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  My wife and I spent a few weeks in London last year.We went there in the  1  We think it is the  2  season to visit England.The  3  is usually good  4  there aren't many  5  in October.

  We  6  in small hotel in the West End.We  7  most of our sightseeing on foot.We went to  8  the places which all travellers see.We went shopping and spent  9  much money. 10  we liked most going to the  11  We don't have the  12  to see such  13  plays at home.A lot of people say English  14  is very bad.We didn't think  15 . it is  16  that most of the restaurants are French,Italian or Chinese,but we had some very  17  meals.

  In fact,we  18  our boliday so much that we have already decided to go there again this year.We are going to take our umbrellas, 19  I'm sure we will need  20  sometimes.

1.

[  ]

A.spring
B.summer
C.autumn
D.winter

2.

[  ]

A.best
B.worst
C.darkest
D.busiest

3.

[  ]

A.month
B.day
C.season
D.weather

4.

[  ]

A.so
B.because
C.since
D.and

5.

[  ]

A.hotels
B.people
C.travellers
D.workers

6.

[  ]

A.worked
B.played
C.Stayed
D.spent

7.

[  ]

A.missed
B.showed
C.made
D.did

8.

[  ]

A.lood for
B.look after
C.lood at
D.lood up

9.

[  ]

A.fewer
B.less
C.such
D.too

10.

[  ]

A.What
B.That
C.So
D.And

11.

[  ]

A.restaurant
B.shop
C.hotel
D.theatre

12.

[  ]

A.chance
B.time
C.money
D.hope

13.

[  ]

A.terrible
B.wonderful
C.bad
D.sad

14.

[  ]

A.film
B.food
C.play
D.street

15.

[  ]

A.it
B.that
C.this
D.so

16.

[  ]

A.true
B.truly
C.real
D.really

17.

[  ]

A.good
B.Well
C.sorry
D.poor

18.

[  ]

A.disliked
B.interested
C.pleased
D.enjoyed

19.

[  ]

A.although
B.though
C.but
D.yet

20.

[  ]

A.some
B.any
C.them
D.it

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being.

She said, “Hi, girl! My name is Rose. I’m 87 years old. Can I give you a hug?”

I laughed and enthusiastically(热情地)responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze.

 “Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked. She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of children, and then retire and travel!”

 “No seriously,” I said. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

 “I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me.

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I’ll never forget what she taught us.

 “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only two secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor everyday. You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die!” she said.

“There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn 20 years older. If I am 87 years old, and stay in bed for a year, and never do anything, I will turn 88. Anybody can grow older. But every minute counts for young men,” she added.

 “The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets.”

She concluded her speech by courageously singing “The Song of Rose”. She challenged each of us to study the lyrics(歌词)and live them out in our daily lives.

At the year’s end, Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep.

13. Rose made herself known to the author in a ______ manner.

  A. serious          B. cold           C. humorous          D. crazy

14. From the information provided in the passage, we know ______.

A. Rose finished the college degree within a year

B. Rose did realize her dream of meeting a rich husband and getting married through college education

C. Rose enjoyed her campus life very much

D. Rose grew so old that she stopped playing

15. Rose delivered the speech ______.

  A. at the graduation                               B. which she prepared carefully

  C. ended with “The Song of Rose”                   D. to challenge all the other speakers

16. According to her speech, ______.

  A. whenever you have a dream, you succeed          

B. all people don’t grow up while growing older

C. Rose usually regretted having done something

D. a nine-year-old is as old as a 87-year-old if he doesn’t do anything

When my brother and I were young, my mom would take us on Transportation Days.

It goes like this: You can't take any means of transportation more than once. We would start from home, walking two blocks to the rail station. We'd take the train into the city center, then a bus, switching to the train, then maybe a taxi. We always considered taking a horse carriage in the historic district, but we didn't like the way the horses were treated, so we never did. At the end of the day, we took the subway to our closest station, where Mom's friend was waiting to give us a ride home—our first car ride of the day.

The good thing about Transportation Days is not only that Mom taught us how to get around. She was born to be multimodal (多方式的). She understood that depending on cars only was a  failure of imagination and, above all, a failure of confidence—the product of a childhood not spent exploring subway tunnels.

Once you learn the route map and step with certainty over the gap between the train and the platform, nothing is frightening anymore. New cities are just light­rail lines to be explored. And your personal car, if you have one, becomes just one more tool in the toolbox—and often an inadequate one, limiting both your mobility and your wallet.

On Transportation Days, we might stop for lunch on Chestrut Street or buy a new book or toy, but the transportation was the point. First, it was exciting enough to watch the world speed by from the train window. As I got older, my mom helped me unlock the mysteries that would otherwise have paralyzed my first attempts to do it myself: How do I know where to get off? How do I know how much it costs? How do I know when I need tickets, and where to get them? What track, what line, which direction, where's the stop, and will I get wet when we go under the river?

I'm writing this right now on an airplane, a means we didn't try on our Transportation Days and, we now know, the dirtiest and most polluting of them all. My flight routed me through Philadelphia. My multimodal mom met me for dinner in the airport. She took a train to meet me.

1. According to the writer, what was the greatest benefit of her Transportation Days?

A.Building confidence in herself.

B.Reducing her use of private cars.

C.Developing her sense of direction.

D.Giving her knowledge about vehicles.

2. The underlined word “paralyzed”(in Para.5) is closest in meaning to “________”.

A.displayed      B.justified       C.ignored       D.ruined

3. Which means of transportation does the writer probably disapprove of?

A.Airplane.      B.Subway.       C.Train.        D.Car.

 

Children, especially at young ages, are very creative. And creativity can be a glorious(极好的) thing. Look at all the amazing artists and architects that have created glorious pieces of history. Look at all the authors with the award winning books. Now I am not saying everyone is going to end up this way but creativity is an important part of growing up and becoming who you are. This should be encouraged in young children as well as the older children.

Young children grow up playing with make-believe. And so many people try to make their young child see that their invisible friend isn’t real or that talking when someone is not in the room is weird. To adults it is, but for small children it is them being creative. May it be them playing house, or chef, or playing with stuffed animals, it is their creative part coming out. Some kids can have fun playing with rocks and sticks and it’s because of their creativeness that they can do this. The invisible friend part is another part of being imaginative, and is not a bad thing since they will grow out of that phase(阶段). So encourage this and play along with them, play house, or stuffed animals or whatever they want to play. Help keep their imagination running. You can even make up games, like treasure hunts, or dinosaurs, super heroes; there is just so much you can choose from.

All this can help your children’s minds stay creative. The arts and music, even thoughts are an important part of life and important in our society. If we didn’t have and encourage creative thinking, we wouldn’t have had inventors, or philosophers, or as I said before, artists.

1.The underlined word “weird” is close in meaning to            .

A. familiar        B. strange        C. common       D. natural

2.According to the author, if a child talks alone in a room, we should          .

A. let him be

B. stop him from doing so

C. give him some advice

D. know that he is suffering from loneliness

3.What is mainly talked about in the passage?

A. How creative artists and architects are born.

B. How to help children grow up in a healthy way.

C. What kind of activities children like.

D. How to help children to be creative.

4.The author of the passage would agree that          .

A. every child can become creative artists or inventors

B. creative people all show strange behaviors when young

C. creativity brings out great artists and architects   

D. creativity is a natural ability to be born with

 

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