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高中学生英语口语等级测试训练材料 本文由成都树才学校英语组——梁老师整理编辑 朗读短文并回答问题 用正确的语音语调朗读下面的短文并回答问题 16 Dear Amy My computer was broken so I couldn’t read your two e-mails until today. I’m so sorry to hear about your problem, but I’m glad you’re feeling better and are recovering. I’m amazed that in China someone’s liver matched yours. This is really a touching story – a stranger who donated part of his liver to a girl he doesn’t even know. You’re right. We shouldn’t be embarrassed about our weight. I think you look as great as you are, and you’re a wonderful person. I know that the pressure to stay slim is a problem, especially for an actress. However, your mother knows best: nothing is more important than health. It’s the same in China-many people, some of whom are not overweight at all, are always going on diets or taking weight-loss pills, which are often dangerous. I hope they can learn from your story. Questions: (1) Why couldn’t the speaker read the e-mails until today? (2) Who donated part of his liver to Amy? (3) What is Amy? (4) How do many people stay slim? (5) Why is the speaker glad? 17 Bill Gates was born in Seattle in 1955. Young Gates’ grades weren’t always great. Not until in the eighth grade did he find his passion. In the 1960s, the Mothers’ Club at Gates’ school bought a computer for the students. Gates discovered it and soon became a computer fan. In fact, it was because of his passion programming that he later dropped out of Harvard. He formed a company with his friend Paul Allen. Bill gates started Microsoft Company in 1976 and in the years since then, his company has produced computer technology that has changed the way people work, communicate and play. Bill Gates was the chief executive officer of Microsoft until 2000 when he became the company’s chief software architect. Because others were helping to run the company, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda had time to spend on projects to improve global health and education. So far, Bil