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  I was 12 and attended ballet school.Several children were to be   1   to perform minor roles in a local company ‘s holidays ballet   2   thought that star students like Anna or Islsbella would be chosen.But no one knew for sure.

  I practised every day.I also read   3   about famous ballerinas(芭蕾舞女).Every day I   4   the roles in the ballet.And every night I listened to its music.

  Later the company director came in and   5   us dance.I danced the   6   I could.But I could   7   they had their eyes on other   8  .Finally, they announced who had been chosen.I was not in the list.

  My Christmas   9   disappeared.“It wasn’t supposed to happen this way,” I talked to myself as I took off my ballet shoes.

  A friend came over to me.“ Maria, you were an inch away from being picked,” she   10  “ Maybe next year, ” she said   11  

  But I was   12  .As I left I turned around to   13   the grils who were chosen.They were laughing and talking happily to each other.“ I will not be   14   of them,” I promised myself.

  Mum came and picked me up.I told her everything as we drove home.

  “I’m sorry.Maria.But just keep on   15   and don’t give up.You will get to dance in a ballet someday,” she said,   16   to comfort me.

  That night, I lay in bed re-reading a book   17   Sara-Anna Medove, a famous ballerina.The last   18   was called “Try, Try Again.” It talked about   19   she became famous.I realized I could not get   20   over not getting chosen.If I tried again and again and did not give up, I would finally get to dance in a ballet.

(1)

[  ]

A.

invited

B.

encouraged

C.

selected

D.

elected

(2)

[  ]

A.

Someone

B.

Anyone

C.

Everyone

D.

None

(3)

[  ]

A.

news

B.

performances

C.

stories

D.

magazines

(4)

[  ]

A.

asked for

B.

depend on

C.

engaged in

D.

thought about

(5)

[  ]

A.

watched

B.

heard

C.

noticed

D.

saw

(6)

[  ]

A.

hardest

B.

fastest

C.

best

D.

most

(7)

[  ]

A.

tell

B.

explain

C.

argue

D.

understand

(8)

[  ]

A.

directors

B.

things

C.

teachers

D.

grils

(9)

[  ]

A.

gift

B.

dream

C.

holiday

D.

arrangement

(10)

[  ]

A.

comforted

B.

apologized

C.

reminded

D.

agreed

(11)

[  ]

A.

cheerfully

B.

calmly

C.

hopefully

D.

sadly

(12)

[  ]

A.

nervous

B.

doubtful

C.

capable

D.

special

(13)

[  ]

A.

leave for

B.

stare at

C.

meet with

D.

reply to

(14)

[  ]

A.

proud

B.

aware

C.

careful

D.

jealous

(15)

[  ]

A.

practising

B.

experimenting

C.

thinking

D.

observing

(16)

[  ]

A.

deciding

B.

promising

C.

trying

D.

hoping

(17)

[  ]

A.

about

B.

for

C.

to

D.

with

(18)

[  ]

A.

ballet

B.

chapter

C.

page

D.

title

(19)

[  ]

A.

when

B.

where

C.

why

D.

how

(20)

[  ]

A.

upset

B.

anxious

C.

stupid

D.

patient

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  Our town is in the eastern part of our country.Once a year, we elect a girl to show how beautiful and great our town is.All the girls are eager to get this position in an effort to become popular.

  It was not an easy choice this years, since there were eight girls to choose from.The elder judge finally decided that either Sara or May would get the position.Both girls were beautiful with extraordinary appearance.Besides, they had a good education and cared about how pollution had a bad effect on the earth.Most important, both girls got up early to eat eggs at their breakfast.Eggs were important to people of the east because our economy depended mainly on the production of eggs.

  “Either girl will win,”my father said,“But someone will cry in the end”

  “Either will be fine,”I said,“They are both great girls.”

  The final round was held at the east edge of our town.Sara lived nearby so she did not need to get up early to arrive.However, she was the first person there.“You know what they say about the early bird,”she said with a smile.

  However, May arrived fifteen minutes late to the competition.“It's the taxi driver's fault,”she said.“I told him to head east, but he was in one ear and thought I said Bread Cheese.”You know, Bread Cheese was the name of our neighboring town.

  I thought May would certainly lose because she was late, but to my surprise, she turned out to be this year's winner.The judges liked her answer to their last question,“If you could have anything in the world, what would it be?”Sara had replied,“World peace.”May, on the other hand, said,“Better market to have our eggs sell well”.

(1)

Why was it difficult to make a choice this year?

[  ]

A.

The girls just looked alike.

B.

People had to choose from eight girls.

C.

All the girls wanted to get the position.

D.

The judges couldn't agree with each other

(2)

In the passage the underlined sentence“You know what they say about the early bird.”means ________.

[  ]

A.

she liked the early bird very much

B.

she was sure that she would succeed

C.

she lived nearby, so she should get there early

D.

she wanted to showoff her good language knowledge

(3)

Why was May chosen in the end?

[  ]

A.

Because her answer was clever and exact

B.

Because she gave a different answer from Sara's

C.

Because she looked more beautiful than the other girl

D.

Because her answer was more practical than the other girl

(4)

According to the passage, which of the following maps is correct?________

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  Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve's new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say.While Sara felt Betty didn't hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to talk.The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing.

  Conversation is a turn-taking game.When our habits are similar, there's no problem.But if our habits are different, you may start to talk before I'm finished or fail to take your turn when I'm finished.That's what was happening with Betty and Sara.

  It may not be coincidental that Betty, who expected relatively longer pauses between turns is British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American.Betty often felt interrupted by Sara.But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when she met a visitor from Finland.And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel.

  The general phenomenon, then, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing, lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about personality and abilities.These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping(思维定式).And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences.For example, a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel.When the Personnel Department got together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to break in--and never found it.Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident, in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring.When she was evaluated at the end of the year, she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up.

  That's why slight differences in conversational style--tiny little things like microseconds of pause-can have a great effect on one's life.The result in this case was a judgment of psychological problems---even in the mind of the woman herself, who really wondered what was wrong with her and registered for assertiveness training.

(1)

What did Sara think of Betty when talking with her?

[  ]

A.

Betty was talkative.

B.

Betty was an interrupter.

C.

Betty did not take her turn.

D.

Betty paid no attention to Sara.

(2)

According to the passage, who are likely to expect the shortest pauses between turns?

[  ]

A.

Americans.

B.

Israelis.

C.

The British.

D.

The Finns.

(3)

We can learn from the passage that ________

[  ]

A.

communication breakdown results from short pauses and fast pacing

B.

women are unfavorably stereotyped in eastern cities of the US

C.

one's inability to speak up is culturally determined sometimes

D.

one should receive training to build up one's confidence

(4)

The underlined word "assertiveness" in the last paragraph probably means ________.

[  ]

A.

being willing to speak one's mind

B.

being able to increase one's power

C.

being ready to make one's own judgment

D.

being quick to express one's ideas confidently

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Pacing and Pausing

  Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve's new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say.While Sara felt Betty didn't hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to talk.The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing.

  Conversation is a turn-taking game.When our habits are similar, there's no problem.But if our habits are different, you may start to talk before I'm finished or fail to take your turn when I'm finished.That's what was happening with Betty and Sara.

  It may not be coincidental that Betty, who expected relatively longer pauses between turns, is British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American.Betty often felt interrupted by Sara.But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when she met a visitor from Finland.And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel.

  The general phenomenon, then, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing, lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about personality and abilities.These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping(思维定式).And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences.For example, a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel.When the Personnel Department got together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to break in-and never found it.Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident, in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring.When she was evaluated at the end of the year, she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up.

  That's why slight differences in conversational style-tiny little things like microseconds of pause-can have a great effect on one's life.The result in this case was a judgment of psychological problems-even in the mind of the woman herself, who really wondered what was wrong with her and registered for assertiveness training.

(1)

What did Sara think of Betty when talking with her?

[  ]

A.

Betty was talkative.

B.

Betty was an interrupter.

C.

Betty did not take her turn.

D.

Betty paid no attention to Sara.

(2)

According to the passage, who are likely to expect the shortest pauses between turns?

[  ]

A.

Americans.

B.

Israelis.

C.

The British.

D.

The Finns.

(3)

We can learn from the passage that ________

[  ]

A.

communication breakdown results from short pauses and fast pacing

B.

women are unfavorably stereotyped in eastern cities of the US

C.

one's inability to speak up is culturally determined sometimes

D.

one should receive training to build up one's confidence

(4)

The underlined word "assertiveness" in the last paragraph probably means ________

[  ]

A.

being willing to speak one's mind

B.

being able to increase one's power

C.

being ready to make one's own judgment

D.

being quick to express one's ideas confidently

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Pacing and Pausing

  Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve's new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say.While Sara felt Betty didn't hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to talk.The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing.

  Conversation is a turn-taking game.When our habits are similar, there's no problem.But if our habits are different, you may start to talk before I'm finished or fail to take your turn when I'm finished.That's what was happening with Betty and Sara.

  It may not be coincidental that Betty, who expected relatively longer pauses between turns, is British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American.Betty often felt interrupted by Sara.But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when she met a visitor from Finland.And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel.

  The general phenomenon, then, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing, lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about personality and abilities.These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping(思维定式).And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences.For example, a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel.When the Personnel Department got together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to break in--and never found it.Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident, in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring.When she was evaluated at the end of the year, she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up.

  That's why slight differences in conversational style--tiny little things like microseconds of pause-can have a great effect on one's life.The result in this case was a judgment of psychological problems---even in the mind of the woman herself, who really wondered what was wrong with her and registered for assertiveness training.

(1)

What did Sara think of Betty when talking with her?

[  ]

A.

Betty was talkative.

B.

Betty was an interrupter.

C.

Betty did not take her turn.

D.

Betty paid no attention to Sara.

(2)

According to the passage, who are likely to expect the shortest pauses between turns?

[  ]

A.

Americans.

B.

Israelis.

C.

The British.

D.

The Finns.

(3)

We can learn from the passage that ________

[  ]

A.

communication breakdown results from short pauses and fast pacing

B.

women are unfavorably stereotyped in eastern cities of the US

C.

one's inability to speak up is culturally determined sometimes

D.

one should receive training to build up one's confidence

(4)

The underlined word "assertiveness" in the last paragraph probably means ________

[  ]

A.

being willing to speak one's mind

B.

being able to increase one's power

C.

being ready to make one's own judgment

D.

being quick to express one's ideas confidently

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