Real teachers know that without them standing at the front of the class, ______ the knowledge, excitement, encouragement, passion and fun, schools will be very dull places indeed．

A．delivering                B．sending            C．teaching                D．presenting

This kind of flower ______ its richest smell at night．

A．throws light upon         B．cools off           C．a(chǎn)pplies for           D．gives off

True love never comes smoothly． However, in your lifetime searching, it may quietly ______ without your notice．

A．come across                                       B．come about

C．come to life                                         D．come into being

The study was carried out in one small town so we can’t be sure that the results are truly ______．

A．proper             B．impressive             C．representative              D．natural

It sounds ______, but it is true that they should argue about this issue for a whole afternoon．

A．unconditional              B．ridiculous              C．uncomfortable              D．sensitive

So different is this matter from the others that we should treat them ______．

A．urgently            B．relatively             C．especially                D．separately

His suggestions were ______ the will of their demonstration and thus he was driven out of their team．

A．in collision with                                   B．in relation to

C．in agreement with                                D．in harmony with

The boy was 1．7 meters tall when he just started his third year at primary school． As his feet had  1  even his father’s shoes, his parents had to look up and down the streets for size-46 shoes． At 16, he  2  to a height of 2．2 meters, and no store or market in the whole of China has stock of size -53 shoes for his big  3 ．The parents watched rather disturbingly their son shooting up  4  like a young tree．

The young giant felt  5  for his troubled parents, who needed to take extra care of him for his food,  6  and traveling． Time and again he  7  his “great desire” to his good friend, teammate and roommate Liu Wei, “I will do my best． Once I enter the Shanghai No．1 Team, I won’t have to worry about my  8 ．”

That boy was Yao Ming．

    Today’s Yao is a great basketball star． Back then, however, his  9  was not championship, NBA, or stardom． He trained like mad, struggled hard, all for a pair of shoes that would  10  his feet, merely to relieve his  11  of their worry about his shoes． Such a simple 12  may seem completely unimaginable for a star like Yao． 13  it was exactly this very simple stimulus（激勵(lì)） that urged Yao to achieve today’s  14 ．He earnestly and realistically sets the goal for every stage of his life and spare no  15  to reach it, and to surpass （超越）it．

       It is not a（n） 16  thing for anyone to set a goal． The tough part is to know how to pursue and 17  it． Many people leave their aspirations in blueprints  18 ．If we take a look at those abandoned causes and goals along many people’s life  19 , we should remind ourselves of Yao Ming: travelers first need a fitting pair of shoes, and then  20  one firm step at a time towards their goals．

1． A．forbade                   B．outgrown                C．matched                 D．a(chǎn)ffected

2． A．measured             B．raised                     C．shot                       D．stretched

3． A．height                     B．size                        C．length                    D．feet

4． A．wildly                     B．immediately             C．gradually               D．sharply

5． A．upset                   B．a(chǎn)nxious                   C．sorry                      D．responsible

6． A．growth                   B．study                      C．clothing                  D．future

7． A．expressed            B．a(chǎn)pplied                    C．suggested               D．contributed

8． A ．jeans                     B．shoes                      C．future                     D．wages

9． A．dream                     B．a(chǎn)chievement            C．recreation               D．prejudice

10． A．meet                     B．protect                    C．fit                          D．hold

11． A．friends                  B．teammates               C．parents                   D．coaches

12． A ．goal                    B．demand                   C．incident                  D．task

13． A．Though                 B．Yet                         C．Because                  D．As

14． A．recreation              B．harmony                 C．a(chǎn)ccess                    D．glory

15． A．mind                     B．time                        C．effort                            D．benefit

16． A．easy                            B．difficult                   C．common                 D．normal

17． A．recognize              B．grasp                      C．a(chǎn)pproach                D．reach

18． A．once                     B．soon                       C．forever                   D．sometimes

19． A．travel                    B．trip                         C．journey                   D．tour

20． A．miss                     B．leap                        C．gain                        D．take

When I was about six years old, my mother came home one day and found that I had collected half dozen babies of the neighborhood----all of them too young to walk----and had them sitting before me on the floor while I was teaching them to wave their arms．When she asked the explanation of this, I informed her that it was my school of dance．She was amused, and placing herself at the piano, she began to play for me．This school continued and became very popular．Later on, little girls of the neighborhood came and their parents paid me a small sum to teach them．This was the beginning of what afterwards proved a very well-paid occupation．

My mother took me to a famous ballet teacher, but his lessons did not please me． When the teacher told me to stand on my toes, I asked him why, and when he replied “Because it is beautiful,” I said that it was ugly and against nature and after the third lesson, I left his class, never to return．This stiff（僵硬的）and commonplace gymnastics which he called dancing only disturbed my dream．I dreamed of a different dance．I did not know just what it would be but I was feeling out towards an invisible world into which I guess I might enter if I found the key．

My art was already in me when I was a little girl, and it was owing to the heroic and adventurous spirit of my mother that it was not stifled（窒息）．I believe that whatever the child is going to do in life should be begun when it is very young．I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace, and refuse them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original．

1．The attitude of the author’s mother toward her school of dance was ______．

     A．negative             B．neutral        C．supporting           D．indifferent

2．The author thought that ballet was ______．

     A．elegant, graceful and gentle                 B．stiff, ugly and unnatural

     C．charming, attractive and cool                D．touch, inviting and challenging

3．From this passage we know that the author owed her success in art to ______．

     A．her strict and adventurous ballet teacher

B．the good training that her parents gave her

     C．the support and understanding of her mother

     D．the inspiration gained from the neighborhood babies

4．The key message we may get from the passage is that ______．

     A．parents should help to develop the natural gift of their kids

     B．parents should give a hand to their kids doing something original

     C．a(chǎn) good mother should be both heroic and adventurous in education

     D．ballet is no good as a form of dance and thus should be forbidden

When a consumer finds that something he or she bought is faulty（假冒的） or in some other way does not live up to what the producer says for it, the first step is to present the warranty（保單），or any other records that might help, at the store of buying．In most cases, this action produces results．However, if it does not, there are various means the consumer may use to gain satisfaction．

A simple and common method used by many consumers is to complain directly to the store manager．In general, the “higher up” the consumer takes him or her complaint, the faster he or she can expect it to be settled．In such a case, it is usually settled in the consumer’s favor, taking it as true that he or she has a just right．

Consumer should complain in person whenever possible, but if they can not get to the place of buying, it is acceptable to phone or write the complaint in a letter．

Complaining is usually most effective when it is done politely but firmly, and especially when the consumer can show clearly what is wrong with what was bought in question．If this can not be done, the consumer will succeed best by presenting specific information as to what is wrong, rather than by making general statements． For example, “the left speaker does not work at all and the sound coming out of the right one is unclear” is better than “This stereo（立體音響） — does not work．”

The store manager may advise the consumer to write to the producer, if so, the consumer should do this, stating the complaint as politely and firmly as possible．But if a polite complaint does not achieve the expected result, the consumer can go a step further．He or she can threaten to take the seller to court or report the seller to a public organization responsible for protecting consumer’s rights．

1．To gain a relatively quick settlement of his problem, which one below is a consumer advised to complain to ______．

     A．the manager                                           B．the producer

       C．a(chǎn) shop assistant                                         D．a(chǎn) public organization

2．The most effective complaint about what was bought can be made by ______．

     A．a(chǎn)sking politely to change it                        B．saying firmly it is of the poor quality

     C．writing to the producer directly                    D．explaining exactly what is wrong with it

3．The passage mainly informs us ______．

A．how to make the effective complaint

B．how to settle a consumer’s complaint

C．how to avoid buying something wrong

D．how to deal with complaints from consumer

4．According to the passage, the last way a consumer has to use is ______．

      A．to find the manager and reason with him

B．to write to the producer stating the problems

      C．to gather several fighters to threaten the seller

D．to warn the seller of reporting to a public organization