2016年高三英语二轮复习 高考保分巩固练 十.docVIP

高考保分巩固练 十 限时50分钟 Ⅰ. 阅读理解 　　Some people are just bound to be failures. That’s the way some adults look at troubled kids. Maybe you’ve heard the saying, “A bird with a broken wing will never fly as high. ”T. J. Ware was made to feel this way almost every day in school. By high school, T. J. was the most celebrated troublemaker in his town. Teachers would feel uneasy when they saw his name posted on their classroom lists for the next term. Teachers didn’t want to have him again the following year. T. J. was moving on, but certainly not moving up. I met T. J. for the first time at a weekend leadership retreat. All the students at school had been invited to sign up for ACE training, a program designed to have students become more involved in their communities. When I showed up to lead their first retreat, the community leaders gave me this overview of the attending students: “We have a total range of students represented today, from the student body president to T. J. Ware, the boy with the longest arrest record in the history of town. ” At the start of the training, Ware was standing outside the circle of students, against the back wall, with that “go ahead, impress me” look on his face. But slowly, the interactive games drew him in. The ice really melted when the groups started building a list of positive and negative things that had occurred at school that year. T. J. had some definite thoughts on those situations. The other students in T. J. ’s group welcomed his comments. All of a sudden T. J. felt like a part of the group, and before long he was being treated like a leader. He was saying things that made a lot of sense, and everyone was listening. The next day, T. J. was very active in all the activities. By the end of the retreat, he had joined the Homeless Project team. The other students on the team were impressed with his passionate concern and ideas. They elected T. J. co-chairman of the team. The student council president would be taking his instruction fro