Whenever we meet with difficulty or failure, teachers, parents or others often say to us or perhaps we
say to ourselves, "Never give up." These can be encouraging words and words of determination. A person who believes in himself will keep trying to reach his goal no matter how many times he fails. In my opinion ,
the quality of determination to succeed is an important one to have. Therefore, I believe that we should
never give up.
One reason is that if we give up too easily, we will rarely achieve anything. It is not unusual for us to fail
in our first attempt at  something new, so we should not f eel disappointed and should try again. Besides, if
we always give up when we fail , we will not be able to develop new skills and grow.
Another reason we should never give up is that we can learn from our mistakes so that we can not make
the same ones. If we do not try again, the lesson we have learned is wasted.
Finally, we should never give up because as we work to reach our goals, we develop confidence, and this
confidence can help us succeed in other areas of our lives. If we never challenge ourselves, we will begin
to doubt our abilities.
In short, it is important that we do not give up when working for our goals. Whether we succeed in the
end or not , we will learn something , and what we learn will help us to become better and more confident.
Furthermore, if we give up , we have no chance of attaining our goals any more , but if we keep making
great efforts, there is always a chance that we will succeed one
Topic: Never Give Up
Possible meanings and the author"s opinions
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The words " Never give up" can 1 others or oneself and express one"s
determination.
A person who wants to 2 should have the quality . So we should never give up.
| The reason
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If we give up too easily, maybe we will achieve 3 , so when we fail in our first attempt at something new, we should not disappiont ourselves but try again.
Never giving up will make us learn from the mistakes we"ve made before and learn the 4 so as not to make the same mistakes.
To reach our goals and develop the confidence which can help us 5 ourselves,
we must not give up but challenge ourselves.
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Conclusions
| If you give up, you will have no chance of reaching your goals. Never give up and
you will attain your goals sooner or later.
| | 完形填空。 | On the evening of last Sunday while I was reviewing my lessons in my room, it suddenly began to rain. 1 as usual, I stopped to listen to the rhythm(韵律)of the rain. For many years, whenever it rains, I
couldn"t 2 listening to it and thinking of the garden in which I spent my childhood in my hometown.
When I was a little girl, my family lived in a big house with a big garden in the countryside. The garden
was full of flowers and 3 , with some bamboo in front of the wall. Whenever it rained, I 4 to sit in the front of the house, listening to the rhythm of the rain and watching the 5 raindrops.
When small drops of rain fall from the heaven in a row, they 6 a curtain made up of pearls(珍珠);
when the raindrops 7 the ground, a lot of small sprays(水花)will splash(溅出)and then disappear
slowly.
I have been 8 interested in watching such a scene. Listening to the rhythm of the rain, I feel calm and peaceful in my heart. This feeling of peace makes me think a lot about life. We are the 9 of the earth,
and one day we will embrace(拥抱 ) our earth and stay with her forever. Life is short and we should
treasure it.
Listening to the rhythm of the rain, I learn to understand the 10 of life. | | 阅读理解。 | Imagine there is a bank that puts $86, 400 in your account (帐户) each morning. It carries over no
balance from day to day. Every evening the bank writes off (注销) the balance that you failed to use
during the day. What would you do? Take out every cent, of course !
Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it puts in 86,400 seconds. Every
evening it writes off, as it is lost. There is no balance or overdraft (透支). If you fail to use the day"s
savings, the lost is yours. There is no going back. There is no taking from "tomorrow". You must make
good use of it so as to get more in health, happiness and success!
The clock is running. Make the most of today. To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who
failed a grade; to realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask mother who gave birth to a premature(早产)
baby; to realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper; to realize the value of
ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet; to realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a
person who missed the train; to realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided
(避免) an accident.
Make good use of every moment that you have. Remember that time waits for no one. Yesterday is
history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That"s why it"s called "The Present". | 1. The underlined word "balance" in Paragraph l means _____.
A. 平衡
B. 贷款
C. 余款
D. 提款
2. What is special about the TIME bank we each have?
A. We can store time in it whenever we like.
B. Someone puts $86,400 in it every day.
C. The time in it will surely get lost if you don"t use it.
D. Someone helps you spend your time every night.
3. What can be the best title for the passage?
A. The Bank of Money
B. The Bank of Time
C. The Value of One Hour
D. The Clock Is Running
4. In this passage, the writer tries to tell us _____.
A. what a bank is
B. how to save money
C. the difference of time units
D. to make good use of time | | 完形填空。 | Do you have a beautiful dream? I know almost everyone _ 1 their own dreams in their life. The
dreams are very important 2 them. The dreams can make them __3 harder. I am studying in
a school now. My dream is 4 a teacher in the west of China.
Many children there want to go to school 5 they can"t. Their families are very poor and the
parents have 6 _ enough money to send their children to school. But going to school and studying is
the only 7 to change their life. Teachers are greatly needed there, so I want to be a teacher to help
them. I 8 kind to my students and make friends with them. I will give them love and teach _ 9
how to be a useful person. I think it is 10 _ job in the world. | ( )1. A. has
( )2. A. at
( )3. A. to work
( )4. A. be
( )5. A. and
( )6. A. not
( )7, A. way
( )8. A. am
( )9. A. they
( )10. A. great | B. have
B. to
B. to study
B. to make
B. but
B. much
B. book
B. will be
B. their
B. greater | C. is
C. in
C. work
C. to do
C. or
C. many
C. school
C. was
C. them
C. the greater | D. are
D. with
D. working
D. to be
D. so
D. any
D. room
D. am going to
D. theirs
D. the greatest | | 阅读理解。 | Americans love sports-they love to play them, to watch them on televisions, and to talk about them. But this hobby sometimes has serious results-at least to the players. For example, when people play tennis, sometimes they hurt their elbow and in this way they develop "tennis elbow". Also it is easy to hurt knees in
a football game. These injuries happen while the player is having fun, but they still hurt. A few months ago, Kathleen
Simmons, who loves playing volleyball, hurt her knee in a volleyball game. Her doctor told her that she needed a very difficult operation (手术) or she might not be able to play again,
She felt very sad and didn"t know what to do. Then Simmons learned about "video operation". With the help of this new science in medicine, doctors can now repair many injuries and get people back on the playing field and back to their jobs much faster. Simmons found a hospital that was using this new science and went to see the doctors there. The doctors told her the operation could help. For this operation, her doctor didn"t have to open her knee. Instead he put a very small camera lens (镜头) inside her knee. The lens sent back pictures, which appeared on a television screen. As he worked, he could see the inside of her knee
on the TV. With the help of the large pictures on the screen, the doctor knew exactly what to do when he was making the repairs.
Simmons started walking five days after her operation. " My knee hurt a lot the first few days," she
said. "But I felt better very quickly. " Now, six months after her operation,
Simmons can do everything she did before her injury. "It feels like a new knee," she said. "I can even
play volleyball again. "
根据短文内容，回答下列问题 。
1. Do Americans love sports?
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2. What sport is Simmons interested in?
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3. What did the doctor put inside Simmons" knee?
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4. What problem may people have when they play sports?
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5. What"s the advantage of the new science?
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