Perhaps the only test score that I remember is the 55 I got when I was in high school.
The test was the final for a course. I remember waiting anxiously as my teacher Mr. Right handed out our papers one after another. It was a rather test. I heard my classmates groaning (叹息), and I could tell by the groans that the scores weren’t looking good.
Mr. Right put my paper on my desk. There in big red numbers, circled to draw attention , was my score, 55! I lowered my head, and covered the score up quickly. A 55 is not something that you wanted your classmates to see.“The scores were not very good, none of you 7 ,” Mr Right said. “The highest score in the class was a 55.”
A 55. That’s me! my sad look didn’t look so bad. I had the highest score. I felt a lot better.
I walked home alone that day with the low but high score. My mother knew that I had a big test that day and asked me as soon as I got home, “How did you do in your test?” “I got 55,” I said. A frown(皱眉) now stood on my mother’s face. I knew I had to immediately. “But Mum, I had the highest score in the class,” I proudly stated (陈述). I thought that explanation would make a difference. “You failed!!” my mother replied. “But it’s the highest!” I insisted. “I don’t care what scores others had, you failed. What matters is what you do!” my mother firmly (坚定地) said.
For years, my mother was in that way. It didn’t matter what others did, it only mattered what I did and that I did it excellently.
We often don’t understand the of good parents until we ourselves stand in the parents’ shoes. My mother’s words have carried me throughout life.
A．boring B．difficult C．strange D．interesting
A．failed B．missed C．passed D．won
A．Suddenly B．Finally C．Certainly D．Slowly
A．insist B．explain C．prove D．answer
A．always B．seldom C．still D．once
A．courage B．kindness C．trouble D．wisdom
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Do you like going to the movies? Most of the in primary schools like movies very much. Last Sunday I went to a school and asked some students their favorite movies. of their answers were really interesting. Here are their likes and . John, a boy, likes watching scary movies because they are scary exciting. His classmate, May, can't stand documentaries. She told me they were for parents. But she really likes comedies because they are funny. Jack is a big boy. He said he didn't documentaries. But he doesn't like comedies________ they are boring! And coolest movies are action movies. Everyone them very much!
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Life in the twenty-first century will be very .Many changes will take place(发生)，but________ will the changes be.
The population is growing ________ .There will be many in the world and most of them will live longer than people in the twentieth century.
Computers wil be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every ________ .And ________ studies will be one of the important subjects in school then.
People will work fewer hours and they will have more free time for sports, watching Tv and travelling. ________ will be much easier and cheaper. And many more people will go to ________ countries for holidays.
There will be changes in our food, too. Maybe no one will eat meat every day, instead, they eat more fruit and vegetable. Maybe people will be healthier. Work in the future will be diffetent, too. ________and hard work can be done by robots(机器人). Because of this, ________ will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.
A interesting B.hard C.different
A.why B. how C. what
A.slowly B. fast C. quietly
A.people B.workers C.scientists
A.hospital B.factory C.home
A science B.maths C.computer
A.Seeing doctors B.Going to the cinema C. Travelling
A.rich B. other C. poor
A.Safe B. Easy C. Dangerous
A.a few people B. all the people C. many people
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It’s not polite to arrive at a dinner party more than 15 to 20 minutes late. The host or hostess usually waits for all the guests to arrive having the meal. If is late, all the others will be kept waiting. If you will have to be late, call and tell them to start you.
It’s even worse to be ! The host or hostess not be ready. If you are early, drive or walk the block (街区) for a few minutes, or just sit in your car until the right time.
Though it’s often important to arrive at a party on time, yet on the other hand, for open houses, the host or hostess invites guests to and leave between certain times, so you can arrive at any time within the times he or she gives you.
It’s nice to bring an empty stomach, but it’s even nicer to bring a present. The present should not cost a lot, or you might embarrass（使尴尬） the host or hostess. Flowers, wine, or a box of candy will do fine. bring money as a present.
In an introduction , the order of a name is the given name, and then the family name. In other words, the given name comes . After the introduction, we usually call friends by their given names. Older people may want you to call them by their titles and family names, such as “Mr. Jones”, “Mr. Smith”, ”Ms. Johson” or “Dr. Brown”.
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Two days ago, I carried a few bags from my apartment to the car. Then I went back into the apartment building. I went up to the second floor very soon. I saw two boxes at the corner, but I _______ they weren’t there before. Maybe someone just put them there while I was _________the bags.
I took out my _________and tried to open the apartment door, but it didn’t work. There were two keys on the desk when I got out of the apartment. I just took one of them and the other one was left there. Maybe I took the _________ one. They looked the same and that was quite possible.
When I was _______again, a woman opened the door. She asked me if I needed any help. You could imagine how ________ I was. What was she doing in my apartment? Then I saw a new doorbell, and everything in the house looked different.
Then I realized that I had _________into the wrong building. I said sorry to the woman and left. Later I found that my apartment was the one in front of it.
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Choose the best words and complete the passage (选择最恰当的单词完成短文)
Have you ever been to a desert? A desert is a place full of sand.
Death Valley is one of the most ______ deserts in the United States. It covers a wide area with its bright sand. Almost 20 percent of this area is well below sea level, and Badwater, a salt water lake, is about 280 feet below sea level and the ______ place in the United Sates.
Long ago the Indians there called this place “Tomesha”. It means the land of fire. Death Valley’s name now dates back to 1849. At that time a group of miners came across the desert from Nevada, but they became _______ in this desert. They were hungry and thirsty. Their journey was certainly a sad story.
Today Death Valley is made a National Monument and people can cross it along several well-marked roads. They can _______ water and drinks in the roadside bars when thirsty, and they can have meals in the restaurants, too. Luckily with so many people traveling and living there, this desert’s special beauty has not been ruined.
Here you’ll have a lot of surprises. It is ________ like what you can see on the moon. The sight changes as the wind moves the sand about, showing the most unusual colors. One of the most unusual and surprising _______ of Death Valley is Devils Golf Course(魔鬼的高尔夫球场). If one goes there, it seems you are in some terrible dreams. Sand sculptures stand on a ________ ground, and their long shadows moves in the darkness of the night.
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