“Mama, when I grow up, I’m going to be one of those!” I said this after seeing the Capital Dancing Company perform when I was three. It was the first time that my dream took on a vivid form and acted as something important to start my training. As I grew older and was exposed to more, my interests in the world of dance certainly varied but that little girl’s dream of someday becoming a dancer in the company never left me. In the summer of 2005 when I was 18, I received the phone call which made that dream a reality: I became a member of the company dating back to 1925.
As I look back on that day now, it surely lacks any sense of reality. I believe I stayed in a state of pleasant disbelief until I was halfway through rehearsals (排练) on my first day. I never actually expect to get the job. After being offered the position, I was completely astonished. I remember shaking with excitement.
Though I was absolutely thrilled with the chance, it did not come without its fair share of challenge. Through the strict rehearsal period of dancing six days a week, I found it vital to pick up the material fast with every last bit of concentration. It is that extreme attention to detail (细节) and stress on practice that set us apart. To then follow those high-energy rehearsals with a busy show schedule of up to five performances a day, I discovered a new meaning of the words “hard work.” What I thought were my physical boundaries were pushed much further than I thought possible. I learned to make each performance better than the last.
Today, when I look at the unbelievable company that I have the great honor of being a part of, not only as a member, but as a dance captain, I see a tradition that has inspired not only generations of little girls but a splendid company that continues to develop and grow-and inspires people every day to follow their dreams.
小题1: How many years has the Capital Dancing Company existed when the author received the phone call from it?小题2:How did the author feel when she look back on that day now?| A．strange | B．unrealistic | C．indifferent | D．lucky |
小题3: Which of the following statement can best interpret the underlined sentence in paragraph 3?| A．Though I was excited, I should share the chance with others. | | B．Though I was excited, it’s fair to share the chance when there is challenge. | | C．Though I was excited, it’s a challenge for me to share the chance with others. | | D．Though I was excited, I know clearly where there is chance there is challenge. |
小题4:What conclusion could be drawn from the passage?| A．The company values practice most. | | B．The company extremely focus on intelligence. | | C．The company has an inherited tradition of inspiring its members break their limits. | | D．The company sets the members apart in order to extremely stress detail and practice. |
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小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:D
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作者通过自己的故事告诉我们：有了梦想，有了努力，就有未来。
小题1:D 计算题。根据第一段最后两行In the summer of 2005 when I was 18, I received the phone call which made that dream a reality: I became a member of the company dating back to 1925.可知作者是2005年接到电话的，而这家公司开始于1925年，那么有80年了。
小题2:B 细节题。根据第2段第一句it surely lacks any sense of reality可知作者认为当时很不现实。故B正确。
小题3:D 猜测句意题。根据句意可知结果我很兴奋，但是我清楚的知道自己该做什么，it did not come without its fair share of challenge.只要自己努力了，就有成功的机会。
小题4:C 推理题。根据文章2,3,4行I see a tradition that has inspired not only generations of little girls but a splendid company that continues to develop and grow-and inspires people every day to follow their dreams.可知这个公司又这样的传统。 |
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Spring is coming, and it is time for those about to graduate to look for jobs. Competition is tough, so job seekers must carefully consider their personal choices. Whatever we are wearing, our family and friends may accept us, but the workplace may not.
A high school newspaper editor said it is unfair for companies to discourage visible tattoos nose rings, or certain dress styles. It is true you can’t judge a book by its cover, yet people do “cover” themselves in order to convey certain messages. What we wear, including tattoos and nose rings, is an expression of who we are. Just as people convey messages about themselves with their appearances, so do companies. Dress standards exist in the business world for a number of reasons, but the main concern is often about what customers accept.
Others may say how to dress is a matter of personal freedom, but for businesses it is more about whether to make or lose money. Most employers do care about the personal appearances of their employees, because those people represent the companies to their customers.
As a hiring manager I am paid to choose the people who would make the best impression on our customers. There are plenty of well-qualified candidates, so it is not wrong to reject someone who might disappoint my customers. Even though I am open-minded, I can’t expect all our customers are.
There is nobody to blame but yourself if your set of choices does not match that of your preferred employer. No company should have to change to satisfy a candidate simply because he or she is unwilling to respect its standards, as long as its standards are legal.
小题1:What can be inferred from the text?| A．Hiring managers make the best impression on their candidate. | | B．Candidates have to wear what companies prefer for an interview. | | C．What to wear is a matter of customers’ acceptance to a great extent. | | D．Companies sometimes have to change to respect their candidates. |
小题2:Which of the following is the newspaper editor’s opinion according to Paragraph2?| A．Customers’ choices influence dress standards in companies. | | B．Candidates with tattoos or nose rings should be fairly treated. | | C．Strange dress styles should not be encouraged in the workplace. | | D．People’s appearances carry messages about themselves. |
小题3:Which of the following would be the best title for the text? | A．Appearances Do Matter | | B．Hiring Managers Matter | | C．Personal Choices Matter | | D．Employees Matter |
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The Golden Compass is the first movie based on the Philip Pullman’s bestselling novel, His Dark Materials. It is a work of imagination that tells us about a young girl who travels to the far north to save her best friend. Along the way she meets strange creatures, like witches and so on. Finally , she saves not only her world, but also ours as well.
Lyra is a young girl among scholars in Oxford’s Jordan College. She spends most of her time with her friend Roger, a kitchen boy. Together, they share a life with no worries. However, when Lyra hears a conversation about a very tiny particle(颗粒), she is thrown into a dangerous adventure. This particle is said to unite different worlds, and is feared by many people who want to destroy it. At the same time , children began to disappear without a trace, including Lyra’s good friend, Roger. As Lyra starts this horrible struggle, and begins to search for Roger, she meets strange creatures both big and small, and bad people who are not what they seem to be. Gobblers(饕餮者) that kidnap(绑架)children appear in the most unexpected places. And a magical compass made of gold will answer any question if one is skilled enough to read it. In unbelievable danger, Lyra doesn’t know that she is doomed to win, or to lose, this battle…
With the movie The Lord of the Rings making New Line cinema over a billion dollars, it’s easy to see why they got the rights to Pullman’s His Dark Materials quickly. The books, sold more than nine million copies in the world, have a different idea from the Harry Potter series. Pullman’s imagination may look suitable for children, but it works far better for adults.
小题1:In the film The Golden Compass, Lyra______.| A．is a student in Oxford’s Jordan College | | B．is a kitchen boy | | C．hears a conversation of Roger’s | | D．meets many strange creatures |
小题2:The film is named The Golden Compass probably because______.| A．the compass is useful enough to help Lyra | | B．only skilled people can read the compass | | C．the compass which is made of gold can answer any question | | D．the compass throughout the whole story is a clue |
小题3:From the passage we can conclude that______.| A．New Line Cinema won Pullman’s trust through its achievement | | B．The Lord of the Rings is also based on one of Pullman’s novels | | C．His Dark Materials is similar to the Harry Potter series | | D．New Line Cinema made over a billion dollars through the Harry Potter series |
小题4:Which group of people will like the film The Golden Compass the best according to the passage?| A．Children | B．Junior students | C．Adults | D．Only old people |
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We come by business naturally in our family. Each of the seven children in our family worked in our father’s store. 11 we worked and watched, we learned that work was about more than 12 and making a sale.
One lesson stands out in my 13 . It was shortly before Christmas. I was in eighth grade and was working evenings, straightening the toy section. A little boy, five or six years old, came in. He was 14 a brown torn coat with dirty sleeves. His shoes were scuffed （磨破）and his one shoelace was torn. The little boy looked poor to me — too poor to 15 to buy anything. He looked 16 the toy section, picked up this item and 17 , and carefully put them 18 in their place.
Dad came down the stairs and walked over to the boy. His steel blue eyes 19 and the dimple（酒窝）in his cheek stood out as he asked the boy what he could do for him. The boy said he was looking for a Christmas _20____ to buy his brother. I was impressed that Dad treated him with the same respect as any adult. Dad told him to take his 21 and look around. He did.
After about 20 minutes, the little boy carefully picked up a toy 22 , walked up to my dad and said, “How much for this, Mister?”
“How much you got?” Dad asked.
The little boy held out his hand and 23 it. His hand was creased(起皱) with 24 lines of dirt from holding his 25 too tightly. In his hand 26 two dimes, a nickel and two pennies—27 cents. The price on the toy plane he’d picked out was $3.98.
“That’ll just 27 it,” Dad said as he 28 the sale. Dad’s reply still 29 in my ears. When the little boy walked out of the store, I didn’t notice the dirty, worn coat or the single torn shoelace. What I saw was a happy child with a 30 .
| 小题1: | | A．Because | B．Since | C．As | D．After |
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| 小题2: | | A．survival | B．labor | C．hardship | D．entertainment |
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| 小题4: | | A．putting on | B．dressing | C．having | D．wearing |
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| 小题5: | | A．try | B．attempt | C．afford | D．manage |
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| 小题9: | | A．opened | B．smiled | C．shone | D．looked |
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| 小题10: | | A．tree | B．card | C．present | D．cake |
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| 小题11: | | A．effort | B．word | C．time | D．courage |
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| 小题12: | | A．car | B．gift | C．plane | D．section |
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| 小题13: | | A．showed | B．opened | C．gave | D．turned |
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| 小题14: | | A．long | B．straight | C．wet | D．main |
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| 小题15: | | A．toy | B．pocket | C．hand | D．money |
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| 小题17: | | A．work | B．cover | C．need | D．take |
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| 小题18: | | A．took | B．returned | C．made | D．offered |
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| 小题19: | | A．rings | B．stays | C．remains | D．gets |
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| 小题20: | | A．bag | B．treasure | C．package | D．thing |
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It was 1961 and I was in the fifth grade. My marks in school were miserable and, the thing was, I didn’t know enough to really care. My older bother and I lived with Mom in an ugly multi-family house in Detroit. We watched TV every night. The background noise of our lives was gunfire and horses’ hoofs(马蹄) from “Wagon Train” or “Cheyenne”, and laughter from “I Love Lucy”, or “Mister Ed”. After supper, we’d lie on Mom’s bed and stare for hours at the TV screen.
But one day Mom changed our world forever. She turned off the TV. Our mother had only been able to get through third grade. But, she was much brighter and smarter than we boys know at the time. She had noticed something in the suburban houses where she cleaned books. So she came home one day, switched off the TV, sat us down and explained that her sons were going to make something of themselves. “You boys are going to read two books every week,” she said. “And you’re going to write a report on what you read.”
We moaned（不满,发牢***） and complained about how unfair it was. Besides, we didn’t have any books in the house other than Mom’s Bible. But she explained that we would go where the books were: “I’ll drive you to the library.”
So pretty soon there were these two peevish（坏脾气的）boys sitting in her white 1959 Oldsmobile on their way to Detroit Public Library. I wandered reluctantly（不情愿） among the children’s books. I loved animals, so when I saw some books that seemed to be about animals, I started leafing through them.
The first book I read clear through was Chip the Dam Builder. It was about beavers（河狸）. For the first time in my life I was lost in another world. No television program had ever taken me so far away from my surroundings as did this virtue visit to a cold stream in a forest and these animals building a home.
It didn’t dawn on me at the time, but the experience was quite different from watching TV. There were images forming in my mind instead of before my eyes. And I could return to them again and again with the flip（快速翻动）of a page.
Soon I began to look forward to visiting this quiet sanctuary form my other world. I moved from animals to plants, and then to rocks. Between the covers of all those books were whole worlds, and I was free to go anywhere in them. Along the way a funny thing happened: I started to know things. Teachers started to notice it too. I got to the point where I couldn’t wait to get home to my books.
Now my older brother is an engineer and I am chief of pediatric neurosurgery(儿童神经外科)at John Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. Sometimes I still can’t believe my life’s journey, from a failing and indifferent student in a Detroit public school to this position, which takes me all over the world to teach and perform critical surgery.
But I know when the journey began the day Mom switched off the TV set and put us in her Oldsmobile for that drive to the library.
小题1:We can learn from the beginning of the passage that ___________.| A．the author and his brother had done well in school | | B．the author had been very concerned about his school work | | C．the author had spent much time watching TV after school | | D．the author had realized how important schooling was |
小题2:Which of the following is not true about the author’s family?| A．He came from a middle-class family. | | B．He came from a single-parent family. | | C．His mother worked as a cleaner. | | D．His mother had received little education. |
小题3:How did the two boys feel about going to the library at first?| A．They were afraid | B．They were reluctant. | | C．They were impatient. | D．They were eager to go. |
小题4:The author began to love books for the following reasons EXCEPT that ___________.| A．he began to see something in his mind | | B．he could visualize what he read in his mind | | C．he could go back to read the books again | | D．he realized that books offered him new experience |
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Charlie Chaplin was the first international star of the modern era(年代). He was especially beloved for his Little Tramp 32. He was the first screen artist to write, 33 and perform in his own films; in fact, 34 Charlie Chaplin even wrote the music for his movies. He was also the first artist to use his work to pass a 35of equality and justice for all —36for the "little guy". Charlie Chaplin"s career and life made 37 the first global icon (偶像); his too-small hat, his too large shoes and his trademark moustache were instantly 38 by audiences from Chicago to China, from Iowa City to India. And they 39 are today. All of these make Charlie Chaplin the first citizen of our global village.
Chaplin, a native of London, was born in40 on April 16, 1889 to music hall performers. Chaplin only saw his 41twice until the age of seven. The man 42 him and his mother about a year after Chaplin was 43. During Chaplin"s earliest years, his mother was a(n) 44and performer. Then her voice gave out, her stage career 45, and she began actively 46Church of England services. At the age of 47, Chaplin"s mother was considered as the insane and sent to Cane Hill lunatic asylum (疯人院), and the 48 sent Charlie and his brother to live with his father, 49 had by then stopped all payments of child support.
Charlie Chaplin lived with his father only a short time 50 his mother was released from the lunatic asylum and then 51Charlie and his brother, to live with her once again.
| 小题1: | | A．character | B．behaviour | C．personality | D．gentleman |
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| 小题2: | | A．act | B．shoot | C．direct | D．edit |
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| 小题3: | | A．in case of | B．in this case | C．in case | D．in some cases |
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| 小题4: | | A．possibility | B．message | C．culture | D．promise |
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| 小题5: | | A．generally | B．widely | C．especially | D．totally |
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| 小题7: | | A．believed | B．recognized | C．realized | D．known |
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| 小题8: | | A．really | B．always | C．still | D．ever |
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| 小题9: | | A．happiness | B．luck | C．poverty | D．peace |
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| 小题10: | | A．brother | B．teacher | C．mother | D．father |
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| 小题11: | | A．taught | B．left | C．loved | D．expected |
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| 小题13: | | A．actor | B．artist | C．dancer | D．singer |
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| 小题14: | | A．ended | B．began | C．broke | D．continued |
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| 小题15: | | A．attending | B．working | C．joining | D．asking |
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| 小题16: | | A．eight | B．seven | C．nine | D．ten |
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| 小题17: | | A．mother | B．police | C．family | D．court |
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| 小题19: | | A．then | B．when | C．before | D．until |
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| 小题20: | | A．took away | B．picked up | C．took apart | D．brought up |
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