出自:河南工业大学—大学英语1
. (阅读理解题)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’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 complaining 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 (及时的) 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 (失败) can.t be avoided (避免). 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 (态度) decides everything. With an optimistic (乐观的) attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let.s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.
(1). (单选题) People sometimes complain _______.(本题2.0分)
A、 the sky is always dark
B、 their studies are successful
C、 they see the world with their heart
D、 life is tiring
（2）(单选题) According to the passage, in school, _______. (本题2.0分)
A、 the students don.t like their lessons
B、 the teachers will be happy if the students do good jobs
C、 the teachers don.t like their teaching
D、 the teachers are tired of their work
(3). (单选题) If there is a timely rain, _______. (本题2.0分)
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
(4). (单选题) When we face failure, we _______. (本题2.0分)
A、 must be confident in ourselves
B、 shouldn.t be afraid of it
C、 shouldn.t give up hope
D、 all of the above
(5). (单选题) The best title of this passage is _______. (本题2.0分)
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
(阅读理解题)It is a great truth because once we truly understand and accept it, then life is no longer difficult. Most do not fully see this truth. Instead they complain about their problems and difficulties as if life should be easy. It seems to them that difficulties stand for a special kind of suffering especially forced on them or else on their families, their class, or even their nation. What makes life difficult is that the process of facing and solving problems is a painful one. Problems, depending on their nature, cause sadness, or loneliness or regret or anger or fear. These are uncomfortable feelings, often as painful as any kind of physical pain. And since life causes a lot of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy. Yet, it is in this whole process of solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the serious test that tells us success from failure. When we want to encourage the growth of human spirit, we encourage the human ability to solve problems, just as in school we set problems for our children to solve. It is through the pain of meeting and working out problems that we learn. As Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct ." It is for this reason that wise people learn not to fear but to welcome the pain of problems.
(1). (单选题) Which sentence best express the central point of the passage?(本题2.0分)
A、 Problems and difficulties represent a special kind of suffering.
B、 We become stronger by facing and solving problems of life.
C、 Life is difficult because our problems bring us pain.
D、 People like to complain about their problems.