Once there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it every day. He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him.
Time went by --- the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree every day. One day, the boy came back to the tree and he looked sad. “Come and play with me,” the tree asked the boy. “I’m no longer a kid. I wouldn’t play around the tree any more.” the boy replied. “I want toys. I need money to buy them.” “Sorry, I don’t have money. But you can pick all my apples and sell them. So, you will have money.” The boy picked all the apples on the tree and left happily. The boy never came back after he picked the apples.
One day, the boy returned and the tree was so excited, “Come and play with me,” the tree said. “I don’t have time to play. I have to work for my family. We need a house for shelter. Can you help?” “Sorry, I don’t have a house. But you can cut off my branches to build your house.” So the boy cut all the branches off the tree and left happily. The tree was glad to see him happy but the boy never came back since then. The tree was again lonely and sad.
One hot summer day, the boy returned and the tree was pleased. “Come and play with me!” the tree said. “I am sad and getting old. I want to go sailing to relax myself. Can you give me a boat?” “Use my trunk to build your boat. You can sail far away and be happy.” So the boy cut the tree trunk to make a boat. He went sailing and never showed up for a long time. 
Finally, the boy returned after he left for so many years. “Sorry, my boy. But I don’t have anything for you any more. The only thing left is my dying root,” the tree said with tears ①
“Good! Old tree root is the best place to lean on and rest. Come and sit down with me and rest.” The boy sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears ② -------Why did the boy pick all the apples on the tree?
----Because __________.
| A．he wanted to eat them | B．he needed money to buy toys |
| C．he liked the tree without apples | D．he wanted to share them with friends. |
----When did the boy come back to the apple tree?
----He came back _________.
| A．whenever he was happy | B．if he missed the apple tree |
| C．when he was in times of difficulty | D．as soon as he was free |
----What did the boy want at last?
----He wanted ___________.
| A．to have a house to live in | B．nothing except a place to rest |
| C．the root of the apple tree | D．anything that the apple tree had |
----What can we learn from the story?
----We should _________.
| A．plant more apple trees | B．learn from the boy |
| C．always stay at home | D．be thankful to our parents |
According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?
| A．The phrase “with tears ①” means that the apple tree was sad because the boy asked for too much. |
| B．The phrase “with tears ②” means that the apple tree was still happy because she could help the boy for the last time. |
| C．Each time the boy asked the apple tree for help, the tree tried her best to satisfy him. |
| D．After reading the passage, we can easily think of the old Chinese saying “Parents’ love is universal!” |
Some people do not seem to have a mind of their own. They never express their own ideas and they do not decide to do what to do themselves. My brother is one of these people. Last night, for example, he was going to read at home. At about seven thirty, his friend Tom came in, “Let’s watch TV.” “OK.” my brother answered. By ten o’clock my brother was tired and sleepy, and he wanted to go to bed. But Tom said, “ Let’s go out and get something to eat.” “ Good.” my brother answered. He often says things he does not mean and does thing he really does not want to. Worse than that, he does not say the things he would like to say or do a lot of things he would like to do.When did Tom come?
What does the writer think of his brother?
Does the writer’s brother do a lot of things he would like to do?
Maybe you have seen this in schools: some students are studying hard all the time but they just pass their exams, while some others may spend much less time on their books but do much better in exams. How could this happen? People used to think that hard-work is the only way to success. But now they have understood that smart work can make them succeed, too.
Hard workers don’t mind working for long hours, while smart workers always think of several different answers to these questions, “ Why should I suffer(忍受) this? Isn’t there s better way to do this?” Thanks to these people, we can use computers instead of the abacus(算盘) now. Progress in every field(领域) is the direct result of “ try a better way” by smart workers.
There was a large soap factory in Japan. Once it received an unusual letter, complaining(抱怨) that there was no soap in the soapbox he bought. How could empty soapboxes go out of the factory? The engineers (工程师) checked the producing and packing(包装). The producing was fine, but in about one in ten thousand cases, the packing machine let an empty soapbox go. There was no need to spend a lot of money repairing the machine for such a small problem. The engineer soon work out a solution. He put a huge X-ray machine and two large computers to find out the empty soapboxes. After teaching the worker how to use it, he sat down in his seat, exhausted(筋疲力尽的).
“ Sir, we could have solved the problem in a much easier and cheaper way.” said one worker. “ Really? How?” “ We can put a huge fan(风扇) near the packing machine. The wind will blow away the empty boxes. There would be no need for an X-ray machine and computers.”
See, this is smart work. In order to succeed, we should not work hard like the engineer, but also think smartly like this worker.Some students spend much less time on the schoolwork but do much better in exams.
| A．Because of their hard work |
| B．Because of different education |
| C．Because they try to find a better way |
| D．Because they study for a much longer time |
Someone wrote the soap factory and complained that .
| A．the soapbox he bought was empty |
| B．their soap was too expensive |
| C．the soap he bought was terrible |
| D．their service was very bad |
The soap factory could only near the packing machine to solve the problem in a much easier and cheaper way.
| A．set some soapboxes |
| B．set an X-ray machine |
| C．put two large computers |
| D．put a huge fan |
The phrase “ blow away” here in Chinese means?
| A．停止 | B．吹走 | C．搬动 | D．逃脱 |
The article mainly tell us that we should in order to succeed.
| A．think of different answers to our questions |
| B．spend much less time on our school work |
| C．work hard like the engineer and think smartly like the worker |
| D．spend enough money repairing the machine for any problem |
What’s the most important thing for you to have in your life? Somebody mentions hard-work; others suggest knowledge, love and luck.
If you arrange the 26 English letters alphabetically(按字母表顺序）and use the numbers to represent each of them, for example, 1 for a, 2 for b, 3 for c..., you can change an English word into a number. So hard-work become 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11="98," meaning 98 is its mark; knowledge : 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5="96," while love: 12+15+22+5=54，and luck: 12+21+3+11="47," a small mark. None of these words can give one a full mark. What about money or prayer(祈祷)? They can’t, either.
Then what else? Don’t be worried. You can always find an answer to a problem in your life, when you change your way of looking at things or doing things, or your attitude(态度). Yes, the attitude is the word. See for yourselves: attitude: 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5="100," a full mark.
Different attitudes lead to different courses of life. Most time people hope for a better life. It is possible that one will have a change for the better after one has changed one’s attitude.
When you change your manner and become friendly towards others, you’ll meet more smiling faces towards you. In the same way, if you take a positive(积极的) attitude towards failure(失败), you’ll find it’s also rewarding though it has caused you losses.According to this passage, the gets the full mark.
| A．Hard-work | B．Knowledge |
| C．Money | D．Attitude |
According to this passage, which gets the more mark?
| A． Prayer | B．Luck | C．Money | D．love |
From this passage we can learn that.
| A．different attitudes come from different course of life |
| B．math can solve every problem easily in our daily life |
| C．failure sometimes bring you good if you take positive attitude |
| D．none of the English words except “attitude” is 100 0r more |
In the writer’s opinion, if you meet with problems, the best way out is to.
| A．Ask for help from others |
| B．Say your prayers to God |
| C．Change your attitude |
| D．Try maths-solving ways |
Mr and Mrs Green married thirty years ago and they have lived in the same house since then. Mr Green goes to work at eight every morning from Monday to Friday and Mrs Green does the housework everyday. Both of them enjoy their work very much.
There are quite a lot of houses in their street, and most of their neighbors are kind and friendly. One day, the old lady in the house opposite them died and, after a few weeks, a young man and a young woman came to live in it.
Mrs Green watched them for a few days from her window. One day when her husband came back from work, she said to him, “Bill, the man in that house opposite us always kisses his wife when he leaves in the morning and kisses her again when he comes home in the evening. Why don’t you do that, too?”
Mr Green thought for a while and answered, “ Well, I don’t know her very well yet.” From then on, Mrs Green never mentioned it again.After they got married, Mr and Mrs Green .
| A．have never kissed each other |
| B．have moved from one place to another |
| C．have stayed in the same house for 30 years |
| D．have had no children yet |
Mrs Green hoped that .
| A．Mr Green would kiss the young woman |
| B．Mr Green would kiss her |
| C．her husban d would make a lot of money |
| D．she would live in the opposite house |
From the passage, we can see that Bill is.
| A．the young man | B．Mr Green |
| C．the young woman | D．Mr Green’s son |
Mr and Mrs Smith had always spent their summer holidays in New Jersey ( 新泽西) in the past, staying in a small inn(旅店）at the foot of the hill.
One year, however, Mr Smith made a lot of money in his business, so they decided to go to London and stay at a really good hotel while they went touring around the famous city.
They flew to London and arrived at their hotel late one evening. They had expected that they would have to go to bed hungry, because in that small inn in New Jersey, no meals were served after seven. They were surprised when the waiter asked whether they would take dinner there that night. “ Are you still serving dinner?” asked Mr Smith. “ Yes, certainly, sir,” answered the waiter. “ We serve it until half past nine.”
“ What are the time of the meals then?” asked Mr Smith. “ Well, sir, We serve breakfast from seven to half past eleven in the morning, lunch from twelve to three in the afternoon, tea from four to five, and dinner from six to half past nine.” answered the waiter.
“ But that hardly leaves any time for us to see the sights of London.” said Mr Smith.Mr and Mrs Smith always spent their holidays in before they made a lot of money.
| A．New York | B．London |
| C．New Jersey | D．Washington |
They went to London by .
| A．sea | B．plane | C．train | D．bus |
From the story we know that this was the time for Mr and Mrs Smith to go to London.
| A．first | B．second |
| C．third | D．fourth |