【正文】 p it. To build (培養(yǎng) ) your character Your promise I will do my best to … be honest and fair. eg. I?ll tell the truth when mom asks if I have finished my homework. be friendly and helpful. be polite and kind. eg. I?ll show good manners in class. be courageous and strong. … … Part 2: Courage Of course it?s going to take a lot of courage to keep your promise. Courage is challenging yourself to do something even though you think it might be hard. For each promise, find out two or three ways to help you keep it. For example, if you think that Being Honest is the hardest promise for you to keep, one of the ways might be “Tell people about my promise so that I won?t break it”. Part 3: Confidence Confidence is believing that you have the skills to do something. Do you have a beautiful singing voice? Are you a good painter? These are all talents that can make you feel good, as well as the people around you. Once you?ve decided what your special skill is, think about how you can use your skill to make your corner of the world a better place. If you?re good at art, try painting a picture on an old wall in your school (of course, make sure you?re allowed). 55. If your promise is “I?ll show good manners in class”, you?re trying to be ________. A. smart B. polite C. brave D. strong 56. What is the most important thing to build your character? A. Fill in the chart carefully. B. Write down your promise. C. Look at your promise every day. D. Do your best to keep your promise. 57. The word “talents” in Part 3 can be replaced (替換 ) by “________”. A. ways B. ideas C. skills D. words 58. What can we learn from the passage? A. Only a good painter can have confidence. B. It?ll take a lot of courage to make your promise. C. Character is something that makes you feel good. D. You can build your character with the help of others. (C) In the age of reality television, success isn?t the only way to the public eye. Failure can also create fame, just like William Hung, 21, a native of Hong Kong. Hung recently has made an agreement with USbased entertainment firms Koch Records and Fuse Music Network. They will publish a fulllength record, titled “The True Idol” on April 6. The idol is a civil engineering student at the University of California at Berkeley. He did a version of Ricky Martin?s “She Bangs” on the television show “American Idol 3”, on January 27. The Fox TV singing contest searches for pop stars among ordinary people. In the case of Hung, however, his act was so bad that the judges cut him off in midact. Hung?s response? “I already gave my best, so I have no regrets at all.” That?s good, because any mon person would have found plenty to regret: The offkey singing. The blue Hawaiian shirt worn with pants pulled up too high. The terrible dancing. The hips jerking (搖擺 ) to a beat that did not belong to the song, maybe not even to this pla. It was, by all accounts, bad. But, it was this very bad act that sold well. Marc Juris, president of Fuse, explained it this way: “Every one of us is happily guilty of singing our favorite song at the top of our lungs with plete freedom, pletely offkey and pletely unworried. That?s what William did and immediately won the hearts of America.” Whatever it is, for the moment it?s big. Three websites devoted to Hung have gone up on the Inter in the past few weeks. Versions of his performance have been remixed with hip hop and technomusic and have made it to the top 10 request list at a Chicago radio station. So, what does Hung think of this? “There were all these people saying things about me. A lot were saying I was very courageous and that I was great on the show, but some didn?t have much respect for me and some were kind of mean.” Now he says he?s not so sure whether to distance himself from the glamour (魅力 ) or to accept it. Returning to normal hasn?t been easy. 59. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 7 refer to? A. William Hung. B. Hung?s bad act. C. Hung?s website. D. The public?s opinion. 60. Which of the following shows the correct order of what happened to Hung? a. The entertainment firms made an agreement with Hung. b. The judges cut Hung off in midact in the singing contest. c. Hung became popular among Americans. d. Hung gave a terrible performance though he tried his best. e. Three websites put Hung?s funny performance on the Inter. A. d, b, e, c, a , c, d, b, e , d, b, c, e