I was exhausted from working my two jobs over the weekend and was not looking forward to the graduation ceremony. I knew it was going to be a long afternoon. I kept thinking of all the places I would rather be,and made up my mind that I wasn't going to enjoy myself.
It was getting harder and harder to pay attention. Finally,they began calling out the graduates' names. The classmates formed a single line and made their way up towards the po dium (讲台) .
Kim looked up at us and was trying to hold back the tears. Standing in line,about to re?ceive her diploma (毕业证) ，she was probably thinking about a number of things. Maybe her dad who passed away a few years ago and didn't get to see her reach her goal,or her grandmother who had always wanted to attend college,but her family didn't have the money ... The selfish?ness in me melted away,and I realized why I was there.
"Kimberly Anne Conway,graduating Magna Cum Laude (以优等成绩毕业) .”She walked across the stage and received this piece of paper that meant so many things.
I glanced at my wife,and saw the tears roll gently down as the love she had for her sister manifested (表明) itself on her face.
Kim is not an ordinary college graduate. She is 38 years old,and has stuck to her goal of graduating from college for the past 20 years.
She attended college while working full time,and she studied extremely hard. Many times she felt like quitting.
It takes a special person to stick with a goal as long as she has.
I love you,Kim,and I want you to know that I admire you for that symbolic piece of pa?per that will soon adorn (使光彩) a wall in your house.
In the words of Caleb,my 3-year-old; "HAPPY GRADUATION,AUNT KIMMY!"
( ) 1. What does the underlined word "It" in Paragraph 2 refer to?
A. The afternoon. B. The Time. C. The attention. D. The ceremony.
( ) 2. Who wanted very much but couldn't go to college?
A. The writer's grandmother. B. Kimberly's mother.
C. The writer's wife's grandmother. D. Caleb's grandmother.
( ) 3. Why did Kim feel like,for many times,quitting from her learning?
A. Learning was not an easy thing.
B. She had to do the full time work.
C. She still had some other important to deal with.
D. All the above.
( ) 4. Why did the writer change his mind in the graduating ceremony?
A. Because he realized that it was of great importance to stick to one's goal and achieve it.
B. Because he heard that his wife's sister was going to the podium.
C. Because he saw tears in both sisters' eyes.
D. Because he thought Kim's diploma would adorn the wall in his house.
CCDA
克服了重重困难，努力奋斗了 20多年才拿到大学毕业证对于一个中年妇女是多么的不容易啊！作者因此也受到很大的触动。
1. C词义猜测题。
2. C细节理解题。要注意mother和grand?mother两词的使用。
3. D归纳判断题。 A. B和C都是使她放弃的原因。
4. A全文理解题。根据全文得知令作者改变想法的原因是Kim对学业追求的信念。
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10. with the size of the whole earth,the biggest ocean doesn't seem big at all. (compare)
比较于整个地球的大小，最大的海洋也谈不上大了。
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Expensive：The cost of finding love is,on average,two inner circle friends,scientists have found.
Ever found yourself dumped (度弃的) by a friend embarking (着手，开始做) on a romance? Don't worry,you're probably not the only one. For according to Oxford University scientists,every time we start a relationship we jettison (抛弃，丢弃) two of our closest friends.
Most of us simply don't have enough time for intimate (密切的) friendships with more than four or five people,their research shows.
And a new love interest leads to two friends being pushed out of the inner circle.
Professor Robin Dunbar,one of Britain's leading experts in evolutionary biology,ex?plained："If you go into a romantic relationship it actually costs you two friends in that inner core of relationships."
"Instead of having the typical five friends,they only have four in that inner circle. And bearing in mind that one of those is the new person that has come into your life,it means you have to give up two others."
Men tend to have four or five intimate friends,women five or six,he said.
However,men were just as likely to jettison friends at the start of a new romantic attach?ment (情感) as women,found the study of those aged 18 to 60.
"Your attention is so wholly focused on the romantic partners,you just don't get to see the other folks you had a lot to do with before”，the professor told the British Science Festival in Birmingham. " Those relationships start to deteriorate."
But it's not just romance that can push out close friends,he explained. Children or buying a dog can have the same effect.
"You can only have five slots (位置) for deeply intense and meaningful relations. Those in?dividuals don't have to be human. They can be your dog or your favourite chrysanthemum (菊花) plant. They can be people in an entirely fictional world,they can be soap opera characters. They can be God or they can be saints."
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A. Giving a birth to a baby. B. Planting some flowers.
C. Raising a puppy. D. Living the normal life.
( ) 6. What does the underlined sentence really mean?
A. Men,as well as women,are likely to push out close friends when starting a new romance.
B. Men but not women are likely to push out close friends at very beginning of a new romance.
C. Women don't do like man to push out close friends when starting a new romance.
D. Both men and women are not likely to behave the same.
( ) 7. According to the context,guess the meaning of the underlined word "deteriorate".
A. Grow worse. B. Become better. C. Go upward. D. Turn down.
( ) 8. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. Only with humans can one maintain deeply intense and meaningful relations.
B. Dogs and planting some chrysanthemum can't make one push out close friends.
C. Limited slots for deep relations and easy to be occupied.
D. The more slots you have,the more intense and meaningful relations you get.
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"A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right ," says Mollie Hunter. Born and brought up near Edinburgh,Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She firmly believes that there is always and should always be a wider audi?ence for any good book whatever its main market is. In Mollie's opinion,it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story,which is what every writer should be doing. "If you aren't telling a story,you're a very dead writer indeed," she says. With the chief function of a writer being to entertain (让人愉快) ，Mollie is indeed an entertainer. "I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language," she says. "This love goes back to early childhood. I've told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and,because my family always had dogs,and I was very good at handling them,I said I wanted to work with dogs,and the teacher always said ' Nonsense,Mollie,dear,you'll be a writer. ' So finally I thought that this woman must have something,since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer."
This childhood intention is described in her novel,A Sound of Chariots,which although written in the third person is clearly autobiographical (自传体的) and gives a picture both of Mollie's ambition (理想) and her struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood in?evitably (不可避免地) brought thoughts of the time when her home was still a village with butter?cup meadows and strawberry fields―sadly now covered with modern houses. "I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my childhood. I'll never go back," she said. "Never.""When I set one of my books in Scotland," she said, "I can recall my romantic (浪漫的) feelings as a child playing in those fields,or watching the village black?smith at work. And that's important,because children now know so much so early that romance can't exist for them,as it did for us."
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A. It should not aim at a narrow audience.
B. It should be attractive to young readers.
C. It should be based on original ideas.
D. It should not include too much conversation.
( ) 6. In Mollie Hunter's viewpoint,which of the following is one sign of a poor writer?
A. Being poor in life experience. B. Being short of writing skills.
C. The weakness of description. D. The absence of a story.
( ) 7. In comparison with children of earlier years,Mollie feels that modern children are
A. more intelligent B. better informed
C. less eager to learn D. less interested in reality
( ) 8. What's the writer's purpose in writing this text?
A. To describe Mollie Hunter's most successful books.
B. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter's books.
C. To introduce Mollie Hunter's work to a wider audience.
D. To provide information for Mollie Hunter's existing readers.
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My first English novel was Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice,recommended by many Eng?lish teachers and professors as an ideal book for English learners. But my experience was some?what disastrous"艮糟的) .Stumbling (摇摇晃晃的) along the lines,I had great difficulty in under?standing the novel,let alone enjoying it. It's not the vocabulary that troubled me,but rather the way Austen constructs sentences,and her way of thinking,which seemed too remote to me at that time. My fading enthusiasm was much recovered after reading Hemingway's novel Farewell to Arms. No long and complicated sentences. And I particularly liked his concise (简明的) and straightforward style. So my first suggestion is,as a beginner,you'd better choose contemporary novels instead of classical ones. You can easily engage yourself in reading,get fun out of it,and gradually build up confidence. I do not mean to exclude (不在考虑之列) classi?cal novels for ever. Actually,the second reading of Pride and Prejudice greatly pleased me (probably the result of my improved English comprehension) . It is only that classical novels are less accessible (易接近的) to beginners due to their language styles and social background. I'd like to recommend three contemporary novelists to you―Ursula Le Guin,Ernest Hemingway,and Doris Lessing.
However,reading novels is not the only way to improve your English. In fact,if you re?strict yourself to novels,you will miss a lot of treasures. English essays can at once inform you,entertain you,and refine your taste in English. The best example is Bertrand Russell's work. Its language is plain,yet you cannot help feeling the elegance (雅致) and the peculiar sense of hu?mor. His simple language enables his philosophy within the reach of ordinary people. Here comes my second suggestion―essays are indispensable (必不可少的) .
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A. Lacking companions.
B. On your own.
C. Not to mention.
D. Without anybody or anything else.
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A. The value of novels is really limited.
B. The style of novels is not worth appreciating.
C. We may overleap many other worthy treasures in reading.
D. We can't enjoy ourselves while reading novels.
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A. Sharing some experiences on how to choose the appropriate books,especially as a beginner.
B. English essay is another treasure to improve your English.
C. We shouldn't follow others' recommendations and opinions blindly.
D. We'd better choose contemporary novels instead of classical ones.
( ) 8. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?
A. It Is Not Enough for One to Understand the Novel
B. To Cultivate One's Taste in English Prose,the Most Effective Way Is to Read English Books Extensively
C. Reading English Novels Can Also Improve One's English
D. We Shouldn't Restrict Ourselves to Reading
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