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| Christopher Thomas, 27, was a writer by night and a teacher by day when he noticed he was always tired and was losing weight fast. Diagnosed with diabetes (糖尿病), Thomas would need to inject himself with insulin (胰岛素) three times a day for the rest of his life or risk nerve damage, blindness, and even death. And if that weren"t bad enough, he had no health insurance. After a month of feeling upset, Thomas decided he"d better find a way to fight back. He left Canton, Michigan for New York, got a job waiting tables, nicknamed himself the Diabetic Rockstar , and created diabeticrockstar.com, a free online community for diabetics and their loved ones-a place where over 1,100 people share personal stories, information, and resources. Jason Swencki"s son, Kody, was diagnosed with type diabetes at six. Father and son visit the online children"s forums (论坛) together most evenings. "Kody gets so excited, writing to kids from all over," says Swencki, one of the site"s volunteers. "They know what he"s going through, so he doesn"t feel alone." Kody is anything but alone: Diabetes is now the seventh leading cause of death in the United States, with 24 million diagnosed cases. And more people are being diagnosed at younger ages. These days, Thomas"s main focus is his charity, Fight It, which provides medicines and supplies to people-225 to date-who can"t afford a diabetic"s huge expenses. Fight-it.org has raised about $23,000-in products and in cash. In May, Thomas will hold the first annual Diabetic Rockstar Festival in the Caribbean. Even with a staff of 22 volunteers, Thomas often devotes up to 50 hours a week to his cause, while still doing his full-time job waiting tables. "Of the diabetes charities out there, most are putting money into finding a cure," says Bentley Gubar, one of Rockstar"s original members. "But Christopher is the only person I know saying people need help now." |
| 1. Which of the following is true of Christopher Thomas? |
| A. He needs to go to the doctor every day. B. He studies the leading cause of diabetes C. He has a positive attitude to this disease. D. He encourages diabetics by writing articles. |
| 2. Diabeitcrockstar.com was created for _________. |
| A. diabetics to communicate B. volunteers to find jobs C. children to amuse themselves D. rock stars to share resources. |
| 3. According to the text, Kody ______. |
| A. feel lonely because of his illness B. benefits from diabeticrockstar.com C. helps create the online kid"s forums D. writes children"s stories online |
| 4. What can we learn about Fight It? |
| A. It helps the diabetics in financial difficulties. B. It organizes parties for volunteer once a year. C. It offers less expensive medicine to diabetics. D. It owns a well-known medical website. |
| 5. The last paragraph suggests that Thomas ______. |
| A. works full-time in a diabetes charity B. employs 22 people for his website C. helps diabetics in his own way D. ties to find a cure for diabetes |
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| Booker T. Washington was born in a black slave family in Virginia of the USA in 1856, seven years before slavery was abolished (废除) by Abraham Lincoln in January, 1863. He wrote a book about his life called Up From Slavery, which was published in 1901. In the book, he said that he had no choice but to work in a coal mine when he was 16 years old. He had no chance to go to school. He heard two coal miners talking about a school for black children which was called the Hampton Institute. He determined that he would go there. He gave up his job and told other members of his race that he was going to school across the state. The older people had spent their best years as slaves and were poor. However, some gave Booker some pocket money or a handkerchief. Hardly had anyone expected any of their race to leave home to attend a boarding school. He took a train to Richmond, Virginia, where he ran out of money. It was 82 miles from the Hampton Institute. He slept under a wooden sidewalk(人行道). He helped unload pigs and iron from a ship for some money and when he had enough, he continued his journey, arriving at school with 50 cents. This diligence(勤奋) pushed him to graduate and become a teacher at the Hampton Institute. When he was 25 years old, he was asked to start a new school for black children in Alabama. called the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Thirty-four years later, this school had 1,500 students and 200 teachers and Booker T. Washington became the most influential black leader of his generation. |
| 1. What"s the purpose of the passage? |
| A. To show the significance of education for black children. B. To introduce Booker T. Washington"s working experience as a slave. C. To present a brief introduction of Booker T. Washington. D. To explain the reason why Booker T. Washington becomes a writer. |
| 2. Booker T. Washington didn"t go to school early in life because ________. |
| A. there were no schools for slave in America. B. blacks were not allowed to receive education. C. he had to work as a coal miner. D. he was not smart enough to receive education. |
| 3. The older people didn"t give Booker much money because _________. |
| A. they had no jobs to do. B. they didn"t have much money. C. they didn"t believe Booker would succeed. D. they didn"t wish Booker to go to school. |
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| Jean-Francois Millet (October 4,1814-January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founder of the Barbizon School in rural France. Born of a peasant family, Millet was encouraged by his father to study art in Cherbourg, France. He can be categorized as part of the movement called "naturalism"(自然主义). His understanding of the peasant" hard life was perfectly expressed in his choice of subject and natural preference for powerful but simple drawing and coloring. One of the most well-known of Millet"s paintings, The Gleaners(《拾穗者》),first came in a vertical composition (垂直式构图) painted in 1854,and then there came the horizontal version in 1856, which is now preserved in the Musee d"Orsay. It depicts women bending over in the fields to collect the leftover"s from the harvest, and it is a monumental composition devoted to the working class. Previously, servants were depicted in paintings as obedient to a noble or a king, and picking up what was left of the harvest was regarded as one of the lowest jobs in Millet;s times. However, Millet offered these women as the heroic focus of the picture. Besides, in the painting, light lights up the women"s shoulders as they carry out their work. Behind them, the field that stretches into the distance is bathed in golden light, under a wide , magnificent sky. The forms of the three figures, standing against the lighter field, show balance and harmony. |
| 1. According to the passage , we can know that Millet ______. |
| A. was born in rural France B. belongs to neither naturalism nor realism C. became famous for his love of the countryside D. received his high school education in Barbizon |
| 2. As for the painting The Gleaners, ________. |
| A. it is originally a horizontal composition B. it is based on the effort of Musee d"Orsay C. it presents women in the field as the chief focus D. it shows how women are stopped from working in the field |
| 3. In the painting, the viewer can appreciate Millet"s_______. |
| A. crazy interest in blue color B. strong focus on the city life C. absolute respect for the king D. particular choice of main characters |
| 4. In which of the following books can we probably find this passage? |
| A. Kings and Nobles in France B. A Guide to French Painting C. French Agricultural History D. The Founder of Musee d"Orsay |
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| John "Mad Jack" Mytton (1796-1834) was a carefree English aristocrat who was born into immense wealth. However, he died a poor man after a life that was once described as "a series of suicide attempts". So, what went wrong? As a young boy, Jack went to Westminster School, but after only one year he was expelled for fighting with a teacher. He was then sent to Harrow School but only lasted three days before he was also thrown out. He was eventually educated by private tutors. After school, Jack went to Cambridge University. He arrived with 2,000 bottles of port, but left without graduating - he found university life boring. Later, he joined the army, enlisting with the 7th Hussars. As a young officer, he spent a year with the regiment in France as part of the occupation force after Napoleon"s defeat in 1815. Jack passed the time gambling and drinking before resigning his commission. At the age of 21, he returned to his country house just in time to receive his inheritance. With an annual income of over ￡800,000 in today"s money, Jack was extremely rich… but it didn"t take him long to spend it all. In 1819, he became an MP. In order to secure his seat, he offered voters ￡10 notes to vote for him, spending more than ￡10,000 in total. However, he found politics dull and went to parliament only once. Back at home, he would often drop bank notes in the gardens of his estate, and gave his servants vast amounts of spending money. Once he lost his racetrack winnings (several thousand pounds) when the wind blew all the money away. One of Jack"s favorite pastimes was hunting. He would go in any kind of weather, occasionally with no clothes on. Sometimes, he would get up in the middle of the night, take off with a gun to look for something to shoot. Jack also kept a large number of pets. These included about 2,000 dogs. Some were fed on steak and Champagne and even wore livery. A favorite horse had free range inside Halston Hall and would often lie with Jack in front of the fire. Jack was a bit of a practical joker, too. He once left a horse in the bedroom of a guest. Another visitor fell asleep and woke up to find a live bear and two bulldogs in his bed. In 1826, as a result of a bet, Jack rode his horse into the Bedford Hotel, up the grand staircase and onto the balcony. Then, still sitting on the horse, he jumped off the balcony, landing among the diners in the restaurant below. Another time, he invited a local doctor to dine at Halston Hall. As soon as the doctor had left, Jack put on a highwayman"s costume and raced ahead to rob the unsuspecting man. On another occasion, a passenger in Jack"s carriage admitted that he"d never been in an accident, so Jack drove the carriage up a hill and turned it over. He would also slip red-hot coals into people"s pockets as a joke. Eventually, Jack ran out of money and fell into debt. In 1830, he fled to France to avoid his creditors(债主), but returned a couple of years later, ending up in prison in Southwark, London. Jack died there in 1834, a poor, lonely man. |
| 1. It can be inferred in the passage that ________. |
| A. Jack was first educated by private tutors and eventually graduated from Cambridge University. B. Jack joined the army and succeeded in defeating Napoleon"s army in 1815. C. Jack bribed the voters in order to gain a position of MP. D. Jack fed his favorite horse with meat and wine and often lay with it in front of the fire. |
| 2. Once Jack rode his horse into a grand hotel and jumped off the balcony in order to pay for his _____. |
| A. bet B. debt C. joke D. gambling |
| 3. The examples in paragraph 7 tell us that _______. |
| A. Jack was always ready to help people experience what they hadn"t experienced. B. Jack always punished people by all means to let out his hatred. C. Jack always played tricks on people to have fun. D. Jack went mad and treated people unfriendly and even cruelly. |
| 4. The word _________ would be more proper to describe Jack"s life. |
| A. ridiculous B. luxurious C. tricky D. greedy |
| 5. By writing "a series of suicide attempts" in paragraph 1, the author probably means that ________. |
| A. Jack attempted to kill himself because he was too poor. B. Jack pretended to suicide to avoid his creditors. C. Jack lost his life in fighting with poverty. D. All that Jack had did in his life contributed to his own failure and poverty. |
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| When Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her, "Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesn"t work out, you"ll have something to rely on." Mary responded in typical teenage fashion. From that moment on, "the very last thing I ever thought about doing was taking a typing course," she recalls. The show business thing worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won many awards. Only recently, when she began to write Growing Up Again, did she regret ignoring her morn," I don"t know how to use a computer," she admits. Unlike her 1995 autobiography, After All, her second book is less about life as an award-winning actress and more about living with diabetes (糖尿病). All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), an organization she serves as international chairman. "I felt there was a need for a book like this," she says."I didn"t want to lecture, but I wanted other diabetics to know that things get better when we"re self-controlled and do our part in managing the disease." But she hasn"t always practiced what she teaches. In her book, she describes that awful day, almost 40 years ago, when she received two pieces of life-changing news. First, she had lost the baby she was carrying, and second, tests showed that she had diabetes. In a childlike act, she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts (甜甜圈). Years would pass before she realized she had to grow up-again-and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her. Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet. Although her disease has affected her eyesight and forced her to the sidelines of the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-pity. "Everybody on earth can ask, "why me?" about something or other," she insists. "It doesn"t do any good. No one is immune (免疫的) to heartache, pain, and disappointments. Sometimes we can make things better by helping others. I"ve come to realize the importance of that as I"ve grown up this second time. I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be." |
| 1. Why did Mary feel regretful? |
| A. She didn"t achieve her ambition. B. She didn"t take care of her mother. C. She didn"t complete her high school. D. She didn"t follow her mother"s advice. |
| 2.We can know that before 1995 Mary . |
| A. had two books published B. received many career awards C. knew how to use a computer D. supported the JDRF by writing |
| 3. Mary"s second book Growing Up Again is mainly about her ____. |
| A. living with diabetes B. successful show business C. service for an organization D. remembrance of her mother |
| 4. When Mary received the life-changing news, she ____. |
| A. lost control of herself B. began a balanced diet C. Med to get a treatment D. behaved in an adult way |
| 5. What can we know from the last paragraph? |
| A. Mary feels pity for herself. B. Mary has recovered from her disease. C. Mary wants to help others as much as possible. D. Mary determines to go back to the dance floor. |