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The whole of the United States cheered its latest hero, Ashley Smith, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation saying it was planning to give a big reward to her for having a brave heart and wise mind. 【B1】______ She was moving into her apartment in Atlanta, Georgia early on the morning of March 12, when a man followed her to her door and put a gun to her side. "I started walking to my door, and I felt really, really afraid," she said in a TV interview last week. The man was Brian Nichols, 33. He was suspected of killing three people at an Atlanta courthouse (法院) on March, 11 and later of killing a federal agent.【B2】______ Nichols tied Smith up with tape, but released her after she repeatedly begged him not to take her life. " I told him if he hurt me, my little girl wouldn' t have a mummy," she said. In order to calm the man down, she read to him from The Purpose-Driven Life, a best-selling religious boot. He asked her to repeat a paragraph " about what you thought your purpose in life was—what talents were you given.【B3】______ "I basically just talked to him and tried to gain his trust," Smith said. Smith said she asked Nichols why he chose her. " He said he thought I was an angel sent from God, and we were Christian sister and brother, " she said. "And that he was lost, and that God led him to me to tell him that he had hurt a lot of people. "【B4】______ She said Nichols was surprised when she made him breakfast and that the two of them watched television coverage (报道) of the police hunt for him. " I cannot believe that' s me, " Nichols told the woman. Then, Nichols asked Smith what she thought he should do. She said, "I think you should turn yourself in. If you don' t, lots more people are going to get hurt. Eventually, he let her go.【B5】______ A $60,000 reward had been posted for Nichols' capture. Authorities said they did not yet know if Smith would be eligible (有资格的) for that money.[A] She even cooked breakfast for the man before he allowed her to leave.[B] Smith thanked the man for his kindness.[C] Smith tried very hard to kill Nichols.[D] The local police were searching for him.[E] And the two of them discussed this topic.[F] Then she called the police.[G] Smith is a 26-year-old single mother with a daughter.

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The whole of the United States cheered its latest hero, Ashley Smith, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation saying it was planning to give a big reward to her for having a brave heart and wise mind. 【C1】______She was moving into her apartment in Adanta, Georgia early on the morning of March 12, when a man followed her to her door and put a gun to her side. "I started walking to my door, and I felt really, really afraid," she said in a TV interview last week. The man was Brian Nichols, 33. He was suspected of killing three people at an Atlanta courthouse on March, 11 and later of killing a federal agent. 【C2】______ Nichols tied Smith up with tape, but released her after she repeatedly begged him not to take her life. "I told him if he hurt me, my little girl wouldn' t have a mummy," she said. In order to calm the man down, she read to him from The Purpose-Driven Life, a best-selling religious boot. He asked her to repeat a paragraph "about what you thought your purpose in life was—what talents were you given. 【C3】______ "I basically just talked to him and tried to gain his trust," Smith said. Smith said she asked Nichols why he chose her. "He said he thought I was an angel sent from God, and we were Christian sister and brother," she said. "And that he was lost, and that God led him to me to tell him that he had hurt a lot of people. "【C4】______She said Nichols was surprised when she made him breakfast and that the two of them watched television coverage of the police hunt for him. "I cannot believe that' s me," Nichols told the woman. Then, Nichols asked Smith what she thought he should do. She said, "I think you should turn yourself in. If you don't, lots more people are going to get hurt. " Eventually, he let her go.【C5】______A $ 60,000 reward had been posted for Nichols' capture. Authorities said they did not yet know if Smith would be eligible for that money. [A]She even cooked breakfast for the man before he allowed her to leave. [B]Smith thanked the man for his kindness. [C]Then she called the police. [D]The local police were searching for him. [E]And the two of them discussed this topic. [F]Smith tried very hard to kill Nichols. [G]Smith is a 26-year-old single mother with a daughter.

Isabel has turned down two job offers in the past year. In 2006, she started her own consulting practice, but by 2008, most of her larger clients had to drop her because of the economy. In 2011, she was undertaking irregular assignments and knew she needed a steady job. The first job she considered was Director of HR for a company in Utah. After the initial interviews, she felt the job fit her except for the location. Still, she flew west to meet the hiring manager. The hiring manager explained that Isabel was the top candidate for the job but that, before she continued with the process, she should better understand the firm' s culture. She directed Isabel to several videos of the company ' s CEO, who regularly appeared in front of the company in costume as part of morale building exercises and expected his senior leaders to do the same. "Even though I was desperate for a job, I knew I couldn' t do that," Isabel says. She called the recruiter to turn down the job and explained that she didn' t feel there was a cultural fit. A few months later, she interviewed for another job: a director of employee relations at a local university. After several interviews, the hiring manager told her the job was hers if she wanted it. The job had many positives: it was a low-stress environment, it offered great benefits, and the university was an employee-friendly place. But the job was relatively junior despite the title and Isabel worried it wouldn' t be challenging enough. Finally, she turned it down. "It would be great to have a paycheck and great benefits but I would definitely have trouble sleeping at night," she says. In both cases, she was frank with the hiring managers about why she wasn' t taking the jobs. "In the past, it felt like dating, I was worried about hurting people' s feelings," she says. However, they appreciated her frankness and thanked her for her honesty. She says it was hard to turn down the jobs and it was a risk for her financially but she felt she had to.

Read the text below. Write an essay in about 120 words, in which you should summarize the key points of the text and make comments on them. Try to use you own words. Hengshui No. 2 High School in northeast China' s Hebei province has installed metal bars on all balconies to prevent students from committing suicide. The move came after two students jumped to their deaths within six months. The high school is considered one of the best in the country. To guarantee that their students would be admitted by top universities, Hengshui No. 2 is run with military-style management. All students must get up at 5:30 a. m. and study 10 hours a day. All meals must be finished within 15 minutes and toilet breaks are less than three minutes. Pictures of the school' s new balcony fences first appeared on Weibo last week, along with banners bearing inspiring slogans such as " key to the success of the college entrance examination is to succeed every day in every subject and every question. " Most Chinese netizens were shocked by the metal bars. They agreed that instead of installing metal bars, why doesn' t the school provide psychological counseling and guidance? That may help! Some others think protecting students was not the school' s first intention. The school is attempt to shirk responsibilities. However a few people showed understanding. They think that in a small city like Hengshui, succeeding in the college entrance examination is the only to lead to a bright future. If the students can survive it, they can make it.

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The most frightening words in the English language are, " Our computer is down. " You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, "I'm sorry, I can't sell you a ticket. Our computer is down. " " If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket. " "I can't write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so. " I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, "What do all you people do?" "We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not. " "So when it goes down, you go down with it. " "That's good, sir. " "How long will the computer be down?" I wanted to know. "I have no idea. Sometimes it' s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There' s no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it' s down it won't answer us. " After the girl told me they had no backup computer, I said. "Let' s forget the computer. What about your planes? They' re still flying, aren' t they?" "I couldn' t tell without asking the computer. " "Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he' s flying to Washington, " I suggested. "I wouldn' t know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn' t take you if you didn' t have a ticket. " "Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?" "I wouldn't know, " she said, pointing at the dark screen. "Only ' IT' knows. It can't tell me." By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white; some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.

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In shopping malls, the assistants try to push you into buying " a gift to thank her for her unselfish love". When you log onto a website, a small pop-up invites you to book a bouquet for her. Commercial warmth and gratitude are the atmosphere being spread around for this special Sunday in May. 【C1】______The popularity of Mother' s Day around the world suggests that Jarvis got all she wanted. In fact, she got more enough to make her horrified. 【C2】______They buy, among other things, 132 million cards. Mother' s Day is the No. 1 holiday for flower purchases. Then there are the various commodities, ranging from jewelry and clothes to cosmetics and washing powder, that take advantage of the promotion opportunities. Because of this, Jarvis spent the last 40 years of her life trying to stop Mother' s Day. One protest against the commercialization of Mother' s Day even got her arrested—for disturbing the peace, interestingly. 【C3】______As Ralph Fevre, a reporter at the UK newspaper The Guardian, observed, traditionally " motherhood is something that we do because we think it' s right. " But in the logic of commercialism , people need something in exchange for their time and energy. A career serves this purpose better. 【C4】______So they work hard and play hard. Becoming a mother, however, inevitably handicaps career anticipation. 【C5】______According to The Guardian, there are twice as many child-free young women as there were a generation ago. Or, they put off the responsibility of parenting until later in their lives. So, Fevre writes that the meaning of celebrating Mother' s Day needs to be updated: "It is to persuade people that parenting is a good idea and to honor people for their attempt to be good people. " [A]Obviously, the best gift will be a phone call or a visit. [B]Nowadays Mother's Day become more and more commercialization. [C]According to a research by the US card company Hallmark, 96 percent of American consumers celebrate the holiday. [D]In addition, women are being encouraged to pursue any career they desire. [E]But what's more, commercialism changes young people' s attitude towards motherhood. [F]As a result, motherhood has suffered a huge drop in status since the 1950s. [G]The American version of Mother' s Day was thought up as early as 1905, by Anna Jarvis, as a way of recognizing the real value of motherhood.

Technology has been an encouragement of historical change. It acted as such a force in England beginning in the eighteenth century, and across the entire Western World in the nineteenth. Rapid advances were made in the use of scientific findings in the manufacture(制造)of goods, which has changed ideas about work. One of the first changes was that other forms of energy have taken the place of human power. Along with this came the increased use of machines to manufacture products in less time. People also developed machines that could produce the same parts for a product: each nail was exactly like every other nail, meaning that each nail could be changed for every other nail. This means that goods could be mass produced, though mass production required breaking production down into smaller and smaller tasks. Once this was done, workers no longer started on the product and labored to complete it. Instead , they might work only one thousandth of it, other workers completing their own parts in certain order. There is nothing strange about this manufacturing work by today' s standards. Highly skilled workers were unable to compare with the new production techniques, as mass production allowed goods of high standard to be produced in greater number than could ever be done by hand. But the skilled worker wasn' t the only loser, the common workers lost too. Similar changes forced farmers away. The increased mechanization(机械化)of agriculture freed masses of workers from ploughing the land and harvesting its crops. They had little choice but to stream toward the rapidly developing industrial centers. Increasingly, standards were set by machines. Workers no longer owned their own tools, their skill was no longer valued, and pride in their work was no longer possible. Workers fed, looked after and repaired the machines that could work faster than humans at greatly reduced cost.

Read the text below. Write an essay in about 120 words, in which you should summarize the key points of the text and make comments on them. Try to use your own words. Lori Schneider knows a few things about fear. " We were crossing a ridge that dropped off 8,000 feet on both sides," says the 53-year-old climber of ascending Mount Everest last spring. " The wind was blowing at 60 miles an hour. If there was ever a moment to panic, this was it. " But she didn' t. An hour later, she reached the peak—the last step in her personal challenge to scale the highest mountains on all seven continents. Ten years earlier, she' d come face-to-face with a different type of fear, when she was unable to feel anything in the right side of her body. After learning she had multiple sclerosis(MS)—a serious illness that gradually makes a person weak and unable to move or see, she left her marriage, job, and home: "I ran from my whole life. " It was just before climbing South America' s Mount Aconcagua in 2000 that she set her sights on the Seven Summits. After training by pulling 50-pound bags of dog food up the ski slopes near her home, she topped Europe' s Mount Elbrus in 2002, North America' s McKinley in 2006, and Australia' s Kosciuszko and Antarctica' s Vinson Massif in 2008. She' d scaled Africa' s Kilimanjaro in 1993. That left Asia' s Everest, the highest of all. And there she stood, on a ridge at 28,800 feet. "When I trained, I told myself to take one step at a time by spelling out words," she says. " So I spelled out 'Don' t let fear in. ' " It got her to the top. She' s the first person with MS to conquer the Seven Summits. With her condition stable, she plans a return to Kilimanjaro—this time with 15 others with MS by her side.

With the world' s population estimated to grow from six to nine billion by 2050, researchers, businesses and governments are already dealing with the impact, this increase will have on everything from food and water to infrastructure(基础设施)and jobs. Underling all this【C1】 1will be the demand for energy, which is expected to double over the next 40 years. Finding the resources to meet this demand in a【C2】 2, sustainable way is the cornerstone(基石)of our nation' s energy security, and will be one of the major【C3】 3of the 21st century. Alternative forms of energy-bio-fuels, wind and solar, to name a few—are【C4】 4being funded and developed, and will play a growing【C5】 5in the world's energy supply. But experts say that even when【C6】 6, alternative energy sources will likely meet only about 30% of the world's energy needs by 2049. For example, even with【C7】 7investments, such as the $ 93 million for wind energy development【C8】 8in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, important alternative energy sources such as wind and bio fuels【C9】 9only about 1% of the market today. Energy and sustainability experts say the answer to our future energy needs will likely come from a lot of【C10】 10—both traditional and alternative.[A]stable[B]solutions[C]significant[D]role[E]progress[F]marvelous[G]included[H]growth[I]exactly[J]consist[K]comprise[L]competitions[M]combined[N]challenges[O]certainly 【C1】

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To get a sense of how women have progressed in science, take a quick tour of the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley. This is a storied place, the【C1】 1of some of the most important discoveries in modern science-starting with Ernest Lawrence' s invention of the cyclotron(回旋加速器)in 1931. A generation ago, female faces were【C2】 2and, even today, visitors walking through the first floor of LeConte Hall will see a full corridor of exhibits【C3】 3the many distinguished physicists who made history here,【C4】 4all of them white males. But climb up to the third floor and you' 11 see a【C5】 5display. There, among the photos of current faculty members and students, are portraits of the【C6】 6head of the department, Marjorie Shapiro, and four other women whose research【C7】 7everything from the mechanics of the universe to the smallest particles of matter. A sixth woman was hired just two weeks ago. Although they' re still only about 10 percent of the physics faculty, women are clearly a presence here. And the real【C8】 8may be in the smaller photos to the right; graduate and undergraduate students, about 20 percent of them female. Every year Berkeley sends its fresh female physics PhDs to the country' s top universities. That makes Shapiro optimistic, but also【C9】 9" I believe things are getting better," she says," but they' re not getting better as【C10】 10as I would like."[A]circumstance[B]confidence[C]covers[D]current[E]deals[F]different[G]exposing[H]fast[I]honoring[J]hope[K]presently[L]rare[M]realistic[N]site[O]virtually 【C1】

Richard: In my opinion, smoking is only an amusement, like playing cards, reading, etc. Many years ago, when an adult handed me a cigarette and lit it for me, I felt grown up. When I am with friends and have nothing to say, we smoke, consequently we no longer feel embarrassed. Sometimes, I light a cigarette, suffering and nervousness vanishing with the smoke, I can't help saying inwardly: Hello, cigarette, my old friend, I' m coming to meet you again. Stanton: Many people believe smokers have the right to smoke. But they also believe that others shouldn't have to pay a price. The risk of tobacco smoke is greater than the risk of radon gas is to non-smokers. We're talking maybe 40 percent greater. And if you're talking about all the carcinogenic air pollutants that EPA regulates, it's 100 times greater. Davis: According to our investigation, tobacco smoke in the home and workplace could be killing 46, 000 non-smokers each year in the United States. That's 3, 000 lung cancer deaths, 11, 000 from other cancers and 32, 000 heart disease deaths. That would make passive smoking the leading preventable cause of death in the United States after alcohol and smoking itself. Smoking kills 390, 000 while alcohol 120, 000. James: Passive smoking has become the principal battleground for the tobacco industry and its opponents in the 1980s. It is no longer merely a health issue, but political and environmental. Cigarette pollution is fouling the air. According to the Environmental Protection Agency's indoor air program's result, we know that the indoor environment is far more polluted than the outdoor environment. We've seen that again and again wherever we've looked all over the United States. Winston: Sir, another fact about smoking is that cigarettes give people a good deal of pleasure. There is considerable evidence, surprisingly little publicized, showing that smoking produces certain beneficial effects in human beings. Smoking counteracts some decrease in efficiency, and smokers improve their performance in complex situations while smoking. There is also evidence showing that nicotine can produce a tranquilizing effect during high emotional and shock situations, while on the other hand stimulating concentration in tedious situations. Statements[A]Passive smoking is the third preventable cause of death.[B]Smokers have the right to smoke.[C]Smoking produces some positive effects in some complex situations.[D]Second-hand smoke is more harmful to non-smokers than those cancer-inducing air pollutants.[E]Cigarette pollution has caused outdoor environment even worse.[F]Smoking can help people get rid of nervousness.[G]Smoking is also an environmental issue.

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