Top student Lin Yijian had a problem recently. The 14-year-old boy from Xiamen used to get marks of over 110 points (out of 120 possible points) on his math tests. But during last semester's final exams, his math score was only 90 points.
It was a shock. "I didn't know what happened," said Lin, who kept feeling nervous and frustrated about math during the following month.
Like Lin, many of us have setbacks (挫折) in life. What would you do to deal with these setbacks? Would you just let them be and give up?
Lin chose to face his problem. His parents and teacher also gave him help. After some hard work he now gets marks between 100 and110 points on his math tests. Although he still isn't at his original (原来的) level, Lin doesn't panic anymore.
"Don't be scared by setbacks," he said. "You will beat it."
Chen Xingzhu in Shenzhen also has a story to tell. The 15-year-old girl is not good at doing sit-ups (仰卧起坐), which is necessary for the coming high school PE entrance exam. One has to do at least 35 sit-ups in a minute to pass the test. Most of Chen's classmates can do 40. However, Chen could only do 20.
Feeling worried, Chen decided to do something. She did sit-ups for half an hour every day after school. Now, after a month, she can do 30 sit-ups a minute.
"I finally found what made me slow through continuous practice and then improved little by little," said Chen. "I believe next month I will be able to do 40!"
【小题1】 What problem did Lin Yijian have recently?

Learning Chinese may seem difficult to foreigners outside China．  36  , Daisy Raffan, an   37  girl in Britain, hopes to bring the language to the young people．Daisy has   38  an online learning website(网站) to teach the language to as   39  people as possible all over the world．  40  China’s fast development in the world, Daisy thinks   41  important for people to learn the language sooner rather than later．Daisy has   42  Putonghua since the age of five．Two years ago, after she decided to pass on what she had learned, this teenager   43  the idea for the website, kids Chinese club．com．She said, “People are afraid to learn Putonghua．One of the main reasons is that they think it’s an   44  language to learn, but I have had fun   45  it．And I hope what have done is easy and fun．”Her   46  offers a series(系列)of lessons, which are videos of Daisy teaching a group of students on topics from greetings and numbers to Chinese culture．

Daisy’s website has   47  the support of several important persons—the teenager   48  she has received a letter praising(赞扬)her work from Gordon Brown, who is the British Prime Minister(首相)．

She said, “I wrote to him and told him what I was doing and got a letter   49 ．He said that what I was doing was a really good  50 ．I thought it was amazing．I was excited that someone so important was supporting what we’re doing．”

1.                A．Otherwise      B．Therefore       C．However  D．By the way

2.                A．5-year-old      B．18-year-old      C．8-year-old D．28-year-old

3.                A．invented        B．discovered      C．wrote    D．set up

4.                A．much          B．few            C．many D．little

5.                A．As             B．When          C．With D．But

6.                A．this            B．that            C．it    D．/

7.                A．taught          B．learnt          C．drew D．talked

8.                A．came out       B．came on        C．came over D．came up with

9.                A．impossible      B．interesting      C．excellent D．easy

10.               A．telling          B．learning        C．writing    D．speaking

11.               A．e-mail          B．magazine       C．essay D．website

12.               A．won           B．made          C．given D．beaten

13.               A．wonders        B．asks           C．doubts    D．says

14.               A．in             B．back           C．down D．up

15.               A．girl            B．design         C．idea  D．person

We kids have different ways to get in touch with each other now. And for the old, they’d like to go to the market or     26      each other’s houses, but for the young, we kids needn’t follow the     27     of doing so.

The easiest way for us to get in touch and make    28     is to use the Internet services, like QQ. A lot of websites such as www.qq.com have     29    in the last few years and offered such kinds of     30     for free. So we can make friends    31     through the Internet. Maybe we do not    32    all these “friend” well. We add friends only    33    we seem cooler with more friends online.

Then how do we kids keep in touch with friends online? We make it by posting our     34      to each other. At times , “friends”     35     “be missing” for months without a message. Is this the friendship in the 21^st century?

Of course, using these Internet services is not     36    for saying “ Hi, what’s up?” Some of us have found long-lost classmates and friends     37    these websites. And at times we     38  a time to go to a movie or get together. What’s more, we kids can      39     our friends’ favourite music when we are on the Internet.

Believe it or not, these Internet services will be    40     for a while, and it is really a convenient way for us to keep in touch.