The Benefits(益处)of Doing More than You Are Paid for
One rainy afternoon an old lady walked into a Philadelphia department store.Most of the clerks ignored(忽略)her, only one young man asked if he could help her.She replied that she was just for the rain to stop.He told her he wouldn’t try to her anything she didn’t want.Instead he brought her .
When the rain stopped,the lady the young man and asked for his card.A few months passed,the owner of the store received inviting this young man to Scotland to get orders for providing goods for a large company!The letter was the old lady for whom the clerk had provided a chair.She happened to be owner’s mother of the large company, .
When the young clerk had his bags packed for Scotland,he had already been one of the in that department store,all because he had shown a little to a stranger when no one else would.
A.or B.and C.but
A.looking B.waiting C.asking
A.sell B.buy C.pass
A.an umbrella B.a book C.a chair
A.told B.thanked C.helped
A.a card B.a gift C.a letter
A.from B.for C.to
A.also B.too C.either
A.bosses B.clerks C.friends
A.honesty B.cleverness C.care
Dear Dad,
Happy birthday to you!
On this special day, I’d like to talk to you 36 a special way.
I don’t think I’m good at 37 you my thought (想法)face to face with you, so I’m writing to show my deep love for you.
You aren’t a rich man or a famous person. But in my heart, you are one of the greatest 38 in the world. I’m 39 you.
You are 40 interested in fame and wealth (名和利). You do 41 things like paying bills on time, and working as a worker in your factory. The smile on your face shows you are happy with the family. You take good care of my grandparents. You help me with my schoolwork and do some shopping with Mom on Sundays.
In the past, I didn’t care 42 you were with me or not . Now I am sorry to say I 43 you the respect (尊重) before. But I am thankful for what you have done for me.
I am quite lucky that I have 44 a great father. I want to let you 45 how much I love. You are a successful as a son, a husband, a father, and a friend.
Yours,
David”
A．in B．at C．by D．on
A．talking B．saying C．speaking D．telling
A．businessmen B．man C．men D．worker
A．worries about B．proud of(自豪) C．afraid of D．sorry for
A．always B．ever C．already D．never
A．common B．interesting C．wonderful D．popular
A．whether(是否) B．that C．what D．where
A．will show B．don’t show C．didn’t show D．have shown
A．too B．so C．very D．such
A．to know B．know C．knew D．knowing
Mr. and Mrs. Green were very worried about their son, Leo. He seemed to be dumb(哑的) he was normal in every other way. Mr. and Mrs. Green tried everything to get him to , but with no success.
When Leo was six years old, the best doctors in the town him carefully, but could find nothing wrong. And he seemed to be smart. It was just that he spoke.
“There might be something wrong with his , and he doesn’t know he’s able to speak,” One doctor said.
"But he can read and write.” said Mr. Green. “We've written him notes, telling him that he can speak.”
“ It's certainly very ,” another doctor said. “Perhaps he’ll be able to speak some day.”
passed. Leo went to university. But he did not speak a word.
Then one day Leo was having a meal with his parents. Without any warning, he looked up from his and said. 'Pass me the salt. please.”
Mr. and Mrs. Green were excited. “You spoke! You spoke!' they cried. "Why have you so long to speak?”
“I didn’t have anything to say,” he said. “Until now everything was perfect. But you forget to put salt in these potatoes.”
A．because B．when C．though（虽然） D．before
A．speak B．walk C．play D．laugh
A．taught. B．found C．examined D．asked
A．never B．often C．usually D．always
A．back B．hair C．face D．mind
A．unfair B．strange C．noisy D．quiet
A．Hours B．Weeks C．Months D．years
A．good B．right C．single(单一的) D．new
A．chair B．meal C．hands D．books
A．slept B．walks C．served D．waited
A poor girl was selling flowers in the street 21 Christmas Eve. Her parents were ill, so she 22 get money for food. It was very cold. The girl felt cold and hungry. She stopped 23 a beautiful house. The girl knocked 24 the door and a man came out. She asked 25 he needed some flowers. The man said he didn't want 26 . She left the house and felt tired. She sat down at the 27 of a tall wall. She looked 28 the flowers. 'Ihe flowers 29 very nice. She suddenly had an unusual feeling. She felt she became light, 30 slowly she began to fly into the sky. She 31 higher and higher and at last she found herself on the clouds. A group of people were coming to meet her. At the head of them 32 her granny. She welcomed her and asked her why she didn't 33 .The girl told her that she had to 34 to get money became her parents were badly ill. Granny told her 35 and gave her lots of beautiful clothes and delicious food. The girl laughed 36 .
It snowed 37 that night. The girl died 38 a smile on her face. 39 , people in the beautiful house began to sing Christmas songs and 40 .
A． in B．on C．at D．（不填）
A．could B．had better C．would like D．had to
A．in front of B．in the front of C．behind D．beside
A．at B．to C．in D．for
A．what B．why C．if D．when
A．some B．any C． nothing D．something
A．head B．foot C．top D．middle
A．for B．up C．(不填) D．at
A．feels B．felt C．smelt D．smells
A．and B．but C．so D．or
A．went B．got C．looked D．flew
A．has B．was C．had D．were
A．get money B．go out C．come to see her D．stay at home
A．fly into the sky B．come here C．sell flowers D．help others
A．didn't worry B．not to worry C．to not worry D．to worry not
A．happy B．happier C．happiest D．happily
A．heavily B．heavy C．largely D．strongly
A．had B．has C．with D．without
A．By the way B．At the same time C．except the girl D．By way
A．looked after the girl B．talked about the girl C．enjoyed themselves D．watched themselves
Joe wanted a computer. He asked his for the money, but they said he must get it himself. But did he get it? He thought about this for a long time. Then he saw one of his classmates, Dick, delivering (送) . "I could do that," he thought. "Maybe I could even get the computer right away. I could pay for it a little each week." He ran to up with Dick. Joe asked him a lot of questions. He learned that it was to get twenty dollars each week. He learned that the job about three hours each night. Dick him the phone number of the newspaper manager.
Joe almost flew home. After he had told his mother he thought, she ,"I think it is a great idea," she said. "I'll call the newspaper manager."
"Wait, Mum." Joe said. "I'll call. After that, I'm going to be a businessman now. " Joe's mother smiled .
A．teachers B．parents C．classmates D．friends
A．how B．what C．when D．why
A．newspapers B．bikes C．computers D．books
A．take B．catch C．carry D．get
A．possible B．friendly C．available D．wrong
A．spent B．paid C．took D．cost
A．taught B．made C．asked D．gave
A．that B．when C．what D．where
A．shouted B．smiled C．cried D．worried
A．sadly B．politely C．angrily D．happily
The most positive(乐观的) person I have ever seen is may dad! He is so positive that I do not 46 hearing a single word from him which is related(相关的) to hopelessness!
Unlike most mums and dads, my dad never says things that make me feel 47 . He is always there to give me encouragement and help. 48 I do wrong things, he always tells me what’s right in a positive way. For example, if I am in 49 , he often tells me to open the books he bought me. Then he asks me to read the 50 that can help me with the problems I’m facing. After that, we have a 51 together.
Even though I’m not always a good kid, my dad 52 shouts or gets angry with me. I know that he’s 53 a day—a day when I grow up and understand things in my life.
I can see the reason that he is so positive is because he believes in 54 . And he believes that whatever 55 , it is under control. So we have nothing to worry about. Be positive!
A．mind B．keep C．like D．remember
A．good B．bad C．rich D．poor
A．When B．Until C．Before D．Since
A．fear B．trouble C．surprise D．danger
A．titles B．orders C．stories D．questions
A．discussion B．practice C．meeting D．review
A．usually B．ever C．sometimes D．never
A．looking for B．worrying about C．waiting for D．thinking about
A．itself B．myself C．himself D．yourself
A．moves B．happens C．appears D．develops
Have you ever complained(抱怨) why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your lessons sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you’ll the whole world smiling to you.
On a sunny morning, you plan to have a walk yourself. Just before you go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start to complain about the . But dear friends, why sit down and listen to the free concert that the nature brings you? And with the timely rain, crops in the fields will grow better and farmers will have a good harvest.
Everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, life isn’t a bed of roses. It’s very common to meet difficulties on the way success. In fact, difficulty isn’t terrible. The real terrible thing is that we are afraid of it. Difficulty is like spring（弹簧）. If you are , it will be strong. Attitude（态度） decides . With an optimistic (乐观的) attitude, life is easy and pleasant. So when you meet difficulties, don’t give up. Instead, you should face them with a smile. Remember these five rules: Free your heart from hate; Free your mind from worries; Live an easy life; Give more; Expect .
A．happy B．unhappy C．smile D．cry
A．look B．look for C．find D．find out
A．enjoying B．to relax C．relax D．enjoy
A．time B．whether C．weather D．place
A．don’t B．didn’t C．haven’t D．not
A．but B．and C．or D．so
A．of B．to C．about D．for
A．energetic B．powerful C．confident D．weak
A．anything B．something C．everything D．nothing
A．little B．few C．less D．Fewer
Friends are very important in our everyday life. Everyone needs friends. We all like to feel close to someone.________ is nice to have a friend to talk, laugh, and do things with. ________, sometimes we need to be alone. We don’t always want people ________. But we would feel lonely if we never had a friend.
No two people are just the same . Friends ________don’t get on well. That doesn’t mean that they no longer like each other. Most of the time they will make up and become friends again.
Sometimes friends move away. Then we feel very sad . We miss them very much, but we can________ them and write to them. And we can ________ new friends. It is encouraging to find out how much we like new people when we get to know them.
There’s more good news for people who have friends. They live________ than people who don’t. Why? Friends can make us feel happy. ________ happy helps you stay well. Or it could be just done that someone cares. If some one cares about you, you take________ care of yourself.
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完形填空。
Imagine a life without arms or legs! You can’t hold anyone in your . You can’t walk anywhere with your feet. How would you last a day like that? Would you at yourself in the mirror like Nick Vujicic, the 29-year-old Australian?
Nick was born without limbs(四肢)，so life was not for him. At school many students played jokes on him because he looked different from everyone else. He was refused to be their friends, so he always felt . However, he faced that bravely. He to type and write with two toes (脚趾) at the age of six, and he could surf and play golf. In college, he achieved great success and was among the students in the studies. And he decided on to do later in his life—to encourage others to work hard for their dreams.
Now Nick is one of the most popular speakers in the world. He travels to many countries and gives speeches about his story against difficulties. “Living life fully is about looking at what you , not what you don’t have.” He said. His story encourages millions of people.
“I tell people to keep on getting up when they and to always love themselves,” he said. “If I can encourage just one person, then my job in this life is done.”
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
My grandmother used to say to me, “You can count the number of your true friends on the fingers of one hand.” For a long time I thought this was ________ . Because there are not so many true friends in our life. But later, I’ve discovered that my grandmother was only half right. Maybe we do only ________ a few “best” friends in our lifetime, but those aren’t the only people that we can call friends. There are many different ________. Let me tell you about a few of them.
One type of friends is the type that I call the “soccer mum friend”. My neighbor Betty is a good ________ . We both have kids who play soccer, and someone has to take them to their practices and pick them up . Betty and I and two ________ mothers do this. We meet sometimes and have coffee and talk ________ what our kids are doing, but those are the only times that we see each other. I ________staying with these women, but we don’t do anything else together.
Another type is the “________ friend”. This is the person ________you share an interest or a hobby with. Doug and Charles Fisher, who are brothers, are a good example of this type. They all ________ to a bird-watching club. Every few weekends the members of the club go on hikes to watch different kinds of ________ . There’s nothing romantic about my relationship with Doug and Charles, of course. We just share an interest in birds.
________ , there’s the “other half of the couple” type of friends. Carmen is a friend that I’ve known ________ college. When Carmen married George, I knew that I would have to be ________ friend if I wanted to continue to be Carmen’s. George and I don’t share that many interests, but we do have a ________ relationship . Because he is my good friend’s husband.
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完形填空 分别通读下面两篇短文，根据短文内容，从A、B、C 三个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
When I was in high school, I didn’t do well in my schoolwork at first. ________I wanted
to go to college. I went to talk with my favorite teacher. He told ________ that there might be no chance for me to go to college. It made me very ________ .
But I didn’t give up (放弃). I might not be able to get into ________ . But I wouldn’t stop ________ . Then I found that my ________ in the past was spending too much time on science. I was not good at my schoolwork, because I wasn’t working hard on all________ .
So during the following semesters I ________ my plan. I spent more time in studying English, math and other subjects. I worked hard by ________ to the teachers carefully in class and doing more exercises after class. Now I am studying at college.
If you are not doing well at school at the moment, don’t ________ . Forget the past years and restart (重新开始) now! I believe all your dreams can come true.
A. Or B. And C. But
A. her B. him C. me
A. upset B. tired C. glad
A. hospital B. college C. Trouble
A. speaking B. spending C. trying
A. hope B. opinion C. problem
A. sports B. subjects C. dreams
A. changed B. kept C. Exchanged
A. looking B. talking C. Listening
A. give up B. pick up C. look up
A teenage girl couldn’t stand her family rules, so she left home.
She wanted to be a star and became famous. But she had a little education and years later, she had to ask for food on the street for a living. Now her father has been dead. Her mother is an old woman. But she is still her daughter. She has been to every corner of the city. Everywhere she goes, she a big photo of her daughter on the wall. At the lower part of the photo she writes, “I still love you. Come back home!”
One day, the daughter saw one of the photos. She was surprised and she couldn’t believe her . “Is that me?” She moved and read the words, “I still love you.” She cried. She couldn’t wait back home. When she got home, it was early morning. She pushed the door. The door opened itself. She rushed to the bedroom at once. Her mother was sleeping there. She her mother up, “It’s me! Your daughter is back home!” The mother and her daughter looked at each other in excitement, full of happy tears. The daughter asked, “ is the door unlocked? A thief could get in.” The mother answered softly, “The door has never locked you left. We miss you all the time. We believe that you’ll come back some day.”
As everyone knows, parents love their children forever. Children should also understand their parents and share their happiness, sadness, even everything with their parents. this way, both parents and children can be happy.
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I’m a student at No. 1 Middle School. My ____ is very big. There are about 2000 ___ in our school. They are in 45 different ______. There is a tall building near the school. Our ____ and the teachers’ offices are in the building. There is a ___ behind the building. We can read books in it. Next to it is our science lab. We have ____ lessons in it. We have got a ____ behind the science lab, and we often do sports in it. The dining hall is next to the science lab. We usually have ____ after morning classes at school. There ___ many trees and flowers in our school. Our school ____ nice. We like it very much.A. school B. class C.. room
A. teachers B. students C.classrooms.
A. classes B. schools C.class
A. offices B. playground C. classrooms
A. lab B. library C. dining hall
A. Chinese B. English C science
A. school B. gym C. library
A. lunch B. a lunch C. the lunch
A. is B are C. has
A. sees B. goes C. Looks
完形填空（10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
No man can change the weather. Nobody can control the weather. But if we read correctly the signs around us we can what the more important changes in the weather will be. This way of telling what the weather will be on the following day or two is called weather forecasting.。
For many countries and in all countries people the weather and tried to make weather forecasting. Some distant objects such as hills and tall trees seem to be very clear and near. This is a sign of much vapor(雾气) in the , and so rain will probably come. Rings around the sun are a sign of coming rain. Many people feel in their bones the coming of wet weather. Their joints(骨关节) hurt. Some birds fly high if fine weather is coming they fly near the ground if rainy or stormy weather is . It is probably because of the insects they are hunting that they fly low. If you see a rainbow during rainy weather, this is a sign that the weather will become clear and fine. Such rainbows come in the evening. If the stars twinkle at night, then fine weather will continue. If a fog appears in the morning, just about a river, then the day will be . If the sunset is mostly red in color, then the following day will be fine. If a rainbow in the morning, rainy weather will probably come. Most of the above sayings have been made by the people who have used their eyes and brains to make weather forecasting.
A．tell B．read C．write D．make
A．going B．doing C．like D．about
A．did know B．have known C．could tell D．have studied
A．air B．earth C．space D．world
A．until B．while C．however D．although
A．by the way B．on the way C．in the way D．in this way
A．when B．where C．which D．while
A．late B．clearly C．strongly D．quickly
A．warm B．cold C．windy D．snowy
A．shines B．performs C．disappears D．appears
阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后请从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
When are you an adult?
When do you think you are an adult? Maybe different have different ideas.
Now let's see what some American teenagers say.
Sam: In idea, you are an adult at the of 18. That's when you can vote(投票）. You can help to who rules the whole country. That's also a grown-up does! My grandfather couldn't vote he was 21. They changed it to 18 in 1971.
Jenny: I don't it's hard to say. I can drive a car at 16, can't I? When you have a driver's license, you can it to people to tell them your age for all kinds of things. sixteen must be the age when you change from a person to an adult. Because you can tell others you are not a any more.
Suzie: Well, I think there is wrong with American laws for when young people can things. I can vote at 18 and drive at 16. So you would think that 18 is a grown-up, 16 isn't. But then I can't drink wine until I'm 21! If I'm an adult at 18, how can people stop me from a cup of beer in a bar?
A．teenagers B．adults C．drivers D．grandfathers
A．his B．my C．her D．your
A．age B．end C．front D．number
A．make B．keep C．teach D．choose
A．after B．until C．when D．if
A．hope B．want C．like D．think
A．show B．send C．ask D．pass
A．But B．And C．So D．Or
A．old B．young C．little D．tall
A．baby B．grown-up C．boy D．kid
A．anything B．everything C．something D．nothing
A．do B．buy C．like D．borrow
A．as if B．even though C．ever since D．above all
A．already B．still C．also D．yet
A．selling B．making C．drinking D．giving
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