—Could I speak to Miss Smith, please?

—______． She’s gone to the post office．

A．I’m afraid not     B．I think so          C．Certainly you can.   D．I’m not sure．

 I have a tight budget for the trip, so I'm not going to fly _     the airlines lower ticket prices.

A．once             B．if                C．after             D．unless

Do you know some people who just have all the luck? They seem to get all the       and you ask yourself: “Why don’t I get    ? Why don’t I get a great education?” But the real reason why most people are successful or lucky is that they’ve learned how to       themselves in a place so they can be lucky. They’ve learned how to, in a way,       their own luck!

I’m not       about dishonest or illegal ways. I’m talking about hard,       work. But successful people work smart. They keep improving and making the most of their abilities. Yet they also learn to      for help in things they themselves are not that good       doing. So we not only must make the most of our own special strengths, we must also learn our       and weaknesses.

A man recently got his lucky big break. Everyone said, “That guy’s so lucky!” But that man created his own luck       by arriving at the office early. He apologized and       when he was wrong. He even shared the credit and reward with others       he had done much of the work. He was never satisfied just to get       and do average work. He always       the extra effort to do his very best.

We have to work hard and do what it       to be on the way to luck and success when it comes.        , weMI miss it because we aren’t ready. You never know when the right opportunity will come your way, and when the right, important person is watching your excellent        and work. That’s when you’ll get your lucky break! But when you put your life in Jesus Christ’s         , the right important person is always         you and all that you do. Then he will       and bless vour life in manv wavs as vou do vour very best to please him in every thina every dav.

1.A.qualifications      B.occupations C.breaks D.licenses

2.A.comfortable       B.lucky     C.happy    D.important

3.A.put     B.pray      C.send      D.expect

4.A.control       B.invent   C.create   D.meet

5.A.thinking      B.teaching        C.talking   D.calling

6.A.practical      B.honest   C.meaningful     D.adequate

7.A.trap    B.appreciate     C.charge   D.ask

8.A.at           B.with  C.through D.from

9.A.pressures   B.limits      C. strengths       D.abilities

10.A.always          B.sometimes         C. seldom D.never

11.A.admitted   B.promised        C.realized D.conveyed

12.A.because    B.when     C.so  D.before

13.A.after B.by  C.behind   D.over

14.A.raised        B.explored        C.found     D.made

15.A.obtain       B.affords   C.takes      D.adapts

16.A.Therefore         B.Otherwise      C.However        D.Anyway

17.A.approach          B.administration       C.attitude D.action

18.A.hands        B.places   C.homes D.minds

19.A.catching    B.adopting         C.affecting         D.watching

20.A.decorate  B.cheer     C.reward  D.value

To me, life without music would not be exciting. I realize that this is not true for everybody. Many people get along quite well without going to the concert, and listening to the record. But music plays an important part in everyone's life, whether he realizes it or not. Try to imagine, for example, what films or TV plays would be like without music. Would the feelings, the moving plot, and the greatest interests, be so exciting or dramatic? I'm not sure about it.

Now, we have been speaking of music in its more common meaning—the kind of music we hear in the concert hall. But if we look at some parts of music more closely, we discover them in our everyday life too—in the rhythm of the sea, the melody of a bird in the woods and so on. So music surely has meaning for everyone, in some way or other. And, of course, it has special meaning for those who have spent all their lives working on playing or writing music.

It is well said, “Through music a child enters into a world of beauty, expresses himself from his heart, feels the joy of doing things alone, learns to take care of others, develops his mind and makes his body strong.”

1.What dose the writer say more about in the text?

A．Life full of music.

B．Life without music.

C．The importance of music.

D．The development of music.

2.What does the underlined word “melody” mean in the text?

A．flying                                B．looking

C．singing                               D．living

3.From the last paragraph, we learn that music________.

A．is very important, especially for children

B．is very necessary for our everyday life

C．can make our life exciting and dramatic

D．can enter into another beautiful world

For many people – especially those juggling (兼顾) family and work at the same time --- it can be difficult to stick with a college degree. Kathy Bitzthum thought many times about dropping out of her accounting program at Iowa State University: She had two children and a job at Electronic Technology Corp. She’d only enrolled in the first place because her boss would offer her a promotion if she took a few accounting courses.

Because she only had enough time to take one class at a time, it took her seven years to complete the courses her boss asked her to take on. She received the promotion as her boss promised and wasn’t planning to continue a degree. But a request from her father, who was dying of cancer, made her think twice. He said to her, “Kathy, why don’t you just keep going and get your degree?”

Before he passed away, he made her promise that she would finish it. And he made her a promise in turn. Vitzthum’s parents had agreed to give each of their children a valuable gift when they graduated from college, and Vitzthum was obsessed with an antique she’d come across and knew that she couldn’t afford. After she promised to graduate from college, her parents bought her the antique. Her father told her, “I’m not going to be around when you graduate, so I’ll give this to you now. But it doesn’t _________ until you graduate from college.”

Since then, Vitzthum has looked at that antique every day and remembered the promise she had made to her father. Despite a hectic life as a wife, mother and full-time employee, she’s taken one course every semester for the last 19 years. And finally, at the age of 48, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in accounting --- and she was excited to accept full ownership (所有权) of the antique that she’d borrowed for more than a decade.

1.What had contributed to Kathy’s studying the accounting program at Iowa State University?

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2.Why did it take Kathy seven years to finish the accounting program?(no more than 10 words)

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3.What did Kathy’s father make her promise to do before he died?(no more than 10 words)

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4.Fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with proper words.(no more than 3 words)

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5.What does the passage mainly talk about?(no more than 12 words)

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