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dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am later I am still a bright-
eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.
My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family
to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw
from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.
Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt and biological
children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic and very emotional. A year later
came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No.3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.
You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 81. Our home was a
complete zoo-a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up
on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant talking as few as one class each semester.
The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to
stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit, But I knew I should set an example for
them to follow through the rest of their lives.
In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college
degree!
I am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you"re looking at a big challenge from
the outside it looks huge, but when you"re in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won"t
arrive in your life on one day. It"s a process. Remember: little steps add up to big dreams.
B. a teacher
C. a judge
D. a doctor
B. She fell in love and got married.
C. She suffered from a serious illness.
D. She decided to look after her grandma.
B. She ignored her guilty feeling for her sons.
C. She wanted to remain a full-time housewife.
D. She was too confused to make a correct choice.
B. Little by little, one goes far.
C. Every coin has two sides.
D. Well begun, half done.
B. Honest and responsible.
C. Ambitious and sensitive.
D. Innocent and single-minded.
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试题【阅读理解。 In the fall of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard Un】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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first meeting of an introductory 1 course about 20 years ago.
The professor 2 the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans (豆), and invited
the students to 3 how many beans the jar contained. After 4 shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor
smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the 5 answer, and went on saying, "You have just 6 an important lesson
about science. That is Never 7 your own senses."
Twenty years later, the 8 could guess what the professor had in mind. He 9 himself, perhaps, as inviting
his students to start an exciting 10 into an unknown world.
Invisible (无形的) to the 11 , which can be discovered only through scientific 12 . But the seventeen-year-old
girl could not accept or even 13 the invitation. She was just 14 to understand the world. And she 15 that her
firsthand experience could be ture 16 . The professor, however, said that it was 17 . He was taking away her
only 18 for knowing and was providing her with no substitute. "I remember feeling small and 19 ," the women
says, "and I did the only thing I could do. I 20 the course that afternoon, and I haven"t gone near science since."
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| When milk arrived on the doorstep When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basil. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn"t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer. Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note-"Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery"-and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically appear. All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basil even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn"t freeze. And I remember Mr. Basil from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery. There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service. Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch (门廊). Every so often my son"s friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. Mr. Basil gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer ____. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. to show his magical power. B. to pay for the delivery C. to satisfy his curiosity. D. to please his mother. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. What can be inferred from the fact that the milkman had the key to the boy"s house? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. He wanted to have tea there. B. He was a respectable person. C. He was treated as a family member. D. He was fully trusted by the family. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. Why does home milk delivery no longer exist? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. Nobody wants to be a milkman now. B. It has been driven out of the market. C. Its service is getting poor. D. It is forbidden by law. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. Why did the author bring back home an old milk box? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. He missed the good old days. B. He wanted to tell interesting stories. C. He missed it for his milk bottles. D. He planted flowers in it. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Although I love my life, it hasn"t been a lot of fun as I"ve been ill for 28 years. Music has always been a great love of mine and, in my 20s, when my 1 was more manageable, I 2 ten years as a professional singer in restaurants, playing and singing folk songs. 3 that was years ago and times have changed. 4 I live with mother on a country farm. Two years ago, I decided that I would need to have some kind of extra work to 5 my disability pension (残疾抚恤金). 6 I needed to sleep in the afternoons, I was limited in my 7 . I decided that I would consider 8 to singing in restaurants. My family are all musicians, so I was 9 when I went into our local music store. I explained that I wanted to sing again but using recorded karaoke music. I knew that discs were very expensive and I really didn"t have a lot of 10 to get started. And 11 you find only three to four songs out of ten on a disc that you can 12 use. When I told the owner of the shop about my 13 ; he gave me a long thoughtful 14 . "This means a lot to you, doesn"t it?" he said. "Come with me." He led me 15 the crowded shop and to a bench with a large professional karaoke box on it. He placed his large hand 16 on his treasure and said, "I have 800 karaoke songs in here. You can take your 17 and I"ll record them for you. That should get you started." I 18 . Thanking him, I made a time with him to listen to all the songs and choose 19 that I could sing. I have come full circle with his help. His 20 still warms my heart and makes me do just that bit extra, when I have the chance. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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