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I've been keeping a journal since I was 16 and I'm now 65. I have more than 80 notebooks in a big
box. I don't want my children embarrassed by them when I die. But I can't bring myself, yet, to burn the
case. My journals are still part of me. Might my grandchildren, with a bit more distance, be interested? Or
is there some way I could turn them into something creative? I'm thinking about art instead of a book.
*shirleyujest
5 March 2012, 11:22 p.m.Please don't burn them! What a wonderful source of memories for you-or if you feel you'd rather not
keep them, possibly what a wonderful resource for others! Why not contact something like the Mass
Observation Project at the University of Sussex? Then they will remain as a record of everyday life
throughout your lifetime, and if your grandchildren are interested they'll know where to find them.
*bloggsie45 6 March 2012, 8:30 a.m.
Please don't burn them! If possibl
e, transcribe(转录) them, or have them transcribed, into a computer medium before your words are lost because the paper has decayed. I recently had an
opportunity to read a similar diary of the WW? record of an ordinary soldier. It was attractive in the way
it differed from the official record. I suppose to some degree it all depends on what you have recorded,
but many social historians and similar people would find such a complete personal record of a life led
during the second half of the 20th century to be very valuable.
Please don't stop writing now just because you are 65!
B. The best responses to his problem.
C. His more than 80 diary books.
D. The changes from 18 to 65.
B. His grandchildren will continue to write following his habit.
C. They can be pu
blished by famous publishing houses.D. They can be filmed or changed into a TV play.
B. They will educate the young to remember the hard life.
C. They will help his grandchildren earn more money.
D. They will make others learn more about the war.
B. tell him social historians may be interested in his notebooks
C. encourage him to write journals like determined soldiers
D. show the owner his notebooks will benefit some people
听力(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
第一节
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
W：What about those in England?
M：The fifty-pence’s the biggest, and the half-penny is the smallest．
W：Really? In America, the biggest is the fifty-cents, and the smallest is the cent．
1．What are the speakers doing?
A．Comparing goods．
B．Doing shopping．
C．Talking about coins．
M：This meat is like old leather! It’s enough to break every tooth in your head．
W：Perhaps you’d like to change your order, sir．The fish is very tender．
2．How does the man feel?
A．Unsatisfied．
B．Impatient．
C．Pleased．
M：Tomorrow is the Tenth of June．It’s my birthday and I’m going to the George and Dragon．Would you like to come?
W：To celebrate your birthday? Of course I would．What group’s playing?
M：The Red Rose, I think．
3．What is the woman interested in?
A．The man．
B．The party．
C．The band．
W：Why are you so late?
M：My alarm clock failed to work again．
4．Why is the man late?
A．He could not walk fast．
B．He slept late last night．
C．His clock was out of order．
M：Where’s the book about cars I was reading last night? I laid it down on the table, and now it’s gone．
W：I don’t know．I cleaned early this morning and I don’t remember where I put it．
5．What is the man looking for?
A．A book about cards．
B．A book about furniture．
C．A book about cars．
第二节
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6～8题。
M：Why aren’t you doing your homework?
W：I’ll do it later, Dad．I must get these things right first．Our group’s playing in a concert on Saturday．
M：Oh, is it? You’ll be making records next, will you?
W：We hope so．The man from “Dream Discs” is coming to the concert．So I’d better play well．
M：You’d better get on with your homework! You can practise the guitar all day Saturday．
W：Oh, Dad, you don’t understand at all．This concert could change my life．
M：It certainly could! You’ve got exams next month．Important ones．If you don’t pass them, you won’t get a good job．
W：I don’t want a boring old job in a bank．
M：Oh, don’t you? Whose boring old job paid for this house? And for what?
W：Yours, I know．But I’d rather be happy than rich．
6．What is the girl doing now?
A．Repairing a guitar．
B．Practising the guitar．
C．Preparing for making records．
7．What does the girl expect?
A．To be chosen by a band．
B．To pass the coming exams．
C．To get a job in a bank．
8．What is the man?
A．A school teacher．
B．A guitar player．
C．A bank clerk．
听第7段材料，回答第9～11题。
W：Hello?1523852．
M：Hello, may I speak to Anna?
W：I’m afraid Anna isn’t in．
M：Is that Tracy speaking?
W：No, this is Jane．
M：Oh, I’m sorry…er…well, could you please leave Anna a passage for me?
W：Sure, what is it?
M：Well, I’ll meet Anna for lunch at my home．Would you ask her to see if she has my French dictionary? And if she does, tell her to bring it along．
W：All right．And where are you calling from?
M：My home．I’m Anna’s friend, Pat．
W：Thank you for calling, Pat．
M：And thank you, Jane．
9．Where is Pat calling from?
A．His home．
B．His school．
C．His office．
10．Who does Pat want to call?
A．Tracy．
B．His friend Anna．
C．Tracy and Anna．
11．Why can’t Pat speak to Anna now?
A．Because Anna is at work．
B．Because Anna is out for lunch．
C．Because Anna is not at home．
听第8段材料，回答第12～14题。
W：Good evening, sir．I’m Assistant Manager．I’m afraid we’ve had a complaint about the noise from your neighbour who’s trying to get some sleep．
M：Oh, I see．
W：Could you please ask your friends to be a little quieter so that our guests can get a good night’s sleep?
M：Oh, I’m so sorry．I suppose we were talking rather loudly．We won an important prize．We were having a celebration．
W：I’m pleased to hear it．Shall I have some coffee brought to you?
M：No, that won’t be necessary．We were just about to pack up anyway．
12．Where does the conversation take place?
A．At a hotel．
B．In a flat building．
C．In the manager’s office．
13．What is the woman pleased to hear?
A．The man’s apology．
B．The man’s story．
C．The man’s explanation．
14．What were the man and his friends about to do?
A．End their activity．
B．Leave where they were．
C．Apologize to their neighbor．
听第9段材料，回答第15～17题。
W：So, what do you think? How do you like New York?
M：I’m having a good time．I love it．I’m glad we came．
W：Yeath really like the stores and the shopping centers?．
M：I love the museums, too．
W：But the traffic is pretty bad．
M：Yeah．I hate all the traffic．It’s really noisy．
W：Listen, it’s almost dinner time．There are lots of restaurants around here．What do you want to try? Italian? Greek? Japanese? Chinese?
M：I can’t stand making decisions．You choose．
W：OK, let’s go American．Where is the nearest McDonald’s?
15．What do you know about the speakers from the dialogue?
A．They are native American．
B．They are tourists to New York．
C．They are from Japan．
16．What do they dislike here?
A．The museum．
B．The restaurants．
C．The traffic．
17．Which restaurants are NOT mentioned in their dialogue?
A．Chinese restaurants．
B．Thai restaurants．
C．American restaurants．
听第10段材料，回答第18～20题。
Scientists are trying to make desert into good land again．They want to bring water to the deserts, so people can live and grow food．They are learning a lot about the deserts．But more and more of the earth is becoming desert all the time．Scientists may not be able to change the desert in time．
Why is more and more land becoming desert? Scientists think that people make deserts．
People are doing bad things to the earth．
Some places on the earth don’t get much rain．But they still don’t become deserts．This is because some green plants are growing there．Green plants and grass are very important to dry places．Plants don’t let the wind blow away the dirt．When a bit of rain falls, the plants hold the water．Without plants, the land can become desert more easily．
18．Why is land becoming desert little by little according to the passage?
A．Because plants can’t grow there．
B．Because there is not enough rain．
C．Because people do bad things to the earth．
19．Why are green plants very important to dry places?
A．Because they don’t let the wind blow the earth away?．
B．Because they hold water．
C．Both of the above．
20．From this passage, what can we learn?
A．Plants can keep dry land from becoming desert．
B．All places without a lot of rain will become deserts?．
C．It is better to grow crops on dry land than on wet land．
听力测试(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
第一节
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷相应的位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
W：What about those in England?
M：The fifty-pence’s the biggest, and the half-penny is the smallest．
W：Really? In America, the biggest is the fifty-cents, and the smallest is the cent．
1．What are the speakers doing?
A．Comparing goods．
B．Doing shopping．
C．Talking about coins．
M：This meat is like old leather! It’s enough to break every tooth in your head．
W：Perhaps you’d like to change your order, sir．The fish is very tender．
2．How does the man feel?
A．Unsatisfied．
B．Impatient．
C．Pleased．
M：Tomorrow is the tenth of June．It’s my birthday and I’m going to the George and Dragon．Would you like to come?
W：To celebrate your birthday? Of course I would．What group’s playing?
M：The Red Rose, I think．
3．What is the woman interested in?
A．The man．
B．The party．
C．The band．
W：Why are you so late?
M：My alarm clock failed to work again．
4．Why is the man late?
A．He could not walk fast．
B．He slept late last night．
C．His clock was out of order．
M：Where’s the book about cars I was reading last night? I laid it down on the table, and now it’s gone．
W：I don’t know．I cleaned early this morning and I don’t remember where I put it．
5．What is the man looking for?
A．A book about cards．
B．A book about furniture．
C．A book about cars．
第二节
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6～8题。
M：Why aren’t you doing your homework?
W：I’ll do it later, Dad．I must get these things right first．Our group’s playing in a concert on Saturday．
M：Oh, is it? You’ll be making records next, will you?
W：We hope so．The man from “Dream Discs” is coming to the concert．So I’d better play well．
M：You’d better get on with your homework! You can practise the guitar all day Saturday．
W：Oh, Dad, you don’t understand at all．This concert could change my life．
M：It certainly could! You’ve got exams next month．Important ones．If you don’t pass them, you won’t get a good job．
W：I don’t want a boring old job in a bank．
M：Oh, don’t you? Whose boring old job paid for this house? And for what?
W：Yours, I know．But I’d rather be happy than rich．
6．What is the girl doing now?
A．Repairing a guitar．
B．Practising the guitar．
C．Preparing for making records．
7．What does the girl expect?
A．To be chosen by a band．
B．To pass the coming exams．
C．To get a job in a bank．
8．What is the man?
A．A school teacher．
B．A guitar player．
C．A bank clerk．
听第7段材料，回答第9～11题。
W：Hello?1523852．
M：Hello, may I speak to Anna?
W：I’m afraid Anna isn’t in．
M：Is that Tracy speaking?
W：No, this is Jane．
M：Oh, I’m sorry…er…well, could you please leave Anna a message for me?
W：Sure, what is it?
M：Well, I’ll meet Anna for lunch at my home．Would you ask her to see if she has my French dictionary? And if she does, tell her to bring it along．
W：All right．And where are you calling from?
M：My home．I’m Anna’s friend, Pat．
W：Thank you for calling, Pat．
M：And thank you, Jane．
9．Where is Pat calling from?
A．His home．
B．His school．
C．His office．
10．Who does Pat want to call?
A．Tracy．
B．His friend Anna．
C．Tracy and Anna．
11．Why can’t Pat speak to Anna now?
A．Because Anna is at work．
B．Because Anna is out for lunch．
C．Because Anna is not at home．
听第8段材料，回答第12～14题。
W：Good evening, sir．I’m Assistant Manager．I’m afraid we’ve had a complaint about the noise from your neighbour who’s trying to get some sleep．
M：Oh, I see．
W：Could you please ask your friends to be a little quieter so that our guests can get a good night’s sleep?
M：Oh, I’m so sorry．I suppose we were talking rather loudly．We won an important prize．We were having a celebration．
W：I’m pleased to hear it．Shall I have some coffee brought to you?
M：No, that won’t be necessary．We were just about to pack up anyway．
12．Where does the conversation take place?
A．At a hotel．
B．In a flat building．
C．In the manager’s office．
13．What is the woman pleased to hear?
A．The man’s apology．
B．The man’s story．
C．The man’s explanation．
14．What were the man and his friends about to do?
A．End their activity．
B．Quarrel with the Assistant Manager．
C．Apologize to their neighbor．
听第9段材料，回答第15～17题。
W：So, what do you think? How do you like New York?
M：I’m having a good time．I love it．I’m glad we came．
W：Yeath I really like the stores and the shopping centers．
M：I love the museums, too．
W：But the traffic is pretty bad．
M：Yeah．I hate all the traffic．It’s really noisy．
W：Listen, it’s almost dinner time．There are lots of restaurants around here．What do you want to try? Italian? Greek? Japanese? Chinese?
M：I can’t stand making decisions．You choose．
W：OK, let’s go American．Where is the nearest McDonald’s?
15．What do you know about the speakers from the dialogue?
A．They are native American．
B．They are tourists to New York．
C．They are from Japan．
16．What do they dislike here?
A．The museum．
B．The restaurants．
C．The traffic．
17．Which restaurants are NOT mentioned in their dialogue?
A．Chinese restaurants．
B．Thai restaurants．
C．American restaurants．
听第10段材料，回答第18～20题。
Scientists are trying to make desert into good land again．They want to bring water to the deserts, so people can live and grow food．They are learning a lot about the deserts．But more and more of the earth is becoming desert all the time．Scientists may not be able to change the desert in time．
Why is more and more land becoming desert? Scientists think that people make deserts．People are doing bad things to the earth．
Some places on the earth don’t get much rain．But they still don’t become deserts．This is because some green plants are growing there．Green plants and grass are very important to dry places．Plants don’t let the wind blow away the dirt．When a bit of rain falls, the plants hold the water．Without plants, the land can become desert more easily．
18．Why is land becoming desert little by little according to the passage?
A．Because plants can’t grow there．
B．Because there is not enough rain．
C．Because people do bad things to the earth．
19．Why are green plants very important to dry places?
A．Because they don’t let the wind blow the earth away．
B．Because they hold water．
C．Both of the above．
20．From this passage, what can we learn?
A．Plants can keep dry land from becoming desert．
B．All places without a lot of rain will become deserts．
C．It is better to grow crops on dry land than on wet land．
I opened my new patient's chart and headed for her room. My son, Eric, had just brought home a disappointing report card, and my daughter, Shannon, and I had argued again about her getting a driver's license. For the next eight hours I wanted to throw myself into helping people who I knew had much more to worry about than I did. Rebekah, mother of three lovely little girls, was only 32, admitted for chemotherapy after breast-cancer surgery, When I gave her an injection, Rebekah shut her eyes tightly and murmured a prayer until it was over. Then she smiled and squeezed my hand. “Before you go, could you get my Bible from the table?" I handed her the worn book. "Do you have a favorite Bible verse?" she asked. "Jesus wept. John 11: 35." "Such a sad one," she said. "Why?""It makes me feel closer to Jesus, knowing he also experienced human sorrow." Rebekah nodded thoughtfully and started flipping through her Bible as I shut the door quietly behind me.
During the following months, her hospital stays became frequent and she worried about her children. One day when I entered her room, I found her talking into a tape recorder. She picked up a notebook and held it out to me. "I'm making a tape for my daughters, " she said. I read the list on her pad: starting school, confirmation, turning 16, first date, graduation. While I worried how to help her deal with death, she was planning for her children's future. She usually waited until the early hours of the morning to record the tapes so she could be free from interruptions. She filled them with family stories and advice，trying to cram a lifetime of love into a few precious hours. Finally, every item in her notes had been checked off and she entrusted the tapes to her husband.
I often wondered what I would say in her place. My kids joked that I was like an FBI agent, with my constant questions about where they’d been and who they’d been with. Where, I thought, are my words of encouragement and love?
It was three o'clock one afternoon when I got an urgent call from the hospital. Rebekah wanted me to come immediately with a blank tape. She was breathing hard when I entered her room. I slipped the tape into the recorder and held the microphone to her lips. "Ruthie, Hannah, Molly, this is the most important tape." She held my hand and closed her eyes. "Someday your daddy will bring home a new mommy. Please make her feel special. Show her how to take care of you. Ruthie, honey, help her get your Brownie uniform ready each Tuesday. Hannah, tell her you don't want meat sauce on your spaghetti. Molly, don't get mad if there's no apple juice. Drink something else. It's okay to be sad, sweeties. Jesus cried too. He knows about sadness and will help you to be happy again. Remember, I'll always love you. I shut off the recorder and Rebekah sighed deeply. "Thank you, Nan, "You'll give this one to them, won't you?" she murmured as she slid into sleep.
A time would come when the tape would be played for Rebekah's children, but right then, after I smoothed Rebekah's blanket, I got in my car and hurried home. I thought of how my Shannon also liked her sauce on the side and suddenly that quirk, which had annoyed me so many times, seemed to make her so much more precious. That night the kids didn't go out; they sat with me long after the spaghetti sauce had dried onto the dishes. And we talked, without interrogations, without complaints，late into the night.
1.From the first paragraph we can learn that ____________ .
A. Nan was in a bad state and wept a lot in her daily life.
B. Nan was not on good terms with her children.
C. Nan was worried about how to help Rebeka deal with her death.
D. Nan laid more stress on attending on her patients than her children.
2.Which of the following scenes was most likely to be seen at Nan’s home before she met Rebekah?
A. The family sat down in a circle and shared an interesting story.
B. After dinner, the children either went out or shut themselves up in their rooms.
C. The son was the headache of the parents while the daughter their comfort.
D. When Eric did poorly at school, the parents comforted him and cheered him up.
3.Which was the most vital message Rebekah left to her children?
A. Bringing home satisfying school report cards
B. Landing a job after graduation
C. Growing up healthily and happily
D. Accepting their step-mother into their lives.
4.The writer learnt from Rebekah that a parent’s real concern should be_______. .
A. protecting the children from the dangers they may be trapped in.
B. having encouraging and loving talks with children.
C. making tape records to guide the children in their future lives.
D. tolerating the children’s annoying quirks.
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I opened my new patient's chart and headed for her room. My son, Eric, had just brought home a disappointing report card, and my daughter, Shannon, and I had argued again about her getting a driver's license. For the next eight hours I wanted to throw myself into helping people who I knew had much more to worry about than I did. Rebekah, mother of three lovely little girls, was only 32, admitted for chemotherapy after breast-cancer surgery, When I gave her an injection, Rebekah shut her eyes tightly and murmured a prayer until it was over. Then she smiled and squeezed my hand. “Before you go, could you get my Bible from the table?" I handed her the worn book. "Do you have a favorite Bible verse?" she asked. "Jesus wept. John 11: 35." "Such a sad one," she said. "Why?""It makes me feel closer to Jesus, knowing he also experienced human sorrow." Rebekah nodded thoughtfully and started flipping through her Bible as I shut the door quietly behind me.
During the following months, her hospital stays became frequent and she worried about her children. One day when I entered her room, I found her talking into a tape recorder. She picked up a notebook and held it out to me. "I'm making a tape for my daughters, " she said. I read the list on her pad: starting school, confirmation, turning 16, first date, graduation. While I worried how to help her deal with death, she was planning for her children's future. She usually waited until the early hours of the morning to record the tapes so she could be free from interruptions. She filled them with family stories and advice，trying to cram a lifetime of love into a few precious hours. Finally, every item in her notes had been checked off and she entrusted the tapes to her husband.
I often wondered what I would say in her place. My kids joked that I was like an FBI agent, with my constant questions about where they’d been and who they’d been with. Where, I thought, are my words of encouragement and love?
It was three o'clock one afternoon when I got an urgent call from the hospital. Rebekah wanted me to come immediately with a blank tape. She was breathing hard when I entered her room. I slipped the tape into the recorder and held the microphone to her lips. "Ruthie, Hannah, Molly, this is the most important tape." She held my hand and closed her eyes. "Someday your daddy will bring home a new mommy. Please make her feel special. Show her how to take care of you. Ruthie, honey, help her get your Brownie uniform ready each Tuesday. Hannah, tell her you don't want meat sauce on your spaghetti. Molly, don't get mad if there's no apple juice. Drink something else. It's okay to be sad, sweeties. Jesus cried too. He knows about sadness and will help you to be happy again. Remember, I'll always love you. I shut off the recorder and Rebekah sighed deeply. "Thank you, Nan, "You'll give this one to them, won't you?" she murmured as she slid into sleep.
A time would come when the tape would be played for Rebekah's children, but right then, after I smoothed Rebekah's blanket, I got in my car and hurried home. I thought of how my Shannon also liked her sauce on the side and suddenly that quirk, which had annoyed me so many times, seemed to make her so much more precious. That night the kids didn't go out; they sat with me long after the spaghetti sauce had dried onto the dishes. And we talked, without interrogations, without complaints，late into the night
- 1.
From the first paragraph we can learn that______
- A.Nan was in a bad state and wept a lot in her daily life
- B.Nan was not on good terms with her children
- C.Nan was worried about how to help Rebeka deal with her death
- D.Nan laid more stress on attending on her patients than her children
- A.
- 2.
Which of the following scenes was most likely to be seen at Nan’s home before she met Rebekah?
- A.The family sat down in a circle and shared an interesting story
- B.After dinner, the children either went out or shut themselves up in their rooms
- C.The son was the headache of the parents while the daughter their comfort
- D.When Eric did poorly at school, the parents comforted him and cheered him up
- A.
- 3.
Which was the most vital message Rebekah left to her children?
- A.Bringing home satisfying school report cards
- B.Landing a job after graduation
- C.Growing up healthily and happily
- D.Accepting their step-mother into their lives
- A.
- 4.
The writer learnt from Rebekah that a parent’s real concern should be______
- A.protecting the children from the dangers they may be trapped in
- B.having encouraging and loving talks with children
- C.making tape records to guide the children in their future lives
- D.tolerating the children’s annoying quirks
- A.