People        hobbies which offer enjoyment, knowledge and relaxation.

A．bring up          B．set up         C．make up        D．take up

--- I can’t get on well with some of my classmates. They just leave me in the cold.

---          But what’s the reason?

A．Sorry to hear that        .                         B．How about that?

C．Don’t mention it.                         D．Never give up!

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A．where           B．which          C．that         D．what

--- Did you visit the famous museum?

--- No. We          , but we spent too much time shopping.

A．might           B．could have           C．will have          D．should

--- Is this your second car?

---Yes. Blue is always my colour. It is a little         but still fits         into the garage.

A．wider; more easily                          B．wider; easily

C．widest; more easily               D．widest; easily

---Be careful! Don’t forget you are on a ladder.

---But you are holding it for me, nothing         .

A．to be worried about                                     B．worrying about

C．being worried about                                    D．to worry about

Lucy’s new job paid twice as much as she had made          in the restaurant.

A．working          B．work          C．to work         D．worked

One day, not too long ago, the employees of a large company in St. Louis, Missouri returned from their lunch break and were greeted with a sign on the front door. The sign said, “Yesterday the person who had been hindering（阻碍）your  1   in this company passed away．We  2  you to join the funeral in the room that has been   3  in the gym.”

At first everyone was sad to  4  that one of their colleagues had died，  5   after a while they started getting  6  about who this person might be．

The excitement  7  as the employees arrived at the gym to pay their last  8  ．Everyone wondered， “Who is this person that was hindering my growth? Well，  9  he’s no longer here!”

  10   the employees got closer to the coffin and when they looked inside it, they   11   became speechless. They stood over the coffin,   12   into silence, as if someone had   13   the deepest part of their sould.

There was a mirror inside the coffin—everyone who looked inside it could see himself．There

was also a  14   next to the mirror that  15  , “There is only one person who is capable to     16   limits to your growth: it is YOU.”

    You are the only person who can change your  17   . You are the only person who can   18  your happiness，realization and success．You are the only person who can help yourself. Your life does not change when your boss changes，your friends change，your parents change，your partner changes or your company changes．Your life changes when YOU change，when you go  19  your limiting beliefs and when you realize that you are the only one  20  for your life．

1．A．ability                   B．progress              C．talent                  D．practice

2．A．demand                 B．allow                   C．invite                  D．suggest

3．A．started                  B．prepared              C．opened                D．created

4．A．learn                     B．receive                C．notice                 D．find

5． A．for                      B．or                       C．so                       D．but

6．A．angry                    B．sorry                   C．curious               D．nervous

7．A．grew                    B．appeared              C．improved             D．developed

8．A．sights                   B．attentions             C．appreciations       D．respects

9．A．at least                  B．in fact                 C．at once                D．in general

10．A．One by one          B．All in all               C．Hand in hand       D．One or twice

11．A．quickly                B．finally                  C．obviously            D．suddenly

12．A．worried               B．depressed            C．shocked              D．embarrassed

13．A．broken                B．touched               C．stolen                  D．changed

14．A．1etter                  B．sign                    C．mark                   D．page

15．A．told                     B．warned                C．wrote                  D．read

16．A．set                      B．take                    C．put                     D．get

17．A．business              B．heart                   C．life                      D．success

18．A．realize                 B．satisfy                 C．influence             D．consider

19．A．for                      B．upon                   C．over                    D．beyond

20． A．reasonable      B．responsible         C．suitable           D．valuable

I don’t know how I became a writer, but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally burst through and found a channel. My people were of the working class of people. My father, a stone-cutter, was a man with a great respect and veneration（崇敬）for literature. He had a tremendous memory, and he loved poetry, and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a man would like. Nevertheless it was good poetry, Hamlet's Soliloquy, Macbeth, Mark Antony’s "Funeral Oration", Grey' s "Elegy", and all the rest of it. I heard it all as a child; I memorized and learned it all.

He sent me to college to the state university. The desire to write, which had been strong during all my days in high school, grew stronger still. I was editor of the college paper, the college magazine, etc., and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in playwriting which had just been established there. I wrote several little one-act plays, still thinking I would become a lawyer or a newspaper man, never daring to believe I could seriously become a writer. Then I went to Harvard, wrote some more plays there, became obsessed with（着迷于）the idea that I had to be a playwright, left Harvard, had my plays rejected, and finally in the autumn of 1926, how, why, or in what manner I have never exactly been able to determine. But probably because the force in me that had to write at length sought out its channel, I began to write my first book in London, I was living all alone at that time. I had two rooms－a bedroom and a sitting room－in a litter square in Chelsea in which all the houses had that familiar, smoked brick and cream-yellow-plaster look.

1．We may conclude, in regard to the author's development as a writer, that his father _________.

       A．made an important contribution

       B．insisted that he choose writing as a career

       C．opposed his becoming a writer

       D．insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer

2．The author believes that he became a writer mostly because of _________.

       A．his special talent

       B．his father's teaching and encouragement

       C．his study at Harvard

       D．a hidden urge within him

3．The author _________.

       A．began to think of becoming a writer at Harvard

       B．had always been successful in his writing career

       C．went to Harvard to learn to write plays

       D．worked as a newspaper man before becoming a writer

4．The author really started on his way to become a writer _________.

       A．when he was in high school                  B．when he was studying at Harvard

       C．when he lived in London                       D．after he entered college

5．What can we learn about the author’s life in the autumn of 1926?

        A．He left Harvard and got married.          B．He couldn’t make up his mind what to do.

       C．He started his dream as a writer.         D．he began to think seriously what to do.

A home school is a school in which parents educate their children at home instead of sending them out to a public or private school. Home schooling is legal throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, North America, Hong Kong, and South Africa. Home schooling is most popular in Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Home schooling is legally accepted in all 50 states of the U.S., but each state has its own laws that a family must adhere to. Currently, it is estimated that over one million families school their children at home. Most of these families include a breadwinner and a stay-at-home parent who does most of the teaching, although there are single parent families and double career families.

Home schooling education models range from unschooling to traditional classroom schooling. Unschooling is based on interest-based learning in which the child expresses interest in a particular subject, and the parents take steps to provide the materials for that subject.

    In some places, the home school group shares in hiring a professional teacher to teach a particular subject. The group may also arrange field trips and sports activates with local private schools. These activities are intended to provide social skills for the students.

Home school families take advantage of technology and the Internet to supplement （补充） traditional teaching. Some home school families enroll （注册） their children in an online school or course as a supplement to their own teaching.

Some home school families teach their children through high school graduation. Others teach their children until they feel they are mature（成熟）enough to live independently.

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    In America colleges do recognize a home school diploma （文凭）, but most are more interested in high school transcripts （成绩报告单） and SAT and ACT scores. There are currently over 800 colleges that accept home – schooled graduates including Harvard. Yale, and Stanford.

1．A home school is school where          .

       A．parents provide social skills for their children

       B．children needn’t take any tests

       C．parents teach their children at home

       D．children can go home every day

2．In most of the home school families,          .

       A．one parent goes to work and the other stays at home

       B．one parent is a worker and the other is a teacher

       C．both of the parents stay at home

       D．both of the parents go to work

3．In the education model of unschooling,           .

      A．children are taught in traditional ways

       B．children don’t need any textbooks

       C．special attention is paid to children’s interest

       D．everything is decided by children’s parents

4．We can know from the passage that         .

       A．home schooling is only popular in developed countries

       B．children in a home school have no contacts with other students

       C．a home school diploma is not accepted by colleges in America

       D．some children in a home school also take courses online

5．Famous universities like Harvard, Yale, and Stanford          .

       A．are only interested in accepting public school graduates

       B．also take in students with a home school diploma

       C．never enroll home – schooled graduates

D．also provide home school education