1 . When her five daughters were young, Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity (团结). To show this, she pick up one chopstick, taking it as one person. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next, she tied several chopsticks together, taking them as 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.”

With three generations of Ans working together, now the Ans' business 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. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A．How to Run a Corporation Well	B．Strength Comes from Peace
C．How to Achieve a Big Dream	D．Family Unity Builds Success

2. What can we infer about the An’s daughters?

A．They went out to work for themselves before graduation.

B．They all would not like to work in their family business.

C．They were deeply influenced by what Helene taught them.

D．There always were disagreements among family members

3. Helene once used chopsticks to show ______.

A．the quality of the chopsticks	B．the difficulty of being united
C．the strength of family unity	D．how to be a strong person

4. We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the An’s family ______.

A．began to run a restaurant in 1975	B．left Vietnam without much money
C．bought a restaurant in Los Angeles	D．opened a sandwich shop in San Francisco

2 . I borrowed     1     story book from the library the other day and took it home. One evening, having finished supper, I went back to my room and started to read the book that I     2    (borrow). I was so     3    (absorb) that I knocked the coffee cup over     4     accident, pouring the coffee onto the book. Wet through and colored brown, the book turned out to be a     5    (terribly) mess at once. Of course, I couldn’t return the dirty book and the loss should be covered. The next day, I went to the     6    (big) bookstore in my city,     7     there were various kinds of books. I finally found several     8    (copy) of the same book and bought     9    . When I returned the new story book and explained the reason, the librarian accepted the book and praised me for my honesty and     10    (responsible).