I used to be really afraid to let people know that I’m smart. I got picked on just because I worked hard and got good grades. Sometimes kids even 31  _____me bad names, so I decided to try to hide my brains. I just  32 _____ trying so hard When I didn't try hard, my teacher let me know she was 33 _____ at me. That was embarrassing ！

Near the end of the term ，we had a really big test. When I finished the test, I knew I hadn't done my best. I 34 _____ have been happy. But somehow I didn’t feel 35  _____about it at all. When I got my test scores back，I felt so ashamed The worst part was the 36 _____ my mom kept looking at me. It was like I wasn't even her daughter anymore. I couldn’t 37 _____ it. I knew I had to make it up to my mom, so I started trying harder. Things got better, too. My test scores 38 _____ and other kids actually started coming to me for help. Some kids still 39 me a little ，but I also knew that some of my classmates 40 _____ me ，so I didn’t mind so much.

Everything was good 41 _____ I won another competition. I was so happy I won! At first everything was perfect. People were 42  _____me and being really nice. But after a few days， a friend started a 43 _____ that I’d cheated in the competition and people believed it 44 _____ They whispered together at lunch, glaring at me ，then whispered some more. All this upset me so much that I went back to my 45 _____ ways, hiding my test scores or just not trying to do well. The teasing still didn’t stop, though. Finally I 46  _____and told my mom every­thing. Together, we went to the principal to tell him what was going on.

Talking things out with my mom, I started to understand that the people who were so 47 _____ to me were really just jealous, and that they wished they had some of the 48  _____I got for things like good test scores and winning the competition.

I still get teased sometimes, but now I've just 49  _____to be proud of what I can do. No matter what a few mean people say ，I’ve realized that being smart will help me 50 _____ my dreams and be successful in life. That^’s much more important to me. I’m glad I’m smart and I'm not about to hide it anymore！

31.

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approved

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thrilled

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disappointed

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34.

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desperate

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witness

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absorb

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describe

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strengthen

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put forward

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tolerated

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42.

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48.

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50.

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abused

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Dear Aunty,

I work at a supermarket, and another girl and I share tasks we must finish before leaving. But she takes half an hour to do something I can do in ten minutes. She always has a story to tell me and stops working when she does. My boss is angry at both of us, but It’s not my fault. I don’t want to rat on her, but what else can I do?

Flustered

Dear Flustered,

Let me propose a better way. Make a log of all the tasks you share, then suggest to your boss that for efficiency your duties could be divided into two separate checklists. If he’s reluctant, go to plan B: the next time this girl starts telling you a story, stop working to listen and call your boss over to hear what a great storyteller she is. I’m sure he’ll take it from here.

Aunty

Dear Aunty,

I’m a college student in the Philippines who wants to be wise with money. I’m not an economics or business major student and I don’t know anything about stocks. But I really want to buy assets and invest. I receive about 15,000 pesos（比索）every school term from my education plan. I don’t have any idea how I should spend it. I don’t want to just buy new clothes, or hang out with my friends because it would not be wise. I want my money to grow. Please enlighten me.

Fastbreakplay

Dear Fastbreakplay,

Being wise with money is the No. 1 thing to learn. Start with a disciplined and systematic savings plan. When your savings reach a sizeable amount, then you may start investing. In the meantime, invest in yourself by reading up on stock markets and capital markets. Follow the news. Before I started investing during my senior high school years, I had already studied stock market data of the past century as I believe markets tend to repeat themselves. If you master this skill, you will master your reading of the markets.

Aunty

1.When Flustered’s boss isn’t willing to separate their work, Flustered can _____.

A．follow the second advice                 B．invite the boss to listen to the girl

C．stop working or do other things             D．report to the boss on time

2.Fastbreakplay writes a letter to Aunty in order to _____.

A．buy some pesos                        B．become an expert on stocks

C．get ways to grow money                  D．study economics as his major

3.In Aunty’s opinion, one should _____ at the beginning to be wise with money.

A．start investing                          B．have a saving plan

C．study stock markets                      D．master market reading

4.From letters above, we know Aunty should be ________.

A．an elder kind woman                    B．a lady in the community

C．a famous singer                         D．a name of a columnist

 

There are numerous similarities between Muhammad Ali and his 23-year-old daughter Laila. She is the only one of his nine sons and daughters to have those genes that led to the ring (拳击场). Her father’s great status had nothing to do with Laila’s decision to pursue a boxing career. She has always been proud of his achievements, but he was never a great man to her ---- just dad.

What attracted her to take up boxing was the unusual sight of two women in the ring on the television screen when she was about to watch a Mike Tyson fight five years ago. She was very excited and said to herself, “I can do that.”

Laila’s father would prefer her not to take up the dangerous sport. Johnny McClain, her husband and manager (former boxer himself) feels the same way. Even though both the men in her life worry about her, they’re 100 percent supportive. “They don’t want me to get hurt,” she says.

Long before entering the ring, Laila was a fighter. Being the daughter of an outstanding boxer made her an easy target for high school kids to see how tough she was. They, not she, failed in the test. For the public, her biggest test took place last summer in the New York State when she took on Jacqui Frazier Lyde, the daughter of Joe Frazier, her father’s most famous opponent (对手) during the 1970s.

That fight provided the biggest shot in the arm that women’s boxing has received. News reporters poured in. Some called it “Ali/Frazier – Generation II”. No match involving women had ever attracted so much attention. Laila had a narrow victory in the fight.

Like it or not, she accepts the fact that she is the face of female boxing. And she hopes that her name and fame will help get the public to take it more seriously.

The name Ali has and always will bring her attention. But she is determined to make her own mark on opponents’ faces as well as in boxing history books. She says, “I want women’s boxing to get its due respect.”

1.Laila took up boxing because of _____.

A．her father’s great status                 B．a Mike Tyson fight

C．her admiration for her father              D．her interest in boxing

2.From the passage we can know _____.

A．Laila’s husband is still a boxer now

B．Laila wants to make contributions to the sport of boxing

C．Laila’s husband doesn’t think boxing is a dangerous sport

D．when Laila was in high school, she often failed in the fight with other kids

3.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 mean?

A．That fight proved that Laila was a person of physical power.

B．That fight made female boxing more popular.

C．That fight provided people with a good change to enjoy themselves.

D．Laila made her first public appearance in that fight.

4. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A．A female boxer ---- Laila Ali                B．The best-known fight

C．Ali/Frazie ---- Generation II                D．Muhammad Ali and his daughter

 

 

Why should I teach my children history? That sounds like a stupid question to even ask. But, as I hear different home schooling teachers discuss history, I get the idea that there may be different reasons for teaching history. Let me briefly explain the three good reasons for studying history and two bad reasons for studying history.

    The major reason I see for studying history is that we can learn from the past. I am convinced that the world would be a much better place if more people understood the successes and failures of the past and the thifigs that made these successes and failures. However, as the unfortunately true statement goes "the one thing we seem to learn from history is that we don't seem to learn from history." Perhaps at least in teaching history, to my children I can do a small part in changing this.

    A second major reason for studying history is that it is hard to understand the current political climate in the absence of an understanding of its historical context. We can- not even understand why we are and where we are without history, much less (更不必说) try to figure out where we are going or how we should get where we want to be.

    I teach my children history, for one more reason. I purchased a set of historical audio (录音机) tapes for our children. My seven-year-old son listened to them over and over. It was my hope that he would become inspired by the accomplishments of people like the Wright brothers to accomplish things by himself. I think that it is good that we celebrate the accomplishments of people like Martin Luther King Jr. if, in doing so, young people are called on to stand for the principles that he stood for and accomplish what he accomplished. I also think that by studying people like Adolph Hitler, people can learn to stand against the things that he stood for.

1. What message can we get from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 ?

    A. Many people aren't clever enough to learn well from the past.

    B. Many people fail to make good use of history and make the same mistakes.

    C. Many people feel it hard to understand history.

    D. Many people have no interest in studying history.

2. In Paragraph 3, the author shows that history is useful because _______________.

     A. it makes the current political situation go smoothly

     B. it helps us realize the importance of historical events

     C. it helps us understand why things are the way they are

     D. it helps people accept the present situation where they live

3. Some historical figures are mentioned in the last paragraph to show ______________.

     A. people can be inspired to do good, while also learning to fight against evil

     B. people may also learn from bad historical figures

     C. more celebrations should be held to honor their achievements

     D. today’s people can also achieve what they achieved

4. What would be talked about in the following paragraph?

     A. How to teach history effectively.

     B. Some negative reasons for studying history.

     C. How to get more people to study history.

     D. Some bad historical figures.

5. The main purpose of this passage is to ____________.

     A. ins[me the parents to teach their children history

     B. show the importance of history in politics

     C. explain the reasons why children study history

     D. introduce the writer' s own way of teaching history

 

第三节：完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、和D)中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Eleven-year-old Angela was attacked by a rare    36   involving her nerve system．She was unable to walk and her movement was   37   in other ways as well．The doctors did not hold much   38   of her ever recovering from this illness．They   39   she'd spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair．They said that few, if any, were able to come back to    40   after suffering from this disease．The little girl was   41  ．There, lying in her hospital bed, she would swear that she was   42   going to be walking again someday．

She was moved to a specialized   43   hospital in the San Francisco Bay area．Whatever   44   could be applied to her case were used．The doctors were attracted by her undefeatable spirit．They taught her about imaging about seeing herself walking．If it would do   45   else, it would at least give her hope and something   46   to do in the long waking hours in her bed． Angela would work as hard as possible in physical treatment, and in exercise sessions．But she worked just as hard lying there faithfully doing her   37   , visualizing herself moving, moving, moving ！

One day,   48   she was attempting, with all her might, to imagine her legs moving again, it seemed as though something   49   happened: the bed moved! It began to move around the room! She   50   out, "Look what I'm doing! Look'．Look! I can do it'．I moved! I moved!"

Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was screaming, too, and running for   51   People were screaming, equipment was   52   and glass was breaking．You see, it was the recent San Francisco earthquake．   53   don't tell that to Angela．She's   54   that she did it．

And now only a few years later, she's back in school, on her own   55  ．No crutches, no wheelchair．You see, anyone who can shake the earth between San Francisco and Oakland can defeat a little disease, can't they?

36．A．problem   B．disease         C．accident    D．error

37．A．reduced    B．avoided       C．restricted  D．forced

38．A．thought    B．idea          C．opinion     D．hope

39．A．predicted  B．prepared      C．admitted   D．decided

40．A．active       B．normal        C．alive     D．confident

41．A．fearless     B．peaceful       C．patient      D．stainless

42．A．probably   B．approximately  C．sincerely   D．certainly

43．A．recovery   B．experiment       C．practice    D．exercise

44．A．schedules  B．instructions      C．supports    D．treatments

45．A．something B．anything      C．nothing     D．everything

46．A．admirable B．interesting     C．optimistic D．appropriate

47．A．training    B．imaging       C．expectation      D．performance

48．A．however   B．after         C．just      D．as

49．A．useful       B．regretful      C．surprising D．disgusting

50．A．screamed  B．laughed       C．spoke       D．sang

51．A．ground     B．cover         C．ceiling      D．bed

52．A．accelerating     B．running    C．appearing  D．falling

53．A．For      B．So            C．But      D．Or

54．A．convinced B．supposed      C．realized    D．accepted

55．A．parts     B．legs          C．body     D．role