Dear Jason,

Happy birthday! You are now the proud owner of an iPhone. You are a good and responsible 14?year?old boy and you can have this gift. But with the acceptance of this gift come some rules. Please read through the following list of rules. I hope that you understand it is my job to help you become a well?behaved, healthy young man. If you fail to follow the rules, we will stop you from using it.

①If it rings, answer it. It is a phone. Say hello, and use your manners(礼貌). Do answer the phone if the screen reads “Mom” or “Dad”.

②It does not go to school with you. Have a conversation with your friends in person. That’s an important life skill. But field trips and after?school activities will need special consideration(深思).

③If it falls into the toilet, drops on the ground or disappears into thin air, you should pay for the repair costs or a new one. Accidents will happen, so you should be prepared.

④Turn it off, silence it or put it away in public, especially in a cinema. You are not a rude person, so do not allow your new toy to change that.

⑤Leave your phone at home sometimes. It is not alive, nor is it an extension(延伸) of your body. Learn to live without it. Be bigger and more powerful than FOMO—fear of missing out.

⑥________. See the world happening around you. Look out of a window. Listen to the birds. Take a walk.

If you mess up, I will take away your phone. We will sit down and talk about it. We will start over again. You and I, we are always learning. I am always in your team.

Mom

1.What’s the mother’s purpose of writing this letter?

A. To teach Jason how to use iPhone.

B. To show Jason how much his parents love him.

C. To remind Jason to be polite in public.

D. To make a deal with Jason on how to use his iPhone.

2.Which of the following is the best sentence to fill in the blank in the passage?

A. Keep your eyes up.

B. Take care of it.

C. Read more books.

D. Do eye exercises.

3.Which of the following situation can “FOMO” be used to describe?

A. Jason may feel excited if the screen reads “Mom” or “Dad”.

B. Jason may feel nervous if he doesn’t take the phone with him.

C. Jason may feel angry if he is asked to turn the phone off in public.

D. Jason may feel relaxed if he communicates with his friends on the phone.

4.Which of the following rules does Jason have to follow if he wants to own the iPhone?

a. Do not answer calls from strangers.

b. Keep the phone silent at the cinema.

c. Pay close attention to his phone at school.

d. Don’t take the phone with him all the time.

A. a, c B. c, d

C. b, d D. b, c

John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas City in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. When he reached the high school age, his hometown offered no high school to the blacks. Luckily, he had a strong-willed (意志坚强的) and patient mother. His mother told him many times, “Son, you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe.” She told him not to be dependent on others, including his mother. “You have to earn success,” she said. “All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”

These words came from a woman with less than a third-grade education. She also knew that belief and hard work didn’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough money to take her son to Chicago.

Chicago in 1933 was not the land that the blacks were looking for. John,s mother and stepfather could not find work here. But here John could go to school. His wish was to publish a magazine for the blacks.

While others discouraged him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by: “Nothing beats a failure but a try.” She also let him pawn (抵押) her failure to get the $500 he needed to start the Negro magazine.

It is natural that difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He always kept his mother’s words in mind. “Son, failure is not in your vocabulary.” John H. Johnson was one of the 400 richest people in America— worth of $150 million once.

1.Why did NOT John get into high school in his hometown?

A. Because his mother didn’t have enough money.

B. Because there was no high school in his hometown for the blacks.

C. Because the high school in his hometown was not good.

D. Because he didn’t want to study in his hometown.

2.What made John successful?

A. His family background and his hard work.

B. His good education experiences and his hard work.

C. His mother’s support and his hard work.

D. His intelligence and hard work.

3.What does the underlined sentence mean?

A. A failure is too difficult to deal with.

B. A try is always followed by a failure.

C. If you try hard, you’ll succeed finally.

D. You won’t beat a failure if you don’t try.

4.What’s the purpose of the passage?

A. To tell us something about John H. Johnson.

B. To tell us something about John H. Johnson’s mother.

C. To tell us something about John H. Johnson’s family.

D. To tell us something about John H. Johnson’s career.

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