We can choose failure, but we can’t choose fear. That’s like what James Cameron said “Failure Is an Option, but Fear Is Not” at the end of his TED talk and I love it. We shouldn’t be afraid of facing failure, try to accept it and learn from it.
Make room for failure
Nobody wants to fail, but failure is often on your way to success. Geprge Bernard Shaw said, “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable(可敬的), but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” So if you never fail then it probably means that you do nothing. Failure shows that you actually do something instead of just sitting in your comfortable seat.
Learn from each failure
Don’t just fail and get nothing out of it. Learn something from each failure that makes you better and better.
Fail fast
Time is precious, so if you failed then you’d better fail fast. Why? Because it will make you learn and improve faster. Don’t wait until everything is perfect. Instead, test your idea in the real world as soon as possible.
Don’t choose fear
Many people don’t want to work on something unknown. But fear is not a good choice, so you should be willing to try out your new ideas. Even if you aren’t successful, you will still come out better than before.
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案：
In the writer’s opinion, failure is NOT .
A. useful B. terrible C. common
Which of the following is George Bernard Shaw’s thought?
A. If you fail, you’d better fail fast.
B. If you never fail, it may mean you do nothing.
C. You should learn something from failure.
From the passage, we know that we should .
A. be away from failure
B. fail every time
C. test our new ideas
What does the underlined word “precious” mean?
A．宝贵的 B．公正的 C．智慧的
What is the best title for the passage?
A. Failure is an option, but Fear is not.
B. Make room for failure
C. Fail fast as soon as possible.
This is my school. There are many trees and flowers. The teaching building is big and tall. There is a big playground in our school. It’s very nice to have it. After 4:30 in the afternoon, many students often come to the playground to play football and some students play table tennis in the table tennis room.
There are 1,200 students in 25 classes in our school. The students all like to study. The teachers in our school are very good. They help the students to study and sometimes play with them. All the students like them.The teaching building is _____.
| A．small | B．old |
| C．big and tall | D．big |
It’s very nice for this school to have ____.
| A．trees and flowers | B．a playground |
| C．students | D．teachers |
There are at least (至少) _____ students in one class.
| A．45 | B．65 | C．75 | D．48 |
After class the students often go to _____.
| A．their classroom | B．their homes |
| C．the playground | D．tennis room |
What may(可能) teachers NOT DO?
| A．Give the students lessons. |
| B．Play football and table tennis with the students. |
| C．Don’t like some students. |
| D．Help students study |
Miss Liu is an English teacher. She is very young. She works very well and the students all like her. There are twenty-six boys and twenty-four girls in her class. Now some of them are playing on the playground. Jim and Bill are jumping. Sam and Mike are running. Lucy and Simon are singing. The other girls are playing games with their teacher. They’re happy. Miss Liu is______.
| A．a Chinese teacher | B．very old |
| C．an English teacher | D．not good |
There are _____ students in Miss Liu’s class.
| A．forty-five | B．fifty-one |
| C．forty-eight | D．fifty |
The students are ______.
| A．at work | B．at home |
| C．all happy | D．in the classroom |
Who is singing?
| A．Miss Liu | B．Lucy and Simon |
| C．Sam and Mike | D．Jim and Bill |
All the students _________.
| A．like Miss Liu | B．are running |
| C．like English | D．are jumping |
It' s Sunday morning. There are many people in the park.Some boys are playing basketball. There are some girls under a big tree. They' re singing and dancing. What are those women doing? They are swimming. Look at the woman in a blue coat. Who' s she? She' s my mother. She is talking to Edward. Edward is her student. He is a good student. He studies hard . He' s good at all the subjects. And he' s friendly to all his teachers and his friends.The boys are _________
A. singing B. playing basketball C. dancingMy mother is___________ .
A. a teacher B. a doctor C. a writerEdward is in __________
A. the park B. the classroom C. the zoo— Who' s under a big tree? —.
A. Some women. B. Some girls. C. Some boys.— What color is my mother' s coat?—It's.
A. blue B. white C. red
Almost everyone likes dogs, and almost ①每个人都喜欢读关于狗的故事. I have a friend. He has a large police dog named Jack. Police dogs are very clever. Every Sunday afternoon my friend takes Jack for a long walk in the park. Jack like these long walks very much.
One Sunday afternoon a young man came to visit my friend. He stayed a long time. ②It seemed that he was very happy . He talked and talked. ③Soon it was time for my friend to take Jack for his walk. But the visitor still stayed. Jack became very worried. He walked around the room several times and then sat down in front of the visitor and looked at him. But the visitor paid not attention. He went on talking. Finally Jack got angry. ④He went out of the room and came back a few minutes later. He sat down again in front of the visitor, but this time he took the visitor’s cap in his mouth.
读以上短文，完成下面任务：将①处的句子翻译成英语
将②处的句子改成同义句.
将③处的句子翻译成汉语
将④处的句子翻译成汉语
What do you think of Jack ?
One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There’s a horseshoe. Pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn’t worth(值得) the trouble.” His father said nothing but he picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the money he bought some cherries(樱桃).
The father and the son continued their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn’t a house or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty(口渴的) to walk on. At the moment, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son picked it up and put it in his mouth.
And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up. When Thomas had caught up all the cherries, his father said to him, “My dear son, if you had bent(弯腰) down in the beginning to pick up that horseshoe, you wouldn’t have bent so many times for the cherries. Always remember this lesson: If someone don’t worry about the little things, he will find it impossible（不可能） for him to do the great things.”Who picked up the cherries on the ground?
| A．Thomas. | B．The farmer. |
| C．Both the father and the son. | D．Nobody. |
The farmer bought some ______ with the money after he sold the horseshoe.
| A．bread | B．water |
| C．cherries | D．pennies |
When the son refused to pick up the horseshoe , the father ______.
| A．did nothing | B．said nothing |
| C．felt worried | D．got angry |
The father dropped the cherry one by one, because ______.
| A．he wanted to teach his son a lesson |
| B．he wanted his son to do more exercise |
| C．he wanted his son to eat them all |
| D．he wanted to punish his son for not picking up the horseshoe at first |
From the story, we can learn that ______.
| A．cherries are so delicious that most people like eating them |
| B．a horseshoe is so expensive that it can bring us some money |
| C．we can’t get great things if we lose little things |
| D．we can’t do something great if we don’t worry about something little |