She was born to wealth and power in a time when money and politics were left to the men. Later, as The Washington Post’s publisher, Katharine Graham became one of America’s most powerful women.

Despite a privileged background, Katharine had to deal, while growing up, with the high demands her mother placed on her children. Katharine’s love of journalism, which she shared with her father, led to her career after college at The Washington Post, the newspaper her father bought in 1933．At the Post, Katharine met Phil Graham, a young, charming lawyer who became her husband. When, in 1945, Katharine’s father chose Phil over her to take over his struggling paper, Katharine didn’t object and stayed at home as a wife and mother of four.

While Phil’s successful efforts to restore the Post to fame made the Grahams popular members of the Washington social scene, Katharine privately suffered great pain from her husband’s increasingly harmful behavior caused by severe depression. When Phil committed suicide, the 46-year-old Katharine found herself thrown into a new job, that of newspaper publisher. But determined to save the family paper for her children, Katharine rose to the challenge of running the Post, attending meetings in every department, working endlessly to prove herself to her critics, and becoming the toast of Washington.

In 1971, Katharine ordered the Post to print a copy of the Pentagon Papers, the top-secret documents revealing the truth about the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. What’s more, her courageous decision and support for her journalists prepared the Post to break the most important political story in modern history: Watergate（水门事件）, one of the greatest scandals（丑闻）in American political history. Katharine managed to keep control over the most disorganized situation when it was reported, all the time insisting the news stories be accurate and fair. Watergate made the Washington Post an internationally known Paper and Katharine was considered as the most powerful woman in America.

1. Katharine Graham was born in a time when __________.

A. women were not permitted to achieve their goals

B. women were not given the chance to receive education

C. women did not have equal opportunities as men in some ways

D. women could not enter any field despite their privileged backgrounds

2. When her husband was chosen to take charge of the newspaper, Katharine Graham ______.

A. was strongly against the idea

B. was not happy to be rejected

C. didn’t believe her husband would do a good job

D. was willing to take her share of responsibility

3.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Katharine Graham was free to do whatever she liked in her early life.

B. When Katharine Graham first took over the Post, her critics doubted her ability.

C. Katharine Graham was successful in her career but suffered severe depression.

D. It was Katharine Graham’s husband who made the greatest contributions to the Post.

4. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Ups and downs of The Washington Post

B. Katharine Graham's family life and career

C. Katharine Graham: from housewife to successful publisher

D. Katharine Graham: a woman who controlled American journalism

Remind children that bad things don’t last. It may sound simple, but the message is extremely important. “Children often don’t have the experience to know that when something bad happens---they lose an important game or their best friend lets them down---it’s not the end of the world,” explains Nancy Leffert, a senior research scientist with the Research Institute, an American adolescents(青少年) and children’s research group. “They think their bad feelings will last for ever, or that one failure will ruin everything.”

Unfortunately, that kind of thinking discourages motivation(动机). “If a child believes that the cause of her upset is lasting, or that nothing she does will make a difference, it decreases her ability to keep on trying.” says Dorothy Rich, president of the MegaSkills Education Center of the Home and School Institute, based in Washington. Any time you can help your child see that a situation is not lasting, that a result can be changed, or that one opinion does not reflect reality, you give her reason to hope.

Case in point: “When my daughter Kathy was eight, art was one of her favorite subjects,” says Beth, a mother of two. “Then she got an art teacher who gave a great deal of praise to one student and barely noticed the rest. Kathy was ready to give up until I explained to her, “Never stop doing your best just because one person doesn’t give you praise.” Beth had to repeat the advice often, and finally her daughter got the message. “Kathy is 12 now, and art is still one of her strongest subjects.”

1.According to the passage we know many children__________.

A. know how to face a failure

B. try their best to avoid a situation of failure

C. don’t want to stay in bad feelings for ever

D. tend to take a failure as the end of the world

2.Which of the following is RIGHT about Nancy Leffert?

A. She is concerned about children’s attitudes towards failure.

B. She is the president of the Education Center.

C. She strongly believes that bad things won’t last long.

D. She is the director of the Research Institute.

3.Which of the following can a parent say to his children to show that one’s opinion does not reflect reality?

A. “If you call your friend and apologize, he won’t stay mad at you.”

B. “Go ahead. Don’t care what other people think.”

C. “You have lost today, but you can try again tomorrow.”

D. “That may be what your teacher thinks, but I see it differently.”

4.The best title of the passage is__________.

A. Help Children Promote Problem Solving Ability

B. Tell Children Not to Let Failure Ruin Them

C. Set Reasonable Hopes for Your Children

D. Teach Your Children to Be Happy

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Attention! Our earth has been facing a serious threat—global warming.

According to some _____ (专家), thousands of people die of hot wave     1._______

a     , and the ice in the poles has been becoming thinner and thinner  2. _______

year by year, _____ leads to the rise of the sea level and is threatening   3._______

many areas of the world, especially those coastal areas. On the _____       4. _______

hand, ______ (自然) disasters, like flooding, are more or less connected with5._______

the global warming, and it’s o      that all these are the punishments 6. _______

from nature. To look back, in the past five _____, that’s half a century,   7._______

we’ve destroyed our environment _____ random to develop the economy 8. _______

by _____ (滥用) oil and by using private cars instead of public transport.  9. _______

These r      in the rise of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, causing 10._______

the global warming.

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注意：1. 文章应包括表格里的所有信息，可适当发挥。

2. 信件的开头和结尾已写好，不计入总词数。

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Great changes have taken place in that school. It is no longer ______ it was 10 years ago,

_______ it  was so poorly equipped.

   A. that,  which   B.  what ,  when   C. what, which   D. which,  that

Generally speaking, young people  can easily  ______ the new life abroad.

   A. prefer to   B. refer to   C. adjust to   D. look forward to

It was the third that Jack ______ to China.

   A. has come   B. has , came   C. had  came   D. had come

Two nuclear power stations _______ in the past two months in Japan

A. are   damaged          B. have been damaged

C. would be damaged        D. are damaging

People all over the country ______ money to those who suffered from the terrible  disaster.

A. donated   B. devoted    C. contribute t   D. treated

_______ round the city, we were impressed by the city’s new look.

　　A. Taken       B. Taking                C. To be taken          D. Being taken