Mobile homes, pulled by specially designed (设计) trucks have been increasing in numbers all over the United States. Often, driving along, you can see some mobile homes high on a hill. Some stand under trees along a river or a lake. They're wonderfully built homes. Sometimes they're as much as 40 feet long, with two to five rooms, and you can find many things you need in them. When you park your mobile home, water, electricity power and telephones are connected, and you can enjoy yourself there.
      The fact that these homes can be moved doesn't mean that they do move all the time. Sometimes their owners stay for years in one place, plant gardens, build walls and so on. These homes are often quite expensive. Some even cost $ 20,000.
      Why does a family choose to live in such a home? Well, it's comfortable, easy to keep clean, easy to keep warm, no need to paint. What's more, the fast increase of mobile homes in numbers has something to do with the job uncertainty (不稳定性). Nobody knows what will happen tomorrow. If a factory closes down, you may be trapped with the house you can't sell. However, if you have a mobile home, you can move on easily.
      The greatest selling attraction of these mobile homes is that they can be improved every year. If you're doing well, you may change a new model just as you do with a car. There is a ready market for used ones, so the price of the mobile homes is higher than that of automobiles (汽车).
56. From the passage, we know that mobile homes_______.
     A. can be built better than our homes B. need to move all the time
C. can provide something people need D. must stand only high on a hill
1. _______is one of the reasons for people to choose mobile homes.
    A. The job uncertainty           

B. The strange design
    C. The low price                 

D. The high speed
2. Which of the following may NOT attract people to buy mobile homes?
    A. The new model appears every year. 

B. Walls can be easily built around them.
    C. They don't need to be painted.     

D. They can be moved here and there.
3. We can infer that the increase of the mobile homes shows_______.
    A. great changes in people's living style (方式)
    B. great interest in developing new things
    C. some problems in people's life
    D. people's hope for new jobs
4. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
    A. How to Choose a Mobile Home

B. The Developing Mobile Homes
    C. The Uses of Mobile Homes   

D. Mobile Homes Are Popular in the US

"Depend on yourself" is what nature says to every man. Parents can help you. Teachers can help you. Others still can help you. But all these only help you to help yourself.

There have been many great men in history. But many of them were very poor in childhood, and had no uncles, aunts or friends to help them. They couldn't depend on them for education. They saw how it was, and began to work with their efforts.

One of the most famous teachers in England used to tell his pupils, "I can't make worthy men of you, but I can help you make men of yourselves."

Some young men are not the best in anything, and they are to be pitied(值得同情的). They can never do things successfully if they don't see their weak points and change their courses(做法). They are nothing now, and will be nothing as long as they live if they don't follow the advice of their parents and teachers, and depend on their own efforts.

 1."Depend on yourself" in this passage means ________.      

A. depend on your own efforts      B. depend on nature

C. wait for others to help           D. depend on your parents

2.Many of the great men in history succeeded because________.  

A. they were very poor in childhood

B. they could not depend on schools for an education

C. they made great efforts to learn and work

D. they wanted very much to become famous

3.According to the famous teacher in England, a teacher can _______.     

A. make his pupils worthy men  

B. teach his pupils everything he knows

C. help his pupils make themselves useful men

D. make his pupils men of strength and courage

4.If young people depend on their own efforts, ____________  

A. they are to be pitied     

B. they can never be successful

C. they are nothing now and will be nothing in the future

D. they can be successful in their work

5.The main idea of the passage is that           .

A. we should depend on our parents and teachers

B. we can depend on our friends and relatives

C. all great men in history were poor when they were young

D. we can't depend on our parents or teachers, but we can get advice from them

“Depend on yourself” is what nature says to every man. Parents can help you. Teachers can help you. Others still can help you. But all these can’t always help you.

 There have been many great men in history. But many of them were very poor in childhood, and had no uncles, aunts or friends to help them. They couldn’t depend on them for an education. They saw how it was, and began to work with their own efforts to know something. They worked their own way up to fame.

One of the most famous teachers in England used to tell his pupils, “I can’t make worthy（值得尊敬的）men of you, but I can help you make men of yourselves.”

Some young men have the best of everything. But they can never do things successfully if they don’t see their weak points.They are nobody now, and will be nobody as long as（只要）they don’t follow the advice of their parents and teachers, and depend on their own efforts.

51. “Depend on yourself” in this passage means _______________.

   A. rely on your own efforts

   B. rely on nature

   C. wait for others to help

   D. take care of yourself

52. Many of the great men in history succeeded because _____________.

   A. they were very poor in childhood

   B. they could not depend on schools for an education

   C. they made great efforts to learn and work

   D. they wanted very much to become famous

53. According to the famous teacher in England, a teacher can ___________.

   A. make his pupils worthy men

   B. help his pupils find a way to fame

   C. help his pupils make themselves useful men

   D. make his pupils men of strength and courage

54. If young people depend on their own efforts, ____________.

   A. they are to be pitied

   B. they can be ambitions

   C. they are nobody now and will be nobody in the future

   D. they can be successful in their work

 55. How can young men be successful?

   A. They should see their weak point and change their course.

   B. They should follow the advice of their parents and teachers.

   C. They should depend on their own efforts.

   D. All above.