Try It a Different Way

Bobby Moresco grew up in New York's Hell's Kitchen, a tough working－class neighborhood on Manhattan's West Side. By tradition he __1__ have been, like his father or like most of his childhood pals, a construction worker or a policeman. But he wanted __2__. Attracted by the bright lights from the time Bobby was a teen, he tried to act. “I wasn't a __3__ actor,  but I had a driving need to do something __4__ with my life，” he says.

He moved to Hollywood, promising to find his __5__. But he didn't make __6__. For almost 10 years, he drove a taxi and worked as a waiter, __7__ at an actors' workshop that he opened in Hollywood. But Moresco kept working at his __8__ career.

In 1983 his younger brother was murdered in a mob－linked killing. Moresco moved back to his __9__ neighborhood. In 1988 he finally wrote a play that was __10__ to his life. Called Half－Deserted Streets, it was based on his brother's __11__ and staged at a small theater. A Hollywood producer __12__ to see it and asked him to work on a screenplay.

His __13__ grew, and he got enough assignments to move back to Hollywood. However, it was never easy. By 2003, he was __14__ out of work and out of cash __15__ he got a call from Paul Haggis, a director who had befriended him. The two worked on the script but every studio __16__  it down. Moresco believed so __17__ in the script that he borrowed money, and sold his house. At last the writers found an independent film producer who would take a chance.

The movie, Crash, __18__ into the theaters in May 2005, and quietly became both a hit and a critical success. It won three Academy Awards—Best Picture, Best Film Editing and Best Writing.

At the age of 54, Bobby Moresco became an __19__ success. “If you have something you want to do in life, don't think about the problems，” he says, “think about the __20__ to get it done. ”

1. A. must            B. should               C. can          D. need

2. A. over             B. far                    C. out                 D. up

3. A. simple       B. strict          C. firm      D. good

4. A. different     B. impressive      C. effective   D. special

5. A. occasion     B. treasure        C. fortune    D. possibility

6. A. it           B. one           C. this       D. that

7. A. communicating          B. entertaining

C. practicing               D. volunteering

8. A. afforded     B. chosen        C. respected   D. offered

9. A. early        B. worn          C. old       D. passed

10. A. turned     B. pointed         C. belonged  D. related

11. A. arresting    B. injuring        C. killing    D. shooting

12. A. advised    B. happened       C. intended  D. planned

13. A. influence  B. ambition         C. success  D. reputation

14. A. again     B. even           C. finally     D. still

15. A. before    B. when          C. since       D. while

16. A. let       B. looked         C. took       D. turned

17. A. strongly   B. hardly         C. deeply      D. bravely

18. A. moved    B. slipped        C. fell        D. put

19. A. effortless        B. enjoyable

C. overnight        D. optimistic

20. A. ways      B. lines    C. manners        D. actions

Psychologists tell us that there are four basic stages that human beings pass through when they enter and live in a new culture. This process, which helps us to deal with culture shock, is the way our brain and our personality react to the strange new things we encounter when we move from one culture to another.

Culture begins with the “honeymoon stage”. __1__ We are thrilled to be in the new environment, seeing new sights, hearing new sounds and language, eating new kinds of food. __2__

__3__ After we have settled down into our new life, we can become very tired and begin to miss our homeland and our family, friends, pets. All the little problems in life seem to be much bigger and more disturbing when you face them in a foreign culture. This period of cultural adjustment can be very difficult and lead to the new arrival rejecting or pulling away from the new culture.

The third stage is called the “adjustment stage”. __4__ Your sense of humour usually  becomes stronger and you realize that you are becoming stronger by learning to take care of yourself in the new place. Things are still difficult, but you are now a survivor!

The fourth stage can be called “at ease at last”. Now you feel quite comfortable in your new surroundings. __5__ You may still have problems with the language, but you know you are strong enough to deal with them.

A. You can cope with most problems that occur.

B. This is when you begin to realize that things are not so bad in the host culture.

C. It is extremely difficult to get through the first stage of culture.

D. You may feel sad, anxious, frustrated, and want to go home.

E. Unfortunately, the second stage can be more difficult.

F. This stage can last for quite a long time because we feel we are involved in some kind of great adventure.

G．This is the period of time when we first arrive in which everything about the new culture is strange and exciting.

1. ________　2. ________　3. ________　4. ________

5. ________

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　　May I have you attention please? I have a few things to tell you. When you have an class here in the language lab, please be here a little early. Change your shoes before enter the lab. Don't bring anything here except your text books. When you are into, please don't touch these machine without permission. Always do as the teacher tell you to. In class you should only speak the English, not Chinese. Recorders can be used make a copy of the listening materials. When class over, turn off your machines and leave the lab one by one.

The stereotype (固有觀念) of computer scientists as nerds who stay up all night coding and have no social life may be driving women away from the field, according to a new study published this month. This stereotype can be brought to mind based only on the appearance of the environment in a classroom or an office.

“When people think of computer science the image that immediately pops into many of their minds is about the computer geek(怪人) surrounded by such things as computer games, science fiction and junk food，” said Sapna Cheryan, a university of Washington assistant professor of psychology and the study's lead author. “That stereotype doesn't appeal to many women who don't like the portrait of masculinity(男性化)．”

Cheryan set up four experiments involving more than 250 female and male students who were not studying computer science to look at possible reasons why the proportion of women in the field is dropping while the proportion of women in such disciplines as biology, mathematics and chemistry is increasing.

In the first experiment, students entered a small classroom that either contained objects stereotypically associated with computer science such as Star Trek posters, video game boxes and Coke cans, or non－stereotypical items such as nature posters, art, a dictionary and coffee cups. The students were told to ignore these objects because the room was being shared with another class. After spending several moments in the classroom, the students filled out questionnaires(調查問卷) that asked about their attitude toward computer science.

Women exposed to the stereotypical setup expressed less interest in computer science than those who saw the non－stereotypical objects. Men placed in the same situations did not show a similar drop in interest in computer science. Cheryan said this study suggests that a student's choice of classes or a major can be influenced by the appearance of classrooms, halls and offices.

6. The underlined word “nerds” in Paragraph 1 probably refers to “________”．

A. dull persons  B. active persons

C. intelligent persons  D. funny persons

7. Women are less likely to choose computer science because ________.

A. it is too difficult for them

B. they have wrong understanding of it

C. the lifestyle of computer scientists turns them away

D. they don't like the social life of computer scientists

8. A woman would probably lose interest in computer science when she sees a ________.

A. Star Trek poster               B. nature poster

C. dictionary                   D. coffee cup

9. What can influence a woman's choice of classes, according to the passage?

A. The contents of computer science.

B. The space in the classroom.

C. The number of students in the classroom.

D. The classroom environment.

10. According to the experiment, women are more likely to choose computer science if ________.

A. it is made more lively and interesting

B. they are exposed to the stereotypical setup

C. they see the non－stereotypical objects in the classroom

D. they are allowed to learn it without men

 “Hey, Dad，” one of my kids asked the other day, “what was your favourite fast food when you were growing up？”

“We didn't have fast food when I was growing up，” I informed him. “All the food was slow.”

“Come on, seriously. Where did you eat？”

“It was a place called ‘home’” I explained.“Grandma cooked every day and when Grandpa got home from work, we sat down together at the dining table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I liked it.”

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table. But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it：

I was 13 before I tasted my first pizza. It was called “pizza pie”. When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, and plastered itself against my chin. It's still the best pizza I ever had.

Pizzas were not delivered to our home. But milk was. Bread and rolls came from the Omar man. All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers. I delivered a newspaper, six days a week even when the snow was 18 inches deep. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which I got to keep 2 cents, I had to get up at 4：00 a．m. every morning. On Saturdays, I had to collect the 42 cents from my customers.

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren. Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

1. Hearing what the author said, his child probably thought ________.

A. he was lucky to have fast food

B. it was unbelievable to live without fast food

C. how happy his own life was

D. his father was joking with him

2. When he used to have meals with the adults, the author ________.

A. had to watch his table manners

B. could choose what he liked

C. was not given much freedom

D. had to eat everything offered to him

3. What do we know about the first pizza the author had?

A. It left a good memory on him.

B. The author didn't like it at all.

C. It was too poorly made.

D. He didn't know how to eat it.

4. Why did the author talk about his experience of delivering newspapers?

A. To show that his family used to be quite poor.

B. To show that children before had to make a living by themselves.

C. To show that he had gained a lot from the experience.

D. To show that growing experience was quite different before.

5. What's the author's attitude towards today's children?

A. He thinks they are spoiled.

B. He thinks they are too obsessed with fast food.

C. He thinks they should go through some hardship.

D. He doesn't give his personal opinion.

For twenty years, he had taught this class and no one had ever had the courage to go against him. Sure, some had __1__ in class at times, but no one had __2__ “really gone against him” (you'll see what I mean later). Nobody would go against him __3__ he had a reputation.

Finally the day came. The professor said, “If there is anyone here who still __4__ God, stand up！” The professor and the class of 300 people looked at him, __5__， as he stood up at the back of the classroom. The professor __6__， “You fool�。� If God __7__， he could keep this piece of chalk from __8__ when it hit the ground！”

He proceeded(向前) to __9__ the chalk, but as he did, it slipped out of his fingers, off his shirt cuff (袖口), onto the pleats(皺折) of his trousers, __10__ his leg, and off his shoe. As it hit the ground, it __11__ rolled away, unbroken. The professor's jaw dropped as he __12__  the chalk. He looked up at the young man and __13__ ran out of the lecture hall.

The young man who had stood up proceeded to walk to the front of the room and share his __14__ in Jesus for the next half hour. 300 students __15__ and listened as he told of God's love for them and of his __16__ through Jesus.

“Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the __17__ to become children of God—children born not of __18__ descent(后代), nor of human decision or a husband's __19__， but born of God.”

“But he knows the way that I take. __20__ he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.”

1. A. agreed       B. praised      C. argued     D. talked

2. A. ever         B. even        C. already    D. willingly

3. A. so          B. and          C. but        D. because

4. A. relies on     B. believes in    C. cares for  D. thinks of

5. A. disappointed  B. excited      C. shocked   D. satisfied

6. A. shouted    B. disagreed  C. murmured     D. whispered

7. A. appeared    B. knew    C. existed       D. came

8. A. rolling     B. breaking  C. standing      D. moving

9. A. drop       B. fetch     C. throw       D. cut

10. A. up       B. down     C. on          D. above

11. A. simply   B. quickly     C. luckily      D. quietly

12. A. searched for        B. found out

C. watched over       D. stared at

13. A. therefore  B. yet       C. then        D. so

14. A. thought   B. bravery    C. opinion     D. faith

15. A. left      B. sat        C. stayed     D. smiled

16. A. trust     B. belief     C. mind       D. power

17. A. right    B. family     C. time       D. way

18. A. human  B. natural     C. mother's    D. social

19. A. will    B. promise     C. regret     D. desire

20. A. Where  B. Immediately  C. When     D. Unless

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2010年10月1號我國“嫦娥二號”順利升空，假設你是李華，你班為此舉行了一次班會 ，班會的主題是：我國太空探險的意義。請結合下表內容，給校報用英語寫一篇文章，客觀地介紹討論的情況并表達你自己的觀點。

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Outer Space Explorations, YES or NO?

We had an argument over whether it was necessary to carry out outer space explorations at a class meeting the other day.

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　　Everyone knows that the Frenchmen are romantic, the Italians are fashionable and the Germans are serious. Are these just stereotypes or is there really such a thing as national character? And if there is, can it affect how a nation succeed or fail?

At least one group of people is certain that it can. A recent survey of the top 500 entrepreneurs (企業(yè)家) in the UK found that 70% felt that their efforts were not appreciated by the British public. Britain is hostile (敵意的) to success, they said. It has a culture of jealousy(嫉妒)．__1__ Jealousy is sometimes known as the “green－eyed monster” and the UK is its home.

Scientists at Warwich University in the UK recently tested this idea. They gathered a group of people together and gave each an imaginary amount of money.__2__ Those given a little were given the chance to destroy the large amount of money given to others— but at the cost of losing their own. Two thirds of the people tested agreed to do this.

__3__. But there is also opposite evidence. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development recently reported that the UK is now the world's fourth largest economy. That is not bad for people who are supposed to hate success. People in the UK also work longer hours than anyone else in Europe. So the British people are not lazy, either.

“It is not really success that the British dislike，” says Carey Cooper, a professor of management at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. “It's people using their success in a way that seems proud or unfair or which separates them from their roots.”

__4__ They set out to do things in their way. They work long hours. By their own efforts they become millionaires.__5__ It hardly seems worth following their example. If they were more friendly, people would like them more. And more people want to be like them.

A. This seems to prove that the entrepreneurs were right to complain.

B. The one who owns most money in the end is the winner.

C. As a result, the survey said, entrepreneurs were “unloved, unwanted and misunderstood.”

D. It is not true that British people are born jealous of others` success.

E. Some were given a little, others a great deal.

F. But instead of being happy they complain that nobody loves them.

G. Perhaps it is the entrepreneurs who are the problem.

1. ________　2. ________　3. ________　4. ________

5. ________

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     　　I visited my aunt in the countryside near the city last week. I was surprising to see that great changes had been taken place in the countryside. Take my aunt's family for example. We supply precious trees and flowers to the stores in the city and have ten workers working for themselves.Their family's income reached much 100,000 yuan last year. Not only did they have a house，a car and computers, they can also afford a trip abroad every year. When asking what else they needed most, they said that they wanted to learn a few English so that they could do business with foreigners directly. To their delighted, my cousin can use that he has learned from university to help them with overseas trade.

The route from north to south is a general picture of Norwegian nature: thundering waterfalls, rushing mountain streams and roads that run along glaciers, after having gone through thick pine forests and coastal lakes and fiords(峽灣)．

The inner part of the country is very rugged and almost one third of it is covered with trees. Despite its northern latitude, the Norwegian weather is in fact maritime(海洋性的) and damp, because it is affected by the mitigating (調節(jié))action of the warm Gulf Stream, coming from the Gulf of Mexico, which flows up the coast preventing the formation of sea ice.

Bergen, a port lying in the southeast of the country, is crowded with brightly colored houses, which belonged to German traders of the powerful Hanseatic League. Despite several fires, the area keeps the atmosphere of the “old port” and Commercial City from the Middle Ages. UNESCO (聯(lián)合國教科文組織) recently declared it a World Heritage Site and included it in the list of monuments that are to be preserved.

There is a large park in the center of Bergen which is taken up almost completely by a large lake, around which, lie some of the main museums in the city.

The Hakonshallen, the most beautiful monument in the city, lies within the walls of Bergen's fortress. The great 13th century Gothic hall was built for the parties and the receptions in the days of the city's control over trade in the North Sea.

You get the best view over Bergen, the fiords and the surrounding pine－covered mountains from the belvedere(觀景臺). It's easy to admire Norwegians for their unique(獨特的) way of respecting the nature!

From north to south, from Lapland to Oslo and Bergen, Norwegian people has proved, with time, that human beings, as the most advanced yet most vulnerable (脆弱的) in the great family of nature, can live in harmony (和諧) with all its other members.

6. The purpose of the passage is to ________.

A. introduce the whole natural scenery of Norway

B. show people the fact that human beings can live in harmony with nature through respecting nature

C. tell people Norway's natural environment is so beautiful and attracts more tourists

D. inform people that Bergen has been declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO

7. In Norwegian winter, there is no sea ice because ________.

A. Norway lies in Northern Europe with high latitude

B. one third of Norway is covered with thick pine trees

C. the Gulf Stream from the Gulf of Mexico keeps the Norwegian coast warm all year round

D. the weather depends upon the mountainous areas in Norway

8. The underlined word “it” in the second paragraph refers to ________.

A. the warm Gulf stream  B. the Norwegian weather

C. the northern latitude  D. the Gulf of Mexico

9. Which of the following statements about Bergen is NOT true?

A. Bergen is a port with a large park in its center.

B. The Hakonshallen, the most beautiful monument in Bergen was once controlled by German merchants in the 13th century.

C. The Hakonshallen was meant for the commercial needs at that time.

D. UNESCO has decided to preserve Bergen because of its real atmosphere of the “old port” and Commercial City from the Middle Ages.

10. It can be inferred from this passage that ________.

A. Norway is a neighbor of Mexico

B. Germans play an important part in the Norwegian economy

C. the south of Norway is covered with thick forest

D. the Hanseatic League is a commercial organization