It is true that people with better education* are usually able to get better paying jobs. In other words, they have more chances to choose a good job while people with little or no education don’t. It seems that the purpose* of education is to make people get jobs. But not all the people agree with this idea.

Some people may think that a person should spend the best years of his life to get education in order to make more money in the future. This was probably one of the earliest purposes of education. In fact, if education is just a way to make a living, people don’t need to spend so much time in school. They can get education for a living in a short time. Subjects like history and geography need not be taught to everyone. And people don’t have to learn maths and languages so carefully. So it is clear that education is much more than teaching a man to get a way of living.

So what is education for? Education is well-rounded and it should improve a man in many ways. It is not only to teach him to speak, read and write, but also to develop his creative* thinking and other abilities. After that, it is to make him a wise man and thankfully enjoy the achievements of human. Education is to make a man lead a better life. Educated people are expected to be able to listen to good music, read good books, watch plays and most of all, take an interest in the world.

I would agree that making a good living is an important reason for education, but certainly not the most important or the only reason.

1.People with better education usually __________.

A. have fewer chance to choose a good job B. have more chances to get a good job

C. make less money than others D. spend the best years making money

2.The earliest education was probably to __________.

A. teach a man to think creatively B. teach people to read good books C. improve a man in many ways D. help people make more money

3.What does the underlined word “well-rounded” in Paragraph 3 mean in Chinese?

A. 圓滿的 B. 嶄新的 C. 全面的 D. 公平的

4.It is expected that educated people will be able to ___________.

A. write good books by themselves B. learn all the subjects very well

C. take an interest in the world D. lead a richer life than others

5.The passage mainly tells us that ____________.

A. making a living is not the only purpose of education. B. people can get education in a short time.

C. people should study hard to get better paying jobs. D. all subjects are very important for a way of living.

五、詞匯運(yùn)用

A. 用方框中所給單詞的適當(dāng)形式填空，使句子通順、正確。每個(gè)單詞限用一次。

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1.The manager asked Liu Feng to ___________ a hotel for him on Sunday.

2.We were tired after the trip, but it was really ______________.

3.He lives in the __________ of Shanghai and has a house with a beautiful garden.

4.In Africa, ___________ of people are dying because they don’t have enough food.

5.The students ____________ the ball from one to another happily at the party.

B. 根據(jù)中文提示，寫出單詞的正確形式。每空限填一詞。

When I was in the middle school, I was good at many subjects 1. (除了) English. It was a little difficult for me and I often made 2. (錯(cuò)誤) in the test. I felt very sad.

Luckily, my English teacher Miss Li was 3.（相當(dāng)?shù)兀﹌ind. She advised me to buy a dictionary and 4.(提議，提出) to help me solve 5. (主要的，基礎(chǔ)的) problems. Miss Li said that I 6.(應(yīng)該) speak English aloud and read 7.(大量，眾多) of English books. With her help, my English improved 8.(迅速地,快地). It was much 9. (更簡(jiǎn)單) for me to remember the words than before. And I became one of the actresses in the school English show at 10.(終于，最后).

I was thankful to my dear English teacher, Miss Li.

Ⅰ欄是5個(gè)人的愛(ài)好描述，Ⅱ欄是5本受歡迎的書籍，請(qǐng)從A-E中為每個(gè)人選擇最適合的閱讀書籍，并將答案的字母編號(hào)填寫在題前括號(hào)內(nèi)。

假設(shè)你是Li Ping，你的筆友David和他家人將要來(lái)溫州旅游，希望你幫忙做個(gè)旅游攻略。請(qǐng)根據(jù)下列內(nèi)容提示，給他寫一封信，介紹一下溫州的特點(diǎn)，并推薦合適的景點(diǎn)，要求80詞左右。開(kāi)頭已給出，可適當(dāng)發(fā)揮。

（1）溫州是一個(gè)…的城市。 （2）溫州比…更…

（3）推薦旅游景點(diǎn) （4）…

參考詞匯：famous for, go sightseeing, popular, enjoy oneself, …

Dear David,

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Yours,

Li Ping

---We have red and yellow T-shirts. Which color do you like?---I’m afraid _______. I think blue will be OK.

A. both B. either C. neither D. none

My parents showed some old pictures that brought back sweet memories.

A. I B. me C. my D. mine

This is bedroom. They like it very much.

A. Lucy and Lily’s B. Lucy and Lily

C. Lucy’s and Lily D. Lucy’s and Lily’s

The accident happened a cold winter early morning.

A. in B. at C. on D. for

—Granny, you look so weak, what’s wrong with you? —Terrible. The factory made noise. It was _noisy. I couldn’t sleep well last night.

A. too much; too much B. too much; much too

C. too many; much too D. much too; much too