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Ammie Reddick from East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, was only 18 months old when she had the accident that had scarred(留下创伤) her for life. The curious child reached up to grab the wire of a hot kettle in the family kitchen and poured boiling water over her tiny infant frame.

Her mother Ruby turned round and, seeing Ammie horribly burnt, called an ambulance which rushed her daughter to a nearby hospital. Twenty percent of Ammie’s body had been burned and all of her burns were third-degree. There, using tissue(组织) taken from unburned areas of Ammie’s body, doctors performed complex skin transplants(移植) to close her wounds and control her injuries, an operation that took about six hours. Over the next 16 years, Ammie underwent 12 more operations to repair her body.

When she started school at Maxwelton Primary at age 4, other pupils made cruel comments or simply wouldn’t play with her. “I was the only burned child in the street, the class and the school,” she recalled, “some children refused to become friends because of that.”

Today, aged 17, Ammie can only ever remember being a burned person with scars; pain is a permanent part of her body. She still has to have two further skin transplants. Yet she is a confident, outgoing teenager who offers inspiration and hope to other young burns victims.

She is a member of the Scottish Burned Children’s Club, a charity set up last year. This month, Ammie will be joining the younger children at the Graffham Water Center in Cambridge shire for the charity’s first summer camp. “I’ll show them how to get rid of unkind stares from others,” she says. Ammie loves wearing fashionable sleeveless tops, and she plans to show the youngsters at the summer camp that they can too. “I do not go to great lengths to hide my burns scars,” she says, “I gave up wondering how other people would react years ago.”

1.What did other children do when Ammie first went to school?

A．They were friendly to her.

B．They showed sympathy to her.

C．They were afraid of her.

D．They looked down upon her.

2.Ammie will teach the younger children at the Graffham Water Center to___________.

A．face others’ unkindness bravely

B．hide their scars by proper dressing

C．live a normal life

D．recover quickly

3.What does the underlined word “permanent” in the 4th paragraph mean?

A. necessary B. life-long

C. difficult D. important

4.What can be the best title of the passage?

A．A Seriously Burned Girl Survives

B．Ways to Get Rid of Unkind Stares

C．Permanent Scars And Pain For a Girl

D．A seriously burned angel of Hope

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根据下列句子所给英语首字母或汉语注释，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式（每空只写一词）。

1.We hope to have an income of an average a____________ growth rate of 10%.

2.I'd also like to c___________ you on your good work in these two years.

3.The singer was a___________________ on the piano by her sister.

4.He should have been working, but he was o________________ engaged.

5.The railway lines run p_________________ to the road.

6.She doesn't like to ______________ (反驳) her husband in public.

7.Portraits of people will draw readers' attention, especially if the images are ______________ (切题的) and tell a story.

8.When my old friend Brian __________ (极力要求) me to accept a cigarette, it was more than I could bear.

9.It’s my _____________ (渴望) that all the members of the family should gather once a year.

10.He is a man whose c_______________ is always consistent with what he says.

Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father came to America from Kenya, which is a country in Africa. His parents, Ann and Barack, met when they were students at the University of Hawaii. Since Barack had the same name as his father, young Barack went by the nickname “Barry”.

In 1979, after he finished high school, Barry went to Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. There, he started to learn about his African roots and decided to use his African name, Barack. After two years in L.A., he went to Columbia University in New York City to study politics.

After college, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he worked to help poor people in his city. He traveled to Africa to meet his grandmother and cousins for the first time. He went back many times over the years to visit with his family and learn about where he came from. At work, he met a lawyer named Michelle Robinson. They worked together in a big law firm. Then he left Chicago to go to Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He did very well in law school.

After he was done with school, Barack moved back to Chicago and in 1992 he married Michelle. He worked as a lawyer, devoted to helping poor people for free who had been treated unfairly. He worked hard to get the people he helped to vote(投票).

He made many people believe that their votes were important, and helped them feel like they could make a difference.

1. Barack Obama’s father was probably born in _________.

A. Hawaii. B. California. C. Illinois. D. Kenya.

2.Which of the following is the right order according to the text?

①Getting married to Michelle.

②Travelling to Africa to meet his grandmother.

③Going to Harvard Law School.

④Going to Columbia University.

⑤Working in a big law firm.

A. ④②⑤③① B. ④③②⑤① C. ③④①⑤② D. ②①⑤④③

3. How did Obama get people to vote?

A. By cheating them to do so.

B. By making a difference to people.

C. By showing them the importance of their votes.

D. By helping poor people who treat others unfairly

4.According to the text, which of the following words can best describe Barack Obama?

A. Humorous B. Polite C. Brave D. Kind-hearted

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。其中两项为多余选项

The Winner’s Guide to Success

How do successful people think? What helps them to make success? To find out the answers, an American scholar recently visited some of the most successful people in America. 1.

Be responsible for yourself

Sometimes you may want to blame others for your failure to get ahead. 2. You’re saying, “You have more control over my life than I do.”

Live life “on purpose”

Almost all successful people live life “on purpose”— they are doing what they believe they should and want to do. When you live your life on purpose, you’ll try your best to do your job or study as well as you can. You love what you do and you can find pleasure in what you do.

Write a plan

It is very difficult trying to get what you want without a good plan. 3. A good plan is like a map to you. Without this “map”, you may waste your time, money and also your energy; while with the “map” you’ll enjoy the “trip” and get what you want in the shortest possible time.

Be willing to pay the price

Nothing great is easy to get. So you must be ready to work hard — even harder than you have ever done. If you are not willing to pay the price, you won’t get anything valuable.

Never give up

4. When you are doing something, you must tell yourself again and again: Giving up is worse than failure because failure can be the mother of success, but giving up means the death of hope.

5.

Once an American writer was writing a novel. He could not have a good ending for his book until one night when he had a very good idea. He was so excited that he made a phone call to one of his best friends. “I’ve got a perfect idea,” he said, “I’ll put it down later and show it to you.” But he never did, because he died that night. His book was left without a perfect ending. So remember, do what you can right away. Never delay at all.

A. It is just like trying to drive through strange roads to a city far away.

B. It seems to us that everyone knows this. But it is easier said than done.

C. Some people achieve success much later in life because they fail to realize earlier the importance of hard work.

D. In fact, when you say someone or something outside of yourself is stopping you from making success, you’re giving away your own power.

E. Someone else’s opinion of you doesn’t have to become your reality.

F. Don’t delay

G. Here are some keys to success that they give.

课文背诵 (共8小题;每小题1分,满分8分)

A段: Atlanta was a Greek princess….But she was not allowed to run and ____1.________ in the Olympic Games. …Her father said that she must marry, so Atlanta ________2._________ him.

B段: As a result I totally changed my shape. ________3.__________older I have also grown smaller. Over time my memory ___________4._______________, like an elephant, I never forget anything I have been told.

C段: “Have you come to take my photo?” it asked. In relief Daisy _______5.__________. “Don’t laugh,” said the elephant, “We used to be an endangered species. Farmers _______6.___________. They said we destroyed….”

D段: Do you sing karaoke and ______________7.____________ like Song Zuying or Liu Huan? To be honest, a lot of people ___________8._____________ rich and famous.

The lift ________ yesterday. We’ll have to walk up to the eighth floor this evening.

A. broke down B. took down C. came down D. got down

The place _______ the bridge is supposed to be built should be _______ the cross-river traffic is the heaviest.

A. which; where B. at which; which

C. at which; where D. which; in which

语法填空,阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号中单词的正确形式。

We all get affected by advertisements in magazines and on radio and television. They promise us and make us believe1. we can buy ideal things with our money.

However, many products. 2. promise to help us realize our dreams, turn out to be of little effect. Their purpose is to persuade the buyer to spend more. Well, knowing the 3. (true) does not stop the victims from 4._______ (attract) by media stunts (噱头)!

Though we are fully aware 5. the artful devices of a toothpaste company, we enjoy the color and pictorial values that we see. Many companies make these pictures with artful imagination. A short film with a simple story and colorful atmosphere6. (create) the desired effect without using many words. Some of 7. best advertisements have even won international praise.

The present age is an age of advertisement. All big and small companies depend on some kind of techniques 8. (catch) a market for their products. Advertising may be make-believe, but it is here to stay. Industries grow 9.________ (extreme) fast and markets are flooded with new products every day. Therefore, 10.________ is necessary that there be some code of ethics (道德准则) to prevent producers making goods below standard and cheating the public.

In an ideal world，people would not test medicines on animals. Such experiments are stressful and sometimes painful for animals，and expensive and time?consuming for people. Yet animal experimentation is still needed to help bridge vast gaps in medical knowledge. That is why there are some 50 to 100 million animals used in research around the world each year.

Europe，on the whole，has the world’s most restrictive(严格的) laws on animal experiments. Even so，its scientists use some 12 million animals a year，most of them mice and rats，for medical research. Official statistics show that just 1.1 million animals are used in research in America each year. But that is misleading. The American authorities do not think mice and rats are worth counting and，as these are the most common laboratory animals，the true figure is much higher. Japan and China have even less comprehensive（全面的） data than America.

Now Europe is reforming the rules governing animal experiments by restricting the number of animals used in labs. Alternatives to animal testing，such as using human tissue or computer models，are now strongly recommended. In addition，sharing all research results freely should help to reduce the number of animals for scientific use. At present，scientists often share only the results of successful experiments. If their findings do not fit the hypothesis（假设） being tested，the work never sees the light of day. This practice means wasting time，money，and animals’ lives in endlessly repeating the failed experiments.

Animal experimentation has taught humanity a great deal and saved countless lives. It needs to continue，even if that means animals sometimes suffer. Europe’s new measures should eventually both reduce the number of animals used in experiments and improve the way in which scientific research is conducted.

1.What is the main idea of this passage?

A. The success of animal experiments should be ensured.

B. A ban on the use of animals in the lab should be enforced.

C. Greater efforts need to be taken to reduce the number of lab animals.

D. Scientists should be required to share their research results with each other.

2.Which of the following statements is true about animals used in the lab?

A. America uses only about 1.1 million lab animals per year.

B. Europe does not use mice and rats as lab animals at all.

C. Britain does not use as many lab animals as China does.

D. Japan has limited data on the number of lab animals used each year.

3.Which of the following is mentioned as an alternative to replace animal experiments?

A. Statistical studies. B. Computer models.

C. DNA planted in animals. D. Tissue from dead animals.

4.What usually happens to unsuccessful animal experiments?

A. They are not made known to the public.

B. They are made into teaching materials.

C. They are collected for future publication.

D. They are not removed from the research topic list.

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