Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you will find the whole world smiles to you.

While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job?

One day it is fine. Just before you want to go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start complaining about the weather. But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the concert that the nature offers you? And with the timely rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest.

Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes failure can’t be avoided. I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is what we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success.”

Attitude decided everything. With an optimistic(乐观) attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let’s smile whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.

1.People sometimes complain_______.

A．the sky is always dark

B．their studies are successful

C．they see the world with their heart

D．life is tiring

2.If there is a timely rain, ______.

A．you want to go out

B．you can listen to the concert

C．crops in the fields will grow better

D．farmers can’t have a good harvest

3.When we face failure, we _________.

A．must be confident in ourselves

B．shouldn’t be afraid of it

C．shouldn’t give up hope

D．All of the above

先阅读短文，掌握其大意。然后从方框中所给的词中选出恰当的10个，并用其适当形式填空，每个词限用一次。（每小题1分）

Life doesn’t always give us what we want. We don’t always get our hopes and  1. . We don’t always get what we want. But be  2.  and believe in yourself, because you can make a difference as time goes by. Try to find the beauty  3.   you, in nature, in others, and in yourself. Believe in the love between people. You can find  4.  in a helping hand or a kind word. It is all around, if you just   5.  for it. Give love to others. Then you will   6.   that you can do a lot for others. You have the power（能力）to make others   7. . Believe in the goodness of others. Remember that anger can be  8.  by love and hope. Even when you feel there isn’t a   9.  you can do to change your situation, you can always do a little. A little at a time makes a big  10.  in the end.

When you write a letter or make a telephone call, your words carry message（信息）. People talk with words. Do you think you can talk   1 words? A smile  2 your face shows you are happy and friendly. Tears（眼泪） in your eyes tell __3  that you are sad. When you put up your hand in class, the teacher knows you want to say something    4 ask questions. You shake（摇头）your head, and people know you are saying “no”. You nod and people know you are saying   5 .

Other things can also give some information. For example, a sign at the bus stop helps you to know which bus   6 . A sign on the wall of your school helps you to find the library. Signs on doors tell you   7 to go. Do you find that there are a lot of signs   8  you and that you get messages from  them all the time? People can talk to each other  9 many other ways. An artist can use his pictures to tell about beautiful mountains, about the blue sea and many other things. Writers write books to   10 you about all wonderful things in the world and also about people and their ideas. Books, magazines, TVs and radios and films all help us to talk with other people. They all help us to know what is happening in the world.

根据所给词的适当形式填空。（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

1. Many birds can live _______________ (comfortable) in Zhalong all year round.

2.Did you have a nice time _____  _(ski) last week ?

3.—Whose are these bags? —They’re those _______________(hero).

4. Suzy ________ (make) a snowman while Kitty was taking some photos.

5._________(wolf) eat smaller animals when they are hungry.

6. Do you know the _________(important) of protecting wild animals.

7. If the temperature ________ (drop) to 0 C, the water will become ice.

8. Thank you for agreeing__________  (let) me go on the trip today.

9. Without the guide’s help, the travelers couldn’t find the way back by           (theirs).

10. Bad weather sometimes causes ___________ disasters. (nature)

任务型阅读 （共10小题，每小题1分，计10分，每空一词。）

What’s the most important thing in your life? Have you thought about this question?

I began to think about it when I was just a little girl. I had a lot of friends and I loved playing with them. So I thought friendship was the most important thing in life. If I had no friends, I would be very sad.

When I got older, I thought the most important thing was music. I was crazy about music at that time. In my opinion, if I couldn’t sing or couldn’t listen to music, my life would be meaningless.

As time went by, I changed my mind again. When I was 12, I read a book that tells a beautiful story about the love between a mother and her child. I was happy to find that love was the most important thing. I thought love made my life beautiful.

Not long ago, I got a new answer to the question from another book. The writer said, “happiness is the destination for everyone.”

Soon I realized that, in fact, friendship, music, love and happiness are all very important to us. There are many important things that make our lives colourful and beautiful.

What’s the most important thing in life? I don’t have the answer yet. However, in fact, I don’t want to know. I just want to care about everything important in my life. And I believe I will be very happy if I can achieve that.

I hope everyone can find the important things in their lives, and cherish them!