Everyone should work hard more and succeed but it is not wise to get success at the cost of family and health.

There was once a hard-working father. He tried his best to support his wife and three children. He spent all his evenings attending classes, hoping to improve himself so that he could one day find a better-paid job. He hardly ate a meal together with his family. He worked and studied very hard because he wanted to   ①   his family   ①   the best things that money could buy.

   Whenever the family complained, he said that he was doing all this for them. But he often wished to spend more time with his family.

   ②The day came when the father was offered a good job. It paid quite well.

   However, the family still did not get to see the father for most of the week. He went on working hard, hoping to get the position(职位) of manager.

   The father’s hard work paid off and he was promoted(提升). Excitedly, he decided to hire a maid(女仆) so his wife did not have to do the housework any more. He also felt that their three-room house was no longer big enough. It would be nice for his family to be able to enjoy the comfort of a large house. The father decided to further his studies.

   As expected, the father’s hard work paid off again and he bought a beautiful house. He told his family that he had decided not to work so hard. From then on he was going to devote more time to his family.

   The next day, the father did not wake up. 

1.在①处填写适当的词，使句子完整．___________ ______________

2.将②句翻译成中文．_________________________________________________________

3.回答问题Except what did the father do everything he had aimed to do?

_____________________________________________________________________________

4.在文章中找出He was rewarded and got high position. 的同义句

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5.找出本文的中心句。__________________________________________________________

 

Jerry was a manager in a restaurant. He was always in a good mood(脾气）and always had something positive to say. This really made me curious, so one day I asked him, "It's hard to be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?'' Jerry replied ,"Each morning I wake up and say to myself, "Jerry, you can choose to be in a good mood or a bad mood," and I choose to be in a good mood. Life is all about what you choose. And what you choose leads your life."
Several years later, I heard that Jerry left the back door open one morning and was robbed(抢劫）.While trying to stop the thief ,he was shot. I went to see him in the hospital. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins." "Weren't you scared when you were in danger?" I asked. "Yes. The doctors kept telling me that I was going to be fine, but in their eyes, I read. "He's dead." I knew I needed to take action." "What did you do?" "Well. there was a big nurse asking me if I was allergic(过敏的）to anything. "Yes,' I replied ."Bullets(子弹）!Everyone laughed and I told them: I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive." Jerry lived thanks to the great doctors ,and also because of his amazing attitude(态度）.Attitude ,after all ,is everything.
【小题1】What kind of person was Jerry?

A．He was serious.

B．He was helpful.

C．He was allergic.

D．He was happy and smart.

【小题2】When Jerry met difficulties in life, how did he deal with them?

A．He faced them positively.

B．He talked to the writer about them.

C．He asked others to help him.

D．He tried to stop thinking about them.

【小题3】What does the underlined word "curious" mean in Chinese?

A．敏感的

B．好奇的

C．开心的

D．有趣的

【小题4】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Jerry was the writer's manager.

B．Jerry was not afraid of dead at all.

C．Jerry was nearly dead after he was shot.

D．Jerry didn't believe doctors.

【小题5】What is the best title(题目）for this passage?

A．Action Matters

B．Brave Jerry Beat the Thief

C．Attitude Is Everything

D．Jerry ,a Great Man

Mark Twain, the famous American writer, was traveling in France. Once he was going by train to Dijon. That afternoon he was very tired and wanted to sleep, so he asked the conductor to wake him up when they came to Dijon. But first he explained that he was a very heavy sleeper. “I’ll probably protest(表示不满)loudly when you try to wake me up,” he said to the conductor, “but do not take any notice, just put me off the train anyway.”
Then Mark Twain went to sleep. Later, when he woke up, it was night-time and the train was in Paris already. He realized at once that the conductor had forgotten to wake him up at Dijon. He was very angry. He ran up to the conductor and began to shout at him.“I have never been so angry in all my life,” Mark Twain said.
The conductor looked at him calmly. “You are not half so angry as the American whom I put off at Dijon,” he said.
【小题1】Who’ s Mark Twain?  ______________

A．A French writer.	B．A famous artist.
C．An American writer.	D．A traveler.

【小题2】Mark Twain wanted to sleep because_________.

A．he was tired	B．he was hungry
C．he was a lazy man	D．he liked sleeping

【小题3】When he woke up, the train got to______.

A．Dijon

B．London

C．Paris

D．New York

配对阅读  左栏是五位病人的健康问题，右栏是七位专科医生的简介。请根据五位病人的健康问题为他们选出最合适的专科医生诊病，并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。

1.Bob is often late for school because he always gets up late. This makes his teacher mad. He needs to buy something to wake him up in the morning.

2.Tim likes listening to music when he is free. And he has to send e-mails to his customers(顾客）every day. He wants to buy something that can help him.

3.Summer has come. Tony is fat and he can’t sleep well on such hot days. This troubles him a lot. He’d like to buy something to make him feel cool.

4.Alice often washes her hair late at night. It is often wet when she goes to bed. She is going to buy something that can dry her hair in a short time.

5.Susan is a housewife. She has to do the washing for her family every day. She gets tired of it. She is in need of a product to do it for her.

       A.This electric product can make you cool during the hot days. It can help you change the temperature and control the humidity(湿度） of your room.

B.You can do many things with this product, such as sending e-mails, playing games, getting on line and so on. You can also listen to the music with it when you want to relax.

C.This electric product is useful to all of us. People often have one at home. It is often put up on the wall. If you want to know the time, just take a look at it.

D. This can help you wash your dirty clothes and dry them. What you need to do is to return it on and later hang the clothes on the line. With this electric product, life will be a lot easier for you.

E. Each family needs this product. You can use it to store meat, vegetables, fruits, drinks and medicine. It can keep them cool and fresh so that they will not go bad easily on hot days.

F. It is a very helpful product which tells you the time. It can wake you up with a piece of music any time you want, but you have to set the time first.

G. When you wash your hair, you need this product. It can make your wet hair dry in a minute. It can also be used for drying your wet clothes or some other wet things.

 

Sleep is very important. A person who does not sleep dies faster than a person who does not eat. We spend about a third()of our lives in sleep. That’s about 121 days a year!
How much sleep do we need? We are all different. A baby needs 16 hours of sleep every day. Children of 6 to 12 years of age need an average(平均)of 10 to 12 hours of sleep. Teenagers need 9 to 10 hours of sleep. An adult needs an average of 7 to 8 hours a day. There are some people who need only 3 hours of sleep; others need 10 hours of sleep. After the age of 50, the average sleep time goes down to 6.5 hours a day. We need less sleep as we get older.
About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people cannot fall asleep. The name for this problem is insomnia. Some people say, “I didn’t sleep all night.” But that’s not really true. They may sleep lightly and wake up several times. In the morning, they only remember the time they were awake, so they think they were awake all night.
This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia. Some of these people had special ideas to make themselves sleep. Benjamin Franklin had four beds. He moved from one to the other to fall asleep. Mark Twain had a different way. He lay on his side across the end of the bed!
【小题1】How long do we spend in sleep a year?

A．Less than three months.	B．More than five months.
C．About four months.	D．Less than 2000 hours.

【小题2】If you are thirteen years old, you need at least __________ hours of sleep.

A．16

B．12

C．9

D．7

【小题3】What does the underlined word “insomnia” mean in this passage?

A．No sleep.

B．Fast sleep.

C．Slow sleep.

D．Sleep with many dreams.

【小题4】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．We will die soon if we don’t sleep well.

B．The older we get, the less sleep we need.

C．We can tell a person’s age from his sleep time.

D．Famous people move from one bed to the other to fall asleep.

【小题5】Which would be the best title for this passage?

A．Sleep less	B．Go to sleep
C．Age and sleep time	D．Famous people and sleep