Helping others is easier than you think. You don't need to wait to become a rich man like Bill Gates to help
poor. You can become a volunteer, you can donate (捐献) your time, you can donate your old clothes and so on.
And in doing so, you can become a better and happier person.
     Choose some people to support. for example, homeless people, poor children and so on. All of these are
suitable (合适的). 
     Decide what you are able to give. Yes! Sometimes it isn't only money-you can donate your time as a
volunteer, you can donate your knowledge teaching poor children, you can donate your old clothes, you can
donate food or you can share a meal with a hungry child.
     Tell people about it. Tell your friends or your children. Put it in your blog or on your website. In this way,
the good work you do will be multiplied (增加)!

1. People usually think helping others is _______.

A. difficult
B. easy
C. interesting
D. exciting

2. How can you help others of you are poor according the passage?

A. Donate your money.
B. Talk to them.
C. Donate your time.
D. Play with them.

3. What's the meaning of the underlined word "homeless"?

A. 家境贫寒的
B. 无家可归的
C. 无依无靠的
D. 没有父母的

4. How many ways does the passage tell us to do if we want to help others?

A. One.
B. Two.
C. Three.
D. Four.

5. What's the best title of this passage?

A. Help those who need help.
B. It is not easy to help others.
C. How to be a happy person.
D. Donate your time.

     One of my favourite memories as a child is going by the river and sitting freely on the bank. There I would
enjoy the peace and quiet, watch the water rush down and hear the sound of falling leaves.
     When I think about the bamboo tree's ability to return to its original position, the word "resilience" comes to
mind. When used to describe a person, this word means the ability to become well again from shock,
disappointment or any other situation that makes somebody unhappy.
     Have you ever felt you are about to break with a sudden noise? Have you ever felt you are at your breaking
point? Thankfully, you are lucky to have the experience to live to talk about it.
     Life is a mixture of good times and bad times, happy moments and unhappy moments. Next time you are
experiencing one of those bad times or unhappy moments that take you close to your breaking point, don't break.
Try your best not to let the situation get the best of (占上风) you. 
     Hopes will take you through the unpleasant experience. With hopes for a better tomorrow or a better
situation, things may not be as bad as they seem to be. The unpleasant experience may be easier to deal with if
the end result is worth having.
     If you are at your breaking point, you should be like the bamboo tree, bend, but don't break!

1. The writer was moved by _______ one day when he went to sit by the river.

A. the water
B. the bamboo tree
C. the leaves

2. What does the underlined word "resilience" mean? It means _______.

A. 恢复力
B. 兴奋
C. 忧伤

3. What did the writer use to do when he was young?

A. He used to go to the park to hear the sound of falling leaves.
B. He used to go to the lake and watch the water.
C. He used to go by the river and sit on the bank.

4. Next time you experience one of those bad things, try your best ______ get the best of you.

A. to let the situation
B. not to let the situation
C. to change the situation to

5. What can we learn from the passage?

A. We should bend when we hear a sudden noise.
B. We should go by the river and sit freely on the bank.
C. We should have the ability to become well again.

    Like many people, I have no clear idea about heroes. At some point, we all wonder if we need a hero and
what a hero really is.
    Although there are a lot of differences in cultures, heroes around the world generally share a number of
characteristics (特点) which give us courage and make us want to learn from them. A hero does something
worth talking about. A hero has a special story to tell and people think highly of it. But a hero is not just the
person with great fame (声誉).
    A hero has powers (力量) larger than himself. Some people want to live like a hero, and they have to
experience life with new and further meaning. A sure test for would-be heroes is what or whom they serve.
What do they want to live and die for? If the answer suggests they serve only their own fame, they may be
famous persons but not heroes.
    A hero has a vision from the mountaintop. He has the power to move people. He creates new possibilities.
Without Gandhi, India might still be part of Britain. Without Martin Luther King, Jr., Americans might take
different buses, eat in different restaurants, go for walks in different parks, and shop in different stores
because of the different colours of their skin.
    There might be changes in society without a hero, but the speed of change would be rather slow. Thanks
to heroes in history, they make the society develop so rapidly.

1. According to this passage, a hero is a person who always ______.

A. gives us courage
B. thinks highly of others
C. shares great fame
D. stands on the mountaintop

2. If you want to live like a hero, you should ______.

A. experience a new and meaningful life
B. listen to something worth talking about
C. serve your own fame and try to be famous
D. know where and how you want to live and die

3. The underlined word "vision" in the passage means "______".

A. 风景
B. 想象
C. 远见
D. 形象

4. Black people in America used to ______ before Martin Luther King, Jr..

A. shop at the white's stores
B. drive buses with the white
C. take walks in the white's parks
D. eat in restaurants without the white

5. What can we learn from the passage?

A. We don't need heroes anymore at some point now.
B. Heroes are all the same though different in cultures.
C. People get power from heroes to move to a new place.
D. Our society has developed faster because of heroes in history.

     Like many people, I have no clear idea about heroes. At some point, we all wonder if we need a hero and
what a hero really is. 
    Although there are a lot of differences in cultures, heroes around the world generally share a number of
characteristics (特点) which give us courage and make us want to learn from them.
    A hero does something worth talking about. A hero has a special story to tell and people think highly of it. But
a hero is not just the person with great fame (声誉) .
    A hero has powers (力量) larger than himself. Some people want to live like a hero, and they have to
experience life with new and further meaning. A sure test for would-be heroes is what or whom they serve.
What do they want to live and die for? If the answer suggests they serve only their own fame, they may be
famous persons but not heroes.
    A hero has a vision from the mountaintop. He has the power to move people. He creates new possibilities.
Without Gandhi, India might still be part of Britain. Without Martin Luther King, Jr., Americans might take
different buses, eat in different restaurants, go for walks in different parks, and shop in different stores because
of the different colours of their skin. 
    There might be changes in society without a hero, but the speed of change would be rather slow. Thanks to
heroes in history, they make the society develop so rapidly.

1. According to this passage, a hero is a person who always _______.

A. gives us courage
B. thinks highly of others
C. shares great fame
D. stands on the mountaintop

2. If you want to live like a hero, you should  _______.

A. experience a new and meaningful life
B. listen to something worth talking about
C. serve your own fame and try to be famous
D. know where and how you want to live and die

3. The underlined word "vision" in the passage means "_______".

A. 风景
B. 想象
C. 远见
D. 形象

4. Black people in America used to _______ before Martin Luther King, Jr..

A. shop at the white's stores
B. drive buses with the white
C. take walks in the white's parks
D. eat in restaurants without the white

5. What can we learn from the passage?

A. We don't need heroes anymore at some point now.
B. Heroes are all the same though different in cultures.
C. People get power from heroes to move to a new place.
D. Our society has developed faster because of heroes in history.

    Years ago, I lived in a building in a large city. The building next door was only a few feet away from mine.
There was a woman who lived there, whom I had never met, yet I could see her seated by her window each
afternoon, sewing or reading.
    After several months had gone by, I began to notice that her window was dirty. Everything was unclear
through the dirty window. I would say to myself, "I wonder why that woman doesn't wash her window. It
really looks terrible."
    One bright morning I decided to clean my flat, including washing the window on the inside.
    Later in the afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down by the window with a cup of coffee for a rest.
What a surprise! Across the way, the woman sitting by her window was clearly visible. Her window was clean!
    Then it dawned on me. I had been criticizing (批评)her dirty window, but all the time I was watching hers
through my own dirty window.
    That was quite an important lesson for me. How often had I looked at and criticized others through the dirty
window, through my own shortcomings?
    Since then, whenever I wanted to judge (评判)someone, I asked myself first, "Am I looking at him through
my own dirty window?" Then I try to clean the window of my own world so that I may see the world about me
more clearly.

1. The writer couldn't see everything dearly through the window because _______.

A. the woman's window was dirty
B. the writer's window was dirty
C. the woman lived nearby
D. the writer was near-sighted

2. The writer was surprised that ________.

A. the woman was sitting by her window
B. the woman's window was clean
C. the woman did cleaning in the afternoon
D. the woman's window was still terrible

3. "It dawned on me" probably means "_______".

A. I began to understand it
B. it cheered me up
C. I knew it grew light
D. it began to get dark

4. It's clear that ________.

A. the writer had never met the woman before
B. the writer often washed the window
C. they both worked as cleaners
D. they lived in a small town

5. From the passage, we can learn ____________.

A. one shouldn't criticize others very often
B. one should often make his windows clean
C. one must judge himself before he judges others
D. one must look at others through his dirty window

     "We are reading the first part of a book that doesn't end..." I don't know who wrote these words. But
I have always liked them because they always remind us that the future can be anything we want to make
it. 1          
     We are all like farmers. If we plant good seeds, we have good products. If our seeds aren't good, we
get useless products. 2           
     I want the future to be better than the past. I don't want it filled with mistakes that happened many times
before. 3            
     The past is gone. There is nothing we can do to change it. The future is before us. It is changeable.
4            Each day brings with it something new in our homes and in our business, but only if we realize
(认识到) them. We are just at the beginning of everything we study.

A. We all should care about the future, because that's where we'll spend the rest of our lives.
B. If we plant nothing at all, we get nothing at all.
C. Everything We do will affect (影响, 对...起作用) it.
D. We can make it anything that we can imagine.

5. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. The Life in the Future
B. How to Face the Future
C. How to Design the Future
D. The Future Is Wonderful

    Have you ever heard of the saying, "If you want a friend, be one." 
    What does it mean? There are many different things that you can do to make friends. You may find out
what they are if you watch someone make friends. Here is how one new teacher made friends with the
students in her class on the first day of the school. When the bell rang, the teacher smiled at all the students.
Then she said, "Good morning. How nice it is to have all of you in my class this year! I want to know each
of you very much. I am sure we will enjoy working together." The teacher smiled, used a pleasant voice,
and acted in a friendly way. She told the students her name and wrote it on the blackboard. Then she told
them something she liked to do and hoped to do with them during the year. The students knew that she liked
many of the same things they liked. Everyone felt that she meant what she said. Each of them wanted to
know her better and be her friend. Then she let the students tell something about themselves. So they felt
that the teacher knew them. 
     Could you make friends as the teacher did? How do you know and like your classmates? One way is to
find out more about them. During the break you can talk to them. You may ask them their names and the
names of the schools they went to last year. They want to know about you, too. You may tell them about
your interests or your holiday experiences. It is often easy to be friends with people who have the same
interests and play the same games. As you talk, the others may be thinking, "I like to do the same things you
do. It should be fun to be friends with you." Remember! Just talking together in a friendly way is one good
way to make friends.

1. Which do you think is the best title for this passage?

A. Making Friends
B. How to Talk to Others
C. A Talk in Class
D. With the Teacher in Class

2. How did the teacher get the students to feel that she would be a good friend?

A. She laughed at each boy and girl and told them many things she knew.
B. She told the students many things she liked to do.
C. She laughed and made the students only to know her well in a friendly way.
D. She talked and acted in a friendly way to let the students know she really wanted to be friends with them.

3. If you want to make friends with others, you should ______.

A. tell others as many things you like as possible during the break
B. try your best to show what you can do for them in class
C. talk with them to find out more about them in a friendly way
D. ask them to have dinner with you and play games with you after class

4. "Everyone felt that she meant what she said" means that ______.

A. every student in her class felt that she really liked them
B. everyone in her class understood what the teacher said
C. all the students thought it was nothing telling them these
D. everybody felt tired when they heard what the teacher said

    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 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 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 (旋转的)
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 RIGHT 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 had problems in your life and don't know how to be happy? If so, you will find 'Being a
Happy Teenager' written by an Australian (1)w             Andrew Matthews useful.
     In this book, he says that we (2)s             stop being angry and forgive. The book tells us of (3)u            
skills such as how to put what you have learned into your mind to make your memory better. Many teenagers
think that happiness (4)c            from good exam marks (5)o            praise from other people. But you can
still be happy (6)w            there are no such 'good' things.
     (7)S            comes from a good attitude (心态). If you learn from problems, you will be successful later
on, or in the (8)f           .
     Some school boys have problems such as being too tall or too short. But Matthews tells us that happiness
can come from thinking about things in a positive (积极的) (9)w            .
     If you are tall, people notice you and you can get a better view at the movies; if you are short, your clothes
and shoes take less room in your bedroom! This is Matthews's (10)m             important lesson of all: you
choose to be happy!