There was a time when I thought my dad didn’t know how to be a good father. I couldn’t  16  him ever saying the words “I love you.” It seems to me his only purpose in life was to say “  17 ” to anywhere I wanted to go and anything I wanted to do, including getting a  18 . Some parents bought their kids cars when they got their driver’s licenses. Not my dad — he said that I’d have to get a job and buy my own.
So that is what I did. I got a job at a very nice restaurant and  19  every penny I could and when I had enough to buy my car, I did! The day I brought that car home, my dad was the first one I wanted to  20  it off to. “Look, dad, a car of my own. If you ever want a ride, you only need to pay me five dollars.” I offered with a smile.
“I see,” was all he said.
One day, there was something wrong with my father’s truck. So he needed a  21  to work. The sun wasn’t even up when we left the house,   22  it was already getting warm out. It was going to be a hot day. As my dad got out of my car, I   23  him, dressed in his work clothes, getting his  24  from the truck (车尾箱) of my car. Watching his sun-weathered face, and even from a distance I could tell there were 25  lines than I ever remembered being there before. I realized how hard my dad works for the family. My father is a cement finisher(水泥修整工).
Suddenly, it came up with me that he actually got down on his hands and knees to sweat over hot concrete(混凝土) to make a living for his family. And he did this day in and day out,  26 hot it got. Never, not once, had I heard him   27  about it. To him we were “worth” it. And never once did he ask us to pay for it.
When he closed the trunk, his tools set off to the side, he walked over to my window to   28  me five dollars. I rolled down the window and said “Good-bye, dad. Keep your five dollars. It’s my __29__. Don’t work too hard. I love you.”
His eyes met mine, then glanced away in the direction of his waiting tools, he   30  his throat(喉咙) and said, “Oh, and… me, too.”

【小题1】
A.likeB.rememberC.forgetD.care
【小题2】
A.SorryB.YesC.NoD.Well
【小题3】
A.carB.friendC.jobD.present
【小题4】
A.spentB.earnedC.keptD.saved
【小题5】
A.takeB.put C.turnD.show
【小题6】
A.rideB.leaveC.tripD.hurry
【小题7】
A.asB.althoughC.butD.since
【小题8】
A.helpedB.followedC.leftD.watched
【小题9】
A.toolsB.clothesC.luggage D.bag
【小题10】
A.fewerB.moreC.longerD.less
【小题11】
A.whateverB.wheneverC.whereverD.however
【小题12】
A.talkB.complainC.askD.speak
【小题13】
A.handB.borrowC.lendD.take
【小题14】
A.helpB.adviceC.treat D.idea
【小题15】
A.cleanedB.wipedC.clearedD.felt

Reading Oliver James'Affluenza, I thought about what often happens at home. My 12-year-old daughter is in tears."I have so take a test tomorrow. I don't understand any of it," she cries out. After shouting and shutting her door, she calms down enough to go through her notes. The following dry I ask her how the test went and the just says "OK,I got a nine".

"Wow. well done!" I say, before she finishes with "But I never get a ten!"

According to James, this obsession with getting top marks has been a bad development, which encourages people to think of education in terms of work and money. To test this, I asked my daughter why she was so worried about her tests. She looked at me as if I was thick. "Well, if I don't get good grades, I won't be able to afford nice things like a car and stuff."

I was quite surprised, because I don't consider myself a pushy parent. But James suggests and it leaves students feeling failures even if they are very bright. He points to the Danish system(体制)of education as a better model. Creating happy citizens who have good social skills is seen as more important than high achievements at school or the needs of business.

For me, I cannot remember the last time I had to work out the area of a circle, recite a Shakespeare poem or grammar rules, yet I have lived a happy life. What I really needed to learn at school was how to make polite conversations, or how to avoid getting into debt or how to develop good personality.

This is in fact similar to what Oliver James really has in mind. And he is looking for schools where students are encouraged to find and follow their own interests, something more like Tongjon. Tongjon has been developed in some Korean private schools. It is quite different from the more rigid system of learning things by heart that is used in Korea, and indeed in many other school systems around the world.

As the Russian poet Pushkin said," Inspiration(灵感)is needed in geometry(几何学)just as much as in poetry ",and inspiration does not come from endlessly revising for tests or getting worried about them .

1.What does the writer probably think of his/her daughter?

A. She sets herself a goal too high to reach.

B. She should be more polite to her parents.

C. She is hard-working but not very bright.

D. She takes her grades much too seriously.

2.What does the word "obsession"in paragraph 3 mean?

A.A plain and unavoidable fact.

B.A satisfied and very proud state.

C.A practical and widely-used way.

D.A fixed and often unreasonable idea.

3.What can we infer from the passage?

A. Social skills are as important as high grades.

B. Interest in grades can shake self-confidence.

C. The writer regrets not having studied hard at school.

D. Danish educational system is for very smart students.

4.The writer wants to tell us that____.

A.learning happily is the key to self-development.

B. top marks may be helpful to increase one's interest.

C. tests should be improved to give children inspiration.

D. education should meet one's needs for word and money.

 

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  Our class had a weekly class meeting this week. We talked about how to deal with lies, hoaxes(骗局) or rumors (谣言) . Here are the stories some students told.

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Zhang Wei: Yesterday my friend Jim went to school without his homework. He told the teacher that his dog ate it. It was just an excuse he made to cover the fact that he didn’t do his homework. The teacher knew about that and made Jim stay to finish his homework after school. Sometimes we think we can avoid trouble by making excuses when we do something wrong, but we’re really making the bigger.

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Chen Ping: Last week I got a message. It said,” A little girl called Julia has brain cancer. The girl will get three cents from American Online each time this message is forwarded(转发). So please be kind and forward this to everyone you know. If not, you will have bad luck for a year.” In fact, it is just one of the silly chain letters(连锁信)to cheat you and waste your time.

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Xu Yan: A big earthquake (地震) hit Ya’an, Sichuan on April 20th. The earthquake was strongly felt by people in Chengdu. A rumor said Chengdu would be hit by a bigger earthquake in the coming days. For the next several days, thousands of people camped outside their houses at night because of fear. Besides, many people rushed to buy food, water, medicine and so on. Some businessmen used people’s fear of earthquake to help sell their goods (商品) at a higher price. Of course, nothing happened in the end.

 

Information Card

The topic of this week’s class meeting

1.

 

Jim’s excuse for not bringing his homework

2.

 

Julia’s illness

3.

 

The place people in Chengdu camped when the rumor came

4.

 

The people who sold their goods at a higher price

5.

 

 

 

I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was  1 and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be   2  but a failure.”

After five years of   3  jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best   4 that could have happened to me. I  5  I wanted to do something positive(积极地) with my life because I wanted to prove to  6  that what people said about me was   7 . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s face it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.” So I tried hard with my  8  and went to college. My first novel   9 while I was at college.

After college I taught during the   10  in high schools and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a degree in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of   11  that job to write full time   12  I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself. —Here was a working-class boy who’d   13 school early, now teaching at the university.

My writing career took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and famous, have been on TV, and met lots of film stars. But what does it mean? I   14  wish all the people that have put me down had  15  “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”

1.                A.bright          B.useless         C.simple    D.hopeful

 

2.                A.anything        B.something       C.everything    D.nothing

 

3.                A.low            B.poor           C.good     D.useful

 

4.                A.support         B.happiness       C.surprise D.thing

 

5.                A.agreed         B.decided        C.planned D.told

 

6.                A.me            B.them           C.her  D.it

 

7.                A.wrong          B.right           C.stupid    D.faulty

 

8.                A.experiment     B.practice        C.writing   D.composition

 

9.                A.came on        B.came in         C.came out D.came back

 

10.               A.day            B.night           C.month D.year

 

11.               A.giving in        B.giving back      C.giving out  D.giving up

 

12.               A.while          B.if              C.when D.Or

 

13.               A.left            B.attended       C.changed   D.graduated

 

14.               A.just            B.exactly         C.so    D.very

 

15.               A.praised         B.said           C.answered  D.advised

 

 

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