My elder brother Steve, in the absence of my father who died when I was six, gave me important lessons in values that helped me grow into an adult. For instance, Steve taught me to face the results of my behavior. Once when I returned in tears from a Saturday baseball game, it was Steve who took the time to ask me what happened. When I explained that my baseball had soared through Mrs. Holt’s basement window, breaking the glass with a crash, Steve encouraged me to confess（坦白） to her. After all, I should have been playing in the park down Fifth Street and not in the path between buildings. Although my knees knocked as I explained to Mrs. Holt, I offered to pay for the window from my pocket money if she would return my ball. I also learned from Steve that personal property is a sacred thing. After I found a shiny silver pen in my fifth-grade classroom, I wanted to keep it, but Steve explained that it might be important to someone else in spite of the fact that it had little value. He reminded me of how much I’d hate to lose to someone else the small dog my father carved from a piece of cheap wood. I returned the pen to my teacher, Mrs. Davids, and still remembered the smell of her perfume as she patted me on my shoulder. Yet of all the instructions Steve gave me, his respect for life is the most vivid in my mind. When I was twelve I killed an old brown sparrow in the yard with a BB gun. Excited with my accuracy, I screamed to Steve to come from the house to take a look. I shall never forget the way he stood for a long moment and stared at the bird on the ground. Then in a dead, quiet voice, he asked, “Did it hurt you first, Mark?” I didn’t know what to answer. He continued with his eyes firm, “The only time you should even think of hurting a living thing is whether it hurts you first. And then you think a long, long time. ” I really felt terrible then, but that moment stands out as the most important lesson my brother taught me.

36. What is the main subject of the passage?

A. The relationship between Mark and Steve.

B. The important lesson Mark learned in school.

C. Steve’s important role in Mark’s growing process.

D. Mark and Steve’s respect for living things.

37. It can be inferred from the passage that when Mark confessed to Mrs. Holt, __________.

A. he felt surprised

B. he was light-hearted 

C. he felt frightened

D. he knelt before her

38. In the story about the pen, which of the following lessons did Steve teach his brother?

A. Respect for personal property.

B. Respect for life.

C. Sympathy for people with problems.

D. The value of honesty.

39. According to the passage, which was the most important lesson Steve taught his young brother?

A. Respect for living things.        

B. Responsibility for one’s actions.

C. The value of the honesty.        

D. Care for the property of others.

40. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Mark was still a boy when he wrote this passage.

B. Mark lost the small dog his father carved.

C. When a living thing hurts you, you should kill it.

D. Even if a living thing hurts you, you should not kill it without hesitation.

A person may have an idea about himself that will prevent him from doing good work..

He may have the belief that he is not capable of it. A child may think he is     16    because he does not understand how to make the     17     of his mental faculties. Older people may be mistaken that they are incapable of learning anything new because of their    18      .

A person who believes that he is incapable will not make a real     19   , because he feels that it would be useless. He won' t go at a job with the confidence necessary for    20  , and he won't work his hardest, even though he may think he is doing so. He is     21     likely to fail, and the failure will     22    his belief in his incompetence.

Alfred Adler, a famous doctor, had a(n)     23    like this. When he was a small boy, he had a poor  24  in math. His teacher told his parents he had no ability in math in order that they would not  25    too much of him. In this way, they two   26     the idea. He accepted   27    mistaken thinking of his ability, felt that it was useless to     28    and was very poor at math,     29   as they expected.

One day he worked out a problem which     30    of the other students had been able to solve. Adler     31    in solving the problem. This gave him confidence. He now    32   with interest, determination and purpose, and he soon became especially good at     33    . He not only proved that he could learn math well, but luckily he learned     34     in his life from his own experience that if a person goes at a job with determination and purpose, he may      35     himself as well as others by his ability.

While he __________ in Europe, he __________ some photographs of many universities.

  A. traveled; was taking                    B. was traveling; took

  C. traveled; had taken                     D. was traveling; had taken

__________ it comes to traffic rules, I often come across such cases __________ the local drivers obviously know them but won’t follow them.

A. When; when           B. That; when          C. When; which      D. When; where

 ― Sorry for having kept you waiting. But for the traffic jam, I __________ 20 minutes earlier.

―Never mind. I haven’t been waiting that long.

A. arrived                B. would have arrived    C. would arrive          D. had arrived

No sooner __________ they arrived at the railway station __________ the train left.

  A. have; when               B. had; when           C. had; than                      D. have; than

He focused on his test papers, __________ never __________ the same mistakes.

A. determined; to repeat                         B. being determined; to repeat

C. determined; repeating                         D. determining; repeating

 ―Tickets are __________ at the box office only for the next two days, so you’d better go there quickly.

A. accessible            B. available            C. automatic                 D. unable

―Amazing! You __________ wear slippers at work.

―Don’t you know it’s a fashion?

  A. must             B. should              C. can                     D. may

Just like a voyage at sea, our life journey, __________ time is limited, is full of difficulties as well as opportunities.

A. what                B. of which            C. while                    D. whose