Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you will find the whole world smiles to you.
While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job?
One day it is fine. Just before you want to go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start complaining about the weather. But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the concert that the nature offers you? And with the timely rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest.
Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes failure can’t be avoided. I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is what we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success.”
Attitude decided everything. With an optimistic(乐观) attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let’s smile whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.
【小题1】People sometimes complain_______.

A．the sky is always dark

B．their studies are successful

C．they see the world with their heart

D．life is tiring

【小题2】If there is a timely rain, ______.

A．you want to go out

B．you can listen to the concert

C．crops in the fields will grow better

D．farmers can’t have a good harvest

【小题3】When we face failure, we _________.

A．must be confident in ourselves

B．shouldn’t be afraid of it

C．shouldn’t give up hope

D．All of the above

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Where do our favorite foods come from? The truth may surprise you. Did you know curry isn’t Indian? Did you know Americans weren’t the first to eat hamburgers? Or did you know pizza wasn’t created in Italy?
First, let’s talk about curry.     【小题1】    But in reality(事实)， wealthy English people were cooking with curry spices (香料) hundreds of years before British ships traveled to India.
  【小题2】    Cooks of wealthy English families created curry dishes, and later these dishes became popular in other parts of England.
  【小题3】   The Persians were eating round, flat bread with cheese in the 500s-nearly one thousand years before pizza became popular in Naples, Italy!
Finally let’s look at the truth behind hamburgers. Many people think hamburgers are an American food.   【小题4】   A German named Otto Kuasw made the first hamburger in 1891. Four years later, German sailors introduced hamburgers to Americans.
Where foods come from isn’t nearly as important as how they taste—delicious!  【小题5】   

A．However according to some stories, hamburgers came from Hamburg, Germany. B．So, go and get some of your favorite and enjoy it. C．Many people think the English found out about curry from people in India in the 1660s. D．As for pizzas, this dish was probably first made in Persia(波斯). E. In fact, the word “curry” can be found in the English language as far back as 1377.

 

Last year when Tom graduated from school, he came to Taibei. He didn't like to work on his father's farm and hoped to find a job in a big city. He went from one company to another but no one wanted him. With little money left, he got to the station, sad and tired. All he wanted to do was go back to his small town. It was very late at night and the station was full of people. They were waiting to buy tickets of the last train. He bought the last ticket, and he was very happy.

At that time, a woman with a crying baby walked to him and asked him to sell her the ticket. He gave her the ticket because he thought they needed it more than he did. After the train left, he sat on the bench and didn't know where to go. Suddenly, an old man came and said, "Young man, I have seen what you did to the woman. I am the owner of a big company. I need a good young man like you. Would you like to work for me?

1.Tom came to the station to _______.

A. find a job        B. take the train home

C. sell the ticket       D. take the train to Taibei

2.The woman walked to Tom because _______.

A. she was Tom's old friend    

B. her child wanted to talk to Tom

C. she needed to take the train 

D. she had no money to buy a ticket

3.Tom didn't take the train because _______.

A. he didn't take a train ticket   

B. he missed the train

C. he wanted to talk to the old man

D. he gave his ticket to the woman

4.The old man wanted to _______.

A. lend Tom some money     B. give Tom a job

C. say "Thank you " to Tom   D. sit on the bench with Tom

5.What can we learn from this story?

A. Many people find job in a train station.

B. Don't buy the last ticket of the train.

C. If we try our best to help others, others will help us.

D. We should not give our ticket to others in a train station.

 

If I ask you to shut your eyes and gave you a piece of apple to eat, would you be able to tell me what it is just by tasting it? Of course, you could. Your tongue is covered with tiny “taste buds” which help you know what different foods taste like. Do you know that foods would taste different if you did not have a nose? This experiment shows how important your nose is when you taste things.

What You Need:

• a friend to help

• small pieces of any food like carrot, orange, banana

• small pieces of apple, raw(生的) potato, and onion

What You Do:

There are actually three different experiments. You and your friend should take turns to try them on each other.

Experiment 1:

Have your friend close her eyes and open her mouth.

Give her a piece of the food and ask her to taste it.

Then, ask her what she thinks it is. She will probably guess correctly.

Experiment 2:

While your friend has her eyes closed, give her a piece of the raw potato. At the same time, hold a piece of apple right under her nose. Ask her to eat the potato (but don’t call it by name) and tell you what she thinks it is. She will say it is a piece of apple!

Experiment 3: (for the brave)

Take a piece of raw onion. You don’t have to close your eyes this time. Squeeze your nose closed with your other hand so that no smells can get into your nose. Now take a nibble of the onion. Surprise! As long as you hold your nose, you will not be able to taste the onion.

The Science Secret

You already know the science secret. Your nose and your tongue work together to make food taste the way it does. Your tongue, however, can taste only certain flavors like salty, bitter, sour, and sweet. All of the other “tastes” are actually “smells,” and you need your nose to “taste” them. Oh, and you might use this science secret the next time you are told to eat something you don’t like the taste of. If you hold your nose while you eat it, you won’t “taste” it at all.

1. According to this article, what could a reader know about food?

A. People hold their noses to eat onions.            B. If you can smell potatoes, you will taste apples.

C. People need a sense of smell to taste some food.   D. If you close your eyes, food will taste better.

2.What is the most likely reason Experiment 3 is called “for the brave”?

A. You keep your eyes open.                           B. You have to eat a raw onion.

C. You have to squeeze your nose.                   D. You do the experiment alone.

3.What’s the best title of the passage?

A. Your Eyes Knows                               B. Your Nose Knows  

C. Your Mouth Knows                             D. Your Tongue Knows

 

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Everyone needs friends. But how do you find real friendship and keep it?
The American writer Sally Seamans tells young students some smart ways to find friends.       16      . You plant the seed (种子) and take care of it to make it grow.
First, you should choose a friend. What makes a good friend? It is not because a person has money or good looks.         17         For example, if you have a bad day, a good friend could listen to your complaints (抱怨) and do his or her best to help you. To make a friend, you can’t be too shy. You should make each other happy and share your lives.
But things can not always be happy.         18          What should you do when you have a fight with your friend?          19          When there is no one around, have a good talk. If he or she doesn’t want to talk, you can write a letter.
There are three steps to be friends again:
Tell him or her how you are feeling,       20         Remember that friendship is one of the most important things in your life.

A．say what your friend did wrong and talk about why you did this or that.

B．Sally says founding friendship is just like planting a tree

C．A good friend should be kind and patient.

D．Even the best friends have fights.

E. You have to talk to him or her.
F. Getting angry easily can make you lose friends.