Over the past 20 years, I have watched The Lion King more than a dozen times. When I first watched the film, Mufasa’s death made me, a six-year-old girl, very
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at that time, and since then, I have always skipped (跳过) that part. Later on, during my middle-school years, I liked the “love story” part a lot, and Simba and Nala were really a
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couple in my heart. Every time I watched the film, I had
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feelings.
Recently, I watched The Lion King again, and it was the
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of Pumbaa and Timon that impressed me most—they were ordinary and lived an ordinary life. To me, the best lesson that Pumbaa and Timon have taught us is that
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they know their life is ordinary, they still love and enjoy it.
In fact, in the real world, only a few people can achieve great things, and the rest of us will just live our
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life. A sentence on the internet
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me: through hard work, ordinary people only fight for the right to
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their ordinary life in the ordinary world. It is cruel, but it is true. The best solution is to accept and enjoy it. I know it’s
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but this is a part of growing up. I’m not saying that we should not have great dreams. However, I just think we should get prepared even though we would never
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our great dreams. After all, just as Vince Lombardi, a great American football coach, once said, “Perfection is not attainable, but we can catch excellence if we chase perfection.”
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B
) 1. A. curious B. scared C. excited D. cheerful
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C
) 2. A. lonely B. proud C. perfect D. fashionable
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D
) 3. A. awful B. similar C. strange D. different
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B
) 4. A. place B. lifestyle C. food D. clothes
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D
) 5. A. as B. but C. because D. although
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D
) 6. A. rare B. hard C. amazing D. ordinary
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B
) 7. A. recorded B. touched C. provided D. checked
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C
) 8. A. start B. stop C. continue D. remember
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B
) 9. A. simple B. difficult C. foolish D. harmful
(
B
) 10. A. lose B. realize C. develop D. support
