1 . A jobless man wanted very much to have the position（位置）of “office boy” at Microsoft. The HR manager asked him questions and then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. “You have passed the test,” he said. “Give your e-mail address and I’ll tell you the date when you may start by email.” The man replied, neither an e-mail. “I’m sorry,” said the HR manager. “If you don’t have an e-mail, and anyone who isn’t living cannot have the job.”

The man left with no hope at all. He didn’t know what to do with only 10 dollars left. He thought and thought. Then he went to the supermarket and bought 10 kilos of tomatoes. He sold the tomatoes from door to door. In less than two hours, he had 20 dollars. He started to go early every day and returned home late, doing business like this. Five years later, he was one of the biggest food retailers（零售商） in the USA.

One day, one of his friends asked him for his e-mail. He said, “I haven’t got one.” His friend couldn’t believe his ears. “Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an e-mail?” The man thought for a while and replied, “I’d be an office boy at Microsoft!”

根据短文内容判断正、误。（注意：正确的填“A”，错误的填“B”）
1. The man did the cleaning for the test.
2. The man got the job because he didn’t have an e-mail.
3. The man thought of an idea to make money before he left Microsoft.
4. The man became one of the biggest food retailers in the USA because he worked very hard.
5. The story wanted to tell us nothing in the world is impossible if we work hard.

2 . A bird went to look for its happiness in a faraway place. It flew and flew when it suddenly saw a little dying flower, whose face was full of smile. Not knowing why, the bird asked the little flower, happiness is a hope in the heart.

The bird continued flying and saw a lame（跛足的）duck help a little duck find the way back home. Although it was disabled, it had a smiling face. “I’m happy because I can help others.” said the lame duck. So the bird saw it: happiness is a love in the heart.

The bird kept flying and suddenly saw a spider climbing up a wall. The spider fell off the wall halfway, but it kept climbing again and fell off again. Even so, the spider didn’t give up. The little bird asked the spider in surprise, “You failed again and again. Why don’t you have pain but happiness on your face?”

“As long as I keep making my efforts, I can climb up it. Because of this, I’m so happy.” said the spider. The little bird saw it: happiness is a faith（信念）in the heart.

So the little bird no longer looked for happiness because it had seen the truth: happiness is not in the faraway place but in your own heart.

根据短文内容判断正（A）、误（B）。
1. The bird first saw a little dying flower, whose face was full of smile.
2. A little duck couldn’t find the way back home because it was disabled.
3. The bird kept flying and suddenly saw a spider climbing up a hill.
4. The spider failed again and again but it didn’t give up.
5. From the passage, we’ve learned happiness is in the faraway place.

3 . Starting senior high school can be difficult. You may feel nervous because you don’t know where to go for class. Meeting new friends might make you nervous, too. Don’t worry. You are not alone. You are going to school with a group of students of your age, and we have several suggestions to share.

 Stay clean. No one likes a classmate with a bad smell. So you need to shower every day, brush your teeth and wash your hair. Try to make yourself look tidy, whatever you wear.

 Forget your fear and just talk to someone. Take a deep breath and find your voice. Introduce yourself and start a conversation about something you have in common. Sit in the middle of the classroom with many new friends around you.

 Differences are not a problem. Everyone has his own opinion of the world and everyone believes in different things. You’ll find it good to have friends with different ideas. In this way, you can share and learn a lot more from each other.

 Join clubs. What clubs can you join? You can join the ones with the after-school activities that interest you. Being in a club helps you be more social. If not, you will just go to class and then go home.

 Ask others to join you. Are you sad being alone while others are playing happily? You will probably say “yes”. So remember to be kind to the people around you. If you see someone sitting alone, invite him to hang out or play games together.

根据短文内容，判断正（T）误（F）。
1. Being clean is important, but you needn’t shower, brush teeth or wash hair every day.
2. Introduce yourself first and talk about something you have in common with new friends.
3. After school, being in clubs can make you more social than just going home.
4. Go away at once if you see someone sitting along in the classroom, or he’ll be unhappy.
5. The article is mainly about what you should do when starting senior high school.

7 .
1. 浏览课本2b的标题和课文插图，猜测这篇文章的主题，并尝试回答问题：
What do you think the reading passage is about?
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2. 两人合作，观察并描述三幅插图，思考以下问题：
What can you see in the pictures?
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What is it/are they made of?
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Do you think it is a good way to protect the environment?
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10 . Huang Shengen tied a small blackboard to his motorbike, together with all his teaching things and an alarm clock around his neck, and then started his ride.

53-year-old Huang has worked as a primary school teacher for 35 years in Yichun, Jiangxi Province. As the only teacher in Shaniping Primary School, which was closed because of COVID-19, Huang went to 7-year-old Zeng Yufen’s home. In the school, the girl is the only student living with her grandmother in a mountain village.

All primary school students were having online classes at home. However, Huang found that the network signal was poor at Zeng’s home when he took books to the girl at the end of February.

In order not to disappoint her, Huang thought of the idea of a mobile classroom. He showed up at Zeng’s home the next day with a blackboard, a ruler and a box of chalks.

Every morning, Huang rode about 15 kilometers up the mountain road to Zeng’s home. After class, he played games with his student, and he also taught the student to draw flowers and the beautiful mountain village.

“I’m a teacher from a village, and my job is to teach her so that she might leave the mountain and live a better life in the future,” Huang said.

Judge the following sentences true (T) or false (F) according to the passage.
1. Huang was 18 years old when he started teaching at the school.
2. Huang found it was hard for the girl to take online classes when he took books to Zeng Yufen.
3. There were many teachers in Shaniping Primary School.
4. Huang thought of the idea of a mobile classroom for Zeng Yufen.
5. This passage is about a great teacher from village.