2 The first day of university our professor introduced a new student who appears to be very different from the rest of us. That is Rose, an eighty-seven-year-old lady who always wore a big smile on her face. “Why are you in college at this age?” I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. “I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me. Over the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she enjoyed being the center of attention from the other students. She was living it up! At the end of the semester, we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. She was introduced and stepped up to the stage. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her speech cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the speaker and simply said, “I’m sorry I’m a bit nervous. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me!” As we laughed Rose cleared her throat and began, “We do not stop laughing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You’
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ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it! Have no regrets. The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we didn’t do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets. Finally, there is a huge difference between growing old and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty. This is growing old, by doing nothing to your life. The idea of growing up is to always find opportunity to change.” At the year’s end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral. When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful advice to your friends and family: Remember, we cannot avoid growing old, but we can choose our own ways to grow up. 26. Why was Rose in college? A. Because she always wanted to have a college degree. B. Because she thought college was fun and she could make many friends. C. Because she has never gone to a college. D. Because she enjoyed being the center of attention from the other students. 27. According to para. 3, how
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did Rose live her college life? A. She always dressed up and never attend any class. B. She was quiet and didn’t want to make any friends. C. She was easygoing and made lots of friends. D. She wasn’t making the best out of her college life. 28. How did she react when she dropped her speech note at the football banquet? A. She got very nervous and stopped speaking. B. She was drunk with too much whiskey. C. She had to give up beer for this mistake. D. She continued her speech with a joke. 29. What does Rose mean by “so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it”? A. They are killed by them walking around. B. They are “dead” because they don’t have any dreams. C. They are “dead” because are they are not satisfied with their life. D. They are “dead” because they don’t know anything. 30. According to Rose, which one of the following is correct about the difference between “growing old” and “growing up”? A. Both mean the aging process where a child becomes a grown-up. B. Both mean lots of changes. C. “Growing old” is sad, but “growing up” is happy. D. “Growing old” is natural, but “growing up” is something we can control. Passage 3 Lovebirds. That’s what all our friends called us when we first married. I guess Don and I deserved it. Money was
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tight. Sometimes we’d have to save up days just for an ice cream cone. Still, our tiny apartment seemed like paradise. Love does that, you know. The more we heard the term “lovebirds”, the more we thought about birds. One day we started saving up for a couple of lovebirds of our own. We knew we couldn’t afford to buy both birds and a nice cage, so in his spare moments, Don made the cage himself. We put our cage in front of a shaded window. Then we waited until our little saving was full of bills and spare change. With that money we “adopted” a pair of canaries from our local pet store, a male and a female, and named them Sunshine and Snowball. Time passed, and when our young lovebirds finally seemed mature enough to start a family of their own, we went ahead and prepared a nest area and lots of nesting material for them. Snowball was a very exacting wife in designing and decorating their nest just so, while Sunshine, filled with love, bent over backward to put everything just where she ordered. Then one day an egg appeared. How they sang! And a few weeks later when a tiny chick hatched, their happiness seemed to know no bounds. I don’t know how it happened, but that baby bird was bright orange. So right off we named him Punkinhead. The sunny days passed. How proud all of us
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were when our baby bird ran out of the nest onto a real grown-up perch! Then one day, Punkinhead suddenly fell head down to the bottom of the cage. The tiny orange bird just lay there, both parents and I rushed to his rescue. But he was dead. Just like that. Whether he’d had a heart attack before he fell or broke his neck in the fall, I’ll never know. But Punkinhead was gone. The mother bird refused to let either Sunshine or me get near that little body. Instead of the joyful melodies I usually heard from Snowball, now she gave only the most heartbreaking cries and moans. Her heart, joy and will seemed completely melted by her sorrow. Poor Sunshine didn’t know what to do. He kept trying to push Snowball away from her sad situation, but she refused to move. Instead, over and over she kept trying to wake up her beloved child. Finally Sunshine seemed to work out a plan. He convinced her to fly up and eat some seeds every so often, while he stood duty in her place. Then each time she left, he’d quietly place one piece of straw over Punkinhead’s body. Just one. But in a few days, piece by piece, it was completely covered over. At first Snowball seemed panic when she looked around, but she didn’t try to uncover the chick. Instead, she flew up to her normal place and stayed there. Then I was able
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[整理2020专升本英语模拟题和答案] 专升本考试模拟题
