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her __9__ the message, her employer was employer then called Maria into her office.“ Not that there’ s anything wrong with your __10__, ” her employer said.“ But with your __11__ skills,why are you working as a maid? I noticed that the message was written with obvious intelligence.” Maria, then __12__ her lifelong dream of being a teacher but she said she knew that required a college hadn’ t thought she was able to go to her employer assured her she had the then took a __13__ study and home life,she always arose at 4 a. m. to revise when her kids were many years of struggle,she obtained her like a dream, Maria __14__ her first has been a beloved guide ever since. For those who know her story, Maria is a model of __15__ and hard work. 1. B. play C. study D. work 2. B. drive C. read D. farm 3. B. doctors C. teachers D. hairdressers 4. B. holiday C. marriage D. graduation 5. B. honest C. popular D. excellent 6. B. privately C. secretly D. unluckily 7. B. accepted C. rejected D. appreciated 8. B. housekeeper C. saleswoman D. recorder 9. B. receiving C. reading D. evaluating 10. B. message C. promotion D. performance 11. B. anization C. language D. munication 12. B. mentioned C. began D. realized 13. B. balance C. improve D. arrange 14. B. built C. entered D. approached 15. B. intelligence C. enthusiasm D. determination Ⅱ .語(yǔ)法填空 BEIJING— World renowned Oxford and Cambridge have e to China to attract top rank postgraduate students in (cooperate) with the China Scholarship Council. Oxford made its first (appear) at the China Scholarship Council’ s annual International Graduate Scholarship Fair, opened on Saturday in school wants to encourage excellent Chinese students to consider Oxford can offer for academic and professional careers. “ The students came well prepared with specific questions and were serious about the chance, ” said Sherwood, director of graduate admissions and funding at Oxford, who will make another two stops for the fair in Wuhan and Shanghai. The University of Cambridge (attend) the fair since its first session in 2021, (stress) that it would continue to invest to train students to be problem solvers. 8. ________ Cambridge and Oxford present at the fair in petition for best and brightest, Osterfield and Sherwood agree that the two universities usually have more interest in cooperation petition, except in their traditional annual boat race. Ⅲ .閱讀理解 A Hawaii’ s earliest residents were Polynesian voyagers, living there for more than 1,000 years before European explorers English explorer captain James Cook called them the Sandwich Islands in 1778 for the English Earl(伯爵 )of , that name didn’ t would you like to tell your friends you’ re going to Sandwich on vacation? In 1820, New England missionaries(傳教士 )arriv