If you are lazy and weak, you will never taste success. But if you are , success and happiness will be more likely to come to you.
I love eating persimmons（柿子）. But you can’t get them until autumn. If you try them before the right time, they probably bad.
In Grade Six, because of my poor grades, my parents were that I wouldn’t be able to get into an excellent middle school. They me to study harder, but I didn’t really understand why they were so anxious.
Summer came. The hot weather made me sleepy and I couldn’t my textbooks. But every time I wanted to stop , Mom would shout, “Hey! Think about your . If you don’t work hard, you’ll regret it!” I had to sit back down again and return to my textbooks. But all I was playing with my friends and eating persimmons.
My mom would say to me, with a serious look on face, “If a persimmon tree doesn’t grow in summer, it can’t bear（结出） fruit in autumn! Only by hard work you get good results.”
I didn’t understand it at that time, I gradually came to see the truth of her words. A few months later, I succeeded in getting into the key middle school. It was . Walking in my new school, I could see quite a few persimmon trees. The fruit was so red that it looked as if it was on fire. Suddenly, I that working hard may be bitter but its fruit is sweet.
My mom was right. If a persimmon tree doesn’t grow summer, it can’t bear fruit in autumn. I smiled. I had grown through the summer now it was autumn.
I tasted my success and enjoyed the fruit of my labor!
A．busy B．clever C．hard-working D．free
A．look B．taste C．turn D．smell
A．embarrassed B．worried C．excited D．scared
A．afforded B．allowed C．pushed D．made
A．concentrate on B．depend on C．decide on D．look on
A．thinking B．talking C．playing D．studying
A．future B．hobby C．health D．work
A．talked about B．heard about C．worried about D．thought about
A．her B．your C．my D．his
A．should B．can C．need D．must
A．But B．Because C．Although D．So
A．spring B．summer C．autumn D．winter
A．realized B．saw C．noticed D．reminded
A．before B．during C．after D．until
A．and B．but C．or D．then
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Sitienei, a 90-year-old grandmother, has become the world’s oldest primary school student. She is studying at the local primary school to learn to read and write. She is from a small ________ in Kenyan. She has spent most of her life________ as a midwife(接生婆)， helping women to give birth to babies. She wants to pass on her midwife skills to the young. She said she didn’t have a chance to go to school when she was ________ . So she wants all the children in her village to ________ .
The head teacher at the school said, “I’m proud________her. She is loved by every pupil. They all want to learn and play with ________ .”He also said, “She is doing well considering her ________.” I can say I have seen a big difference in this school________ she came.
Sitienei often said, “I want to tell children, ________ girls in poor areas, that ________ will be your wealth.” She added, “With education, you can be whatever you want to be——a doctor , a teacher, a scientist, and so on.
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完形填空。通读全文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
School education is very important and useful.________ no one can learn everything from school . A ________ ,no matter how much he knows ,can not teach his students everything they want to know.
It’s ________ important for teachers to show their students how to learn than to make them ________a certain fact or a formula（公式）,so that they will learn much more outside school by________ .Great scientists before us didn’t get everything from school. Their teachers only showed them the________ .Edison didn’t even finish primary school. But he was so________.He invented so many things________ human beings. The________to their success is that they knew how to learn, worked hard and wasted not a single moment all their lives. And above all. They knew how to ________ their brain（大脑）.A. ButB. SoC. And
A. teacher B. headmaster C. learner
A. muchB. moreC. very
A. to learn B. learnC. learning
A. themB. themselvesC. himself
A. ideaB. ruleC. way
A. important B. helpfulC. successful
A. toB. of C. for
A. factB. resultC. secret
A. makeB. testC. use
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Franco is a waiter in New York City. He has one week __________for summer holiday every year. Last summer he__________to take a trip to California. He didn’t want to go___________plane. So he decided to take the train from New York to California.
The train ___________Penn Station in New York City on Monday at 10:00 p.m. Franco tried to sleep that night, __________he couldn’t. He was too excited because he knew this trip was a wonderful idea.
For five days, Franco didn’t ____________the train. He often had a _________through the train and talked with the other passengers. Sometimes he walked between the cars(车厢） to get ___________fresh air. He had all his meals in the dining car.
Finally, at 2:45 p.m. on Friday, the train stopped in San Francisco. Franco was happy to leave the train. On Sunday, Franco took a flight back to New York. He ___________ out of the window of the airplane and imagined(想象) the desert, mountains, farms, and cities below. After a while, he closed his eyes and started to make plans for his __________summer holiday.
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完形填空: 从每小题三个选项中，选出能填入空白处的最佳答案。
A young man was going to finish school. For a long time he had a to get a beautiful sports car. He knew his father could well it, so he told him that a sports car was all he wanted.
Then on the day of his graduation, he to his father’s room. His father told him how he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautiful gift box. The young man opened the box and found a Bible(圣经) with his name on it. , he raised his voice and said to his father, “With all your money you give me a Bible?” He then ________out of the house, leaving the Bible.
Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. Realizing that his father was very old, he thought perhaps he should go to see him. He had not seen him that graduation day. Before he could go, he received a phone telling him that his father had died. He had to go home at once and care for the things his father left him.
he was searching through his father’s important papers, he saw the still new Bible, just as he left it years ago. He opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. As he was reading, a car key with a tag(标牌) dropped from the back of the Bible. On the tag was the of his graduation, and the words “PAID IN FULL”.
Sadness and regret filled his heart.
A．jobB．idea C．dream
A．affordB．spendC．cost
A．callsB．calledC．was called
A．interesting B．proudC．disappointed
A．HappilyB．AngrilyC．Carefully
A．rushedB．lookedC．walked
A．onB．forC．since
A．whoB．thatC．what
A．WhenB．WhileC．Before
A．dateB．nameC．place
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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 laughed at me. I was sad but could do ________ . Later, something happened and it changed my life. It was an English speech contest (比赛). My English teacher 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 ________ . You are sure to win.” Then my teacher and I talked about many different topics. At last I chose the topic “Believe in yourself”. I tried my best to remember all the speech and practiced it over 100 times. ________ my teacher’s great love, I did ________ in the contest. I could hardly believe my ________ when the news came that I had won the first place. I ________ the cheers from the teachers and classmates.
Since then, everything has changed for me. When I do anything, I try ________ myself to be sure that I will make it.A. too B. to C. very
A. something B. anything C. nothing
A. take part in B. join C. leave for
A. behind B. at the back of C. in front of
A. myself B. yourself C. himself
A. With B. Under C. About
A. good B. well C. interested
A. ears B. eyes C. arms
A. listened B. heard C. sounded
A. telling B. to telling C. to tell