One day, a teacher was speaking to a group of students about how to manage time. He gave such an interesting example that his students would never 1 .
He put a wide-mouth jar (罐子) on the table. Then he 2 some rocks and carefully placed them into the jar, one at a time. When 3 rocks would fit inside, he 4 , “Is this jar full?”
Everyone in class shouted, “Yes.” “Really?” The teacher pulled out a bag of small stones. He put 5 small stones in and shook the jar. The small stones went 6 into the spaces between the big rocks. He then asked the group 7 , “Is this jar full?”
“Probably not,” one of them answered. “Good!” the teacher replied. He brought out a box of sand and 8 some sand into the jar and it went between the rocks and small stones. Again he asked the 9 question, “Is this jar full?
“No,” the class shouted. Once more the teacher said, “Good.” He poured a cup of water into the jar 10 it was full. The he asked, “What is the point here?” One student 11 his hand and said, “The point is that if you try really hard, you can 12 put more things in.”
“No,” the teacher replied, “that’s not the 13 . What I want to tell you is that if you don’t put the big rocks in first, you will never get others in at all. 14 are the ‘big rocks’ in your life? Time with your friends, your education or your dreams? Remember to put the 15 in first, or you’ll never get others in at all.?”
A．remember B．like C．forget D．think
A．handed in B．took out C．gave away D．put away
A．no more B．not more C．no many D．not many
A．answered B．read C．asked D．said
A．no B．few C．any D．some
A．up B．out C．down D．away
A．no more B．again C．a third time D．a fourth time
A．sent B．put C．bought D．collected
A．same B．different C．difficult D．common
A．since B．till C．while D．because
A．offered B．placed C．raised D．shook
A．always B．already C．never D．hardly
A．point B．example C．promise D．story
A．When B．What C．Who D．Why
A．sand B．small stones C．big rocks D．water
“Never give up!” It is my law of life. It has brought me . I learned the law from my father’s story.
My father was in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu, in China. When he was a young boy, he went to school in the morning, then in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework midnight. Life was hard, because they had no !
At the age of 14, my father heard of the United States of America. It was the land of gold, the land where people can become rich.
“ don’t I go to America?”he thought to himself, full of hope.
So my father came to America. “I had thought it was easy to money in America,”he told me. “But when I arrived there, I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire me because I spoke English. Later, I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables, dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was for the first few years. I worked from 10 am to 11 pm. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was impossible. I couldn’t the schooling.”
My father working hard, and reached his goal.
“Alan,”he often says to me. “If you want something, you have to work for it and never give up. Things do not come in life.”That is what I learned from my father.
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What’s your idea about success? Some people say that beginners have all the luck, while others believe that success only with practice. In fact, I feel both of these statements (陈述) are not true all the time. Each is true in some ways not in others.
For example, I went to a drawing competition many years ago and surprisingly. As a prize, I got a film ticket to see “Titanic”. I was really because it was the first time I had taken part in any competition, Thinking that I might be lucky again, I joining in other art competitions, But the result was that I won again. I accepted the fact that the other people had a artistic ability than I did. Art was not something I was especially interested in and I had never practiced the different art skills. So, the I produced were not of a very high standard(水平).
These experiences taught me a lot. Though I might have been lucky , I also need to put in hard work. As we know, makes perfect. So I believe success builds on less luck and chance.
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先通读短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个答案中选出一个可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案，并将The USA is a very big country to visit, so choose carefully the places to see and the time to go. Bring a good because you may want to travel around.
New York and Washington D.C. are good places to in May or October. It’s not too hot then. In winter there’s a lot of .
The best plan is to arrive New England in September. The weather starts to get cooler and the trees start to change colour. It’s a good idea to bring your camera you may want to take photos of the autumn . 4,000 kilometres away in Los Angeles, California, the weather is fine all year. It’s nice to see the Sun in Decmber! Bring your swimsuit because you might want to in the sea.
In the northwest, it isn’t very cold, but there’s a lot of rain, so bring an umbrella. It’s to visit Alaska in July and August but it might be cool in the evening. So remember to wear some clothes. But don’t come in winter. It’ll be dark all day and cold.
In Texas and the southeast , there are storms from time to time in summer and fall. It’s usually very hot and sunny compared to many other places.
So when’s the best time to visit the USA ? Any time you like !
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In November 1979，pupils in England were able to watch a new TV program called Monkey.
Most of them were this story for the first time. However, this story is not to Chinese children. The Monkey King or Sun Wukong is the main character in the traditional Chinese book Journey to the West.
The Monkey King is not just any normal monkey. In fact, he sometimes does not even look like a ! This is because he can make seventy-two to his shape and size, turning himself into different animals and objects. But he can hide his tail, he cannot turn himself into a person. To fight bad people, the Monkey King uses a magic stick. Sometimes he can make so small that he can keep it in his ear. At other times, he is able to make it big and long.
The Monkey King has the children of China for many years. And as soon as the TV program came out more than thirty years ago, Western children became in reading this story because the clever Monkey King keeps fighting to help the weak and never gives up.
A. writing B. hearing C. telling
A. famous B. popular C. new
A. monkey B. man C. horse
A. friends B. monkeys C. changes
A. unless B. because C. however
A. himself B. the stick C. the teacher
A. trained B. excited C. taught
A. worried B. relaxed C. interested
Each nation has many good people who help to take care of others. For example, some high school and college students in the USA often many hours as volunteers in hospital ,orphanages or for the aged. They read books to the people in these places, or they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their .
Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or old. They paint, clean up. Or repair houses, do their shopping and mow their lawns. For boys who no longer have fathers there is an called Big Brothers. College students and other take these boys to baseball games or on fishing trips and them to get to know things that boys usually learn from their fathers.
Each city has a number of clubs where boys and girls can go to play games or learn crafts. Some of these clubs show movies or organize short trips to the mountains, the beaches, the museums or other of interest. Most of these clubs use a lot of high school and college students as because they are enough to remember the problems of younger boys and girls.
Volunteers believe that some of the people in the world are those who help to bring happiness. Helping others brings them much pleasure.
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