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2. He makes new friends and learns how ______ and difficult it is to be a good friend.
3. Most of us ______ like pop music and have our favourite performers, stars or bands, but many of us also want to discover new sounds and rhythms.
4. In the US, where there are many _______ people, Latin music is a big part of the culture.
5. Steve Jones is an environmental expert who tries to keep animals and plants from becoming ______.
6. We human beings could not survive ________ all the plants and animals around us.
7. Hip-hop and rap have much in common with blues and rock, but they also have their own _______.
8. Steve says that we can help by ________ more space for animals and plants.
9. We must also believe in _______ and help others if we want to be happy and live a good life.
10. The latest cellphones have features such as games, music and electronic calendar that will _____ you
about appointments and important dates.
In 1972 a twenty-year-old medical student, Mike Jones, led a five-man canoeing expedition down the upper part of the Blue Nile. The other members of the team were Mike Hopkinson, Glen Green, Steve Nash and Dave Buikingshaw.
On 3rd September they started out and at first everything went well, but then Glen capsized. He survived ,but the canoe was badly 21___. The next day at the Tississat Falls there was a team crisis(危机). Dave and Steve didn’t think it was 22 enough to continue. There was a long 23 and in the end the two Mikes continued in their canoes while the other three carried their equipment on land. The team 24 to meet at the second Portuguese bridge. The water in the gorge（峡谷）was very 25 and dangerous, but luckily both canoes were 26 enough to get through . Just before they reached the bridge, Mike Jones had got caught in a whirlpool（漩涡） and it had taken him several minutes to get out.
The team met at the bridge. The canoeing was easier now, but there were other 27 . Bandits(强盗) shot at them once, but they were moving too fast. Crocodiles were a real danger, and one day Dave had to 28 his canoe to escape. Fortunately Steve had his 29 ready, so he shot the crocodile and got Dave’s canoe back.
They 30 arrived at the
21. A. hurt | B. destroyed | C. damaged | D. mined |
22. A. safe | B. clear | C. dangerous | D. harmful |
23. A. quarrel | B. silence | C. argument | D. conflict |
24. A. agreed | B. wanted | C. hoped | D. arranged |
25. A. deep | B. fast | C. clear | D. quiet |
26. A. brave | B. fortunate | C. happy | D. experienced |
27. A. excitements | B. lucks | C. problems | D. things |
28. A. destroy | B. abandon | C. rebuild | D. block |
29. A. gun | B. sword | C. stick | D. stone |
30.A. luckily | B. angrily | C. eventually | D. happily |
The day I became a mom was not the day my daughter was born, but seven years later. Up until that day, I had been too busy trying to survive my abusive(辱骂的) marriage. I had spent all my energy trying to run a "perfect" home that would pass inspection each evening, and I didn't see that my baby girl had become a toddler. I'd tried endlessly to please someone who could never be pleased and suddenly realized that the years had slipped by and could never return.
Oh, I had done the normal "motherly" things, like making sure my daughter got to ballet and gym lessons. I went to all of her recitals and school concerts, parent-teacher conferences and open houses alone. We suffered from my husband's rages(暴怒) when something was spilled(溢出) at the dinner table, telling her, "It will be okay, Honey. Daddy's not really mad at you." I did all I could to protect her from hearing the awful shouting and complaints after he returned from a night of drinking. Finally I did the best thing I could do for my daughter and myself: I removed us from the home that wasn't really a home at all.
That day I became a mom was the day when my daughter and I were sitting in our new home having a calm, quiet dinner just as I had always wanted for her. We were talking about what she had done in school and suddenly her little hand knocked over the full glass of chocolate milk by her plate. As I watched the white tablecloth and freshly painted white wall become dark brown, I looked at her small face. It was filled with fear, knowing what the consequence of the event would have meant only a week before in her father's presence. When I saw that look on her face and looked at the chocolate milk running down the wall, I simply started laughing. I am sure she thought I was crazy, but then she must have realized that I was thinking, "It's a good thing your father isn't here!" She started laughing with me, and we laughed until we cried. They were tears of joy and peace and were the first of many tears that we cried together. That was the day we knew that we were going to be okay.
Whenever either of us spills something, even now, seventeen years later, she says, "Remember the day I spilled the chocolate milk? I knew you had done the right thing for us." That was the day I really became a mom. I discovered that being a mom isn't only going to ballet or gym, recitals, and attending every school concert and open house. It isn't keeping a tidy house and preparing perfect meals. It certainly isn't pretending things are normal when they are not. For me, being a mom started when I could laugh over spilled milk.
---- By Linda Jones from “Chicken Soup for Soul”
1.What does the underlined part "the right thing" refer to?
A．Becoming a single mother.
B．Divorcing with her abusive husband.
C．Doing all the motherly things well and running the family.
D．Not blaming on her daughter’s spilling the chocolate milk.
2.Which statement is NOT true?．
A．The author had suffered from an unfortunate marriage for a long time.
B．All the things the author did were to protect her daughter
C．The author hadn’t been a mother until she removed from her marriage.
D．Both the author and her daughter were frightened at the husband and father.
3.Why did the author and her daughter laugh and then cry?
A．Because it was a thorough relief after they had suffered too much.
B．Because they were actually crazy.
C．Because they wouldn’t see the abusive man any more.
D．Because spilling the chocolate milk on the wall was really funny.
4.What is the best title for this article?
A．How To Be a Better Mon? B．The Day I Became a Mom
C．A Thing Happened 17 Years Ago D．Survive an Abusive Marriage
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They say money doesn’t grow on trees. But it certainly appears to do so on the mysterious coin-studded(嵌满) trunks dotted around the UK’s woodland. The strange phenomenon of old trees with coins fixed firmly all over their bark has been spotted on trails from the Peak District to the Scottish Highlands. The coins are usually knocked into felled (砍伐的) tree trunks using stones by passers-by, who hope it will bring them good fortune.
These fascinating spectacles often have coins from centuries ago buried deep in their bark and warped by the passage of time. The tradition of making offerings to gods at wishing trees dates back hundreds of years, but this combination of the man-made and the natural is far more rare. It used to be believed that god’s spirits lived in trees, and they were often decorated with sweets and gifts — as is still done today at Christmas. The act is like tossing money into ponds for good luck, or the trend for couples to attach “love padlocks” to bridges and fences to symbolize lasting romance. Some pubs, such as the Punch Bowl in Askham, Cumbria, have old timbers with splits in them into which coins are forced for luck. There are seven felled tree trunks with coins pushed into them in the picturesque village of Portmeirion, in Wales.
Meurig Jones, an estate manager at the tourist destination, told the BBC, “We had no idea why it was being done when we first noticed the tree trunk was being filled with coins. I did some detective work and discovered that trees were sometimes used as ‘wishing trees’. In Britain it dates back to the 1700s — there is one tree somewhere in Scotland which apparently has an old coin stuck into it. ” He said that a sick person could press a coin into a tree and their illness would go away. If someone then takes the coin out though, it’s said they then become ill. We haven’t made it known at all, it’s just happened,” he added. “It’s quite amazing really.” In Scotland, there is also a legend about a kissing tree. If a young man could drive a nail into a tree with one blow, he earned a kiss from his sweetheart.
1.What was the real reason why in UK people knocked coins into the old trees?
A．It was hoped that it would bring them good future and make the trees more beautiful.
B．Nobody knew why there was such a strange custom that it could make them lucky.
C．It might come from the tradition of making offerings to gods hundreds of years ago.
D．It was said that god’s spirits lived in trees and doing so could please the gods of the trees.
2.The underlined part in Paragraph 2 may mean ____________.
A．this combination of the man-made and the natural is far from realistic.
B．the mysterious phenomenon of old trees with coins is rarely seen in the world.
C．people wanted to make the works of art with the help from the forces of nature.
D．the appearance of trees would be nicer than their original.
3.The passage mainly tells us that________.
A．some people attached “love padlocks” to bridges and fences to symbolize lasting romance
B．a particular way in which people made good wishes is still popular in the UK
C．visitors tossed money into ponds for good luck just as they knocked coins into the trees
D．a long history of a strange phenomenon of old trees with coins in the UK
4.Which of the following can be used as the best title for the passage?
A．Who Says Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees?
B．Do Trees with Some Coins Become Valuable?
C．Is It Really Amazing to Have Coins Fixed into Trees?
D．What Is the Purpose of Knocking Coins into Trees?
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