While（), she wrote a novel.

She wrote back to him ________ she received his letter.

A、while

B、before

C、whether

D、as soon as

These days, children often think of superheroes(超级英雄)as cute(漂亮的), cool and strong supermen. A poor, short and thin boy wearing glassed may not interest the kids today. Yet in less than 4 years, Harry Potter has taken the world by the storm. J. K. Rowling, the writer of Harry Potter, was a British single mother out of work and living on money given to her by the government. One day, when she was on a long train trip, she had the idea for this book. She wrote the first book of the seven in the café with her baby daughter sleeping beside her. Last year, the fans welcomed the birth of the fourth by lining outside the bookstores. Today these books are still popular among people. Harry Potter is something more than fantasy(幻想). Rowling tries to tell the readers how things are not always what they seem to be. However, millions of the fans don’t care about such a lesson. They would like to spend many sleepless nights waiting in line for the fifth, the sixth and the seventh to come. For them, surprising stories of the little boy are what they want.

1. J.K. Rowling ________ when she wrote the first book.

A. lived a quiet life with her husband

B. was very poor and didn’t get work for herself

C. had to teach her daughter how to work

D. was already a famous writer

2. When did Rowling think of the idea of writing her book？

A. While she was telling her baby stories about superheroes.

B. While she was going on a long trip.

C. She was on her way to find work.

D. While she was drinking in a café.

3. How many books of the seven have come out according to this passage？

A. Four.

B. Five.

C. Six.

D. Seven.

4. What does Rowling want to show to her readers？

A. Harry Potter is a poor, short and thin boy wearing glasses.

B. Fantasy.

C. How things are not always what they seem to be.

D. She has got many interesting story books.

5. Which of the following is TRUE？

A. Rowling wrote the first book with her daughter’s help.

B. Rowling gave birth to her fourth baby last year.

C. The fans just care about the surprising stories of Harry Potter.

D. Only children love the books, for they’re fairy tales.

Did Sarah Josepha Hale write “Mary’s Little Lamb,” the eternal nursery rhyme(儿歌)about girl named Mary with a stubborn lamb？ This is still disputed, but it’s clear that the woman 26 reputed for writing it was one of America’s most fascinating 27 characters. In honor of the poem publication on May 24,1830, here’s more about the 28 supposed author’s life.Hale wasn’t just a writer, she was also a 29 fierce social advocate, and she was particularly 30 obsessed with an ideal New England, which she associated with abundant Thanksgivinx xg meals that she claimed had “a deep moral influence,” she began a nationwide 31 campaign to have a national holiday declared that would bring families together while celebrating the 32 traditional festivals. In 1863, after 17 years of advocacy including letters to five presidents, Hale got it. President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, issued a 33 proclamation setting aside the last Thursday in November for the holiday.The true authorship of “Mary’s Little Lamb” is disputed. According to New England Historical Society, Hale wrote only one part of the poem, but claimed authorship. Regardless of the author, it seems that the poem was 34 inspired by a real event. When young Mary Sawyer was followed to school by a lamb in 1816, it caused some problems. A bystander named John Roulstone wrote a poem about the event, then, at some point, Hale herself seems to have helped write it. However, if a 1916 piece by her great-niece is to be trusted, Hale claimed for the 35 rest of her life that “Some other people pretended that someone else wrote the poem”.

A)campaign

B)career

C)characters

D)features

E)fierce

F)inspired

G)latter

H)obsessed

I)proclamation

J)rectified

K)reputed

L)rest

M)supposed

N)traditional

O)versatile

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, while her wealthy English parents were traveling in Europe. As a child, she traveled to many places with her family and learned how to speak several languages.

When Nightingale was 17, she told her family that she was going to help sick people. 'Her parents did not approved, but Nightingale was determined.

She traveled to hospitals all over Europe. She saw that doctors were working too hard. She saw that patients died because they did not get enough care. Nightingale felt that women could be doing more to help doctors take care of sick people.

Nightingale knew that in order for nurses to do more, they needed special training in how to take care of sick people. Nightingale went to a hospital in Germany to study nursing. Then she returned to London and became the head of a group of women called Gentlewomen during illness. These women cared for sick people in their homes.

In 1854, England was fighting a war with Russia. No reporters wrote about the terrible conditions in the hospitals that cared for the wounded. People demanded that something be done about it. A leader of government asked Florence Nightingale to take some nurses into the war hospitals. So, in November 1854, Nightingale finally got to work in a hospital.

She took along 38 nurses whom she had trained herself.

At first, the doctors on the battlefields did not want Nightingale and her nurses in their hospitals. They did not believe that women could help. But in fact, the nurses did make a difference. They worked around the clock, tending the sick. Thanks to their hard work, many wounded soldiers survived. After the War, Nightingale and her nurses were treated like heroes. Finally, in 1860, she started the Nightingale School for nurses. In time, thanks to Florence Nightingale, nursing became an important part of medicine.

Florence Nightingale was born into a rich______.

A．Italian family

B．Russian family

C．English family

D．German family

__(1)__ months later, the wife came to the husband with a proposal, “I read in a magazine, a while ago, __(2)__ how we can strengthen our marriage, ” she offered.

“Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with __(3)__ person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together. ”

Her husband agreed. So each of them went to a separate room in the house and thought of the things that __(4)__ them about the other. They thought about this question for the rest of the day and wrote __(5)__ what they came up with.

The __(6)__ morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they__(7)__ go over their lists.

“I'll start,” offered the wife. She took out her list. It had many items on it. Enough to fill 3 pages in fact. As she started, __(8)__ the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husband's eyes.

“What’s wrong？” she asked.

“Nothing,” the husband replied, “keep reading your list.”

The wife continued to read __(9)__ she had read all three pages to her husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands __(10)__the top of it.

(1)A、A few

B、A little

C、Few

D、Little

(2)A、to

B、about

C、in

D、over

(3)A、the other

B、another

C、next

D、other

(4)A、annoying

B、annoyance

C、annoyed

D、being annoyed

(5)A、up

B、in

C、on

D、down

(6)A、second

B、other

C、next

D、later

(7)A、could

B、would

C、might

D、must

(8)A、read

B、to read

C、to be read

D、reading

(9)A、while

B、after

C、until

D、the moment

(10)A、over

B、on

C、above

D、up

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, while her wealthy English parents were traveling in Europe. As a child, she traveled to many places with her family and learned how to speak several languages.

When Nightingale was 17, she told her family that she was going to help sick people. Her parents did not approve, but Nightingale was determined.

She traveled to hospitals all over Europe. She saw that doctors were working too hard. She saw that patients died because they did not get enough care. Nightingale felt that women could be doing more to help doctors take care of sick people.

Nightingale knew that in order for nurses to do more, they needed special training in how to take care of sick people. Nightingale went to a hospital in Germany to study nursing. Then she returned to London and became the head of a group of women called Gentlewomen During Illness. These women cared for sick people in their homes.

In 1854, England was fighting a war with Russia. War reporters wrote about the terrible conditions in the hospitals that cared for the wounded. People demanded that something be done about it. A leader of the government asked Florence Nightingale to take some nurses into the war hospitals. So, in November 1854, Nightingale finally got to work in a hospital.

She took along 38 nurses whom she had trained herself.

At first, the doctors on the battlefields did not want Nightingale and her nurses in their hospitals. They did not believe that women could help. But in fact, the nurses did make a difference. They worked around the clock, tending the sick. Thanks to their hard work, many wounded soldiers survived.

After the war, Nightingale and her nurses were treated like heroes. Finally, in 1860, she started the Nightingale School for Nurses. In time, thanks to Florence Nightingale, nursing became an important part of medicine.

Florence Nightingale was born into a rich

A．Italian family.

B．Russian family.

C．English family.

D．German family.

Passage 2 Questions 1to 5 are based on the following passage:

Sometimes a book can help change history. One book that certainly did was Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was a book that spoke out against slavery.

As Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her book, there were over3.5 million slaves in the United States. Slaves were usually in the cotton-growing states of the South. The Northern States has ended slavery. Yet most northerners were not strongly against slavery. They did not mind that slavery continued in the South.

Stowe decided to make people understand that slavery was very bad. Each night after putting r six children to bed, she worked on her book. She told the owner. She also told how the slaves tried to run away for freedom. Uncle Tom’s Cabin first came in 1852. Over 300,000 books were sold out in a year.

People had different ideas about the book. In the North, many people finally believed that slavery must be ended after they read the book. In the South, many people were very angry at the people in the North. By 1861 the two parts of the country were at war. The Civil War, which lasted until of cease, was made to happen by many things. Yet Uncle Tom’s Cabin surely played a part. Stowe met President Linclon in 1862. As Linclon took her hand, he said, “So you are the woman who starred the big war.”

1、Before Uncle Tom’s Cabin came out, most Northerners ______.

A、were slaves in the South

B、did not know how bad slavery was

C、kept slaves in their homes

D、understood that slavery was wrong

2、While many Northerners agreed with Harriet Beacher Stowe,______.

A、many southerners wanted war

B、many southerners had not read the boo

C、many southerners were angry at her

D、some slaves tried to run away from North

3、From the text, we can infer that _______.

A、Stowe was a very young woman

B、Stowe’s husband was dead when she wrote the story

C、Stowe wrote her book with stories from her six children

D、Stowe could not work on her book at all during the daytime

4、Uncle Tom’s Cabin was _______.

A、a book about Harriet Beecher Stowe

B、a history book

C、a book that helped change history

D、a book about the American Civil war

5、Harriet Beecher Stowe _______.

A、was a little woman who started the American Civil War together with Abraham Linclon

B、was strongly against the slavery

C、helped some slaves to run away from the South

D、met Abraham Lincoln before the Civil War

A、is

B、were

C、are

D、was

Since his daughter was very busy, she wrote to him _____ times.

A. in other

B. at another

C. in another

D. at other

A.writing

B.to write

C.to have written