【题目】 One day a professor(教授)entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a test. The students waited nervously at their desks, the professor began to hand out the papers. To everyone's surprise, there were no questions, just a black dot(点)in the center of the page.

The professor told the students. “I want you to write about what you see there.” The confused students got started on the task. Twenty minutes later, the professor took all the papers. After a quick look, he began to read each one of them aloud. They all described the black dot, trying to explain its position and so on.

“I’m not going to grade you. I just wanted to give you something to think about. No one wrote about the white part of the paper. Everyone paid more attention to the black dot and the same thing happens in our lives.” the professor said.

“Our life is like a gift. We always have reasons to celebrate being alive and healthy, the beauty of nature, our friends, the job that provides us a way to make a living and so on. However, we keep focusing only on the dark dots, such as the health problems, the family arguments, the disagreements with friends and so on.”

“The dark dots are very small compared to everything else we have in our lives, but they are the ones that pollute our minds, so just take your eyes off the dark spots in your life”. The professor continued, “Be happy and live a life positively!”

根据短文内容,回答下列问题。

1How did the students feel when the professor asked them to prepare for a test?

2How long was the test?

3Did the students write about the black dot or the white part of the paper?

4What is our life like in the professor's eyes?

5What should we do in our life according to the professor?

【题目】 An ice cream sundae(圣代)is a special treat that many enjoy. And in summer it is the perfect dessert to cool down with after a hot day. Of course, ice cream in any form is a dessert no child could miss either. Back in the 1890's there was an old-fashioned ice cream store in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. It was owned by a man named E.C. Berners. One day a boy named George came into the store and ordered a bowl of vanilla ice cream. He looked across the counter and noticed the bottle of chocolate syrup(糖浆)that was used in making ice cream sodas. He asked if the owner would add some to the top of his vanilla ice cream. The owner agreed and George said that it tasted really good. Other customers started to order chocolate syrup over their ice cream too. It very quickly became quite popular to do so.

But in those days ice cream cost five cents and adding the chocolate syrup made it too expensive for Berners to continue serving the ice cream that way for the same price. At last Berners came up with an idea — to sell ice cream with chocolate syrup on Sundays only.

Many years later the new name was invented by an unknown trader who thought the treat should have a name as fancy as its taste. That is how today when we enjoy ice cream with chocolate syrup it is now called a “sundae”.

根据短文内容,判断正(T)误(F)。

1According to the passage, a sundae is in fact ice cream with chocolate syrup on it.

2Only children liked to eat the sundae at first.

3To save money, Berners sold ice cream with chocolate syrup on Saturdays only.

4An unknown trader invented the name of “sundae”.

5The passage is mainly about the history of ice-cream sundae.

【题目】 Have you ever heard that “Success is a journey, not a destination(终点)"? As a man aged 30, I believe it's true. It is, in fact, my law of life. In my eyes, what matters is not necessarily where you are in the end, but what you achieve while you are trying along the way. It means that no matter what it is, as long as you try, you can never fail. It means you can learn from your mistakes and continue on the next journey a little more wisely.

I think St. Louis Rams, a professional American football team in Missouri, as a whole shared my law of life. They played every game with their full potential(潜能)instead of letting a few winning games got to their heads. They had the goal of playing in every Super Bowl, a football game played in the US each year on the first Sunday in February. Even though they lost some games, they didn't give up.

It doesn't matter if you don't have the ability to be on top in the end, or to win the game. What matters is that you worked hard the whole time. You should understand that success is a non-ending journey. Everyone should realize that someone will win and someone will lose. But what's important is that both sides need to try their best. After all, it's not who wins or loses, but how well you play the game and you should remember this in your own life.

根据短文内容,选择最佳答案。

1What does the writer mainly talk about in Paragraph 1?

A.His biggest success.

B.His dream for the future.

C.His understanding of his law of life.

D.His achievements in the past few years.

2What does the underlined part “go to their heads” mean in Chinese?

A.去找领导B.获得一等奖C.撞到头部D.冲昏头脑

3According to the writer, St. Louis Rams___________________.

A.had a difficult goal to achieveB.took every game seriously

C.won the Super Bowl all the timeD.used to be the best football team in Missouri

4What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A.We should try our best whatever we do.

B.We must win every game.

C.We should forget what we want.

D.We should hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

5What's the best title for the passage?

A.Take pride in your workB.Failure is good for you

C.Everyone has a chanceD.Success is not final

【题目】 Barry was going through a very difficult time in his life. His wife recently died. She and Barry had many happy years together. ___________his wife, Barry felt that life was meaningless.

For months, Barry stayed in his house all day feeling ___________. His friends and his family tried to get him out of the house and encourage him to start doing things, ___________they were not successful.

One day, Barry's neighbor, a very old woman named Gertrude, called _________ to come to the fence(栅栏)in front of her house.

“Hello, Barry! Look at this fence. It's_________ . You are a strong man, and you have some free time. I want you to fix this fence for me.” said Gertrude.

Barry wasn't happy. He thought he was the one who _________ help and support, because he recently lost his wife. He thought the old lady was being very impolite. _________, he knew she was too old to fix the fence _______, so he agreed to fix her fence.

Barry worked on the fence for days. When he finished, Gertrude was very thankful, and Barry_________for the first time in months. “Barry, you did such a wonderful job fixing my fence. Do you think you could____________ it for me?” Gertrude smiled at him.

Barry couldn’t believe she was asking for more____________. Didn't she know how sad he was? But because they had been ____________for years, Barry agreed. He worked hard painting the fence. He felt______________of the beautiful fence he was painting. Over the next few weeks. Gertrude kept giving Barry______________. He repaired her door and even built a beautiful patio(露台)for her.

Barry no longer felt that life was meaningless. He finally______________that she was never being rude. Instead, she was wise and she saved him.

1A.AsB.ForC.FromD.Without

2A.nervousB.excitedC.sadD.surprised

3A.soB.unlessC.butD.because

4A.himB.herC.usD.them

5A.newB.brokenC.strangeD.beautiful

6A.neededB.gotC.offeredD.refused

7A.InsteadB.BesidesC.AlsoD.However

8A.himselfB.itselfC.herselfD.themselves

9A.cookedB.smiledC.sleptD.traveled

10A.paintB.buyC.buildD.clean

11A.helpB.moneyC.adviceD.attention

12A.classmatesB.familiesC.teammatesD.neighbors

13A.afraidB.fullC.proudD.tired

14A.presentsB.supportC.jobsD.ideas

15A.hopedB.worriedC.rememberedD.realized

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