阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从第41-55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。

I was fat kid who grew into an overweight adult. I was laughed at for being heavier than the other kids, me feeling shy. I tried several diets, but worked, and I gaining weight. Another factor my weight gain was my love for cooking, especially rich, high-fat desserts, which I enjoyed preparing and, of course, eating.

When I finished high school at the age of 18, I weighed 215 pounds. the self-confidence to go to a new, faraway school, I decided to stay close to home instead of going away to college. I continued with my unhealthful eating habits and felt more miserable as the weight came on, but I did nothing about it except buy larger plus-size clothes.

My turning point came 10 years later at a friend's New Year's Eve party when I was at my all-time highest weight of 330 pounds. I caught my in a mirror and the truth hit me: I was overweight and unhealthy, and unless I did something about it now, I would only get bigger and .

After leaving the party, I thought about my past weight-loss and realized they didn't work because they required me to abandon foods I loved. Then I would constantly think about food and binge, the diet satisfy my hunger and not feel deprived.

My biggest was finding a way to fit my passion for cooking into my healthier lifestyle. At first, I tried to stay away from the kitchen to prevent myself thinking about food. The result: Food was all I thought about. had to be some way to combine cooking with healthful eating. I found the after reading several low-fat cookbooks. With some trial and error, I could modify my favorite foods and make them low in fat, yet delicious.

The pounds started coming off, and when I started exercising (usually cardio and weight training five times a week), they seemed to melt away. I didn't feel deprived, and I felt free to give my body the care and attention it .

I lost 165 pounds over the next two years. I had many ups and downs. I was determined to go on. Another challenge to me was not to beat myself up if I ate something that was unhealthy and to take it as a sign to abandon my healthful habits. Instead I vowed to start again and always keep my goal in mind.

Thanks to losing weight and becoming fit I am my body and myself. I have finally found myself.

1.A.hardlyB.frequentlyC.immediately D.instantly

2.A.leftB.to leave C.leaving D.having left

3.A.nothingB.no one C.noneD.anything

4.A.ended up B.ended over C.ended up with D.was ended up

5.A.contributing to B.resulted in C.resulting from D.led to

6.A.lacking of B.lack of C.lacking D.lacked in

7.A.reflection B.infection C.imagination D.attention

8.A.unfamiliar B.unhappier C.unfriendly D.unfit

9.A.efforts B.affords C.effects D.infects

10.A.giving out B.giving in C.giving up D.giving away

11.A.challenge B.success C.energy D.work

12.A.It B.They C.There D.I

13.A.solution B.secret C.answer D.road

14.A.deserved B.focused C.caught D.paid

15.A.keep up with B.in line with C.put up with D.catch up with

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Dear Seth,

You are only three years old, and at this point in your life you can not read, much less understand what I’m going to tell you in this letter. But I’ve been thinking a lot about the life that you have _ you, about my life so far as I on what I’ve learned, and about my role as a dad in trying to prepare you for the that you will face in the coming years.

Be thankful. You are at a wonderful of life. You still have many wonderful stages of life, but they are not without costs and . I hope to help you along your path by sharing some of the best of __ I’ve learned. As with any advice, take it with a grain of . What works for me not work for you.

Life can be cruel. There will be people in your life won’t be very nice. They’ll laugh at you because you’re different, or for no good . They might try to bully you hurt you.

There’s not much you can do about these people except __ to deal with them, and learn to choose friends who are kind to you, who _ _ care about you and who make you feel good about yourself. When you find friends like this,_ __ them, treasure them, spend time with them, be kind to them and love them.

There will be __ when you meet with disappointment instead of success. Life won’t always _ _ the way you want. This is just another thing you’ll have to learn to deal with. But instead of letting these things get you down, push on, _ disappointment and learn to persevere and to pursue your dreams _ pitfalls. Learn to turn negatives into positives, and you will do much better in _ _. You will also face heartbreak and abandonment by those you love. I hope you don’t have to face this too much, but it happens. Again, there is not much you can do but to heal, and to move on with your life. Let these pains become stepping stones to better things in life, and learn to use them to make you .

1.A. regardless of B. ahead of C. at the back of D. in the form of

2.A. reflect B. rely C. depend D. insist

3.A. errors B. mistakes C. truths D. trails

4.A. crossing B. house C. stage D. office

5.A. challenges B. troubles C. difficulties D. risks

6.A. where B. which C. that D. what

7.A. rice B. salt C. corn D. wheat

8.A. must B. can C. might D. should

9.A. who B. whom C. while D. whose

10.A. consequence B. reason C. result D. cause

11.A. but B. though C. or D. otherwise

12.A. to learn B. learn C. learning D. learned

13.A. exactly B. entirely C. truly D. absolutely

14.A. tend to B. hold onto C. turn to D. lead to

15.A. days B. months C. time D. weeks

16.A. turn out B. turn up C. turn on D. lead to

17.A. avoid B. reject C. refuse D. accept

18.A. against B. despite C. within D. beyond

19.A. life B. study C. career D. family

20.A. richer B. kinder C. cleverer D. stronger

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阅读下面短文,从16-35各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

My grandma is good at gardening. She could make anything bloom(开花). __ __ me. In my eyes, she was inspiring and __ __. For most of her life, she lived on a farm, where she brought up four children, and buried my grandpa.

I visited her on weekends. After the gardening work, I was _ __ to climb the mountain, singing songs and gathering flowers. Sometimes the plants scratched me. She would say, "Beauty has a __ __. I hope it was worth it."

"Yes, ma' ma," I'd say. "__ _ was."

I loved gathering flowers on my own. But what I loved best was gathering them with her. Even then, as a child, I knew what I wanted most from my grandma was not her flowers, but her __ __. She's been gone for years, but sometimes, when I __ _down to pick a flower or pull a weed, I see her ___, not mine.

I thought I'd grow up to be a gardener too. I told myself, someday my children had children, I'd be a gardening grandma. Then the grandbabies started showing up, and I discovered 1'd much rather run after them __ __ go digging. Actually I'm no gardener. I'm a ____, not a planter. I differ from my grandma in lots of ways, but this: I will always carry ____ me a heart she made from her own.

I needn’t plant a garden. My children are my flowers. They delight and complete me with a beauty that is worth any price. All I need to do is ____ them with time, water them with love, and hope that someday, when they hold their first grandchild, they might see my hand.

1.A. Not B. Even C. Only D. Often

2.A. famous B. humorous C. caring D. amusing

3.A. determined B. anxious C. curious D. free

4.A. standard B. range C. price D. quality

5.A. It B. I C. She D. That

6.A. possession B. promise C. beauty D. time

7.A. climb B. reach C. look D. sit

8.A. smile B. spirit C. soul D. hand

9.A. than B. until C. unless D. since

10.A. worker B. teacher C. picker D. farmer

11.A.to B. within C. beyond D. for

12.A. attend B. miss C. promote D. influence

C

For high school leavers starting out in the working world, it is very important to learn particular skills and practice how to behave in an interview or how to find an internship (实习). In some countries, schools have programs to help students onto the path to work. In the United States, however, such programs are still few and far behind.

Research shows that if high schools provide career-related courses, students are likely to get higherearnings in later years. The students are more likely to stay in school, graduate and go on to higher education.

In Germany, students as young as 13 and 14 are expected to do internships. German companies work with schools to make sure that young people get the education they need for future employment. But in America, education reform programs focus on how well students do in exams instead of bringing them into contact with the working world. Harvard Education school professor Robert Schwartz has criticized education reformers for trying to place all graduates directly on the four-year college track. Schwartz argued that this approach leaves the country’s most vulnerable(易受影响的)kids with no jobs and no skills.

Schwartz believed that the best career programs encourage kids to go for higher education while also teach them valuable practical skills at high school. James Madison High School in New York, for example ,encourages students to choose classes on career-based courses. The school then helps them gain on-the-job experience in those fields while they’re still at high school.

However, even for teens whose schools encourage them to connect with work, the job market is daunting. In the US, unemployment rates for 16-to-19-year-olds are above 20 percent for the third summer in a row.

“The risk is that if teenagers miss out on the summer job experience, they will become part of this generation of teens who had trouble in landing a job,” said Michael, a researcher in the US.

1.In the author’s opinion, German high school leavers ______.

A. enjoy more career-related courses than that of US

B. need more career advice from their schools

C. perform better in exams than American students

D. are less brought into contact with the working world

2.According to Robert Schwartz, high school students should _________.

A. directly carry on higher education

B. get contact with the working world

C. focus on their performance in exams

D. not miss out on the summer job experience

3.The underlined word “daunting” in Paragraph 6 most probably mean “______”.

A. incredible B. motivating

C. impressive D. discouraging

4. What’s the main idea of the text?

A. Remarks on recent US high school education reform

B. Tips on finding jobs for high school leavers in US.

C. The lack of career-based education in US high schools.

D. The severe situation of unemployment in US.

After spending a year in Brazil on a student exchange program, her mother recalled(回忆), Marie Colvin returned home to find that her classmates had narrowed down their college choices. “Everyone else was already admitted to college,” her mother, Rosemarie Colvin, said from the family home. “So she took our car and drove up to Yale and said , ‘You have to let me in .’ ”

“Impressed--she was a National Merit (全国英才) finalist who had picked up Portuguese in Brazil--Yale did, admitting her to the class of 1978, where she started writing for the Yale Daily News and decided to be a journalist,” her mother said.

On Wednesday, Marie Colvin, 56, an experienced journalist for The Sunday Times of London, was killed as Syrian forces shelled(炮击) the city of Homs. She was working in a temporary media center that was destroyed in the attack.

“She was supposed to leave Syria on Wednesday”, Mrs. Colvin said. “Her editor told me he called her yesterday and said it was getting too dangerous and they wanted to take her out. She said she was doing a story and she wanted to finish it.”

Mrs. Colvin said it was pointless to try to prevent her daughter from going to conflict zones. “If you knew my daughter,” she said, “it would have been such a waste of words. She was determined, she was enthusiastic about what she did, it was her life. There was no saying ‘Don’t do this.’ This is who she was , absolutely who she was and what she believed in :cover the story, not just have pictures of it, but bring it to life in the deepest way you could.” “So it was not a surprise when she took an interest in journalism,” her mother said.

1.From the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1, we can infer that ________ .

A. Yale was her last choice

B. Marie Colvin was confident of herself

C. Yale must keep its promise to Marie Colvin

D. Marie Colvin was good at persuading

2.Which of the following is the correct order to describe Marie Colvin’s life ?

a. She was doing a story in Syria and got killed.

b. She was admitted to Yale University.

c. She studied in Brazil as an excellent student.

d. She was hired by The Sunday Times of London.

e. She began to take an interest in journalism.

A. d→e→c→a→b B. b→c→d→e→a

C. e→d→c→b→a D. c→b→e→d→a

3.From the last paragraph, we can know that Mrs. Colvin ________.

A. dislikes the choice of her daughter.

B. cares little about her daughter.

C. knows her daughter very well.

D. doesn’t fully appreciate her daughter.

4.What can be the best title of the text ?

A. Covering Stories in a Dangerous Conflict Area.

B. Applying for Top Universities, a Successful Case

C. Choosing Lifelong Careers Based on Your Own Interest.

D. Recalling Her Daughter, a Journalist Killed in Syria.

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