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We think that life in Chinese high school is an adventure in which we have to survive mountains of homework and all kinds of exams. Yet would it be1.(surprise) if I tell you that high school life in the US is almost as stressful and demanding2.it is in China?

In US high school, everything must3.(record) into your studying document, including your grades on quizzes, tests and final examinations. Failing4.(turn) in your homework on time will directly affect your grade for a certain course. Perhaps completely different from5.we used to think of the US high school students, they pay great attention to6.(they) academic performance in order that they can get into a distinguished university.

Like university students, US high school students have the7.(free) to choose the courses that most interest them. Even a ninth-grader can sit 8. the same classroom as 12th-graders. But this also 9. (mean) he or she has to work very hard, because the teacher will not treat him or her10.(different).

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Ever since I was a child,my mouth has caused me trouble.I’m not a bad person;I have a ___ time learning when to stop saying bad things to others.

My mom has told me again and again,“Robert,your constant(不断的)bad words are hurting me.If you ____ to be this rude,you will get into big trouble.”

It’s been a problem at school several times too when teachers have told me something I didn’t want to hear.I used to feel it was my ____ to stand up for myself.

One day in English class I was working on my homework when I heard a classmate ____ behind me.It was Nathaniel,who liked doing that as usual.

I said ever so _____ ,“Nathaniel,would you be quiet?”

Nathaniel kept saying something to himself.I quickly_______,“Nathaniel,shut up!”

For the next five minutes,we threw hurtful words back and forth at each other.

“At least I don’t have an ugly lazy eye like you!”I cried out.

I knew this would make him ____ and it would hurt his feelings and shut him up.

What I said filled him with anger.He tried to _____over my seat and catch me as he screamed,“That’s it!That’s it!”

___ at his reaction(反应),I sat back in my seat.I had never seen Nathaniel act like this before.Later on,we were taken to the teachers’ office.There,Mr.Black,our English teacher,told us to ____ the matter.It wasn’t until then that I finally found that ____ I hurt someone physically,the woulds finally heal(愈合).But when I hurt someone with my_____, sometimes the pain never goes away.

At the end of the discussion,I said ____ to Nathaniel.

When I went back to my room,I spent some time praying(祈祷).I began to ____ how often what I said hurt others.But I believe that as I keep asking God to help me,he’ll tell me when to keep my _____closed.

1.A. busy B. hard C. happy D. valuable

2.A. decide B. like C. continue D. try

3.A. duty B. turn C. time D. choice

4.A. singing B. reading C. beating D. talking

5.A. clearly B. nicely C. carelessly D. angrily

6.A. repeated B. expressed C. replied D. shouted

7.A. crazy B. afraid C. sad D. bored

8.A. fall B. look C. hand D. reach

9.A. Satisfied B. Surprised C. Nervous D. Serious

10.A. discuss B. solve C. explain D. report

11.A. while B. after C. when D. where

12.A. words B. action C. ideas D. experience

13.A. goodbye B. thanks C. sorry D. okay

14.A. imagine B. notice C. record D. consider

15.A. eyes B. mouth C. windows D. door

Alex Elman runs a big business --- something hard to imagine after she lost her sight in her twenties. But Elman says that losing her sight helped her focus on finding success.

Elman’s father planted a hillside vineyard in western Massachusetts in 1981. It’s where Elman fled during the darkest period of her life. When she was 27 years old, she went blind due to complications from juvenile diabetes (幼年型糖尿病) 17 years ago. She recalled, “I hid in my home. I hid in the place, to me, that was the safest place in the world.”

Elman is now the founder of Alex Elman Wines, a growing portfolio (股份) of organic wines from all around the world: Chianti from Italy, Torrontes from Argentina. Elman doesn’t work alone. Her assistant, a guide dog named Hanley, is something of a wine snob, and quite a beggar. Hanley travels to all of the wineries that Elman does, from South America to Europe.

At first, Elman resisted the idea of a seeing-eye-dog. Now it’s hard to imagine her life, or her business, without him. She said. “When someone tells me something is organic and I don’t really believe it because I taste something funny on it, I’ll put it in front of his face and if he likes the wine, he’ll actually go in and sniff it. If it’s not right, he’ll turn his head away…He gets in the dirt with me. He scratches around. He makes sure that we see earthworms and butterflies. That’s how we know that the soil is actually organic, that there are no chemicals.”

Elman told CBS News she believes the loss of her vision was a gift. She said, “It allowed me to pay attention to what I thought was important and also to be able to teach people that the broken hang nail is not a big deal, you know what I mean? Don’t sweat the small stuff. Don’t sweat the big stuff either.”

1.Elman hid herself in her father’s vineyard probably because she ________.

A. suffered from juvenile diabetes

B. was extremely painful for her blindness

C. would like to help her father with the work

D. expected to recover her sight sooner or later

2.We can learn from Paragraph 3 that Elman ________.

A. has earned a large amount of money

B. plans to operate organic wine companies

C. has become successful with Hanley’s help

D. has travelled around the world with Hanley

3.Whenever Elman couldn’t judge the wine exactly, she would ________.

A. turn to Hanley for advice

B. have another taste in person

C. order Hanley to head away

D. make Hanley to drink it

4.The underlined phrase “the broken hang nail” (in Paragraph 5) probably refers to ________.

A. a nail which is of no use

B. a disadvantage you have in your life

C. a person who is hard to deal with

D. a task that is not easy to accomplish

It’s hard to find Alice Munro in the media. Even after she won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Canadian writer just appeared for a quick interview and then dropped out of sight. On Dec 29, she still didn't seek the spotlight(聚光灯)when she was named one of the five Women of the Year by the Financial Times.

In Munro's eyes, ordinary lives always hide larger dramas. So she records what we casually think of as the everyday actions of normal people. She often focuses on life in her hometown, a small village in Ontario which she is most familiar with. She writes about the ordinary things in the village-fox forming, trees filled in the Ontario wilderness, poor country alcohol and long last illnesses. Above all, she talks about girls and women who have seemingly ordinary lives but struggle against daily misfortune. She has a special talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary. These are ordinary people, ordinary stories, but she has the magic. Her precise language, depth of detail and the logic of her storytelling have made her stories inviting.

Runaway, one of Munro’s representative works, is a good example of her writing style. One of the stories centers on the life of an ordinary woman Carla, who lives in a small Canadian town with her husband Clark. The story slowly forms a picture of Carla, trapped in a bad marriage, her unhappiness building into desperation until she decided to flee. The story of Carla is a story of the power and betrayals of love. It is about lost children and lots of chances that we can all find in life. There is pain beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart.

Since she published her first collection of short stories in 1968, Munro has won many awards, with the Nobel Prize being her biggest honor. On Oct. 10, 2013, the Nobel Prize committee named Munro the “master of the contemporary short story”.

1.We learn from Paragraph 1 that Alice Munro_________.

A. didn't get on well with the media

B. remained modest though very successful

C. didn’t value the title of Women of the Year

D. was surprised at winning the Nobel Prize

2.What makes Alice Munro’s stories fascinating according to the text?

A. Her writing techniques. B. The complicated plots.

C. The humorous language. D. Her rich imagination.

3.What is the text mainly about?

A. Alice Munro and her hometown. B. The awards Alice Munro won.

C. Alice Munro and her writing style. D. Alice Munro’s literary life.

Everyone looks forward to progress, whether in one’s personal life or in the general society. Progress indicates a person’s ability to change the way he is living at the moment. Progress must lead to a better life and a better way of doing things. All these, however, remain true only in so far as people want to accept technology and move forward by finding new and more efficient ways of doing things.

However, at the back of the minds of many people, especially those who miss the “good old days”, efficiency comes with a price. When communication becomes more efficient, people are able to contact one another no matter where they are and at whatever time they wish .The click of a button allows people miles apart to talk or to see each other without even leaving their homes. With the communication gadets, such as mobile phones and ipads, people often do not take the effort to visit one another personally. A personal visit carries with the additional feature of having to be in the person’s presence for as long as the visit lasts. We cannot unnecessarily excuse our selves or turn the other persons off.

With efficiency also comes mass production. Such is the nature of factories and the success of industrialization today. Factories have improved efficiency. Unskillful tasks are left to machines and products are better made and produced with greater accuracy than any human hand could ever have done. However, with the improvements in efficiency also comes the loss of the personal touch when making these products. For example, many handcrafts(手工艺品) are now produced in a factory. Although this means that supply is better able to increase demand, now that the supply is quick and efficient, the demand might fall because mass production lowers the quality of the handcraft and it is difficult to find unique designs on each item.

Nevertheless, we must not commit the mistake of analyzing progress only from one point of view. In fact, progress has allowed tradition to keep up. It is only with progress and the invention of new technology that many old products can be brought back to their old state. New technology is required for old products to stay old.

It is people’s attitude towards progress that causes the type of influence that technology has on society. Technology is flexible. There is no fixed way of making use of it. Everything depends on people’s attitude. The worst effects of progress will fall on those who are unable to rethink their attitudes and views of society. When we accept progress and adapt it to suit our needs, a new “past” is created.

1.According to Paragraph 1, progress can benefit people when they are willing to _______.

A. live a better life B. look for better methods

C. change ways of living D. accept technology and advance steadily

2.The underlined word “gadgets” is closest in meaning to _______.

A. tools B. messages

C. barriers D. skills

3.The author explains “efficiency comes with a price” by _______.

A. describing a process B. using examples

C. following time order D. making classification

4.What can be concluded from the last paragraph?

A. Progress can suit the needs of daily life.

B. People review the past with great regret.

C. Technology should be introduced in a fixed way.

D. People’s attitude decides the use of technology.

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India now leads the world in smartphone growth. It saw a 55% increase in the number of smartphone in 2014. The number of Web users increased by 37 %. Smartphones were the source of 65 % of its Internet traffic and 41 % of its e-commerce, according to a report by the analyst Mary Meeker, titled “Internet Trends 2015”.

India’s Internet boom has started. Within three or four years, almost every adult in India will own a smartphone. They will be used to order goods, read news, monitor crop growth and so on.

Indian adults will be very interested in these devices just as young Americans are. 87 % of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 who own smartphones say they never separate from these: “My smartphone never leaves my side.” Four out of five say that the first thing they do on waking is to reach for their smartphones. And three fifths believe that in the next five years everything will be done on mobile devices.

In the business world, the rise of mobile platforms is dramatically transforming many industries all over the world. What Indian software developers have to do is to start thinking about solutions to old problems by using all the features of these new devices. They need to take advantage of the unique properties of smartphones and tablets. As Indian software developers and enterprises master the smartphone, they will be able to export their solutions to the rest of the world.

This will make possible a new tech revolution that is greater than what created India’s IT industry in the 1980s and 1990s. We can expect the rapid transformation of India when a billion people become connected and have equal access to information and services.

1.Loads of numbers are used in Paragraph 1 to show _____________.

A. India’s smartphones increase most rapidly in the world

B. India has the most advanced IT industry in the world

C. India will be a superpower pretty soon

D. India will export new smartphones to the rest of the world

2.What will most young Americans do first the moment they wake up?

A. Read news. B. Shop online.

C. Get their smartphones. D. Check e-mails.

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. India is the largest mobile maker in the world.

B. Indian farmers use smartphones to monitor crop growth..

C. Indian software developers have made great profits by selling their products abroad.

D. India saw a great boom in IT industry some 30 years ago.

4.Which can be the best title of the text?

A. More people, more smartphones

B. No dream, every Indian owns a smartphone

C. At hand, India’s next tech revolution

D. A small smartphone, a big use

“The way we choose to respond to others can cause them to feel ashamed ______can allow them to remember our kindness and _______our stories with the future generations.” when I read this________, I thought of Doris, a very ______person. All around her room were dolls she had made: they were the most interesting dolls I’d ever seen.

One day _____I was in her room, she took one of her dolls out of the case to______ me, saying it was the_______doll she had ever made. The doll was very unusual with fine artistic work. I was amazed that anyone could crate something so ______ .

Doris held the dolls very carefully. Then she slowly ______the doll in such a way that I could see a _______crack(裂缝)on the skirt. Doris said that on the way to class she bumped(撞击)the side of the skirt. She expressed how she was ______. When it was her turn to show the doll to the teacher, she pointed out the crack. Doris felt________that the doll would be_______. Much to her surprise, the teacher told her she was just going to ignore the crack and ______the doll on the other good ______it had. Doris said this remark and_______changed her life. She knew_______the teacher hadn’t overlooked the crack, she ______had made the rest of the dolls.

The teacher could have made Doris feel ashamed about the crack. But because of her _______to ignore the crack, Doris was sharing her ______to the next generation.

1.A. or B. and C. or else D. and also

2.A. tell B. share C. remind D. make up

3.A. diary B. prediction C. sentence D. criticism

4.A. familiar B. considerate C. potential D. creative

5.A. after B. while C. before D. still

6.A. attract B. greet C. distribute D. show

7.A. first B. best C. worst D. last

8.A. strange B. unique C. fashionable D. changeable

9.A. carved B. separated C. turned D. constructed

10.A. slight B. huge C. fragile D. repaired

11.A. betrayed B. unconscious C. upset D. greedy

12.A. in a flash B. for certain C. by and by D. in turn

13.A. rejected B. trapped C. seized D. resisted

14.A. look into B. refer to C. grade D. reserve

15.A. appearances B. designs C. means D. qualities

16.A. attitude B. sponsor C. friction D. consensus

17.A. because B. since C. if D. only if

18.A. hardly B. never C. forever D. seldom

19.A. devotion B. compromise C. prejudice D. willingness

20.A. works B. lessons C. experience D. mercy

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