Tom lived in a town and worked in a shop. His father died when he was young and his mother supported(支持)him. She always tried her best to save everything and hoped to have enough money to send her son to school. Sometimes she was hungry but she always gave the boy enough food. Now the young man was twenty-eight years old. He wasn’t married(结婚), because he hoped to take good care of his mother himself.
The young man worked hard in the shop. He was very busy. So he decided to employ(雇用)a housekeeper to look after his mother. One of his friends brought a girl, Kate, to him. The girl was very strong and came from a village and could do all the housework.
One day the old woman fell to the ground and hurt her leg. Mr. Shute had just come home. He went to lift her to the bed with Kate quickly. Then he told Kate to call the bus station to send a taxi to them. He waited for a long time and no taxi came. He couldn’t find Kate and didn’t know what had happened. When he was going out to ring up the station himself, the girl hurried back.
“What did you do just now?” Tom said angrily.
“I went to the station, sir.” answered the girl. “I didn’t know the telephone number. So I had to go to ask them for it and then ring them up.”
“How did you go there?” asked Tom
“By taxi, sir.” answered the girl.
根据短文内容回答问题。
1.Why wasn’t Tom married?
2.Why did Tom employ a housekeeper?
3.Could Kate do all the housework?
4.What was the matter with the old woman one day？
5.Actually(实际上)what did Tom want Kate to do？
If you are a teenage boy, and you want to succeed in life, you'd better read this great book.
"From Boys to Men" by an American author, Michael Gurian, tells teenage boys that they are living through the best years of their lives. There is no reason for them not to love life.
You may think that only your body is growing at the moment. But the book says your mind is growing, too. The book tells teenage boys that they need to help their bodies and minds grow. To do this, they should stop spending their time playing computer games and should start playing sports. Sports, the book says, keep you healthy and teach you important life skills. They teach you how to be a leader and how to work as part of a team.
The book also tells boys how to love life if they're being bullied (被欺负). It says boys have to stop being scared (害怕的) of such bullies. It is the only way they can become more successful people.
To become the man you want to be, you have to think for yourself and believe in yourself. But, most importantly, the book says, you must always dream of success. Never be happy with what you've got, and always want more.
1. "From Boys to Men" is ________.
A. a Chinese magazine
B. a piece of music
C. an American book
2. Michael Gurian tells teenage boys to ________.
A. play games with other boys
B. learn to repair machines
C. love their life
3.The book tells us that ________.
A. our bodies and minds grow at the same time
B. our bodies are much stronger than our minds
C. our minds grow faster than our bodies
4.The book says that sports can ______.
A. teach you how to keep healthy
B. teach you important life skills and how to work and to be a leader
C. A and B
5.The writer of this passage wishes us to ________.
A. read "From Boys to Men"
B. help him sell the book soon
C. send the book to others
Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you will find that the whole world smiles to you.
While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job?
One day it is fine. Just before you go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start to complain about the weather. But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the free concerts that the nature offers you? And with the timely(及时)rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest.
Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes failure can’t be avoided. I think failure isn’t terrible, and the terrible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes，“Failure is the mother of success”.
Attitude decides everything. With an optimistic attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.
1. People sometimes complain ________.
A. the sky is always dark
B. their studies are successful
C. life is tiring
2.According to the passage, in school, ________.
A. the students don’t like their lessons
B. the teacher will be happy if the students do good jobs
C. the teachers don’t like their teaching
3. If there is a timely rain, ________.
A. farmers can’t have a good harvest
B. you can listen to a concert
C. crops in the fields will grow better
4.When we face failure, we ________.
A. must be confident in ourselves
B. shouldn’t be afraid of it
C. Both of the above
5. The best title for the passage is ________.
A. Smile and the World Smiles to You
B. Complaining about life
C. Failure Is The Mother of Success
When my father got home, I ______ a letter to my friend.
A. write B. wrote C. was writing
Her lovely dog’s _________ made her very sad.
A. dying B. die C. death.
Of the five toys, the child chose_____.
A. the expensive one
B. one most expensive
C. the most expensive one
