Several days ago, one of my students came into my office, looking down. He thought he had too much stress — he has homework to do every day, he has too many after-school classes every weekend, he doesn’t like his history teacher, his younger sister is crying all the time when he needs a quiet environment to study, his parents always compare him with his classmates, ...

The problems are commonly seen on most of the Chinese students. I comforted my student with one sentence: Don’t you know you were much stronger than you thought?

Why did I say so? Because everyone has strength.What is strength? It is not always about physical strength. Rather, it is about will, training and the ability to get things done. I know some students who are clever, but they get very little done in their studies. And I know others find work extremely challenging, but are able to move mountains through hard work. They have inner strength. More interesting is that those hard-workers often don’t even notice the stress. When they are asked “How do you make it?”, the answers usually comes back: “I just work harder than the others.”

Some losers often have self-imposed(自己强加的) boundaries(边界) — I can’t do that(Why?); that is too much for me(How do you know?); I can’t put in that much effort(What would happen if you did?). All these are limits(局限).

Then, how can they get stronger? By pushing themselves until the boundaries disappear. By pushing themselves until they get better.

1.What can we know from the student’s words?

A.He was looking for something.

B.He was worried and unhappy.

C.His parents didn’t love him.

2.Most Chinese students have problems with the following aspects(方面)EXCEPT _______.

A.schoolwork B.social relationship C.teachers’ suggestions

3.Why do some clever students achieve little?

A.Because they are not willing to spend time working hard.

B.Because the work is too challenging.

C.Because they know how much the stress is.

4.If your friend complains(抱怨) “I’m not smart enough to solve that,” what the writer may say to him?

A.Let it go.

B.Believe in yourself.

C.Are you really sure about that if you haven’t tried hard?

5.What can we infer(推断) from the passage?

A.Hard-workers don’t have any stress.

B.People can find their inner strength through hard work.

C.By pushing themselves, people can get whatever they want.

As a teenager, school was difficult for me. I had a kind of attention disorder, which means I couldn’t direct my attention to what I was doing. So when everyone else in the class was centering their attention on tasks, I could not.

In my first reading class, Mrs. Smith asked us to read a story and then write on it, all finished in 45 minutes. I immediately put up my hand and said, “Mrs. Smith, you see, the doctor said I have attention problems. I might not be able to finish the task.”

She looked down at me through her glasses, saying, “You are not different from your classmates, young man.” With her encouragement, I tried. But I didn’t finish the reading when the bell rang. I had to take it home.

In the quietness of my bedroom, the story suddenly all became clear to me. It was about a blind person, Louis Braille. He lived in a time when the blind couldn’t get much education. But Louis didn’t give up. Instead, he invented a reading system of raised dots(点), which opened up a whole new world of knowledge to the blind.

Wasn’t I the “blind” in my class, being made to learn like the “sighted” students? With thoughts running through my head, I found myself deeply attracted in reading and writing. I completed the task in less than 40 minutes. I realized that I was not different from others. I just needed a quieter place. If Louis could find his way out of his problem, why should I ever give up?

I didn’t expect anything when I handed in my paper to Mrs. Smith, so it was quite a surprise when it came back to me the next day with an “A” on it. At the bottom of the paper were these words, “See what you can do when you keep trying?”

1.School was difficult for the writer because ________.

A.he didn’t like the teacher B.the tasks were too boring to him

C.he got a kind of attention disorder D.his classmates talked with him in class

2.Mrs. Smith’s words in Paragraph 3 show that ________.

A.she encouraged him B.she laughed at him C.she felt sorry for him D.she was pleased with him

3.What can we learn from the passage?

A.Never stop reading. B.Never give up easily. C.How to be a great teacher. D.How to learn as a blind.

Suzie goes to her art class on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. She always looks forward to those days when she can do creative things all afternoon. She loves making bowls and cups out of clay(粘土).

Last month she learned to put pottery(陶器) into a hot oven(炉子), called a kiln, to make it hard and strong. What Suzie likes best about art is the good feeling she gets when she has finished working on a piece of art. And then when she takes it home to show her parents she feels so proud of what she has made.

On Wednesday Suzie wrote an article about why she thought the school should have two short breaks a day rather than one long break. Lots of her friends thought that this would be a good idea too. Many teachers also agreed with Suzie’s suggestion.

The head teacher of the school asked everyone in the school to vote(表决)on Suzie’s suggestion. During the vote, each person in the school had one vote. Together, the school decided that two short breaks would be better than one long break. All of this happened because Suzie wrote about her idea in the school newspaper.

On the day the newspaper comes out, the first thing Suzie does is to check where her article is in the newspaper. And each month, at the beginning of her article, are the words: By Suzanne Jefferson.

On the way home from school yesterday, Suzie got to think about how much art and writing are the same. In art class she thinks of creative things to make, and then spends a lot of time making it look just right.

And when she writes articles for the school newspaper, she thinks of creative things to say, and then spends a lot of time making it sound just right. And when she has finished writing a really good sentence, she feels almost as if she has made a beautiful piece of art.

Suzie rushed home so she could write something shortly before dinner. She already had lots of ideas for next month’s newspaper. And she wanted to make sure that none of her creative ideas floated away before she wrote them down on paper

1.What does Suzie like making ____out of clay?

A.plates B.ovens C.bowls and cups D.newspaper

2.The article that Suzie has written is about ____.

A.creative things should be learned

B.the school should have two short breaks a day

C.everyone in the school to vote on Suzie’s suggestion

D.students should write something

3.The underlined word”it” refer to ____

A.writing articles B.making pottery C.a piece of art D.creative things

4.According to Suzie, what’s the same thing between making pottery and writing articles?

A.They are both done easily. B.They are both done difficultly.

C.They both need to be shown. D.They both need creative ideas

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