On the first day of school, all the excited students walked into the room expecting to start: everyone but David.
He had had a hard summer. His father was in jail (监狱). His mother had to work nights, so she wasn't at home in the evening and was sleeping when he woke up.
As the weeks went on, David slowly gave up doing his homework and staying on task, and began to get into more troubles out on the playground. He was going downhill quickly. It was clear that he was looking for any kind of attention—even if it was negative. I also knew that he was not getting much support at home. If David was going to pass the fifth grade, I need to come up with a plan.
One day, David and I sat in the library and just talked. I told him that I knew that he was not an “F” student and that I was not going to let him fail. It was my job to teach him, but his job was to try. We talked about home and what he did after school. He knew what I expected him to do and that I respected him as a person. As a result, his behavior in my room improved. From then on David and I periodically sat in the library and just talked. He told me that his goal was to pass the fifth grade and not be suspended (停学). Finally, the last day of school arrived. David had met his goal.
During Teacher Appreciation (感谢) Week, the students had written about any teacher they wanted. In my booklet, on a wrinkled piece of paper, it reads. “You never give up on me and focus on the silver lining because you know I am smart. And for that I not only appreciate you, but admire you”, signed David. After reading that, I sat down with tears rolling down my face. We, as teachers, never know when or how we affect our students. But it's the note like this that makes all we do worthwhile.
【小题1】According to the passage, we know the writer is_____________.A.talented | B.brainless | C.patient | D.selfish |
A.Because his father was put into prison. |
B.Because he was disappointed to the society. |
C.Because he was laughed at by classmates. |
D.Because he wanted to attract attention. |
A.Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award. —William Prince |
B.Teach the children so that it will not be necessary to teach the adults.—Abraham Lincoln |
C.What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.—Karl Menninger |
D.The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.—Plutarch |
An 114 kilograms mother, Cacia Griggs, was ashamed into losing weight after crushing her daughter, four-year-old Isabelle 's bed while reading her a bedtime story.
Just one year later she has lost 50 kilograms, dropped to a size 10, and even was employed by her dream company.
One night, having asked her 29-year-old husband to carry Isabelle up to bed because she couldn't fit through the stair gate, Cacia followed them upstairs and lay down on the edge of the bed with her daughter to read her a story.
“I heard a loud snap(噼啪声),” she said. “I’d broken the entire side beam of her bed because I was overweight. I was upset.”
On her first family holiday with Chris and Isabelle in Turkey last year, Cacia had a similar moment when she couldn't fit the plane seatbelt around her.
Cacia began the Cambridge Weight Plan in June 2011, changing her high-calorie diet into soups, shakes and bars. In August this year, Cacia reached her goal weight and dropped from a size 24 to a size 10.
“My weight began to drop off,” she said. “In no time at all I was wearing smaller clothes and was over the moon the first time I brought a size 16, I couldn't believe it fitted.”
Cacia says the best thing about losing the weight is being able to lie with her daughter again on her bed instead of sitting on the floor next to her.
【小题1】Why did Cacia determine to lose weight?A.She couldn’t read the stories for her daughter. |
B.She crushed her daughter’s bed. |
C.She couldn’t fit the plane seatbelt around her. |
D.She couldn’t fit through the stair gate. |
A.pleased | B.unbelievable | C.curious | D.unhappy |
A.by doing some exercise | B.by going on a diet |
C.by having a balanced diet | D.by taking some drugs |
A.A mother’s Love | B.A crashed bed |
C.A way to lose weight | D.A heathy diet |
Things can go wrong on a number of people on the road. During the rush hour one evening two cars hit each other and both drivers began to argue. The woman driver behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly go into a panic (恐慌) and stopped her car. This made the driver following her stop suddenly. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the window and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a truck-driver had to stop his truck all of a sudden. The truck was carrying empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the truck on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up(排成长龙) behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meanwhile, the truck-driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two dogs were enjoying themselves from the accident, for they were happily having what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days!
【小题1】According to the author’s opinion, ____.
A.troubles always come in groups |
B.accidents may happen anytime |
C.a small matter may cause great trouble |
D.anyone may have trouble any day |
A.you should never go to answer it in a hurry |
B.your trouble is sure to come |
C.you’d better just let it ring all the way |
D.you’d better have your baby a little distant from your table before answering it |
A.They helped the driver clean up the road. |
B.They tried to stop the people from arguing. |
C.They helped the drivers to go on with their journey. |
D.They would find out who should be responsible |
My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college an the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.
Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic---and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No. 3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.
You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 81. Our home was a complete zoo---a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant talking as few as one class each semester.
The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit, But I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.
In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree!
I am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you’re looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you’re in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won’t arrive in your life on one day. It’s a process. Remember;little steps add up to big dreams.
【小题1】When the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be____.
A.a writer |
B.a teacher |
C.a judge |
D.a doctor |
A.She wanted to study by herself. |
B.She fell in love and got married. |
C.She suffered from a serious illness. |
D.She decided to look after her grandma. |
A.She was busy yet happy with her family life. |
B.She ignored her guilty feeling for her sons. |
C.She wanted to remain a full-time housewife. |
D.She was too confused to make a correct choice. |
A.Failure is the mother of success. |
B.Little by little, one goes far. |
C.Every coin has two sides. |
D.Well begun, half done. |
A.Caring and determined. |
B.Honest and responsible. |
C.Ambitious and sensitive. |
D.Innocent and single-minded. |
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