1、Sui Yunjiang. He came to my city with a series of conferences and was to stayfor a fortnight. I was asked to be his interpreter and had to accompany him andhis wife during all that time, as well as Viktor who was the organizer and thehost. According to the Chinese tradition, wecalled Sui Yunjiang ma
2、ster Sui shifu or Sui laoshi. His personality impressedme deeply. Maybe it was a fate(yuanfen), or something other, but it was not the first time I heard hisname, since he used to come to my town every two years, mostly in August.However, I never saw him in person, nor did the translation for him. I
3、lacked knowledge in wushu, but the master was very patient trying toexplain to me every single word that I couldnt comprehend. He was already inhis sixties at that time, but, giving credit to his sharp mind, he could find away with the youngest disciples(门徒) as well as the older ones. The two weeks
4、that I had spent withthat amazing family inspired me and I continued my kungfu practices inBeijing. During all these three years now that I haveknown him since our first meeting, he never stopped surprising me with hisstrong, yet sensitive personality. Our lessons go far beyond simply learning kungf
5、utechnics. His teaching is more about life, about enjoying every singlemoment of it because it will not happen twice, about training our will andovercoming difficulties, about harmonious existence, and building relationshipswith other people. After every kungfu lesson, we are welcome into hishouse t
6、o drink tea. This is another lesson being taught the mastery of chadao,or tea ceremony.Miracles are everywhere. For me, a miracleis meeting Sui Yunjiang. I love being a journalist, interviewing and writingabout people from different paths of life, but Sui laoshi is the only personwho made such a str
7、ong impression on me.How did the writer meet Sui Yunjiang?A、By being asked to be his interpreter.B、By travelling in China.C、By interviewing Chinese kungfu masters.D、By discussing how to drink tea.The underlined phrase in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _.A、privatelyB、mentallyC、personallyD、physi
8、callyWhich of the following best describes Sui Yunjiang?A、Talented and productive.B、Serious and boring.C、Famous and unhappy.D、Patient and friendly.From the last paragraph we can learn that_.A、miracles are everywhereB、meeting Sui Yunjiang is unforgettableC、being a journalist is the writers dreamD、the
9、 writer loves writing stories about lifeWhich of the following is the best title of this passage?A、Meeting the MasterB、Being a JournalistC、An Unforgettable ExperienceD、Chinese Kungfu Masters 第3题【阅读理解】阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。I wasnt surprised when I read that actress Helen Hunt recently st
10、ated that she would never allow her young daughter to become a child star. Ms. Hunt is the daughter of a Hollywood technical director, and grew up in Hollywood. Now in her late 40s, she started acting and modeling when she was eight and has probably seen a lot over those years in show business.She h
11、as had a successful career. She earned four Golden Globes and four Emmys. She also attained the top honor of her profession when she won the Best Actress Academy Award for her role in the 1992 movie, As Good As It Gets. Given those accolades, Ms. Hunt is successful. There is no doubt that her early
12、experiences as a child star prepared her for what has been an outstanding adult career. Given those achievements, why would this star declare shell never allow her daughter, now at the age of six, to follow in her footsteps?Everyone familiar with the entertainment scene is aware of the reasons for h
13、er attitude. Recent tabloid (小报) news headlines featuring the troubles of former child stars, among them Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and the late Gary Coleman, may answer the question. Although Ms. Hunt managed to become a successful grown-up star, she apparently believes shes an exception.What Ms
14、. Hunt may be suggesting is that many very young stars go through unnatural childhoods on movie and TV sets. While theyre earning big incomes, theyre so pampered (纵容) by directors and praised by fans; they may get false impressions that their lives will always be that way. Then, within a few years,
15、when faced with reality, theyre hurt and confused. After all the overwhelming affection, they find they cant deal with the problems. Thats often when drugs and alcohol take over their lives.Helen Hunt has some other reasons why she doesnt want her daughter to be in the entertainment business. Many c
16、hild stars can never make a successful transition to meaningful adulthood. However, as with many Hollywood movies, I believe there are both good and bad scenes about how it can be played out in real life.According to the passage, Ms. Hunt _.A、started acting and modeling when she was a little girlB、h
17、as been acting for about 40 yearsC、is the daughter of a famous actorD、started singing when she was eightThe underlined word “accolades” in Paragraph 2 probably means “_”.A、difficultiesB、awardsC、salariesD、opinionsThe author thinks Helen Hunts success is mainly due to _.A、her hard workB、the help of a
18、technical directorC、her experiences as a child starD、her talent and good luckFrom the passage we can conclude that _.A、few child stars will succeed in the futureB、there is no way to save the entertainment businessC、the author has a different opinion about child starsD、meaningful adulthood only belon
19、gs to non-child stars 第4题【阅读理解】Students perform better when their instructors use hand gesturesa simple teaching tool that could generate benefits in higherlevel math such as algebra(代数)A study published in Child Development,the topranked educational psychology journal,provides some of the strongest
20、 evidence yet that gesturing may have a unique effect on learning.Teachers in the United States tend to use gestures less than teachers in other countries.Gesturing can be a very beneficial tool that is completely free and easily employed in classrooms, said Kimberly Fenn,study coauthor and assistan
21、t professor of psychology at Michigan State University.And I think it can have longlasting effects.Fenn and Ryan Duffy of MSU and Susan Cook of the University of Iowa conducted an experiment with 184 second,third and fourthgraders in Michigan elementary classrooms.Half of the students were shown vid
22、eos of an instructor teaching math problems using only speech.The others were shown videos of the instructor teaching the same problems using both speech and gestures.In the speechonly videos,the instructor simply explains the problem.In the other videos,the instructor uses two hand gestures while s
23、peaking,using different hands to refer to the two sides of the equation.Students who learned from the gesture videos performed better on a test given immediately afterward than those who learned from the speechonly video.Another test was given 24 hours later,and the gesture students actually showed
24、improvement in their performance while the speechonly students did not.While previous research has shown the benefits of gestures in a oneonone tutoringstyle environment,the new study is the first to test the role of gestures in equivalence learning in a regular classroom.The study also is the first
25、 to show that gestures can help students transfer learning to new contextssuch as transferring the knowledge learned in an additionbased equation to a multiplicationbased equation.Fenn noted that U.S.students lag behind those in many other Western countries in math and have a particularly hard time
26、mastering equivalence problems in early grades.So if we can help them grasp this foundational knowledge earlier, she said,it will help them as they learn algebra and higher levels of mathematics.Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?A、How to Learn Higherlevel Math WellB、Simple
27、 Teaching Tools Used in Math LearningC、Teachers Gestures Boost Math LearningD、Why U.S. Students Cant Learn Math WellResearchers explain their opinion in the educational psychology journal by _A、setting down general rulesB、using a great many examplesC、making questionnaire surveyD、presenting research
28、findingsWhat do you know about the experiment conducted by Kimberly Fenn?A、The experiment was done with 184 students of the same age in elementary classrooms.B、The students were divided into two groups and got different teaching methods.C、Researchers drew the conclusion based on the only one test th
29、ey did in the experiment.D、Researchers had not done any research on the benefits of gestures before this one.无 第5题【翻译】这段放松的音乐很快就使我放松下来。The relaxing music soon put me _ _. 第6题【选词填空(词汇运用)】用means,way,method或approach填空。This book provides a good _ to the learning of foreign languages.Smith invented a new
30、 teaching _.Students sometimes support themselves by _ of evening jobs.In this _ over several days, the artist and his mice became good friends. 第7题【选词填空(词汇运用)】用likely, probable,或possible填空。It is _ that a war will break out in the country.It is _ that she often makes big mistakes because she is very careless.
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