“Everything happens for the best.” Whenever I faced disappointment(失望),my mother would say this to me.

After I left college in 1932, I decided to find a job in radio as a sports announcer(广播员). I went to Chicago and knocked at the door of every station. But unluckily, I was refused every time.

At one station, a kind lady told me that big stations wouldn’t hire（雇佣）a person without any experience and suggested that I try my luck at smaller stations. Following her advice, I went back to Dixon, where I had grown up. There were no such jobs in Dixon, and my father said a newly-opened store wanted a local athlete(运动员)to work for it . I wanted this job, but I was refused again.

“Everything happens for the best,” Mom reminded me. Dad offered me the car to look for a job. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.

As I left his office, I felt so frustrated(沮丧). “How can I become a sports announcer if I can’t get a job in a radio station?” I asked aloud.

While I was waiting for the lift, I heard someone calling. It was MacArthur. “What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?” Then he asked me to have a try. He was pleased with my performance, and he offered me a chance to work there.

On my way home, I thought of my mother’s words: “If you carry on, one day something good will happen. Something wouldn’t have happened if without the failure before.”

1.Why couldn’t the writer find a job at big radio stations?

A．Because he never graduated from college.

B．Because he didn’t work hard in college.

C．Because he didn’t have much experience.

D．Because he didn’t know about sports.

2.Which of the following is the correct order of events?

a. The writer got a job as a sports announcer at a radio station.

b. The writer was refused when he wanted jobs in Chicago.

c. The writer graduated from college.

d. The writer went back to his hometown to look for a job.

A．cbda             B．cbad             C．bcda             D．bcad

3.Which of the following is TRUE?

A．The writer’s parents didn’ t want him to be a sports announcer.

B．There were no radio announcer jobs in the writer’s hometown.

C．The writer became uninterested in being a sports announcer.

D．The writer got a job as a sports announcer in Dixon at last.

4.According to the last paragraph, what did the writer’s mom want to tell him?

A．He shouldn’t be a sports announcer.

B．Disappointment leads to failure.

C．He should be proud of himself.

D．Everything will be OK if he keeps trying.

阅读下面短文，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空 (必要时可加情态动词或助动词)。
Wu Juping is a 31-year-old woman from Zhejiang Province. She (1)_____________ (call) “The Most Beautiful Mother” because she saved a 2-year-old girl who (2) _____________ (fall) from the 10th floor of a building in Hangzhou on July 2, 2011.
The 2-year-old girl (3)_____________ (sleep) in the bedroom when her grandmother left her to get something. Before her granny (4) _____________ (return), the little girl woke up and crawled to the windowsill.
A neighbor who lives a floor below tried (5) _____________ (reach) the girl on the windowsill, but he didn’t succeed and the girl fell down.
Wu, who lives in the same neighborhood, (6)_____________ (pass) by. She immediately took off her high heels and ran towards the building. She (7) _____________(catch) the girl before she hit the ground. Though she (8) _____________ (not hold) the girl, she managed to break the 2-year-old girl’s fall.
Wu is now in hospital with a broken arm and the little girl (9) _____________ (get) better now.
“I did it out of a mother’s instinct（本能）,” Wu said from her hospital bed later.
“If the baby (10) _____________ (hit) the lady’s head, she would probably be dead at once. This is the great love of a mother!” said Doctor Jin Dengfeng who treated Wu.

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，完成文后各问题的答语。

Mary was an operator 911 in Los Angeles . One Thursday morning, she was surprised to get a call from a young child who said, “Mom my ill, Mom my ill”, again and again. Mary hurried to find the address of the call. She called the police, In a minute, the policemen and doctors arrived at the house. They broke the door open, and they couldn’t believe their eyes. The little child was so young that maybe she could not walk. She was sitting beside her mother and holding her mother’s hand. Tears were running down her face.

The doctor gave the woman some medicine and soon she woke up. Later, she told people , “Everyone was surprised that my daughter could call 911 . On Monday morning I tried to teach her how to call 911 but she couldn’t do it. ” Mary was surprised, too.

1. How did Mary feel when she got a call from a young child?

She felt___________________________.

2.Who found the house soon.

The __________and the __________did.

3. How did they enter the child’s house.

By ____________________the __________________.

4. Was the little child able to walk or not.?

The little child was __________________________.

5. How old was the little girl?

She was probably ____________old.

One midnight, a little girl woke up to pass water. She by herself got up and down her bed, walked to the bedroom door and opened it. She looked outside and walked back, for it was so dark in the hall that she feared.

Her mother said, “Don’t be afraid, honey. Take courage!” “What’s courage?” she asked, running to her mother’s bed. “Courage is the brave breath,” her mother answered. “Mum, do you have courage?” “Certainly.” The girl held out her little hands, saying, “Mum, blow some of your breath of courage to me.”

After her mother blew out two mouthfuls of breath into her little cold hands, the little girl clenched her fists(握拳) nervously, afraid that the “breath of courage” would run away. Then with her fists clenched, she walked out of the bedroom towards the bathroom with nothing to fear.

Her mother said to herself, “It will be nice if someone can blow some kind of ‘breath’ to me. Then I can hold it in my hands too when I feel terrified or lost.”

In fact, mostly, what we are terrified of is nothing but the fear in our mind. Who we should defeat(战胜) is nobody but ourselves.

1.The girl walked back because _______.

A．the bathroom was too far away.

B．her mother wouldn’t go with her

C．she was too afraid of the dark

D．the bedroom door was locked

2.We learn from the reading that _______.

A．the girl went to the bathroom by herself

B．the girl pretended to be terrified of nothing

C．the girl’s mother was able to blow brave breath

D．the girl’s mother was very proud of herself

3.To stop “mother’s breath” from running away, the girl ________.

A．held out her little hands

B．clenched her fists

C．talk to her mother

D．held her own breath

4.The writer mainly wants to tell us that ________.

A．adults are always brave enough

B．children learn to be brave quickly

C．the fear in one’s mind is the real problem

D．the mother can deal with anything with breath

5.Which is the best title of the passage?

A．The Fearless Mother

B．One Lonely Girl

C．One midnight

D．The Breath of Courage

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