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A calligrapher taught handwriting. One of his students who often practiced handwriting with old
sheets of newspaper complained that he made very little progress though he had learned it with the
calligrapher for a long time. His teacher said to him, "Try to use the best paper. Maybe you"ll write
better."
The student did as he was told. It really worked.He made headway not long afterwards and felt
curious. He asked his teacher about the reason. The calligrapher answered, "When you used old
newspaper to practice handwriting, you would think you were writing a draft. It didn"t matter if you
wrote badly as old newspaper was plenty in supply.In that case you wouldn"t pay much attention to it.
Now you use the best paper and you"ll treasure it. Each time you write you feel strongly about the rarity
of chances and you"ll devote to it with all your heart and soul; you"ll do the handwriting much more
attentively than practicing. Of course you"ve made rapid progress."
Indeed, we spend our ordinary days just as they are worthless "old newspaper". We don"t care if we
scrawl and waste it, thinking that it will come endlessly-the "old newspaper" is inexhaustible. In such a
mood we may each day pass by opportunities but fail to catch any of them.
Life is not a military exercise but an actual war in which real weapons are used. In everyday life
there"s no chance for us to draft. That"s because what we call "draft" actually is the answer sheet we
write that cannot be changed.
Every day of our life is something new. Let us take every day as a sheet of the best paper.
B. it was comfortable to write on the best paper
C. the student had enough money to buy the best paper
D. the student could write more on the best paper
B. he was too poor to buy better paper to write on
C. he regarded his writing on old newspaper just as a draft
D. he was not used to the calligrapher"s teaching manner
B. the student made rapid progress by practicing more carefully
C. the calligrapher was strict with his students
D. old newspaper is not useful
B. Success calls for attentiveness.
C. Handwriting is easy to practice.
D. New things are always better than old ones.
B. life is like old newspaper
C. we should learn from the student in the story
D. life will not give us a chance to draw a draft
答案
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举一反三
Award in a Tuesday morning ceremony for their heroism in saving the victims of a serious twocar
accident.
The accident occurred on March 25 when a vehicle lost control while traveling on rainsoaked State
Highway 6 near Baylor Camp Road. It ran into an oncoming vehicle, leaving the occupants trapped
inside as both vehicles burst into flames.
Bonge was the first on the scene and heard children screaming. He broke through a back window
and pulled Mallory Smith, 10, and her sister, Megan Smith, 9, from the wreckage.
The girls" mother, Beckie Smith, was not with them at the time of the wreck, as they were traveling
with their baby sitter, Lisa Bowbin.
Beckie Smith still remembers the sickening feeling she had upon receiving the call informing her of
the wreck and the despair as she drove to the scene.
Bozeman and Clemmons arrived shortly after Bonge and helped rescue the other victims and
attempted to put out the fires.
"I was nervous,"Bozeman said. "I don"t feel like I"m a hero. I was just doing what anyone should do
in that situation. I hope someone would do the same for me."
Everyone at the accident made it out alive, with the victims suffering from nonlifethreatening injuries.
Mallory Smith broke both femurs, and Megan had neck and back injuries. Bowbin is still recovering
from a broken pelvis, ankle and foot.
The rescuers also were taken to the hospital and treated for cuts and smoke breathing, Bonge said.
In addition, Bozeman got to meet accident victim Anthony Russo in the hospital after the accident,
where Russo presented him with a glass frame inscribed with "Thank you", Bozeman said. Those
involved in that fateful encounter on Highway 6 credited God blessing for bringing them together.
"Whatever the circumstances, Tuesday"s ceremony provided a time to be grateful for those who put
their lives on the line for the lives of complete strangers, "Beckie Smith said, "We"re calling it The
Miracle on Highway 6."
B. Three ordinary people were regarded as great heroes.
C. Several victims were carried to safety from the burning cars.
D. A car accident occurred on rainsoaked State Highway 6.
B. Anthony Russo.
C. Bozeman.
D. Bonge.
B. Modest.
C. Excited.
D. Smart.
B. All the victims received slight injuries in the accident.
C. The rescuers were taken to the hospital to visit the victims.
D. The injured will soon recover from their injuries.
B. she was frightened by the serious accident
C. she thought highly of the rescuers
D. she called on others to learn from the rescuers
to reach students in a very special way.It can be the__2__for each child to find their light.I would like to
__3__a story about it.
For a few years I was__4__with the opportunity to teach disabled students.One of my most__5__
students was a five－year－old girl called Vanessa, who had difficulty walking, and could not speak.
We__6__sat on the floor for our music lessons and Vanessa liked to__7__on my lap(大腿). One of her
favorite songs was John the Rabbit.It was a call and response song where I sang the call and the students
__8__twice while singing the repeating phrase, "Oh, yes!"Vanessa liked to__9__her hands together
with mine and clap with me.We probably performed that song during every class, Vanessa and I clapping together.But she__10__said or sang a word.
One day, when the song was finished, Vanessa turned around, __11__me in the eye, clapped her tiny hands twice and said the words"Oh, yes!"I opened my mouth in__12__and for that moment I was
the one who could not speak.When my heart__13__started beating again, I looked over at the assistant
teacher to find her also__14__.Through music, we had made an awesome connection.
Several years later, I met Vanessa on the street in town.She waved with a big__15__on her face and
then clapped her hands twice, imitating the song we had__16__ so many times in our music class.The
little girl, __17__her connection with music, left an impression on me that will last forever.Every child
has the__18__to learn and grow.It is up to us to__19__the way to reach each and every one of our
students.We all must find each child"s__20__.
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| It was in the past two years that Aaron Segura was always sinking at West Mesa High School in Albuquerque,New Mexico. The 16yearold student was __1__ in golf, but his __2__ was another matter. Aaron was "just walking through the chapters hard" in courses like chemistry, his grades were low, and he was __3__ to dropping out. It was not that Aaron didn"t have __4__； it simply didn"t exist in his large, impersonal public high school. Then his mother heard about Albuquerque"s Charter Vocational High School(特立职业 高中), a place where students __5__ plenty of oneonone attention. Something else __6__ Aaron even more. His one strong goal was to go into__7__, and Charter Vocational had just the thing for him: an architectural CAD(computeraided drafting) program. Aaron __8__ the school at the beginning of his junior year. For the first time, he __9__ himself excited about learning. By the following summer, he had got a(n) __10__ as a draftsman for an architectural firm. His plan was to __11__ drafting professionally after he graduated. If Aaron has anyone to thank for his __12__ of the fortune, it was Danny Moon, a longtime industrial arts teacher. Moon __13__ a vocational apprenticeship(学徒) program in the mid1990s, __14__ the Albuquerque school district couldn"t pay for any longer. But two years later, in 2000, Moon"s phone rang. The state had recently __15__a charter school law, and a district official wondered if Moon might be __16__in opening a vocational charter school. An easy __17__. With this sort of instruction, Moon knew he could __18__ students like Aaron,who might have a __19__ time in traditional high schools. He"d also be filling an increasing __20__ across New Mexico for skilled labor. | |||||||||||||||
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| The following is a true story. It shows that potential discovered may lead to success. A young man traveled by train. As it was running across a__1__, passengers looked out of the__2__idly and aimlessly. When the train came near a bend it__3__and then an unadorned (简陋的) house came into__4__. It was so obvious__5__the deserted landscape that everybody on the train began to "__6__" it with their eyes wide open. Some passengers__7__began a discussion about it. The young man was also__8__by the scene. On his return he__9__the train at the nearest station and found his__10__to the house. Its__11__told him that troubled by the__12__of the train he wanted to sell the house but__13__would buy it. Soon the young man__14__three thousand dollars for the house, regarding it as a__15__site for advertisement. It was facing the railway__16__where the train had to slow down and the__17__ passengers would cast their eyes at the house to__18__themselves. He managed to get__19__to big companies and tried his best to convince them of the advantage of the place for__20__. Finally the CocaCola Company took a lease on (租用) it to put up promotion signs. The young man was paid 180 thousand dollars for a threeyear rent. | |||||||||||||||
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