1 . One day a famous speaker gave a speech to a crowd of people. He held up a 20-dollar bill. He asked, “Who would like this $20 bill” Hands were raised. Then he said, “I am going to give this $20 to one of you, but first let me do this.” He began to crumple（弄皱）the  _______ . He then asked the audience, “Anybody still wants it?” Still the hands went  _______ in the air.

“What if I do this?” He asked, and he _______ it on the ground, and started to step on it. He _______ it up. Now the bill was _______ and crumpled. “Now who still wants it?” Still the hands went up.

“My friends,” He continued, “You have all learned a good lesson. No matter _______ I did to the money, you still wanted it because the bill did not lose its _______ . It was still worth $20. Many times in our _______ , we are dropped, crumpled, and stepped on, because we sometimes _______ wrong decisions, or we may ________ with something we do not ________ . When that happens, we feel depressed and think we are ________ . But in fact no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. The worth of our life comes not ________ what we do or whom we know, but in who we are! Don’t forget ‘the worth of a thing does not depend on its outside ________ , but on its inner value.’ This is the ________ of life.”

1.

A．paper

B．ground

C．bill

D．finger

2.

A．up

B．down

C．above

D．below

3.

A．threw

B．dropped

C．fell

D．put

4.

A．showed

B．lifted

C．put

D．picked

5.

A．good

B．clean

C．large

D．dirty

6.

A．that

B．how

C．what

D．why

7.

A．value

B．price

C．effect

D．part

8.

A．studies

B．work

C．fields

D．lives

9.

A．do

B．make

C．give

D．take

10.

A．meet

B．deal

C．talk

D．get

11.

A．like

B．hope

C．wish

D．expect

12.

A．worthless

B．weak

C．poor

D．careless

13.

A．from

B．in

C．about

D．at

14.

A．beauty

B．face

C．looks

D．impression

15.

A．lesson

B．truth

C．saying

D．story

3 . I am a strong believer that if a child is raised with approval, he learns to love himself and will be successful in his own way. Several weeks ago, I was doing homework with my son in the third grade and he kept standing up from his chair to go over the math lines. I kept asking him to sit down, telling him that he would concentrate better. He sat but seconds later, as if he didn’t even notice he was doing it, he got up again. I was getting frustrated (挫败的), but then it hit me. I started noticing his answers were much quicker and accurate when he stood up. Could he be more absorbed while standing up?

This made me start questioning myself and what I had been raised to believe. I was raised to believe that a quiet, calm child was a sure way to success. This child would have the willpower to study hard, get good grades and become someone important in life.

Now those same people perhaps come to realize that their kids are born with their own sets of DNA and personality qualities, and all you can do is loving and accepting them. As parents, throughout their growing years and beyond that, we need to be our kids’ best cheerleaders,   guiding them and helping them find their way.

I have stopped asking my son to sit down and concentrate. Obviously, he is concentrating just in his own way and not mine. We need to learn to accept our kids’ ways of doing things. Some way may have worked for me but doesn’t mean we need to carry it through generations. There is nothing sweeter than being personal and unique. It makes us free and happy and that’s just the way I want my kids to live their own life.

1. Time and again the author got his son seated in order to make him________.

A．work fast

B．go polite

C．stay relaxed

D．keep attentive

2. The underlined “it” (in the first paragraph) probably refers to ________.

A．his son’s doing better while standing up

B．his failure in keeping his son under control

C．his own experience as a school boy

D．his disappointment with his active child

3. By this passage, the author attempts to tell other parents to ________.

A．correct their kids’ manners from the early ages

B．respect and trust their kids’ ways of behaviors

C．develop a good relationship with their children

D．guarantee their children’s freedom at home

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

A．Parental help with teens’ study	B．Adult influence on teen growth
C．Kids’ success in their own styles	D．Friendship between generations

4 . Think back to a time in your life when you tried something new.

When I was a teenager I volunteered to pass out water at a local race. I was so excited to see all the different runners who passed by and quickly took a cup of water. Some ran past, some walked past and a few wheeled past.

I saw so many types of people doing it. I thought maybe I could do it too! The next year I decided to run for the race, but I had little running practice. I just wanted to finish.

On the day of the race, it was terribly hot. After running for about 5 miles, I was thinking, “I must be crazy. Why did I do this? What was I thinking?” And at one moment, I said to myself, “I am never doing this again!”   

That first 10 km race was quite an experience. I jogged (慢跑), I walked, I jogged and walked. At times, I didn’t know if I could finish.

Near the end, a 70-year-old man ran past me, very fast, and I felt a little embarrassed (尴尬的) that I was more than 50 years younger than he and I couldn’t even keep up with him. But then I realized something. He was running his race and I was running mine. How often in life do we compare (比较) ourselves to others when we really shouldn’t? I decided that I would not give up on running races, and that one day I would be one of those 70-year-old men who were still running.

As I crossed the finishing line, I was proud of myself. I didn’t regret (后悔) having such an experience.

1. What did the writer do at a local race as a volunteer?

A．He helped old runners.	B．He cheered up the runners.
C．He passed out water to the runners.	D．He took back the cups from the runners.

2. Why did the writer join the race?

A．He just wanted to experience.	B．He was crazy about running.
C．He had practiced running very hard.	D．He wanted very much to win a prize.

3. How did the writer’s feeling change after running about 5 miles?
① He regretted.
② He encouraged himself.
③ He felt a little embarrassed.

A．①-②-③

B．②-①-③

C．①-③-②

D．②-③-①

4. How did the writer feel at first when a 70-year-old man ran past him?

A．embarrassed

B．disappointed

C．excited

D．surprised

5. What is the best title(标题) of the passage?

A．To be No. 1.	B．Let’s compare.
C．A volunteering job.	D．Running your own race.

6 . 1970 was World Conservation Year. The United Nations wanted every one to know that the world is in danger. They hoped the governments would act quickly in order to “conserve” nature. Here is one example of the problem. At one time there were 1,300 different plants, trees and flowers in Holland, but now only 866 remain. The others have been destroyed by modern man and his technology. We are changing the earth, the air and water, and everything that grows and lives. We can’t live without these things. If we continue like this, we shall destroy ourselves.

What will happen in the future? Perhaps it is more important to ask “What must we do now?” The people who will be living in the world of tomorrow are the young of today. A lot of them know that con­servation is necessary. Many are helping to save our world. They plant trees, build bridges across rivers in forests, and so on. In a small town in the United States a large group of girls cleaned the banks of 11 kilometers of their river. Young people may hear about conservation through something called “No one’s going to change our world”, which was made by the Beatles, Cliff Richard and other singers. The money from it will help to conserve wild animals.

1. What does the word “conserve” in the passage mean?

A．serve

B．protect

C．live

D．desert

2. The first paragraph tells us that _______.

A．World Conservation Year was over.

B．animals are being in danger

C．nature is being destroyed in Holland

D．the people of the world face the serious living situation

3. “No one’s going to change our world” was _______.

A．a record calling on people to conserve nature

B．an idea that nobody would accept

C．an important book published in 1970

D．a rule worked out by the United Nations

4. What is the most important thing for us to do to save our world?

A．We should plant more trees and flowers.

B．We should clean the banks of our rivers.

C．We should know what we must do and begin to do it now.

D．We should know what will happen in the future.

5. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．1970 was an important year.

B．The United Nations wanted everyone to know that the world is in danger.

C．Conservation is necessary.

D．It is the young people who are helping to save our world.

7 . A boy walked into a candy store with his father and since he was just 6 years old, he was surprised by so many candies on offer. “It’s amazing. What should I _________?” he asked himself. “Come on, son, we don’t have much _________. I have to attend an important meeting,” his dad said.

“These are all my _________ and I don’t know what to choose.” He picked up some bags and then put them _________. He couldn’t make up his mind. “_________, son, we have no time. I’m very _________,” his dad said. So the boy ran around the store _________ again. His eyes moved from one bag to another, _________ all of the sweets looked so good and he couldn’t make up his mind. _________, the dad had enough. He caught his son by the hand and they __________ the store empty-handed. The boy __________. He wanted them all, but ended up with __________ because he couldn’t choose just one.

Some of us are that boy. The __________ is that candy store. We have a great number of choices available (可得到的) to us, but if we don’t make a(n) __________ about our jobs, education, relationships, marriage or other __________ things, we will end up empty-handed. Sometimes we worry about making the __________ choice. What if we __________ the direction that we take and it’s too late to go back? We don’t have to __________ this. How do we __________ whether it is good or not if we don’t make a choice? The bigger __________ is that we make no decision at all and end up going nowhere and doing nothing.

1.

A．think

B．choose

C．say

D．make

2.

A．time

B．money

C．interest

D．power

3.

A．secrets

B．ideas

C．favorites

D．away

4.

A．back

B．away

C．in

D．aside

5.

A．Hold on

B．Come over

C．Hurry up

D．Go on

6.

A．busy

B．tired

C．stressful

D．patient

7.

A．carefully

B．quickly

C．quietly

D．nervously

8.

A．and

B．or

C．though

D．but

9.

A．Luckily

B．Finally

C．Certainly

D．Hopefully

10.

A．got hold of

B．checked with

C．searched for

D．walked out of

11.

A．returned

B．waited

C．cried

D．understood

12.

A．nothing

B．fear

C．peace

D．fun

13.

A．sky

B．school

C．world

D．company

14.

A．decision

B．plan

C．guess

D．ending

15.

A．simple

B．important

C．common

D．good

16.

A．right

B．great

C．wrong

D．difficult

17.

A．regret

B．change

C．accept

D．face

18.

A．work out

B．deal with

C．look into

D．worry about

19.

A．doubt

B．explain

C．expect

D．know

20.

A．difference

B．game

C．danger

D．fact

8 . My father never wanted his children to know what he did for a living. Dad worked in Plant C. Lying beside Lake Erie, it saw him in at sunrise and out at nightfall. Sometimes my mother would take my siblings (兄弟姐妹) and me to the public beach in our hometown of Ashtabula. She’d gather us round and point to the smokestacks, coughing clouds into the sky.

“Wave to daddy!” she’d shout. Four little hands would shoot into the air. I never knew what Dad did in Plant C, but during 34 years of hard work, he had surgery (手术) on his shoulder and hand. At 48, he had his first heart attack. He retired in 1993, right after the last kid graduated from college. But the damage was done. A few years later, the next heart attack killed him.

I saw my dad in plant C only once, when I took dinner to him. That night, I looked at my father, covered in sweat and coal, and for the first time I knew why he was so often angry for no reason.

Recently my father’s friend, Toby Workman, walked me there. I knew my father never wanted me to see it. At every station, he described the job and the danger. It was like listening to a foreign language. I walked past many DANGER signs. Toby put his hand on my shoulder. “Look”, he said, “you need to understand something. Your dad was a maintenance mechanic. He worked the most dangerous job. If something broke, he fixed it.”

A few days later, my daughter graduated from college. I gave her the hard hat Toby handed to me as I left, and this note: “Whenever you feel something difficult, put this on, look in the mirror, and remember your roots.”

1. How many siblings does the author most probably have?

A．Three siblings	B．Two siblings
C．Five siblings	D．Four siblings

2. Which of the following is true about the author’s father?

A．He didn’t suffer a heart attack until he retired.

B．He worked in Plant C for 48 years in all.

C．He was hardly angry in his daily life.

D．He did physical work in Plant C.

3. When Toby Workman described the author’s father’s job, the author ______.

A．felt familiar with the job	B．didn’t quite understand
C．wanted to learn a foreign language	D．decided to do the same work

4. The author gave her daughter the hat to hope that her daughter could ______.

A．remember her grandfather	B．overcome all difficulties
C．get encouraged by her grandfather	D．follow her grandfather’s work

10 . As we all know, eyes are considered as the window of the souls. Through one’s eyes, we can _____sorrow, happiness or encouragement and many other _____. Eyes are always one of the fastest and most direct organs to ______ our thoughts.

I still remember an ______ experience, which happened when I took part in a singing contest at the age of nine. It was the ______ of my mother’s eyes that encouraged me to go for it. I had showed great ______ in singing before that. But I was too shy to sing in ______. So one day my mother took me to ______ up for the singing contest. With my mother’s ______and encouragement, I was determined to meet that ______. Standing on the stage, I suddenly found I became the ______ of all the eyes. I got so nervous that I couldn’t even ______ my eyes open. When it was my turn to be introduced to the audience and sing, I became even more ______. I felt my legs were shaking and my memory seemed ______, as I couldn’t remember anything. Searching for help, I______ my mother’s eyes which were sparkling with encouragement and strong power. It seemed that they were ______ to me, “Come on, Baby! Take it easy. I’ll ______ be with you!” I read the message through her eyes and at that moment I ______ my confidence and began to sing my song. When I came down from the stage, she came up to me and gave me a hug, saying, “Great! I’m ______you!” At that time, I found her eyes filled with tears of ______. Sometimes, you see, just the encouraging eyes themselves can make a shy person brave.

1.

A．feel

B．find

C．read

D．cause

2.

A．senses

B．feelings

C．expressions

D．impressions

3.

A．improve

B．sharpen

C．repeat

D．show

4.

A．unforgettable

B．annoying

C．avoidable

D．interesting

5.

A．view

B．glance

C．power

D．sight

6.

A．pride

B．interest

C．surprise

D．delight

7.

A．air

B．school

C．person

D．public

8.

A．sign

B．hang

C．join

D．stay

9.

A．cooperation

B．respond

C．company

D．control

10.

A．occasion

B．difficulty

C．change

D．challenge

11.

A．center

B．focus

C．direction

D．angle

12.

A．keep

B．make

C．leave

D．have

13.

A．curious

B．serious

C．nervous

D．anxious

14.

A．unlocked

B．gone

C．checked

D．recalled

15.

A．turned

B．opened

C．missed

D．met

16.

A．telling

B．passing

C．speaking

D．whistling

17.

A．usually

B．even

C．almost

D．always

18.

A．lost

B．regained

C．revised

D．returned

19.

A．grateful to

B．worried about

C．strict with

D．proud of

20.

A．joy

B．sorrow

C．mercy

D．regret