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an important part of his success was due to his wife Katherine．
Katherine took seriously the idea that the prisoners are human beings ,worthy of attention and respect ．She regularly visited inside the walls of Sing Sing．She encouraged the prisoners, took things to them
and spent time listening to them．Most importantly, she cared about them．And as a result, they cared
deeply about her．
Then one night in October of 1937, news was "telegraphed" between the prison cells that Katherine
had been killed in an accident．The prisoners asked the warden to allow them to attend her funeral.He
agreed to their strange request and a few days later the south gate of Sing Sing swung slowly open．
Hundreds of men who had committed almost every crime imaginable marched slowly out of the prison,
later gathered again at the gate and returned to their cells．There were so many that they proceeded
unguarded．But no one tried to escape．If he had, the others might have killed him immediately．So
devoted were they to Katherine Lawes, the woman who daily walked into Hell to show the men a piece
of Heaven．
Katherine" s strength was to see the men less as prisoners and more as individuals．Thomas Moore
once said, "We can only treat badly those things or people whose souls we show no respect for．"
B．visiting the prison houses
C．doing some writing for the prisoner
D．spending time in listening to the prisoners
B．Because Katherine was the wife of the warden．
C．Because Katherine made reforms in the prison．
D．Because Katherine had been killed by one of them．
B．The other prisoners．
C．The guards．
D．The policemen from other prisons．
B．Reforms at Sing Sing Prison
C．To Honor Their Souls
D．To Meet Their Requirement
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试题【阅读理解 Perhaps you have never heard of Katherine Lawes．Katherine was the wife 】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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father, far from my old family and friends. I was terribly lonely and would cry myself to sleep each night.
To ease my sadness, my father purchased an old horse for me at a local auction. I named him Cowboy.
Cowboy was without a doubt the ugliest horse in the world. But I didn’t care. I loved him beyond all
reason. I joined a riding club and suffered rude comments and mean snickers about Cowboy’s looks. I
never let on about how I felt, but deep inside, my heart was breaking. The other members rode beautiful,
registered horses.
When Cowboy and I entered the events where the horse is judged on appearance, we were quickly
shown the gate. No amount of preparation and love would turn Cowboy into a beauty. My only chance
to compete would be in the speed events. I chose the jumping race.?
One girl named Becky rode a big brown horse in the race events. She always won the blue ribbons.
Needless to say, she didn’t feel threatened when I competed against her at the next show. She didn’t
need to. I came in next to last.
The stinging memory of Becky’s smirks made me determined to beat her. For the whole next month I woke up early every day and rode Cowboy five miles to the arena (赛马场). We practiced running and
jumping for hours in the hot sun and then I would walk Cowboy home totally exhausted. All of our hard
work didn’t make me feel confident by the time the show came. I sat at the gate and sweated it out while I watched Becky and her horse charge through the course and finish in first place.
My turn finally came. I put on my hat, rubbed Cowboy’s neck and entered the arena. At the signal,
we dashed toward the first fence, jumped it without trouble and raced on to the next one. Cowboy then
flew over the second, third and fourth fences like a bird and I turned him toward the finish line. As we
crossed the line the crowd was shocked into silence. Cowboy and I had beaten Becky and her fancy
horse by two seconds!
I gained much more than a blue ribbon that day. At thirteen, I realized that no matter what the odds,
I’d always come out a winner if I wanted something badly enough to work for it.
B. shown how to make the horse beautiful
C. removed from the competition early
D. told to enter the timed-speed events
B. people envied the writer
C. the win was unexpected?
D. the writer bad run out of time
B. He had not practiced enough.
C. He believed he was unpopular with the crowd.
D. He thought his horse wasn’t so good as the others.
B. Anything is possible if one tries hard enough.
C. A positive attitude will bring success.
D. One should not make judgments based on appearance.
entific discoveries. The 1 said something that caught my 2 . "All great discoveries," he said, "are made by
people between the ages of 25 and 30." Being a little over 30 myself, I wanted to 3 with him. Nobody
wants to think that he has passed the age of making any 4 . The next day I went to the public
library, spending several hours, and 5 to find the ages of famous people and their discoveries. The announcer
was right!
First, I looked at some of the 6 discoveries. One of the earliest, the famous one that 7 that bodies
of different weights 8 at the same speed, was made by Galileo when he was 26. Madam Curie started
her research that led to a Nobel Prize when she was 28. Einstein was 26 when he 9 his world-changing Theory of Relativity. Well, 10 of that. Yet I wondered if those "best years" were true in other 11 .
Then how about this in 12 ? Surely it needs the wisdom of 13 to
make a good leader. Perhaps it does, but look when these people 14 their careers. Winston Churchill was elected to the House of
Commons at the age of 26. Abraham Lincoln 15 the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the
government at what age? Twenty-six!
But why don"t best years come after 30? After 30, I 16 , most people don"t want to take risks or
try new ways. Then I thought of people 17 Shakespeare and Picasso. The 18 was writing wonderful
19 at the late age of 50, 20 the latter was still trying new ways of painting when he was 90!
Perhaps there is still hope for me.
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| It was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom with my favorite shirt on.A __1__ came, "Nice shirt, " I smiled from ear to ear. T hen another voice said, "That shirt belonged to my dad. Greg"s mother works for my family. We were going to __2__ that shirt away, but gave it to her __3__." I was speechless. I wanted to hide. I __4__ the shirt in the back of the closet and told my mum what had happened. She then dialed her __5__, "I will no longer work for your family," she told him. That night, Mom told my dad that she couldn"t clean anymore; she knew her life"s __6__ was something greater. The next morning, she __7__ with the personnel manager at the Board of Education. He told her that without a proper education, she could not teach. So Mom decided to __8__ a university. After the first year in college, she went back to the personnel manager. He said, "You are __9__, aren"t you? I think I have a __10__ for you as a teacher"s assistant. This opportunity deals with children who are mentally challenged with little or no chance of__11__." Mom accepted the opportunity very __12__. For almost five years, as a teacher"s assistant, she saw teacher after teacher give up on the children and quit, feeling __13__. Then one day, the personnel manager and the principal __14__ in her classroom. The principal said, "We have watched how you __15__ the children and how they communicate with you and admire your hardworking __16__ over the last five years. We are all in agreement that you __17__ be the teacher of this class." My mom spent more than 20 years there.__18__ her career, she was voted Teacher of the Year. All of this came about because of the __19__ comment made in the classroom that day. Mom showed me how to handle __20__ situations and never give up. | |||||||||||||
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few other places and was told the same thing.