Here are a few books for your children to read as they grow up. Just choose one right now!

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It’s Okay To Be Different

Todd Parr

Price: $20.00 (10% off)

The book, full of bright colors and silly scenes, tells children how to learn to accept others, understand others, and respect others. The author always tells stories in a way that is easy to understand for children.

Psychology for Kids Vol. I: 40 Fun Tests That help You Learn About Yourself

J. Kincher

Price: $18.00 (15% off)

These forty interesting tests help children explore their interests and abilities, find out why they act the way they do, and discover what makes them different.

The Golden Rule

Ilene Cooper

Price: $10.00 (20% off)

The Golden Rule: “Treat others as you want to be treated.” In this illustrated(附插图的)book, a grandfather explains to his grandson that the Golden Rule means you treat people the way you would like to be treated. It’s golden because it’s so valuable, and it’s a way of living your life simply.

What Do You Really Want?

Beverly K. Bachel

Price: $20.00 (15% off)

Each part includes fun exercises, helpful suggestions, and success stories from teens. Readers learn how to set a goal, put it into action, build a support system, use positive self-talk, celebrate their successes, and more.

I’m Gonna Like Me

Jamie Lee Curtis

Price: $15.00 (15% off)

Celebrate Liking yourself? Through the dialogues between a girl and a boy, Jamie lee Curtis’s text and Laura Cornell’s artwork show children that the key to feeling good is liking yourself because you are you.

40. If a kid is always compaining(抱怨) about others, he or she should read ________.

A. I’m Gonna Like Me

B. Psychology for Kids

C. It’s Okay To Be Different

D. What Do You Really Want?   

41. What Do You Really Want? is a book that _________.

A. talks about how to treat others

B. discusses how to reach one’s goal

C. teaches children how to feel good

D. shows how to succeed in a short time

42. If you’d like to buy the first two books, you should pay at least_________.

A. $26.00             B. $30.75             C. $33.30             D. $35.00

43. The text is mainly written for ________.

A. students            B. children            C. librarians          D. parents

During 70 years of marriage, Jack Potter has kept a diary. He had always taken notes about his days, but when he met Phyllis Clayson at a wartime dance in 1941, he had even more to write about. They fell in love with each other at first sight, and they have been together ever since.

Jack Potter was in the Royal Engineers at the time. When the dance ended, he couldn’t wait to get back home and write, “It was a very nice evening. I danced with a very nice girl. I hope to meet her again.”

From that day on he kept brief notes of everyday events that happened in their life. They got married 16 months later. Then he worked in construction(建筑) and she worked as a typist.

They had no children but they had each other, and Jack Potter had his diaries. After 50 years of marriage, Phyllis moved into a care home because of dementia(痴呆)。And that is where Jack Potter visits her every day.

Dementia may have robbed(使丧失) her of memories, but Jack Potter keeps them for her in his diaries. He reads them to her, shows her their photographs, and helps her remember the things they have done.

They have always been devoted to each other through these years of marriage, accepting whatever comes their way. She still meets him with open arms when he visits. He still reads her the memories her mind can no longer hold on its own.

36. In 1941, Jack Potter _________.

A. got married to a typist

B. was too shy to talk to girls

C. got to know Phyllis Clayson

D. had nothing to do but dance

37. After getting married, Jack Potter _________.

A. began to keep a diary

B. learnt to become a dancer 

C. suffered a lot from dementia

D. became a construction worker

38. Jack Potter keeps his wife’s memories alive by ________.

A. reading her the diaries he has kept

B. asking her to read his diaries

C. dancing with her every day

D. teaching her to take photos

39. The author wrote the text mainly to ________ .

A. show us what true love is

B. talk about how to live a long life

C. discuss how to prevent dementia

D. suggest that everyone keep a diary

Once, there was a small boy who would never get dressed when his parents told him to. And neither would he  16  what they wanted him to after his bath. He preferred  17  clothes, which made him look really funny. But above all, he liked taking his  18 . His parents were always in a rush, and wanted him to be much quicker, but the boy didn’t like this, and he would  19  even more.

One day, his parents got so  20  when he refused to dress that they told him to go out with 21  on. The boy didn’t mind that at all,  22  he didn’t wear any clothes, and followed his parents out of the door. He held a belief that nobody could do anything to him.

As the boy stood outside his house, waiting for his parents’ car, along came the local  23  farmer. The farmer was deaf and had very  24  eyesight. Not only that, but also he’d also forgotten to  25  his glasses that day. When he saw the boy’s pink skin, he  26  it for one of his pigs. Shouting and  27 , the farmer forced him into a place where his pigs were  28 .

The boy  29  to go with him and begged him to stop. But the farmer was  30  deaf, so he didn’t know what the boy was  31  at all. The boy was there for a whole day,  32  with the pigs, thought to be a pig, and sharing their  33 .

At last, he was found by his parents. The boy had had such a  34  day that he never again wanted to be mistaken for anything else other than a human being. Now he’s the first to get dressed, and he makes himself  35  everyday. The experience has taught him a good lesson.

1.      A. eat                   B. wear                 C. drink                D. watch

2.      A. unusual             B. proper              C. nice                  D. usual

3.      A. advice              B. chance             C. time                  D. order 

4.      A. bring down        B. hand down        C. settle down      D. slow down

5.      A. angry                B. patient              C. nervous            D. worried

6.      A. anything            B. something         C. nothing            D. everything

7.      A. if                       B. but                    C. or                      D. so

8.      A. sheep               B. pig                    C. chicken             D. cow

9.      A. poor                  B. good                 C. far                     D. perfect

10.  A. put on               B. push up            C. look over          D. take off

11.  A. changed           B. sold                   C. mistook             D. searched

12.  A. rolling                B. pushing             C. blowing             D. dropping

13.  A. killed                 B. found                C. stolen               D. kept

14.  A. refused             B. agreed              C. decided            D. hoped  

15.  A. recently             B. completely        C. slightly              D. suddenly

16.  A. looking at          B. listening to        C. talking about     D. preparing for    

17.  A. living                 B. playing              C. arguing             D. working    

18.  A. garden              B. home                C. trouble              D. feelings 

19.  A. difficuly             B. pleasant            C. terrible              D. wonderful 

20.  A. lovely                B. kind                   C. quiet                 D. clean

I’ll take it to my king, who will most likely give me a handsome present _________.
A. in return                 B. in turn            C. in fact             D. in short

Some researchers believe that there is no doubt ______ a cure for AIDS will be found.
A. which                   B. that              C. what              D. whether

On hearing the news that her son has been admitted(录取) to a key university, she ________ laughing.
A. burst out               B. burst up          C. burst upon       D. burst into

—I have won the first prize in the English Writing Competition(比赛).
— Oh, _________!  
A. cheer up              B. well done        C. go ahead        D. congratulations

Tom answered the question, and the teacher smiled at him _______ he had given the best answer.
A. as if                   B. in case           C. while               D. though

He used to _______ his teaching when he was young.
A. devote to               B. be devoted to  C. devoting to      D. being devoted to

In our class there are 46 students, _______ half wear glasses.
A. in whom                   B. in them              C. of whom             D. of them