In one way, it may be thought that failure is a part of life. In another, failure may be regarded as a step towards success.
The “spider story” is often told as an example of this. Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13th century, was hiding in a hole on a hill from the English. He watched a spider(蜘蛛) making a web（网）. Bruce is said to have got confidence from this and to have gone on to beat the English. Edison, too, the inventor of the light bulb(电灯泡), made hundreds of models that failed before he found the right way to make one.
So what? First, always think about your failure. What caused it? Were you in high spirit then? What can you change so that things will go right the next time?
Second, is the goal you are trying to reach the right one? Try to do some thinking about what your real goal may be. Think about this question: If I am successful in this, where will it get me?” This may help to prevent failure in the things you shouldn’t be doing anyway.
The third thing to remember about failure is that it’s a part of life. Learn to “live with yourself!” even though you may have failed. Remember, “You can’t live with them all.”Robert Bruce was mentioned in the passage to show that ___________.
| A．people who failed are not lonely |
| B．animals can help people sometimes |
| C．nature will help if we are hard—working |
| D．confidence is important for one to be successful |
Edison’s example shows us that __________.
| A．he liked to do other kinds of work |
| B．he invented many kinds of light bulbs |
| C．failure may be a way towards success |
| D．he was a man of many important inventions |
If you are not sure about what success will get you, you’d better ______.
| A．change your goal |
| B．go on with your goal |
| C．not care for that |
| D．work even harder on your goal |
It can be learned from the passage that __________.
| A．one should try not to fail |
| B．one’s failure is another’s success |
| C．one should take failures seriously |
| D．one should learn lessons from failures |
This passage is mainly about _________.
| A．two great men |
| B．two sides of failure |
| C．ways to keep away from failure |
| D．the right attitude (态度) towards failure |
A man came home from work late, tired, to find his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door.
“Daddy, how much money do you make an hour?”
“If you must know, I make $20 an hour.”
“Oh,” the little boy replied, with his head down. He thought for a moment, looked up and said, “Daddy, could you lend me $10?”
The father was furious, “If you asked for the money to buy a toy or some other rubbish, then go straight to your room and think about why you are so selfish!”
The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. After about an hour, the father calmed down, and started to think, “Maybe he really needs to buy something and he didn’t really ask for money very often.” So he went to the little boy’s room.
“Sorry! Maybe I was too hard on you just now.” said the man, “Here’s $10.”
“Oh, thank you, Daddy!” he said happily. Then, the boy took out some coins. When the father found that the boy already had money, he got angry again.
“Why do you want more money since you already have some?” the father shouted angrily.
“Because I didn’t have enough, but now I do.” The little boy replied, “Daddy, I have $20 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.”How much money does the boy’s father make an hour? _____.
A. $10 B. $20 C. $30 In this passage, the underlined word “furious” means ______.
A. very angry B. quite happy C. too excited At first, the father refused to lend the boy any money because __.
A. he thought the boy wanted to keep the money for himself
B. he thought the boy would buy something of no use
C. the boy always borrowed money from him The boy wanted to buy ____ with twenty dollars.
A. a new book for himself
B. a nice present for his father
C. an hour of his father’s timeFrom the passage, we can infer that the boy’s father____.
A. often played with his son
B. spent little time with his son
C. often came back home early
The first time I saw Jim Wooten I really understood him. He was a great TV news reporter. When he was reporting in Rwanda, one heartbreaking moment made a deep impression on me. When the camera showed all of the children who were dying, suffered from terrible diseases, Jim ended his piece by saying that when he got home, the first thing he was going to do was to put his arms around his own children. Then I realized that he was different, that he didn’t fall into any of the modern television-news tricks, that he was not giving us any awful, artificial(假的) television-journalist reports out of（出于) pity. Instead, I was watching a real reporter with a gift(天赋) for both words and slight differences.
Then I read his book, We Are All the Same, about his friendship with Xolani Nkosi, a South African boy who became the international spokesman for AIDS(艾滋病). It is about the friendship between Wooten and a black child who was ten years old and already dying of AIDS. It is also a book about a great teacher and his student. But the teacher－the one with real wisdom and understanding about life－is the little boy, not the journalist. And, finally, it’s about a love story of Gail Johnson, Nkosi’s white mother who does her best to save the boy, and their love for each other. When reading the book, I felt touched from time to time. How did Jim Wooten feel when he saw the dying children in Rwanda?
__________________________________________________________________.What would an ordinary journalist do on TV when he saw these dying children?
_________________________________________________________________.How did Jim end his piece when he saw the dying children in Rwanda?
_________________________________________________________________.Who is the teacher in the book, the little boy or the journalist?
_________________________________________________________________.Why did Nkosi’s mother do everything possible to save the boy?
_________________________________________________________________.What’s the writer’s attitude to Jim Wooten? How do you know that?
_________________________________________________________________.
Complete the following sentences as required (根据所给要求，完成下列句子。每空格限填一词) (共14分)
Have you ever seen an exhibition of rare Mexican grey wolves? There are five young male wolves in Brookfield Zoo now. The exhibition is d______ into two areas, an indoor room and a peaceful outdoor viewing or playing area. In the indoor area of the exhibition, which is small and can e__
___ become crowded, you can see the wolves t___
___ one-way glass and also enjoy a few different activities.
One of these activities is very interesting. You stand in a dark room, listening to recorded wolf howls（长嚎）. You can really get an idea of what it feels like to be in a dark and d____ forest. After about a minute and a half, some wolves in the woods a___
___ on the wall in front of you. It is a great experience for n___
__ lovers.
In the outdoor area of the exhibition, there is a small river, ponds, fallen trees and a wetland. Visitors can walk among lifelike models of wolf prey(猎物), learning about different hunting s______ the wolves use, how they store their food and how they communicate, while watching the wolves from behind an electric fence.
After a tour of the exhibition, you can read Wolf Brother written by Paver. It was made into a movie by director Ridley Scott.
Welcome to our exhibition of rare Mexican grey wolves!
Students at Empire High School started class with no text books－but it wasn’t because of money problems.
Instead, the school gave iBooks－laptop computersto each of its 340 students, becoming one of the first US public schools to stop printed textbooks.
School officials believe that the electronic materials will make students enjoy learning more. Empire High Schoolwas designed to have a textbook-free environment.
Students at Empire High School get the materials over the school’s Internet network. The school has a central control system that limits what can be downloaded(下载) at the school.
“Students can hand in homework online. We have a web program that helps to check if you copy from others,” the headmaster Baker said.
In addition to offering up-to-date information, teachers can make the lessons more enjoyable. For example, lessons in history can include links to a person’s daily life, his ideas, his discovery, and so on.
Social studies teacher Jeremy Gypton said the change was easier than expected. Gypton said he assigned reading based on websites, used online groups and message boards to keep the students connected. And he also asked them to comment（评论）on each other’s work.
Julian Tarazon, a new student, said that it was kind of hard at first, because you had to put things in folders(文件夹). But after a couple of days, you got used to it. Another student Morgan Northcutt said the computer system had made it easier to do homework.
The school isn’t completely paperless, however. It has a library, and students can read books in it.
“We’re not trying to get rid of books,” Baker said. “We love books.”The students at Empire High School will study in class without ___________ this year.
| A．text messages | B．printed textbooks | C．reading materials | D．electric machines |
The teachers at Empire High School began to use iBooks because they___________.
| A．had money problems | B．had limited network |
| C．wanted to improve their teaching | D．wanted a web program |
A central control system can help to control __________.
| A．how much to download | B．what to download |
| C．how to download | D．why to download |
The underlined word “assigned” probably means “___________”.
| A．说明 | B．完成 | C．转让 | D．布置 |
The biggest advantage of the homework online is that___________.
| A．students can do it anytime |
| B．information online is available |
| C．there is a lot of reading based on websites |
| D．it provides a platform for students to share ideas |
The best title of the passage might be “___________”.
| A．High School uses iBooks instead of textbooks |
| B．Don’t try to get rid of books |
| C．Learning without textbooks is harder |
| D．Doing homework online |
Snake dishes have become popular in recent years. Snake meat is often seen in restaurants. It seems that eating snakes is now in fashion, and if you ( A ) ___________ (not eat) any snakes yet, you’re considered out-of-date. But I wonder whether it is worth following.
Some people think that eating snake meat is good for their health. But these people don’t know that snakes usually eat mice and worms. Therefore, there are many parasites（寄生虫）found inside snakes’ bodies. ( B ) 它们可能对我们的健康有害。 Apart from this, we’re sorry to see that more snakes are being killed by a butcher’s knife. According to the newspaper, Shanghai Star, about 1,000 tons of snakes are eaten by people every year in China. In Shenzhen of Guangdong Province, sometimes as many as 10 tons of snakes are served on dinner tables in a single day. ( C ) If we still turn a blind eye to this, a vicious circle（恶性循环）will be created — if more snakes are eaten by people, the number of snakes will drop, and the number of mice will increase, which will result in a decrease in crop output. This will make more people hungry. Who wants to see such a tragedy?
( D ) Therefore, let’s not eat snakes any more! To protect the snakes is to protect ourselves.用 ( A ) 处所给词的正确形式填空。 ________________________
将 ( B ) 处的句子翻译成英语。
___________________________________________________________________________________将 ( C ) 处翻译成汉语。
__________________________________________________________________________________改写 ( D ) 处的句子，句意不变。
Therefore, let’s ___________ ____________ eating snakes!根据短文内容回答问题：
What will happen if people eat more snakes? ____________________________________________________
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