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and a half. Gloria was in one of 36 small wooden rowing boats that set off on 7 October, 2007 from Tenerife
Island on the Atlantic Rowing Challenge Race. Each boat was exactly the same design and each one had food
for the journey. There were two people in each boat and their challenge was to row across the Atlantic, a
journey of about 3,360 kilometers.
Gloria began the journey with her husband in a small boat. However, after 14 days he became very afraid
of the huge ocean and was not able to go on, so he left her with the help of a helping boat. This did not make
Gloria give up. Instead, she decided that she would continue by herself. So, for the next hundred days, she
rowed her small boat alone and fought against the waves and the winds, and her own fears.
When she finally arrived in Barbados, Gloria was not willing to leave her boat although her husband and
family were there to greet her. She sat so long in the boat that she could hardly stand, her husband had to
carry her off the boat. After that, the first thing she did was to drink a toast to her small boat, the very
special lady. This lady carried her safely through many storms on her long journey and she loved it.
Gloria is really a brave woman. She has become the tenth woman in the world to row across the Atlantic.
Like the others, she has experienced great joys and terrible things. But a brave person is not always brave,
"Sometimes I wanted more than anything to be warm and dry in bed and safe from the storm around me.
I wanted to stop being brave," she said.
B. on 26 January, 2008
C. on 21 October, 2007
D. on 12 January, 2008
B. Gloria felt sad to leave her boat
C. Gloria jumped off her boat quickly
D. everyone drank a toast to Gloria
B. Gloria's mother
C. Gloria herself
D. Gloria's motherland
B. Her husband became very afraid of the huge ocean and left her
C. She fought against the big waves and strong winds, and her own fears
D. Sometimes she wanted to be warm and dry and to stop being brave
B. she took part in the Atlantic Rowing Challenge Race
C. she arrived at Barbados after rowing 3,360 kilometers
D. she didn't need her husband at all during the journey
Their experiments on 600 volunteers in the US showed people were feeling happier when they spent money on others.
The team asked their 600 volunteers about their income（收入），their daily costs, gifts for others and donations to charity. "No matter how much money each person made, those who spent money on others could get greater happiness than those who spent money only on themselves," Dunn said.
Dunn's team also surveyed 16 workers at a company in Boston after they received an award of between $3,000 and $8,000. "Of course they felt happy after receiving the awards," they wrote in their report. "But when they gave the people in need $5, they were happier."
"The findings showed that as little as $5 could be enough to produce happiness on a whole day," Dunn said.
【小题1】 There were ______ people in all who took part in the experiments.
【小题2】The underlined word "experiments" means ______ in Chinese.
| A．会议 | B．表演 | C．实验 | D．化验 |
| A．Money is not important for people. |
| B．Money really can "buy" happiness if you spend it on others. |
| C．We should try our best to give our money to more people in need. |
| D．Spend all the money on others and you'll feel happier. |
In many classrooms, it's not 16 to find students spinning (???) their pens 17 they listen to their teachers.
Pen-spinning is also popular 18 Japanese students. It is a form of entertainment. Recently, a pen-spinning competition was held in Tokyo, Japan. Ryuki Omura, a 16-year-old high school student, became the first pen-spinning 19 .
276 people took part in the competition. The came from different age groups. Some were students 20 some were office workers. First, they 21 the videos of their pen-spinning skills to the organizer's website. Then some of them came to the last round in Tokyo. 22 of them had 30 seconds to show their skills in front of 400 people, 23 reporters and fans. Omura took a pen from his little finger to the rest fingers, then to his palm(????) and the back of his hand. His wonderful show made him 24 the champion.
Omura said he began learning pen-spinning only about 14 months ago. He did 25 in the competition. If you like to spin your pen, you can practice it in your spare time. But when you are in the class, please don't do that.
1.A. difficult B. easy C. common
2.A. before B. when C. after
3.A. for B. between C. among
4.A. chairman B. captain C. champion
5.A. or B. and C. with
6.A. were sent B. sent C. was sent
7.A. each B. Both C. Every
8.A.includes B. included C. including
9.A. become B. became C. becomes
10.A. quite good B. quite well C. quite better
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About two _________boys took part in the running race.
| A．hundred | B．hundreds | C．hundreds of | D．hundred of |
My teachers suggested that I see a speech specialist (专家) in school.
I never really gave much thought to my speech. If other people understood what I was saying, then that was good enough. I didn’t mind repeating myself many times.
Before testing me, the speech specialist asked me what I thought of having good speech. I told her I thought it was not important.
“Well, when you are in an interview for a job, and they don’t know what you are saying, what are they going to say to you? Nice meeting you, bye,” she said.
Maybe good speech was important. I took part in 20-minute classes each week with the specialist.
After she tested me, she told me that I spoke too fast, and didn’t give enough eye contact (眼神交流). I learned that when I made eye contact with someone, it meant that I was talking to that person, and I could also see what he or she thought about what I was saying.
When my first speech class started, I found that I had been speaking too fast to be understood. Every time I spoke too fast, the specialist stopped me and told me to start again. At first, I got stopped after almost every other sentence. After a while, I felt my speech slow down. I wasn’t sure if people could understand me better, but my friends stopped asking me to repeat myself.
Speech is an important skill to have. If you do have good speech, that’s a good thing, but if you don’t have it, it is never too late to improve.
1.The article is probably taken from .
A．a newspaper B．an advertisement
C．a detective story D．a science book
2.What did the writer think of having good speech before the classes?
A．It was very useful. B．It was nothing important.
C．It was impossible. D．It was good for interviewing.
3.What were the writer’s problems when he was speaking?
a. He spoke too quickly.
b. He never stopped once he started talking.
c. He seldom kept eye contact with people.
d. He didn’t give others time to ask questions.
A．a, b B．b, c C．a, c D．b, d
4.From the sentence “but my friends stopped asking me to repeat myself,” we know that _____.
A．the writer’s friends couldn’t understand him
B．the writer still couldn’t make eye contact
C．the writer improved a lot
D．the writer didn’t slow down
5.Through the passage, the writer wants to tell us that _____.
A．seeing a speech specialist is necessary
B．speech is an important skill to have
C．good speech can help you make friends
D．good speech gets good affect
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