When I was in college, I heard about a book titled “Looking Out for Number One”. I never read the book, and I didn’t like it. I think it was because the title_______I hadn’t been taught to be so selfish that I should focus on only me. I thought I needed to help others and, along the way, I would also help myself. Now, I realize I should have at least considered learning more about looking out for number one.

Many years after seeing the book about looking out for number one, I’m realizing number one, me, is the person I should care first. Jeffrey Gitomer asks the question, “Who is the most important person in the world?” Most people answer, “the customer.” He then asks, “If there were only two people left in the world, the customer and you, who would you want to survive (生存)?” Now the answer is me.

It makes sense that if we can’t help ourselves first, we will never be ready to help others. We all need to learn to control our lives and make the best decisions for ourselves. That will put us in the position to help others in the future. But many of us are slow to understand this.

It is said that happiness will bring success, but success doesn’t always bring happiness. We all want to be happy and successful. Some of us can be very happy when our basic needs are met and our family are safe. Others will seek for high levels of success, thinking that will bring happiness. I’m sure we can think of some people who are very successful, according to the world’s standards (标准), but they appear to be unhappy sometimes. This is because they have been so busy working for somebody else’s goals that they haven’t considered their own needs.

1.The underlined phrase “turned me off” in Paragraph One probably means “________”.

A. made me bored B. made me excited

C. made me happy D. made me surprised

2.Who does the writer think is the most important person in the world?

A. The customer. B. Others.

C. Jeffery Gitomer. D. Himself.

3.From the third paragraph, we can learn ________.

A. we should help others instead of ourselves

B. actually few of us understand this idea earlier

C. helping others can help us to control our lives

D. we need to help others make the best decisions

4.Sometimes successful people feel unhappy because ________.

A. they seek for too high levels of success

B. they haven’t worked for their own goals

C. their basic needs are not completely met

D. they think success can’t bring happiness

5.The best title for the passage can be ________.

A. Happiness and Success Come Together

B. Always Helping Others First

C. The Most Important People in the World

D. Looking Out for Number One

If you think GM food sounds far away from you, you are totally wrong. In fact, you may eat GM food every day. Four of every five people in the world are eating GM food, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.

According to Xinhua News Agency, in China, the only GM plants that are grown for sale are cotton and papaya. Also, China buys some GM plants from other countries, such as soybeans and corn. The GM plants are used to make other products.

A reporter once said, “In China, more than half of cooking oil is soybean oil. And 90 percent of that oil is made from GM soybeans.” So it’s possible that we eat GM food every day!

Scientists have changed GM plants’ DNA in a laboratory. Scientists usually do this to protect plants against bugs and diseases and have more harvests. Many people think it’s against nature. Also, they worry that eating such food might be bad for their health.

Is GM food safe? There’s no agreement. Some people say that GM food causes tumors. But there are no long-term safety studies about GM food. If you want to stay away from GM food, you can start by checking the cooking oil in your home.

1. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, _____people in the world aren’t eating GM food.

A.20% B.40% C.60% D.80%

2.In China, people grow GM plants for sale like ______.

A.cotton and papaya B. soybeans and corn

C.cotton and corn D.soybeans and papaya

3.What does the underlined word “harvest” mean in Chinese?

A. 损失 B. 种子 C.收成 D. 疾病

4. Which of the following is NOT TURE according to the passage?

A.In fact, GM food isn’t far away from us.

B.People use the GM plants to make other products.

C.In China, about a quarter of cooking oil is soybean oil.

D. Some people say that the GM food causes tumors.

5. What’s the main idea of this passage?

A. It’s about GM plants grown in the laboratory.

B. It’s about cooking oil made from GM soybeans.

C. It’s about some facts about GM food around us.

D. It’s about studies about the safety of GM food.

Baloo the bear, Leo the Lion and Shere Khan the tiger have the most unusual and unlikely friendship between them. They were saved eight years ago, when they were cubs only two months old.

They were first sent to a rescue(救护)center, where they were raised together. Now they are in an American zoo. Because they came here as a kind of family, the zoo built a large clubhouse so that they could all sleep in it.

Now they have grown up. You can see them playing around like brothers. The three big animals seem to no sense(意识) of their animal differences.

Baloo and Shere Khan are very close. That is because they rise early, as Leo being a lion likes to spend most the day sleeping. When Leo wakes up the three of them mess around for most of the day before they settle down to some food. It is wonderful to see a giant American Black Bear put his arm around a Bengal tiger and then to see the tiger touch the bear with his nose lightly like a pet cat. You can often see they lie on top of each other for heat and for love.

“They are not wild animals any more. But you must remember who you are dealing with when you are with them,” said one of the zoo keepers.

1.The passage is mainly about ___________.

A. how to save animals B. where animals should stay

C. the friendship between animals D. man and animals

2.The underlined word “cubs” here means _________.

A. 幼崽 B. 存活 C. 分开 D. 收养

3.Balllo and Shere Khan are a bit close because _________.

A. they both like to get up early. B. they don’t like Leo

C. Leo likes to sleep all day D. they live in one clubhouse

4.How do you think these three animals will feel when they are together?

A. bored B. worried C. relaxed D. scared

5.What does the last paragraph want to tell us?

A. Animals can be dangerous. B. Animals are not friendly to man.

C. Animals are only nice to animals. D. Animals are our friends.

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