Hollywood is a shiny, bright place. It is the movie capital of the world. And it is also one of the tourist destinations (目的地) in America.

In 1911, the small, peaceful village of Hollywood in California was vote to become part of Los Angeles. Today, over 100 years later, this village has grown into the home of one of the most well-known industries in the world-the American film industry.

With this growth came many well-known symbols. There is the famous Hollywood sign which stands above the hills of the town. The first sign was built in 1923. Then there is the Hollywood Hall of Fame (名人堂), where great actresses, actors and directors leave their footprints or handprints, Norma Talmadge was the first actress to do this in 1927. But the most famous of all is the Oscar Academy Awards. Every spring, a large number of actresses, actors and directors wait excitedly and nervously to find out if they have won an "Oscar". Last year was the 91th Oscar Academy Awards. It was held on February 25 in Los Angeles, Ang Lee, a Chinese director, won the Award for Best Director again. It was the second time he had won the award.

Nowadays it is the home of films, and thousands of hopeful young actresses, actors, writers and directors still come to "the Dream Factory" every year. But not all Hollywood dreams have been happy ones-as one actress, who later died tragically (悲惨地),said, "Hollywood is a place where they will pay you 500 dollars for a kiss, and 50 cents for your soul(灵魂)."

A brief introduction to Hollywood

It's the home of the American film industry.

It's a famous tourist destination in America.

It used to be a 1..

2. of Hollywood

Standing above the hills of the town is the famous Hollywood sign.

The Hollywood Hall of Fame.

The Oscar Academy Awards.

Details of the Oscar

Academy Awards

Actresses, actors and directors are 3. and nervous to wait before it begins.

Ang Lee has won the Oscar for Best Director 4..

The Dream Factory

Thousands of actresses, actors, writers and directors go there every year with hope.

But some Hollywood dreams have been 5. ones, One actress even died tragically.

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.

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