四、阅读理解。
Good evening, everyone! Thank you all for coming on this very special day for every student on this stage. I know how proud you must be. As we have grown over the years, there are many steps and stages we all have gone through, from learning the shapes and colors to getting our first progress in middle school, or how we explained to our parents why we skipped school because the headmaster called home. As we remember these days, things that we've done will be with us forever. But this is only the start of our journey. To graduate is one more step we've taken in our lives.
Now I would like to thank everyone who has helped me get so far. First of all, I'd like to thank all the teachers. None of us would be here without you always pushing our studying abilities to the fullest. My elder brother Johnson always said, “If anyone is mean to you, I'll take care of it. ” My mom, thank you for always believing in me and putting up with me. And last but not least, my dad, for showing that I always need to take responsibility for my actions and deal with the results. Thank you all! I love you. And I will never fail to be thankful to the people around me.
Lastly, I want to give some advice to all my classmates. The end of junior high school is the beginning of a new life. Many of us may think, “This is as good as it gets!” But the future holds a bigger plan for all of us. We will make mistakes along the way, but the key to success is to learn from our mistakes and never give up. So good luck and congratulations to all of us! We did it!
() 1. The text is most probably ______.
A. a suggestion letter
B. a greeting card
C. a graduation speech
D. a letter of congratulation
() 2. We can infer from the text that the writer is a ______.
A. parent
B. headmaster
C. teacher
D. student
() 3. What does the writer learn from his dad?
A. Knowledge is power.
B. A good beginning is half done.
C. One should answer for what he does.
D. Where there is a will, there is a way.
() 4. According to the writer, many students ______.
A. hardly study hard at school
B. should pay more attention to the future
C. hate to take others' advice
D. are afraid of dealing with difficulties
() 5. The writer told the classmates that the key to success is to ______.
A. follow others' steps
B. learn to give up sometimes
C. pay less attention to mistakes
D. learn from mistakes and never give up

1. C 2. D 3. C 4. B 5. D