Mr. Holland’s first days in John F. Kennedy High School was proved to be not successful, f

A、The football coach Bill Meister.

B、His wife Iris Holland

C、The school principal Mrs. Jacobs.

D、One of his students Rowena Morgan.

A、Because he was tired of composing music.

B、Because he wanted to teach his son Cole who was born deaf by himself.

C、Because he was considered to be a good teacher instead of a good composer.

D、Because he wanted to enjoy more free time, composing a piece of orchestral music of his own.

A、Because he was tired of composing music.

B、Because he wanted to enjoy more free time with his young wife, Iris, and compose a piece of orchestral music.

C、Because his son Cole was born deaf, Glenn Holland wanted to teach his son by himself.

D、Because his wife Iris thought he would be a good teacher instead of a good composer.

A Special Journey

I am often asked to describe the experience of______【51】a child with a disability—to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this______【52】you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip to Italy.

You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful______【53】. The Coliseum, The Michelangelo, David, The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation, the day finally ______【54】. You pack your bags and ______【55】you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The ______【56】comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland. "

"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean by Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed______【57】going to Italy. "

But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, ______【58】and disease. It's just a______【59】place.

______【60】you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around. . . and you begin to______【61】that Holland has windmills. . . and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going______【62】Italy. . . and they're all bragging about______【63】a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was______【64】to go. That's what I had planned. "

But if you spend your life______【65】the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things about Holland.

(51)

A．raising

B．rising

C．adopting

D．educating

When some 19th-century. New Yorkers said" Harlem", they meant almost all of Manhattan above Eighty-sixth Street. Toward the end of the century, however, a group of citizens in upper Manhattan — wanting, perhaps, to shape a closer and more precise sense of community — designated a section that they wished to be known as Harlem. The chosen area was the Harlem to which Blacks were moving in the first decades of the new century as they left their old settlements on the middle and lower blocks of the West Side.

As the community became predominantly Black, the very word "Harlem" seemed to lose its old meaning. At times, it was easy to forget that "Harlem" was originally the Dutch name "Harrlem", that the community it described had been founded by people from Holland; and that for most cites three centuries — it was first settled in the sixteen hundred it had been occupied by White New Yorkers. "Harlem" became synonymous with Black life and Black style. in Manhattan. Blacks living there used the word as though they had coined it themselves — not only to designate their area of residence but to express their sense of the various of its life and atmosphere. As the years passed, "Harlem" assumed an even larger meaning. In the words of Adam Clayton Powell, the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem "became the symbol of liberty and the promised land to the Negroes. Everywhere".

By 1919, Harlem's population had grown by several thousand. It had received its share of wartime migration from the South, the Caribbean, and parts of colonial Africa. Some of the new arrivals merely lived in Harlem. It was New York they had come to, looking for jobs and for all the other legendary opportunities of life in the city. To others who migrated to Harlem, New York was merely the city in which they found themselves; Harlem was exactly where they wished to be.

What is the main subject of the passage?

A．The migration of the blacks to Harlem.

B．The origin of the word "Harlem".

C．Harlem, the symbol for liberty and promised land to the Blacks.

D．The history of black Harlem.

A、They still didn’t understand each other.

B、Mr. Holland always got along well with his son.

C、Cloe didn’t want to communicate with his father, and wanted to leave home, living independently.

D、Cole gradually realized the deep love from his father, and their relationship became reconciled.

What is one expected to do in Holland?

A．To play football.

B．To express his or her opinion freely.

C．To make a fuss about nothing.

D．To beat his or her opponents ruthlessly.