Students learn many subjects at school, like Chinese, English, math and physics. Some students think it’s hard to do well in math. They say it’s boring. Why do they say this? First, some math problems are so hard for them. They spend a lot of time on them, but they can’t work them out, so they lost heart(失去信心). Second, they are afraid( 害怕) to ask their teachers for help. They think the teachers will laugh at them. Third, they think math class is very tiring because they need to use their brain(大脑)to find out the answers all the time.

How can you do well in math? Here is some advice from a math teacher:

1. Listen to the teacher carefully in class and do some extra(额外的) exercises after class.

2. Ask the teacher for help if you don’t understand anything. Don’t be afraid.

3. Don’t forget to go over (复习) your old lessons.

   If you do these things, you will find it much easier to do better in math.

1.Doing _______ math problem can make students lose heart.

A. easy             B. difficult               C. many      D. few

2.The advice is from ____________.

A. a math teacher       B. an English teacher

C. a student        D. a doctor

3.Some students think math class is very tiring because _____________

A. they have to listen to the teacher.

B. they have to look after themselves.

C. they need to use their brain to find out the answers all the time.

D. they need to help their classmates.

4.If you want to do better in math, you should NOT______________.

A. listen to the teachers carefully

B. ask the teacher for help

C. go over your old lessons

D. lose interest in studying math

1. The above information is about _________.

   A. famous physicists     B. great people    C. great directions    D. Nobel Prize winners

2. Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize before ________ years of his death.

   A. 32                B. 24           C. 42           D. 45

3. Peter Hall founded the Royal Shakespeare Company at the age of _________.

   A. 42                B. 92           C. 39           D. 29

4. ________ has 40 productions all over the world.

   A. The Peter Hall Company        B. The Royal Shakespeare Company

   C. The Arts Theatre              D. The National Theatre

Alfred Nobel, a Swedish - born chemist, who died in 1896, at one time believed that his invention of explosives (炸药) could bring wars to an end, But later he found he was wrong.

Nobel was born in Sweden in 1833. With only one year of formal schooling, he became a chemist and inventor by age of 16.

He was also a linguist, speaking English, Russian, German and French besides Swedish. He wrote poetry(诗歌). He began his work with producing liquid nitroglycerin (硝酸甘油) for use in mining and construction. He then discovered that liquid nitroglycerin could be dried. He called it dynamite, after the Greek word dynamis, meaning "power". Then he became rich. When he died, his estate (财产) was worth about 89 million.

Nobel never married, and he left most of his estate to those who have been known as Nobel Prizes. The money is invested (投资) and the interest (利息) is given out as yearly prizes for persons who have done something special for mankind in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature, and peace.

Prizes were first awarded in 1901. Over the years, many great people such as Albert Einstein in physics, Marie Curie in chemistry, Martin Luther King, Jr. for peace and Mo yan for literature got the awards.

1.From the passage we can guess the underlined word "linguist" is a person who_______.

A. can speak a foreign language

B. writes good poetry

C. knows several foreign language well

D. makes many inventions

2.Alfred Nobel believed_______.

A. he would become the richest person of the world

B. his invention could stop wars in the world

C. the Nobel Prizes could be world - famous

D. no one could use his invention to start wars

3.All the questions have been answered Except_______.

A. who chooses the Nobel Prize winners

B. when were Nobel Prizes first awarded

C. who could win Nobel Prizes

D. what else was Nobel interested in besides chemistry

Many people go to school for education．They learn languages，history，geography, physics , chemistry and math．Others go to school to learn a skill__1___they can make a living. School education is very important and useful，but no one can learn _2____ from school. A teacher，no matter how much he knows，can’t teach his students everything they want to know. The teacher’s．job is to show his students how to read and  3 to think．So much more is to be learned out of school 4 students themselves.

It is always more important to know how to study by oneself than to memorize some  5  or formulas(公式)．It is actually quite  6  to learn a certain fact in history or a formula in mathematics．But it is very difficult to use a formula in working out a math problem. Great scientists such as Einstein，Newton and Galileo，didn’t learn many things from school, but they were all 7   and invented many things for mankind.

The  8 for their success is that they knew how to study．They read books that were not  9 at school . They worked hard all their lives 10 not a single minute . They would ask many questions as they read and they did thousands of experiments．