Sydney Fredette has a lot of things to deal with. Not only is she a high school student, but she has also set up her own organization, Beary Merry Christmas. She volunteers（自愿）to serve poor kids and families in Orange Country in California, US.
To remember her best friend who died of cancer nearly 10 years ago, Fredette decided to serve those in Orange Country who are less lucky than she is.
She began with the simple idea of collecting donated(捐赠的) Build-A-Bears, the popular toy animal that is made by children themselves in the stores’ workshops. Fredette then gave them as gifts to the homeless children in California during the holiday season.
With donations at more than 100 bears a year, Fredette and volunteers host activities every year, where volunteers not only give out the bears, but also clothing, meals, and other things.
Not wanting to limit（限制）the giving to just the holiday months, Fredette now hosts other activities for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Halloween, providing the chance for her volunteer team to make a difference through the year.
＂I love making relationships with the people I serve,＂ Fredette said. ＂The thanks they have, hearing their stories and seeing how happy they are, it’s so cool.＂
Future plans for Fredette include building a public food bank and providing a self-development class for students in her school who will soon attend college.
Heading to college herself in the fall, Fredette is looking to stay local and continue to help out in her hometown. In fact, she was regarded as a ＂Dreamer & Doer＂ not long ago for her work in improving her community, along with 32 other high school students.
1.Fredette started her own organization to .
A. keep her life busy B. help poor people
C. look after the sick D. thank her best friend
2.What can we learn about Beary Merry Christmas?
A. It holds one activity a year.
B. It offers service around America.
C. It buys bears from the stores.
D. It gives out other things besides bears.
3.It can be inferred（推断）that Fredette .
A. likes telling people stories
B. dreams of being a teacher
C. is pleased with what she does
D. plans to leave California for college
4.What can be the best title for the passage?
A. Giving back to society
B. Getting on well with others
C. Providing a food bank
D. Improving community colleges
1.B 2.D 3.C 4.A 【解析】试题分析：本文叙述了Sydney Fredette是一名中学生，她为了纪念她最好的朋友，她和其他的一些志愿者一起建立了组织Beary Merry Christmas来为一些贫穷的孩子捐赠玩具熊和其他的东西，她被授予一个称号“Dreamer & Doer”。 1. 2. 3. 4.科目：初中英语 来源：江苏中考英语语法考点专项训练--冠词和名词 题型：单选题
(2013•宿迁市)My cousin Andy can play piano very well, but he isn't god at playing basketball.
A. the; the B. /; the C. the; / D. /; /
C 【解析】play 和乐器名词连用时在名词前要加the, play 和球类名词连用时在名词前不加the, 故选C。查看答案和解析>>
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Ma Yun became one of the richest men in China when his company Alibaba went on the stock(股票)market in 2014 with a value of around £140 billion-the largest public offering in history. Here are some stories about him on the way to success.
Ma made his first trip to the US in 1995 and used the Internet for the first time. After searching for "beer"，he saw that no results came up about China. "Then he searched for "China" and still saw no results. He decided to set up a Chinese website-the seed for Alibaba was sown(播种).
Ma said he was refused many times in his life. He failed the College Entrance Examination in China three times and few companies offered him jobs, including one at KFC. And he was refused by the famous Harvard University 10 times.
It was difficult to learn English when Ma was a teenager because of limited resources. However, he found that he could learn English well by giving tourists free guides around his hometown Hangzhou. And he kept it for nine years. Ma said that tourists opened up a new world for him because everything they said and did was so different from what he had been taught at school and by his parents.
Ma's hero is Forest Clump who never gives up. When he made a speech about his success at Davos(达沃斯论坛)in 2015. Ma said, "Life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you are going to get. "
1.How did Ma Yun learn English well when he was a teenager?
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2.What does Ma Yun mean by saying "Life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you are going to get"?
____________________________________________________________________________
3.Do you think Ma Yun is great? What can you learn from his story?
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1.By giving tourists free guides around his hometown Hangzhou. 2.We shouldn't give up./We should keep trying different things. 3.Yes. We should not give up when we are refused./Keep trying and o...查看答案和解析>>
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（题文）On their journey around the world, the Greens met with lots of things and persons
interested them.
A. who B. that C. which D. what
B 【解析】句意“格林一家环球旅行时，他们遇到许多使他们感兴趣的人和物”。根据“n/pron+____+句子”可知，用定语从句。先行词为things and persons。当先行词中即有人又有物时，用that，故选B。查看答案和解析>>
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Anyone any information about the case should contact the police 110.
A. of, on B. with, on C. with, at D. for, at
B 【解析】句意“任何有信息的人都可以与警察取得联系”。of……的；with带有，表示伴随；for为了。排除A和D。contact sb on+电话号码。根据句意，故选B。查看答案和解析>>
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All in the memory…
Many people complain that their memory is bad, especially as they get older. Phone numbers, names, facts we studied only a few days ago – life would be so much easier if we could remember them all effortlessly. So how can we improve our memory?
Many people think that repeating things is the best way to remember them. While this undoubtedly helps short-term memory (remembering a telephone number for a few seconds, for example), psychologists (心理学家) doubt whether it ca help you to remember things for very long. The British psychologist Ec Stanford seemed to prove this point when he tested himself on five prayers (祈祷文) that he had read aloud every morning for over 25 years. He found that he could remember no more than three words of some of them! More helpful, especially for remembering numbers, is grouping the information. The following numbers would be impossible for most of us to remember: 1492178919931848. But look at them in chunks, and it becomes much easier: 1492 1789 1993 1848.
So what about “memory training”? We’ve all heard about people who can memorize packs of cards by heart—how is this done and can anyone learn how to do it? According to experts, there are many ways of training your memory. Many of them involve forming a mental picture of the things to be memorized. One method, which may be useful in learning foreign languages, is to create a picture in your mind connected to a word you want to remember.
Another method is to invent a story that includes all the things you want to remember. In experiments, people were asked to remember up to 120 words using this skill; when tested afterwards, on average, they were able to recall 90% of them!
However, not all of us are interested in learning long lists of names and numbers just for fun.For those studying large number of information, psychologists suggest that the best way to form meaningful connections is to ask yourself lots of questions as you go along. So, for example, if you were reading about a particular disease (疾病), you would ask yourself questions like: “Do people get it from water?”, “What parts of the body does it influence?” and so on. This is said to be far more effective than time spent “passively” reading and re-reading notes.
1.Which of the following is true about repeating things according to the passage?
A. It helps short-term memory for sure. B. It makes remembering things interesting.
C. It helps to remember things for long. D. It makes remembering prayers effortlessly.
2.The word “chunks” in Paragraph 2 probably means “______”.
A. details B. turns C. groups D. lines
3.What can we infer from the passage?
A. Creating a picture is useful in learning math.
B. Inventing a prayer trains our memory quickly.
C. Remembering long numbers is easy for people.
D. Asking yourself questions activates the memory.
4.What’s the writer’s main purpose in writing this passage?
A. To complain that his memory is bad.
B. To recognize some memory problems.
C. To explain some memory experiments.
D. To share some ways of improving memory.
1.A 2.C 3.D 4.D 【解析】很多人都抱怨他们的记忆力不好，尤其是上了年纪以后。的确有一个好的记忆力可以使我们的生活更方便，那么如何提高我们的记忆力呢？这篇短文中作者给我们介绍了一些方法。 1.细节理解题。根据短文第二段中Many people think that repeating things is the best way to remember t...查看答案和解析>>
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My mother _______ to music when I got home at five o’clock yesterday.
A. listens B. listened C. was listening D. has listened
C 【解析】句意：昨天五点当我到家的时候，我的妈妈正在听音乐。listens听，第三人称单数形式；listened是过去式；was listening过去进行时；has listened现在完成时态。根据语境when I got home at five o’clock yesterday可知，这里是一个过去的时间，并且动作在那个时候是正在进行的，应用过去进行时态，故选C。查看答案和解析>>
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1.A. its B. it’s C. It
2.A. From then on B. At that time C. So far
3.A. African B. European C. Asian
4.A. attractive B. familiar C. popular
5.A. explain B. express C. promises
1.A 2.A 3.C 4.C 5.B 【解析】试题分析：这是一篇说明文，介绍了“唐装”的由来、发展历史，和西方以及韩国、日本的时尚都不同，内涵了独特的中国传统文化，受到世界各地的欢迎。 1.句意：唐装之所以得名，是因为中国在汉代和唐代就为其他国家所知。考查代词辨析题。name名字，名词需用形容词或形容词性物主代词修饰。it它，人称代词；it’s是it is的缩...查看答案和解析>>
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Zhang Lili is considered as the most beautiful teacher ___ gave her love to her students in danger.
A. who B. that C. whom D. which
B 【解析】试题分析：句意：张丽丽被认为是最美丽的老师，因为危险时她给了她的学生们爱。从句缺了主语,根据句子意思应该是指Zhang lili ,而在这,Zhang lili 和 the most beautiful teacher 是同一个人,teacher 是先行词,前面有 the most beautiful 修饰,是最高级,所以要用that.，故选B。查看答案和解析>>
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