题型：阅读理解 题类：常考题 难易度：普通
2016-2017学年宁夏银川二中高二上期中考试英试卷
When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Doctor Gibbs. He didn't look like any doctor I'd ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard, but was always very kind.
When Doctor Gibbs wasn't saving lives, he was planting trees. He had some interesting theories about planting trees. He believed in the principle “No pain, no gain”. He hardly watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional(传统的) wisdom. Once I asked why and he told me that watering plants spoiled them because it made them grow weaker. He said you had to make things tough for the trees so that only the strongest could survive. He talked about how watering trees made them develop shallow roots and how, if they were not watered, trees would grow deep roots in search of water. So, instead of watering his trees every morning, he'd beat them with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree's attention.
Doctor Gibbs died a couple of years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I'd watched him plant some twenty five years ago. They were all tall and strong.
I planted a couple of trees myself a few years ago. Two years of attending these trees meant they grew up weak. Whenever a cold wind blew, their branches trembled. Adversity(逆境) seemed to benefit Doctor Gibb's trees in ways comfort and ease never could.
Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I often pray that their lives will be easy. But lately I've been thinking that it's time to change my prayer. I know my children are going to meet with hardship. There's always a cold wind blowing somewhere. What we need to do is to pray for deep roots, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be torn apart.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping once said. "Heroes come from the people." Every year, there are ordinary people spreading positive energy (正能量) and touching our hearts. Let's take a look at some of them.
Name: Zhu Yanfu Age: 88 Profession: soldier (士兵) and officer What he did: In 2021, everyone was impressed by the soldiers in the film The Battle at LakeChangjin. Zhu Yanfu was one of the real soldiers. He lost his hands, left eye and both legs in the battle (战斗). After returning to his village, he used all his money to open a reading room and set up the first evening school in the village. He also led the villagers to plant fruits and vegetables. | Name: Wu Tianyi Age: 86 Profession: doctor What he did: To better understand altitude sickness (高原病), Wu spent years studying the local people. Wu and his team came up with a way to help them. That allowed all 140,000 workers who built the Oinghai-Tibet Railway to avoid altitude sickness. It was considered a miracle (奇迹). Now, in his eighties, Wu refuses to give up working and still works there. |
Name: Janis Chan Age: 40 Profession: reporter and TV host What she did: Chan hosted a show called No Poverty Land. The show tells how people in faraway villages of China work hard to shake off poverty (脱贫). For the documentary, Chan spent three months walking across mountains and rivers to reach those faraway villages. Chan also had to climb a 2,556-step ladder to reach some villages. She not only talked with locals, but also experienced their lives. | Name: Jiang Mengnan Age: 30 Profession: student What she did: When Jiang was just 6 months old, she lost her hearing after relatives gave her the wrong medicine. To understand other people, Jiang learned to read lips. When she was in primary school, she failed to catch much of what the teachers said. She copied down everything on the blackboard and study after class. Her hard work made her a top student. At the end of this year, the 30-year-old will receive her doctorate (博士学位) at Tsinghua University. |
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