2 . One summer day, as I was heading to the teaching building, I heard someone call my name. I turned around and saw Philip, a counselor at our college, standing with another young man. Philip introduced me to him, Stephen, and reminded me that Stephen would be taking one of my classes.

Stephen looked at me. With a somewhat painful expression, he asked if my class was going to be hard and if he would be able to pass. I introduced all the things that he would be expected to learn. As we talked, I saw Stephen’s eyes getting big with fear.

I told him to do all of his assignments, and to hand them in on time. Rather than being overwhelmed(压倒) by all of the work, I told him the most successful students made a master calendar of all the assignments so they could plan their workload.

As the fall semester went on, I learned more of Stephen’s story. It had taken him longer to finish the assignments than most young people. Family members, including his mother, kept reminding him thathewasafailure.Buthekeptatitanddidn’ttakethemtoheart.Hetoldmethatbeforecomingto our college, no one believed he could manage it.

Stephen didn’t become an A student. However, he managed to pass most of his courses by being in class every day, turning in all of his assignments on time and breaking down his studying into bite-sized parts. By passing course after course, he began to gain a measure of self-confidence.

On his graduation day, he walked up to me, and said,“Thank you.”

1. According to Stephen’s questions to the author, what do we know about Stephen?

A．He had never been an A student.	B．He didn’t want to attend the author’s class.
C．He wasn’t very confident about himself.	D．He couldn’t pass the author’s exam.

2. What can we learn about the author according to the passage?

A．He helped Stephen get an A in his class.

B．He told Stephen how to deal with his studies.

C．He didn’t believe that Stephen could study in college.

D．He wouldn’t have met Stephen without the introduction of Philip.

3. What does the passage mainly tell us about Stephen?

A．He was an average student but hard-working.

B．He was a little stupid and didn’t do well at school.

C．He was far from a top student because of his failure.

D．He was an excellent student, but didn’t have self- confidence.

4. What lesson can we learn from the passage?

A．One bite at a time.	B．Look before you leap.
C．Haste makes waste.	D．A good beginning is half done.

3 . I used to be a very self-centered person, but in the past two years I have really changed. I have started to think about other people______I think about myself. I am happy that I am becoming a _______person.

I think my______started when I was at Palomar College. At first, I just wanted to get my______, and be left alone. I thought I was smarter than everyone else, so I hardly ever______to anyone in my classes. By the end of my first semester, I was really ______. It seemed as if everyone but me had made friends and was having fun. So I tried a(n) _______, I started asking people around me how they were doing, and if they were having trouble I ______to help. That was really a big______for me. By the end of the year, I had several new friends, two of______are still my best friends today.

However, a bigger cause of my new attitude came, when I took a part-time______at a Vista Nursing Home. One old lady there who had Alzheimer disease became my______. Every time I came into her room, she was so______because she thought I was her daughter. Her real daughter never______her, so I took her place. She let me ______ that making others feel good make me feel good, too. When she died, I was_______, but I was very grateful to her.

I think I am a much______person today than I used to be, and I hope I will not ______these experiences. They have ______me to care about other people more than about myself. I______who I am today, and I could not say that a few years ago.

1.

A．since

B．before

C．or

D．unless

2.

A．famous

B．simple

C．different

D．skilled

3.

A．education

B．career

C．tour

D．change

4.

A．balance

B．homework

C．degree

D．interest

5.

A．talked

B．wrote

C．lied

D．reported

6.

A．careful

B．lonely

C．curious

D．guilty

7.

A．argument

B．game

C．experiment

D．defence

8.

A．dared

B．offered

C．hesitated

D．happened

9.

A．dream

B．problem

C．duty

D．step

10.

A．us

B．which

C．them

D．whom

11.

A．work

B．walk

C．job

D．rest

12.

A．friend

B．partner

C．guide

D．guest

13.

A．polite

B．happy

C．strange

D．confident

14.

A．bothered

B．answered

C．visited

D．trusted

15.

A．explain

B．guess

C．declare

D．know

16.

A．homeless

B．heart- broken

C．bad-tempered

D．hopeless

17.

A．quieter

B．busier

C．better

D．richer

18.

A．forget

B．face

C．improve

D．analyze

19.

A．forced

B．preferred

C．ordered

D．taught

20.

A．miss

B．like

C．wonder

D．expect

4 . 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