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.

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

When Amy wrote her first novel in secondary school, she never imagined that she would become a writer one day. Like many 16  writers on the Internet, the  17  woman got into this online world accidentally(偶然地).

Three years ago, Amy worked in a medical industry. Her job kept her busy for six months and left her almost  18  to do for the rest of the year. To fill the time, she started writing  19  on the Internet. Her first novel was about her neighbours and their life 20  she is familiar with.

Amy has been interested in writing  21  she was a child. At first, she just wanted to share her novels  22  people she knew. Then one day an editor of a famous website emailed her, asking her 23  she would like to sell the electronic copyright(授权) of one of her novels. She  24  immediately and the novel was moved to the VIP section of the website. She got $ 1,500 for that.

Now Amy is a full-time  25  . So far her eight novels have come out online, and five of them  26  .

“The Internet made me famous and brought me  27  ,” she said. “I earn much more money now— about $60,000 a year. I am 28  with my career, but there is one problem — that my talent might run out after five years and I’ll have to  29  to work in the medical industry.”

“Before that day comes, I’ll keep  30  for the readers with my light and close-to-everyday-life writing style,” said Amy with a smile.

1. A. other             B. others           C. another          D. the other

2.A. 28-year-old    B. 28-years-old         C. 28 years old     D. 28-year old

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

4.A. reports        B. novels           C. diaries          D. plays

5. A. who           B. which            C. that             D. whom

6.A. when           B. while            C. since        D. until

7.A. about              B. of               C. to           D. with

8. A. that              B. if                   C. why              D. how often

9.A. agreed         B. disagreed            C. refused          D. left

10.A. housewife         B. editor           C. saleswoman  D. writer

11. A. will print       B. were printing        C. printed          D. were printed

12. A. success          B. succeed              C. successful  D. successfully

13. A. unhappy          B. angry            C. satisfied        D. proud

14.A. come          B. go               C. return       D. get

15.A. to write          B. writing              C. write        D. written

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In 2008, an Indian film Slumdog Millionaire (贫民窟的百万富翁) won an Oscar 1. a    . It tells the story of a poor young man who wins the top prize on a TV game show. Now, in 2. r       life, there is a “slumdog millionaire” too. An Indian office worker has 3. b        the first person to win the＄one million top prize on the Indian TV game show who wants to be a millionaire.

The 4. w       is a 27-year-old young man. He works in a government office. He doesn’t earn much money, about 5. o       $120 every month. His house is almost broken. He even watched the TV game show at a neighbour’s because he was too poor to 6.a     a TV set.

People are 7. i       in how the young man will use the prize. He said that he was going to 8. r     his house and use part of the prize to study 9. f     the civil service (公务员) exams. “I love reading,” he said in an interview. “Before winning the prize, I 10. c       buy many books, but now, I will make a huge library.”

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