Two teachers were sitting in the teachers' room. For a moment there was silence. Then one of them, Miss Smith, said, "I'm afraid I'd have to fail him! I just can’t let him   16   . "

"Now Alice," said her friend, Mrs Jackson, "is he so terrible a student?"

"That's just the trouble!" the other woman answered, "Tom was ever my   17   student. The problem is that he is so lazy that he never gets his work done. He hasn't handed me a piece of homework for three     18    !"

Mrs Jackson had never seen Miss Smith so   19   before. "Have you had a word with him about it?" she asked.

"Why should I? Every student must hand in homework. I made    20   very clear on the first day for class.  I don't know what has happened. When the lessons started, he did so well that I   21   thought about asking the school to give him a scholarship(奖学金). But now he often sleeps in class! I've never seen such a   22   in a student."

"You should have a talk with him. Give him a chance. "

Miss Smith spoke to Tom and learned all about it. He was studying all day and working most of the night in a factory to   23    for his schooling. Of course he was   24   in class and sometimes could hardly   25   awake. Miss Smith soon asked the school to give him a scholarship and he was able to devote himself to his lessons again.

1.A. leave          B. pass         C. work         D. sleep

2.A. laziest            B. busiest        C. worst         D. best 

3.A. minutes        B. hours       C. weeks        D. years 

4.A. worried            B. pleased          C. useless          D. kind

5.A. them           B. him              C. that             D. one

6.A. even          B. only         C. mostly           D. still 

7.A. trouble            B. hope         C. change           D. danger 

8.A. pay           B. call             C. save             D. share 

9.A. forgetful          B. careless         C. asleep      D. tired

10.A. seem         B. keep             C. look             D. get 

Two teachers were sitting in the teachers' room. For a moment there was silence. Then one of them, Miss Smith, said, "I'm afraid I'd have to fail him! I just can’t let him   16  . "
"Now Alice," said her friend, Mrs Jackson, "is he so terrible a student?"
"That's just the trouble!" the other woman answered, "Tom was ever my   17  student. The problem is that he is so lazy that he never gets his work done. He hasn't handed me a piece of homework for three     18   !"
Mrs Jackson had never seen Miss Smith so   19  before. "Have you had a word with him about it?" she asked.
"Why should I? Every student must hand in homework. I made    20  very clear on the first day for class.  I don't know what has happened. When the lessons started, he did so well that I   21  thought about asking the school to give him a scholarship(奖学金). But now he often sleeps in class! I've never seen such a  22  in a student."
"You should have a talk with him. Give him a chance. "
Miss Smith spoke to Tom and learned all about it. He was studying all day and working most of the night in a factory to   23   for his schooling. Of course he was   24  in class and sometimes could hardly   25  awake. Miss Smith soon asked the school to give him a scholarship and he was able to devote himself to his lessons again.

 Homework can put you in bad mood(情绪),but that might be a good thing. New research shows that being too happy can sometimes  11  your learning performance.

  Researchers wanted to know  12  mood would affect(影响)the way children learn. So they decided to do a study.

  In the study, each child  13   20 problems. In each problem a small shape was hidden inside a different, larger shape. The children had to find the small shape while they were listening to either happy  14  sad music.

  To measure their mood, the researchers asked the children  15  to one of the five faces, from laughing  16  crying. Children_  17  listened to happy music pointed to the smiling faces, showing that they felt  18  .Instead, they listen to sad music, when children pointed to the crying faces.

  The researchers found that sad children took less time to find the small shapes. They also correctly found three or more shapes.

  The researchers think that sadness  19  people pay more attention to small facts.  20  people feel unhappy, they are more careful with a problem or difficult situation.

11. A. hurting                      B. to hurt                     C. hurt                        D. be hurt

12. A. whether                    B. where                      C. that                         D. because

13. A. gave                         B. is giving                   C. was given         D. gives

14. A. nor                           B. or                           C. and                         D. but

15. A. point                          B. pointing                   C. pointed                    D. to point

16. A. of                             B. to                            C. in                            D. with

17. A. who                          B. when                C. whose                     D. which

18. A. exciting                     B. excitedly                   C. excitement               D. excited

19. A. make                        B. makes                     C. is making          D. is made

20.A.So                              B. But                          C. When                      D. Though