Ever since I was a little child, my parents have told me to be honest because it is the right thing to do. As I got older, I realized something very important. If just once you are deceitful and tell a lie, it will greatly change people’s opinions about you and their way of acting toward you. When you tell a lie, you lose that person’s trust forever or have to work your whole life to get it back.
It is my personal goal to achieve great things in life and honesty(诚实) will sure help me get there. For me right now losing somebody’s trust would be a truly terrible thing. My parents would be stricter on the things they let me do and the places that they used to let me go to. My friends would never again tell me a secret or believe many things I told them. Whatever you do for a living or wherever you live, honesty is something very important.
Honesty gets you much higher in life while telling a lie can make you get into more problems. I can already tell that the great people I have met so far are all honest people.
I hope that I’ll never fall into a situation where I’ll lie. Honesty is just as important to me as my family. Already, I know it is something that will improve my future and my relationship with all people. It is something about myself that I hope never to lose no matter what happens. Honesty will help me no matter whether I’m at school, home or just hanging out with friends. It is something that I hope my children will also have and value.
小题1:The underlined word “deceitful” in Paragraph 1 probably means “________”.

A．strange

B．lucky

C．sad

D．dishonest

小题2:Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A．Being honest is very important and helpful.

B．The writer was taught to be honest when he was young.

C．The writer thinks it doesn’t matter if he tells a lie.

D．To win others’ trust is not easy.

小题3:What does the writer want to tell us in the passage?

A．Ways to be honest.

B．Honesty is very important for us to achieve our goals.

C．True friendship is based on(以…为基础) others’ trust.

D．Honesty can make us live a happy life.

小题4:How is the text mainly developed?
A. By making comparisons.(作比较)       B. By showing facts.
B．By explaining reasons.               D. By giving examples.

The world's oldest person, Ms. Baines, died. She celebrated her 115th birthday with congratulations from Barack Obama, President of the United States. Over her life she lived through the terms of 21 US presidents.
Gertrude Baines passed away peacefully in her sleep at the Western Convalescent Hospital in Los Angeles, where she had lived for her last ten years. Emma Camanag, the hospital's leader said she was a respectable lady. "It is really an honor for the hospital to take care of her over the last 10 years and we will greatly miss her, It is just like we have lost a relative, " said Emma.
Ms. Baines, who was born in Shellman, Georgia, in 1894, had no living relatives. She grew up in the southern US during difficult times. During that time, African American people were required to use separate, often poor, public services. She married young and later divorced(离婚)．Her only child, a daughter, was born in 1909 and died of a terrible disease at the age of 18. Ms. Baines worked as a maid（女佣） in Ohio before moving to Los Angeles where she lived on her own until she was well over 100.
She once told an interviewer, "As to the secrets of long life, I do not have any disappointments in my own life."
She gained some fame when she voted for Mr. Obama in the US presidential election, saying she supported him "because he's for the colored people". It was only the second time in her life she had voted, the first time being for John F. Kennedy.
Ms. Baines became the world's oldest person in January. Japanese woman, Kama Chien, 114, has now taken over the title.
小题1:Ms, Baines voted for Mr. Obama because he______.

A．was very popular in the hospital

B．did good things for African Americans

C．did even better than John F. Kennedy

D．congratulated her on her birthday

小题2:It can be inferred(推断) from the passage that______.

A．Ms. Baines didn't like any presidents except Mr. Obama and John F. Kennedy

B．Ms. Baines' daughter died many years before her husband

C．Japanese woman Kama Chien is the second oldest in the world now

D．a positive attitude towards life is the main secret of .Ms. Baines' long life

小题3:Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．Ms. Baines liked to live alone.

B．Ms. Baines died in a hospital in Los Angeles.

C．Ms. Baines and her husband had only one child.

D．Ms. Baines used to serve' others in Ohio.

小题4:The passage is mainly about ______.

A．how Ms, Baines lived for so long

B．why Ms. Baines voted for Mr. Obama

C．the world's oldest person, Ms. Baines

D．Ms. Baines and President Obama .