Friends play a very important part in everyone’s life. Friendship usually develops during childhood. New friends are made when you progress through school. Those friends that you make as a student can usually last long. Friends influence (影响) your development, maturity (成熟) and sense of responsibility. A familiar expression is “You can tell a lot about a person by knowing who his friends are.” Friendship is based on common interests. If you like sports, most of your friends are likely to be athletic (竞技的). If you enjoy reading and shopping, most of your friends do the same.
Some people call you their friends for the wrong reasons. These people are not really friends. They are superficial(表面上的) only “friends” on the outside, not the inside where it counts. Superficial friends only want to be your friends if it is to their advantage. True friends are there if you are rich or poor. It is easy to have many so-called “friends” if you are rich. By this time you should be able to separate your friends into the real or the “phoney”.
True friends are most special. They are also difficult to find. You can consider yourself very lucky if you have one true friend. This friend is eager to help you whenever necessary. He or she knows you would do the same for them. A true friend is someone you can talk to about any subject or problem. You and your true friend have good understanding of each other. True friends support you, take your side, and build up your confidence.
1.The first paragraph tells us _____.
A．how to make a true friend
B．we should make friend in our childhood
C．what is friendship based on
D．friends play a very important part in our life
2.Which of the following is TRUE?
A．What you value above anything is the friendship developing during childhood.
B．The friendship developing during your school days will be with you for a long time.
C．Only through your friends’ influence will you take the responsibility for your task.
D．If you have no music in you, none of your friends will be a music lover.
3.“So-called” friends in paragraph 2 refer to _____.
A．someone who only wants to be your friend when you are successful
B．those who want to benefit from you
C．the friends who are on the surface only
D．all the above
4.Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A．You should tell true friends from phoneys.
B．True friendship is too difficult to find.
C．You can share your joys and sorrows with a true friend.
D．A true friend will stand by you whatever happens.
Once there was a piano player in a bar. People came just to hear him play. But one night, a lady asked him to sing a song.
"I don't sing." said the man.
But the lady told the waiter, "I'm tired of listening to the piano. I want the player to sing!"
The waiter shouted across the room, " Hey, friend! If you want to get paid, sing a song!"
So he did. He had never sung in public before. Now he was singing for the very first time! Nobody had ever heard the song Mona Lisa sung so beautifully!
He had talent (天赋）he was sitting on! He may have lived the rest of his life as a no-name piano player in a no-name bar. But once he found, by accident, that he could sing well, he went on working hard and became one of the best-known singers in the US. His name was Nat King Cole.
You, too, have skills and abilities. You may not feel that your talent is great, but it may be better than you think. With hard work, most skills skills can be improved. Besides, you may have no success at all if you just sit on your talent.
1.The lady asked the player to sing a song because .
A．she had paid him for this B．she knew him very well
C．she wanted to have a change D．she enjoyed his singsing
2.Nat King Cole successed because .
A．the lady helped him a lot B．he caught the chance
C．he continued to play in the bar D．he stopped playing the piano
3.From the story we know if you have some talent, you should .
A．hide it and wait B．ask others or help
C．pay no attention to it D．work hard to improve yourself
4.Which could be the best title for the passage?
A．Sing in the Bar B．Achieve Success in Life
C．Never Lose Heart D．Find Your Hidden Talent
Schools and parents in Shenzhen City have been asked to take better care of children’s eyesight as 45 percent of them, were found to be shortsighted. Too much reading, poor lighting and too much TV are blamed. Of the city’s high school graduates who applied to attend college this summer, two-thirds had to have their choices limited because of poor eyesight, Shenzhen Special Zone Daily said.
1.This piece of news was reported by____ .
A．People’s Daily B．Shenzhen Special Zone Daily
C．school in Shenzhen City D．parents in Shenzhen City
2.The purpose of this passage is to _____ .
A．criticize children who are shortsighted
B．blame parents and schools for children’s being shortsighted
C．ask the high school graduates to pay attention to their eyesight
D．draw people’s special attention to eye hygiene(卫生)
3.Only____ of the children in Shenzhen City have good eyesight.
A．55 percent B．less than half C．45 percent D．two—thirds
4.Because of being shortsighted many school graduates_____ .
A．weren’t allowed to enter college
B．couldn’t graduate from high school
C．couldn’t choose to study what they liked best
D．lost their limited time
A student went to college after 41__ all his school examinations. There he put his name down for world geography. 42_ after the first day, he did not go to 43_ any more. The teacher noticed that this student was 44_ absent and thought that he had changed to 45 class. He was very 46_ when he saw the boy's name on the list(名单) of students 47_ wanted to take the geography examination 48_ the end of the year.
The teacher had prepared a difficult examination paper, which covered 49 he had taught, and he was eager to see 50 this student answered the questions. He expected that his answers would be very 51_; but when he examined his paper carefully, he found only one small mistake in them. 52_ this surprised him very much, he went through the paper 53_, but was still not able to find 54 one mistake, so he sent 55 the student to question him about his work after the exam..
When the student had 56 the room, the teacher said to him, “I know that you came to my class only once on the first day and that you have been absent from all the others. Yet I have found only one small mistake in your paper. 57_ is that?”
“Oh, I'm sorry about that mistake, sir, ”answered the student. “After the examination, I realized 58 I ought to have written. I would not have made that mistake 59 I had been confused(弄糊涂) by your 60_ lecture.”
1. A．having B．taking C．passing D．failing
2. A．So B．But C．However D．And
3. A．it B．lesson C．college D．class
4. A．always B．once C．never D．sometimes
5. A．another B．the other C．other D．others
6. A．angry B．happy C．sorry D．surprised
7. A．that he B．he C．who D．whom
8. A．by B．at C．after D．in
9. A．everything B．something C．anything D．nothing
10. A．what B．when C．how D．why
11. A．good B．full C．nice D．bad
12. A．For B．As C．So D．Though
13. A．two times B．twice C．once D．again once
14. A．more than B．another C．the other D．second
15. A．with B．to C．x D．for
16. A．reached to B．arrived to C．arrived into D．come into
17. A．Why B．What C．How D．Which
18. A．where B．why C．what D．when
19. A．unless B．if C．because D．as
20. A．first B．last C．latest D．certain
---Would she mind playing with my little brothers?
---________, she’d like to play with any children.
A．I think so B．Of course C．Not likely D．I’m not surprised
The kind girl ________all her spare time she had ____ others.
A．devoted…to help… B．does devote… helping
C．devotes…helped… D．did devote…to helping...
