My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.

Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopted and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic－and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No.3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.

You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 8! Our home was a complete zoo－a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college fulltime. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant taking as few as one class each semester.

The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit, but I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.

In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree!

I am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you're looking at a big challenge from the outside, it looks huge, but when you're in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won't arrive in your life on one day. It's a process. Remember: little steps add up to big dreams.

【1】Why did the author quit school in her second year of college?

A. She wanted to study by herself.

B. She fell in love and got married.

C. She suffered from a serious illness.

D. She decided to look after her grandma.

【2】What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 4 and 5?

A. She ignored her guilty feeling for her sons.

B. She wanted to remain a fulltime housewife.

C. She was busy yet happy with her family life.

D. She was too confused to make a correct choice.

【3】What does the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph?

A. Failure is the mother of success.

B. Little by little, one goes far.

C. Every coin has two sides.

D. Well begun, half done.

【4】Which of the following can best describe the author?

A. Caring and determined.

B. Honest and responsible.

C. Ambitious and sensitive.

D. Innocent and single-minded.

A. To start with; refer to B. To make a scene; look into

C. To start with; look into D. To make a scene; refer to

A. lost; fed up with B. losing; put up with

C. losing; fed up with D. lost; put up with

A. exhausting; take; over B. worn out; take; over

C. worn out; hand; over D. exhausting; hand; over

A. defeated; get on B. turned over; get on

C. saddened; get over D. upset; get over

【题目】你所在学校的英文校刊向全体高一学生征稿，主题是"我的高一生活"，你有意参加此次活动．请根据下列要点完成一篇英语作文．
1)．从进入高中至今，你的经历和感受；
2)．你对即将进入高中的学生们的建议．
注意：1)．词数100以上；
2)．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯．
3)．文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称

【题目】阅读理解
One night in February 1962, John H. Glenn. Jr., flew over Australia. The man in the Mercury(水星) capsule（宇宙飞行容器）was alone, but friendly voices reached him by radio. On the dark land 100 miles below, he saw a sprinkling of light. They marked the city of Perth, where people had turned on their lights as a greeting to him.
In Friendship7, Glenn radioed, “ The lights show up very well. Thank for everybody for turning them on.” His capsule raced on to the east.
During his three orbits of the earth, Glenn could always reach one of eighteen tracking stations. Some of them were on ship at sea. Others were in the United States.
Many of the stations had been built with the help of other countries.These countries allowed Americans to bring in radio equipment and set it up. Without the help of such lands as Nigeria（尼日利亚）, Zanzibar（尚巴西，坦桑尼亚领土的一部分）, and Mexico, there would have been breaks in the worldwide radio network.
John H. Glenn. Jr., was the first America to orbit the earth. For his flight, the tracking network（跟踪网络） covered 60,000 route miles. Five hundred men worked in the stations along the route. Since his flight, the network has grown. Today, it covers more than 100,000 route miles and has about one hundred stations. One-third of these stations are outside of the United States.
（1）This passage is mainly about .
A.talking to ships at sea around the world
B.breaks in the worldwide network
C.a satellite which fell into the ocean
D.the first American to orbit the earth
（2）From the passage we can see that___________
A.Friendship7 stopped in Perth, Australia
B.in space flight, radio equipment is important
C.all tracking stations are inside the United States
D.many people could see Glenn in his capsule when he made the flight
（3）During his flight Glenn could always ___________.
A.reach one of the tracking stations
B.see lights turned on on the ground
C.reach ships at sea
D.arrive at Mercury in his Friendship7
（4）Why did people in Perth turn on the lights?
A.They wanted guide him to land.
B.It was too dark for them to see in the room.
C.They wanted to greet Glenn.
D.They wanted to see the Friendship7.
（5）Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A.Countries work together to track satellites.
B.Besides Glenn, nobody has orbited the earth.
C.There are now about 70 tracking stations in the United States.
D.The tracking network covers many more route miles now than before.

Sitting in the waiting room yesterday at the doctor’s office, two women were uneasy and impatient. There was a long wait and their unrest was obvious. I was trying to stay 【1】 (focus) on a magazine article that 【2】 (true) interested me, but try 【3】 hard as I could, their energy kept distracting me. I knew I should put my magazine down and care them, but had been resisting because I was so enjoying 【4】 (me).

Anyway, to make a short story long, I put down my read, smiled at them, and engaged them in conversation,【5】 (try) to help the nervous woman feel calmer and change the focus of the other woman 【6】 was a constant complainer.

I find it so difficult to be around complainers. It so tested my 【7】 (patient). At one point, I told the complainer “a watched pot never boils” when she 【8】 (keep) checking on who was next to see 【9】 doctor. The other woman smiled at me and said “thank you”. I 【10】 (call) in first and as I was leaving the complainer, I saw her smiling and waving.

There are more than 400 species of weeping willow trees, with most found in the Northern Hemisphere. 【1】 They easily grow ten feet per year, and take over the landscape. Their rounded, drooping branches give the tree a unique shape. Willows can clear up troublesome spots in the landscape like floods.

【2】 While they prefer moist, cool conditions, they can tolerate some drought. They’re a great choice to create an oasis of shade, if you have space to grow these gentle giants.

【3】 In the fall, the color ranges from a light yellow-green shade to a pretty blue color, depending upon the type. Trees lose their leaves in the fall, and are ideal to create summertime shade.

In literature, the most famous literary reference to the willow is perhaps William Shakespeare’s Willow Song in Othello. Desdemona, the heroine of the play, sings the song in her despair.【4】

The earliest written record of The Willow Song is from 1583 and was written for the lute (琵琶), a stringed instrument like a guitar but with a much softer sound. Shakespeare uses the symbolism of the willow again in Hamlet, when doomed Ophelia breaks willow branches and throws them into the river where she eventually drowns herself.【5】 Even in the famous modem novel Harry Potter, Willows are described as characters.

A. Weeping willow trees are fast growing.

B. Many composers have set this song to music.

C. Willows are referenced also in Twelfth Night.

D. They also like to grow near ponds，streams and lakes.

E. Most willows have pretty, green, long and thin leaves.

F. Poets and artists usually like willows and sing them in their works.

G. Weeping willows aren’t particular about their soil type, and they’re very adaptive.

A. Trapped; wandering down B. Sticking; wandering down

C. Sticking; out of control D. Trapped; out of control