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What is your favorite cartoon? It may be 1. (difficulty) for you to decide. But for pianist Lang Lang, Tom and Jerry is the best one.
When Lang Lang2. (be) two years old, he saw Tom playing 3.piano. This was his first time to enjoy western music and this experience encouraged him4. (learn) to play the piano. His talent at the keyboard has taken him from Shenyang5.the world. Lang became a good piano student at three. Ever since, the boy has been doing 6. (good). In 1997, the 15-year-old boy studied at a famous American music college.
Lang’s performances are full of energy. He is well-known for7. (make) facial expressions and moving around while playing the piano.
The road to 8. (succeed) has never been easy. Lang’s father stopped his job to look 9. him, while his mother stayed in Shenyang to make money. But Lang considers 10. (him) lucky and believes he should give something back. He has helped the children in poor areas a lot.
A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s _____, she said she would go. This _____be the first time that his classmates and teacher ____ his mother and he felt _____ of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar（疤痕）that _____ nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to ______ why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were _____by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother in spite of (不管) the _____, but the little boy was still embarrassed（尴尬）and _____himself from everyone. He did, however, get within _____ of a talk between his mother and his teacher.
The teacher asked ______ ,“How did you get the scar on your face?”
The mother replied, “ _____ my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was _____ afraid to go in because the fire was _____ , so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked senseless but luckily, a fireman came in and saved ____ of us.” She ____the burned side of her face. “This scar will be _____, but to this day, I have never ______what I did.”
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with _____ in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great sense of the sacrifice（牺牲）that his mother had made for him. He held her hand _____for the rest of the day.
1.A.enjoyment B.disappointment C.surprise D.excitement
2.A.would B.could C.should D.must
3.A.noticed B.greeted C.accepted D.met
4.A.proud B.ashamed C.happy D.tired
5.A.included B.passed C.covered D.shaded
6.A.talk about B.think about C.come about D.hear about
7.A.impressed B.surprised C.excited D.comforted
8.A.humor B.face C.body D.scar
9.A.hid B.protected C.kept D.stopped
10.A.understanding B.reminding C.hearing D.learning
11.A.carefully B.seriously C.nervously D.anxiously
12.A.If B.When C.Since D.Because
13.A.so B.much C.quite D.too
14.A.out of control B.under control C.in control D.over control
15.A.either B.neither C.both D.all
16.A.pointed B.showed C.hit D.touched
17.A.long B.lasting C.beautiful D.ugly
18.A.forgot B.recognized C.considered D.regretted
19.A.anger B.tears C.smile D.failure
20.A.actually B.slowly C.tightly D.suddenly
Everyone wants to be self-confident, but maybe we just don’t know how to be. Here are some tips on how you can feel more confident about yourself.
1. Everyone has shortcomings. When you have found your shortcomings, work to overcome them. If you are a shy person, take part in social activities, such as parties, and speak to at least one or two people there.
Second, try to spend more time with positive people. Successful and confident people have their own ways of settling problems. 2.
Third, set goals for yourself. With each goal you achieve, you self-confidence will increase. 3. We are afraid that we might lose. Stop thinking like that and give yourself a chance.
Fourth, start each day with a sense of opportunity. 4.Think positively about yourself.
Actually everyone has his or her own way of becoming confident. 5. Friends might have useful suggestions, too.
In short, as long as you try new things, you are sure to become more confident.
A. You should talk with your friends.
B. Pay attention and learn from them.
C. First, don’t think about your weak points.
D. It’s not always right to ask friends for help.
E. sometimes we might be afraid of trying new things.
F. First, you should know what your weak points are.
G. Start your day by reading something encouraging.
When asked why he or she wears clothes, some people will probably answer "to keep warm and to cover my body". These are the basic reasons why clothes are worn, but people also want to look attractive and appear successful to others.
If people only wore clothes for warmth and to cover their bodies, most clothes would be simple and cheap. In most Western countries, however, clothes are sometimes very expensive. The main reason for this is not the cost of the cloth or the cost of making the clothes. The clothes are expensive because of fashion(时尚).
Successful businessmen, for example, often wear very expensive suits, shirts and ties. Sometimes they pay thousands of dollars for a suit and hundreds of dollars for a tie. It’s just a suit and a tie but they pay these prices because of the famous name of the designer. A suit costing much less would be just as warm and would cover the wearer's body just as well.
Fashion is always changing, which means those who want to be fashionable have to buy new clothes every few months, even if last month's clothes have only been worn once or twice. Some people have wardrobes full of clothes that have hardly been worn but are no longer in fashion. Being fashionable, therefore, can be a very expensive pastime（消遣）!
1.What do people basically wear clothes for?
A.Looking attractive to others. B.Following the fashion.
C.Appearing successful to others. D.Keeping warm and covering bodies.
2.We can learn from the passage that _______.
A.fashion is an expensive pastime. B.fashion is not always changing
C.expensive clothes are warmer D.fashion designers like expensive clothes
3.What does the underlined word “wardrobes” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A.Fashionable clothes shops. B.The clothes that some people have.
C.Cupboards for storing clothes. D.Shelves used for keeping books.
4.What is the passage mainly about?
A.Suits and ties. B.Clothes and fashion.
C.Beauty and success. D.Cost and pastime.
Have you ever stayed in a hotel? Most Chinese hotels often provide guests with things like disposable (一次性的) toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo and slippers.
Many guests like the idea because they don't have to bring their own. But, if you travel to Beijing, remember to bring your own things. Starting from June, some hotels in Beijing will no longer provide guests with these disposables. They want to ask people to use less disposable things.
Many disposable things are made of plastic. People throw them away after only using them once. It is a waste of natural resources (资源) and is very bad for the environment. Do you know, one Chinese person makes as much as 400kg of waste a year! Most of that waste comes from disposable things. In Beijing, people throw away about 19,000 tons of plastic bags and 1,320 tons of plastic lunch bowls every year! Plastic can take between 100 and 400 years to break down. So the less plastic we throw out, the better. So, wherever you travel, bring your own things and use them again and again.
Back at home and school, you can also do something to make our world a better place. Try to do these things in your daily life: Use cloth shopping bags, not plastic ones. After using a plastic bag, wash it out and let it dry. Then you can use it over and over again. Do not use paper cups. At your school canteen（食堂）, use your own bowl and chopsticks instead of disposable ones.
1.Why do many hotels provide guests with some disposable things?
A.Let their guests be convenient during their travelling.
B.Hope their guests use less disposable things.
C.Wish their guests to save money.
D.Want their guests to use more disposable things.
2.Some Beijing hotels will no longer provide guests with _______.
A.cheap food and drink B.disposable things
C.good service D.free TV programmes.
3.Which of the following is NOT true?
A.Many disposable things are made of plastic.
B.Throwing disposable things away is a waste of natural resources.
C.Plastic is very bad for the environment.
D.Plastic breaks down easily.
4.What can we do to make our world a better place at home and school?
A.Use shopping bags made of plastic.
B.Do not throw away paper cups.
C.Use disposable plates, bowls and chopsticks.
D.Do not forget to reuse daily necessities（日用品）.
It doesn’t matter when and how much a person sleeps, but everyone needs some rest to stay alive. That’s what all doctors thought, until they heard about Herpin. Herpin, it was said, never slept. Could this be true? The doctors decided to see this strange man themselves.
Herpin was 90 years old when the doctors came to his home in New Jersey. They thought for sure that he got some sleep of some kind. So they stayed with him and watched every movement he made. But they were surprised. Though they watched him hour after hour and day after day, they never saw him sleeping. In fact, he did not even own a bed. He never needed one.
The only rest that Herpin sometimes got was sitting in a comfortable chair and reading newspapers. The doctors were puzzled by this strange continuous sleeplessness. They asked him many questions, hoping to find an answer. They found only one answer that might explain his condition. Herpin remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he was born. But that was all. Was this the real reason? No one could be sure. Herpin died at the age of 94.
1.The main idea of this passage is that_____.
A.large numbers of people do not need sleep.
B.a person was found who actually didn’t need any sleep.
C.everyone needs some sleep to stay alive.
D.people can live longer by trying not to sleep.
2.The doctors came to visit Herpin, expecting_____.
A.to cure him of his sleeplessness.
B.to find that his sleeplessness was not really true.
C.to find out why some old people did not need any sleep.
D.to find a way to free people from the need of sleeping.
3.After watching him closely, the doctors came to believe that Herpin_____.
A.needed some kind of sleep.
B.was too old to need any sleep.
C.needed no sleep at all.
D.often sleeps in a chair.
4.One reason that might explain Herpin’s sleeplessness was _____.
A.his mother’s injury before he was born.
B.that he had gradually got rid of the sleeping habit.
C.his good physical condition.
D.that he hadn’t got a bed.
