阅读短文，还原句子。     Elena Desserich was a beautiful girl. 1_____She had dreamed of becoming an artist when she grew up-but 
sadly, she never had the chance to be an adult. When Elena was only five years old, the doctor said that she 
had brain cancer and only had135 days to live.      
    Elena spent the long days in the hospital working on her paintings, which were full of hearts and smiling 
families.  One of her paintings was shown in a gallery, right next to a Picasso"s painting. 2_____And then she 
began to "talk" with her family bywriting notes.         
  3_____Her parents were very sad, even though they knew the day would come. When they were tidying up 
her things, they began to find notes. All through her final days, Elena had been writing love notes to her family 
and hiding them in secret places throughout the house.      
  Her parents started to collect them and all the notes would say, "I love you, Mum, Dad and Crace. "  4_____

A. She loved painting and writing. B. Elena died in 2007.  C. A month later, she lost the use of her voice. D. Her parents loved her so much.  E. They kept finding them - the amazing gifts from Elena.

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Lang Lang is only 27 years old, but has already been called "the most popular pianist on the planet" by American television network CNN.      Like every successful person, Lang went through years of hard and lonely practice before making his name. 1_____ With great talent (天赋), he won his first competition at the age of 5. Lang"s father pushed little Lang very hard to succeed. When he was nine, Lang went to leam music in Beijing. 2_____ But Lang got fired (开除) by the piano teacher six months later. 3_____ Hearing about his son"s failure, Lang"s father was so angry that he told Lang to jump off a building!       4_____ His big break came at age 17, when he gained worldwide fame at "Gala of the Century", a well- known concert in Chicago, the US. Lang said it was his true love of music and piano that made him keep working.

A. However, Lang didn"t jump, and pressure (压力) soon changed to power. B. He has performed in almost every big city around the world. C. It totally destroyed (毁灭) his piano dream. D. He began to take piano lessons at the age of 3. E. His father even gave up his job and moved to Beijing with his son.

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Jackie Heinricher"s love with bamboo started in her backyard. "As a child, I remember playing among the golden bamboo my dad had planted, and when it was windy, the bamboos sounded musical. It was my favorite place."      A biologist (生物学家) by training, Heinricher, 47, planned to work in a company in Seattle, where she lived with her husband, but she found it too boring. Her garden gave her the idea for a business. She would plant bamboo on their private farm.       Heinricher started Boo-shoot Garden in 1998. She realized early on what is just now beginning to appear on the rest of the world. Bamboo is useful as well as earth-friendly. It can be used to make skate-boards, buildings, fumiture, floors and even clothing. Bamboo takes in four times as much carbon dioxide (CO2) as hardwood trees and gives out 35% more oxygen (O2).      First she had to find a way to produce a lot of the plants.   It was a hard task since bamboo flowers create seed (种子) only once every 50 to 100 years. And dividing a bamboo plant too often kills it."People kept telling us we"d never succeed," says Heinricher. " Others had worked on it for 27 years! I believed in what we were doing, though, so I just kept going."      After a nine-year experiments, she found a way to grow millions of plants. The number of workers in her company increased from 5 to 55. Now she is working on all kinds of bamboo and selling them all over the world.         "We are at the wonderful moment," she says. "It takes me a lot of time to decide where to pay my attention. Producing bamboo products? Selling plants to gardeners? Educating farmers about the economic (经济的) and environmental value of bamboo forests? Or asking the govemment to line roads with bamboo?"

1. When did Heinricher begin to love bamboo?

A. When she was a child. B. When she was C. Twenty-seven years ago. D. About ten years ago.

2. Bamboo is earth-friendly because _______.

A. it can produce musical sounds B. it can be used widely C. it can make our city beautiful D. it can help clean the air

3. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. Heinricher"s bamboo garden. B. Heinricher"s bamboo company. C. Heinrieher"s bamboo story. D. Heinricher"s bamboo products.

4. What is Heinricher"s work like now?

A. It"s still in great trouble. B. It has been successful. C. It"s in perfect condition. D. It has begun to go easily.

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Jacques Rogge was bom on May 2, 1942; in Ghent, Belgium. In England he studied sports medicine and got his medical degree before retuming to Belgium to work as a doctor in Deinze. Jacques Rogge was once an Olympic yachtsman (赛艇运动员) with great achievements. In the course of his sports life, he competed in the yachting competitions at the Games of Olympiad in 1968, 1972 and 1976. He got good grades at the competitions. He served as President of the European Olympic Committee (欧洲奥委会) in 1989 and joined IOC-International Olympic Committee, in 1991. Thanks to his rich social background, Rogge"s climb in the IOC was fast. During the period of the Salt Lake City scandal (丑闻), he refused expensive gifts and money. He became the eighth president of the IOC on July 16, 2001.      Being not influenced by the Salt Lake City scandal, he has kept a perfectly clean image (象) in the IOC. He has been seen as the one who could improve the situation since the Salt Lake City scandal was brought into daylight. As an Olympic yachtsman, Jacques Rogge was no stranger to dangerous waters and stormy weather, but be faced a large number of serious problems when he took over the great job. He was in the first hope that he would clear up the public image of the IOC. He said that he would take his whole life of effort to let the world trust the IOC.

1. Was Rogge born in Belgium?      _______________________________________________ 2. Did Rogge get his medical degree in England or in Belgium?      _______________________________________________ 3. How many times did Rogge compete in Olympic yachting?      _______________________________________________ 4. What did people wish Rogge to do first after he became the president of the IOC?     _______________________________________________ 5. What main advantages did Rogge have to be the president of the IOC according to the passage?      _______________________________________________

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Who was Leonardo da Vinci? You may answer without thinking: "He is the painter of Mona Lisa." What else do you know about him? Da Vinci was more than just a great artist in history. He"s also famous as a scientist and an inventor.      Recently, the Grand Rapids Public Museum in the US had an exhibition to introduce this great talent. In one of the shows, named "Leonardo da Vinci"s Machines in Motion", visitors could see and touch 30 full-size machines built according to his sketches-including a crane (起重机) and a robot!      Leonardo da Vinci was born to a rich family in Florence, Italy, in 1452. From childhood, Leonardo was given a good education and he showed talent at painting. By the age of 26, Da Vinci had already become a famous painter.      However, he showed that he had multiple talents in 1482 when he began to work for the Duke of Milan as a chief engineer. In the duke"s military factories, Da Vinci developed an interest in war weapons.      He designed many important machines, including helicopters and parachutes. He also drew and wrote about an armored car, which could carry eight men inside and allow them to fire weapons through holes in its walls. Da Vinci"s idea led to the mod- ern tank. Though Da Vinci never built many of the inventions he designed, some of the things he imagined in the late 1400s are in use today.      As a scientist, Da Vinci was fascinated with the human body. He spent a whole year cutting up dead bodies in hospitals to learn about human anatomy (解剖). He made more than 200 drawings of bodies.      Amazingly, Da Vinci wrote backward, so the easiest way to read his notes was to hold them up to a mirror!

1. Was Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo da Vinci?     _________________________________________________ 2. When was Leonardo da Vinci born?       _________________________________________________ 3. What did Leonardo da Vinci design?      _________________________________________________ 4. Why did Leonardo da Vinci cut up dead bodies in hospitals?      _________________________________________________ 5. What was Leonardo da Vinci according to the passage?       _________________________________________________

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Liu Xiang was born in Shanghai on the 13th of July, 1983. He is 1.88m tall and 1______(weigh) 74 kilograms. He began practicing jumping when he was at Grade Four in primai7 school. He 2______ (win) the gold medal of the men"s 110m hurdles in the 28th Olympic Games. It is the first gold medal that Chinese have won from this competition in the Olympic history. He 3______(be) a great hero in Chinese eyes since then. He also likes singing and seeing films. Once when he 4______(walk) in the street, he stopped to answer the reporter, "I 5______(sing) songs with friends if I feel tired after training, or go to a movie for relaxation."