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It was a rain and cold night. I finish my evening classes and was about to go back to my house. I got into a taxi and told the driver my destination. To my surprise, the driver made an apology, says he didn’t know the way. What come a taxi driver didn’t know the way? I was a little of angry. At the moment, an old couple stopped our car. Their destination was the same as me, so he let them in. The two greeted us but the grandpa told the driver the way. From their conversation I knew the driver was a farmer and he has been a taxi driver just for three days.
I’m also new to Zhengzhou. Sometimes I make direction mistakes, but there is always a person can help me. It was cold outside, but I felt real warm.
My father never kept anything for emotional purpose-except once. I was the only one in my family who cared about baseball and I always _______ watching my heroes at Yankee stadium. One winter, I wrote down a _______ for the summer dates and dreamed every night. To my surprise, one evening I saw my father_______ it before going out to work.
The following Sunday, he told me, “Let’s put away some money into a _______each week, and maybe we can go to Yankee Stadium this summer.” I _______ washed out a jar and _______a label:YANKEE STADIUM FUND, 1960.
Each of us _______ to the jar weekly. _________, we still hadn’t gone to a game because my father had had to work every Saturday. So one day. I _______ him of the remaining time, and then he ________ me, “Don’t worry and we’ll have a ________ Saturday.”
On the morning of the last game, I was waiting hopelessly with no ________ of my father who had been to work when he suddenly appeared and yelled, “I got two ________!”
I could hardly ________ when we finally sat together, father and son, ________ my New York Yankees. I sat cheering, but for my father, all I could see is a face________ tiredness from working all week.
In 1963, my father died suddenly while working. In his bedroom, I noticed a ________ ticket in his yellowed book, which________, October 1, 1960, General Admission. My father, who ________ nothing for emotional reasons, had decided to keep this, a (an) ________of our afternoon together.
1.A.dreamed of B.worried about C.tried out D.lived on
2.A.schedule B.note C.letter D.novel
3.A.exploring B.checking C.tearing D.examining
4.A.bottle B.jar C.bowl D.cup
5.A.slowly B.patiently C.immediately D.unwillingly
6.A.attached B.identified C.created D.bought
7.A.referred B.contributed C.donated D.attended
8.A.However B.Moreover C.Therefore D.+Furthermore
9.A.accused B.informed C.inquired D.warned
10.A.rescued B.scolded C.comforted D.encouraged
11.A.grey B.terrible C.boring D.free
12.A.signal B.sign C.reply D.company
13.A.balls B.coins C.tickets D.flags
14.A.breathe B.imagine C.stand D.jump
15.A.greeting B.watching C.hearing D.playing
16.A.lined with B.decorated with C.equipped with D.coupled with
17.A.pretty B.plain C.used D.faded
18.A.spoke B.wrote C.read D.mentioned
19.A.created B.abandoned C.produced D.saved
20.A.impression B.gift C.present D.memory
People often say that “failure is the mother of success”. 1. As a result, Manalo, a professor of educational psychology in Japan says, “We know we shouldn’t give up when we fail—but in reality, we do.”
Manalo and Manu, a professor of learning sciences in Swiss, put together a special issue (专利) last December on benefiting from failure. The issue’s 15 studies provide teachers and educational researchers with a guide for achieving success. 2. Another confirmed that advice on failures is most constructive when the receiver is prepared to experience unpleasant feelings.
Manalo and his co-authors also focused on overcoming one everyday form of failure: not completing a task. They asked 131 students to write an article about their school experiences. Half of the students received instructions for their writing, and half were left to their own. 3. Afterward the researchers found that those in the instructed group were more willing to complete their articles, compared with those who lacked guidance—even if the latter were closer to being done. 4.
5. Stephanie Couch, the director of the Lemelson-MIT Program, holds the opinion. Couch, whose work was also featured in the special issue, says that we should tell them to think of failure as part of a process toward success.
A.However, all were stopped before finishing.
B.The saying shows the importance of success.
C.Teaching students not to fear failure makes goals achieved more easily.
D.One study reported that the sooner students fail, the sooner they can move forward.
E.Though having some truth to it, the saying does not tell us how to turn a loss into a win.
F.They believed that learning how to fail can help people avoid becoming lasting failures.
G.Knowing how to finish, in other words, was more important than being close to finishing.
A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.
“It’s extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components,” said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.
They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it’s connected to,” said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.
While this first robotic fly is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. “Basically, it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.
Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,” he said. “So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day to day basis.”
1.Which of the following statements was the difficulty engineers met while making the robotic fly?
A.They did not have sufficient fund.
B.No ready-made components were available.
C.There was no model in their mind.
D.It was hard for them to assemble the components.
2.What do we know about the robotic fly?
A.The robotic fly has been put into wide application.
B.The robotic fly consists of a flight device and a control system.
C.The robotic fly can collect information from many sources.
D.The robotic fly can fly well with the cooperation of individual components.
3.Which of the following can be learned from the passage?
A.The robotic fly can replace animals in some experiments.
B.Animals are not allowed in biological experiments.
C.The robotic fly is designed to learn about insects.
D.There used to be few ways to study how insects fly.
4.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
A.The Development of Robotic Fly
B.Robotic Fly Promotes Engineering Science
C.Harvard’s Efforts in Making Robotic Fly
D.Robotic Fly Imitates Real Life Insect
Boomerang children who return to live with their parents after university can be good for families, leading to closer, more supportive relationships and increased contact between the generations, a study has found.
The findings contradict research published earlier this year showing that returning adult children trigger a significant decline in their parents’ quality of life and wellbeing.
The young adults taking part in the study were “more positive than might have been expected” about moving back home – the shame is reduced as so many of their peers are in the same position, and they acknowledged the benefits of their parents’ financial and emotional support. Daughters were happier than sons, often slipping back easily into teenage patterns of behaviour, the study found.
Parents on the whole were more uncertain, expressing concern about the likely duration of the arrangement and how to manage it. But they acknowledged that things were different for graduates today, who leave university with huge debts and fewer job opportunities.
The families featured in the study were middle-class and tended to view the achievement of adult independence for their children as a “family project”. Parents accepted that their children required support as university students and then as graduates returning home, as they tried to find jobs paying enough to enable them to move out and get on the housing ladder.
“However,” the study says, “day-to-day tensions about the prospects of achieving different dimensions of independence, which in a few extreme cases came close to conflict, characterized the experience of a majority of parents and a little over half the graduates”.
Areas of divergence included chores, money and social life. While parents were keen to help, they also wanted different relationships from those they had with their own parents, and continuing to support their adult children allowed them to remain close.
1.What is the finding of the previous research?
A.Boomerang children made their parents happier.
B.The parents were looking forward to their children’s return.
C.The parents’ quality of life became worse than before.
D.Boomerang children never did any housework.
2.What are college graduates’ attitudes towards returning home?
A.They are ashamed of turning to their parents for help.
B.They are glad that they could come back.
C.They are doubtful about whether they should return.
D.They are proud to be independent from the family.
3.What is the reason for the “boomerang children” phenomenon?
A.The children want to keep in closer touch with their parents.
B.The parents want to provide support to their children.
C.It is harder for the children to secure a satisfying job.
D.There is more housework needed to be done by the children.
4.The underlined word “divergence” in paragraph 7 may be best replaced by ________.
A.disagreement B.harmony C.responsibility D.cooperation
Rebecca Munkombwe, an 11-year-old girl from Zimbabwe, is regarded as a hero for saving a 9-year-old friend from the jaws of a crocodile by jumping or、the crocodile and gouging (挖) its eyes out.
According to Zimbabwean media, Rebecca and her friends had just got back from a swim in a stream near their home village when they heard the screams corning from the water. She was shocked to see her 9-year-old friend Latoya Muwani being dragged into the water by a crocodile. While all the other children were running scared, Rebecca ran toward the water, jumped on top of the crocodile and started beating it with her bare fists. However, that didn’t seem to bother the crocodile at all, so she then used her fingers to gouge its eyes out until it loosened its grasp of Latoya. Once she was free, Rebecca swam with her to the bank.
Surprisingly, the 11-year-old heroine managed to save her young friend without suffering any wounds, while Latoya was lucky to escape with just mild wounds that were later treated at a regional hospital. Latoya’s parents praised Rebecca’s courage and thanked her for saving their daughter’s life. “I was at work when I learnt that my daughter had been attacked by a crocodile while swimming. For a moment I thought of the worst before I learnt that she’d survived after being saved by Rebecca,” Latoya’s father, Fortune Muwani, said. “I don’t know how she managed to do that, but I’m grateful to her.”
Local authorities confirmed the crocodile attack, adding that the number of such incidents was increasing. Apparently, the lack of easily accessible water sources (水源) is forcing women and children to use unprotected sources like this crocodile-infested (遍布鳄鱼的) stream.
1.What made Rebecca Munkombwe a hero?
A.Her catching a crocodile hare-handed.
B.Her rescuing a drowning friend in time.
C.Her helping a friend out of deadly danger.
D.Her making friends with a wild crocodile.
2.Which of the following words can best describe Rebecca?
A.Brave and smart. B.Calm and careful.
C.Honest and considerate. D.Courageous and patient.
3.What message do Fortune Muwani’s words convey?
A.He knew every detail about the rescuing process.
B.Latoya’s conditions were far better than expected.
C.Latoya’s being attacked by a crocodile sounded unbelievable.
D.He regretted not accompanying Latoya while she was swimming.
4.Why were crocodile attacks on the rise?
A.Because people have poor awareness of safety.
B.Because people enjoy getting close to animals in the wild.
C.Because people have little knowledge of accessible water sources.
D.Because people have to share limited water sources with wild animals.
