Question

What’s the most important thing for you to have in your life? Somebody mentions hard-work, others suggest knowledge, love and luck.

If you arrange the 26 English letters alphabetically（按字母表的順序）and use numbers to represent each of them, for example, 1 for a, 2 for b, 3 for c… you can change an English word into a number. So hard-work becomes 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=98, meaning 98 is its mark; knowledge: 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=96, while love: 12+15+22+5=54, and luck: 12+21+3+11=47, a small mark. None of these words can give us a full mark. What about money or prayer（祈禱）? They can’t, either.

Then what else? Don’t be worried. You can always find an answer to a problem in your life, when you change your way of looking at things or doing things, or your attitude. Yes, attitude is the word. See for yourself: attitude: 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100，a full mark.

Different attitudes lead to different courses of life. Most times people hope for a better life. It is possible that one will have a change for the better after one has changed one’s attitude.

When you change your manner and became friendly towards others, you’ll meet more smiling faces towards you. In the same way, if you take a positive attitude towards failure, you’ll find it’s also rewarding though it has caused you losses.

1.How can we solve a problem in our life according to the writer?

A. Change the way how we look at things. B. Have different attitudes.

C. Study math. D. Learn from others.

2.Which of the following is TRUE?

A. None of the words in English can give us a full mark.

B. Failure can also be rewarding.

C. The word “hard-work” has the highest mark.

D. Nobody thinks attitude is the most important.

3.It is possible that you will have a change for the better if you _______________.

A. can work out the mark of every word B. have hard-work, knowledge, money and luck

C. are friendly to others D. have a more positive attitude

4.If we use numbers to represent “money” according to the text, what mark can we get?

A. 70 B. 71 C. 72 D. 73

5.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Failures lead to success. B. People hope for a better life.

C. Your life will be changed if you change your attitude. D. Knowledge is power.

Answer 1