—We can see the signin the public places. What does it mean?

—It means________.

  A. NO PHOTOS           B. NO FISHING  

  C. NO PARKING          D. NO SMOKING

—Look at the sign, what does it mean?

      —It means “_____”.

   A. Don’t talking       B. No talking      C. Not talk

Life comes in a package. This package includes happiness and sadness，failure and success，hope and despair. Life is a learning process. Experiences in life teach us new lessons and make us a better person. With each passing day we learn to deal with kinds of situations．

Love

Love plays an important role in our life. Love makes you feel wanted. Without love a person could become cruel. In the early stage of our life，our parents are the ones who show us with unconditional love and care, they teach us about what is right and wrong，good and bad.

Happiness and Sadness

Happiness achieved by bringing a smile on others face gives a certain level of fulfillment．Peace of mind makes you feel happy. No mind is happy without peace. We realize the true worth of happiness when we are sad．

Failure and Success

Success brings in money，fame，pride and self-respect. Failure is the way to success, and it helps us to touch the sky，teaches us to survive and shows us a specific way. Here it becomes very important to keep our head on our shoulder．

Hope and Despair

Hope is what keeps life going. Parents always hope their children will do well．Hope makes us dream．Hope builds in patience．Life teaches us not to despair even in the darkest hour，because after every night there is a day. Life teaches us not to regret over yesterday, for it has passed and is beyond our control．Tomorrow is unknown, for it could either be bright or dull. So what we can choose is to work hard today，so that we will enjoy a better tomorrow.

1. In the passage，the author compares life to ___________

A. package? ????????????? ????????????? B. happiness and sadness?

C. failure and success? ????????????? D. hope and despair

2.What does it in the passage 4? mean ?

A. success?? B. failure????? ????????????? C. sky??????? ????????????? D. way

3.What’s the general meaning of the last sentence of the whole passage?

A. What you only can choose is to work hard everyday.

B. If you work hard today, you will have a better life in the future．

C.When choosing between "today”and “tomorrow”, you’d better enjoy tomorrow better.

D. Enjoying a better tomorrow is your only choice．

4.What’s the purpose of the passage?

A. To encourage people to love each other．

B. To tell people how to deal with happiness and sadness．

C. To remind people of keeping having a beautiful dream．

D. To give readers some information about life.

Most teenagers feel sad or afraid when their parents fight. They might think their parents don’t love each other any more.

In fact, it is normal for parents to disagree and argue sometimes. They might disagree about important thing like jobs and family decisions. They might even disagree about little thing that don’t seem important at all – like what’s for dinner. Maybe sometimes parents feel so strongly about their differences that it may lead to arguments. However, these arguments are often over quickly. Parents may say sorry and make up , and the family returns to normal

As a family member, you should find out what it really means when your parents fight. When your parents get angry with each other, they might say things they don’t really mean. If your parents are fighting, don’t worry too much about it. Try to find a good way to solve it.

If your parent’s fighting really bothers you, you might find it hard to sleep or got to school. If this happens, try talking to your parents. They may not even realize it until you tell them how their fighting has influenced you. You can also tell other relatives, a teacher or a close friend.

Just remember that no family is perfect and arguments are common in every family.

1.What does it mean when parents fight?

A.  They aren’t happy with their family.

B.  They don’t love each other any more.

C.  They disagree with each other about something.

2.The underlined part “make up” in paragraph 2 means “      ” in Chinese.

A.  弥补              B.  组成               C.  和解

3.The underlined word “it” refers to “     ”.

A.  your parents’ fighting.        B.  your parents’ life      C.  your parents’ difference

4.What should we do when our parents’ fighting bothers us?

A.  Talk to them.    B.  Shout at them.       C.  Say something nice to them.

5.What can we learn from the passage?

A.  Parents’ fighting often lasts a long time.

B.  Parents might fight over small things.

C.  Teenagers should never argue with their parents.

Sunday is more like Monday than it used to be. Places of business that used to keep daytime “business hours” are now open late into the night. And on the Internet, the hour of the day and the day of the week have become irrelevant. A half century ago in the United states, most people experienced strong and precise dividing lines between days of rest and days of work, school time and summer time. Today the dividing lines are still there, but they seem not clear.
The law in almost all states used to require stores to close on Sunday; in most, it no longer does. It used to keep the schools open in all seasons except summer, in most, it still does. And whether the work week should strengthen its legal（法律的）limits, or whether it should become more changeable, is often debated（争论）. How should we, as a society, organize our time? Should we go even further in relaxing the dividing lines of time until we live in a world in which every minute is much like every other?
These are not easy questions even to ask. Part of the difficulty is that we seldom recognize the “law of time” even when we meet it face to face. We know as children that we have to go to  school a certain number of hours, a certain number of days, a certain number of years – but unless we meet the truant officer（学监）, we may well think that we should go to school because of social custom and parents’ requirement rather than to the law. As adults we know “extra pay for overtime working” very well, but less familiar with the fact that what constitutes（构成）“overtime” is a matter of legal thing. When we turn the clock forward to start daylight – saving time, have we ever thought to ourselves: “Here is the law in action”? As we shall see, there is a lot of law that has great influence on how organize and use time: compulsory education law, overtime law, and daylight-saving law – as well as law about Sunday closing, holidays, being late to work, time zones, and so on. Once we begin to look for it, we will have no trouble finding a law of time to examine and assess.
【小题1】What does the underlined word “irrelevant” probably mean?