I learned about life from an ant farm. When I was seven years old, my family tried to __1__ an ant farm at home. First, we put clean sand in a thin glass box, and then we brought some ants from the backyard and placed them into the __2__ home.

Shortly after the new __3__ were dropped into the glass structure, they got to work making tunnels. I was amazed that each one knew __4__ what to do. After hours of staring, I realized that the ants had particular given jobs. With my mom’s help, I kept a journal of what happened each day and __5__ the ants. My favorite was the biggest, Cinderella. I drew a picture of her in my journal, which I still have.

On day five a disaster __6__ the ant farm. While I was __7__ the ants, I had put my face so close to the structure that I accidentally tipped it over, __8__ in all the tunnels. Although the ants __9__ their earthquake, one by one they began to die. I was __10__ as I watched them give up their tunnel-building to carry the bodies to a corner of the farm. My mother reported that the ants were dying of “frustration”—feeling annoyed and impatient as they couldn’t control the situation. They simply could not __11__ the reality that their tunnels had been destroyed. Cinderella was the last to die; she did so while carrying a dead ant on her back.

Although much time has passed, I still think of that ant farm. Mom had hoped it would teach me about the natural world, __12__ it taught me much more. __13__ the years, I came to realize the ants were a study in the benefits of __14__. Working together, they were able to create a(n) __15__ world for themselves. I also learned that they should be __16__ for their hard work. Day in and day out, each labored at their task. The ant farm demonstrated that teamwork and perseverance are indeed two key __17__ to success. But there was an even larger lesson that I did not __18__ until recently: Disaster is a natural part of life, and must be __19__. Unlike the ants, humans cannot give up when they face __20__. Unlike the ants, we have to realize that if a tunnel caves in, we just have to build another.

1.                A.get            B.buy            C.run  D.find

 

2.                A.empty          B.new           C.strange   D.distant

 

3.                A.guests          B.settlers         C.friends   D.members

 

4.                A.probably        B.roughly         C.exactly   D.normally

 

5.                A.named         B.trained         C.compared     D.measured

 

6.                A.affected        B.struck          C.kicked    D.beat

 

7.                A.removing       B.teaching        C.observing D.collecting

 

8.                A.turning         B.rushing         C.filling D.caving

 

9.                A.experienced     B.predicted       C.faced D.survived

 

10.               A.annoyed        B.horrified        C.moved    D.thrilled

 

11.               A.reflect         B.ignore         C.confirm   D.stand

 

12.               A.and           B.but            C.so    D.or

 

13.               A.In             B.For            C.From D.Over

 

14.               A.teamwork       B.devotion        C.responsibility   D.organization

 

15.               A.relaxing        B.amusing        C.moving    D.amazing

 

16.               A.supported      B.inspired        C.admired   D.admitted

 

17.               A.certificates      B.approaches     C.ingredients D.circumstances

 

18.               A.give           B.realize         C.take  D.adopt

 

19.               A.accepted       B.suffered        C.achieved D.managed

 

20.               A.challenges      B.barriers        C.pressure  D.disappointment

 

 

阅读下列各小题,根据汉语句子,用括号内的英语单词完成句子。

1.But for his help, we.                  the program in time.(finish)

要是没有他的帮忙,我们就不可能按时完成这个项目了

2.With          he didn't know what to do next.(arise)

随着很多问题的出现,他不知道下一步该做什么了。

3.              before we take the college entrance examination.(be)

要不了多久我们就要参加高考了。

4.He                   aloud in the study when he heard his father open the door.(pretend)

当他听到爸爸的开门声,他假装在书房大声读书。

5.Having spent some time in the city, he had no trouble                       the History Museum. (find)

他在这个城市已经呆了一段时间,因此毫不费力就找到了去历史博物馆的路。

6.So           with my work that I haven't had time for social activities.(occupy)

我一直忙于学习,以至于没有时间去参加社交活动。

7.When we went shopping last week, Mary spent            as I did.(much)

我们上周去购物的时候,玛丽花掉的钱只有我花掉的一半。

8.Now that she is out of work, Lucy           to school, but she hasn't decided yet.(consider)

因为Lucy失业了,她一直在考虑重回学校,但还没最后决定。

9.Charlie Chaplin made the people laugh at a time            so they could feel more content with their lives.(depress)

在人们感到沮丧的时候,卓别林可以使他们开怀大笑,于是人们就对自己的生活感到比较满足。

10.It was more important to me to know how  people thought, because that gave me insight into the way                       .( work )

对我来说更重要的是去了解人们的想法是怎样产生的,因为这能让我洞察到与他们最好的合作方式。

 

If I raised the question, “What would be the last thing you would expect to happen while watching your son’s flag football game?” you probably still couldn’t come up with what happened to me and my family.

As we were sitting on the sidelines enjoying the game, a low-flying bird came swooping in attempting to land on my daughter’s head! It honestly came out of nowhere. We were seated by ourselves on the tree lined side of the field. I was able to calm my daughter’s shock and fear once I showed her that the bird was not some wild animal, it was in fact, somebody’s pet!

Now, we’re sitting at the outdoor fields of the Pontiac Silverdome, far from any populated area, wondering where this very social cockatiel, an Australian parrot (澳洲鹦鹉) could have come from. I walked up to the bird and put out my hand. Immediately, it hopped on and chirped in a friendly way. We looked around us and knew that we could not just leave and suppose that the bird would return to where it came from. This was a very domesticated bird that needed help or it would not survive.

The flag football game had ended so we walked the bird over to other groups of adults and asked if they knew of anyone who had lost a bird. All the kids were excited about the bird and fed it with some post game snacks. The bird’s nails were getting long and he was looking pretty dirty, so we knew it had been out here for a long time and was hungry. Since its wings were clipped, it could fly a little but probably not more than 100 yards or so at a try. We all just scratched our heads as a group wondering what to do with the lost bird.

We explained to the kids that this bird needed our help since it was someone’s pet and would not know how to get its own food, and it could not fly well since its wings were clipped. The kids understood, and all of them wanted to take the bird home! The parents however, knew this was not a good choice as one had a large dog, another two cats, etc. We explained to the kids that one of us could take the bird home for the night and then bring it to the Humane Society in the morning in hopes to connect it to its owners. We couldn’t keep the bird. It wasn’t ours. This was tough for the kids to understand at first. We couldn’t just leave the bird either. There was no way it could attend itself. The group of us sat around the Silverdome practice fields for quite a while trying to determine the best course of choice for the lost bird. It was getting dark out but no one was willing to leave that parking lot until we had a game plan for how to help the bird.

The owner of the football league, Chris Novak, offered to take the bird. It was extremely nice of him and he really stepped in to help while all the rest of us who had kids tugging on our shirts and begging to take it home. We took a box and put a bunch of holes in it and he brought it home for the night. Another mom went online and found a family that had lost a bird that looked just like the one we’d found. She emailed the info to Chris who got in touch with the family and the next day, reunited the bird with the family that lost it almost 3 weeks earlier! When Chris emailed us to let us know, we could not believe that this bird had traveled from The Rochester Tienken area all the way to the Silverdome!

We were so happy to be able to save this bird and get it back to its family. I showed my kids the email about how the other family got their pet back. The family has 3 kids who were so happy to see their bird. My kids realized what a nice ending this story had. Not only had we been able to save this bird’s life, but we were able to bring it back to the family that loves and misses him.

The life lesson in the missing bird story seemed to miss its mark with my kids at first. They were a little bummed out that they couldn’t keep the lost bird. I explained to them that when an animal or someone needs help, you just can’t turn a blind eye and hope everything works out OK. The “lost bird incident” was also a reminder to them that teamwork and the kindness of strangers can make a world of difference and that a group of well-meaning strangers can work together to help someone. It wasn’t a heroic act, but one that I knew had sunk in with my kids when they realized that trying to help was the best and only real course of action.  

1.What happened when the author watched his son’s football games?

A.A parrot tried to eat their food.

B.His daughter was hurt by a parrot.

C.A parrot flew towards his daughter.

D.A parrot landed on his daughter’s head.

2.The underlined word “domesticated” in the second paragraph probably means_______.

A.having been abandoned                  B.having been used to home life

C.having been used to life in the wild          D.having been week and hungry

3.Who was the first one to find the bird’s owner?

A.The author                            B.Chris Novak

C.The Humane Society                     D.A participant’s mother

4.What can be learned from the “lost bird incident”?

A.Strangers can also work well together.

B.Humane Society helps children in teamwork.

C.Children can keep lost injured pet birds home.

D.Helping others is always regarded as a heroic act.

5.What did the author want to tell in the text?

A.How to help a lost parrot to find home.

B.The experience of watching a football games.

C.The importance of teamwork and helping others.

D.How a parrot can fly a long distance from home.

6.The best title of the text should be________. 

A.What Animals Can Teach Us

B.Complete Care for a Lost Bird

C.Life Lessons When You Least Expect It

D.Love First, Teamwork and Kindness Second

 

Thanks to the Internet, a whole new online world has been opened up for us to meet, chat and go where we’ve never been before.

But just as in face to face communication, there are some rules of behavior that should be followed when on line.  The basic rule is simple: treat others in the same way you would want to be treated.   Imagine how you’d feel if you were in the other person’s shoes.

For anything you’re about to send: ask yourself, “Would I say this to the person’s face?” if the answer is no, rewrite and reread.  Repeat the process till you feel sure that you’d feel comfortable saying words to a person’s  face.

If someone in the chat room is rude to you, your instinct (本能) is to fire back in the same manner. But try not to do so.  Just pay no attention to it, or block his message.  If it was caused by a disagreement with another member, try to fix the situation by politely discussing it. Remember to respect the beliefs and opinions of others in the chat room.

Everyone was new to the network once.  Offer advice when asked by newcomers, as they may not be sure what to do or how to communicate. When someone makes a mistake, whether it’s a stupid question or an unnecessarily long answer, be kind about it. If it’s a small mistake, you may not need to say anything. Even if you feel strongly about it, think twice before saying anything. Having good manners yourself doesn’t give you license to correct everyone else.

If you do decide to tell someone about a mistake, point it out politely At the same time, if you find you are wrong, be sure to correct yourself and apologize to those that you have offended.

It is not polite to ask others personal questions such as their age, sex and marital status. Unless you know the person very well, and you are both comfortable with sharing personal information, don’t ask such questions.

1.When you send short messages to a person, you must _______.

A.make sure they mean no harm

B.read them again and again

C.say something good to hear

D.repeat them later to his face

2.If you are hurt in the chat room by others, you should_____.

A.fight back in the same way

B.take it seriously

C.be angry at them

D.have none of them

3.If a newcomer who communicates online makes a mistake, you ___.

A.should point it out immediately

B.can say something about it

C.have the duty to correct it

D.shouldn’t give advice unless required

4.The passage mainly tells us _______.

A.rules of the chat room

B.some rules of Internet communication

C.ways of sending messages

D.ways of making online friends

 

When I settled in Chicago,my new city seemed so big and unfriendly. Then I had a     26        problem and had to go to hospital for a      27    examination.

    It seemed a small    28   compared to the one I was about to face ,but things started to go     29 right from the beginning , Not having a car or    30    the city, I was depending on a couple of buses to get me from A to B.     31   I’d left myself plenty of time, soon it was    32    I was going to be late, as I had mistakenly boarded a bus that was taking me in the      33    direction.

    I    34   the bus and stood on the pavement not knowing what to do. I looked into the eyes of a    35   , who was trying to get past me.     36  , instead of moving on ,she stopped to ask if I was     37   .  After I explained my    38    to her, she pointed to a bus stop across the street , where a bus would take me back into the city to my    39     . Sitting there waiting, I felt   40  that someone had been willing to help .    41    , hearing a horn (喇叭) nearby, I looked up to see a car with my new friend      42      at me to get in, She had returned to offer me a      43   to the hospital.

     Such unexpected      44   from a passer-by was a lovely gift to receive. As I climbed out of the car at the hospital and turned to thank her, she smiled and told me not to lose    45     , for all things are possible.

1.A. physical        B. traveling     C. social        D. housing

2.A. scientific       B. final         C. previous      D. thorough

3.A. chance         B. challenge     C. success       D. error

4.A. wrong         B. easy          C. fast          D. ahead

5.A. leaving        B. visiting       C. knowing       D. appreciating

6.A. Although       B. Since         C. Unless        D. Once

7.A. strange        B. necessary      C. obvious       D. important

8.A. same          B. right         C. general        D. opposite

9.A. looked at       B. waited for     C. got off        D. ran into

10.A. driver         B. friend         C. stranger       D. gentleman

11.A. Especially     B. Surprisingly    C. Probably      D. Normally

12.A. nervous       B. excited         C. OK          D. dangerous

13.A. idea          B. motivation      C. excuse        D. situation

14.A. appointment    B. apartment       C. direction     D. station

15.A. afraid         B. grateful         C. certain       D. disappointed

16.A. Thus          B. Then          C.  Perhaps     D. Surely

17.A. staring         B. laughing       C. waving       D. shouting

18.A. lift            B. suggestion      C. bike         D. guidebook

19.A. results         B. news          C. kindness      D. appearance

20.A. power         B. faith           C. touch        D. support

 

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