题目内容
Her teachers ________ her and thanks to them, she went to college．
- A.had a deep effect on
- B.played an important part in
- C.effected
- D.put into use
have an effect on sb对……有影响，play an important part in sth．在某方面有重要的作用。
My problems started after I went to a boarding(寄宿) school. I was only 14, and at first I misses my family a lot. I often called them and cried on the phone. But after two weeks, I found I enjoyed being with my classmates at school. I had many friends who were boys. I thought of them as my best friends – but only friends. I never guessed my friendships with boys would become a problem.
Then, three months later, my friends told me that some teachers and girls said I was hanging out with boys all day long in order to get attention from them. Seven months after that, the head teacher Mr. Wang asked the class to choose some students to join the Student Union. I thought I could win for I was doing well in school. I’d already won prizes for the best math and English exams. A week later, the list came out and it didn’t include me. I was sad.
Mr. Wang came to me and said, “Don’t be sad. I know you’re excellent! Maybe you are a little distant from the girls in our class. They don’t know much about you, so some of them didn’t choose you. It doesn’t matter. Do your best to get along well with everyone and I think you’ll make it next time.”
【小题1】What was the writer’s problem when she first entered the boarding school?
| A．She didn’t like her new school. |
| B．She didn’t get along well with her classmates. |
| C．She missed her family very much. |
| D．She didn’t like her new teacher. |
| A．teachers | B．boys | C．girls | D．women |
| A．Her teachers didn’t like her. |
| B．She was a poor student. |
| C．Some girls didn’t choose her. |
| D．She likes showing off herself. |
| A．estranged(疏远的) | B．aggressive(好斗的) |
| C．warm-hearted | D．rude |
| A．The writer won prizes for the best science and English exams. |
| B．The writer didn’t realize that her friendships with boys would cause problems. |
| C．The writer was sad because she failed to join the Student Union. |
| D．The teacher thought she was an excellent student. |
When Emily Beardmore first heard that a trip was being planned by the biology class at Windsor High School, she thought about how much fun it would be.
“I thought it would be a really good experience to go with other friends and teachers to another country in an environment other than a vacation environment,” the 17-year-old girl said.
A few months later, Emily got her chance when she and 14 of her classmates, along with biology teacher Tamara Pennington went to Costa Rica for eight days in late May.
“It was not just a tour,” said Pennington, who organized the trip. “You can go any place in the world on just a tour. This one was really working with the sea turtles (海龟) and practicing conservation(保护). It just seemed like the perfect science field trip for kids who think they want to get into science to see what it's really like to be out in the field and enjoy themselves.”
Emily said her time on the turtle program, which was the focus of the trip, was “crazy.” “We were walking on the beach at night and you can’t see anything—just see a big black dot.” She said with a laugh. “I was not expecting the turtles to be that big.” The turtles are leatherback turtles, which are becoming extinct (灭绝) because their eggs are used as food.
“When they would move their legs while laying their eggs they were really hard to control because they were a lot more powerful than you would imagine,” Emily said.
Once the eggs were collected, the students took them back to a hatchery(孵化场) and dug holes to copy the hole the mother turtle had made and then buried the eggs for the 60 days needed to hatch.
“The experience was so cool,” Emily said. “You go to another country to see what their culture is like and learn what their everyday lives are like. It made me really want to help out my mom a lot more than I do, and value what I have.”
1.What did Pennington consider the trip to be?
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A．It was a common tour to a foreign country. |
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B．It was a journey to practice what students learned. |
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C．It was to attract students’ interest in science. |
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D．It was a trip to do practical science activities. |
2.From what Emily said on her turtle program, we know that .
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A．she was afraid of walking on the beach at night |
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B．she didn’t dare to catch the powerful turtles |
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C．she had thought turtles were small animals |
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D．she got crazy at the sight of turtles at night |
3.What did Emily learn from her experience?
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A．She learned to be grateful to her teachers. |
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B．She understood the importance of what she had. |
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C．She realized the beauty of foreign culture. |
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D．She knew the importance of everyday life |
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
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A．Teens Help Fight Turtle Extinction. |
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B．Teens Take a tour to Costa Rica. |
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C．Teens Have a Research on Turtles. |
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D．Teens Learn to be Independent. |
When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard：The Liz Murray Story” , shown in late April.
Liz Murray , a 22-- year-- old American girl, has been writing a real--life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug--addicted parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.
Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. “What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, My understanding was that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of society,” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.
She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that "next to nothing could hold me down". She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. "I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time."
Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is "as simple as making a decision".
1. The word “setback” in the first paragraph most probably means___________?
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A．danger |
B．difficulty |
C．unhappiness |
D．disaster |
2.What’s the best title of the passage?
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A．Liz’s Harvard Dream |
B．Bitter Childhood of Liz |
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C．Liz’s Love for Her Parents |
D．Liz’s Struggle for Her Life |
3.What actually made Liz throw herself into her studies ?
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A．Her parents’ addiction to drugs |
B．Her mother’ s disease |
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C．Lack of food and clothes |
D．Her mother’ s death |
4. According to the passage, which is NOT true about Liz?
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A．strong-- willed |
B．envious |
C．determined |
D．respectful |