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It’s not easy growing up. Growing up can be a real “pain” for some of us. Sometimes we feel trapped, sometimes we feel sad, sometimes we are fearful, and sometimes we just don’t understand why we can’t stay young forever. But we should take a look back on all the hardships in life with a positive attitude and learn from them. We must overcome every obstacle one small step at a time. We should realize that all of our growing pains actually turn into growing gains!
Throughout our lives we are going to face many challenges and pains, but we should never let these obstacles keep us from following our dreams. We must overcome every obstacle one small step at a time.
As a young girl, my parents forced me to do so many things that I didn’t like. They made me learn to play the violin and then the piano. At that time I hated music and I also hated them. But looking back now, I am so glad that my parents encouraged me to take music lessons. Music has enriched(豐富) my life in so many ways. I now realize that my parents and teachers wanted me to have a better life than they did themselves.
We are all going to experience growing pains, but they are just part of our life. They might seem so huge at the time, but we must be strong. Think about how we would feel if we had no challenges and lived a life like that. Life would be really boring and meaningless. The future is ours! A little hard work and sweat never hurt anyone! If we realize that these pains are just small bumps(碰撞) on our road to success, we will realize that our growing pains are actually growing gains!

1.
The underlined word “obstacles” (in Paragraph 2) roughly means things that ______.
1. A.
  are related to your studies
2. B.
  you easily achieve
3. C.
  make you happy
4. D.
  make it difficult for you to do something
2.
How does the author now feel when remembering what her parents did for her in the past?
1. A.
  She is fearful
2. B.
  She is grateful
3. C.
  She feels trapped
4. D.
  She feels hateful
3.
We can know from the last paragraph that _____________.
1. A.
  life without challenges is dull
2. B.
  life needs no pains but sunshine and happiness
3. C.
  we should give up faced with challenges as the future is ours
4. D.
  we shouldn’t easily pay a little hard work in growing up
4.
The purpose of the passage is to tell readers____________.
1. A.
  life is full of hardships
2. B.
  growing pains can turn into growing gains in a positive way
3. C.
  everyone is painful in growing up
4. D.
  everyone should do what they don’t like when young

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The world is filled with smart, talented, educated and gifted people．We meet them every day A few days ago, my car was not running well．I pulled it in to a garage and the young mechanic had it fixed in just a few minutes．He knew what was wrong by simply listening to the engine．I was amazed．The sad truth is that great talent is not enough．
　I am constantly shocked at how little talented people earn. I heard the other day that less than 5 percent of Americans earn more than $100,000 a year. A business consultant who specializes in1 the medical trade was telling me how many doctors and dentists struggle financially. It was this business consultant who gave me the phrase, “They are one skill away from great wealth．”
There is an old saying that goes, "Job means 'just over broke（破產(chǎn)）’"．And unfortunately, I would say that the saying applies to millions of people．Because schools do not think financial intelligence is intelligence, most workers "live within their means"．They work and they pay the bills．Instead I recommend to young people to seek work for what they will learn, more than what they will earn．
When I ask the classes I teach, “How many of you can cook a better hamburger than McDonald's?” almost all the students raise their hands. I then ask, “So if most of you can cook a better hamburger, how come McDonald's makes more money than you?” The answer is obvious: McDonald's is excellent at business systems. The world is filled with talented poor people. They focus on perfecting their skills at building a better hamburger rather than the skills of selling and delivering the hamburger

1.
The author mentions the mechanic in the first paragraph to show that ．
1. A.
  he is just one of the talented people
2. B.
  he is ready to help others
3. C.
  he has a sharp sense of hearing
4. D.
  he knows little about car repairing
2.
The underlined part in the third paragraph can be best replaced by____ ．
1. A.
  spend more than they can afford
2. B.
  do in their own way
3. C.
  1ive in their own circle
4. D.
  1ive within what they earn
3.
Why do talented people earn so little according to the author?
1. A.
  They don’t work hard enough
2. B.
  They lack financial intelligence．
3. C.
  They don't make full use of their talents
4. D.
  They have no specialized skills．
4.
The main purpose of the author is to tell us____ ．
1. A.
  how young people can find a satisfactory job
2. B.
  What schools should teach about finance
3. C.
  why so many talented people are poor
4. D.
  how McDonald's makes much money

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My wife passed away a few years ago,and I went through the worst time in my life.I even wanted to kill myself.Just for kids,I had to continue to live and work as small-town doctor at my medical clinic in Hawaii.My kids had gone to live on the mainland,and I was alone.Then they asked me to have a family trip.On our trip, we turned on the TV at the motel and saw the second plane crash into the World Trade Center. Seeing it falling down, I said to my kids: “I’m going to Afghanistan”. And a few weeks later, international Medical Corps sent me to set up 20 clinics in provinces where people had no health care. In these field clinics surrounded by frightening shoots or deadly bombs, we were eventually serving 27,000 patients a month in a very busy schedule. Tired and nervous, I gradually had a sense of achievement, a sense of purpose, and my depression went away.
In the years to follow, I went to Indonesia after the tsunami, Pakistan after the earthquakes, Sudan after the civil war and Iraq after more and more bombs. Each time after disasters one after another, hundreds of people were killed, wounded and many more had to flee. We once set up movable clinics in an area with 19,000 refugees, and it was supposed to hold 13,000 originally. Flu broke out, one of the biggest killers of kids in refugee camps, and it spread like wildfire. Water and food were also serious problems. “Adventures or not?” I often asked myself.
When my wife passed away, I thought my life was done. But in reality, it was just getting started. At the end of her life, she went unconscious. I held her head in my hands and told her of all the places we would visit and the exciting adventures we would have.
I think about the moment many times during my “adventures”. I didn’t know how predictive those words would be. But I know that she is still with me

1.
Where has the doctor been in the past few years?
1. A.
  Some countries where he could set up clinics
2. B.
  Some African countries where flu broke out
3. C.
  The places where the earthquakes happened
4. D.
  The places that the horrible disasters struck
2.
How would the doctor describe his life after he had worked in Afghanistan?
1. A.
  Tired and troublesome
2. B.
  Busy and risky
3. C.
  Meaningful and helpful
4. D.
  Frightening and depressing
3.
The underlined word “refugees” means people______.
1. A.
  who are robbed, killed, or wounded
2. B.
  who suffer from flu in movable clinics
3. C.
  who like to take adventures
4. D.
  who have lost homes because of disasters
4.
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
1. A.
  the doctor’s wife encouraged him to work in foreign countries
2. B.
  What the doctor said to his wife before her death became reality
3. C.
  The doctor’s adventures made him understand the love of his wife
4. D.
  With the true love of his wife, the doctor started to change his life

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It was Saturday when the entire summer world was bright and fresh. Tom looked at the fence, which was long and high, feeling all enthusiasm leaving him. He dipped his brush into the whitewash before moving it along the top board of the fence. He knew other boys would arrive soon with all minds of interesting plans for this day. As walking past him, they would tease him for having to work on a beautiful Saturday—which burnt him like fire.
He, putting his hands into his pockets and taking out all he owned with the expectation of letting someone paint, found nothing that could buy half an hour of freedom. At this dark and hopeless moment, a wonderful idea occurred to him, pouring a great bright light into his mind. He took up his brush and continued to work pleasantly with calm and quietness.
Presently, Ben Rogers came in sight—munching an apple and making joyful noises like the sound of a riverboat as he walked along. Tom went on whitewashing, paying no attention to the steamboat.
“Hello!” Ben said, “I’m going swimming, but you can’t go, can you?”
No answer. Tom moved his brush gently along the fence and surveyed the result. Ben came nearer. Tom’s mouth watered for Ben’s apple while he kept painting the fence.
Ben said, “That’s a lot of work, isn’t it?”
Tom turned suddenly saying “Here you are! Ben! I didn’t notice you.”
“I’m going swimming,” Ben said. “Don’t you wish you could go? Or would you rather work?”
Tom said, “Work? What do you mean ‘work’?”
“Isn’t that work?”
Tom continued painting and answered carelessly, “Maybe it is, and maybe it isn’t. All I know is it suits Tom Sawyer.”
“Do you mean that you enjoy it?”
“I don’t see why I oughtn’t to enjoy it.”
“Does a boy have a chance to paint a fence frequently” said Tom.
Ben stopped munching his apple.
Tom moved his brush back and forth—stepped back to note the effect—added a little paint here and there. Ben watched every move, getting more and more interested, more and more absorbed1. After a short time, he said, “Tom, let me whitewash a little.”
Tom seemed to be thinking for a moment before he said, “No, Aunt Polly wants this fence to be perfect. If it was the back fence, maybe you could do it. But this fence beside the street is where everybody can see it. It has to be done right.”
“Oh, come on, let me try. I’ll be careful. Listen, Tom. I’ll give you part of my apple if you let me paint.”
“No, Ben, I’m afraid—”
“I’ll give you all the apple!”
Tom handed the brush to Ben with unwillingness on his face but alacrity in his heart. While the riverboat worked and sweated in the hot sun, Tom, an artist sat in the shade close by, munching his apple, and planning how he could trick more of the boys.
Before long there were enough boys each of whom came along the street; stopped to laugh but soon begged to be allowed to paint. By the middle of the afternoon, Tom had got many treasures while the fence had had three layers of whitewash on it. If he hadn’t run out of whitewash, he would have owned everything belonging to the boys in the village.
Tom said to himself that the world was not so depressing after all. He had discovered a great law of human action: in order to make a man cover a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

1.
By using “Tom continued painting and answered carelessly”, the author shows Tom ______ when he was talking to Ben.
1. A.
  made mistakes
2. B.
  damaged things
3. C.
  was natural
4. D.
  wasn’t concentrating
2.
The underlined word “alacrity” in the last but two paragraph most probable means “______”.
1. A.
  kindness
2. B.
  discouragement
3. C.
  sympathy
4. D.
  eagerness
3.
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? ________
1. A.
  Tom did not want to go swimming at all
2. B.
  Tom was asked to help Aunt Polly paint the fence
3. C.
  Tom did not get along well with his friends
4. D.
  Tom was very busy that Saturday afternoon.
4.
We can draw a conclusion from the last paragraph that _______.
1. A.
  forbidden fruit is sweet.
2. B.
  a friend in need is a friend indeed.
3. C.
  all good things must come to an end.
4. D.
  a bad excuse is better than none.

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Steve Jobs made technology fun.The co-founder of Apple died last Wednesday at the age of fifty-six He had fought for years against cancer.Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world.
Tim Bajarin, president of a high-tech research and consulting company, said "If you actually look at a tech leader, they're really happy if they have one hit in their life.Steve Jobs has the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and Pixar."
Steve Jobs was a college dropout.He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant.They supported his early interest in electronics.
He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer—now just called Apple—in nineteen seventy-six.They stayed at the company until nineteen eighty-five.That year, Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute（分歧）with the chief executive.
Mr.Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer.He rejoined Apple in nineteen ninety-seven after it bought NeXT.He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world today.
Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a "great visionary and leader'' and a "marketing genius（天才）".
President Obama said in a statement: "By building one of the planet's most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity.By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun."
David Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City.He says Steve Jobs not only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American business.
"The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce top to bottom and across is really stunning （令人驚奇的）.He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, so one of the great[s] of all time." David Carroll said.
Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's chief executive in August because of his health.He died a day after the company released a new iPhone version that met with limited excitement.Apple's new chief, Tim Cook, will also have to deal with the new Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon.com.It costs less than half as much as an iPad but also does less.

1.
Why did people all over the world mourn Steve Jobs?
1. A.
  He was very courageous in the face of cancer.
2. B.
  He became very rich though dropping out college.
3. C.
  He released a new iPhone version before death.
4. D.
  He revolutionized technology and made it enjoyable.
2.
Which of the following can easily prove that Jobs is a "marketing genius"?
1. A.
  After Apple, he founded NeXT Computer.
2. B.
  He made Apple very valuable once again in the world.
3. C.
  He developed a series of Apple products.
4. D.
  He was considered the greatest industrial figure of all time.
3.
What does the underlined part in Paragraph 7 mean?
1. A.
  Jobs was a typical example of American spirit of creation.
2. B.
  Jobs enriched the American spirit of science and freedom.
3. C.
  Jobs eventually realized his American dream.
4. D.
  American people are good at inventing things.
4.
Which of the following is true according to the text?
1. A.
  Jobs's parents discouraged him from working on electronics
2. B.
  Jobs stayed in Apple as chief executive for about 24 years.
3. C.
  Jobs started his career in his family garage.
4. D.
  Run unsuccessfully, Apple was sold to NeXT Computer.

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The underlined word “obstacles” (in Paragraph 2) roughly means things that ______.

How does the author now feel when remembering what her parents did for her in the past?

We can know from the last paragraph that _____________.

The purpose of the passage is to tell readers____________.

The author mentions the mechanic in the first paragraph to show that ．

The underlined part in the third paragraph can be best replaced by____ ．

Why do talented people earn so little according to the author?

The main purpose of the author is to tell us____ ．

Where has the doctor been in the past few years?

How would the doctor describe his life after he had worked in Afghanistan?

The underlined word “refugees” means people______.

Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

By using “Tom continued painting and answered carelessly”, the author shows Tom ______ when he was talking to Ben.

The underlined word “alacrity” in the last but two paragraph most probable means “______”.

Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? ________

We can draw a conclusion from the last paragraph that _______.

Why did people all over the world mourn Steve Jobs?

Which of the following can easily prove that Jobs is a "marketing genius"?

What does the underlined part in Paragraph 7 mean?

Which of the following is true according to the text?