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In 1882，at 19 months old，Helen Keller unfortunately 【小题1】（catch）a fierce fever. She survived but the fever left its mark--she could no longer see 【小题2】 hear. It was as if she had been thrown into a dark prison cell. 【小题3】（luck），Helen was not someone who gave up easily. She began to explore the world 【小题4】 using the other senses. By the age of seven，she had invented over 60 different signs by means of 【小题5】 she could talk to her family.

With days passing by，Helen came 【小题6】（realize）that she was different from others and that there were a lot of 【小题7】（restrict）on her communication. This made her so angry that her behaviour was often【小题8】（bear）. Eventually，it became clear that something had to be done. So，just before her seventh birthday，her superb teacher，Anne Sullivan came to her life. 【小题9】（help）by her teacher，she gradually became gentle and learnt to read and write in Braille. Besides，she even learnt to speak，a major 【小题10】（achieve）for someone who could not speak at all.

Helen made continual efforts to go deeper into the kingdom of knowledge，and her perseverance（坚持不懈）paid off at last.

Heroes of Our Time

A good heart

Dikembe Mutombo grew up in Africa among great poverty and disease. He came to Georgetown University on a scholarship to study medicine-but coach John Thompson got a look at Dikem be and had a different idea. Dikembe became a star in the NBA, and a citizen（公民）of the United States. But he never forgot the land of his birth, or the duty to share his fortune with others. He built a new hospital in his old hometown in the Congo.

Success and kindness

After her daughter was born, Julie Aigner-Clark searched for ways to share her love of music and art with her child. So she borrowed some equipment, and began filming children's videos in her own house. The Baby Einstein Company was born, and in just five years her business grew to more than $ 20 million in sales. And she is using her success to help others—producing child safety videos with John Walsh of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Julie says of her new program, "I believe it's the most important thing that I have ever done. I believe that children have the right to live in a world that is safe. "

Bravery and courage

A few weeks ago, Wesley Autrey was waiting at a Harlem subway station with his two little girls when he saw a man fall into the path of a train. With seconds to act, Wesley jumped onto the tracks, pulled the man into the space between the rails, and held him as the train passed right above their heads. He insists he's not a hero. He says, "We have got to show each other some love. "

【小题1】What was Mutombo praised for?
A. Being a star in the NBA.

A．Being a student of medicine.

B．His work in the church.

C．His willingness to help the needy.

【小题2】What did the Baby Einstein Company do at its beginning？

A．It produced safety equipment for children.

B．It made videos to protect children.

C．It sold children's music and artworks.

D．It looked for missing and exploited children.

【小题3】Why was Wesley Autrey praised as a hero？

A．He helped a man get across the rails.

B．He stopped a man from destroying the rails.

C．He protected two little girls from getting hurt.

D．He saved a man's life without consideration.

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About the year 1900, a dark-haired boy 【小题1】 (name) Charlie Chaplin was often seen waiting outside the back entrance of London theatres. He looked thin and hungry. He was hoping to get work in show business. He could sing and dance, and above all, he knew 【小题2】 to make people laugh. Sometimes he 【小题3】 (send) away to a home for homeless children.

But twenty years later, this same Chaplin became the 【小题4】 (great), best-known, and best-loved comedian in the world. People all over the world are greatly amused by the man with a moustache,【小题5】 (wear) large trousers, worn-out shoes and a small round hat. Even people who don’t understand English can enjoy his films, because they are mostly 【小题6】 (silence). It isn’t what he says 【小题7】 makes us laugh. Acting out common human situations, without words,【小题8】 (play) an important part in his films.

Charlie Chaplin lived most of his life in the US, but he never got US 【小题9】 (national). In 1953, Chaplin and his family moved to Switzerland,【小题10】 he lived until he died on the Christmas Day of 1977, at the age of eighty-eight.

   Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga，Spain in 1881.When he died in 1973，he was ninety-one years old. But he still took up his paints and brushes to start a new picture as if he were seeing things for the first time，which is why we have called him the youngest painter. Young people are always trying new things and new ways of doing things. They don't hesitate to attempt one thing after another. Eager to experiment, they welcome new ideas.

When he was over ninety this great painter still lived his life like a young man. He was still restlessly looking new ideas and new ways to use his artistic materials. No one knew what to expect from him next. No one could be sure what kind of picture he would produce. If he had painted a picture of you, it might have looked exactly like you. Or it might have been all lines, squares, circles and strange-colored shapes. It might not have looked like human at all.

At such times Picasso was trying to paint what he saw with his mind as well as with his eyes. He put in the side of the face as well as the front. He may have painted it flat, as though it had no depth. Sometimes he seemed to paint just as a child painted, simply for his own pleasure. He didn't imitate others.

Most painters discover a style of painting that suits themselves and stick to that, especially if people admire their pictures. But Picasso was like a man who had not yet found his own particular style of painting. He was still struggling to find perfect expression for his own uneasy spirit.

The first thing one noticed about him was the look of his large, wide-open eyes. Gertrude Stein, a famous American writer who knew him in his youth, mentioned this hungry look, and one can still see it in pictures of him today.

Picasso painted a picture of Gertrude Stein in 1906. She visited the painter's studio eighty or ninety times while he painted her picture. While Picasso painted they talked about everything in the world that interested them. Then one day Picasso wiped out the painted head on which he had worked for so long. "When I look at you I can't see you any more!" he said.

Picasso went away for the summer. When he returned he went at once to the unfinished picture in the corner of his studio. Quickly he finished the face from memory. He could see the woman's face more clearly in his mind than he could see it when she sat in the studio in front of him.

Picasso was often attacked for this new, sometimes frightening style. It produced pictures like some of our worst dreams. The camera has made it unnecessary for painters to make exact representations of what they see. A camera can reflect real life more exactly. What great paintings give us is a view of life through one man's eyes, and every man's view is different.

【小题1】The example of the picture of Gertrude Stein is raised mainly to indicate Picasso ________.

A．was particular about his works

B．used more of his mind to paint

C．was a man of responsibility

D．was not appreciated at his time

【小题2】The last paragraph mainly illustrates that ________.

A．Picasso's paintings are beyond some people's comprehension

B．Picasso's paintings are too frightening

C．Picasso paints from his unique perspective

D．cameras are better at presenting real life

【小题3】Which of the following can best summarize Picasso's paintings?

A．Frightening and unpredictable.

B．Concrete and straightforward.

C．Abstract and unconventional.

D．Rigid and unusual.

【小题4】The best title for the passage might be "________".

A．The youngest painter in the world

B．What to expect from Picasso

C．How Picasso developed his way of painting

D．The greatest painter the world has ever seen

   Ed Murrow was a famous radio program producer in the 1940s.In the United States，the rise of television in the 1950s ended the period called the Golden Age of Radio Broadcasting. Most of the popular shows vanished. More and more people started watching television. Ed Murrow and his boys moved to television as a result. He joined with Fred Friendly to create the series See It Now.

This show lasted from 1951 to 1958.Some broadcasts on See It Now concerned important issues（议题）of race，war and government dishonesty. Experts said the program was important in the history of television.

Murrow also started another television show called Person to Person. He spoke with famous people in their homes. One episode（一集）visited Eleanor Roosevelt，wife of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The show also visited actress Marilyn Monroe，actor Marlon Brando and Senator John F. Kennedy.

Ed Murrow also produced a number of special programs for CBS. One such program was called Harvest of Shame. It showed the hard life and poor living conditions of farm workers who moved from place to place. Some people said this program was so powerful that it influenced American lawmakers to take measures to protect these migrant workers.

After John F. Kennedy was elected president，he asked the newsman to lead the United States Information Agency. Murrow served as the agency's director from 1961 to 1964.Then he retired from the job. He died in 1965 at his farm in Pawling，New York. He was fifty-seven years old.

Today, Edward Murrow is remembered for his influence on broadcasting and the quality of his reporting. Former CBS chairman William Paley once said Murrow was a man born for his time and work.

Paley called him a student, a thinker, and at heart, a poet of mankind. As a result, he said Murrow was a great reporter.

【小题1】The underlined word "vanished" in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to"______".

A．changed	B．Improved
C．succeeded	D．disappeared

【小题2】According to Paragraph 3, the television show Person to Person was most probably a _______.

A．talk show	B．soap opera
C．talent show	D．documentary

【小题3】Some people believed that Harvest of Shame _______.

A．was called the best program of CBS

B．was created mainly for lawmakers

C．once influenced American lawmakers

D．encouraged farm workers to move around

【小题4】What does the writer mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph?

A．Ed Murrow greatly influenced the development of TV shows.

B．Ed Murrow still has an effect on TV shows today.

C．Ed Murrow was a man good at many things.

D．Ed Murrow was a great reporter.