At first father didn't allow us to have a picnic on Sunday,but（）he agreed.

A.He is the first philosopher to write a book in the West.

B.He invented the Western scientific metho

C.He claimed that he didn’t know anything but could only ask questions.

D.He started a new religion.

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

Bessie Coleman

Bessie was born in Atlanta, Texas in 1893. Her father was an Indian and her mother an African American. Her father left the family when she was seven. At such a young age, Bessie picked cotton. She also took on extra washing and ironing to help her mother meet family expenses.

After finishing high school, Bessie went to Chicago to stay with a younger brother. She became interested in aviation (飞行) shortly after World War I. But because of her sex and color she could not enroll (注册入学) in an aviation school in the US. Later, a newspaper editor told her that the only path left open to her would be an viation school in Europe. She then made two trips to Europe. She studied under top German and French pilots, and returned to Chicago with an international pilot's license. Bessie became the only black woman pilot in the world.

Her work as a pilot took her into a field untouched by women in her day. This field was exhibition flying. In 1922, Bessie gave her first exhibition flying show. Several thousand eager fans came to see the unusual show. She went on giving air shows all over the US. She gained national attention and thousands of fans of all races. She was not discouraged by words from her family or seeing the death of a student pilot. Nor did suffering a broken leg and arm in an air crash scare her.

Letters poured in from young black people. Like Bessie, they wanted to go into the field of aviation. Long before her first exhibition, Bessie dreamed of setting up a flying school for blacks. Unfortunately, she died in a flight accident before her dream was realized.

11. When Bessie was seven,（）

A. she left her family

B. she helped support the family

C. her father went to Atlanta

D. her family opened a cotton farm

12. Bessie was kept out of the US aviation schools because（）

A. World War I had ended

B. she was a black woman

C. her brother didn't want her to go

D. she didn't finish her high school

13. Bessie'sexhibition flying show in 1922（）

A. was the first done by women

B. did not attract much attention

C. was helped by European pilots

D. ended in air crash

14. According to Paragraph 3, Bessie（）

A. had fans all over the world

B. got support from her family

C. was once injured in an air crash

D. was scared by a pilot's death

15. Bessie's unrealized dream was to（）

A. reduce flight accidents

B. set up her own flying team

C. involve more women in aviation

D. found a flying school for blacks

draw lines everywhere see her father decided to help her.He gave her paint brushes and paper.She practiced hard and improved very quick so Her lines became flowers, trees and animals.Some of her pictures were shown in an art exhibition in Shanghai at the age of 4.

By age six, Yani had made over 4,000 paintings.She loved to draw animals, especially monkeys and cats.Although her father was good at drawing, he didn't give her any art lessons.He even stopped painting his own pictures.Instead.he often took the little girl to parks and zoos to get ideas for her work.In this way, Yani developed her own style. of painting with bright colors.All her pictures were different from others.At the age of 8, one of her monkey paintings was made into, Chinese stamp.Later, she started to draw pictures of country scenery and people.

And when she was just 14, she became the youngest person person to have personal shows in Washington D.C.an many other cities around the world.

6.Wang Yani pictures were first shown in Gongcheng.()

A.T

B.F

7.She was especially good at drawing monkeys and A cats before she was eight.()

A.T

B.F

8.Her father took her to zoos and parks because he wanted the girl to get idea.()

A.Te

B.F

9.Yani had her personal shows in Washington D.C.A at the age of 14.()

A.T

B.F

10.Yani's father often gave her art lessons.()

A.T

B.F

A. so didn’t his father

B. his father didn’t too

C. his father also didn’t

D. nor did his father

A.didn’t found

B. finded

C. didn’t find

D. founded

A.run into

B.work with

C.deal with

D.run off

. High school was hard，because everyone wanted to have nice clothes, hang out，drive cars, and all these cost money. Peter’s father was the sort of guy that believed you had to earn whatever you got，so he wasn’t just about to hand over lots of money for Peter to use to have fun. So，he had to get a job.

During his freshman year summer vacation, his classmate got him a job working on a hay (干草) farm. He threw hay up into wagons as the tractor drove around fields, and then they stacked (剁起) it in the hot barn. It was a hot，low­paying job.

He once worked a few nights a week at a grocery store. He put things on the shelf. It was a lot of lifting and carrying，and his arms were strong from this and the previous job. It was dull and didn’t pay much.

He took some time off when soccer got serious，but the following summer he tried working at a lumber yard. It was hot outside, but he got a lot of exercise lifting and carrying things like boards and drywall. He also learned a lot about building supplies. It still didn’t pay well.

From there, he spent a year doing some tutoring for a friend of the family, but that was piecemeal. His first real job came the last year at school, when he fixed registers and worked on computers at a big box store. It was his favorite job yet, but it still didn’t pay well.

What Peter realized with all of these jobs was that he needed a better paying job! The only way to get that was to get trained or educated. He could go to school and get a 2­year degree in an office or technical position. His other choices were going to a 4­year college or joining the army. He wasn’t sure what he was going to do yet, but he knew he had to do something. Jobs were a lot of work, money was hard to earn，but he liked staying busy and being able to buy things. Peter wanted the most out of life, and that meant education.

25.All the jobs Peter had taken had one thing in common：_____.

A、They didn’t pay well

B、They were dull and tiresome

C、They needed hard labor

D、They were done during his vacation

26._____was the most important for Peter if he wanted a good job.

A、Confidence

B、Education

C、Opportunity

D、Wisdom

27.We can learn from the text that_____.

A、Peter knew what to do with his future

B、Peter’s father didn’t care about him

C、It was very hard for Peter to make his choices

D、Peter was determined to do whatever he liked

A.till

B.until

C.by

D.to