题目内容
Everyone needs friends. Friends bring us happiness and hope in our lives. But the ability (能力)to make friends changes from person to person. To some people, making friends is easy, and to others it’s very difficult.
Making friends is a skill, and the first thing is to know how to get along with others.
If you have trouble in making friends, maybe I can tell you how to do it.
★Realize your own good points. You have skills and talents that others will like.
★Believe that you are a good person and have something nice to share with others.
★Be humorous. Learn to laugh at yourself and your weakness. Remember to smile to others.
★Respect the others. Everyone has his own idea. Learn how to listen to others’ ideas without trying to make them accept yours.
★Be kind. If you are kind to others, they will usually be kind to you. There are hundreds of little things you can do to show kindness. Open the door for someone. Wave to a friend and so on.
★Don’t complain. Learn to accept what you can’t change, and work hard to change what you can. No one is willing to hear your complaining all the time.
★Never give up. Even if you are faced with some closed-minded people, never give up. And try to find someone who will understand you.
【小题1】 Why do we need friends according to the passage?
| A．Friends can do everything for us. |
| B．Friends can bring us happiness. |
| C．Friends accept our ideas all the time. |
| D．Without friends we could not live. |
| A．To help others. |
| B．To smile to others. |
| C．To get along with others. |
| D．To listen to others’ complaints. |
| A．Opening the door for someone. |
| B．Complaining to others all the time. |
| C．Laughing at ourselves and our weakness. |
| D．Finding someone who will understand us. |
| A．Five. | B．Seven. | C．Nine. | D．Eleven. |
| A．Learn to help your parents |
| B．Learn to make lots of friends |
| C．Learn to change yourself |
| D．Learn to accept what you can’t change |
【小题1】B
【小题2】C
【小题3】C
【小题4】B
【小题5】D
解析试题分析：这篇短文主要介绍了人与人在交朋友时是不同的，有的人容易交朋友，有的人不容易交上朋友，作者在如何交朋友方面给出了几条建议，希望能帮助人们能交到朋友。
【小题1】细节理解题。根据短文第一段Everyone needs friends. Friends bring us happiness and hope in our lives.，可知朋友能给我们带来幸福和希望，故选B。
【小题2】细节理解题。根据第二段Making friends is a skill, and the first thing is to know how to get along with others.可知交朋友的第一件是就是知道怎样与人相处。故选C
【小题3】推理判断题。根据第三条建议Be humorous. Learn to laugh at yourself and your weakness. Remember to smile to others可知自嘲是一种幽默感，故选C
【小题4】题归纳理解。根据短文描述可知作者给了七条交友的建议，故选B.
【小题5】细节理解题。根据第六条建议Learn to accept what you can’t change, and work hard to change what you can.可知要学会接受你不能改变的，努力改变你能改变的，故选D。
考点：日常生活类短文阅读。
阅读快车系列答案Will it matter if you don’t take your breakfast? A short time ago, a test was given in the United States. People of different ages, from 12 to 83, were asked to have a test. During the test, these people were given all kinds of breakfasts, and sometimes they got no breakfast at all. Scientists wanted to see how well their bodies worked when they had eaten different kinds of breakfasts.
The results show that if a person eats a right breakfast, he or she will work better than if he or she has no breakfast. If a student has fruit, egg, bread and milk before going to school, he will learn more quickly and listen more carefully.
The result is opposite to what some people think. Having no breakfast will not help you lose weight. This is because people become so hungry at noon that they eat too much for lunch. They will gain weight(增加体重) instead of losing it. You will lose more weight if you reduce your other meals.
【小题1】During the test, the people were given ________.
| A．no breakfast at all |
| B．different foods or nothing |
| C．very rich breakfast |
| D．little food for breakfast |
| A．breakfast has great effect (影响) on work and studies |
| B．breakfast has little to do with a person’s work |
| C．a person will work better if he only has fruit and milk |
| D．girl students should have little for breakfast |
| A．be healthier | B．work better | C．lose weight | D．lose your way |
| A．增加 | B．减少 | C．放弃 | D．享用 |
| A．It is bad for your health to have no breakfast. |
| B．Too little for breakfast and too much for lunch may make you fatter. |
| C．If you don’t eat much for lunch and supper, you may lose weight. |
| D．The more breakfast you have, the more quickly you’ll learn in class |
Have you ever noticed that your fingertips are winked when you’ve just finished swimming or washing dishes? It seems as if your hands have aged 30 years in a second. But is this an accident? Or is it something that nature has built into our bodies?
If your finger’s wrinkling up had no use at all, “ it wouldn’t need to.” Professor Tom Smulders from Newcastle University, UK, told BBC News. By studying wet fingers closely, Smulders and his partners found that the wrinkles looked a bit like the patterns on the car tire or on the bottom of the running shoes. So they made a guess that wrinkles on fingers might be able to help the hand hold things more tightly.
To test this, researchers asked 20 people to pick up marbles from water with their hands. But before they started, some of the people had to keep their hands in water for half an hour.
The researchers found that the people with wrinkled fingers completed the task the task faster than those with dry hands. But when they were asked to move dry marbles, all the people performed equally well, no matter they had the wrinkled fingers or not.
Our ancestors might not have played with marbles, but wrinkled fingers could have made it easier for them to climb around in the wet forests and catch fish from rivers, researchers say.
Similarly, our toes also get wrinkled in water. This may have developed from our ancestor’s need to run on wet ground.
But the question is, if wrinkled fingers are so helpful, why don’t our hands just stay that way all the time? Researchers explained that wrinkling has its disadvantage: wet fingertips are far less sensitive than smooth ones, reducing our sense of touch.
【小题1】What does the underlined world “this ” in the third paragraph refer to?
| A．Whether fingers have wrinkles after they are put in water. |
| B．Whether wrinkled fingers can hold things more tightly. |
| C．Why keeping things in water makes them wrinkled. |
| D．Why wrinkles help hands hold things more tightly. |
| A．winkled hands hold dry things more tightly than dry hands do. |
| B．dry hands hold dry things more tightly than wrinkled hands do. |
| C．winkled hands hold wet things more tightly than dry hands do. |
| D．dry hands hold wet things more tightly than wrinkled hands do. |
| A．They are too sensitive to be touched. |
| B．They might be more likely to get hurt. |
| C．They cannot hold things tightly enough. |
| D．They are not so sensitive as dry fingers. |
One Friday Mrs. King asked her class to write a story after class. “Use your imagination!” she cried, “You can write your story about anything.” Kenny looked worried. “A story?” he thought, “What could I possible have to write about? I don’t know any stories.” The bell rang and all the kids went home.
The next day, Kenny sat at his desk at home, thinking and thinking. The warm sun was shining through the windows, making him drowsy. And soon he fell fast asleep. As he slept, Kenny began to dream about fantastic things.
First he dreamed that he was a world-famous doctor, saving whole cities and curing diseases. Then he dreamed that he was in a UFO. He was talking to strange but friendly space creatures. Then he dreamed that he had become as small as a mouse by a bad scientist. He had to find a way to stop the plot（阴谋）of the mad scientist!
Kenny dreamed wonderful and exciting things until his little brother woke him up. “What were you dreaming about?” he asked. Kenny told his brother the wonderful dreams. His brother enjoyed the stories. Suddenly, Kenny knew that he had his kinds of stories in his imagination.
【小题1】 What did the teacher ask the students to do as homework?
| A．To act as a doctor | B．To read some stories |
| C．To help family members | D．To write a story |
| A．One | B．Two |
| C．Three | D．Four |
| A．A great doctor | B．A mad scientist |
| C．A visitor on a spaceship | D．A good student |
| A．unhappy | B．sleepy |
| C．upset | D．awake |
| A．A strange dream | B．Mrs. King’s class |
| C．Writing a story with imagination | D．An evil scientist |
A School Report
| Name:Edward Scott | School: Kelvin Grove State High School，London | ||
| Grade | 7 | Term ending | May 6th |
| Subjects | | ||
| Maths | He is a little weak in this, but he has tried his best to catch up with others. | ||
| Science : | He can work out many difficulties. Well done! | ||
| English : | He is the best in the class. Keep it up! | ||
| French: | His reading is very good, and he can remember many words. | ||
| History: | He is not so good at this, but he has done better than before. | ||
| Geography: | He knows the names of many places in the world. | ||
| Music | He does like pop songs, and he sings very well. | ||
| Remarks(评语) | Edward has the ability to do a lot better. More work is needed next term. | ||
| Class teacher | Ivy | ||
| Principal | M.L Martin | ||
| School reopens | 11, September | ||
| A．Science | B．English |
| C．Geography | D．French |
| A．maths and history | B．science and geography |
| C．history and French | D．music and English |
| A．Edward can’t sing songs very well. |
| B．School will begin again on May 6th. |
| C．Edward can do better if he works hard next term. |
| D．Edward doesn’t do well in science. |
If you had a chance to prepare dinner for your mother, would you choose to make it right now or some day in the future? Watch the video Paradise (天堂) Dinner by Liu Xiaoyu, a junior at[Hebei Institute of Communications, and you will find a right answer.
Recently the six-minute film Paradise Dinner won a great success on the Internet. It told the story of a son who made a big lunch for his mother, but he can only send the dinner to paradise, because his mother has been dead.
"If you do not show your filial piety to your mother right now, you might never have the opportunity in the future, because your mother is growing older and older day by day-this is the main theme of my film, " said the 21-year-old Liu.
Liu conceived(构想) the story for Paradise Dinner over his 2010 summer vacation.
One day during that holiday, Liu found his parents were not young any more. " So I decided to write a story for Paradise Dinner to call for all people, especially young people, to show more filial piety to their parents," he said.
With the help of his teachers and his schoolmates, he found actors, Zhang who played the mother and Yuan Zhen who played the son. At last he finished the film.
Many Web users said they liked the film very much and most of them cried like Liu's parents when they watched it.
【小题1】 From the passage, we know Liu Xiaoyu _____.
| A．made a big dinner for his mother |
| B．made a short video on the Intemet |
| C．has graduated from a university |
| D．sent a dinner to paradise himself |
| A．She didn't know the film. |
| B．She didn't feel moved. |
| C．She couldn't help crying when she saw the film. |
| D．She acted the mother in the film. |
| A．友善 | B．同情心 | C．仁慈心 | D．孝心 |
| A．when Liu Xiaoyu wrote the story |
| B．Liu Xiaoyu's parents were old |
| C．why Liu Xiaoyu wrote the story |
| D．why our parents should love their children |
| A．encourage p.eople to care more about their parents |
| B．introduce a short video |
| C．think highly of the talent of Liu Xiaoyu |
| D．show the kind heart of most people |
Over the last 70 years, researchers have been studying happy and unhappy people and finally found out ten factors that make a difference. Our feelings of well-being at any moment are decided to a certain degree by genes. However, of all the factors, wealth and age are the top two.
Money can buy a degree of happiness. But once you can afford to feed, clothe and house yourself, each extra dollar makes less and less difference. Researchers find that, on average, wealthier people are happier. But the link between money and happiness is complex. In the past half-century, the average income has sharply increased in developed countries, yet happiness levels have remained almost the same. Once your basic needs are met, money only seems to increase happiness if you have more than your friends, neighbors and colleagues.
“Dollars buy status (social position), and status makes people feel better,” say some experts, which helps explain why people who can seek status in other ways, scientists or actors, for example, may happily accept relatively poorly-paid jobs.
In his research, Professor Alex Michalos found that the people whose desires, not just for money, but for friends, family, job, health, rose furthest beyond what they already had, tended to be less happy than those who felt a smaller gap. Indeed, the size of the gap predicted happiness about five times better than income alone. “The gap measures just blow away the measures of only income.”says Michalos.
Another factor that has to do with happiness is age. Old age may not be so bad “Given all the problems of aging, how could the elderly be more satisfied?” asks Professor Laura Carstensen. In one survey, Carstensen interviewed 184 people between the ages of 18 and 94, and asked them to fill out an emotion questionnaire. She found that old people reported positive emotions just as often as young people. Some scientists suggest older people may expect life to be harder and learn to live with it, or they’re more realistic about their time running out. Older people have learned to focus on things that make them happy and let go of those that don’t.
“People realize not only what they have, but also that what they have cannot last forever,” she says. “A goodbye kiss to a husband or wife at the age of 85, for example, may bring far more complex emotional responses than a similar kiss to a boy or girl friend at the age of 20.”
【小题1】Some actors would like to accept poorly-paid jobs because the jobs__________.
| A．make them feel much better |
| B．provide chances to make friends |
| C．improve their social position |
| D．satisfy their professional interests |
| A．the gap between reality and desire is bigger |
| B．they have a stronger desire for friendship |
| C．the hope for good health is much greater |
| D．their income is far below their expectation |
| A．would like to have more goodbye kisses than young people |
| B．are used to living a hard life because they are kind to others |
| C．express their positive opinions just as some young people do |
| D．find it easier to feel happy because they are more realistic |
| A．increases gradually with age |
| B．is controlled partly by desires |
| C．has little to do with wealth |
| D．is decided mostly by genes |
Years ago I worked at a factory in a small county. Every day I got up very early and often did much extra work at night. I was so tired and exhausted. My whole life was hopeless. Then one day I read the following article from a magazine:
"A woman went to live with her husband in camp on the Mojave Desert during the war. She simply hated the place: the heat was almost un-bearable, 125 degrees in the shade, the wind blew incessantly, and there was sand everywhere. Finally, in desperation (不顾一切地) she wrote her parents in Ohio that she couldn't stand it another minute and was coming home.
Quickly came the reply by airmail from her father——just two lines:
"Two men looked out from prison bars. One saw the mud, the other saw stars."
The daughter did some real thinking, not only with the intellect (思维) but also with her heart. She decided to stick to her post.
She made friends with the natives, learned to love the country, and eventually wrote a book about it.
The desert hadn't changed, but her attitude had. Because she listened with her heart to the words her father sent, a whole new world opened up to her.
A change of attitude could change everything.
After reading the article, I was deep in thought (陷入沉思)…
【小题1】At first, the woman the life with her husband in the desert.
| A．could stand. | B．could accept. |
| C．couldn’t stand. | D．couldn’t understand. |
| A．look at the mud. | B．look at the stars. |
| C．come home. | D．stay with her husband. |
| A．a woman went to live with her husband in camp. |
| B．the desert hadn't changed, but her attitude had. |
| C．the daughter's parents wanted her to stay with her husband. |
| D．a change of attitude could change everything. |
| A．give up the tiring work. | B．go to the desert. |
| C．write a letter to father. | D．go on the work. |
When my son, Mark, was in the third grade, he saved all his pocket money for over three months to buy Christmas presents. The third Saturday in December Mark said he had made his list and had twenty dollars in his pocket.
I drove him to a nearby supermarket. Mark picked up a basket and went in while I waited and watched in the car. It took Mark over 45 minutes to choose his presents. Finally he came to the checkout counter and reached into his pocket for his money. It was not there! There was a hole in his pocket, but no money. Mark stood there holding his basket, tears falling down his face.
Then a surprising thing happened. A woman came up to Mark and took him in her arms. "You would help me a lot if you let me pay for you," said the woman. "It would be the most wonderful gift you could give me. I only ask that one day you will pass it on. When you grow up, I would like you to find someone you can help. When you help others, 1 know you will feel as good about it as I do now."
Mark took the money, dried his tears and ran back to the checkout counter as fast as he could. That year we all enjoyed our gifts almost as much as Mark enjoyed giving them to us.
I would like to say “thank you” to that very kind woman, and tell her that four years later, Mark went house to house collecting blankets and clothes for the homeless people in the fire. And I want to promise her that Mark will never forget to keep passing it on.
【小题1】When did the story probably happen?
| A．On Christmas Day. | B．Before Christmas Day, |
| C．On New Year's Day. | D．After New Year's Day. |
| A．with the writer | B．by himself |
| C．with the woman | D．with his friends |
| A．His gifts were stolen. | B．He broke his basket. |
| C．He lost his money. | D．He lost his way. |
| A．Because she bought Mark a nice present. |
| B．Because she always paid money for others. |
| C．Because she collected clothes for the homeless. |
| D．Because she taught Mark to help people in need. |
| A．A big supermarket | B．A kind woman |
| C．A happy family | D．A wonderful gift |