【推荐1】I shall always recall the autumn and the girl playing the violin. She made me realize true friendship. I know she will always be my best friend .

It was a golden season. I could see the yellow leaves falling on the cool wind. In such a season, I liked walking alone on the leaves in the woods, listening to the sound of them.

Autumn is a lonely season and everything is still. Such surroundings always get me down. But one day, the sound of a violin flowed into my ears like a stream flowing in the mountains. I was so surprised that I jumped to see what it was. A young girl, standing in the wind, was lost in playing her violin.

I had never seen her before. The music was so nice that I listened quietly. Lost in the music, I didn't know that I had been standing there for so long but my existence did not seem to disturb her.

Leaves were still falling. Every day she played the violin at the same time and the same place and I went to watch her performance . I was the only listener. The autumn seemed no longer lonely and life became interesting. Though we didn't know each other, I thought we were already good friends. I believe she also had the same feeling.

Autumn was nearly over. One day, when I was listening carefully, the sound suddenly stopped. To my astonishment, the girl came over to me.

“You must like the violin.” she said.

“Yes, and you play very well. Why did you stop?” I asked.

Suddenly, a sad expression appeared on her face and I could feel something unusual.

“I came here to see my grandmother, but now I must leave. I once played badly. It was your appreciation and listening every day that encouraged me.” she said.

“In fact, it was your playing that gave me a meaningful autumn,” I answered, “let's be friends. The girl smiled and so did I.

During the rest days left, I had never heard her play again. Only thick leaves were left on the ground. But I will not forget the girl. She is just like a dream, so short, so bright, like a shooting star giving off all its light that it makes the autumn sky shining.

1. What did the writer like doing in autumn?

A．Enjoying the fresh air in the woods.

B．Seeking for surprises.

C．Walking alone on the leaves and listening to the sound of the woods.

D．Walking by himself on the leaves and listening to the sound of the falling leaves.

2. What is the mood of the writer in fall?

A．He is in high spirits.	B．He is surprised.
C．He feels blue.	D．He is calm.

3. What can we learn from the talk between the writer and the girl?

A．Appreciation and listening benefit others as well as ourselves.

B．The violin is powerful.

C．The girl would miss her grandmother.

D．Their meeting was expected.

4. What does the writer want to express from the story?

A．Beauty and love are the unchangeable themes.

B．A friend in need is a friend indeed.

C．Persistence is important for us to succeed.

D．Many people may step in your life, but only true friends leave beautiful footprints on your heart.

【推荐2】Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, "Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience."

How right they were. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

''Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, I can do it! " when others shout, "No, you can't."

It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist（遗传学家） who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted．Yet she didn't let up on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

Author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul".

Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can treat it as a part-time interest, like the head of state who paints, the nun(修女) who runs marathons, the official who handcrafts（手工制做） furniture.

We can't afford to waste tears on "might- have-beens". We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after ''what-can-be".

We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses — finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the crayoned （蜡笔的）picture of a six-year-old, the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our steps and smooths the wrinkles from our souls.

1. What can be the best title of this passage?

A．Find pleasure in what you are doing.

B．Wake up your life.

C．To give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

D．No pains, no gains.

2. What conclusion does the writer draw through the experience of finding a job?

A．Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.

B．Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

C．We can't afford to waste tears on "might- have-beens.

D．Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

3. Which of the following statements is WRONG according to the passage?

A．No one can achieve great success without enthusiasm.

B．Enthusiasm will take a person further than any amount of his experience.

C．We should make great effort to do the thing that can be done instead of regretting for the past.

D．Barbara McClintock was generally accepted many years before she won the Nobel Prize.

4. Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase let up ?

A．continue.	B．make less effort.
C．make great effort.	D．stop.

5. We can learn from the last paragraph that it is                that makes our life meaningful.

A．love of gardening	B．love of drawing pictures with the crayon of a six-year-old child
C．love of life	D．love of beautiful rainbow

【推荐3】One day an old woman was traveling alone in the mountains. Suddenly she saw something shining in the stream. When she came close, she found it was a precious stone. She put the stone into her bag and went on with her trip.
The next day the old woman met a young man, who was also a traveler in the mountains. The young man looked very hungry, so the old woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked carefully, “The stone is beautiful. Would you like to give it to me?”
“Sure. Why not?” the woman said, and handed the stone to him.
The young man left happily with the stone. He knew it was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the woman.
“I’ve been thinking,” he said. “I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back and hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within your bag.”
The woman opened her bag. It was almost empty. She looked at the young man and smiled, “I have nothing special in my bag, but I do have something precious — the joy of giving!”
The young man felt ashamed and left silently.
1. How did the young man find the precious stone?

A．He found it in his food.	B．He dug it out in a valley.
C．He saw it in the woman’s bag.	D．He noticed it shining in the stream.

2. What does the underlined word “security” in Paragraph 4 probably mean?

A．Money.

B．Worry.

C．Health.

D．Trouble.

3. The man returned the stone to the woman because ______.

A．he found the stone was not precious

B．he understood the real meaning of joy

C．he felt embarrassed at taking away the stone

D．he wanted to get something even more precious

4. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

A．A special stone	B．The joy of giving
C．A woman and a young man	D．An experience in the mountains