Do you sometimes try something new and expect to be successful for the first time? Are you angry with ____ if you aren’t?
Do you know a baby how to learn to walk? When a baby falls, the loving parent ____ him, “That’s OK. Try again.” Can you imagine if after many falls, the parent ____ the baby and says, “Well, I guess you’ll ____ be good at walking.” and doesn’t let the child continue to try?
Remember the first time you ____ your bike? I do. I didn’t lose my ____. I went back and tried again. Didn’t you?
“When I was a kid,” my dad told me, “you know, I ____ 4 UP(一种汽水饮料), but it wasn’t very good. I went back to the lab and ____ 5 UP and still, it wasn’t right. ____ I tried 6 UP, but it didn’t succeed. So I stopped. If I went on ____, may be 7 UP would be the hit!” Time after time, he said, he ____ too soon. He told me, “If I had tried one more, I could have been a rich man.”
Thomas Edison ____ over a thousand ____ before he found the filament(n.电灯泡的)灯丝 material that would make an electric light bulb shine.
____ we try something new, we need practice. No matter how well we plan, there are times unexpected problems developing.
Failure is ____ not an option(选择). It is a chance only for those who try.
A.you B.yourself C.yours D.your
A.obeys B.beats C.encourages D.hates
A.picks up B.dresses up C.cleans up D.looks up
A.nearly B.always C.never D.often
A.fell off B.fell down C.fell from D.fell over
A.confidence B.chance C.dream D.plan
A.produced B.invented C.thought D.wanted
A.started with B.came up with C.looked forward to D.was willing to
A.Finally B.First C.Luckily D.Second
A.try B.trying C.to try D.tried
A.gave out B.gave up C.gave away D.gave in
A.fail B.fell C.failed D.felt
A.times B.time C.money D.chance
A.Whenever B.Whatever C.However D.Whichever
A.truly B.really C.hardly D.easily
完形填空 阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳答案填空。
A boy was walking in the street a man came over him and him the way the station.
The boy was very naughty(顽皮的). He wanted play a joke on the man. He pointed to side of the road and said, “Go down the street until you reach a shop. You can find it on your left.” The man thanked him and went away.
A few minutes , the man came back. He said to boy that there was only a bookshop there and he find the station.
The boy and said, “ a map in the bookshop, and you’ll find the way!”
A. but B. because C. when
A. from B. to C. for
A. ask B. asked C. tell
A. to B. for C. at
A. to do B. to C. show
A. another B. the other C. one more
A. before B. after C. later
A. can’t B. may not C. couldn’t
A. cried B. smiled C. run
A. Buy B. Carry C. Show
完型填空(共10分,每小题1分)
Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes 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 find the whole world smiling to you.
On a sunny morning, you plan to have a walk to relax yourself. Just before you go out, it starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start to complain about the weather. But dear friends, why sit down and listen to the free concert that the nature brings you? And with the timely rain, crops (庄稼) in the fields will grow better and farmers will have a good harvest (收成).
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 to success. , difficulty isn't terrible. The real terrible thing is that we are afraid of it. Difficulty is a spring (弹簧). If you are , it will be strong. So when you meet difficulties, don't give up. Instead you should face them with a smile.
Attitude (态度) everything. With an optimistic (乐观的) attitude, life is easy and . If you want to be happy, try to remember these five rules: Free your heart from hate; Free your mind from worries; Live an easy life; Give more; Expect less. The quickest way to receive happiness is to smile, the fastest way to lose it is to complain.
A.is B.seems C.seemed D.seem
A.cry B.smile C.complain D.laugh
A.suddenly B.finally C.hardly D.certainly
A.don't B.not C.didn't D.doesn't
A.But B.For C.So D.Although
A.In fact B.From early on C.For example D.Such as
A.unlike B.likes C.likely D.like
A.powerful B.weak C.confident D.strong
A.decides B.deciding C.to decide D.decide
A.please B.pleased C.pleasant D.pleasure
完型填空
Someone says, “Time is money.” But I think time is important than money. Why? Because when money spent, we can get it back. However, when time is , it’ll never . That is we mustn’t waste time.
It goes without saying that the is usually limited(有限的). Even a second is very important. We should make full use of our time to do useful.
But it is a pity that there are a lot of people who know the importance of time. They spent their limited time smoking, drinking, and playing. They do not know that wasting time means wasting part of their own .
In a word, we should save time. We shouldn’t today’s work for tomorrow.
Remember we have no time to .
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When someone says, “Well, I guess I’ll have to face the music”, it doesn’t mean that he is planning to go to hear a singer or a concert. It shows you may feel uncomfortable when you are called in by your leader to why you did this and that or why you did not do this or that. If you “face the music”, you are sure to be less unhappy than that.
Every one of us has to “face the music” at some time or another, especially as . We can all remember father’s words “I want to talk to you”. And only because we did not listen to him. What a(an) thing it was!
In the middle or at the end of every , we students have to “face the music”. The result of the exam will whether we will face the music or not. If we don’t get good , that means parents’ cold faces and contempt (轻视) of the teachers and classmates.
“To face the music” is to every American, young or old. It is at least 100 years old. It really that you have to do something, no matter how terrible the whole thing might be, because you know you have no choice.
A.manage B.attend C.miss D.forget
A.discover B.believe C.explain D.encourage
A.friends B.teachers C.leaders D.children
A.angry B.magical C.exciting D.honest
A.terrible B.important C.interesting D.careful
A.season B.term C.year D.month
A.follow B.change C.decide D.realize
A.chances B.marks C.tools D.choices
A.known B.strange C.safe D.harmful
A.discusses B.covers C.develops D.means
完形填空
In fact, every day is a new day for us. Just like Forrest Gump’s saying, “Life is like a box ________chocolates, you never know what you are going to get.” Sometimes it can be very ________ to turn one of these days around. What can we do when we are sad?
First, we have to face the problem. Sometimes we are not ________ . We ask ourselves________we are not happy. Don’t ________ those unhappy things all day. Just think about those happy ones.
Second, ________ourselves we can be happy. The two sentences “ I like myself! ” and “ I want to be happy today!” are ________ . It can turn a bad day into a good day.
Third, ________ is a good way for you to be happy. Exercise is a relaxing(放松) way, ________ it can help you to be happy after exercise.
Remember, please! Your mood(心情) and your life are in your ________ .
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Everyone in our school loves . We do morning exercises after we . We have P.E. classes a week, and we play sports at five every afternoon. The most sport is basketball. The boys enjoy playing it and many of the girls like it, too. Another popular sport is football and in every class there a lot of football fans. Usually volleyball is played outside when the weather is . We have school teams in basketball, football and volleyball. Our teams often have friendship matches with teams from schools.
Besides ball games, some of us like running, and throwing. Every term we have tests in these events and once a year we a sports meeting.
Sports help to keep us and happy.
A.art B.music C.sports D.painting
A.have dinner B.get up C.get home D.have lunch
A.the second B.two C.second D.twice
A.popular B.boring C.tiring D.difficult
A.is B.was C.are D.were
A.windy B.rainy C.terrible D.fine
A.other B.others C.another D.the other
A.writing B.jumping C.singing D.drawing
A.build B.take C.have D.make
A.health B.healthy C.healthier D.unhealthy
完形填空 先通读下面的短文,掌握其大意,然后从下面四个答案中选择可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。
“I’ve been writing a book, John. Do you think anyone would be interested in ________ _ it?” said the old lady.
John took over the papers from her shaking hand and let her sit in a chair. He remembered her rich _________ in the early days of the Old West. He looked through the papers. “It’s good, Grandma,” he said gently. Then realizing that she _________ hear him, he shouted into her ears. “I think it’s very good. I’ll send it to a publisher (出版商).”
Ten days later, he reported that the publisher had read a few ________ _ . He agreed to publish it, and he had paid $100 for the copyright (版权). ________ money would be given as an advance (预付款). Every month, John brought her $100 with a letter from the publisher telling about the progress of the book.
One morning, three months after her 100th birthday, Grandma didn’t get up. The doctor told her that she couldn’t _________ more than a few days. She was ready to go, but she first wanted her book to be in print. John promised that she could get it very soon.
Grandma held on until the day the book came into her hands. She proudly touched her book with her fingers, tears in her eyes. Two hours later, she died peacefully, ________ holding her book.
Her granddaughter took the book and ________ _ it. “Why, it’s just blank (空白) pages!” She cried in surprise. John’s face turned ________. Then the girl understood. There never was a book. It was John ________, who couldn’t take away his grandmother’s only hope, had written the letters and sold his car to pay the advance.
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Three small fish lived in the sea. When they were very young, their parents died. They had to look after each other day after day. Finally, they grew up and were to swim deeper and further.
One morning. the three fish were to a shallow (浅) water by a big wave (浪). A small was taken there. too. It was hard for the fish to go back to the sea because the boat was fight in front of them. The largest fish realized that they were in and said they had to find a way to leave there as fast as possible. The second largest fish with his elder brother, but the youngest one did not. He said that there was much for their activities, so he would not worry at all and still swam around . At last, the largest fish returned to the by jumping over the lowest part of the boat. The second largest fish also succeeded in joining his eider brother in the other side of water. the youngest one didn't follow them and still swam joyfully.
Two hours later, when the rose up, the water in the small shallow corner dried up. The fish who did not try to return to the sea died of lack(缺乏)of water.
A. afraid B. sad C. pleased
A. allowed B. given C. taken
A. tree B. boat C. stick
A. safety B. danger C. peace
A. agreed B. talked C. compared
A. time B. food C. water
A. slowly B. luckily C. happily
A. sea B. river C. lake
A. And B. But C. So
A. storm B. moon C sun
完形填空 阅读短文,从每题所给选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
“A friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” Sometimes in 1ife,you find a special friend:
Someone who changes your just by being part of it;
Someone who makes you laugh until you can’t ;
Someone who makes you believe that there really is in the world;
Someone who convinces(使相信) you that there really is an door just waiting for you to open it. This is Forever Friendship.
When you’re , and the world seems dark and empty, your forever friend you up in spirits and makes that dark and empty world suddenly seem bright and .
Your forever friend gets you the hard times and the sad times.If you turn and walk away, your forever friend . If you 1ose your way,your forever friend guides you,encourages you,holds your and tells you that everything is going to be OK.
And if you such a friend, you fee1 happy,because you not worry.You have a forever friend for life,and forever has no .
A true friend is someone who gives you a hand and touches your heart.
Remember: happens,happens for a reason.
How many people have eight true friends in fact? Hardly I know.But some of us have all right friends and good friends.
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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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