Several days ago, I was walking home from school and saw some writing on the fence of a house I was passing by. It said, “Happiness is a direction, not a destination (终点).” I had been having a bad day and just reading this brightened my day a little. I also took out a pen and wrote one of my favorite quotes (格言) down. ww.szzx100.com

When I came back to the fence, I saw another quote under mine in the handwriting as the first one. I added another, and we kept at this pattern for quite a while. One day, I was writing another quote on the fence and the old man, one of my neighbors, who owned the fence, saw me. He came out and I was afraid he would be mad at me for writing on his fence; he was not known to be very friendly. He gave me a sharp glance and then read the quotes on the fence. Without saying a word, he said something to himself and then went back inside. I was a bit terrified for a while, afraid to go back to the fence, but when I did, I noticed not more quotes but two words in entirely different handwriting had been added, “Thank you.”

Later, I saw the old man in his front yard. He beckoned (召唤) me over and told me how my quotes had been inspiring him, how he thanked me and how he was glad to see young people still have “values”. We are now good friend and I talk to him a lot. This experience has changed my life. I still don’t know who wrote that very first quote, but if he is out there, I’d like to say “thanks” to that unknown friend.

1.Why did the writer begin to write a quote on the fence?

A. He wanted to practice his handwriting.

B. He had gotten some help from the quote.

C. He thought doing this was interesting.

D. He wanted to catch his neighbor’s attention.

2.Why was the writer afraid when he found that his neighbor had seen him?

A. He had thought that the old man was a mad person. www.szzx100.com

B. he had once been told the old man was cold-hearted.

C. He thought the old man would scold(责骂) him for what he had done.

D. He thought the old man would tell his parents about his action.

3.Who must have added “Thank you.” to the fence?

A. The old man. www.szzx100.com

B. Someone else.

C. The writer himself.

D. That unknown friend.

4.We can learn from the passage that __________.

A. writing quotes on fences is a good idea

B. the writer has written three quotes on the fence

C. the good relationship between neighbors is very important.

D. the old man has changed his opinion about young people.

Extracurricular(课外的) School Activities

Many schools today provide various extracurricular activities. Some activities are before school, some are after school, and a few may even take place on weekends. Many parents like their children to take part in these activities. Yet some parents are still a little dubious about it. Actually, these activities have many advantages for students. It is a wise choice for parents to allow students to get involved in extracurricular activities at school. It can help students to develop many working skills, people skills, and more.

When students get involved in extracurricular activities, they get involved in different interests. These activities allow them to develop various interests that they may have.

It also helps to raise the self-esteem(自尊) of students. Many students feel worthless or there is nothing they are good at. Everyone wants to find something that they are really good at, and extracurricular activities provide the opportunity for them.

Students can also learn relationship skills. They need to get involved in social activities and learn how to act properly in social situations. These activities give them a chance outside of school to do this, while they are still supervised(监督) by adults.

Of course, while there are many excellent benefits of extracurricular activities for students, you need to consider how much is too much. It can be a great choice to get involved in a few different activities, but too many activities can have negative(消极的) effects. If students take part in too many activities, they often have problems in their studies. They may not get enough rest. They may not have time to relax. It’s important for students to set some limits to extracurricular activities. Students can pick out a couple of their favorites and make sure they can handle(处理) them. Some kids feel like they have to take part in many activities to be a success, and this is not good to them.

When students get involved in extracurricular activities, there are certainly excellent benefits that they’ll enjoy. They are doing it for their future success. It’s important that students don’t try to “do it all”.

1.The underlined part “dubious about” in Paragraph 1 probably means “______”.

A.crazy about B. interested in

C.doubtful about D.confident in

2.From the passage we can learn that ______.

A.most extracurricular activities take place on weekends

B.extracurricular activities help students have same interests

C.students feel worthless in extracurricular activities

D.extracurricular activities are supervised by adults

3.The writer may agree that ______.

A.extracurricular activities are bad for students’ studies

B.extracurricular activities help students get enough rest

C.students should have a few different extracurricular activities

D.students have to take part in many activities to be successful

阅读短文,根据短文内容回答问题。

Creator of e-mail makes use of ‘@’ sign

Does your class use e-mail? Have you ever tried to write a story for our newspaper and send it in by e-mail? E-mail is used for everything, and it makes life easier. But do you know where e-mail came from?

The man who invented it was Ray Tomlinson, a US engineer. He died early last month at the age of 74.

Back in 1971, Tomlinson was working on something that could send messages from one computer to another. Tomlinson tried to find a way to separate users’ name from the names of their computers. He needed some kind of symbol (符号). However, it couldn’t be a popular one, and it couldn’t be one that computers might know in a different context (语境). It also needed to be on keyboard at the same time. The “@” sign was there, and pretty much no one used it. It was perfect.

“The ‘@’ sign made the most sense,” he told Wired in 2012. “It said where the user was…at.” For example, by writing “Alex at 21st Century Teens” you can send a message to somebody named Alex who works at 21st Century Teens. This was the early form of email.

The interesting thing is that Tomlinson didn’t remember what the very first test message he sent was. “Probably the first message was QWERTYUIOP or something like that,” Yahoo reported, guessing the first row of letters on the keyboard.

Tomlinson, the father of e-mail, changed the way the world communicates and more importantly saved the symbol “@”.

Today, the “@” symbol is finding new life outside of our inboxes (收件箱). Most famously, social media like Weibo and Wechat use it at the beginning of user names. So even if we don’t use e-mail some day, Tomlinson’s contribution (贡献) will certainly live on.

1.Who invented the e-mail?

2.When did he invent the e-mail?

3.Why did he choose the symbol “@”?

4.What does “@” sign tell us?

5.What’s the passage mainly about?

完形填空

阅读下面的短文,掌握其大意,然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选择最佳选项。

It’s not easy to be an astronaut’s son. Everybody expects you to be perfect, but I’m just a fourteen-year-old kid, and I’m not a special ________ too, when it comes to math, geography, music, and baseball.

Well, to be honest, I often dream about being some kind of ________ or doing something special—like saving a child from a burning building. or discovering a new star. I was daydreaming at school one morning when my teacher said there would be a Father’s Day writing competition for the whole school. “I ________ we can have a winner right here in my class.”

When I got home, I started to think about what to write. My father is an astronaut. No, I wouldn't start like that. The whole country and maybe even the whole world saw my father as an astronaut, but that wasn’t the way I saw him.

How did I see my ________ ? Hmm.

I saw him sitting with me in the dark when I had a terrible dream. I ________ how he hugged me for hours when my dog Spotty was________ by a car. Yes, to me, he wasn’t just a world-famous astronaut. He was my dad.

My parents and I went to school on Thursday night. There were so many people in the big hall! My dad looked at me, and I shrugged(耸肩). The third prize was announced and it was not me. I was relieved(释然)and disappointed at the same time. The second prize was announced. It was me ________ .

I went up to the stage and read what I had written, “My father’s son”. When I finished, the people ________ and cheered. I saw my father blowing his nose. Dad cleared his throat and put his hand on my shoulder. “Son, this is the ________ moment of my life.”

It was the proudest moment of my life, too. Maybe I’ll never be a great hero or win a Nobel Prize, but it was ________ just to be my father’s son.

1.A.one B.son C.student D.person

2.A.astronaut B.hero C.dad D.man

3.A.think B.guess C.know D.hope

4.A.father B.mother C.teacher D.son

5.A.felt B.thanked C.remembered D.noticed

6.A.killed B.stopped C.thrown D.carried

7.A.really B.surprisingly C.easily D.especially

8.A.stood up B.sat up C.walked away D.walked down

9.A.best B.luckiest C.happiest D.proudest

10.A.right B.special C.enough D.different

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