先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容和所给的首字母，在空格内填入一个适当的词，使短文意思完整。 Happiness is for everyone.
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have becautiful houses with large gardens and swimming pools or those who
have nice cars and a lot of money and so on. Why? Because those who have big
houses may often feel 1.l_____ and those who have cars may want to walk on the
2.c_____ roads at their free time．In fact, happiness is always 3.a_____ you if
you put your heart into it．When you are in 4.t_____ at school, your friends will
help you; when you study hard at your lessons, your parents are always 5.t_____
good care of your life and your health; when you get 6.s_____,your friends will
say congratulations to you; when you do something wrong, people around you
will help you to 7.c_____ it．And when you do something good to others, you
will feel happy,too. All these are your happiness. If you 8.n_____ a bit of them,
you can see that happiness is always around you. Happiness is not the same as
money. It is a feeling of your heart．When you are poor, you can also be very
happy, because you have something else that can"t be 9.b_____ with money.
When you meet with 10.d_____, you can say loudly you are very happy, because
you have more chances to challenge(挑战)yourself. So you can’t always say you
are poor and you have bad luck
As the saying goes, life is like a revolving(旋转的)door. When it does, it
also opens. If you take every 11.c_____ you get, you can be a happy and
12.l_____person．
答案
2. country
3. around
4. trouble
5. taking
6. success
8. notice
9. bought
10. difficulties
11. chance
12. lucky
举一反三
about one hundred thousand cars cross the bridge, taking people to and from the city. More than half of them
cross the bridge during the morning and evening rush hours, as a result, the trip is not pleasant.
Now, however, there is at least one group of happy commuters(经常往返者). These are the people who travel
under the bridge instead of on it. They go to work by boat and enjoy it so much that most of them say they will
never go by car again.
The boat they take is the large, quiet, comfortable "Golden Gate". Commuters can enjoy the sun on the boat.
In the morning they can have breakfast in the coffee shop, and in the evening they can have a drink in the bar
while they are looking at San Francisco"s famous scene and the nearby hills.
The trip only takes thirty minutes and is not expensive. But best of all, being on a boat seems to make people
feel more friendly towards each other. Two commuters who met on the "Golden Gate" have already got married.
Because the boat had been so successful, there are plans to use other, still larger boats. There is also a plan
for a high-speed boat that will make the trip in only fifteen minutes. Not everyone is happy about that. "A lot of
people don"t want to get the trip faster," said one commuter, "They feel that an hour is just enough to rest."
B. the Golden Gate Bridge is very long
C. the bridge is crowded with bikes, cars, buses and trucks all the time
D. most of the car owners can not enjoy the beauty of San Francisco
B. a big coffee shop will be built
C. more and more people will get married on the boat
D. people will all go to work by boat
B. they like to stay on the boat
C. there will be more people on the boat
D. they won"t have enough time to rest
many interesting stories in the paper. You just need to make clear what you are looking at. "I spend
about half an hour reading newspapers every day," said 15-year-old Gao Ming from Beijing. "I"m
interested in things happening at school." School news is just one kind of news story in newspapers.
There"s also world news: from international problems to pop stars.
Read the newspaper carefully, we"ll find different types of articles on the pages:
News stories - these stories are about events. Reporters try to show all points of a story to help
readers understand what happened. Reporters try to speak to as many people as possible. They also
use pictures and numbers to show the readers that the stories are true. The newspaper Teenagers has
lots of news stories on the news page and front page. When we read them, we learn more about the
facts, not the writers" ideas.
Opinion writing - opinion writing is usually about something happening right now. But it isn"t just facts.
Here writers add their own opinions to the news. Writers pick only the facts that help back up their
ideas. They make readers believe that they are telling the truth. This is usually the kind of story that gets
people thinking. Go to "Speak Out" on Page Two for an example of opinion writing in Teenagers.
Advertisement - Don"t get happy too early when you read them. Those sweet words and lovely
pictures are just ways to get us intere
sted in their products! People have to pay to put advertisements in newspapers!
1. The underlined sentence means that the readers "_______".
A. should understand interesting news stories
B. ought to know which kind of things to read
C. need to look at the school news first
D. must know the contents of all the news
2. This passage mainly discusses how _______.
A. reporters write different kinds of news
B. teenagers get interested in newspapers
C. readers can read newspapers in better ways
D. readers can"t read different news in newspapers
I ran into a stranger as he passed by. "Oh, excuse me please" was my reply. He said," Please excuse
me too.I wasn"t even watching for you."
We were very 1 , this stranger and I. We went on our way and said goodbye.
But at home 2 story is told-how we treat our loved ones, young and old. Later that day, cooking the evening meal, my daughter stood beside me very still. When I turned, I nearly knocked her down. "Move
out of the way," I shouted at her. My daughter walked away, her little heart broken. I didn"t realize how
rudely I had spoken.
While l was 3_ in bed. God"s small voice came to me and said, "When dealing with a 4 ,common
manners you use, but the children you love, you seem to be rude. Look on the kitchen floor, and you will
find some 5 there by the door. Those are the flowers your daughter brought for you. She picked them
herself, pink, yellow and blue. Your daughter stood _6 not to spoil(毁坏)the surprise, and you never saw
the tears in her eyes."
By this time, I felt very small, and now my 7 began to fall. I quietly went and knelt(跪下) by her bed, "Wake up, my little baby, wake up," I said.
"Are these the flowers you 8 for me?" My daughter smiled, "I found them out by the tree. I picked them 9 they are pretty like you. I knew you would like them, especially the blue."
I said, "Daughter, I am sorry for the way I acted today: I should not have shouted at you that way."My
daughter said, "Oh, Mom, that"s okay. I love you anyway."
I said, "Daughter, I love you too, and I do like the flowers, especially the 10 ."
| ( )1. A. happy ( )2. A. same ( )3. A. awake ( )4. A. friend ( )5. A. newspapers ( )6. A. excitedly ( )7. A. surprises ( )8. A. picked ( )9. A. until ( )10. A. pink | B. angry B. different B. asleep B. classmate B. books B. quietly B. flowers B. took B. if B. blue | C. polite C. funny C. alive C. enemy C. flowers C. sadly C. tears C. bought C. unless C. red | D. selfish D. exciting D. afraid D. stranger D. sweets D. angrily D. knees D. gave D. because D. yellow |
| 阅读理解 | |||
| Come And Join Us! We warmly welcome you to the Shine Sports Centre! All the young people in this city can become members of the Shine Sports Centre and each member should pay $10 every year. To be a member of us and get your membership card(会员卡),you need to come to us between 2 pm and 6 pm, Monday to Thursday. I have to tell you that we don"t accept new members on Friday. Now, there are three things that you must remember to bring with you when you come for a membership card. They are your ID card, a recent passport-sized photo of yourself and the money. We can"t give you the card unless you bring all three. Once you have got your membership card, you need to bring with you whenever you come to book or use any Shine Sports Centre facilities(设备).Booking over the phone is not allowed, so you have to come here with your card when you want to book. There is one more thing I have to tell you. Our opening hours is from 9 am to 10 pm on weekdays and from 10 am to 6 pm on weekends. We hope that every member can have a great time in the Shine Sports Centre. | |||
| 1. You can use the facilities in the Shine Sports Centre at_______. | |||
| A. 9 am on Sunday B. 5 pm on Wednesday C. 7 am on Thursday D. 9 am on Saturday | |||
| 2. You and your classmate have to spend ______.on the membership card for two years. | |||
| A. $10 B. $20 C. $30 D. $40 | |||
| 3. What does the underlined word "book" mean in Chinese in this passage? | |||
| A. 书 B. 账册 C. 预定 D. 记录 | |||
| 4. Which of the following is TRUE? | |||
| A. All people have the chance to be members of the Centre. B. You can get the membership card at 6 o"clock in the morning. C. You can"t book the facilities over the telephone. D. You don"t need to bring the membership card when you need to use the facilities. | |||
| 5. Who is the advertisement written for? | |||
| A. Young people. B. Old people. C. Couples. D. Little kids. | |||
| 阅读理解 | |||
| Honesty comes in many forms. First there"s self-honesty. Is what people see the real article or do you appear through smoke and mirrors? I find that if I try to be something I"m not, I feel unsure of myself and take out a part from my PBA (personal bank account). I love how singer Judy Garland put (表述) it, "Always be a first-class version (版本) of yourself, instead of a second-class version of somebody else." Then there"s honesty in our actions. Are you honest at school, with your parents, and with your boss? If you"ve ever been dishonest, I think we all have, try being honest, and notice how whole it makes you feel. Remember, you can"t go wrong and feel right. This story by Jeff is a good example of that: In my second year of study, there were three kids in my math class who didn"t do well. I was really good at it. I would charge them three dollars for each test that I helped them pass. I"d write on a little piece of paper all the right answers, and hand them off. At first I felt like I was making money, kind of a nice job. I wasn"t thinking about how it could hurt all of us. After a while I realized I shouldn"t do that anymore, because I wasn"t really helping them. They weren"t learning anything, and it would only get harder down the road. Cheating certainly wasn"t helping me. It takes courage to be honest when people all around you are getting away with cheating on tests, lying to their parents, and stealing at work. But, remember, every act of honesty is a deposit (储蓄) into your PBA and will build strength. | |||
| 1. The underlined part "appear through smoke and mirrors" in the first paragraph means______. | |||
| A. to be honest B. to be unreal C. to become clear D. to come from an imagined world | |||
| 2. Which of the following can best explain Judy Garland"s words? | |||
| A. Be your true self rather than follow others. B. Don"t copy others or you can"t be the first class. C. Make efforts to be the first instead of the second. D. Don"t learn from others unless they"re excellent. | |||
| 3. What does the author expect to show by Jeff"s story? | |||
| A. Honesty can be of great help. B. A bad thing can be turned into a good one. C. Helping others cheat can do good to them. D. One should realize the wrong in his bad actions. | |||
| 4. In the last paragraph the author mainly wants to express _______. | |||
| A. one must be brave to be honest B. it"s difficult to be honest when others are not C. one should be honest when making a deposit D. honesty in one"s actions can help him in the future |