He thinks that watching English movies ___ a good way to learn English.

A. are B. have C. is

---I have much trouble ________ English.

--- Why _________ ask the teacher about some advice.

A. to learn; don’t

B. learning; not

C. learning; don’t

She looks _____ than she does.

A. very older B. much older C. more older

He was too tired_______ doing his homework.

A. because of B. because C. to

She felt _____ when she heard the ______ news.

A. surprised, surprising

B. surprising, surprised

C. surprised, surprised

The little girl was _______ to touch the snake.

A. enough brave B. brave enough C. afraid enough

Of the five toys, the child chose_____.

A. the expensive one

B. one most expensive

C. the most expensive one

Her lovely dog’s _________ made her very sad.

A. dying B. die C. death.

When my father got home, I ______ a letter to my friend.

A. write B. wrote C. was writing

Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you will 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 go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start to complain about the weather. But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the free concerts that the nature offers you? And with the timely(及時(shí))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 isn’t 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 attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.

1. People sometimes complain ________.

A. the sky is always dark

B. their studies are successful

C. life is tiring

2.According to the passage, in school, ________.

A. the students don’t like their lessons

B. the teacher will be happy if the students do good jobs

C. the teachers don’t like their teaching

3. If there is a timely rain, ________.

A. farmers can’t have a good harvest

B. you can listen to a concert

C. crops in the fields will grow better

4.When we face failure, we ________.

A. must be confident in ourselves

B. shouldn’t be afraid of it

C. Both of the above

5. The best title for the passage is ________.

A. Smile and the World Smiles to You

B. Complaining about life

C. Failure Is The Mother of Success