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Easy isn’t a word the disabled use very much. Nothing is easy when you’re in a wheelchair or when you’re blind. But Karen Mitchell knows legs aren’t needed to walk the waves. “I forget about my disability, ”Mitchell says about sailing. And Janice Bartleson doesn’t need eyes to see the wind.
US Olympic gold medalist Magnus Liljedahl says sailing is one of the few sports where the disabled can leave their disability on the dock and be as good as anyone else. “The first half of my life, I was mainly concerned about myself, ” Liljedahl says. “But when we leave we can’t take anything with us, so it’s important to give back to the community. ”
Working in partnership with Miami’s non-profit Shake-a-Leg Foundation, more than 3, 000 disabled people every year are getting a chance to forget their disabilities and feel spray (浪花)in their faces.
Liljedahl believes the reward is in the journey. And for him, this journey has been a rich one. “I’ve really learned to appreciate life by seeing what they’ve got to deal with, ”he says. And he’s also become a better sailor. It’s a story you often hear from volunteers. Helping others often helps them more. It reawakens senses dulled over time because the able-bodied take those senses for granted.
At the dock, all seem to enjoy the chance to get their feet wet. “It gives me a feeling of independence and freedom, ”Manuela Hoyos says, “I feel free from my wheelchair. ”
56. Which of the following is TRUE about Shake-a-Leg Foundation?
A. It helps the disabled make money.
B. It was established by Magnus Liljedahl.
C. It offers the disabled sailing chances.
D. It helps the disabled meet with Olympic champions.
57. By doing volunteer work, Liljedahl _______ .
A. forgets his disability completely
B. wins an Olympic gold medal
C. has a better understanding of life
D. finds many people with a talent for sailing
58. The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 4 refers to _______.
A. the disabled
B. the volunteers
C. US Olympic champions
D. Magnus Liljedahl and Manuela Hoyos
59. It can be inferred from the text that _______.
A. Mitchell has a disability with her legs
B. Janice Bartleson moves around in a wheelchair
C. Liljedahl won his first Olympic gold medal in Miami
D. Manuela Hoyos is a volunteer at the dock
We all, at one time or another, have pretended to be a rock star, singing and dancing along to our favorite song. Most of us have done this in the privacy of our own room when we were kids and as adults, in the privacy of our homes. Me? I love to do that when I drive! I turn on the radio, find a song that I can sing along too and pretty soon my arms are in the air and I am moving along to the rhythm. Most of the time, I do this on my way to work.
Yes, that is true, I will be in my nice work clothes, jamming while driving or stopped at a traffic light I get weird（古怪的）looks from some people and others laugh. Personally, I love to get lost in the rhythm of a song which leads me to share with you the importance of being silly!
The definition for the word silly, according to the dictionary is: stupid, foolish and nonsensical. I know many people do not want to look foolish. So they walk around all serious, which in all honesty, is foolish!
No one is perfect, I repeat: no one is perfect. I don't care how educated, how thin, how beautiful, how simple, how frugal （节俭的）, how rich, and so on...No one is perfect! So why pretend to be something you are not?
Life is so short. You never know when this beautiful journey will be over, so why waste a single second on being so full of rigidity（呆板）? Here is a quote by Souza, that I think says it all and is a great recipe for life:
"Dance as though no one is watching you,
Love as though you have never been hurt before,
Sing as though no one can hear you,
Live as though heaven is on earth."
When we were kids, we had no idea of what limitations were and we had no care in the world so we could do things without worrying about how we appeared to others. However, as we grew up, we lost that childlike innocence.
So don't lose the child that still lives within you. The next time you feel down, go turn on your favorite song, and sing and dance along like there is no tomorrow or watch something that makes you laugh. Laughter is the best medicine to whatever ails （使……痛苦） you and nothing is better than laughing so hard that your stomach hurts. Trust me, you will feel a whole lot better, and who doesn't want to feel good?
1.According to the text, what does the writer usually do?
A. He repeats the words of songs.
B. He sings songs on his way to work.
C. He dances in his own home.
D. He shares music with other drivers.
2.What does the writer think of the people who look very serious?
A. They are honest. B. They are educated. C. They are perfect. D. They are foolish.
3.The writer quotes Souza to show that____.
A. life is a beautiful journey B. life is full of rigidity
C. life is to be treasured D. life is a great recipe
4.Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. The Innocence of Being a Child B. The Importance of Being Silly
C. No One Is Perfect D. Life Is Short
假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号∧，并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线＼划掉。
修改：在错词下面划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2、只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Dear Mr. Smith,
I’m very much glad to hear that your shopping centre will build non-smoking supermarket. In my opinion, it’s a good idea to do so, for it can not only help the smokers to smoke less, and it can also do good to other customers’ health. Since you had given up selling cigarettes, the customers don’t like smoking are sure to support you. In addition, smoke in the shopping centre may cause fire, which is dangerous to both your possessions and the safe of the customers. In a word, the non-smoking supermarket will not effect your business. To the contrary, it will help you attract more customers who want to keep health.
Best wishes!
单词拼写—注意运用该单词的正确形式（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
1.He got a job in a foreign company after g ___________(毕业) from university.
2.Two-thirds of people there died or were ___________ (受伤) during the earthquake
3.She felt the warm sand b__________ (在…下面 )her feet.
4.I like my sister but she has one serious ______________(缺点).
5.I like the way you o_________(组织) the information in the report.
6.India has a lot of f____________ English speakers.
7.I'm rather u___________ to hear that you didn't get the job you wanted.
8.When people use words and e____________ different from the “standard language”, it is called a dialect.
9.China is our motherland, and Chinese is our n__________ language.
10.According to the weather f__________ it will rain tomorrow.
I have eyes that are said to be “cow brown,” and my long fair hair is my best feature （特征）.I’m not overweight, but I’m not too 1 either.
I’m relatively happy with my 2 , but where did I get it? Do I share the same features as some unknown stranger? 3 , while walking down the street, I tried to 4 that stranger, imagining that one of the women I passed 5 possibly be my biological mother（生母）.
For a long time I wondered what life would be like with 6 . I was never 7 with my life. I just never 8 wondering what it would be like to have been raised by my biological mother. And then one day, I 9 a poem which compared adoption（收养） 10 a seed that was planted by one person and then taken care of by another. The second person had 11 the seed and made it grow to be tall and beautiful. I found that it compared perfectly to my 12 .
Gradually I 13 that my mom had made me who I am today. She did my hair for my first dance. She was there for my first hear break…She’d been there for 14 that ever mattered. And I started to notice that we had the same silly 15 , the same attitude to life, and the same way of treating people.
Sometimes when we’re out somewhere, people comment on 16 we look alike, and we turn to each other and laugh, 17 until that moment that she wasn’t the one who gave birth to me.
18 I may not know why I look the way I do, I know why I am who I am. The mom I have now is the 19 one I ever could have hoped for, not only because she holds a huge amount of unconditional（无条件的）love, but because she has 20 who I am today.
1．A．thin B．fat C．strong D．weak
2．A．eyes B．appearance C．weight D．hair
3．A．Still B．Even C．Again D．Often
4．A．run after B．pick out C．bring back D．turn down
5．A．should B．would C．could D．must
6．A．the biologist B．my adoptive mother
C．The stranger D．my birth mother
7．A．dissatisfied B．content C．angry D．pleased
8．A．enjoyed B．stopped C．escaped D．allowed
9．A．wrote down B．put up C．handed out D．came across
10．A．with B．for C．to D．as
11．A．buried B．harvested C．planted D．watered
12．A．thought B．seed C．situation D．history
13．A．realized B．guessed C．hated D．expected
14．A．something B．everything C．everyone D．someone
15．A．problem B．illness C．adoption D．personality
16．A．how much B．how far C．where D．why
17．A．proving B．noticing C．forgetting D．remembering
18．A．As B．Unless C．Though D．Until
19．A．happiest B．best C．prettiest D．wisest
20．A．saved B．regretted C．shaped D．declared
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