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.

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

A. package? ????????????? ????????????? B. happiness and sadness?

C. failure and success? ????????????? D. hope and despair

2.What does it in the passage 4? mean ?

A. success?? B. failure????? ????????????? C. sky??????? ????????????? D. way

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．

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.

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Life is a learning process(过程). Experiences in life teach us new lessons and make us a better person. With each passing day, we learn to   1 with different   problems.

◆ Happiness and sadness

True happiness comes   2   hard work. Whatever we do, do it well. Putting on a happy face and thinking interesting things are helpful to have happy feelings. Helping others is   3   a good way. When happiness comes, sadness goes away.

◆ Failure and Success

Failure shows   4   the right way, makes us grow up and teaches us how to be successful. As the old saying goes, ”Failure is the mother of success”. Don’t be   5  of failure.

◆ Hope and Despair(绝望)

Hope is what keeps life going. Hope makes us dream. Life teaches us not to

give up hope even in the darkest hours, because    6   every night there is a new day. Whatever   7  , just keep moving on in life and be hopeful.

Life teaches us not to feel sorry for    8   , for it has passed and can not be called back. Tomorrow is unknown, for it could either be bright or dark. So the only choice is to work hard today, so that we will enjoy a better tomorrow.

Doing homework not only can help children master the knowledge they have learned，but also can train their abilities of finishing the work alone，planning the time and doing the duties．But some children don't like to complete the work．Why? There are some reasons．  

Some children feel it is very difficult to do their homework，because they can't understand their teacher clearly，and cannot follow their teacher's teaching process（过程）．Maybe there is something wrong with their intelligence．

But some children's intelligence is normal．They are even cleverer．but they don't listen to the teacher carefully．It is hard for them to sit well and pay attention to anything．It needs to carry on the attention centralized（集中注意力 ）training to help the children．

Some children love their teacher and then they like the subject．Their interest depends on the teacher who teaches them．So every teacher should be helpful and kind．It can make children love you and the subject you teach．So they can do their homework happily．

1．Doing homework can help children _______

A．master the knowledge                     B．train their abilities

C．learn new lessons                      D．Both A and B

2．Some children find the homework difficult．Which reason is NOT right?

A．They can't understand their teacher clearly．

B．They cannot follow their teacher's teaching process．

C．The intelligence of all the students isn't normal．

D．They don't listen to the teacher carefully．

3．What's the Chinese meaning of the underlined word "intelligence" ?

A．作业                B．智商                 C．思想                 D．方式

4．According to the last paragraph（段落） ．the writer thinks      is very important．

A．a teacher         B．a subject                C．attention           D．homework

5．What is the best title of the passage?

A．Some children don't like their teacher．

B．Children's homework is very difficult．

C．Why don't some children like to do homework?

D．Why can't some children study the subjects well?

2.26-meter-tall Yao Ming made his NBA debut (初次登台) on October 23, 2002 and got 6 points for the Houston Rockets in the game. The next day, he got 13 points (得分)in another game.

　　Most people think that Yao Ming is a born basketball player. But Yao said, “When you watch it on TV, it looks very easy. But when you are playing in the NBA, it is really not so easy.” He said that joining the Houston Rockets was a new start and a new challenge. “I hope that through very hard work I can make everyone happy and help the Rockets win more games,” he said.

　　Yao Ming speaks some English. Both he and his teammates can undersand each other. They don't think there is a language problem. While Yao Ming faces this new challenge, the people of Houston have shown great interest in him and they hope Yan Ming faces this new challenge, the people of Houston have shown great interest in him and they hope Yan Ming will bring new energy (活力) to the Rockets. The team has started having lessons to learn more about China, and many people who work for the Rockets have learned to speak some Chinese.

1.Yao Ming got 13 points on October _____, 2002.

2.Yao Ming said that _____.

3.The people of Houston hope Yao Ming will ______,

4.From the passage we can know that Yao Ming ________.

5.The passage is probably ______.