Jean is a clever young woman who comes from a rich and famous family.She goes to a(n) 1 university and has everything that money can buy.Well, 2 everything.The only problem is that the people in Jean's family are so 3 that they can hardly find time to be with her.
So Jean 4 a lot of her time on MSN.She likes being anonymous(匿名的), 5 to people who do not know about her famous family and her 6 life.She used the name Linda on MSN and has 7 a lot of friends who she contacts(联系)quite 8 .
Last year Jean made a very 9 friend on MSN.His name was David and he lived in San Francisco.David was full of stories and jokes.He and Jean had a common(共同的) 10 in rock music and modern dance. 11 it always took them hours to talk 12 on MSN and sometimes they even 13 the time.Of course, they wanted to know more about each other.David 14 a picture of himself:a tall, good-looking young 15 with a big, happy smile.As 16 went by, they became good friends and often sent cards and small things to each other.
When Jean's father told her that he was going 17 a business trip to San Francisco, she asked her father to let her 18 with him, so that she could give David a 19 for his birthday.She would take him the latest DVD of their favorite 20 singer.But when Jean knocked on David's door in San Francisco, she found that the special friend she had been contacting was a twelve-year-old boy named Jim.
In my third year as a high school athletics coach, I gave a speech telling students and parents about the benefits of football.I gave the same 1 each year, aimin g at recruiting(招收)new team members.I talked about 2 football wasn't just for 3 athletes and how everyone could 4 from it.This year, a 5 looking couple approached me after my speech.They said their son really wanted to play football.They had tried to 6 him out of it, but he had his heart 7 on joining the team.
When they told me his name, my heart sank.Michael was five feet and ten inches tall and weighed about 108 pounds.He was a 8 boy, the constant target of other kids' jokes, and as far as I knew he had never 9 sports.I knew he would never 10 it through football practice, let 11 as a player.But we told them we could give it a try.
On the opening day of practice, Michael was the first player on the field, we did 30 minutes of warming-up 12 starting a one-mile jog around the track.I 13 my eye on Michael.At 50 yards he fell, and I helped him to his feet.“Michael,”I said,“Why don't you just 14 the mile?”He said in tears that he wanted to run with the others, so I let him go on. 15 he fell, but each time 16 himself up.
The same thing happened every day for weeks, and Michael gained strength both 17 and physically.By the last week of practice, Michael could run the mile without falling, we had 18 only one game that season, 19 the team cheered louder for Michael's run than the victory they had, Afterward, Michael approached me, and I told him how 20 I was of him.
(1)
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A.
lecture
B.
lesson
C.
training
D.
speech
(2)
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A.
how
B.
why
C.
whether
D.
that
(3)
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A.
star
B.
average
C.
ordinary
D.
important
(4)
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A.
learn
B.
benefit
C.
take
D.
get
(5)
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A.
worried
B.
worrying
C.
anxious
D.
eager
(6)
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A.
keep
B.
talk
C.
pull
D.
take
(7)
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A.
put
B.
set
C.
placed
D.
kept
(8)
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A.
alone
B.
lonely
C.
tall
D.
strong
(9)
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A.
attended
B.
participated in
C.
join
D.
take part
(10)
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A.
get
B.
realize
C.
make
D.
achieve
(11)
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A.
alone
B.
aside
C.
away
D.
down
(12)
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A.
before
B.
when
C.
then
D.
until
(13)
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A.
fixed
B.
put
C.
kept
D.
paid
(14)
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A.
run
B.
walk
C.
jog
D.
go
(15)
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A.
Unfortunately
B.
Repeatedly
C.
Secondly
D.
Luckily
(16)
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A.
stood
B.
picked
C.
struggled
D.
raised
(17)
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A.
mentally
B.
socially
C.
emotionally
D.
technically
(18)
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A.
won
B.
defeated
C.
beat
D.
got
(19)
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A.
yet
B.
however
C.
though
D.
while
(20)
[ ]
A.
pleased
B.
satisfied
C.
proud
D.
ashamed
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The film starts out as a normal day at a typical American high school.Friends chat in the dining room and boys play football.
But there's a big surprise when the movie 1 with two students going crazy in the 2 shooting and killing people.
This is“Elephant”.Filmed in just 20 days, it stars real high school kids.American 3 Gus Van Sant had no ready made lines(台词).The student actors 4 their own dialogue, with Van Sant asking them to base their characters on their own 5 .
6 it may not sound very high quality, the film won the Palmed' Or(金棕榈奖)for Best Film and the award for Best Director at the Cannes 7 festival in France on May 25.
The film is based on the 8 at a high school in the US, where two boys 9 13 people and then themselves in 1999.
The title of the 10 refers to the old expression about a 11 that's as hard to ignore as an elephant in the house.
The film takes a close look at a few hours in the lives of the victims(受害者)and the 12 .It shows how high school is a different experience for everyone-fun and friendly, or hard and 13 .
In many ways, the two boys, who carry out the shooting, act like ordinary 14 .But, there are hints(暗示)of the 15 they feel inside.One of the boys is bullied at school.The other plays violent 16 games.But Van Sant isn't 17 their killings on either bullying or violent video games.In fact, the film doesn't offer any 18 for why school violence happens.
“I didn't want to 19 anything.It's up to the audience to draw its own 20 ,”said the 51-year-old director.