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celebrate. Should we throw her a party ? Should we take her on a trip ? We remembered that she had
touched so many people"s lives, and there were so many people for her to consider. Then someone got
the idea that we should include everyone in the celebration by turning it into a tribute (献礼) to my
grandmother.
We secretly sent out letters to the people in Grandmother"s address book and asked them to send a
letter with a memory that they had shared with her. People sent us letters with poems, stories and pictures. The deep feeling that was shared through the response (回应) surprised us. We compiled (编辑) these
letters into a memory book and amazed her with it on the morning of her birthday.
The unusual thing about my grandmother"s friends was not the number that she had, but the connection
they shared. In many ways this book of friendship was the greatest achievement of my grandmother"s life.
I believe that developing true friendships is one of the most important things that anyone can do in
one"s lifetime. It is not a matter of the number of friends one has, but the quality of the bonds. If one has
had at least one true friendship before dying, then one can say one has lived a successful life. I have made many friends and I believe I have begun to develop the same types of friendships my grandmother kept
up over her lifetime. I only hope that I will be as successful as she has been.
B. They gave her a memory book of friendship.
C. They invited all her friends to her birthday party.
D. They asked all her friends to send her cards.
B. sorry and sad
C. surprised and pleased
D. nervous and excited
B. friends are more important than family
C. understanding leads to greater success
D. true friendship is very important to us
B. Great.
C. Polite
D. Pleasant
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试题【阅读理解。 Two years ago my grandmother was going to turn 75. My family discussed】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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for almost two years. There is still much he does not understand about America.?
Once, Minh was in a supermarket. He saw an old man and an old woman. They wanted a box of
cereal(麦片).The box was on a high shelf. The man and the woman couldn"t reach it. Minh saw a
stepladder. He got on the ladder and got the box. He handed it to the elderly couple. They thanked him.?
"Where are your children?" asked Minh. "Why don"t they help you buy food?" "Our children have
their own lives," said the man and the woman. "We like to be independent." Minh doesn"t think this is
right. In his country, children help their parents. Minh gave the elderly couple his phone number. He told
them to call him if they needed help. One night they asked Minh to dinner, but they never asked him for
help.?
One day, Minh was walking with a Vietnamese friend. The two men were going to a movie. Minh
wanted to go to a restaurant first. Minh took his friend"s hand. He pulled him towards the restaurant.
People on the street stared at Minh. In Vietnam, friends often hold hands. Minh found that the people in
America are not used to men holding hands.?
Minh Pham is going through a process (过程) known as resocialization. Socialization (社会化) is the
process in which a person learns to live in a society. Everyone goes through this process. Minh went
through it when he lived in Vietnam. But the Vietnamese way of life is rather different from the American
way of life. When Minh came to America, he had to learn a new way of life. He had to learn how to live
in a new society. Minh has learned a lot about American life in two years. He still has a lot to learn. The
process of resocialization can take many years.?
B. travels from one country to another?
C. learns to act independently
D. learns about their country?
B. shopping for their children?
C. holding hands
D. using a stepladder?
B. only Americans?
C. only older people
D. everyone?
B. keeping up with others?
C. a process of learning how to live in a new society?
D. understanding a new culture?
to 1 life as any other children. All, however, had a serious 2 . Three were in wheelchairs, one was
nearly blind and two walked with difficulty, and another two 3 a lot from Cerebral palsy (脑瘫).
Matthew was among them. His hands, arms, legs, and even his voice were all distorted (扭曲) from
the disease. To speak, Matthew had the help of a 4 . Slowly, and with determination, he would 5 with
distorted hands, letter by letter, what he wanted to say. Yet he was always bright and cheerful and loved
to 6 everything his classmates were doing, both in the boat and in the classroom.
They learnt fast and enjoyed every minute of the 7 . But I think that 1 was the one who learned the
greatest lesson. One day the sailing centre was 8 by a storm. Rather than 9 the activity we decided
to work in a classroom. All the children 10 . Just like other children they all wanted to answer the
questions I asked.
Often they would loudly 11 each other, trying to give an answer before one of the others. But when
Matthew wanted to answer a question it was 12 . All of a sudden they all 13 . Matthew whispered and moved his hands at his letter-board. They 14 with great patience. Matthew 15 with dogged
persistence (坚持) until the answer was 16 . When Matthew had answered his question the children
were, almost magically, transformed back into a group of 17 and enthusiastic children.
All of these children were heroes in their own way. But the 18 they afforded to Matthew with his
most severe disabilities was 19 . If only the rest of the world were able to learn to afford care, respect
and help to someone less 20 than themselves, violence and intolerance (不宽容) would possibly be gone.
( )1. A. enjoy ( )2. A. shortcoming ( )3. A. learned ( )4. A. letter-board ( )5. A. show off ( )6. A. understand ( )7. A. days ( )8. A. blocked ( )9. A. complete ( )10. A. ran away ( )11. A. fight ( )12. A. hopeless ( )13. A. whispered ( )14. A. laughed ( )15. A. struggled ( )16. A. cried out ( )17. A. noisy ( )18. A. thank ( )19. A. relevant ( )20. A. fortunate | B. start B. disability B. changed B. tape-recorder B. point out B. criticize B. classes B. hit B. check B. got tired B. limit B. funny B. smiled B. waited B. thought B. typed out B. polite B. praise B. angry B. exciting | C. acknowledge C. injury C. suffered C. computer C. give away C. remember C. treatment C. occupied C. escape C. joined in C. interrupt C. difficult C. quieted C. continued C. practiced C. spelled out C. hard-working C. pleasure C. accessible C. responsible | D. lead D. habit D. spent D. microscope D. adapt to D. try D. life D. flown D. cancel D. fell asleep D. stop D. different D. left D. recorded D. waved D. tested out D. clumsy D. patience D. encouraging D. careful | |||||||||||
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An Australian man who has been donating his extremely rare kind of blood for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies. James Harrison has an antibody in his plasma (血浆) that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anemia (贫血症). He has enabled countless mothers to give birth to healthy babies, including his own daughter, Tracey, who had a healthy son thanks to her father"s blood. Mr. Harrison has been giving blood every few weeks since he was 18 years old and has now added up to a total of 984 donations. When he started donating, his blood was regarded so special that his life was insured for one million Australian dollars. He was also nicknamed the "man with the golden arm" or the "man in two million". He said, "I"ve never thought about stopping. Never." He made a promise to be a donor aged 14 after taking major chest surgery in which he needed 13 liters of blood. "I was in hospital for three months," he said. "The blood I received saved my life so I made a pledge to give blood when I was 18." Just after he started donating he was found to have the rare and life-saving antibody in his blood. At the time, thousands of babies in Australia were dying each year of Rhesus disease. Other newborns suffered permanent brain damage because of the condition. The disease creates an incompatibility between the mother"s blood and her unborn baby"s blood. It stems from one having Rh-positive blood and the other Rh-negative. His blood has since led to the development of a vaccine (疫苗) called Anti-D. After his blood type was discovered, Mr. Harrison volunteered to have a series of tests to help develop the Anti-D vaccine. "They insured me for a million dollars so I knew my wife Barbara would be taken care of," he said. "I wasn"t scared. I was glad to help. I had to sign every form going and basically sign my life away." Mr. Harrison is Rh-negative and was given injections of Rh-positive blood. It was found his plasma could treat the condition and since then it has been given to hundreds of thousands of women. It has also been given to babies after they are born to stop them developing the disease. It is estimated he has helped save 2.2 million babies so far. Mr. Harrison is still donating every few weeks now. | ||||||||||||||
1. How old is James Harrison? | ||||||||||||||
A. 56 B. 70 C. 74 D. 78 | ||||||||||||||
2. Why did James decide to donate his blood? Because . | ||||||||||||||
A. his daughter asked him to help her son B. he has a golden arm worth a million dollars C. a vaccine called Anti-D is to be developed D. someone else"s blood saved his life | ||||||||||||||
3. The underlined sentence (in Paragraph 5) suggests that . | ||||||||||||||
A. babies suffer permanent brain damage before their birth B. the mother and the baby have different types of blood C. Rhesus disease contributes to permanent brain damage D. all the patients have a rare antibody in their blood | ||||||||||||||
4. What can we infer from the sixth paragraph? | ||||||||||||||
A. Some of the tests to develop the vaccine are dangerous. B. His wife Barbara needed to be taken care of badly then. C. Mr. Harrison was glad to help develop a new vaccine. D. His blood type was accidentally discovered after tests. | ||||||||||||||
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I devote myself to music because of my grandmother. My mom and I lived with grandparents from the time I was two until I was eight. And even then, I was at their house before and after school every day while my mother was 1 . Grandma loved music. It was she that first 2 me to Elvis Presley as a very young child, and once I heard his music, I was truly in 3 with it. Most five-year-olds ask for 4 for birthdays, but I wanted Elvis" albums. I would play them non-stop and 5 to the music in my grandma"s family room though my movements didn"t look 6 . Grandma played the piano and 7 me to sing "America the Beautiful" and "Somewhere over the Rainbow". I 8 started playing music on the piano, and soon Grandma was paying for me to take piano lessons from a lady living in the 9 . I would come home from 10 and walk there for my lesson. I 11 took about nine months of lessons, but it was enough to give me a(n) 12 and allow me to continue to teach myself. Last month when I came home to visit Grandma in the hospital, I brought along my guitar with me. She was 13 , but the music seemed to 14 her soul. She had me sing some songs and when I started to sing "Somewhere over the Rainbow", her weakened voice 15 in with mine for a few lines. That experience was one of the most 16 of my lifetime and one I will certainly cherish forever. I told her of my music career and she was very 17 and said, "That"s wonderful!" I 18 . to play for her throughout the week I was home. My grandma 19 two days ago. In my opinion, part of her will live on through every 20 I write or sing in my life. | ||||||||||||||
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