What’s the most important thing for you to have in your life? Somebody mentions hard-work, others suggest knowledge, love and luck.

If you arrange the 26 English letters alphabetically(按字母表的順序)and use numbers to represent each of them, for example, 1 for a, 2 for b, 3 for c…, you can change an English word into a number. So hard-work becomes 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=98, meaning 98 is its mark; knowledge: 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=96, while love :12+15+22+5=54, and luck : 12+21+3+11=47, a small mark. None of these words can give one a full mark. What about money or prayer(祈禱)? They can’t, either.

Then what else? Don’t be worried. You can always find an answer to a problem in your life, when you change your way of looking at things or doing things, or your attitude. Yes, attitude is the word. See for yourself: attitude:1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100，a full mark.

Different attitudes lead to different courses of life. Most times people hope for a better life. It is possible that one will have a change for the better after one has changed one’s attitude.

When you change your manner and become friendly towards others, you’ll meet more smiling faces towards you. In the same way, if you take a positive attitude towards failure(失敗), you’ll find it’s also rewarding though it has caused you losses.

1.In the writer’s opinion, what is the most important things in a person’s life?

   A. Hard-work.         B. Knowledge.                 C. Money.            D. Attitude.

2.According to the passage, what’s the mark of the word “succeed”?

A. 50                B. 60                      C. 70                D. 80

3. What does the underlined word “positive” mean in the text?

   A. 正面                    B. 反面                    C.積極的        D.消極的

4.According to the passage, if you meet with problems, the best way out is to ___________.

   A. change your attitude                          B. say your prayers to God

   C. ask for help from others                   D. try math-solving methods

5.From the passage we can learn that ______________.

   A. different attitudes come from different courses of life.

   B. mathematics can solve every problem easily in our daily life

   C. failure sometimes can bring you good if you take a positive attitude

   D. none of the English words except “attitude” equals to 100 or more

Anna was excited about starting her first day in the new school. However, when she first walked past the students in the school, her excitement turned to fear, and then to loneliness(孤獨(dú))over the next few days. "Why didn’t anyone say ’hi’ to me or invite me to his or her lunch table? Is it because of my clothes or my hair?" she wondered. Almost every day during the first week, Anna stayed alone, thinking that there must have been something wrong with her or that nobody saw her at all!
What caused Anna’s problem? The reason was that nobody knew her. Most people don’t like talking with strangers (陌生人). So it’s your job to volunteer to make contact with people who you want to know. The easiest way to catch their attention is to notice them first. Make eye contact with them and smile at them. When you smile at them, you are doing your best to show your kindness to them, and they are sure to understand that you are saying, "Hey, how’s everything going?" In this way, you are taking the first step towards the road to friendship.
When Anna realized this, she started talking to her classmates. Guess what happened? It really worked. She had made two friends by the end of the month.
In fact, saying “hi” or making friends with strangers is not hard. And the joy it brings you is really great. So try to open your heart to strangers!
【小題1】What was Anna’s problem?

“At three or four in the morning and I surf the net.”

“I often check my e-mail forty times a day.”

“I often spend more than three hours during one time on the net.”

“I spend more time in chat rooms than with my ‘real-1ife’ friends.”

Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addiction（癮）called Internet addiction. Internet addicts spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week. The use of the Internet can be an addiction like drug(毒品) use. People lose control of the time they spend on the Internet. For example, one college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried, and they called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab: he was surfing the net for several days straight.

Studies show that about 6 to 10% of Internet users become addicted. And people worry about the teens because the Internet is changing the playing field for some of them. They spend more time in cyberspace than in the real world of friends and family.

Is “surfing the net” a hobby or an addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have these symptoms（癥狀）：

●You do not go to important family activities or you do not do school work because you like to spend hours on the Internet.

●You can’t wait for your next online time.

●You plan to spend a short time online, but then you spend several hours.

●You go out with your friends less and less.

1.What does the beginning of the passage tell us？

2.How does the writer describe the addicts “use of Internet”?

3.Why do people worry about the teens？

4.The example of one college student in the passage shows that _______.

5.What is the writer trying to tell us at the end of the passage？

  Frank is my good friend. We are in the same class. He is fourteen, one year older than me. His parents are both teachers in No 7 Middle School. Frank studies hard. His English and math are very good. He often helps other students with their English and math. Our teachers like him very much.

  We go to school together by bike in the morning. We have lunch at school. After school in the afternoon, we often play sports. We play soccer and baseball. In the evening, he does his homework at home. Sometimes he watches soccer games on TV. On Sundays, he goes out with his parents in his father’s car. They play in the park and do sports there. Sometimes my father takes me there, too. We play sports together. We have a good time.

1.Who is Frank? He is a _________.

A. teacher         B. soccer player       C. student        D. driver

2.I’m ________ years old this year.

A. fourteen        B. thirteen            C. fifteen        D. sixteen

3.Frank is good at __________.

A. math and Chinese                   B. English and Chinese

C. math and English                   D. music and Chinese

4.Frank __________ at school.

A. has breakfast    B. has supper        C. has lunch       D. watches TV

5.When does Frank do his homework?

A. In the evening   B. In the morning     C. In the afternoon  D. At noon.

6.How many kinds of drinks does the restaurant have?

A. Three         B. Four             C. Eight            D. Five

7.You want to have a big sandwich, a glass of orange juice and some fruit. How much are they?

A. $ 11.50        B. $ 10.50          C. $ 12.50          D. $12.00

8.Which is the most expensive thing on the menu?

A. Coffee        B. Rice with chicken   C. Pizza           D. Salad

9.If you want to have a meal in the restaurant, you could go there at __________.

A. 7:30 am       B. 9:30 am           C. 12:30 pm      D. 10:30 pm

10.What is the telephone number of the restaurant?

A. 1517          B. 94709            C. 510            D. 5485525