You can easily find that your sister or brother is different from you. You live together in the same house and have the same parents, but you have different personalities(性格).
Why? One possible reason is the way your parents treat you.
Firstborn children receive all the attention from their parents. Generally speaking, a firstborn has twice as many photos as any other child has. Parents usually give firstborns more responsibilities (责任)and depend on them to take care of younger brothers and sisters. As a result, firstborns are often responsible, hard-working, and serious. They often want to do well at school and in work. More firstborns became American Presidents, for example George W.Bush, George Washington and Lyndon Baines Johnson, than second or last-borns.
When a second child arrives, parents are more relaxed. The second child has to compete (竞争)with the first-born for parents’ attention and love. These children often choose different sports and hobbies to develop different personalities. They are often outgoing, but can be jealous and get angry easily.
The youngest child is usually the happiest, and has fewer responsibilities and more freedom(自由的). These children do well at school and in work, but have to be creative（创造性的） to get their family’s attention. They are often friendly and cool. Many famous talk-show hosts were born last.
【小题1】The underlined word “jealous” means_______ in Chinese
A. 友好的             B. 嫉妒的            C. 快乐的
【小题2】The writer thinks that the second-born children are often ______.
A. outgoing but jealous
B. cool and friendly
C. hard-working and serious
【小题3】. ______ is usually the happiest in the family according to the passage.
A. The eldest child
B. The second child
C. The youngest child
【小题4】 We can learn from the passage that ______.
A. the second child is very similar to the firstborn child
B. brothers and sisters usually have the same personalities
C. more firstborns became American presidents than second or last-borns
【小题5】 The passage is mainly about ______.
A. birth order and personalities
B. children and their parents
C. different children and different work

首字母填空。（10分）

  Three men were t__1.__ about the world’s greatest wonders.

  The first man said,” I think the pyramids are the greatest. Though people b__2.__ them thousands of years ago, they are still standing. And just think: people at that time didn’t have our m__3.__ machines(机器). How could they build them so long ago?”

  “I a__4.__ that the pyramids are wonderful.” The second man said. “ but I think computers are more wonderful. Everyone knows computers have changed the world a lot since people i__5.__ them.”

  Then the t__6.__ man said, “ I d__7.__ with you two. I think the most wonderful thing is the thermos(热水瓶).”

  The other two men were very s__8.__ , “ A thermos!” They said. “ Why? It’s a simple(简单) thing.”

  “Oh, no,” the man said.” In w__9.__ you put in hot water and it stays hot. In summer you put in a cold drink and it stays cold. How does the thermos know w__10.__ it is winter or summer?”

短文填词。（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

    Students learn their lessons in class. They sit in the classroom and l  1   to the teacher. This is a way of learning. Is this the o  2   way for students to learn? Of course not. There is another way to learn. That is students can teach themselves. For e  3  , if you cannot remember something when you are doing your homework, what will you do? You can look at your books to

f   4   the answers.

How to teach yourself? The first thing you must do is reading. Read something you are i  5   in, or you have to read. The second is that you must ask yourself questions. A clever student is usually g  6   at asking questions. The third is to answer the questions yourself by w  7  hard, by reading books, and sometimes by asking o  8  people. These are the ways of teaching yourself. If you keep doing l  9 these for a long time, You are sure to have great s   10   in your study.

先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个适当的词，使短文意思完整。(共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分)

Tennis is in its second life. Its first game b 1. in France. The name of the game comes from the French w 2. "tennez". The English men c  3.  the game "tennis" when they watched the Frenchmen play 800 years ago.

The Englishmen liked the French game. Tennis courts were b  4.  in every park, in every city, just like today. The two countries played against each other. At first they played for h  5. . Then they won money. Later people began cheating（欺骗）to get money. Three hundred years ago the game was forbidden（禁止）to s  6.  the cheating. The game also d_7.__. Americans found the old courts when they went to Europe 100 years ago. They learned w _8._   they could do about the game. They liked the game as the Englishmen did before. After returning home, the Americans built tennis courts. Tennis began to become p 9.  in all the United States. Now it is one of the most e  10.games in the world again.