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their success. The purpose of the “ Blow Your Own Trumpet” week was to help these students.
“Some teenagers will continue to push themselves and never realise that they?ve done enoughꎬ”
said Ms. Hanburyꎬ head of Wimbledon High School in Londonꎬ “ Without being able to accept
when things have gone rightꎬ some girls might never be happy”.
The school wanted to help the girls build an ability to get better from setbacks quicklyꎬ so they
wouldn?t think it was the end of the world if they didn?t do well in an exam. In the “Blow Your Own
Trumpet” weekꎬ students were encouraged to talk about their experiences of success and failure.
They were also asked to think carefully about their achievements in each subject during lessonsꎬ
make videos and act out plays to tell the stories of success and failure in classes.
Ms. Hanbury said she wanted her students to be confident in the things they?re good at and to
also know they?re not good at everything. It was important for them to know their own strengths(长
处) and weaknessesꎬ she added. She also said girls needed to understand that being praised for
achievements was quite different from showing off(炫耀).
( )21.If someone blows his own trumpetꎬ he .
A.likes playing musical instruments
B.always lies to people he doesn?t like
C.likes talking about how successful he is
D.always minds too much if others do something wrong
( )22.The purpose of building up the “Blow Your Own Trumpet” week was .
A.to guide students how to manage their time well
B.to let students learn about the importance of winning
C.to teach students how to praise themselves without being shy
D.to help students deal with difficulties and accept their success
( )23.If the girls didn?t do well in an examꎬ the school wanted them to feel .
A.sad and hopeless
B.it was not the end of the world
C.they could do nothing but study harder
D.it was necessary to always do better than others
( )24.What does the underlined word “ setbacks” mean in Chinese?
A.弱点 B.吹嘘 C.病痛 D.挫折
( )25.Students at the school did all of the following in the “ Blow Your Own Trumpet” week
EXCEPT .
A.talking about their failures
B.making videos about their hobbies
C.thinking about the progress they?ve made
D.telling the stories of success and failure through plays
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(B)
Throughout historyꎬ people have been interested in knowing how language first beganꎬ but no
one knows exactly where or how this happened. Howeverꎬ we do know a lot about languagesꎬ the
language of today and also the languages of earlier times. There are probably about three thousand
languages in the world today. Chinese is the language with the most speakers. Englishꎬ Russian and
Spanish are also spoken by millions of people. On the other handꎬ some languages in the world have
less than one hundred speakers.
There are several important families of languages in the world. For exampleꎬ most of the
languages of Europe are in one large family called Indo ̄European. The original language of this
family was spoken about 4ꎬ500 years ago. Many of the present ̄day languages of Europe and India
are modern forms of the language of 4ꎬ500 years ago.
Languages are always changing. The English of today is very different from the English of 500
years ago. In timeꎬ some even die out completely. About 1ꎬ000 years agoꎬ English was a little
known relative of German spoken on one of the borders of Europe.
If a language has a number of speakersꎬ or if it is very oldꎬ there may be differences in the
way it is spoken in different areas. That isꎬ the language may have several dialects. Chinese is a
good example of dialect differences. Chinese has been spoken for thousands of years by many
millions of people. The differences between the dialects of Chinese are so great that speakers of
Chinese from some parts of China can?t understand speakers from other parts.
( )26.The first paragraph mainly tells us that .
A.most people in the world speak Chinese
B.there are thousands of languages in today?s world
C.man has much knowledge about languages
D.some people know several languages
( )27.Most European and Indian languages .
A.will soon die out completely B.were once a relative of English
C.are no longer spoken D.come from the same family of language.
( )28.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A.Chinese is the language with the most speakers.
B.English was a well ̄known relative of German spoken on one of the borders of Europe.
C.A language has many speakersꎬ but there may be no differences in the way it is
spoken in different areas.
D.Speakers of Chinese from some parts of China can understand speakers from other
parts.
( )29.It is considered to be the most difficult thing for one to learn to speak Chinese because
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