RockfieldHighSchoolMondayTuesd-优题课

One thorn（刺） of experience is worth many times of warning．

Ralph Wick was seven years old．In most things he was a fine boy，but he would cry from time to time．When he could not have what he wanted，he would （1）　　 for it．If he was told that it would hurt him，and he could not （2）　　 it，he would also cry．

One day，he went with his mother into the （3）　　．The sun shone．The grass was cut．The flowers were starting to come out．

Ralph thought he was，for once，a good boy．A （4）　　was on his face．He wished to doas he was told．Ralph helped his mother with the farm work and he was very happy．"Now you must be tired and （5）　　，"said his mother．"Have a good rest here and eat somecookies．I will get a beautiful red rose for you．"So his mother brought the red flower to him．When hesaw his mother still had a white rose in her hand，Ralph （6）　　it．

"No，my dear，"said his mother．"See how many thorns it has．You must not touch it，or you would be sure to hurt your （7）　　．"When Ralph found that he could not have the white rose，he began to cry，and （8）　　took it away．But he was soon very sorry．The thorns hurt his hand．It was so（9）　　that he could not use it for some time．

Ralph would never （10）　　this．From then on，when he wanted what he should not have，his mother would point to his hand which had been hurt before．He at last learned to do as he was told．

1．A．run	B．cry	C．plan	D．call
2．A．save	B．hide	C．have	D．lose
3．A．park	B．garden	C．forest	D．field
4．A．smile	B．sign	C．fear	D．mark
5．A．lazy	B．noisy	C．hungry	D．sleepy
6．A．waited for	B．asked for	C．cared for	D．thanked for
7．A．arm	B．leg	C．hand	D．foot
8．A．quietly	B．proudly	C．politely	D．suddenly
9．A．helpful	B．harmful	C．peaceful	D．painful
10．A．accept	B．refuse	C．forget	D．remember．

"Problems and worries are normal （正常）in life，"says Laura．"But I think talking to someone helps a lot．If we don't talk to someone，we'll certainly feel （1）　　．"

Laura once lost her （2）　　，and worried for days．She was afraid to tell her parents about it．She even walked three miles to school each day because she didn't have any money．She just kept （3）　　of the problem again and again in her mind．"If I tell my parents，they'll be angry！"But in the end，she talked to her parents and they were really （4）　　．Her dad said that he （5）　　made careless mistakes himself．They got her a new wallet and asked her to be more careful．"I will always remember to （6）　　my problems in the future!"Laura says．

Robert Hunt advises students about common （7）　　．He feels the same way as Laura．"It is best not to avoid our problems．We should always try to solve them．"He thinks that you can first find someone to talk to．This person doesn't need to be an expert （专家）like himself．Students often forget that their parents have more （8）　　than them，and are always there to （9）　　them．

In English，we say that sharing a problem is like cutting it in half．So you're halfway to solving a problem if you talk to （10）　　about it．

（1）A．better	B．happier	C．worse	D．cleverer
（2）A．wallet	B．bike	C．money	D．phone
（3）A．hoping	B．thinking	C．wishing	D．expecting
（4）A．seeing	B．knowing	C．learning	D．understanding
（5）A．sometimes	B．always	C．never	D．seldom
（6）A．cover	B．share	C．guess	D．stop
（7）A．questions	B．answers	C．ideas	D．problems
（8）A．friendship	B．love	C．truth	D．experience
（9）A．help	B．beat	C．hurt	D．fail
（10）A．none	B．someone	C．each	D．no one

It's reported that China will allow all couples （71）　　two children from January 1st，2016．It will end the onechild （72）　　that has been carried out since the late 1970s．One child policy（73）　　some problems to onechild families and the country．The government has realized the problems，so the government will change the situation．

The longawaited （期待已久的）policy immediately excited the public．Many（74）　　couples will prepare for a second child，because they think only （75）　　one child will make the only child feel （76）　　．So they want to have （77）　　child．But some young couples are still considering whether to have a second child．They think having another child will need much money．（78）　　life will be hard．

But many businessmen have begun seeking opportunities to earn money from the policy．Almost all companies are （79）　　childraising，including baby clothes，toys and cartoons．Some foreign milk powder companies do business in China．

James Liang，a professor in Peking University，predicts that the annual （每年的） number of births will increase by 2.4million．"（80）　　30，000yuan （about ＄4，724）is spent on a baby every year，about 75billion yuan will be created，"said Liang．

71．A．to have	B．has	C．having	D．had
72．A．fact	B．result	C．reason	D．policy
73．A．teach	B．brought	C．gave	D．take
74．A．young	B．old	C．bad	D．foreign
75．A．has	B．had	C．having	D．have
76．A．happily	B．happy	C．lonely	D．alone
77．A．other	B．another	C．others	D．another one
78．A．Theirs	B．His	C．Her	D．Their
79．A．with	B．about	C．at	D．in
80．A．When	B．Although	C．If	D．Unless

The Chongyang Festival is a Chinese traditional festival．It

is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month．It's also（81）　　（call） the Double Ninth Festival．

The festival started as（82）　　/ˈɜ：li/as the Warring States Period （475﹣221BC）．It has a history of more than

1，700 years．Among the numbers from zero to nine，nine is the（83）　　（high） odd number （奇数）．People believe that two"nines"meeting together stand for a long life．So it

is a special holiday（84）　　Chinese people to show love and respect for their elders．They hold many（85）　　（kind） of activities in honor of old people，wishing them good（86）　　/helθ/and a long life．

The festival comes during the golden time of（87）　　/fɔ：l/．On the day，people traditionally

drink chrysanthemum （菊花）wine，eat Double﹣Ninth Cakes（88）　　climb mountains．They also carry a kind of plant named dogwood．People in ancient times believed that （89）　　plant

could drive away evil （邪恶的）spirits and prevent them from（90）　　（catch） an illness in

winter．

Jadav Payeng is a forestry worker from Jorhat，India．Over the past 38 years，he has planted trees on a sandbar （沙洲）of the Brahmaputra River and has（36）　　it into a forest．

One day in 1979，16﹣year﹣old Payeng was walking（37）　　the bank of the Brahmaputra River．He saw many snakes on the sandbars．These snakes died in a few days'time（38 ）　　the heat and the absence of trees．Payeng felt very（39 ）　　when he saw this．He decided to plant some trees．Single﹣handedly，he started planting bamboo trees，as only bamboo trees could survive （存活）in the sandbars．

To water the trees was a difficult（40）　　for one man．With his hard work and great effort，day by day the（41）　　bamboo trees grew into a forest．His tree planting has changed the soil （土壤）．Now the sandbar is a thick forest and（42）　　to thousands of plants and animals．A large group of around 100 elephants visit the forest every year and（43）　　there for a few months．

Payeng is now in（44）　　fifties．He has planted close to 1，400 acres （英亩）of forests and is（45）　　as the Forest Man of India．In 2015，he was honored with Padma Shri，one of the top awards in India．

36．A．divided	B．put	C．turned
37．A．along	B．through	C．across
38．A．according	B．because of	C．as for
39．A．lonely	B．sad	C．tired
40．A．task	B．journey	C．condition
41．A．wild	B．tall	C．young
42．A．way	B．guide	C．home
43．A．stay	B．lie	C．sit
44．A．her	B．his	C．its
45．A．invited	B．served	C．known．