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Louis Armstrong, the most influential jazz musicians, is considered great not only because of his1. (achieve) but also because of his personalities.

2.(bear) in a poor family in New Orleans in 1901, instead of3.(commit) crimes to get money like some boys in his situation, Louis would sing on the streets in order to earn a few cents from4.(passer-by).However, at the age of 12, Louis was arrested because of firing a gun into the air at a New Year’s Eve party.In a school of problem boys, he was taught to play drums and the trumpet,5. enabled him to find work related with music after he left the school.A well-known musician Joe “King” Oliver noticed Louis and began to teach him about jazz.When Oliver left New Orleans in 1917，Louis took 6.his job in one of the best bands in town.

After becoming famous, Louis would introduce his particular style of jazz to enthusiastic audiences while 7.(travel) around the United States as well as Europe.Apart from being a famous jazz musician, he was also an unofficial goodwill ambassador who spoke8.(public) about the rights of black people in America. Despite the fact9.he became rich and famous, Louis Armstrong continued to live a simple live in a working-class neighbourhood.He continued playing and recording until July 6th, 1971, when he died in his sleep at his home in New York.He is still remembered as the most10.(distinguish) musician in the early history of jazz.

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As I write, a gentle, much needed rain is falling this morning. It has been a dry_______have in Vermont,_______dry that the Spring Peepers(雨蛙) were late in coming that many thought these frogs would fail to bless us with their song. But they came, and I can’ t blame them for being_______. They are a_______of spring, and of rebirth.

It is late June and the mountain snow has_______the higher slopes(斜坡) of the mountains. My family_______our garden during the last weekend of May, and frost came twice since then,_______not a killing frost. But others were not so lucky: they lost most of young plants this year. Twice this spring has been_________enough in the day that my family went swimming, but there was _______on the ground the next morning.

Planting a garden in Vermont amounts to an act of________. Will our sweat________, or will these efforts be in vain? My family was recently faced with a________decision: shall we leave this place and its people, or shall we stay and make a__________? Well, we have decided this is________we will make our stand________the garden, this year we have planted ourselves. Will my family be________with what is needed to grow and flourish(兴旺)? We have no way of knowing this but we do have faith.

What is planted must be revisited often and the garden must be taken care of with love, which ________to our lives as well. Hopes and dreams must be revisited often or fear that we lose sight of the things________. Commitments must be ________as carefully as any garden plot. But as with gardening, there are no________. But there is faith, and today is a beautiful day.

1.A. summer B. spring C. fall D. winter

2.A. too B. rather C. so D. much

3.A. late B. lazy C. swift D. noisy

4.A. scene B. reward C. message D. sign

5.A. covered B. decorated C. left D. awoken

6.A. weeded B. watered C. cleared D. planted

7.A. luckily B. properly C. obviously D. closely

8.A. fresh B. warm C. bitter D. cool

9.A. snow B. rain C. mist D. frost

10.A. love B. prayer C. faith D. choice

11.A. pay off B. flood out C. fall off D. run out

12.A. primary B. tough C. random D. casual

13.A. mistake B. profit C. commitment D. compromise

14.A. why B. what C. how D. where

15.A. due to B. rather than C. along with D. regardless of

16.A. blessed B. surrounded C. filled D. satisfied

17.A. occurs B. applies C. submits D. keeps

18.A. hurt B. change C. stay D. matter

19.A. made B. tended C. settled D. reviewed

20.A. harvests B. possibilities C. guarantees D. advantages

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It’s Saturday morning in a large courtyard. Young designers sell their creations, from fine tea sets to hand-pained ceramic(瓷质的) earrings. I could be in east London, that is, until standard Chinese tones remind me I’m in Jingdezhen, a small Chinese city.

Centuries ago, when Europeans first saw Chinese porcelain, for example, it seemed so fine that they concluded it must have been made with magic and called it “white gold”.

They couldn’t find out how it was made, but they knew where it came from: the town of Changnan. Changnan porcelain was so in demand that early traders began calling the whole country by this town’s name, mixed by foreign tongues, Changnan transformed into China.

Two million years after porcelain’s invention, the town, now called Jingezhen, is still one of the world’s most important centres for porcelain production.

“The people are the most important treasure here, their roots are deep in history,” says Zhang Jia. She’s part of a new wave of designers who have come to Jingezhen to learn techniques handed down and refined(使精美) over a hundred generations. “This is the best place to study porcelain in China, perhaps in the entire world.” She adds.

Chinese artists aren’t the only ones drawn here. Founded in 2005 by Caroline Cheng, the Pottery Workshop runs classes for visitors from around the world.

In the Pottery Workshop’s second floor studio, I meet Trudy Golley and Paul Leather, a husband-wife duo from Canada. Paul tells me that when he first visited Jingdezhen there were no street lamps and only dirt pavements. There were workshops but their goods were bought by traders and sold on elsewhere. These days, stylish cafés and bars pop up next to concept stores. At one such shop, I admire some tiny teacups settling on a thick wooden branch like birds.

With the popularity of the Pottery Workshops, China’s young people are more interested in unique, individually-made products. Many of the designers are using Jingdezhen’s master craftsmen(工匠) to make them because they know they offer quality, attention to detail.

1.What made the writer realize that he was in China?

A. Fine tea sets. B. Hand-painted ceramic earrings.

C. Standard Chinese. D. Fine Chinese porcelain.

2.Zhang Jia came to Jingdezhen in order to _________.

A. know something about Jingdezhen’s history

B. enjoy the beautiful scenery of Jingdezhen

C. study techniques of making porcelain

D. pay a visit to some of her foreign friends

3.From what Paul said we can learn ____________.

A. many foreign visitors came to Jingdezhen to study porcelain

B. in the past Jingdezhen was a poor and dirty town

C. their goods were not popular in western countries

D. China’s young people are more interested in unique products

4.What is the purpose of the passage?

A. To appeal to people to buy Chinese porcelain.

B. To tell people traditional Chinese porcelain earns great reputation in Jingdezhen.

C. To advertise porcelain products in Jingdezhen.

D. To introduce some information about one traditional Chinese art in Jingdezhen.

David Cameron is urging today’s youngesters to abandon French to concentrate on the tongue of the future—Mandarin(普通话)。

Cameron said: “I want Britain linked up to the world’s fast-growing economies. And that includes our young people learning the languages to seal tomorrow’s business deals.”

“By the time the children born today leave school, China is to be the world’s largest economy. So it’s time to look beyond the traditional focus on French and German and get many more children learning Mandarin.” To strengthen his message , he quoted Nelson Mandela—the former president of South Africa who said “If you talk to a man in a language he understands that goes to his head; if you talk to him in his own language that goes to his heart.”

Cameron said that a partnership between the British Council (英国文化协会) and Hanban will double the number of Chinese language assistants in the UK by 2016 and provide increased funding to schools of offering Mandarin as a language choice. In a development of the UK—China School Partnership programme, funding will also be provided for 60 headteachers to make study visits to China in 2014.

In recent research the British Council found only 1% of the adult population speaks Mandarin to a level that allows them to conduct a basic conversation. Just 3,000 pupils in England, Wales and Northern Ireland entered for Chinese languages GCSEs in 2013, putting it far behind the traditional choices of French with 177,000, Spanish with 91,000 and German with 62,000 entrants(加入者), as well as Urdu, Polish and Arabic.

Professor Dame Helen Wallace, the British Academy’s foreign secretary, said, “ a lack of qualified teachers could be a barrier to improve its popularity.”

Laura Chan, one of the co—founders of a bilingual Mandarin—English primary school, said the prime minister’s announcement was good news for the status of Mandarin. She said, “It’s a great help. It will increase people’s awareness of Mandarin as a language they can learn.”

1.What is the text mainly talking about?

A. David Cameron calls for British students to learn Mandarin.

B. David Cameron has visited China for three days.

C. Chinese language is very popular with British people.

D. The cooperation is important between the UK and China.

2.Why does David Cameron urge students to learn Chinese?

A. Because Chinese will be a widely—used language in the world.

B. Because there are many Chinese people living in Britain.

C. Because he thinks China will become the largest economy.

D. Because only a few of British people can communicate in Chinese.

3.What is the writer’s attitude to the popularity of Mandarin?

A. It’s wonderful but it also has some problems.

B. It can be a great waste of time and energy.

C. It’s only a design for the youngsters later.

D. It’s only a way to help students to travel abroad.

4.What is the purpose of David Cameron by quoting Mandela’s words in Paragraph3?

A. To compare different ideas.

B. To show his rich knowledge.

C. To share Mandela’s opinion.

D. To persuade people to learn Mandarin.

Do you believe that things are connected for no scientific reason at all? For example, do you avoid saying the word “four” to avoid bad luck? If so, you have a superstition (迷信). And you’re not alone — all kinds of people have them.

For example, Portugal’s soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo always steps onto the pitch (球场) with his right foot first, according to The Telegraph. And sports players are not alone in having superstitions. A visitor once asked the Nobel Prize winning scientist Niels Bohr whether he really believed that the horseshoe he’d hung at his country home was lucky. “Of course not,” the Danish physicist said. “But I understand it’s lucky whether you believe in it or not.”

One recent study found that even scientists at MIT and other top US schools tended to look for a meaning in natural events, similar to the connection between stepping on the pitch and playing soccer well, according to The Atlantic. When the researchers gave the scientists little time to answer questions, they were twice as likely to agree with statements such as “Trees produce oxygen so that animals can breathe” as they were when they had more time to think about their reply.

It seems that fear can make people think differently in this way, too. In a British study, students imagined meeting a “witch” who said she would cast (施魔法) an evil spell(符咒) on them. About half said a scientist should not be worried about the spell. Yet each of them said that, personally, they wouldn’t let the witch do it to them.

So why are so many of us superstitious? Well, it seems to be our way of dealing with the unknown. “Many people quite simply just want to believe,” Brian Cronk, a professor of psychology at Missouri Western State University, said in a 2008 interview. “The human brain is always trying to work out why things happen, and when the reason is not clear, we tend to make up some pretty bizarre (古怪的) explanations.”

And these explanations aren’t completely unhelpful. In fact, superstitions can sometimes work and bring real luck, according to psychologists at the University of Cologne in Germany in the May 2010 issue of the journal Psychological Science. They found that believing in something can improve performance on a task like an exam.

So, what about you? What superstitions do you follow to keep you safe and successful?

1.The author mentions avoiding saying the word "four" in the opening paragraph to ________.

A. show how foolish it is to believe in superstitions

B. introduce the readers to the topic of superstitions

C. discuss the scientific reasons behind superstitions

D. prove that it is reasonable to be superstitious

2.How many superstitious practices are mentioned in the passage?

A. 3 B. 2 C. 4 D. 5

3.What’s the author’s attitude to superstitions?

A. Unknown. B. Positive. C. Negative. D. Neutral.

4.What is the best title of the article?

A. Why superstitions are common

B. How superstitions affect our daily lives

C. How some common superstitions came into being

D. How to get rid of superstitions

Smoking is harmful. But as soon as you quit the habit, everything will be OK, right?

Wrong.

New research has found that even if you give up smoking, the damage it has done to your genes (基因) will stay there for a much longer time.

In the research, a team of US scientists studied the blood of 16,000 people. Among them, some were smokers, some used to smoke, and the rest were non-smokers. Scientists compared their genes and found that more than 7,000 genes of smokers had changed--a number that is one-third of known human genes.

According to NBC News, both heart disease and cancer are caused by genetic changes. Some people may have had the changes when they were born, but most people get them in their day-to-day lives while doing things like smoking.

When you stop smoking, a lot of these genes will return to normal within five years.

This means your body is trying to heal (治愈) itself of the harmful effects of smoking. But the changes in some of the genes stay for longer. They can stay for as long as 30 years, It’s almost like leaving a footprint on wet cement (水泥) --it will always be there, even when you’ve walked away and when the cement becomes dry.

Although the study results may make people unhappy, there is a bright side: the findings could help scientists invent medicine to treat genetic damage caused by smoking or find ways to tell which people have heart disease or cancer risks.

1.The function of Paragraph 1 is to_________ .

A. give an example B. introduce the topic of the passage

C. make an argument D. show the main idea of the passage

2.Most genetic changes happen because of___________ .

A. people’s condition at birth B. environmental pollution

C. people’s bad living habit D. heart disease and cancer

3.The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 6 refers to__________ .

A. the footprint B. the cement

C. the harmful effect D. the genetic change

4.Which of the following statements is true?

A. The findings are the fruit of more than three years’ research.

B. The findings help to find cures for genetic damage caused by smoking.

C. The findings offer evidence that a damaged gene can heal itself.

D. The findings have prevented more people from starting smoking

William just heard the news that his father had died and he was preparing to make flight arrangements. “I have to have my _______ tidy for the funeral,” thought William. “I want to get a _______ haircut.”

When he arrived at the barber’s shop, just like on any other Saturday, it was _______ . Realising he had to get to the airport on time, he _______ one of the barbers if he could get a _______ right away. And he also explained his _______ to her.

Nhanh Pham was the _______ William spoke to, and after she finished with her customer, she asked William to sit in her chair _______ . William said “thank you” to her. While William was _______ his hair cut, the other barbers came to William to ________ their condolences（慰问）.

Pham finished the haircut and William prepared to ________ her. As he was pulling out his money, Pham ________ the payment. She told him the haircut was free, and she gave him some ________ that the barbers in the shop had collected. They wanted to make sure William would have some money to buy some ________ for the funeral.

“They didn’t have to do that,” William said ________. “They have done something beyond their duty.” William used the money to buy his ________ a dozen roses.

“The way I feel is that it was no big ________ ,” said Rosalie Le, one of the barbers who contributed to the ________. “We are all human and we help each other.”

As for the woman who started the day’s ________ , Pham, she said she had sympathy(同情)for William and wanted to do something ________. Pham summed up her kindness by saying, “I felt sorry for him.”

1.A. suit B. jacket C. hair D. tie

2.A. fresh B. funny C. cheap D. strange

3.A. dirty B. limited C. empty D. crowded

4.A. demanded B. asked C. waited D. followed

5.A. haircut B. ticket C. reply D. record

6.A. position B. thought C. promise D. situation

7.A. customer B. barber C. teacher D. guard

8.A. rudely B. suddenly C. politely D. seriously

9.A. changing B. keeping C. having D. checking

10.A. express B. share C. begin D. carry

11.A. stop B. thank C . return D. pay

12.A. accepted B. refused C. compared D. expected

13.A. money B. food C. wine D. water

14.A. pictures B. cakes C. clothes D. flowers

15.A. hopefully B. gratefully C. luckily D. perfectly

16.A. mother B. wife. C. father D. friend

17.A. problem B. trouble C. deal D. signal

18.A. collection B. practice C. experience D. decision

19.A. sadness B. safeness C. loneliness D. kindness

20.A. easy B. nice C. normal D. hard

I hurried _____ I wouldn’t be late for class.

A. in order B. so that C. as though D. such that

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