One day, my English teacher asked me to help her save back-up（备份） copies of her work in the computer. I then realized I was able to know the grades of all of her students. I   36   her how to copy files（文件） from one disk to another and she thanked me.

  A few days later, she asked me to help her again, because she   37   how to do it. When I showed it to her, some students in my class   38   and began to talk among themselves   39  .Later that day, at lunch time, several of them came up to me.

  “Hey, could you help us change our grades? We’ll   40   for it.”

  I could not believe what I heard. I could get paid for something very  41 . “All right. I’ll do it.” The next day, my English teacher   42   me to help him out again. When he was not paying   43   , I changed their grades from Fs to As.

  I soon became very   44   among my friends. They began to treat me like God who could do   45  . Word spread quickly and I became very rich.

  Everything was going fine   46  I was called into the headmaster’s office. When I got there, both of my teacher and the headmaster were very angry. “ I don’t want to   47   what your teacher said, but I have to. She has too much evidence(证据),’’ the headmaster said. “Do you have anything to say for yourself?”

  “No,” I said finally. I didn’t realize how   48   my behavior had been. I had disappointed my teacher and the headmaster. And there was no way   49  . I had to leave my school. That was a good   50   for me.

1.A. said         B. urged         C. knew          D. showed

2.A. lost         B. remembered    C. reminded       D. forgot

3.A. listened      B. noticed      C. played         D. checked

4.A. quietly      B. luckily       C. sincerely       D. angrily

5.A. pay         B. praise         C. follow        D. explain

6.A. familiar      B. easy         C. interesting     D. pleasant

7.A. challenged    B. allowed      C. taught        D. asked

8.A. money       B. work           C. attention       D. interest

9.A. common     B. popular         C. modest        D. dishonest

10.A. something    B. anything      C. nothing        D. some things

11.A. until        B. since         C. because        D. after

12.A. believe      B. reply         C. hate           D. influence

13.A. hard        B. interesting      C. serious        D. important

14.A. up          B. in               C. back           D. down

15.A. skill        B. lesson            C. story          D. example

David came from a poor family. When he finished his high school, however, he was given a wonderful present. “Some of my friends got new clothes and a rich boy even got a new car,” he remembered, “My dad reached into his trousers pocket and took something out. I held out my hand, and his present dropped into it — a nickel (五分镍币).”

Dad said to me, “Buy a newspaper with that. Read every word of it. Then turn to the classified section (分类栏目) and get yourself a job. Get into the world. It’s all yours now.” I always thought that was a great joke my father had played on me until a few years later when I was in the army, sitting in a foxhole (战壕), and thinking about my family and my life. It was then that I realized that my friends had got only new cars, or only new clothes. My father had given me the whole world. What a great present!

1. When David left school, he received ______ as a present.

A. a new car            B. new clothes          C. a newspaper      D. hardly anything

2. What did David become a few years later?

A. A college student.  B. A rich person.       C. A soldier.     D. A newspaper reporter.

3. The title of the passage may be ______.

A. How to be a Soldier  B. How to find a Job    C. A Great Joke D. A Great Present

It was yearbook day and we were given an hour to sign each other’s yearbooks in the cafeteria. I was president of the class and I played sports. When I sat down at a table, people started to come over to get their yearbooks signed and to sign __36__.

         Among them, a weak boy with ugly teeth and thick glasses kept shaking. I had seen him around, and I knew he was always laughed at. He seemed __37__ of himself, and was so pale that it __38__ us to look at him.

         He came up and asked me nervously, “Can you sign this?” I took his yearbook but I didn’t know __39__ to write. I saw that there was the name “Ricky Sanders” written on the front of it. So I wrote:

I put down the yearbook and turned around to get some signatures from some of my friends when I __40__ my yearbook was gone. I saw that Ricky had sat down with my yearbook. “What are you doing?” I asked him. He looked up calmly(平静地) and __41__said “Sign!”

My friends broke into a loud laugh, and I saw that he was carefully frying to put a signature in my yearbook. He hadn’t even finished the “R” yet. I thought for a while and __42__ to let him sign.

         It took him nearly five minutes to sign and when I got my yearbook back, there was a very shaky “RICKY”. He hugged(紧抱) his yearbook and __43__. I couldn’t help but smile back at him.

         In that moment, my __44__ changed completely.

         I gave him a high five and suddenly everyone at my table wanted his signature. He was asked politely to write in their yearbooks and the signature __45__ of his yearbook were filled up. He was smiling so big that it lit up the whole room.

         I changed school the next year, and I never saw Ricky again. However, I will never forget the day that he became the most __46__ guy in school. Whenever I’m __47__, I still look back at that yearbook.

1.A. mine                   B. his                        C. ours                     D. theirs

2.A. unafraid                  B. unsure               C. proud                   D. tired

3.A. worried                     B. surprised            C. taught                D. hurt

4.A. how                          B. which                 C. where                  D. what

5.A. saw                            B. noticed              C. thought             D. believed

6.A. still                             B. ever                    C. even                   D. just

7.decided                   B. meant                C. began                  D. prepared

8.A. smiled                      B. waited               C. left                               D. rose

9.A. sense                  B. value                    C. attitude              D. idea

10.A. lists                        B. pages                 C. boxes                 D. tables

11.A. different               B. patient                C. popular              D. important

12.A. away                          B. out                               C. behind                 D. down