Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly? Or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?
If you do, you need to control(控制) your feelings and stop getting angry so easily. Getting angry easily can make you lose friends.
Gary Egeberg, an American high school teacher, wrote My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. It tells teens how to stay cool when bad things happen to them. The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse. It can not make them better. “Getting angry is not a natural way to act”, the book says. It is just a bad habit, like smoking. The book says you can control your anger easily, and all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry.
When a baby falls over, it cries only when people are watching it. Like a baby, you can only get angry if you are sure it is the right thing to do.
The book gives many suggestions to help you if you get angry easily. Here are the top three.
①Keep a record. Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and you will see you get angry too easily.
②Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will teach you not to be angry.
③Do something different. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh!
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。The writer wants to tell us ____.
| A．not to get angry easily |
| B．to work hard at school |
| C．to do more exercises |
| D．to help each other |
The writer thinks that if you get angry easily you will ____.
| A．get ill very easily | B．lose your friends |
| C．put on weight easily | D．eat less |
My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals is a ____.
| A．story | B．book | C．picture | D．film |
My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals mainly tells us ____.
| A．what to read | B．how to read |
| C．how to stay cool | D．how to learn English well |
In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word “it” refers to(指的是)____.
| A．the book | B．anger | C．habit | D．the baby |
Gladys Holm was a secretary . She worked in an office all her life. Gladys made about $15,000 a year. She died when she was 86 years old. And she left a big surprise—$18 million! She gave the money to a children’s hospital.
Gladys Holm never got married or had any children. But she always liked children, and she wanted to help them. When her friend’s daughter was ill in hospital, Gladys brought her a toy bear. After that, she visited the hospital many times. Every time she visited, she brought toy bears for those children. After that, people started to call Gladys the “Toy Bear Lady”.
Gladys always gave toys and other presents to her friends but no one knew she had a lot of money. She lived in a small house outside Chicago. Everyone was very surprised when they learned that she was a millionaire. One of her friends said, “She always gave us nice presents and things, but we didn’t know she was rich.”
How did Gladys get so much money? She asked her boss how to make more money, and she listened to what he said. She bought the stocks (股票) that he told her to buy, and she got very rich. Before she died, she talked to her friends about “giving something to the children’s hospital”. No one knew that the “something” was $18 million!Gladys Holm often visited the hospital and gave children toy bears because______.
| A．she had too much money |
| B．she had a lot of toy bears |
| C．she liked children very much |
| D．she had never got married and had no children |
People started to call Gladys the “Toy Bear Lady”_______.
A. after she died
B. after she visited the children in hospital many times
C. before her friend’s daughter was ill
B. before she worked with his bossEveryone was surprised that________.
| A．Gladys lived such a long life |
| B．Gladys had so much money |
| C．Gladys lived in a small house outside Chicago |
| D．Gladys always gave her friends nice presents |
________, so she got rich.
| A．Gladys made $15,000 a year as a secretary |
| B．Gladys did another job in the hospital |
| C．Gladys got the money from the boss |
| D．Gladys did what the boss told her to do |
When Gladys Holm became a millionaire,________.
| A．she spent most of the money on nice presents and things |
| B．she stopped working |
| C．she still lived in the same way |
| D．she could hardly wait to tell her friends and family |
In 1638, John Harvard donated some money and about four hundred books to a new university. This was the beginning of the library at Harvard University. The gift was so important that the university was named for John Harvard.
Thomas Bray began the first free lending library in the late 1600s. He set up more than 30 libraries in the American colonies. However, the idea for this kind of free library ended when Bray died in 1730. In 1731, Benjamin Franklin and some friends started the first subscription library in the United States. In a subscription library people pay money to become members, but they may borrow the books without paying again.
In the United States, every child had a free education. This idea soon led to free libraries. One of the first libraries that used tax money to buy books was a library in Peterborough, New Hampshire. This library was set up in 1833.The main idea of the second paragraph is________.
| A．Franklin started the first subscription library |
| B．Bray and Franklin were important in the history of public libraries |
| C．in a subscription library people pay money to become members |
| D．Bray died in 1730 and Franklin died in 1833 |
The underlined word “borrow” means_______.
| A．use for a short time and then return |
| B．read and write with no help from another person |
| C．like very much |
| D．lend |
The passage does not say it, but we can guess that_______.
| A．free schools and free libraries in the United States began at about the same time |
| B．there were free schools in the United States before there were free libraries |
| C．the library in New Hampshire also had a free school in it |
| D．there were free libraries in the United States before there were free schools |
Harvard University began_______.
| A．in 1731 | B．in 1730 | C．in 1638 | D．in 1833 |
At the library that Franklin started, ________.
| A．people could use books for no money at all |
| B．people paid a little money in the beginning but none after that |
| C．people paid a lot of money in the beginning but none after that |
| D．both A and B |
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这是初中英语选修教材Reading for Enjoyment的目录(contents)。请仔细阅读该目录。完成对教材内容的介绍。
Contents
Here's a contents table from Reading for Enjoyment. There are _____ modules in this books. Each module has three parts — ___
__ ,Reading and Culture. The topics are Friendship, Wild world, Healthy living and __
_. The Reading part provides lots of fresh reading passages, which help students improve their ___
__ skills such as finding facts, and bring them great enjoyment as well. The __
__ part provides rich cultural background through short stories. The book helps open up students’ eyes and improve their comprehension abilities.
What can we learn from the special, very successful people in the world who make the impossible possible?
Lesson 1: Ways of creative thinking are needed
Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg both dropped out of college. They prefer to teach themselves because they like to develop their own ways of thinking. They think standard ways of teaching might stop people from being creative and having new ideas.
Lesson 2: The answer might not be what you expect
Find your answers from facts — not start with an expectation of what you will find. Stephen Jacobsen from Northwestern University believed what he was taught: that water on Earth came from icy comets(彗星) or planets which hit into Earth.
However, by studying a special rock, he discovered that it acts like a sponge(海绵). This suggests that Earth's water may have come from inside, driven to the surface to form the oceans, by geological activity.
“I had a pretty hard time making others believe it,” he said. “But thinking about the fact that you may the first person to see something for the first time doesn’t happen very often. When it does, it’s amazing.”
Lesson 3: A little luck goes a long way
Years of planning went into a recent achievement in space travel. The European Space Agency’s “Philae”, a robot landing craft, met up with Comet 67P, which is 480 million kilometers away. The trip from Earth by “Philae” had taken ten years!
The scientists had no idea what the surface of the comet would be like. If the landing failed, it would be impossible to get information from the spacecraft. Twenty years of work would have been wasted.
When “Philae” tried to land, it bounced(弹起) away from the comet’s icy surface twice. Luckily, however, “Philae” landed successfully and began sending information back to Earth.Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn’t finish college because_________.
| A．they preferred to learn by themselves |
| B．they needed standard ways of teaching |
| C．their teachers didn’t like their new ideas |
| D．their teachers weren’t able to teach them |
In Lesson 2, the writer mainly wants to tell us that _________.
| A．we should get answers from facts |
| B．we can believe what we are taught |
| C．it’s hard to make others believe something |
| D．an expectation can help get an answer in research |
The example “Philae” in Lesson 3 shows that _________.
| A．Comet 67P is not far away from Earth |
| B．it took “Philae” 20 years to reach Comet 67P |
| C．“Philae” landed on Comet 67P with a little luck |
| D．scientists know nothing about the surface of Comet 67P |
The best title for this passage is ______.
| A．Ways of discovering | B．Lessons for success |
| C．Ways of being special | D．Lessons for experiments |
I once knew a man who was rich in his love for birds, and in their love for him . He lived in a grove full of all kinds of trees. He had no wife or children in his home. He was an old man with blue and kind eyes, and a voice that the birds loved.
While he was at work in the grove, the birds came close to pick up the worms(蠕虫) in the fresh earth he dug up. At first, they kept their distance from him, but they soon found he was a kind man, and would not hurt them, but liked to have them near him.
They knew this by his kind eyes and voice, which tell what is in the heart. So, day by day their faith in his love grew in them.
All the birds of the grove were soon his fast friends. They were on the watch for him, and would fly down from the green tree tops to greet him with their chirp(叽叽喳喳叫).
When he had no work to do, he took bread with him, and dropped the pieces on the ground. Down they would dart(俯冲) on his head and feet to catch them as they fell from his hand.
He showed me how they loved him, He put a piece of bread in his mouth, with one end of it out of his lips, Down they came like bees at a flower, and flew off with it piece by piece,
When they thought he slept too long in the morning, they would fly in and_____________.
They went with him to church, and while he sang his hymns in it, they sat in the trees, and sang their praises.
So the love and trust of birds were a joy to the old man all his life long.The birds didn't get close to the old man at first because_____.
| A．he often hurt them | B．he disliked them near him |
| C．they knew little about him | D．they got no food from him |
The underlined word "faith" in Paragraph 3 means______ in Chinese.
| A．承诺 | B．祝福 | C．希望 | D．信任 |
Which of the following is the best expression to fill in the blank in the passage?
| A．follow him here and there |
| B．call him up with their chirp |
| C．drop pieces of bread on him |
| D．look for worms in the house |
It can be learnt from the story that______.
| A．birds are human's best friends |
| B．everyone gets on well with animals |
| C．one can get love in return for giving love |
| D．a person who loves birds is warm-hearted |