发布时间 : 星期二 文章(英语试卷合集)河南省郑州市2018-2019学年九年级上学期期末英语试卷(17份合集)更新完毕开始阅读99716abdac51f01dc281e53a580216fc700a532a
why people often keep themselves away from their success. The power of failure is that it helps us to learn fro our mistakes and missteps and we must consider a failure as an opportunity to grow rather than giving up.
Let's discover the reasons why successful people believe that opportunity lies in every failure. Disappointment or failure shows that you are trying
The best way to gauge（衡量）your progress at something is to see how many times you failed. In case you haven't failed yet, chances are that you haven't tried hard yet.
Look at all successful men and women throughout our history, they all had one thing in common. That's to say they failed not once but several times before they achieved success. Let's take an example of Thomas Edison: he failed a lot of times to find right filament（灯丝）for his light bulb. Henry Ford had a stronger relationship with failure, which inspired him to quote this unforgettable saying “failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.”
Achievement lies in looking at failure as an opportunity
Just like every successful person had one thing in common, similarly all unsuccessful persons throughout our history had one thing in common --- their inability to use failure as an opportunity and a tool. If you feel your one failure is your ultimate （终极的）failure, and that feeling of sinking down is known as an ultimate failure, you are pushing yourself away from your expected success. Achievement is all about finding out what mistakes you made, what is the main cause of that failure, and how you are going to make up for it.
Success requires willpower, passion, hard work, intelligence, determination, but all of the above, success requires failure. Use your failure as an opportunity to learn, to become wiser and to reconsider your relationship with failure, the true key to success.
49. According to the writer, why do people keep themselves away from their success?
A. Because they don't set long-term goals. B. Because they haven't got enough time.
C. Because they can't deal with failure properly. D. Because they are disappointed in themselves. 50. Why does the writer take the example of Thomas Edison?
A. To explain the reasons for failure. B. To prove the importance of failure. C. To take pride in Thomas Edison.
D. To introduce the process of making a light bulb. 51. What can you learn from the passage?
A. Failure can build up your confidence. B. Successful people seldom failed.
C. Failure is more important than success. D. Successful people use failure as a tool.
D
Michael Morpurgo is one of Britain's best loved story makers whose book War Horse is taught in school. He made a speech at Book Trust Annual Lecture. When talking about tests, he said that too much testing in schools was taking the joy out of reading for children because it destroyed their confidence and resulted in feelings of shame and disappointment.
Mr. Morpurgo said testing was \his was not the case. \have passed, rocks confidence, and destroys hopes and dreams.\opportunity to receive the great cultural and material benefits of our society through developing an enjoyment of reading.But for children who fail, they are made to feel that the world of books, stories and ideas is not for them, and they are not clever enough to join that world. It is not the world they belong to, and it is shut off from them forever.
As the president of Book Trust, Mr. Morpurgo also criticized schools for taking the wonder of stories and playfulness of language. Schools have been teaching reading by turning stories into a series of comprehension and grammar tests, because they insist that measurable（可量化的） outcomes and results are the be-all and end-all of the education process. But blaming （责备）governments or schools is passing the buck --- it is a society as a whole that is responsible for whether its children succeed or fail in education, and everyone should make an effort to ensure that reading itself is a pleasure experience for all children.
Mr. Morpurgo, who was a primary teacher before becoming a writer, wants to see a “story time” introduces in every primary school, when stories are read aloud, at the end of each day. His Book Trust lecture called on schools and the governmemt to keep libriries open, for parents to read to their children every night, etc. “Story time” would be a special time with no testing or teaching. “Let the children go home dreaming of the story, reliving it, wonder… All the rest will come later. Once the seed is sown, the fore is lit, children will want to learn. So give them the love of story first; the rest will follow.”
Diana Gerald, the co-worker of Book Trust, said, “Reading isn’t a tick-list of books. That need to have been read;nor is it just a skill to be learned then put aside. The ability of reading and writing can, and should be tested; reading for pleasure needs to be valued and seen more like exercise-do it as regularly as you can, make it fun and red together whenever possible for maximum benefits.”
52. What does the expression “passing the buck” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Valuable. B. Irresponsible.
C. Unnecessary. D. Harmful.
53. According to the passage, what should children do at their “story time”?
A. Enjoy reading. B. Prepare for tests.
C. Practise writing stories. D. Tick their book lists. 54. Which of the following is Mr. Morpurgo’s suggestion?
A. Test should be canceled in schools. B. Children should join the Book Trust. C. Reading for pleasure should be encouraged. D. The government should build more libraries. 55. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Mr. Morpurgo hopes to become a primary teacher.
B. Children who are tested can’t get the joy from reading.
C. Mr. Morpurgo wants his book War Horse to be read often in schools.
D. Chilrdren who fail in tests probably won’t explore the wonder of stories.
七、阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。每个选项只能用一次。 （共10分，每小题2分）
Ramen noodles are yellow noodles that originally (源自于) came from China. They became a popular street food in JPn in the early 1900s. ___57___. At that time, Japan did not have much food at all. Ramen was cheap and good, so more and more people began eating it.
In the 1905s, Momofuku Ando, the man who started the Nissin fiid company in Japan, had an idea. ___57___. People could pour hot water over these noodles, wait a few minutes, and then eat them. It would be instant(即食) ramen. It was not easy, but finally Ando came up with a way to make instant ramen. Japanese people loved it! Soon other companies were copying Ando’s idea. ___58___.
Today, people all around the world enjoy ramen. In fact, people eat about 40 billion bowls of ramen every year!
But the story of ramen does not end there. ___59___ .in these restaurant, all kinds of meats and vegetables are being added to ramen. And people are choosing noodle bars over sushi bars for a nice dinner out these days.
So whether you want traditional, quick, or fancy(精美的) ramen, you can find it. ___60___. You won’t miss it!
A. He wanted to make dried ramen noodles B. Ramen is now even served in many good restaurants C. Just look on the street, in a store, or in a restaurant near you D. Not long after that, instant ramen spread to the other countries E. Then, after World War II, ramen becmae even more popular in Japan
八、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（共10分，每小题2分）
Warren Buffett is one of the richest people in the world. Mike flint was Buffett’s pilot for ten years. During a trip, Buffett said to Flint, “You must have dreams greater than flying me around to where I need to go.” The pilot said he did have bigger dreams. And then Buffett took him through a three-step process for prioritizing(优化), to decide which things are the most important and what ot start with.
First, Buffett asked Flint to write down a list of twenty-five career goals. Flint took some time and wrote them down. Second, Buffett asked Flint to do some soul-searching and circle the five highest-priority goals on the list. Again, Flint took some time, made his way through the list and eventually decided on his five most important goals.
At this point, Buffett asked, “but what about these other 20 things on your list you didn’t circle? What is your plan for completing those?” Flint replied confidently, “Well the five highest-priority goals are the most important but the other twehty come in at a close second. So I’ll work on those twenty as well as I’m getting through my five highest-priority goals.” To Flint’s surprise, Buffett said, “No. You’ve got it wrong. The third step is to take a good hard look at the 20 goals. You should avoid them at all costs. They eat away time and energy, taking your eye from the goals than matter more.”
It is a simple process but not always an easy one. We are in a world where there’s more competition for your focus(专注) than ever before. We have to guard it with our life. Without focus, without staying true to our priorities, we will not get done other things we try to fit in and get done what’s most important to ourselves.
Every behavior has a cost. But time and energy are limited. Successful people prioritize their most important goals and avoid things but take up time, energy and space that could be put toward better behavior or more important tasks.
Once you’ve picked a goal, work towards it while ignoring(忽视) the things that will compete fpr ypur attention.
61. Did Flint work for Buffett as a pilot?
62. How many steps did Buffett take Flint through? 63. What did Buffett ask flint to do first?
64. What did Buffett advise Flint to do with the other 20 goals? 65. Why can prioritizing goals help people to achieve success?