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| A few years ago when my daughter was about two years old, I went through a difficult time. My husband left us and I didn’t have 1______money. I think I was also 2______disappointed but I had to take care of my daughter. One day I thought I would take my 3______ to a park as she liked to play there and I thought it was a nice thing to do. I decided to 4_____ there because the bus was expensive, so it 5_____ us a long time to get there. When we finally 6____, my daughter immediately began to 7______. She was cold and thirsty and wanted to go home. I didn’t even have any money to buy a drink 8_____to take the bus back home. I was so 9______ because my dream of a nice time had fallen apart. I started walking back home, and my daughter would not stop crying. I felt so unhappy and angry with 10____ and my life that I started crying, 11_____.At that point a car stopped beside us and a gentleman offered us a lift. He took us home, and seemed really 12______ he even offered me all his change! The kindness of this stranger really made me feel 13______better. I never saw him again and I don’t know who he is but he really 14______that day. Now my life is better and my daughter has 15______ .I always tell her that story. Maybe she doesn’t remember that day now, but she has been moved by that stranger.
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of time. People think I'm selfish or not kind-hearted. But I don't feel sorry for that, and I think more parents
will be coming around to my way of thinking. Britain's universities are failing to serve either the country or
our children. It's about time we voted (投票) with our feet.
I can't remember when I began to change my mind on education. Like a lot of middle-class parents,
we had believed that going to university was what your children did. It's one of the reasons (理由) we offered
more than $ 100,000 in fees (学费) for Jim to go to a private (私立) school rather than a free public one.
Education is more important than nice cars, new kitchens or skiing holidays.
Jim is a young boy of whom any parent would be proud. He's clever and helpful; he's good at things like
hanging pictures and mending doors; he can get on well with other kids. But he's shown little interest in study.
It's not Jim's intellect (智力) that's the problem-after he entered the school he was asked to sit an exam
but an in-built reluctance (勉强) to do any more work than necessary to get by. We've tried everything to make
him work harder. None of it has worked. For his final exams, Jim got a D and two Es. Even allowing for our
low expectations (期望), this came as a surprise to his mother and me.
"Surely," I said to one of Jim's teachers, "the only subject Jim would get on with such poor grades would
be the kind of subject that wouldn't be worth doing anyway."
"Not at all," the teacher answered, as if speaking to a dinosaur. He read out the names of a lot of univer-
sities I'd never heard of, saying they'd all be fit for Jim.
It was at this point I realized how far away I was from today's education. I knew that, since I was at
school in the early 1980s-when a student with such poor grades as Jim's would not have been allowed to go to
any university-the population in the UK going on to higher education has gone up from 14% to a surprising 44%.
B. there are few universities in the UK
C. Jim won't be allowed to go to university
D. it's a waste of time and money to do so
B. He is interested in anything except study.
C. He doesn't want to use his head at school.
D. He never likes working hard and being busy.
B. He is sure most universities will certainly refuse to take Jim.
C. He is sure Jim's father is too old to understand today's education.
D. He thinks education in the UK has changed a lot in the past years.
B. many young people don't go to university in the UK
C. parents are usually strongly against higher education
D. education in the UK is becoming worse and worse
阅读下列短文，从所给的四个选项中，选出最佳答案
An Artist and a FarmerAn artist went to a beautiful part of the country for a holiday and stayed with a farmer. Every day he went out with paints (颜料) and his brushes and painted till evening, and then when it got dark he went back to the farm and had a good dinner before he went to bed.
At the end of the holiday he wanted to pay the farmer, but the farmer said,“No, I don't want money. But give me one of your pictures. What's money? In a week, it will all be finished, but your picture will still be here.”
The painter was very pleased, “Thank you for your enjoying my pictures.”But the farmer said, “It's not that. I have a son in London. He wants to become an artist. When he comes here next month, I'll show him your picture, and then he will not want to be an artist any more, I think.”
根据短文内容，选择正确答案。
1．The artist went to ________ for a holiday.
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A．a part of the city
B．a park of the city
C．a part of the country
D．a park of the country
2．Every day he went out to ________.
[ ]
A．play
B．draw pictures
C．pay
D．have a good dinner
3．The farmer wanted ________ money ________ one of his pictures.
[ ]
A．not…but
B．not only…but also…
C．neither…nor
D．either…or
4．The farmer thought that the artist's pictures were ________.
[ ]
A．very good
B．too bad
C．very kind
D．too badly
5．The farmer said, “If I show your picture to my son, he ________ to be an artist any more.”
[ ]
A．doesn't want
B．don't want
C．won't want
D．didn't want
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