Why are so many people so afraid to fail? Quite simply because no one tells us how to fail so that failure (失败) becomes an experience that means growth. We forget that failure is part of the human condition and that every person has the right to fail.

      Most parents work hard at preventing failure or protecting their children from the knowledge that they have failed. One way is to lower standards. 60% of the parents choose this way. When a child finishes making a table, the mother describes it as “perfect” even though it doesn't stand still. Another way is to blame (责怪) others. If John fails in science, his teacher is unfair or stupid.

      There's a problem with the two ways. It makes a child unprepared for life in the real world. The young need to learn that no one can be best at everything, no one can win all the time, and that it's possible to enjoy a game even when you don't win. A child who's not invited to a birthday party, who doesn't make the honour list on the baseball team, feels terrible, of course. But parents should not offer a quick consolations (安慰), prize or say, “It doesn't matter.” Because it does. The young should be allowed to experience failure and be helped to come out of it.

     Failure never gives people pleasure. It hurts both grown-ups and children. But it can be really good to your life when you learn to use it. You must learn to ask “Why did I fail?” Don't blame anyone else. Ask yourself what you did wrong and how you can improve. If someone else can help, don't be shy about asking them.

    Wang Yaping taught Chinese primary and middle school students on Earth physics problems in the zero-gravity environment(失重环境).She prepared for the lecture for a long time.

    Wang, born in January 1980, is from east China's Shandong Province. She was a pilot in the People's Liberation Army Air Force(空军)with experience of 1,600 hours of flying.

    The world's first teacher in space was Christa McAuliffe, a 37-year-old middle school teacher from the United States ,but the Space Shuttle Challenger（挑战者号）disintegrated(崩裂)after 73 seconds into flight on Jan.28,1986. McAuliffe and other six members were killed.

    “Wang's lecture was a pleasant surprise,” said Zhang Xiaguang, an astronaut in the three members of shenzhou 10 spacecraft.“________________(她无论做什么都很优秀).Sometimes we'd like to give her a helping hand ,but she just would not take the hand in help,”said Nie Haisheng.

    Like many young Chinese people, Wang likes photography, music and basketball. She said ,“We are all students in facing the universe(宇宙)。We are looking forward to joining our young friends to learn and explore the mystical(神秘的)and beautiful universe.”

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Conversation 1

Policeman: Excuse me,what's your name?

Lim: My name is Lim Brown.

Policeman: Is this your dictionary?

Lim: Yes,it is.Thank you.

Policeman: Are these your keys?

Lim: No,they aren't.I think they are Mike's.Is that yours,Mike?

Mike: Yes,they are my keys. 

Policeman: What's your last name?

Mike: Smith.

Policeman: Ok.What's your telephone numbers?

Mike: My telephone number is 329-0769 and Lim's is 568-8215.

Conversation 2

Rick: Excuse me,sir,I lost my ID card.

Policeman:What's your first name?

Rick: Rick.

Policeman:What's your last name?

Rick: Cooper.

Policeman: How do you spell Cooper?

Rick:C-O-O-P-E-R.

Policeman:And your telephone number?

Rick: 678-0987

Policeman:Yes,it's your ID card.

    Once upon a time, there was a strange bird. He lived in a tree near the bank of a river. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    One day, one of the two heads saw a delicious fruit on a tree. He picked it and started eating the fruit. "It is one of the most delicious fruits I have ever eaten," he said.

    The other head said, "{#blank#}2{#/blank#}" The first head laughed and said, "You know that we have only one stomach. It makes no difference whether I eat it or you eat it. Moreover, I'm the one who found the fruit. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}"

    Later that day, the other head found a tree having poisonous (有毒的) fruits. He took a poisonous fruit and told the first head, "I will eat this fruit."

    The first head shouted, "{#blank#}4{#/blank#} If you eat it, both of us will die."

The other head replied, "Shut up! I'm the one who found the fruit. I have the right to eat it."

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} In the end, both of them lost their lives.

A. So I have the right to eat it.

B. The first head started crying, but the other head still ate the poisonous fruit.

C. Let me also taste the delicious fruit.

D. The bird had two heads, but they shared one stomach.

E. What do you think of the bird with two heads?

F. Please don't eat this poisonous fruit.

G. The bird looks very beautiful and cute.

    Here are two old stories from Chinese history. The Chinese people have told them for many years.

    One is a story about Cao Cao's son, a clever boy named Cao Chong. One day, Cao Caogot a huge elephant from Sun Quan and he wanted to know the weight of it. Because there wasn't a scale large enough, some soldiers advised him to(A)it up. But Cao Cao didn't want to kill the elephant. Just then, Cao Chong came up with a great idea. He asked some soldiers to lead the elephant onto about. As the heavy animal walked onto it, the boat went lower into the water. After Cao Chong drew a line on the side of the boat to mark how low it went, the elephant was taken off the boat. (B)The boat was filed with rocks until the water reached the line on the boat. Cao Chong then weighed the rocks. The rocks and the elephant were of the same weight. (C)曹操对他的儿子生常满意。

    The other story is about a wise man named ZhugeLiang. He was asked to make 100, 000 arrows (箭)within 10days. He told (D) his soldiers to fill 20 large boats with many straw men. In the early morning of the third day, the soldiers said the boats towards the camps of Cao Cao's army on the other side of the river. They shouted and boat their drums loud. When Cao Cao's soldiers heard the sounds, they thought they were (E)attack. However, they could not see through the thick tog on the river. Cao Caoordered his soldiers to shoot arrows towards the sounds of the drums and the shouting. Zhuge Liang got enough arrows and then sailed back successfully.