What’s the most important thing for you to have in your life? Somebody mentions hard-work, others suggest knowledge, love and luck.

　　If you arrange the 26 English letters alphabetically(按字母表的顺序)and use numbers to represent each of them, for example, 1 for a, 2 for b, 3 for c…, you can change an English word into a number. So hard-work becomes 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=98, meaning 98 is its mark; knowledge: 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=96, while love: 12+15+22+5=54, and luck: 12+21+3+11=47, a small mark. None of these words can give one a full mark. What about money? It can’t , either.

　　Then what else? Don’t be worried. You can always find an answer to a problem in your life, when you change your way of looking at things or doing things, or your attitude. Yes, attitude is the word. See for yourself: attitude:1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100，a full mark.

　　Most times people hope for a better life. It is possible if you will have a change for the better after you have changed your attitude. When you change your manner and become friendly to others, you’ll meet more smiling faces towards you.

1.In the writer’s opinion, what is the most important thing in a person’s life?

A. Hard-work.        B. Knowledge.        C. Money.            D. Attitude.

2.Which of the following has the highest mark?

A. Hard-work and knowledge.       B. Knowledge and luck.       

C. Love and hard-work.            D. Hard-work and luck.

3. According to the passage, if you meet with problems, the best way to solve them is to     

A. ask for help from others.                      B. ask your math teacher for help.

C. change your attitude.                      D. ask your parents for help.

4.From the passage, we can learn that        

A. Failure sometimes can bring you good if you take a positive attitude.

B. Nothing is more important than love.  

C. Hard-work has a full mark.

D. Our math teacher can solve the problems easily.

5.Which number can you use to represent “money” according to the passage?

A. 70            B. 72           C. 74.            D. 76.

 

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How good projects grow

Are you interested in projects(课题，项目）and want to have a good one? Well，that doesn’t come easily.You need to do the following tasks(任务):

TALK:You and your classmates discuss in detail(详细的）all that you would like to do to realize(实现）your project.

WRITE:One of your classmates acts as(担任）secretary(秘书).He or she keeps full notes as your group discusses.Later he or she will sort(整理）your ideas to make them better.

PLAN:With the secretary’s notes，your group makes a list of everything you’ll need and who will get，do or research what.

DO:Each group member gets，does and researches something on the list.Your group puts together all you have found and tries to make the project more well-organized.You prepare(准备）to present(展示)it in class.

SHOW:You and your classmates show(给……看）the world the result of your hard work.

Knowing all the above(上面)，you may want to try a project.Why not start with this:you can find out more about the history of your city.What did it look like? Which famous people lived there?

To grow good projects
Talk	Write	Plan	Do	Show
Discuss everything　1　.	The secretary should 　2　while you are discussing.	3　of your needs and make everyone’s task clear.	Do the research work and make the project　4　.	Show　5　to the world.

 

Several years ago, a television reporter was interviewing three of the most important people from local businesses. One was a very rich banker, another owned one of the largest companies in the world, and the third owned many buildings in the center of New York.

　　The reporter was talking to them about being important.

　　“How do we know if someone is really important?” the reporter asked the banker.

　　The banker thought for a few moments and then said, “I think anybody who is invited to the White House to meet the President is really important.”

　　The reporter then turned to the owner of the very large company. “Do you agree with that?” she asked.

　　The man shook his head, “No. I think the President invites a lot of people to the White House. You’d only be important if while you were visiting the President, there was a telephone call from the president of another country, and the President said he was too busy to answer it.”

　　The reporter turned to the third man. “Do you think so?”

　　“No, I don’t.” he said. “I don’t think that makes the visitor important. That makes the President important.”

　　“Then what would make the visitor important?” the reporter and the other two men asked.

　　“Oh, I think if the visitor to the White House was talking to the President and the phone rang, and the President picked up the receiver, listened and then said, ‘it’s for you.’”

1.This story happened in ________.

A. U.N.                         B. U.S.A.                              C. U.K.         D. P.R.C.

2.There are________in this passage.

A. three men        B. three women and one man　

C. four men       D. three men and one woman

3.The banker and the owner of one of the largest companies in the world ________.

A. had similar opinions about the reporter’s question　　        

B. disagreed with each other  

C. had been invited to the White House many times      

D. didn’t reply to the reporter

4.The owner of one of the largest companies thought ________.

A. he himself was really important because he owned one of the largest companies in the world

B. the President was really important because the president of another country called him

C. the visitor was really important if the President would rather treat him than answer an important phone call from another country

D. none of them was really important

5.The underlined word you in the last paragraph refers to (指的是) ________.

A. the television reporter　　                    B. the owner of many buildings

C. the President                   D. the visitor to the White House

 

　　If you ever cross a road in a foreign country, be careful! Traffic rules are often different there!

　　Before you cross the street, you always look right first, not left! Cars drive in the opposite direction. Give yourself enough time to cross the road. Cars go much faster in Britain.

　　So why do the British drive on the left when most of the world drives on the right?

　　Hundreds of years ago, almost every one drove on the left. Why? Men used their right hands to draw their swords while they rode their horses. If an enemy came toward them they would have their swords ready in the middle of the road to start fighting. Napoleon, the great French leader, was left-handed. Some say that's why Europeans drive on the right side!

　　About a quarter of the world's people drive on the left. Australians and New Zealanders do. Americans drive on the fight like us.

阅读短文，判断对错，正确为“T”；错误为“F”

(1) You should look left first in Britain when you cross the street.

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(2) You should walk as fast as possible when you cross the street in Britain.

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(3) It was not long time ago that people started to drive on the left.

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(4) Napoleon asked people to drive on the fight side.

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(5) People in the USA drive on the left like British people.

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