--- The film we saw last week is very romantic.
--- _______. I didn’t think it romantic at all.

About five years ago I began to study at a new school, when my family moved to Iowa. I was just a little    1  ,wondering whether I could get on well with my classmates.
Lucy, a girl in my    2  , who I thought wasn’t ready to accept a  3   girl, didn’t like me from the start.    4  ,I was pretty sure she hated me. When I asked her a question, I could __5__ she thought I was a total fool.
My teacher made us   6   next to each other for the last term. Lucy was not happy. However, I kept   7   at her, though she rolled her eyes, and I kept telling her that she was beautiful.
Finally, Lucy let me   8   to her, even when her friends were around. She ___9___ telling me how beautiful I looked. I still remember the ___10___ time when she smiled at me and said that, and I smiled right back, saying    11  to her. One day Lucy invited me over to her house, and talked to me all the time   12   her other friends. That day Lucy , the girl who had hated me, called me her best deskmate. After that, we   13   friends for years.
I moved to Arizona later, but I will never   14   Lucy. I still remember she considered me her   15  at first. During that time it felt like I was    16  my time, and losing my dignity(尊严)，but I still smiled at Lucy even when she    17  me. I’m not stupid; I didn’t think she was   18   in doing those things, but I still put up with it. And finally we became great friends.
Not long ago, I read the   19   of Abraham Lincoln, “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?” I smiled, thinking of Lucy. It just   20   me how great a friend I used to have.

I didn’t think I’d like the movie, but actually it _____ pretty good.

A．has been          B．was              C．had been          D．would be

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A wallet that looks like a piece of newspaper, an atlas, or an express parcel receipt? Or a business card that looks like a notepad? No kidding．
Bai Minghui, a Beijing-based designer, creates his artwork using Tyvek, a synthetic paper material which is difficult to tear, waterproof and, more importantly, totally recyclable．
Born to a worker family in 1983 in Tangshan, Hebei Province, Bai worked as a graphic designer at a financial magazine in Beijing after graduating from Minzu University of China．
In the spring of 2008, Bai visited an exhibition about Tyvek in Beijing's 798 art zone, and then worked with the material, trying to bring his designs to life．The first thing that came into his mind was the paper wallet, a must-try handicraft assignment（手工作业）that most Chinese students do in elementary school．
"A paper wallet is definitely more useful than a paper crane or frog," Bai told Beijing Review, smiling．"At first, many people have no idea what it is, because it looks like a piece of newspaper or an express parcel receipt, and feels like real paper．But it's hard to tear．
"The completed, folded wallet is seamless, which creates so much fun for a designer．To be honest, I didn't think about profits at all," he said．
After months of research and development on printing and designing, the first generation of his paper wallet made a stunning debut（上市） in May 2008．The second generation, which offers a greater range of pattern options, was put on the market at the beginning of 2009．
"You can have graffiti（涂鸦） or write down phone numbers on it, or paint whatever you like．I would like people to be able to use it easily," he said．"I don't want to do things without creative ideas．Now my focus is on how to create better design rather than the wallet itself．"
51．In which order did Bai do the following things?
a．create the paper wallet
b．study in Minzu University
c．work as a graphic designer
d．visit an exhibition about Tyvek in Beijing
A．cbad        B．bcda  C．cbda               D．bcad
52．Which of the following words can best describe the designer?
A．diligent    B．creative    C．friendly           D．honest
53．Tyvek, a synthetic paper material, has the following characters EXCEPT ____．
A．recyclable B．waterproof       C．foldable           D．profitable
54．What can people do with this kind of wallet?
A．They can use it as a handkerchief．
B．They can make it into a dictionary．
C．They can write their friend’s phone number on it．
D．They can buy a paper frog or paper crane with it．
55．What can be inferred from the passage?
A．Most of the Chinese students have tried to make some kind of paper work．
B．Many Chinese are fond of painting different things on their wallets．
C．Most of the wallets that people use nowadays can be recycled．
D．Most of the designers based in Beijing have tried Tyvek to create their own work of art．

Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a family of seven children, she often felt like she had “seven fathers,” because her six brothers, as well as her father, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated(躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.

In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and worked for the school literary magazine. Her father encouraged her to go to college because he thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband, she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writing program at the University of Iowa. At the university’s Writers’ Workshop, however, she felt lonely----a Mexican American from a poor neighborhood among students from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find her “Creative voice.”

“It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly different that my writing acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn’t think it had anything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That’s when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldn’t write about.”

Cisneros published her first work, The House on Mango Street, when she was twenty-nine. The book tells about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from high school through graduate school level. Since then, Cisneros has published several books of poetry, a children’s book, and a short-story collection.

1.Which of the following is TRUE about Cisneros in her childhood?

2.The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to _____.

3.According to Cisneros, what played the decisive role in her success?

4.What do we learn about The House on Mango Street?