Have you ever been sad because of failure? Please remember, for quite often achieving what you set out do is not the most important thing.
A boy decided to dig a deep hole behind his house. As he was working, a couple of older boys stopped by to watch. “What are you doing?” asked one of the visitors. “I want to dig a hole all the way through the earth!” the boy answered excitedly. The older boys began to laugh, telling him that digging a hole all the way through the earth was impossible. After a while, the boy picked up a jar. He showed it to the visitors. It was full of all kinds of stones and insects. Then he said calmly and confidently, “Maybe I can’t finish digging all the way through the earth, but look at what I’ve found during this period!”
The boy’s goal was far too difficult, but it did cause him to go on. And that is what a goal is for－to cause us to move in the direction we have chosen, in other words, to cause us to keep working!
Not every goal will be fully achieved. Not every job will end up with a success. Not every dream will come true. But when you fall short of your aim, maybe you can say, “Yes, but look at what I’ve found along the way! There are so many wonderful things having come into my life because I tried to do something!” It is in the digging that life is lived. It is the unexpected joy on the journey that really makes sense.The older boys laughed at the boy because he was thought to be______.
| A．brave | B．impolite |
| C．foolish | D．warm-hearted |
Why did the boy show the jar to the older boys?
| A．To drive them away. |
| B．To show what he had found in digging. |
| C．To show how beautiful the jar was. |
| D．To attract them to join him in the work. |
What can be learnt from the fourth paragraph of the text?
| A．No dream can come true. |
| B．All work will end successfully. |
| C．Goals shouldn’t be set too high. |
| D．Goals will make us work harder. |
The best title for the text should be______.
| A．A Boy Dug a Hole |
| B．Joy in the Journey |
| C．No Pain, No Gains |
| D．Failure Is the Mother of Success |
根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Money Matters
Parents should help their children understand money. So you may start talking about money when your child shows and interest in buying things, candy or toys , for example.
1. The basic function of money.
Begin explaining the basic function of money by showing hoe people trade money for goods or services. It is important to show your child how money is traded for the things he wants to have. If he wants to have a toy, give him the money and let him hand the money to the cashier(收银员). When your child grows a bit older and understands the basic function of money, you can start explaining more complex (复杂的) ways of using money .
2. Money lessons
Approach money lessons with openness and honesty.If you must say no to a child’s request to spend money , explain, “you have enough toy trucks for now.” Or, if the request is for many different things, say, “ You have to make a choice between this toy and that toy.”
3.
Begin at the grocery store（杂货店）.Pick out two similar brands of a product—a name-brand butter and a generic (无商标产品)， for example. You can show your child how to make choices between different brands of a product so that you can save money . If he chooses the cheaper brand, allow him to make another purchase with the money saved. Later, you may explain how the more expensive choice leaves less money for other purchases.
| A．Wise decisions |
| B．The value of money |
| C．Permit the child to choose between them |
| D．Tell your child why he can ---or cannot---have certain things |
E. Ask yourself what things that cost money are most important to you
F. Talk about how the money bought the think after you leave the toy store
G. The best time to teach a child anything about money is when he shows an interest
Boiler rooms are often dirty and steamy, but this one is clean and cool. Fox Point is a very new47-unit living building in South Bronx, one of the city's poorest areas. Two-thirds of the people living there are formerly (以前) homeless people, whose rent is paid by the government. The rest are low-income families. The boiler room has special equipment, which produces energy for electricity and heat. It reuses heat that would otherwise be lost to the air, reducing carbon emissions(碳排放)while also cutting costs.
Fox Point is operated by Palladia, a group that specializes in providing housing and services to needy, people. Palladia received support from Enterprise Community Partners (ECP), which helps build affordable housing by providing support to housing developers.
ECP has created national standards for healthy, environmentally (环境方面) clever and affordable homes which are called, the Green Communities Standards. These standards include water keeping, energy saving and the use of environmentally friendly building materials. Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs. Even the positioning of a window to get most daylight can help save energy.
Michael. Bloomberg, New York's mayor, plans to create 165,000 affordable housing units for500,000 New Yorkers. Almost 80% of New York City's greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused, by housing. . So he recently announced that the city's Department of Housing and Preservation and Development (DHPD) , whose duty is to develop and keep the city's supply of affordable housing, will require all its new projects to follow ECP's green standards.
Similar measures have been taken by other cities such as Cleveland and Denver, but New York's DHPD is the largest city developer of affordable housing in the country.What is the purpose of describing the boiler room in the first paragraph?
| A． To explain the measures the city takes to care for poor people. |
| B． To suggest that affordable housing is possible in all areas. |
| C． To show how the environment-friendly building works. |
| D． To compare old and new boiler rooms. |
What is an advantage of the buildings meeting the Green Communities Standards?
| A． Lower running costs. |
| B． Costing less in construction. |
| C． Less air to be lost in hot days. |
| D． Better prices for homeless people. |
It can be learned from the text that,
| A．New York City is seriously polluted |
| B．people's daily life causes many carbon emissions in New York City |
| C．a great number of people in New York City don't have houses to live in |
| D．some other cities have developed more affordable housing than New York City |
What is the main purpose of this text?
| A．To call on people to pay more attention to housing problems. |
| B．To prove that some standards are needed for affordable housing. |
| C．To ask society to help homeless people and low-income families. |
| D．To introduce healthy, environmentally clever-and affordable housing. |
On a February day during an unusually mild winter, I found myself missing the snowy beauty. I enjoyed the feeling that comes from watching snow fall gently from heaven while I'm cosy inside with a good fire burning in the stove．But there were more serious concerns, like the lack of rainfall making our woods more accessible to summer forest fires．Local ski fields and hotels, all dependent on a snowy season, felt sorry for the vacant lifts, empty restaurants and unused snowmobiles．
Then I happened to see three little robins （知更鸟） fly into our yard．What were they doing here? West of us, in the Willamette Valley, wild flowers burst this time of year．But here in central Oregon, even if a groundhog （ 土拨鼠） had wanted to appear, it couldn't have broken through the frozen earth．And yet, these robins had arrived．
Their presence brought me a flow of happiness．It felt like a celebration as I dug into my bag of birdseed and spread a handful on the ground．Above me, the deep blue sky was cloudless, perfectly quiet but for some smoke from a neighbor's chimney．The lively cold made the air fresh and clean． My robins jumped lightly toward the seed．My soul jumped with them, feeling equally carefree．
Caught up in the moment of spring fever, I checked our snowless flower beds．To my delight, I spotted a green branch sticking out through the brown soil．
Despite the cold, I wasn't ready to go back inside．Just a short meeting with those robins had renewed my spirit．The next day I would return to my outdoor work with a cheerful heart and a hopeful eye for these signs of spring．The author missed a snowy winter because snow could _
| A．prevent forest fires |
| B．boom his business |
| C．promise an early spring |
| D．bring him a good feeling |
The author felt happy when finding ______．
| A．the sky was deep blue with clouds |
| B．three little robins flew into his yard |
| C．wild flowers burst in the Willamette Valley |
| D．a groundhog appeared through the frozen earth |
We can infer from the passage that the author _____．
| A．would enjoy wild flowers the next day |
| B．thought winter was already over |
| C．longed for the coming of spring |
| D．loved robins the most |
| Glendale City Parks Ranger Club Welcome to the Glendale City Parks Ranger Club. We are happy you have decided to volunteer to help keep Glendale City’s five parks clean and attractive. With assistance from local youth, Glendale City can continue to keep its parks beautiful all year long.
Working as a Glendale City Parks Ranger |
The Glendale City Parks can be the following EXCEPT ____________.
| A．a picnic area for families to eat |
| B．a place for people to walk dogs |
| C．a place for teenagers to have classes |
| D．a playground for children to have fun |
In Sunnyside Park, the volunteer rangers’ duty is to ___________.
| A．plant flowers |
| B．water the grass |
| C．paint the benches |
| D．check the equipment |
The park benches need painting in ____________.
| A．Oak Hill Park and Valley Park |
| B．Valley Park and Blue Ridge Park |
| C．Sunnyside Park and Oak Hill Park |
| D．Mill Street Park and Sunnyside Park |
The purpose of the passage is to ________________.
| A．attract tourists |
| B．explain park rules |
| C．find volunteer rangers |
| D．introduce park activities |
Elizabeth Freeman was born about 1742 to African American parents who were slaves. At the age of six months she was acquired, along with her sister, by John Ashley, a wealthy Massachusetts slaveholders. She became known as “Mumbet” or “Mum Bett.”
For nearly 30 years Mumbet served the Ashley family. One day, Ashley’s wife tried to strike Mumbet’s sister with a spade. Mumbet protected her sister and took the blow instead. Furious, she left the house and refused to come back. When the Ashleys tried to make her return, Mumbet consulted a lawyer, Theodore Sedgewick. With his help, Mumbet sued(起诉) for her freedom.
While serving the Ashleys, Mumbet had listened to many discussions of the new Massachusetts constitution. If the constitution said that all people were free and equal, then she thought it should apply to her. Eventually, Mumbet won her freedom---- the first slave in Massachusetts to do so under the new constitution.
Strangely enough, after the trial, the Ashleys asked Mumbet to come back and work for them as a paid employee. She declined and instead went to work for Segdewick. Mumbet died in 1829, but her legacy lived on in her many descendants(后裔). One of her great-grandchildren was W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founderｓ of the NAACP, and an important writer and spokesperson for African American civil rights.
Mumbet’s tombstone still stands in the Massachusetts cemetery where she was buried. It reads, in part: “She was born a slave and remained a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither read nor write, yet in her own sphere she had no superior or equal.”What do we know about Mumbet according to Paragraph 1?
| A．She was born a slave |
| B．She was a slaveholder |
| C．She had a famous sister |
| D．She was born into a rich family |
Why did Mumbet run away from the Ashleys?
| A．She found an employer |
| B．She wanted to be a lawyer |
| C．She was hit and got angry |
| D．She had to take care of her sister |
What did Mumbet learn from discussions about the new constitution?
| A．She should always obey her owners’ orders |
| B．She should be as free and equal as whites |
| C．How to be a good servant |
| D．How to apply for a job |
What did Mumbet do after the trial?
| A．She chose to work for a lawyer |
| B．She foundｅｄ the NAACP |
| C．She continued to serve the Ashleys |
| D．She went to live with her grandchildren |
What is the test mainly about?
| A．A story of a famous writer and spokesperson |
| B．The friendship between a lawyer and a slave |
| C．The life of a brave African American woman |
| D．A trial that shocked the whole world |
