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Ms Tan，you've referred to your new novel as your eighth book.
That's because it took me six or seven attempts at a second novel before I started and completed this one.
●Why do you think you had so many false starts?
I would say that my reasons were wrong：I was trying to prove that I wasn't just a mother-daughter storyteller，or I was trying to prove that I didn't just have to write about things that were strictly Chinese or Chinese-American.Those were never the right reasons for writing those early stories.And I could never come up with other，better reasons for continuing them.
●What kept you going on this book?
This book was different because it was based on my mother's real life.The reason for writing it became more personal and emotional.After The Joy Luck Club came out，my mother was always explaining to people that she wasn't any of the mothers in that book.And at one point she said to me，“Next book tells my true story.”And then she started telling me things I never knew before.She also told me many，many stories，because my mother doesn't generalize.The book really grew out of that.
●Have you ever visited China?
Yes.I've been there twice：about three years ago and then again last November，both times with my mother and my husband.
●Was it difficult to capture the Chinese-American dialect without sounding like a parody(拙劣的模仿)?
No，because it's the language I've heard all my life from my mother.She speaks English as it's direct translation from Chinese.But it's more than that：Her language also has more imagery than English.
●Can you think of an example?
Somebody might say to me，“Don't work so hard.You'll kill yourself.”My mother will say to me，“Why do you press all your brains out on this page for someone else？”So it's very vivid.That's the way she talks.
●Have many readers told you that the Chinese mother in your book reminded them of the typical Jewish(有癖好的)mother?
Many people have told me that.I think the mother-daughter relationship is very intense in both cases.Culturally there is an acceptance that mothers have the power to tell their children，especially their daughters，how to conduct their lives—not simply up until the time they are 18，but for the rest of their lives.However，when children grow up in a different culture from their parents'，they tend to keep more secrets from their parents.The children think，“They just wouldn't understand that I had to do this.”And that can really create a gap，and it can grow as the number of secrets grows.
1．Based on the questions in this interview，what do you think Ms Tan's profession is?
A．A journalist. B．A storywriter.
C．An interviewer. D．An interviewee.
2．What's TRUE about Tan's second book?
A．It's about her real life in America.
B．The name of the book is The Joy Luck Club.
C．It is the result of many times of careful thought.
D．It includes many works of her mother.
3．Which question is NOT answered in the interview?
A．How does she think of her mother's language?
B．How many books does she plan to write?
C．When did she visit China?
D．How is generation gap created?
4．The last paragraph mainly talks about ________.
A．how to keep secrets from parents
B．how to deal with the mother-daughter relationship
C．how to conduct the lives
D．how the generation gap comes about
Ms Tan，you've referred to your new novel as your eighth book.
That's because it took me six or seven attempts at a second novel before I started and completed this one.
●Why do you think you had so many false starts?
I would say that my reasons were wrong：I was trying to prove that I wasn't just a mother?daughter storyteller，or I was trying to prove that I didn't just have to write about things that were strictly Chinese or Chinese?American.Those were never the right reasons for writing those early stories.And I could never come up with other，better reasons for continuing them.
●What kept you going on this book?
This book was different because it was based on my mother's real life.The reason for writing it became more personal and emotional.After The Joy Luck Club came out，my mother was always explaining to people that she wasn't any of the mothers in that book.And at one point she said to me，“Next book tells my true story.”And then she started telling me things I never knew before.She also told me many，many stories，because my mother doesn't generalize.The book really grew out of that.
●Have you ever visited China?
Yes.I've been there twice：about three years ago and then again last November，both times with my mother and my husband.
●Was it difficult to capture the Chinese?American dialect without sounding like a parody(拙劣的模仿)?
No，because it's the language I've heard all my life from my mother.She speaks English as it's direct translation from Chinese.But it's more than that：Her language also has more imagery than English.
●Can you think of an example?
Somebody might say to me，“Don't work so hard.You'll kill yourself.”My mother will say to me，“Why do you press all your brains out on this page for someone else？”So it's very vivid.That's the way she talks.
●Have many readers told you that the Chinese mother in your book reminded them of the typical Jewish(有癖好的)mother?
Many people have told me that.I think the mother?daughter relationship is very intense in both cases.Culturally there is an acceptance that mothers have the power to tell their children，especially their daughters，how to conduct their lives—not simply up until the time they are 18，but for the rest of their lives.However，when children grow up in a different culture from their parents'，they tend to keep more secrets from their parents.The children think，“They just wouldn't understand that I had to do this.”And that can really create a gap，and it can grow as the number of secrets grows.
1．Based on the questions in this interview，what do you think Ms Tan's profession is?
A．A journalist. B．A storywriter.
C．An interviewer. D．An interviewee.
2．What's TRUE about Tan's second book?
A．It's about her real life in America.
B．The name of the book is The Joy Luck Club.
C．It is the result of many times of careful thought.
D．It includes many works of her mother.
3．Which question is NOT answered in the interview?
A．How does she think of her mother's language?
B．How many books does she plan to write?
C．When did she visit China?
D．How is generation gap created?
4．The last paragraph mainly talks about ________.
A．how to keep secrets from parents
B．how to deal with the mother?daughter relationship
C．how to conduct the lives
D．how the generation gap comes about
Teenagers who drink alcohol are at higher risk of becoming victims of violence, a Cardiff University study has found.
A team from the School of Dentistry’ s Violence Research Group studied drinking habits in children aged 11 - 16 in England. They found not only a link between drink and violence but also that children who drank were more likely to be hit, even if they weren’t violent themselves.
The researchers are now calling for measures to prevent alcohol misuse to reduce injury risk. Current policy focuses on reducing aggression but this research shows that there should be equal effort to reduce victimization.
More than 4,000 children were surveyed at 13 schools at four local authorities in the North, the Midlands, London, and the South. The study found that 25% of 11-year-olds were drinking monthly and 3.6% daily, with 12.8% admitting to getting drunk 3 to 5 times a year. By the age of 16, 40% were drinking weekly and 6.2% were drinking every day. The research also showed 22.6% of 16-year-olds were getting drunk more than 21 times a year.
The study, which has just been published in the Journal of Adolescence, found a strong link between frequency of drinking and frequency of hitting other people.
However, children who reported drinking monthly were also three times more likely to be hit. Adolescents（青少年） who drank but didn’t get into fights were more likely to be hit than those who did fight.
Professor Jonathan Shepherd, who led the research, said a lot of previous alcohol-related violence work had focused on the offenders（惹事的人） rather than the victims. His team is calling for more prevention work from parents and teachers in the first two years of secondary school by taking advantage of the “teachable moment”，that is, immediately after a student has missed school because of drunkenness.
Previous work by Professor Jonathan Shepherd has shown drinkers may be more at risk of violence because of reduced physical co-ordination, poor decision-making in threatening situations and isolation while out late at night. He said, “This new study seems to be the first to show a direct link between alcohol misuse and victimization. There now needs to be much more effort put into reducing alcohol misuse in order to reduce injury.”
61. The main idea of the passage is that teenagers who drink alcohol ________.
A. often offend other people
B. often become injured
C. are more likely to become victims of violence
D. are more likely to fight with others
62. The underlined word “aggression” in the third paragraph probably means “________”．
A. violence B. sad feelings C. bad manners D. drunkenness
63. The research argues that more effort should be made to ________.
A. reduce aggression B. prevent fighting
C. reduce victimization D. prevent drinking alcohol
64. Drinkers may be more at risk of violence because of all the following EXCEPT ________.
A. reduced physical co-ordination B. isolation while out late at night
C. a higher frequency of hitting other people
D. poor decision-making in threatening situations
65. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to Professor Shepherd’ s research?
A. The frequency of children getting drunk increases with age.
B. His previous alcohol-related violence work had focused on the offenders.
C. Some children missed school because of drunkenness.
D. This new study shows a direct link between alcohol misuse and victimization.
My husband, Bob, died in January 2010. His death was unexpected as well. I __1__ condolences(哀悼) from people I hadn't heard from in years: letters, cards, flowers, calls, and visits. I took a bad knock with __2__. I was so struggling to __3__ the whys and hows of this terrible thing that had happened to my family, knowing in my heart that there really were no __4__. It's just all so sad.
One message __5__ me deeply. I received a letter from my best friend from sixth __6__ through high school. We had drifted somewhat since __7__ in 1959, as she stayed in our home town and I did not. __8__ it was the kind of friendship that could quickly resume even if we __9__ touch for five or ten years.
Her husband, Pete, had died perhaps 20 years ago at a young age, __10__ her with deep sorrow and heavy __11__： finding a job and raising three young children.She and Pete, __12__ Bob and I, had shared one of those rare, close，“love?of?your?life?you?can?never?forget”__13__.
In her letter she __14__ an anecdote about my mother who had passed away years ago. She wrote, “When Pete died, your dear mother __15__ me and said，‘Trudy, I don't know what to say...so I'll just say I love you.’”
She closed her letter to me repeating my mother's words of so long __16__， “Bonnie, I don't know what to say...so I'll just say I love you.”
I felt I __17__ almost hear my mother speaking to me now. What a __18__ message of sympathy! How dear of my friend to cherish it all those years and then __19__ it on to me. I love you. __20__ words. A gift. A legacy (遗赠物)．
1.A.received B．wrote C．sent D．showed
2．A.disappointment B．relief C．grief D．regret
3．A.ask B．experience C．explain D．understand
4．A.answers B．skills C．explanation D．information
5．A.impressed B．touched C．appreciated D．affected
6．A.grade B．class C．sense D．week
7．A.marriage B．graduation C．quarrel D．settlement
8．A.Instead B．Therefore C．But D．However
9．A.kept B．lost C．got D．engaged
10.A.moving B．returning C．staying D．leaving
11.A.opportunities B．responsibilities C．services D．chances
12．A.including B．as well as C．like D．except for
13.A.contacts B.backgrounds C.interests D．relationships
14．A.shared B．combined C．achieved D．remembered
15．A.met B．kissed C．hugged D．shook
16．A.after B．away C．apart D．ago
17．A.must B．should C．would D．could
18．A.powerful B．serious C．bitter D．sincere
19．A.deliver B ．pass C．return D．remind
20．A.Unnecessary B．Perfect C．Curious D．Abstract
On 27 February 2008, something unusual happened in Britain; there was a rather large earthquake.
It was the __1__ UK earthquake in 25 years. There have been very minor ones in the past but they were not __2__ compared to this one. It was felt across the country, from Edinburgh, Scotland in the north down to the far south coast of England. The centre of the earthquake was in a small town about 150 kilometres north of London.
There were many news reports from people who __3__ the earth move but no one was seriously hurt and there was little damage. A collapsed chimney was the __4__ of what was the worst injury from the earthquake; a man broke his hip when he __5__ tripped on the chimney's scattered bricks and fell to the ground.
One man who was walking to work at the time __6__ the moment the earthquake occurred, "Everything was shaking. As soon as it happened I saw many people __7__ outside and I realized it was an earthquake."
You may be surprised to learn that there are two to three hundred earthquakes in Britain every year -- but are so small that they go __8__. The impact of this earthquake was not severe in comparison to some other natural __9__ that have made international news, but for the people __10__, it certainly came as quite a surprise.
1．A．biggest B．loudest C．deadliest D．scariest
2．A．dangerous B．interesting C．significant D．famous
3．A．saw B．discovered C．thought D．felt
4．A．result B．reason C．making D．cause
5．A．eagerly B．intentionally C．accidentally D．desperately
6．A．feared B．explained C．described D．caught
7．A．rushing B．shaking C．talking D．working
8．A．unwanted B．unnoticed C．unchanged D．undisturbed
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10．A．watching B．affected C．infected D．lost
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