Busy as I am every day,I always open my com?puter and check my email. Most of the time I am sim?ply doing finger exercises,another form of piano prac?tice without beautiful tones. Sometimes,however,I ,receive a gift,reminding me of the gifts in my life. The following passage is one of those gifts.

  Peter Jones is a 92-year-old,short,calm and proud man. Every morning he is fully dressed by eight o'clock,with his hair fashionably combed and face per?fectly shaved even though he is unable to see anything. He would move to a nursing home today. His wife of 70 years old has recently passed away,making the move necessary.

  After hours of waiting patiently in the entrance hall of the nursing home,he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready. As he moved his walking stick skilfully to the elevator,the nurse provided a visual de?scription of his tiny room. "I love it," he stated with enthusiasm. "Mr Jones,you haven't been to the room," said the nurse.

  "That doesn't have anything to do with it”, he re?plied. "Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged but how I arrange my mind. I have already decided to love it. It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice : I can spend the day in bed complaining of the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work,or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do."

  Each day is a gift,and as long as we are alive,we'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories we've stored just as Mr Jones does.

1. What do we know about Mr Jones?

   A. He is blind but very neat.

   B. His wife died many years ago.

   C. He likes playing the piano.

   D. His room in the nursing home is big.

2. How did Mr Jones feel about his room in the nurs?ing home?

   A. Worried.     B. Curious.

   C. Disappointed.  D. Content.

3. The underlined word "it" in Paragraph 4 refers to“      

   A. the furniture   B. the room

   C. a decision      D. a gift

4. What would be the best title for the text?

   A. Each day is a gift

   B. Be always grateful

   C. Living in a nursing room

   D. Arrange your mind every day

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  Let's start with the parent side of things. The parent must be the one to set up the account. You simply enter your information and your children's informa?tion to get started. You are then able to assign allowance amounts to your chil?dren.

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  Tykoon is a great way to start teaching your children about responsibility and financial principles in a fun and safe way. Through the creation of their own pro?file and the ability to accept or decline tasks,they are taught the skills that they will need later in life when they are managing their own budgets!So,head over and sign up for a free account today and watch your children get excited about do?ing their chores !

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5. The purpose of the text is to       .

   A. make an advertisement

   B. share teaching experience

   C. describe an online website

   D. present a way of making money

6. The underlined word " incentives" in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to"      "

   A. promises   B. rewards   C. gifts   D. tasks

7. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that       ,

   A. no parents will resist the special reward

   B. Amazon is a very popular website

   C. Tykoon wants to attract more visitors

   D. friends should share information

8. What is the best title of the text?

   A. Tykoon―a safe way to manage your financial issues

   B. How to create funny tasks for your kids on the website

   C. Opening an online account with the help of Tykoon

   D. Teaching your kids financial principles with Tykoon

  Grandma celebrated her fiftythird birthday just a few weeks before grandpa died of cancer in 1965. Al?though his death was very difficult for her to accept,I think their shared struggle to make his life longer taught grandma that good health was not to be taken for granted,and she made up her mind to live the rest of her own life as fully and as long as she could. One day,when she announced to attend lessons at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Portland,Oregon,where she lived,we rolled our eyes in embarrassment and wished she would just stay at home and bake cookies as normal grandmas did. Many years filled with countless dance lessons passed before we learned to appreciate the won?der of having a dancing grandma.

  I suppose grandma's primary motivation for want?ing to learn to dance was to develop her social skills. She had been a shy girl,always very tall and heavy,and had married into grandpa's quiet lifestyle before de?veloping any elegance or confidence in her personal ap?pearance. Dancing,on the other hand,filled her life with flash,wonderful parties,beautiful dresses,hand?some young dance instructors,and the challenge of learning. Although the weekly dance lessons did not change her ample,two-hundred-pound figure,grandma surprised everyone with energetic performances on the dance floor,which soon gave her as much elegance and confidence as any Miss America competitor.

  Having taken weekly dance lessons for years,my grandma learned various dances easily and was soon participating in dancing matches all over the North?west. When I was fourteen,grandma proudly invited me to watch her compete in one of these matches to be held in the grand ballroom of the Red Lion Inn. My at?titude was still unenthusiastic at that point,but to make her happy,my mother and I attended the match. As if to prove me wrong,grandma made a wonderful showing in every event she entered. I thought she was truly the queen of the ball during the dance,and my thoughts were shared by the judges a short time later when she was awarded a gold cup for her outstanding performance.

1. What did grandma learn from grandpa's death?

   A. Good health was not there for everyone.

   B. She should take dance lessons.

   C. She had to struggle to live a better life.

   D. She should wear beautiful dresses.

2. How did the author's family feel when grandma de?cided to take Hanre lessons'?

   A. Hopeless. B. Helpless.

   C. Embarrassed. D. Proud.

3. The author felt       when he was invited to watch grandma's match.

   A. happy   B. proud

   C. excited   D. uninterested

4. The text is mainly about       .

   A. grandma's confidence

   B. the author's dancing grandma

   C. grandma's dancing

   D. grandma's gold cup

 

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