Feeling left out?
    A reader wrote in to say that she was feeling lonely at break because her best friend wasn't around.
Here's our advice to her and to all kids who feel lonely sometimes.
    It's hard when a best friend isn't around-maybe because she moved to a different school or a different
class. You may feel lonely at break or lunchtime. You want to have new friends. but how do you make
them? Maybe it seems like everybody else already has their friends. But remember, there's always room
for more friends. 
    Start by looking around your classroom-think about which kids you'd like to play with at break. Look
for chances to say hi to them, smile, and be friendly. Offer to share something or express your appreciation
(欣賞) to them. Invite someone to play with you or say "Do you want to sit here?" in the lunchroom. When
you're at break,walk over to kids you want to play with act friendly, and say "Hi, can I play, too?" or just
join in.
    If you have trouble doing this or if you're feeling shy, ask your teacher to help you make new friends.
Teachers are usually pretty good at matching up friends. The best way to make friends is to be a friend.
Be kind, be friendly, share, say nice things, offer to help-and pretty soon, you'll have one, or two, or even
more new friends.
     You might still miss that special best friend. But when you see each other, you can share something you
didn't have before she left: You can introduce her to your new friends!

1. This text is written for            .

[     ]

A．teachers
B．parents
C．students
D．visitors

2. According to the writer, some kids feel lonely at break because they            .

[     ]

A．have trouble with their studies
B．don't have their best friends around
C．need their parents to be with them
D．a(chǎn)re too young to look after themselves

3. The underlined word this in Paragraph 4 refers to (指的是)            . 

[     ]

A．sharing your ideas
B．talking before many people
C．studying better at school
D．developing new friendship

4. Some kids need help from teachers to make friends because            .

[     ]

A．they miss their old friends a lot
B．they have no time to stay with others
C．teachers know who wants a new friend
D．they are shy or not good at making friends

5. The expression "feeling left out" means "            " in Chinese.

[     ]

A．受冷落
B．被調(diào)侃
C．挨批評
D．遭攻擊

     Americans think much about time. When they are children, they learn to value time. People often teach
children to be on time to go to school, to work and to do everything 1_______. When a person is dying,
they say he is living on borrowed time.
     Americans think time is money. Time is knowledge. 2_______ A working American has to work hard
for eight hours a day and forty hours a week. This is the working time. In his spare time,he also works
hard for more money. 3_______ In the street you can hardly see a man walking slowly. They walk very
fast. In fact, they are running. 
     4._______ But sometimes they also hate time,because they feel that they have become servants (仆人)
of the clock.

A. Even on Saturday and Sunday he also works hard as usual.
B. Time is everything in America.
C. Americans love time because time can bring them money and a lot of things.
D. When they are having a good time,they say time flies.

5. What's the best title for this passage?

A. Americans and Time
B. Learn to Value Time
C. How to Save Time
D. Time Is Money

     Only Mother Love is tree love. It gives everybody everything all (1)h______ life. When you are still a baby,
mother takes good care of you as much as (2)p______. In your (3)w______ hours she always holds you in
her arms. When you are ill, she stops her work right now to look after you day and night (4)a______ forgets
about, her. When you are growing up day (5)b______ day, she feels very happy. When you are old enough to
go to school, mother still looks after you all the time. On cold winter days, she always tells you to put on more
clothes. She always stands in the wind (6)w______ for you back from school. When you hurry to leave home
for school with little breakfast, she always, feels (7)w______ about you at home. She usually knows about your
study and spends much money on your school things. When you do well at school, you will see the brightest
smile on her face.
     Mother is always ready to give everything she (8)h______ to her children, (9)n______ to receive. What true
love that is in the (10)w______! We will remember Mother Love for ever!

     Years ago, I lived in a building in a town. There was another building across form mine, and it was only
a few meters away. There lived a woman whom I had never met. I could see her sit by the window each
afternoon, drinking or reading.
     Several months later, I noticed her window was very dirty. Everything was not clear through the window.
I wondered why the woman didn't wash her window.
     One sunny morning, I decided to clean up my apartment, including washing my windows. Late in the
afternoon when I finished the cleaning, I sat down for a rest by the window. What a surprise! The woman
sitting by her window was clearly seen! Her window was clean! Suddenly, I realized I had made a mistake. I
was watching her through my dirty window all the time!
     That was quite an important lesson for me. Since then, whenever I wanted to judge (判斷) someone, I
asked myself first," Am I looking at him through the dirty window of my heart?" Then I try to clean the
window of my own world so that I may see the world clearly.

1. The writer lived in ________ years ago.

A. a hotel
B. a village
C. a town
D. the countryside

2. The woman often drank and read by the window ________.

A. in the morning
B. in the afternoon
C. in the evening
D. the whole day

3. One sunny morning, the writer decided to do some ________.

A. reading
B. cleaning
C. shopping
D. cooking

4. The writer was surprised to find the woman's window was ________.

A. far
B. broken
C. clean
D. dirty

5. From the passage (文章), we can learn ________.

A. we should judge ourselves before we judge others
B. we should judge others through the dirty windows
C. we shouldn't clean the windows often