Have you ever complained that life is so tiring or that there is too much homework? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you look at the world with a warm heart, you will find that the whole world smiles at you.
While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you noticed the happy smile on your teacher’s face when you do a good job?
If one day it is fine, but just before you go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start complaining about the weather. Dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the free concert that the nature offers you? Also 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 is not terrible. The terrible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident of 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 the success.”
Attitude decides everything, with an optimistic attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let’s smile at whatever we meet and the whole world will smiles at us.
根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
【小题1】Students sometimes complain _____________.

A．life is interesting	B．the sky seems bright
C．their studies are successful.	D．there is too much homework.

【小题2】When we face failure,  we _____________________.

A．mustn’t be confident	B．should be afraid of everything
C．shouldn’t give up hope	D．must lose heart

【小题3】The Chinese for the world “optimistic” in the last paragraph is “____________”.

A．悲观的

B．乐观的

C．开放的

D．保守的

【小题4】What’s the best title for this passage?

A．Complaining about life.

B．It is very hard to succeed.

C．Failure is the mother of success.

D．Smile at the world even when you are in trouble.

For most people, the word "fashion (时尚)" means "clothes". But people may ask the question, "What clothes are in fashion?" And they use the word "fashionable" in the same way:

"She was wearing a fashionable coat. His shirt was really a fashionable colour. "

But of course there are fashions in many things, not only in clothes. There are fashions in holidays, in restaurants, in films and books. There are even fashions in school subjects, jobs ... and in languages.

Fashions change as time goes. If you look at pictures of people or things from the past, you will see that fashions have always changed. An English house of 1750 was different from one of 1650. A fashionable man in 1780 looked very different from his grandson in 1860.

Today fashions change very quickly. Some of this is natural. We hear about things much more quickly than in the past. Newspapers, radios, telephones and television send information from one country to another in a few hours.

New fashions mean that people will buy new things, so you see there is money in fashion.

1.Most people think that "fashion" means __________.

A．subjects

B．holidays

C．books

D．clothes

2.By          we can see that fashions change as time goes.

A．finding a job

B．looking at pictures

C．eating in a restaurant

D．wearing a fashionable coat

3.In the 5th paragraph the writer mentions            kinds of ways to send information.

A．three

B．four

C．five

D．six

4."There is money in fashion" means

A．people like fashion and money

B．fashionable things are expensive

C．one can make money through fashion

D．a fashionable man makes much money

5.The passage is mainly about              .

A．the changes of fashions

B．the kinds of colours

C．the money in fashion

D．the differences between houses

 

Bill was a boy of 15. His parents went to gambling(赌博) day and night. Nobody cared about hi. He always failed in his exams. So his teachers didn’t like him, nor did his classmates play with him.
Bill often slept in class because his heart was not in school. He almost gave himself up.
One day, Miss Jones, a new teacher, came to Bill’s class. She was a smiling, beautiful woman. Bill was in love! For the first time in his young life, he couldn’t take his eyes off his teachers; yet, still he failed.
It was Miss Jones’ class. She was asking a question. “I’d like the smartest boy to answer my question.” Then she said loudly, “Bill, please!”
Bill was surprised. And he stood up without a word.
“Just try it! I believe you can!”
After school, Miss Jones had a long talk with Bill. She told him that she cared about him and believed in him.
Bill thought a lot that evening. From then on he arrived at school on time every day. Miss Jones helped him with his homework in the afternoon. She even cooked delicious food for him. She told Bill, “Nothing is impossible if you put your heart in it.”
Later, Miss Jones gave another exam. Bill did it with all his heart. He was very excited to find that he had passed the exam. Now Bill discovered that not only could he learn, but he could do it well. A changed took place in Bill’s heart.
You see, one teacher saved one boy, it’s simple(简单的), really.
【小题1】Bill always failed in the exams at first because he ________.

A．went gambling	B．talked in class
C．didn’t answer	D．gave himself up

【小题2】Miss Jones changed Bill by ________.

A．doing homework for him	B．encouraging and helping him
C．giving Bill another exam	D．cooking delicious food for him

【小题3】From the passage we can learn ________.

A．Miss Jones was a loving and careful teacher

B．Bill’s parents cared about him very much

C．Miss Jones loved to answer Bill’s question

D．Bill didn’t like to play with his classmates

【小题4】Which may be the best title for the passage?

A．Parents’ Day	B．A Lazy Boy
C．A Boy’s Change	D．A Strict Teacher

阅读下面短文，根据短文和中文提示完成单词拼写，每空限填一词。
Henry works in a factory. He comes from a poor family and was in school for only four years. He has to do more work, but he’s paid 【小题1】     (较少的). He likes to watch football matches very much and 【小题2】       (花费)a lot of time on it.
One evening there was a big football match. He 【小题3】      (借)some money from his friend and hurried there. There were a lot of people there. And all the tickets were 【小题4】      (卖)out. He 【小题5】     (感到)sorry for it. He saw a pole(电线杆)outside the playground and climbed it up quickly. A policeman came and said, “It’s dangerous to stay on it. Come down!”
“Wait a minute, please!” Henry said and just at the moment the policeman 【小题6】       (听到) cheers in the playground and asked in a hurry, “Which team has kicked a goal?” “Ours!” “Wonderful! You can stay there but take care,” the policeman said 【小题7】       (高兴地) and left. When the match would soon be over, he came back again and asked, “Who’s 【小题8】     (赢)?” “Theirs, 3-2.” “Come down,” the policeman said 【小题9】      (生气地). “Such a match that we shouldn’t 【小题10】       (观看) it.”
Henry had to come down. But soon they heard cheers again. The policeman said in a hurry, “Climb up quickly and see who’s kicked a goal!”

请先阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从方框所给的词中选出最恰当的5个，用其适当形式填空。

habit, result, talk to, get over, sorry, mad

I’d like to tell you a story about my best friend Jane. Last week in school we had a big fight, and she didn’t   1  me. It all started when she asked me if she could copy my homework. I asked her why she wanted to do that, and she said that she had forgotten to do hers. I said I didn’t think it was a good idea. I said it would start a bad   2  and she should do her own work. She got really   3  at me and said she didn’t want to be my best friend anymore. I said that was OK and that I was sure she would   4  it. And she did. Yesterday she told me she was   5 . She said it was much better if she did her own work.