Have you ever complained（抱怨）why life is so tiring? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time . If you see the world with your warm heart, you will 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 . Maybe you would feel very sad and start complaining about the weather . 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 can’t be avoided . I think failure(失败) is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success.”
Attitude（态度）decides everything. With an optimistic（乐观的）attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.
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【小题1】 People sometimes complain __________ .
A. their studies are successful
B. they have no enough money   
C. life is tiring
【小题2】According to the passage, in school, _________ .
A. the students don’t like their lessons     
B. the teachers will be happy if the students do good jobs
C. the teachers are tired of their work
【小题3】If there is a timely rain, ____________ .
A. you want to go out
B. you can listen to a concert   
C. crops will grow better
【小题4】When we face failure, we ___________ .
A. don’t know what to do
B. may give up hope      
C. shouldn’t be afraid of it
【小题5】The best title of this passage is ___________ .
A. Smile and the World Smiles to You
B. Complaining about Life
C. Failure is the Mother of Success

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根据短文内容，在短文空格处填上一个恰当的词，使短文完整、通顺。并将答案填答入题卷相对应的横线上。

On weekends, everyone is at home but each is doing their own thing. It’s time to get everyone together and do something as a family. As parents, what should we do? Here are some good ideas.

Take a walk

Let children  1. their bikes or just hang out in the open air. Get everyone to move and talk to be active. They are also great  2.  .

Play a game

Games should depend on the kids’ ages. For older kids, the father can play chess with them. If your kids are  3. , a game of memory is perfect. If you can’t play the games, you can always  4.  pictures on cards and make up your own game.

Go out for supper

Going out for supper not only  5. mom a break, but it offers a lot more time to6.about the past week together.

Make a photo album

Go through all those7. that are just lying around and get them into a book.  8. you have older kids, let each one do a page of their own. They can be as simple as sticking them in a book. 

Hope you enjoyed these ideas and will enjoy doing these activities with your family!