I believe the best heroes are often the ones who haven’t been publicly recognized. They’re someone’s hero just by living their life as 36, not necessarily struggling for anything particular outside of survival. They’re everyday ordinary people.
37, my greatest hero without doubt isn’t a famous person or someone who has a rags-to-riches (白手起家的) story. In fact, this person isn’t a 38 at all, but a heroine: my mother, who has been my greatest source of inspiration（鼓舞）.
A brief glance (一瞥) into this 39 woman’s life makes it clear. My mother was married to a man who drank like a fish almost every day. As Mother 40 to us later in life, she simply didn’t want us to be 41 by my father. So, one day she packed her seven kids into an old wagon (马车), and headed back down south to Montgomery, Alabama.
At five foot three, she was a black lady with a small figure, with no college education. She did whatever she had to do to 42 as a single(单身的) parent and to successfully 43 all her children to adulthood.
By high school I had started to 44 my mother had achieved something 45 as a single parent. Then, when I was seventeen years old, I signed up(报名) for the Marine Corps. The day I 46 for basic training, my mother told me, a very thin and nervous black kid, four 47 words: “Just do your best.” That 48 may be a cliché (套话), but coming from her , it has given me a lifetime of powerful inspiration.
I’ve had my 49 of ups and downs in my life. Whenever meeting with any difficulty, I would 50 to myself, “If Mother overcame her challenges, I have no 51 not to do the same.” 52 I grew, I admired her for what she had achieved.
I graduated from community college with highest 53, and now I’m a student at Columbia University. Every step of the 54, I’ve been encouraged by the inspiration of my mother — my heroine. I’ve never 55. I’ve tried to do my best.
A．much B．usual C．well D．active
A．Indeed B．Otherwise C．Therefore D．Altogether
A．hero B．model C．heroine D．example
A．educated B．famous C．generous D．unusual
A．explained B．replied C．devoted D．responded
A．employed B．fooled C．influenced D．missed
A．escape B．survive C．hide D．recover
A．raise B．add C．enrich D．attract
A．believe B．imagine C．determine D．realize
A．exciting B．interesting C．tiring D．amazing
A．waited B．returned C．left D．came
A．honest B．simple C．useless D．extra
A．answer B．praise C．expression D．encouragement
A．movement B．experiences C．origin D．advantage
A．think B．lie C．react D．object
A．demand B．ability C．cause D．excuse
A．As B．Though C．Unless D．Before
A．honors B．flame C．pressure D．purpose
A．escape B．danger C．way D．hope
A．appeared B．stopped C．knocked D．glanced
Time talks. It speaks more plainly than words. Time in many ways.
Consider the different parts of the day, for example. The time of the day when something is done can give a meaning to the event. It is not a to telephone someone very early in the morning. If you telephone him early in the day, he is shaving or having breakfast, the time of the call shows that something is urgent and immediate attention.
The samemeaning is telephone calls made after 11:00 pm. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours, he may think it is a of life or death. The time chosen for the call its importance.
In social life, time plays a very part. In the United States, gueststend to feel they are not highly regarded if the to a dinner party is extended only three or four days before the party date. But this is not in all countries. In other areas of the world, it may be considered foolish to make an appointment too far because plans which are made for a date more than a week away tend to be .
The meaning of time from place to place in the world. , misunderstandings often arise between people from different cultures that time differently. For example, promptness (准时) is greatly in American life. If people are not prompt, they may be regarded as or not fully responsible. In the US, no one would think of keeping a business partner for an hour; it would be too rude. A person who is five minutes late is to make a short apology.
A．wastes B．communicates C．travels D．runs
A．special B．ridiculous C．precious D．rare
A．custom B．deal C．problem D．duty
A．whenever B．though C．while D．once
A．gives B．escapes C．pays D．requires
A．compared with B．covered with C．attached to D．devoted to
A．story B．matter C．game D．view
A．reduces B．ignores C．doubts D．stresses
A．different B．small C．significant D．equal
A．plan B．invitation C．gift D．wish
A．true B．useful C．clear D．grateful
A．on time B．at length C．in advance D．by chance
A．remembered B．forgotten C．canceled D．opposed
A．varies B．separates C．rushes D．keeps
A．Meanwhile B．Otherwise C．Thus D．Besides
A．make B．kill C．save D．treat
A．complained B．valued C．seized D．influenced
A．impolite B．desperate C．helpless D．unlucky
A．working B．approaching C．waiting D．thinking
A．forced B．expected C．refused D．blessed
Air travel makes some people very nervous. The crowds, the noise and flying itself can cause . But there are classes people can take to help them the fear of flying. And there is training for service dogs that suffer the same problem.
Service dogs almost never the side of the people they care for. You will see them working on buses, trains and other public systems. But the busy environment found at an airport can even the best trained working dog.
People with disabilities depend on their dogs. They want the animals to safely them through security areas. They also need the dogs to remain on duty on the airplane, even when the flying is not . This takes special . The Air Hollywood K9 Flight School is one place where such help can be found.
The school has a piece of equipment that provides the sights, sounds and even the feel of an airplane in flight. Dog trainers say training is based on a simple rule: preparation. Dogs need to be exposed gradually and to the environment, to loud noises, to sounds and other dogs so that when this experience happens to them on a daily basis, they're able to act in a way that they're used to acting and that they don't get .
Dog owners who the training at Air Hollywood K9 Flight School say they now feel much more at ease about future . Their dogs also seem ready for takeoff.
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In the future, schools will teach at least one thing we do not teach today: the art of self-discovery. There is nothing more_____in education. We turn out students from our universities who know how to give answers, but not how to_____questions.
Our students do not really get into the centers of wisdom in our culture. They_____ universities with skills for the workplace, but with no knowledge of how to live, or what_____is for. They are not taught how to see. They are not taught how to listen. They are not taught the great_____of obedience（遵守、服从）.
They are not taught the true art of_____. True reading is not just passing our_____ over words on a page, or_____information, or even understanding what is being read. True reading is a_____act. It means seeing first, and then using the_____. Higher reading ought to be a new subject. As we read, we should try to get something new. I meet people in all_____ of life, and most known in the fields of literature and science, who, though professionals, do not_____read what is in front of them. They only read what is_____known to them. I suspect this is happening now, even as you read this_____.
All our innovations(革新), our discoveries, our_____come from one source: being able first to see what is there, and what is not; to hear what is said, and what is not; but also to think clearly.
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【改编】One day, while I was walking to work, I decided to bring some flowers that I had picked from my garden that morning. On the way, I a stranger and presented the flowers to him with a smile card. by the sense of joy I felt from giving flowers to person, and may be his day, I wanted to do it again.
When I got to my office, I had the of anonymously (匿名) leaving flowers around the workplace. The impersonal (无人味) of the building where I work makes me . It just feels a little boring sometimes, though it’s a nice building with great light. I lots of people might feel the same way, so why not put a little there, and throw in an inspirational quote (引言) while I’m at it? , who doesn't like flowers?
So, for the past month, I’ve been flowers in a little cup on the sink in the bathroom. Each week, I the flowers and the quote. It always feels for me to read quotes like Henry David Thoreau’s “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with a unexpected in common hours.”and Gandhi’s “The fragrance(香味) always on the hand that gives the rose.” If anything, I figure, but it at least makes me each time I visit the bathroom.
Then today, when I walked in, I noticed flowers in the cup, and a quote that someone else had written! It , “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” ------- Gandhi.
This little act me that, at the end of the day, we’re all just people with hearts the various roles and different hats we may wear in the workplace.
I did a little dance and am smiling wide for the rest of the day!
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In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory course about 20 years ago.
The professor marched into the lecture hall, upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans, and invited the students to how many beans the jar contained. After shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin, dry smile，announced the answer, and went on saying, “You have just learned an important about science. That is: “Never your own senses”
Twenty years later, the could guess what the professor had in mind．He himself, perhaps, as inviting his students to start an exciting into all unknown world invisible to the , which can be discovered only through . But the seventeen-year-old girl before she could hear the invitation clearly. She was just to understand the world. And she that her firsthand experience could be the . The professor, however, said that it was . He was taking away her only for knowing and was providing her with no substitute(替代). “I remember feeling small and ,” the woman says, “and I did the only thing I could do, I dropped the that afternoon，and I haven’t gone near science since. ”
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| A．referred | B．thought | C．devoted | D．saw |
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| A．scientific methods | B．teaching oneself | C．teacher’s direction | D．the sixth sense |
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| A．understood | B．refused | C．felt | D．accepted |
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| A．method | B．approach | C．means | D．tool |
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