I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.
I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows（誓约）mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.
So here’s what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion（提升）, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure（空闲）, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.
It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.
By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.
1.The best title of this passage probably is _______.
A. Love your friends B. Live a real life
C. Don’t waste time D. Be a good mother and wife
2.How did the author form her view of life?
A. By working and social experience.
B. Learning from her friends.
C. Through an unlucky experience.
D. Because of her children and husband.
3.What’s the author’s attitude towards work?
A. Do it well to serve others.
B. To earn enough money to make life better.
C. Try our best to get higher position and pay.
D. Don’t let it affect your real life.
4.It can be inferred from the passage that _______.
A. the author is a success in personal life.
B. the author didn’t try her best to work well.
C. the author spent all her time caring for her children.
D. the author likes traveling very much.
Science, as we think, was born when the Greek(希腊) philosopher ( 哲学家 ) Thales ( about 640-546 B.C.) asked a difficult question: What makes up our universe?
No one had a ready answer, so Thales went on studying the earth around him, the sky and the stars. He saw so much water on earth and so much water falling from the sky as rain that he decided water must be the basic substance ( 物质 ) of the universe.
Other Greek thinkers became interested in this question. They suggested other answers. One said that because air lies around the earth, it must be air that makes up all things. Another said that fire, appearing in different forms, was the building block of the universe.
The Greek philosophers were feeling their way towards the ideas on which chemistry is based. Centuries later, scientists proved that the universe is made up of certain basic substances. But the list is much more complicated than the Greeks realized. We now know of 103 basic substances which we call “ elements ( 元素 )”.
1.Thales, the famous Greek philosopher, died when he was about _______________.
A. 94 years old B. 106years old
C. 40 years old D. 46 years old
2.The meaning of the underlined word “ complicated” in the last paragraph is “ ____________”.
A. not difficult B. not simple
C. not famous D. not different
3.On the whole, the passage tells about ______________.
A. early tries to understand the universe B. the famous Greek thinkers
C. water falling from the sky D. air lying all around the earth
4.After reading the passage, we can be sure that________________.
A. nothing ever changes in the universe
B. Thales decided that the basic substance of the universe was air
C. the universe is made up of four different substances
D. the early Greek thinkers did much valuable work for the progress of science
I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare ( 兔子) and the tortoise ( 乌龟 ). At the end I said, “ Son, remember: Be slow and steady ( 镇定的), and that will win the race. Don’t you think there’s something to learn from the tortoise?”
Sonny opened his eyes wide, “ Do you mean next time when I’m entering for the 60-metre race I should wish that Billy, Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?”
I was shocked, “But the tortoise didn’t wish that the hare would fall asleep!”
“He must have wished that,” Sonny said, “Otherwise how could he be so foolish as to race with the hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did.”
“He didn’t have such a wish,” I insisted. “He won the race by perseverance ( 坚忍不拔的 ), by pushing on steadily.”
Sonny thought a while. “That’s a lie,” he said. “ He won it because he was lucky. If the hare hadn’t happened to fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race. He could be as steady as you like, or a hundred times steadier, but he’d never have won the race. That’s for sure.” I gave up. Today’s children are not like what we used to be.
1.The writer argued ( 辩论 )with his son because ______________.
A. he liked tortoises while his son liked hares
B. they disagreed about whether the tortoise was foolish
C. he tried to teach his son a moral ( 品德 )lesson but the son had totally different opinion
D. he liked the story of the hare and the tortoise while his son didn’t.
2.Sonny believed that the tortoise ______________.
A. won the race by his own hard working
B. took a risk ( 冒险 )by agreeing to run a race
C. was not given a fair chance in the race
D. in fact did win the race luckily
3.Billy, Tony and Sandy must be_______________.
A. boys who were unknown to Sonny’s father
B. boys who Sonny has run races with before
C. boys who Sonny has never raced with before
D. boys who Sonny did not expect to race with again
4.The writer thinks that his generation ( 一代人 )______________.
A. are cleverer than Sonny’s generation
B. have the same ideas about life as Sonny’s generation
C. are more hopeful than Sonny’s generation
D. have different ideas about life from Sonny’s generation
Lost iPhone
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1.Who posted the lost and found information?
A. mother B. A kind woman
C. A heartbroken girl D. A parent
2.If you want to send your kids to the babysitter’s home, you can find one in______.
A. Ad 1 B. Ad 2
C. Ad 3 D. Ad 4
3.An applicant accepted by Ad 4 will have to .
A. be able to speak two languages B. be a college graduate
C. work every weekend D. look after two children
1.As was reported by the news, the earthquake in Pasistan might have caused the death of more than 50,000 people.
As was reported by the news, the earthquake in Pasistan might have_______ _______ the death of more than 50,000 people.
2.I spoke slowly but my meaning still couldn’t get across.
I spoke slowly but they still didn’t _________ what I said.
3.The child soon got tired of hearing about his uncle’s adventures in the woods in old days.
The child soon got______ ______ his uncle’s adventures in the woods in old days.
4.I used to be a model worker, but no one showed interest in what had happened to me in the past when I hunted for a new job.
I used to be a model worker, but people ______ _______ _______what had happened to me in the past when I hunted for a new job.
5.He has been making a living by writing short stories for some magazines in the past ten years.
His life _____ ______ _______ ______ his short stories written for some magazines in the past ten years.
6.I don’t think you have realized how much it will cost you.
I don’t think you ____ ____ ____ how much it will cost you .
7.You are supposed to finish your homework before you play your computer games .
You ____ _____ _____ finish your homework before you play your computer games .
8.Middle-aged women are easily made to believe what the cheaters tell them.
Middle-aged women ______ easily ____what the cheaters tell them .
9.Professor Li said , “I did some research in this field yesterday . ”
Professor Li said that ____ ____ ____some research in ___ field ____ ____ ____.
10.A meeting will be held to solve your problem .
A meeting will be held to _____ _____ your problem .
1.There’re lots of ways to _____ your message ______ when you’re _____ an ad campaign.
2.At last she __________ her father to forgive her.
3.My daughter _______ me ______forget to take my medicine.
4.The company must ensure that their product _________.
5.If you _______ math, you should turn to doing some English exercises.
6.When you start a successful ad campaign, you must _____ a clear goal and target audience__________
7.Never take it for granted that one ____________anybody anywhere anything.
8.We________ go to the railway station at once
