People are always afraid of making mistakes. But sometimes it’s not bad to make mistakes, and here is why.

   At first , mistakes are a clear sign that you are trying new things. It’s always good to new things, because when you are trying new things your are growing. If you never try new things , how can you improve ? How can you create? The simple answer is, “ You can’t .” Look around you, everything you see is the result of someone trying new things.

   Another good thing about mistakes is this : when your are making mistakes, you are learning. Consider this： Edison failed 10,000 times before he invented the light bulb. When he was asked how he felt to fail that many times, but rather had learned 10,000 things that didn’t work.

   Finally , when you make a mistake, you are that much closer to success. Why? Because you have said what you should say, and you have done what you should do. Every time you make a mistake, you are closer to success. But it doesn’t mean that you can make mistakes without thinking. Instead, when you try new things you have to think them over, so that you can keep away from some unnecessary mistakes.

We shouldn’t spend all our time and money on the only one way , but use them correctly. Because our time and money are limited. (有限的)

There is an old saying, “ If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.” So go bravely and make mistakes. And learn. And grow. And succeed.

    根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，選擇正確答案，并將其字母代號填人題前括號內(nèi)。(共5小題，每小題2分，滿分10分)

1.If you are making a mistake, that means____.

A. you’re careful               B. you’re kind  

C. you’re growing              D. you know nothing.

2.If you never try new things, you can’t ____.

A. improve        B. create        C. spend         D. A and B

3.After Edison failed 10,000 times, he _____.

A. gave up                   B. invented the light bulb  

C. invented the computer        D. invented 10,000 new things

4.When you make a mistake, you are closer to ____.

A. time       B. money       C. success      D. everything

5.What’s the main idea of the passage?

A. Never make mistakes.     

B. You can make mistakes without thinking  

C. Sometimes it’s good to make mistakes.  

D. Making mistakes is terrible

The light bulb ______ by Edison in the middle of the 1780s.

根據(jù)所提供的句子意思，用所給單詞的正確形式填空，使句子意思完整。
【小題1】I really enjoy _________ to the light music. (listen)
【小題2】Please keep the window ______because the wind is blowing hard. (close)
【小題3】Which do you think is more difficult, written English or _________ English? (speak)
【小題4】My classmate is better than me at __________. (sing)
【小題5】Jim went to school in a hurry this morning without ________ breakfast. (eat)
【小題6】I want to know how to eat and drink __________. (health)
【小題7】Have you found your _________ car? (lose)
【小題8】He was a famous writer in the __________ century. (twenty)
【小題9】Edison was one of the greatest __________ in the world. (invent)
【小題10】I think this CD player is __________ to learn English. (help)

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容和漢語提示，寫出短文空白處各單詞的正確形式，每空限填一詞。
Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847. When he was a child, he always had a lot of questions and started asking questions about _____1________ (如何)things worked. So his teachers didn’t like him. They thought he was kind of ____2________(笨的) and many people didn’t understand him, either. He was only in school for three months. His mother _____3_____(教)him at home. His parents _____4_____(注意) he loved to read. They introduced him to the ____5______(圖書館). He read many books there. The books _____6______(使…感興趣) him very much. ________7_____ （在）the help of his parents, he also built his lab by _______8______(他自己). He ______9_____ (發(fā)明) more than one thousand things,  ______10______(包括) the first silent film, the light bulb, the record player and so on. He died on October 18,1931 at the age of 84.

根據(jù)下列句子及所給漢語注釋，在句子空缺處寫出各單詞的正確形式（每空只寫一詞）。

1.Thomas Edison _______(發(fā)明) the light bulbs.

2.He went into the room _______(慢地) and sat down.

3.You can’t solve the problems ______(除非) you do it carefully.

4.He has a kind ______(心) and often helps others.

5.Some animals, for example, elephants and koalas, live on grass and _______(樹葉)

6.My uncle bought me an Ipad for my _____(第十二) birthday.

7.So far, we’ve ________(成功) in saving thousands of people in danger.