I bought a jasmine plant for my office. When I bought it, I was told it would bloom(开花) and the sweet smell would fill my office. I had the plant for two months, and every day I looked at it, but there weren't any flowers or pleasant smell. I was not happy, so I gave the plant to my friend Linda.

One day, another friend Mary called and invited me to her office. When I walked in, her jasmine flowers surprised me. I reached out to touch the flowers. Mary cut some and gave them to me. I couldn't help smelling them. Surrounded by the sweet smell of only a handful of these flowers, I suddenly understood something.

    Mary bought her plant the same time I did. It took a year for her jasmine to bloom. I was so impatient for mine to bloom; regretfully, I gave it away.

    In a way my life is like the jasmine plant. I need to be patient and let things happen.

    Last Sunday Linda told me that she was going abroad the next week. Before she left, she returned the plant to me. This time I am going to wait. I have learned that when we want something in our life, we have to be patient. I am slowly learning to have that patience to wait for my jasmine to bloom.

1.Before she gave the jasmine away, the writer had it for               .

A. one day                    B. one year        C        . two weeks          D. two months

2.When the writer saw Mary's jasmine, she felt____________ .

A. unhappy                       B. peaceful                       C. hopeful               D. surprised

3.What has the writer learned from her experience?

A. Patience is needed in life.

B. Flowers can make life better.

C. Friendship is necessary for us.

D. Jasmine can be a wonderful plant.

 

Garden building is considered an important part of Chinese culture. Some people say that if you have never walked through a Chinese garden, you cannot say that you have really visited China.

Traditional Chinese gardens are located(位于)in North China in such places as Beihai Park, the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City. In larger imperial gardens, the main buildings are connected by an imaginary(虚构的) line in the middle of the garden on the north-south axis(轴). Other features (特征)of imperial gardens are colored-paintings, man-made hills and lakes.

Most private gardens are found in the south, especially in cities south of the Yangtze River. Private gardens were mostly built at one side or at the back of the houses. Around the beautiful scene are small open areas with beautiful shaped-doors through which visitors can enjoy the sights. They are open on all sides and are often near the water so that the whole scene can be enjoyed. Suzhou, known as the home of gardens, displays the most and the best Chinese traditional private gardens. Different parts of it are examples of the garden style of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The landscape garden contains a number of pleasant natural scenes and some fairy tales. The ancient Chinese used to call the garden landscape “Jing” , which means “scene” in English. Good examples include the ten West Lake Scenes in Hangzhou, the twenty-four slim West Lake in Yangzhou and the eight Daming Lake Scenes in Jinan.

1.The passage tells mainly about ________.

A.an important part of Chinese culture

B.the characteristics (特征) of different style of Chinese garden building

C.where foreigners can find Chinese gardens

D.how to appreciate Chinese gardens

2.Which of the following is NOT a feature of the imperial garden?

A.There is a north-south axis in the center of garden

B.There are man-made hills and lakes in the gardens.

C.They were built because of some fairy tales.

D.They have colored-paintings.

3.In the third paragraph, the underlined word “They” refer to ______.

A.private gardens                         B.beautiful scenes

C.the houses                            D.rivers and lakes

4.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A.Chinese people often invite foreigners to visit a Chinese garden.

B.The landscape garden reflects different styles of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

C.All three kinds of gardens make up the important part of Chinese culture which is appreciated by the people all over the world.

D.People enjoy the private gardens more than other two styles.

5.The garden landscape “Jing” which the ancient Chinese used to call actually means in English _________.

A.well              B.tight              C.garden           D.scene

 

Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you will find the whole world smiles to you.

While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job?

One day it is fine. Just before you want to go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start complaining about the weather. But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the concert that the nature offers you? And with the timely rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest.

Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes failure can’t be avoided. I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is what we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success.”

Attitude decided everything. With an optimistic(乐观) attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let’s smile whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.

1.People sometimes complain_______.

A.the sky is always dark

B.their studies are successful

C.they see the world with their heart

D.life is tiring

2.If there is a timely rain, ______.

A.you want to go out

B.you can listen to the concert

C.crops in the fields will grow better

D.farmers can’t have a good harvest

3.When we face failure, we _________.

A.must be confident in ourselves

B.shouldn’t be afraid of it

C.shouldn’t give up hope

D.All of the above

 

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