In our life, we face situations where we are either asked to choose between trust and disbelief. Many of us would say we have to choose trust over disbelief. Actually we are given intellectual(智力的) power to choose what we want, and what we choose certainly need not be the one that sounds pleasing. That is, we can choose both trust and disbelief, but we have to know when to choose between these two.

We should all realize that we are living in a world which is unfortunately mixed with people of various types. We have been given the power of judging who we are working with and who we are partnering with. We cannot give an excuse for believing a scheming(诡计多端的)person, just because he looked or sounded nice, unless we consider ourselves mentally unskillful.

   This world was there before us and it does not owe us a single thing. We are asked to take care of ourselves and our belongings. Trust, too, has to be saved for the deserving(值得的) people. When we give trust universally to all, we end up troubled by the undeserving common cheat. People say trust is life. True! But only wisely exercised trust is life.

   When we start a conversation with someone, the first things that we usually notice would be their dress, behavior, style and their language. What sometimes we all forget to look at is the person’s intention. Now how to look at a person’s intention is a lesson everybody has to learn for themselves in their own way -- there is no single standard for it. But it is certainly possible to discover the purpose if we seek a little bit more.

   Certainly a false offer of friendship or guidance cannot stand undiscovered for long; we are therefore called to exercise disbelief over trust at least momentarily till we find out that we certainly are in agreement with a mutual(相互的)good-willed person.

The world teaches you lots of lessons and if we are willing, we can learn all that we want.

1.In the first paragraph, the author ________.

A. concentrates on the reason why we make different choices

B. focuses on how to choose between trust and disbelief

C. suggests that trust should be wisely exercised

D. implies that people are forced to make the choice

2.. We can infer from the passage that _________.

A. people who we are working with are in fact those who we are partnering with

B. the first thing we notice tends to mislead our judgment

C. the mentally healthy people will not judge a person by his looks 

D. the standards of looking at a person’s intention are not various

3.. The underlined sentence means __________

A. trust and disbelief go hand in hand with each other.

B. disbelief is necessary if you aren’t wise

C. trust is established if two people know each other

D. doubt may serve as the precondition for trust

4.Which of the following can serve as the best title for the passage? 

A. Trust or Disbelief?                                      B. Trust Is Life.

C. Trust over Disbelief?                     D. Disbelief over Trust?

Every person has some unforgettable experiences in his life .Some will remain in his heart as instructive stories to his life. I believe that we often tell ourselves the stories in order to keep our sanity(通情达理). These stories stay inside ourselves.
Many of the stories that I have kept inside myself are in the   36  of lessons that have taught me something about life. These lessons are 37 to carry with me. They require no outside   38  to store them in. No one can   39  me of them. They 40   their freshness without having to be renewed. And I can offer them to others without 41 them myself.
I remember there is a lesson which is about a little girl who was   42   from a serious disease. Her only chance of  43  was to have a blood transfusion(输血)  44  her five-year-old brother. The doctor asked the little boy 45   he would be willing to give his 46   to his sister. He took a 47  breath and said he would do it if it would save her life.
As the transfusion took place, he lay in bed next to his sister and smiled as he watched the color 48 to her cheeks. Then his   49  disappeared. He looked up at the doctor and asked in a trembling   50  . “Will I start to  51  right away?”
Being so  52 , the lovely little boy had  53  the doctor. He thought he was going to die after he gave blood to his sister.
This was my lesson in “ 54  ”. I learned that a candle loses  55 by lighting another candle.

We were standing at the top of a church tower. My father had brought me to this spot in a small town not far from our home in Rome. I wondered why.
"Look down, Elsa," Father said. I gathered all my courage and looked down. I saw the square in the center of the village. And I saw the crisscross (十字形) of twisting, turning streets leading to the square. "See, my dear," Father said gently. "There is more than one way to the square. Life is like that. If you can't get to the place where you want to go by one road, try another."
Now I understood why I was there. Earlier that day I had begged my mother to do something about the awful lunches that were served at school. But she refused because she could not believe the lunches were as bad as I said.
When I turned to Father for help, he would not help. Instead, he brought me to this high tower to give me a lesson. By the time we reached home, I had a plan.
At school the next day, I secretly poured my lunch soup into a bottle and brought it home. Then I asked our cook to serve it to Mother at dinner. The plan worked perfectly. She swallowed one spoonful and sputtered, "The cook must have gone mad! "Quickly I told what I had done, and Mother said firmly that she would take up the matter of lunches at school the next day!
In the years that followed I often remembered the lesson Father taught me. I began to work as a fashion designer two years ago. I wouldn't stop working until I tried every possible means to my goal, Father's wise words always remind me that there is more than one way to the square.
【小题1】
What did the author want her mother to do earlier that day? _______           

A．the cook agreed to serve the soup to Father

B．the matter of lunch hasn’t been settled

C．her father persuaded her mother successfully

D．the method the author thought of was effective

----_______an earthquake happens in Quanzhou when we are having a lesson ?

   ---- I’m afraid most of us will be trapped.

     A．If only    B．What if        C．As if       D．Even if

III.完形填空（共20小题,每题1.5分,满分30分）
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
When children are very young, they learn from their grandparents and parents what is proper and good behavior.
A two-year-old child always  36  of himself or herself first. Sometimes, he or she tells people “This is  37 .” Of course, the  38  of sharing has to be  39  so that the child learns to  40  along with another child.
It is  41  for a family member to train the child so that he or she can  42  how to serve others and become a useful person in  43 . Discipline(纪律) should always be given with  44 .
Once a young child is taught to  45 , the child begins to realize that  46  is not a punishment but a valuable  47  in life. The idea of discipline becomes more important  48  the child is a student in elementary school..
If a person is  49 , he or she will not have  50  in life. If a person is trained, it doesn’t  51  what job he or she accepts, and there will be a  52  result. Parents and grandparents are very  53  that young children learn discipline early in their life, for happiness and pride will be the  54  of their achievements.
Usually, it is in middle school that children decide whether they will accept discipline as the road to success. For those who do, the  55  is very bright leading to a happy life.
36.A. cares          B. says 　　   C. speaks          D. thinks
37.A. mine          B. ours        C. theirs           D. yours
38.A. fact         B. idea         C. reason       D. mind
39.A. exchanged   B. introduced    C. brought          D. known
40.A. come          B. go          C. do             D. get
41.A. necessary   B. easy          C. hard         D. clear
42.A. learn     B. study     C. guess         D. remember
43.A. country    B. family    C. society       D. public
44.A. dislike    B. excitement   C. love        D. anger
45.A. live        B. share          C. play       D. work
46.A. homework  B. order       C. exam     D. discipline
47.A. lesson      B. text         C. class       D. work
48.A. though    B. because    C. since         D. when
49.A. taught     B. unknown        C. popular        D. untrained
50.A. help       B. business         C. success     D. purpose
51.A. matter    B. like     C. seem         D. appear
52.A. bad        B. good    C. final         D. natural
53.A. careful    B. worried    C. surprised      D. hopeful
54.A. example         B. reason    C. result         D. point
55.A. future      B. sun        C. day        D. sky