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“Everything happens for the best.” Whenever I faced disappointment, my mother would say this to me.
After I graduated form college in 1932, I decided to find a job in radio as a sports announcer(广播员). I went to Chicago and knocked at the door of every station. But unluckily, I was refused every time.
At one station, a kind lady told me that big stations wouldn’t hire(雇佣) a person without any experience and suggested that I try my luck at smaller stations. Following her advice, I went back to Dixon, where I had grown up. There were no such jobs in Dixon, and my father said a newly-opened store wanted a local athlete to work for it. I wanted this job, but I was refused again.
“Everything happens for the best,” Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to look for a job. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.
As I left his office, I felt so frustrated. “How can I become a sports announcer if I can’t get a job in a radio station?” I asked aloud.
While I was waiting for the elevator, I heard someone calling. It was MacArthur. “What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he asked me to have a try. He was pleased with my performance, and he offered me a chance to work there.
On my way home, I thought of my mother’s words: “If you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn’t have happened if without the failure before.”Why couldn’t the writer find a job at big radio stations?
| A．Because he never graduated from college. |
| B．Because he didn’t work hard in college. |
| C．Because he didn’t have much experience. |
| D．Because he didn’t know about sports. |
Which of the following is the correct order of events?
a. The writer got a job as a sports announcer at a radio station.
b. The writer was refused when he wanted jobs in Chicago.
c. The writer graduated from college.
d. The writer went back to his hometown to look for a job.
| A．cbda | B．cbad | C．bcda | D．bcad |
Which of the following is TRUE?
| A．The writer’s parents didn’t want him to be a sports announcer. |
| B．There were no radio announcer jobs in the writer’s hometown. |
| C．The writer became uninterested in being a sports announcer. |
| D．The writer got a job as a sports announcer in Dixon at last. |
According to the last paragraph, what did the writer’s mom want to tell him?
| A．He shouldn’t be a sports announcer. |
| B．Disappointment leads to failure. |
| C．He should be proud of himself. |
| D．Everything will be OK if he keeps trying. |
Look at this．It’s a blue bag．It is my bag．What’s in it? Look，this is my English book．It’s blue，too．My Chinese book is also in my bag．It is yellow．This is my pencil box．It’s big and nice．I like English and Chinese．My bag is my good friend．My bag is ___________．
| A．yellow | B．blue | C．nice | D．big |
一What’s in my bag?一________．
| A．My English book | B．My Chinese book |
| C．My pencil box | D．All the three |
My Chinese book is also in my bag．“Also” means（意思是）________．
| A．也 | B．颜色 | C．不在 | D．放进 |
My ________ is my good friend．
| A．Chinese book | B．English book |
| C．pencil box | D．bag |
My pencil box is _________．
| A．yellow | B．blue |
| C．big and nice | D．my friend |
Alan is in Class Two，Grade Seven．He is l2．His English teacher is Mr. Smith．He is English．His daughter is Helen．She is l3．Alan and Helen are good friends．They like English．This is Helen’s school ID card．Its number is A-270789．Is that Alan’s school ID card? No．He can’t find his school ID card．If you find it，please call Alan at 346—2828．Thank you!Alan and Helen are _________．
| A．in Class Seven | B．in Grade Two |
| C．teachers | D．friends |
Alan is __________．
| A．a girl | B．English | C．a student | D．eleven |
Mr. Smith is __________．
| A．Alan’s father | B．an English teacher |
| C．Helen’s friend | D．a Chinese teacher |
Alan can’t find _________．
| A．Mr. Smith | B．Helen |
| C．his ID card | D．his school ID card |
Alan’s ________ number is 346--2828．
| A．phone | B．ID card |
| C．school ID card | D．book |
One day at the end of the class, a wise teacher told each of her students to bring a plastic bag and a bag of potatoes to school.
The next day she told her students, “From today on, for every person you don’t like in your lives, you can choose a potato, write the person’s name and the date on it and then put it in the plastic bag.” Day after day, some of the students’ bags were very heavy. They were then told to carry this bag with them everywhere they went for a week. They would put it inside their quilts at night, on the seats when sitting in a car or on a bus, and next to their desks at school. The days carrying the bag around with them made students get to know what a weight they were carrying in their minds. They had to pay attention to it all the time so that they wouldn’t forget it. As time passed by, the potatoes went bad and smelt nasty(恶心的). They all tried to get rid of them.
Too often we think of tolerance(宽容) as a gift to other people, and clearly it is for ourselves! If we choose to keep our sadness and hatred in our hearts, we will have to carry them around all our lives.
Do you think you have got anything from the wise teacher and what she asked her students to do? What did the teacher ask her students to write on the potatoes?
| A．The names of the persons they didn’t like and the date. |
| B．The names of the persons they liked and the date |
| C．Their own names and the date. |
| D．The names of their family members and the date |
How did the students try to deal with the potatoes when they went bad?
| A．Ate them up. | B．Kept them. |
| C．Give them away | D．Threw them away. |
The students would put the bags in the following places except__________
| A．inside their quilts |
| B．next to their desks at school |
| C．on the seats in a car or on a bus |
| D．in their friends’ houses |
Which is the best title of the passage
| A．Carrying potatoes. | B．Less hatred, happier life. |
| C．Keeping sadness and hatred. | D．a bag of potatoes |
Note-taking is a skill that can help you do well in all your schoolwork. It can make you confident when you are studying. But unluckily, most students don’t know how to take notes.
★Write down key facts. If your teacher writes notes on the blackboard, that’s great. You can copy them or write down the most important facts of all in class. Different teachers do things differently. For example, some teachers may focus on (关注) lots of dates and facts in class, but they only write the important ones on the blackboard. Other teachers may not write anything down, but they may say something important again and again.
★Ask. Don’t be afraid to ask your teacher to repeat what you miss. If your teacher speaks too fast and you can’t follow what he is saying, you can ask him after class.
★Compare. Comparing your notes with your classmates’ can be good for your learning. It can also help you and your classmates correct some mistakes.
★Organize(组织). Note-taking also needs organization. Keep notes for each subject in one notebook, so that you can find everything easily when a test comes.
★Good note-taking takes time. If you decide to recopy your notes every evening, you’ll surely have less time to watch TV. But you’ll save time in the coming test.There are________ main points about note-taking in this passage.
| A．4 | B．5 | C．6 | D．7 |
If you can’t follow your teachers in class, what should you do?
| A．Ask them after class. | B．Ask them before class. |
| C．Stop listening in class. | D．Complain to them about the class. |
Which way can help you correct mistakes in your notes?
| A．Organizing the notes. |
| B．Recopying your notes after class. |
| C．Asking your teachers for help. |
| D．Comparing your notes with others’ |
Which can be the BEST title for this passage?
| A．How to take notes | B．What to do in class |
| C．How to study for a test | D．What to do with problems |
You have waited 45 minutes for the valuable 10 minutes’ break. But when the bell for the next class rings, you can’t believe how quickly time has passed. If you have this experience, you’ll know how time flies when you are having fun and drags when you are bored. Now scientists have come up with a reason why this happens.
They have found that the brain changes its way to work according to how we direct our attention to a task. When we are bored, we pay more attention to how time is passing. And this makes our brains think the clock is ticking more slowly.
Recently some researchers who want to understand the conditions carried out an experiment. In the experiment, twelve volunteers watched a picture while researchers monitored（关注）their brain activity.
The volunteers were told to first notice how long a picture appeared, then the color of the picture, and thirdly, study the both. The results showed that the brain was more active when the volunteers paid attention to more subjects.
It is thought that if the brain is busy noticing many aspects（方面）of a task, it has to spread its resources, and pays less attention to the clock. Therefore, time seems to go quickly. If the brain is not so active, it spends its full energy on the passing of time. As a result, time seems to move slowly.
Next time you feel bored in class, perhaps you should concentrate(专心于) on what the teacher is saying.What does the underlined word “drags” probably mean?
| A．passes slowly | B．runs quickly. |
| C．moves actively | D．goes silently |
What have the scientists found?
| A．Time goes by fast when we have nothing to do. |
| B．The ten minutes’ break is important to students. |
| C．The brain works in different ways in different situations. |
| D．Students pay more attention to the pictures than the passing of time. |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．We will be full of energy if we’re busy. |
| B．Concentrating on things is a way to make people less bored. |
| C．Time goes slowly when the brain is noticing many things at the same time. |
| D．We should pay no attention to time when we are doing something. |
Which is the best title of the passage?
| A．The best way to save time |
| B．The importance of planning time |
| C．Why time passes quickly |
| D．The reason for time flying and dragging |