There are numerous similarities between Muhammad Ali and his 23-year-old daughter Laila. She is the only one of his nine sons and daughters to have those genes that led to the ring (拳击场). Her father’s great status had nothing to do with Laila’s decision to pursue a boxing career. She has always been proud of his achievements, but he was never a great man to her ---- just dad.

What attracted her to take up boxing was the unusual sight of two women in the ring on the television screen when she was about to watch a Mike Tyson fight five years ago. She was very excited and said to herself, “I can do that.”

Laila’s father would prefer her not to take up the dangerous sport. Johnny McClain, her husband and manager (former boxer himself) feels the same way. Even though both the men in her life worry about her, they’re 100 percent supportive. “They don’t want me to get hurt,” she says.

Long before entering the ring, Laila was a fighter. Being the daughter of an outstanding boxer made her an easy target for high school kids to see how tough she was. They, not she, failed in the test. For the public, her biggest test took place last summer in the New York State when she took on Jacqui Frazier Lyde, the daughter of Joe Frazier, her father’s most famous opponent (对手) during the 1970s.

That fight provided the biggest shot in the arm that women’s boxing has received. News reporters poured in. Some called it “Ali/Frazier – Generation II”. No match involving women had ever attracted so much attention. Laila had a narrow victory in the fight.

Like it or not, she accepts the fact that she is the face of female boxing. And she hopes that her name and fame will help get the public to take it more seriously.

The name Ali has and always will bring her attention. But she is determined to make her own mark on opponents’ faces as well as in boxing history books. She says, “I want women’s boxing to get its due respect.”

1.Laila took up boxing because of _____.

A.her father’s great status                 B.a Mike Tyson fight

C.her admiration for her father              D.her interest in boxing

2.From the passage we can know _____.

A.Laila’s husband is still a boxer now

B.Laila wants to make contributions to the sport of boxing

C.Laila’s husband doesn’t think boxing is a dangerous sport

D.when Laila was in high school, she often failed in the fight with other kids

3.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 mean?

A.That fight proved that Laila was a person of physical power.

B.That fight made female boxing more popular.

C.That fight provided people with a good change to enjoy themselves.

D.Laila made her first public appearance in that fight.

4. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A.A female boxer ---- Laila Ali                B.The best-known fight

C.Ali/Frazie ---- Generation II                D.Muhammad Ali and his daughter

 

D

When Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her, "Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesn't work out, you'll have something to rely on." Mary responded in typical teenage fashion. From that moment on, "the very last thing I ever thought about doing was taking a typing course," she recalls.

The show business thing worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won many awards. Only recently, when she began to write Growing Up Again, did she regret ignoring her mom," I don't know how to use a computer," she admits.

Unlike her 1995 autobiography, After All, her second book is less about life as an award-winning actress and more about living with diabetes (糖尿病). All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), an organization she serves as international chairman. "I felt there was a need for a book like this," she says." I didn't want to lecture, but I wanted other diabetics to know that things get better when we're self-controlled and do our part in managing the disease."

But she hasn't always practiced what she teaches. In her book, she describes that awful day, almost 40 years ago, when she received two pieces of life-changing news. First, she had lost the baby she was carrying, and second, tests showed that she had diabetes. In a childlike act, she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts (甜甜圈). Years would pass before she realized she had to grow up ---again---and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her. Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet.

Although her disease has affected her eyesight and forced her to the sidelines of the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-pity. "Everybody on earth can ask, 'why me?' about something or other," she insists. "It doesn't do any good. No one is immune (免疫的) to heartache, pain, and disappointments. Sometimes we can make things better by helping others. I've come to realize the importance of that as I've grown up this second time. I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be."

1.We can know that before 1995 Mary ___________.

A.had two books published

B.received many career awards

C.knew how to use a computer

D.supported the JDRF by writing

2.Mary's second book Growing Up Again is mainly about her _________.

A.living with diabetes

B.successful show business

C.service for an organization

D.remembrance of her mother

3.When Mary received the life-changing news, she __________ .

A.lost control of herself                    B.began a balanced diet

C.meant to get a treatment                  D.behaved in an adult way

4.What can we know from the last paragraph?

A.Mary feels pity for herself.

B.Mary has recovered from her disease.

C.Mary wants to help others as much as possible.

D.Mary determines to go back to the dance floor.

 

Some American parents might think their children need better education to compete with China and other countries’ children. But how much do the parents themselves need to change?

A new book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother written by Amy Chua has caused a debate about cultural differences in parenting. Ms. Chua is a professor at the Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, and a mother of two daughters. She was raised in America by immigrant Chinese parents. In her book, Ms. Chua wrote about how she demanded excellence from her daughters. For example, she threatened to burn her daughter’s dolls unless she played a piece of music perfectly. She would scold her daughters if they failed to meet her expectations.

Ms. Chua had a clear list of what her daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were not permitted to do: “Attend a sleepover, have a play date, watch TV or play computer games, be in a school play, get any grade less than an A.” Many people criticize Amy Chua, saying her parenting methods were cruel and violent. She even admits that her husband, who is not Chinese, sometimes objected to her parenting style. But she says that is the way her parents raised her and her three sisters.

Ms. Chua says she eased some of the pressure after her younger daughter rebelled and shouted “I hate my life! I hate you!” But she also says American parents often have low expectations of their children’s abilities. Amy Chua thinks one of the biggest differences between Western and Chinese parents is that Chinese parents take on strength rather than fragility.”

Stacy DeBroff, who has written four books on parenting, says: “Parents should rethink, what does it mean to be a successful parent and what does it mean to be a successful child?” She says Amy Chua’s parenting style is not limited to Chinese families. It represents a traditional way of parenting among immigrants seeking a better future for their children. But she also sees a risk. When children have no time to be social or to follow their own interests, they might not develop other skills that they need to succeed in life. Stacey DeBroff advises parents to develop their own style of parenting and not just repeat the way they were raised.

1.Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is mainly about ___________.

    A. how to teach children to learn music

    B. how to change the ways of parenting

    C. Amy Chun’s experience in parenting

D.  Amy Chun’s reflection of her family life

2.The underlined word “rebelled” in Paragraph 4 probably means “____________”.

    A. disobeyed       B. succeeded       C. failed          D. panicked

3.According to Ms. Chua, Chinese way of parenting is powerful because ____________.

   A. parents set good examples to children

   B. parents understand their children better

   C. parents usually treat their children as friends

   D. parents have high expectations of their children

4.What is Stacy DeBroff’s warning to immigrant parents?

   A. Don’t expect too much from their children.

   B. Don’t allow them to communicate with others.

   C. Don’t give them freedom to do what they want to.

   D. Don’t bring up their children as their parents did.

 

Michel is a young girl who works for the police 21  a handwriting expert. She has helped   22  many criminals  by using her special talents  When she was fourteen, Michel was already  23  interested in the differences in her friends'   24  that she would spend hours  25  them. After  26  college she went to France for a  27  two-year class in handwriting at the School of Police Science.

Michel says that it is  28  for people to hide their handwriting. She can discover 29  of what she needs to know simply   30 looking at the writing with her own eyes,  31  she also has machines  32   help her make   33   different kinds of paper and ink. This knowledge is often   34  great help to the police.

Michel believes that handwriting is a good   35  of what kind of person the    36   is. "I wouldn't go out with a fellow    37  I didn't like his handwriting.” She says. But she  38 she fell in love with her future husband, a young policeman  39   she studied his handwriting. It is later proved to be   40 , however.

1.

A.with

B.as

C.by

D.like

 

2.

A.search  

B.follow  

C.judge

D.catch

 

3.

A.too    

B.quite   

C.so

D.extra

 

4.

A.handwriting

B.books  

C.letter 

D.tongues

 

5.

A.studying

B.writing  

C.settling  

D.uncovering

 

6.

A.attending

B.starting  

C.stepping into

D.finishing

 

7.

A.powerful   

B.special

C.natural     

D.common

 

8.

A.impossible

B.main  

C.safe   

D.easy

 

9.

A.nothing 

B.most 

C.little

D.sight

 

10.

A.with    

B.of 

C.about

D.by

 

11.

A.so     

B.but

C.for   

D.thus

 

12.

A.they    

B.that

C.in which    

D.those

 

13.

A.up

B.for   

C.out

D.into

 

14.

A.to    

B.of 

C.with  

D.for

 

15.

A.sign

B.test  

C.means

D.habit

 

16.

A.thief    

B.writer  

C.criminal  

D.policeman

 

17.

A.if

B.whether  

C.unless     

D.after

 

18.

A.tells  

B.repeats  

C.cries

D.adds

 

19.

A.after   

B.before 

C.so   

D.and

 

20.

A.necessary

B.important  

C.quite easy

D.all right

 

When most people think of giant pandas, the pictures of the cute, black-and-white bears from China that eat bamboo will immediately jump into their mind. Scientists from Mississippi State University, however, are interested in what they leave behind: their poop(排泄物). At a recent meeting in Denver, Professor Brown at the university presented her research showing how panda poop could inspire a new way to obtain energy from plants, which are a renewable energy source. Usually, plants can be called biomass(有机燃料) when they are used as an energy source.

     Burning biomass is one way to capture its energy, but Brown hopes panda poop can teach scientists something about breaking down biomass. Pandas—or at least the bacteria in their stomachs—are very good at getting energy out of bamboo. Unlike cows, which use 4 stomachs to digest large amounts of grass, a panda has only one stomach. Bamboo comes in, and poop goes out.

     Every day for 14 months, Brown and her team on this project, counted the bacteria in the poop of the two pandas, YaYa and LeLe living at the Memphis Zoo. Her studies turned up 12 species of bacteria that break down biomass, including one that had never been found in pandas. Brown says that because the poop contains bacteria that break down biomass, it could also be used to break down other types of biomass.

     Now the scientists hope to identify the chemicals that help with the process of breaking down biomass and then figure out how the bacteria work. If those chemicals can be made in the lab, they could be used to turn biomass—like grass or other plants—into fuel.

     Brown says she doesn’t mind handling panda poop. “It’s probably the most pleasant material to work with,” she says, “My colleagues and I have been working with other poop for a long time, and we can assure you it has a fairly pleasant smell associated with it.”

1.The importance of studying panda poop is _______.

A. to create a renewable energy from plants    

B. to explore a new way to get energy from plants

C. to learn a lesson of energy from panda poop 

D. to figure out how the bacteria work for us mankind

2.The process of the panda poop project can be described as ______.

a. Identify the chemicals helpful to break down biomass.

b. Find the bacteria in panda poop which break down bamboo.

c. Reproduce the chemicals in the lab to turn biomass into energy.

d. Analyze how the bacteria in panda poop work in panda’s stomach.

A. a, b, d, c           B. a, d, c, b           C. b, a, d, c           D. b, d, a, c

3.What does the author mainly want to express in the 2nd paragraph?

A. Pandas don’t digest bamboo the same way as cows.

B. Pandas are capable of getting energy using stomachs.

C. Pandas can get energy from bamboo more efficiently.

D. Scientists have learnt something new from panda poop.

4.What does Professor Brown think of working with panda poop?

A. Sick             B. Challenging          C. Inspiring            D. Enjoyable

 

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