“The first and best of victories for a man is to conquer himself; to be conquered by himself is, of all things, the most shameful,” says Plato. Self-control is at the root of all the advantages. Let a man give in to his impulses (冲动) and feelings, and from that moment he gives up his moral freedom.
A single angry word has lost many friends. When Socrates found in himself any temper or anger, he would check it by speaking low in order to control himself. If you are conscious of being angry, keep your mouth shut so that you can hold back rising anger. Many a person has dropped dead in great anger. Fits of anger bring fits of disease. “Whoever the gods would destroy, they first make them mad.” “Keep cool,” says Webster, “anger is not argument.” “Be calm in arguing,” says George Herbert, “for fierceness makes error a fault.”
To be angry with a weak man is to prove that you are not strong yourself. “Anger,” says Pythagoras, “begins with foolishness and ends with regret.” You must measure the strength of a man by the power of the feelings he conquers, not by the power of those which conquer him.
Self-control is man’s last and greatest victory.
If a man lacks self-control he seems to lack everything. Without it he can have no patience, no power to govern himself; he can have no self-confidence, for he will always be controlled by his strongest feeling. If he lacks self-control, the very backbone and nerve of character are lacking too.
1.What’s the main idea of the passage?
A．Self- control is important for a man
B．We should learn to be strong.
C．A man who keeps cool won’t lose any game.
D．The great heroes in history knew how to control themselves.
2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?
A．If you are mad, the gods will fail you.
B．If you lose your temper first, gods will fail you first.
C．If you can’t control yourself, you will be crazy.
D．If the gods want to fail you, they will make you mad first.
3.Which of the following is NOT true, according to passage?
A．The first and best of victories for a man is to conquer himself.
B．You will make a small mistake serious if you don’t keep cool.
C．You must measure a man’s strength by the power of the feelings which conquer him.
D．Anger begins with foolishness and ends with regret.
4.Which of the following can’t help you avoid anger, according to the passage?
A．Being calm in arguing
B．Checking your temper or anger by speaking low.
C．Keeping your mouth shut
D．Trying to make the other angry first.
5.If a man lacks self-control,______________________________
A．He will always be controlled by all the people all the time.
B．He will began with foolish everything every day and lack the strength.
C．Moral strength and nerve of character will lack as well.
D．He will have power of gover himself.
Every American family has its own traditions on Thanksgiving Day, and mine is no different. Once the national holiday arrives, my mom rises early to make the meal. She puts a turkey in the oven, chops carrots and bakes pies. I’m sorry to say that the men in the family – my dad, my younger brother and myself – rarely pitch in to help. Our job is to wash the mountain of dirty dishes after the meal is over.
Around 2 pm every Thanksgiving Day, family members seat themselves around the kitchen table. Plates of turkey, vegetables, salad, rolls and pies cover it. At this point, we can hardly keep ourselves from drooling (流口水) all over our fancy clothes, but it’s not yet time to eat.
First, we must bow our heads, close our eyes and say a prayer of thanks aloud to God for giving us everything we have. Under normal circumstances (情况), I would have no problem making a list of things I am thankful for. I grew up in a loving family. My parents, who aren’t wealthy, took out loans to help me pay for university.
But, the funny thing is, every time I sit down for Thanksgiving dinner and try to say a prayer of thanks, my mind usually goes blank. I think it has something to do with my growling (咕咕叫) stomach and all of that food sitting right there under my nose.
Eventually, though, we all finish our short prayers and dig in. To be sure, the day includes other highlights – visiting with family and watching football. But usually around 6 pm we are all ourselves stuffed like turkeys and thankful to have a nice warm bed to sleep in.
1.The purpose of the text is to ________.
A．tell what the family do for Thanksgiving Day
B．tell how the family spends Thanksgiving Day
C．introduce foods served on Thanksgiving Day
D．introduce the American Thanksgiving Day
2.On Thanksgiving Day the author’s family do the following except ________.
A．watching a movie B．making visits
C．having a big meal D．watching football
3.Why does the author’s mind usually “go blank” when saying a prayer of thanks?
A．He is too thankful to say a word. B．His mind is on the food before him.
C．He feels too excited to speak. D．He is shy to speak in public.
4.The underlined phrase “dig in” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to “________”.
A．chat with others B．make a hole C．mix things up D．start eating
5.What can we conclude from the text?
A．On Thanksgiving Day, men do nothing but eat.
B．The author is a middle school student.
C．The author’s family is not rich, but it’s a loving one.
D．Thanksgiving Day falls on Thursday of December.
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Yang Li, a five-year-old girl living next door to me, very clever. Because she is not old enough to go to the school, she often asks me to teach herself to read, write and draw. She studies hardly and soon she learns a lot. One evening last month I was doing my English homeworks when she came to my house. She asked me how I learned English. “You would find English a bridge for so much knowledge,” I said. She then wanted to learn English, either. She has learned many English words so far but her parents are very grateful to me.
单词拼写. (注意单词形式，每小题1分，共10分)
1.Just for once, nobody could _________(指责) them of lacking ambition.
2.I don’t think he _________(故意地) tried to hurt you..
3.Arriving late won’t create a very favourable ___________(印象).
4.We plan to finish the _________(调整) of the equipment before Sunday.
5.I am an _______(乐观的) and humorous guy.
6.It is difficult to ______(预见) what the long-term effects of the accident will be.
7.You can come whenever it is _______(方便的) to you.
8.It seemed that the water was to __________(责怪).
9.John Snow wanted to the _________(挑战) and solved the problem.
10.What first _________(吸引) me to her was her sense of humour.
Narasimha Das is on his way to feed 169,379 hungry children. Das is in charge of a kitchen in Vrindaban. The town is about a three-hour drive from India’s capital, New Delhi. Das gets to work at 3:00 a.m. Thirty workers are already working to make tens of thousands of rounds of bread. It will be brought to 1,516 schools in and around Vrindaban.
A Growing Problem
Going to school is difficult for more than 13 million children in India. They must go to work instead, or go hungry. That’s why India began the Mid-Day Meal Scheme, the largest school-lunch program in the world. A free lunch encourages children to come to school and gives them the energy they need for learning. The program began in the 1960s.
The kitchen in Vrindaban is run by the Akshaya Patra Foundation. It is one of the lunch program’s biggest partners. “Just $11.50 can feed one child for an entire year,” said Madhu Sridhar, president of the Akshaya Patra Foundation.
Lunch Is Served!
The Akshaya Patra food truck arrives at Gopalgarh Primary School. Since the program started, the number of underweight children has gone down. The children get foods they need — as long as they finish what’s on their plates.
1.The kitchen in Vrindaban supplies food to _____.
A．the poor B．the old
C．college students D．school children
2.Why is it difficult for children to go to school in India?
A．Because there are not enough teachers.
B．Because there are not enough schools.
C．Because they have to work to make money.
D．Because their parents refuse to send them to school.
3.Which of the following about the Mid-Day Meal Scheme is NOT true?
A．It is run by Narasimha Das.
B．It has been carried out for about 50 years.
C．It is to encourage children to go to school.
D．It is the largest school-lunch program in the world.
