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One day, a father and his son were walking with their horse. An old man saw them and said, “You 1. (suppose) to ride a horse, not to walk it!” The father then put his son on the horse.

Soon they passed a group of people, 2. said, “That’s a lazy boy! He gets to ride the horse while his father walks.” The father decided to take his son off and get on the horse himself.3. they kept going, they came upon two 4. (passer-by). One said, “You are a 5. (self) man! Your son has to walk while you get to ride!” The man then reached down and put his son on the horse with him. 6. a while, they entered a town. Everyone started to laugh at them, 7. (say), “You are too heavy for that horse!” The father and his son didn’t know what 8. (do).

Finally, they decided to carry the horse. When they came to a bridge, the horse 9. (fall) to the water. “If you try to please 10. ,” the father told his son, “in the end, you will please no one.” Then they went home.

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It’s such a happy-looking library,painted yellow,painted yellow,decorated with palm-tree stickers and sheltered from the Florida sun by its own roof.About the size of a microwave oven,it’s pedestrian-friendly,too,waiting for book lovers next to a sidewalk in Palm Beach Country Estates,along the northern boundary of Palm Beach Gardens.

It's a library built with love.

A year ago,shortly after Janey Henriksen saw a Brian Williams report about the Little Free Library organization,a Wisconsin-based nonprofit that aims to promote literacy and build a sense of community in a neighborhood by making books freely available,she announced to her family of four,“That’s what we’re going to do for our spring break!”

Son Austin,now a 10th-grader,didn’t see the point of building a library that resembles（与...相似）a mailbox.But Janey insisted and husband Peter unwillingly got to work.The 5-year-old owner of a ship supply company modified a small wooden house that he’d built years earlier for daughter Abbie’s toy horses,and made a door of glass.After adding the library’s final touches（装点）,the family hung a signboard on the front,instructing users to“take a book,return a book”,and making the Henriksen library,now one several hundred like it nationwide and among more than 2500 in the world,the only Little Free Library in Palm Beach County.

They stocked it with 20 or so books they’d already read,a mix of science fiction,reference.titles,novels and kids’ favorites.“I told them,keep in mind that you might not see it again,”said Janey,a stay-at-home mom.Since then,the collection keeps replenishing（补充）itself,thanks to ongoing donations from borrowers.The library now gets an average of five visits a day.

The project's best payoff,says Peter,are the thank-you notes left behind.“We had no idea in the beginning that it would be so popular.”

1.Janey got the idea to build a library from .

A. a visit to Brian Williams

B. a spring break with her family

C. a book sent by one of her neighbors

D. a report on a Wisconsin-based organization

2.The library was built .

A. by a ship supply company B. on the basis of toy horses

C. like a mailbox D. with glass

3.What can we infer about the signboard?

A. It was made by a user of the library.

B. It marked a final touch to the library.

C. It aimed at making the library last long.

D. It indicated the library was a family property.

4.The passage tells us that the users .

A. donate books to the library

B. get paid to collect books for the library

C. receive thank-you notes for using the library

D. visit the library over 5 times on average daily

In life, we will succeed and fail often for reasons that are entirely out of our control. For instance, we can be incredibly nice and love someone deeply, and they may not love us back. We can work harder than anyone else in the office and still not be promoted to management. We can eat healthy food, exercise and stay away from alcohol and cigarettes, and still get sick.

The bottom line is that life is not fair.

That is a tough pill to swallow for many of us. As a result, some people shut down after being hit by even one unfair blow from life. They can’t handle the fact that our efforts don’t always get the results that we expect. But if we let life’s unfairness defeat us, we will never receive the beautiful blessings (幸事) that life has in store for us.

For example, my first marriage ended in divorce. To me, it felt very unfair. I had worked hard to be a good wife and mother. However, no matter what I did, I could not make the relationship work.

I could have been shut down by that experience. I could have decided that if one person didn’t appreciate me as a wife, then no one would. I could have given up. But I knew that I wanted to be married. I knew that I wanted to experience traditional family life. So I didn’t let one seemingly unfair experience stop me from believing that I could one day be happily married. And then one day, I met this kind, thoughtful, generous man with whom I now have a wonderful friendship and marriage. But that wouldn’t have happened if I had decided to give up after one failed marriage.

What I’ve learned over the years is that we can do all the things that deserve a good outcome, but get bad things in return instead.

When we are faced with life’s seeming unfairness, our faith needs to jump in. When life doesn’t go according to plan, we have to let go of the outcome that we are looking forward to and keep trying, working hard and doing the right thing. Please don’t be discouraged. Accept that life is neither fair nor straightforward. And by knowing that if we remain confident, we can drive our unfair experiences away and use them for our benefit.

1.We can learn from the first three paragraphs that ______.

A. life doesn’t often turn out the way we expect

B. the author thinks life should reward us for our efforts

C. unsatisfactory results simply mean your effort is not enough

D. people should focus on the process rather than the outcomes

2.The author wrote about her unsuccessful marriage to ______.

A. complain about the unfairness of her life and marriage

B. tell readers how she met her second husband and became happily married

C. express how proud she is for not being shut down by a blow from life

D. show that we need to have faith and continue working for our goals

3.When we encounter unfairness in life, the author suggests we ______.

a. do nothing but accept them

b. be confident with ourselves

c. keep doing what we should do

d. find out what has gone wrong

A. ab B. ad

C. bc D. cd

4.The author wrote the article mainly to ______.

A. share her experiences of unfairness in life

B. tell us how to deal with life’s seeming unfairness

C. tell us that life has beautiful blessings in store for us

D. explain why life seems neither fair nor straightforward

It used to be a matter of fact when Peter Pan – a character from James Matthew Barrie’s 1911 book – said: “All children, except one, grow up.”

But this “fact” doesn’t seem to apply to today’s world anymore.

According to the NPD Group, a US market research company, sales of toys to adults in the UK increased by more than 20 percent in 2016, three times the pace of the children’s toy market itself. These toys ranged from puzzles and Lego building sets to vehicle models and action figures. And more than half of the sales came from millennials – people born between the 1980s and 2000s.

“Adults of the 21st century are channeling (疏导) their inner child, one toy at a time,” commented website Koreaboo. This is also why these adults are sometimes referred to as “kidults”.

According to Frederique Tutt, an analyst at NPD, the motivation of these grown-ups is to escape the stress of today’s fast-paced world. They are driven toward the more immediate pleasures brought by toys than those brought by, say, getting a promotion, which is far less easy to achieve.

“It reminds me of the playful side of life,” Rob Willner, a 25-year-old PhD student in the UK, told The Telegraph when talking about his love for Lego, which he said brings him both comfort and entertainment.

Despite this, some social scientists see the trend as disturbing. To Frank Furendi, a professor at the University of Kent in the UK, the fact that so many adults are pursuing “the thrills (刺激) of youth” is the evidence that “adulthood has got nothing attractive about it anymore”, he told The New York Times.u “That’s actually quite sad.”

But scientists are probably just worrying too much. According to Canadian comic book artist Todd McFarlane, collecting toys could simply be a way for people to express their individuality (个性).

“It’s just pop culture stuff. It’s stuff that says, ‘I like a little of this and I like a little of that’,” he told ABC News. “[It’s] no big deal.”

So now that over 100 years have passed since Peter Pan, perhaps it’s time to introduce a new “fact”, as stated in the tagline (品牌宣传词) of the UK fashion brand KIDULT: “Growing old is mandatory (强制性的), but growing up is optional.”

1.The author mentions Peter Pan in the text mainly to ______.

A. show the influence of the character on millennials

B. explore the similarities Peter Pan and millennials share

C. lead up to the trend of millennials’ love for toys

D. analyze what has made many millennials refuse to grow up

2.Why do many adults feel like collecting toys, according to Frederique Tutt?

A. They find it brings them both comfort and inspiration.

B. They consider it a way to relieve stress.

C. They want to make up for the pleasures they missed during childhood.

D. They usually don’t get along well in their lives and need an emotional outlet.

3.What can we conclude from the article about kidults?

A. They are well-known for their pursuit of independence and freedom.

B. Social scientists feel worried about them because they take nothing seriously.

C. In Todd McFarlane’s eyes, their interest in toys is a way to express their identity.

D. They refuse to make efforts to become promoted at work as they don’t want to grow up.

There was little rain in some place for two years and a lot of people died of hunger．So a man reported a famine（饥荒）to an official（官员）．The official asked，“How much wheat have you harvested？”

“Thirty percent of the normal yield（产量），”the man replied．

“How much cotton？”

“Twenty percent．”

“How much rice？”

“Twenty percent．”

The official got mad，“You've already had seventy percent of the harvest，how dare you trump up（谎报）famine then？”

The man said，“I've never seen such a terrible famine in my life of a hundred and several scores of years．”

“How could you have lived so long？” asked the official．

“Look，I'm over seventy years old．My eldest son is over forty and my second son is over thirty．The total is a hundred and several scores of years．” All the people hearing this had a good laugh over that．

1.A great _______ happened in the place．

A. flood B. disease

C. drought D. war

2.The man said _______ ．

A. people had a bad harvest B. some of the crops were bad

C. people lost their farms D. people had little food

3.The word “mad” in the story means _______ ．

A. sad B. happy

C. angry D. excited

4.The official didn't think _______ ．

A. the people were hungry B. the famine was terrible enough

C. the people had to be helped D. the drought was serious enough

5.Hearing the clever answer，people laughed at _______ ．

A. the official B. the old women

C. the hungry people D. the policemen nearby

The explorer got a disease in blood for ________of fresh vegetables and fruit.

A. sake B. lack

C. ignorance D. knock

For Rachael and Leigh Barman, there is only one wish on their Christmas list this year---that their sick daughter Paige should survive/live until December 25. Fifteen-year-old Paige suffers from 1.rare brain disease, 2.affects(影响) as few as 12 people in the world, and could kill her any day 3.warning(警告).

And her condition has gone even 4. (bad) in recent months. Her parents filled the family home with Christmas decorations 5. September 1st so she could enjoy the rest of her life. Since then, she has 6. (regular) opened Christmas presents and received visitors---but she sleeps for up to 19 hours a day, her parents knowing that each time she closes her eyes, she may never wake up.

Mrs. Barman 7.(describe) dealing with the condition as “like being on death row” as she never knew if 8. daughter would wake up the next morning.

The mother said: “She always loves Christmas and I get my heart 9.(break) when I see her suffering like this. Our best Christmas present would be having Paige with us at Christmas. No matter 10. she leaves the world, we make sure that she is always happy.”

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