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When her five daughters were young, Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity (团结). To show this, she held up one chopstick, representing oneperson. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several chopsticks together, representing a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chopsticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up.
Helene An and her family own a large restaurant business in California. However, when Helene and her husband Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975, they didn't have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Danny's mother, Diana, who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon afterwards, Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However, Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.
Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves, but one by one, the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elisabeth explains, "Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity, and to have unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family, there is no business."
Their expanding business became a large corporation in 1996, with three generations of Ans working together. Now the Ans' corporation makes more than $20 million each year. Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together. Now they are a big success.
1. Helene tied several chopsticks together to show ______.

A．the strength of family unity

B．the difficulty of growing up

C．the advantage of chopsticks

D．the best way of giving a lesson

2. We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the Helene An family ______.

A．started a business in 1975

B．left Vietnam without much money

C．bought a restaurant in San Francisco

D．opened a sandwich shop in Los Angeles

3. What can we infer about the five daughters?

A．They did not finish their college education.

B．They could not bear to work in the family business.

C．They were influenced by what Helene taught them.

D．They were troubled by disagreement among family members.

4. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A．How to Run a Corporation

B．Strength Comes from Peace

C．How to Achieve a Big Dream

D．Family Unity Builds Success

2 . When I passed the garden, I saw the boy         under a tree,         .

A．seat ; read	B．seating ; reading
C．seated ; read	D．seated ; reading

3 . The question is ________ we will have our sports meet next week.

A．that

B．if

C．when

D．whether

4 . ________ the meeting himself gave them a great deal of encouragement.

A．The president will attend	B．The president to attend
C．The president attended	D．The president’s attending

5 . From space, the earth looks blue.This is _______about seventy-one percent of its surface is covered by water.

A．why	B．how
C．because	D．whether

6 . --- What’s Joan doing?   
--- _________ newspapers in the room.

A．She reading

B．She reads

C．To read

D．Reading

7 . Although ________ to stop, he kept on working

A．tell

B．telling

C．having told

D．told

8 . Do you know that _____ with wise men improves your mind?

A．chat

B．chats

C．chatted

D．chatting

9 . "We can't go out in this weather, "said Bob, _____ out of the window.

A．looking	B．to look
C．looked	D．having looked

10 . This is the last factory ________ he used to work at, many workers of _______ still have a good relationship with him.

A．/; it

B．which; whom

C．/; which

D．which; that