Have successful people ever felt sad? Do they have any "secrets" to success? The answers to these questions can be found in US president Barack Obama’s "back to school" speech. Here is a small part of his speech.
I know that sometimes, after watching TV, you may feel that you can be rich and successful without any hard work--that your ticket to success is through rapping (饶舌音乐) or basketball or being a TV star. But when chances come, you may not succeed.
The truth is, being successful is hard. And you may not succeed at everything the first time you try. That’s OK. Some of the most successful people in the world have had the most failures. JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was rejected(退稿)12 times before it finally came out. Michael Jordan lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career (职业生涯). But he once said, "I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
These people succeeded because they understand that you can’t let your failures beat you--you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time.
No one’s born being good at things. You become good at things through hard work. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it.
And even when you’re struggling(挣扎), even when you’re discouraged(泄气), and you feel like other people have given up on you--don’t ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.
【小题1】Why does Barack Obama talk about JK Rowling and Michael Jordan in the second paragraph?

A．To show that these two famous persons are different.

B．To show that writing and sports are difficult skills.

C．To show that the two persons were treated unfairly.

D．To show that being successful is hard.

【小题2】Barack Obama believes ____________ in his speech.

A．you can be rich and successful without any hard work

B．you may succeed at everything the first time you try

C．you can’t let your failures beat you

D．you shouldn’t ask other people for help

【小题3】What does the underlined sentence mean?

A．If you’re discouraged, you should give up on yourself.

B．You should believe in yourself no matter how difficult it is.

C．When you’re struggling, you’ll feel like other people have given up on you.

D．If you are not struggling or discouraged, you can give up on yourself.

【小题4】What’s the best title of this small part of Mr. Obama’s speech?

A．The way to succeed	B．Failures can help you
C．Don’t give up on yourself	D．Barack Obama’s success

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Lunch Made of Love
In those poor times, many of my classmates couldn’t bring a nice meal to school for lunch. My deskmate’s meal was always cabbages, while 66  （我的）was ham and fried eggs. Sometimes, my deskmate would first pick the hair out of his lunch and then eat it as if   67 （没事）had happened. This continued for a long time.
“His mother is so lousy（邋遢的）that her hair drops in the meal, ”my classmates said. I  68  （想）it was really dirty, but I couldn’t show that because I didn’t want to hurt（伤害）his feelings. Still, I started to think that he was   69 （肮脏）, too.
One day after school, he called me and said, “Would you like to come to my house if you are  70 
（有空）? ”
Though I didn’t want to go, I knew it would be impolite to refuse because this was his first invitation. Following my friend, we   71  （到达）at a poor village.
“Mom, I brought my friend home. ”
His old mother opened the   72 （门）, “My son’s friend is here. Let me have a look. ”But to my
  73 （惊讶）, his mother was blind. She couldn’t see anything.
I felt sad. Now I understood why my deskmate’s lunch had hair in it. His mother got ready for it
  74  （仔细）for him every day, even though she was blind. It was not only a lunch, but also a   75  
（母亲）love.

An artist who did not have much money, but was a very kind man, was coming home by train one day. He gave his last few coins to a beggar, but then he saw another one, and forgot that he did not have any money. He asked the man if he would like to have lunch with him, and the beggar accepted, so they went into a small restaurant and had a good meal. At the end, the artist could not pay the bill, of course, so the beggar had to do so.
The artist was very unhappy about this, so he said to the beggar, “Come home with me in a taxi, my friend, and I’ll give you back the money for money.”
“Oh, no!” the beggar answered quickly. “I had to pay for your lunch, but I’m not going to pay for your taxi home either!”
【小题1】The artist in this story was __________.

A．a man of wealth

B．a funny man

C．a kind man

D．a cheat

【小题2】While going home one day, the artist forgot about ___________.

A．his wallet

B．his train ticket

C．his coins

D．his own trouble

【小题3】After the meal, __________ paid the bill.

A．The artist

B．another man

C．the beggar

D．no one

【小题4】The artist invited the beggar to take a taxi home with him so that ___________.

A．the beggar could pay for the taxi home

B．he could pay the money in return for the meal he had had

C．he could make friends with the beggar

D．they could trust each other

【小题5】At the end of the story, what the beggar said showed that he _________.

A．didn’t trust(信任) the artist

B．was thankful to the artist

C．felt sad for having paid for their lunch

D．would make friends with the artist

Eleven-year-old Antonin Careme could not believe that his father ordered a lot of delicious food. It was an unexpected(意料不到的) dinner b__1__ the Careme family was poor. When he was eating thankfully, his father t__2__ him in a sad voice that this would be a farewell （告别）meal. His father could not support all his children any m__3__, s__4__ Antonin would have to leave home to make money h__5__。After the meal, Antonin walked a__6__ the streets and felt sad. He knocked on the door of a restaurant and the o__7__ happened to(碰巧) need an waiter. In the restaurant, young Antonin g__8__ his first lesson in cooking. He was hardworking and his employer(雇主) d__9__ to teach him all the skills(技能) and secrets of French cooking. When he was fifteen years old, Antonin trained under the famous cook, Baily.
One of Baily’s customers was pleased with Antonin’s style of cooking, he asked him to be his personal c__10__, working at his home. Antonin later went on to work for a diplomat, a banker and even the king.