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Linda’s ambition is to be architect when she grows up.
A.a B.an C.the D./
As we all know, France is __________European country.
A./ B.the C.a D.an
Answer the questions.(根据短文内容，回答下列问题)
Vanessa Tahay is different from the other teenagers (青少年) in her school. Her skin is dark and her voice is thick. But these are the things she is proudest of.
Tahay is one of the best poets (诗人) in Los Angeles. But that doesn’t come easily to someone who comes from a small village in Central America.
When she first came to school, she was shy and laughed at by others for being short and different.
She spent hours after school and on weekends watching the same DVDs: English Without Barriers (障碍). Tahay’s elder brother, Elmer, advised her to join the after-school poetry club.
The first time Tahay read the poems in the club, she was shocked. “I wish I could write like that,” she thought to herself.
She wrote her first poem about her first year in America. She called it “Invisible (无形的)”. The day she read it in front of the team, she broke down crying. She cried a lot. “I had too much to express (表达) myself,” Tahay said.
Though her English was not good at that time, she kept at it. At first, she wouldn’t tell her friends about her poetry because she worried they’d make fun of her.
But with time, her poems changed her. “They gave me pride,” Tahay said. “They told me I’m worth (值得的) something.”
1.What does Tahay take pride in most?
_______________________________________
2.Where does Tahay come from?
3.What’s Tahay’s first poem “Invisible” mainly about?
4.What event changed Tahay’s life?
5.Why did Tahay seldom share her poems with her friends at first?
6.What can you learn from this story?
--- ________ do you visit your grandparents?
--- Once a month.
A.How far B.How many C.How long D.How often
Alice is much brighter than all the children in her class.
A.other B.others C.the other D.another
Life is like a kind of game with five balls. You name them: Work, Family, Health, Friends and Spirit. And you are keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back(反弹).1. If you drop one of them, they will be broken and never be the same.
So don’t judge your worth by comparing(比较) yourselves with others.2.Don’t set your goals by what other people feel important. Only you know what is best for you. Don’t give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.3. It is by taking chances that you learn how to be brave.
Don’t throw love out of our life by saying it is impossible to find.4.And the best way to keep love is to give it wings to fly.
Life is not a running race.5.
A.You are different and each of us is special.
B.Don’t be afraid of risks(冒险)
C.The quickest way to receive love is to give but the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too selfishly(自私地)
D.But the other four balls -- Family, Health, Friends and Spirit are made of glass.
E.It is a long but colorful journey that every step needs to be valued and enjoyed.
He__________succeeds because he is so lazy.
A.seldom B.usually C.always
Does Fame Drive You Crazy?
Although being famous might sound like a dream come true, today's star, feeling like zoo animals, face pressures that few of us can imagine. They are at the center of much of the world's attention. Paparazzi (狗仔队) camp outside their homes, cameras ready. Tabloids (小报) publish thrilling stories about their personal lives. Just imagine not being able to do anything without being photographed or interrupted for a signature.
According to psychologist Christina Villareal, celebrities—famous people—worry constantly about their public appearance. Eventually, they start to lose track of who they really are, seeing themselves the way their fans imagine them, not as the people they were before everyone knew their names. "Over time," Villareal says, "they feel separated and alone."
The phenomenon of tracking celebrities has been around for ages. In the 4th century B.C., painters followed Alexander the Great into battle, hoping to picture his victories for his admirers. When Charles Dickens visited America in the 19th century, his sold-out readings attracted thousands of fans, leading him to complain about his lack of privacy. Tabloids of the 1920s and 1930s ran articles about film-stars in much the same way that modern tabloids and websites do.
Being a public figure today, however, is a lot more difficult than it used to be. Superstars cannot move about without worrying about photographers with modern cameras. When they say something silly or do something ridiculous, there is always the Internet to spread the news in minutes and keep their "story" alive forever.
If fame is so troublesome, why aren't all celebrities running away from it? The answer is there are still ways to deal with it. Some stars stay calm by surrounding themselves with trusted friends and family or by escaping to remote places away from big cities. They focus not on how famous they are but on what they love to do or whatever made them famous in the first place.
Sometimes a few celebrities can get a little justice. Still, even stars who enjoy full justice often complain about how hard their lives are. They are tired of being famous already.
1.It can be learned from the passage that stars today ________.
A.are often misunderstood by the public B.care little about how they have come into fame
C.spend too much on their public appearance D.can no longer have their privacy protected
2.What is the main idea of Paragraph 3?
A.Great heroes of the past were generally admired.
B.Well-known actors are usually targets of tabloids.
C.The problem faced by celebrities has a long history.
D.Works of popular writers often have a lot of readers.
3.What makes it much harder to be a celebrity today?
A.Lack of favorable chances. B.Not enough social recognition.
C.Availability of modern media. D.Huge population of fans.
4.What is the author's attitude toward modern celebrity?
A.Sincere. B.Sympathetic.
C.Disapproving. D.Unbelieving.
I used to work in a lab for almost 10 years. It was a well-paid job, and a “ not exactly ” exciting but safe job. Then everything changed in 1998 when my best friend introduced me to a man who wanted to open up a computer training school.
What did he want me to do?
Teach!
Me? Teach? Is he mad?
They knew I had a speech problem. I stuttered.
For me a simple sentence was going to take longer than it should. “Hello, how are you doing?” can take you 3 seconds, where it would take me 10 seconds. And someone asked me if I wanted to stand in front of strangers and speak about computer technology.
Then the most amazing thing happened
I said yes!
To this day I’m still not sure why I said yes. Maybe I didn’t want to live a “safe” life where I did the same thing every day, year after year.
I have always felt I know a better way to describe difficult concepts to listeners than a lot of other people. I'm good at explaining things when I write about it. So I took the class syllabus (教学大纲）and rewrote it MY WAY! I did all I could to make it easier to understand.
In my first class I got the familiar funny looks from people when I started speaking. But after 15 minutes, people were asking intelligent questions that showed they understood. At the end of the class when people were leaving, they shook my hand and thanked me.
You won't get THAT from a “not exactly exciting but safe job”！
1.The writer thought his job in the lab was .
A.well-paid and safe B.safe and exciting
C.safe and challenging D.well-paid but challenging
2.The writer uses the example of “Hello, how are you doing?” to show .
A.what his speech problem was B.his speech problem was gone
C.his speech problem got better D.how he fought his speech problem
3.As for the class syllabus, the writer .
A.deleted the difficult concepts in it B.couldn’t fully understand it first
C.wrote it again in his own way D.explained it to his friend first
4.The writer knew the students understood his class from their .
A.smiles B.questions C.funny looks D.thank-you letters
5.What's the best title for the passage?
A.My best friend B.My fantastic class
C.My speech problem D.My challenging choice
