John H.Johnson was born in a family in Arkansas City in 1918.His father died in an accident when John was six.He was reaching high school age, but his hometown offered no high schools for the blacks.
Fortunately he has a strong-willed and caring mother.John remembers that his mother told him many times, “Son, you can be anything you really want to be if you just believe.” She told him not to be dependent on others, including his mother.“You have to earn success”, said she, “all the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”
These words came from a woman with less than a third grade education.She also knew that believing and working hard don’t mean everything.So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son to Chicago.
Chicago in 1933 was not the Promised Land that black southerners were looking for.John’s mother could not find work.But here John could go to school, and learned the power of words―as an editor of a newspaper.His wish was to publish a magazine for the blacks.
While others discouraged him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by: “Nothing beats a failure but a try.” She also let him sell her furniture to get the 500 dollars he needed to start the Negro magazine.
It’s natural that difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful.He always keeps his mother’s words in mind.“Son, failure is not in your dictionary.” Now John H.Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America―worth 150 million dollars.
56.Why did John’s mother decide to move to Chicago? Because _____ .
A.life in
B.John’s father died in his hometown when John was very young
C.there were no schools for the blacks in their hometown
D.John needed education and he could go to high school there
57.The underlined sentence in the fifth paragraph means ________ .
A.if you try , you will surely succeed
B.a try is always followed by a failure
C.only by trying can you get out of failure
D.a failure is difficult to beat , even if you try
58.We can learn from this passage that John’s mother ________ .
A.didn’t depend on others or give up easily
B.thought success only lied in a strong faith
C.thought one could be whatever one wanted to be
D.believed one would succeed without working hard
59.What can be inferred from this passage?
A.If someone wants to be successful, he should always stand firm.
B.Chicago was not the Promised Land for the black southerners in 1933.
C.John’s father died in an accident during the war.
D.John’s mother was caring for him.
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Research found a mother’s milk may help reduce stress and the process may feed the growth of the parts of the brain crucial(关键的) in handling stress and anxiety.
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73.Find in the passage a word closest in meaning to the underlined word “traumatic”.
74.What does the Department of Health recommend mothers to do?(回答词数不超过10个)
75.According to the research, what do you know about the breast-fed children? (回答词数不超过 6个)
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