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Malala Yousafzai Brave, a 19-year-old girl, has been thought to be clever and determined（坚定的）since October 9, 2012 when Taliban gunmen entered her school bus and shot (枪击) her head.
Before this day, Malala had been speaking out for girls’ education in her country of Pakistan. The doctors, who treated Malala after she was shot, didn’t that she would live but she did so much more than just live－she .
Malala has recently a book named “I am Malala”. She has joined talk shows and has had the chance to meet with the US President Barack Obama.
On July 12th, her sixteenth birthday, Malala made her first public appearance after she was shot. She spoke in the United Nations students, teachers, and some important guests.
In her speech, Malala made it that the Taliban did not reach their goal of stopping her strong . Nothing changed in her life, Malala said－except that: weakness, and hopelessness died; strength, power and courage were born. Malala told her listeners that she would continue to fight for education in her country and all over the world.
Through her speech, Malala is trying to help us that a gun may hit her body but not her heart. She won Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
1.A. sad B. happy C. rainy D. snowy
2.A. know B. expect C. find D. wish
3.A. died B. lived C. improved D. lost
4.A. read B. borrowed C. found D. written
5.A. across from B. in front of C. next to D. behind
6.A. happy B. lucky C. clear D. right
7.A. voice B. health C. sound D. words
8.A. happiness B. care C. interest D. fear
9.A. better B. worse C. harder D. easier
10.A. wonder B. guess C. know D. understand
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Chinese students face huge pressure. There is the pressure to be better than _ _, or there is the shame of being different. Students must spend a lot of time _ _ hard in order to not be left behind.
_ is not the only way to make students succeed. Educational expert Li Zhenxi said: “It’s better to encourage kids. We should not separate students _ low grades.”
Interest is the best teacher. Letting children do the things they’re _ _ in is a good way to encourage them.
Wei Nan, 31, is one of the best trailer(预告片) directors in China. His childhood was very different _ _ those of other children. He started learning to _ _ when he was only 6. After 10 years of playing different roles, he felt _ _ of being an actor. He _ to do something he really wanted to. He spent five years learning editing(剪辑) and gradually became _ _ in this area. In 2005, he started his own company and produced trailers for famous movies.
Wei never went to a university, but nobody can deny(否认) that he is a successful young man. “I’m lucky to be able to do something I like,” he said.
1.A. the other B. other C. others D. the others
2.A. study B. to study C. studying D. studies
3.A. Competition B. Cooperation C. Comparation D. Communication
4.A. on B. in C. to D. with
5.A. worried B. interested C. supposed D. serious
6.A. as B. with C. from D. to
7.A. sing B. dance C. act D. paint
8.A. tired B. scared C. happy D. pleased
9.A. invited B. guided C. decided D. realized
10.A. strong B. famous C. healthy D. glad
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完形填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意, 然后从下面四个答案中选择可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。
There was once a young man who liked puppets (木偶) so much that he was apprenticed (当学徒) to a master puppet-maker. Sadly, the young man was not very clever, and his _________ and other apprentices were always telling him that he had no ability when it came to making puppets, and that he would not _________ .
Even so, he enjoyed it so much that he worked day after day to improve. Though he put all his effort into it, they would always find something _________ with the puppets he had made, and they ended up driving him out of the workshop.
He wasn’t going to give up, so the young man decided that from then on he would spend all his time making just one kind of puppet. And whenever he found a fault (瑕疵) in his puppet he would throw it away and _________ again right from the starting-point. Years passed, and with each _________ attempt (尝试) his puppet became a little bit better. By now, his puppet was much better than anything his old apprentices could make, but he _________ making improvements. Living like that, the man wasn’t making any money, and many people laughed at how _________ he was.
By the time he was an old man, his puppet was truly wonderful. Finally one day, after so many years of effort, he finished his puppet, and said, “I can’t find anything wrong with it. This time it
is _________ .” And for the first time in all those years, instead of _________ his puppet, he put it on the shelf, feeling truly satisfied and happy. The puppet gave that old man more _________ than any other famous puppet-makers ever got from their creations.
1.A. father B. teacher C. classmate D. friend
2.A. miss B. forget C. succeed D. listen
3.A. wrong B. interesting C. special D. unusual
4.A. stop B. start C. change D. appear
5.A. usual B. old C. easy D. new
6.A. finished B. avoided C. kept D. stopped
7.A. serious B. strict C. honest D. silly
8.A. modern B. perfect C. priceless D. expensive
9.A. hiding B. fixing C. covering D. throwing
10.A. confidence B. joy C. courage D. warmth
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相应空白处的最佳答案。 (本大题共10分，每小题1分)
Sometimes it is impossible to deliver（投递）all the mail that arrives at the post office. Perhaps there is an mailing address and there is no return address. The post office cannot just the mail, so it becomes “dead mail”. Dead mail is to one of the U.S. Post Service’s in Atlanta, New York, and San Francisco. Seventy-five million pieces of mail can be put in these offices in one year.
There the workers of the dead mail offices have 
ways to deal with all of these pieces of dead mail. First of all, they look for that can help them deliver the mail; they open packages, expecting that something will show where the package came from or is going to. Dead mail will also be listed on a so that people can call in and check to see if a missing thing is there on the screen. However, all of this mail cannot simply be forever; there is just too much of it. When a lot of dead mail comes together, the dead mail offices hold public auctions (拍卖). Every three months, some people who are are invited to the offices with objects found in dead mail packages and they are sold to the bidder (出价者).
1.A. impatient B. important C. unclear D. inactive
2.A. turn off B. eat up C. sell out D. throw away
3.A. sent B. returned C. lent D. sold
4.A. no B. various C. silly D. cruel
5.A. people B. time C. clues D. books
6.A. funny B. inside C. useless D. outside
7.A. phone B. mirror C. TV set D. computer
8.A. stored B. put C. bought D. borrowed
9.A. bored B. interested C. worried D. satisfied
10.A. cheapest B. cleverest C. highest D. easiest
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Is the art of conversation dying? The other day, my wife _______ two teenage children did something we haven't _______ for ages. It didn't require the Internet, a TV screen, batteries or anything else for that matter. But we all _______it so much we're thinking of doing it again sometime.
We had a conversation. The kind of real, live conversation that was _______ when I was growing up, but which seems all too rare these days. Today we have chat rooms, text messages, e-mails but we seem to be losing the _______ of communicating face-to-face. We all know_______young people are out on a date(约会)these days, they spend most of that time _______ their mobile phones. And teenagers nowadays seem to _______ communicating with their friends by sending text messages rather than actually _______to them.
If we carry on like this, in the future, we'll lose the use of our _______ . What do you think? E-mail me, and who knows? Maybe we could even have a real conversation about it!
1.A. and B.or C.but D.after
2.A. made B.known C.done D.seen
3.A. acted B.blamed C.decided D.enjoyed
4.A.common B.careful C.extra D.enough
5.A.name B.art C.attention D.aim
6.A. because B.how C.when D.unless
7.A. buying B.collccting C.repairing D.answering
8.A.dislike B.prefer C.admire D.believe
9.A.writing B.introducing C.speaking D.hurrying
10.A. eyes B.voiccs C.mouths D.hands
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There are many different ways of seeing a town for the first time. One of them is to walk around it, guide-book in hand. Of course, with our guide-books we may ________ the history and special developments of a town and get to know them. But then, if we take our time and stay in a town for a while, we may get to know it better. When we look at it as a whole, we begin to have some ________ which even the best guide-books do not answer. Why is the town just ________ this, this shape, this plan, this size? Why do its streets run in this particular （特别的）way, and not in any other way?
Here even the best guide-book ________ to tell us. One can’t find in it the information about how a town has developed to the ________ appearance. It may not describe the original （最初的）design of a town. However, one may get some idea of what it ________ to look like by walking around the town. One can also imagine ________ the town was first planned and built. Then one can learn more about in what direction the town ________ to develop.
What’s the point of studying towns in the way? For me, I’m sure one can get greater ________by visiting and seeing a town with one’s own eyes. A personal visit to a town may help one better understand why it is attractive ________ just reading about it in a guide-book.
1.A. write B. study C. tell D. remember
2.A. ideas B. opinions C. feelings D. questions
3.A. of B. for C. like D. as
4.A. fails B. helps C. wants D. prefers
5.A. old B. normal C. first D. present
6.A. used B. seemed C. had D. happened
7.A. what B. how C. when D. where
8.A. stops B. appears C. starts D. continues
9.A. success B. pleasure C. hope D. suffering
10.A. from B. through C. than D. with
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Mr. King was a strong man. He liked playing football and a lot of time on it when he studied in a medical college. Unfortunately, his left leg when he was playing football with his friends. He couldn’t play football any longer. He was for it, but he still liked watching the matches.
Now Mr. King works in a hospital. He is a good dentist and here are always patients in his office. He is always busy and has time to watch the matches. He has to watch them on TV at home in the evening. But the biggest football match in their city would at four one afternoon. Mr. King hoped to watch it, but the leader of the hospital didn’t agree to let him take the leave at working hours. “You can go out all the patients in your office leave,” he said.
It was three twenty when there were about ten patients in the waiting room. Mr. King was . He thought for a moment and then he had an idea. He said to the old woman who was lying on the chair, “Cry , madam! I’ll pull out all your bad teeth for free if you frighten away the other !”
1.A. took B. spent C. cost D. paid
2.A. was working B. didn’t work C. flew out D. was broken
3.A. glad B. sorry C. angry D. excited
4.A. little B. few C. many D. much
5.A. much B. lots of C. little D. many
6.A. start B. finish C. come D. go
7.A. unless B. until C. before D. after
8.A. worried B. free C. pleased D. quiet
9.A. happily B. quietly C. loudly D. angrily
10.A. doctors B. women C. patients D. nurses
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Mr. White with his wife was now living at a small Italian hotel. Last year they had stayed in Italy for months on holiday. One night he went out for a walk____It was late. The small street was dark and____Suddenly he heard steps behind him. He____his head and saw a middle-aged woman with wild hair, who quickly walked past him. The woman was____out of sight when Mr. White suddenly found that his watch was____He thought it was the passing woman who had taken his watch,____he ran quickly after her and soon caught up with her. As he knew____Italian, Mr. White had to ask the woman to____the watch in another way. He showed the woman his strong arms and pointed to her watch pocket. The woman thought a while and gave the watch to Mr. White.
Mr. White returned home and told his wife____had happened. He was greatly____when Mrs. White pointed to the watch on the table. Now he found it was he himself that had taken the Italian’s watch.
1.A. secretly B. lonely C. alone D. freely
2.A. noisy B. busy C. bright D. quiet
3.A. rose B. moved C. turned D. put
4.A. nearly B. hardly C. mostly D. even
5.A. losing B. going C. missing D. missed
6.A. and B. so C. as D. but
7.A. much B. no C. enough D. a little
8.A. lend B. tell C. return D. keep
9.A. what B. that C. why D. how
10.A. angry B. surprised C. interested D. pleased
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完形填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从下面四个答案中选择可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。
My mother used to say things just to make me . Like most teenagers, I thought I knew . And what I didn’t know, I didn’t want to . For example, if I said I was going to a movie, my mother would roll（转动）her eyes. On my way out, she’d shout: “You need to slow yourself down before something happens! You don’t want to learn that the hard way!” I didn’t know what that . I thought she just wanted me to stay home.
Many years later I had three teenagers my own. They thought they knew everything. I would say the same things to them my mom. That’s when I first saw it. My mother wasn’t trying to make me stay at home. She was trying to help me.
Why do we always have to learn things “the hard way”? Why can’t we just accept our wisdom? It’s a good lesson for anyone. Obviously(显然)，I still haven’t learned it. Yesterday, I stepped out of the shower when I heard my cell phone in the kitchen. Grabbing(抓) a towel, I ran the house. I grabbed the phone and hit my left foot against the table. The X-ray showed that I’d broken two toes.
We all need to slow ourselves down once in a while, before something bad does it for us. My mother was right about a lot of things. I wish I could have told her.
1.A. mad B. happy C. worried D. warm
2.A. nothing B. everything C. something D. anything
3.A. tell B. be told C. ask D. be asked
4.A. bad B. good C. well D. badly
5.A. mean B. means C. meant D. meaning
6.A. at B. in C. on D. of
7.A. like B. likes C. liked D. liking
8.A. elder B. elders C. elders’ D. elderly
9.A. ring B. rings C. rang D. ringing
10.A. over B. on C. through D. across
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Mr. White with his wife was now living at a small Italian hotel. Last year they had stayed in Italy for months on holiday. One night he went out for a walk ___________ . It was late. The small street was dark and___________ . Suddenly he heard steps behind him. He ___________ his head and saw a middle-aged woman with wild hair, who quickly walked past him. The woman was ___________ out of sight when Mr. White suddenly found that his watch was ___________ . He thought it was the passing woman who had taken his watch, ___________ he ran quickly after her and soon caught up with her. As he knew___________ Italian, Mr. White had to ask the woman to ___________ the watch in another way. He showed the woman his strong arms and pointed to her watch pocket. The woman thought a while and gave the watch to Mr. White.
Mr. White returned home and told his wife ___________ had happened. He was greatly ___________ when Mrs. White pointed to the watch on the table. Now he found it was he himself that had taken the Italian’s watch.
1.A. secretly B. lonely C. alone D. freely
2.A. noisy B. busy C. bright D. quiet
3.A. rose B. moved C. turned D. put
4.A. nearly B. hardly C. mostly D. even
5.A. losing B. going C. missing D. missed
6.A. and B. so C. as D. but
7.A. much B. no C. enough D. a little
8.A. lend B. tell C. return D. keep
9.A. what B. that C. why D. how
10.A. angry B. surprised C. interested D. pleased
He was Matthew. ______ he was born, the doctor told his parents that he would not live to see five, then they were told he would not make it to______. Now he was thirteen. He wanted to meet me because I was a gold-medal weight lifter.
There are many different ways of seeing a town for the first time. One of them is to walk around it, guide-book in hand. Of course, with our guide-books we may ________