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Climbing Kilimanjaro is a transformational experience for many people. The things that make the mountain hard are the very things that make it so powerful. In the case of my son Josh and I,the walk up Kilimanjaro proved a powerful symbol of his transition into manhood,and a great change in our relationship.

Day three on the mountain,Josh was hit with massive headaches. He told me every step felt like a nail driving into his head. And then,on the night we climbed the crater rim,less than 40 minutes from the summit,Josh fell. I was walking ahead,and did not even see it. He was so exhausted that he could not get up. He recalled our guides,debating whether or not they should take him straight down. Josh snapped out of it. He forced himself to his feet,and shook the guides off. He set his face towards the peak and just kept marching. Near the summit he caught up with me and we reached the peak together.

“I’ve never been in so much pain and so happy at the same time”’he said,as we sat side by side on the frozen rock and looked down over Africa. “You know,in the past when we’d go on camping and rafting trips,you guided and took care of me through it all. But on Kilimanjaro it was different. From the bottom up,I climbed it. I never felt like a kid,even when I was in pain. You never acted like a parent. ”

“That’s not quite true ,”I replied. “When you told me that on the summit you fell and I did not even notice,my first thought was ,‘Oh my God!I’m such an awful parent!^y But then it hit me, ‘ He got himself up. He walked to the peak on his own. He didn’t need me to help.

I realized as I spoke that two people had died that night on Kilimanjaro. A child and a parent. It was just two friends who walked down the mountain together.

( ) 5. What is NOT mentioned in the first paragraph?

A. Kilimanjaro is powerful.

B. Kilimanjaro is hard to climb.

C. Many people,including Josh,have changed after climbing Kilimanjaro.

D. The writer has a distant relationship with his son after climbing Kilimanjaro.

( ) 6. From the second paragraph we know that .

A. Josh had a slight headache

B. Josh reached the top of the mountain with the help of the guides

C. Josh overcame various difficulties on his way to the summit

D. climbing Kilimanjaro was too hard for such a child as Josh

( ) 7. What does the underlined phrase in the second par agraph mean?

A. Cheered up.

B. Gave up.

C. Burst out.

D. Ran out.

[文章大意]父子二人一起爬乞力马扎罗山，父亲让儿子克服困难、变得独立，最后父子的关系也变得像朋友一样。

5. D细节理解题。文章第一段提到乞力马扎罗山很难爬，很多人(包括Josh) 都在爬过乞力马扎罗山后改变了。故选D.

6. C细节理解题。从第二段中的"He forced himself to his feet,and shook the guides off. He set his face towards the peak and just kept marching. Near the summit he caught up with me and we reached the peak together."可知Josh在登上山顶的过程中克服了很多困难。选C。

7. A词义猜测题。从后面的句子"He forced himself to his feet,and shook the guides off."可知，snap out of意为"重新振作起来"。

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1. 交流活动中的收获；

2. 难忘在Kelly家的美好日子；

3. 感谢她送你的英文词典。

注意词数100左右；

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 开头和结束语已为你写好(不计入总词数) 。

参考词汇：文化交流周Cultural Exchange Week Dear Kelly,

I’ve been back home safely from England.

Welcome to China when it’s convenient for you!

Yours,Li Hua

MELBOURNE,Australia- A kangaroo frightened by a man walking his dog attacked the pair,throwing the pet underwater and hitting the owner in the stomach with its back legs. The Australian,Chris Rickard,was in stable condition. The attack ended when the 49-year-old man struck the kangaroo in the throat.

Rickard said he was walking his dog,Rocky,on Sunday morning when they surprised a sleeping kangaroo in Arthur’s Creek. The dog chased the animal into a pond,when the kangaroo turned and knocked the pet underwater.

When Rickard tried to pull his dog free,the kangaroo turned on him,attacking with its back legs and tearing a deep cut into his stomach and across his face.

“I thought I might take action to drag the dog out from under his grasp,but I didn’t expect him to actually attack me ,” Rickard,49.told The Herald Sun newspaper. “It was a shock at the start because it was a kangaroo,about 5 feet high. It doesn't go around killing people. ”

“I was stuck having to hold on to the dog with both hands because it was half drowned and I couldn’t really see anything because the kangaroo just attacked me. ”

He added, “All I could do was just keep pushing for the bank and he was trying to push me under the water,so at that point I struck him in the throat and that made him back off a little bit. ”

“I don’t think I,ll ever be able to watch kangaroo programmes quite the same as I used to—it might bring back a couple of bad memories. ”

Kangaroos rarely attack people but will fight if they feel threatened.

Dogs often chase kangaroos,which have been known to lead the pets into water and defend themselves there.

Rickard said he ended the attack by hitting the kangaroo in the throat. Rocky was half drowned when he pulled him out from the water.

( ) 1. Rickard and his pet dog were attacked when

A. he was teasing a kangaroo

B. he was walking his dog

C. swimming in the pond

D. dragging his dog out from water

( ) 2. In Australia,kangaroos .

A. are only seen in zoos

B. frequently attack people and pets

C. get along rather peacefully with people

D. can be found swimming in ponds

( ) 3. The kangaroo attacked the man and his dog probably because .

A. the man struck it in the throat

B. the dog chased it

C. the man wanted to drown it

D. it wanted to drown the dog

( ) 4. As a result of the attack, .

A. the dog was drowned dead

B. the kangaroo was killed

C. kangaroos should be under stricter protection

D. Rickard was left a deep impression

There is a distinction between reading for information and reading for understanding.1.

The first sense is the one in which we read newspapers,

magazines,or anything else.2. Such materials may increase our store of information,but they cannot improve our understanding. And clearly we don’t have any difficulty in gaining the new information,for our understanding was equal to them before we started. Otherwise,we would have felt the shock of puzzlement.

The second sense is the one in which we read something that at first we do not completely understand. Here the thing to be read is at first sight better or higher than the reader. The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader’s understanding.3. Otherwise one person could never learn from another. Here “learning” means understanding more,not remembering more information.

What are the conditions in this kind of reading? First,there is inequality in understanding.4. Besides,his book must convey something he possesses and his potential readers lack. Second,the reader must be able to overcome this inequality in some degree. And he should always try to reach the same level of understanding with the writer. If the equality is approached,success of communication is achieved.

5. It is the least demanding and requires the least amount of effort. Everyone who knows how to read can read for entertainment if he wants to. In fact,any book that can be read for understanding or information can probably be read for entertainment as well.

A. Thus,we can employ the word “reading” in two distinct senses.

B. Such communication between unequals must be possible.

C. We can get access to the content of those materials easily.

D. The writer must be “superior” to the reader in understanding.

E. The writer should have a better communicating skill.

F. Besides gaining information and understanding,there’s another goal of reading—entertainment.

G. Reading for entertainment is capable of increasing our understanding for information.

LONDON—A British judge on Thursday sentenced a businessman who sold fake (假冒的) bomb detectors (探测器) to 10 years in prison,saying the man hadn’t cared about potentially deadly consequences.

It is believed that James McCormick got about $ 77. 8 million from the sales of his detectors—which were based on a kind of golf ball finder—to countries including Iraq,Belgium and Saudi Arabia.

McCormick,57.was convicted (判罪) of cheats last month and sentenced on Thursday at the Old Bailey court in London.

“Your cheating conduct in selling a great amount of useless equipment simply for huge profit promoted a false sense of security and in all probability materially contributed to causing death and injury to innocent people ,” Judge Richard Hone told McCormick, “and you have neither regret,nor shame,nor any sense of guilt. ”

The detectors,sold for up to $ 42,000 each,were said to be able to find such dangerous objects as bombs under water and from the air. But in fact they “lacked any grounding in science” and were of no use.

McCormick had told the court that he sold his detectors to the police in Kenya,the prison service in Hong Kong,the army in Egypt and the border control in Thailand.

“I never had any bad results from customers,” he said.

( ) 1. Why was McCormick sentenced to prison?

A. He sold bombs.

B. He caused death of people.

C. He made detectors.

D. He cheated in business.

( ) 2. According to the judge,what McCormick had done

A. increased the cost of safeguarding

B. lowered people’s guard against danger

C. changed people’s idea of social security

D. caused innocent people to commit crimes

( ) 3. Which of the following is TRUE about the detec tors?

A. They have not been sold to Africa.

B. They have caused many serious problems.

C. They can find dangerous objects in water.

D. They don’t function on the basis of science.

( ) 4. It can be inferred from the passage that McCormick

A. sold the equipment at a low price

B. was well known in most countries

C. did not think he had committed the crime

D. had not got such huge profit as mentioned in the text

Another person’s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person was my stepmother.

I was nine years old when she entered our home in rural Virginia. My father 1 me to her with these words： “I would like you to meet the fellow who is 2 for being the worst boy in this county and will probably start throwing rocks at you no 3 than tomorrow morning. ”

My stepmother walked over to me,4 my head slightly upward,and looked me right in the eye. Then she looked at my father and replied, “You are 5 . This is not the worst boy at all,6 the smartest one who hasn’t yet found an outlet for his enthusiasm. ”

That statement began a (n) 7 between us. No one had ever called me smart. My family and neighbours had built me up in my 8 as a bad boy. My stepmother changed all that.

She changed many things. She 9 my father to go to a dental school,from which he graduated with honours. She moved our family into the countryside,where my father’s career could be more 10 and my brothers and I could be better 11 .

When I turned fourteen,she bought me a second-hand 12 and told me that she believed that I could become a writer. I knew her enthusiasm,I 13 it,and I saw how it had already improved our lives. I accepted her 14 and began to write for local newspapers. I was doing the same kind of 15 that great day I went to interview Andrew Carnegie and received the task which became my life’s work later. I wasn’t the 16 beneficiary (受益者).My father became the 17 man in town. My brothers and stepbrothers became a physician,a dentist,a lawyer,and a college president.

What power 18 has!When that power is released to support the certainty of one’s purpose and is 19 strengthened by faith,it becomes an irresistible force which poverty and temporary defeat can never 20 .

You can communicate that power to anyone who needs it. This is probably the greatest work you can do with your enthusiasm.

( ) 1. A. rushed B. introduced

C. sent D. carried

( ) 2. A. mistaken B. favoured

C. distinguished D. rewarded

( ) 3. A. later B. sooner

C. longer D. earlier

( ) 4. A. dragged B. raised

C. shook D. bent

( ) 5. A. perfect B. right

C. impolite D. wrong

( ) 6. A. so B. but

C. or D. and

( ) 7. A. agreement B. gap

C. friendship D. relationship

( ) 8. A. opinion B. image

C. mind D. expectation

( ) 9. A. persuaded B. begged

C. ordered D. invited

( ) 10. A. meaningful B. successful

C. helpful D. useful

( ) 11. A. treated B. entertained

C. respected D. educated

( ) 12. A. camera B. radio

C. typewriter D. bicycle

( ) 13. A. considered B. appreciated

C. ignored D. suspected

( ) 14. A. criticism B. belief

C. request D. description

( ) 15. A. writing B. teaching

C. studying D. reading

( ) 16. A. only B. next

C. same D. real

( ) 17. A. cleverest B. strongest

C. healthiest D. wealthiest

( ) 18. A. fortune B. sympathy

C. enthusiasm D. confidence

( ) 19. A. deliberately B. constantly

C. traditionally D. happily

( ) 20. A. win B. reach

C. match D. doubt

Exams are always stressful. Students rarely know exactly what to expect on the test,and those who suffer from exam fear or exam anxiety can see their grades suffer as a result of this stress. For some students,exam fear causes them to “seize up” and forget what they have studied.

2. Good study habits and learning how to relax can help students overcome exam fear.

3. According to Penn State University and Kids Health,proper study habits and preparation are the keys to cutting out exam fear. Avoid last-minute “cramming” for exams and actively listen while in class.

Focus on positive thoughts,relax the night before your test and reward yourself after the test is over. Often,people who suffer from exam anxiety cannot shut out negative thoughts or emotions about the test,and this can contribute to feeling more anxiety than normal.4. Keep your mind and body healthy by getting enough sleep,eating well and exercising. Healthier people who are well-rested often do better on exams.

5. Exam fear is normal when that anxiety se verely interferes (干扰) with your ability to take the test,however,outside help might be needed. Ask your teachers and family for support and help.

A. How to succeed in an exam

B. How to overcome exam fear

C. Develop good study habits.

D. Understand that you are not alone and ask for help if necessary.

E. Remind yourself that it’s just one test and that you can get through it.

F. Battling this type of performance anxiety can be hard,but it is not impossible.

G. Remind yourself to read the instructions carefully.

My father’s friend Jane recently related a story to us. Due to some unfortunate circumstance her sister Cathy was left in the snow,far away from her cabin and companions during a trip to mountains. She was 1 because a man on his snow plow (伊雪车) found her and took her to a 2 at 2:00 am.

The hospital first 3 Cathy was dead because she had been 4 in the snow for hours. But luckily,they were able to revive (使复苏) her. Cathy has been in hospital 5 .When she woke up,the doctor couldn’t 6 Jane that Cathy would be as 7 as before,but it seemed that she would be okay and back to normal 8 !

Jane was 9 of money,and she got into trouble since she needed to 10 her sister’s hospital fees. Today she came to ask if my father could 11 her a few hundred dollars,since her employer didn’t give all her salary in advance 12 the situation.

My father was 13 to give only $ 150 to her. I’m only a college student. I don’t have too much 14 of my own,but I was thinking about what I could do to help her. Finally I managed to 15 together $ 100 from my own money and passed it to her. She was really surprised,but also 16 grateful,and I felt happy that I could help ease someone else’s 17 in time of need.

It may not be a huge 18 of kindness,but I felt great that I could be there to 19 someone—emotionally and financially. It always reminds me that I can reach out to those in need 20 I am not wealthy!

( ) 1. A. worried B. freezing

C. lucky D. weak

( ) 2. A. base B. hospital

C. cabin D. hotel

( ) 3. A. found B. reported

C. discovered D. thought

( ) 4. A. waiting B. blocked

C. trapped D. lying

( ) 5. A. ever since B. at once

C. soon after D. for long

( ) 6. A. remind B. assure

C. say D. warn

( ) 7. A. pretty B. active

C. same D. heavy

( ) 8. A. too B. yet

C. forever D. soon

( ) 9. A. aware B. afraid

C. short D. fond

( ) 10. A. apply for B. pay for

C. long for D. stand for

( ) 11. A. lend B. offer

C. present D. provide

( ) 12. A. in view of B. in need of

C. in honour of D. in spite of

( ) 13. A. willing B. prepared

C. able D. likely

( ) 14. A. freedom B. money

C. thought D. time

( ) 15. A. gather B. join

C. hold D. bring

( ) 16. A. instantly B. strongly

C. lightly D. extremely

( ) 17. A. fear B. pain

C. burden D. press

( ) 18. A. act B. trick

C. plan D. behaviour

( ) 19. A. meet B. cure

C. pity D. support

( ) 20. A. if B. though

C. because D. when

8. One way of preventing further flooding would be to (deep) the river bed.

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