I grew up poor—living with my wonderful mother. We had little money, but plenty of love and attention. I was  1  and energetic. I understood that  2   poor a person was, he could still afford a dream.

       My dream was  3  . By the time I was sixteen, I started playing baseball. I could throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and  4  anything that moved on the football field. I was also

  5  : My high school coach was John, who not only believed in me, but also taught me  6  

to believe in myself. He  7  me the difference between having a dream and remaining true to that dream. One particular  8  with Coach John changed my life forever.

       A friend recommended me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket money for a new bike, new clothes and the  9  of saving for a house for my mother. Then I realized I would have to  10  summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell John I wouldn’t be playing.

When I told John, he was  11  as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work,” he said. “Your  12  days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them.” I stood before him with my head  13  , trying to think of the  14  that would explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his  15  in me.

       “How much are you going to make at this job, son?” he asked. “3.5 dollars an hour,” I replied.

“Well,” he asked, “is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream?”

       That simple question made me   16  the difference between  17  something right now and having a  18  . I decided myself to play sports that summer and within the year I was  19  by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and was  20  a $20,000 contact agreement. In the same year, I bought my mother the house of my dream!

1．A．happy                   B．popular                C．famous               D．honest

2．A．no matter what      B．no matter how     C．whatever             D．whichever

3．A．athletics               B．music                  C．business              D．money

4．A．kick                     B．play                    C．pass                    D．hit

5．A．right                     B．shy                     C．lucky                  D．confident

6．A．how                     B．why                    C．when                  D．whether

7．A．gave                     B．taught                 C．brought               D．asked

8．A．accident                B．interview             C．problem              D．experience

9．A．view                     B．idea                     C．start                    D．purpose

10．A．keep up               B．take out               C．give up                D．pick out

11．A．mad                    B．helpful                 C．frightened            D．shameful

12．A．living                  B．playing                C．working              D．studying

13．A．moving               B．nodding               C．shaking               D．hanging

14．A．questions             B．choices               C．words                 D．ways

15．A．sadness               B．regret                  C．hopelessness        D．disappointment

16．A．confuse               B．understand           C．doubt                  D．puzzle

17．A．wanting               B．changing             C．dreaming             D．enjoying

18．A．baseball               B．goal                    C．score                  D．house

19．A．fired                   B．helped                 C．watched              D．hired

20．A．paid                    B．got                      C．offered                D．presented

The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. All high school graduates ought to go, because college will help them earn more money, become “better” people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don’t go.     

But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don’t fit the pattern are becoming more and more, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students get in the way of each other’s experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the competition for admission to graduate school. Others find no interest in their studies, and drop out often encouraged by college administrators. Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves―they are spoiled and they are expecting too much.     

But that is a condemnation(谴责)of the students as a whole, and does not explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We’ve been told that young people have to go to college because our economy cannot take in an army of untrained 18 year-olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer take in an army of trained 22-year-olds, either.     

Some adventuresome educators and campus watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys upside down, it seems, and thinking of the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college does not make people intelligent(clever), ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick to learn things―maybe it is just the other way round, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick-learning people are only the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhaps all those successful college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not. This is heresy (异端邪说) to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if little schooling is good, more has to be much better. But opposite evidence is beginning to mount up.

63. According to the passage all of the following statements are true EXCEPT_______.

A. about half of the high school graduates continue their studies at school 

B. college graduates are believed to be able to earn more money

C. administrators often encourage college students to drop out

D. more and more young people are found unfit for college.

 64. Which of the following is one of some observers’ opinions?

A. The students expect so much that they are not satisfied with the hard college life.

B. The economic situation is so discouraging that the youth have to attend college.

C. College should improve because of so much campus unhappiness.

D. Colleges provide more chances of good jobs than anywhere else.

65. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 mean?

A. Our college experience proves that those surveys are incorrect.

B. The surveys may remind us of our beautiful college experiences.

C. The surveys should all be re-examined according to our college experiences.

D. Our college experiences may make us hard to understand the results of the surveys.

66. What is the main purpose of this passage?

A. To argue against the idea that college is the best place for all young people.

B. To put forward an idea that college should not be the first choice.

C. To value young people’s further education in colleges.

D. To persuade young people into working after the completion of high school.

Why should I teach my children history? That sounds like a stupid question to even ask．But，as I hear different home schooling teachers discuss history，I get the idea that there may be different reasons for teaching history．Let me briefly explain the three good reasons for studying history and two bad reasons for studying history．
The major reason I see for studying history is that we can learn from the past．I believe that the world would be a much better place if more people understood the successes and failures of the past and the things that made these successes and failures．However，as the unfortunately(不幸地)true statement goes ‘‘the one thing we seem to learn from history is that we don't seem to
learn from history”，perhaps at least in teaching history, to my children I can do a small part in changing this．
A second major reason for studying history is that it is hard to understand the current(目前的)political climate in the absence of an understanding of its historical context(背景)．We can not
even understand why we are and where we are without history，much less try to figure out where we are going or how we should get where we want to be．
I teach my children history，for one more reason．I bought a set of historical audio tapes for our children．My seven-year-old son listened to them over and over．It was my hope that he would
become inspired by the accomplishments(成就)of people like the Wright brothers to accomplish things by himself．I think that it is good that we celebrate the accomplishments of people like Martin Luther King Jr. By doing so，young people are called on to stand for the principles that he stood for and accomplish what he didn’t accomplish．I also think that by studying people like Adolph Hitler，people can learn to stand against the things that he stood for．
【小题1】What message can we get from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 ?

Why should I teach my children history? That sounds like a stupid question to even ask．But，as I hear different home schooling teachers discuss history，I get the idea that there may be different reasons for teaching history．Let me briefly explain the three good reasons for studying history and two bad reasons for studying history．

The major reason I see for studying history is that we can learn from the past．I believe that the world would be a much better place if more people understood the successes and failures of the past and the things that made these successes and failures．However，as the unfortunately(不幸地)true statement goes ‘‘the one thing we seem to learn from history is that we don't seem to

learn from history”，perhaps at least in teaching history, to my children I can do a small part in changing this．

    A second major reason for studying history is that it is hard to understand the current(目前的)political climate in the absence of an understanding of its historical context(背景)．We can not

even understand why we are and where we are without history，much less try to figure out where we are going or how we should get where we want to be．

    I teach my children history，for one more reason．I bought a set of historical audio tapes for our children．My seven-year-old son listened to them over and over．It was my hope that he would

become inspired by the accomplishments(成就)of people like the Wright brothers to accomplish things by himself．I think that it is good that we celebrate the accomplishments of people like Martin Luther King Jr. By doing so，young people are called on to stand for the principles that he stood for and accomplish what he didn’t accomplish．I also think that by studying people like Adolph Hitler，people can learn to stand against the things that he stood for．

1.What message can we get from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 ?

  A．Many people aren’t clever enough to learn well from the past．

  B．Many people fail to make good use of history and make the same mistakes．

  C．Many people feel it hard to understand history．

  D．Many people have no interest in studying history．

2.In Paragraph 3，the author shows that history is useful because

  A．it makes the current political situation go smoothly

  B．it helps us realize the importance of historical events

  C．it helps us understand why things are the way they are

  D．it helps people accept the present situation where they live

3.Some historical figures are mentioned in the last paragraph to show____．

  A．people can be inspired to do good and also learn to fight against evil

  B．people may also learn from bad historical figures

  C．more celebrations should be held to honor their achievements

  D．today’s people can also achieve what they achieved

4.What would be talked about in the following paragraph?

  A．How to teach history effectively．

  B．Some negative reasons for studying history．

  C．How to get more people to study history．

  D．Some bad historical figures．