Yesterday my grandfather told me about his early days．  1   he left school，he found a job in a post office．He worked hard in the   2  ．Soon he had more money than his friends  3  his hard work．It seemed that he would have a bright future．

When he was 25 years old，however，he began to   4   his job．He wanted a more exciting one，so he left the post office．Two months   5  he found a new job in a big company．Workers in this company   6   travelled a lot．At first he really enjoyed the travelling．But after a year，he began to bate   7  ．He had to   8   and he was always in a car or on a train．The worst thing was that he  9   make any new friends! Even so，his boss was not satisfied with him．Two years later be had to leave the company．

He was   10   at that time so he sold his house．He bad to accept（接受）a part-time job in a book shop．He was surprised to find that he loved it! He made new friends every day and he enjoyed   11   books．Three years later，he   12   the shop owner's daughter．Soon they had their first child．In the next ten years，they had another three   13   and four more book shops! He became very rich indeed．

“Life is wonderful，” he   14   me．“The   15   important thing is that you should always try your best．Never give up!"

1．A．While             B．When                  C．Until                      D．If

2．A．factory                  B．theatre                 C．bank                      D．post office

3．A．because                 B．because of                  C．as                          D．since

4．A．dislike            B．1ike                     C．love                       D．be crazy about

5．A．ago                       B．before                  C．later                       D．after

6．A．almost            B．usually                 C．seldom                   D．never

7．A．it                   B．him                     C．her                        D．us

8．A．stay in one place      B．move around        C．make noise             D．make a wish

9．A．can't                     B．was able to           C．couldn't                 D．could

10．A．happy                  B．energetic              C．rich                       D．poor

11．A．to read                 B．read                     C．reading                  D．reads

12 A．married                  B．understood           C．met                       D．visited

13．A．sisters                 B．brothers               C．children                 D．cousins

14．A．said                     B．spoke                  C．talked                     D．told

15．A．best                     B．much                   C．more                     D．most

The best thing to start your day is a good breakfast. There are different  36  of breakfasts around the world.

“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper(穷人).”  37   the old saying tells us, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It   38  us with energy after a long night without food.

If people don’t have breakfast in the morning, they will feel tired and get angry easily. Breakfast helps children stay more focused in school. A study showed that children who eat breakfast regularly score   39  in most subjects.

Breakfast is also important for weight loss. If you have a balanced breakfast, you will eat

  40  throughout the day.

A healthy and   41  breakfast should include some protein(蛋白质) like eggs, milk or a little meat, which makes you energetic all day.

Carbohydrates(碳水化合物)like rice or bread can keep you active. Vegetables and fruit

  42  the vitamins that humans need.

  43  ,in China, breakfast is different from region to region. Porridge with pickles(咸菜),baozi, noodles, soybean milk and youtiao are common throughout the   44  country. Although Western culture has influenced China a lot, most people still  45  traditional Chinese breakfast. They think that porridge and noodles are not only easily digested(消化), but also can provide enough energy in the morning.

1.                A．ways           B．types           C．rules D．methods

2.                A．So             B．Though         C．As   D．When

3.                A．provides        B．gives           C．offers    D．has

4.                A．lower          B．less            C．higher    D．more

5.                A．less            B．fewer          C．more D．much

6.                A．experienced     B．balanced        C．excited   D．different

7.                A．has            B．have           C．is    D．are

8.                A．Therefore       B．Thus           C．Because D．However

9.                A．all             B．one            C．whole    D．total

10.               A．dislike         B．know          C．want  D．prefer

The teacher stood before his class and was going to hand out the final exam papers. “I know how   1  you have worked to prepare for this test,” he said. “And because I know you can do it well, I am willing to offer a B to those who   2  not to take the test.”

Many students thanked the teacher and left. The teacher looked at the students left and said, “Does anyone else want to get a ‘B’? This is your last   3 .” Two more students decided to go.

Only seven students were still in the classroom. The teacher then handed out the papers. There were only three sentences on the paper: Congratulations! You have just   4  an ‘A’ in this class. Keep believing in   5 .

I never had a teacher like that, but I think it is a test that any teacher could give. Students who are not  6  in what they have learned are ‘B’ students at most.

The same is   7  in our daily life. The ‘A’ students are those who believe in what they are doing because they have   8  both successes and failures. They have got life’s lessons, not only from normal education, but from events in their   9 , and have become   10  people. You see, one should always believe in himself.

1.                A．luckily          B．terribly         C．quietly   D．hard

2.                A．dislike          B．go             C．prefer    D．start

3.                A．chance         B．trouble         C．test  D．idea

4.                A．given          B．sent           C．discovered    D．received

5.                A．himself         B．yourself        C．themselves    D．ourselves

6.                A．confident       B．lucky           C．difficult   D．easy

7.                A．wrong          B．impossible       C．true D．good

8.                A．heard of        B．dreamed of      C．learned from   D．caredabout

9.                A．studies         B．activities        C．lives D．trips

10.               A．ruder          B．braver         C．worse D．better

Do you like going to the movies?  Most of the    1   in high schools like movies very much.  Last Sunday I went to a school and asked some students    2     their favorite movies.    3   of their answers were really interesting.  Here are their likes and    4  :

Jim,  a    5    boy,  likes watching thrillers because they are scary    6  exciting.  His classmate,  Kate,  can’t stand documentaries.  She told me they were    7   parents.  But she really likes comedies because they are funny.  Jack is a big boy.  He said he    8    mind documentaries.  But he doesn’t like comedies    9  they are boring!  And the coolest movies are action movies.  Everyone   10  them very much! 

Is the art of conversation dying? The other day, my wife   16  two teenage children did something we haven’t    17  for ages. It didn’t require the Internet, a TV screen, batteries… or anything else for that matter. But we all   18  it so much we’re thinking of doing it again sometime.

We had a conversation. The kind of real, live conversation that was   19  when I was growing up, but which seems all too rare these days. Today we have chat rooms, text messages, e-mails but we seem to be losing the   20  of communicating face-to-face. We all know   21  young people are out on a date(约会）these days, they spend most of that time   22  their mobile phones. And teenagers nowadays seem to   23  communicating with their friends by sending text messages rather than actually   24  to them.

If we carry on like this，in the future, we’ll lose the use of our   25 . What do you think? E-mail me, and who knows? Maybe we could even have a real conversation about it!