I should say I owe (归功于) my success to my mother. My belief began when I was just a kid. I becoming a doctor.
My mother was a servant. Through her work, she found that people spent a lot more time reading than they watching television. She told my brother and me to watch only two to three pre-selected TV programs during the week. In our free time, we had to read two books from the Detroit Public Library and written book reports to her. She would mark them up with check marks and highlights. Years later we realized her marks were a trick because my mother was uneducated.
When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for . I wanted the brightly colored clothes and I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student. One night my mother came home from her various jobs and I complained about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, “Okay, I’ll give you all the money I this week by scrubbing floors and cleaning bathrooms, and you can buy the family food and pay the bills. With everything paid off, you can have all the Italian shirts you want.” I was very with that arrangement but once I got through allocating (分配) money, there was left.
I realized my mother was a great woman to be able to keep a roof over our heads and any kind of food on the table, let alone buy clothes. I also realized that immediate satisfaction wasn’t going to get me anywhere. Success required intellectual preparation. I went back to my and became an A-student again, and at last I my dream and I became a doctor.
My mother is a woman with formal education or property who used her position as a parent to change the lives of her children. There is no job more important than parenting.
A．dreamed of B．depended on C．gave up D．thought of
A．strict B．easy-going C．successful D．careful
A．cost B．paid C．took D．did
A．read B．present C．teach D．explain
A．soon B．far C．long D．often
A．working B．shopping C．making D．getting
A．accept B．win C．spend D．make
A．excited B．pleased C．disappointed D．bored
A．anything B．everything C．something D．nothing
A．guys B．mother C．studies D．play
A．expected B．realized C．changed D．tried
A．little B．much C．few D．High
The umbrella is a very common object. It keeps the and the sun off the people. Most umbrellas can be folded up(折叠) so it is to carry them.
However, the umbrella has not always been as as it is now. In the past, it was a symbol of importance. Some African countries still use umbrellas in this .Someone carries an umbrella and walks behind the king or important person.
Umbrellas are very old. People in different parts of the world began to umbrellas at different times. The Chinese had them more than 3,000 years ago. From there, umbrellas to India and Egypt. In Greece and Rome, wouldn’t use them. They believed umbrellas were only for women.
England was the first country in Europe where common people used umbrellas against rain. The weather there is very and umbrellas are very useful.
Everybody uses umbrellas today. The next time you one, thinking that for centuries only great men and women used them, you’ll feel you are important people, too.
A．rain B．could C．air D．water
A．lovely B．cheap C．hard D．easy
A．light B．heavy C．common D．special
A．way B．size C．reason D．place
A．discover B．use C．examine D．discuss
A．walked B．travelled C．rode D．flew
A．children B．parents C．men D．women
A．probably B．already C．suddenly D．immediately
A．sunny B．rainy C．snowy D．windy
A．sell B．return C．borrow D．carry
Many people still remember the beautiful dance “Thousand-hand Guanyin” in the CCTV Spring Festival Party. The lead dancer of the dance is Tai Lihua.
When Tai Lihua was two years old, she lost her hearing because of a fever, then she became mute (哑的), too. From then on, her world was silent. But she didn’t know this at first. At the age of five, when her schoolmates in kindergarten (幼儿园) played a game about sound, she discovered that she was different from others. She was very sad about it. Her father went to many places to look for the best treatments for her illness. But nothing worked. When she was seven years old, she went to a school for deaf and mute children. In that school, she did well in her studies. Her teacher said she was good at expressing her feelings through dance.
She also began to love dance and dance became her favorite. She thought she could use dance to express what she thought about life. She worked hard at it and her hard work made her successful. She has been to many other countries to perform and many foreigners like her style.
根据短文内容，判断正(A)误(B)。Doctors treated Tai Lihua’s illness well.
Tai Lihua learnt dance in a dance school.
Tai Lihua was mute when she was born.
Tai Lihua found that she was different from others at the age of five.
Tai Lihua is successful because of working hard.
One day at the end of the class, a wise teacher told each of her students to ______ a plastic bag and a bag of potatoes to school.
The next day she told her students: “from today on ,for every person you don’t like in your lives, you can choose a potato, write the person’s name and the date ______ it and then put it in the plastic bag.” Day after day, some of the students’ bags were very ______. They were told to carry this bag with them everywhere they went for a week. They would put it inside their quilts (被子)____ ____, on the seats when sitting in a car or on a bus, and next to their desks at school. The days carrying the bag around with them________ students get to know what a weight they were carrying in their minds. They had to pay attention to it all the time________ they wouldn’t forget it. As time passed by, the potatoes went bad and ________ terrible. They all tried to get rid of them.
Too often we think of tolerance ( 宽容 ) as a gift to ________ people, and it clearly is for ourselves! If we choose to keep our sadness and hatred ( 仇恨 ) in our________, we will have to carry them around all our lives.
Do you think you have got __________ from the wise teacher and what she asked her students to do?A. take B. bring C. put
A. in B. at C. on
A. heavy B. strong C. light
A. in the morning B. in the afternoon C. at night
A. kept B. make C. asked
A. as soon as B. since C. so that
A. Sounded B. tasted C. smelt
A. Another B. other C. the other
A. Hearts B. eyes C. stomachs
A. Anything B. nothing C. somebody
Mr. Young has a big shop in the center of the city. He tells all his employees to be to the buyers and he gets a lot of .
This morning a young man came to his . He asked, "Do you smoke, sir?" "No, sir," answered the young man.
"Do you ?" "No, sir."
Mr. Young asked him the other questions, and the young man's satisfied him. Before he employed him, he asked him the last question, "You have shortcoming, do you?" "No, I don't, sir. " said the young man. "I only like telling lies.”
A．strict B．friendly C．strange D．terrible
A．business B．surprise C．money D．hope
A．buy B．borrow C．look for D．lend
A．threw B．put C．placed D．left
A．found B．knew C．understood D．wanted
A．somebody B．anybody C．nobody D．everybody
A．hand B．pocket C．bottle D．glass
A．won B．lost C．forgot D．failed
A．sad B．angry C．happy D．worried
A．place B．seat C．table D．chair
A．both B．all C．neither D．none
A．house B．car C．office D．pigsty
A．dress B．drink C．eat D．sleep
A．answers B．clothes C．knowledge D．face
A．much B．some C．any D．no
Jim, a successful businessman, told the experience of his childhood.
When he was 12, his parents . He was alone and didn’t get on well with others. People always laughed him. No one showed kindness（友善） to him. His only friend was a dog named Tige.
One day as he walked down the street, a young lady was walking in front of him. Suddenly one of her bags dropped from her arms. As she stopped , she dropped other bags. He came to help her. “Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!” She said kindly, smiling.
A special feeling came to him. These were kind words he had ever heard. He watched her she went far away, and he whistled（吹口哨）to his dog and went directly to the river nearby.
“Thank you, dear! You are a nice little boy!” he repeated the woman’s words. Then in a low he said to his dog, “You are a nice little dog!” Tige raised ears as if（似乎）it understood.
“Uh! Even a dog likes it!” he said, “Well, Tige, I won’t say unkind words to you any more.” Tige waved its tail happily.
The boy thought and thought. Finally he looked at himself in the river. He saw but a dirty boy. He washed his face . Again he looked. He saw a clean nice boy. He was amazed（震惊）. From then on, he had a new life.
After telling this, the businessman stopped for a while, and then he said, “Ladies and gentlemen, this is the very place where that kind woman planted in me the first seed (种子) of kindness. All of us should learn about kindness. a great power it has!” If you show kindness to others, you will be an able man.A．dead B．dying C．died
A．at B．to C．/
A．picking it up B．to pick up it C．to pick it up
A．the first B．first C．the last
A．until B．before C．while
A．sound B．noise C．voice
A．it B．it’s C．its
A．something B．nothing C．somebody
A．carefully B．careful C．carelessly
A．What B．How C．It seemed
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