I still remember it was a warm Sunday afternoon. My mother took my younger brother and me to the cinema. She walked up to the person at the ticket window and said, “How much does it cost to get in?”
The young lady answered, “Ten dollars for you and the same price for any kid who is older than six. We let them in for nothing if they are six or younger. How old are they?” My mother replied, “The younger one is three and the elder one is seven.” The lady at the ticket window said surprisingly, “Hey, did you just win the lottery ticket (彩票) or something? You could have saved yourself ten dollars. You could have told me that the elder one was six; I wouldn’t have known the difference.” My mother replied, “Yes, that may be true, but the kids would know the difference.”
She was right. I did learn the difference. My mother paid the full price for my ticket as well as taught me an important lesson. In times when ethics (道德) are more important, make sure you set a good example (树立榜样) for everyone around you.
1. How much did the mother finally pay on that day?| A．6 dollars. | B．20 dollars. | C．10 dollars. | D．15 dollars. |
| A．Children don’t need to pay to get in. | B．The ticket is ten dollars for both adults (成年人) and children. |
| C．The ticket is free for any kid who is under six. | D．The mother doesn’t have enough money to pay the ticket. |
| A．To buy a lottery ticket or something else. | B．To pay another ten dollars. |
| C．To tell a lie about the kid’s age. | D．To do something nice to save ten dollars. |
| A．Tell the difference between one and another. | B．Try to save as much money as you can. |
| C．Tell the truth and set a good example. | D．Just follow the advice of everyone around. |
| A．She is a rich woman who doesn’t care about money at all. | B．She is too shy to speak out the truth. |
| C．She is a careless woman who loves her sons. | D．She is woman who is honest (诚实的) and upstanding (正直的). |
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【推荐1】A woodcutter started a new job at a lumber company. The pay was quite good. His boss gave him an axe (斧头) and showed him how to do the job. On his first day, the woodcutter cut down 18 trees. “Congratulations,” his boss said. The woodcutter worked even harder the second day, but could only cut down 15 trees. The third day, he tried even harder but only cut down 10 trees. Day after day, he was cutting down fewer and fewer trees.
“I must be losing my strength,” the woodcutter thought. He was upset and said sorry that he could not understand what was going on.
“When was the last time you sharpened (使变得锋利) your axe?” his boss asked.
“Sharpen? I have no time to sharpen my axe. I am always busy trying to cut down trees.”
Our lives are like that. We sometimes get so busy that we don’t have time to sharpen our “axe”. So please remember to take time to sharpen your “axe” and improve yourself.
1. The woodcutter got his axe from ________.| A．his mother | B．his father | C．his boss | D．his friend |
| A．On the third day. | B．On the second day. | C．On the first day. | D．On the fourth day. |
| A．scared | B．surprised | C．unhappy | D．excited |
| A．Always. | B．Often. | C．Usually. | D．Never. |
| A．We should work hard. | B．We should never sharpen our “axe”. |
| C．We should cut down more trees. | D．We should spend time improving ourselves. |
【推荐2】Socrates is a great thinker and teacher. One day, he says to his students, “Today you are going to learn new exercise, swinging arms（摆臂）forward and then backward.”
He tells his students how to do the exercise. Then he asks his students to swing their arms 300 times every day. “Do you think you can do it?” Socrates asks the students. They laugh and say, “Of course. It is not difficult” So all the students tell Socrates that they will do the exercise every day.
A month later, Socrates asks his students, “Which of you do the exercise every day?” __________ Socrates is happy that all the students do it.
Another month goes by. He asks the class the same question, but only 80% of the students put up their hands. A year goes by, and Socrates asks the class the question again. But this time, only one student puts up his hand. The student is Plato, He becomes a great thinker later.
Well, doing one thing is easy but doing one thing every day is never. That’s why some people can succeed（成功）but some can’t.
1. Why do the students laugh?| A．Because Socrates is fun. | B．Because the class is interesting. |
| C．Because they are glad to do the exercise. | D．Because it’s easy to do what Socrates says. |
| A．A few students say no. | B．Most of the students say yes. |
| C．No student puts up his hand. | D．Everyone puts up his hand. |
| A．Taking exercise every day is good for us. |
| B．It’s important to keep doing one thing. |
| C．It’s difficult to be a great thinker. |
| D．Students should listen to teachers. |
【推荐3】If our eyes only saw souls (灵魂) instead of bodies. How differently we would understand the meaning of beauty!
Our house was across the street from a big hospital, so we rented (租) our empty rooms to patients. One evening, there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly sick-looking man.
His face looked terrible, but his voice was pleasant. He told me that he came to see the doctor and that he’d been looking for a room since noon, but no one would give him one because of his face.
For a moment, I hesitated, but he said he would be happy to just sleep on our sofa. I agreed.
The old man had a big heart inside his tiny body. He told me that he fished for a living to support his daughter, her daughter’s five children, and her daughter’s crippled (残疾的) husband.
He didn’t complain while telling me his story. He was happy that he didn’t feel any pain from his disease, skin cancer (皮肤癌).
The next morning, he said. “Can I come back and stay the next time I need to see the doctor?” I told him he was welcome to come again.
On his next trip, as a gift, he brought a big fish. In the years that he stayed with us, there was never a time that he did not bring us gifts like these.
After he left the first morning, my neighbor warned me that I could lose other renters if I let the old man live in. But I know my family always will be happy to have known him; from him we learnt that—we should accept the bad without complaint (抱怨) and the good with gratitude (谢意).
1. The underlined word “hesitated” in Paragraph 4 probably means “__________” in Chinese.| A．果断 | B．怀疑 | C．犹豫 | D．思考 |
| A．Because the old man is very poor. | B．Because there was no empty rooms. |
| C．Because the old’s face looked terrible. | D．Because the old man had a terrible voice. |
| A．He raised a large family. | B．He could sleep on the sofa. |
| C．He did not care about his wife’s life. | D．He was happy to have skin cancer. |
| A．The neighbor wanted gifts from the old man. |
| B．The neighbor didn’t see the kind soul inside the old man. |
| C．The neighbor didn’t want to see the old man’s terrible face. |
| D．The neighbor might do something bad to the old man. |
| A．A kind word is like a Spring day. | B．Where there is a will, there is a way. |
| C．Never judge others by their look. | D．Old habits die hard. |
【推荐1】John and Sam were friends. They opened a small shop in a small village. One day, they sold out of all their wine (酒), so they drove to the city to buy some.
On their way home, the wind was strong and it was getting colder and colder. Both John and Sam wanted to drink some wine to keep warm, but they had a rule. They couldn’t drink any wine because they had to sell it. According to the rule, if somebody wanted to drink some wine, he had to pay the other twice the price.
John was a clever man. He took out ten cents and gave it to Sam. He said, “Here is ten cents. Would you please sell me some of your wine?” Sam was a businessman (商人), so he said, “You give me money, so of course I will sell some to you.” Then he passed John a cup of wine.
After drinking the wine, John felt warm soon, but Sam was still cold. Then he took out the ten cents that John just gave to him and said to John, “Here is ten cents. Please sell me some of your wine.” John agreed. Sam drank some wine and also felt much warmer. But after some time, they both felt cold again, so they kept buying wine from each other with the same ten cents. Soon they drank up all of the wine.
“How could so much wine only cost ten cents?” the two friends asked each other.
1. What did Sam and John do?| A．They were doctors. | B．They were officers. | C．They were shopkeepers. | D．They were policemen. |
| A．It was sunny and warm. | B．It was rainy and cold. | C．It was rainy and snowy. | D．It was windy and cold. |
| A．Five cents. | B．Ten cents. | C．Fifteen cents. | D．Fifty cents. |
| A．Two Men on the Way Home | B．Some Cheap Wine | C．The Bad Weather | D．A Small Shop |
【推荐2】Mrs. Weeks was reading a newspaper story to her class. The story said: were you ever in a hospital when you were small? How did you feel? The doctors in Children’s Hospital are asking for money for children’s toys. Some children in the hospital must stay in bed for many weeks. Toys are needed to keep these sick children happy and quiet. Money for them can be sent to the hospital.
After Mrs. Weeks read the story, she said, “This story gave me an idea.”
“You want us to bring some money for the toys. ” “We could bring some of our own toys for the children in the hospital. "said the boys and girls one after another.
“Well, your ideas would be nice,” Mrs Weeks said, “but mine is different.”
“We could make some toys,” shouted one of them.
Mrs. Weeks smiled. “Do you think you could make toys?” she asked.
“Yes, yes.” the whole class answered.
“Great! Let’s begin to make toys tomorrow,” said Mrs. Weeks.
On Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Weeks took her students to the hospital with the toys made by her students. The children in the class felt happy, too.
1. The children learned the story from ________.| A．TV program | B．newspaper | C．radio report | D．textbook |
| A．give some money to | B．get money to buy toys for |
| C．make some toys for | D．borrow some toys for |
| A．to give some money | B．to send some of their own toys |
| C．to make some toys themselves and give them | D．to go to the hospital to talk |
| A．some of the children | B．most of the children | C．a few children | D．all of the children |
| A．sad | B．sorry | C．pleased | D．relaxed |
【推荐3】Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and moved to New York City when she was ten years old. One day she decided that she wanted to become a doctor. That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century. After writing many letters asking for admission (录取) to medical schools, she was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia. She was so determined that she taught school and gave music lessons to get money for the cost of schooling.
In 1849, after graduation from medical school. she decided to further her education in Paris. She wanted to be a surgeon (外科医师) , but a serious eye problem forced her to give up the idea.
Upon returning to the United States, she found it difficult to start her own practice because she was a woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor, along with another woman doctor, managed to open a new hospital, the first for women and children. Besides being the first woman physician and founding her own hospital, she also set up the first medical school for women.
1. Why couldn’t Elizabeth Blackwell realize her dream of becoming a surgeon?| A．She couldn’t get admitted to medical school. | B．She decided to further her education in Paris. |
| C．A serious eye problem stopped her. | D．It was difficult for her to start a practice in the United States. |
| A．She was a woman. | B．She wrote too many letters. |
| C．She couldn’t graduate from medical school. | D．She couldn’t set up her hospital. |
| A．Eight years. | B．Ten years. | C．Nineteen years. | D．Thirty-six years. |
| A．became the first woman physician |
| B．was the first woman doctor |
| C．and several other women founded the first hospital for women and children |
| D．set up the first medical school for women |
| A．England | B．Paris | C．the United States | D．New York City |
【推荐1】I usually took a bus to school. I found that most passengers were quiet and never had a conversation with anyone else.
About a year ago, an old man got on the bus and said loudly to the driver, “Good morning!” Most people looked up, wondering why, and the bus driver didn’t take it seriously and just replied in a cold voice, “Mm-hmm”. The next day the man got on and again he said in a loud voice, “Good morning!” to the driver. Another “Mm-hmm”. By the fifth day, the driver finally answered him with a little happy “Good morning!” Then the man said, “My name is Benny.” The driver told the man that he was Sam.
That was the first time any of us had heard the driver’s name and soon people began to talk to each other and say hello to Sam and Benny. Soon Benny spread his happy “Good morning!” to the whole bus. Within a few days, his “Good morning!” was returned by a lot of “Good mornings” and the whole bus seemed to be friendlier. People got to know each other.
“Benny truly showed friendship among us with a simple ‘Good morning!’,” I thought. Then suddenly, Benny stopped showing up. Everyone began to ask about Benny, wondering what happened to him. No one knew what to do and the bus got quiet again. So, last week, I started to act like Benny and say “Good morning!” to everyone and the whole bus cheered up again. Hopefully, Benny could come back to see his “Good morning!” mattered a lot.
Sometimes we see some strangers so many times that we know their faces well, but we never even say hello to them. By saying hello, friendship starts to grow, and sunshine comes to the world around us, and love spreads over the community we are in. Why not start a “hello” today?
1. At first, passengers were _____ on the bus.| A．wise | B．strict | C．silent |
| A．remembered Benny at once |
| B．wanted to know more about Benny |
| C．didn’t care about Benny’s “Good morning!” |
| A．He received a “hello” on the first day. |
| B．He said “Good morning!” when getting on the bus. |
| C．He didn’t show up because he had an illness. |
| A．Because he liked to make friends with strangers. |
| B．Because he wanted to cheer up the whole bus again. |
| C．Because Benny asked him to say “Good morning!”. |
| A．Friendship Begins With A Hello |
| B．Five “Mm-hmms” Change A Lot |
| C．Sunshine Warms Your Heart |
【推荐2】Last summer, Jill went on vacation with her parents and her little brother Peter. They went to the beach. The weather was fine, and they went swimming every day.
One day, Jill and Peter went boating. It was a nice small boat. They had a great time near the beach. Suddenly, a big wind came and took the boat far from the beach.
Jill wanted to go back,but she fell(掉落) into the water. Peter was very afraid and he didn’t know what to do. “Help! Help!” shouted Jill. She was going down in the water. She saw water and dolphins(海豚) all around. She wanted to swim, but she couldn’t. One of her legs was in the seaweed(海草)! Just then, a dolphin quickly came to save her. The dolphin took Jill on its mouth and took her up to the boat! Then it swam away.
“Did you see that? That dolphin saved your life!” shouted Peter when Jill was back in their boat. “Yes, I saw it, but I can’t believe(相信) it,” said Jill.
1. What took Jill and Peter’s boat far from the beach? ________.
| A．A dolphin | B．A heavy rain |
| C．A big wind | D．A seaweed |
| A．He didn’t do anything |
| B．He shouted for help |
| C．He went to ask his parents for help |
| D．He helped Jill come back in their boat |
| A．Because she was too tired |
| B．Because the water was too cold |
| C．Because she was very afraid |
| D．Because her leg was in the seaweed |
| A．A kind dolphin saved Jill |
| B．Dolphins are in great danger |
| C．Jill and her brother couldn’t swim |
| D．The boat was broken(坏的) when going boating |
Once there was a small boy called Shankar from a poor family.
One day, he was walking through the forest, carrying some wood. He saw an old man who was very hungry. Shankar wanted to give him some food, but he did not have any food with him. So he continued on his way. On the way, he saw a fox who was very thirsty. He wanted to give him some water, but he did not have any water for himself. So he went on his way ahead. Then he saw a young man with a dog who wanted to make a fire but did not have wood. Shankar learned about his problem and gave some wood to him. In return, the man gave him some food and water. Now he went back to the old man and gave him some food. Then he found the fox and gave some water to him. The old man and the fox were very thankful for Shankar’s help. Then Shankar went on his way happily.
Unluckily, one day Shankar fell down the hill. He was in pain but he couldn’t move and no one was there to help him. But the old man who he had helped before saw him, and quickly came and pulled him up the hill. Shankar had many wounds on his legs. The fox whom Shankar had given water to saw his wounds and quickly went to the forest and brought some herbs（草药）. The old man helped to put the herbs on Shankar’s wounds. After some time, Shankar got well. All were very happy that they were able to help each other. If you help others, then they will also help you.
1. Shankar carried some food when he walked through the forest.| A．Right. | B．Wrong. |
| A．Right. | B．Wrong. |
| A．Right. | B．Wrong. |
| A．Right. | B．Wrong. |
| A．Right. | B．Wrong. |
