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Games, Chusovitina is a shining star although she failed to win a medal eventually.
When 33-year-old Oxana Chusovitina competes in her fifth Olympics (Beijing Olympics), she is twice
the age of most of her competitors. In addition, she has also competed in ten World Championships, three
Asian Games and three Goodwill Games. Chusovitina holds the record for the most individual World
Championships medals on a single event. She won an Olympic team gold medal as a 17-year-old in 1992.
Since then she has won a record of eight world titles.
Her long career owes something to fate. In 2002, when her son Alisher, now aged nine, was diagnosed
with leukemia (白血病), she moved to Germany so that he could get the best possible treatment. To help in
those difficult times she kept up her training. It has paid off. But saving Alisher"s life is not her only motivation.
As she recently told German media, "There is nothing in the world I enjoy more than gymnastics."
Chusovitina was born on June 19, 1975 in Uzbek USSR. She was formerly a citizen of, and a competitor
for, the former Soviet Union (before 1993) and Uzbekistan (1993-2006). She has competed for Germany
since 2006. By the year of 2008, Chusovitina"s career in gymnastics had been twenty years.
She is one of only a handful of women to return to high-level gymnastics and international competition
after becoming a mother. Chusovitina is remarkable in her ability to remain competitive for so many years,
often in the face of great difficulty, and has been considered as a role model and an inspiration by many people
in the gymnastics community.
B. Uzbekistan
C. Germany
D. Russia
B. 1988
C. 1992
D. 1992
B. she wanted to serve for Germany
C. she wanted her son to get the best treatment
D. she had to face great difficulty in her homeland
Games because _____.
B. she is much older than other gymnastics girls
C. she won an Olympic team gold medal when she was very young
D. she competes in order to earn money
B. Lovable.
C. Tough-minded.
D. Serious-minded.
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killed in the earthquake when he was trying to save others on April 14, 2010.
Wong managed to run safely out of the building with some children when the first quake happened at
7:50 am on April 14, but he went back inside to rescue three other children and three teachers inside,
although he knew the danger of aftershocks (余震).
At 10 am, all the children and one of the teachers were saved. However, Wong was buried under the
fallen building and died. The other two teachers were still waiting to be rescued.
46-year-old Wong was a truck driver, who often said he could only give his efforts to charity (慈善)
instead of money, as he did not earn a lot. His tragic (悲剧的) end touched the hearts of many people both
in Hong Kong and on the mainland.
Wong began volunteering in 2002. In 2003, Wong was told by the doctor he got serious illness, which
gave him a great blow. However, the illness did not deter the warm-hearted man. When the earthquake
struck Wenchuan is Sichuan Province in 2008, Wong rushed to the disaster area of Shifang to offer his
help though his family did not want him to go.
In fact, Qinghai is a place Wong had often visited since 2006. As a volunteer, he gave out medicine and
clothing to the orphanage there. No one could expect that Wong would die helping others.
Hong Kong Chief Secretary Henry Tang Ying-yen said he had "the highest respect" for the hero who
gave his life for others. "What he did has shown the Hong Kong spirit." The citizens of Hong Kong called
him "the pride of Hong Kong"s people" and people on the mainland have also praised him as "a true hero".
B. when he returned to save the teachers and students
C. because he suffered from his serious illness again
D. as the first earthquake happened
B. refuse
C. beat
D. encourage
B. He was supported by his family being a volunteer.
C. He was thought highly of by the Chinese.
D. He was a taxi driver before he died.
B. He fought against his illness bravely.
C. He helped the orphanage though being poor.
D. He put other people"s lives above own.
strong resistance from some people against having women in space. However, some women were very keen
to become astronauts and in the end they were successful. In 1978, NASA began the first training programme
for women astronauts.
Judy Resnick and Christa McAuliffe were both astronauts and they were both women, but in many other
ways they were very different. Both of them were on Flight STS-5L-L. Judy Resnick was born in 1949 and
studied engineering at university and went on to obtain a PhD in 1977. She was a member of the first group
of women selected for astronaut training in 1978, and in 1984, she became the second woman in space.
During that flight, she helped to launch three new satellites and she carried out a programme of research. She
was, in many ways, a professional astronaut whose whole life was devoted to space travel.
Christa McAuliffe was born in 1948 and she was an astronaut almost by accident. In 1984, NASA decided
to find a teacher who could accompany (go with sb. esp. on a journey ) astronauts into space. They hoped
that she would be able to communicate with students from space and encourage every one of them to be
interested in space travel. Christa was a secondary teacher in history and social studies. She was a gifted
teacher and she was selected from over 11,000 applicants to go on flight STS-51-L. She was also a very good
communicator and she immediately established (set up) a very good relationship with the news media (radio,
television and newspapers). It was partly because of this that there was a great deal of interest and excitement
about the flight. Thousands of students in schools and universities all around the country were looking forward
to communicating with Christa in space. Millions of people were watching her flight with great interest. It is
partly because of the excitement over McAuliffe"s place in the flight that the disaster in 1986 had such an effect
on people.
B. Judy was the first woman selected for astronaut training
C. Judy helped to launch three new satellites at the age of 35
D. Judy carried out a programme during her second space travel
B. she expected to give history lessons in space
C. she was an excellent teacher and communicator
D. she made the students in space very excited
B. a young secondary school teacher was on the flight
C. students were going to learn more about space travel
D. it was the first time for women to travel in space
B. Flight STS-51-L
C. Travelling in Space
D. The Training Programme
the cover of the popular young adults" fashion magazine Seventeen.
"You is IN," said Wang Lihua, Editor-in-Chief of Seventeen. "She is active and mature (成熟的) because
of her knowledge on everything from academic studies, to books on art, to movies. We found she"s the very
style we"re looking for to represent young people"s attitudes."
You also impressed Wang with her fluent English when they first met last year. As the hostess of an
English broadcasting programme at the High School Affiliated to Renmin University, You is always praised
for speaking English almost like a native speaker. "I"ve built up my English by watching thousands of English
DVDs since I was 10," she explained.
But for You, watching isn"t enough. Last year, while in Senior 1, she met a talented boy who showed self-
made DV movies at the English Corner in her school.
"I thought it was so cool and I knew that I should start making my own films," she said. So she wrote a
campus (校园) story, persuaded schoolmates to star in it and then began shooting a 30-minute DV movie, all
in English. "I played one of the leading roles, actually I was everything in my film. I worked on it every single
day during the SARS holidays," she recalled. The movie finally became a big hit on campus, earning You a
strong reputation (名气) as a DV movie director.
But this is not the only field she wants to master. Despite being a science student, You likes art, literature
and fashion design very much.
"There are people who can be artists, there are people who edit books, and there are people who become
film producers. But I just hope to mix all the things up!" she said. "There is an old saying I believe: Chance
favours only the prepared mind."
B. she is lovely and full of confidence
C. is active and mature
D. has rich knowledge
B. she is lovely and full of confidence
C. is active and mature
D. has rich knowledge
B. he was admired by his schoolmates
C. the young can do things as well as the adults do
D. self-made DV movies are popular at school
B. musician
C. actress
D. producer
B. the success of a 30-minute DV movie shocked You Mi
C. You Mi dreams of becoming a scientist
D. the outbreak of SARS delayed You Mi"s studies
Porter. He was born in North Carolina in 1862. As a young boy he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school
for very long, 2 he managed to 3 himself everything he needed to know. When he was about 20 years
old, O. Henry 4 to Texas, where he tried different 5 . He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a
job in a bank. When some money went missing from the bank, O. Henry was believed to have 6 it. Because
of that, he was sent to 7 . During the three years in prison, he learned to 8 short stories. After he got out
of prison, he went to New York and 9 writing. He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor
there.
Most of O. Henry"s 10 are set in his own time, the early years of the 20th century. Many take place in New
York City, and deal for the most part with ordinary 11 : clerks, policemen, waitresses. O. Henry"s short stories
are well known 12 their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings. And his stories
were 13 more playful and optimistic. People like his stories, 14 simple as the tales were, they would finish
with a sudden change at the 15 , to the reader"s surprise.
| ( )1. A. real ( )2. A. or ( )3. A. learn ( )4. A. went ( )5. A. stories ( )6. A. defended ( )7. A. prison ( )8. A. read ( )9. A. liked ( )10. A. families ( )11. A. things ( )12. A. like ( )13. A. very ( )14. A. when ( )15. A. end | B. middle B. and B. teach B. lived B. books B. stolen B. homeland B. write B. believed B. stories B. writers B. as B. less B. how B. last | C. first C. for C. allow C. stayed C. banks C. preserved C. neighbourhood C. tell C. continued C. fantasies C. people C. to C. so C. because C. first | D. last D. but D. turn D. left D. jobs D. reacted D. jungle D. take D. stopped D. deeds D. readers D. for D. much D. so D. beginning |
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| Jean Driscoll can go faster in her wheelchair than the world"s best marathoners (马拉松运动员) can run! In April, Jean finished the Boston Marathon in 1 hour 34 minutes 22 seconds. That"s about 33 minutes faster than the winning male runner! She competed on the track, too. She was second in the 800 meter wheelchair race at the 1992 Olympics. Jean doesn"t like to be told she"s brave. "I"m in sports because I"m a competitive person!" Jean was born with spinal bifida (脊柱裂), a birth illness that damages the spine (脊椎). She began to use a wheelchair to get around in high school. Then she tried wheelchair race and was amazed. "Players crashed into each other and fell out of their chairs," she says, "It was fun." Jean tried other wheelchair sports. At the University of Illinois, her wheelchair basketball team won two national titles. Now Jean coaches and teaches. She tries to get people to set goals. "When I sign my autograph (亲笔签 名)," says Jean, "I write, dream big and work hard." | |||
| 1. What made Jean take part in sports? | |||
| [ ] | |||
| A. She was brave. B. She was competitive. C. She was strong. D. She was disabled. | |||
| 2. What kind of education did she receive? | |||
| [ ] | |||
| A. High school. B. Junior middle school. C. High education. D. Primary school. | |||
| 3. What is Jean"s advice on how to succeed? | |||
| [ ] | |||
| A. Work hard. B. Hope for the best. C. Dream a lot. D. Have great wishes and work hard. |