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the boy home, but he had expressed an interest in meeting me. I was told it would mean a great deal to
him, so I agreed.
During the nine-mile drive to his home, I found out something about Matthew. He had muscular
dystrophy (肌肉萎缩症). When he was born, the doctor told his parents that he would not live to five,
and then they were told he would not make it to ten. Now he was thirteen. He wanted to meet me
because I was a gold-medal power lifter, and I knew about overcoming obstacles and going for my
dreams.
I spent over an hour talking to Matthew. Never once did he complain or ask, "Why me?" He spoke
about winning and succeeding and going for his dreams. Obviously, he knew what he was talking about.
He didn"t mention that his classmates had made fun of him because he was different. He just talked about
his hopes for the future, and how one day he wanted to lift weights with me. When we had finished talking, I went to my briefcase and pulled out the first gold medal I had won and put it around his neck. I told him
he was more of a winner and knew more about success and overcoming obstacles than I ever would. He
looked at it for a moment, then took it off and handed it back to me. He said, "You are a champion. You
earned that medal. Someday when I get to the Olympics and win my own medal, I will show it to you."
Last summer I received a letter from Matthew"s parents telling me that Matthew had passed away.
They wanted me to have a letter he had written to me a few days before:
Dick,
My mum said I should send you a thank-you letter for the picture you sent me. I also want to
let you know that the doctors tell me that I don"t have long to live any more, but I still smile as
much as I can.
I told you someday that I would go to the Olympics and win a gold medal, but I know now I
will never get to do that. However, I know I"m a champion, and God knows that too. When I get
to Heaven, God will give me my medal and when you get there, I will show it to you. Thank you
for loving me.
Your friend,
Matthew
B. he wanted to get to the Olympics and win a medal
C. he was one of the author"s fans
D. he admired the author very much
B. the boy never complained about not being able to go to school
C. the boy never complained why the author had never come to see him before
D. the boy never complained about not getting a medal
B. Matthew was an optimistic(乐观的)and determined boy
C. The author used to have the same disease as Matthew had
D. Matthew became a champion before he died
B. he was sure that he could win one in the future
C. he thought it was of no use to him as he would die soon
D. he would not be pitied by others
B. A special friend.
C. A real champion.
D. A famous athlete.
答案
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试题【阅读理解。 After giving a talk at a high school, I was asked to pay a visit to a 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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company. The director did the last 1 .
The director asked, "Who paid for your school fees?" John answered, "My 2 did. When I was
young, my father 3 ." Then he continued, " 4 was your mother?" John answered, "My mother
worked as a 5 cleaner." Hearing this, the director asked John to 6 his hands. John reached out
his hands that were 7 and perfect. The director said, "I have a 8 . When you go home, clean your
mother"s hands and see me tomorrow."
John felt 9 but did it. His tears fell 10 he cleaned his mother"s hands. He noticed for the first time
that her hands were so 11 . Also John 12 that it was this pair of hands that washed clothes every
day to 13 him. After cleaning his mother"s hands, John 14 washed all the remaining clothes for her.
Next day, John went to the director"s office. Tears in eyes, John was asked to 15 his feelings. "Now
I know what is 16 .Without my mother, there wouldn"t be the 17 me today. By helping my mother, I
see how 18 it is to get something done. I have also come to know the value of family relationship."
The director smiled, "This is what I am 19 . I want a person who can appreciate the help of others, a
person who knows the sufferings of others and a person who 20 put money as his only goal in life.
You are hired."
( )2. A. tutors
( )3. A. died away
( )4. A. What
( )5. A. carpet
( )6. A. turn
( )7. A. clumsy
( )8. A. request
( )9. A. embarrassed
( )10. A. before
( )11. A. slim
( )12. A. realized
( )13. A. sacrifice
( )14. A. modestly
( )15. A. improve
( )16. A. appreciation
( )17. A. wealthy
( )18. A. firm
( )19. A. looking through
( )20. A. shan"t
B. father
B. passed away
B. How
B. floor
B. show
B. dirty
B. question
B. frightened
B. as
B. warm
B. believed
B. serve
B. secretly
B. describe
B. cooperation
B. famous
B. exciting
B. looking for
B. needn"t
C. parents
C. died out
C. Who
C. clothes
C. wave
C. strong
C. wish
C. confused
C. since
C. soft
C. insisted
C. satisfy
C. quietly
C. awaken
C. qualification
C. successful
C. crazy
C. looking at
C. won"t
D. mother
D. passed by
D. Where
D. window
D. shake
D. smooth
D. choice
D. inspired
D. until
D. rough
D. wondered
D. support
D. gently
D. hide
D. communication
D. humorous
D. tough
D. looking into
D. can"t
three to five minutes. Usually doctors can"t fix the hurt 2 such a short time.
Dr Robert White thinks he knows a 3 of help. He thinks doctors should make the hurt brain 4 to
live for 30 minutes without blood. This gives the doctor 5 time to do something for the brain. Dr White
experimented his 6 on fifteen monkeys. 7 he taught them to do different jobs. Then he operated on
them. He made the monkeys" blood go 8 a machine. When the brains" 9 was 10℃, he stopped the
blood to the brain. After 30 minutes, he turned the blood back on. He 10 the blood again. After their
operations, the monkeys were almost 11 before. They were healthy and busy. Each one could still do
the job the doctor 12 them.
Dr White"s idea works well on monkeys. He thinks it will work on 13 . He think it will help with heart problems. A person 14 die when his heart stops; doctors can 15 it again. The problem comes: when
the brain is without blood for about 5 minutes, it 16 . If doctors start the heart again after 5 minutes, the
person has 17 body but a dead brain. Maybe in the future, doctors will 18 Dr White"s idea. When
the person"s heart stops the doctor will 19 cool the brain. They will have 30 minutes to start the heart
again. Maybe there will be no 20 the brain.
( )2. A. for
( )3. A. way
( )4. A. too cool
( )5. A. a longer
( )6. A. medicine
( )7. A. Besides
( )8. A. to
( )9. A. heat
( )10. A. cooled
( )11. A. the same as
( )12. A. was taught
( )13. A. other people
( )14. A. doesn"t have to
( )15. A. start
( )16. A. loses
( )17. A. no
( )18. A. get
( )19. A. soon
B. after
B. brain
B. enough cool
B. enough
B. manners
B. Instead
B. across
B. temperature
B. operated
B. different from
B. was teaching
B. human beings
B. needn"t
B. take
B. goes
B. a dead
B. accept
B. quickly
C. in
C. doctor
C. cool enough
C. a shorter
C. idea
C. However
C. through
C. coolness
C. warmed
C. used to
C. was to teach
C. other things
C. will be able to
C. make
C. kills
C. a living
C. keep
C. slowly
D. since
D. man
D. that cool
D. another
D. brain
D. First
D. onto
D. feeling
D. stopped
D. cleverer than
D. had taught
D. more people
D. is afraid to
D. begin
D. dies
D. a lively
D. try
D. rapid
training I received, though excellent, didn"t tell me how it was to work with a real student, however.
When I began to discover what other people"s lives were like because they could not read, I realized the
true importance of reading.
My first student Marie was a 44-year-old single mother of three children. In the first lesson, I found
out she walked two miles to the nearest supermarket twice a week because she didn"t know which bus
to take. When I told her I would get her a bus schedule, she told me it would not help because she
couldn"t read it. She said she also had difficulty once she got to the supermarket because she couldn"t
always remember what she needed. Also, she could only recognize items by sight, so if the product had
a different label, she would not recognize it as the product she wanted.
As we worked together, learning how to read built Marie"s self-confidence. She began to make rapid
progress and was even able to take the bus to the supermarket. After this successful trip, she reported
how self-confident she felt. At the end of the program, she began helping her youngest son, Tony, a shy
first grader, with his reading. I found that helping Marie to build her self-confidence was more rewarding
than anything I had ever done before.
As a literacy volunteer, I learned a great deal about teaching and helping others. In fact, I may have
learned more from the experience than Marie did.
B. She helped someone to learn to read.
C. She helped some single mothers.
D. She was trained by a literacy volunteer.
B. Because she didn"t have a bus schedule.
C. Because she couldn"t afford the bus ticket.
D. Because she couldn"t find the right bus.
B. She asked others to take her to the right place.
C. She managed to find the goods by their looks.
D. She remembered the names of the goods.
B. She was able to read stories with the help of her son.
C. She decided to continue her studies in school.
D. She helped to build up my self-confidence.
cleaner, cleaning offices in a big building.
She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill. "I would have
liked to go back to it, but the shifts (工作班次) are all wrong for me, as I have to be home to get the
children up and off to school."
So she works as a cleaner instead, from 9 p.m. till 6 a.m. five nights a week for just £90, before tax
and insurance. "It"s better than it was last year, but I still think that people who work "unsocial hours"
should get a bit extra."
The hours she" s chosen to work meant that she sees plenty of the children, but very little of her
husband. However, she doesn"t think that puts any pressure on their relationship.
Her work isn"t physically very hard, but it"s not exactly pleasant, either. "I do get angry with people
who leave their offices like a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have to do it, perhaps
they"d be a bit more careful."
The fact that she"s working all night doesn"t worry Margaret at all. Unlike some dark buildings at night
, the building where she works is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three. "Since I"ve got to be
here, I try to enjoy myself-and I usually do, because of the other girls. We all have a good laugh, so the
time never drags."
Another challenge Margaret has to face is the reaction of other people when she tells them what she
does for a living. "They think you"re a cleaner because you don"t know how to read and write," said
Margaret. "I used to think what my parents would say if they knew what I"d been doing, but I don"t think
that way any more. I don"t dislike the work though I can"t say I"m mad about it."
B. she had suffered a lot of mental pressure
C. she needed the right time to look after her children
D. she felt tired of taking care of patients
B. they look down upon cleaners
C. they never do their work carefully
D. they always make a mess in their offices
B. happy because the building is fully lit
C. tired because of the heavy workload
D. bored because time passed slowly
B. regret what they had said
C. show sympathy for her
D. feel disappointed in her
"Julie, you should be a vet. You"re going to be a great vet. That"s what you should do." 2 when she
got to the Ohio State University, she started studying to be a vet.
A scholarship allowed her to spend her 3 year studying abroad in Manchester, England. Away
from the family 4 back home, she found herself one day sitting at her desk, surrounded by biology
books and staring out the window, when it suddenly hit her: "I"m in total 5 . I don"t want to be a vet!"
6 she thought back over all the things she"d done in her life and what had made her happy. And then
it hit her-it was all of the youth leadership conferences that she had volunteered 7 , and the
communications and leadership courses she had taken as elective courses back at Ohio State. "How
could I have been so 8 ? Here I am in my fourth year at school and just finally realizing I"m on the 9
path. I just never took the time to 10 it until now, " she thought.
Inspired by her new 11 , Julie spent the rest of her year in England taking courses in communications and media studies. When 12 to Ohio State, she was eventually able to 13 the administration to let her
create her own program in "leadership studies", 14 it took her 2 years longer to finally graduate. She
15 to become a senior management consultant in leadership training and development for the Pentagon. She 16 f ounded a drug-prevention organization that 17 the message "Lead your own life with the
skill and the 18 to say no."
So, never live someone else"s 19 . If you limit your 20 only to what seems possible or reasonable,
you disconnect yourself from what you truly want.
( )2. A. So
( )3. A. final
( )4. A. routines
( )5. A. confidence
( )6. A. Perhaps
( )7. A. of
( )8. A. internal
( )9. A. clear
( )10. A. acknowledge
( )11. A. discovery
( )12. A. returning
( )13. A. prepare
( )14. A. as
( )15. A. hesitated
( )16. A. still
( )17. A. leaves
( )18. A. will
( )19. A. promises
( )20. A. choices
B. But
B. usual
B. warnings
B. silence
B. Instead
B. to
B. innocent
B. wrong
B. accomplish
B. information
B. referring
B. convince
B. if
B. failed
B. again
B. promotes
B. chance
B. decisions
B. reasons
C. Or
C. next
C. complaints
C. misery
C. Then
C. on
C. intellectual
C. short
C. include
C. understanding
C. relating
C. forbid
C. once
C. retired
C. also
C. confirms
C. fact
C. successes
C. smiles
D. For
D. past
D. pressures
D. surprise
D. Often
D. at
D. intelligent
D. wide
D. criticize
D. research
D. responding
D. force
D. though
D. continued
D. only
D. acquires
D. pride
D. dreams
D. mistakes
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