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Ⅰ.[2019·大兴一模] 完形填空
A Boy with Great Courage
I have two jobs—as a teacher and a health-care doctor.I have worked with plenty of children infected(感染)with the virus(病毒)that causes AIDS.The relationships that I have had with these special kids have been 1 in my life. They have taught me so many things, but I have especially learned that great 2 can be found in the smallest of packages.Let me tell you about Tyler.
Tyler was born infected with HIV; his mother was also infected. From the very beginning of his life, he was dependent on medicines to enable him to live on. When he was five, he had a tube put in a vein(静脉) in his chest. This tube was connected to a pump, which he carried in a small backpack on his back. Medicines were connected to this pump and were continuously supplied through this tube to his bloodstream. At times, he also needed more oxygen (O2) to 3 his breathing.
Tyler wasn’t willing to 4 one single moment of his childhood to this deadly disease.It was not unusual to find him playing and running around his backyard, wearing his special medical backpack and dragging his tank of oxygen behind him in his little car. All of us who knew Tyler admired him for his pure joy in being 5 and the energy it gave him. Tyler’s mom often pleased him by telling him that he moved so fast that she needed to dress him in red. That way, when she looked through the window to check on him playing in the yard, she could quickly see him.
This terrible disease eventually wore 6 even the likes of a little tiger like Tyler. He grew quite ill and, unfortunately, so did his HIV-infected mother. When it became clear that he wasn’t going to live on, Tyler’s mom talked to him about death.She 7 him by telling Tyler that she was dying too, and that she would be with him soon in heaven.
A few days before his death, Tyler called me over to his hospital bed and whispered, “I might die soon. I’m not scared. When I die, please dress me in 8 . Mom promised she’s coming to heaven, too. I’ll be playing when she gets there, and I want to make sure she can find me.”
( )1. A.noises B.troubles C.gifts D.memories
( )2. A.pity B.love C.joy D.courage
( )3. A.stop B.support C.break D.make
( )4. A.get up B.give up C.live up D.look up
( )5. A.sad B.funny C.naughty D.alive
( )6. A.down B.up C.on D.by
( )7. A.comforted B.stopped C.punished D.praised
( )8. A.black B.blue C.red D.yellow
Ⅱ.[2019·大兴一模] 阅读理解
In 2005, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers and Pixar Animation Studios, gave a commencement address (毕业典礼演说) to the graduates of Stanford University! The address was simply three stories about three periods in his life. The final story was on living with his cancer disease. (He died of cancer in October 2011.) Jobs challenged those graduates with ideas like: Have the courage to follow your heart and feelings? And, “Don’t be troubled by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” Jobs repeated a message for himself and for the graduates he faced that day: Stay hungry, stay foolish—in other words, stay with your dream and be a risk-taker. For forty years Steve Jobs did just that.
Steve Jobs’ creative and beautiful products changed the worlds of education, entertainment, and communication. The highlights of those past forty years go like this: In 1976 Jobs and his best friend Steve Wozniak (Woz) built the first Apple computer. Wozniak was good at engineering and marketing. In 1984, the Mac was introduced to a lot of “Oh wow’s!” In 1986, one year after Jobs left Apple sadly, he started a new company called NeXT and won Pixar Animation Studios,which went on to produce the hit animated movie, Toy Story (Everyone, including foreigners, must have seen that movie more than once.). In 1998, Jobs returned to Apple to become its CEO and savior by designing the colorful, popular, and user-friendly iMacs. Beginning in 2001, and continuing to this day, the iPod in its various forms changed the way people get and listen to their music.In 2007, the iPhone again changed the mobile phone world. Then in 2010, the iPad became the latest celebrated product.
Not everyone will own all of these Jobs creations, but statistics(统计) show that the iPod is the favorite with kids like you.
