those things is being called"strong".
The first time was last December. I was walking across the high school campus in Guangzhou where I
taught when a student in a gray scarf waved hello. I smiled and waved back, but then she stopped and called
my name."You"re so strong!" She smiled and pointed at what appeared to be my right arm.
I looked down at my arms. Let"s get one thing clear: I"m a very skinny guy. Once, while rehearsing for a
high school talent show, I was told by the teacher in charge that I couldn"t participate in the men"s shirtless
dance routine because my visible rib cage (胸腔) would frighten the audience.
"I"m so what?""You"re so strong!" she repeated."Um, thanks!" I didn"t know what else to say, so we both
waved goodbye.
The next morning I stepped into my oral English classroom only to be greeted instantly by a unanimous
(异口同声的) "Waaa!" of shock and admiration."What?" I asked."You"re so strong!" shouted a boy from the
back of the class.
"Okay, will someone tell me what that means?" I was curious as to the real reason for such praise. So I
turned to the monitor, gesturing for him to speak.
"We just mean, you look very strong today," he offered earnestly.
"What?! You mean like this?" I curled (卷起) my arm like a body-builder.
"No! But it"s so cold, and you"re only wearing a short-sleeved shirt."
Oh, I got it. My"strength" had less to do with my muscle and more to do with my apparent ignorance of
the cold weather.
B. an American student
C. a Chinese teacher
D. a Chinese student
B. actually he isn"t physically strong at all
C. he is as strong as a body builder
D. being called "strong" often happens to him
B. the teacher in charge of the dance routine
C. the girl who joined in the rehearsing
D. the girl he met on the campus
B. The Chinese Culture or the Western Culture
C. How I Can Get Stronger in Winter
D. How We Can Tell Two Different Cultures Apart
working in the 1 and then glances at me with a 2 smile. Two feet down the table, I knock on a chair with
a bowl and a spoon, 3 my own invisible (无形的) powder. We wear 4 dresses, mine the leftover 5 from
hers, sky blue-mommy"s favorite color. I am her shadow.
However, by 14 I could not 6 my mother. All that I heard every day was no.I wanted to dye my hair and
she said no. I wanted to 7 late with my friends and she said no. I didn"t understand why she said no. She was
trying to 8 me from aches and pains and mistakes 9 in her teens. Several years later, I finally understood her, but it was too late. She became ill. I cried and 10 ,"Don"t take her, God, please! She is my mother, my mommy
, the woman who gave me life. All my years, 11 the bad times and the good, she has been there, 12 to me
forever by an invisible umbilical cord (脐带) that lasts longer after birth." But this cord, this love could do nothing to stop the cancer from 13 .
A few years later 14 I myself lay in the hospital bed, my newly born daughter was 15 in my arms. cried
and smiled and prayed. Please help me to 16 her into a wonderful girl. And looking down 17 her eyes, I
could see the message they held, "Your 18 would be proud."
I stand in the kitchen now, and these thoughts flashed through my mind. I glance at my young daughter. A
19 feeling rushes through my soul as I take in the familiar 20 . I am my mother"s shadow.
( ) 1. A. kitchen ( ) 2. A. lovely ( ) 3. A. preparing ( ) 4. A. same ( ) 5. A. material ( ) 6. A. stand ( ) 7. A. keep up ( ) 8. A. save ( ) 9. A. watched ( )10. A. screamed ( )11. A. through ( )12. A. connected ( )13. A. spreading ( )14. A. when ( )15. A. placed ( )16. A. change ( )17. A. for ( )18. A. daughter ( )19. A. warm ( )20. A. saying | B. dining room B. lively B. mixed B. similar B. clothes B. agree B. keep on B. warn B. liked B. said B. in B. shared B. growing B. before B. given B. support B. through B. mother B. strange B. scene | C. sitting room C. loving C. mixing C. different C. dress C. know C. stay up C. help C. heard C. shouted C. on C. concerned C. escaping C. since C. thrown C. bring C. up C. children C. painful C. drawing | D. garden D. horrible D. prepared D. matching D. clothing D. realize D. stay out D. stop D. experienced D. prayed D. within D. joined D. moving D. then D. taken D. raise D. into D. friends D. exciting D. paint | ||||||||||||||
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Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart(购物手推车).They will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know-or even think to ask-who it was that invented them. Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging (吃力地携带) groceries around in baskets they had to carry. One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business. On June 4,1937,Coldman"s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn"t wait to see them using his invention. But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the cart a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try. After a while, Coldman decided to ask customers why they weren"t using his carts." Don"t you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?"one shopper replied. But Coldman wasn"t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony (假冒的) customers. As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come-those Who came bought more. With larger, easier-to- handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before. Today"s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman"s original model. Perhaps that"s one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937-before the coming of the shopping cart. | |||||||||||||||||
1. The underlined words"chrome-plated contraptions" in Paragraph 1 refer to ____, ( no more than 3 words) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What was the purpose of Goldman"s invention? ( no more than 10 words) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Why was Goldman disappointed at first? ( no more than 10 words) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market? ( no more than 10 words) _______________________________________________________________________________________ 5.What do you think of Goldman? Please give your reasons. ( no more than 20 words) _______________________________________________________________________________________ | |||||||||||||||||
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