The clock struck eleven at night. The whole house was quiet. Everyone was in bed except me. Under the strong light, I looked sadly before me at a huge pile of that troublesome stuff they call “books”.
I was going to have my examination the next day. “When can I go to bed?” I asked myself. I didn’t answer. In fact I dared not.
The clock struck twelve.” Oh, !” I cried. “Ten more books to read before I can go to bed!” We pupils are the most wretched creatures in the world. Dad does not agree with me on this. He did not have to work so hard when he was a boy.
The clock struck one. I was quite desperate(絕望的) now. I forgot all I had learned. I was too tired to go on. I did the only thing I could. I prayed, “Oh, God, please help me pass the exam tomorrow. I do promise to work hard afterwards, Amen.” My eyes were so heavy that I could hardly open them. A few minutes later, with my head on the desk, I fell asleep.
小題1:When the author was going over his lessons, all the others in the house were____.    
A．a(chǎn)sleepB．outsideC．working in bedD．quietly laughing at him
小題2:The underlined word “wretched” in Paragraph 3 probably means____.
A．very happyB．disappointedC．very unhappyD．hopeful
小題3:Reviewing his lessons didn’t help him because______.
A．it was too late at night
B．he was very tired
C．his eyes lids were so heavy that he couldn’t keep them open
D．he hadn’t studied hard before the examination
小題4: What do you suppose happened to the author?
A．He went to a church to pray again.B．He passed the exam by luck.
C．He failed in the exam.D．He was punished by his teacher.
小題5:The best title for the passage would be____.
A．The Night Before the ExaminationB．Working Far into the Night
C．A Slow StudentD．Going Over My Lessons

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The right to pursue happiness is issued to us all with our birth, but no one seems quite sure what it is.
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To change is to make efforts to deal with difficulties. As Yeats, a great Irish poet once put it, happiness we get for a lifetime depends on how high we choose our difficulties.
It is easy to understand. We even demand difficulty for the fun in our games. We demand it because without difficulty there can be no game. And a game is a way of making something hard for the fun of it. The rules of the game are man-made difficulties. When the player ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing to play by the roles. It is easier to win at chess if you are free, at your pleasure, to cast away all the rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules.
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The western weakness may be in the dreams that happiness can be bought while eastern weakness may be in the idea that there is such a thing as perfect happiness in man himself. Both of them forget a basic fact: no difficulty, no happiness.
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A．The Indian holy manB．The great Irish poet Yeats
C．AdvertisersD．The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market
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A．It means a place in which people can buy things happily
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D．It means a market where people try to buy happiness with money.
小題3:According to the passage, which of the following is Right?
A．The Indian holy man is much happier than westerner.
B．The westerners understand happiness better than the Indian holy man.
C．There is no fun without playing by the rules
D．Both the eastern weakness and western weakness are the same.

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