《2025年作业本浙江教育出版社九年级英语全一册人教版》

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17-year-old Ashley in Florida has always dreamed of attending an Ivy League school(常春藤盟校). So in late fall last year, she applied(申请) to all the eight famous schools. On Ivy Day, she got accepted to all: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton and Yale.
“I just decided to shoot my shot at all of them and see if it would land. I didn’t think I’d get accepted into all. That day, I cried a lot and was just extremely surprised.”
Since 2018, each Ivy League school has accepted less than 12% of its applicants. This year Yale accepted 4.5%, Columbia took 3.7%, and Harvard accepted just 3.2%, the lowest number in the university’s history.
Ashley says it was hard for her to choose between Harvard and Yale, but it all came down to her career dream — to learn how government works and how policies(政策) can help fix economic differences in communities.
At high school, the teenager was on the debate team and served as a student council president(学生会主席). It helped Ashley build self-confidence.
“I love to learn new things, and debate gave me that opportunity. But more than anything, it just gave me the platform to talk about what I believed in and what was important to me. So that is something that I’ll forever thank Carol City for introducing me to that platform.”
Ashley continued with debate in high school, and plans to join the debate team at Harvard. She hopes to go to law school after she completes her undergraduate studies. But what she’ll do with her law degree remains up in the air, she says.
“I really feel like policy and using policy to empower communities. And so in the short term, for me, that looks like becoming a lawyer,” she says. “But in the long term, I want to use that as a platform to do work in policy.”
( )38. What help(s) Ashley most at school?
A. The argument. B. Her dream.
C. Teachers. D. Communities.
( )39. What does the writer suggest through Paragraph 3?
A. Yale was more popular than any other Ivy League school.
B. Ivy League schools have accepted a lot of applicants since 2018.
C. It was very difficult for Ashley to be accepted to an Ivy League school.
D. How strange it was that Harvard accepted the lowest number in history.
( )40. What might be the best title of this passage?
A. Aim Higher, Dream Bigger.
B. Keep Doing What You Like to.
C. No One Can Do Better than Ashley.
D. Everyone Has a Space in His Field.
( )41. What will Ashley most probably become in the future according to her career dream?
A. A school teacher. B. A rich lawyer.
C. A famous debater. D. A government officer.

答案： 38. B 39. C 40. A 41. D