A jobless man wanted very much to be an “office boy” at Microsoft. The manager interviewed him and then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. “You have passed the test.” he said. “Give me your e-mail address and I'll send you the form(表格) to fill in and the date when you may start.” The man replied. “But I don't have a computer, neither an e-mail.” “I'm sorry,” said the manager. “If you don't have an e-mail, that means you are not living. And anyone who isn't living cannot have the job.”
The man left with no hope at all. He didn't know what to do with only $10 in his pocket. He thought and thought. Then he went to the supermarket and bought 10 kilos of tomatoes. He sold the tomatoes from door to door. In less than two hours, he had 20 dollars. He did this again and again for three times, and started to go early every day, and returned home late. At last, he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles(运货车队).Five years later, the man was one of the biggest food retailers (零售商) in the US.
One day, one of his friends asked him for his e-mail. He said, “I haven't got one.” His friend couldn't believe his ears. “Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an e-mail?”The man thought for a while and replied, “Yes, I'd be an office boy at Microsoft!”
小题1: What did the man do for the test?

A．He sent e-mails.	B．He did the cleaning
C．He sold computers.	D．He filled in forms.

小题2:The man didn't get the job because he        .

A．disliked such a job	B．didn't pass the test
C．didn't have an e-mail	D．knew nothing about computers

小题3:The man        after he left Microsoft.

A．went home directly	B．asked for food from door to door
C．thought up an idea to make money	D．bought a computer and got an e-mail

小题4:What does the story want to tell us?

A．Computers are very important in our daily life.

B．Everyone can make a lot of money with only $10.

C．The manager didn't like the man.

D．Nothing in the world is impossible if we work hard.

Have you ever complained（抱怨）why life is so tiring? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time . If you see the world with your warm heart, you will find that the whole world smiles to you.
While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job?
One day it is fine . Just before you want to go out, it suddenly starts to rain . Maybe you would feel very sad and start complaining about the weather . But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the free concert that the nature offers you? And with the timely rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest .
Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes failure can’t be avoided . I think failure(失败) is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success.”
Attitude（态度）decides everything. With an optimistic（乐观的）attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.
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小题1: People sometimes complain __________ .
A. their studies are successful
B. they have no enough money   
C. life is tiring
小题2:According to the passage, in school, _________ .
A. the students don’t like their lessons     
B. the teachers will be happy if the students do good jobs
C. the teachers are tired of their work
小题3:If there is a timely rain, ____________ .
A. you want to go out
B. you can listen to a concert   
C. crops will grow better
小题4:When we face failure, we ___________ .
A. don’t know what to do
B. may give up hope      
C. shouldn’t be afraid of it
小题5:The best title of this passage is ___________ .
A. Smile and the World Smiles to You
B. Complaining about Life
C. Failure is the Mother of Success

Is money everything? At present some people think that        is everything. Some of them even        their lives for it. Money has its most useful        on the poor, but once a person has a rich life, a lot more money doesn't mean more       .
If money was       , all millionaires would have true love, true friendship, good health and a long life.       , this is not always true.
Nothing else is more       than the three words “I love you”. But can           be bought？I’m afraid not. Love means to give, not to take. To every person, health and long life are           the most valuable things. Well, can health and a long life be bought with money? The answer is “No”.
Of all the longest living people in the world,        of them are millionaires. True friendship can't be bought       . Many other things        be bought with money: knowledge, life and happiness and so on. Just think, if a person        these things at all, is the money still useful? No matter how much money you have, it is still not enough        you a happy person if you have no one to laugh      , no one to cry for. Now, do you think money is everything?

小题1:	A．time B．health C．friend D．money

小题2:	A．lose B．like C．save D．affect

小题3:	A．affect B．effect C．effort D．influence

小题4:	A．stress B．sadness C．happiness D．problems

小题5:	A．something B．anything C．nothing D．everything

小题6:	A．If B．But C．While D．However

小题7:	A．polite B．generous C．pleasant D．boring

小题8:	A．life B．love C．health D．friends

小题9:	A．probably B．perhaps C．maybe D．impossible

小题10:

A．all B．few C．each D．none

小题11:

A．also B．too C．yet D．either

小题12:

A．cannot B．mustn’t C．needn’t D．shouldn’t

小题13:

A．has B．doesn’t have C．will have D．won’t have

小题14:

A．make B．makes C．to make D．making

小题15:

A．at B．to C．for D．with

We all have dreams. Do you still remember your dream when you were still a middle school student. As teenagers, you may have many dreams. Maybe you wanted to be a scientist, a teacher or a doctor. These dreams can be very big, such as winning a Nobel Prize, or very small. You may just want to become one of the ten best students in your class.
If you have a dream, what do you do with it? Do you try to make your dream come true? Andrew Matthews wrote a book called Follow Your Heart. It tells us it’s the biggest challenge(挑战) to make our dreams come true.
There will be many difficulties on the road to your dreams. But you must never give up your dream. Because the biggest difficulty comes from you yourself. 
Everyone can make his/her dream come true. The first thing to do is to remember your dream. Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want and keep working hard. Do this step by step and your dream will come true one day.
小题1:Follow Your Heart is the name of           .

A．Andrew Matthews	B．a book about hearts
C．a book by Andrew Matthews	D．a dream

小题2:Which of the following may be a small dream for teenagers?

A．To be a man like Nobel.

B．To win a Nobel Prize.

C．To be the best student in the class.

D．To be a scientist.

小题3:If you want to make your dream come true, the biggest difficulty is from           .

A．the book

B．your school

C．your dream

D．you yourself

小题4:Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Different people have the same dream.

B．If you keep on, you can make your dream come true.

C．There are few difficulties on the road to everyone's dream.

D．When you give up your dream, it will come true soon.

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

A．package	B．happiness and sadness
C．failure and success	D．hope and despair

小题2:What does it in the passage 4  mean ?

A．success

B．failure

C．sky

D．way

小题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．

小题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.

A little boy invited his mother to his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To his surprise, she agreed. He felt ­­­      . Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a scar(伤疤) that covered nearly the whole right side of her        .
At the meeting, all the people were ____by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother, but the little boy was still embarrassed and hid himself from ___.Suddenly, he heard his mother talking with his teacher.
“____did you get the scar on your face?” the teacher asked. She replied, “When my son was a boy, his room caught on fire one day. Everyone was too ____to go in, so I went in and ran towards his bed. Just then I saw a beam coming down and I placed myself over him trying to____ him. I was knocked but luckily, a fireman saved____ of us.” She touched the scar. “This scar will be here forever, ____ I will never regret doing what I did.”
At this point, the little boy came out running to his mother ____tears in his eyes. He hugged her and held her hand tightly for the rest of the day.

小题1:	A．worried B．happy C．angry D．proud

小题2:	A．ear B．hand C．face D．arm

小题3:	A．impressed B．followed C．agreed D．encouraged

小题4:	A．somebody B．anybody C．nobody D．no one

小题5:	A．Where B．How C．Why D．When

小题6:	A．afraid B．quiet C．calm D．careful

小题7:	A．prevent B．save C．protect D．hold

小题8:	A．neither B．either C．all D．both

小题9:	A．because B．however C．but D．although

小题10:

A．for B．of C．with D．without

One afternoon, in Paris, I took a trip to an art museum .I was looking forward to a quiet view(观赏) of some great paintings of excellent artists.
A young couple looking at the paintings in front of me were talking non-stop. I watched them a moment and found the woman was doing all the talking. In fact, I was surprised at the man for putting up with her long speech. Bored by their noise, I moved on. Each time I heard her voice, I moved away at once.
I was standing at the museum gift shop when the couple walked to the exit(出口).
“He’s a brave man ,” said the shop assistant. “Most of us would give up if we became blind at such a young age. But he and his wife come in whenever there’s a new art show.”
It explained the non-stop talk! A sudden sense of shame (愧疚感) came to my heart for what I was thinking just now. “But shat does he get out of the art?” I asked. The shop assistant answered, “His wife describes each painting so that he can see it in his head. ”
At that moment I realized what patience and love really mean. And I felt their love as I watched them walking away holding each other’s hands.
小题1:We can learn from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 that the writer      .

A．was a person with few words

B．was waiting for some artists

C．was looking for some great paintings

D．wanted to enjoy great paintings quietly

小题2:How did the writer feel when hearing the woman’s talking at first?

A．Calm.

B．Bored.

C．Excited.

D．Happy.

小题3:The woman kept talking because      .

A．she preferred talking to listening

B．she was too excited to keep silent

C．she had to describe each painting to her husband

D．she liked to show how clever she was in front of others

小题4:What did the writer think of the woman at last?

A．She was noisy but brave.	B．She was patient and loving.
C．She was lonely and patient.	D．She was brave but lonely.

小题5:The passage mainly tells us     .

A．what patience and love mean	B．how we should treat a blind person
C．what a good art show is like	D．how art changes our lives

Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12,a white gardenia（栀子花）was sent to my house. No card came with it．Calls to the flower shops were not helpful at all. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender's name and was just very pleased with the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper.
But I never stopped imagining who the giver might be, Some of my happiest moments were  spent daydreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged this imagining. She'd ask me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness. Perhaps it was the old man who I looked afier when he was ill. As a girl, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy.
One month before my graduation, my father died. I felt very sad and didn't want to go to the  coming graduation dance at all. And I didn't care whether I had a new dress or not. But my mother, in her own sadness, would not let me miss any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved and lovable. In truth, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia-lovely, strong and perfect with perhaps a bit of mystery.
My mother died ten days after l was married.1 was 22. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming.
小题1:Which statement is true according to the passage?

A．The author found the sender by calling the flower shops.

B．In fact, the flower was sent by a boy.

C．It was a pleasant moment for the girl to imagine the sender.

D．The author got a gardenia every year after she was married.

小题2:The mother let her daughter go to the graduation dance because_______.

A．She hoped she would miss her father.

B．She thought education was most important.

C．She hoped she would find a friend.

D．She wanted her to be happy and strong.

小题3:Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A．A Childhood Dream.	B．A Mother's Love.
C．A Graduation Party.	D．A Special Birthday.

通读下列短文，掌握其大意，然后在各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Although I love my life, it hasn’t been a lot of fun as I’ve been ill for 28 years.
Music has always been a great love of mine and, in my 20s, when my       was more manageable , I        ten years as a professional singer in restaurants, playing and singing folk songs.       that was years ago and times have changed.       I live with mother on a   country farm.
Two years ago, I decided that I would need to have some kind of extra work to make up for my disability pension (残疾抚恤金).       I needed to sleep in the afternoons, I was limited(限制) in my choices. I decided that I would consider      to singing in restaurants.
My family are all musicians, so I was       when I went into our local music store. I explained that I wanted to sing again but using recorded karaoke music. I knew that discs were very expensive and I really didn’t have a lot of       to get started. And often you find only three to four songs out of ten on a disc that you can      use.
When I told the owner of the shop about my      ; he gave me a long thoughtful      . “This means a lot to you, doesn’t it?” he said. “Come with me.”
He led me       the crowded shop and to a bench with a large professional karaoke box on it. He placed his large hand       on his treasure(财宝) and said, “I have 800 karaoke songs in here. You can take your pick and I’ll record them for you. That should get you started.”
I could have cried. Thanking him, I made a time with him to listen to all the songs and choose      that I could sing. I have come full circle with his help.
His     still warms my heart and makes me do just that bit extra, when I have the chance.

小题1:	A．loneliness B．sadness C．tiredness D．sickness

小题2:	A．set B．enjoyed C．kept D．shared

小题3:	A．Gladly B．Finally C．Unfortunately D．Surprisingly

小题4:	A．Now B．Then C．Sometime D．Meanwhile

小题5:	A．If B．As C．Though D．Before

小题6:	A．reaching out B．living up C．getting on D．going back

小题7:	A．recognized B．interviewed C．found D．invited

小题8:	A．money B．time C．energy D．knowledge

小题9:	A．actually B．hardly C．nearly D．mainly

小题10:

A．job B．family C．idea D．offer

小题11:

A．face B．view C．look D．sight

小题12:

A．over B．along C．towards D．through

小题13:

A．unhappily B．lovingly C．pitifully D．gratefully

小题14:

A．more B．the ones C．few D．the rest

小题15:

A．courage B．happiness C．kindness D．trust

When my first wartime Christmas came, I was in basic training in New Jersey and not sure if I could make it home for the holidays. Only on the afternoon of December 23 was the list of men who would have three-day passes (通行证) posted. I was one of the lucky soldiers.
It was Christmas Eve when I arrived, and a light snow had fallen. Mother opened the front door. I could see beyond her, into the corner of the living room where the tree had always stood. There were lights, all colors, and ornaments (装饰物) shining against the green of a pine.
“Where did it come from？” I asked.
“I asked the Gates boy to cut it,” my mother said. “I wouldn’t have had one just for myself, but when you called--- oh, such a rush! He just brought it in this afternoon…”
The pine reached to the proper height, almost to the ceiling, and the Tree Top Krystal Star was in its place. A few green branches reached about a little awkwardly (难看地) at the side, I thought, and there was a bit of bare trunk showing in the middle. But the tree filled the room with warm light and the whole house with pleasant smell of Christmas.
“It’s not like the ones you used to find,” my mother went on. “Yours were always in good shape. I suppose the Gates boy didn’t know where to look. But I couldn’t be picky.”
“Don’t worry, ” I told her. “It’s perfect.”
It wasn’t, of course, but at the moment I realized something for the first time: all Christmas trees are perfect.
小题1: When the writer got home, ________.

A．it was December 23

B．it was snowing heavily

C．he found a Christmas tree in the living room

D．the Gates boy was cutting a Christmas tree for his mother

小题2: From the passage, we can conclude（推断） that ________.

A．the writer used to cut very beautiful Christmas trees

B．his mother didn’t like perfect trees

C．his mother didn’t want to have a tree

D．the writer wouldn’t have a tree cut by someone else

小题3:“All Christmas trees are perfect”, because they can remind you of ________.

A．the wartime	B．the green of a pine
C．the pleasant smell	D．the sweet home

小题4: The best title for this passage would be “________”.

A．How to Choose a Christmas Tree

B．How Soldiers Spent Christmas

C．The Perfect Christmas Tree

D．The Christmas Without a Tree