It is not a good idea for children to work too hard. Children should study in school
as hard as they can. They should not have to do heavy work with their bodies. When parents
or others ask their children to work hard, the results (结果) may be very bad. If a farmer
makes his son work 1ike a man, he may easily learn not to like farming (种田). Children
sometimes do too much in gardens, in shops, or even in their own homes. They soon begin not
to like such work, because that can destroy (毁灭)their happiness. The feeling may become
something different. When that happens,the old kind of love never comes back.

1. It is not a good idea for _____ to have to work hard.

A. men
B. women
C. children
D. the old

2. Children should study _____ in school.

A. hard
B. easily
C. happily
D. friendly

3. Children should not have to do _____ work with their bodies.

A. easy
B. good
C. heavy
D. own (自己的)

4. Children sometimes do too much work in gardens.in shops,or even in their homes.
   They _____ such work.

A. will like
B. will not like
C. will enjoy
D. want

5. The writer thinks children should _____ labor(劳动).

A. love
B. dislike
C. do 1ots of
D. don't enjoy

    Happiness is for everyone. You don't need to care about those people who have beautiful
houses with large gardens and swimming pools or those who have nice cars and a lot of
money and so on. Why? Because those who have big houses may often feel lonely and those
who have cars may want to walk on the country roads at their free time. 　　
    In fact, happiness is always around you if you put your heart into it. When you are in trouble
at school, your friends will help you, when you study hard on 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
your happiness. If you notice a bit of them, you can see that happiness is always around you. 
    Happiness is not the same as money. It is a feeling of your heart. When you are poor, you can
also say you are very happy, because you have something else that can't be bought with money.
When you meet with difficulties, you can say loudly you are very happy, because you have more
chances to challenge yourself. So you cannot always say you are poor and you have bad luck. As
the saying goes, life is like a revolving door, when it closes, it also opens. If you take every chance
you get, you can be a happy and lucky person.

1. Those who have big houses may often feel _____.

A. happy
B. lonely
C. free
D. excited

2. When you fall down in a PE class, both your teacher and your classmates will _____.

A. laugh at you
B. play jokes on you
C. quarrel with you
D. help you up

3. What will your friends say to you when you make great progress?

A. Oh, so do I.
B. Congratulations.
C. Good luck.
D. It's just so－so.

4. Which idea is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A. People who have cars would never like to walk in the open air.
B. You can get help from others when you make mistakes.
C. You can still be a happy person even if you have little money.
D. Happiness is always around you though difficulties come towards you.

5. Which of the following is this passage about?

A. Bad luck.
B. Good luck.
C. Happiness.
D. Life.

    Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to
you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? 1_____ If you see the world with your
warm heart, you'll 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 want to go out, it suddenly starts to rain. 2_____ But
dear friends, why don't you sit down and listen to the free concert that the nature offers you?
And with the timely 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 (失败) can't
be avoided. 3_____ When we face failure, we must be confident of ourselves, draw a useful
lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. 4_____ 
    Attitude decides everything. With an optimistic (乐观) attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let's
smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.

A. I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that we are afraid of it
    and give up hope.
B. Well, friends, cheer up and smile all t he time.
C. Maybe you would feel very sad and start complaining about the weather.
D. As a popular saying goes, "Failure is the mother of success."

5. The best title of this passage is _____.

A. Smile and the World Smiles to you
B. Complaining about the life
C. Failure is the Mother of Success
D. It is Very Hard to Succeed.

     It is easier to go downhill than to climb uphill. So it is easier to fall into bad habits than into good ones. Bad
habits do not come suddenly. They come little by little without one being aware of their danger. School boys
first pick up little bad habits in school and on the street. When they can't write their lessons, they copy from
their schoolmates. If they see bigger boys smoking, they also want to learn to smoke. If they see their friends
gambling they want to gamble. When they get bigger, the habits become stronger and stronger so that they
can no longer get rid of them. From copying they learn to steal, from gambling, they learn to cheat. At last
they become suspected by everybody. How necessary it is that we get rid of the bad habits in the beginning!

1. It is easier to fall into _____ than into _____.

A. good habits, bad habits
B. bad habits, good ones
C. bad habits, good one

2. Bad habits come _____.

A. suddenly
B. little by little
C. faster and faster

3. Where do schoolboys pick up little bad habits first?

A. In school
B. On the street
C. in school and on the street

4. When schoolboys get bigger, their bad habits become _____.

A stronger and stronger
B. weaker and weaker
C. better and better