After the Summer Olympics are over ,when all the athletcs and viewers have gong home and the television audience has swiched off , another group of athletcs and fans will arrive at the host city , and another compctition will begin.These are the Parnlympics,the games for athlctcs with a disability .But in Beijing in 2008 ,for the first time,one of the greatest parulympians will not be taking part.

Sbc is a Britishby the name of Tanni Grey-Thompsun.Boyn with spina hifida (脊椎裂) which left her paralysed from the waint down,Tanni used a wheelchair from the age of 7.At first,she was not keen on sporn,apart from horse-riding,which gave her a sense of freedom.But in her teens,she started tsking sports more seriously.She tried swimming,basketball and tennis.Eventually she found athletics,and never looked back.

 Indeed ,Tanni’s   athletic career took off .In 1984,when she was 15,she pulled off a surpaise victort in the 100 metres at the Junior NationalWheelchair Games.

 In 1988 ,Tanni went to her first ParalympicGames in Scoul.She bronze in the 400 metres.Even greater success followed at the 1992 Barcelona.Paralympics.Tanni won gold in the 100,200,400 and 800 metres relay,setting two world records in the proceas.In the same year she achicved the first of her six London Wheelchair Marathon victories.

  Tanni’s enduring success has been part motivation(动机)，part preparation.   “The training I do that enable me to be a good sprinter(短跑运动员) enable me to be good at a marathon too. I train 50 weeks of the year and that keeps me prepared for whatever distance I went to race …I am still competing at a very high level,but as I get oider things get harder and I went to retire before I fall apart. ”

 Indeed Tanni retired finally after the Visa Paralympic World Cup in 2007. Her wish is to coach young athletes for Beijing 2008 Olympic Gammes.

In spite of ups and downs,she never takes her fate lying down.In her splendid life ,she has won an amazing eleven gold medals,four silvers and one bronze in a series of Paralympics---a top lever athletic career covering two decades .She has won the London Wheelchair Marathon six times ,more than any other competitor ,and she has set over thirty woyld records.

What advice does she have for young athletes ? “Work hard at your studies ,and then train,train again.”

1.Which of the following sports did Tanni like before thirteen?

A. Basketball .   B.Swimming .   C.Tennis.   D.Horse-riding

2.When did Tanni win her first Olympic gold medal?

A.In 1984.      B.In 1988.   C.In 1992.   D.In 2007.   

3.The underlined word “that’’in the 5 th paragrath refers to_______ .

A. fifty weeks＇training               B. being a good sprinter

C. training almost every day            D.part motivation and part preparation

4.What＇s the right order of the events relaterd to Tanny?

a.She works as a coach.                 b.She took up athletics .

c.She won four gold medals in Barcelons .  d.She competed in her first Paraiympic Games.

e.She achieved a victory in her first London Wheelchair Marathun.

A. b,d,c,e,a                           B. a,d,b,c,e  

C. a,d,c,e,b                           D. b,d,a,e,c

5.What can we learn form Tanni＇s success?

A. Union is strongth                     B.Never too late to learn

C. Well begun is half done                D. No pains , no gains

After the Summer Olympics are over ,when all the athletcs and viewers have gone home and the television audience has swiched off , another group of athletcs and fans will arrive at the host city , and another compctition will begin.These are the Parnlympics,the games for athlctcs with a disability .But in Beijing in 2008 ,for the first time,one of the greatest parulympians will not be taking part.

Sbc is a Britishby the name of Tanni Grey-Thompsun.Boyn with spina hifida (脊椎裂) which left her paralysed from the waint down,Tanni used a wheelchair from the age of 7.At first,she was not keen on sporn,apart from horse-riding,which gave her a sense of freedom.But in her teens,she started tsking sports more seriously.She tried swimming,basketball and tennis.Eventually she found athletics,and never looked back.

 Indeed ,Tanni’s  athletic career took off .In 1984,when she was 15,she pulled off a surpaise victort in the 100 metres at the Junior NationalWheelchair Games.

 In 1988 ,Tanni went to her first ParalympicGames in Scoul.She bronze in the 400 metres.Even greater success followed at the 1992 Barcelona.Paralympics.Tanni won gold in the 100,200,400 and 800 metres relay,setting two world records      in the proceas.In the same year she achicved the first of her six London Wheelchair Marathon victories.

  Tanni’s enduring success has been part motivation(动机)，part preparation.      “The training I do that enable me to be a good sprinter(短跑运动员) enable me to be good at a marathon too. I train 50 weeks of the year and that keeps me prepared for whatever distance I went to race …I am still competing at a very high level,but as I get oider things get harder and I went to retire before I fall apart. ”

 Indeed Tanni retired finally after the Visa Paralympic World Cup in 2007. Her wish is to coach young athletes for Beijing 2008 Olympic Gammes.

In spite of ups and downs,she never takes her fate lying down.In her splendid life ,she has won an amazing eleven gold medals,four silvers and one bronze in a series of Paralympics---a top lever athletic career covering two decades .She has won the London Wheelchair Marathon six times ,more than any other competitor ,and she has set over thirty woyld records.

What advice does she have for young athletes ? “Work hard at your studies ,and then train,train again.”

56.Which of the following sports did Tanni like before thirteen?

A.      Basketball .   B.Swimming .   C.Tennis.   D.Horse-riding

57.When did Tanni win her first Olympic gold medal?

A.In 1984.      B.In 1988.   C.In 1992.   D.In 2007.   

58.The underlined word “that’’in the 5 th paragrath refers to_______ .

A. fifty weeks＇training               B. being a good sprinter

C. training almost every day            D.part motivation and part preparation

59. What＇s the right order of the events relaterd to Tanny?

a.She works as a coach.                 b.She took up athletics .

c.She won four gold medals in Barcelons .  d.She competed in her first Paraiympic Games.

e.She achieved a victory in her first London Wheelchair Marathun.

A. b,d,c,e,a                           B. a,d,b,c,e  

C. a,d,c,e,b                           D. b,d,a,e,c

60. What can we learn form Tanni＇s success?

A. Union is strongth                     B.Never too late to learn

C. Well begun is half done                D. No pains , no gains

After the Summer Olympics are over, when all the athletes and viewers have gong home and the television audience has switched off, another group of athletes and fans will arrive at the host city , and another competition will begin. These are the Paralympics; the games for athletes with a disability .But in Beijing in 2008, for the first time, one of the greatest paralympians will not be taking part.

She is a British athletes by the name of Tanni Grey-Thompson. Born with spina hifida (脊椎裂) which left her paralyzed from the waiat down, Tanni used a wheelchair from the age of 7.At first, she was not keen on sport, apart from horse-riding, which gave her a sense of freedom. But in her teens, she started taking sports more seriously. She tried swimming, basketball and tennis. Eventually she found athletics, and never looked back.

 Indeed, Tanni’s athletics career took off .In 1984,when she was 15,she pulled off a surprise victory in the 100 meters at the Junior National Wheelchair Games.

 In 1988, Tanni went to her first Paralympic Games in Seoal. She bronze in the 400 metres. Even greater success followed at the 1992 Barcelona. Paralympics. Tanni won gold in the 100,200,400 and 800 meters relay, setting two world records   in the process. In the same year she achicved the first of her six London Wheelchair Marathon victories.

  Tanni’ s enduring success has been part motivation(动机)，part preparation.       “The training I do that enable me to be a good sprinter(短跑运动员) enable me to be good at a marathon too. I train 50 weeks of the year and that keeps me prepared for whatever distance I went to race …I am still competing at a very high level, but as I get older things get harder and I went to retire before I fall apart. ”

 Indeed Tanni retired finally after the Visa Paralympic World Cup in 2007. Her wish is to coach young athletes for Beijing 2008 Olympic Gammes.

In spite of ups and downs, she never takes her fate lying down. In her splendid life, she has won an amazing eleven gold medals, four silvers and one bronze in a series of Paralympics---a top lever athletic career covering two decades .She has won the London Wheelchair Marathon six times ,more than any other competitor ,and she has set over thirty world records.

What advice does she have for young athletes? “Work hard at your studies, and then train, train again.”

1. Which of the following sports did Tanni like before thirteen?

A.      Basketball .   B. Swimming .   C. Tennis.   D. Horse-riding

2. When did Tanni win her first Olympic gold medal?

A. In 1984.      B. In 1988.   C. In 1992.   D. In 2007.   

3. The underlined word “that’’in the 5 th paragraph refers to_______ .

A. fifty weeks＇training               B. being a good sprinter

C. training almost every day            D.part motivation and part preparation

4. What＇s the right order of the events related to Tanni?

a. She works as a coach.                 b. She took up athletics .

c. She won four gold medals in Barcelong .  d. She competed in her first Paralympic Games.

e. She achieved a victory in her first London Wheelchair Marathon.

A. b,d,c,e,a                           B. a,d,b,c,e  

C. a,d,c,e,b                           D. b,d,a,e,c

5. What can we learn form Tanni＇s success?

A. Union is strength                     B. Never too late to learn

    C. Well begun is half done                D. No pains , no gains

Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a family of seven children, she often felt like she had “seven fathers,” because her six brothers, as well as her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated(躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.

In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because her thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university’s Writers’ Workshop, however, she felt lonely----a Mexican American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find her “Creative voice.”

“It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn’t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That’s when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldn’t write about.”

Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book tells about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school through graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children’s book, and a short-story collection.

36. Which of the following is TRUE about Cisneros in her childhood?

A. She had seven brothers.

   B. She felt herself a nobody.

C. She was too shy to go to school.

D. She did not have any good teachers.

37. The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to _____.

   A. work for a school magazine

   B. run away from her family

   C. make a lot of friends

   D. develop her writing style

38. According to Cisneros, what played the decisive role in her success?

   A. Her early years in college.

   B. Her training in the Workshop.

   C. Her feeling of being different.

   D. Her childhood experience.

39. What do we learn about The House on Mango Street?

   A. It is quite popular among students.

   B. It is the only book ever written by Cisneros.

   C. It wasn’t success as it was written in Spanish.

   D. It won an award when Cisneros was twenty-nine.

A well-known manufacturer of weighing machines produced a new model.
The machine had a computer inside it, and this computer could do wonderful things: it could weigh people very accurately; it could tell them their weight in their own language; and it could tell them what they should eat to reduce their weight.
The manufacturer decided to try out his machine before he sold it to the shops.
He looked around for a good place to put it and finally decided on an airport. There were always people at an airport from many different countries.
The first person to use the machine was an Italian woman. She stood on the machine, put a coin in and waited to hear her weight.
The machine took only a second or two to weigh her, decide on her nationality and the language she spoke, and figure out what kind of food she should eat.
“Good morning, madam,” it said in perfect Italian. “Your weight is 72 kilos, three more than it should be for a woman of your height, age and nationality. This is because you have been eating too much spaghetti. I suggest you eat more fruit and vegetables. Please have a nice day”.
The second person to use the machine was a Chinese girl. She stood on the machine, put a coin in and waited to hear her weight.
“Good morning, Miss," the machine said in perfect Chinese. "Your weight is 38 kilos, exactly the correct weight for your height, age and nationality. Continue to eat what you are eating. Please have a nice day.”
The third person to use the machine was a huge Australian woman. She walked up to the machine and looked at it for a long time. At last she found the courage to stand on the machine and put a coin in. The machine spoke immediately.  “Good morning. Will one of you ladies please get off?”
【小题1】What could the computer do?