Comedian Groucho Mark said, “Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.”

         You and I have principles and we also have  31  . I have opinions about what I think is right or wrong or good or bad. But they’re only opinions — I could be  32  ! I won’t try to build my life  around my opinions,  33   I’ll try to keep to my principles.

         A 15-year-old boy learned a valuable  34  about life principles. One day, he found a wallet that  35  $127 as well as a woman’s  36  . He jumped onto his  37  and went to her house. He told her he found her wallet and she gave him a big  38  . She also gave him twenty dollars.

         That evening the boy told his parents about the  39  and his father said, “I don’t think you should have  40  $20 for doing what you should have done. A person shouldn’t be rewarded for being  41  .”

         He considered his father’s statement and  42  that he would return the money. He  43  biked to the lady’s home and gave her back the money. She didn’t want to  44  it, but he told her she had to — that his father  45  something to him that he had  46  realized before.

         When ideals such as honesty and a personal standard of always doing the right thing guide our every action and decision, we  47  develop a good character. These great principles  48  our lives and make us into a person of  49  . They teach confidence. That boy is  50  to be raised by a wise father who had the wisdom to say, “Those are my principles.”

1.A. lives                     B. opinions                           C. conditions                        D. purposes

2.A. happy                            B. different                          C. wrong                               D. clever

3.A. so                                   B. and                                    C. or                             D. but

4.A. lesson                           B. skill                                    C. secret                               D. course

5.A. cost                      B. contained                        C. got                                     D. covered

6.A. name                   B. script                                C. identification                   D. house

7.A. bicycle                          B. car                                     C. horse                                D. taxi

8.A. hand                    B. surprise                            C. chance                             D. hug

9.A. performance               B. event                                C. principle                          D. trade

10.A. accepted          B. paid                                   C. earned                             D. saved

11.A. generous          B. honest                              C. selfless                    D. confident

12.A. imagined           B. expected                         C. predicted                         D. decided

13.A. once                           B. even                                 C. again                                 D. still

14.A. fetch                           B. take                                   C. return                               D. spare

15.A. pointed out               B. gave out                           C. picked up                         D. added up

16.A. always                         B. often                                 C. never                                D. ever

17.A. suddenly           B. actually                   C. immediately           D. personally

18.A. shape                          B. protect                             C. encourage                       D. understand

19.A. attitude                      B. sense                                C. direction                          D. character

20.A. sure                            B. free                                   C. fortunate                         D. tough

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　　A proverb 1 , “Time is money.” But in my opinion, time is 2 more valuable than money. Why? Because when money is 3 , we can earn it back. However, when time is 4 , it will never come back. This is the reason 5 we must value time.

　　There is no doubt that the time we have is 6 limited. Therefore, even an hour is extremely precious. We should make full use of our time to do useful things. 7 students, we must not relax our efforts to engage in our studies so as to serve society and our nation 8 .

　　But it is 9 that there are a lot of 10 who do not know the importance of time. They 11 their valuable time smoking, drinking and gambling. They do not 12 that wasting time is equal to wasting a part of their valuable life. 13 a word, we should get into the good habit of 14 time. Don’t put off 15 can be done today until tomorrow.

1. 

[    ]

A. says   B. said   C. is said   D. is saying

2. 

[    ]

A. too 　B. rather 　C. quite 　D. even

3. 

[    ]

A. cost 　　B. spent　　 C. taken　　 D. wasted

4.

[    ]

A. gone　　 B. going　　 C. goes　　 D. go

5. 

[    ]

A. which 　　B. that　　 C. why　　 D. what

6. 

[    ]

A. usually 　　B. unusually　　 C. usual 　　D. unusual

7. 

[    ]

A. Be 　　B. As 　　C. To be 　　D. Been

8. 

[    ]

A. in future 　　　B. in our future 

C. in the future 　D. at the future

9. 

[    ]

A. pity　　 B. a sorry　　 C. a pity 　　D. sorry

10. 

[    ]

A. men 　　B. women 　　C. people　　 D. peoples

11. 

[    ]

A. pay 　　B. take　　 C. spend 　　D. cost

12. 

[    ]

A. wish 　　B. hope 　　C. catch 　　D. realize

13. 

[    ]

A. In 　　B. On　　 C. At　　 D. For

14. 

[    ]

A. sparing 　B. save 　C. saving 　D. spare

15. 

[    ]

A. that 　B. what　 C. which　 D. it

She would rather _____ more money on books _____ on clothes.

       A. cost … not     B. to spare … don’t    C. pay … than   D. spend … than