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One day the famous scientist Albert Einstein ___1___ an old friend of his in the street in New York. “ Mr Einstein,” said __2___ friend, “ you need to __3__ a new coat. “It ___4__ matter.” Answered Einstein. “ Nobody ___5__ me here in New York.”

Several years ___6__, they met in New York ___7___. Einstein had become a world-famous physicist by then, but he was still wearing the __8____ old coat. Once more his friend tried to persuade him to buy a new _9__. “There’s no need now,” said Einstein. “ I have _10___ here for a long time. Everybody here knows me.”

Tom is a middle school student. He is studying in Grade 7. He usually  1 at 7:00 o’clock in the morning. 2   today he gets up at 6:30 and goes to buy a big cake. After that he helps his grandparents clean their room, because it is his   ___3  birthday. His grandpa is going to be 78 years old.
Tom  4 two CDs about Beijing Opera(京剧)___5  his grandpa. He is sure his grandpa would like  6 very much, because his grandpa likes listening to Beijing Opera.
When Tom   7  home at noon, his mother is making noodles with his grandma. They are laughing and talking about something happily. His grandpa is drinking tea   8  listening to Beijing Opera.
Tom says, “Happy birthday to you, Grandpa!” Then he cuts the big cake and gives grandpa a   9  piece. Grandpa is very happy and eats it.
In the evening, Tom watches TV with his grandparents together. He is a little__  10  but very happy, because he can make his grandparents happy.

The Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Some parents send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the US or Australia, regardless of how much this costs. Many also want their children to take extra-curriculum activities (课外活动) where they either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes that will give them a better start in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is, so parents often spend a large amount of money on education. Even poor parents manage to buy a computer for their son or daughter.

In fact, most parents fail to see that the best education they can give their children is usually very cheap. Parents can see that their children’s skills are different; they will usually be skilled in some areas while poor in others. However, they fail to realize that today's children are lack (缺乏) of self-respect and self-confidence.

The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take exams and how to study effectively. They are not teaching them the most important skills they need. They do not teach them to be confident, happy and clever.

Parents can help achieve this by teaching their children practical skills like cooking, sewing and other housework.

Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands patience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and finish his job step by step. The result, a well--cooked dinner, will give a child a lot of satisfaction and confidence. All these will help the children step to success in the future.

An old machine such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child as a toy may make him curious and arouse(唤醒) his interest. If he will spend hours looking at it, and try to mend it; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. Such activities do more than teaching a child to read a book. They teach them to think and to use their minds. This is much more important than learning by reading a book.

1. Is the writer satisfied with the Chinese parents’ ideas of educating their children?

2. Put the underlined sentence “the more expensive an education is, the better it is” into Chinese.

3.What are the children lack of today?

4. How is the experience of cooking according to the fifth paragraph?

5.What does the underlined word “They” refer to(所指的是) in the last paragraph?

When Mr. David retired(退休), he bought a small house in a village near the sea. He liked it and hoped to live a quiet life in it. But to his surprise, many visitors came to see his house in summer holidays, for it was the most interesting building in the village. From morning to night, there were visitors outside the house. They kept looking into the rooms through the windows and many of them even went into the house. He decided to drive the visitors away. So he put a notice (公告)on the window. The notice said, “If you want to satisfy your curiosity(好奇心),come in and look around. Price: twenty dollars.” Mr. David was sure that the visitors would stop coming, but he was wrong. More and more visitors came and Mr. David had to spend every day showing them around his house. “I came here to retire, not to work as a guide(导游)”, he said angrily. In the end, he sold the house and moved away.

1.Mr. David’s house was      that many visitors came to see it.

2.Mr. David put a notice on the window in order      .

3.The notice made the visitors      .

4.After Mr. David put up the notice      .

5.At last he had to sell his house and move away because       .

I wanted to buy a copy of The Youth, but there was _______ left in the bookshop. _______has just bought the last one.

A. no one; Everybody       B. something; Nobody  C. anyone; Somebody  D. none; Somebody