I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was  1 and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be   2  but a failure.”

After five years of   3  jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best   4 that could have happened to me. I  5  I wanted to do something positive(积极地) with my life because I wanted to prove to  6  that what people said about me was   7 . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s face it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my  8  and went to college. My first novel   9 while I was at college.

After college I taught during the   10  in high schools and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a degree in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of   11  that job to write full time   12  I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself. —Here was a working-class boy who’d   13 school early, now teaching at the university.

My writing career took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and famous, have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. But what does it mean? I   14  wish all the people that have put me down had  15  “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”

1.                A．bright          B．useless         C．simple    D．hopeful

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

3.                A．low            B．poor           C．good     D．useful

4.                A．support         B．happiness       C．surprise D．thing

5.                A．agreed         B．decided        C．planned D．told

6.                A．me            B．them           C．her  D．it

7.                A．wrong          B．right           C．stupid    D．faulty

8.                A．experiment     B．practice        C．writing   D．composition

9.                A．came on        B．came in         C．came out D．came back

10.               A．day            B．night           C．month D．year

11.               A．giving in        B．giving back      C．giving out  D．giving up

12.               A．while          B．if              C．when D．Or

13.               A．left            B．attended       C．changed   D．graduated

14.               A．just            B．exactly         C．so    D．very

15.               A．praised         B．said           C．answered  D．advised

My friend Peter was kind and lovely. But as a student, he was bad at math, English and science because he didn't have an aptitude(资质)for that kind of study.
One day we were playing football and the ball got stuck in a tree. Peter climbed the tree to get it, and one of the teachers, John Marston was looking out of the window, noticed that he was a talented climber. Mr Marston was an expert (专家)in climbing. He had climbed many mountains.
One weekend Mr Marston invited Peter to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Peter really enjoyed the climbing. Mr Marston told Peter he was a very talented climber for his age. Peter left school three years later with no qualifications (毕业证)，but he kept climbing regularly until he became very good at it. In his early twenties, he became a professional climber. He said, “I’ll always remember Mr Marston because he showed me I had an ability which no one else, including me, knew about."
【小题1】Did Peter know he had an ability to climb at first?
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【小题2】Which subject was Peter not good at?
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【小题3】When did Peter and Mr Marston climb Mount Kilimanjaro?
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任务型阅读。阅读短文，根据其内容完成下列任务。

Yesterday evening I went to see a film. After I went into the cinema, I began to look for my seat. It was Number 18, Row 18. I found it easily, but I saw a soldier(士兵) sitting on it. I walked to him and told him that the seat was mine. He said with a smile, “Oh, sorry. My seat is next to yours. Would you like to take that seat and leave this one to me?”

I looked at his seat. It was broken and had no back, so I disagreed. But he still wanted to change our seats. I was   ①   and said loudly, “I don’t want to do that. Are you trying to bully (欺负) me as a soldier?” After   ②   this, the soldier stood up and moved to his seat.

Then I saw my seat was much worse than his seat. There was only a piece of wood (木头) left. It would be very uncomfortable to sit on it. Now I knew why the soldier wanted to change his seat with me. I felt very sorry. The soldier again asked me to take his seat, but I didn’t do that. I sat on the piece of wood till the film finished.

1.请根据短文内容，分别写出①、②两处所缺单词。（每空限填一词）

① ________________  ② ________________

2.判断下列句子正 (T) 误 (F)。

A. It was a little difficult for the writer to find his or her seat in the cinema. (    )

B. The soldier wanted to take the writer’s seat because it was worse than the solder’s seat

(    )

3.把上文中画线的句子译成汉语。

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4.根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

Did the soldier want to bully the writer?

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5.What was the soldier’s seat like?

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