①"I will think of it." It is easy to say this, but do you know what great things have come from thinking? Though we can not see, or hear, or feel our thoughts, they have great power (力量) !

      ②Isaac Newton was seated in his garden on a summer evening when he saw an apple fall from a tree. He began to think, and tried to find out why the apple fell. Then he discovered how the earth, sun, moon, and stars are kept in their places.

    ③James Ferguson once saw the inside of his father's watch, and he wondered, "Why should I not make a watch?" This set him thinking and it led to a wooden clock which kept good time.

④Walt Disney, the famous American film-maker, was often thinking of new ideas. One day, when he was in a meeting, he suddenly stopped talking, deep in thought. He looked and looked at a place high up in the room. This continued for a long time, end then he got an idea for a new cartoon.

 ⑤Ideas come at any time, end the important thing is to think. When you meet with any difficulty, don't lose heart. Try to think of it before asking someone to help you. Think and by thinking you will learn how to think creatively.

81. Newton wanted to find out ________.

A. when the apple hit him                 B. why the apple fell                       

C. who made the apple fall                D. where the apple fell

82. ________ made a wooden clock.

A. Isaac Newton     B. Walt Disney     

 C. James Ferguson    D. James' father

83. Walt Disney was ________ when he got an idea for a new cartoon.

A. making a film         B. telling a story     

C. having a meeting    D. sitting in a garden

84. From the passage we can learn that

A. we should always ask others for help      B. every one of us likes thinking

C. it is easy to see and hear our thoughts    D. thinking helps to get new ideas

 85. Which of the following shows the structure (結(jié)構(gòu)) of the passage?

（①=Paragraph 1, ②= Paragraph 2, …）

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Most people graduate from school and then get a job. Everyone wants a job that pays well. How much money can you make? Ask yourself these questions: What can I do? What skills do I have? Also ask yourself: How much education do I have? For most jobs, the higher your education, the higher your earning power.

In the United States, high school graduates make about $ 18,600 a year. If you do not finish high school, you make only $10,800 a year. You can make $7,800 more each year by staying in high school!

If you stay in school, then you can make more money. A person with a high school degree makes about $18,600 a year. If that person goes to college and gets a bachelor's degree（學(xué)士學(xué)位), he can make S42,000. With a master's degree (碩士學(xué)位), he can make about $53,000. If the person gets a PhD（博士學(xué)位), he can make almost $79,000 or more a year.

We can learn a very important, thing from this information. If you want to work and make more money, get a good education.

1.The passage mainly talks about_.

A. how education and pay are connected               B. high paying jobs

C. jobs for high school students                     D. good schools

2.According to (根據(jù)) the passage, "earning power" means the ability to _____ money.

A. save B. spend C. pay D. make

3.The writer thinks that a high school graduate usually makes more money than_.

A. a university graduate                      B. a person who gets a PhD

C. a person who only finishes primary school     D. a person with a master's degree

4.Each year a person with a PhD can make more than a person who does not finish

high school.

A. $37,000               B. $68,200        C. $60,400    D. $26,000

5.From the last paragraph(段落) we know that______.

A. a high school degree is not important

B. university is too expensive

C. a person can make more money with a good education

D. people with a degree don't need to worn about finding jobs

 

I started learning English when I was 6 years old. For 8 years I learned English the way everybody else did — by going to English classes. It was useless. I did everything that the

In 1993, I went to the best high school in Wroclaw. It was a special program with a lot of English classes. I owe (感激) a lot to the people I met there, both students and teachers. My first

two years in high school were very important for my English. My English teacher, Mr. Janusz Laskosz, gave me a lot of good advice, especially on pronunciation and vocabulary. My talented (多才多藝的) friends, Wojtek and Michael Ryszard, who are my partners now, were both fantastic English learners. What’s more, every time I heard them speak, they seemed to have a bigger vocabulary. I wanted to be as good as them, so I studied harder. And my English improved. Wojtek and Michal also introduced me to SuperMemo, which has been very important in my life. And, of course, I could discuss the English language with them, which was a great thing.

1.The writer studied hard at English in the first eight years,  ______________.

A. but he was still not good at it

B. and then he invented an effective way to learn it

C. so his pronunciation was quite good

D. and then he could read English articles very quickly

2.The writer made great progress in learning English ________________.

A. after he read many English textbooks

B. because he spoke English very slowly

C. even before he went to the high school in Wroclaw 

D. because of his friends Wojtek and Michael

3.We can learn from the passage that ________ could help people learn English better.

A. good textbooks                                                   B. beautiful environment

C. studying harder alone                                                  D. good teachers and friends

4.The best title for the passage is “_____________”.

A. How to make friends                                         B. How I learn English

C. My good English teacher                                    D. My high school

 

With a hat by his feet, a blind boy sat on the steps of a building. He held up a sign which said, “I’m blind, please help.”

Only a few people put   36  in the hat. A man was walking by. He   37  some coins into the hat. He then turned the sign   38 , wrote some words, put the sign back and left.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people   39  to give money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man came to see   40  things were. The boy recognized his footsteps （認(rèn)出他的腳步聲）and asked, “Were you the one who   41  my sign this morning? What did you write?”

The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a   42  way.” What he had written was, “Today is a beautiful day,   43 I cannot see it.”

Both the   44  told people that the boy was blind. But the first sign simply   45  people to help by throwing some money into the   46 . The second one, however, told people that they were able to enjoy the   47  of the day, but the boy couldn’t   48  he was blind.

There are at least two lessons we can learn   49  this story. First, be thankful for what you have. Someone else has less. Help them if you can.   50  , be creative. Think differently. There is always a better way!

1.	A．eggs B．coins C．toys D．pencils

 

2.	A．got B．lost C．took D．dropped

 

3.	A．on B．off C．back D．a(chǎn)round

 

4.	A．a(chǎn)sked B．began C．hoped D．continued

 

5.	A．how B．what C．whose D．which

 

6.	A．put B．found C．changed D．cleaned

 

7.	A．usual B．simple C．different D．dangerous

 

8.	A．a(chǎn)s B．so C．for D．but

 

9.	A．signs B．men C．boys D．lessons

 

10.	A．told B．took C．helped D．ordered

 

11.	A．bag B．hat C．pocket D．basket

 

12.	A．food B．songs C．beauty D．pictures

 

13.	A．because B．unless C．before D．though

 

14.	A．a(chǎn)bout B．with C．from D．except

 

15.	A．First B．Second C．Third D．Fourth

 

Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis Cricket — anything with a round ball, I was useless." he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England's rural Devonshire.

It was a mountain bike he received for his 15^th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.

The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway's school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man's cold-water exploits (成就). Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future. Journeys to the Pole aren't the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy. "John Ridgway was one of the few who didn't say, 'You are completely crazy,'" Saunders says.

In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter (遭遇) with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.

Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he's skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.

This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.

1.The turning point in Saunders' life came when ________.

A．he started to play ball games

B．he got a mountain bike at age 15

C．he ran his first marathon at age 18

D．he started to receive Ridgway's training

2.We can learn from the text that Ridgway ________.

A．dismissed Saunders' dream as fantasy

B．built up his body together with Saunders

C．hired Saunders for his cold-water experience

D．won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic

3.What do we know about Saunders?

A．He once worked at a school in Scotland.

B．He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole.

C．He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid.

D．He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole.

4.The underlined word "Intrigued" in the third paragraph probably means ________.

A．Excited

B．Convinced

C．Delighted

D．Fascinated

5.It can be inferred that Saunders' journey to the North Pole ________.

A．was accompanied by his old playmates

B．set a record in the North Pole expedition

C．was supported by other Arctic explorers

D．made him well-known in the 1960s