（浙江）外研版初中英语八年级下册期末复习（题型专练）：阅读理解

    Teaching is one of the most rewarding(有回报的) jobs. It is also one of the most stressful. If you want to be a teacher, you should have a passion(激情) for young people. If you are thinking about going into teaching for any other reason than this, you need to find another job.

    Teaching is difficult. Students can be difficult. Parents can be difficult. If you do not have a passion for the young people that you teach, you will burn out quickly. Passion is what keeps an excellent teacher going. When students have trouble understanding what is taught, it is what drives him to spend long hours trying to think out how to help them. If you do not have enough passion for your students, you might last a year or two, but not long. Passion is a must-have quality(品质) for every good teacher.

    Teaching can be rewarding, but you shouldn't expect that reward to come easily. Teachers who search out better and new methods are the ones who will make it. A good teacher needs to be able to work with everyone. All teachers face stress. It is important to be able to deal with everything that is thrown at you when you walk through your classroom doors. There are so many chances for stress within a classroom that an excellent teacher has to be able to bring it in control. If you cannot manage stress quite well, then teaching may not be the right job for you.

    In your life, there are a lot of people around you. They are your relatives, neighbours, friends or classmates. Sometimes you get along well with them, but sometimes don't. What can you do when someone hurts you? Most people may be angry or even fight with him. But it's not a good idea. You'd better forget all this and forgive(原谅) him.

    Maybe it's not easy for you to do that, but it's possible. Please remember: Keep a good mood, and you will keep healthy. Being angry with others, in fact, means letting others' mistakes treat yourself unfairly.

How can you forgive others?

    First, think of something pleasant and try to get yourself happy.

Second, don't wait others to say sorry to you. If anyone hurts you, he won't say sorry to you. He may just want to hurt you or just don't see things the same way.

    Third,try to see things in others' shoes. You can understand their minds better and make yourself a little happier.

    Lastly, try to know yourself very well. Whose mistakes caused that, yours or others'? If it's your fault, try to say sorry to them. If it isn't, smile at the thing.

    You might see aliens in books and movies. They look strange. They are very smart. They travel in spaceships.

    But are there really aliens in space? British scientist Stephen Hawking, 68, thinks so. He says that people should not look for aliens. He thinks they are dangerous. On a new British TV program, Hawking says, "It is quite possible that there are aliens in space. They might live in big spaceships. They have used up all the resources（资源）from their home planet. "He thinks such aliens are sure to get resources from Earth and then go away. They may bring troubles to Earth, too.

    Do you want to be a newsreader or a presenter? By reading this you'll know how to take the first step to be one!

    Making a radio program is fun. The most important thing you need to do is to decide what kind of program you are going to offer. Have you always wanted to be aDJjust to play music? If so, what kind of music? And will others want to hear the music you want to play?

    Maybe it's not music but information that you want to offer. You may want to do a talk show about a special subject. If so, great! Choosing something you're interested in will make a great experience for you. If you're good at a subject, you'll be known as a great presenter.

    Or, maybe you would like to make a program like an interview with others. Program like this are easy to listen to and always interesting to make because you'll never know what a guest is going to say and maybe your subject will change.

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    Years ago I worked at a factory in a small county. Every day I got up very early and often did much extra work at night. I was so tired and exhausted. My whole life was hopeless. Then one day I read the following article from a magazine：

    "A woman went to live with her husband in camp on the Mojave Desert（沙漠）during the war. She simply hated the place: the heat was almostunbearable, 125degrees in the shade, the wind blew incessantly, and there was sand-sand everywhere. Finally, in desperation（不顾-切地）she wrote her parents in Ohio that she couldn't stand it another minute and was coming home.

    Quickly came the reply by airmail from her father just two lines：

    'Two men looked out from prison bars. One saw the mud, the other saw stars.'

    The daughter did some real thinking, not only with the intellect（思维）but also with her heart. She decided to stick to her post.

    She made friends with the natives, learned to love the country, and eventually wrote a book about it. The desert hadn't changed, but her attitude had. Because she listened with her heart to the words her father sent, a whole new world opened up to her. "

    A change of attitude could change everything. After reading the article, I was deep in thought（陷入沉思）.

    Several years ago, a television reporter was talking to three of the most important people in America. One was a very rich banker, another owned one of the largest companies in the world, and the third owned many buildings in the center of New York.

    The reporter was talking to them about being important.

    "How do we know if someone is really important?" the reporter asked the banker.

    The banker thought for a few moments and then said, "I think anybody who is invited to the White House to meet the President of the United States is really important."

    The reporter then turned to the owner of the very large company. "Do you agree with that?" she asked.

    The man shook his head, "No. I think the President invites a lot of people to the White House. You'd only be important if while you were visiting the President, there was a telephone call from the president of another country, and the President of the US said he was too busy to answer it. "

    The reporter turned to the third man. "Do you think so?"

    "No, I don't, "he said." I don't think that makes the visitor important. That makes the President important. "

    "Then what would make the visitor important?" the reporter and the other two men asked.

    "Oh, I think if the visitor to the White House was talking to the President and the phone rang, and the President picked up the receiver, listened and then said, 'It's for you.'"

    Have you ever heard the saying"If you want a friend, be one."?

Here is how a new teacher made friends with the girls and boys in her class on the first day of school. As the bell rang, the teacher smiled at each girl and boy.

    Then she said in a quiet voice, "Good morning. How nice it is to have all of you in my class this year. I'd like to know each of you, I am sure we will enjoy working together." Everyone felt that she meant what she said because of her sweet voice and her friendly look.

    She told the girls and boys her name and wrote it on the blackboard. Then she told them some of the things she liked to do and she was hoping to do with them during the year.

    Then she said to the class," Now you know my name and the things I like and I want to know your names and the things you like. Then I will feel that I know you."

    Could you make friends by doing the same as this teacher did?

    One way of getting to know girls and boys in your class is to find out more about them. It is often easy to be friends with those people who have the same hobbies with you. You play the same games and go on journeys together.

    You may find that some new comers in your class miss their old friends and feel strange and lonely. You can invite them to take a walk or to ride bikes with you. You will find many things in common to talk about. Just talking together in a friendly manner is one good way to make friends.

Maybe you are an average（一般的）student. You probably think you will never be a top student. However, anyone can become better if he or she does his or her best, Here are some tips to help you.

    ★Plan your time carefully. You should plan your time for things such as eating, sleeping and dressing. Then make a good, regular time for studying. But don't forget to set enough time for entertainment.

    ★Keep your study quiet and clean. The study should have a desk, a chair and some study materials, hat no games, no radio and no television! When you sit down to study, you can put your heart into it. Make good use of your time.

    ★Listen to everything that the teacher says. 1asteringcarefully in class means less work later. Taking notes will help you remember what the teacher says.

    ★After you get home from school, go over your notes. Review the important points. If you know what your teacher is going to discuss next day, read the material. It will help you study better.

    ★Develop a good attitude to tests. The purpose of a test is to show what you have learned about a subject. It helps you know what you are not good at. The world will still go on even if you fail in a test, so don't be too worried.

    Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

    This is an old English saying. It means that we should go to bed early at night and get up early in the morning. If we do, we shall be healthy. We shall also be rich and clever.

    Is this true? Perhaps it is. The body must have enough sleep. Children of your age need ten hours' sleep every night. If you do not go to bed early, you can not have enough sleep. Then you can not thinkproperlyand you can not do your work properly. You will not be wise and you may not become wealthy！

    Some people go to bed late at night and get up late in the morning. This is not good for them. We should sleep at night when it is dark. The dark helps us to sleep well.

    When the daylight comes, we should get up. This is the time for exercise. If the body is not used, it will become weak. Exercise keeps it strong.

    Exercise helps the blood to move around inside the body. This is very important. Blood takes nutrition（营养）to all parts of our bodies. The brains in our heads also need blood. We think with our brains. If we keep our bodies healthy，and take exercise, we can think better！

    Our bodies also need air to breathe. Without air we will die. Get up early in the morning and we can have plenty of clean，fresh air. That will keep us healthy and happy.