For many young people，becoming a professional athlete might seem like a dream job．1             you become a professional athlete，you'll be able to 2         doing something you love．If you become famous，people 3         the world will know you．Many athletes give money to schools and 4        ，and do a lot of work to help people．This is a great 5         that many people do not have．

However，professional athletes can also have many 6        ．If you are famous，people will 7         you all the time and follow you everywhere．This can make life difficult．

If you play sports 8         a living，your job will sometimes be very dangerous．Many professional athletes 9        ．And if you become rich, you will have a difficult time knowing 10        ．In fact, many famous people complain that they are not happy．They say they were happier before they became rich and famous．

1．A．If                   B．What                   C．How                      D．When

2．A．doing a living    B．do a living              C．making a living       D．make a living

3．A．over                      B．a(chǎn)ll                        C．a(chǎn)round                   D．a(chǎn)bout

4．A．hospitals                                                     B．charities

C．old people's homes                                       D．poor people's homes

5．A．challenge               B．topic                    C．influence                D．chance

6．A．questions               B．problems               C．a(chǎn)dvice                    D．tragedy

7．A．look                      B．talk                      C．watch                    D．know

8．A．from                     B．in                        C．on                          D．for

9．A．injured            B．get injured             C．get a pain               D．get painful

10．A．who are your real friends                          B．who your real friends are

C．what your real friends are                           D．what your real friends are

“I can’t believe what I’m hearing!” I thought to myself. Jeff was the last candidate (候選人)for president of Student Council. My best friend Tony came to me and said, “I’m sorry, Mike. I really thought you should be  1 .”

Later that day, I happened to pass Jeff in the dining room. I offered him a   2 “Congratulations” and walked to my usual table. To my surprise, Jeff put his plate beside mine.

“I’m, er…I’m just wondering if you would …consider coming to work on my team,” he said  3 . “You are really smart, and you would be a great manager.”

“I don’t think so,” I replied, feeling unsure.

“Well, if you change your mind, we are meeting tomorrow,” he said before moving to another table.

All that night, I thought about the offer from Jeff. Maybe being a part of the election process(選舉過(guò)程) would give me a   4  to make important changes at our school. I decided to join them.

My first goal was to   5  an attractive advertisement. Within a few days, we designed a poster with Jeff’s pictures showing him in a number of activities. No one could walk through any hallway  6  passing Jeff’s smiling face.

My next step was to   7  which new activities students would like to have at our school. Many of them wanted a chess club and a volleyball team.

With the information I had collected, Jeff met with the headmaster. The headmaster   8 to add these activities to our school program.

An eighth grader said, “It’ll be like attending a new school with Jeff as president.”

Hearing these words made my heart filled with   9 . I had wanted to become president of Student Council to make a difference. I achieved that and more by working as a member of Jeff’s team. He became the most popular candidate and I was large part of his   10 . The fact that it has made a difference in other people’s lives is the real prize. What a great feeling!

1.                A．heard          B．chosen         C．invited   D．followed

2.                A．polite          B．loud           C．warm D．cheerful

3.                A．proudly         B．quickly         C．nervously D．regretfully

4.                A．suggestion      B．chance         C．message  D．change

5.                A．print           B．invent          C．create    D．send

6.                A．with           B．by             C．through  D．without

7.                A．carry out       B．try out          C．work out  D．find out

8.                A．a(chǎn)greed         B．wanted         C．expected D．a(chǎn)sked

9.                A．pride          B．surprise        C．patience  D．hope

10.               A．luck           B．spirit           C．life   D．success

To be a good teacher, you need some of the abilities of a good actor. You must be able to__1___ the attention and interest of your audience. You must be a clear speaker with a good voice which is fully under your _2___. And you must be able to act what you are teaching in order to make its meaning clear.
Watch a good teacher, __3___ you will see that he stands the whole time he is teaching, he walks about using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations and his face to express feelings. When you listen to him, you will hear the loudness and the musical note of his voice __4__changing according to what he is talking about.
The __5__ that a good teacher has some of the talents of a good actor does not mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage for there are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. The actor has to __6___ the same words which he has learnt by heart every time he plays a certain role. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem __7__ on the stage.
The good teacher works in a quite different way. His audience take an active part in his play. They ask questions when they do not understand something. So the teacher has to suit his act to the __8___ of his audience which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must ___9___ it as he goes along.
I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were __10___ to take part in stage-play because their brains (大腦) could not keep strictly to what another had written.

Girls are afraid of math .They think they have some         learning it .