One afternoon many years ago, I sat down on a chair in a park and watched a little boy, around 2 years old, running freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short distance.The boy would fall to the grass, get up, and without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could as if nothing had happened.
When kids fall down, they don't think of the fall as a failure.Instead, they consider it as a learning experience.They try and try again until they succeed.
While I was touched by the boy's strong mind, I was also touched by the way he ran.With each attempt, he looked so confident and natural.He only wanted to run freely and to do it as well as he could.He was just being a child-just being himself-being completely in the moment.He never gave up.Each time he fell, he got himself back up again, as if he knew that falling down was simply a part of life.
He was not looking for others' smiles, or worrying about whether someone was watching or not.He only wanted to run and to feel the experience of running fully and freely.I learned a lot from that experience, and have successfully brought that lesson with me in many parts in my life.
(1)
From Paragraph 1, we know that the boy's mother ________.
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A.
was strict with him
B.
had a special way to educate her son
C.
didn't love her son as much as others
D.
was too weak to help her son get up
(2)
Which is TRUE according to the writer?
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A.
Kids know they will learn something after falling down.
B.
Kids do not get themselves up when they fall down.
C.
Falling is always considered a failure by kids.
D.
Falling causes kids to give up running freely.
(3)
The writer was touched by the boy because the boy ________.
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A.
might stop running when he fell down
B.
never fell down if he made up his mind to run
C.
didn't care about the fall and went on running
D.
was good at running and never fell down
(4)
What does the underlined word “attempt” mean? It means ________
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A.
攻击
B.
尝试
C.
失败
D.
冲击
(5)
What can we learn from the story?
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A.
Falling down will make a person feel frightened from then on.
B.
Falling down is the mother of success.
C.
When others are watching, people fall down easily.
D.
One will succeed if he/she is confident and never gives up.
You will have a lot of reading to do in this grade this year.You can do more of it in less time if you learn to read rapidly.
Perhaps you have been told about some habits (习惯) which keep a person from reading fast and have been strongly asked to break those habits which you might have.
Do you still have any of these bad habits?Check yourself by answering“yes”or“no”to these questions.
(1) Do you move your lips (嘴唇) when reading silently?
(2) Do you point to words with your finger as you read?
(3)Do you move your head from side to side as you read?
(4)Do you read one word at a time?
If you answer“yes”to any of these questions,start at once to break the habit.If you move your tips,hold your fingers over them,or hold a piece of paper be-tween your lips while you are reading.Then if your lips move,your will know it and can stop them.
If you point to words,hold the two sides of your book,one side with your left hand,the other side with your right hand.Then you won't have a free finger to use in pointing while reading.If you move your head,place your chin (下巴) in one hand and hold your head still (静止不动的).
If you read no more than one or two or three words at a time,you need to work very hard in learning to take in (吸收) more words at each glance (一瞥) as your eyes travel across the lines of words.
Even if you do rather fast now,you can learn to read even faster.As you probably have been told,the secret of fast reading is to take in whole groups of words as each glance.Read in through groups and force (迫使) your eyes along the lines of words as fast as you can to make them go.Anyone who practices doing these things will he able to read faster.
(1)
You may hold your fingers over your lips while reading so as ______.
A.to tell others to be silent
B.to feel whether your lips move or not
C.to hold a piece of paper between them
D.to keep yourself from talking to others
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(2)
When you read,______.
A.don't keep your head still
B.don't hold your books with your hands
C.don't stand up near a desk
D.don't use your finger to point to words
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(3)
If you learn to read fast,______.
A.you can read more in less time
B.you can write faster
C.you can understand better
D.you can read less in more time
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(4)
You must _______ those habits that we are talking about in this reading.