The day was like any other day in his life, Tom walked past(走过) the shop on the street corner. He stopped to look at the front row(前排) of shoes, and he felt happy to see that the pair of shoes he wanted very much were still there. Looking down(向下看), he felt sorry for himself. He really wanted to have them for his birthday.
He sadly walked away(走开) and thought how to tell his mother about it. He knew she would give him anything he liked if she could. But he also knew very well she had little money. He decided not to go home at once(立刻), as he looked worried and his mother would notice(注意) it. So he went to the park and sat on the grass. Then he saw a boy in a wheel chair(轮椅). He noticed that the boy moved the wheel with his hands. Tom looked at him carefully and was surprised to see the boy have no feet. He looked at his own feet. “It’s much better to be without shoes than without feet,” he thought. There was no reason(理由) for him to feel so sorry and sad. He sent away sadness(遣散悲伤) and smiled, he thought he was happier.
1. Tom passed the shop ________.| A．on foot | B．by bus | C．by bike | D．in a car |
| A．to buy the shoes | B．to look at the shoes he liked |
| C．to look at the coats in the shop window | D．to look at the dress on the front row |
| A．too expensive | B．quite cheap | C．not there | D．not sold yet(还没有被卖) |
| A．was thinking how to tell his mother about it | B．wanted to see the boy |
| C．didn’t want to make his mother worried | D．he felt happy |
| A．liked new coats very much | B．loved his mother best |
| C．didn’t want to go to school | D．didn’t want to stay at home |
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【推荐1】My mother doesn’t like being common. While she’s shopping she doesn’t look at the common things at all. One day, she wears red jeans and a bright pink sweater for a party. I ask her, “Why do you dress like that?”
“What’s wrong?” asks my mother.
“There isn’t anything wrong. I just wish you could wear something plain (朴素的). Then people won’t laugh at you,” I say.
She looks at me angrily and then says, “Are you ashamed (羞愧的) of your own mother? If you are, Sandra, I feel sorry for you. I really do. But I hope you can remember one thing. Don’t care too much about others’ opinions. Believe your own taste.”
I nod (点头), but I don’t understand why she always has so many opinions on my lifestyle.
1. Sandra’s mother likes buying ________ clothes when she goes shopping.| A．common | B．cheap | C．plain | D．unusual |
| A．her mother’s clothes are out of style |
| B．she doesn’t like a pink sweater at all |
| C．she doesn’t want her mother to go to the party |
| D．she doesn’t want others to laugh at her mother |
| A．shy | B．happy | C．angry | D．surprised |
| A．cares much about | B．doesn’t care too much about |
| C．is interested in | D．likes to hear |
| A．品味 | B．尝试 | C．滋味 | D．口感 |
【推荐2】Mark felt that it was time for him to take part in his community, so he went to the neighborhood meeting after work. The area’s city councilwoman(女议员) was leading a discussion about how the quality of life was slowing down. The neighborhood faced many problems.
Mark looked at the charts taped to the walls. There are charts for parking problems, crime, and for problems in empty buildings. People were supposed to suggest solutions to the councilwoman.
It was too much for Mark. “The problems are too big.” he thought. He turned to the man next to him and said, “I think this is a waste of my time. Nothing I could do would make a difference here.”
Mark thought some more on his way to the bus stop. “People should just take care of themselves.” he decided, “That’s enough to do. I can’t take on all the problems of the world.”
As he neared the bus stop, Mark saw a woman carrying a grocery bag and a baby. She was trying to unlock her car, but she didn’t have a free hand. As Mark got closer, her another child, a little boy, suddenly darted into the street. The woman tried to reach for him, but as she moved, her bag shifted and the groceries started to fall out. Mark ran to take the boy’s arm and led him back to his mother. Then he picked up the groceries while the woman smiled in relief. “Thanks!” she said. “You’ve got great timing!”
“Just being neighborly.” Mark said. As he rode home, he glanced at the walls of the bus. On one of them was “Small acts of kindness add up.” Mark smiled and thought, “Maybe that’s a good place to start.”
1. What is the implication(暗示) of the words on the bus wall?| A．You should be kind to your neighbors and they will do the same way. |
| B．Everyone can play his own part to make things better. |
| C．All small acts will add up to kindness. |
| D．It’s a small act to help a person in need. |
| A．has the sense of duty | B．is active |
| C．has the ability of solutions | D．is disappointed |
| A．Mark is willing to accept others’ help | B．Mark is happy to meet a woman |
| C．Mark hasn’t got any things after the matter. | D．Mark gets to understand what he should do next |
【推荐3】When I was a little child, my parents took me to Germany.
During a holiday, I stayed at home with nothing to do. My father brought a German book. "Why don't you translate it into Chinese? It will be better than playing computer games all day, "said my father.
I promised to do 4, 000 words each day. But soon I found it was hard to keep the promise. After translating only three pages, I already lost interest in the book.
I stood up and would turn off the computer. But then I remembered what my parents had told me, "Whatever you, do, don't stop half way."
| A．I just wanted to give up. |
| B．I agreed to do it happily. |
| C．I had lived there for nine years. |
| D．I just didn't agree with my father. |
| E．Go and play computer games at once. |
| F．I decided to play computer games again. |
| G．So I sat down quietly and went on with it. |
How to build self-confidence（自信）
These tips could help anyone who is trying to build self-confidence. Remember to always love yourself and love others as you love yourself. Try not to be so hard on yourself or others.
Choose friends who can lift you up. Talk to and hang out with friends and family. Make new friends with those who love you and really care about you.
Get to know yourself. What are your values, your beliefs, your morals（道德观）, your wants, your needs and your tastes?
Be kind to others and do nice things for them. This will help you to build your self-confidence.
| A．Stop trying to be perfect. |
| B．The better you know yourself, the easier it will be to love yourself. |
| C．You will never be them and they will never be you. |
| D．This is what you can truly do to make people happy. |
| E．They can accept you for who you are and only want the best for you. |
The study of eight-month-old children shows even the very earliest life experiences can influence our happiness.
Lots of mother love makes children form a safe bond with their mothers , so they are able to feel safe in relationships when they grow up ,and they will have better social skills and deal with life's difficulties．
The researchers, led by Dr．Joanna Maselko of Duke University in North Carolina, studied the relationships of 482 eight—month - old babies with their mothers during daily development.
They studied how well the mother had dealt with her child's developmental text and how she had responded child's performance．Mental health was then assessed when the babies had grown up – at the average of 34.
The more feelings and attention a mother gave to her child, the better her child would be. This kind of child had the lowest levels of anxiety, hostility and general difficulties.
1. If children are given more love and attention, what will they have in the future?
| A．They will have a successful life. |
| B．They will have less stress and anxiety. |
| C．They will work better. |
| D．They will grow up better. |
| A．8 - month - old | B．8- day - old |
| C．8 - year - old | D．18 - month - old |
| A．Mental health was then assessed when all the babies were 34. |
| B．The very earliest life experiences can influence our lives. |
| C．All the mothers love makes children feel safe in relationship when they grow up． |
| D．Lots of mother love makes children form safe bond with their mothers . |
| A．They should let children do things by themselves. |
| B．They should give a safe life to their children. |
| C．They should give more love to their children. |
| D．They should teach their children how to deal with other people. |
| A．Mother love is important to children |
| B．Children need love |
| C．Love children |
| D．Love is important |
| Family Pictures | |
| l . We visited Grandma last week. She went to her bedroom. She brought down old books of pictures. We looked at the old pictures. 2. We sat at the kitchen table. A mother, a grandmother. and a daughter looked at photos of mothers, grandmothers and daughters. 3. We turned the yellow pages of the books. The pictures were old. They had men, women, and children I don't remember. | 4. We listened to Grandma talk. " There's a little Bonita." She said. " She had long ,curly. brown hair and big brown eyes." Grandma touched the page. 5. We listened to stories about aunts, uncles, cousins, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters. I don't remember them. But from the stories I know them. |
1. Which word is repeated at the beginning of each stanza( 诗节 ) ?
| A．Books. | B．Grandma. |
| C．Remember. | D．We. |
| A．Stanza 2. | B．Stanza 3. |
| C．Stanza 4. | D．Stanza 5 |
| A．Visiting grandma is boring. |
| B．Stories help you know people. |
| C．Photos are useless. |
| D．Grandmothers don't like to tell stories. |
| A．News—A powerful typhoon hit the Philippines yesterday and caused hundreds of deaths. It is moving northeast and will possibly reach China in a few days. |
| B．Tomorrow—Hopefully, A real robot can talk with you when you are lonely, look after you when you are ill and do all the housework for you. |
| C．Science—A new smart phone will come into the market next month. It’s more than a phone. It can also be used as an MP3, TV, radio and camera. |
| D．Culture—The topic of today’s forum is different traditions on special holidays between China and the United States. |
| E．Language Lab—Have some problems in English reading or translating? Here is a good choice for you. You can also write to languagelab@2lst century.com.cn. for more information. |
| F．Sports—Stars from NBA are coming to our city this weekend. They will have a friendly match with our City Team in the sports center. |
| A. The holiday is coming soon. As more people will come to the Central Library, we need some helpers to sort (整理) the books and put them in order on the shelves. B. Beautiful World is a charity shop. It raises money by collecting old clothes and selling them to help sick people. It needs volunteers to help tidy the clothes. C. First Children’s Home welcomes students who are kind and careful. We hope you will enjoy sharing your love and joy with the lonely children. D. Sunshine Pets Centre is looking for volunteers to help look after the pets. It will be better if you have experience of keeping pets. You will also learn a lot about keeping pets here. E. Exercise Together needs an assistant (助理) to guide people to exercise. But you must love sports and be patient with people. F. A lot of volunteers are needed for the Leeds Festival. It is a large music festival that will be held at the end of August. Many singers will take part in it and thousands of fans will be there. So we need you. |
【推荐3】As teenagers (青少年), you have many dreams. These dreams can be very big, such as winning the Nobel Prize, or they can be small. You may just want to become one of the ten best students in your class. Once (一旦) you find a dream, what do you do with it? Do you ever try to make your dream real?
Andrew Matthews, an Australian writer, tells us that making our dreams real is our life’s biggest challenge. You may think you’re not very good at some school subjects, or that is impossible for you to become a writer. These kinds of thoughts stop you from making your dream real. In fact, everyone can make his dream come true. The first thing you must do is to remember what your dream is. Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want. Do this step by step and your dream will come true faster because a big dream is, in fact (实际上), many small dreams. You must also never give up your dream. There will be difficulties (困难) on the road to your dreams. But the biggest difficulty comes from yourself. You need to decide what is the most important. Studying instead of (代替) watching TV will bring you better exam results, while saving five yuan instead of buying an ice cream means you can buy a new book. If you don’t have dreams, you won’t make up your mind (下决心) to learn something more useful and find new hobbies (爱好).
1. The biggest difficulty on the road to your drear comes from ________.| A．your friends | B．yourself | C．your parents | D．your school |
| A．邀请 | B．麻烦 | C．态度 | D．挑战 |
| A．watch TV instead of studying |
| B．always remember what your dream is |
| C．read more books, learn more skills and find new interests |
| D．do what you should do step by step |
| A．The dreams can only be very big. |
| B．The first thing to do is to write down your dreams. |
| C．If you don’t do this step by step, your dream will come true faster. |
| D．It is not easy to make your dreams come true. |
 These are my grandparents.They live in Poland. But my grandmother is from England.Their car number is MA 37954. |  My parents work in Shanghai now. My father, Carlos is a doctor. He is 37 years old. My mother is 35. She is an English teacher. They have a car. It’s blue. The car number is A37945. |
 This is my brother. His name is David. He is 5 years old. He is in Shanghai, too. He is very clever. He likes reading. He likes green. I love my brother. |  It’s me. My name is Tom Brown. I’m 13 years old. I study in London. I want to go to China. I miss my parents very much. |
| A．family name | B．first name | C．given name |
| A．Tom’s parents | B．Tom’s brother | C．Tom’s grandparents |
| A．A37954. | B．MA37954. | C．A37945. |
| A．red. | B．black. | C．green. |
| A．England | B．China | C．Poland |
Last summer my family went camping by a lake in the countryside. There we put up our tents and made a fire to keep us warm and cook food on. On the first night, we sat under the moon and told each other stories.
The next morning, my sister and I got a terrible surprise. When we looked out of our tent, we saw a big snake sleeping near the fire. I was was so scared that I couldn't move. We shouted to our parents to let them know about the danger. My dad started to jump up and down in their tent. This woke the snake up and it moved into the forest near the lake. My dad told me later that snakes don't have ears but can feel things moving He also told me it was important not to go near a snake. This was a very useful lesson for me.
1. By the lake, we made a fire to keep us warm and cook food on.2. When my dad knew the danger, he started to shout to the snake.
3. The snake woke up and moved into the lake.
4. It was important not to go near a snake.
5. This was a very useful lesson that the snakes have ears and can hear things.
【推荐3】My First Marathon（马拉松）
A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles（脚踝）was hurt and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train. Yet, I decided to go ahead.
I remember back to my 7th year in school. In my first P.E. class, the teacher required us to run laps and then hit a softball. I didn’t do either well. He later told me that I was “not good it sports”.
The idea that I was “not good at sports” stuck with me for years. When I started running in my 30s, I realized running was a battle（斗争）against myself, not about competition or whether or not I was good at sports. It was all about the battle against my own body and mind. A test of wills!
The night before my marathon, I dreamt that I couldn’t even find the finish line. I woke up sweating（出汗）and nervous, but ready to prove something to myself.
Shortly after crossing the start line, my shoe laces（鞋带）became untied. So I stopped to he them. Not the start I wanted!
At mile 3, I passed a sign: “GO FOR IT, RUNNERE!”
By mile 17, I became out of breath and the ankle hurt badly. But I stayed the course walking a bit and then running again.
As I came near mile 23, I could see my wife waving a sign. She is my biggest fan. She ever minded the clock sounding at 4 a.m. or questioned how much I spent on running.
I was one of the final runners to finish. But I finished! And I got a medal. In fact, I got be same medal as the one that the guy who came in first place had. Now I can call myself a marathon winner”.
1. A month before the marathon, the author .| A．was well trained | B．felt afraid to train |
| C．made up his mind to run | D．lost hope of recovery |
| A．To admit the support of his teacher. | B．To make the readers laugh. |
| C．To show he wasn’t talented in sports. | D．To share a wonderful memory. |
| A．He made it. | B．He stopped running halfway. |
| C．He got the first prize. | D．He walked to the end. |
| A．Success depends on family support. | B．A winner is one with a strong will. |
| C．Failure is the mother of success. | D．One is never too old to learn. |
