I was 15 months old, a happy and carefree kid, until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I landed on a piece of glass that cut my eye badly. from then on, my injured, sightless, cloudy gray eye lived on with me. Sometimes people asked me embarrassing（使人难堪的）questions. Whenever kids played games, I was the "monster". I was always imagining that everyone looked down on（瞧不起）me.
Yet mum would say to me, "Hold your head up high and face the world." I began to depend on that saying.
As a child, I thought mun meant, "Be careful, or you will fall down or bump into something because you are not looking." As a teenager, I usually looked down to hide my shame. But I found that when I held my head up high, People liked me.
In high school I even became the class president, but on the inside I still felt like a monster. All I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would cry to my mun and she would look at me with loving eyes and say, “Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them see the beauty that is inside instead of your appearance（外貌）.”
My mum's love was the sunshine that made me bright. I had faced hard times, and learned not only to be confident（自信的） but also to have deep compassion（同情）for others.
“Hold your head up high” has been heard many times in my home. I say it to my children. The gift my mum gave me will live on.The underlined word “carefree” in the first line probably means“ ______” in Chinese.
| A．无忧无虑的 | B．无拘无束的 |
| C．小心翼翼的 | D．与众不同的 |
Why did the writer imagine that everyone looked down on her?
| A．She felt bad about her appearance. |
| B．She found it hard to act as a monster. |
| C．Kids refused to play games with her. |
| D．People always asked her embarrassing questions. |
Why did the writer's mum say “Hold your head up high”to her?
| A．To tell her to be careful. |
| B．To help her hide the shame. |
| C．To stop her from getting hurt. |
| D．To make her more confident. |
From the story, we can know that ______.
| A．the writer understood the saying very well as a child |
| B．the writer felt like everyone else in high school. |
| C．the writer is living with a warm and brave heart now |
| D．the writer has deep compassion for others all her life |
The passage is mainly about ______.
| A．what the writer experienced when she was 15 |
| B．what the writer did to show thanks for mum's gift |
| C．how the writer changed herself with mum's love |
| D．how the writer became confident with her great efforts |
I’m a boy. My name is Zhao Ming. I am in No. 34 Middle School. I am in Class 1. My English teacher(老师) is Mr Wang. My Chinese(汉语) teacher is Miss Wu. They are good teachers. I love them. I have(有) a good friend. His name is Tom. He is an English boy.Zhao Ming is a ____.
| A．girl | B．boy | C．friend | D．teacher |
Zhao Ming is in ____ Middle School.
| A．No. 43 | B．No. 23 | C．No. 31 | D．No. 34 |
Miss Wu and Mr Wang are ______.
| A．students | B．teachers | C．girls | D．workers |
Tom is a(n) _____ boy.
| A．Chinese | B．Japanese |
| C．American | D．English |
Alice: Good afternoon, Helen!
Helen: Good afternoon, Alice! How are you?
Alice: I'm fine, thanks. How are you?
Helen: I'm OK.
Alice: Helen, what' s this in English?
Helen: It's a cup. And it's my cup.
Alice: Oh, it' s red. I like the color. Is that a pencil?
Helen: No, it' s a pen and it' s brown.
Alice: Is it your pen?
Helen: No, it s Bill’s. My pen is green.Alice likes_______.
| A．red | B．green | C．brown | D．white |
The cup is ____
| A．Alice' s | B．Bill' s |
| C．Gina' s | D．Helen' s |
The ______ is Bill's.
| A．pen | B．cup | C．ruler | D．key |
Helen's pen is______.
| A．black | B．green | C．brown | D．blue |
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Whenever we meet with difficulty or failure, teachers, parents or others often say to us or perhaps we say to ourselves, ―Never give up.
These can be encouraging words and words of determination. A person who believes in himself will keep trying to reach his goal no matter how many times he fails. In my opinion, the quality of determination to succeed is an important one to have. Therefore, I believe that we should never give up.
One reason is that if we give up too easily, we will rarely achieve anything. It is not unusual for us to fail in our first attempt at something new, so we should not feel disappointed and should try again. Besides, if we always give up when we fail, we will not be able to develop new skills and grow.
Another reason we should never give up is that we can learn from our mistakes so that we can not make the same ones. If we do not try again, the lesson we have learned is wasted. Finally, we should never give up because as we work to reach our goals, we develop confidence, and this confidence can help us succeed in other areas of our lives. If we never challenge ourselves, we will begin to doubt our abilities.
In short, it is important that we do not give up when working for our goals. Whether we succeed in the end or not, we will learn something, and what we learn will help us to become better and more confident. Furthermore, if we give up, we have no chance of attaining our goals any more, but if we keep making great efforts, there is always a chance that we will succeed one day.
| Possible meanings and the author’s opinions |
●The words——Never give up can ●A person who wants to succeed should have the quality. So we should never give up. |
| The |
●If we give up too easily, maybe we will achieve ●Always giving up means that we will not be able to make any progress. ●Never giving up will make us learn from the mistakes we’ve made before and learn the lesson so as not to make the same mistakes. ●To reach our goals and develop the confidence which can help us |
| Conclusion |
If you give up, you will have no |
A team of US psychologists(心理学家) have found that talking to another person for ten minutes a day helps with memory.
“Socializing(交际) is just as effective as more traditional kinds of mental exercise in boosting memory and intellectual(智力的) performance,” Oscar Ybarra, a psychologist at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, said in a statement.
In one investigation, they analyzed data on 3610 people, aged 24 to 96.
They found that the higher their level of social interaction(交流), the better their cognitive(认知的) functioning. Social interaction includes getting together or having phone chats with relatives, friends and neighbors.
In another experiment, the researchers conducted laboratory tests on 76 college students, aged 18 to 21, to evaluate(评估) how social interactions and intellectual exercises affected the results of memory and mental performance tests.
The students were divided into three groups: the social interaction group had a discussion of a social issue for 10 minutes before taking the tests; the intellectual activities group completed three tasks (including a reading comprehension exercise and a crossword puzzle) before the tests; and a control group(对照组) watched a 10-minute clip(电影片段) of the Seinfeld television show.
“We found that short-term social interaction lasting for just 10 minutes improved participants’ (参与者) intellectual performance as much as engaging in (从事) so-called ‘intellectual’ activities for the same amount of time,” Ybarra said.
The study was expected to be published in the February issue of the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.What does the underlined word “boosting” in the second paragraph probably mean?
| A．Improving. | B．Reducing. |
| C．Preventing. | D．Training. |
Which is not included in social interaction?
| A．Having a talk with a neighbor. |
| B．Attending a birthday party. |
| C．Watching TV at home alone. |
| D．Calling your classmates. |
What’s the purpose of the experiment on 76 college students?
| A．To judge the effect of social interaction on memory and intelligence. |
| B．To find out what is real social interaction. |
| C．To learn how much time is needed for social interaction. |
| D．To show the function of people's cognition. |
What’s the main idea of the passage?
| A．Intellectual exercises make your memory better. |
| B．Different people have different ways of communication. |
| C．Communicating with others keeps you healthy. |
| D．Social interaction makes you smart. |
We see with our eyes and taste with our tongues. Ears are for hearing, skin is for feeling and noses are for smelling. Would anyone say that ears can smell, or that tongues can see? Actually, yes. Paul Bach-y-Rita, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin, believes that the senses can changeable. For example, a tongue can be used for seeing. The brain, as we know, is a complex organ(复杂的器官). Even when part of it is hurt, it will try to carry out the same function by sending the function to another area of the brain.
A college student was asked to take part in an experiment. In the experiment, his eyes were covered with a small video camera. The camera was connected to a long plastic line which went into his mouth. A computer would change the video’s picture. The picture would travel through the plastic line as an electric current(电流), reaching the electrodes(电极板) inside the student’s mouth. The scientist would roll a ball towards his right side, left side, or centre, and the student would have to catch it. When the scientist rolled the ball, pain passed over the student’s tongue. For the position of the pain on the tongue, the student reached out his hand and caught the ball.
If the brain can see a ball through a camera and a wet tongue, blindness and deafness can be overcame.How many senses are talked about in the first paragraph?
| A．4. | B．5. | C．3. | D．2. |
What is the right order according to the experiment?
①The scientist rolled a ball.
② The student caught the ball.
③ The student felt pain on his tongue.
④The scientist connected the camera to a long plastic line.
| A．①②③④ | B．②①④③ | C．④①③② | D．④③①② |
What could be the best title for the passage?
| A．Senses Are Important |
| B．An Interesting Experiment |
| C．A Famous Scientist |
| D．Senses Are Changeable |
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