K.L. Rothey, 71, from the United States, a retired lawyer
Rothey has given himself the Chinese name of Luqi or “roadside beggar(乞丐)”. In his eyes, beggars are doing important work collecting rubbish. What they do is not dirty. Littering the street is, he adds.
Rothey first visited China in 1984 and soon he became interested in Chinese culture. Married to a Chinese calligrapher (书法家), he lived in Huangshi, Hubei Province.
Many people know him because he often shows up in the street collecting rubbish. “Huangshi is my home so I hope it becomes cleaner and more beautiful,” says Rothey. He has also organized volunteers to collect rubbish in other cities, including Wuhan.
Rothey says he’ll continue collecting rubbish, as long as he is able to.
Jill Robinson, 50, from Britain, founder(创立者)and CEO of Animals Asia Foundation.
She has been working for nearly 20 years to stop people from getting the bile（胆汁）from moon bears for use in traditional medicine.
She began working for the International Fund for Animal Welfare in Hong Kong in the mid-1980s. A business trip to a bear farm in the mainland in 1993 changed her life. She saw so many moon bears killed by people. That made her cry. She said she would be back to set them free.
In 1998, she set up the Animal Foundation. In July 2000, the foundation agreed to free 500 farmed moon bears. In 2002, the Moon Bear Rescue（救援）Center was set up in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan.
Now, bear farms have been stopped in the area of two-thirds of China. “As much as we rescue them, they rescue us. These bears rescue us every single day and they teach us to be better people,” Robinson says.
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Name
| K.L.Rothey
| Jill Robinson
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| British
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| 50
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| He first visited China in 1984 and became interested in Chinese culture.
He often 78. in the streets in Huangshi.
He has also organized volunteers to collect rubbish in other cities.
| She began working for the International Fund for Animal Welfare in the mid-1980s.
79. in the mainland changed her life in 1993.
She set up the Animal Foundation in 1998.
In 2002, the Moon Bear Rescue Center was set up in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan.
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小题1:collects rubbish / shows up collecting rubbish
小题1: A business trip to a bear farm
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试题【K.L. Rothey, 71, from the United States, a retired lawyer Rothey has given him】；主要考察你对
日常生活类等知识点的理解。
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I sat down to read under an old tree in the park. I felt my life was 21 , for my whole world was dark.
A young boy ran up to me, out of 22 . He stood right before me with his head down and said 23 , “Look what I found!” In his hand was a flower, and what a poor sight! The flower was dry and 24 . I gave him a small smile and then turned my eyes aways so that he could take his dry flower and go off to play.
25 , he sat next to my side and placed the flower to his 26 and said in surprise, “It smells sweet and it’s beautiful, too. That’s 27 I picked it. Here, it’s for you.” The flower before me was dead. But I knew I must 28 it, or he might never leave. So I accepted the flower, and replied, “This is just what I 29 .” Just then, for the first time I noticed that the boy could not 30 —he was blind.
Tears (眼泪) came down my face as I 31 him for picking the best one. “You’re welcome.” he smiled, and then ran off to 32 . I sat there and wondered how he was able to learn about my pain (痛苦).
Through the eyes of a blind child, 33 I could see the problem was not with the world; the problem was me. And for all those years I myself had been 34 . I decided to see the beauty in life, and 35 every second of my life. And then I held that dry flower up to my nose and breathed in the smell of a beautiful rose.
| 小题1: | | A．hopeless | B．colourful | C．simple | D．wonderful |
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| 小题2: | | A．mind | B．trouble | C．breath | D．work |
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| 小题3: | | A．sadly | B．strictly | C．angrily | D．excitedly |
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| 小题4: | | A．dead | B．fresh | C．alive | D．heavy |
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| 小题8: | | A．buy | B．sell | C．accept | D．break |
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| 小题9: | | A．admire | B．dislike | C．want | D．have |
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| 小题11: | | A．forgave | B．thanked | C．paid | D．hated |
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| 小题12: | | A．sleep | B．study | C．dance | D．play |
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| 小题13: | | A．at most | B．at times | C．at first | D．at last |
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| 小题14: | | A．cheerful | B．useful | C．blind | D．deaf |
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| 小题15: | | A．waste | B．enjoy | C．lose | D．forget |
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How do you feel when you stay in hospital alone? Jenny, 13, a US student, feels bored. She knows the feeling because she has been in hospital many times herself. One day, she thought of an idea—if patients could get some books to read, they would feel better. So, from May, she and many of her friends began to collect books for hospital patients.
In six months the students collected 1,250 books at school. They decided to donate the books to the North Shore Medical Centre, a children’s hospital next door to their school. “There are books for kids of all ages, from babies up to high school level.” said Jenny.
The students put the books into “early readers”, “middle readers” and “advanced readers”. Then they wrote their best wishes to patients on bookmarks (书签) and letters, put the books in big boxes and donated them to the hospital.
“We wrote things like, “Keep on reading!’ and ‘Hope you feel better!’,” siad John, 14, Jenny’s brother. “And we also wrote some funny things to make them laugh.”
Frank, 12, and Steven, 14, helped carry 16 large boxes of books into a car. “I think these books will make me a lot of patients feel happy.” said Frank. Steven shared his opinion. “It is really the most meaningful thing that I have ever done in my life.”
小题1:Who first thought of the idea of helping those bored patients in hospital?| A．John. | B．Frank. | C．Steven. | D．Jenny. |
小题2:From the article, we can learn that _______.| A．in half a year Jenny and her friends bought 1,250 books | | B．the North Shore Medical Centre is far from Jenny’s school | | C．Jenny and her friends were willing to help bored patients | | D．Steven had a different opinion from Frank and John |
小题3:The best title for the article might be “_______”.| A．Collecting books for bored patients | B．Writing a letter to a medical centre | | C．Donating books to poor students | D．Reading books for hospital patients |
小题4: Which of the following words can be used to describe those student?| A．Polite and hard-working | B．Lazy and stubborn | | C．Selfish and proud | D．Thoughtful and helpful |
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Alice was now in a long dark room with doors all round the walls, and she could not see the White Rabbit anywhere.
She tried to open the doors, but they were all locked (锁上的). “How will I ever get out again?” she thought sadly. Then she saw a little glass table with three legs, and on the top of it was a very small gold key. Alice quickly took the key and tried it in all the doors, but she couldn’t open any.
Then she saw another door, a door that was only forty centimetres high. The little gold key unlocked this door easily, but Alice couldn’t get through it—she was much too big. So she lay on the floor and looked through the open door, into a beautiful garden with green trees and bright flowers.
“I’d like to be out there—not in this dark room. Why can’t I get smaller?” It was already a very strange day, and Alice was beginning to think that anything was possible.
After a while she locked the door again, got up and went back to the glass table. She put the key down and then she saw a little bottle on the table. Round the neck of the bottle was a piece of paper with the words DRINK ME in large letters.
“It can be dangerous to drink out of strange bottles,” she said. “What will it do to me?”She drank a little bit very slowly. The taste was very nice and very soon Alice finished the bottle.
“I think I’m getting smaller and smaller every second.” And she was. “And now,” she said happily, “I can get through the little door into that beautiful garden.”
She ran at once to the door. Then she remembered that the little gold key was back on the glass table. She ran back to the table for it, but she was now much too small! The key was high above her, on top of the table. She tried very hard to climb up the table leg, but she couldn’t do it.
At last, tired and unhappy, she got angry with herself. Soon she saw a little glass box near her on the floor. She opened it, and found a very small cake with the words EAT Me on it.
Nothing could surprise Alice now.
小题1: Where did Alice find the little gold key according to the story?| A．In the garden . | B．On the floor. | C．In the glass box. | D．On the glass table. |
小题2:We can learn that Alice felt a little ______ from the underlined sentence.| A．proud | B．angry | C．afraid | D．excited |
小题3:Which is the right order of the events according to the story?
① Alice saw a little glass box near her on the floor.
② Alice came to a long dark room.
③ Alice saw a beautiful garden with green trees and bright flowers.
④ Alice drank out of the little bottle and became small.
⑤ Alice took the little gold key and opened the small door.| A．②⑤③④① | B．②④⑤①③ | C．②①⑤④③ | D．②③④⑤① |
小题4:What do you think Alice will probably do at the end of the story?| A．Wait for the White Rabbit. | B．Eat the small cake. | | C．Climb up the table leg again. | D．Sit on the floor and cry. |
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The teacher stood before his class and was going to hand out the final exam papers. “I know how ___________ (41) you have all worked to prepare for this test,” he said. “And because I know you can do it well, I am willing to offer a B to anyone who would ___________ (42) not to take the test.
Many students jumped up to ___________ (43) the teacher and left the classroom. The teacher looked at the ___________ (44) students and said, “Does anyone else want to get a B? This is your last ___________ (45).” Two more students decided to go.
Seven students remained. The teacher then handed out the ___________ (46). There were only three sentences typed on the paper: Congratulations! You have just ___________ (47) an A in this class. Keep believing in yourself.
I never had a teacher like that, but I think it is a test ___________ (48) any teacher could and should give. Students who are not ___________(49) in what they have learned are B students at best(充其量).
The same is ___________ (50) in real life. The A students are those who believe in what they are doing because they have ___________ (51) both successes and failures. They have learned life’s lessons, either from normal education ___________ (52) from events in their lives, and have become ___________ (53) people.
Scientists say that by the age of eight, 80% of what we believe about ourselves has already been formed. You are a big kid now, and you ___________(54) that you have some limits (限制). However, there is ___________ (55) you can’t do or learn or be. Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest said, “It’s not the mountain we conquer(克服) but ourselves.
| 小题1: | | A．luckily | B．terribly | C．quietly | D．hard |
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| 小题2: | | A．dislike | B．help | C．prefer | D．start |
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| 小题3: | | A．thank | B．praise | C．fight | D．criticize |
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| 小题4: | | A．following | B．relaxing | C．worrying | D．remaining |
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| 小题5: | | A．chance | B．trouble | C．test | D．idea |
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| 小题6: | | A．results | B．presents | C．papers | D．essays |
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| 小题7: | | A．given | B．sent | C．discovered | D．received |
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| 小题8: | | A．where | B．that | C．what | D．when |
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| 小题9: | | A．confident | B．necessary | C．mysterious | D．convenient |
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| 小题10: | | A．unusual | B．impossible | C．true | D．special |
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| 小题11: | | A．broken off | B．dreamed of | C．learned from | D．cared about |
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| 小题13: | | A．ruder | B．cuter | C．worse | D．better |
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| 小题14: | | A．decide | B．forget | C．realize | D．imagine |
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| 小题15: | | A．something | B．anything | C．everything | D．nothing |
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If the eyes are the windows of the soul, then the body is the mirror of our feelings. If we are feeling great, we may give our body signals(信号). If we look at someone else’s body, we can often tell how they are feeling by their body signals. So reading body language signals is a great tool in daily communication.
In case(假使) you don’t think that learning how to read and use body language is important, here are some numbers for you. 7% of the information we receive is from what people actually say, and 38% of the information we receive is from the tone(语气) and the speed of their voice; while 55% of the information we receive is from their body language.
These non-verbal(非口头的) signals will help you a lot, but you still need to focus on what people are saying. If you focus too much on their body language signals, you and the person may feel uncomfortable. It is useful to be able to read people’s body language, but it is useful to learn how to send the right signals and avoid the wrong signals too. Body language may be given several interpretations. Many signals have different meanings, depending on the person and the situation. Be sure of it when you are trying to read a body language signal.
小题1:The numbers mentioned in the second paragraph are to ___________.| A．explain what body language is | | B．show the importance of body language | | C．tell us body language is less used than verbal language | | D．tell us body language is the only tool in communication |
小题2:What is the meaning of the underlined sentence in the last paragraph?| A．Body language is widely used all over the world | | B．Body language can be explained in different ways. | | C．It’s too hard to understand the meanings of body language | | D．People have already looked through many books on body language. |
小题3:According to the writer, body language is very ___________.| A．simple to learn | B．negative to be used | | C．hard to understand | D．helpful in communication |
小题4:According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?| A．Body language is uncomfortable. | | B．What people are saying is not important | | C．Body language can show your emotion. | | D．To send wrong signals is not body language |
小题5:We can infer(推断) that the writer will most probably talk about __________ next. | A．what the wrong body language signals are | | B．examples of how to understand body language correctly. | | C．numbers about how many people wrongly use body language | | D．an analysis (分析) of why people wrongly understand body language |
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