Question

Two pieces of foreign news caught people’s attention. In the US, 18-year-old Michael Sessions won the mayoral（市长的）election in his town, to become the youngest mayor in the US. A similar thing happened in Britain. Martin Halstead, a high school graduate at 19, set up his own airline company.

Chinese teens admire their skills in getting such important posts. But have you ever thought that you could have the same success?

Burdened with heavy school work, many high school students in China are told to lock themselves in their studies and forget about other things.

But actually this is not wise.

Everyone is different and there is no need to follow the life paths of our ancestors（祖先）. Sessions had dreamt of being a politician since he was a child. Halstead was crazy about airplanes and took every chance to learn about them.

So why not think outside the box, as these boys did? Consider your interests when planning your own path through life. Doing this can be more exciting and makes it easier to succeed. Interest is our best teacher.

But dreaming is not enough. A good education is a stepping –stone to a successful career. It helps broaden your horizons（视野）so you understand more about yourself and therefore perform better. That’s the reason Sessions chose          while taking charge of his town.

Success still takes work. Without hard work, a dream is just like a cloud in the air that you never can reach.

1．What is the best title of the passage? （Within 10 words.）

                                                                            

2．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

  Many high school students in China need to study hard in order to finish their homework, so they have no time to think about their hobbies.

                                                                            

3．Please fill in the blank in the seventh paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. （Within 10 words.）

                                                                            

4．How can you make your own life wonderful just as Sessions and Halstead did? （Within 30 words.）

                                                                            

5．Translate the underlined sentence in the seventh paragraph into Chinese.

                                                                            

Answer 1

1．Think More about Your Life Path

2．Burdened with heavy school work, many high school students in China are told to lock themselves in their studies and forget about other things.

3．to continue/go on with his studies in college.

4．We shouldn’t just follow what we have been told but plan our future and do some ground work to make it come true. This makes our life wonderful.

5．良好的教育有助于你开阔眼界，使你更好地了解你自己，因此，你会更好地展示自己。