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’ll find that 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 free 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（避免）. I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that 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 to do. As a popular saying goes , “ Failure is the mother of success .”

Attitude decides everything . With an optimistic(乐观) attitude life is easy and pleasant . Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us .

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

2.According to the passage , in school , ______________ .

A. the students don’t like their lessons     

B. the teacher will be happy if the students do the good jobs

C. the teachers don’t like their teaching    

D. the teachers are tired of their work

3.If there is a timely rain ,___________.

A. you want to go out                    B. you can listen to a concert 

C. crops in the fields will grow better       D. farmers can’t have a good harvest

4.When we face failure , what should we do ?

A. We must be confident in ourselves .       B. We shouldn’t be afraid of it .

C. We shouldn’t give up hope .             D. All of the avbove .

5.The best title of this passage is______________.

A .Smile and the World Smiles to You        B .Complaining about life

C. Failure is the Mother of Success          D. It is Very Hard to Success

Have you heard of this story? On July 11th every year, a local office of Project Hope (希望工程) receives a donation from a person called Xu Qin.          people later know that Xu Qin died          July 11th, 1994.
Xu Qin was Liu Wenzhen’s youngest         . Liu Wenzhen has been in the habit of making a donation to Project Hope on that day. Mrs. Liu doesn’t think her donation is a great thing. She is        helping to make her daughter’s dream come true. “ I always dream of          a teacher in the countryside because that is where my father’s home is,” said Xu Qin when she was         .
Project Hope is built to help more poor children be able to go to school. In China, the project             in 1985. Over the last twenty-two years it has helped millions of children to go to school.
As a student, we can also do something to support that project. We may save our pocket money and donate         to Project Hope. Maybe we can help those children who can’t go to school to get some            . We can also call on            to do something for the project.

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’ll find that 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 free 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（避免）. I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that 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 to do. As a popular saying goes , “ Failure is the mother of success .”
Attitude decides everything . With an optimistic(乐观) attitude life is easy and pleasant . Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us .
【小题1】People sometimes complain____________.

Have you ever heard the saying “If you want a friend，be one”?

Here is a story about one new teacher making friends with the girls and boys in her class on the first day of school. As the bell rang，the teacher came in smiling at each girl and boy. Then she said in a quiet voice，“Good morning，girls and boys! How happy I am because I have all of you in my class this year. I’d like to know each of you. I am sure we will enjoy working together. I am sure that the more we get together the happier we’ll be.” Her voice was so sweet and her looking was so friendly. Everyone believed what she said.

She told the girls and boys her name and wrote it on the blackboard. She told them some of the things she liked to do and she was hoping to do with them during the year.

Then she said to the whole class，“Now you know my name and the things I like. Next I want to know your names and the things you like. Then I will feel that I know you.”

Could you make friends by doing the same as this teacher did?

One way of getting to know girls and boys in our class is to know more about them. It is usual to be friends with those people who have the same interests with you. You can play the same games and go on journeys together.

You may find that some new comers in your class miss their old friends and feel strange and lonely. You can invite them to take a walk or to ride bikes with you. You will find many things in common to talk about. It is one good way to make friends just by talking together in a friendly manner.

1. How do you understand the saying “If you want a friend，be one”?

A．If you want to have a friend，try to make one be your friend.

B．You can make friends by doing what a friend do.

C．You may have a friend by doing everything for him.

2. The teacher’s sweet voice and her friendly looking_______.

   A．showed that she would like to be a friend of the girls and boys

   B．made every girl and boy happy

   C．told the girls and boys everything about herself

3. A new comer will be your friend if _______.

   A．he always thinks of his old friend

   B．he knows you very well

C．you talk with him in a friendly way

4. If you want to make friends with others， you should_______.

   A．know more about them

   B．talk with them in an unfriendly way

   C．have different interests with them

5. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

   A．If you want to make friends with others，you should be one of them.

   B．Friends often share the same interests with each other.

   C．If you can make a good friend， you should smile at him.