A Michigan high school football team came together to surprise their beloved water boy, Robby Heil, who has Down syndrome (唐氏症). He's a senior school student and has worked as an assistant supplying team drinking water for the school's football team for four years. They decided to do something special for Robby, so they designed a _____________ just for him.

Last Friday, the team put Robby in the game and gave him the ball. As the crowd repeated his name loudly, Robby ran down the field and scored a touchdown. Robby’s father _____________ the moment on his video camera, while his mother fell to her knees with joy as she watched from the sidelines.

The family was really happy and also surprised by all of the _________ they have received. When the head coach, Burnside, who planned the whole event, telephoned the coach of the other team, everyone was _________ all for it. When Robby was scoring, everyone was shouting out his name. All the players cheered him, including the opposing team—they even gave Robby a sports shirt that they all had ___________. “I think the sportsmanship is the great part," said Burnside. "The sportsmanship from both sides was just ___________. Their coaches were in tears, our coaches were in tears. When they watched the game, their ___________ also had signs with Robby’s numbers up."

"Robby is just a great kid. He _________ a lot to the kids," Burnside added. "I am hoping that everybody can learn from him. I’ve learned more from him than he has from me in the past four years. ”

1.A.course B.game C.school D.team

2.A.enjoyed B.imagined C.recorded D.chose

3.A.support B.advice C.expectations D.complaints

4.A.probably B.secretly C.nervously D.immediately

5.A.needed B.worn C.washed D.signed

6.A.popular B.limited C.amazing D.different

7.A.stands B.computers C.rooms D.books

8.A.reads B.means C.sends D.speaks

Several days ago, one of my students came into my office, looking down. He thought he had too much stress — he has homework to do every day, he has too many after-school classes every weekend, he doesn’t like his history teacher, his younger sister is crying all the time when he needs a quiet environment to study, his parents always compare him with his classmates, ...

The problems are commonly seen on most of the Chinese students. I comforted my student with one sentence: Don’t you know you were much stronger than you thought?

Why did I say so? Because everyone has strength.What is strength? It is not always about physical strength. Rather, it is about will, training and the ability to get things done. I know some students who are clever, but they get very little done in their studies. And I know others find work extremely challenging, but are able to move mountains through hard work. They have inner strength. More interesting is that those hard-workers often don’t even notice the stress. When they are asked “How do you make it?”, the answers usually comes back: “I just work harder than the others.”

Some losers often have self-imposed(自己强加的) boundaries(边界) — I can’t do that(Why?); that is too much for me(How do you know?); I can’t put in that much effort(What would happen if you did?). All these are limits(局限).

Then, how can they get stronger? By pushing themselves until the boundaries disappear. By pushing themselves until they get better.

1.What can we know from the student’s words?

A.He was looking for something.

B.He was worried and unhappy.

C.His parents didn’t love him.

2.Most Chinese students have problems with the following aspects(方面)EXCEPT _______.

A.schoolwork B.social relationship C.teachers’ suggestions

3.Why do some clever students achieve little?

A.Because they are not willing to spend time working hard.

B.Because the work is too challenging.

C.Because they know how much the stress is.

4.If your friend complains(抱怨) “I’m not smart enough to solve that,” what the writer may say to him?

A.Let it go.

B.Believe in yourself.

C.Are you really sure about that if you haven’t tried hard?

5.What can we infer(推断) from the passage?

A.Hard-workers don’t have any stress.

B.People can find their inner strength through hard work.

C.By pushing themselves, people can get whatever they want.

Suzie goes to her art class on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. She always looks forward to those days when she can do creative things all afternoon. She loves making bowls and cups out of clay(粘土).

Last month she learned to put pottery(陶器) into a hot oven(炉子), called a kiln, to make it hard and strong. What Suzie likes best about art is the good feeling she gets when she has finished working on a piece of art. And then when she takes it home to show her parents she feels so proud of what she has made.

On Wednesday Suzie wrote an article about why she thought the school should have two short breaks a day rather than one long break. Lots of her friends thought that this would be a good idea too. Many teachers also agreed with Suzie’s suggestion.

The head teacher of the school asked everyone in the school to vote(表决)on Suzie’s suggestion. During the vote, each person in the school had one vote. Together, the school decided that two short breaks would be better than one long break. All of this happened because Suzie wrote about her idea in the school newspaper.

On the day the newspaper comes out, the first thing Suzie does is to check where her article is in the newspaper. And each month, at the beginning of her article, are the words: By Suzanne Jefferson.

On the way home from school yesterday, Suzie got to think about how much art and writing are the same. In art class she thinks of creative things to make, and then spends a lot of time making it look just right.

And when she writes articles for the school newspaper, she thinks of creative things to say, and then spends a lot of time making it sound just right. And when she has finished writing a really good sentence, she feels almost as if she has made a beautiful piece of art.

Suzie rushed home so she could write something shortly before dinner. She already had lots of ideas for next month’s newspaper. And she wanted to make sure that none of her creative ideas floated away before she wrote them down on paper

1.What does Suzie like making ____out of clay?

A.plates B.ovens C.bowls and cups D.newspaper

2.The article that Suzie has written is about ____.

A.creative things should be learned

B.the school should have two short breaks a day

C.everyone in the school to vote on Suzie’s suggestion

D.students should write something

3.The underlined word”it” refer to ____

A.writing articles B.making pottery C.a piece of art D.creative things

4.According to Suzie, what’s the same thing between making pottery and writing articles?

A.They are both done easily. B.They are both done difficultly.

C.They both need to be shown. D.They both need creative ideas

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