Do you get angry at your friends’ singing loudly while you are working? Or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?

If you do, you need to control your feelings and stop getting angry so easily. Getting angry with people can make you lose friends.

Gary Egeberg, an American high school teacher, has written My feelings Are Just Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. It tells teens how to stay cool when bad things happen to them. The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse. It can never make them better. Getting angry is not a natural way to act. It is just a bad habit, like smoking. The book says you can control your anger easily—all you have to do is telling yourself not to be angry.

When a baby falls over, it only cries if people are watching it. Like a baby, you should only get angry if you are sure it is the right thing to do.

·Keep a record. Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and you will see you get angry too easily.

·Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will teach you not to be angry.

·Do something different. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh!

1.The writer wants to tell us         .

A. not to get angry             B. to work hard at school

C. to do more exercise          D. to help each other

2.The writer thinks that if you get angry easily you will         .

A. get ill very easily          B. lose your friends

C. get sad easily               D. eat less

3.My Feelings Are Just Like Wild Animals is a         .

A. story        B. book C. picture      D. film

4.My Feelings Are Just Like Wild Animals mainly tells us         .

A. what to read                 B. how to read 

C. how to stay cool             D. how to learn English

5.When a baby falls over, it only cries if people are watching. Here “it” refers to         .

A. the book     B. anger        C. habit      D. the baby

 

We all have dreams. Do you still remember your dream when you were still a middle school student. As teenagers, you may have many dreams. Maybe you wanted to be a scientist, a teacher or a doctor. These dreams can be very big, such as winning a Nobel Prize, or very small. You may just want to become one of the ten best students in your class.
If you have a dream, what do you do with it? Do you try to make your dream come true? Andrew Matthews wrote a book called Follow Your Heart. It tells us it’s the biggest challenge(挑战) to make our dreams come true.
There will be many difficulties on the road to your dreams. But you must never give up your dream. Because the biggest difficulty comes from you yourself. 
Everyone can make his/her dream come true. The first thing to do is to remember your dream. Don’t let it leave your heart. Keep telling yourself what you want and keep working hard. Do this step by step and your dream will come true one day.
【小题1】Follow Your Heart is the name of           .

A．Andrew Matthews	B．a book about hearts
C．a book by Andrew Matthews	D．a dream

【小题2】Which of the following may be a small dream for teenagers?

A．To be a man like Nobel.

B．To win a Nobel Prize.

C．To be the best student in the class.

D．To be a scientist.

【小题3】If you want to make your dream come true, the biggest difficulty is from           .

A．the book

B．your school

C．your dream

D．you yourself

【小题4】Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A．Different people have the same dream.

B．If you keep on, you can make your dream come true.

C．There are few difficulties on the road to everyone's dream.

D．When you give up your dream, it will come true soon.

If you want to get the most out of the study of a language, you must also read for pleasure: novels, plays, travel books, and so on. And in reading books of this kind the important thing is to get on with the reading; to try to catch what the writer is going to tell you in the book as a whole. This is impossible if you stop and think over the meaning of every single word which happens to be unfamiliar. You can not enjoy a story if you stop a few times on every page in order to look up words in the dictionary. You may even prevent(妨碍) yourself from understanding the story as a whole by doing this.
When you are reading books of this kind, therefore, you will usually have to depend mainly on the context (上下文) to help you. If you meet an unfamiliar word, do not let it take too much of your attention from the main idea of the story. In all probability you will meet the same word again a few pages later on in a slightly different context, and each time you see it that your understanding of it will become more exact.
【小题1】To read for pleasure means _____________.

A．to take pleasure in reading

B．to be satisfied in reading book

C．to read such books as novels, plays, travel books, etc

D．to go on with reading pleasantly

【小题2】The phrase “to get on with reading” in the passage has the same meaning as “     ”.

A．to try to grasp the meaning of every sentence in the book

B．to try to catch the meaning of every word in the book

C．to try to understand all the writer is going to tell you

D．to try to understand the main idea of the book

【小题3】The best title for this passage is “___________”.

A．Read for Pleasure	B．Get on with the Books
C．Reading Skills	D．The Importance of Reading

阅读理解。（每小题2分，共30分）
阅读下列材料，从 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳答案，并把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。
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People say that George Washington, the first president of the United States, never told a lie. But it seems that the president was not without faults.
A New York library recently found that Washington borrowed two books from the library in 1789. He didn’t return them.
If he were still alive, he would have to pay the library ＄300,000 for being 220 years late.
On October 5, 1789, when the first president borrowed the books form the New York Society Library, he didn’t sign his name in the borrower’s book. He just wrote “president” to show who had taken them out.
The two books should have been brought back a month later but were never returned. Workers at the library realized the books were missing.
The New York Society Library doesn’t expect anyone to pay the fine. But it hopes that someone will return the books.
【小题1】Gorge Washington is__________.

A．the president of the US now

B．the first president of the US

C．the first black president of the US

D．the president who always borrowed the books without returning them back

【小题2】Gorge Washington borrowed a book from ________.

A．the Washington Public Library

B．the New York Society Library

C．the Paris Society Library

D．the Chinese Public Library

【小题3】The library hopes _________.

A．Gorge Washington will return the book.

B．Gorge Washington will pay the fine

C．someone will find the book and return it

D．someone will pay the fine for the president

Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly? Or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?

If you do, you need to control your feelings and stop getting angry so easily. Getting angry easily can make you lose friends.

Gary Egeberg, an American high school teacher, wrote My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. It tells teens（青少年） how to stay cool when bad things happen to them. The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse. It can not make them better. “Getting angry is not a natural way to act”, the book says. It is just a bad habit, like smoking. The book says you can control your anger easily, and all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry.

When a baby falls over, it cries only when people are watching it. Like a baby, you can only get angry if you are sure it is the right thing to do.

The book gives many suggestions to help you if you get angry easily. Here are the top three.

①Keep a record. Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and you will see you get angry too easily.

②Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will teach you not to be angry.

③Do something different. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh!

1.The writer wants to tell us ____.

A．not to get angry easily

B．to work hard at school

C．to do more exercises

D．to help each other

2.The writer thinks that if you get angry easily you will ____.

A．get ill very easily

B．lose your friends

C．put on weight easily

D．eat less

3. My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals is a ____.

A．story

B．book

C．picture

D．film

4.My Feelings are Just Like Wild Animals mainly tells us ____.

A．what to read

B．how to read

C．how to stay cool

D．how to learn English well

5. In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word “it” refers to(指的是)____.

A．the book

B．anger

C．habit

D．the baby