A group of frogs were traveling1 the forests, but suddenly two of them fell into a hole. The other frogs tried to help them. When they saw how deep the hole was, they cried to the two frogs that they could not be saved. The two frogs didn’t 2 and tried their best to jump up out of the hole. The other frogs 3 saying that they were sure to die. 4, one of the two frogs, who heard what the other frogs were saying, gave up. Then he fell down and died.
The 5 frog, however, continued to jump as 6 as he could, and at last made it out. When he 7 , the other frogs asked, "Didn’t you hear us?" The frog, who had a poor 8, said, "I thought you were encouraging me all the time."
The story teaches us a 9:There is power(力量) of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging 10 to those who are down can help them out while a discouraging word can kill them.
(   )1. A. across             B. through             C. from              D. past
(   )2. A. care               B. understand           C. know            D. think
(   )3. A. kept               B. finished            C. practiced          D. stopped
(   )4. A. Luckily            B. Finally             C. Suddenly          D. Happily
(   )5. A. another            B. other               C. others           D. one
(   )6. A. wide             B. tall                 C. hard            D. far
(   )7. A. got out            B. ran away           C. got off              D. woke up
(   )8. A. smelling            B. eyesight            C. hearing             D. looking
(   )9. A. way                B. skill                C. sentence            D. lesson
(   )10. A. smile            B. laugh               C. help              D. word

A lady in an old cotton dress and her husband, dressed in an old suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked into the president of Harvard’s outer office. The secretary could tell in a moment that such country people had no business at Harvard. She frowned(皱眉). “We want to see the president,” the man said softly. “He’ll be busy all day,” the secretary said coldly. “We’ll wait,” the lady replied.
For hours, the secretary didn’t talk to them, hoping that the couple would finally become tired and go away. They didn’t. And the secretary finally decided to disturb the president. “Maybe if they just see you for a few minutes, they’ll leave,” she told him. He frowned too. Someone of his importance obviously didn’t have the time to spend with them.
The president walked toward them unwillingly. The lady told him, “We had a son that attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard, and was very happy here. But he was accidentally killed. And my husband and I would like to set up a memorial(纪念碑) to him somewhere on campus. ” The president was so surprised that he shouted sharply, “We can’t put up a statue(塑像) for every person who attended Harvard and died. This place would look like a cemetery (墓地).
“Oh, no” the lady explained, “We don’t want to build a statue. We thought we would give a building to Harvard.” The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at their plain clothes, and said with surprise, “A building! Do you have any idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard.”
For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. He could get rid of them now. The lady turned to her husband and said quietly. “Is that all it costs to start a university? Why don't we just start our own?” Her husband nodded. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they set up the university with their name, Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.
【小题1】What did the old couple go to Harvard for?

A group of frogs were traveling1 the forests, but suddenly two of them fell into a hole. The other frogs tried to help them. When they saw how deep the hole was, they cried to the two frogs that they could not be saved. The two frogs didn't 2 and tried their best to jump up out of the hole. The other frogs 3 saying that they were sure to die. 4, one of the two frogs, who heard what the other frogs were saying, gave up. Then he fell down and died.

     The 5 frog, however, continued to jump as 6 as he could, and at last made it out. When he 7 , the other frogs asked, "Didn't you hear us?" The frog, who had a poor 8, said, "I thought you were encouraging me all the time."

     The story teaches us a 9:There is power(????) of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging 10 to those who are down can help them out while a discouraging word can kill them.

(   )1. A. across             B. through             C. from              D. past

(   )2. A. care               B. understand           C. know             D. think

(   )3. A. kept               B. finished             C. practiced          D. stopped

(   )4. A. Luckily            B. Finally              C. Suddenly          D. Happily

(   )5. A. another            B. other                C. others            D. one

(   )6. A. wide              B. tall                  C. hard             D. far

(   )7. A. got out             B. ran away           C. got off              D. woke up

(   )8. A. smelling            B. eyesight            C. hearing             D. looking

(   )9. A. way                B. skill                C. sentence            D. lesson

(   )10. A. smile             B. laugh                C. help               D. word

A blind boy sat there with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said, “I am blind, please help.”
There were only a few coins in the hat. A man was walking by. He took out a few coins and dropped them into the hat .He then turned the sign around and wrote something on it. He put the sign back and walked away.
　　Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and ask, “Are you the one who changed my sign in the morning? What did you do?”
　　The man said, “I only wrote the truth in a different way.”
　　What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day, but I can’t see it.”
　　Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply told people to help by putting some money in the hat. The second one told people that they were able to enjoy the beauty of the day, but the boy could not enjoy it because he was blind.
　　The first sign simply said the boy was blind, while the second one told people they were so lucky that they were not blind.
　　There are at least two lessons we can learn from this simple story.
　　Treasure (珍惜) what you have. Someone else has less. Try your best to help those who need your help.
　  Be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way.
【小题1】From the passage we know that________.