FUN TIME
9 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 |
5 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
X | 7 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 3 |
7 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 6 |
4 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 9 |
2 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
3 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 2 | Y | 6 | 1 | Z |
6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 4 |
8 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 2 |
Are you tired of the puzzles you usually do? Sudoku is a new choice. Sudoku consists of the Japanese characters Su (meaning “number”) and Doku (meaning “single”), but it was not invented in Japan. It was created by Howard Garnes in 1979. The puzzle was first introduced into Japan by Nikoli Puzzle Company in 1984. In 1986, Kaji Maki, the president of Nikoli made the rules strict and clear. Soon in the same year Sudoku became popular in Japan. In November 2004, The Times, a British newspaper, first printed it in the newspaper. It became an international hit in 2005. Now Sudoku becomes very popular all over the world.
The rule of the puzzle is to fill in the grids (格子) so that every row, every line and every 3×3 box has the numbers 1 to 9. Here is a Sudoku. Please relax and enjoy. It’s fun!
根据以上杂志专栏内容，回答下列问题。
1.Who created Sudoku?
A. Howard Garnes. B. Sudoku. C. Kaji Maki. D. Nikoli.
2.Which is true about Kaji Maki according to the reading material?
A. He was the boss of Nissan Company.
B. He helped to make Sudoku popular in Japan.
C. He was the president of The Times.
D. He is an American.
3.Which is NOT true about Sudoku?
A. Sudoku wasn’t invented in Japan.
B. It was The Times that first printed Sudoku in the newspaper.
C. Each grid has more than one number.
D. It became popular around the world in 2005.
4.In the puzzle above, what should “X” be?
A. 5. B. 4. C. 3. D. 1.
5.What should “Z” be in the puzzle?
A. 8. B. 5. C. 2. D. 4.
Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The next building only was a few feet away from mine. They was a woman lived there, and I had never met her, yet I could see she sat by her window each afternoon, drinking or reading.
After a few months, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear through the dirty window. I would say to myself. “I wonder why that woman doesn’t clean her window. It really looks terrible.”
One sunny morning I decided to clean my house, including washing the window.
Late in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest. What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible (看见). Her window was clean!
It dawned on me. I had been criticizing (批评) her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers through my own dirty window.
That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at others through the dirty window of my heart?
Since then, whenever I wanted to judge (评判) someone, I asked myself first, “Am I looking at him through my own dirty window?” I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me more clearly.
1. The writer couldn’t see everything clearly through the window because __________.
A. the woman’s window was dirty
B. the writer’s window was dirty
C. the woman lived nearby
D. the writer was near-sighted
2. The writer was surprised that _________.
A. the woman was sitting by her window
B. the woman’s window was still terrible
C. the woman did cleaning in the afternoon
D. the woman’s window was clean
3. “It dawned on me” probably means “_______”.
A. I began to understand it B. it cheered me up
C. I knew it grew light D. it began to get dark
4. It’s clear that ________.
A. the writer had never met the woman before
B. the writer often washed the window
C. they both worked as cleaners
D. they lived in a small town
5. From the passage, we can learn _______.
A. one shouldn’t criticize others very often
B. one should often make his windows clean
C. one must judge himself before he judges others
D. one must look at others through his dirty windows.
“Never give up!” It is my law of my life. It has brought me ____. I learned the law from my father’s ____ story.
My father was ___ in a poor village in the north of Jiangsu, in China. When he was a young boy, he went to a school in the morning, then ____ in the fields till sunset. And then he did his homework ____ midnight. Life was hard, because they had no ____!
At the age of 14, my father heard of the United States. It was the land of gold, the land where ___ people can become rich.
“____ don’t I go to America?” he thought to himself, full of hope.
So, my father came to America. “I had thought it was easy to ___ money in America,” he told me. “But when I arrived there, I realized it was not true. They did not like to hire me because I spoke _____ English. Later, I worked in a small restaurant, cleaning up tables, _____ dishes and sweeping the floor. Life was ____ for the first few years. I worked from 10am to 11pm. I wanted to go to school to learn English, but it was impossible. I couldn’t ___ the schooling.”
My father __ working hard, and reached his goal!
“Alan,” he often says to me, “If you want something, you have to work for it and never give up. Things do not come____ in life.” That is what I learned from my father.
1.A.disaster B.loss C.success D.pity
2.A.life B. fashion C. danger D. history
3.A.famous B.lucky C. rich D.born
4.A.taught B.worked C.studied D.slept
5.A.until B.toward C.for D.during
6.A.experience B.energy C.time D.money
7.A.kind B.poor C.strong D.lazy
8.A.What B.How C.Why D.When
9.A.discover B.make C.collect D.spend
10.A.little B.good C.much D.excellent
11.A.giving B.running C.washing D.receiving
12.A.comfortable B.cheerful C.nice D.hard
13.A.borrow B.need C.afford D.pay
14.A.kept B.finished C.minded D.stopped
15.A.really B.easily C.quietly D.slowly
—Could you tell me ____________ ?
--Sure. You can take the No3 bus to get there.
A. where is the airport
B. how soon can I get to the airport
C. how far is it from the airport
D. how I can get to the airport
—As teenagers, we should _____ seats to anyone in need when taking a bus.
—I agree with you.
A. refuse B. offer C. help D. send
—Do you know what the meeting is about？
—Yes, of course. It will _____some important rules we need to know about our school.
A. talk B. cover C. achieve D. memorize
