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 _________.

2.When we face failure, we ___________.

3.The best title for the passage is_______.

One day a young student was taking a walk with a professor. As they went along, they saw   36   in the path a pair of old shoes, which were supposed to belong to a poor man working in a field close by, and who had     37    finished his day’s work.

The student    38    the professor, saying, “Let’s play the man a (n)   39   . We’ll hide his shoes, then hide ourselves behind those bushes, and wait to see his confusion(慌乱) when he cannot find them.”

“My young friend,” said the professor, “We should never amuse ourselves at the   40   of the poor. But now that you are rich, you may get a much greater pleasure in a different way. Put a coin into each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch   41   the discovery affects him.”

And so they did. The poor man soon finished his work, and came    42    the field to the path    43    he had left his coat and shoes. While putting on his coat he     44    his foot into one of his shoes; but feeling something    45    . He bent down to feel what it was, and found the coin. Astonishment and wonder were seen upon his face. He gazed upon the coin,     46     it round, and looked at it again and again. He then looked around,     47    no person was to be seen. He put the money into his pocket, and went on to put on the other shoe; but his surprise was      48    on finding the other coin. His feelings overcame him; he fell upon his knees, looked    49   to heaven and uttered(发出) aloud a sincere thanksgiving, in which he spoke of his sick and helpless wife and his children without    50   , whom the timely(及时的) giving from the unknown hand would save from dying.

The student stood there    51    affected, his eyes filled with     52    . “Now,” said the professor, “Aren’t you much better pleased then if you had played your intended trick?”

The youth replied, “You have     53   me a lesson which I will never forget. I feel now the     54    of those words, which I never understood before: It is more blessed to    55    than to receive.”

36. A. sitting                     B. lying                  C. laying                     D. hiding

37. A. mostly                    B. highly                C. nearly                     D. likely

38. A. turned down   B. turned away             C. turned around          D. turned to

39. A. amusement             B. fun                    C. fool                        D. trick

40. A. mercy                    B. request               C. expense                  D. thought

41. A. what                      B. that                    C. why                       D. how

42. A. across                    B. into                    C. around                    D. through

43. A. that                        B. which                C. where                     D. when

44. A. slipped                    B. took                   C. kicked                    D. threw

45. A. soft                        B. tight                   C. loose                      D. hard

46. A. showed                  B. turned                C. looked                    D. made

47. A. although                 B. but                    C. for                         D. so

48. A. doubled                  B. stopped              C. increased                D. improved

49. A. down                     B. around               C. up                          D. forward

50. A. bread                      B. books                C. toys                        D. money

51. A. still                        B. possibly             C. deeply                     D. immediately

52. A. surprises                 B. worries              C. fears                       D. tears

53. A. taught                     B. gave                  C. told                        D. showed

54. A. function                  B. story                  C. rule                        D. truth

55. A. study                      B. give                   C. beg                         D. work

One day a young student was taking a walk with a professor. As they went along, they saw   36   in the path a pair of old shoes, which were supposed to belong to a poor man working in a field close by, and who had     37    finished his day’s work.

The student    38    the professor, saying, “Let’s play the man a (n)   39   . We’ll hide his shoes, then hide ourselves behind those bushes, and wait to see his confusion(慌乱) when he cannot find them.”

“My young friend,” said the professor, “We should never amuse ourselves at the   40   of the poor. But now that you are rich, you may get a much greater pleasure in a different way. Put a coin into each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch   41   the discovery affects him.”

And so they did. The poor man soon finished his work, and came    42    the field to the path    43    he had left his coat and shoes. While putting on his coat he     44    his foot into one of his shoes; but feeling something    45    . He bent down to feel what it was, and found the coin. Astonishment and wonder were seen upon his face. He gazed upon the coin,     46     it round, and looked at it again and again. He then looked around,     47    no person was to be seen. He put the money into his pocket, and went on to put on the other shoe; but his surprise was      48    on finding the other coin. His feelings overcame him; he fell upon his knees, looked    49   to heaven and uttered(发出) aloud a sincere thanksgiving, in which he spoke of his sick and helpless wife and his children without    50   , whom the timely(及时的) giving from the unknown hand would save from dying.

The student stood there    51    affected, his eyes filled with     52    . “Now,” said the professor, “Aren’t you much better pleased then if you had played your intended trick?”

The youth replied, “You have     53   me a lesson which I will never forget. I feel now the     54    of those words, which I never understood before: It is more blessed to    55    than to receive.”

36. A. sitting             B. lying                 C. laying                   D. hiding

37. A. mostly            B. highly               C. nearly                    D. likely

38. A. turned down   B. turned away  C. turned around       D. turned to

39. A. amusement    B. fun                    C. fool                        D. trick

40. A. mercy            B. request             C. expense                D. thought

41. A. what               B. that                   C. why                       D. how

42. A. across           B. into                   C. around                  D. through

43. A. that                B. which                C. where                    D. when

44. A. slipped           B. took                  C. kicked                   D. threw

45. A. soft                B. tight                  C. loose                     D. hard

46. A. showed          B. turned              C. looked                   D. made

47. A. although        B. but                    C. for                         D. so

48. A. doubled         B. stopped            C. increased              D. improved

49. A. down              B. around             C. up                         D. forward

50. A. bread             B. books               C. toys                       D. money

51. A. still                B. possibly            C. deeply                   D. immediately

52. A. surprises       B. worries             C. fears                     D. tears

53. A. taught            B. gave                 C. told                        D. showed

54. A. function         B. story                 C. rule                       D. truth

55. A. study             B. give                  C. beg                       D. work