Life comes in a package. This package includes happiness and sadness, failure and success, hope and despair. Life is a learning process. Experiences in life teach us new lessons and make us a better person. With each passing day we learn to deal with various situations.
Love plays a main role in our life. Love makes you feel wanted. Without love a person could become cruel. In the early stage of our life, our parents are the ones who show us with love and care. They teach us about what is right and wrong, good and bad. But we don’t always care about it. It is only after marriage and having kids that a person understands others’ feelings.
Happiness can bring people a peaceful mind. No mind is happy without peace. Sadness is the cause of the death of a loved one or the failure. But all of these things will pass away.
Failure is the path to success. It helps us to touch the sky, teaches us to survive and show
s us a specific way. Success brings in money, pride and self-respect.
Hope is what keeps life going. Parents always hope their children will do well. Hope makes us dream. Hope builds in patience. Life teaches us not to despair even in the darkest hour, because after every night there is a day.
Life teaches us not to regret over yesterday, for it has passed and is out of our control. Tomorrow is unknown, for it could either be bright or dark. So the only choice is to work hard today, so that we will enjoy a better tomorrow.
1.We usually have to accept _______ if we want to be successful.
A. love B. failure C. sadness D. hope
2.In which section can readers probably read the passage?
A. Business. B. Travel. C. Lifestyles. D. Education.
3.What does the word “despair” mean in Chinese?
A. 颓废 B. 遗憾 C. 悲伤 D. 绝望
4.What’s the meaning of the last sentence of the whole passage?
A. When choosing between “today” and “tomorrow”, you’d better enjoy tomorrow.
B. If you work hard today, you’ll have a better life in the future.
C. What you can only choose is to work hard today rather than tomorrow.
D. The only choice you make is that you should enjoy a better tomorrow.
5.What’s the purpose of the passage?
A. To encourage people to love each other.
B. To tell people how to deal with happiness and sadness.
C. To give readers some information about life.
D. To remind people to keep having a beautiful dream.
Do you have a headache? Take an aspirin or eat bird brains. Do you want beautiful skin? Use skin cream or eat
pearls. Is your hair turning gray? Color your hair or eat black rice.
“Eat bird brains, pearls, and black rice?” some people ask. “How strange!” But for many Chinese people, bird brains, pearls, and black rice are not strange things to eat. Instead, they are good medicines.
Food that people use for medicines is called medical(药用的) food. The Chinese have eaten medicinal food and spices(香辛料) for centuries. Ginger, for example, is a common spice in Chinese cooking. Ginger gives food a nice flavor. The Chinese began to use ginger many years ago. They used ginger not because it tasted good. They used ginger because it was medicinal. Ginger, they thought, was good for the digestion. It also helped people who had colds. Pepper and garlic, too, were probably medicines a long time ago.
Some people don’t believe that food and spices are good medicines. They want to buy their medicine in drugstores, not in supermarkets. Other people want to try medicinal food. They say, “Maybe medicinal food can’t help me. But it can’t hurt me, either.”
People can try medicinal food at a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco, California. The restaurant serves medicinal food. The menus at the restaurant have a list of dinners. Next to each dinner there is information about the food. The information helps people order “Queen’s Secret,” for example, is one dinner at the restaurant. This dinner has meat from chickens with black feathers. It is for women who want to look young.
1.All of the followings are common spices in Chinese cooking EXCEPT .
A. ginger B. pepper C. garlic D.pearls
2.What do you know about medicinal food?
A. The Chinese have eaten medicinal food for a long time.
B. Many Chinese believe medicinal food tastes good.
C. Medicinal food may be bad for your health.
D. Medicinal food is served all over the world.
3.Why did the Chinese begin to use ginger many years ago?
A. Because it gave food different flavors.
B. Because it made food more delicious.
C. Because it was good for people’s health.
D. Because it made people feel cold.
4.Which answer to the following questions can be found out from the passage?
A. When did the Chinese start to eat bird brains?
B. Why do women like “Queen’s Secret”?
C. What is the advantage of using pepper?
D. How do Chinese people stop a toothache?
5.What can we infer (推测) according to the passage?
A. More foreigners will learn more about medicinal food.
B. All the Chinese will believe black rice stops hair turning gray.
C. Ginger will be more and more popular in China.
D. Medicinal food will be sold in drugstores and supermarkets.
Name | Confederation of European Baseball | Asian Hockey Federation | Volleyball Federation | African Football |
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Formation | 1953 | 1963 | 1946 | 1957 |
Leadquarters | Lausanne, Switzerland | Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Cairo, Egypt |
Region | Europe | Asia | South America | Africa |
Members | 38 | 30 | 12 | 56 |
Official Languages | English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch | English, Chinese, Indian | Spanish, Portuguese | English, |
We | www.baseball europe.com | www.asiahockey.org | www.voleysur.org | www.cafonline.com |
1.When was Asian Hockey Federation set up?
A. In 1953 B. In 1963 C. In 1946 D. In 1957
2.Which organization has the most members?
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3.In how many organizations can English be spoken as an official language?
A. One B. Two C. Three D. Four
4.If you are from China,
which sport can you probably take part in?
A. Baseball. B. Hockey C. Volleyball D. Football
5.If you want to know something about volleyball, you can go to .
A. www.baseballeurope.com B.www.asiahockey.org
C. www.voleysur.org D. www.cafonline.com
阅读下列短文，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Lucky, our beautiful dog, isn’t with us any more. But she brought such joy and love into our lives we still miss her. There are so many wonderful stories about the love in this dog, but my favorite is this one:
It was an autumn day in Minnesota. Unexpectedly, a big snowstorm which no one was prepared for our city.
We have two apple trees in our backyard. Lucky loved apples. When she went outside, she’d hold an apple in her and take i
t into the house to save for eating later. The apples had been on the ground and were often dirty so I wasn’t always that Lucky had brought them into the house.
On the day that it snowed too early in the season, Lucky went outside and I her from the window. I noticed that she was digging to bring the apples to the surface so they could be seen the snow. I wondered why she was doing this. She seemed to be completely busy with some kind of important task to find as many as possible during her yard time.
, she had one apple in her mouth when I called her back into the house. About
five minutes later I looked outside. The yard was completely covered with birds. Lucky had all those apples for her bird and squirrel friends to eat. She knew that they wouldn’t have stored enough food to survive such an early winter!
1.A. whyB. ifC. whenD. that
2.A. hitB. attackedC. beatD. caught
3.A. noseB. stomachC. mouthD. ear
4.A. happyB. angryC. worriedD. excited
5.A. heardB. helpedC. watchedD. followed
6.A. gentlyB. madlyC. easilyD. sadly
7.A. underB. acrossC. beyondD. above
8.A. applesB. treesC. birdsD. squirrels
9.A. As a resultB. As usualC. In factD. In a word
10.A. eaten upB. put upC. dug upD. cleaned up
–I’m in a bad mood. You know I failed in this exam.
– . A bad grade doesn’t mean you’re not clever. Just study harder.
A . Forget it B. Cheer up C. Never mind D. Don’t mention it.
–If you go to Beijing, don’t forget to buy some Qingfeng Baozi for me.
– . I also want to try the famous baozi.
A .OK, I don’t B. OK, I won’t C. Sorry, I don’t D. Sorry, I won’t
