSSIBLE from their dictionary. Jessica Cox, 25, a girl born without arms, stands inside an aircraft. The girl from Tucson, Arizona got the Sport Pilot certificate lately and became the first pilot licensed to fly using only her feet. Jessica Cox of Tucson was born without arms, but that has only stopped her from doing one thing: using the word "can't".
Her latest flight into the seemingly impossible is becoming the first pilot licensed to fly using only her feet.
With one foot manning the controls and the other delicately guiding the steering column, Cox, 25, soared to achieve a Sport Pilot certificate. Her certificate qualifies her to fly a light-sport aircraft to altitudes of 10,000 feet.
"She's a good pilot. She's rock solid," said Parrish Traweek, 42, the flying instructor at San Manuel's Ray Blair Airport. Parrish Traweek runs PC Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Services and has trained many pilots, some of whom didn't come close to Cox's abilities.
"When she came up here driving a car," Traweek recalled, "I knew she'd have no problem flying a plane."
Doctors never learned why she was born without arms, but she figured out early on that she didn't want to use prosthetic devices. So, the next time you are ready to tell yourself, "I can't possibly..." remember this amazing young woman and change your vocabulary.
1.The word CAN'T will be removed from the two dictionaries because of ______.
A. the first woman pilot
B. a very special flight service
C. a great flight with a light-spot aircraft
D. the flight in a seemingly impossible way
2.According to Parrish Traweek, Jessica Cox_____.
A. flies the plane by standing in it
B. is good at driving a car with her legs
C. has been her workmate for two years
D. is one of the best pilots trained by her
3.What can be known from the text?
A. Jessica Cox has been armless for 25 years.
B. Jessica Cox was normal when she was young.
C. There are no suitable prosthetic devices for Jessica Cox.
D. The doctors have discovered how Jessica Cox lost her arms.
4.The best title for the text may be "_______".
A. Flying with no hands
B. Jessica Cox, a disabled pilot
C. Living with a positive attitude
D. Two words will disappear from dictionaries
I’m sitting in my kitchen in London, trying to figure out a text message from my brother. He lives in our home country of Germany. We speak German to each other, a language that's rich in strange words, but I've never heard this one before: fremdschämen.
The experience gets me to consider: can we lose our mother language? Most immigrants (移民)know what it’s like to be not as good at their mother language as before. The process seems obvious: the longer you are away, the more your language suffers. But it’s not quite so straightforward. It turns out that how long you've been away doesn't always matter. Socializing with other native speakers abroad can worsen your own native skills. And emotional factors like trauma(精神创伤) can be the biggest factor of all.
In children, the phenomenon of language attrition (语言磨蚀)is somewhat easier to explain since their brains are generally more flexible and adaptable. Until the age of about 12, a person’s language skills are relatively easy to change. Studies on international adopters have found that even nine-year-olds can almost completely forget their first language when they are removed from their country of birth.
But in adults, the first language is unlikely to disappear entirely except in extreme circumstances. For example, Monika Schmid analyzed the German of elderly German-Jewish wartime refugees(难民) in the UK and the US. The main factor that influenced their language skills wasn't how long they had been abroad or how old they were when they left. It was how much trauma they had experienced as victims. Those who left Germany in the early days of Nazi occupation, before the worst violence, tended to speak better German – despite having been abroad the longest. Those who left later, tended to speak German with difficulty or not at all.
“It seemed very clearly a result of this trauma”, says Schmid. “Even though German was the language of childhood, home and family, it was also the language of painful memories”. The most traumatized refugees had held them back. As one of them said: “I feel that Germany betrayed me. America is my country, and English is my language.”
1.What does the first paragraph serve as?
A.A comment B.A background
C.An explanation D.An introduction
2.What do paragraph 4 and 5 mainly talk about?
A.How two languages coexist
B.The way to deal with adult’s trauma
C.The reasons behind adult’s language attrition.
D.Whether trauma leads to adult’s language attrition.
3.Why does trauma cause a person's mother language to disappear?
A.Because he can’t remember his mother language.
B.Because his ability to communicate is affected.
C.Because his country is far from him .
D.Because he chooses to escape from bad experiences.
4.What is the best title for the passage?
A.Where does your native language come from?
B.Will you lose your native language?
C.How does trauma affect your first language?
D.How far are you from your mother tongue
