When I had a private chat with her. I found______(她的一些评论非常有说服力)。
When I had a private chat with her. I found______(她的一些评论非常有说服力)。
When I had a private chat with her. I found______(她的一些评论非常有说服力)。
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When I joined a private football league a few years ago, the sport meant everything to me. My coach (教练) said that I had lots of potential (潜力), and I became captain of my 【B1】 . That was before all the fun was taken out of 【B2】 .
At first, everyone on the team got 【B3】 playing time. Then the team moved up to the top division after winning all its games, and the 【B4】 started. Some parents, who had paid the coach extra so their daughters could have 【B5】 one-on-one training, got angry when she didn't give them more playing time in our 【B6】 . The coach was replaced.
The new coach, however, took all the fun out of the game: All we did during practice was 【B7】 . I always wished to God that it would rain so we would not have the 【B8】 . Of course, all teams run drills; they are 【B9】 . But we ran so much that, afterwards, we had trouble 【B10】 . Younger people shouldn't be doing exercises 【B11】 for 18-year-olds.
I was very thin 【B12】 I started football, but as a member of this team I wouldn't eat much, because I was afraid of being too 【B13】 to run. I feared making mistakes, and the added pressure caused me to make more than my usual 【B14】 .
Is all this pressure necessary? I 【B15】 up leaving the football team. Four other girls did the same, and two of them stopped playing football completely. That's 【B16】 , because they had so much potential. They were just burned-out with all the pressure they 【B17】 from the coach or their parents.
I continued playing football at school and 【B18】 my love for it. I joined a private team coached by my school coach. When I started playing 【B19】 him, he told me I needed to relax because I looked nervous. After I 【B20】 ,down, I played better. When you enjoy something, it's a lot' easier to do it well.
【B1】
A.class
B.club
C.team
D.board
Don't Take the Fun Out of Youth Sports
When I joined a private football league a few years ago,the sport meant everything to me. My coach said that I had lots of potential,and I became captain of my 36. That was before all the fun was taken out of 37 .At first,everyone on the team got 38playing time. Then the team moved up to the top division after winning all its games,and the 39 started. Some parents,who had paid the coach extra money so their daughters could have 40 one-on-one training,got angry when she didn't give them more playing time in our 41 . The coach was replaced.The new coach,however,took all the fun out of the game:All we did during practice was 42 . I always wished to God that it would rain so we would not have the 43 .Of course,all teams run drills;they are 44 . But we ran so much that,afterwards,we had trouble 45 . Younger people shouldn't be doing exercises 46 for 18-year-olds.I was very thin 47 I started football,but as a member of this team I wouldn't eat much,because I was afraid of being too 48 to run. I feared making mistakes,and the added pressure caused me to make more than my usual 49 .Is all this pressure necessary ?I 50up leaving the football team. Four other girls did the same,and two of them stopped playing football completely. That's 51 ,because they had so much potential. They were just burned-out with all the pressure they 52from the coach or their parents.I continued playing football at school and 53my love for it. I joined a private team coached by my school coach. When I started playing 54 him,he told me I needed to relax because I looked nervous. After I 55 down,I played better. When you enjoy something,it's a lot easier to do it well.
36 A. class B. club C. team D. board
37 A. playing B. living C. learning D. working
38 A. great B. equal C. right D. extra
39 A. business B. struggle C. attempt D. pressure
40 A. free B. private C. good D. basic
41 A. matches B. courses C. lessons D. programs
42 A. jump B. play C. run D. shoot
43 A. duty B. meeting C. operation D. training
44 A. necessary B. boring C. scientific D. practical
45 A. speaking B. moving C. sleeping D. breathing
46 A. used B. intended C. made D. described
47 A. till B. since C. before D. because
48 A. full B. tired C. lazy D. big
49 A. size B. share C. space D. state
50 A. gave B. kept C. ended D. picked
51 A. loud B. fast C. publicly D. calmly
52 A. People B. Nobody C. Somebody D. I
53 A. shock B. wonder C. worry D. pleasure
54 A. if B. for C. while D. although
55 A. excited B. satisfied C. think D. laugh
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I
grew I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and 【1】______
twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the conscience that I 【2】______
was outraging my true nature and that soon or later I should have to settle 【3】______
down and write books.
I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years on the either 【4】______
side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons
I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeing mannerisms which 【5】______
made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit
of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginative persons, and 【6】______
I think from the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with the 【7】______
feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with
words and a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a 【8】______
sort of private world which I could get my own back for my failure in 【9】______
everyday life. Therefore, the volume of serious—i. e. seriously intended— 【10】______
writing which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount to half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five, my mother taking it down to dictation.
(51)
听力原文: (35) In a class I teach for adults, I recently did the "unpardonable". I gave the class homework ! (32) The assignment was "to go to someone you love within the next week and tell them you love them. It has to be someone you have never said those words to before or at least haven't shared those words with for a long time."
Now that doesn't sound like a very tough assignment, until you stop to realize that (33) most of the men were over 35 and were raised in the generation of men that were taught that showing feelings or crying was just not done.
At the beginning of our next class, I asked if someone wanted to share what happened when they told someone they loved them. I fully expected one of the women to volunteer, as was usually the case, but on this evening one of the men raised his hand. It was James.
He said that he was quite angry with the assignment. He didn't feel that he had anyone to say those words to, and besides, it was a total private thing. But when he was driving home, he thought it over and found that the assignment was exactly what he needed. (34) Five years ago, he had a fierce quarrel with his father and really never resolved it since that time. They avoided seeing each other unless they absolutely had to at Christmas or other family gatherings. But even then, they never spoke to each other. So James decided to finish the assignment. When he got home, he convinced himself to tell his father he loved him. Both of them were moved to tears.
(33)
A.Spend some time with people who you love.
B.Say "I lore you" to people you love.
C.Show love to people you love by buying flower.
D.Help people who you love.
M: Not really, but I guess I don't really have too much choice, do I? And it's going to be particularly hard to get back to work since I just had the most fantastic vacation ever.
W: Really? What did you do?
M: I went boating on the Klamath River?
W: Is that so interesting?
M: Yeah. The boat is quite long and narrow, used to be used by the Indians. Controlling it is not easy.
W: Weren't you scared?
M: At first, I was. But after I learned some techniques for controlling it, it wasn't so bad. We didn't start out on the river. We had three whole days of instruction in a shallow pool first. Then, when we finally got out on the river, I felt ready for it.
W: Did you spend the nights camping outside on the ground? That alone would make the trip unappealing to me.
M: Oh, no. The accommodations were fantastic. Each person on the trip had a private cabin, and the facilities are good. The food is also good.
W: Now, that part of the trip does sound good to me. But I don't think I'd like the part that involves riding through rough water in a small boat.
M: Oh, you should try it; I know you'd like it. I'm going to do it again myself, as soon as I can afford to spend the time and the money.
When does the conversation probably take place?
A.Just before a vacation.
B.Just after the end of a school semester.
C.At the end of the summer.
D.Just after a break from school.
Many a young persons tells me he wants to be a writer. 【M1】______
I always encourage such people, but I also explain that
there's a big differences between "being a writer" and writing. 【M2】______
In cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and 【M3】______
fame, not the long hours alone on a typewriter. 【M4】______
Reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying 【M5】______
affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands
more whose longing is never awarded. When I left a 20 - year career 【M6】______
in the U. S. Coast Guard to become a freelance writer(自由撰稿人) ,
I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found
me my room in a New York apartment building. It wasn't even 【M7】______
matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought
a used mannual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer. 【M8】______
After a year or so, however, I still hadn't gotten a break and
began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that barely
made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. 1 had dreamed
about it for years. I wasn't going to be one of those people who
die wondered, What if? I would keep putting my dream to the test— 【M9】______
even enough it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. 【M10】______
This is the Shadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream must
learn to live there.
【M1】
听力原文: In this lesson, I want to talk about the history of The White House. At first, most Americans didn't think there was anything particularly special about the White House. Few had ever seen it or had any idea what it looked like, and even the families who lived there found it completely inadequate. When it was built, the White House was the largest house in the country and it remained so until after the Civil War. But it served so many different purposes that little of it was available for the First Family to actually live in. The first floor, or "State Floor" was made up entirely of public rooms; and the president's offices, which where staffed by as many as 30 employees, took half of the second floor up. The First Family had to get by with the eight or fewer second-floor rooms that were left. By Lincoln's time, the situation was intolerable. The White House was open to visitors; office seekers, and the merely curious had no difficulty making their way upstairs from the official rooms on the first floor. Lincoln was so uncomfortable with the situation that he had a private corridor constructed. He also received a $ 20, 000 appropriation to improve the furnishings of the White House. The new furnishings did not last for more than a few years. When Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, the White House fell into disarray. No one really supervised the White House during' the first five weeks.
(30)
A.They didn't care.
B.They hated it.
C.They loved it.
D.They have mixed feelings.
M: OK. Will the lessons be for yourself or your son?
W: I want to learn. My son is only three.
M: Fine. Have you had any musical experience before?
W: Well, I studied the piano for about three months but that was 6 years ago.
M: That's good. So we needn't start right from the beginning again.
W: When can I take lessons and how much do they cost?
M: Well, that depends on you. We have a small group that meets on Monday and Wednesday evenings for two hours, that costs $4 an hour. Then on Tuesdays and Thursdays I give private lessons which cost $8 an hour.
W: I'm afraid that I can't make it on Mondays but I can come on Wednesdays.
(8)
A.Her friend.
B.Her friend's son.
C.Her son.
D.Her friend and her son.
The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by for tune there are thousands more whose longing is never rewarded. When ! left a 20-year career in the U. S. Coast Guard to become a freelance writer (自由撰稿人), I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn' t even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer. After a year or so, however, I still hadn' t gotten a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that I barely made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn' t going to be one of those people who die wondering" What if?" I would keep putting my dream to the test-even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the Shadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
The passage is meant to ______ .
A.warn young people of the hardships that a successful writer has to experience
B.advise young people to give up their idea of becoming a professional writer
C.show young people it' s unrealistic for a writer to pursue wealth and fame
D.encourage young people to pursue a writing career
Mrs Sharp, a large, red-faced woman in her late sixties, has lived in Greenleas, a 'new town' in the countryside outside London, since 1958. Before that she lived in Bethnal Green, an area of inner London. She was moved to Greenleas by the local authorities when her old house was demolished (拆除).
She came from a large family with six girls and two boys, and she grew up among brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, grandparents and cousins. When she married her boyfriend from school at eighteen, they went on living with her parents, and her first child was brought up more by her mother than by herself, because she always worked.
As the family grew, they moved out of their parents' house to a flat. It was in the next street, and their life was still that of the extended family. "All my family used to live around Denby Street," said Mrs Sharp, "and we were always in and out of each other's houses." When she went to the shops, she used to call in on her mother to see if she wanted anything. Every day she would visit one sister or another and see a nephew or niece at the corner shop or in the market.
"You always knew 90% of the people you saw in the street every day, either they were related to you or you were at school with them," she said.
When her babies were born (she had two sons and a daughter), she said, "All my sisters and neighbours would help - they used to come and make a cup of tea, or help in some other way." And every Saturday night there was a family party. It was at Mrs Sharp's mother's house. "Of course we all know each other very well. You have to learn to get on with each other. I had one neighbour who was always poking(管闲事) her nose into our business. She was forever asking questions and gossiping (拨弄是非). But you had to put up with everyone, whatever they were like."
1)、Mrs. Sharp had to move to Greenleas because she had to work there.
A.T
B.F
2)、When she got married, she lived together with her parents all the time.
A.T
B.F
3)、She knew so many people because they were either her relatives or schoolmates.
A.T
B.F
4)、The sentence "I had one neighbour who was always poking her nose into our business." in the last Para. means I had one neighbour who always showed her interests in our private affairs.
A.T
B.F
5)、This passage mainly deals with what the extended family is like.
A.T
B.F
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