内容提示：1．出国留学的优点：开阔视野；体验当地的风情，交更多的朋友；更快更好地掌握一门外语。
2．出国留学的缺点：语言障碍不利于学习；费用高昂，而花大量时间打工又会影响学习。
参考词汇：语言障碍language barrier；足够的adequate
Christopher Thomas, 27, was a writer by night and a teacher by day when he noticed he was always tired and was losing weight fast. Diagnosed with diabetes (糖尿病), Thomas would need to inject himself with insulin (胰岛素) three times a day for the rest of his life or risk nerve damage, blindness, and even death. And if that weren't bad enough, he had no health insurance.
After a month of feeling upset, Thomas decided he'd better find a way to fight back. He left Canton, Michigan for New York, got a job waiting tables, nicknamed himself the Diabetic Rockstar, and created diabeticrockstar.com, a free online community for diabetics and their loved ones—a place where over 1,100 people share personal stories, information, and resources.
Jason Swencki's son, Kody, was diagnosed with type diabetes at six. Father and son visit the online children's forums (论坛) together most evenings. “Kody gets so excited, writing to kids from all over,” says Swencki, one of the site's volunteers. “They know what he's going through, so he doesn't feel alone.”
Kody is anything but alone: Diabetes is now the seventh leading cause of death in the United States, with 24 million diagnosed cases. And more people are being diagnosed at younger ages.
These days, Thomas's main focus is his charity (慈善机构), Fight It, which provides medicines and supplies to people—225 to date—who can't afford a diabetic's huge expenses. Fight－it.org has raised about $23,000—in products and in cash. In May, Thomas will hold the first annual Diabetic Rockstar Festival in the Caribbean.
Even with a staff of 22 volunteers, Thomas often devotes up to 50 hours a week to his cause, while still doing his fulltime job waiting tables. “Of the diabetes charities out there, most are putting money into finding a cure，” says Bentley Gubar, one of Rockstar's original members. “But Christopher is the only person I know saying people need help now.”
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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项 （A 、B 、C 和 D ）中，选出最佳选项。
In an ideal world, people would not test medicines on animals. Such experiments are stressful and sometimes painful for animals, and expensive and time-consuming for people. Yet animal experimentation is still needed to help bridge vast gaps in medical knowledge. That is why there are some 50 to 100 million animals used in research around the world each year.
Europe, on the whole, has the world's most restrictive (严格的) laws on animal experiments. Even so，its scientists use some 12 million animals a year, most of them mice and rats, for medical research. Official statistics show that just 1.1 million animals are used in research in America each year. But that is misleading. The American authorities do not think mice and rats are worth counting and, as these are the most common laboratory animals, the true figure is much higher. Japan and China have even less comprehensive (全面的) data than America.
Now Europe is reforming the rules governing animal experiments by restricting the number of animals used in labs. Alternatives to animal testing，such as using human tissue or computer models, are now strongly recommended. In addition, sharing all research results freely should help to reduce the number of animals for scientific use. At present, scientists often share only the results of successful experiments. If their findings do not fit the hypothesis (假设) being tested, the work never sees the light of day. This practice means wasting time, money, and animals' lives in endlessly repeating the failed experiments.
Animal experimentation has taught humanity a great deal and saved countless lives. It needs to continue，even if that means animals sometimes suffer. Europe's new measures should eventually both reduce the number of animals used in experiments and improve the way in which scientific research is conducted.
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：在错的词下画一横线，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。
I want to be a teacher when I listen to my teacher carefully. I think I can be a teacher when I grow up. I can help many students learn things well. I can play with my students, either. So we are well friends. I want to be a doctor when I see many doctors to save their patients. To be a doctor is really great. I think I can be a doctor when grown up. Then I can help many people out of danger. I will be by far the happy girl in the world. I want to be a reporter when I watched TV every evening. We can get lots of important informations from them. They make the world smaller and also make us happy. I would like to being a reporter when I grow up. And I can learn a lot about China and the other countries around world. I can meet many superstars so well. I have lots of dreams. I think my dreams can come true one day, because there's an old saying “where there is a will, there is a way.”
When I was a child, my grandma always told me that half the fun of doing anything is sharing it with others. It is so 1.Friends allow us to 2 our success and our joys as well as comfort us when faced with 3 . Most importantly, they provide a 4 for us to learn more about ourselves. I've always 5 friends as the family we choose. They 6our lives. As an old saying goes, a friend is a 7 which you give yourself.
It's 8 to be a good listener so as to be a good friend. Hear what your friend has to say first rather than 9 to conclusions or interrupting. Sometimes it is useful to be their mirror- 10 when they hear their words 11back to them, it can help them to realize what they said was not12what they meant to say.
Besides, patience and13are also important qualities to be a good friend. You know the old golden 14 , "treat others the way you would like them to treat you. The support of a friend during a tough time could 15the difference between success and failure.
Last but not least, encouragement and confidence are 16 gifts that can help change a person's life. Take care, 17 ,when you choose to have close relationship with someone, for they can have a tremendous（巨大的）impact 18your self-respect and life path. As someone once put it, the 19of your friends are like the buttons on an elevator. They will either 20you up or down.
ring up, reach for, test out, let sb. alone, or rather, tum around |
at the time, a pack of, help out, in the meantime, be terrified of, yell out, sort out, ahead of, aim at, in time |
