2017届上海英语高考新题型 四

2017届上海英语高考新题型----六选四专题练习（四）JAYESH Patel stretched and smiled. He quoted Mother Teresa, “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”Growing up, Jayesh Patel was nicknamed “toilet boy.” Since his father dedicated his life to improving sanitation, young Patel was assigned to cleaning public toilets everyday after school. Now Patel, 48, is an environmental advocate who has built over five hundred thousand toilets in Gujarat, India. I met him when visiting his sanitation institute.“________________________________________________. Through this, we create desire, stress, and misery,” said Patel. “But if we focus on the power of small, what we can do in this very moment, impact will naturally emerge if that’s what is needed in the world.”His philosophy is------_____________________________ The solution to big issues (like sanitation) begins with consistently completing small acts.In his own view, he does not necessarily need to change his entire urban lifestyle to live a better life —however, he consciously performs positive, daily actions and detaches himself from material desires.“I still eat at Pizza Hut and I turn on the air conditioner on a hot day. But I can also do without it,” said Patel. “One day my friend offered me to stay at a five-star hotel. The next day I slept on the streets and watched the night sky and stars. ________________________”In modern life, children often grow up being told to “think big.”____________________________________________. In struggling to apply for colleges, to find profitable jobs, and ultimately a “better” life, students often forget the process — the small and consistent action steps that need to be taken.A: it was the same to me.B: we do ignore the small things that instead of understanding the reason why we do them.C: students are constantly taught to dream of future careers and how they can make a difference in theworld.D: small, everyday actions have the most impact.E: different places made me understand the large gap between the rich and the poor and I told myself tonarrow it.F: many times we get caught up with visible impact and we want to see results.FDACA recent survey puts Shanghai teens atop a global list of students doing the most homework .The survey said that according to a study by a European agency, middle school students in Shanghai spend an ___________of 13.8 hours per week on their homework, ____________ them first among the 65 countries and regions surveyed.As the father of a 12-year-old, I could not agree more, though I could only imagine the kind of joy my son would _____________ if he needs to put in a mere 13.8 hours a week on his homework.Take last Thursday as an example. My son had dedicated the whole evening after supper at 6 to his homework. He complained of fatigue several times during his engagement, and exclaimed with _____________ relief well after 10pm.Unusual for him, while tackling his homework he insisted that both I and his mother peruse(研读) his composition. His piece was penalized only four points out of a total of 40 points — one of the best ___________ in the class. Some poorer writers, we were told, were required to rewrite the article. The next morning, when I went to wake him up at 6:40, I asked solicitously（关切地）if he was short of sleep. I said he could make it up that evening. I could promise this because it was Friday. To my surprise, he replied he had never slept better, for no sooner had he ____________ his head on his pillow than he fell into a deep sleep.After supper that evening, he declared to me, “In our times, the IQ of us children are way too high, particularly for the girls.” The academic excellence of local students had been widely cited lately, often in light of national pride and power. But when local __________ talk glowingly of how Shanghai students _____________ themselves in international primary or middle school mathematics contests, they never felt compelled to ___________on the costs of gaining this distinction.Childhood years are generally associated with carefree simplicity and innocence. But many of our children are already anticipating the cares and anxiety proper to adulthood, so much so that many of them have little time totake a____________stroll about, to stare and stand, to horse around, even during the weekends.。