Jim, a successful businessman, told the experience of his childhood.
When he was 12, his parents . He was alone and didn’t get on well with others. People always laughed him. No one showed kindness（友善） to him. His only friend was a dog named Tige.
One day as he walked down the street, a young lady was walking in front of him. Suddenly one of her bags dropped from her arms. As she stopped , she dropped other bags. He came to help her. “Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!” She said kindly, smiling.
A special feeling came to him. These were kind words he had ever heard. He watched her she went far away, and he whistled（吹口哨）to his dog and went directly to the river nearby.
“Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!” he repeated the woman’s words. Then in a low he said to his dog, “You are a nice little dog!” Tige raised ears as if（似乎）it understood.
“Uh! Even a dog likes it!” he said, “Well, Tige, I won’t say unkind words to you any more.” Tige waved its tail happily.
The boy thought and thought. Finally he looked at himself in the river. He saw but a dirty boy. He washed his face . Again he looked. He saw a clean nice boy. He was amazed（震惊）. From then on, he had a new life.
After telling this, the businessman stopped for a while, and then he said, “Ladies and gentlemen, this is the very place where that kind woman planted in me the first seed (种子) of kindness. All of us should learn about kindness. a great power it has!” If you show kindness to others, you will be an able man.A．dead B．dying C．died
A．at B．to C．/
A．picking it up B．to pick up it C．to pick it up
A．the first B．first C．the last
A．until B．before C．while
A．sound B．noise C．voice
A．it B．it’s C．its
A．something B．nothing C．somebody
A．carefully B．careful C．carelessly
A．What B．How C．It seemed
A green life sometimes just needs a good idea like sharing cars共车. It’s a new way of thinking. You can use a car but you don’t need to own it. Now the idea of “car sharing” has becomein many countries.
As we know, most cars are parked in garages for much time. In fact, we drive our own cars as long as one or twoa day on average. When we don’t use them, we have to pay for parking andthings. That coats too much money. To save money, some people come up with the idea of “car sharing”. If we share a car, we’ll onlywhen we use it.
Now many people are starting to do car sharing. In Switzerland, almost 40.000 people have joined it. Japan is also trying to makepopular around the country. A popular B. interesting C. funny
A. hour B. hours C. minutes
A. other B. others C. another
A. spend B. costC. pay
A. time saving B. money saving C. car sharing
Once my father and I went to see a circus(马戏 ). A family was standing in front of us for tickets.
The family had eight children. Their clothes were not but they were clean. They were talking about the clowns(小丑) and elephants excitedly.
“I want tickets,eight for children and two for adults.”said the father to the ticket lady.
The ticket lady told him the . When he heard that, the man cloudn’t believe his . He asked again, “How much?”
The ticket lady spoke again. The father looked sad. Clearly, he didn’t have money.
My dad took a twenty—dollar bill and dropped it on the ground.Then he picked , and said to the man, “Sir, this fell out of your pocket.”
The man knew what was on. He looked into my dad’s eyes and took the . “Thank you,thank you ,sir. This a lot to me and my family. ”
We didn’t go to the cirus that night,but we didn’t feel sorry for it at all.A. waiting B. looking C. working
A. common B. cheap C. expensive
A. ticket B. ten C. two
A. ticket B. number C. price
A. eyes B. ears C. nose
A. enough B. any C. little
A. it up B. up it C. them up
A. walking B. goingC. looking
A. book B. pocket C. bill
A. hardly B. nearly C. really
Mrs Smith works in a museum in London. She’sin all kinds of old things and she has collected a lot of stamps. But she prefers the vases. So she often spends her holidays in China. She visited a lot of museums in Beijing, Xi’an and other . She goes to the markets and tries to buy some nice old vases.
Last month the woman travelled in Hangzhou. She went to a shop one afternoon and foumd a beautiful vase there. She looked at it for a long time and was sure it was about seven hundred years ago. She liked it very much and paid a lot of money for it. She was so happy that she couldn’t fall that night. On her way to England , she took good care of it.A. interests B. interesting C. interested
A. towns B. cities C. countries
A. American B. English C. German
A. kept B. made C. found
A. asleep B. sleep C. sleeping
Life is not easy, so I’d like to say “When anything happens, believe in yourself.”
When I was a young boy, I was ____ shy to talk to anyone. My classmates often ____me. I was sad but could do nothing. Later,___ happened, and it changed my life. It was an English speech contest. My mother asked me to ____ it. What a terrible idea! It meant I had to speak ____ all the teachers and students of my school!
“Come on,boy! Believe in yourself. You are sure to ___.”Then mother and I talked about many different topics. At last I _____ the topic “Believe in yourself!” I tried my best to remember all the speech and practiced it over 100 _____. With my mother’s great love, I did ___ in the contest. I could hardly believe my _____ when the news came that I had won the first place.A. tooB. soC. quite
A. made faces atB. looked afterC. laughed at
A. somethingB. everythingC. anything
A. take part inB. joinC. get
A. to B. among C. before
A. winB. passC. beat
A. brought B. thoughtC. chose
A. wordsB. timesC. sentences
A. wellB. goodC. bad
A. resultB. eyesC. ears
In many people’s eyes, middle school students are happy and carefree（无忧无虑）. But is it the truth? And what students happy or unhappy?
To find out the answers, Li Jiahui, a student in Pinggu No. 3 Middle School, Beijing, spent six months students’ sense(感受) of happiness last year. The girl made a survey with questions such as “ Are you feeling happy?” and “What makes you unhappy?”
After studying the answers from 284 students, Li learned that___ 40 percent（百分之）of the students feel unhappy, and the from studies is the main reason for their unhappiness.
“More than 50 percent said they were under pressure and 70 percent get enough sleep,” Li said. “It shows that middle school students are not as happy people think. They worry a lot, and they can get angry easily.”
Li also said that over 90 percent say their happiness has to do with how much money they have. Instead, they care about their relationships（关系）with friends, teachers and parents. “Students always feel better when they get _ well with each other,” Li said.
After her survey, Li listed tips that may make students happier, such as: Treat(对待) yourself better, be kind and polite to your friends and relatives, and try new things.
A．helps B．wants C．makes D．keeps
A．to study B．studying C．study D．studied
A．15 years old B．15-years-old C．15-year-old D．15-year-olds
A．about B．than C．below D．inside
A．pressure B．difficulties C．knowledge D．interest
A．don’t B．hadn’t C．did D．didn’t
A．so B．and C．like D．as
A．something B．nothing C．anything D．nobody
A．along B．up C．off D．down
A．any B．a number of C．much D．a lot