When he was small, Hill was a famous bad boy.
At the age of 9, his father married his stepmother. At that time they lived poor in the countryside while his stepmother was from a wealthy family.
His father introduced Hill to his stepmother as he said, “Dear, I hope you notice in the entire shire this is the worst boy, who has made me have no other way. Maybe before tomorrow morning he will throw a stone at you, or do a bad thing you will never imagine.”
To Hill's surprise, his stepmother went up to him with a smile, held up his head and looked at him carefully. She then turned around to tell her husband, “You’re wrong. He is not the worst boy in the entire shire, but the cleverest and creative boy. Only he doesn’t find a place to show himself. ”
His stepmother’s words warmed his heart, his eyes full of tears. With this, he started building friendship with his stepmother. And this became the drive of his life, making him create 28 successful golden rules, which helped tens of thousands of ordinary people walk on the road to success.
Before his stepmother came, no one praised him smart, and his father and neighbors considered him as a bad boy. However, his stepmother’s words changed his life.
When Hill was 14 years old, his stepmother bought him a used typewriter and said to him, “I believe you will become a writer.” Hill accepted his stepmother’s gift and expectation, and started writing things to a local newspaper. He understood his stepmother’s strong feeling of interest in his family while he saw with his own eyes she had changed his family. Therefore, he would do as well as she expected him to.
The strength from his stepmother made him a rich man and famous writer in the United States and one of the most important persons in the 20th century.
Praise will never be unnecessary, especially for children. A sincere (真诚的〉praise may be better than 10, 000 bad words. What did people think of Hill before the age of nine?
| A．Clever. | B．Creative. |
| C．Unfriendly. | D．Foolish. |
Hill started making friends with his stepmother after she ______.
| A．smiled at him |
| B．looked at him carefully |
| C．said good words about him |
| D．said bad words about him |
Which of the following is wrong about Hill?
| A．He accepted his stepmother's typewriter. |
| B．He failed to do as he was expected. |
| C．He started writing to a local newspaper. |
| D．He understood his stepmother. |
The writer is most probably an expert of______.
| A．house building | B．diet |
| C．news writing | D．education |
The passage was written mainly to tell us that ______.
| A．children should be praised |
| B．Hill’s father married again |
| C．Hill's stepmother wan kind to him |
| D．Hill'S father was cruel to him |
This is a picture of the twin sisters' room. It is a nice room. Lily's books are on the desk. Her backpack is on the floor. Liz's pencils are on the books. Her backpack is behind her chair. Their coats are behind the door. We can't see Lily and Liz in the picture. They're not at home.
判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示。This is a picture of Lily and Liz's room.
Lily's backpack is behind the chair.
Liz's and Lily's coats are on the chair.
Lily and Liz are not at home.
Their room is nice.
Look at this blue bag. It is my bag. What’s in it? Look, this is my English book. It’s blue, too. My Chinese book is also in my bag. It is yellow. This is my pencil case. It’s big and nice. I like English and Chinese. My bag is my good friend.My bag is _______________.
| A．yellow | B．blue | C．nice | D．big |
-- What’s in my bag? -- .
| A．My English book | B．My Chinese book |
| C．My pencil case | D．All the three |
My Chinese book is also in my bag. “Also” means (意思是) .
| A．也 | B．颜色 | C．不在 | D．放进 |
My is my good friend.
| A．Chinese book | B．English book |
| C．pencil case | D．bag |
My pencil case is .
| A．yellow | B．blue |
| C．big and nice | D．my friend |
In the morning , Mr. Smith comes into the garden at the back of his house. He sees too much snow in the garden. Mr. Smith wants to take his car out, so he asks a man to clean the road from his garage to the gate. He says to the man, “Don’t throw any snow on the flowers, and don’t throw any on the wall, and don’t throw any into the street, or the policeman will come.”Then he goes out.
When he comes back, the road is clean. There is no snow on the flowers, on the wall or in the street. But when he opens the garage to get his car out, he sees: there is full of snow, the snow from the road, and his car is under the snow!
根据短文内容，判断正（T）误（F）：Mr. Smith’s garden is behind his house.
He wants a man to clean the road because he doesn’t like snow at all.
He doesn’t tell the man where to throw the snow in the garden.
The man throws the snow into the garage.
Mr. Smith feels very happy when he opens the garage to get his car out.
For many people of Norway(挪威)，skiing(滑雪) is the best way to have fun in winter. Almost everyone can ski. Children learn to ski after they learn to walk. Long long ago in Norway，there were no buses, trains or cars. People had to find a way to walk over the deep snow. Skis were the right answer!
Although they love winter, the people of Norway are also happy to see summer come. They enjoy the out-door activities at any time of the year. In summer they swim and sunbathe near the beach. Some people go hiking and go mountain climbing. Sail-boating is also very popular during the warm sunny summer months.
The Norwegians(挪威人), like people everywhere, find many in-door ways to have a good time. During the long winter they also enjoy movies. They like to read books from the libraries in all seasons. Family life is very important to the people of Norway.In winter, ____ is the most popular sport for Norwegians to have a good time.
A. skiing. B. skating. C. swimmingLong long time ago, Norwegians skied for ________.
A. having fun
B. walking over the deep snow
C. making moneyHow many activities can you find in the passage?
A. 6 B. 7 C. 8The writer wants to tell us about ______.
A. skiing
B. the life of Norwegians
C. out-door activities Which sentence is right?
A. Norwegians like winter, but they don’t like summer.
B. Norwegians don’t think family life is very important.
C. Norwegians also like indoor activities.
Last Sunday evening, I went to town with my mother. After we bought lots of things, we went out the supermarket and found it was raining hard. But we had no umbrella. Just when we were trying to get into a taxi, a strange old man came up to us. He was carrying a nice umbrella and he said he would give the umbrella to us for one dollar. He said he lost his wallet and needed some money to take a taxi to go back home.
My mother didn’t believe what he said at first, and asked him a lot of questions and then gave him a dollar. But the man didn’t get into a taxi. We followed him and found he went into a club and bought himself a glass of whiskey with the dollar. After he drank it, he put on his hat and took one of the many wet umbrellas there and went off with the new one. Soon after that, he sold it again.What’s the weather like that day?
A. It was windy. B. It was sunny. C. It was rainy.In fact, the old man wanted to get money to ______.
A. buy a wallet
B. buy some whiskey
C. buy an umbrellaThe old man got ______ from the writer’s mother.
A. one yuan
B. one dollar
C. two dollarsFrom the passage, we can know that the old man was ______.
A. not honest B. friendly C. helpfulThe underlined word “strange” means ______ in Chinese.
A. 可怜的 B. 喝醉的 C. 陌生的