My father fell ill and I have to look after him. -().

A.took

B.set

C.caught

D.fell

, I know 【C1】______ personal experience how difficult this really is. For more than a year, I was 【C2】______ hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars a day in investing in the market. It seemed so easy, I dreamed of 【C3】______ my job at the end of the year, of buying a small apartment in Paris, of traveling around the world. But these dreams 【C4】______ to a sudden and dramatic end when a stock I 【C5】______ , Texas cellular pone wholesaler, fell by more than 75 per cent 【C6】______ a one year period. On the 【C7】______ day, it plunged by more than $ 15 a share. There was a rumor that the company was 【C8】______ sales figures. That was when I learned how quickly Wall Street 【C9】______ companies that, in one way or another, misrepresent the 【C10】______ .

In a 【C11】______ , I sold all my stocks in the company, 【C12】______ margin debt with cash advances from my 【C13】______ card. Because I owned so many shares, I 【C14】______ a small fortune, half of it from money I borrowed from the brokerage company. One month, I am a 【C15】______ the next, a loser. This one big loss was my first lesson in the market.

My father was a stockbroker, as was my grand- father 【C16】______ him. (In fact, he founded one of Chicago's earliest brokerage firms. ) But like so many things in life, we don't learn anything until we 【C17】______ it for ourselves. The only way to really understand the inner 【C18】______ of the stock market is to invest your own hardeamed money. When all your stocks are doing 【C19】______ and you feel like a winner, you learn very little. It's when all are losing and everyone is questioning your stock picking 【C20】______ that you find out if you have what it takes to invest in the market.

【C1】

A．at

B．in

C．from

D．by

but I thought I hated her.In her first class, she asked us to write a piece about an influencial person, place or memory. I chose to write my lake house, a topic I had already written about and received a vast amount of praise for. Put simply, it was the place that my parents met and fell in love.This teacher knew about my original piece and she was not happy. Throught the school year,we would pass each other in the hall, never saying a word to each other.It was not until February of 2012 that we spoke at the most unusual of places, my father’s funeral. At first, I was angry that she showed up. Did she even care？ She didn’t even know him! I stood, watching her give a deep bow to my father’s coffin, completely confused!It was not until she approached me that I realized she was crying even harder than I was.“Kali,” she said, “I am so sorry. My own father passed away just three weeks ago, and I completely feel your pain.” I was shocked. I understood that she had also lost her father, but I didn’t see the connection between us just yet. She had rejected my writing. That was not something that I was willing to so early forgive.A couple of weeks later, she went into my study hall and placed an envelope on my desk.In the letter, she told me her father, also had cancer, also passed away in six months’ time and he was her best friend too. It was not just this letter, but this act of kindness that taught me my,greatest life lesson. Losing has taught us both how to appreciate life. For that lesson, I am always grateful.

39. Why did the author hate Mrs. Geurin at first？

A. Mrs. Geurin said somethig bad about the author’s father.

B. Mrs. Geurin gave the author a hard topic to write about.

C. Mrs. Geurin didn’t appreciate the author’s writing.

D. Mrs. Geurin didn’t like the author’s lake house.

40. Hearing what Mrs. Geurin said at the funeral, the author _____.

A. was grateful to her

B. still didn’t forgive her

C. felt ashamed of herself

D. found they had a lot in common

41. What changed the relationship between Mrs. Geurin and the author？

A. Her apology to the author.

B. Her visit to the lake house.

C. Both losing a good friend

D. A similar sad experience

42. What’s best title for the text？

A. My first teacher

B. My beloved father

C. Seeking common ground

D. Breaking down the emotional barrier

x. after his father’s death，his mother placed him and one of his brothers in gerard college，an all-male orphanage where he stayed until he graduated and entered pennsylvania(宾夕法尼亚)state university.

his memories of the family farm led him into horticulture(园艺).the study habits he had acquired in the orphanage helped him a great deal because he did not care for the life outside his university， and gearhart saw many of his former classmates fall behind， then， as he puts it， he “fell in love with genetics.”

after earning his b. sc. in biological(生物的)science at penn in 1964，he moved to the university of new hampshire(新罕布什尔州)，where he got his m. sc in genetics in 1966. he received his ph.d. degree in genetics， development&embryology(胚胎学)from cornell university in 1970.

through all these years gearhart had only occasional contact with his mother . his studies had led him far from the farming concerns of his family in pennsylvania，when his mother became seriously ill，she came to johns hopkins hospital for treatment， and it was only then， in her last months of life， that gearhart felt he finally came to know the mother who had been forced to give him up so many years before.

on november 10， 1998， john gearhart reported his important findings in genetics. he is now one of the most famous scientists in the united states， a leader in the field of genetics research..

51、John Gearhart was sent to the orphanage because______.

A.his mother was ill

B.his father died

C.his father couldn't support his family

D.his mother didn't like him

52、it can be learned from the passage that ____contributed a lot to his success.

A.one of his brothers

B.his classmates in the orphanage

C.his memories of the family farm

D.his study habits developed in the orphanage

53、John Gearhart attended all the following universities EXCEPT____.

A.Cornell University

B.Pennsylvania State University

C.University of New Hampshire

D.Johns Hopkins University

54、John Gearhart is well-known for his important findings in______.

A.biology

B.horticulture

C.genetics

D.farming

55、John Gearhart didn't understand why his mother gave him up so many years before until ___

A.his mother’s death

B.his great success in his work

C.his mother's last months of life

D.his graduation from Cornell university

A．did he arrive

B．had he arrived

C．he arrived

D．he had arrived

He wore ashabbythin overcoat in the cold winter so that he fell ill

A.old

B.big

C.new

D.small

nt, I am filled with mixed feelings. It makes me happy and excited that I’ll see my beloved wife and children soon, but at the same time I don’t want to bid farewell to you, my dear students and friends as well as Tianjin, your beautiful city.

In fact, I regard Tianjin as my second hometown, and the students and teachers here as my family members and best friends. I’ll never forget the warmest welcome you gave me when I first arrived in Tianjin. I’ll never forget the day on which you took me to the hospital when I fell ill an the dumplings that Li Ming’s parents prepared for me that night.

Yet, I still remember you were all laughing at me when I was trying to use chopsticks for the first time in Tianjin Food Street, but do you know that now I prefer chopsticks to knives and forks？

I’m very glad to see the great progress you’ve made in your English and the prosperity of vocational education in Tianjin. I am told that many graduates from this college are devoting themselves to the construction of Tianjin now. I believe your future is bright and so is the future of Tianjin.

Now I’m leaving soon, but I have a strong desire to come back to Tianjin, back to my beloved school with my family as soon as possible.

Best wishes!

Thank you!

Answer the following questions according to the passage.

1.Why does the foreign teacher feel happy and excited？

________________________________________________________

2.When and where were the students all laughing at him？

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3.What does the teacher say about the graduates of the college he has worked for？

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4.What is the speaker’s strong desire？

________________________________________________________

5.What would you like to say to the speaker if he is your English teacher？

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Mother was worried because little Bob was ill; specially ______ Father was away in America. A．as B．that C．during D．if