When Julie was a child, she was a very big fan of animals. As a result, 36 she ever heard growing up was “Julie, you should be a vet. You’re going to be a great vet. That’s what you should do.”  37  when she got to the Ohio State University, she started studying to be a vet.

A scholarship allowed her to spend her  38  year studying abroad in Manchester, England. Away from the family  39  back home, she found herself one day sitting at her desk, surrounded by biology books and staring out the window, when it suddenly hit her: “I’m in total  40 . I don’t want to be a vet!”

 41  she thought back over all the things she’d done in her life and what had made her happy. And then it hit her—it was all of the youth leadership conferences that she had volunteered  42 , and the communications and leadership courses she had taken as elective courses back at Ohio State. “How could I have been so  43 ? Here I am in my fourth year at school and just finally realizing I’m on the  44  path. I just never took the time to  45  it until now, ” she thought.

Inspired by her new  46 , Julie spent the rest of her year in England taking courses in communications and media studies. When  47  to Ohio State, she was eventually able to  48  the administration to let her create her own program in “leadership studies”,  49  it took her 2 years longer to finally graduate. She  50  to become a senior management consultant in leadership training and development for the Pentagon. She  51  founded a drug-prevention organization that  52  the message “Lead your own life with the skill and the  53  to say no.”

So, never live someone else’s  54 . If you limit your  55  only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want.

Don’t forget the day ____ you were received into the Youth League.

Ocean Park Hong Kong is a theme park in the Southern District of Hong Kong Island. The park was built with donations from the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club (now Hong Kong Jockey Club) and opened on 10 January 1977. The park is operated by Ocean Park Corporation, which is a statutory（法定的）department. It offers affordable marine animal education and entertainment and is a private organization for commercial purposes.

    In the early operation of the park, the main sources of income for the park were the ticket prices and the funding from the Jockey Club. Since the ticket price was low, most of the time Ocean Park was operating under deficit（财政赤字）. In 1 July 1987, the government established a 200 million trust from the funding of Jockey Club, under the Ocean Park Corporation Ordinance. This separated Ocean Park from Jockey Club and became a non-profit organization; it needs to be responsible for its own income and was allowed to use commercial means to operate the park.

    Since it was permitted to use commercial means to operate, it gradually raised its ticket price and the deficit turned into profit. In 1992, 3 million visitors visited the park. Since 1998, the East Asian financial crisis（经济危机）, aging attractions, and the passing away of the killer whale; the park recorded a deficit for a couple years. Although it was allowed to host 2 pandas in 1999, the number of visitors did not go up and Ocean Park was forced to close its water attractions and the "Old Village" attraction and turned to bring in more rides in an attempt to capture the youth demand. Together with the opening up of mainland visitors under the Individual Visit Scheme, Ocean Park recorded an astonishing 4 million visitors in the year 2004-2005, the highest since the park opened.

   In March 2005, Ocean Park made its redevelopment plan. On 23 November 2006, Ocean Park held a groundbreaking ceremony for its redevelopment

6. At the beginning, Ocean Park Hong Kong _________.

was built with the money from the government

was operated by Ocean Park Corporation

was a great success once it was opened

mainly got income from the ticket prices and donations

7. According to the passage, Ocean Park Corporation _________.

belongs to Hong Kong Jockey Club

is an official organization

is a non-profit organization

can not use commercial means to operate

8. How many deficits the Ocean Park experienced so far?

A. 1       B.2        C. 3         D. 4

9. Ocean Park Corporation took all of the measures to overcome the deficits except _________.

A. raise ticket price                   B. close some attractions

C. try to attract young customers        D. host 2 pandas

10. Which of the following statements is Wrong?

Ocean Park Hong Kong is a theme park.

Ocean Park Hong Kong has taken on a new look since 2005.

The East Asian financial crisis didn’t have any influence on Ocean Park.

At present, Ocean Park Hong Kong also attracts many mainland customers.

Starting from April, 2010, you won’t be hearing the word “NBA” on sports programs on CCTV. Instead, sport host will give the full Chinese name when they refer to the NBA – National Basketball Association. You also won’t hear any other English abbreviations (缩略词) on CCTV’s Chinese programs, such as GDP (gross domestic product), or WTO (World Trade Organization). You will hear their Chinese translations.

CCTV received a notice from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television telling it to avoid using English-language abbreviations in their reports to protect the “purity” of the Chinese language. A few other TV stations also received the notice.

Fu Zhenguo, an editor of People’s Daily, is one of the people who suggested the change. “Firstly, using English in a Chinese-speaking environment is against Chinese law,” he said. “Then, using English on Chinese TV programs is unfair to people who don’t understand English. What’s worse, it will have a bad language influence on kids and teenagers.”

A lot of netizens have criticized the move, saying that it will cause problems for them.

“I understand what CD, VCD and DVD mean when I hear them. But I won’t know what the TV programs are talking about if I hear those products’ full Chinese names,” a netizen wrote in a BBS post. Following the same post, another netizen wrote jokingly: “I’m not listening to my MP3 now. I’m listening to my Moving Picture Experts Group-1 Audio Layer 3 (动态影像专家压缩标准音频第三层面).”

1.What does the underlined word “purity” in the second paragraph mean?

A. 纯正                        B. 高贵                       C. 时髦                       D. 潮流

2.How many reasons did Fu Zhenguo list to show his support for the change?

A. 1                             B. 2                             C. 3                             D. 4

3.Some netizens went against the change because_______________.

A. the application of abbreviations will make Chinese popular.                              

B. the application of abbreviations will attract the youth.

C. the application of abbreviations will not simplify the understanding.                  

D. the application of abbreviations will not bring Chinese to an end.

4.What can be the full name of CCTV mentioned in the text?

A. Close Closet Top Video                                 B. China Central Television

C. China Common Time Voice                           D. Closed-Circuit Television

"I didn't hear them call my name," explained Shelley Hennig to Active Teens (AT) as she talked about that exciting moment on national television when she won the honor of Miss Teen USA 2004. "Are you ready?" is what she heard. Then she said, "I shook my head no, and then they said ‘yes’ and it was announced again."
It was four days after that life changing moment for the seventeen-year-old high school student from Destrehan, Louisiana----she was still on cloud nine．
"I was so shocked! I never believed that it could actually really happen." Present in the audience（观众）that day were: her mother and father, older brother, her friends, and her dance teacher.
Understanding why members of her family and her friends would be there, AT asked why her dance teacher had traveled so far to see her compete（比赛）．"She's always been my role model．I've danced with her since I was six. She's been through so many difficulties and came through them all. I've learned to get over bad life's experiences and learned how to move on because of her."
One of those bad life's experiences for Shelley happened three years ago when her brother Brad was killed in a drunk driving accident. He was 18. She found writing helped her get through the rough days. She said, "I write a lot about my brother. I write a lot, a lot, a lot...”
As Miss Louisiana Teen, she traveled around the state speaking to teens（青少年）about the dangers of drinking and driving. In her role as Miss Teen USA, Sheiley will continue to speak to youth about safe driving, in addition to many other things to help the youth.
When AT asked Miss Teen USA if she had any advice for our readers, she said, "Don't let anyone change you. Hang out with people that make you feel good about yourself. That way, it is easy to be yourself."
【小题1】What do the words “on cloud nine” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?