Life comes in a package. This package includes happiness and sadness, failure and success, hope and despair. Life is a learning process. Experiences in life teach us new lessons and make us a better person. With each passing day we learn to deal with various situations.
Love plays a main role in our life. Love makes you feel wanted. Without love a person could become cruel. In the early stage of our life, our parents are the ones who show us with love and care. They teach us about what is right and wrong, good and bad. But we don’t always care about it. It is only after marriage and having kids that a person understands others’ feelings.
Happiness can bring people a peaceful mind. No mind is happy without peace. Sadness is the cause of the death of a loved one or the failure. But all of these things will pass away.
Failure is the path to success. It helps us to touch the sky, teaches us to survive and shows us a specific way. Success brings in money, pride and self-respect.
Hope is what keeps life going. Parents always hope their children will do well. Hope makes us dream. Hope builds in patience. Life teaches us not to despair even in the darkest hour, because after every night there is a day.
Life teaches us not to regret over yesterday, for it has passed and is out of our control. Tomorrow is unknown, for it could either be bright or dark. So the only choice is to work hard today, so that we will enjoy a better tomorrow.
【小题1】We usually have to accept _______ if we want to be successful.

A．love	B．failure
C．sadness	D．hope

【小题2】In which section can readers probably read the passage?

A．Business.	B．Travel.
C．Lifestyles.	D．Education.

【小题3】What does the word “despair” mean in Chinese?

A．颓废

B．遗憾

C．悲伤

D．绝望

【小题4】What’s the meaning of the last sentence of the whole passage?

A．When choosing between “today ”and “tomorrow”, you’d better enjoy tomorrow.

B．If you hard work today, you will have a better life in the future.

C．What you can only choose is to work hard today rather than tomorrow.

D．The only choice you make is that you should enjoy a better tomorrow.

【小题5】What’s the puppose of the passage?

A．To encourage people to love each other.

B．To tell people how to deal with happiness and sadness.

C．To give readers some information about life.

D．To remind people to keep having a beautiful dream.

Wang Bing’s father began smoking when he was a freshman ( 大学一年级学生)in college. His friend passed him his first cigarette. He has now been smoking for more than 30 years.
It’s a classic example of how young people are introduced to cigarettes, except that nowadays smokers develop their habit at an even younger age.
It has become a major concern(担忧) in China that many teenagers begin to smoke. A survey showed that 22.5% of the middle school students questioned had tried smoking and 15.8% of them smoked regularly.
For many teenagers, smoking is a symbol of being an adult, independence, maturity(成熟) and attractiveness because the images who they love best often smoke on screen.
The social environment also plays an important role in attracting teenagers to smoking. They are used to seeing their elders, especially male family members, smoking at home. Many of them imitate adult behavior and become new smokers.
To increase the price of cigarettes is an effective way to reduce the number of young smokers, as teenagers have limited money to spend on them.
Another way is to educate the teenagers to voluntarily refuse cigarettes. A survey shows that 92.5% of the students know smoking will be bad for their health. If we persuade them in a proper way, most of them may give up smoking.
All in all, the society, the government, the school and the family should join together to take the responsibility for an anti-smoking (禁烟) campaign aimed at teenagers, not just to put empty slogans and warnings on cigarette packs.
【小题1】The writer uses the first paragraph to ______.
A. tell the readers a story of a smoker
B. introduce the topic of the passage
C. introduce the college life of Wang Bing’s father.
【小题2】What’s the main idea of this passage?

A．The teenagers think smoking is a symbol of being an adult and independence.

B．The social environment encourages the teenagers to smoke.

C．The teenagers should be educated to refuse to smoke.

D．The teenage smoking has become a serious problem in China.

【小题3】What does the word ”imitate”in Paragraph 5 mean in Chinese?

A．指责

B．忍受

C．模仿

D．支持

【小题4】From the underlined part of the last sentence of this passage, we can infer(推断) that the writer thinks putting slogans and warnings on cigarette packs is ______to solve the problem.

A．not enough	B．of no use
C．of great help	D．of great importance.

Many textbooks are not written in the kind of English that we speak every day. In fact, sometimes the reading is so difficult that it almost seems like a foreign language. In a way, it is—the language of science. You should not expect to be able to read a difficult science passage the same way you read an interesting story; you should not expect to read it easily and all at once. Instead, you may have to read it several times through, catching on the meaning of difficult words, going back over difficult sentences, and finally putting the whole thing together. Do not be discourages if the whole passage don’t make sense to you at first. You need to pick it apart patiently until you can understand it.
These are the steps to follow when you are reading something difficult:
1. Start to read normally until you run into a sentence that doesn’t make sense to you.
2. When a sentence doesn’t make sense, go back and read it again more slowly.
3. Look for any word you don’t know in the sentence. Try to understand their meanings using word parts and context clues(上下文线索). If necessary, look them up in the dictionary.
4. Look at the next few sentences to see if they explain more about the sentence you are working on. Do not read very much farther ahead until you understand what is being said.
5. Finally, read the sentence again. Try to put it into simpler words.
6. Read through the passage once. Try to understand all the hard parts well. Then read the whole passage once more at a usual speed. This helps you to put all ides together.
The stops sound a lot harder than they are. It is really just the normal way good readers understand anything that is difficult to read. After you have done the best you can this way, you should always feel free to ask for help from your teacher, if you have one.
【小题1】 The underlined phrase “run into” means ___________.

A．work out

B．come across

C．look into

D．pass by

【小题2】 From the passage, we can know _________.

A．we should look up new words before reading

B．it is sometimes difficult to read a science passage

C．the six steps are helpful in learning spoken English

D．interesting stories help readers to improve their English

【小题3】 The massage is mainly about _________.

A．steps of studying science	B．difficulties in reading science
C．ways of reading science passages	D．researches on science and English

Life comes in a package. This package includes happiness and sadness，failure and success，hope and despair. Life is a learning process. Experiences in life teach us new lessons and make us a better person. With each passing day we learn to deal with kinds of situations．
Love
Love plays an important role in our life. Love makes you feel wanted. Without love a person could become cruel. In the early stage of our life，our parents are the ones who show us with unconditional love and care, they teach us about what is right and wrong，good and bad.
Happiness and Sadness
Happiness achieved by bringing a smile on others face gives a certain level of fulfillment．Peace of mind makes you feel happy. No mind is happy without peace. We realize the true worth of happiness when we are sad．
Failure and Success
Success brings in money，fame，pride and self-respect. Failure is the way to success, and it helps us to touch the sky，teaches us to survive and shows us a specific way. Here it becomes very important to keep our head on our shoulder．
Hope and Despair
Hope is what keeps life going. Parents always hope their children will do well．Hope makes us dream．Hope builds in patience．Life teaches us not to despair even in the darkest hour，because after every night there is a day. Life teaches us not to regret over yesterday, for it has passed and is beyond our control．Tomorrow is unknown, for it could either be bright or dull. So what we can choose is to work hard today，so that we will enjoy a better tomorrow.
【小题1】 In the passage，the author compares life to ___________

A．package	B．happiness and sadness
C．failure and success	D．hope and despair

【小题2】What does it in the passage 4  mean ?

A．success

B．failure

C．sky

D．way

【小题3】What’s the general meaning of the last sentence of the whole passage?

A．What you only can choose is to work hard everyday.

B．If you work hard today, you will have a better life in the future．

C．When choosing between "today”and “tomorrow”, you’d better enjoy tomorrow better.

D．Enjoying a better tomorrow is your only choice．

【小题4】What’s the purpose of the passage?

A．To encourage people to love each other．

B．To tell people how to deal with happiness and sadness．

C．To remind people of keeping having a beautiful dream．

D．To give readers some information about life.

"I didn’t hear them call my name," explained Shelley Hennig to Active Teens (AT) as she talked about that exciting moment on national television when she won the honor of Miss Teen USA 2004. "Are you ready?" is what she heard. Then she said, "I shook my head no, and then they said ‘yes’ and it was announced again."
It was four days after that life changing moment for the seventeen-year-old high school student from Destrehan, Louisiana—she was still on cloud nine.
"I was so shocked! I never believed that it could actually really happen." Present in the audience that day were: her mother and father, older brother, her friends, and her dance teacher.
Understanding why members of her family and her friends would be there, AT asked why her dance teacher had traveled so far to see her compete（比赛）."She’s always been my role model. I’ve danced with her since I was six. She’s been through so many difficulties and came through them all. I’ve learned to get over bad life’s experiences and learned how to move on because of her."
One of those bad life’s experiences for Shelley happened three years ago when her brother Brad was killed in a drunk driving accident. He was 18. She found writing helped her get through the hard days. She said, "I write a lot about my brother. I write a lot, a lot, a lot...”
As Miss Louisiana Teen, she traveled around the state speaking to teens about the dangers of drinking and driving. In her role as Miss Teen USA, Shelley will continue to speak to youth about safe driving, in addition to(除…之外) many other things to help the youth.
When AT asked Miss Teen USA if she had any advice for our readers, she said, "Don’t let anyone change you. Hang out with people that make you feel good about yourself. That way, it is easy to be yourself."
【小题1】What do the words “on cloud nine” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．hard to believe	B．hard to forget
C．very happy	D．very satisfied

【小题2】Shelley’ dance teacher was present in her competition mainly because _______.

A．she just expected to help Shelly to move on

B．she wanted to stay with Shelly when in need

C．she experienced as many difficulties as Shelly

D．she played an important role in Shelly’s life

【小题3】 How many children did the Hennigs have according to the text?

A．1.

B．2.

C．3.

D．4.

【小题4】What happened to Shelly before 2004 according to the passage?

A．She wrote to her brother to get through difficulties.

B．She succeeded in competing for Miss Louisiana Teen.

C．She had his younger brother killed in a car accident.

D．She gave kids and teens suggestions about road safety.

【小题5】If you are asked to find a proper title for the passage, you choose_________.

A．Miss Teen USA 2004	B．A life changing event
C．Never to lose yourself	D．Bad experiences help