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After four silent years, the 27-year-old British singer Adele Adkins has finally introduced herself to the world again with Hello, the opening song from her third album 25, which will come out on Nov. 20.

Although Adele is a very successful singer now, music wasn’t always what she saw herself doing. At age 10, when she saw her grandmother’s pain over the death of Adele’s grandfather, she pictured herself as a heart surgeon.

"I wanted to fix people’s hearts," she told the UK music website i-D, remembering the childhood interest she’d had in biology classes until she found out that her real talent was for singing.

Adele didn’t go to medical school, but many would agree that she still has healing(治愈) powers. "Her songs find the kind of memory every listener holds somewhere in their heart. This kind of feeling is what people have always liked in Adele," said The Telegraph. "She writes a pop diary, sharing the simple secrets of her heart."

Most successful pop stars make albums at a fast pace, but not Adele. After her second album 21 won the 2012 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, she made it clear with her label that she would spend "four or five years" making her next album. She told Vogue magazine, "I won’t come out with new music until it’s better than 21."

Instead of seeking fame, Adele remained silent and moved to the countryside. In her free time, she loved to watch TV series Teen Mom, American Horror Story, and The Walking Dead.

Living life as normally as possible is important to the singer’s art. "Nobody wants to listen to a record from someone who’s not living in the real world," Adele told i-D." So I live a low-key life for my fans."

【小题1】What does the text mainly tell us?
A.The popularity of Adele’s album 25.
B.The healing powers of Adele’s music.
C.The secrets of Adele’s success in music.
D.The reason for Adele’s becoming a singer.
【小题2】What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A.Adele wasn’t interested in music.
B.Adele wasn’t good at music at first.
C.Music wasn’t very important in Adele’s life.
D.Music wasn’t all Adele wanted to be devoted to.
【小题3】Why doesn’t Adele want to make albums at a fast pace?
A.To live a low-key life.
B.To win the Grammy Award.
C.To guarantee the quality of her music.
D.To share the secrets of her heart as a musician.
【小题4】What can we know about Adele?
A.Her album Hello will come out on Nov. 20.
B.She has kept a diary since childhood.
C.She moved to the countryside before 2012.
D.Her works are based on real life.
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Alexis, 17, sat quietly in the passenger seat of her dad’s car. She let her eyes lazily scan, the landscape for wildlife. Then a deer came into view about 200 yards in front of them. “Dad, there’s a deer there!” Alexis said. It was a male deer with sharp sntlers() on each side of its head.

As the car moved closer, Alexis saw that the deer’s head was bent toward the ground. Then she heard a scream and saw an arm fly up near the deer’s head. Alexis realized the deer was attacking a woman. Sue, a 44-year-old mother, had been out for her morning run. The deer followed her and edged closer. “I knew I was in trouble,” Sue says. She went to pick up a stick for self-defense, and the deer charged. It lifted her with its antlers and threw her into the air. Sue could feel blood flew down her leg. Within seconds, the deer had pushed her off the road.

When Alexis and her father pulled up, the deer was throwing Sue like a doll. Alexis looked into the woman’s terrified eyes, and before her father had even stopped the car, the teenager jumped quickly out of the car and ran toward the deer. “I was kicking it to get its attention,” she says. Then her father, who had followed his daughter, pushed the deer away from the women.

Alexis helped Sue into the car, and then applied a piece of cloth to Sue’s injured leg. “We’re going to get you to a hospital,” Alexis said. Then she heard her father shout loudly. He had been knocked to the ground. Alexis took hold of a hammer from the car and ran to where her father lay on his back. She beat the deer’s head and neck, but the blows didn’t scare it away. “I was losing faith,” she says. “A couple more strikes, Alexis,” said her father. “You can do it.” Turning the hammer around, Alexis closed her eyes and beat the deer’s neck with all her strength. When she opened her eyes, the deer was running away. Alexis got in the driver’s seat and sped toward the nearest hospital.

After Sue was treated, she tearfully thanked her rescuers. “You expect a teenage girl to get on the phone and call for help,” she says, “not to beat up a deer.”

【小题1】What was Sue doing when she was attacked by the deer?
A.She was driving home.B.She was resting on the road.
C.She was taking exercise.D.She was feeding wild animals.
【小题2】The underlined word “edged” in paragraph 2 probably means _________.
A.changedB.cut
C.attackedD.moved
【小题3】What did Alexis do to save Sue?
A.She pushed the deer away.B.She hit the deer with her feet.
C.She drove the car to hit the deer.D.She beat the deer with a hammer.
【小题4】Which of the following words can best describe Alexis?
A.Strong.B.Cruel.
C.Energetic.D.Brave.

I keep remembering odd things: the way she loved daffodils, jokes she told at the dinner table, the look in her eyes when she talked about my future. I knew about college before I’d never heard of high school was Mom’s second chance at the degree she never had.

Her parents pushed her too much, too hard, and she always wished she hadn’t let the pressure defeat her. She dropped out of college after one term for marriage and a secretarial job. While she never regretted marrying my father, she always regretted giving up her dream of becoming an accountant. She was determined her eldest daughter would never miss an opportunity.

One of the most extremely special times of my life was Christmas in my second school year, when I played Tiny Tim in a local community theater production of “A Christmas Carol.” Mom delighted in my endless rehearsal stories and spent hours helping me work out ways of disguising my long hair. There’s a line in the show: “And it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.” Change the pronouns and that sentence describes Mom perfectly.

She was the one person I could talk to about anything. She was right about so much, so often—much more than I gave her credit for at the time.

I never imagined she wouldn’t be here now. I never thought cancer could strike so quickly, could kill someone so strong and determined in only a year. She’s the one person I couldn’t imagine living without; now, since last January, I’ve had to. Suddenly, I have no one to talk to about meaningless little things, no one whose advice I trust completely to help me with decisions. When I come home from school, I come home to an empty house, troubled by memories of the year she spent here dying. I remember the disastrous Thanksgiving when she was feeling terrible, and our wonderful last Christmas Eve together.

What I feel cheated of is the future we’ll never have.

【小题1】What can be learned about the author’s mother in Paragraph 2?
A.She gave in to her parents.B.She had an obedient daughter.
C.She fell in love with her husband in college.D.She wished her kids to follow her example.
【小题2】What made the Christmas in the author’s second school year special?
A.Her rehearsal stories.B.Her mother’s company.
C.Her favorite line from the show.D.Her mother’s skills in doing hair.
【小题3】What does the author think of her mother?
A.Clever and passionate.B.Caring and humorous.
C.Supportive and reliable.D.Talented and hard-working.
【小题4】What is the author’s purpose of writing the passage?
A.To show her mother’s great sadness.B.To tell anecdotes about her mother.
C.To talk about the cruelty of the disease.D.To share fond memories of her mother.

It was the day after Christmas 33 years ago. My wife gave birth to our first child. We were full of gratitude to have Joseph John Mazzella II, also called JJ, sleeping peacefully in the cradle next to our bed.

We had been on the road showing off our little baby to all of the grandparents and great-grandparents. It had been a busy Christmas and hard on my wife who was still recovering from her operation, Now we were back in our tiny flat trying to get a few extra hours of sleep before starting the day.

Just then I heard JJ stirring in his cradle, I leaned over and picked him up before he started to cry and then carefully stole out into the living room so that my wife could keep sleeping. I picked up a bottle and sat in our rocking chair with JJ in my arms. I rocked quietly and fed him in the living room while he looked up at me with his loving eyes. I spoke softly to him but also felt a little nervous and scared as I watched him. How was I going to take care of him? I was a new father and had no idea what the future had in store for us. I rocked and rocked. But luckily, I had so many elders to help me.

After a few minutes I saw the sun slowly rising in the sky outside my window. The bright light was shining down from the heavens making the freshly fallen snow shine with beauty that touched my soul. As I watched it, my fear escaped and I felt such a sense of peace, harmony, love and joy. The Christmas spirit had entered my heart and I smiled. I knew then that whatever the future would hold, it would be smooth as long as I kept love in my heart. New life is precious and I believed my child would be grateful, too and bring us new sunshine in the future.

【小题1】How did the couple feel about the birth of JJ?
A.Calm.B.Helpless.C.Grateful.D.Disappointed.
【小题2】Why did the author carry JJ to another room?
A.To look for a bottle.B.To appreciate the sun.
C.To make him sleep again.D.To avoid disturbing his wife.
【小题3】What did the author feel when he saw the sunrise?
A.Frightened.B.Hopeful.C.Doubtful.D.Curious.
【小题4】What does the text mainly show?
A.The family s difficulty.B.The mother's pain and fear.
C.The baby's life experiences.D.The father's love and responsibility.

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