Hemingway was one of the famous writers. He was born in America in 1889. His father was a doctor and loved sports very much, and his mother taught music .Among the six children in the family, Hemingway was the second oldest.

  Hemingway had written many books in his life. The old man and the sea is one of the most famous and also my favourite . It came out in 1952 .The main c haracter in the book is a fisherman. He is an old man and fishes alone. People think he is a man with bad luck , becau se he does not get a fish in eighty-four days .Every evening ,he comes home with his empty boat .But the old man believes himself . Then on the eighty-fifth day the man takes a big fish. Although he meets a lot of trouble, the old man never gives up.

选择正确答案,

1.Hemingway’s father was a fan of __________.

A.books     B. sports   C.  music    D. art

2.The old man and the sea was published in __________.

A. 1852     B.1899     C.  1952     D. 1989

3.The old man does not get a fish until the _______day.

A. fifteenth             B. eightieth

C. eighty-fourth         D. eighty—fifth

4.What does the old man do when he can not get a fish?

A. He has to look for food somewhere.

B. He does not give up fishing.

C. He does not fish any more.

D. He has nothing to do .

5.What can we learn from the old man ?

A. When we in trouble , we should not give up.

B. When we want to fish , we can get a big fish .

C. We can do everything well because we are  young .

D. We can live a better life if we like fishing .

 

 

Nick Vujicic was born, without arms and legs, in 1982 in Melbourne, Australia. Nick

faced all kinds of problems and troubles in his life. But he never gives up. Now Nick

has his own speaking company; Attitude Is Attitude. And he has traveled around the

world to give speeches. He shares (分享)with his audience(观众)the importance

of vision (幻觉)and dreaming big. He says attitude (态度) is the most powerful tool

in the life and failure (失败) is just a learning experience.

Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook, is only 28. In only 8 years, Zuck turned his

small website into a world famous network. Zuck once wrote to his workmates, "We

don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services"

Jeremy Lin's excellent performances in basketball courts attracted the eyes of both

Americans and Chinese this year. Then what has led this young man to such a success?

The following may help us understand it.

Believe in yourself;

Catch the chance when it comes up;

Find the system that works for your style;

People will love you for being yourself;

Stay humble (谦逊).

 

Where there is a will,there is a way

1.Attitude Is Attitude is _______.

A.the title of Nick's speech                  B.Nick's company

C.an international organization               D.a machine that can speak

2.Which of the following about Nick is wrong?

A.Nick had no arms or legs when he was born

B.He says people can learn from their failures

C.He tells his audience to dream big and have vision

D.He has never traveled around the world so far

3.Facebook is _________________.

A.a world-wide network                    B.Zuck's workmate

C.a popular book                         D.Zuck's boss

4.Attitude Is Attitude is _______.

A.Facebook doesn't build services

B.Facebook doesn't make money

C.offering better services is more important than making money

D.building services doesn't make money

5.From Jeremy Lin's success, we can find _______.

A.one must have self-confidence

B.catching the chance is the most important

C.one should try his best to follow others

D.one must keep the rules all the time

 

My grandfather is a teacher. He is the head teacher of a school for boys between the ages of thirteen and eighteen. I know that he is a kind man, because he gives me presents(礼物), and let me sit on his knees(膝盖), and tells me stories. But I believe(相信) the boys at his school are afraid of him. At school, when he walks into a room full of boys, they will be quiet at once(立刻). When he looks at a boy with a certain look in his eyes, that boy’s face goes red, and looks down at his shoes. If a boy brings careless(粗心的)work, my grandfather will pick up the boy’s book and throw(扔) it across the room, shouting(喊), “Do it all again, and bring it back the first thing in the morning!” if the boy is late, or if he forgets to bring the work, he has to do it again, and again and yet again.

1.My grandfather is ______.

A.a kind teacher

B.a teacher, and he gives presents to his students.

C.the head teacher of a boy’s school

D.a boy at a school. In that school, everyone was afraid of the head teacher.

2.I know my grandfather is kind because_________.

A.he is the head teacher of a boy’s school.

B.he gives me presents and tells me stories.

C.he tells me stories about how kind he is.

D.the boys at his school aren’t afraid of him.

3.When he looks at a boy in a certain way, that boy ________

A.goes red in the face and could not return my grandfather’s look.

B.looks back at my grandfather’s red face

C.looks at his shoes to see if they are dirty.

D.goes red in the face because his shoes are dirty.

4.My grandfather does not like to receive________

A.my poor work

B.the work that the boys can’t do

C.his students’ careless work

D.the most careful work

5.When he receives any boy’s poor work, my grandfather will____

A.shout at him and throw it across the room

B.go red in the face

C.throw his students’ books and shout in the room.

D.throw the book at the boy

 

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