A professor I have worked pretty closely with has been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer.It has been devastating for his family and heartbreaking for his students.
What made him extraordinary was not only that he was a rising star.He had only recently collected the highest honors for young researchers at the White House.We truly admired him—as someone put it, “He always has a smile and a kind word for everyone.” It is very hard to find someone who is extremely intelligent should be so nice a human being.
I decided that we needed him to know our_attitude and also how we are all praying for his recovery.I bought him a simple card which read, “Healing thoughts and wishes coming your way.” I met all the students he worked closely with and got them to sign on it.Each student in his laboratory signed and also added a message.“We love you so much”， “We miss you！We need you back here—get well soon”， “Please come back”， “Thank you for being such an inspiring teacher”， “I hope you recover soon”．..These were some of the messages that were written.Most of the students were really glad we were doing this and said it was a very good idea to give it to him.
He is still undergoing(經(jīng)歷) intense treatment，and along with his family is trying his best to stay optimistic and hopeful.I didn’t see a trace of self­pity or sadness when I met him last week.Instead，he paid attention to every word of my presentation and asked me several questions related to my work.I was amazed at how much he gave his 100% on that day in spite of being in pain because of chemotherapy(化療)．He did not know if he even had another month to live.“I am trying to focus on staying positive，hoping to be back this summer，”he said.
Needless to say，I saw an expression of joy and hope on his face as he opened the card.He said he was truly touched to see the messages from the students he worked closely with.
There is one thing I learnt from last week：It is so important to tell people how much they mean to us and what an inspiration they are before it becomes too late.My professor，in spite of being too sick to teach classes，has managed to continue being a great teacher，introducing his last valuable message to us.
小題1:The professor was admired because ________.
A．he was very intelligent
B．he had won many honors
C．he had noble personalities
D．he was very determined
小題2:What do the underlined words “our attitude” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A．Our worry about his health.
B．Our pray for his health.
C．Our admiration for him.
D．Our pity for him.
小題3:When the writer visited the professor at hospital，what surprised him was that the professor ________.
A．was suffering from great pain
B．was still very confident
C．didn’t know he would die soon
D．still cared for others
小題4:Of the following statements，the writer may agree that ________.
A．the professor loves his job very much
B．few students supported the writer’s decision at first
C．the professor will go back to teach this summer
D．the professor often feels sorry for himself

小題1:C
小題2:C
小題3:D
小題4:A

小題1:C
解析　細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段中的“We truly admired him—as someone put it，‘He always has a smile and a kind word for everyone.’It is very hard to find someone who is extremely intelligent should be so nice a human being.”可知學生們崇拜這位教授的主要原因是他的優(yōu)秀品質(zhì)。
小題2:　C
解析　指代關系題。根據(jù)第二段中的“We truly admired him...”及第三段中學生們的留言可知此處“我們的態(tài)度”指的是學生們對教授的敬佩之情。
小題3:　D
解析　推理判斷題。根據(jù)第四段中的“...he paid attention to every word of my presentation...I was amazed at how much he gave his 100% on that day in spite of being in pain...”可知，讓作者驚異的是重病的教授此時仍然關心他人。
小題4:　A
解析　推理判斷題。根據(jù)第四段中的“‘I am trying to focus on staying positive，hoping to be back this summer，’ he said.”可知教授非常熱愛他的工作，希望盡快回到工作崗位上。
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An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it had ever been in the past. “We were surprised by just how positive today’s young people seem to be about their families,” said one number of the research team. “They’re expected to be rebellious and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds: they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There’s more negotiation and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don’t want to rock the boat.”
So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends. “My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-year-old Daniel Lazall. “I always tell them when I’m going out clubbing. As long as they know what I’m doing, they’re fine with me.” Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees. “Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I’d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments, “Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over. ”
小題1:What is the popular image of the teenagers today？
A．They worry about school.
B．They dislike living with their parents.
C．They have to be locked in to avoid troubles.
D．They quarrel a lot with other family members.
小題2:The study shows that teenagers don’t want to __________.
A．share family responsibility
B．cause trouble in their families
C．go boating with their family
D．make family decisions
小題3:Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today’s parents ____________.
A．go to clubs more often with their children
B．a(chǎn)re much stricter with their children
C．care less about their children’s life
D．give their children more freedom
小題4:According to the writer, teenage rebellion __________.
A．may be a false belief
B．is common nowadays
C．existed only in the 1960s
D．resulted from changes in families
小題5:What is the passage mainly about？
A．Negotiation in family.
B．Education in family.
C．Harmony in family.
D．Teenage trouble in family.

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