On my eighth birthday, Dad bought me an accordion(手风琴） and said excitedly, "Once you learn to play, it'll stay with you for life." But I didn't want to play it. Ijust wanted to play games, But Dad asked me to take accordion lessons.

     One day, I found a box in a corner. When I opened it, I saw a beautiful violin. "You’re your father's," Mum said. "His parents bought it for him. I guess he got too busy on the farm to learn to play it."

I had to practice half an hour every day, and every day I tried to get out of it. But Dad didn't allow. I asked why. He answered, "Because you can bring people joy. You can touch their hearts." He added softly, "Someday you'll have the chance I never had: you'll play beautiful music for your family. And you'll understand why you've worked so hard." I was speechless.

The lessons stopped after I finished high school. When I grew up, I got married and moved into a new house. I put the accordion in the attic（阁楼）.

One afternoon, my two children found the accordion by accident (偶然). They got very excited. "Play it. Play it," they laughed and said. I started to play some simple songs. I was surprised I could still remember them. Soon the kids were dancing. Even my wife was laughing and clapping to the beat.

At that moment, my father's words came back to me, "Someday you'll have the chance I never had. And you'll understand." I finally knew why Dad had asked me to practice hard. Dad never learnt to play his violin. But I told my family, "This is my father's music."

1.My father didn't learn to play his violin when he was young because _______.

    A. he didn't like to play the violin        B. he had to support his family

    C. he wanted to play games             D. he didn't keep on practicing

2.How might the writer feel when he had to practice playing the accordion?

    A. Delighted.        B. Excited.        C. Bored.      D. Relaxed.

3."Dad didn't allow" means "_______".

    A. Dad didn't let me do it.              B. Dad didn't stop me doing it.

    C. Dad didn't help me do it.             D. Dad didn't see me do it.

4.Dad asked me to learn to play the accordion so that _______.

A. I could go to a better school        B. I could give myself much joy

C. I could be a useful man              D. I could make people happy

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School education is very i__1__ and useful. The students both learn k__2__ and get an education. Yet, no one can learn e__3__ from school. The scientists, such as Edison, Newton, Galileo and Einstein, didn’t learn everything from school. They learned a lot of knowledge outside school or in practice b__4__ themselves. A teacher, even he knows a l_5__, can’t teach his students everything.

The teacher’s job is to show his students how to l__6__, how to read and how to think. A good teacher with r__7__ experience in teaching can teach his students the methods(="ways)" of study. Through these methods the students are a __8__ to learn and get a lot of things by themselves.

Usually it is very e_9__ for the students to remember some knowledge, but it is very difficult to u__10__ it for problems. If a teacher really shows the students the ability of how to use knowledge, it means the teacher has learned lots of knowledge by himself . The success in learning shows he or she knows how to study.

1 ._________ 2 . _________3 . _________ 4 . _________ 5 . _________

6 . _________7. _________ 8 . _________ 9 . _________ 10 . _________

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Some students think it d__1___ to learn English well. That’s b__2__ they don’t find the right way. I think r__3___ is very important for students. The more you read， the b__4__ you’ll understand. Reading is helpful to listening, speaking and writing.

If you often read English aloud, you’ll improve(提高) your listening. On the other hand（另一方面）, listening a lot can h__5____ you to read better. Reading English everywhere when you are f_6__, if you wish. You can get a lot of knowledge（知识） when you read. Sometimes you need to s_7__ your ideas, you can either speak or write. That means you are using w__8__ you learned from reading. The same as Chinese, the more you read, the better you can write. If you want to r__9__ something, you should read again and again. So from now on, you’d better do more reading. It’s a good w__10__ to learn English well.

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   School education(教育) is very important and useful. Yet no one can l  1  everything at school and a teacher can’t teach his students e  2   they want to know. His job is to s  3   his students how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how to think. So the students can learn much more by t  4  .

   It is more i  5   to know how to study by oneself. It’s quite easy to learn something, but it’s difficult to u  6   it to solve problems. Great inventors do not get everything from school, but they still can invent many things and change the world a l  7  .

   How can the inventors do all of this? That’s b  8   they know how to study. A lot of things are not taught in the classroom. They get a lot of knowledge by reading o  9   school. They work hard and never g  10   up all their lives.

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