Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you'll find that the whole world smiles to you. While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teacher's face when you did a good job?
One day it is fine. Just before you go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start to complain about the weather. But friends, why don't you sit down and listen to the free concerts that the nature offers you? And with the timely (及时地) rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest.
Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes failure can't be avoided. I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident (信心) in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes," Failure is the mother of success".
Attitude (态度) decides everything. With an optimistic (乐观) attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let's smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.People sometimes complain_______.
A. life is tiring
B. their studies are successful
C. the sky is always dark According to the passage, in school,_______.
A. the students don't like their lessons
B. the teachers will be happy if the students do good jobs
C. the teachers don't like their teachingWhen we face failure, we_______.
A. shouldn't give up hope
B. must be confident in ourselves
C. Both A and B If there is a timely rain,_______.
A. farmers can't have a good harvest
B. you can listen to a concert
C. crops in the fields will grow betterThe best title for this passage is _______.
A. Smile and the World Smiles to You
B. Complaining about life
C. Failure is the Mother of Success
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Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012. Mo, who was born in 1955 into a farmer’s family in Gaomi County in Shandong Province, is the first Chinese national to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. In his early years, life was not easy. These things have influenced Mo Yan’s later writing. |
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60-year-old Park Geun-hye (朴槿惠)was elected(选举)the new President of South Korea in December, 2012. She becomes the country’s first woman head of state and her term (任期) will last five years from 2013. “I will become a president who puts people’s living before anything else,” she told the cheering People in central Seoul as she accepted her win. |
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Barack Obama (born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1961), who was elected the 44th President of the United States in 2008, has been elected again to a second term, fighting against Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Obama finished his study from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. His father was from Kenya, Africa while his mother was born in Kansas, America. |
When Mo Yan was young, his family might be .
A.big | B.small | C.rich | D.poor |
Which of the following is NOT true about the passages?
A.The writer Mo Yan might live in a small place before he got the prize. |
B.Park Geun-hye will lead South Korea till the year 2018. |
C.Obama’s parents came from the same country before they married. |
D.Among the three persons, Park Geun-hye is the oldest. |
The three passages may be from .
A.an email | B.a letter |
C.news | D.an advertisement |
Accident Report Form
Accident A car hit a tree. Four people were in the car.
Weather condition There was a heavy rain.
Cause The driver named Li Jun drank too much.
Date of call March 20th, 2009
Time of call 8:30 p.m.
Name of caller A man called Zhang Wei. (He was taking a walk there at that time.)
Place Zhongshan Road, Nanjing
Conditions of victims(受害者) Mr. Green hurt his head. Mrs. Green hurt her left leg.
Their daughter felt frightened. Their dog died.
Action Policemen arrived at 8: 40 p.m. and sent the victims to Gulou
Hospital at 8:45 p.m.What time did Zhang Wei call the police?
A.At 8:30 a.m. | B.At 8:30 p.m. |
C.At 8:40 a.m. | D.At 8:45 p.m. |
How many people were there in the car?
A.One. | B.Two. | C.Three. | D.Four. |
Whose left leg was hurt?
A.Mrs. Green’s. | B.Mr. Green’s |
C.Their daughter’s | D.Their dog’s |
What was the weather like that day?
A.It was sunny. | B.It was snowy |
C.It was cloudy. | D.It was rainy. |
. Which of the following is TRUE?
A.The car hit a wall. |
B.The accident happened on Zhongshan Road in Beijing. |
C.The driver drank too much. |
D.Half an hour later the policmen sent the victims to the hospital. |
An old farmer spent all his life on his farm in the country in the southeast of England. One day he decided to visit the big city. Everything was new and strange to him, because he had never traveled to the city before.
The old farmer visited a lot of interesting places in the city.
He rushed into a large tall building and saw a lift. When he was watching, an old woman got into the lift and closed the door. After a while, the door opened again and a very perfect young girl came out.
The old farmer was very surprised, “What a funny little room!” He said to himself, “It’s magic. It can change an old woman into a young girl. The next time I come here, I’m going to bring my wife to take the lift. ” The old farmer lived _______________.
A.near the city |
B.in the city |
C.in the southeast of England |
D.in a large tall building |
The old farmer decided ______________ one day.
A.to visit a building | B.to visit a city |
C.to visit a factory | D.to visit a farm |
The old farmer ________________.
A.came to the city for the first time |
B.had traveled to the city several times |
C.found nothing new and strange in the city |
D.only visited the large tall building |
When the old farmer was in a large tall building, he saw ________ get into the lift.
A.a young girl | B.an old man |
C.his wife | D.an old woman |
From the passage, we can guess the old farmer ______________.
A.knew the lift well |
B.didn’t know anything about the lift |
C.wanted to buy a lift |
D.didn’t like the lift |
Paul Nicklen waited patiently on a sheet of ice in the Arctic. He was there to take pictures for National Geographic. Finally, he saw something big and white. It was a polar bear, swimming towards him in the icy water.
Paul lay down-on the ice to get a better photo, but the polar bear jumped out of the water and tried to attack him! Luckily for Paul, the ice cracked or broke and the bear fell back into the water The polar bear wasn’t so lucky. It couldn’t get a meal and had to swim farther away to find food.
To understand the polar bear’s problem, you need to know two things about the Arctic. First, the Arctic is mostly ocean. Second , ice cover a lot of the Arctic Ocean. In winter, the ice form a thick, white sheet, but in summer, the ice becomes thinner and break into pieces. Sea ice is the key to survival for Arctic animals. However, because of global warming, Arctic temperatures are rising and polar ice is melting.
Polar bears need ice to hunt seals, their favourite meal. They stand on the ice wait for the seal to come up for air. As Arctic ice melts, polar bears have to swim farther to find ice floes, or large pieces of floating ice. Sometimes, bears have to swim more than 200 km to find an ice floe. Some bears cannot swim that far and sadly they drown.
On his last trip, Paul Nicklen saw three dead bodies of polar bears. Before global warming threatened Arctic ice, a dead bear was a rare sight, Paul is sad to see the dead bodies, wildlife experts thinks global warming will have a terrible effect on polar bears. In the future, polar ice will continue to shrink and endanger the bear. Some scientists believe 65 percent of the world’s polar bears will disappear by 2050. in other word, polar bears are in great danger. The main idea of the passage is that_________.
A. polar bears are amazing swimmers
B. Arctic temperatures are rising
C. global warming is endangering polar bearsThe polar bear that tried to attack Paul was unlucky because
A. Paul swam away
B. it was on an ice floe
C. it couldn't eat PaulAccording to the passage, polar bears hunt seals by______ .
A. waiting on the ice
B. waiting in the water
C. drowning the seals From the passage, Paul Nicklen is maybe a_________.
A. scientist
B. photographer
C. Psychologist We can infer that polar bears____________.
A. won't have any food in 2050
B. will all die before 2050
C. cannot find food easily
Imagine that your hairstyle is important for your future. For teenage boys in Papua New Guinea this is true! The Hulie people believe that beautiful hair shows a man is healthy and strong.. They respect men who wear wigs, so teenage Hulie boys have to grow great hair. With this hair, they make a wig that they can wear every day.
The Hulie live deep in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea. Before the 1930s, people from the outside world didn't even know about them. Today, there are about 70000 Hulie people, Most still follow their traditional way of life. The Hulie live in small villages, but families. do not live together. Women and small children live in one house and. men live together in another house. When boys are eight years old, they have to leave their mothers to live with their fathers.
Some Hulie children go to school to study reading and math. But after middle school. While teenage girls babysit their younger brothers and sisters, most teenage boys,to wig school. At wig school, they learn how to grow their hair and how to make wigs. The rules are pretty serious
1 .They cannot run, because their hair can be damaged.
2. They have to stay away from fire.
3. They have to put water on their hair 12 times a day to make it Grow faster.
When a Hulie teen wears his wig for the first time, he shows he is a man now, he can get married. To prepare, boys grow their hair for 18 months or longer. Then they cut it and use their own hair to make a mushroom-shaped wig. Later they grow their hair again for special wigs. These special wigs are for celebrations and festivals. Hulie men wear their mushroom-shaped wigs every day, but they like to be fashionable, too. To add style, they decorate their wigs with flowers and feathers.The article is mainly about________
A. teenage Hulie girls
B. teenage Hulie boys
C. Hulie men and women People didn't know the Hulie people until the 1930s because______
A.they lived in small villages
B. there are only 2700Huli people
C. they were hidden in the rain forest The underlined phrase "people from the outside world" means______
A. people who don't live in the rain forest
B. people who follow their old traditions
C. people who do things outside of the forestAccording to the article we can refer that Huli_________
A. teenage boys live with the mothers
B. teenage girls live with their fathers
C. husbands and wives do not live togetherHulie boys do not decorate their wigs with_______
A. flowers B. mushrooms C. feathers