Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly? Or when your best friend does not wait for you
after school?
     If you do, you need to control(控制) your feelings and stop getting angry so easily. Getting angry 
easily can make you lose friends.
     Gary Egeberg, an American high school teacher, wrote My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals
to help you control your feelings. It tells teens how to stay cool when bad things happen to them.
The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse. It can not make them better. "Getting
angry is not a natural way to act", the book says. It is just a bad habit, like smoking. The book says
you can control your anger easily, and all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry.
     When a baby falls over, it cries only when people are watching it. Like a baby, you can only
get angry if you are sure it is the right thing to do.
     The book gives many suggestions to help you if you get angry easily. Here are the top three.
     ①Keep a record. Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later
and you will see you get angry too easily.
     ②Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will teach you not to be
angry.
     ③Do something different. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go
somewhere else. Try to laugh!

1.The writer wants to tell us ____.

A. not to get angry easily
B. to work hard at school
C. to do more exercises
D. to help each other

2. The writer thinks that if you get angry easily you will ____.

A. get ill very easily
B. lose your friends
C. put on weight easily
D. eat less

3. My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals is a ____.

A. story
B. book
C. picture
D. film

4. My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals mainly tells us ____.

A. what to read
B. how to read
C. how to stay cool
D. how to learn English well

5. In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word "it" refers to(指的是)____.

A. the book
B. anger
C. habit
D. the baby

                                              Group Helps Others to Build Houses
     TEPETITAN, EL SALVADOR- Evinor Mira is only sixteen years old, but he is working as hard as an
adult man to help his family get a good house. Evinor lives with his mother and his little brother and sister in
Tepetitan, EL Salvador. His father is dead, and the family is very poor. Their house is a small one of mud
(泥土) and sticks, so Evinor is working with an organization called Habitat for Humanity to build a new home.
     Habitat for Humanity helps people who need houses but do not have much money. Each family buys the
house through monthly payments (每月付款). Their payments help build more houses because banks can then
lend money to other families. Habitat for Humanity volunteers help to build the house, but the families must do
a lot of the work themselves.
     Every morning, Evinor begins at 7:00. He and the volunteer workers from Habitat carry boards (木板),
pound nails (敲钉子), and pour concrete (混凝土) all day, six days a week. The other workers can go home
and rest at 4:00 p.m., but Evinor's day isn't over. He rides on a bus for forty minutes to go to school in another
town. He is in high school and attends classes for four hours every evening. At 9:00 p.m. he has to walk two
and a half hours to get home because there aren't any buses so late at night. Around 11:30 p.m. he arrives
home and does his homework. On Sundays, Evinor works with the Habitat organization to help other families
get houses, too.
     Evinor does not have the easy life of many teenagers, but he doesn't mind working so hard. He is proud
that he can help his own family and others in his community (社区) to have better lives.

1. _______  people living with Evinor in the small house in Tepetitan now.
2. Habitat for Humanity helps poor people to _______.
3. People who need houses can _______ banks.
4. Evinor has to go to school in the evening because _______.
5. Evinor does his homework after _______.

     When you're invited to have dinner in a foreigner's home, please remember the following:
     At table, when the hostess (女主人) picks up her napkin, you may pick up yours and put it on your legs.
     If a servant (佣人) passes food around, he will pass the dish to you at your left hand so that you can easily
serve yourself with your right hand. Never serve yourself while the dish is on your right; it is then the turn of
your neighbor on the right.
    Do not reach across the table or in front of someone to get something-that is not polite. Ask him or her to
pass it to you.
     There are things in the middle of the table, such as bread, butter and candies. You shouldn't take any until
the hostess tells the servant to pass them to you.
     Do not leave your seat without saying anything. If you need to leave the table to go to the washroom or
do something else, you should say "Excuse me for a moment, please."

1. You should put your napkin on your legs ______.

A. before the hostess picks up hers
B. at any time
C. when a servant passes food to you
D. when the hostess picks up her napkin

2. If the food is far from you, you should ______.

A. stand up to serve yourself
B. reach across the table
C. in front of someone to get something
D. ask him or her to pass it to you

3. When you have to leave your seat, you should say "______".

A. without saying anything
B. Excuse me for a moment, please
C. I have something to do
D. I want to go to the washroom

       Never try to work when you are very hungry. If you decide to do your homework right after school,
you may get something to eat before getting to work. Always do your homework before you get too tired.
Don't wait until very late in the evening, or your work will seem much harder than it really is.
       If you have more than an hour's work, give yourself a break after an hour. On the other hand, don't
break it up so much that you can't get anything done you should be able to work at least a half at a time
without stopping. 
       Don't put it off until the last minute. If you put off doing your homework, you will have it on your
mind, and you won't enjoy your free time so much. If you put it off until the end of the week or until right
before a test, you will have too much catching up to do. A little bit each night enough to keep up with what
is happening
each day in school, will take the fear out of tests and keep you on top of it all. 
       Do your homework at the same time every evening. This will help you make it a habit. It will make it
easier to do and it will make your free time more enjoyable, as well.

A. become a bit hard
B. seem much harder
C. look very easy
D. go to so much trouble

2. Some students in schools won't enjoy their free time so much because they _______.

A. have to do their homework each night
B. will have too much catching up to do
C. never finish their homework in time
D. want to keep up with what is happening in school