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阅读理解。     Just over a year ago, life as an orphan (孤儿) girl in Tilinanu, southern Malawi, was uncertain. Relying
on the kindness of the poor villagers for a roof over their head, many had to sleep in a room that held as
many as fifteen people, eating a diet mainly of porridge. Their classroom for daily lessons was an open
space in the bush.
     Now 34 of them have comfortable beds in a smart new home, with a community hall and medical
centre next to it. Another 175 village children eat there daily, with the adults coming in to learn English; it"s an amazing transformation. Even more amazing is that the person behind it is just 21.
     When Alice Pulford was waiting to get into university, she took a five-month teaching position in
Malawi. She loved the place, and returned in the spring of 2009 to visit her friend Zulu in Tilinanu. His
aunt Mercy owned land there and was doing her best to provide an education for the orphans, many of
whom had lost parents to AIDS or malaria (疟疾).
     But after helping Mercy out for some time, Alice realised that what the girls in particular really needed was a safe and permanent place to live. There was a derelict (年久失修的) church on Mercy"s land.
"If you give me the church, I"ll set up a home for these children," Alice told her.Mercy agreed.
     Alice phoned home and told her family about her plan. The family had already helped Alice raise ￡
1,800 to assist the orphans. After they received Alice"s call, they threw themselves into raising another ￡6,000, organising theatre trips and special parties and dinners.
     Alice found Malawian builders, selected materials and even helped with the brick-laying. In ten
weeks, the church became a dormitory with toilets and a living area. In spring last year, Alice raised
another ￡19,000 to build the medical centre and two new dormitories.
     The girls are happier-and so is Alice, who has been spending around four months in Malawi a year.
"The orphans think they"re gaining from me, but when I see their smile, it transforms me," she says.1. Over a year ago, the orphans didn"t have _______.A. a classroom
B. a teacher
C. shelter
D. food2.What is known about the home Alice has built for the orphans?A. It looks like a community hall.
B. It depends on the villagers" help.
C. It provides a place for recreation.
D. It benefits both the children and adults.3. The  Pulfords" family are _______.A. short of money
B. fond of entertainments
C. supportive of each other
D. unaware of Alice"s plan4.What has Alice learned from her experience? A. Money-raising is a family business.
B. Winning orphans" smile calls for skills.
C. AIDS has made many children parentless.
D. Helping others brings changes in a person.

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阅读理解。     Margaret Cook is a professional, married woman with two young children. The elder, who is four, has
just started at a local primary school. It is a school that she was eager for her daughter to attend because
it has a mix of racial and social cultures. As a white from a middle-class family, she thought it important for her daughter to go to a local school that was representative of the cultural and social mix of the society in
which we live. Having met, however, some of the other parents and children, she"s becoming increasingly
unsure about her choice. She is worried that along with the accent and vocabulary of her classmates, her
daughter will also pick up what appears to be a very narrow-minded, uneducated attitude. She wants her
daughter to be able to adapt and to fit in with her friends at school, but not necessarily to model her
behaviour on theirs. She wants her to like them but not be like them.
     Is she worrying unnecessarily? Or should she abandon her principles and send her children to private
school? A report, published by the Independent Schools Council, shows record numbers of parents want
to send their children to private schools that stress "moral standards" and classroom discipline as they lose
faith in state education, even many Labour voters would consider going private for the first time if they
could afford the fees.
     But is it right without question to see private schools as heavens where moral standards are high,
teachers are models of correctness and learning, children all come from open-minded families, and where
our little ones will be protected from the ills of the world? The only difference is that those who can afford
school fees are in the habit of making expensive mistakes. One of my colleagues who sends all his children to private schools tells stories of drug abuse, troublemakers, the decline of discipline and ever younger
age of rebellion (叛逆).
     It"s an excellent plan to send our children to a mixed school. Placed in an entirely new environment,
they are at the risk of rejection, bullying (欺负) and maybe long-term alienation (疏离).But as soon as
our children step out of the front door they are faced with a challenging world where boundary between
the good and bad is so complex that young people have difficulty telling them apart. For this reason I
believe that Cook is better advised to bring her children up in the real world.1. From this passage we know that the woman"s daughter _______.A. is changing others" behavior
B. is mixing with trouble-makers
C. is attending a mixed school
D. is applying for a private school2. The mother wants her daughter to be _______.A. popular and attractive
B. a fighter against social ills
C. a model for her classmates
D. open-minded and well-educated3. What does the writer think of the private school?A. It"s a heaven of pleasure.
B. It is going from bad to worse.
C. It is experiencing moral decline.
D. It"s a place of high moral standard.4. The writer suggests sending kids to a mixed school because he thinks _______.A. it is well managed
B. it is close to the real world
C. kids there are well protected
D. the competition there isn"t fierce

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完形填空。     " Hi!  John. "Mary ran towards me with a rare bright smile on her face, saying, "I"m going to have
a 1   performance tonight. Ihope you"ll come. Here is the   2   ". She left in a hurry,disappearing in the
crowds of people   3   .
      "Is that true?" I asked myself. She was a quite   4    girl.I had never seen her making up or wearing
attractive clothes,for she did not know how to     5    indeed.
     I arrived at the     6    with the ticket, and found my seat.Her performance was the seventh one. I
knew I would   7 from a hard time before her turn, for I had no     8   of art,but her performance
was  9  watching, no matter how longI would wait. Time went slowly. I    25    with myself not to
fall asleep.
    "Let" s welcome the next exciting dance-Latin!"     11 filled the hall at once.
    I opened my eyes as large as possible,     12    to loseanything. Wearing a golden and shining skirt,
Mary appearedon the stage. Dancing with a charming smile, she was fully  13   in the Latin music. At this
moment, she looked like apretty butterfly     14   on the splendid stage.
     After all the performance    15  , I waited for her at thegate.
     "Hi!" She stood in front of me with a bag and her crystal(水晶)high-heeled shoes in her hands, and
16      as she usedto be, but the making-up still could be seen.
      "How do you feel?" There was not a little bit tired   17   on her face."    18    !" I answered.
      "Thank you! I knew it would be. " She could not     19   her excitement, laughing like a child.
Looking at the shiningcrystal high-heeled shoes in the wonderful starry night,  20  that every girl has a
pair of special shoes which are likethe crystal shoes of Cinderella (灰姑娘).(     )1. A. instrument
(     )2. A. address
(     )3. A. quickly
(     )4. A. lovely
(     )5. A. cover up
(     )6. A. hall
(     )7. A. relieve
(     )8. A. interest
(     )9. A. proper
(     )10. A. struggled
(     )11. A. Appreciation
(     )12. A. failing
(     )13. A. absorbed
(     )14. A. singing
(     )15. A. stopped
(     )16. A. talked
(     )17. A. appearance
(     )18. A. Sorry
(     )19. A. hide
(     )20. A. doubted      B. dance
B. number
B. completely
B. popular
B. turn off
B. party
B. escape
B. ability
B. worth
B. knocked
B. Attention
B. fearing
B. swallowed
B. flying
B. paused
B. dressed
B. excitement
B. Congratulations
B. prevent
B. realized        C. music
C. ticket
C. quietly
C. confident
C. dress up
C. theatre
C. relax
C. sense
C. good
C. supported
C. Expectation
C. forgetting
C. interested
C. skipping
C. ended
C. laughed
C. expression
C. Far from
C. remove
C. wondered    D. opera
D. invitation
D. excitedly
D. ordinary
D. take in
D. school
D. suffer
D. touch
D. happy
D. shouted
D. Applause
D. regretting
D. surrounded
D. staying
D. succeeded
D. looked
D. exhibition
D. Fantastic
D. abandon
D. suggested

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完形填空。     One morning all the employees reached the office as usual. And on the wallthey saw a big   1    on
which it was written:Yesterday, theperson who has been   2  your g.rowth in this companypassed  3   .
We invite you to join the funeral prepared in the  4 .
     In the beginning,they all got     5     for the death of oneof their colleagues.    6   after a while they
started getting  7    to know who was the man that limited the growth ofhis colleagues and the company
itself.
     The  8   in the gym was such that security agents (保安) were    9   to control the crowd within the
room. Themore people reached the coffin, the more the excitement  10 up. Everyone whispered to each
other, "  11 on earthis this guy?"
     One by one the excited employees got closer to the coffin,and when they  12   inside it, they   13
becamespeechless. They stood nearby the coffin, shocked and in  14  ,as if someone had   15 the
deepest part of their soul.
     There was a   16  inside the coffin;everyone who lookedinside it could see himself. There was also a
sign next to themirror that   17  : there is only one person who is   18   toset limits to your growth: IT IS
19 !!! !! !  Your lifedoesn"t change when everyone around you changes. Your lifechanges when YOU
change,when you go beyond your limitingbeliefs inside. Don"t be afraid of    20   ;build yourself and
your reality. It"s the way you face life itself that makes thedifference !(     )1. A. card
(     )2. A. encouraging
(     )3. A. on
(     )4. A. office
(     )5. A. sad
(     )6. A. And
(     )7. A. ready
(     )8. A. surprise
(     )9. A. admitted
(     )10. A. heated
(     )11. A. Where
(     )12. A. walked
(     )13. A. suddenly
(     )14. A. sorrow
(     )15. A. stolen
(     )16. A. letter
(     )17. A. wrote
(     )18. A. sure
(     )19. A. YOU
(     )20. A. punishment B. post
B. helping
B. by
B. gym
B. excited
B. But
B. pleased
B. anger
B. forced
B. woke
B. What
B. looked
B. gradually
B. order
B. touched
B. book
B. read
B. eager
B. ME
B. praises    C. sign
C. building
C. away
C. way
C. afraid
C. Or
C. curious
C. excitement
C. forbidden
C. turned
C. How
C. got
C. merely
C. silence
C. attacked
C. mirror
C. showed
C. afraid
C. HE
C. changes    D. letter
D. limiting
D. down
D. meeting room
D. calm
D. So
D. serious
D. sadness
D. ordered
D. kept
D. Who
D. turned
D. extremely
D. person
D. seen
D. appeared
D. reflected
D. able
D.ITSELF
D. blame

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完形填空。     Diana Velez does everything with maximumeffort and at maximum speed. That   1 learning a new
language, completing two certificates and opening a store.
     When arriving in Canada in 2008, she had one   2  : tohave what she had back home in Colombia.
"I didn"t want to  3  what I do,like so many who come to a new country. "she said, "I   4   to open a
store here in Canada but knew Ihad to   5  myself properly."
      Diana quickly realized that making her dream of shopownership in Canada a  6  meant going to
school to get the   7    education and certification, "My experience of owning ashop and working as a
designer in Colombia gave me   8   inmy abilities but I couldn"t speak the lang uage and I had to   9
how to do things in Canada.It was like having to   10   all over again," said Diana.
       11 , she found just the help she needed for herrelaunch (重新开张)    12 continuing education at
GeorgeBrown College. She began taking   13 for both the EssentialSkills in Fashion Certificate and the
Images ConsultingCertificate in May 2009.      14     Diana met with the languagebarrier, she was always
going   15  while at college.
      By the end of October 2009, she had completed allcertificate requirements. Within two years after
her   16  inCanada, Diana at last achieved her   17  goal when her newstore opened its doors in
Toronto"s Sheppard Centre. She wason the fast-track to   18 .
        Looking back, Diana, a fashion (时装) designer,   19   her achievements to the goal she set, the
education she receivedfrom the college, and     20 ,the efforts she made. Now Dianais very happy doing
what she is doing.(     )1. A. requires
(     )2. A. goal
(     )3. A. continue
(     )4. A. demanded
(     )5. A. teach
(     )6. A. reality
(     )7. A. physical
(     )8. A. pressure
(     )9. A. put away
(     )10. A. advance
(     )11. A. Naturally
(     )12. A. through
(     )13. A. notes
(     )14. A. Though
(     )15. A. around
(     )16. A. adventure
(     )17. A. original
(     )18. A. success
(     )19. A. adds
(     )20. A. after all     B. encourages
B.memory
B. choose
B. decided
B. prepare
B. fact
B. private
B. judgment
B. depend on
B. start
B. Gradually
B. for
B. responsibilities
B. As
B. back
B. arrival
B. common
B. wealth
B. connects
B. above all        C. includes
C. choice
C. change
C. agreed
C. enjoy
C. challenge
C. primary
C. influence
C. learn about
C. suffer
C. Luckily
C. before
C. chances
C. Since
C. ahead
C. performance
C. another
C. glory
C. devotes
C. at least    D. advises
D. problem
D. lose
D. hesitated
D. persuade
D. wonder
D. necessary
D. confidence
D. look into
D. work
D. Clearly
D. with
D. courses
D. Once
D. out
D. journey
D. distant
D. happiness
D. owes
D. at first

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完形填空。                                            Face adversity(逆境 )with a smile
     I told my friend Graham that I often cycle the two miles from my house to the town centre but
unfortunately there is a big hill on the route. He replied, "You mean _1_." He explained that I should be
glad of the   2    exercise that the hill provided.
     My   3    to the hill has now changed. I used to  4   as I approached it but now I tell myself the
following. This hill will exercise my heart and lungs. It will help me to  5   and get fit. It will mean that I
live longer. This hill is my friend.  6 , I have a smile of   7 as I reach the top of the hill.
     Problems are there to be faced and   8 .We cannot achieve anything with a/an    9  life. Helen Keller
was the first deaf and blind person to  10   an University degree. She wrote, "Character cannot be  11  in
ease and quiet. Only through   12    of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared,
ambition inspired and success achieved."
     One of the main  13    of success in life is our attitude towards adversity. At times we all face
hardships, problems, accidents and difficulties. 14    we cannot choose the adversity, we can choose our
attitude towards it.
     Douglas Bader was 21 when in 1931 he had both legs amputated (截肢) following a flying accident.
He was  15    to fly again and went on to become one of the leading flying aces (擅长的人). He was
a/an  16   to others during the war. He said, "Don"t listen to anyone who tells you that you can"t do this
or that. That"s nonsense. 17   your mind, and you"ll never  18  crutches(拐杖)or a stick, then have a go
at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go  19    you want to.But never, never let
them   20   you that things are too difficult or impossible."(     )1. A. straightly
(     )2. A. abundant
(     )3. A. attitude
(     )4. A. climb
(     )5. A. put on weight
(     )6. A. Gradually
(     )7. A. satisfaction
(     )8. A. understood
(     )9. A. tough
(     )10. A. gain
(     )11. A. founded
(     )12. A. happiness
(     )13. A. emphasis
(     )14. A. While
(     )15. A. devoted
(     )16. A. appreciation
(     )17. A. Open up
(     )18. A. reject
(     )19. A. anywhere
(     )20. A. advise     B. fortunately
B. proper
B. access
B. confuse
B. gain weight
B. Finally
B. devotion
B. clarified
B. difficult
B. accept
B. produced
B. experiences
B. conflicts
B. As
B. determined
B. qualification
B. Make up
B. deliver
B. everywhere
B. attempt    C. carefully
C. extra
C. entrance
C. comment
C. lose weight
C. Rarely
C. decoration
C. defeated
C. easy
C. accomplish
C. constructed
C. difficulties
C. factors
C. Because
C. commanded
C. inspiration
C. Come to
C. abandon
C. nowhere
C. request   D. quickly
D. necessary
D. affection
D. complain
D. take my weight
D. Approximately
D. caution
D. overcome
D. reasonable
D. admire
D. developed
D. pressures
D. powers
D. If
D. forced
D. destination
D. Come into
D. use
D. somewhere
D. persuade

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