【题目】

In my living room, there is a plaque (匾) that advises me to “Bloom (开花) where you are planted.” It reminds me of Dorothy. I got to know Dorothy in the early 1980s, when I was teaching Early Childhood Development through a program with Union College in Barbourville, Kentucky. The job responsibilities required occasional visits to the classroom of each teacher in the program. Dorothy stands out in my memory as one who “bloomed” in her remote area.

Dorothy taught in a school In Harlan County, Kentucky, Appalachian Mountain area. To get to her school from the town of Harlan, I followed a road winding around the mountain. In the eight-mile journey, I crossed the same railroad track five times, giving the possibility of getting caught by the same train five times. Rather than feeling excited by this drive through the mountains, I found it depressing. The poverty level was shocking and the small shabby houses gave me the greatest feeling of hopelessness.

From the moment of my arrival at the little school, all gloom (忧郁) disappeared. Upon arriving at Dorothy’s classroom. I was greeted with smiling faces and treated like a queen. The children had been prepared to show me their latest projects. Dorothy told me with a big smile that they were serving poke greens salad and cornbread for “dinner” (lunch). In case you don’t know, poke greens are a weed-type plant that grows wild, especially on poor ground.

Dorothy never ran out of reports of exciting activities of her students. Her enthuiasm never cooled down. When it came time to sit for the testing and interviewing required to receive her Child Development Associate Certification, Dorothy was ready. She came to the assessment and passed in all areas. Afterward, she invited me to the one-and-only steak house in the area to celebrate her victory, as if she had received her Ph. D. degree. After the meal, she placed a little box containing an old pen in my hand. She said it was a family heirloom (传家宝), but to me it is a treasured symbol of appreciation and pride that cannot be matched with things.

【1】 “Early Childhood Development” in Paragraph 1 refers to __________.

A. a program directed by Dorothy

B. a course given by the author

C. an activity held by the students

D. an organization sponsored by Union college

【2】 In the journey, the author was most disappointed at seeing __________.

A. the long track

B. the poor houses

C. the same train

D. the winding road

【3】 Upon arriving at the classroom, the author was cheered up by __________.

A. a warm welcome

B. the sight of poke greens

C. Dorothy’s latest projects

D. a big dinner made for her

【4】 What can we know about Dorothy from the last paragraph?

A. She was invited to a celebration at a restaurant.

B. She got a pen as a gift from the author.

C. She passed the required assessment.

D. She received her Ph. D. degree.

【5】 What does the author mainly intend to tell us?

A. Whatever you do, you must do it carefully.

B. Whoever you are, you deserve equal treatment.

C. However poor you are, you have the right to education,

D. Wherever you are, you can accomplish your achievement.

【题目】请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填人最恰当的单词。 注意:每空格1个单词。

For centuries people dreamed of going into space. This dream began to seem possible when high-flying rockets were built in the early 1900s.

In 1903 a Russian teacher named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky figured out how to use rockets for space travel. His plan was the first one in rocket science to use correct scientific calculation. About 30 years later, a U.S. scientist named Robert Goddard built the first rockets that could reach high altitudes. During World War II, German scientists built large rockets that could travel very far and carry dangerous explosives. After the war, scientists from Germany went to the United States and the Soviet Union to help those countries build space rockets.

These two countries were soon racing to get to space first. Each of these countries wanted to prove that it was stronger and more advanced than the other one. Both countries also had powerful bombs. People in the United States were worried when the Soviets were first to launch a space satellite, which was called Sputnik. The Soviets were also first to send a person into space. Yury Gagarin orbited the earth in the Vostok I spaceship in 1961.

The US government set a goal for its space program to be the first country to put a person on the Moon. The U.S. space program built a series of Apollo spaceship. These vehicles were powered by huge Saturn 5 rockets. In 1969 Apollo II took three men to the moon successfully. Nell Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon.

The Soviets may have lost the race to fly people to the Moon, but they built the first space station in 1971. The United States also built a space station. The space stations allowed people to live and work in space. Then the Soviet Union and the United States cooperated to hook two spaceships together in space. This action ended the "space race". Today a much larger space station, built by several countries together, orbits Earth.

Another new way to go to space is by space shuttle. A space shuttle, first made in the United States in 1981, looks like an airplane. Astronauts who fly spaceships have used shuttles to help put satellites into space.

History of space travel

Time

Events

Information concerned

Early 1900s

High-flying rockets were built.

It made the ancient dream of going to space possible to come 【1】

1903

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky 【2】 a way to use rockets for space travel.

He planned to put correct scientific calculation to use in rocket science.

Around 【3】

Robert Goddard built new rockets.

The rockets could fly very【4】 in the sky.

During and after World War II

German scientists built large rockets that could travel very far and carry dangerous explosives.

Germany was ahead of all the other countries in building space rockets and later it even offered【5】 to the Soviet Union and the United States

The Soviet Union and the United States competed to get to space first.

The Soviet Union became the【6】 of the race when it launched the first satellite and sent the first astronaut into space.

1969

The United States 【7】 in putting a person on the moon.

In one way, it 【8】 the Soviet Union by becoming the first country to fly people to the moon.

1970s

The Soviets built the first space station and was soon followed by Americans. And they finally ended the "space race" by

【9】

Astronauts can live and work in space stations.

1980s--

Space shuttles are used as new vehicles for space 【10】 .

Shuttles are also used to help put satellites into space.

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