Everyone in our village likes my father, so he has a sense of humor. On other words, he can make others laugh easy and people feel happy to be around him. I admire him very much and dream of that some day I will be as humorous as him. I even asked him how have a good sense of humor, but what she replied disappointed me. “Not someone can be humorous, because those who is humorous are usually born to be humorous,” he said. However, later, he adds, “But you can be humorous too if you know a lot of joke.” That’s why now I’m reading a book of jokes.
A young man, while traveling through a desert, came across a spring of clear water. _1.___water was sweet. He filled his leather container so that he could bring some back to an elder__2.__had been his teacher. After a four-day journey, the young man__3.__ ( present ) the water to the old man. His teacher took a deep drink, smiled _4._ ( warm ), and thanked his student very much for the sweet water. The young man went home_5.__a happy heart.
After the student left, the teacher let__6._student taste the water. He spit it out, __7.__ (say) it was awful. Apparently, it was no longer fresh because of the old leather container. He asked his teacher, "Sir, the water was awful. Why did you pretend to like_8.__?" The teacher replied," You tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of kindness and love. Nothing could be__9.__ (sweet). "We understand this lesson best__10.__we receive gifts of love from children. Whether it is a cheap pipe or a diamond necklace, the proper response is appreciation. We love the idea within the gift rather than the thing.
Once a man came to a wise man's house and said, “I have many bad habits. Which one of them should I ____ first？” The wise man said, “Never tell lies ___ always speak the truth.” The man ____ to do so and went home.
At night the man was about to go out to steal. Before setting out, he ___ for a moment about the promise he had made to the wise man. “If he asks me where I have been, what shall I say? Shall I say I went out ___？No, I cannot say that. But nor can I ____.If I tell the truth, everyone will start __ me and call me a thief. I would be ___ for stealing. ”So the man ____ not to steal that night，and gave up this ___ habit.
The next day, he ____ to drink wine. When he was about to do so, he said to himself，“What shall I say to the wise man ____ he asks me what I did during the day？I cannot tell a lie. ”And so he gave up the ___ of drinking wine.
In this ___， whenever the man thought of doing something bad, he ___ his promise to tell the truth at all times.____，he gave up all his bad habits and became a very ____ person.
Telling the truth is a very good __. If you always tell the truth, you can keep yourself away from a lot of ____ and become a person whom everyone __ and favors.
Make a promise：I shall always speak the truth.
1.A. take out B．give up C．add up D．turn off
2.A. so B．but C．and D．or
3.A. promisedB．happenedC．settledD．began
4.A. playedB．drankC．thoughtD．slept
5.A. walking B．stealingC．studyingD．climbing
6.A. move B．sayC．lieD．help
7.A. hating B．catching C．killingD．believing
8.A. expectedB．hurtC．sufferedD．punished
9.A. decidedB．forgotC．askedD．pretended
10.A. specialB．funnyC．greatD．bad
11.A. wentB．wantedC．learnedD．stopped
12.A. beforeB．sinceC．ifD．as
13.A. ideaB．wordC．powerD．use
14.A. baseB．wayC．placeD．time
15.A. imaginedB．plannedC．brokeD．remembered
16.A. By the wayB．In a wordC．First of all D．One by one
17.．A. good B．strong C．rich D．common
18.．A. custom B．habit C．gameD．example
19.．A. money B．hope C．pleasureD．trouble
20.．A. serves B．cheats C．likesD．Controls
“No man is an island” is a wellknown line from John Donne's Devotion, written more than three hundred years ago. Even now people still agree with him. Without other people, life became empty and sad.__ 1._
For some of us, though making friends is not difficult, we may not want to make the first move. It is also difficult at times to keep the friends we already have.
There are many books about friendship, but Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence(影响) People，written in 1936, is the most famous.___ 2._ It was later put into 28 languages.
Here is the list of advice from his book：
·__3.__
Always greet with a smile. Begin with “excuse me” or “would you please”， when you want to ask somebody. Remember to say “thank you” and try to be as helpful as you can.
·Go out of your way to be nice.
__4._ Making some soup for a sick neighbour may seem like a little thing to you, but it will make your neighbour feel a lot better.
·Remember names.
They say that the sweetest music to a person's ears is the sound of his or her own name.
·_5.__
Try to understand other people's ways and ideas and learn something from them.
·Listen patiently.
When someone is talking to you, look at him or her, listen carefully and say something when necessary.
A．This “How to” book about getting along with other people became a best seller.
B．It's also important to keep close friends in our daily life.
C．So we all need to have friends.
D．Be openminded.
E．Be friendly and polite.
F．Try to help your friends get out of trouble.
G．Find some time to do some things for other people.
A typical day at work for Cesar Millan might include putting on his running shoes and taking a fourhour jog with 40 dogs—large and small, young and old. Amazingly, most of those dogs belong to him. The rest are at the heart of his work; they are troubled dogs sent to Millan to learn good behavior.
Obviously Millan, star of the TV show “Dog Whisperer” and author of the bestselling book Cesar's Way，has a special gift for working with these animals.
Growing up on a farm in Mexico, Millan knew he wanted to work with dogs. His first job, at age 15，was helping a veterinarian (兽医)．He was so good at calming scared dogs and handling all kinds of situations that people started calling him “el perrero”， Spanish for “the dog boy”．Since then, he has built a rewarding career around his favorite animal.
“My grandfather taught me at an early age not to work against nature，”he explains. In nature, dogs_are_pack_animals. They form a group and follow one leader. Millan's specialty is teaching people to be pack leaders for their dogs.
Studying dogs on the farm where he grew up，Millan realized they need lots of exercise to be calm. He explains his approach，“Exercise and discipline first，and then affection！”He says a lot of people get it backwards because they don't realize what dogs really need. Therefore, while he trains dogs, he teaches owners to understand that their pets need rules. He's helped famous people like Oprah Winfrey and movie star Will Smith and everyday people too.
To find the right career, Millan encourages kids to do what they enjoy. “A lot of people don't realize I've been working with dogs for more than 20 years—long before my TV show or book. Success followed me because I was following my dream of being the best dog trainer in the world.”
1.By saying “dogs are pack animals”(in Para.4)，the author means that________.
A．dogs like to live with people
B．dogs are easier to be trained
C．few dogs can be leaders
D．dogs live in groups
2.Which of the following would Millan agree with?
A．Dogs are quiet animals.
B．Dogs should be trained on farms.
C．Rules are more important than love in training dogs.
D．Famous people have more problems in training dogs.
3.What does Millan advise children to do when it comes to choosing a job?
A．Do what interests them.
B．Never give up and they will succeed.
C．Share their ideas with many other people.
D．Receive training long before they succeed.
A young girl is calling a neighbor a superhero because of what he did when she was trapped beneath a car. Nick Harris said he didn't know where he found the strength, but somehow he managed to lift a car off the 6yearold girl last week，earning himself the title of superman. “I just think it' s a Christmas miracle，”Harris said.
Harris said he has tried time and again to recreate(使再现)the surprising show of strength because instinct(本能) sent him running to the 6yearold' s aid. “I just ran over there，saw the tire on her，and lifted the car up to get her out from underneath the car，”Harris said. “I don't know how I did it. I've tried three or four times since then.”
Harris was dropping off his daughter at Eugene Field Elementary Friday morning when he saw a car back out of a driveway，pinning(压住) the girl under its tire. That girl turned out to be his daughter's best friend.
“I was expecting her to have bad injuries，”Harris said. “I've had broken toes, because a car just backed over my foot. And here this whole car was on top of her. I wasn't expecting it to turn out as wonderful as it did.” The first grader was flown to Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City by an air ambulance(救护车)，but didn't have to stay long.
“They all call me superman now，”Harris said. “I'm just a dad. I'm just a dad that was in the right place at the right time. And I was finally able to help and I did something good.”
1.Why was Harris called a superhero?
A．He saved a girl by lifting a car.
B．He won in a Christmas competition.
C．He pushed off the car on his daughter.
D．He was always ready to help his neighbors.
2.Harris tried many times to repeat his action in order to________.
A．prove he had great strength
B．find out how he had done it
C．show his daughter he was a hero
D．make people believe what happened
3.Where did the accident happen?
A．Near Children's Mercy Hospital.
B．Around his neighbor's home.
C．Outside a supermarket.
D．At a school gate.
4.What can we learn about Harris?
A．He was fond of the movie Superman.
B．He had the accident while backing his car.
C．He drove the injured girl to the nearby hospital.
D．He was once run over on the foot by a car.
