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When talking about picking a right school,a mother and teacher gave some pieces of advice.
In the latest issue(期)of Youth magazine,the mother shared the school advice she gave her daughters with young people across the country.
“I’ve told my daughters many times that I don’t want them to choose a name,” the mother said.“I don’t want them to think,‘Oh,I should go to these top schools.’ We live in a country with hundreds of excellent universities.So the first question is:what’s going to work for me?”
“When it was time to prepare for picking schools,nobody around me believed I could get into Xiamen University.But through hard work I finally made it,” she continued.“So,my second piece of advice is:believe in yourself,no matter what other people might say.Once your goal is set,you only need to try your best to make it come true.”
“The last piece of advice is not to be worried even if your dreams don’t come true.As I’ve said above,there are so many good universities out there.So it’s important for everybody to understand that you can always find a university that gives you a great education.”
(C)1.The mother shared her advice .
A.with her students
B.with her husband
C.in Youth magazine
D.in Xiamen University
(B)2.To explain her second piece of advice,the mother gave .
A.a story of her daughters
B.a story of her own
C.some different reasons
D.some different ideas
(D)3.We can learn from the last paragraph that .
A.we can realize our dream through hard work
B.the name of the university isn’t the most important
C.it’s not necessary to care what other people might say
D.more than one university can give us a good education
(D)4.The best title for the passage may be .
A.Colourful university life
B.Best school education
C.A report on university building
D.Advice on school picking
B
“I will think of it.” It is easy to say this,but do you know what great things have come from thinking?
Sir Isaac Newton was sitting in his garden when he saw an apple fall from a tree.He began to think and tried to find out why the apple fell.Then he discovered how the Sun,the Moon,and stars are kept in their places.
A boy named James Watt sat quietly by the fire,watching the lid of the kettle move up and down.He wanted to find out why the steam in the kettle moved the lid.From that time he went on thinking and thinking.And when he became a man,he improved the steam engine(蒸汽机) so much that it could easily do the work of many horses.
James Ferguson was a poor boy.Once,seeing the inside of a watch,he wondered,“Why should I not make a watch?” But how could he get the materials to make the mainspring(钟表的主发条)?He soon found he could make it with whalebone(鲸骨).He then made a wooden clock which kept good time.His motto(座右铭) was “I will think of it.” And he made his thoughts useful to himself and the world.
