He narrowly escaped _______in the accident.
A. killing B. to be killed C. being killed D. to kill
China will______ financial reforms that include interest rates as it seeks to keep economic growth.
A. interfere with B. defend against C. end up D. push ahead with
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A.News. B.Classified ads. C.Culture. D.Amusement.
To be successful in any aspect of life, you need to know when to use the carrot or the stick. Here are a few tips to help you decide whether it's better to use the carrot or the stick.
With the kids
The carrot
When it comes to raising a kid, the carrot or the stick dilemma is quickly disappearing as too many parents take the carrot approach to the extreme. In child raising, the carrot should
never be materialistic things. If you want to ask for good behavior with a reward, it should be
with something that can't be bought, say, trust.
The slick Nowadays, no one likes to use the stick any more, or in my father's case, the belt. I'm not overlooking child abuse, if you ever want to call it that, but I am encouraging parents to toughen up a bit. You don't want your kid to test your limits only to find out he can
get away with it. If you want to raise a kid, raise the hand and let him know it comes down on the second offense.
At the office
The carrot
People need encouragement and motivation to perform well. However, the carrot only really works well with employees who have already proved themselves. If you've got someone who can't show up at the office before noon, the promise of a raise isn't going to do much. On the contrary, if there's a guy with a good work moral, he'll thrive(grow stronger)when you add a promotion to the picture.
The slick When considering the carrot or the stick in the office, remember that, overall, the stick is the more practical method in the office. A wise man, who just happened to be an
Italian once said"It's best to be both loved and feared."It's nice to have everyone love you,but running a business isn't like running a family.You need to have the stick constantly raised.
With the wife
The carrot
When it comes to marriage,always use the carrot.I've had a lovely marriage for many
years,and I've always stuck to the carrot approach.Sometimes you catch more flies with
honey,and sometimes it's the crack of a whip(鞭子) that gets the horse moving.Try not to use too many sticks at home;the carrot is much more fun.
24.What is the best title of this passage?
A.The Carrot or the Stick?
B.The Introduction to the Carrot and the Stick
C.Tips in the Daily Life
D.The Advantages of the Carrot and the Stick
25.In kids raising,the author prefers_________.
A.the carrot approach
B.the stick approach
C.both the carrot approach and the stick approach
D.neither the carrot approach nor the stick approach
26.Which do you think is the best to be a good boss at the office?
A.Always using carrots.
B.Eating a lot of carrots.
C.Being both loved and feared.
D.Using too many sticks.
27.Which is NOT true according to the passage?
A.The author often gives more carrots to his wife to eat at home.
B.The carrot is much more fun when it comes to marriage.
C.On different occasions,the carrot or the stick is effective.
D You need the stick to get your horses to move faster occasionally.
My brother Ron joined the US army a few years ago. Most girls, especially those who are my age, are thrilled by anything that has to do with the “army”. It’s a novelty to them to shoot a gun, jump out of a plane, and wear uniform.
Now I know you’re thinking that I must find it really cool to know a solider, who’s my brother. That’s wrong, before I found out that my brother joined the army, I was crazy about the army. Firstly, I wanted to go to college, knew that joining the army was probably the only way I could get it as my parents couldn’t afford it. Additionally there were all the other points of the army that grabbed my heart. I wanted the challenge, I wanted the discipline and I wanted the feeling that I would be doing something beyond the ability of average citizen.
But as soon as my brother joined the army, all those things fell away. All I saw were dead people, guns shooting, tanks turning into a ball of fire, tents burning, and lots of blood. It was so horrible. When Ron went to Iraq, I freaked out whenever I didn’t hear from him for more than a week. I kept up with the news, reading the latest newspaper and listening to the hourly reports. And every time I heard that an American solider was killed, I prayed, it’ wasn’t Ron.
I’m proud of my brother for serving our country, and his willingness to devote his life to something he finds important. It’s great to see how discipline and mature he’s got, and I’m glad he has his college paid for. But although I am proud, I gladly give up the “coolness” of having a brother in the army. I would be perfectly all right if I had never seen that uniform on him, and he was just a plain old “boring” brother.
I love my brother, and I’m proud of him, but I want him back home!
21. What did the writer think of the army before Ron joined?
A. Joining the army was more beneficial than going to college.
B. Joining the army was a good choice for those who couldn’t afford college education.
C. Joining the army was meant risking one’s life for something important,
D. Joining the army did more harm than good.
22. After Ron joined the army, the writer .
A. decide to join the army one day
B. became afraid of seeing soldiers
C. often showed off Ron in front of friends
D. became aware of the danger of joining the army
23. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Peace or war? B. Life in the army
C. Having a soldier in the family D. A choice between your life and your dream
It was the boy, rather than his teachers, that _____________ for what the boy had done.
A. were to blame B. were to be blamed C. was to blame D. was to be blamed
假定你是李华,计划暑假期间去英国上暑假班学习英语,就这个暑假班询问你的朋友Jack一些情况,并让他帮你租一间房子,请你根据如下信息给他写一封电子邮件。
1. 询问上课的时间、学习费用 和人数
2. 租一个30平米带家具的房子,租期为一月。
注意:1. 100词左右;
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
3.开头已经给出。
How are you doing?
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
We already know the fastest, least expensive way to slow climate change: Use less energy. With a little effort, and not much money, most of us could reduce our energy diets by 25 percent or more—doing the Earth a favor while also helping our wallets.
Not long ago, my wife, PJ, and I tried a new diet—not to lose a little weight but to answer an annoying question about climate change. Scientists have reported recently that the world is bending up even faster than predicted only a few years ago, and that the consequences could be severe if we don't keep reducing emissions(排放) of carbon dioxide (CO2 ) and other greenhouse gases that are trapping heat in our atmosphere.
We decided to try an experiment. For one month we recorded our personal emissions of CO2 . We wanted to see how much we could cut back, so we went on a strict diet. The average US household(家庭) produces about 150 pounds of CO2 a day by doing common-place things like turning on air-conditioning or driving cars. That's more than twice the European average and almost five times the global average, mostly because Americans drive more and have bigger houses. But how much should we try to reduce?
For an answer, I checked with Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth. In his book, he had challenged readers to make deep cuts in personal emissions to keep the world from reaching extremely important tipping points, such as the melting(融化) of the ice sheets in Greenland or West Antarctica. "To stay below that point, we need to reduce CO2 emissions by 80 percent," he said.
Good advice, I thought. I'd opened our bedroom windows to let in the wind. We'd gotten so used to keeping our air-conditioning going around the clock. I'd almost forgotten the windows even opened. We should not let this happen again. It's time for us to change our habits if necessary.
21.Why did the author and his wife try a new diet?
A. To take special kinds of food. B. To respond to climate change.
C. To lose weight. D. To improve their health.
22.The underlined words "tipping points" most probably refer to .
A. freezing points B. burning points
C. melting points D. boiling points
23.It can be inferred from the passage that .
A. it is necessary to keep the air-conditioning on all the time
B. it seems possible for every household to cut emissions of CO2
C. the average US household produces about 3,000 pounds of CO2 a month
D. the average European household produces about 1,000 pounds of CO2 a month
Often the importance of having dinner with the whole family at the dinner table is strengthened. We are told that “a family that eats together stays together”; we even follow it by making the whole family sit in front of the television while eating. Is it right? Wrong. Television does nothing to help make family relationships better. In fact, it only widens the gap between the members of the family, especially parents and children. It’s thus better to sit at the dinner table. Family dinners should include another important part―conversations that create a pleasant atmosphere. However, it’s often difficult to start a conversation at a family dinner. Moreover, many people make the mistake of raising controversial (有争议的) topics at dinnertime, causing one or more members, or the whole family, to lose their appetite. So it is important to keep in mind some family dinner conversation ideas.
It often serves well to start the conversation right before dinner so that setting the table and other housework may become less boring. Doing things together, whether it is talking or laying the table, can make family members feel interested so that there are no embarrassing moments when people are actually eating. You can also change the topic if you feel that it might start arguments and destroy everyone’s appetite.
Children are usually very good at sharing information and don’t know exactly how to reply when you ask them questions like “How was school today?” So make sure you know more about them than just the fact that they go to school―like which book they are reading or movie they watched recently, or ask them about the extracurricular activities that they might be taking part in.
Family dinners should be positive and conversations during dinnertime should encourage family members to eat well. All controversial topics should be avoided at dinnertime. There are plenty of other times when such topics can be discussed, but dinnertime isn’t the right time. Actually, if you have any funny stories that happened in your daily life, that’s the time when you can have a good laugh over them with others. It is also a good idea to look back on your childhood memories with your family members. They, especially your children, will feel excited about the crazy, sometimes stupid things that you did as children. In short, it is always necessary to choose the right topics for family dinner conversation.
| Family Dinner Conversations | ||
| Paragraph outline | Supporting details | |
| (66) ▲ with the family dinner | ◇ ◇Watching TV while eating together makes the gap between the family members (67) ▲ ◇ ◇Talking about something controversial while eating together results in (68) ▲ of appetite. | |
| Id Ideas about family dinner conversation | St Start early | ◇ ◇Begin to talk before dinner to make ◇ everyone feel (69) ▲ in doing the ◇ housework related to the dinner. ◇ members (70) ▲ with each other ◇ and destroy their appetite. |
| C Care about children | ◇ ◇You need to have a good (71) ▲ of their activities so that you can talk with your children about what they did or are doing. | |
| C Choose right (72) ▲ | ◇ ◇You should make sure that everyone is (73) ▲ to eat well by your positive Ta talking. ◇You should not say anything that is controversial. ◇You can (74) ▲ information about what happens in your daily life with your family members. ◇ ◇You can talk about your childhood ◇ stories with your family, which may be crazy or even stupid. In a word, there is much (75) ▲ to choose the right topics at at meals. | |
Millions of people seek help from psychologists in part because they feel different from others. But a 21 Andrew Erlich says that everyone is a freak(怪物)in some way. Erlich 22 for acceptance of differences in his book “The Long Shadows” about an uncle, Jake Erlich, who overcame prejudice, depression and 23 caused by his extreme height.
“Most of us have something that we are embarrassed about. It is like an invisible clubfoot(畸形足). But for Jake, it was 24 . Everybody saw it,” said Andrew.
As a clinical psychologist, Andrew Erlich helps patients who see themselves as freaks. First, he tells them about his uncle. “Here is a man that 25 the challenges, and he does it not by 26 who he is, but by embracing who he is 27 and expressing it in the visual 28 and in his performances,” he said.
Erlich’s 29 tells about how Jake toured with the circus and then, after suffering temporary blindness, 30 sculpture and painting. “He found 31 through creativity. I am 32 interested in the creative process in the people that I see, and I use Jake as an example, and I 33 them his paintings,” said Erlich.
“Jake really wanted to do something 34 . You see a scene and your 35 come through as you see and feel it, and you believe he painted it from different 36 ,” said Erlich.
“People were very 37 of human differences, and they would 38 walls to protect themselves from those differences and those walls that 39 us are very dangerous,” he said.
Erlich hopes that his uncle’s story will help readers 40 themselves and fulfill their dreams.
| 21. A. physician | B. painter | C. writer | D. psychologist |
| 22. A. argues | B. defines | C. prepares | D. protests |
| 23.A.disappointment | B. loss | C. pain | D. illness |
| 24. A. pleasant | B. present | C. sick | D. widespread |
| 25. A. fears | B. neglects | C. overcomes | D. rejects |
| 26. A. avoiding | B. admitting | C. recognizing | D. imagining |
| 27. A. tightly | B. quickly | C. bravely | D. easily |
| 28. A. books | B. arts | C. actions | D. habits |
| 29. A. clinic | B. book | C. painting | D. experiment |
| 30. A. gave up | B. thought over | C. figured out | D. took up |
| 31. A. freedom | B. health | C. pressure | D. sorrow |
| 32. A. seldom | B. rarely | C. quite | D. nearly |
| 33. A. explain | B. count | C. draw | D. show |
| 34. A. suddenly | B. differently | C. happily | D. simply |
| 35. A. emotions | B. possessions | C. talents | D. abilities |
| 36. A. colors | B. books | C. places | D. perspectives |
| 37. A. aware | B. tired | C. confident | D. frightened |
| 38. A. build | B. destroy | C. remove | D. break |
| 39. A. prevent | B. separate | C. withdraw | D. threaten |
| 40. A. recover | B. upgrade | C. accept | D. learn |
When a rather dirty, poorly dressed person kneels at your feet and puts out his hands to beg for a few coins, do you hurry on, not knowing what to do, or do you feel sad and hurriedly hand over some money? What should our attitude to beggars be? There can’t be no question that the world is full of terribly sad stories. It must be terrible to have no idea where our next meal is going to come from. It seems cruel not to give some money to beggars.
Certainly, most of the world’s great religions(宗教)order us to be open-hearted and share what we have with those less fortunate than ourselves. But has the world changed? Maybe what was morally(道德方面)right in the old days, when one knew exactly who in the village had suffered misfortune and needed help, is no longer the best idea. Quite a few people will not give to beggars. Let us look at their arguments.
First, some believe that many city beggars dress up on purpose to look pitiable and actually make a good living from begging. Giving to beggars only encourages this sort of evil(恶行). Secondly,there is the worry that the money you give will be spent on beer, wine or drugs. Thirdly, there is the opinion that there is no real excuse for begging. One might be poor,but that is no reason for losing one’s sense of pride and self-dependence.
Related to this is the opinion that the problem should be dealt with by the government rather than ordinary people. Some people think beggars should go to the local government department and receive help.
It is hard to come to any final conclusion;there are various cases and we must deal with them differently. A few coins can save a life in some situations, and even if the money is wasted, that does not take away the moral goodness (道德之善) of the giver.
32.What is mainly discussed in the passage?
A. Moral deeds of people.
B. Religious activities of the church.
C. Moral goodness of the giver.
D. Arguments on giving to beggars.
33.What can we infer from the sentence “But has the world changed?” in the second paragraph?
A. People no longer know who suffers misfortune in the village.
B. Some people will not do what was morally right in the past.
C. We don’t meet with those who need help any more.
D. Now it is the government’s duty to help the beggars.
34.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. Some people dress up to pretend to be beggars.
B. Some beggars use the money to buy drugs.
C. Some beggars want money to help their children go to school.
D. Some beggars have no excuse for begging.
35.In the last paragraph,the writer thinks that it is hard to come to any final conclusion,because________.
A. the cases can be so different
B. there are so many beggars
C. there is so much money wasted
D. there are so many different arguments
文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多两处。每处错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在此处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出修改的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在其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(从十一处起)不计分。
I’m very glad to have received the letter you sent me two weeks before. I have been thought about the question raising in your letter. In my opinion, you should come back after you finish your studies abroad. For one thing, that you are studying is badly needed nowadays in our country. It will be quite easily for you to find a good job. In a fact, I know that a few big company in our city hope to hire people like you. For other, I think it will be more convenient for you look after your parents. And this is only my point of view. It is up to me to make a right choice.
Most dog owners believe their dogs experience guilt,but animal behaviorists say the “guilty look” of a dog is simply a reaction to you and that dogs lack the ability to feel shame.
Alexandra Horowitz, a psychology professor and principal investigator at the Horowitz Dog Cognition Lab at Columbia University once carried out a study on dog “guilt”.She videotaped 14 dogs in a series of trials and observed how they reacted when their owners left the room after instructing them not to eat a treat. When the owner was gone, Horowitz gave some of the dogs the forbidden treat. Then she would tell the owners whether their dogs had eaten the treat or had behaved. However, Horowitz wasn’t always honest with them.
Horowitz found that the dogs’“guilty looks” had little to do with whether they’d eaten the treat or not. In fact, dogs that hadn’t eaten it but were scolded by misinformed owners tended to exhibit the most elements of the“guiltylook”.
Horowitz says this shows that the dogs’ body language is actually a response to their owner’s behavior---not an experience of shame for a misdeed. Why then ,do dogs look so ashamed when we scold them?
Maybe that look of guilt is the result of a learned association. When you scold your dog for chewing up a pair of slippers, he quickly learns that if he lowers his head and tucks his tail, the undesirable response---raised voice and angry expression---is more likely to disappear.
24.According to Horowitz, the dogs’ “guilty look” is _____.
A. the dogs’ nature. B. a reaction to people’s behavior.
C. a direct result of copying people’s behavior.
D. a response to a shameful behavior.
25.How was Horowitz’ study carried out?
A. By giving examples. B. By telling her experience.
C. By doing an experiment. D. By reasoning.
26.What might be the most suitable title for the passage ?
A. The “Guilty Look”of the Dog B. Dog without the Sense of Guilt
C. Dogs’ Ability to Feel Shame D. The Study on Dogs
27.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that dogs were ______.
A. born with the look of guilt B. born with the ability to feel guilty
C. so smart to copy people’s behavior D. so smart to adjust its behavior
请按下列提示,以“如何交友”为题,用英语写一篇短文。(100词左右)
1)人人都需要朋友,如何交友非常重要;
2)交朋友首先要对别人友善;
3)要使陌生人感到亲切,不管他在何处,关心别人胜过关心自己;
4)与别人有分歧,不争吵,要商量;不要相信那些在危急时刻背离你的人,因为“患难见真情”。
注意:不要逐句翻译,可以适当加上细节,如交友的具体做法,使文章通顺连贯。
参考词汇:disagree with与……有分歧
A friend in need is a friend indeed患难见真情
There will be a bow and arrow competition _________ to retell ________ the Plains Indians used to hunt for food.
A. designed; what B. designing; how C. designing; what D. designed; how
Tsethang serge(羊毛料), considered the finest of all Tibetan traditional fabrics, has reemerged(重新出现) decades after disappearing from the market.
Traditionally reserved for lords and high-ranking monks, Tsethang serge has been a symbol of status in Tibet since the 1300s. But the craft of weaving(纺织工艺) the fabric became obsolete in the 1970s and for decades only existed in memory.
Until 2007, when Pasang, a Tibetan living where the cloth originated in Tsethang, Nedong County, was talking with one of the town's elders while teaching a traditional painting class.
"He told how much he wished the Tsethang serge could be preserved," Pasang recalls.
Shortly after, Pasang became fascinated by the traditional craft, spending two years searching for weavers capable of creating the special cashmere fabric(羊绒织物).
Most weavers were dead. The few survivors had not weaved for more than 20 years. Pasang managed to put together five weavers in their 80s, who gathered to rebuild the tools and retrace the 18 procedures of the complex weaving with their memory.
The fabric was invented in the 1350s at the Tsethang Temple, when monks modified the weaving techniques of the more common traditional Tibet Pulu fabrics. It is much thinner, finer and smoother, but the weaving is extremely complex and time-consuming.
It takes 40 days to weave the fabric for one outfit, Pasang said. The fabric uses the best wool from the back and neck of Tibetan sheep or goat. Fine weaving plus quality raw material makes the fabric tender, smooth, durable and static free(无静电干扰), he added.
When he spent all his savings in building a workshop for weaving the Tsethang serge, his only goal was to preserve the tradition. But the fabric turned out to be as marvelous as the elders remembered. Its fame soon spread by word of mouth.
63. Most probably, “obsolete” in the second paragraph means______.
A. superb B. old-fashioned C. expensive D. obvious
64. Who first had the idea of preserving Tsethang serge?
A. Some old Tibetans B. A man named Pasang from Han nationality
C. Pasang, a Tibetan D. Weavers of serge
65. How could Pasang create serge when most weavers were dead?
A. He gathered some old weavers together and retraced the procedures of the weaving.
B. He found some old women weavers to tell the weaving procedure from their memory.
C. Some old weavers helped him to find the serge they weaved when young.
D. Pasang bought the serge the old weavers made.
66. What is the main idea of the second paragraph from the bottom?
A. The development and the history of the serge.
B. The reason why the fabric is valuable
C. It takes long to weave the fabric for one outfit
D. The fabric uses quality raw material.
Sam Herbert, 15, saved the life of a 55-year-old
stranger even though he himself was born with a poor condition.
(1) He has had many operations on his heart since he was a baby and it has reduced (减少) his strength as a result.
The Derby schoolboy says, “I was walking down the street one evening in May when a man in front of me fell over. (2)
“I put him in the right position, but his condition was starting to become worse and he stopped breathing. So I started CPR (心肺复苏法). Because of my condition, I was worried I wouldn’t have the strength to do it for very long. (3) He was breathing again before the ambulance (救护车) arrived.
“When the doctors arrived, they said I’d done the right thing. (4) We do lots of practice on first aid (急救) but I never thought I’d have to use it in real life.”
In the life-or-death situation he was faced with, Sam acted bravely but also very quickly. “I will have to have more operations on my heart in the future. (5) I’ve always done swimming, I have kept learning kung fu and I’m about to climb mountains with my dad,” Sam says.
A. Sam was born with a weak heart..
B. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. .
C. He had really a very bad fall
D. But I kept giving him CPR
E. But I’ve never let my condition hold me back.
F. They told me if I hadn’t helped him he probably would have died.
G. There are hundreds of children who die from heart diseases.
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:在缺词处加一个漏子符号(∧)并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除: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。
One day, little Tony went to a shopping center with his parents. It was very crowding. Tony saw a toy in a shop window. He liked it so very much that he quickly walked into the shop. After looked at the toy for some time, he turned around and found where his parents were missing. Tony was frightened and begun to cry. A woman saw him crying and telling him to wait outside a shop. Five minutes later, Tony saw parents. Mom said,“ How nice to see you again! Dad and I were terrible worried.”Tony promised her that this would never happened again.
We all have some regrets. For NBA superstar LeBron James, the biggest regret might be that he chose to leave the Cavaliers, his club for seven years. In the summer of 2010 James announced on a TV show that he would be joining the Miami Heat although he had reportedly told the Cavaliers that he would stay with them. James went from hero to villain (坏人) overnight.
James admitted that he had been affected by the outburst of hatred from Cavaliers fans. “It turned me into somebody I wasn't,” he said. “When you start to hear ‘the villain’, you have to be the villain. And I started to buy into it. I started to play the game of basketball in a mind state that I had never played before. I mean angry.”
James led the Miami Heat to the NBA Finals in the first year of the Big 3s formation (组合). But at the last minute they were defeated by the Dallas Mavericks and James' performance was described by many as disappointing.
“The best teacher in life is experience and going through things,” James said. “No one can set you up for that. You've got to go through it.”
“I learned a lot from it,” he continued. “I thought about ways to get better individually on and off the court. I'm back this season to a better person and a better basketball player.”
James describes family, friends and basketball as the three things that matter most to him in life. “And after that, everything else becomes irrelevant,” he said.
After emerging (摆脱) from his postFinals misery, James began showing his personality again.
He knew he had to sharpen his own skills. He worked on his lowpost (低位技术) game with Hall of Fame center Hakeem Olajuwon. “For me, it's all about getting back to the love of the game,” James said. “I'm back to loving the game. I'm back to having fun. That's something I forgot about.”
We've already started to see that renewed love in action. The Heat got their revenge against the Mavericks in the season opener. James scored 37 points to lead his team to a 10594 victory. James also performed well in their second game against the Boston Celtics, helping the Heat win 115107.“The stage is set for LeBron to win his first NBA title,” wrote Sam Krumov, CNN World Sport Producer. “Get ready to crown King James.”
62.What's LeBron James' biggest regret according to the article?
A.Not getting good results in 2010.
B.Becoming from hero to villain overnight.
C.Leaving his club, the Cavaliers.
D.Being affected by the outburst of hatred from Cavaliers fans.
63.The underlined phrase “buy into” in the second paragraph probably means ________.
A.get sth B.buy sth using money
C.persuade sb to do sth D.accept or believe (sth) as true
64.What can we learn from the fourth and fifth paragraphs according to the article?
A.If you want to get the experience, you must go through it.
B.Experience isn't necessary in life.
C.You can do something simple to get the experience.
D.James is a better basketball player.
65.What's the last paragraph mainly about?
A.James showed his renewed love to basketball in action.
B.James' achievements in life.
C.James won his first NBA title.
D.James performed well in their second game against the Boston Celtics.
The old man,_______ abroad for 20 years, is on the way back to his mother land.
A.to work B.working C.to have worked D.having worked