l In Everyday Use Abroad

It’s not the first time the Chinese emoji takes the world stage. Earlier this year, one emoji from the Chinese basketball celebrity Yao Ming has been spread through the Middle East region. In a city in southern Egypt, Yao’s smiling emoji has appeared frequently in local traffic signs to remind people the road ahead is one-way. Many locals do not know Yao Ming but are familiar with his emoji and nickname “Chinese Funny Face”.

As a new online language, emojis have become a necessary part of people’s daily life, helping people express their views in a more vivid and precise way. Also, it can help foreigners learn about Chinese culture. But how to properly use “the fifth innovation in China” without hurting others and turn them into commercial advantages still need answers.

21. Why do the bolsters attract Miki’s attention?

A. They are inexpensive. B. They help reach an agreement.

C. They help brighten the mood. D. They are helpful to express desire.

22. Emojisare so popular worldwide mainly because people use them to ______.

A. express their views more vividly B. present their sense of satire directly

C. imply very complicated meanings properly D. tease one another on social media purposely

23. The main purpose of the text is to ______.

A. promote the emoji worldwide B. teachus how to use the emoji

C. explain the meaning the emoji D. show us the popularity of the emoji

B

When school started on that warm August day, I threw myself into everything I did, including playing volleyball. I decided to become beautiful, or at the very least, skinny. I stopped eating completely. Soon I began losing weight, which thrilled me, and I even grew to love the tiredness and lightheadedness that came with my poor diet, for those feelings meant that I was winning.

As the season progressed, things had become tense between my head volleyball coach, Coach Smith, and me. She felt that something was wrong with my health. She talked with me about my eating and was angry that I wouldn’t listen to her when she tried to make me eat. She tried to persuade me in a determined way and so we fought constantly. Then my hunger started to affect my performance. I was so tired that practice and games were becoming a struggle. One afternoon, with hurt in her eyes, Coach Smith asked me what I had eaten and I told her nothing yet, but I was going to. She looked at me, disappointment in her eyes, knowing she couldn’t make me stop, and walked away.

A couple of weeks later I attended a formal dinner for our volleyball team. I stood there as my coach managed to say something nice about me. I realized then that I had ruined my senior year by being disrespectful, and I had probably ruined hers as well. So that evening I wrote her a letter apologizing and thanking her.

Then one Saturday, as I was reading in the library, I felt someone gently take my arm and say softly, “Lynn Jones, how are yodoing?” I looked up and saw the familiar face. “Thanks for the letter,” she said. “It meant a lot.”

When I think of a coach, I think of someone above me, someone who gives instruction—not a friend. But Coach Smith is different, and, like any other good friend, she dealt with my problem in a determined way even when I hated her for it at that time. I didn’t deserve her kindness, but she gave it anyway. I will forever be grateful for her help, and now for her friendship.

24. When the author ate a poor diet and had a sense of tiredness, she felt ______.

A. stupid B. proud C. funny D. nervous

25. The author fought with Coach Smith because ______.

A. she refused to go on a diet B. she caused failure of her team

C. she changed the training course D. she kept her idea of losing weight

26. Why did the author write a letter to Coach Smith?

A. She felt sorry for eating too little food.

B. She decided to improve her performance.

C. She was grateful for Smith’s care for her health.

D. She wanted to build a close relationship with Smith.

27. What is the best title for the passage?

A. Unexpected Friendship B. A Fight with My Coach

C. A Strict Volleyball Coach D. My Way of Losing Weight

C

For anyone who is determined to be a fashion(时尚) designer, it is not enough to have succeeded in college.The real test is whether they can.survive, and become established during their early 20s, making a name for themselves in the real world where business skills can be as important as talent and creativity.

Fashion is a hard business.There is a continuous amount of stress because work is at a constant and extremely fast speed to prepare for the next season's collections. It is extremely competitive and there is the constant need to make attractive advertisements of the latest fashion in newspapers and magazines.It also requires continual freshness because the appetite for new ideas is hard to satisfy."We try to warn people before they come to us about how tough it is." says Lydia Kemeny, the Head of Fashion at St. Martin's School of Art in London. "And we point out that drive and determination are absolutely necessary."

This may seem far removed from the popular opinions of fashionable young people spending their time designing pretty dresses.That may well be what they do in their first year of study but a good college won't be slow in introducing students to commercial realities."We don't walk our foot on the blossoming (绽放的)flower of creativity but in the second year we start introducing the restrictions of price, producing ability, marketing and so on."

Almost all fashion design is done to a brief.It is not a form of self-expression as such, although there is certainly room for imagination and creativity.Most young designers are going to end up as employees of a producer or a fashion house and they still need to be able to work within the characteristic style of their employer. Even those students who are most modern in their own taste of clothes may need to adapt to produce designs which are right for the mainstream of market. They also have to be able to work at both the expensive arid the cheap end of the market and the challenge to produce good design inexpensively may well be demanding.

28.Which of the following is mainly discussed in the passage?

A.Talent in fashion. B.Good marks at college.

C.Ability to create new designs. D.Business skills in fashion industry.

29.What can we learn from the second paragraph?