Would you completely trust your friends if you couldn’t see anything? If you are falling, do you believe they will catch you and help you stand up? Our teacher helped us to find the answer.

Our teacher is named Morrie. One day, he said that he had a game for us to try. He divided us into two groups. One of the students from the first group, stands in front of us with his eyes closed, and then falls backwards(向后). The second group stand behind him. Before he falls on the floor, they should catch him and not let him get hurt. Most of us were uncomfortable with this. We were afraid that they wouldn’t catch us and we would hit the floor. So we didn’t move. We just stood there and laughed in embarrassment(尴尬).

Finally, one student, thin, quiet, dark-haired girl called Sarah, decided to move. She crossed her arms in front of her body, closed her eyes, and slowly fell backwards. She looked quiet but brave.

For a moment, I was sure she was going to fall on the floor. But before she hit the floor, the other students caught her, held her and finally helped her stand up.

“Whoa!!” we were all surprised, and also encouraged. The girl was happy, too. Seeing this, Morrie smiled and said to the girl, “When you close your eyes, you can’t see anything. You won’t feel safe. When you are falling, the feeling gets stronger. You are not sure whether you will hit the cold, hard floor or the warm, soft hands of your friends. But if you are brave enough to trust them, they won’t let you down.”

1. According to the passage, we can know Morrie is ___________.

A. a student                  B. a teacher             C. a manager         D. a farmer

2. The writer thought the girl was ___________.

A. strong but shy                 B. active               C. quiet but brave   D. careless

3. In the end, the girl ___________.

A. got hurt                             B. fell on the floor

C. was only helped by the writer            D. was caught by the other students

4. The students felt encouraged because ___________.

A. they could stop the game finally          B. they wanted to do something else

C. they thought they had won the game       D. they felt that they could trust each other


A language never stands still .It is always changing and developing. These changes are rapid in primitive(原始的) societies, but slow in advanced ones, because the invention of printing and the spread of education have fixed a traditional usage. The only important change that English has undergone(遭受) since the 16th century is a large increase in its vocabulary. It is interesting to trace the different ways in which new words are invented. Let us take just two

English words and see how they were made: sandwich and television.

   Sandwich, is now no longer an entirely English word, but also international, comes from the Earl of Sandwich(died in1792),who invented the particular form of quick meal so that he could go on gambling all through the night without stopping for dinner. Many names of things are in facts taken from the name of the first inventors, for example, the electrical terms Walt and Volt.

Television is one of many new scientific words which are invented from old Greek and Latin words.“Tele”in Greek, mean “far , while“vision”comes from the Latin verb, meaning“to see”.

1.The word “stand” in the first sentence means_

A. is a certain condition     B. not sits

C. remains without change  D. rises to the feet

2. What do you think Volt was? He was_

A. a player   B. a physicist   C, a writer  D. a nurse

3.The invention of sandwich has something to do with(与…有关) _

A. work   B. study  C. gambling D. journey

4.The language can’t develop rapidly in advanced societies because_

A. the societies have stopped changing

B. the printing has been invented

C. the education has spread    D. both B and C

5. What’s the best title?

A. language    B .Sandwich and Television

C. language is Always Changing and Developing

D. English Words

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