As a child, I was really afraid of the dark and of getting lost. These fears were very real and caused me some uncomfortable moments. Maybe it was the strange way things looked and sounded in my own room at night that scared me so much. There was never complete darkness, but always a streetlight or passing car lights, which made clothes on the back of a chair take on the shape of a wild animal. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the curtains seem to move when there was no wind. A very low sound in the floor would seem a hundred times louder than in the day. My imagination would run wild, and my heart would beat fast. I would lie very still so that the “enemy” would not discover me.
Another of my childhood fears was that I would get lost, especially on the way home from school. Every morning I got on the school bus right near my home. That was no problem. After school, though, when all the buses were lined up along the street, I was afraid that I would get in the wrong one and be taken to some other strange places. On school or family trips to a park or a museum, I wouldn’t let the leaders out of my sight.
Perhaps one of the worst fears of all I had as a child was that of not being liked or accepted by others. Being popular was so important to me then, and the fear of not being liked was a serious one.
One of the processes growing up is being able to realize and overcome our fears. Understanding the things that scared us as children helps us achieve greater success later in life.
1.The author had _______ kind(s) of fears when she was a child.
A.One B.two C.three D.none
2._______ would scare the author at night.
A.Streetlight and car lights B.Wild animals and enemies
C.Moving curtains and wind D.Clothes and walls
3.When she went to some other places, she would _______.
A.walk away without others B.take a bus by herself
C.follow others closely D.make sure not to take a wrong bus
4.Which of the following would be possibly true when she was a child______.
A.She thought being popular among people was important.
B.She was always the leader of the others.
C.She always got poor grades.
D.She was not liked by others at all.
“A child is dying out of breath!” I had just began my working day in the city, when these words came through the radio of the police car I was driving. I turned on the red lights and siren (警笛) and drove off as fast as I could, “Just my luck!” I thought. I did not know this city well and my first call of the day was a lifeanddeath sudden happening several kilometers away.
I got to the house. A mother, filled with fear, handed me her baby, her face already blue. Was I too late? Dear me!
I did what I had been taught to do in such a serious condition. A small thing flew out of the baby’s mouth onto the floor. It was a button. Thank heaven! The holes in it let a little air through.
A doctor rushed into the room with an oxygen bag.The baby began to cry at the top of his voice, burned red and started to look for his mother. He was angry but was saved.
1.The writer of the story is ________.
A.a policeman B.a driver C.a doctor D.the boy’s father
2.The writer turned on the red lights and siren in order to ________.
A.show that he was a police
B.have the people in the streets make way for him
C.warn the people in the streets of the danger ahead
D.tell the people in the streets that he did not know the way well
3.The baby was still living when the writer got to the house because________.
A.the writer arrived in time B.the writer had been taught what to do at that time
C.the button was not big enough D.the button happened to have holes in it
4.What did the writer mean when he said to himself “Just my luck!”？
A.It was a good chance for him to practice what he had learned before.
B.He was happy to have such a serious matter on his working day.
C.He was not at all happy to have so serious a matter on his working day.
D.He had been long waiting for the day to come.
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It was a rain and cold night. I finish my evening classes and was about to go back to my house. I got into a taxi and told the driver my destination. To my surprise, the driver made an apology, says he didn’t know the way. What come a taxi driver didn’t know the way? I was a little of angry. At the moment, an old couple stopped our car. Their destination was the same as me, so he let them in. The two greeted us but the grandpa told the driver the way. From their conversation I knew the driver was a farmer and he has been a taxi driver just for three days.
I’m also new to Zhengzhou. Sometimes I make direction mistakes, but there is always a person can help me. It was cold outside, but I felt real warm.
My father never kept anything for emotional purpose-except once. I was the only one in my family who cared about baseball and I always _______ watching my heroes at Yankee stadium. One winter, I wrote down a _______ for the summer dates and dreamed every night. To my surprise, one evening I saw my father_______ it before going out to work.
The following Sunday, he told me, “Let’s put away some money into a _______each week, and maybe we can go to Yankee Stadium this summer.” I _______ washed out a jar and _______a label:YANKEE STADIUM FUND, 1960.
Each of us _______ to the jar weekly. _________, we still hadn’t gone to a game because my father had had to work every Saturday. So one day. I _______ him of the remaining time, and then he ________ me, “Don’t worry and we’ll have a ________ Saturday.”
On the morning of the last game, I was waiting hopelessly with no ________ of my father who had been to work when he suddenly appeared and yelled, “I got two ________!”
I could hardly ________ when we finally sat together, father and son, ________ my New York Yankees. I sat cheering, but for my father, all I could see is a face________ tiredness from working all week.
In 1963, my father died suddenly while working. In his bedroom, I noticed a ________ ticket in his yellowed book, which________, October 1, 1960, General Admission. My father, who ________ nothing for emotional reasons, had decided to keep this, a (an) ________of our afternoon together.
1.A.dreamed of B.worried about C.tried out D.lived on
2.A.schedule B.note C.letter D.novel
3.A.exploring B.checking C.tearing D.examining
4.A.bottle B.jar C.bowl D.cup
5.A.slowly B.patiently C.immediately D.unwillingly
6.A.attached B.identified C.created D.bought
7.A.referred B.contributed C.donated D.attended
8.A.However B.Moreover C.Therefore D.+Furthermore
9.A.accused B.informed C.inquired D.warned
10.A.rescued B.scolded C.comforted D.encouraged
11.A.grey B.terrible C.boring D.free
12.A.signal B.sign C.reply D.company
13.A.balls B.coins C.tickets D.flags
14.A.breathe B.imagine C.stand D.jump
15.A.greeting B.watching C.hearing D.playing
16.A.lined with B.decorated with C.equipped with D.coupled with
17.A.pretty B.plain C.used D.faded
18.A.spoke B.wrote C.read D.mentioned
19.A.created B.abandoned C.produced D.saved
20.A.impression B.gift C.present D.memory
People often say that “failure is the mother of success”. 1. As a result, Manalo, a professor of educational psychology in Japan says, “We know we shouldn’t give up when we fail—but in reality, we do.”
Manalo and Manu, a professor of learning sciences in Swiss, put together a special issue (专利) last December on benefiting from failure. The issue’s 15 studies provide teachers and educational researchers with a guide for achieving success. 2. Another confirmed that advice on failures is most constructive when the receiver is prepared to experience unpleasant feelings.
Manalo and his co-authors also focused on overcoming one everyday form of failure: not completing a task. They asked 131 students to write an article about their school experiences. Half of the students received instructions for their writing, and half were left to their own. 3. Afterward the researchers found that those in the instructed group were more willing to complete their articles, compared with those who lacked guidance—even if the latter were closer to being done. 4.
5. Stephanie Couch, the director of the Lemelson-MIT Program, holds the opinion. Couch, whose work was also featured in the special issue, says that we should tell them to think of failure as part of a process toward success.
A.However, all were stopped before finishing.
B.The saying shows the importance of success.
C.Teaching students not to fear failure makes goals achieved more easily.
D.One study reported that the sooner students fail, the sooner they can move forward.
E.Though having some truth to it, the saying does not tell us how to turn a loss into a win.
F.They believed that learning how to fail can help people avoid becoming lasting failures.
G.Knowing how to finish, in other words, was more important than being close to finishing.
