Annette Kellerman was born in Australia in 1887.She had polio and could not walk easily.She had to wear metal supports on her legs to stand up on her own.To make her legs stronger,her mother took her for swimming lessons every week.Swimming made her legs so strong that when she was 15 she was able to throw away her supports.
Her family was poor so she got work acting as a mermaid.She wore a long tail and fish swam around her.People paid to come and see her.
In 1900 Annette swam in the Paris Olympics and won two gold medals. The next year she tried to swim across the Channel.She was the first woman to try to do it though she had to stop after swimming for six hours.
In 1915 Annette went to Hollywood and was the star of two films.
【小题1】Annette Kellerman was born ________ in 1887.

Annette Kellerman was born in Australia in 1887.She had polio and could not walk easily.She had to wear metal supports on her legs to stand up on her own.To make her legs stronger,her mother took her for swimming lessons every week.Swimming made her legs so strong that when she was 15 she was able to throw away her supports.

Her family was poor so she got work acting as a mermaid.She wore a long tail and fish swam around her.People paid to come and see her.

In 1900 Annette swam in the Paris Olympics and won two gold medals. The next year she tried to swim across the Channel.She was the first woman to try to do it though she had to stop after swimming for six hours.

In 1915 Annette went to Hollywood and was the star of two films.

1.Annette Kellerman was born ________ in 1887.

A．in England                             B．In France

C．In America                            D．in Australia

2.She had to wear metal supports on her legs to stand up on her own because ______.

A．She had polio and couldn’t walk easily

B．Her family was poor

C．Her leg was hurt in an accident

D．She couldn’t swim

3.Her mother took her for swimming lessons every week ______.

A．to make her a famous swimmer

B．to make her legs stronger

C．to make her swim faster

D．to make her win gold medals

4.In 1990, Annette swam in the Paris Olympics and won two ________.

A．supports          B．fish              C．gold medals        D．films

5.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．she was successful in swimming across the Channel

B．In 1901 she tried to swim across the Channel but later she had to stop.

C．She wasn’t able to throw away her supports at the age of fifteen.

D．She swam across the Channel for only six days

She was a poor girl who worked to get money to pay for her lessons. She became the famous woman scientist of her time. That's the story of Marie Curie's life. She didn't mind working and she didn't care about the honors(荣誉)that were given to her in later years.

    Marie was born in 1867. Her name was Marie Sklosovska then. She lived in Poland. Her father was a teacher. Everyone soon saw that Marie had a quick mind.

    Marie's mother died when her youngest daughter was only ten. From then on, Marie knew that she would have to work hard at her lessons if she wanted to be successful(成功的)in her life. She studied very hard and was one of the best students at her school.

    Marie and her older sister, Bronya, wanted to study in France at the Sorbonne. But their father didn't have enough money to send them there. It was Marie who had an idea: she would teach at home and send her money to Bronya. After her sister finished studying in Paris, she would get work and send Marie the money to study there herself. So Marie worked very hard for six years to pay for her sister's studies. At last it was Marie's turn but when she got to France, her sister was married and could not give her much help.

    Again Marie worked. She studied in a small room without heat or light. She lived on bread and tea most of the time. But all she thought of was her maths and science. This was her world.

    After four years' hard work, Marie and her husband found something which was called radium(镭). They were given the Nobel Prize(诺贝尔奖)for their great discovery(发现). But they were too ill to go Stockholm themselves to receive it.

    Marie always said that it was because of her children that she want her work. And she discovered a hidden power and gave it to the world. It was the same power, however, that killed Marie in 1934.

1.Marie Sklodovska was born in_______.

A. France                B. Poland                 C. Stockholm          D Sorbonne

2.Marie did not go to Paris with her sister because_______.

A. She did not want to

B. He always thought of her maths and science first.

C. She had to earn money to pay for her sister's study.

D. She thought it more useful to make money.

3.She received her higher education（教育）at_______.

A. Poland       B. Stockholm          C. the Stockholm   D France

4.The greatness（伟大）of Marie's life in fact is that_______.

A. She received two Nobel Prizes

B. She was the first woman to work at the Sorbonne

C. She helped her sister finish school.

D. She worked hard without taking care of the fame and honors she received

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I once believed that a friend is a friend ‘all the way’. Now I have changed my ideas about friendships.

1. Friends of convenience. They can be the people who live next door or the mothers of our children’s closest friends. Friends of convenience(便利) are convenient indeed. They’ll help us when we need them. They’ll look after our cats when we go on holiday. But we don’t ever get too close or tell too much. We keep our public face and emotiona distance, which means that we’ll talk about being overweight but not about being sad or disappointed. However, people still feel these friendships valuable to them.

2. Special-interest friends. These friendships aren’t deeply personal or emotional. Their value lies in some shared interest, so we may have an office friend, a tennis friend, or even a shopping friend.

3. Historical friends. We all have a friend who knew us when… maybe we were back in the second grade of primary school, when our family lived in that two-room flat downtown. He or she was the first, the only friend we told our secrets to.

The years have gone by, and we have gone different ways. We have little in common now, but we’re still a personal part of each other’s past. We know how we looked before our teeth were straightened, and our getting together reminds us of an earlier part of ourselves, which is important and never lost.

4. Cross-generational friends. These are friendships that form across generations(代). I have in my own life a precious(珍贵的) friend, a woman of 65, who is wise, who listens well, and who represents not only an ideal mother to me but also the person I’d like to be when I grow up.

Best friends, I believe, totally love, support and trust each other.

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