Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing ___36___ was something she picked up by herself. After her first____37____, teaching disabled children, she became a part-time writer for IBM. ___38___, writing stories was simply a ___39___. interest. Tracy sent three of her stories to a publisher(出版商).___40____, they immediately suggested that she put them together to make a single one long___41___and paid Tracy a $ 50,000 advance. "A pretty money," said the publisher, "for___42____writer.”

      ___43___Traey's characters(人物) are interesting, her stories sometimes___44___readem uneasy: those about the supernatural. "My mother believed I could___45___the afterlife world," she told a close friend. "She used to have me speak with my grandmother, who died many years ago."

      "Can I? I don't think I can," Tracy said with a laugh. "But l do have___46___ when things come to me___47___. " Once, she was wondering how to complete a ___48___set in ancient (古代的) China. ___49___the doorbell rang. It was a FedEx delivery man, with a copy of a book on Chinese ___50___. It came without her having ___51___it.

     Though she has published 10 books, Tracy has remained ___52___by her fame. She lives in the same ___53___she lived 27 years ago - although in a mom comfortable home. There' s more room for___54___in her life - and it wasn’t just ___ 55___.

36. A. skill         

B. experience

C. practice

D. method

37. A. duty         

B. effort

C. job

D. task

38. A. Instead       

B. Normally

C. Certainly

D. Then

39. A. general       

B. deep 

C. personal

D. lively

40. A. Interested     

B. Anxiously

C. Seriously 

D. Encouraged

41. A. film          

B. story

C. program    

D. article

42. A. a foreign

B. a popular

C. an unusual

D. an unknown

43. A. Now that     

B. Even though

C. Just because

D. Except that

44. A. find            

B. turn

C.leave    

D. hold

45. A. make up      

B. 'connect with

C. control

D. explain

46. A. events        

B. chances

C. feelings

D. moments

47. A. for no reason  

B. from a distance

C. by accident   

D. as gifts

48. A. description    

B. pointing

C. scene    

D. talk

49. A. Surprisingly    

B. Suddenly

C. Expectedly

D. Fortunately

50. A. cooking     

B. history

C. play      

D. medicine

51. A. known     

B. sent

C. realized    

D. ordered

52. A. unchanged    

B. excited      

C. determined

D. unmoved     

53. A. life          

B. city

C. house   

D. way

54. A. success       

B. work       

C. joy    

D. variety

55. A. writing       

B. reporting     

C. luck  

D. fun

 

 

选择恰当的主题句

Read the following text and choose the most suitable topic sentence from A—E for each paragraph. There is an extra one which you do not need.

A. l don’t really know my daughter,for she isn’t easy to get on with.

B. We were closest when she was about four,which I think is a wonderful age for a child.

C. I’m very pleased to have Carmen.

D. My first wife and I only had one child.

E. I’ve always wanted the best for her.

Family Matters

Oliver Darrow, actor, talks about his daughter, Carmen.

72   It might have been nice to have more. I would have liked a son,but we just had Carmen.

I see her as my best friend. I think she always comes to me first if she has a problem. We have the same sense of humour and share many interests,except that she’s crazy about animals,obsessed with them-she has always had dogs,cats,and horses in her life.

73    That’s when they need their parents most.But as soon as Carmen went to school,she seemed to grow up and grow apart from her family, and any father finds it difficult with a teenage daughter. She was very moody and had an odd group of friends. There was an endless stream of strange young men coming to our house. I remember I once got annoyed with her in front of her friends and she didn’t talk to me for days. 

74  We sent her to a good school, but she wasn’t happy there. She left because she  wanted to become an actress. So with my connections I got her into drama school. but she didn’t like that either. She worked for a while,doing small roles in films, but she must have found it boring because she gave it up,though she never really said why. She got married a few years ago; her husband’s a vet.  They must be happy because they work together. and she loves animals.

We have the same tastes in books and music,When she was younger I used to take her to the opera-that’s nay passion-but she can’t have liked it very much because she hasn’t come with me for years. I don’t think she goes to the cinema or watches TV much. She might watch my films. but I don’t know. It’s not the kind of thing she talks to me about.

75  .She’s a good daughter, but I don’t think she likes my new wife very much because she doesn’t visit us very often. I’m looking forward to being a grandfather one day. I hope she’ll have a son.

 

A cancer-stricken British teenage girl said Thursday she had been moved by messages of support from around the world after writing an online “Bucket List” of things she wanted to do before dying.
Alice Pyne, l5, created an Internet blog in which she described her fight against a cancer of the white blood cells. “ I've been fighting cancer for almost four years and now l know that the cancer is gaining on me and it doesn't look like I'm going to win this one,” she wrote.
For her list, the teenager took inspiration from the 2007 film “The Bucket List”, in which two terminally ill (患绝症的) men, played by Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, draw up a list of things they wish to do before they die.
On her list, at the site www. alicepyne. blogspot. com, she has included making everyone sign up to be a bone marrow donor (骨髓捐赠者), swimming with sharks, meeting boy band Take That and getting a purple iPad computer.
Messages of support and offers of help quickly flooded her webpage and it became one of the most talked about subjects on Twitter.
“Oh dear and I thought that I was just doing a little blog for a few friends!” she wrote after her site attracted huge attention. “Thank you so much for all your lovely messages to me.”
Pyne, who lives with her family in the northwest English town of Ulverston, revealed (透露) the management of Take That had arranged for her to see the band after reading her blog. A group of local lawmakers have also joined forces with the Anthony Nolan blood cancer charity to encourage people to join its stem cell register.

  1. 1.

    What happened after Alice Pyne wrote her“Bucket List”?

    1. A.
      The media called on people to help her.
    2. B.
      People sent gifts to her from all over the world.
    3. C.
      A lot of people offered to donate bone marrow to her.
    4. D.
      People around the world sent messages to support her.
  2. 2.

    Alice Pyne wrote her “Bucket List” to     .

    1. A.
      express her last few wishes
    2. B.
      say goodbye to a few friends
    3. C.
      give comfort to two terminally ill men
    4. D.
      catch people's attention
  3. 3.

    It can be inferred from the second paragraph that Alice Pyne       .

    1. A.
      is unaware of her own conditions
    2. B.
      is calm to know that death is approaching
    3. C.
      is very sad to know that she will die
    4. D.
      is still quite confident in fighting against cancer
  4. 4.

    Which of the following is NOT on Alice Pyne's “Bucket List”?

    1. A.
      To meet a boy.
    2. B.
      To get a cool computer.
    3. C.
      To swim with sharks.
    4. D.
      To ask people to donate bone marrow.
  5. 5.

    Take That will arrange to       .

    1. A.
      invite Pyne to join the band
    2. B.
      help Pyne in any possible way
    3. C.
      donate money to Pyne
    4. D.
      meet Pyne in person

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