My job was to make classroom observations and encourage a training program that would enable students to feel good about themselves and take charge of their lives. Donna was one of the volunteer teachers who participated in this    36   .  

One day, I entered Donna’s classroom, took a seat in the back of the room and    37   . All the students were working    38    a task. The student next to me was filling her page with “I Can’ts.” “I can’t kick the soccer ball.” “I can’t get Debbie to like me.” Her page was half full and she showed no    39    of stopping. I walked down the row and found    40    was writing sentences, describing things they couldn’t do.  

By this time the activity aroused my    41   , so I decided to check with the teacher to see what was going on    42    I noticed she too was busy writing. “I can’t get John’s mother to come for a parents’ meeting.” …… I felt it best not to    43   .  

After another ten minutes, the students were    44    to fold the papers in half and bring them to the front. They placed their “I Can’t” statements into an empty shoe box. Then Donna  

45    hers. She put the lid on the box, tucked it under her arm and headed out the door.       Students followed the teacher. I followed the students. Halfway down the hallway Donna got a shovel from the tool house, and then marched the students to the farthest corner of the playground. There they began to    46   . The box of “I Can’ts” was placed at the    47    of the hole and then quickly covered with dirt. At this point Donna announced, “Boys and girls, please join hands and    48    your heads.” They quickly formed a circle around the grave.  

Donna delivered the eulogy (悼词). “Friends, we gathered here today to    49    the memory of ‘I Can’t.’ He is    50    by his brothers and sisters ‘I Can’ and ‘I Will’. May ‘I Can’t’ rest in51   . Amen!”  

She turned the students    52    and marched them back into the classroom. They celebrated the    53    of “I Can’t”. Donna cut a large tombstone from paper. She wrote the words “I Can’t” at the top and the date at the bottom, then hung it in the classroom. On those rare occasions when a student    54    and said, “I Can’t,” Donna    55    pointed to the paper tombstone. The student then remembered that “I Can’t” was dead and chose other statement.  

36. A. job

B. project

C. observation

D. course 

37. A. checked

B. noticed

C. watched

D. waited 

38. A. on

B. with

C. as

D. for 

39. A. scenes

B. senses

C. marks

D. signs 

40. A. nobody

B. somebody

C. everyone

D. anyone 

41. A. curiosity

B. suspect

C. sympathy

D. worry 

42. A. and

B. or

C. but

D. so 

43. A. insert

B. interrupt

C. talk

D. request 

44. A. taught

B. shown

C. forced

D. instructed 

45. A. added

B. wrote

C. made

D. folded 

46. A. cry

B. pray

C. dig

D. play 

47. A. back

B. bottom

C. top

D. edge 

48. A. drop

B. raise

C. fall

D. lift 

49. A. keep

B. thank

C. forgive

D. honor 

50. A. remembered

B. punished

C. removed

D. replaced 

51. A. silence

B. heart

C. peace

D. memory 

52. A. down

B. up

C. off

D. around 

53. A. birth

B. passing

C. loss

D. starting 

54. A. awoke

B. reminded

C. forgot

D. apologized 

55. A. simply

B. hardly

C. seriously

D. angrily 

Youth volunteers from Beijing University visited Songtang Hospital, a care clinic for the aged and dying patients, during the second Global Youth Service Day on April 21.

Thirty student volunteers from the university’s School of International Studies sat at the beds of the patients in their specially- decorated “care huts”. They talked with them and gave massages (按摩)to patients kept in their beds.

“I felt sorry that I could not offer more to these people than talking with them and trying to cheer them up.” said Deng Yetao, 20, a third - year student. “But it occurred to me that they need more care and love than babies. They are afraid of the coming death. Their loneliness is worse than physical pains.”

“Even though they are suffering a lot, the majority of the elderly people want to talk to us. Each of them has a lot of life experiences and philosophies to share. Instead of doing them a favor, I felt I was benefited a lot,” said Mao Xiao-hua, another third-year student.

Mao talked with two elderly patients for a whole afternoon. The fact that most of the patients in the 80 - room clinic are aged people with diseases what will lead to death soon made the volunteers’ hearts heavy.

Ninety-one percent of the patients will spend the last days of their lives in the clinic, according to a survey by the hospital. For people at this stage of their lives, loneliness is even more dreadful than death itself,” said Li Wei, president of the hospital.

Daily visits and services by social workers and youth volunteers are a very important part of their programmer. A total of 330, 000 Beijing students from 119 universities and colleges have visited the hospital. Many continue to offer services in their spare time. They showered them with kindnesses Some of them even volunteer to hold the hands of dying patients during the last minutes of their lives.

Yin Hang, a student from Beijing Medical College, said he felt“ the glory of life” as he saw the fading smile on the face of the old man who passed into a deep unconsciousness while he was holding his hands.

 

60.Which of the following do the aged people feel the most terrible?

A.Loneliness.                                       B.Death.

C.Illness                                                D.Poverty.

61.What does the underlined sentence “They showered them with kindnesses” mean?

A.They talked to them with patience.

B.They gave them massages with care.

C.They helped them with showers.

D.They offered them whatever help with affection.

62.What did the volunteers gain from this activity?

A.A great encouragement.                    B.A welcome favor.

C.A valuable lesson.                            D.A good reward.

63.We can learn from the report that     

A.young people are fond of popular social activities

B.the Global Youth Service Day was started in China

C.ninety-one percent of the aged in China are living  in clinics

D.the volunteers show a willing heart to this kind of activity

Seven Chinese sailors are missing after a Chinese cargo ship sank in Russian waters near Japan on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. “Some of the 10 Chinese sailors on board were saved but seven are still missing after the ship sank off the waters of Vladivostok,” said a statement on its website. The ministry didn't mention the cause of the incident, saying rescue efforts and an investigation into the incident are ongoing.

But the Global Times, a Chinese language newspaper based in Beijing, said yesterday the ship was fired on by the Russian navy before it sank. The news is first reported in a Russian newspaper. New Star, the cargo ship was sequestered(扣押) at the Russian port of Nakhodka earlier this month for alleged(被指控的,可疑的)smuggling. It left the port not far from the Sino-Russian border without permission from Russian authorities last Thursday and was chased(追) by a cruiser,the newspaper said. Later, the warship shot at least 500 rounds onto the ship and forced it to sail back toward the port in force 6 winds. However, the Chinese ship started to sink on the way According to the report,in a period of almost 24 hours,Russian navy officers and soldiers onboard the cruiser watched the sinking boat and did not make any response to the cries for help from the crewmen. In the end, 16 sailors onboard New Star got on two lifeboats.  The Russian sailors managed to save one boat carrying eight people,while the other was engulfed in the waves. Of all the sailors onboard 6 came from Indonesia.

The Russian News Agency reported the incident yesterday and said the coast guard just found an empty boat in a three-day search. It also said that bad weather was the reason behind the accident.

According to the International Maritime Organization, the owner of New Star is a shipping company of Zhejiang, while the operator is a company based in Guangzhou.

 

59. The passage may be found in         .

   A. magazines   B. newspapers  C. scientific fictions  D. biographies(传记)

60. How many Chinese sailors have been saved?

   A. 10    B. 7    C. 3    D. 6

61. Why did the Russian warship shoot the cargo ship?

    A. To force it to sink                           B. To force it to go back to China

    C. To force it to sail back to Russia       C. To kill the sailors on the ship

62. It can be inferred that         .

    A. the other 8 sailors may have died

    B. the Russian navy officers and soldiers were willing to help the sailors

    C. the Russian port was far from China

    D. the Chinese ship was not very good

    The word “parkour’ comes from a French phrase roughly translated as “military obstacle course(军事障碍课程).” All first glance parkour looks like an extreme sport, and it certainly has many of the same qualities of an extreme sport , However, it is considered by many tracers as more of an art and exercise, which allows for individual expression and also promotes, inner strength and personal growth,

   It introduces us to complete freedom from obstacles, and it is this freedom that makes parkour very appealing in strict control of modern society It is method that’s available to us at any time to deal with the obstacles facing us, both metal and physical, No obstacle, no barrier can stop the tranceur,: they continue moving forward in spite of, and in harmony with these,

While parkour does allow for a great deal of originality , there are certain methods commonly used when practicing it, The traceur choose his/her own path through the environment to create unique and flowing movement, adapting to and using anything in his path When many techniques or removes used to overcome obstacles are linked together in an efficient and continuous way it is known as a “run”, If you see someone that looks like they’re running from the police, but there is no one running after it’s probably parkour,

This idea of the chase represents and expresses the movement of parkour quite well, In fact, it is the form of movement that our ancient ancestors may have used to hunt for food, or escape from animals on the plains of Africa, In adapting instantly to whatever comes forth without thinking about it, we naturally flow over and around all obstacles. In practicing parkour, we are reviving and developing that ancient instinct(本能)

The attitude behind parkour also combines the mentality of a child at play , That unlimited imagination and energy combined with a complete ignoring of social practices epitomizes(成为…的缩影)the traceur, Others look at a rail or wall and see a barrier; we look at it and see a launch pal. And her, let’s not forget that we do this because it’s fun! The world is our jungle gym, let’s go play!

 

64. The underlined word in paragraph 1means            

A parkour participants    B. fitness experts

C sports psychologists   D. extreme sports lovers

65. Paragraph 4 is written to          

A show the way to develop ancient instinct    B introduce the evolution of parkour

C distinguish parkour from ancient instinct    D explain the origin of parkour

66. What do we know about parkour according to the passage?

A It is an activity dating back to ancient times,’

B People need to go past anything in the way while doing it.

C It’s difficult to do without the aid of professional equipment

D People need military training before taking part in it,

67. People may show interest in parkour because           

A they can get freed from routine activities and tasks

B it helps them to do their job efficiently in future

C they can develop both physically and mentally

D it has its roots in their childhood experience

 

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