According to the recent survey,only forty percent of children in our school feel happy. Why? Do you
know what "happiness" means? A lot of money? No homework every day? High marks or anything else?
     In fact, happiness is always around you if you put your heat into it. When you are in trouble at school,
your friends will help you; when you study hard at your lessons,your parents are always taking good care
of your life and your health; when you get success,your friends will say congratulations to you; when you
do something wrong, people around you will help you to correct it. And when you do something good to
others,you will feel happy, too. All these are happiness. If you notice a bit of them, you can see that happiness
is always around you. All these can't be bought with money. It's a feeling of your heart. When you come
across difficulties, you can say loudly you are very happy, because you have more chances to challenge
yourself.
     As the saying goes, life is a revolving (旋轉(zhuǎn)的) door. When it closes, it also opens. If you take every
chance you get, you can be a happy and lucky person.

1. When you are late for school your teacher will _____. You should feel happy for teacher's help.

A. punish you
B. play jokes on you
C. quarrel with you
D. tell you to come on time

2. What will your friends say to you when you win a medal for your spoken English Competition?

A. Good luck!
B. Is that so?
C. Just so-so.
D. Congratulations!

3. In the writer's opinion, _____ can make people happy.

A. no homework
B. high marks
C. the negative attitude of things
D. the positive attitude of things

4. What is this passage mainly about?

A. Examples of happiness.
B. Ways of experiencing happiness.
C. Take the chance.
D. Happiness is the happy feeling of your heart.

5. What can we learn from the saying in the last paragraph?

A. Lose the chance and you are sad.
B. Life closes its revolving door.
C. Life opens its revolving door.
D. Never take the chance.

     The teacher stood before his class of 30 students and was about to hand out the final exam papers. "I
know how hard you have all worked to prepare for this test," he said. "Arid because I know you are all able
to understand this material, I am ready to offer a B to anyone who would prefer not to take the test."
     A number of students jumped up to thank the teacher and left the classroom. The teacher looked at the
remaining (余下的) students and said, "Does anyone else want to get a B? This is your last chance." Two
more students decided to go. Seven students stayed. The teacher then handed out the papers. There were
only three sentences which were typed on the paper: Congratulations! You have received an A in this class.
Keep believing in yourself.
     I never had a teacher who gave a test like that, but I think that it is a test that any teacher could and
should give. Students who do not have confidence in what they have learned are B students at most.
     The same is true for students in real life. The A students are those who believe in what they are doing
because they have learned from both successes and failures. They have learned life's lessons, whether from
formal education or from even is in their lives, and have become better people. Scientists say that by the age
of eight, 80% of what we believe about ourselves has already been formed. You are a big kid now, and you
realize that you have some limits (局限). However, there is nothing you can't do or leant to be. Sir Edmund
Hillary, the first person to reach the top of Mount Qomolangma (珠穆朗瑪峰) said, "We do not conquer the
mountain, but ourselves."

1. Why did some students leave the classroom?

A. Because they were happy with the mark the teacher would give them.
B. Because they were allowed to take another easier exam later on.
C. Because they knew the teacher didn't like them to take the test.
D. Because they thought the exam was too easy to be worth a try.

2. Why did the teacher give the remaining students an A? 

A. Because they answered all the questions in the exam correctly.
B. Because they had been promised an A by the teacher before.
C. Because they were confident in what they had learned.
D. Because they had been working hard for each exam.

3. What does the underlined word "conquer" mean in the passage?

A. 發(fā)現(xiàn)
B. 控制
C. 探索
D. 征服

4. What is the writer's purpose of writing the passage?

A. He wants us to know what our limits are.
B. He wants us to learn to believe in ourselves.
C. He wants us to receive formal education.
D. He wants us to learn from B students.

Dear students,
     I'm very happy to be your guest speaker today. It's a great pleasure to visit your school and meet all of
you here.
     I would like to tell you about myself. I have been a reporter for the last fifteen years. I chose this job so
I could travel the world, but the job has taught me many unforgettable lessons. My work is sometimes boring
but for most of the time it is amazing and inspiring. I have seen wars, earthquakes,poverty and death. But I
have also seen courage, hope and happiness.
     In India, I visited a city. There were many homeless children in it. Some were young and lived in the streets.
But then a wonderful lady called Rosa opened a home for them. In one whole year, she was looking after two
hundred kids, feeding them, teaching them anti giving them hope.
     Another time, I was in Japan and met a young girl with a serious illness after seven operations (手術(shù)), she
had to have thirteen more in hospital. However, when I met her, she was still smiling.
     Here in China after the terrible Wenchuan Earthquake, I found a three-year-old boy whose name is Lang
Zheng. He had been in the ruins (廢墟) for more than ten hours before he was found and saved out by the
rescuing soldiers. Though weak and injured, the brave boy lifted his right hand above the head with difficulty
and saluted (向…致敬) the soldiers around, which became the most moving moment in the disaster (震災(zāi)).
     Thanks to the experience as a reporter, I myself am getting braver and stronger. When I face challenges in
my life. I always remember the courage of the three people.

1. Why did the speaker choose the job of being a reporter?

A. Because he tried to improve his speaking skills.
B. Because he wanted to experience difficulties.
C. Because he dreamed of traveling the world.
D. Because he was willing to offer help to others.

2. From the passage,We know that Rosa was _____.

A. kind and patient
B. creative and proud
C. pushy and lucky
D. modest and helpful

3. The Japanese girl had to have _____ operations in all (總共).

A. 7
B. 13
C. more than l3
D. 20

4. Little Lang Zheng lifted his right hand in order to _____.

A. tell people around he was still alive
B. show thanks to the soldiers
C. prove he was special
D. have some photos taken for him

5. The passage above is _____.

A. a news report
B. a letter
C. a speech
D. a documentary

     What do you think of a forest, what do you see? Just trees? Or do you see many other things, such as
singing birds, colorful plants and wild flowers?
     The forest is a whole of its own. It is full of many different living things. But even though they are all
different, they have one thing in common: they all need each other in order to live on.
      The trees feed the forest "People" by making food in their leaves; by using sunlight to join water and
minerals from the soil and air. Their deep network of roots joins the soil together and stops it from dying
out, making it possible for living things to live in it.
      Human beings are like the living things in the forest. We need one another in order to live. We need the
farmers to grow our food, railroad and truck drivers to bring it to our shops and clerks (售票員) to sell it
to us. We need people to prepare our food and cook it and others to take our waste things away. Then, of
course, we need doctors, nurses, government leaders, mailmen, telephone operators, and many others.
      We also need other human beings in another way. We need people for friendship, to talk over our
problems, exchange ideas. Think how lonely and unhappy you would be if you lived all alone.
      Life is a matter of giving and taking. We need to help other people as much as we need other people to
help us. Think what a good feeling you have when you have done something for someone else. You know,
being a volunteer is so great!

1. According to the text, colorful plants and flowers live on ____.

A. the leaves of the trees
B. water and minerals
C. the soil and air
D. all of the above

2. It is the ____ that make it possible for living things to live in the forest.

3. According to the writer, human beings are ____ the forest "people".

A. different from
B. like
C. dislike
D. unhappy with

4. The writer mainly wants to tell us ____.

A. we need people for friendship
B. we need one another in order to live
C. the forest is a whole world of its own
D. the forest is full of different living things

A. We are trees in the forests.
B. We like the living things in the forest.
C. We need farmers to grow our food in the forest.
D. We are the same as the forest: We need each other to live on.

     Life is like the four seasons. Now I am very old, but when I was young, it was the spring of my life.
I played a lot, and then I started school. I learned many new things. Like a flower, I grew bigger every day.
There were happy days and sad days, some days the sun shone, and some days it didn't. In my twenties, I
had a good job. I was strong and happy. Then I married and had a child. In those days I didn't have much
time to think or to play. Every day I was busy and worked hard. I started to get some white hair. The
summer of my life passed quickly.
     Then the days got shorter. Leaves fell from the trees. My child was a university student and then an
engineer. My home was much quieter. I started walking more slowly. One day I stopped working, I retired.
I had more time. I understood this was my autumn, a beautiful time when the trees change color and give us
delicious fruits.  
     But the days kept getting shorter and colder. Winter has come. I am older and weaker. I know I do not
have many days left, but I will enjoy them to the end.

1. What does the writer think his life is like?

A. spring
B. summer
C. autumn
D. four seasons

2. The writer was very busy in the _______ of his life.

A. spring
B. summer
C. autumn
D. winter

3. According to the passage, which of the following ages is during the autumn of his life?

A. 15
B. 33
C. 62
D. 87

4. The best title of the passage can be _______.

A. Four Seasons.
B. Four Seasons in My Life.
C. Four Season In a Year
D. My Life