19.At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning-disabled children,the father of one student
delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by those who attended.H e began with a question."Everything God does is done with perfection.Yet,my son,Shay,cannot learn and understand things as other children do.Where is God's plan reflected in my son?"
The audience was stilled by the question.The father continued,"I believe that when God brings a child like Shay into the world,an opportunity to realize the Divine(意图) Plan presents itself.And it c omes in the way people treat that child."
    Then he told the following story:
    Shay and I walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball.Shay asked,"Do you think they will let me play?"
    I knew that most boys would not want him on their team.Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly,much less connect with the ball.So I approached one of the boys on the field and asked if Shay could play.The boy looked around for guidance from his teammates.Getting none,he took matters into his own hands and said,"We are losing by six runs(得分).The game is in the eighth inning(回合).He can be on our team and we will try to put him up to bat in the ninth inning."
    In the bottom of the eighth inning,Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three.At the top of the ninth inning,Shay put on a glove and played in the outfield.
    In the bottom of the ninth inning,Shay's team scored again.They had the potential to win.Would the team actually let Shay bat at this juncture and give away their chance to win the game?
    Surprisingly,Shay was given the bat.At last,understanding what the boy's intentions had been,the boys from both teams helped Shay win the game for the team and Shay was cheered as the hero.
"That day."said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face,"the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of the Divine Plan into this world."
7.Why did the father think most of the boys wouldn't let Shay join them?A
A.Because they knew Shay was anything but good at playing baseball.
B.Because they knew Shay was physically disabled.
C.Because they didn't get on well with Shay.
D.Because it was a very important game and they couldn't afford to lose it.
8.The sentence"Although no hits came his way,he was obviously very happy just to be on the field."should be put at the end ofC.
A.Paragraph 5                          
B.Paragraph 8
C.Paragraph 6                     
D.Paragraph 9
9.What can we infer from the passage?A
A.The opponent team let Shay score purposely.
B.Shay's team would have lost the game without him.
C.It was quite by accident that Shay scored.
D.Shay's team let him play because they didn't take the game seriously.
10.The underlined word"juncture"can be explained byD.
A.an important game                B.a particular place
C.a puzzling moment                D.a critical point.
18.When you tidy your messy bedroom,it gets a lot easier to find things.Dreams may work the same way for a messy brain,helping you learn by organizing memories and ideas.
    To test how much dreams can help learning,Robert Stickgold had some students play a shape-fitting game called Tetris (俄罗斯方块) for a few hours and then go to sleep.Soon they were dreami ng of falling Tetris shapes.Interestingly,the worst Tetris players had the most Tetris dreams and improved their game the most.Similar tests have shown the same results for all kinds of skills.
    As we dream,many important tasks are getting done.The brain decides what to keep and what to forget.It is connecting new experiences to older learning.In fact,the brain is learning all night long.
    Another important task of dreams may be to help us deal with emotions(情绪).People who have had an upsetting experience often dream about it afterward.Often the dream event changes somehow----another way the brain tries to make the memory less upset.So if your best friend moves away,you might dream that you're the one who's moving.In fact,dreams have a proven power to improve mood,and people who dream about what's bothering them usually feel better sooner than those who don't.
    Everybody dreams for a couple of hours every night----in the course of your life,you'll spend about 25 years asleep and 6 years dreaming.There's probably no single answer to the question why we dream,but there doesn't have to be.One dream might help you remember your math facts,while another might lead to a new invention,or give you a fun,crazy story to tell your friends.It's all in a night's work for our busy,mysterious brains.
1.R obert Stickgold's test shows thatA.
A.dreams can help improve skills                  
B.tasks can only be settled through dreams
C.games are useful for memory                 
D.players stop learning in dreams
2.We can learn from Paragraph 4 thatC.
A.dreams can get rid of sufferings                
B.only drivers can deal with emotions
C.one may be less upset after a dream             
D.dreams can copy what one experienced
3.What does the text focus on?D
A.Dreams and memories.
B.The patterns of dreams.
C.Dreams and emotions.
D.The benefits of dreams.
16.What will you do if you can't eat everything bought in the canteen?(11)GAccording to a survey,what students waste every year could feed over 10 million people.(12)CAccording to Xinhua News Agency,the food wasted by Chinese people is about 50 million tons of grain every year,which could feed 200 million people.
Food waste,which has become a global issue,serves as a mirror that reflects various cultural and social issues in different countries.In the West,for instance,consumerism,the belief that it's a good thing to use a lot of goods and services,is often to blame for food waste.(13)BChinese people are well known for being hospitable and generous.Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food.On campus,a generation of single children is less aware of the food waste issue.Students nowadays are well protected by their families and hardly have any concept of how much toil others go through in order to provide them with the food they eat.(14)EThere are over 925 million hungry people in the world,most of whom live in underdeveloped countries and areas.They don't have enough food to eat.Many children die for lack of nutrition each year in some African countries.And farmers work very hard to grow the crops.(15)FIt's also important that everyone should think about how they can do their bit to reduce food waste.

 A.Students'waste is extremely serious.
 B.China,in turn,features its own eating culture.
 C.But canteen waste is extremely the tip of the iceberg.
 D.Students can never realize the serious food crisis.
 E.Compared with them,some live in a different world.
 F.So there's no excuse that we should waste our food.
 G.Most of us would simply throw away any leftover food.
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