Students learn their lessons in class. In class teachers teach them. Students sit in the classroom listening to the teacher. This is a way of learning. Is this the only way for students to learn something? Of course not. There is another way to learn. That is students can teach themselves. For example ,if you can’t remember something when you are doing your homework, you can look at your book to find the answer .This is a way to teach yourself. And it is not a difficult thing. We can do this at any place and at any time.
How do you teach yourself? The first thing you must do is reading. Read something you are interested in, or you have to read .The second is that you must ask yourself questions. The question is something you don’t understand, or you want to know more about .You can write down these questions. A clever student is usually good at asking questions. The third is to answer the question yourself by thinking hard ,by reading the text of other books, and sometimes by asking other people .This is the way of teaching yourself .And you must do this all by yourself. If you keep doing like this for a long time, you are sure to succeed in your study.
【小题1】Listening to the teacher is ____for the students to learn something.

Failure is part of life .No matter what we do, there are always two results： 61  and failure .All of us  62 to be successful, but we can’t always keep ourselves away from failure.
People have different opinions  63  failure. Some people think failure is a  64  thing. They hope they could always do everything  65 . If they fail in something, they will lose 66 confidence. Other people think failure is just a chance to learn. If they fail in something, they will do it  67 . They know that complaining won’t help .
As an old saying goes,“Failure is the  68  of success.”  69  we work hard, we will succeed one day. In my opinion, failure is not bad and it’s not good,  70  .What’s your opinion about failure?
1.A. subject    B. fault    C. success  D. prize
2.A. want   B. face C. enjoy    D. call
3.A. at B. about    C. in       D. like
4.A. good   B. so-so    C. bad      D. hard
5.A. equally    B. badly    C. great    D. well
6.A. their  B. our      C. your D. her
7.A. else   B. again    C. ever D. once
8.A. son    B. daughter C. mother   D. uncle
9.A. If B. Before       C. Until    D. Before long
10.A. too       B. also C. either       D. so

Peter wanted to know why he didn’t have many friends. The reason was he was always taking, never     1   .
One day Peter told Bill, “I’d like to give a party on Saturday. I’d like you to come and bring Martha,     2  ” “Thanks, Peter. We’d be   3   to come.” Bill answered. Peter then asked Bill to bring his violin. He said Bill and Martha sang well together. He said he was sure everyone    4  want Bill and Martha to sing for them. That was how Peter began to plan his party. Next he asked another friend, Betty, to bring a cake. “You make the  5   cake in the world. I like to eat your cake better than have one from the bakery.” Peter invited a few other friends to come to his party. He didn’t forget     6  something from each one of them. He even asked Jim and Mary Jackson to let him give the party at their house!   7 agreed.
The party was a big    8  . However, as the guests were leaving, they said “Thank you” to Bill and Martha   9    the music, Betty for the cake, the Jacksons for the use of the house and to others for their hard work. To Peter they just said, “Thanks for the   10  .”
【小题1】A. give                B. giving               C. making
【小题2】A. too                B. either              C. yet
【小题3】A. unhappy             B. sorry               C. glad
【小题4】A. would               B. will                C. is
【小题5】A. good               B. best                C. better
【小题6】A. asking              B. asked                C. to ask
【小题7】A. They               B. He                  C. Them
【小题8】A. successful          B. success             C. succeed
【小题9】A. as                  B. in                  C. for
【小题10】A. invitation        B. invite              C. ask