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Peter’s job was to examine cars when they crossed the frontier（国境） to make sure that they were not smuggling(走私) anything into the country. Every evening he would see a factory worker coming   1  the hill towards the frontier, pushing a bike with a pile of goods(货物) of old straw on it. When the bike   2  the frontier, Peter would stop the man and   3  him take the straw off and untie（解开） it. Then he would examine the straw very   4  to see   5   he could find anything, then he would look in all the man’s pockets   6  he let him tie the straw again. The man would then put it on his bike and go off down the hill with it. Although Peter was always   7  to find gold or other valuable things hidden in the straw, he never found anything. He was sure the man was   8  something, but he was not  9  to think out what it could be.
Then one evening, after he had looked through the straw and emptied the worker’s pockets   10  usual, he   11  to him, “Listen, I know you are smuggling things  12  this frontier. Won’t you tell me what it is? I’m an old man, and today is my   13 day on the job. Tomorrow I’m going to retire(退休). I promise I shall not tell  14  if you tell me what you’ve been smuggling.” The worker did not say anything for   15 . Then he smiled, turned to Peter and said quietly, “Bikes.”

Imagine there is a bank that puts $ 86, 400 in your account ( 账户 )each morning. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank writes off( 注销)the balance that you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Take out every cent,  of course \

Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning,  it puts in 86, 400 seconds. Every evening it writes off,  as it is lost. There is no balance or overdraft 透支) . If you fail to use the day's savings,  the lost is yours. There is no going back. There is no taking from " tomorrow". You must make good use of it so as to get more in health,  happiness and success!

The clock is running. Make the most of today. To realize the value of ONE YEAR,  ask a student who failed a grade; To realize the value of ONE MONTH,  ask a mother who gave birth to a premature( 早产 )baby; To realize the value of ONE WEEK,  ask the editor of a weekly newspaper; To realize the value of ONE HOUR,  ask the lovers who are waiting to meet; To realize the value of ONE MINUTE,  ask a person who missed the train; To realize the value of ONE SECOND,  ask a person who just avoided(避免)an accident.

Make good use of every moment that you have. Remember that time waits for no one. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called "The Present".

1.The underlined word "balance" in paragraph 1 means_________.

A.平衡    B．贷款    C．余款D．提款

 2. What is special about the TIME bank we each have?

A. We can store time in it whenever we like.

B. Someone puts  $ 86, 400 in it every day.

C. The time in it will surely get lost if you don't use it.

D. Someone helps you spend your time every night.

3.What can be the best title of the passage?

A. The Bank of Money           B. The Bank of Time

C. The value of one hour       D. The clock is running

4. In this passage,  the writer tries to tell us_________.

A. what a bank is            B. how to save money

C. the difference of time units      D. to make good use of time

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All about Britain’s Teenagers(青少年)
School
British teenagers can leave school    1   the age of sixteen after taking their GCSE exams. The exams are not easy to pass,    2   they have to work very hard! British teenagers often spend 2.5 to 3 hours every evening    3   their homework.
Free Time
It’s not all work, of course. What do British teenagers do to have    4  ? They love watching TV, going out,    5   friends and listening to music.
Communications (交流)
Teenagers in Britain often use their computers to play games and do their homework. They    6   love their mobile phones, and spend hours texting (发短信) their friends and chatting. Today, many mobile phones are very small and light. You can do a lot more    7   them than just talk. More than 90% of British teenagers have a mobile phone, and experts(专家) say this stops    8   from spending their money on sweets and cigarettes(香烟).
Fashion (服饰)
At school, almost all British teenagers have to    9   a school uniform. However, in their free
   10   they can wear whatever they like. In fact, 40% of British teens say that they think it is important to have the latest fashion.

Do you ________ TV every evening?

1. A.
   look
2. B.
   watch
3. C.
   see
4. D.
   read