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We don’ t always get a second chance to achieve our dreams. But some people are lucky, like Matthew McConaughey. Once almost unknown, the actor has recently found himself back on the list of the best actors in Hollywood. His new movie Interstellar is just another sign that his career reinvention has been an incredible success. “The film relies on McConaughey’ s performance to hold together the emotional story of a father and his daughter against the background of space travel and the end of the world,”Forbes commented.
But only years ago, the Texas native was often the butt of jokes（笑柄）about being too handsome. In 1993, after meeting with director Richard Linklater, McConaughey starred in Dazed and Confused. And a Hollywood career was born, mostly in romantic comedies. For a long time, the whole world believed McConaughey was just a handsome guy with comic talent.
But McConaughey stopped starring in that type of movie, and began to use his looks differently. Slowly he built up his reputation as a serious actor. In 2013, McConaughey was offered to play an AIDS activist in Dallas Buyers Club. The role saw the normally muscular actor losing 50 pounds in order to appear sick. His performance won him an Oscar for Best Actor.
The actor gave thanks to someone he has always looked up to as a hero during his Oscar acceptance speech. When he was 15, the actor said, he decided that his hero would be himself in 10 years. But 10 years later, he pushed the deadline ahead another decade. Then 10 years later, another decade.“My hero’ s always 10 years away,” he said. “I’ m never going to attain that. That keeps me with somebody to keep on chasing.”Or perhaps constantly chasing the chance to be his own hero has given him a second chance to follow his dreams.
Why was McConaughey often the butt of jokes in his early career?

What role won Mc Conaughey an Oscar for Best Actor?

What can we learn about McConaughey？

Which of the following can be the best title?

Shake Shack is a new kind of restaurant becoming more popular in the U.S. The restaurants are not“fast food” . They are known as“fast casual” .
Observers say Americans want more choices and fresh food when choosing where and what to eat. This trend is one reason why the fast food restaurant McDonald’ s has struggled financially. In the last quarter of 2014, McDonald’ s net income dropped by about $300 million. The January earnings report brought more bad news. Worldwide sales dropped for the eighth month in a row and even more than expected. While McDonald’ s is struggling to get their customers back, Shake
Shack, is doing well in making money. The New York-based burger chain had a very successful IPO, or initial public offering, of shares at the end of January. On its first day of trading, Shake Shack went from $21 a share to just under $46 a share. Being part of the “fast casual ”trend has helped Shake Shack. Other fast casual restaurants in the U.S. include Chipotle and Panera.
Bonnie Riggs, a restaurant expert with NPD has studied Americans’ restaurant habits for almost 30 years. She says one reason why Americans like fast casual food is that it’ s new. It’ s creative, it’ s something different and people like to try new things. Her study shows Americans made 61 billion visits to restaurants last year. Three out of four visits were to fast food restaurants, like McDonald’ s. Fast casual is still a small percentage of restaurant visits, but it has developed fast. Just as Ms. Riggs says,“It’ s growing by leaps and bounds, because they meet consumers’ needs. They know it’ s being prepared while they wait, it’ s fresh, quality food, good tasting food at what they say are reasonable and affordable prices.”
Many Americans still like their fast food. They just are not going as often. They are finding other ways to have a meal.
What’ s the trouble with McDonald’ s?

We can learn from Bonnie Riggs that Americans ________.

What does the underlined phrase“by leaps and bounds”in Para. 3 mean?

Which of the following best describes fast casual?

The Silver City Council recognizes that citizens have certain needs. To better meet your needs, we have made several changes to community facilities in 2014. The followings show how we have tried to make your life better.
Transport
☆Three stations for the suburbs have been added to the western train service.
☆20 new buses for the southern line were purchased in January.
☆50 per cent of city busstops have been upgraded.
Communication
☆Broadband cable is now available to all parts of the city.
☆All of the new Government buildings are smartwired for better computer service!
Medical Facilities
☆The new stateoftheart Nightingale Hospital was opened in June.
☆To overcome a shortage of trained medical staff at Dover Hospital, 10 doctors have been employed from overseas.
☆Some facilities at Station Street Hospital have been upgraded.
Education
☆Textbooks will be free to all primary students in 2014!
☆Rental for private schools has been reduced.
Protection and Security
☆Extra police now patrol（巡逻）the tourist areas.
☆50 new police officers graduated in July and have taken up duties in the city area.
Entertainment / Recreation
☆The new Central Community Building opened in May.
☆5,000 new fiction books were bought for the Silver City Library.
What is the purpose of the changes in Silver City?

What can we learn from the passage?

The public notice is from _______.

You may have experienced the frustration of receiving a parking fine or finding your car towed away （拖走）after leaving it parked for a couple of minutes.
But now a hightech car sticker could help motorists avoid such a situation by allowing a traffic warden（管理员）to get in touch with them. Car owners can buy the sticker and place it inside their car’ s windscreen， having set it up with vital information, such as their phone number. The slim design will include a sensor that will send a text message warning a driver about a coming fine when touched by a traffic warden. The message will ask them to move their car immediately. The driver could then type a reply for the warden using their smartphone, which will appear on the sticker’ s screen.They may choose to write something along the lines of“back in two minutes”in a bid to avoid a fine. Frankfurt-based IT consultant, Daniel Kalliontzis, came up with the idea and is raising funds on Indiegogo to put his 54 sticker into production.
The smart sticker system will rely on the good will of traffic wardens and critically, a German law. The law states:“An officer has to choose the most efficient and inexpensive way for the car owner to remove the vehicle.”It could be cheaper for the authorities to contact the driver than to tow his car.
At the time of writing, Mr Kalliontzis has raised just over 3,000 of his 50,000 goal on Indiegogo. If he manages to raise the money, the stickers will be shipped in June 2015. But it appears that car owners using the smart system could get some unnecessary warning messages, because anyone could touch the smart sticker.
The first paragraph is intended to ________.

What may probably contribute to the application of the TowStop sticker in Germany?

What can be concluded from the last paragraph about the TowStop Sticker?

What’ s the right order of the following statements according to the passage?
①A message is sent by the sensor.
②The sticker is put inside a car’ s windscreen.
③A traffic warden touches the smart sticker.
④The sticker is set up with vital information.
⑤The motorist sends a message.

Article writing has been a way of conveying information through the web. If you’ re a writer, being able to let them stay on your article for more than two seconds is already a success. Your writing style can create more readers for your content if you know how to catch the attention of readers.
Be Direct-to-the-Point
Website writing differs from print writing. People do not want to spend much time on a website because they want to get the information they need.
Be Informative
Articles for web content are briefly written. They flesh out the information without decorations. Be sure that your articles are not confusingly worded. Make sure you organize your facts logically so that your reader can effectively process them.
Be Conversational
Be conversational so that readers can grasp what you mean in your article. With quality content, engage your readers so that your article will have that personal and human touch.
Be Connected
Most article writers just place sentences that state a certain fact to form a paragraph. However, in readers’ hopes, these writers fail to establish a human connection. So it is important to make the connection smooth and not abrupt.

E. Here are some important points to consider before writing online.
F. Article writing is a fun way of establishing a connection with a reader and a writer.
G. Complex sentences tend to wrongly lead your reader and make them confused.

Beginning to learn gymnastics even before she could barely walk, Svetlana had always dreamed to enter the Olympics scene some day.
However, her         ended in the car on the winding road when a lorry appeared out of nowhere. The last thing she         was a blinding flash of light. In hospital, when told she would never           again, she couldn’ t believe it. Three months later, she was           out of hospital on a wheelchair. Then a friend came to her house to visit her with an old child’ s storybook. A bookmark in it made her         to page 117. The name of the         was‘The Day Clara Walked’ . She was determined to return to stage whatever it might cost.
         , after a year’ s hard exercise, Svetlana recovered and was able to display her gymnastics. While she was sitting on the green bench           the Athens Stadium, memories         : first, the pain and the tears, the book under her pillow, the words of relatives full of advice and comfort, and the pity in those eyes that had once held         for her talent. Then followed the trips to the gym where everyone looked on         , their disbelief transforming slowly to wonder,          she could balance the hoop（健身圈）as well as her teammates. She registered for 2004 Olympic Games, and finally she received         from the Olympic Committee.
Her         was interrupted by the attendant who said,“It’ s time” , two words that she had been         to hear for so long. Smoothing her dress, she walked into the stadium, each           firm and steady. Everything was         , and the applause rang loud in her ears, her heart         violently against her chest.
Later that night, Svetlana pulled the gold medal out of her pocket and placed it on the old           on the shelf, which opened to page 117, to the chapter‘The Day Clara Walked’ , tears         her vision.

A．dream B．intension C．life D．career

A．forgot B．remembered C．experienced D．suffered

A．see B．dance C．walk D．sing

A．rushed B．rocked C．thrown D．wheeled

A．open B．relate C．point D．adapt

A．bookmark B．page C．chapter D．story

A．Suddenly B．Surprisingly C．Fortunately D．Certainly

A．opposite B．beneath C．inside D．outside

A．flooded in B．faded away C．mixed up D．squeezed out

A．fright B．regret C．sympathy D．admiration

A．doubtfully B．thankfully C．nervously D．cheerfully

A．until B．as C．while D．once

A．access B．praise C．support D．approval

A．plan B．attempt C．thought D．sight

A．content B．eager C．upset D．proud

A．breath B．wake C．step D．look

A．unexpected B．awful C．perfect D．finished

A．fighting B．striking C．kicking D．hammering

A．hoop B．book C．letter D．dress

A．clouding B．filling C．rolling D．Rushing

It’ s said that a giant rock was located in the North Sea but once many boats and ships        （strike）it and sank.
About a century years ago, a kind and imaginative minister came up with an idea to have a buoy（浮标）        （fasten）to the rock. On the top of the buoy        （place）a bell, which would ring whenever any ships got closer. When hearing the bell ringing, sailors knew where the rock was and stayed safe. One day, a sea robber Rover happened        （sail） not far away from the rock.
Seeing        buoy floating in the water, he decided to play a trick. Soon his crew broke the chain that held the buoy, let the bell go into the water and then sailed away. In the following weeks, they robbed many         ships around the seas and filled the ship with a great        （vary） of treasures. Unfortunately, when returning, they themselves had no idea how to get away from the terrible rock        the ring. The ship was moving swiftly in the dark        there was a great crash.         was the very rock and the ship began to sink.

短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。作文中共有 10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
On Friday, our teacher told us that there would an English corner in front of our teaching building. I set about soon after the last class in the afternoon.
To my joy, the English corner had just been on for a few minute. I joined them on their talk. At first, I was afraid that my English was so poor and limit that I couldn’ t follow them or make myself understand. I was also afraid that anyone might laugh at me. But a smiling face here or an encouraging nod there soon put me at ease. Though I speak to them only in simple English that day, I believe in future I will make a greater progress.

假如你叫李华，不久前参加了美国文化委员会举办的一次语言竞赛活动，作为获奖者你得到了暑假去美国免费学习英语的机会。以下是校方寄给你的课程安排表，请你阅读课表，按要求给对方负责人Mr. Smith回一封信。
Schedule For EFLS Summer English Courses

注意：1. 信的开头已为你写好，但不计入总词数；
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3.词数：100左右。
Dear Mr. Smith,
Thank you for your offer of inviting me to the free summer English course in your school.
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Truly yours
Li Hua