When you feel sad, tears will come down from your eyes. When you are happy, especially when you laugh hard, tears will also come down from your eyes. But tears have a more important job than showing your feelings.
Tears keep your eyes clean and healthy. They wash away dirt and germs just like bath. Your eyes also need tears to keep them wet. And eyes must be wet so that they can move smoothly. Your eyes are busy looking here and there all day long. They move quickly from one thing to another. If you didn’t have tears, your eyes couldn’t move, and soon you would be blind.
Maybe you don’t like tears, but your eyes can’t do without them.

1. 1.

   The story tells us ____.

   1. A.
      what makes people blind
   2. B.
      why people have tears
   3. C.
      why people cry when they are sad
   4. D.
      what tears are
2. 2.

   Tears help you by ____.

   1. A.
      showing how you feel
   2. B.
      making your face clean
   3. C.
      washing things from your eyes
   4. D.
      making your eyes bright
3. 3.

   If your eyes were not wet, you could not____.

   1. A.
      look at things clearly
   2. B.
      laugh and cry
   3. C.
      keep clean
   4. D.
      show your feelings
4. 4.

   When you are happy or sad, you may ____.

   1. A.
      look at things quickly
   2. B.
      wash away dirt and germs
   3. C.
      have tears in your eyes
   4. D.
      move your eyes quickly
5. 5.

   The sentence “your eyes can’t do without them” means ____.

   1. A.
      your eyes like having baths very much
   2. B.
      your eyes like tears very much
   3. C.
      your eyes can’t work without tears
   4. D.
      your eyes can’t open without them

When I was a teenager growing up in Russia, I wanted to leave school and have my own life. The only way I could do this was to work in the local brick factory in my town, or get married. I was nervous when I told my father I wanted to leave school. I thought he would say, " No! You are going to college. " He took me by surprise when he said, "OK. We'll go to the brick factory. "
Two days later, he took me to the factory. I had a very romantic idea of working in a factory. ' I had imagined everyone to be friends working together and having fun. I even imagined there would be music and singing. I guess I had watched too many movies as a teenager.
When we arrived at the factory gates, my father spoke to the guard and one minute later we were inside. My father said, "Take your time. Look around." I walked around the factory looking at the building, the workers, and listening to the noise. It was horrible. I ran back to my. father and said, "I want to go home. "
He asked me, "What do you think of the factory?"
"It's terrible," I replied.
"And marriage is even worse!" he said.
I went back to school the next day thinking about studying hard so I could get into a good college. I enjoyed studying English so I decided to major in languages at college. Thanks to my father and our trip to the brick factory, I now work at the United Nations and my father is very proud of me. I married a very good man and my life is much better than it would have been working in the factory!

1. 1.

   The writer lived in_________ when she was a teenager.

   1. A.
      Russia
   2. B.
      Japan
   3. C.
      China
2. 2.

   At first she thought life in the factory would be _       _ than in school.

   1. A.
      more careful
   2. B.
      more colorful
   3. C.
      more beautiful
3. 3.

   When she told her father that she wanted to leave school, he expressed his disagreement________.

   1. A.
      by doing nothing    
   2. B.
      in a special way
   3. C.
      by saying nothing
4. 4.

   After they visited the factory, the girl________.

   1. A.
      decided to work there       
   2. B.
      decided to get married       
   3. C.
      changed her mind
5. 5.

   The underlined word "horrible" means "_     _" in Chinese.

   1. A.
      糟糕的   
   2. B.
      紧张的   
   3. C.
      浪漫的

When I was about 12, a girl in my class liked to point out my problems. I was too thin; I wasn't a good student; I talked too much; I was too __46__, and so on. At last, I became very angry and ran to my father.

He listened to me  47  . Then he asked, "Are these things true or not? Do you know what you are really like? Go and make a   48   of what she said and find the __49__ that are true. "

I did as he told me. To my great __50_ . 1 discovered that about half of the things were true. Some of them I couldn't change (like being very thin). But there were things 1 could and wanted to change. For the _51__ time, I got a clear  52  of myself.

I brought the list back to Dad. He refused to take it. "That's just for you." he said. "You know the truth about _53_ better than anyone else. When people say something that is true about you, you should find it helpful. "

Our world is full of people who think they know your business. Don't _54_ and feel   55 . Listen to them.

(  )46. A. beautiful             B. proud     C smart  D. rich

(  )47. A. bravely H. happily    C. quickly   D. quietly

(  )48. A. joke    B. programme  C.list       D. record

(  )49. A. secrets B. mistakes   C. lessons   D. points

(  )50. A. surprise B. interest   C. opinion   D. fact

(  )51. A. first   B. second     C. next      D. last

(  )52. A. book    B. picture    C. drawing   D. notice

(  )53. A. yourselves B. myself  C. herself   D. yourself

(  )54. A. clean   B. open       C. close     D. wash

(  )55. A. hurt    B.safe        C. pretty    D.cheap

When we got to Yushu airport , we were told that they ____ more than 500 people from the ruins (废墟) by earthquake.

A. has saved            B. saved                C. had saved        D. have saved