Birthdays are strange things. The more you have, the more you try and pretend they don’t matter, and the more     1.  . I’m not really sure why they think so. It’s true that you are getting older, but as     2.  , “Who isn’t getting older every day?” The problem may be that a birthday reminds people of all the things     

3.  , but have not. I certainly understand that feeling, though I think    4.    that I most want to do — a kind of personal re-ordering (重新排序) of the to-do list. What makes you depressed(郁闷) on your birthday is that you realize your re-ordered to-do list is exactly the same as it was last year. That makes you feel     5.  , and not been anywhere. I have not had that experience this year. I look back at where I was last year and find things have changed since then.

A good way to pass an exam is to work hard every day in the year．You may fail in an exam if you are lazy for most of the year and then work hard only a few days before the exam．

Do not remember only grammar when you are learning English．Try to read stories in English and speak in English as often as you can．A few days before the exam you should go to bed early．Do not study late at night．Before you start the exam，read carefully over the exam paper．Try to understand the exact meaning of each question before you pick up your pen to write．When you have at last finished your exam，read your answers again． Correct the mistakes if there are any and make sure you have not missed anything out．

1.If you want to do well in an exam，you must_____．

A. work hard every day in the year      

B. study hard a few days before the exam

C. get up early a few days before the exam       

D. keep doing your homework day and night

2.It is_______ to go to bed late at night before the exam．

A. useful                    B. not helpful                      C. important              D. difficult

3.If you want to learn English well，you must_______．

A. try to read as many English stories as you can      

B. learn grammar well

C. try to speak in English as much as possible             

D. both A，B and C

One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, "Look! There's a horseshoe. Pick it up and put it in your bag." Thomas said, “It isn't worth the trouble." His father said nothing but picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries.

    The father and the son continued their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn't a house or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on, At this time, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it.

After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son lost some time in picking it up and putting it in his mouth.

And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten up all the cherries, his father said to him, "My dear son, if you had bent down earlier to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that anyone who does not worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things,

1.The farmer bought _______with the money after he sold the horseshoe.

     A. some food       B. some water       C. some cherries    D. some pennies

2.The father dropped the cherries one by one, because _______.

     A. he wanted his son to eat them all        B. he wanted his son to do more exercise

     C. he wanted to teach his son a lesson      D. he wanted his son to pick them up

3.From the story, we can learn that _______.

     A. cherries are so delicious that most of us like to eat them

     B. a horseshoe is so expensive that it can bring us a lot of money

     C. if the boy wants to eat cherries, he must pick up the horseshoe

     D. if we want to do some great things, we should start with some small ones

Now old Henry is very sad, so he doesn't want to do          .

A. something             B. nothing                            C. anything                           D. everything