What I noticed first about my new parrot, Chico, was that he couldn"t fly. His wings had been cut short and he was stuck on the 1 just like us humans. When the weather turned nice, I took Chico outside. I sat him on a branch of a tree, hoping to make him 2 . At first he seemed 3 . He walked back and forth on the branch looking anxious or nervous. He didn"t even flap his wings in an attempt to fly. Somehow he knew he was 4 . One day Chico got especially excited . He paced back and forth and made an incredible amount of 5 . Then all of a sudden he stopped and let out an even louder scream. He started 6 flapping his wings for the first time ever-then he lifted off the 7 like a space shuttle! I was amazed and 8 . Little did I know his feathers had been growing back, and Chico had been 9 until the moment was ripe for escape! Two days later Chico 10 . First I tried to trick him back with food, but he would not come near me. Then I took his 11 and put it away-still he would not come. Finally, I made him a firm promise that I would let him 12 every day the weather was nice if he did come back. 13 , he flew onto my shoulder. From that day on, whenever the weather was good I would let him out early and he would fly around and be back before dark. The 14 lasted for two months before suddenly Chico became 15 . The vet said that he had been infected with a disease from the pigeons in the neighborhood. Within a few days he died. I was very sad. The 16 crossed my mind that if I had not set him free to fly, he would be still alive. But what 17 is there in being a bird if you can"t fly? Chico made his first break for 18 on a late Monday afternoon in April. When will you make yours? You too can take a 19 when the conditions are right, knowing you too, in your own way, were built to fly. If you don"t 20 , what will be the purpose of your life? |
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阅读理解。 | For the past two years, 8-year-old Harli Jordean from Stoke Newington, London, has been selling marbles(弹珠). His successful marble company, Marble King, sells all things marble-related-from affordable tubs of the glass playthings to significantly expensive items like Duke of York solitaire tables - sourced, purchased and processed by the mini-CEO himself. "I like having my own company. I like being the boss," Harli told the Mirror. With profits now in the thousands, "the world"s youngest CEO" has had to get his mother and older brothers to help him meet the growing demand. Harli launched Marble King after swapping marbles at school led to schoolchildren consuming his marble collection. Yes, he literally "lost his marbles." Harli and his mother, Tina, turned to the Internet to find replacements. Harli saw an empty space online: the marbles he wanted were hard to find. Within months, Harli had his own marble-selling website - and orders started pouring in. Tina says her son"s attachment to marbles started when he was just 6. "His attachment became so passionate that we started calling him the Marble King - so when he wanted to set up a website it was the natural name for it," she told The Sun. "I never thought it would become so popular - we are struggling to cope with the number of orders at times." The 8-year-old boy has his sights set on expanding his business and launching his own brand of marbles. "Sometimes his ideas are so grand we have to scale them back a bit. But his dream is still to own Britain"s biggest marble shop and open stores around the world," Tina told The Daily Mail. "At the moment he is annoying me by creating his own Marble King marbles-so that could well be the next step for him." | 1.Harli"s Marble Company became popular as soon as he launched it because ______. | A. it was run by "the world"s youngest CEO" B. it filled the gap of online marble trade C. Harli was fascinated with marble collection D. Harli met the growing demand of the customers | 2. How many mass media are mentioned in the passage? | A. One B. Two C. Three D. Four | 3. The underlined expression "scale them back" is closest in meaning to ______. | A. hold them down B. carry them out C. set them aside D. clear them away | 4. What message do the last two paragraphs carry? | A. Conflicts often occur between Harli Jordean and his family. B. Harli"s mother and brothers are worried about Marble King"s future. C. Marble King marbles will surely attract more fans around the world. D. The "Marble King" has great ambition for his Marble King company. | I graduated from a small public school in Michigan. One day, Mr. Ledy, our football coach, asked me to play football. I couldn"t help__1__: me, play football? I was six feet tall and was not much__2__a hundred pounds in weight. I thought that they might just need__3__fool to increase the number of the players. However, he was persistent(坚持的) and__4__I joined the football team. That__5__to be one of my best decisions as a kid. Our worst game__6__was the one against Crystal Falls. They beat us 56 to 6. Yeah! That was a football not a basketball__7__. We played them again when we were seniors. They__8__us again but the score was much more__9__, 30 to 20. Coach Ledy would not let that __10__again. He encouraged us to beat them, to pay them back. And we did so in the last game we played before__11__. I had scored 6 points alone in the game. Coach Ledy praised me. It was a huge__12__for me. Was I a football hero? Ha! Ha! No, I couldn"t__13__it without our team. The thing I learned through football was__14__. We won as a team and we__15__as a team. I think Mr. Ledy would be__16__of me if he knew that I had broken the athletic__17__at the University of Michigan. I"m__18__to him as I would not have today’s honor without him. I"ll __19__life"s final war with pain to win the victory; I"ll seek the lights of glory wholeheartedly and I"ll__20__working hard so as not to let him down.
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| 阅读理解。 | Charlie Boswell has always been a great hero.He has inspired thousands of people to rise above circumstances and live out true meaning of life. He was blinded during World War II while rescuing his friend from a tank that was under fire.He was a great athlete before the accident.In order to prove his talent and determination,he decided to try a brand new sport,a sport he never imagined playing,even with his eyesight - golf! Through determination and a deep love for the game he became the National Blind Golf Champion! He won that honor 13 times. One of his heroes was the great golfer Ben Hogan,so it truly was an honor for Charlie to win the Ben Hogan Award in 1958. Upon meeting Ben Hogan,Charlie was respectful and stated that he had one wish and it was to have one round of golf with the great Ben Hogan.Mr.Hogan agreed that playing a round together would be an honor for him as well,as he had heard about all of Charlie"s accomplishments and truly admired his skills. "Would you like to play for money,Mr.Hogan?" asked out Charlie. "I can"t play you for money,it wouldn"t be fair!" said Mr.Hogan. "Aw,come on Mr.Hogan…$ 1,000 per hole!" "I can"t,what would people think of me,taking advantage of you and your circumstance?" replied the sighted golfer. "Chicken,Mr.Hogan?" "Okay," replied the embarrassed Hogan,"but I am going to play my best!" "I wouldn"t expect anything else," said the confident Boswell. "Now that you"re on.Mr.Boswell,you name the time and the place!" The very self - assured Boswell responded,"10 o"clock … tonight!" | 1. Why didn"t Mr.Hogan want to play Charlie for money? | A. He was worried he would lose the match. B. He thought it was unfair for Charlie. C. He didn"t care about money. D. He preferred chicken to money. | 2. According to the text,what does the underlined word "self - assured" probably mean? | A. ignorant B. selfless C. confident D. sincere | 3. It can be inferred from the text that . | A. Mr.Hogan was not good at playing golf B. Charlie did well in other sports before playing golf C. Mr.Hogan didn"t try his best to play D. Charlie Boswell was born blind | 4. What was the result of the match? | A. Charlie won. B. Hogan won. C. Neither of them won. D. Not mentioned. | 5. Which of the following can best describe Charlie? | A. Competitive and generous B. Energetic and reliable C. Careful and considerate D. Confident and smart | 完形填空。 | I shall never forget the day when the earthquake took place. The time was 5:15 in the afternoon and I was driving along the road to _1 my daughter from school. Our plan was to go 2 together. I had finished work at about 4 o"clock and then 3 to the post office. Then I stopped 4 at a shop in order to get some 5 fruit. We like to have some fruit to eat after our swim. I was driving along a high road on my way to the school. Over my road was another way for cars coming the other way. I was 6 so I put the bag of apples in the seat 7 me and started to eat one. Suddenly I saw the cars in front of me start to move from side to side. I slowed down. Then 8 started to shake. I didn"t know what was happening. 9 something had gone wrong with my car. I drove 10 slower. I stopped the car and at the same moment the road fell onto the cars in front of me. I found myself in the dark. I couldn"t move. The bottom parts of both my legs and my 11 were hurting badly and I couldn"t move them. All around me was 12 . But below me I could hear shouts and a lot of noise. Then I 13 what had happened. I had been in an earthquake. For about two hours nobody came. Luckily I could 14 the bag of apples, so at least I had plenty to eat. Then I 15 people climbing towards me. A team of people had come to see if anyone was under the broken 16 . I called out " I"m here!" I heard a shout, soon 17 climbed to the side of the bridge near my car, "How are you doing?" he asked. "Not too bad," I said, " but my feet and legs 18 as if they"re broken." "We"ll have you out of there just as 19 as we can," he said. They didn"t get me out 20 the next morning. I had been in my car for 14 hours. | ( )1. A. take ( )2. A. swimming ( )3. A. arrived ( )4. A. off ( )5. A. dried ( )6. A. happy ( )7. A. before ( )8. A. my car ( )9. A. Perhaps ( )10. A. much ( )11. A. feet ( )12. A. dark ( )13. A. was told ( )14. A. see ( )15. A. heard ( )16. A. railway ( )17. A. a stranger ( )18. A. feel ( )19. A. fast ( )20. A. on | B. bring B. shopping B. came B. away B. fresh B. excited B .below B. my hands B. Surely B. more B. arms B. quiet B. found out B. hold B. saw B. road B. a friend B. look B. easy B. to | C. get C. climbing C. got C. over C. expensive C. surprised C. beside C. my feet C. Suddenly C. even C. hands C. cold C. discovered C. catch C. found C. car C. my daughter C. seem C. soon C. until | D. send D. skating D. gone D. here D. hard D. hungry D. behi nd D. the road D. Quickly D. a little D. fingers D. noisy D. remembered D. reach D. recognized D. trees D. a driver D. appear D. possible D. after | 阅读理解。 | Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was 75, he gave ?12,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children"s playground. As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was 75 and expected to live to be 100, and the newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at 75. Johnson had a sense of humor. He liked whisky and drank some each day. "I have an injection(注射)in my neck each evening", he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky. The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was 75 and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection. | 1. Johnson became a rich man through _____. | A. doing business B. making whisky C. cheating D. buying and selling land | 2. The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson ____. | A. had no children B. was a strange man C. was very warm-hearted and fond of children D. wanted people to know how rich he was | 3. Many people wrote to Johnson probably to find out ____. | A. what kind of whisky he drank B. how to live alone C. how to become wealthy D. in which part of the neck he had an injection each day | 4. When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening, he really meant that ____ | A. he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening B. he needed an injection in the neck C. a daily injecting in the evening would make him sleep well D. there was something wrong with his neck | 5. From the passage we can infer that Johnson would be very ____ after he read those people"s letters. | A. miserable B. glad C. surprised D. said |
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