A kind woman baked an extra loaf of bread hungry passer-by. She placed it beside a window and prayed for her son. He went to a faraway land.

A tramp(流浪汉)would always came to take away the bread. As he left, he would always say, "The evil you do remains with you. The good you do comes back to you. "

The woman felt irritated. '"Not even a word of thanks'", she said to herself.

Finally the woman became so angry that she decided to add poison to the loaf. As she was placing it, her hands shook. "Look at what I've done!" she said. She immediately threw the bread away and made another one.

As usual, the tramp came and picked up the bread.

That evening, there was a knock on the door. Surprisingly, the woman's son was standing in the doorway. He was tired and weak. "Mom, it's a miracle that I can come back home! I nearly starved to death as I got closer. Thanks to an old tramp, he gave me a loaf of bread. He said that he got it from a nice lady. "

The woman's face turned pale at once. The tramp's words suddenly came back to her, "The evil you do remains with you. The good you do comes back to you. "

1.What does the underlined word "irritated" mean?

A.scared B.excited C.angry D.thankful

2.After hearing what her son said, the woman's face turned pale because ______________.

A.her son was dying of hungry.

B.she got angrier with the tramp

C.she nearly poisoned her own son.

D.the tramp didn't truly help her son

3.The story teaches us that ________.

A.good things only happen to nice people

B.there is no such thing as a free lunch.

C.we should be good and do good things

D.we shouldn't judge people by their looks

I didn’t want to be a bodybuilding champion. I wanted to be the best bodybuilder of all time.

Deep, deep down ask yourself, “Who do you want to be?” Not what, but who. I’m talking about thinking it out for yourself, “What makes you happy?”

You have to think outside the box. That’s what I believe, after all. What’s the point of being on this Earth if all you want to be is to be liked and avoid trouble?

We have so many rules in life about everything. I say break the rules. Don’t break the law, but break the rules.

I remember that after I had finished with my bodybuilding career I wanted to act. I wanted to be a star in films. Everyone had the same thought that I couldn’t be done. They said, “Look at this body, you have this huge monstrous body, you’re overly developed.” They thought I wouldn’t fit into movies. But I didn’t listen to them. Those were their rules. I was completely certain that I could do it.

Then I got my big chance in Conan the Barbarian. That shows you should trust yourself no matter what anyone else thinks.

On that movie, the director said, “If we didn’t have Schwarzenegger, we would have to build one.” Then when I did The Terminator, I said, “I’ll be back…” One of the famous lines in movie history, all because of my crazy voice. It just shows that you should never listen to those who say you can’t do something.

Don’t be afraid to fail. In everything that I have tried, I’ve always been willing to fail. Don’t be afraid of making decisions. You can’t be frightened with the fear of failure or you will never push yourself. You can push because you believe in yourself and your imagination. You know it’s the right thing to do and success will come. Don’t be afraid to fail.

---By Arnold Schwarzenegger

1.We know from his speech that Schwarzenegger is _______.

A. confident and strong-willed B. patient and honest

C. modest and old-fashioned D. stupid and proud

2.The underlined phrase “think outside the box” in Paragraph 3 means _______.

A. think while standing outside the box instead of inside the box

B. think about the outside world in an open way

C. go outside to see the outside world

D. think in a creative and unusual way

3.In this speech, Schwarzenegger mainly suggests that people should _______.

A. break the rules and laws when necessary

B. trust themselves and never be afraid of failure

C. think twice before making important decisions

D. not push themselves too strongly and hard

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