This is a glass of water, tasteless, right? However if you add sugar, it will taste sweet, but if you add vinegar,（醋）it will become bitter. The same is true with our life. The taste of life is created by our choices.
If kindness is added to a stranger, you will have a friend; but if hostility（敌意） is added, you will have an enemy. If love is added to a pile(堆) of red bricks（砖） you will have a home, but if hate is add to those bricks , you will have an concentration camp（集中营）.So my dear friends，never complain that life is boring and the world is disappointing. If you don’t like the taste of your life, change it yourself.
Three years ago, I weighed more than 100 hundred kilograms which caused much difficulty in my life, like always failing my P.E examinations, always being laughed at by girls, and being terrified to speak in public. It was my grandmother’s encouragement that changed my life. She said “My dear, if you can’t change your appearance, why not treat it as your own style.” So I began to accept the new way of thinking and developed the confidence to make a difference and finally I found a totally new world.
So my dear friend, if faith, hope, love, endurance are added to your life, you will find the confidence to work out all your problems. If love is added to a pile of red bricks, what will you get?
| A．An concentration camp. | B．A home. | C．A friend. | D．An enemy. |
What difficulty did I have three years ago?
| A．I always failed P.E examinations. | B．I was laughed at by girls. |
| C．I was terrified to speak in public | D．All above. |
If we don’t like our life, we should ______________.
| A．add sugar in it | B．add vinegar in it |
| C．use red bricks to make a home. | D．change it ourselves. |
What do the underline words mean?
| A．You should pay attention to others’ opinions. |
| B．Be yourself and accept yourself as what you are. |
| C．You should always change yourself. |
| D．You’d better treat yourself as carefully as you can. |
You are going to high school, aren’t you? Maybe you don’t know what to do. Well, here’s a list of the top six things to do when you are in high school. These things will give you ideas of what your high school life could be like. Here you go!
①Find your passion(激情) and what kind of person you are: Whether it’s dance, basketball, or drawing, the important thing is that you have found something you are interested in.
②Talk to people you wouldn’t usually talk to: meet new people, find new friends and even talk to people you don’t like. It will show what a great person you are. You never know what will happen after high school.
③Take part in at least one contest(竞赛): This will give you tears of laughter, happiness and memories.
④Get a job: This will help you see what it’s like to have responsibility(责任). It can also help you make a little money to spend on yourself.
⑤Take a trip with your friends: It doesn’t matter where you go or what you do, the memories will happen on the way and go on till the final place.
⑥Do your best at school: Don’t ever get lazy; working hard now will help you in the future.The writer mainly tells you six things you should do _____.
| A．in your high school years |
| B．at the beginning of your high school years |
| C．before your high school begins |
| D．after finish your high school |
The writer gives you advice that you should talk to people you don’t like because _____.
| A．you will feel sorry if not |
| B．it will show how great you are |
| C．it will show how clever you are |
| D．you can make your study better |
Which of the following you’d better not do according to the passage?
| A．Find your interest | B．Get a Job |
| C．take a trip with your friends | D．Get lazy |
What’s the main idea of the passage?
| A．Have a happy school life |
| B．How to get along with your schoolmates |
| C．Ideas of successful high school life |
| D．Make sure your school life easy |
If we want to deal with the association(社交) between boys and girls properly, here are some “dos and don’ts” for you to follow.
Keep a normal and healthy state of mind. Our schools and classes are made up of boys and girls. It is very nature for the boys and girls to make friends with each other. We should make as many friends as possible. We should keep touch with the other sex(性别) in public instead of in secret.
Don’t be too nervous or too shy. If you are a shy person, you can also find a way out. First of all, you can make friends with the students who have the same interest and hobby as you. As both of you have much in common, you may have much to talk about. If you keep doing like that, little by little, you will gladly find you are also as free to express yourself as others.
Don’t fall into the ditch of early love. The boys and girls at a adolescence (青春期) are rich in feeling. They are easy to regard the friendship as a sign of love and fall in love with each other at an early age. In my opinion, early love is a green apple that can’t be eaten. An apple won’t taste sweet until it is full ripe. Boys and girls at middle school are too young to carry the heavy duty of love. Do keep out of early love.We should keep touch with the other sex in following ways EXCEPT _______.
| A．with a good state of mind | B．in real friendship |
| C．in public | D．in secret |
What does the underlined word “ditch” mean?
| A．波浪 | B．泥潭 | C．圈套 | D．迷惑 |
The main idea of the passage is to _______.
| A．tell students to keep away from early love |
| B．tell students how to make friends |
| C．teach boys how to talk with girls |
| D．give some advice on how to associate between boys and girls |
Malls (购物中心) are popular places for Americans to go to. Some people spend so much time at malls that they are called mall rats. Mall rats shop until they visit hundreds of stores.
People like malls for many reasons. They feel safe because malls have police stations. Parking is usually free. And the weather inside is always fine. The newest malls have beautiful rest places with waterfalls and large green trees.
The largest mall in the United States is the Mall of America in Minnesota. It covers 4.2 million square feet. It has 350 stores, eight nightclubs, and a large park! There are parking spaces for 12,750 cars. About 750,000 people shop there every week.
The first indoor mall in the United States was built in 1965 in Edina Minnesota. People love doing all their shopping in one place. More malls are built around the country. Now malls are town centers where people come to do many things. They shop, and of course, they also eat in food courts (广场) that have food from all over the world. They see films at theaters. Some people even get their exercise by doing the new sport of “mall walking”. Others go to malls to meet friends.
In some malls, people can see a doctor and even go to the church. In other words, people can do almost everything in malls. Now people can live in their favorite shopping centers in fact.The passage gives ______ reasons why American people like malls.
| A．2 | B．3 | C．4 | D．5 |
According to the passage, Americans like doing shopping ______.
| A．in one place | B．in a quiet place |
| C．in a busy place | D．in different places |
Which statement is TRUE according to the passage?
| A．People can see a doctor in some malls. |
| B．Parking is free in all the malls. |
| C．The malls are only in big cities. |
| D．The largest mall is in Hong Kong. |
Researchers have found that there are some basic things that you can do to become happier.
◆Self
Yourself includes your education, your health, and your sense of purpose. It is important to take care of yourself and to connect the people around you. First, find a hobby. This gives you a chance to meet people with similar interests. You can also volunteer. Volunteering takes the focus off your own problems and makes you feel grateful for what you have.
◆Home
Create a quieter, dark area where you can sit and relax. Paint your living room yellow – it can increase energy and improve mood (情绪). It also helps to own a pet. Pets can make their owners feel calm, and provide love and friendship.
◆Financial (财务的) life
According to Ed Diener, the key to greater well-being is to have money, but not to want it too much. Try to spend money on things that give you long-lasting pleasure. Buy things that will enrich your life, such as music lessons and dinners with friends and family.
◆Social life
Have friends that encourage you to eat right, to be active, to laugh, and to do your best. Meet with your friends regularly and share with them when you have more of something than you need. Support each other in difficult times.
◆Workplace
Your office should be a place that you like. Find a job with people that you enjoy being around. That includes your boss. And do something that you feel strongly about. That is more important than money.
◆Community
If possible, live near people who have about the same amount of money as you. This makes you less aware (意识到的) of what you don’t have. Live in a neighborhood where you feel safe and where you can walk a lot. Walking makes you healthier, and healthier people are happier people.What does yourself include according to the passage?
How can we increase our energy and improve mood?
What is the key to greater well-being, according to Ed Diener?
Why should we live near people as rich as ourselves?
What does the passage mainly talk about?
Reading books is a good hobby for all kinds of reasons.__________. You can always keep yourself pleasant if you like reading. This is especially useful when the weather is bad. It is a relaxing hobby too. You can really become lost in a book.
Next, you can read a book almost anywhere: in a car, in a waiting-room, on a plane, in bed-even in the bath. __________! Reading is a convenient hobby as it is easy to stop and then start again.
__________. If you read as a hobby you will get better and better at it. This means that you will read faster and will become better at understanding what you read. As your reading improves, you will probably find your schoolwork becomes much easier. Many school subjects depend on good reading and, as you read, you learn more and more.
Some people say that reading is out of date. __________. You have to be able to read to use a computer and, the better you read, the better your computer skills will be. Reading is hardly out of date!
Good readers are most likely to be good writers, too. They are usually good at spelling as well, and have more things to write about. Reading books is a wonderful hobby, one of the best.
| A. This is not true. B. All you need is a book C. First, reading books is fun. D. Try to read a book once a month E. Another good reason is that reading is useful |