一、完形填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I have had thousands of classes since I started school nine years ago. But only one ______1____ was the most important.
It happened last term just after I had got a bad result in an exam. I was sad and had lost my confidence.
I decided to go to a class which can tell me how to be ______2____.
The speaker walked into the room. But he did not start talking like a teacher. ______3____, he held up a twenty-yuan note!
“Who wants this?” he asked. Unsurprisingly, all of us in the class put up our hands.
The speaker smiled. Then he ______4____ the note on the blackboard and asked the same question. Again, we all put up our hands. The speaker smiled again, but said nothing. Suddenly, he threw the note onto the floor! Then he asked the same question ______5____ time.
I didn’t ______6____ what the speaker was doing. Why was he asking the same question again and again? I wanted the note, so I put my hand up again. After a while, he ______7____ the note and started to laugh. “You have all just told me how to become successful,” he said to us with the note in his hand.
“The note is worth twenty yuan. It is ______8____ worth twenty yuan, even though I throw it on the floor. You are like the note. No matter what happens to you, you still have your worth.”
When I heard those words, I was deeply moved. Suddenly, I ______9____ I was worth a lot. I may have done badly in an exam, but it doesn’t ______10____ I can’t do well in the future. If I believe in myself, I will be successful.
( ) 1. A. classroom B. subject C. class D. school
( ) 2. A. comfortable B. rich C. famous D. successful
( ) 3. A. However B. Instead C. Moreover D. Anyway
( ) 4. A. put up B. put away C. put on D. put in
( ) 5. A. third B. a third C. the third D. this third
( ) 6. A. understand B. realize C. notice D. find
( ) 7. A. took out B. threw away C. picked up D. put down
( ) 8. A. never B. sometimes C. hardly D. always
( ) 9. A. dreamed B. remembered C. knew D. decided
( ) 10. A. know B. mean C. think D. complain

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二、阅读理解 阅读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容，在每小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。
(A)
Taking unkind words kindly
When I became a junior, I decided to take Latin (拉丁文) at school. I was so excited and really expected to learn it well.
However, the Latin class turned out to be quite boring. Each day, Mr Keady, the teacher, would ask us to open our books and read aloud the Latin forms of words. This was the way he taught us every day. That was until one afternoon when, once again, we were asked to open our books, and I decided to speak up.
When Mr Keady asked what was wrong, I explained why I found his class boring, how I had expected more, and that his teaching method seemed old-fashioned. When I finished speaking, I expected Mr Keady to angrily send me to the head teacher.
To my surprise, he sat at his desk quietly, looking disappointed (失望的) and tired. After a moment of silence, Mr Keady spoke. He quietly said that he would think carefully about what I had said. And that was it.
In the following weeks, the Latin class didn’t become the exciting learning environment I had hoped for, but Mr Keady did try harder to interest us in his classes.
Maybe some people would support what I did, but even so many years later, I feel bad about it. If I saw him now, I would tell him how much I regretted what I’d done that day in class. I would also tell him that he taught me a wonderful lesson that day. Following my unkind words, Mr Keady showed me that being hurt doesn’t mean you have to give away your dignity (尊严), and that no one — no one — can take it away from you.
( ) 1. How did the Latin class turn out for the writer?
A. Exciting.
B. Boring.
C. Challenging.
D. Fashionable.
( ) 2. What did Mr Keady do after the writer talked to him?
A. He became angry and talked to the head teacher.
B. He was speechless for the rest of the class.
C. He looked tired and started his self-examination.
D. He was surprised and promised to improve it.
( ) 3. What lesson did the writer learn from the experience?
A. One can always hold onto their dignity.
B. Unkind words can sometimes work.
C. Honest communication is important.
D. Don’t try to teach teachers lessons.

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