He brings home _____.

Walter owns three Italian  restaurants which are running very well in Rhode Island in America. Every day his restaurants welcome crowds of customers（顾客） all over the world.

He studied to be a cook, but he sees now that his success is the result of a lifetime education. When he opened his first restaurant, all of a sudden his schooling knowledge , the history of his family and his ethics(道德准则) of his father came into play  . It made him a person who studied and explored （探索）the secrets in the food business.

Walter’s learning never stops. He says “ The food business is one where you need to stay on top. Cooks should be trained. You have to keep on studying or you will be left behind.” So he spent more time in reading. Every time he gets new ideas from the book, he brings them into his work.

Walter also has a clear understanding about success. That is he would like to be remembered as a person who is creative, who believes in the Italian cooking culture in America. Food is like a bridge connecting to the past, to the family and to the country. He says “Success to me is not how much money I make, but if at the end of the day I am able to make fifteen or twenty customers happy, I’m a happy man.”

1.The underlined phrase “came into play” means                

A. played a joke on him             B. needed to be used

C. gave him much help               D. began to be studied

2.The secret of Walter’s success is             .

   A. building a bridge to the country   

B. keeping on learning without any stops

C. getting new cooking ideas from his family

D. bringing the Italian cooking culture into America

3. From the last sentence of the passage, we can know that it is           .

   A. happy to make a lot of money

   B. exciting to have more and more customers

   C. important to make the customers pleased

   D. impossible to make 15 or 20 customers happy every day

4. We can learn from the passage that           .

   A. the lifetime education is important

   B. creative spirit always comes first

   C. exploring the food business is difficult

   D. new ideas are necessary in running a restaurant

5.The best title of this passage may be “           ”

   A. Culture is Important for Cooks

   B. A Cook and His Customers

   C. The Story of Three Restaurants

   D. A Winner is Made, not Born

阅读理解

Nancy’s hobby is collecting sharpeners. She spends a lot of time on it after school. She has been collecting more than one hundred sharpeners from different countries. They are all different in color and size.

   Nancy likes sharpeners with animals and birds on them. In this way, she learns the names of many animals and birds. She also borrows books on animals and birds from her school library. She learns a lot about them from books.

   Sometimes Nancy has many sharpeners of the same kind. She gives them to her friends. Then they give her other different sharpeners in return.

   Nancy has many pen pals in many countries. She sends them sharpeners of her country. In return, they send her sharpeners of their countries. Nancy’s father also gives her sharpeners. He brings them home from his friends for her.

   Many of Nancy’s friends collect other things. Some collect coins and others collect matchboxes（火柴盒）or stamps. But, all of them say that Nancy’s collection is the most interesting of all.

1.Nancy spends a lot of time on her hobby             .

         A. before school   B. in class   C. after school  D. during her holidays

2.            Nancy’s sharpeners are different in color and size.

         A. All of          B. Some of   C. Many of         D. Most of

3. Sometimes Nancy has many sharpeners of the same kind. She then           .

         A. keeps them  B. throws them away  C. sells them  D. sends them to her friends

4. What don’t Nancy’s friends collect?

         A. Sharpeners.   B. Coins.    C. Matchboxes and stamps.  D. Both B and C.

5. How does Nancy collect sharpeners? Which of the following is wrong?

         A. Her friends give her some.          B. Her pen pals send her some.

         C. Her father buys her some.        D. Her father’s friends give her some.

Walter owns three Italian  restaurants which are running very well in Rhode Island in America. Every day his restaurants welcome crowds of customers（顾客） all over the world.
He studied to be a cook, but he sees now that his success is the result of a lifetime education. When he opened his first restaurant, all of a sudden his schooling knowledge , the history of his family and his ethics(道德准则) of his father came into play  . It made him a person who studied and explored （探索）the secrets in the food business.
Walter’s learning never stops. He says “ The food business is one where you need to stay on top. Cooks should be trained. You have to keep on studying or you will be left behind.” So he spent more time in reading. Every time he gets new ideas from the book, he brings them into his work.
Walter also has a clear understanding about success. That is he would like to be remembered as a person who is creative, who believes in the Italian cooking culture in America. Food is like a bridge connecting to the past, to the family and to the country. He says “Success to me is not how much money I make, but if at the end of the day I am able to make fifteen or twenty customers happy, I’m a happy man.”
【小题1】The underlined phrase “came into play” means