John once told me a story about his friend, Michael. Michael happened to be on a train sitting next to a young man who seemed worried. Finally the young man told the friend that he was a convict (罪犯) returning home from a prison far away. What he did had brought shame (羞耻) on his family, and they had neither visited him nor written to him. He hoped, however, that this was only because they were too poor to travel and too busy to write.

When he was set free he had written to tell them he wanted to go home. To make matters easy for them, however, he had asked them to put up a signal (信号) for him when the train passed their little farm. If the family had forgiven (原谅) him, they were to put up a white ribbon (丝带) in the big apple tree near the railway. If they didn't want him back, they were to do nothing, and he would stay on the train, and go far away.

As the train neared his hometown his suspense became so great that he was afraid to look out of the window. He asked Michael to watch for the big apple tree. They changed seats. In a minute, Michael put his hand on the young convict’s shoulder, "There it is," His eyes was filled with sudden tears. "It’s all right. The whole tree is white with ribbons."

1.According to the passage, the white ribbon in the big apple tree means ________.

2.The word "suspense" underlined in the last paragraph can best be replaced by ________.

3.Why was Michael asked to watch for the apple tree?

4.Why did Michael cry at the end of the story?

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1.    Good parents are always c________ about how their children are getting along with their education.

2.    Some people like （遛）_______ their dogs after supper.

3.    Putonghua is the o________ language of China.

4.    Our baby is just starting to talk; he has got a v________ of about ten words.

5.    Lady Gaga is said to have _________ （毕业） from New York University before 2006. But in fact, she didn’t.

6.    Peter’s ________ (态度) towards women really scares me.

7.    Wenchuan was badly d_________ in the earthquake in the year 2008.

8.    Don’t worry. Progress will be made ________ (渐渐地).

9.    As an adult, you have the right to _______ (投票).

10.   P________ Hu Jintao has won a better fame over Obama.

1.The new library was named ____ _____ of a businessman devoted to China’s education.

2.He has developed _______ a strong leader.

3.尽管如此，我们对商业广告中所使用的技法还是得有些意识。

However, we still must be _______ _______ the methods used in advertisements to try and sell us things.

4.He’s waiting for his son ______.

5.I normally wake up about 5 minutes before my alarm clock______.

6.It was sunny just now.But______the sky was covered with dark clouds.

In tradition (传统的) education, the teacher may feel that the students are not very grown up. Usually, teachers are older than students, and teachers feel that students are young and do not know much about the world. The teachers feel that they must tell the students what to do most of the time, and that they must also make the students study specific (特殊的) things. In open education, the teacher’s methods are very different. These teachers feel that the students are human beings (人) first, and students second. They expect the students to be responsible for the things that they do, just as adults are. A student’s ideas and feelings are just as important as the teacher’s. The teacher allows the students to decide what they want to do, and does not make them study what they do not want to. The teacher lets them decide what to study and how much to study. It’s very important for the teacher to show how he or she feels about students.

1.Which is the topic for the passage?

A. Traditional Education

B. Open Education

C. The Students Are Human Beings First

D. Two Kinds of Different Education

2.What’s the theory of open education?

A. The students are human beings first, and students second.

B. The students should be responsible for what they do.

C. The students’ ideas and feelings are very important.

D. The teachers should allow the students to do what they want to do.

3.In traditional education, the teachers consider that __________.

A. they should praise the students all the time

B. they should tell the students what to do all the time

C. the students should know much about the world

D. the students should learn much about the world from their teachers

4.We can infer (推断) that ____________.

A. students needn’t study as hard as they did before

B. students can learn more about the world in open education

C. most of the teachers don’t agree with the idea of open education

D. most of the students prefer traditional education to open education

It is difficult for parents of nearly every family to teach their children to be responsible （有责任的）for housework, but with one of the following suggestions, you really can get your children to help at home.

　　If you give your children the impression that they can never do anything quite right, then they will regard themselves as unfit or unable persons. Unless children believe they can succeed, they will never become totally independent.

　　My daughter Carla’s fifth - grade teacher made every child in her class feel special. When students received less than a prefect test score, she would point out what they had mastered and declared firmly they could learn what they had missed.

　　You can use the same technique when you evaluate （评价）your child’s work at home. Don’t always scold and give lots of praise instead. Talk about what he has done right, not about what he hasn’t done. If your child completes a difficult task, promise him a Sunday trip or a ball game with Dad.

　　Learning is a process（过程）of trying and failing and trying and succeeding. If you teach your children not to fear a mistake of failure, they will learn faster and achieve success at last.

1.The whole passage deals with ________.

2.The author thinks that________.

3.The article gives us a good suggestion about how to evaluate（评价）your child’s work at home. That is to ________.

4.The author advises readers to________.