One day, my English teacher asked me to help her save back-up（備份） copies of her work in the computer. I then realized I was able to know the grades of all of her students. I   36   her how to copy files（文件） from one disk to another and she thanked me.

  A few days later, she asked me to help her again, because she   37   how to do it. When I showed it to her, some students in my class   38   and began to talk among themselves   39  .Later that day, at lunch time, several of them came up to me.

  “Hey, could you help us change our grades? We’ll   40   for it.”

  I could not believe what I heard. I could get paid for something very  41 . “All right. I’ll do it.” The next day, my English teacher   42   me to help him out again. When he was not paying   43   , I changed their grades from Fs to As.

  I soon became very   44   among my friends. They began to treat me like God who could do   45  . Word spread quickly and I became very rich.

  Everything was going fine   46  I was called into the headmaster’s office. When I got there, both of my teacher and the headmaster were very angry. “ I don’t want to   47   what your teacher said, but I have to. She has too much evidence(證據(jù)),’’ the headmaster said. “Do you have anything to say for yourself?”

  “No,” I said finally. I didn’t realize how   48   my behavior had been. I had disappointed my teacher and the headmaster. And there was no way   49  . I had to leave my school. That was a good   50   for me.

1.A. said         B. urged         C. knew          D. showed

2.A. lost         B. remembered    C. reminded       D. forgot

3.A. listened      B. noticed      C. played         D. checked

4.A. quietly      B. luckily       C. sincerely       D. angrily

5.A. pay         B. praise         C. follow        D. explain

6.A. familiar      B. easy         C. interesting     D. pleasant

7.A. challenged    B. allowed      C. taught        D. asked

8.A. money       B. work           C. attention       D. interest

9.A. common     B. popular         C. modest        D. dishonest

10.A. something    B. anything      C. nothing        D. some things

11.A. until        B. since         C. because        D. after

12.A. believe      B. reply         C. hate           D. influence

13.A. hard        B. interesting      C. serious        D. important

14.A. up          B. in               C. back           D. down

15.A. skill        B. lesson            C. story          D. example

Jason and Harry joined a wholesale company together just after graduation. They both worked very hard.
After several years, the boss made Harry sales manager but Jason   31  a salesman. One day Jason could not take it anymore. He handed in his resignation letter (辭職信) to the boss and complained that the boss did not   32  hard-working employees, but only raised those   33 tried to please him. He thought that it was really   34  .
In order to help Jason to realize the   35  between him and Harry, the boss asked Jason to do the   36  --- "Go and find out if there is anyone selling watermelons in the market." Charlie went, returned and only said, "Yes." The boss asked, "How much per kg?" Charlie went back to the market to ask and returned to   37  , "$ 12 per kg."
The boss told Jason that he would ask Harry the  38  question. Harry went, returned and said, "Boss, only one person selling watermelons. $12 per kg, $ 100 for 10 kg. He has a total of 340 melons. On the table are 58 melons, and every melon weighs about 15 kg,   39 from the South two days ago. They are fresh, red, and of good   40 ."
Jason was   41  and he realized the difference between himself and Harry. He decided not to leave but to learn from Harry.
My dear friends, you know, a more   42  person is more observant(觀察力敏銳的), thinks more and understands in   43  . For the same matter, he sees several years ahead,   44  you see only tomorrow. The difference between a year and a day is 365 times, so how could you   45 ?
Think: how far have you seen ahead in your life? How thoughtful are you?

A mother planted many kinds of vegetables in her garden. One day, she said to her 31________, “Betty, come here. Look at all these little yellow marks on the 32________ of the cabbages. They are eggs of a kind of insect(蟲子). They are very beautiful but very bad for cabbages. This afternoon you must 33________ all the eggs on the leaves and kill them. In this way, you will help us have 34________, greener and bigger cabbages.”

   Betty didn’t think she could do it 35________ and in the end she forgot all about it. The mother fell ill for a few days and 36________ work in her garden. When she was well, she took Betty with her to the garden to see the cabbages. To 37________ surprise, the insects had eaten every leaf. When Betty saw this, she began to 38________. Then her mother said to her, “We should never put off what we have to do today till 39________. And you must learn to deal with the bad things while they are small, 40________ it will turn into a big problem.

1. A son  B. mother   C daughter 

2.A tress   B. leaves   C. grass

3. A find   B. eat   C. fly

4. A worse   B better   C thinner

5.A at most   B at last   C at once

6.A must   B couldn’t   C need

7.A my   B their   C his

8. A cry   B wait   C run

9.A yesterday   B today   C tomorrow

10.A. but       B. or      C. and

Mr. White is a farmer. Last month he 36 his truck to town and on the way his truck knocked down a  37  and hurt him. He sent the boy to a  38 at once. He paid a lot of money for that, but the boy’s  39 wanted to get more money from him. So they said their son could no longer lift his 40 arm above his head.
Mr. White’s lawyer(律師) came and asked the boy a few questions in the court(法庭). “Now, my boy,” he said, “you were hurt 41 , weren’t you?” “Yes, sir,” said the boy. “And you can’t lift your right arm now, can you?” “42 , sir.”
“Could you 43  us how you can lift your right arm?” Slowly the boy lifted his right arm before his nose. “Poor boy,” said the lawyer. “And how 44  could you lift it before the accident?” “Oh, very high,” said the boy proudly (自豪) and the arm went up right over his 45 .