Have you _________ the story before?

The teacher stood before his class and was going to hand out the final exam papers. “I know how   1  you have worked to prepare for this test,” he said. “And because I know you can do it well, I am willing to offer a B to those who   2  not to take the test.”

Many students thanked the teacher and left. The teacher looked at the students left and said, “Does anyone else want to get a ‘B’? This is your last   3 .” Two more students decided to go.

Only seven students were still in the classroom. The teacher then handed out the papers. There were only three sentences on the paper: Congratulations! You have just   4  an ‘A’ in this class. Keep believing in   5 .

I never had a teacher like that, but I think it is a test that any teacher could give. Students who are not  6  in what they have learned are ‘B’ students at most.

The same is   7  in our daily life. The ‘A’ students are those who believe in what they are doing because they have   8  both successes and failures. They have got life’s lessons, not only from normal education, but from events in their   9 , and have become   10  people. You see, one should always believe in himself.

1.                A．luckily          B．terribly         C．quietly   D．hard

2.                A．dislike          B．go             C．prefer    D．start

3.                A．chance         B．trouble         C．test  D．idea

4.                A．given          B．sent           C．discovered    D．received

5.                A．himself         B．yourself        C．themselves    D．ourselves

6.                A．confident       B．lucky           C．difficult   D．easy

7.                A．wrong          B．impossible       C．true D．good

8.                A．heard of        B．dreamed of      C．learned from   D．caredabout

9.                A．studies         B．a(chǎn)ctivities        C．lives D．trips

10.               A．ruder          B．braver         C．worse D．better

Did you _______ Tom last night?

The couple ______at this time yesterday. Nobody knew when they stopped.

Homesick is a compound (復(fù)合的) word made up of “home” and “sick”. You know

  1  each word means on its own, of course. But think about what the words mean when they are   2  together. “Homesick” means “Thinking of home, unhappy away from home.” In other words, it means “sick for home”.

　　Now think for a minute   3  the word SEASICK. If you change the word “home” in the definition (定義) to the word “sea”, would the definition  4  “seasick” ? Does seasick mean “thinking of sea, unhappy away from sea”? It means something quite  5 . Seasick means “made sick by the only place where you are on the sea.” It means “sick because of the sea.” When you are homesick, the only place you want to be is at home. When you are seasick, the   6  place you want to be is at sea.

　　Have you ever   7  a person being heartsick? Heartsick does not mean that something is wrong with a person’s heart. People are heartsick when they are   8 down deep inside as if (好像) their hearts are broken.

　  And so, when you are carsick, you are “made sick by the movement of a car on the road.” You are sick because of the car, not sick for it.

You can see, then, that   9  compound words are what they seem at first glance (一瞥). Think about the compound words, such as handshake and   10 . Perhaps you may write definitions for them. It must be helpful to know something like this in your English study.

1.                A．what           B．that            C．which    D．who

2.                A．read           B．used           C．thought   D．understood

3.                A．for            B．from           C．a(chǎn)bout    D．like

4.                A．fit             B．read           C．get D．have

5.                A．different        B．same           C．right D．wrong

6.                A．first            B．only           C．safe D．last

7.                A．heard of        B．heard from      C．thought over   D．thought about

8.                A．hit            B．hurt           C．loved D．moved

9.                A．not others      B．not every       C．not all    D．not other

10.               A．careful         B．southern       C．illness D．handwriting