I have been using the Internet since I was five years old, when my dad first sat me down in front of a computer and connected me the World Wide Web.
I’ve always felt like a master of the Internet world. AOL Instant Messaging, MSN, Gmail, Facebook, Myspace -- I’ve got it all under control. I thought there was nothing more to it besides checking my e-mail and wasting my time, until I was introduced to electronic commerce(e-commerce): business on the Internet.
Some online businesses are run from one-room home offices. Others have hundreds of employees (雇员) across the world. Have you ever heard of Amazon.com, Yahoo.com?
My friends often said they got cheap textbooks off Amazon.com, or had a good deal (交易) on Steve Madden shoes that were on sale at SteveMaden.com. Unfortunately for me, I continued my “e-commerceless” Web-surfing, not knowing about all the deals I was missing out on.
That is, of course, until my sister finally sold the idea to me.
“Why are all these packages arriving in the mail for you, Katy?” I asked her one day. Strange envelopes (信封) had been put on our doorstep for weeks now, each one always addressed to my sister; and we all know little sisters should never be getting more mail than their elders!
“Oh, it’s the things I ordered online!” she answered. I watched speechlessly as she opened them. There was no way our parents were letting her spend that much money- online or off!
“How much did all of this coat?”
“Oh, only about $15 in all!” She said excitedly. “Everything on eBay is on sale! It’s a way better than going to the mall.”
I felt as if there had been a store right in my backyard that I had never walked into! That week, I ordered a used Spanish textbook for my summer course online for 10 percent of the publishing price. A few days later, I bought an iPod protector and a book or two via the wonderful eBay.com.

  1. 1.

    From the first two paragraph we can conclude that the author        

    1. A.
      had no experience using computers
    2. B.
      had no idea of what e-commerce is
    3. C.
      only used the Internet to check e-mail
    4. D.
      thought surfing the Internet was a waste of time
  2. 2.

    The writer didn’t find out about e-commerce until       

    1. A.
      he stopped web-surfing
    2. B.
      he visited a store in his backyard
    3. C.
      his sister explained the packages she got by mail
    4. D.
      his friends told him about the online deals they made
  3. 3.

    We can infer from the last paragraph that the author       .

    1. A.
      never enjoyed shopping that much
    2. B.
      loves the big store in her backyard
    3. C.
      feels she is a true master of the Internet
    4. D.
      has begun to enjoy online shopping
  4. 4.

    What’s the purpose of the article?

    1. A.
      To tell the readers how he begins online shopping.
    2. B.
      To do business on the Internet.
    3. C.
      To make an online shopping ad.
    4. D.
      To advise people not to do online shopping

John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas City in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching the high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks.
Luckily he had a strong-willed caring mother. John remembered that his mother told him many times, “Son，you can be anything you want really to be if you just believe.” She told him not to depend on others，including his mother. “You have to earn success,” she said. “All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”
These words came from a woman with less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and hard work don’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son, who was then 15，to Chicago.
Chicago in 1933 was not the promised land that black southerners were looking for. John’s mother and stepfather could not find work. But here John could go to school, and here he learned the power of words — as an editor of the newspaper and yearbook at Du Sable High School. His wish was to publish a magazine for blacks.
While others discouraged (使气馁) him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by: “Nothing beats a failure but a try.” She also let him pawn（典当）her furniture to get the ＄500 he needed to start the Negro magazine.
It is natural that difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He always keeps his mother’s words in mind: “Son, failure is not in your vocabulary!”
Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America — worth $150 million.

  1. 1.

    John’s father died in ________.

    1. A.
      1922
    2. B.
      1933
    3. C.
      1924
    4. D.
      1923
  2. 2.

    John’s mother decided to move to Chicago because _______.

    1. A.
      his father died when John was very young
    2. B.
      life was too hard for them to stay on in their hometown
    3. C.
      there were no schools for black people in their hometown
    4. D.
      John needed more education badly
  3. 3.

    John’s mother ________.

    1. A.
      didn’t believe in or depend on others
    2. B.
      thought no one could succeed without working hard
    3. C.
      believed one would succeed without working hard
    4. D.
      thought one could be whatever one wanted to be
  4. 4.

    The story mainly tells us ________ .

    1. A.
      about the spiritual support John’s mother gave him
    2. B.
      how John H. Johnson became successful
    3. C.
      about the importance of a good education
    4. D.
      about the key to success for blacks

He insisted ________ her staying in America．


  1. A.
    to
  2. B.
    in
  3. C.
    on
  4. D.
    /

A new study has found that the best way to make yourself feel happier is to think of something good that happened to you the day before.
Volunteers who were asked to remember a pleasant event from past 24 hours began to feel happier right away．Other activities such as saying “Thank you” and smiling also made volunteers feel happier, but not as much.
Professor Richard Wiseman of Hertfordshire University planned the study．He got 26,000 people to go online to try out a few different activities to make them feel happier．They were told to be nice, remember a pleasant event from the day before, give thanks or smile for 15 seconds twice a day．The volunteers did these activities for one week.
The result showed that thinking about one good thing that had happened the day before worked the best for making people happier.（146 words）

  1. 1.

    The text may probably be taken from _____.

    1. A.
      a personal anecdote(轶事)
    2. B.
      sports news
    3. C.
      a history novel
    4. D.
      brief news
  2. 2.

    Volunteers who ______ began to feel happier right away

    1. A.
      thought of something good that happened the day before
    2. B.
      were asked to remember a pleasant event from the past 24 hours
    3. C.
      did other activities like saying “thank you” and smiling
    4. D.
      went online to try out a few different activities
  3. 3.

    From the text we know that Richard Wiseman is a(an)_____.

    1. A.
      worker
    2. B.
      artist
    3. C.
      professor
    4. D.
      director
  4. 4.

    The best title may probably be _____.

    1. A.
      Thinking about yesterday’s happiness to be happy today
    2. B.
      Making a study to make people happier and younger
    3. C.
      Letting out a secret to live a longer life
    4. D.
      Doing experiments to make people happier

Hurry up!By the time we get to the church, the marriage service ________．


  1. A.
    will have started
  2. B.
    has started
  3. C.
    had started
  4. D.
    must have started

After the failure in the exam, his parents ________ to make him do business in the future．


  1. A.
    change their minds
  2. B.
    change their mind
  3. C.
    change minds
  4. D.
    change his mind

If this umbrella is not yours, please leave it where it ________.


  1. A.
    was
  2. B.
    is
  3. C.
    had been
  4. D.
    has been

At last they found a house ________.


  1. A.
    to leave his suitcase
  2. B.
    to leave his suitcase in
  3. C.
    leaving his suitcase in
  4. D.
    leaving his suitcase

The shop will be closed during ________.


  1. A.
    repair
  2. B.
    repairs
  3. C.
    a repair
  4. D.
    repairing

Once there was a man who had two children, a boy and a girl. The boy was good-looking but the girl was not.
One day they found a mirror for the first time and they saw what they looked like. The boy was very pleased and he said to his sister, "How handsome I am! I look much nicer than you!"
The girl did not like what her brother said and gave him a hard push.
"Go away!" she said.
Their father saw what was happening. He went up to them and said to the boy,
"You must always BE good as well as LOOK good."
Then to the girl he said, "My dear, if you help everyone and do your best to please him, everyone will love you. It does not matter that you are not as good-looking as your brother."

  1. 1.

    Once a man had ____.

    1. A.
      a good-looking boy
    2. B.
      an ugly girl
    3. C.
      two good-looking children
    4. D.
      a boy and a girl
  2. 2.

    The boy saw what he looked like in the mirror and was pleased because he ____.

    1. A.
      found a mirror
    2. B.
      knew he looked as nice as his sister
    3. C.
      and his sister were good-looking
    4. D.
      was handsome
  3. 3.

    The girl gave the boy a hard push because ____.

    1. A.
      she was stronger
    2. B.
      what he said was wrong
    3. C.
      she was not pleased with what he said
    4. D.
      her father loved her
  4. 4.

    Father told the girl that ____.

    1. A.
      it was important to be good-looking
    2. B.
      it was a good thing to be ugly
    3. C.
      if she did her best to help people, she would enjoy people's love
    4. D.
      she was as good-looking as her brother
  5. 5.

    What can we learn from this story?

    1. A.
      To be good to people is more important than to be good-looking.
    2. B.
      To be good-looking is very important.
    3. C.
      If you want to make yourself good-looking, you must be good to people.
    4. D.
      If you often help people, you will become more and more beautiful.
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