【正文】 gether. A. the cemetery B. his shop C. the girl’s home D. his mother’s house 60. We can learn from the passage that _____. A. the girl loved flowers very much B. the girl loved her mother very much C. the shopkeeper sent the flowers to the man’s mother. D. the man drove to his mother’s house to look after her B． Have you ever plained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you ? Are you studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you’ll find that the whole world smiles to you. While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job? One day it is fine. Just before you want to go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start plaining about the weather. But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the free concert that the nature offers you? And with the timely rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest. Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do , sometimes failure can’t be avoided. I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success.” Attitude decides everything. With an optimistic ( 樂觀 ) attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us. 6 61. People sometimes plain_____. A. the sky is always dark B. their studies are successful C. they see the world with their heart D. life is tiring 62 According to the passage, in school, ____. A. the students don’t like their lessons B. the teachers don’t like their teaching . C. the teachers will be happy if the students do good jobs. D. the teachers are tired of their work . 63. If there is a timely rain, ____. A. you want to go out B. you can listen to a concert C. crops in the fields will grow better D. farmers can’t have a good harvest 64. When we face failure, we ____. A. must be canfident in ourselves ’t be afraid of it C. shouldn’t give up hope D. All of the above 65. The best title of this passage is ____. A. Smile and the World Smiles to you B. Complaining about life C. Failure is the Mother of Success D. It is Very Hard to Succeed C. There have been many great inventions or things that changed the way we live . The first great invention was the one that is still very important today the wheel. This made it easier to carry heavy things and to travel long distance. For hundreds of years after that there were few inventions that have as much effect as the wheel. Then is the early 1800s the world started to change. There was little unknown land left in the world. People didn’t have to explore much any more. They began to work instead to make life better. In the second half of the 19th century many great inventions were made. Among them were the camera, the light and the radio. These all play a big part in our daily life today. The first part of the 20th century saw more great inventions. The helicopter in 1909, movies with sound in 1926, the puter in 1928, and jet planes in 1930. This was also a time when a new material was first made. Nylon came out in1935. It changed the kind of clothes people wore. The middle part of the 20th century brought new ways to help people get over diseases. They worked very well. They made people healthier and allowed them to live longer. By the 1960s most people could expect to live to be at