You have to log on to your school"s online system to check your grades, but you find the system is kind of inconvenient．What do you do?
When Daniel Brooks was a senior at Pioneer High School in the US, he came up with a Silicon Valley-style solution; he developed an iPhone app（application, 应用程序）I C Connector．
When he tried out his school"s new Web-based student information system earlier this year, he immediately noticed some shortcomings．He could no longer view his current grades for all his classes at once．Checking several classes required several clicks-which for a teenager is so much work．To save himself all this trouble, Brooks developed the app and sold it on the Apple app store．Now it has 2,300 users who have downloaded it across the US．
"It ended up on every iPhone and iPad and portable device that any student and teacher had on campus," said Scott Peterson, the campus tech support worker at Pioneer High．
Brooks said he didn"t create the app to get rich - it is free．"A student is not going to want to pay 99 cents," Brooks said．"They just want to see their grades more easily．"
However, in the months that followed, Brooks experienced highs and lows．His app is now so successful that users want more, in particular, his teachers have started pushing him to develop a version for them．However, the company Infinite Campus, which developed the information system, has been less positive．
The company said in an e-mail that he was confusing users and violating the company"s copyright by using Infinite Campus" name and logo in the app’s name．Brooks" father, Michael Brooks, has offered to change the name, but says he needs time to get Apple"s approval．Daniel also e-mailed and called Infinite Campus．They got no response．
Daniel Brooks starts at a California university this autumn．Despite Infinite Campus" attitude, he continues to try to improve the app and hopes to put out an Android version soon．
小题1:Why did Daniel Brooks develop an iPhone app IC Connector? （No more than 8 words）
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小题2:What is Brooks" teachers" attitude towards the app he developed? （No more than 14 words）
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小题3:What does Paragraph 7 talk about between Infinite Campus and Brooks? （No more than 7 words）
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小题4:What does Brooks’ aim to do now? （No more than 10 words）
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小题5:Use one word to describe Brooks. |
小题1:Because he wanted to make checking grades easier.
小题2:They appreciated it and are pushing him to develop a version for them.
小题3:It talked about the conflicts between them.
小题4:To improve the app and design an Android Version.
小题5:creative/inventive/innovative |
试题分析：本文介绍了Brooks以及他的发明创造。
小题1:根据Checking several classes required several clicks-which for a teenager is so much work．To save himself all this trouble, Brooks developed the app and sold it on the Apple app store．可知Daniel Brooks的发明是想让查分更容易。
小题2:根据"It ended up on every iPhone and iPad and portable device that any student and teacher had on campus," said Scott Peterson, the campus tech support worker at Pioneer High．以及His app is now so successful that users want more, in particular, his teachers have started pushing him to develop a version for them．However, the company Infinite Campus, which developed the information system, has been less positive．可知Brooks的老师对于他的这项发明的态度是欣赏且推动他发明了一个新的版本。
小题3:根据第七自然段可知这一自然段主要讲了无限的校园和Brooks之间的冲突
小题4:根据Despite Infinite Campus" attitude, he continues to try to improve the app and hopes to put out an Android version soon．
可知Brooks现在的目标是改进计算机应用程序并且设计自动版本。
小题5:通过阅读全文可知，用一个词来描述Brooks，就是他非常有创造力。 |
核心考点
试题【You have to log on to your school"s online system to check your grades, but you 】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
[详细]举一反三
Fifteen years spent in the field of education has provided me with many treasured moments. One of the most unforgettable when I was teaching second , 10 years ago.
In May I decided to plan something special for the children: a Mother’s Day tea. We had put our heads together to ideas of how to our mothers. We practiced singing songs, memorized poems and wrote cards. We decided to hold our tea the Friday before Mother’s Day. I was surprised and to learn that every mother was planning to attend. I invited my own mother.
Finally, the big day arrived. Each child up at our classroom door, expecting the arrival of his or her mom. it got closer to starting time, I looked around and my eyes quickly found Jimmy. His mother hadn’t shown up and he was looking .
I took my mother by the hand and walked over to Jimmy. “Jimmy,” I said, “I have a bit of problem here and I was if you could keep my mother while I’m busy.”
My mom and Jimmy sat at a table. Jimmy my mom her treats, presented her with the gift I had made, just as we had the day before. Whenever I looked over, my mother and Jimmy were in deep .
Now 10 years later, I work with students of all ages, educating them about the environment. Last year, I took a senior class on a field trip, and there was Jimmy. I had the students complete an outline of the day’s and an evaluation of our trip. Then I collected the students’ booklets and checked them to see if was completed. When I came Jimmy’s page, he had written “Remember our Mother’s Day tea we had in second grade, Mrs. Marra? I do! Thanks for all you did for me, and thank your mother, too.”
I told him I really enjoyed what he had written. He looked rather embarrassed and his own thanks and walked away. Suddenly he ran back and gave me a big hug. “Thanks again. No one even knew my mother didn’t it.”
I ended my workday with a hug from a teenage boy who had stopped hugging teachers years ago.
| 小题1: | | A．lasted | B．happened | C．experienced | D．described |
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| 小题2: | | A．school | B．class | C．grade | D．lesson |
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| 小题3: | | A．pay attention to | B．look forward to | C．get on with | D．come up with |
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| 小题4: | | A．love | B．please | C．respect | D．admire |
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| 小题5: | | A．astonished | B．worried | C．relieved | D．interested |
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| 小题6: | | A．even | B．ever | C．still | D．once |
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| 小题7: | | A．followed | B．held | C．kept | D．lined |
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| 小题8: | | A．As | B．Although | C．While | D．Because |
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| 小题9: | | A．wild | B．curious | C．strange | D．upset |
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| 小题10: | | A．considering | B．wondering | C．asking | D．doubting |
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| 小题11: | | A．connection | B．care | C．company | D．concern |
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| 小题12: | | A．served | B．supplied | C．assigned | D．applied |
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| 小题13: | | A．taught | B．studied | C．practiced | D．told |
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| 小题14: | | A．mind | B．thought | C．agreement | D．conversation |
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| 小题15: | | A．feeling | B．behavior | C．event | D．action |
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| 小题16: | | A．something | B．everything | C．anything | D．nothing |
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| 小题18: | | A．announced | B．delivered | C．stated | D．whispered |
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| 小题20: | | A．probably | B．exactly | C．rarely | D．eagerly |
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A programmer and an engineer are sitting next to each other on a long flight from Los Angeles to New York．The programmer leans over to the engineer and asks if he would like to play a fun game．The engineer just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and rolls over to the window to catch a few winks．
The programmer persists and explains that the game is really easy and has a lot of fun．He explains, "I ask you a question, and if you don"t know the answer, you pay me $5．Then you ask me a question, and if I don"t know the answer, I"ll pay you $5．" Again, the engineer politely refuses and tries to get to sleep．
The programmer, now somewhat anxious, says, "OK, if you don"t know the answer you pay me $5, and if I don"t know the answer, I"ll pay you $50!" This catches the engineer"s attention, and he sees no end to this torment（折磨） unless he plays, so he agrees to the game．
The programmer asks the first question．"What"s the distance from the earth to the moon?"" The engineer doesn"t say a word, but reaches into his wallet, pulls out a five dollar bill and hands it to the programmer．Now, it"s the engineer"s turn．He asks the programmer, "What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down on four?" The programmer looks up at him with a puzzled look．He takes out his laptop computer and searches all of his references．After about an hour, he wakes the engineer and hands him $50．The engineer politely takes the $50 and turns away to try to get back to sleep．The programmer, more than a little angry, shakes the engineer and asks, "Well, so what"s the answer?" Without a word, the engineer reaches into his wallet, hands the programmer $5, and turns away and goes back to sleep．
小题1:What"s the best title for the passage?| A．A Boring Conversation | B．A Fun Game | | C．A Trick During The Flight | D．A Question Without Answer |
小题2:What kind of person is the programmer according to what he said?| A．Confident． | B．Selfish． | C．Greedy． | D．Generous． |
小题3:What can we infer according to the last sentence?| A．The engineer has little money with him． | | B．Actually the engineer doesn"t know the answer, either． | | C．The engineer is bored with programmer． | | D．The engineer beats the programmer at last． |
小题4:Which is NOT true according to the passage?| A．In the beginning the engineer is not interested in the game． | | B．The engineer is too sleepy to want to play the game． | | C．At last the engineer gains $45 from the programmer． | | D．Nobody knows the answer to the engineer"s question． |
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I lost my sight when I was four by falling off a box car in a freight（货物）yard in Atlantic City. Now I am thirty two. I can slightly remember what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a disaster can do strange things to people. I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.
Life, I believe, asks constant adjustments to reality. The adjustment is never easy. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—a potential to live, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.
The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself, I mean: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the intricate（错综复杂的） pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words stuck in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a new kind of baseball. We called it ground ball.
All my life I have set a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was out of reach. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.
小题1:We can learn from the beginning of the passage that _______| A．the author lost his sight because of a car crash. | | B．the author wouldn’t love life if the disaster didn’t happen. | | C．the disaster made the author appreciate what he had. | | D．the disaster strengthened the author’s desire to see. |
小题2:What’s the most difficult thing for the author?| A．How to adjust himself to reality. | | B．Building up assurance that he can find his place in life. | | C．Learning to manage his life alone. | | D．How to invent a new kind of baseball. |
小题3:According to the context, “a chair rocker on the front porch” in paragraph 3 means that the author _________.| A．would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life. | | B．would be unable to move and stay in a rocking chair. | | C．would lose his will to struggle against difficulties. | | D．would sit in a chair and stay at home. |
小题4:What is the best title for the passage?| A．A Miserable Life | B．Struggle Against Difficulties | | C．A Disaster Makes a Strong Person | D．An Unforgettable Experience |
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The Healing
Jim and his wife, Connie, were shocked by the loss of their four-month-old son—Joshua, whose life was taken by SIDS—sudden infant death syndrome.
Thirty hours ago, Jim drove to the baby-sitter’s home to Joshua. It was a trip, like the one he made five days every week. He arrived, and little Joshua could not be from his nap. The next few hours were a time of life and death: the racing ambulance, swift-moving doctors and nurse. But 12 hours later, at Children’s Hospital, the doctors had exhausted（用尽） all , little Joshua was gone. Yes, they wanted of Joshua’s usable organs to be donated. That was not a decision for Jim and Connie, a loving and couple.
The next morning dawned and many things had to be arranged. Telephone calls and funeral plans. one point Jim realized he needed a .When Jim settled into the chair the barber’s, he began to the past hours, trying to some sense of it all. had Joshua, their first-born, the child they had waited so long for, been taken so soon….He had begun his life. The question kept coming, and the pain in Jim’s heart just him.
While talking with the barber, Jim mentioned the organ donations, looking at his watch, “They are transplanting one of his heart valves（瓣膜）right now.”
The stopped and stood motionless. Finally she spoke, but it was only a whisper. “You’re not going to believe this. But about an hour ago the customer sitting in this chair wanted me to hurry she could get to Children’s Hospital. She here so full of joy. Her prayers had been answered. Today her baby granddaughter is receiving a needed transplant—a heart valve.”
Jim’s healing began.
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| 小题2: | | A．routine | B．annual | C．average | D．difficult |
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| 小题3: | | A．called | B．disturbed | C．awakened | D．survived |
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| 小题4: | | A．though | B．since | C．because | D．as |
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| 小题5: | | A．medicine | B．strength | C．attempts | D．spirits |
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| 小题7: | | A．giving | B．tiring | C．boring | D．thinking |
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| 小题9: | | A．haircut | B．break | C．donation | D．decision |
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| 小题11: | | A．decide on | B．reflect on | C．keep on | D．focus on |
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| 小题14: | | A．barely | B．nearly | C．seldom | D．almost |
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| 小题15: | | A．covered | B．drew | C．enveloped | D．choked |
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| 小题16: | | A．hairdresser | B．customer | C．father | D．parent |
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| 小题18: | | A．arrived | B．left | C．stayed | D．sat |
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Something roared like thunder. The earth shook a little and we heard the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire. ‘‘Father!” Hassan cried. We sprung to our feet and raced out of the living room.
“Father! What’s that sound?” Hassan screamed, his hands outstretched toward Ali. Ali wrapped his arms around us. A white light flashed and lit the sky in silver. It flashed again and was followed by rapid sharp sounds of gunfire.
“They’re hunting ducks, ” Ali said in a hoarse voice. “They hunt ducks at night, you know. Don"t be afraid.”
A siren(汽笛）went off in the distance. Somewhere glass broke and someone shouted. I heard people on the street, woken up from sleep. Hassan was crying. Ali pulled him close and held him with tenderness.
We stayed huddled (蜷缩）that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign sounds to us then. The generations of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of the bombs and gunfire were not yet born. Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any idea that a way of life had ended. The end came when Russian tanks were rolling into the very same streets where Hassan and I played, bringing the death of the Afghanistan I knew and marking the start of a still ongoing era of bloodletting.
Just before the sunrise, Baba’s car pulled into the driveway. His door slammed shut and his running footsteps pounded the stairs. Then he appeared in the doorway and I saw something on his face. Something I didn’t recognize right away because I’d never seen it before: fear. “Amir! Hassan!” He cried as he ran to us, opening his arms wide. “They blocked all the roads and the telephone didn’t work. I was so worried!”
We let him wrap us in his arms and, for a brief moment, I was glad about whatever had happened that night.
小题1:Who is the author of this passage? | A．Amir. | B．Ali. | C．Baba. | D．Hassan. |
小题2:By saying “They’re hunting ducks”, Ali _______.| A．told the children the truth | B．played a joke on the children | | C．tried to calm the children | D．cheered the children up |
小题3:We can infer from the passage that _______.| A．there were thunderstorms that night | | B．Afghan children were used to the war | | C．people on the street shouted and broke the windows | | D．that night was the end of people"s peaceful life |
小题4:From the last sentence of the passage, we know _______.| A．Baba"s arms gave the author temporary comfort and joy | | B．there was a chance that a world in peace was to come | | C．what happened that night seemed nothing to the author | | D．the author was glad to see his father come home safe |
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