Dear Wang Tian，

Thank you very much for your letter and the photos of Beijing．Beijing looks very beautiful! I'm fine．I have a good time．And I'm very busy with my lessons．I have six classes every day，four in the morning and two in the afternoon．I like English very much．I'm learning Chinese．Chinese is very difficult．I do my best to learn it，but I'm not very good．I like P．E．best because it's very interesting．I can play football and basketball．By the way，do you like English? Can you speak English well? What do you think of America? Welcome to New York（紐約）．I hope you can come to New York one day．

Love，Scott

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1．Who writes this letter?

A．Love                   B．Scott                    C．Wang Tian

2．The letter comes from __________．

A．China                  B．Beijing                 C．America

3．The writer（作者）likes __________ best．

A．PE．                   B．basketball             C．English

4．The writer thinks Chinese is __________．

A．difficult               B．fun                      C．interesting

5．The letter is mainly（主要地）about __________．

A．the writer's work in China                       

B．the writer's friend Wang Tian

C．the writer's school life

Have you ever been in a meeting while someone was making a speech and realized suddenly that your mind was a million miles away? You probably felt sorry and decided to pay attention and never have daydreaming again. Most of us have been told from earliest school days that daydreaming is a waste of time.

L. Giambra, a psychologist（心理學(xué)家）, says,” On the contrary , daydreaming is quite necessary. Without it, the mind couldn’t do all the thinking that it has to do during a normal day. You can’t possibly do all your thinking with a conscious （神志清醒的）mind. Instead, your unconscious mind is working out problems all the time. Daydreaming may be one way that the unconscious and conscious states （狀態(tài)）of mind have silent conversations .”

Early psychologists paid no attention to the importance of daydreams or even thought they were harmful. At one time people thought that some psychological illness caused day dreaming. They did not have a better understanding of daydreams until the late 1980s. Eric Klinges, a professor, is the writer of the book Daydreaming. Klinges says, “We know now that daydreaming is one of the main ways that we organize our lives, learn from our experiences, and plan for our futures. Daydreams really are a window on the things that we fear and the things we long for (渴望) in life.”

Daydreams are usually very simple and direct（直接）, quite unlike sleep dreams. Sleep dreams may be hard to understand. It’s easier to get a deep understanding of your life by paying close attention to your daydreams than by trying to examine (分析)your sleep dreams carefully. Daydreams help you know the difficult situations（情況）in your life and found out a possible way of dealing with them.

Daydreams cannot be predicted（預(yù)言）: they move off in unexpected directions which may be creative and full of useful ideas. For many famous artists and scientists, daydreams were and are a main source of creative energy.

1.The passage is mainly about _______ .

A．winter sleeps

B．sleep dreams

C．daydreaming

D．predictions

2.The underlined phrase On the contrary  means _________ .

A．總之

B．相反

C．畢竟

D．因此

3.The writer of this passage thinks daydreams are__________.

A．hard to understand	B．important and helpful
C．harmful and unimportant	D．the same as sleep dreams

4.Psychologists now believe that ________.

A．daydreams are usually very simple and can be predicted

B．daydreams are usually difficult to understand

C．daydreams cause some psychological illness

D．daydreams may be creative and full of useful ideas

5.The writer quoted  (引用 )L. Giambra  and Eric Klinges  to ________.

A．list out two different ideas

B．point out the wrong ideas of early experts

C．support his own ideas

D．report the latest research on daydreams

 

Why are so many people so afraid to fail? Quite simply because no one tells us how to fail so that failure (失敗) becomes an experience that means growth. We forget that failure is part of the human condition and that every person has the right to fail.
Most parents work hard at preventing failure or protecting their children from the knowledge that they have failed. One way is to lower standards(標準). When a child finishes making a table, the mother describes it as “perfect” even though it doesn’t stand still. Another way is to blame (責(zé)怪) others. If John fails in science, his teacher is unfair or stupid.
There’s a problem with the two ways. It makes a child unprepared for life in the real world. The young need to learn that no one can be best at everything, no one can win all the time, and that it’s possible to enjoy a game even when you don’t win. A child who’s not invited to a birthday party, who doesn’t make the honour list on the baseball team, feels terrible, of course. But parents should not offer a quick consolations (安慰), prize or say, “It doesn’t matter.” Because it does. The young should be allowed to experience failure and be helped to come out of it.
Failure never gives people pleasure. It hurts both grown-ups and children. But it can be really good to your life when you learn to use it. You must learn to ask “Why did I fail?” Don’t blame anyone else. Ask yourself what you did wrong and how you can improve. If someone else can help, don’t be shy about asking them.
【小題1】How do most parents prevent their children from failure?

A．They give them some presents.

B．They don’t tell them that they have failed.

C．They don’t blame others.

D．They help them to come out of failure.

【小題2】Which of the following can a person learn when he fails?

A．It’s impossible to enjoy a game if he misses it.

B．He is the worst of all.

C．It’s natural not to win a game and no one can win all the time.

D．His teammates are not good enough.

【小題3】The writer of this article thinks that if a child fails, parents should __________________.

A．give him a small prize

B．a(chǎn)dvise him to repeat failure

C．blame others

D．encourage him to learn from failure

【小題4】4. Which would be the best title (標題) for the passage?

A．Learning from Failure

B．Ways of Preventing Failure

C．Reasons of Failure

D．Getting Pleasure from Failure

I have a big family. In my family,there are 6 people—my father,my mother,my two sisters,my brother and me. My mother is Linda. My father is Mike. And our family name is Hand. My sisters are Gina and Sonia. They like baseball very much. My brother,David,is a lovely boy. He likes computer games. My name is Bob. I love my family.

1.How many多少people are there in the family?

A. Six    B. Seven    C. Five    D. Four

2.What’s the writer’s作者的 full name全名？

A. Bob Hand  B. Bob Mike C. David Hand  D. Linda Hand

3.Linda has有      sons.

A. one       B. two    C. three    D. four

4.My brother likes     .

A. baseball  B. computer game  C. pictures  D. basketball

5.What does “l(fā)ove” mean意思是？

A. 感謝      B. 想起   C. 喜歡    D. 討厭