Happiness is for everyone. You don't need to care about the rich. Though they have beautiful houses with large gardens and swimming pools, they may often feel lonely.

In fact, happiness is always around you if you put your heart into it. When you are in trouble at school, your teachers will help you; when you do something wrong, people around you feel unhappy; when you succeed in something, your friends will say congratulations to you. All these are your happiness. If you notice a bit of them, you can see that happiness is always around you.

Happiness is not the same as money. It is a feeling(感觉) of your heart. Although you are poor, you can also say you are very happy. Money is not everything. You have something else that money can't buy. When you meet with difficulties, you can loudly say you are very happy because you have more chances to challenge(挑战) yourself. So you can not always say you are poor and you have bad luck. If you take every chance you get, you can be a happy and lucky person.

1.______may often feel lonely even though they have beautiful houses with large gardens.

A．Teachers          B．Parents           C．Old people        D．Rich people

2.What will your friends say to you when you make great progress?

A．Congratulations.                        B．That's all right.

C．It's very nice of you.                     D．Not at all.

3.When you have more chances to challenge yourself, you may feel_______.

A．proud            B．lonely            C．happy            D．excited

4.You can make yourself happy by______.

A．making much money                     B．taking every chance you have

C．owning beautiful big houses               D．having nice cars

5.We can learn from the passage that_______.

A．poor people are unhappy because they don't have money to buy big houses

B．we can find happiness around us even if we don't have much money

C．no one will help you if you are poor

D．rich people are very proud because they have big houses and nice cars

 

“If you want to see a thing well, reach out and touch it!”
That may seem a strange thing to say. But touching things can help you to see them better. Your eyes can tell you that a glass ball is round. But by holding it in your hands, you can feel how smooth and cool the ball is. You can tell how heavy the glass it. When you feel all these about the ball, you really see it.
With your skin, you can feel better. For example, your fingers can tell the difference between two coins in your pockets. You can feel a little drop of water on the back of your hand, too. You can even feel sounds against your skin. Have you wanted to know why some people like very loud music? They must like to feel the sounds of music.
All children soon learn what “Don’t touch!” means. They hear it often. Yet most of us keep on touching things as we grow up. In shops, we touch things we might buy: food, clothes. To see something well, we have to touch it.
The bottom of our feet can feel things, too. You know this when you walk on warm sand, cool grass or a hard floor. All feel different under your feet.
There are ways of learning to see well by feeling. One way is to close your eyes and try to feel everything that is touching your skin. Feel the shoes on your feet, the clothes on your body, the air on your skin. At first, it is not easy to feel these things. You are too used to them.
Most museums are just for looking. But today some museums have things for visitors to touch. Their signs say, “Do touch!” there you can feel everything on show.
If you want to see better, reach out and touch. Then you will really see.
【小题1】 By touching things ___________.

A．you will have a strange feeling

B．you will learn how to reach out your hand

C．you can see them well

D．you can tell what colors they are

【小题2】According to the passage, which of the following CANNOT feel things?

A．Skin.

B．Fingers.

C．Feet.

D．Eyes.

【小题3】 Why does it say “At first, it is not easy to feel these things?” Because ___________

A．the things are used by people too

B．people feel the things too much

C．people know how to use the things

D．these things are familiar to you

【小题4】You can see the sign "Do touch!"_____________________.

A．in every museum

B．in most museums

C．in some museums

D．only in one museum

【小题5】The best way to see the world well is to ___________________.

A．touch by feeling

B．see or to feel

C．read

D．see and feel

   Frank bought a new doorbell, but nobody seemed to notice it. When his friends came, they knocked heavily at the door. Frank was not happy about it.

   One day a friend came to see Frank. He knocked at the door loudly. Frank came to the door, but didn’t open it. He shouted at the visitor from inside. “ I can’t hear you! Please ring the doorbell!”

1.What did Frank buy?

_____________________________________________________________

2.Why wasn’t Frank happy?

_____________________________________________________________

3.Who came to see Frank one day?

_____________________________________________________________

4.Why didn’t Frank open the door?

_____________________________________________________________

5.Did Frank hear the knock?

_____________________________________________________________

 

If someone says to you: “ Give me five”, do not search your pocket to get five yuan! It will make others laugh! The person’s not asking for your money, but your fingers.

In the US, “ give me five” or “ give me the high five” is a popular gesture ( 动作 ). You can see it often in films or on TV. It means the clapping ( 拍  ) of each other’s raised right hands together.

People do it when they meet for the first time or something happy happens. For example, a student has good marks in exams or wins a lottery ticket ( 彩票  ). If a football team wins a game, the players will give high fives to everyone around to celebrate.

This gesture may come from the old Roman gesture of raising the right arm for the king. This showed that the person raising his arm did not have a sword ( 剑 ) in his hand.

Why not try to give the high five to your friends?

1.“ Give me five” is a gesture to ______________.

A．ask for money                          B．celebrate success

C．search one’s pocket                    D．play

2.The gesture “ give me five” is the clapping of _________.

A．toes             B．hands            C．arms             D．legs

3.When you ________, you give your friends high fives.

A．lose your money                        B．go back home

C．win a football game                      D．do badly in exams

4.The gesture started in _______ according to the story.

A．Rome            B．America           C．China             D．Britain

5.Why did the Romans raise the right arm for the emperor?  Because ________.

A．they were proud of their emperor

B．they were happy to see the emperor

C．they wanted to show there were no swords in their hands

D．We don’t know

 

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Peter was the best table tennis player in his school and hardly ever lost a match. He hated losing anything. When he 1.  ,he would feel really good. If he lost, he would feel terrible. It seemed to Peter that losing was the   2.  thing in the world .

A new kid, Albert, came to Peter’s school .He was good at table tennis, too. Soon there would be a match     3.  Peter and Albert. Peter worked hard to get ready for the match, but Albert didn’t seem to think   4.  of it. When the match began, Albert was a real player. There was always a   5.  on his face, while Peter looked serious all the time. Peter thought it was so important to win the match that he even wanted to cheat（舞弊） , but he lost in the end.

“ You played very well, Peter. I think we can play again sometime, ”said  Albert.

But Peter didn’t   6. happy and couldn’t fall asleep that night .

One day, Peter saw Albert playing basketball.   7.  he lost again and again, the happy smile never left his face. Peter found Albert was great at table tennis but bad at basketball. However, he enjoyed   8.  of them.

Whether he won or lost the game, Albert enjoyed it. Peter came to realize that enjoying a game was much more important than winning or losing it. He felt happier than ever before.