Walter owns three Italian restaurants which are running very well in Rhode Island in America. Every day his restaurants welcome crowds of customers（顾客） all over the world.
He studied to be a cook, but he sees now that his success is the result of a lifetime education. When he opened his first restaurant, all of a sudden his schooling knowledge , the history of his family and his ethics(道德准则) of his father came into play . It made him a person who studied and explored （探索）the secrets in the food business.
Walter’s learning never stops. He says “ The food business is one where you need to stay on top. Cooks should be trained. You have to keep on studying or you will be left behind.” So he spent more time in reading. Every time he gets new ideas from the book, he brings them into his work.
Walter also has a clear understanding about success. That is he would like to be remembered as a person who is creative, who believes in the Italian cooking culture in America. Food is like a bridge connecting to the past, to the family and to the country. He says “Success to me is not how much money I make, but if at the end of the day I am able to make fifteen or twenty customers happy, I’m a happy man.”
1.The underlined phrase “came into play” means
A. played a joke on him B. needed to be used
C. gave him much help D. began to be studied
2.The secret of Walter’s success is .
A. building a bridge to the country
B. keeping on learning without any stops
C. getting new cooking ideas from his family
D. bringing the Italian cooking culture into America
3. From the last sentence of the passage, we can know that it is .
A. happy to make a lot of money
B. exciting to have more and more customers
C. important to make the customers pleased
D. impossible to make 15 or 20 customers happy every day
4. We can learn from the passage that .
A. the lifetime education is important
B. creative spirit always comes first
C. exploring the food business is difficult
D. new ideas are necessary in running a restaurant
5.The best title of this passage may be “ ”
A. Culture is Important for Cooks
B. A Cook and His Customers
C. The Story of Three Restaurants
D. A Winner is Made, not Born
One morning, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet .He held a sign which said,“I am blind. Please help me.”
There were only a few coins（硬币） in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat .He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words on it. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by could see the new words.
Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and ask,“Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you write?”
The man said,“I only wrote the truth. I said what you said, but in a different way.”
What he had written was,“Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.”
Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?
Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second sign told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.
There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.
The first is: Treasure(珍惜)what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.
The second is: Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.
1. From the passage we know that______.
A. the boy is the man’s son. B. the man is one of his neighbors.
C. the boy is blind and needs help. D. the boy works for the man.
2. On the sign what the man wrote was,“_______.”
A. Treasure what we have already had.
B. Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.
C. We are so lucky that we are not blind.
D. Try your best to help those who need your help.
3.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A .The hat began to fill up after the man wrote some words on the sign.
B. The man took away all the few coins from the hat.
C. The boy wanted to get enough money to go to school.
D. Nobody wanted to give any coins to the blind boy.
4.The word“recognized”here in Chinese means______.
A.承认 B.接受
C.表扬 D.认出
5.“____”is the best title for this story.
A. Be careful.
B. Be creative. There is always a better way!
C. Be kind to the blind!
D. Do not always get, but offer!
Please give kids a break. The request(要求) came after an online survey about 31 activities between classes. Some schools only 32 students to play in the corridors (走廊) during the ten-minute breaks, while 33 even make students do homework in the classroom. About this problem, different people have 34 ideas.
70% of parents in the survey said their children were not allowed to play 35 during breaks. Teachers should know children are 36 to be active, so education shouldn’t run 37 the laws(规律) of nature. “ It 38 that the playground is useless,” said one of the parents. Some parents agreed to 39 the school did. “ Games during breaks will make children too excited to listen to the teacher 40 in class.” Schools had their own reasons 41 this. Teachers were facing lots of responsibility(责任) over school 42 . Some schools stopped activities 43 children were injured （受伤）during breaks. 44 didn’t want to do so, but there was no better 45 to solve the problem.
1.A. teachers’B. children’s C. kid’s D. people’s
2.A. make B. let C. allow D. have
3. A. other B. another C. others D. the other
4. A. same B. special C. usual D. different
5.A. outside B. inside C. upstairs D. downstairs
6.A. afraid B. born C. similar D. able
7.A. after B. to C. with D. against
8. A. likes B. looks C. sees D. seems
9. A. what B. that C. which D. how
10.A. careless B. careful C. carefully D. care
11. A. to B. of C. for D. with
12.A. rules B. safety C. games D. sports
13.A. before B. while C. so D. because
14.A. They B. We C. You D. He
15.A. road B. street C. help D. way
--Do you know who invented the plane, Lucy?
-- . I don’t know.
A. Excuse me B. Beat me. C. Believe me. D. Sorry me
--Here are some earrings . The owner can’t be a boy.
--Well, could be a boy. The earrings might be a present for his mother.
A. he B. that C. it D. this
I’m interested in you have told me .
A. which B. all that C. all what D. that
