My father often talks about his definition of success. He tells us that it isn’t measured in money or material things, but in love and joy. While my brothers and I were all raised together under the same roof, I wonder how different we can be sometimes. Four kids, four different life paths, personalities and ambitions.
We must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that’s what makes us so unpredictable and unique. In today’s world, expecting every child’s education to be the same, progress at the same rate and be measured against the narrow standards of performances is not just outdated, it’s also harmful to young people.
I experienced this disconnect(脱节) firsthand after graduating from college. I had many opportunities in front of me, but they didn’t test my limits and my creativity to pursue my passions. At first, I took a job at a big consulting firm. However, I couldn’t shake my passion for music. I had followed the somewhat predictable path of a college graduate, but I was crazy about how to become an artist. Now I am a nine-time Grammy Awards winner who has sold multiple Top 10 Albums.
Imagine what it would look like if our schools were set up to help people discover and pursue a personal passion instead of a predictable path? The good news is that a number of individuals and organizations are finding new ways to innovate in education. The goal is to create more student-centered environments that help young people not just do better in school but also discover what they love.
We can’t live lives of joy if we can’t discover what we love doing with our lives. So let each person discover the power and uniqueness of his or her own passion.
1.What does the writer’s father think success should be measured in?
A. Pleasure. B. Ability. C. Wealth. D. Fame.
2.We can infer that the writer _________________________.
A. is devoted to reforming the education system
B. pursued his passions once he left college
C. realized his dream before his graduation
D. finally became an outstanding singer
3.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. Where there is a will, there is a way.
B. Let every child’s light shine.
C. All that glitters is not gold.
D. Let bygones be bygones.
科目：高中英语 来源：2014-2015学年湖北省招生高考模拟一英语试卷（解析版） 题型：其他题
完成句子
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1.It was not long the life of the countryside even though he lived in the big city for many years.(fit)
尽管他在大城市里生活很多年，但没过多久他就适应了乡村生活。
2.An old man is reported an envelope containing 5,000 dollars on his way home from the bank yesterday.( rob)
据报道一位老人昨天在从银行回家的路上被抢走了一个装有5000美元的信封。
3.In order to discover the crops most suited to the soil , Dr .Johnson as well as his assistants various kinds of grain. (experiment)
为了找到最适合该土壤的农作物，Dr .Johnson和他的助手正在试验各种各样的谷物。
4.At the class meeting , our teacher urged that we the campus cultural construction activity with him. ( participate)
在班会上，我们的老师敦促我们和他一起参加校园文化建设活动。
5.Hard training and persistence are to win a gold medal in the Olympics. （take）
努力训练和坚持不懈是在奥运会中赢得金牌所需要的。
6. , the Chinese Golden Bell Award for Music is the most prestigious music award ceremony.(hold)
每两年举行一次，中国金钟音乐奖是最有名望的音乐典礼。
7.Most of the homes in the mountainous area of Yunnan, , were made of bricks ,wood and mud walls .( happen)
在发生地震的云南地区，大部分房屋都是用砖，木头和泥墙做的。
8.Researchers have found that the more involved one is online , about his day to day activities.(negative)
研究者发现，一个人在网上陷得越深，他对自己的日常生活就变得越消极。
9.All of a sudden, the door opened and __________________________ our English teacher with a book in his hand. ( come )
门开了，我们的英语老师手里拿着一本书走了进来。
10. I _______________ the early train, but I was stuck in a heavy traffic jam. (plan)
我本来打算乘坐早班火车的，但是我却遇上了交通阻塞。
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Driving to a friend’s house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftop. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it is that most city people --- myself included --- usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fiber-glass. We have television, cell phones, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought, “Before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains. And perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touched the moon.”
1. The best title for the passage would be _________.
A. Touched by the Moon
B. Break away from Modern life
C. A Bottomless well of Silence
D. The Pleasures of Modern Life
2.The writer felt sorry for himself because __________.
A. there was too much pollution.
B. he failed to see the fullest moon.
C. he didn’t adapt to modern inventions
D. there were too many accidents on the road.
3.Modern things are mentioned mainly to ___________.
A. show that the writer likes city life very much.
B. tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life.
C. explain that people have less chances to enjoy nature.
D. show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them.
4.The author wrote the passage to __________.
A. show the love for the moonlight.
B. want to communicate longing for modern life.
C. advise modern people to learn to live.
D. express the feeling of returning to nature.
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He often dreams about going back to the village he grew up .
A．that B．where C．in where D．when
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The dictionary Mike is gone.
A．belongs to B．is belonged to
C．is belonging to D．belonging to
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016年北京第八十中学高三下学期开学零模检测考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：书面表达
书面表达（共2小题）
假如你是北京阳光中学的李涛，今年暑假你打算到纽约自助游，你在沙发网上找到了一位愿意免费为你提供住宿的美国人Peter，请根据下表提供的信息，给Peter 写一封信，介绍你的情况以及你的需求。
注意：
1．词数不少于50；
2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Peter，
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
Li Tao
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Temperatures________ quite dramatically at night in mountains，so put on some warm clothes before going out．
A．are droppedB．drop
C．are being droppedD．have dropped
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下面文章中有5位同学（第1—5题）想要搜寻心仪的大学。请从以下选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）中选出符合各位同学要求的大学，并在答题纸上将相应选项的标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。
It is rather challenging to make a choice on universities for school under educates, as they have to take into account the factors like majors, tuition, location and the climate,etc.
1.Annie is a top student of senior 3. She loves art and is gifted in art. She wants to learn art in a forging country which has pleasant weather.
2.Betty has just entered a university, but she wants to quit school and go abroad to learn fashion design because she is crazy about fashion and wants to become a great designer. She has to choose a college with low fee because her family is not rich.
3.Eva is an English major student in a university. She loves fashion and wants to learn fashion design in a fashion center that is filled with fashion elements.
4. Alex is college student majoring in computer science. He found animation design would be profitable industry, so he decided to learn animation design in a country where the climate is mild, not cold in winter and not hot in summer.
5. Philip is an English major college student. British art fascinates him very much so he decided to feel the rich art atmosphere and learn art in Britain.
A．University of Auckland
Programmes | Theology, Science, Art, Business, Education, Music… |
Fee | ￥60，000-80，000 a year |
Length of schooling | 3 year |
Admission criterion（标准） | 1 year preparation for students of senior 3 or graduates with an average mark of 80; regular college course for students who finish the first year in universities. |
Location（位置）and climate | Auckland, the biggest city in New Zealand; comfortable climate; warm summers and mild and wet winters |
B. Istituto Maranon
Programmes | Fashion Business, Fashion Buying, Brand of Management and Fashion Promotion, Interior Design, Product Design and Graphic Design… |
Fee | ￥90,000-120,000 a year |
Length of schooling | 3 years |
Admission criterion | No language proficiency test required; able to speak English or Italian; at least 12 years schooling |
Location and climate | Milan, a global fashion centre in Italy; summers are extremely hot and humid; winters are chilly |
C. Amusement Media College, Japan
Programmes | Animation（卡通）, caricature, digital game design |
Fee | ￥90,000-120,000 a year |
Length of schooling | 2 years |
Admission criterion | 12 years schooling or above |
Location and climate | Tokyo, Japan which is a country with the most advanced animation techniques, four distinct seasons; mild spring and fall, hot summer, and winter with a few snowfalls |
D. The University of Nottingham
Programmes | Arts, Engineering, Medicine and Health Sciences, Science, Social Sciences, Law, Education |
Fee | ￥80,000-160,000a year |
Length of schooling | 3 years |
Admission | Finish senior high school with good performance or undergraduates in college |
Location and climate | Nottingham, located in Britain, wet springs, hot summers, warm autumns and icy winters |
E. University of Lyon
Programmes | Art, Engineering, Medicine and Health Sciences, Science, Business, Spanish, Fashion design |
Fee | ￥10,000-30,000 a year |
Length of schooling | 3 years |
Admission criterion | Finish senior high school and obtain a letter of admission of a university |
Location and climate | Lyon in France; the climate is mild and sunny |
F. Ecole Superieure d Art et de Design
Programmes | Art, Animation Design, Furniture Design, Decoration and Design |
Fee | ￥100,000-120,000 a year |
Length of schooling | 2 years |
Admission criterion | Between 18 and 25, single; more than 1 year learning experience in art college |
Location and climate | Reims in France; temperature ranging from 5°C in December to 26°C in August |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016届福建省大田市高三上学期九月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
The majority of astronauts（宇航员）from America have been men. At the start of the space programme there was strong resistance from some people against having women in space. However, some women were very keen to become astronauts and in the end they were successful. In 1978, NASA began the first training programme for women astronauts.
Judy Resnick and Christa McAuliffe were both astronauts and they were both women, but in many other ways they were very different. Both of them were on Flight STS-5L-L. Judy Resnick was born in 1949 and studied engineering at university and went on to obtain a PhD in 1977. She was a member of the first group of women selected for astronaut training in 1978, and in 1984, she became the second woman in space. During that flight, she helped to launch three new satellites and she carried out a programme of research. She was, in many ways, a professional astronaut whose whole life was devoted to space travel.
Christa McAuliffe was born in 1948 and she was an astronaut almost by accident. In 1984, NASA decided to find a teacher who could accompany astronauts into space. They hoped that she would be able to communicate with students from space and encourage every one of them to be interested in space travel. Christa was a secondary teacher in history and social studies. She was a gifted teacher and she was selected from over 11,000 applicants to go on flight STS-51-L. She was also a very good communicator and she immediately established a very good relationship with the news media(radio, television and newspapers）. It was partly because of this that there was a great deal of interest and excitement about the flight. Thousands of students in schools and universities all around the country were looking forward to communicating with Christa in space. Millions of people were watching her flight with great interest. It is partly because of the excitement over McAuliffe's place in the flight that the disaster in 1986 had such an effect on people.
1.We can learn from the first two paragraphs that ___________.
A. Judy was against the idea of having women in space at first
B. Judy was the first woman selected for astronaut training
C. Judy helped to launch three new satellites at the age of 35
D. Judy carried out a programme during her second space travel
2.Christa McAuliffe was chosen for training because _______.
A. she was popular with the news media
B. she expected to give history lessons in space
C. she was an excellent teacher and communicator
D. she made the students in space very excited
3.The reason why there was great interest in Flight STS-51-L is that ________.
A. both Christa and Judy got PhD degrees in the same year
B. a young secondary school teacher was on the flight
C. students were going to learn more about space travel
D. it was the first time for women to travel in space
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Two Astronauts B. Flight STS-51-L
C. Travelling in Space D. The Training Programme
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