If you have failed in the past to try to make big changes in life，try again now，one tiny step at a time．
Every year it’s the same．As December comes to an end，you think about the new year and all the ways you want to improve your life. But as you start to write down your hopes for the new year，you think about the last year．You excitedly write down all the changes you are going to make，but by the end of January those ideas get lost in your busy life．
Here’s a suggestion：Forget the too big，hard-to-achieve goals(目标) and just think about the small ones．“We often think that we have to do everything in big steps, even though it’s so hard for us to reach it．” said Robert Maurer，who recently wrote the book One Small Step Can Change Your Life．“What we try to do is to begin with such a small step that we can’t find any excuse not to do it．”
“Kaizen”，a Japanese word，is used to mean to change behavior and attitudes（态度）．During World War Il，American factory managers were able to increase productivity by trying small, continuous improvements instead of sudden changes．After the war，the idea was brought to a rebuilding Japan．It made Japan develop fast. The Japanese called it “kaizen”, which means “improvement”．
Maurer studied the idea and did some experiments with it. “Kaizen” could possibly help people succeed in doing everything
【小题1】Robert Maurer wrote a book to tell us           .

完成句子。

1.政府已经把这个旧电影院变成了一个旅游景点。

The _____________________________________________attraction.

2.事实上他已经结婚二年了。

_________________, he _______________________ two years ago.

3.鸟瞰香港的最佳时间是夜晚。

_____________________________________________Hong Kong is evening.

4.关于出国旅游，你有什么好主意吗？

Do you _____________________________________________________?

5.在整个行程中孩子们拍手尖叫，又高兴又兴奋。

The children ______________________________________through the whole ride.

6.通常大城市的污染比农村的严重得多。

Usually the pollution in big cities______________________ in the countryside.

Who's building the new China? It's not the factory owners or the business men and women of China. It's someone else. We see them every day, They work day and night in the terrible working conditions and weather. They build the roads, the theaters, the cinemas and the supermarkets. They even clean up our rubbish. They are China’s migrant workers(民工).

More than 140 million workers have left their homes in the countryside to look for jobs in big cities all over China. They hope to be rich, but they realize they have many difficulties in making enough money. And one of the difficulties that these workers have is the pride and discrimination (歧视) from the people in cities. When night falls, everywhere I look I see the sad faces of the migrant workers. Many are living far away from those whom they love. Yes，they dress differently, they speak differently, and they have different habits, but they work hard .The people in cities regard them as outsiders, and most governments refuse to give them medical care and public schooling for their children. If China hopes to move into the future, many things need to change. The first is discrimination! We need to stop our discrimination against the migrant workers of China! They may not make as much money as some people in cities, but they are good honest people just trying to survive this game of life. These workers are very important and necessary to China’s economic (经济) development and have become an important force for the change of Chinese society. They are building the new China, so we should help them.

1.The journalist think __________ is building the new China.

A．the factory owners of China

B．the business men and women of China

C．the migrant workers of China

D．the people in Chinese cities

2.Which is the best title for the fourth and fifth paragraphs?

A．Moving forward

B．The discrimination from the people in cities.

C．How to make more money.

D．A lonely life.

3.The    word “survive” here in Chinese means “________”.

A．活过来           B．挺过来           C．活得累           D．活得长

4.Which one is NOT TRUE about China's migrant workers according to the report?

A．They should be helped by us.

B．More than 1.4 billion migrant workers have been in big cities to make money.

C．They are not welcomed by the people in cities because they regard them as outsiders.

D．They have become quite important to the change of Chinese society.

5.What does the report mainly tell us?

A．Though China's migrant workers work hard, their condition is terrible.

B．The condition of China's migrant workers needs to be changed for China's development.

C．The people in cities aren't polite to the migrant workers.

D．China's development only depends on the migrant workers.

Not only women wear skirts. Men can wear them, too. In Scotland (苏格兰), men wear a kilt – a kind of skirt. The kilt is their national dress.

   The kilt has checks (方格) and different colors, like red or blue. Each family in Scotland has its own colors. How did the Scotsmen (苏格兰男人) start to wear kilts. There is a story about it. Rawlinson had some workers from Scotland in his office and he thought their clothing got in the way of their work. So he cut their clothes into a shorter skirt.

   Today, they usually only wear them at weddings (婚礼) or big dinners. Only a few men wear a kilt every day. Scotsmen also wear kilts in big parties. The policemen still have skills as the dress uniforms, but they don’t wear them to catch the thieves.

1. A kilt is ______.

A. a hat            B. a shirt               C. a skirt             D. a sweater

2.In Scotland, different families have different _____ of kilts.

A. prices           B. colors               C. styles              D. checks

3. What does “got in the way of” mean?

A. 妨碍           B. 得到                C. 在路上            D. 到达

4.When do Scotsmen wear kilts?

A. At weddings     B. At big dinners          C. In big parties        D. All of above.

5.The story is about ________.

A. Scotsmen’s traditional kilts                  B. how to make kilts

C. what a kilt is                             D. how much the kilt is

根据短文内容，判断正(T)误(F)。
Do you live in a city? Do you know how cities began? Long long ago, the world had only a few thousand people. These people moved from one place to another. They moved over the land, hunting animals for food.
No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their life changed. They did not have to look for food any longer. They could stay in one place and grow it.
People began to live near one another, so the first village was established (建立). Many people came to live in the villages, and these villages became even larger.
When machines appeared, life in the villages changed again. People built factories. More and more people lived near the factories. The cities began.
Today, it’s strange that some people are moving back to small villages. Can you tell me why?
【小题1】People moved from place to place to hunt animals.
【小题2】The story says,“No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their life changed.” In this sentence, the word “they” means people.
【小题3】When machines appeared, life in the cities changed again.
【小题4】All people like to live only in big cities.
【小题5】People built factories after the cities grew big.