The question was once asked of a highly successful businessman,“How have you done so much in your lifetime?”

He replied,“I have   41 .I have turned my mind free to imagine   42  I wanted to do.Then I have gone to bed and thought about my dreams.In the night I dreamt about my dreams.

And when I awoke in the morning,I saw the way   43  my dreams real.White   44  people were saying,‘You can’t do that,it is   45 ,’I was well on my way to achieving what I wanted,”As Woodrow Wilson,28th President of the U.S.,said:“We grow great by dreams.All big men are

  46 .”

They see things in the soft fog of a spring day,or in the red fire   47  a long winter’s evening.Some of us   48  these dreams die,but others feed,protect and look after them;keep them through bad days until they bring them to the sunshine and light,it comes   49  to the people who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

So please,don’t let anyone steal you dreams,  50  try to tell you they are too impossible.

“Sing your songs,dream your dreams,and hope your hope.”

1.A.dreamed            B.changed              C.learned

2.A.how                B.what                C.which

3.A.to make             B.to realize             C.to achieve

4.A.another             B.the other              C.other

5.A.possible            B.impossible             C.important

6.A.dreams             B.dreamer               C.dreamers

7.A.on                 B.in                   C.at

8.A.had                 B.let                   C.kept

9.A.never               B.sometimes              C.always

10.A.or                  B.and                   C.but

 

Imagine a life without arms or legs! You can’t hold anyone without your   31  .You can’t walk anywhere without your feet. How would you last a day like that? Would you   32  at yourself in the mirror(镜子)like Nick Vujicic, the 29-year-old Australian?
Nick was born without limbs(四肢), so life was not   33  for him. At school many students played jokes on him. Because he looked different from everyone else. He was refused(拒绝)to be   34  friends, so he always felt   35  . However, he faced that bravely. He   36  to type and write with two toes at the age of six, and he could   37  surf and play golf. In college, he achieved great success and was among the excellent students in the studies. And he decided on what to do later in his life—to encourage others to work hard for their dreams.
Now Nick is one of the most popular   38  in the world. He travels to many countries and gives speeches about his story against difficulties. “Living life fully is about looking at what you   39  , not what you don’t have.” he said. His story encourages millions of people.
“I tell people to keep on getting up when they   40  and to always love themselves, ”he said. “If I can encourage just one person, then my job in this life is done.”

【小题1】

A．arms B．ears C．eyes D．teeth

【小题2】

A．laugh B．cry C．smile D．shout

【小题3】

A．old B．easy C．modern D．difficult

【小题4】

A．his B．my C．their D．our

【小题5】

A．happy B．relaxed C．lonely D．surprised

【小题6】

A．failed B．forgot C．helped D．learned

【小题7】

A．even B．ever C．never D．hardly

【小题8】

A．doctors B．speakers C．scientists D．managers

【小题9】

A．make B．have C．lose D．want

【小题10】

A．fall B．play C．listen D．exercise

“I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning and I surf the net.”
“I often check my e-mail forty times a day.”
“I often spend more than three hours during one time on the net.”
“I spend more time in chat rooms(聊天室) than with my ‘real-1ife’ friends.”
Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addiction(瘾) called Internet addiction. Internet addicts spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week. The use of the Internet can be an addiction like drug(毒品) use. People lose control(控制) of the time they spend on the Internet.
For example, one college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried, and they called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab: he was surfing the net for several days straight.
Studies show that about 6 to 10% of Internet users become addicted. And people worry about the teens because the Internet is changing the playing field for some of them. They spend more time in cyberspace than in the real world of friends and family.
Is “surfing the net” a hobby or an addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have these symptoms(症状):
●You do not go to important family activities or you do not do school work because you like to spend hours on the Internet.
●You can’t wait for your next online time.
●You plan to spend a short time online, but then you spend several hours.
●You go out with your friends less and less.
【小题1】What does the beginning of the passage tell us?

A．How to become an Internet addict.

B．What an Internet addict usually does.

C．Where to find an Internet addict.

D．Why to write this passage.

【小题2】 How does the writer describe the addicts’ use of Internet?

A．It is something like keeping drugs.

B．It is a way of producing drugs.

C．It is like taking drugs.

D．It is terrible to imagine.

【小题3】Why do people worry about the teens?

A．The teens are wasting too much money.

B．They used to work on the Internet.

C．The playing field of the teens will disappear.

D．More and more of the teens wil1 become addicted to the Internet.

【小题4】The example in the passage shows that _______.

A．Internet problems are more serious among college students

B．Internet addicts usually stay in the computer lab without sleep

C．Some of the Internet users have already been seriously addicted

D．The police often help to find those Internet addicts.

【小题5】What is the writer trying to tell us at the end of the passage?

A．Don’t be addicted to the Internet.

B．Go to family activities more often.

C．Do things as you have planned.

D．Stay with your parents as often as possible.

Hip hop or rap (说唱） music as it is also called, started on the street and in the clubs of the New York City in the 1970s . But today many countries have their own kind of  hip hop music . This kind of music comes from reggae, disco and funk music . Rapping means speaking to the  rhythm of the music, and it is an important part of the music . People rap to express how they feel about their lives and problems .
Rapping in class.
Would you like to rap in class? Well actually, hip pop music is played in more than 10,000 schools in the USA .Why ? There is a new school program called “ Flocabulary ”in which teachers use texts and hip hop CDs to help teach different school subjects . The words of the songs are just what students are studying . This makes learning easy and fun . Students and teachers are excited about the positive results it has had on exam marks . One teacher said, “ I’ve used hip hop songs in class, and I have never seen my students so crazy about history ! You can't imagine how well they imagine how well they remember what I teach ! We even try to write our own songs . ”
Whose idea was Flocabulary?
Blake Harrison, a high school student, was the first person to come up with the idea of Flocabulary . The word “ Flocabulary ” comes from the word “ flow ” and “ vocabulary ” . “ Flow ” is a rap word for “ style ”,or the way a rapper says the words of a song . “ Vocabulary ” means the words you have to learn in a language . How did he get the idea ? Well, he realized he could remember the words of a hip hop song very easily . So,why not make lessons into songs ? Today together with Alex Rappaport, a song writer, Blake produces hip hop songs for maths, science and literature (文学）. They are now used in schools with great success .
【小题1】Rap music started  _____ in New York city .

A．in the 1970s	B．In a high school
C．in the 19 th century .	D．In a music class .

【小题2】From the passage, we can learn “ Flocabulary ” is a program to _____ .

A．Write rap music .	B．Sing a song by talking
C．Remember the words of a song .	D．help teach some school subjects.

【小题3】The underlined word  positive  in paragraph 2 most probably means _____ 

A．bad

B．good

C．final

D．direct

【小题4】Blake Harrison has produced hip hop songs for school subject EXCEPT _____ .

A．maths

B．science

C．history

D．literature

The teacher stood before his class and was going to hand out the final exam papers. “I know how ______you have all worked to prepare for this test,” he said. “And because I know you can do it well, I am willing to offer a B to anyone who would ______not to take the test.

Many students jumped up to ______the teacher and left the classroom. The teacher looked at the _______students and said, “Does anyone else want to get a B? This is your last _______.” Two more students decided to go.

Seven students remained(留下，余下). The teacher then handed out the _______. There were only three sentences typed on the paper: Congratulations! You have just ______an A in this class. Keep believing in yourself.

I never had a teacher like that, but I think it is a test _______any teacher could and should give. Students who are not ______in what they have learned are B students at best(充其量).

The same is ______in real life. The A students are those who believe in what they are doing because they have ______both successes and failures. They have learned life’s lessons, either from normal education ______from events in their lives, and have become ______people.

Scientists say that by the age of eight, 80% of what we believe about ourselves has already been formed. You are a big kid now, and you _____that you have some limits (限制). However, there is _____you can’t do or learn or be. Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest said, “It’s not the mountain we conquer(克服) but ourselves.

1.A. luckily                  B. terribly          C. quietly                     D. hard

2.A. dislike                  B. help                         C. prefer                     D. start

3.A. thank          B. praise                      C. fight                         D. criticize

4.A. following    B. relaxing                   C. worrying                 D. remaining

5.A. chance                B. trouble                    C. test                          D. idea

6.A. results                 B. presents                 C. papers                     D. essays

7.A. given          B. sent                         C. discovered             D. received

8.A. where                  B. that                          C. what                        D. when

9.A. confident       B. necessary                C. mysterious             D. convenient

10.A. unusual    B. impossible              C. true                         D. special

11.A. broken off        B. dreamed of            C. learned from         D. cared about

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

13.A. ruder                 B. cuter                       C. worse                      D. better

14.A. decide               B. forget                      C. realize                     D. imagine

15.A. something        B. anything                  C. everything              D. nothing