There was a little boy with a bad temper（脾气）.His father gave him some nails（钉子）to drive into the fence (栅栏)when he lost his temper .The first day the boy drove 37 nails into the fence .Then it began to become less . He found it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence .
Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all . He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out one nail for each day that he  held his temper .The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone .
The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence .He said , “You have done well ,my son ,but you look at the fence . It will never be the same .When you say things in anger ,they leave a scar（痕迹）just like this one .You can put a knife in a man and draw it out . It won’t matter how many times you say I’m sorry ,the wound (伤口)is still there .A verbal （言语）wound is as bad as a physical(肉体)one.
【小题1】Who was in a bad temper ?
the boy’s father         B.the boy’s friend
C. the little boy            D. a man
【小题2】 The word “it” in “it began to become less”refers to (指) ________ .

A．the first day	B．the fence
C．the nails	D．the boy’s temper

【小题3】The way of pulling out nails is to _________.
make one’s temper less
make one hold one’s temper
leave a scar on somsone
hurt someone .
【小题4】 The boy thought that _______
it was easy for him to drive the nails into the fence .
driving nails into the fence is easier than holding his temper .
holding his temper is easier than driving nails into the fence .
it was easy for him to lose his temper after driving nails .
【小题5】We learn from the reading that _______ .
A. the father was a man with bad temper .
it took a long time for the boy’s temper to become less.
the father was good at helping one who is easy to lose temper .
the boy was good at driving nails into the fence .

“For those who haven’t been to Tibet, Tibet is a dream; for those who have a   1   been there, Tibet is a remembrance（记忆）.” said Li Wan, a graduate from Zhongshan University. “To local Tibetans, Tibet is a way of life. But to me, l   2 there is my life-time goal.”

Ms. Li suddenly showed her strong i   3   in Tibet after having worked in a company for less than three months. Since 1998, Li has spent most of her time in a war that is a challenge(挑战) to her life—she has got to almost every c   4  of Tibet within 8 years.

Li’s first trip to Tibet was only out of her loving freedom. She entered Tibet a   5  the Yunnan-Tibetan road. Although she couldn’t speak a word of Tibetan l  6  , this did not really stop her from t____7____ with local people. “To me, they are free, happy and c   8   to nature. It a   9   to me that people should live in this way, singing while working, dancing while living,” Li said.

Li described Tibet in words and photos. “My goal in the n   10   ten years is to make a good documentary.” said Li.

 

To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasant voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.
Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he doesn’t sit still before his class; he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings.
There are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s.
The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand(预先).What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage. A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience take an active part in his play: they ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don’t understand anything, they say so. The teacher can’t learn his part by heart, but must invent it as he goes along.
I have known many teachers who are fine actors in class but are unable to take part in a stage-play because they can’t keep strictly to what another has written.
【小题1】What does the underlined word “gifts” mean?

A．presents B．knowledge C．skills D．advantages

【小题2】Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A．A good teacher should speak clearly. B．A good teacher should sit still before his class and speak with his body language. C．A good actor should speak as others have asked him to do. D．A good actor should repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part.

【小题3】The skills of a good teacher are        .

A．draw his students’ attention. B．change his voice when needed. C．act out what he is teaching D．all the above

【小题4】From the passage, we know        .

A．a good teacher should be a good actor B．a good teacher may be unable to act well on the stage C．a good actor should be a good teacher D．a good actor may act well in class

【小题5】The title of the passage is         .

A．How to be a good teacher B．How to be a good actor C．A good teacher’s knowledge D．A good actor’s behaviour

 

Have you ever been sad because you failed in something? If so, please remember, for often, achieving what you expect is not the most important thing. Here is a story to tell you why.

One day a little boy decided to dig a hole behind his house after watching a science program. As he was working, a couple of boys stopped by to watch.  "What are you doing?" asked one of the visitors. "I want to dig a deep hole all the way through the earth!" the boy answered excitedly.  The older boys began to laugh, telling him that it was impossible to do it. Then they left.

The little boy kept on digging and digging. Suddenly, a few small colorful stones caught his eyes. He collected them and put them into a glass jar patiently.  Humming a song, he went on digging. The jar was full soon. Then he talked to himself calmly and proudly, "Maybe I can't finish digging all the way through the earth, but look at what I have found in the process of digging !"

The boy's goal was too difficult, but it did cause him to go on, in other words, to cause us to keep working!

Not every goal will be achieved.  Not every job will end up with a success.  Not every dream will come true.  But when you can't achieve your goal, maybe you can say, "yes, but look what I've found along the way! There are so many wonderful things that have come into my life because I tried to do something!" It is in the digging that life is lived. It is the unexpected joy on the journey that really has a meaning.

1.What did the boy do after watching a program?

A．He bought a glass jar.

B．He started to dig a hole.

C．He played with some visitors.

D．He went on watching the program.

2.What did the older boys think of the little boy?

A．He was silly.                            B．He was strict.

C．he was strong-minded.                   D．He was energetic.

3.When did the boy find the stones?

A．Before he met the older boys.

B．When he wanted to give up digging.

C．After the older boys laughed at him.

D．As soon as he began to dig the hole.

4.What does the underlined sentence "It is in the digging that life is lived." mean according to the article?

A．Life is to make a big success.

B．Life is to find the colorful stones.

C．Life is difficult but colorful.

D．Life is on the way to achieve the goal.

5.Which is the best title for this article?

A．Enjoying the process

B．How to achieve goals

C．A journey through the earth

D．Dig a deep hole all the way through the earth.

 

阅读短文，根据其内容，选择最佳选项完成下列各题。（10分）

Paragraph 1: Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of food people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds; (2) citrus(柑桔) fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables; (4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal(谷物), rice is also in this kind of food; (7) butter, or something like butter.

Paragraph 2: People in different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked. It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at 11 o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.

Paragraph 3: There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on earth. The first is to find some ways to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy.

1.From the first paragraph we know noodles belong to a kind of ______ food.

A. vegetable                        B. fruit                         C. meat                        D. cereal

2.According to the scientists, which of the following groups is the healthiest for your lunch?

A. chicken, apples, cereal, cabbages                    B. potatoes, rice, bread, carrots

C. oranges, bananas, fish, tomatoes                      D. beef, pork, fish, milk

3.People in different places of the world ______.

A. have the right kinds of food to eat                   B. cook their food in the same way

C. have their meals at the same time                   D. eat food in different ways

4.Which of the following is NOT true?

A. People in some places don’t have enough to eat.

B. There are too many people in the world.

C. One of the problems is that no one is hungry.

D. The scientists are trying to make people grow to be strong and healthy.

5.If there is Paragraph 4, what do you think is going to be talked about?

A. When people eat their meals.

B. What to do with the two problems.

C. How to cook food in different ways.

D. Why people in different places eat different kinds of food.