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Among professional basketball players,Jeremy Lin’s background is not typical.He graduated from Harvard University,which sends few players to the NBA,and he is the only Chinese­American NBA player.But when you watch him on the court,there is no doubt that he belongs there.He moves with speed and grace(魅力) that show years of faithful practice,which is fueled by a love for basketball.
The Family Effect
Lin’s enjoyment of basketball actually began in Taiwan,where his father started watching it.Lin’s father moved to U.S.,and his interest in the sport only grew.He passed on this love of basketball to his son,introducing him to the game at the age of five.The young Lin spent much of his youth playing basketball for fun.After each game,his parents would discuss not only his score but also his conduct toward other players.This taught Lin that character was more important than playing well,a lesson he still remembers.
Rise of a Star
In high school,Lin dreamed of playing in the NBA but did not really expect to do so.When he applied for college,he was not offered a single sports scholarship.However,after his admission to Harvard,he was offered a place on its college basketball team.During Lin’s time at Harvard,his basketball career began to take off.He scored 1,482 points,making him one of the highest scorers in Ivy League history.Eventually,the recognition he received led him to suspect that his NBA dream could come true.
When he first graduated,no professional teams offered Lin a contract(合约),but he was invited to play in the NBA Summer League.He played well and ended up eagerly signing a contract with the Golden State Warriors.
Life in the NBA
His journey in NBA did not go very well at first.He spent most of his time on the bench during the past two seasons.He constantly compared himself to other players and gave himself no time to rest up.For the first time in his life,he no longer enjoyed playing basketball.After a few very difficult months,he realized that much of his anxiety and stress came from self­centered desires like wanting to be famous.So he transformed his attitude.He never stopped practicing and never gave up any slim chance.
Now he has become the NBA’s latest phenomenon after leading the New York Knicks to seven straight wins.He stays_humble and thinks that the credit for the winning goes to everyone in his team.Knicks fans developed nicknames for him,such as “Linsanity”,“Lincredible”,and “Linderella”.The Associated Press called Lin “the most surprising story in the NBA”.
小题1:Which of the following is TRUE of Jeremy Lin?
A.He was born in U.S.
B.He was sure of his NBA dream in high school.
C.He loves playing basketball all the time.
D.He was coldly received when he first came to NBA.
小题2:The underlined phrase “stays humble” in the last paragraph means ________.
A.tries his bestB.is modest
C.keeps working hardD.faces the difficulties
小题3:What can we learn from Jeremy Lin?
A.Hard work brings success.
B.We must have a father like Jeremy’s.
C.A good university can help us realize our dreams.
D.Team honour is more important than our own success.
小题4:What is the best title for the text?
A.What Is Next for Jeremy Lin?
B.Jeremy Lin’s Tips for Success
C.Following Dreams and Finding Joy
D.Six NBA Teams Eyeing Jeremy Lin

答案

小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:C
解析

小题1: D
解析 细节理解题。根据第五段的开头:起初他在NBA的旅程并不顺利,在过去的两个赛季他大部分时间都在坐冷板凳,可知他受到了冷遇。
小题2: B
解析 词义猜测题。根据上文“林书豪已经成为NBA的新人王,带领纽约尼克斯队获得七连胜”和下文“他认为成绩归功于队里的每一个成员”推断,stays humble此处意为“保持谦逊,不骄傲”。
小题3: A
解析 推理判断题。文章告诉我们,林书豪从小受父亲的影响热爱打篮球,学生时代也一直在打篮球,进入NBA后,尽管坐冷板凳,仍然刻苦训练,终于取得了成功。由此推断,我们要向他学习努力奋斗的精神,才能获得成功。
小题4: C
解析 标题归纳题。纵观全文,林书豪从小就热爱打篮球,高中时代梦想依然继续,进入哈佛以后逐渐崭露头角,他自认为他的NBA之梦就要实现了。但是他进入NBA之后,却遭受冷遇,曾一度失去了打篮球的兴趣。最终他坚持了下来,刻苦训练,终于获得了巨大的成功。正是他一路追逐梦想,享受篮球带来的欢乐,才使得自己从一个小人物变成了人人知晓的“林疯狂”,因此推断答案为C项。
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Tyler was a troubled student.He was in my senior class last year.It was __1__ to his former teachers that he had made it to his senior year.
He sat in the back row.Every time I spoke in the front of the class,I would ask students questions,__2__ them by name.This helped me learn their names while getting the kids __3__.Unfortunately,every time I asked him a question,he would __4__ with a flip(轻率的) answer.He knew the answers when he listened __5__ he didn’t want to be asked.If he got a wrong answer,he would get very angry.
One day,Tyler was talking while I was teaching.In the __6__ of teaching I said,“Tyler,why are you having your own discussion instead of __7__ ours?” With that,he __8__ from his chair,pushed it over,and yelled.I sent him to the office with a discipline referral,and he __9__ a week’s out of school suspension.
The week’s out of school suspension was wonderful.However,the week soon came to a(n) __10__,and I began to worry about his __11__.I knew from talking with his other teachers that he would be back even angrier.
I made a(n) __12__.On the day that he came back,I stood at the door __13__ him.As soon as I saw him,I asked him to talk for a moment.He seemed __14__ to do it but agreed.I told him that I wanted to start over(重新开始) with him.Furthermore,I gave him permission that if he felt he was going to lose __15__ in class he could step right outside the door for a moment to collect himself.
From that point on,Tyler was a(n) __16__ student in my classroom.He listened and participated.He was __17__ a smart child and I could finally get to see this in him.He even __18__ a fight between two other students one day.I __19__ that giving him the power to decide for himself made all the __20__.
小题1:
A.surprisingB.interesting
C.disappointingD.upsetting
小题2:
A.visitingB.watching
C.interviewingD.calling
小题3:
A.defeatedB.addicted
C.involvedD.impressed
小题4:
A.exchangeB.respond
C.shareD.connect
小题5:
A.until B.if
C.unlessD.but
小题6:
A.caseB.matter
C.middleD.presence
小题7:
A.joiningB.starting
C.hearingD.learning
小题8:
A.fell downB.got up
C.jumped inD.fell off
小题9:
A.suggestedB.refused
C.receivedD.requested
小题10:
A.endB.decision
C.head D.agreement
小题11:
A.studyB.return
C.familyD.health
小题12:
A.plan B.mistake
C.face D.noise
小题13:
A.looking afterB.escaping from
C.waiting forD.staring at
小题14:
A.excitedB.unhappy
C.calmD.crazy
小题15:
A.touch B.courage
C.heartD.control
小题16:
A.changedB.similar
C.confusedD.proud
小题17:
A.rarelyB.actually
C.usuallyD.hardly
小题18:
A.ledB.missed
C.reportedD.stopped
小题19:
A.believe B.doubt
C.expectD.recommend
小题20:
A.effortB.difference
C.point D.way

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French novelist Jules Verne (1828~1905) is often called the father of science fictions.Although he was not a great traveller himself,his characters journeyed to the moon (in From Earth to Moon),Under the sea (in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea),into a volcano (in A Journey to the Centre of the Earth),around the world (in Around the World in Eighty Days) and to many other places.
Jules Verne was born in the French city of Nantes in 1828.When he was a boy he ran away from home to work on a ship.However,his father soon found him and brought him home.After that he decided that any future travel he did would be in books.In 1847,his father sent Jules to Paris to study to be a lawyer.Even though he was busy writing,Verne passed his exams in 1849 with high marks.
When Jules told his father he did not want to be a lawyer,his father was very angry.He stopped sending his son any money,so Jules had to earn a living by his writing.Over the next few years he wrote many stories and plays which brought him only a little money.Then,in 1856,he met Honorine de Viane,a rich,young widow with two children.The couple married the next year and their only child Michel was born in 1862.
After his marriage,Verne worked as a businessman in Paris.However,he was not very successful at his job and spent most of his time writing books and doing research for the next one.In 1863,he published his novel Five Weeks in a Balloon and in the following year he published A Journey to the Centre of the Earth which brought him fame.His books became so popular and earned him so much money that he was able to leave his job and work full time on his writing.
In his lifetime,Jules Verne wrote more than 50 books and he became a rich man.Many of this imaginative novels have been turned into films.
小题1:Jules Verne became rich because of his________.
A.fatherB.marriage
C.businessD.writing
小题2:When Jules Verne was brought home by his father,he decided that________.
A.he would go on more travels in the future
B.he would do as his father required
C.he would be devoted to writing about future travels
D.he would stop writing about future travels
小题3:Which book can be considered as a turning point in Jules Verne’s life?
A.Five Weeks in a Balloon.
B.A Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
C.From Earth to Moon.
D.Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
小题4:What can we infer from the passage?
A.Jules Verne was appreciated by film makers.
B.Jules Verne was not clever enough to learn law.
C.Jules Verne’s stories and plays won him big fame in the 1850s.
D.Jules Verne’s wife helped him a lot in his writing career.

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One of the world’s richest men has taken a close interest in one of man’s most basic functions:visiting the toilet.Bill Gates’s charitable organization,the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,is looking for inventors to design the loo of the future,which,they hope,would improve sanitation for millions of people around the world.
So,what’s wrong with the traditional flush toilet?Firstly,it wastes a huge amount of potential drinking water.Secondly,they are more likely to cause pollution.This is a real problem in many areas of the developing world,where,according to United Nations estimates,unsafe sanitation causes half of all hospitalizations.Younger people are particularly at risk.Illnesses which cause diarrhea are responsible for the deaths of about 1.5 million children a year.Finally,standard lavatories simply aren’t practical in remote areas.
The challenge set by Bill Gates was to come up with a latrine which works without running water,electricity or aseptic tank.It also needed to operate for less than 5 cents.28 designs were displayed at the recent Reinvent the Toilet Fair,in Seattle,USA.Among them was one which turned human waste into electricity using microwaves,another which converted human waste into charcoal,and yet another which used urine for flushing.
But the winner was a solar­powered design which generated hydrogen gas and electricity. The team from the California Institute of Technology(CIT) picked up a prize of $100,000.
But clearly Bill Gates doesn’t feel he’s flushing money down the toilet.After the Seattle event he said,“We couldn’t be happier with the response we’ve gotten.” Gates has even pledged $370 million more to the future toilet project.They hope to field test more prototypes over the next three years.
小题1:Why is Bill Gates paying people to invent new toilets?
A.Because he wants to test people’s sense of creativity.
B.Because he wants to improve sanitation for many people.
C.Because he thinks the traditional ones are out of fashion.
D.Because he can’t design this kind of things himself.
小题2:Which of the following is NOT a problem with the traditional flush toilet?
A.They waste too much water.
B.They might cause diseases.
C.They are not always practical.
D.They are too complicated to use.
小题3:The underlined word “latrine” in the third paragraph might have similar meanings to the word “________” in the text.
A.looB.sanitation
C.diarrheaD.prototype
小题4:The team from CIT won the prize because their design ________.
A.can change human waste into electricity
B.can turn human waste into charcoal
C.can produce power with solar energy
D.can use urine for flushing

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William Henry Bragg was born at Westward,Cumberland,on July 2,1862.He was educated at Market Harboroagh Grammar School and afterwards at King William’s College,Isle of Man.Elected as a minor scholar of Trinity College,Cambridge,in 1881,he studied mathematics under the well­known teacher,Dr E.J.Routh.He studied physics in the Cavendish Laboratory during a part of 1885,and at the end of that year he was elected to the Professorship of Mathematics and Physics in the University of Adelaide,South Australia.
His research interests dealt with a great many fields and he was skilled at picking up a subject,almost casually,making an important contribution,and then dropping it again.However,the work of Bragg and his son Lawrence in 1913~1914 founded a new branch of science of the greatest importance and significance,the analysis of the crystal structure by means of X­rays.It is true that the use of X­rays as an instrument for the systematic revelation of the way in which crystals are built was entirely due to the Braggs.This was recognized by the award of the Nobel Prize jointly to father and son in 1915.
He was an honorary Doctor of some sixteen universities,and a member of the leading foreign societies.Many other medals and awards were bestowed upon him among which may be mentioned the Rumford Medal in 1916 and the Copley Medal (its premier award) in 1930.
He was the author of many books,including Studies in Radioactivity,X­Rays and Crystal Structure,The World of Sound,Concerning the Nature of Things,Old Trades and New Knowledge,An Introduction to Crystal Analysis,and The Universe of Light.His favorite hobby was golf.After a life of astonishing productiveness,Sir William Bragg died on March 10,1942.
小题1:William Henry Bragg was awarded the Nobel Prize because________.
A.he succeeded in using X­rays to find out the crystal structure
B.he was the first to use X­rays to help to do his experiment
C.he determined to learn everything well and then gave them up
D.he was successful in his research work with the help of his son
小题2:According to this passage,William Henry Bragg was interested in all the subjects EXCEPT________.
A.mathematicsB.physics
C.medicineD.sports
小题3:Which one of the following is TRUE according to this passage?
A.Bragg became a professor in the University of Adelaide in 1885.
B.Bragg won the Rumford Medal and the Copley Medal in the same year.
C.Bragg gained great achievements in many fields,including society.
D.Bragg and Lawrence wrote the book X­Rays and Crystal Structure.
小题4:Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
A.William Henry Bragg’s Productive Life
B.William Henry Bragg:A Famous Author
C.Bragg and His Son—Two Great Scientists
D.X­rays and the Crystal Structure

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About a year ago,if you had asked who Dinara Safina was,the answer would have been,“She is Marat Safin’s younger sister.” She was overshadowed by her wonder brother.But now she has made a name for herself:the world No.1 player in women’s tennis.
The 22­year­old Russian overtook Serena Williams of the US for top ranking on April 20.“Before,every place I go,I am Marat’s sister.Nothing else,”she told New York Times.“I always wanted to be myself,and now finally the results come,and people can know me as Dinara Safina.”
Safina has made it to two great event finals,in the 2008 French and in the 2009 Australian Open,and won a silver medal in the Beijing Olympic Games.
Clearly,family isn’t the only connection Safina and her brother share.Their DNA burns with competitive fire.Safin has held the distinction for years of being a hottempered player on court.When he lost his temper,he would smash a racket (球拍).Safina is as emotionally explosive as her brother.A headline in the newspaper The Australian once described her as “mad as a snake”.The Sydney Morning Herald,during the Australian Open,summed up Safina’s volatile (不稳定的) emotional state with the headline—Safina goes from basket case to top of the world.
It’s not rare for a family to have two top tennis players.Safina’s father owns a tennis academy and her mother worked as a coach.“I had no choice but to become a tennis player,but I don’t mind being a tennis player,” Safina said.
From this talented family she is also given one of her best weapons on court,her size.She is 1.82 meters tall and weighs 70kg.But it is hard work that led her to her recent success.
“I hope to prove to everyone over the coming months that I deserve the honor of being world No.1,”she said.
小题1:What is the passage mainly about?
A.How Safina came first in women’s tennis.
B.How the parents taught Safina to play tennis.
C.How her brother helped Safina play tennis.
D.How Safina beat her brother in playing tennis.
小题2:Which one of the following doesn’t contribute to Safina’s success?
A.Her hard work and strong competitiveness.
B.Her emotional explosion and volatile emotional state.
C.The fact that she is 1.82 meters tall and weighs 70kg.
D.The fact that her parents are both good tennis players.
小题3:Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A.Serena Williams was topped by Safina on ranking list on April 20.
B.Dinara Safina was always very confident and eager to succeed.
C.Safina was eager to become a tennis player when she was a child.
D.Marat Safin won the two finals,in the 2008 French and in the 2009 Australian Open.
小题4:What can we infer from the headline “Safina goes from basket case to top of the world”?
A.Safina wanted to top the world in tennis when she was a baby in a basket.
B.After she won the Australian Open,Dinara Safina cried.
C.Too nervous at first,Safina finally gained confidence and won.
D.Safina learnt from the basket case and finally came top of the world.

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