题目内容
“You did a bad job!” She _____________(叹息).
Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed that the boy ahead of him had tripped and dropped all the books he was carrying, along with two sweaters, a baseball bat, a glove and a small tape recorder. Mark knelt down and helped the boy pick up the scattered articles. Since they were going the same way, he helped to carry part of the burden. As they walked, Mark discovered the boy’s name was Bill, that he loved video games, baseball and history that he was having a lot of trouble with his other subjects and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend.
Mark went home after leaving Bill at his house. They continued to see each other around school, had lunch together once or twice, and then both graduated from junior high school. They ended up in the same high school, where they had brief contacts over the years. Finally the long-awaited senior year came. Three weeks before graduation, Bill asked Mark if they could talk.
Bill reminded him of the day years ago when they had first met. “Do you ever wonder why I was carrying so many things home that day?” asked Bill. “You see, I cleaned out my locker because I didn’t want to leave a mess for anyone else. I had stored away some of my mother’s sleeping pills and I was going home to commit suicide(自杀). But after we spent some time together talking and laughing, I realized that if I had killed myself, I would have missed that time and so many others that might follow. So you see, Mark, when you picked up my books that day, you did a lot more. You saved my life.”
【小题1】What happened to Bill on his way home from school?
| A．Bill almost killed himself. |
| B．Bill was caught on something and almost fell down. |
| C．Bill was sleepy from the sleeping pills. |
| D．Bill noticed Mark following him home. |
| A．he missed his friend Mark very much |
| B．he decided to break up with his girlfriend |
| C．he intended to kill himself immediately |
| D．he thought of the friendliness of Mark |
| A．helping Bill pick up the fallen books on the ground |
| B．saying something comfortable and friendly to Bill |
| C．persuading Bill not to leave a mess for other people |
| D．being friendly to Bill in trouble |
| A．store away some of his mother’s sleeping pills |
| B．prepare for the next school year of high school |
| C．leave the world without troubling others |
| D．help his mother do some housework the last time |
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’ll find that 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 go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start to complain about the weather. But friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the free concerts that the nature offers you? And with the timely(及时地) 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 that we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident(信心) 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(态度) decides everything. With an optimistic(乐观) attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.
1. People sometimes complain _________.
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A．the sky is always dark |
B．their studies are successful |
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C．they see the world with their heart |
D．life is tiring |
2.When we face failure, we ___________.
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A．must be confident in ourselves |
B．shouldn’t be afraid of it |
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C．shouldn’t give up hope |
D．All of the above |
3.The best title for the passage is_______.
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A．Smile and the World Smiles to You |
B．Complaining about Life |
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C．Failure is the Mother of Success |
D．It is Very Hard to Succeed |