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1、限时训练一I. 完形填空“ YOU RE too small, Ginny, you ll never make an Olympic team,-ever”rowingsaid my first(赛艇) coach, way back in the late winter of 1978. I had just1my dream. It was sure toobig at that point to somebody whose2not only mattered, but whose emotionalsupportcould play a key role.Then I was jus
2、t 20, and still a(n)3athlete. Maybe my dream wasn t based on reality.After all, I had tried out forthe national team for the firsttimethe previousyear and been_4 . I lacked the height that most Olympic rowers possess, not to5 much experience asan athlete, and I suffered from asthma, but still, I was
3、 shocked by my coach6_ s respnot just by his choice of words, but by his certainty, I left the gym in a panic.As I walked, I began to rethinkmy future, making room formy coach opinion,ssetting7_ my dream. A small inner voice had joined forces with the coach8 s. ”“ Maybe he But then, another voice9 .
4、“ What does he know? Why does he get to decide?” That mown coach didn t have faith in me didn t mean I had to give up on myself so quickly. By the timeI arrived back at my apartment, I was10my coach. And my11 was back on centerstage.12 came easy when it came to fulfilling that dream. I tried out for
5、 two more national teams and two different coaches cut me.But I was driven by my love of the13 of rowing. I wanted to row14the bestand I refused to stop until I achieved my goal.I made that 1980 team,15not getting to compete at the Olympics. I kept training fourmore years, and 16won silver at the 19
6、84 Olympics.All the effort was worth it. EverythingI have today is a result of17that dream, allthose hours on the water and in the stadium. Theygot me here, 18I know nowthat bigambitions need not just time to develop, but firm19in them. If I m not going to be my own20_for my dreams, no one else will
7、. And I will not allow anyone else to decide for me whatpossible.1.A. doneB. hadC. conveyedD. realized2.A. trainingB. introductionC. visionD. opinion3.A. topB. starC. all-roundD. rising4.A. quitB. cutC. acceptedD. admitted5.A. gainB. ownC. mentionD. state6.A. FrustratedB. CriticizedC. TouchedD. Puzz
8、led7.A. aboutB. offC. asideD. up8.A. wrongB. rightC. considerateD. arbitrary9.A. followedB. arguedC. agreedD. faded10.A. mad atB. satisfied withC. grateful toD. crazy about11.A. dignityB. courageC. confidenceD. dream12.A. EverythingB. NothingC. AnythingD. Something13.A. movementB. speedC. beautyD. i
9、mage14.A. amongB. betweenC. fromD. of15.A. due toB. as toC. despiteD. for16.A. frequentlyB. eventuallyC. permanentlyD. thoroughly17.A. counting onB. wrestling withC. taking onD. sticking to18.A. becauseB. whenC. whereD. so that19.A. performanceB. beliefC. supportD. encouragement20.A. championB. athl
10、eteC. coachD. hostII. 阅读理解AIn a historic moment on June 26, the US Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is a legal right across all 50 states. The Supreme Court justices ruled states cannot deny gay men and women the same marriage rights. The decision means the 13 states with bans on same-sexm
11、arriage are no longer able to enforce them.Same-sex couples“ ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law” . Justice Anthony Kwrote in the majority opinion:“ The Constitution grants them that right.”The decision came after decades of litigation(诉讼)and activism. It set off celebrationsacross the US.
12、In affected states including Georgia, Michigan, Ohio and Texas, same-sex couplesrushed to wed, while officialsin Mississippiand Louisiana said marriages had to wait untilprocedural issues were addressed, reported the BBC.According to“ The New York Times” , the ruling came against the backdrop -ofmov
13、ingfastchanges in public opinion in the US, with polls indicating that most Americans now approve ofsame-sex marriage.US President Barack Obama welcomed the ruling,saying it “ affirms what millionsofAmericans already believe in their hearts.”“ Today, ” he said in a press release,uncertain terms, tha
14、t we have made our union a little more perfect.”Another win.This was the second time the Supreme Court took up same-sex marriage, according to anarticle in“ Business Insider” . The first time, in June 2013, the court made a decision that allowedthe US federal government to recognize same-sex marriag
15、es in states where they were already legal.But at that time, the Supreme Court declined to rule on the broader question about gay marriage: Is there a constitutional (宪法的) right to same-sex marriage? The June 26 ruling gave a positive answer to that question.Justice Kennedy wrote in the majorityopin
16、ionthat the Constitutionshould evolve withsocietal changes.“The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times, ” he wrote.“ Thegenerations that wrote and ratified the “ Bill of Rights” andthe “ FourteenthAmendment (修正案) ” did not exactly know the extent of freedom in all of i
17、ts dimensions, and so they hoped the future generations can protect the ri ght of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning.The Fourteenth Amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the law. In the June 26 ruling, the Supreme Court declared that the equal protection cl
18、ause of the amendment requires marriage rights be extended to same-sex couples, too.21. According to the passage, which of the following is true?A. The majority of Americans now object to same-sex marriage.B. Gay men and women did not care about the ruling.C. All the US states did not ban same-sex m
19、arriage before the ruling.D. The US president believes the country will be less perfect after the ruling.22. It can be inferred that _.A. before June 26, most Americans have doubt about same-sex marriage.B. this is the first time the Americans have got the same-sex marriage right.C. thanks to the am
20、endment, all the Same-sex couples can get married immediately.D. Americans struggled for decades to win the same-sex right.23. Why does the author refer to Justice Kennedy s “ the nature of injustice is that we may notalways see it in our own times” ?A. The author thinks that it is unfair for same-s
21、ex marriage not to have the marriage right.B. The author wants to show that it is difficult for same-sex marriage couple to get the right.C. The author thinks that in our own times we can not see the justice.D. The author shows his dissatisfaction with the delayed approval of the legal same-sexmarri
22、age.BIf you could change your child s DNA in thetoprotectfuture them against diseases, wouldyou? It could be possible because of technology known as CRISPR-Cas, or just CRISPR. CRISPR involves a piece of RNA, a chemical messenger, designed to work on one part ofDNA; it also uses an enzyme (酶 ) that
23、can take unwanted genes out and put new ones in, according to The Economist. There are other ways of editing DNA, but CRISPR will do it very simply, quickly, and exactly.The uses of CRISPR could mean that cures are developed for everything from Alzheimerto cancer to HIV. Byallowingdoctors to putjust
24、 the right cancer-killinggenes into a patient simmune system, the technology could help greatly.In April scientists in China said they had tried using CRISPR to edit the genomes (基因组 )of human embryos. Though the embryos would never turn into humans, this was the firsttimeanyone had ever tried to ed
25、it DNAfrom human beings. Withthis in mind,the US NationalAcademy of Sciences plans to discuss questions about CRISPR伦理问题s).ethics (For example, CRISPR doesn t work properly yet. As well as cutting the DNA it is lookingfor, it often cuts other DNA, too. In addition, we currently seem to have too litt
26、le understanding ofwhat DNA gives people what qualities.There are also moral questions around “ playingGod” .Ofcourse, medicine already stopsnatural things fromhappening forexample, it savespeoplefrominfections.Theopportunities to treat diseases make it hard to say we shouldn t keep going.A harder q
27、uestion is whether it is ever right to edit human germ-line (种系 ) cells and makechanges that are passed on to children. This is banned in 40 countriesand restrictedinmanyothers. However, CRISPR means that if genes can be edited out, they can also be edited back in. Itmay be up to us as a society to
28、decide when and where editing the genome is wrong.Also, according to The Economist, gene editing may mean that parents make choices thatare not obviously in the best interests of their children:“ Deaf parents may prefer theirbe deaf too; parents might w ant to make their children more intelligent at
29、 all costs.”In the end, more research is still needed to see what we can and can t do with CRstill a huge mystery how we work,” Craig Mello, a UMass Medical School biologist and NobelPrize winner, told The Boston Globe.“ We re just trying to figure out this amazingly complicatedthing we call life.”2
30、4. What is the article mainly about?A. How CRISPR was developed by scientists. B. What we can and can t do with CRISPR.C. Chinese scientistsimentexperofusing CRISPR to edit human embryos.25. According to the article, the technology of CRISPR _.A. is very safe because it only cuts the DNA it is looki
31、ng forB. is banned in 42 countries and restricted in many othersC. could cause parents to make unwise choices for their childrenD. could help us discover the link between DNA and the qualities it gives people26. It can be concluded from the article that CRISPR _.A. could be helpful in the treatment
32、of cancer and HIVB. allows scientists to edit genomes for the first timeC. is a technology that uses an enzyme to work on RNA and DNAD. has proven to be the most effective way to protect children against diseases27. What is the author s attitude toward CRISPR?A. Supportive.B. Worried.C. Negative.D.
33、Objective.CMy mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. America waswhere all my mother s hopes lay. She had come here in 1949 after losingeverything in China. Butshe never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better.“ Of course you can be a prod
34、igy , too,” my mother told me when I was nine.“ You can bbest at anything.We” didn immediately pick the right ki nd of prodigy. At first my motherthought I could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. We d watch Shirley s old movies on TV as tthey were training films. My mother would poke my arm and say,You “
35、watchNikan.And”Iwould see Shirley tapping her feet, or singing a sailor song, or pursing her lips into a very round Owhile saying,“ Oh my goodness.”Soon after my mother got this idea about Shirley Temple, she took me to a beauty trainingschool and put me in the hands of a student who could barely ho
36、ld the scissors without shaking. Instead of getting big fat curls, I emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz. My mother dragged me off to the bathroom and tried to wet down my hair.“ You look like Negro Chinese,” she lamented, as if I had donepurposethison.In fact, in the beginning, I was
37、just as excited as my mother, maybe even more so. I picturedthis prodigypart of me as many different images, trying each one on for size. I was a daintyballerina girl standing by the curtains, waiting to hear the right music that would send me floatingon my tiptoes. I was Cinderella stepping from he
38、r pumpkin carriage with sparkly cartoon musicfilling the air.In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become perfect. Mymother and father would adore me. I would be beyond reproach. I would never feel the need tosulk for anything.But sometimes the prodigy in me became imp
39、atient.“ If you don t hurry up and get mof here, I m disappearing for good,” it warned.“ And then you ll always be nothing.Every night after dinner, my mother and I would sit at the Formica kitchen table. She would present new tests, taking her examples from stories of amazing children she had read
40、and a dozen other magazines she kept in a pile in our bathroom. My mother got these magazines from people whose houses she cleaned. She would look through them all, searching for stories about remarkable children.The first night she brought out a story about a three-year-old boy who knew the capital
41、s of all the states and even most of the European countries. A teacher was quoted as saying the little boy could also pronounce the names of the foreign cities correctly.“ What s the capital of Finland?” my mother asked me, looking at the magazine story.All I knew was the capital of California, beca
42、use Sacramento was the name of the street welived on in Chinatown.“ Nairobi!” I guessed, saying the most foreign word I could thinkShe of.checked to see if that was possibly one way to pronouncebefore“Helsinkishowng”me theanswer.The tests got harder multiplying numbers in my head, finding the queen
43、of hearts in a deckof cards, trying to stand on my head without using my hands, predicting the daily temperatures inLos Angeles, New York, and London.And after seeing mymother s disappointed face once again, something inside of me beganto die. I hated the tests, the raised hopes and failed expectati
44、ons. Before going to bed that night, Ilooked in the mirror and when I saw only my face staring back and that it would always be thisordinary face I began to cry. Such a sad, ugly girl!I made high pitched noises like a crazedanimal, trying to scratch out the face in the mirror.And then I saw what see
45、med to be the prodigy side of mebecause I had never seen thatface before. I looked at my reflection, blinking so I could see more clearly. The girl staring back atme was angry, powerful. This girl and I were the same. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, orrather thoughts filled with lots of won ts
46、. I won t let her change me, I promised myself. I wwhat I m not.28. The underlined word“ prodigy” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to _.A. talentB. professorC. leaderD. superstar29. Why did the mother and the girl watch Shirley s old movies on TV?A. Because the mother was a fan of Shirley Temple.B. Because Shirley Temple s hairstyle was very
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