Every morning, kids from a local high school are working hard. They are making and selling special coffee at a coffee cafe. They are also making a lot of money. These students can make up to twelve hundred dollars a day. They are selling their special coffee to airplane passengers. After the students get paid, the rest of the money goes to helping a local youth project.

These high school students use a space in the Oakland airport. It is usually very crowded. Many people who fly on the planes like to drink the special coffee. One customer thinks that the coffee costs a lot but it is good and worth it. Most customers are pleasant but some are unhappy. They do not like it if the coffee cafe is not open for business.

The students earn ﹩6.10 an hour plus tips. They also get school credit(学分) while they learn how to run a business. Many of the students enjoy the work although it took some time to learn how to do it. They have to learn how to steam milk, load the pots, and add flavor. It takes some skill and sometimes mistakes are made. The most common mistake is forgetting to add the coffee. But many students enjoy the job, because they learn a lot experience by serving people. This will benefit them a lot when they enter into society after they finish their school education.

1.The students in the coffee cafe_____________.

A. are volunteers without being paid

B. work in the morning five days a week.

C. send coffee on the planes for the passengers.

D. contribute some of the earnings to a youth program.

2.Some passengers are unhappy because______________.

A. the special coffee costs too much.

B. the kids often forget to add the coffee.

C. they can’t be served at some time.

D. the coffee cafe was often crowded.

3.By working at the cafe, the students can do all of the following EXCEPT__________.

A. earning pocket money.

B. enjoying free flights.

C. receiving school credit.

D. learning to make coffee.

4.How do students think of their job?

A. Boring B. Hard C. Interesting D. Useful

Students from Florida International University in Miami walked on water Thursday for a class assignment.To do it,they wore aquatic (水上的)shoes they designed and created.

Alex Quinones was the first to make it to the other side of a 175-foot lake on campus in record time—just over a minute.Quinones,who wore oversized boat-like shoes,also won last year and will receive $ 500.Students had to wear the aquatic shoes and make it across the lake in order to earn an “A” on the assignment for Architecture Professor Jaime Canaves,Materials and Methods Construction Class."It's traditional in a school of architecture to do boats out of cardboard for a boat race.I thought our students were a little bit more special than that," Canaves said." We decided to do the walk on water event to take it to the next level."

A total of 79 students competed in the race this year in 41 teams.Only 10 teams failed to cross the lake.Others who fell got back up and made it to the end.The race is open to all students and anyone in the community.The youngest person to ever participate was a 9-year-old girl who competed in place of her mother,while the oldest was a 67-year-old female.

A large crowd on campus joined Canaves as he cheered on the racers.He shouted encouraging words,but also laughed as some unsteadily made their way to the end.

"A part of this is for them to have more understanding of designing and make it work better," he said.It is also a lesson in life for the students.

“Anything,including walking on water,is possible,if you do the research,test it and go through the design process seriously.”

1.For what purpose did the students take part in the race?

A.To go across the lake to school.

B.To test their balance on the water.

C.To pass Professor Canaves’ class.

D.To win the prize money of $ 500.

2.Which of the following is true about the race?

A.The students who fell into the water had to quit.

B.More than 20 teams failed to cross the lake.

C.The students kept silent when the other racers competed.

D.The youngest competitor competed instead of her mother.

3.According to Canaves,this race can help the students_________.

A.understand designing better

B.achieve almost everything

C.work together and unite as one

D.walk on the surface of water

4.What is the purpose of this passage?

A.To advertise a student' s program.

B.To report an interesting assignment.

C.To introduce a creative professor.

D.To encourage special events on campus.

Three boys and three girls boarded a bus to Lauderdale, Florida, dreaming of golden beaches. When the bus passed through New Jersey, they began to notice Vingo, who sat in front of them, dressed in a plain, ill-fitting suit.

Deep into the night, the bus pulled into Howard Johnson Restaurant, and everybody got off except Vingo. He sat rooted in his seat, and the young people began to wonder: perhaps he was a sea captain, a runaway from his wife, an old soldier going home.

Shortly after a snack, they went back to the bus and one of the girls sat beside him and introduced herself.

After a while, slowly and painfully, he told his story. He had been in prison in New York for the past four years. Last week he was released from imprisonment and now going home.

“When in prison I wrote to my wife,” he said. “I told her that I was going to be away a long time, and that if she couldn’t stand it, she could just forget me; I’d understand. We used to live in Brunswick, and there’s a big oak tree just as you come into town. Last week, I wrote her again. I told her that if she’d take me back, she should put a yellow handkerchief on the tree, and I’d get off and come home. If she didn’t want me, forget it and I’d go on through.”

She told the others, and soon all of them were in it, waiting for the approach of the great oak tree. Then, suddenly, all of the young people were up out of their seats, screaming and crying, doing small dances of joy. The oak tree was covered with yellow handkerchiefs, 20 of them, 30 of them, maybe hundreds, a tree that stood like small flags of welcome flying in the wind. As the young people shouted, Vingo rose and made his way to the front of the bus to go home.

1.What attracted the six young people when their bus passed through New Jersey?

A. The Howard Johnson Restaurant.

B. A silent man.

C. Golden beaches.

D. A well-dressed man

2.The young people on the bus try to imagine Vingo may be a person EXCEPT_________.

A. a sea captain

B. an old soldier going home

C. an old soldier going home

D. a prisoner escaping from prison

3.Vingo wrote a letter to his wife again last week to ________.

A. ask for her forgiveness

B. beg her to allow him back home

C. tie a yellow handkerchief to the oak tree

D. make sure if she was still in love with him

4.Why did all the young people shout with joy when they arrived in Brunswick?

A. They were approaching their destination.

B. They were surprised to see so many welcoming people.

C. They were sure that Vingo’s wife was expecting him home.

D. The oak tree was still standing there welcoming Vingo back home.

5.What can be the best title for the passage?

A. Going home

B. Vingo and his wife

C. Yellow handkerchiefs

D. The relationship between Vingo and the young people

The character “duang” is so new that it does not even exist in the Chinese dictionary. But it has already spread like wildfire online in China, appearing more than 8 million times on China’s micro-blogging site Weibo, where it spawned a top-trending hashtag(标签) that drew 312,000 discussions among 15,000 users. On China’s biggest online search engine Baidu, it has been looked up almost 600,000 times. It’s been noticed in the West too, with Foreign Policy seeing it as a “break the internet” viral meme - like a certain Kirn Kardashian image, or a certain multicoloured dress.

But what does it mean? “Everyone’s duang-ing and I still don’t know what it means! As if it’s back to school for me,” said Weibo user Weileiweito. Another user asked: “Have you duang-ed today? My mind is full of duang duang duang.” “To duang or not to duang, that is the question,” wrote user BaiKut automan.

“Duang” seems to be an example of onomatopoeia(拟声词), a word that phonetically imitates a sound. It all seems to have started with Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan, who in 2004 was featured in a shampoo commercial where he said famously defended his sleek, black hair using the rhythmical-sounding “duang”. The word resurfaced again recently after Chan posted it on his Weibo page. Thousands of users then began to flood Chan’s Weibo page with comments, coining the word in reference to his infamous shampoo appearance.

The word appears to have many different meanings, and there’s no perfect translation, but you could use it as an adjective to give emphasis to the word that follows it. A kitten might be “duang cute”, for example. Or you might be “very duang confused” by this blog.

For readers of Chinese characters, the Jackie Chan theme is also apparent from the quirky(古怪的) way in which the word is written: a combination of Chan’s Mandarin names.

1.How does the writer try to prove that Duang has already spread like wildfire online in China?

A. giving examples B. listing numbers

C. making comparisons D. offering quotations

2.Why does the author mention “a certain Kirn Kardashian image”?

A. to tell us “Duang” also draws attention in the West.

B. to tell us “Duang” is just like a certain image on a certain multicolored dress.

C. to tell us Foreign Policy doesn’t like “Duang”.

D. to tell us a certain Kim Kardashian image breaks the internet.

3. Which of the following statements about “duang is NOT true?

A. It came from Jackie chan’s commertial.

B. Weibo users created the word about his infamous shampoo appearance.

C. It was first used as an adjective to stress the word that follows it.

D. Many people are confused by the word.

4.What kind of people may not know the word “duang”?

A. the old who are over sixties

B. the young who are in fashion

C. a boy who has dropped out of school

D. a woman who never surfs the internet

A king once went to a master (大师).He wanted to become more powerful than other ____ kings. He sat in front of the master and ____ telling him the purpose of his ____. The master listened ____ to the king.

He then told the king to go to the ____ where a rose plant and a cypress (柏树) plant were growing side by side. He told the king, “They are your ____. They can teach you what you want to ____.”

The king went into the garden, and ____ the two plants but could not ____ what he could learn from them. He went back to the master and asked, “What do you ____, master? I am not able to understand what and how these plants will teach me.”

The master took the king to the plants and ____, “This cypress plant has been next to the rose plant for so many years. Never once has it wanted to become a rose plant. ____, the rose plant has never wanted to become a cypress plant. If man had been the cypress plant, he would have ____ himself with the rose and felt jealous (忌妒的) at the ____ that the beautiful rose plant was getting from all the people. ____, if man were the rose plant, he would have____the cypress plant enviously (羡慕地) thinking how ____ the plant was without the ____ of being disturbed by people all day! Both of the plants grew very well because they ____ all their energy for their own ____ instead of using it to compete with the other.”

1.A. rich B. handsome C. western D. neighboring

2.A. forgot B. continued C. started D. suggested

3.A. transport B. visit C. goal D. education

4.A. patiently B. angrily C. happily D. worriedly

5.A. valley B. bank C. garden D. forest

6.A. enemies B. families C. friends D. teachers

7.A. design B. learn C. measure D. notice

8.A. saw B. planted C. cut D. watered

9.A. provide B. show C. understand D. remember

10.A. hear B. find C. say D. mean

11.A. ordered B. explained C. asked D. requested

12.A. Similarly B. Frequently C. Finally D. luckily

13.A. covered B. compared C. marked D. dressed

14.A. position B. pay C. attention D. expectancy

15.A. Besides B. However C. Therefore D. Or

16.A. looked at B. waited for C. figured out D. listened to

17.A. homeless B. useful C. peaceful D. poor

18.A. duty B. mistake C. interest D. trouble

19.A. lost B.used C. lent D. received

20.A. growth B. opinion C. fun D. victory

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