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happier with a bit more money. We are conditioned to want to be richer; we are trained
to want the latest style that television tells us; we want to earn more money because then
we"ll have a good life.
But none of that will make us happier. And the sad thing is that it can take us decades
of pursuing (追求) wealth and expensiv
e things before we realize that. So what will bring us happiness? Luckily, there are three things that don"t cost anything. Here they are:
Good relationships. We have a human need to be close with other human beings. Having
good, supportive friendships, a strong marriage or loving relationships with our family members
will make us much more likely to be happy. Therefore, take time, today, to stay with your
loved ones, to tell them what they mean to you, to listen to them, and to develop your r
elationships with them.
Positive thinking. Optimism(乐观) is one of the best indicators of people who lead a
happy life. Happy people feel empowered, in control of their lives. So why not make
positive thinking a habit? In fact, this should be one of the first habits you develop.
Flow. This is a popular concept on the Internet these days 一 the state we enter when
we are completely focused on the work or task. Having work and leisure(休闲)that gets
you in this state of flow will almost undoubtedly lead to happiness. People find the greatest
enjoyment not when they"re passively mindless, but when they"re absorbed in a mindful
challenge.
If you are interested in some kind of work and keen on some kind of hobbies, it is not a
bad idea. Turn off the TV 一 this is the opposite of flow 一 and then go outside and do
something that truly makes you active.
答案
5. likely 6. developing 7. positively 8. Form/Develop 9. devoted/committed
10. interests
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romantic relationships,and be__1__.However,when we"re__2__,we want to go back to being
young and we__3__the days when we didn"t have to worry about complex love affairs,__4__
pressure,and money problems.
Young pe
ople believe adulthood__5__freedom from parents and schoolwork.When they get older,they feel that_
_6__is freedom from work pressure and family responsibilities.To__7__this feeling,people say,"The grass is always__8__on the other side of the fence."
As__9__,we like to be like adults but as young adults,we__10__to be young again.We think
about staying out late and__11__our own money to spend.Suddenly,they see that love can result
in__12__hearts；staying out late makes it hard to get ready for__13__the next morning.They find
out that adult life is not as__14__as they thought it would be and suddenly,__15__becomes very
scary.
Life is__16__.It gives us time to__17__but also requires us to work.The time will come when
we must grow up and we will always look back wishing we__18__being young a bit longer.That
time will not come back.It is normal to want what we cannot have but the__19__is that to be happy
is to appreciate what we have.That is the first step to grow up.__20__life becomes more complex,
we will not regret the time we wasted wishing we were adults.
( )2.A.older
( )3.A.like
( )4.A.study
( )5.A.creates
( )6.Achildhood
( )7.A.reduce
( )8.A.greener
( )9.A.researchers
( )10.A.wish
( )11.A.making
( )12.A.healthy
( )13.A.breakfast
( )14.A.rich
( )15.A.life
( )16.A.long
( )17.A.study
( )18.A.stopped
( )19.A.reason
( )20.A.If
B．defeated
B．forget
B．job
B．shows
B．adulthood
B．describe
B．thinner
B．teenagers
B．decide
B．having
B．ambitious
B．school
B．busy
B．love
B．shor
B．thin
B．enjoyed
B．result
B．When
C．married
C．regret
C．age
C．means
C．parenthood
C．experience
C．yellow
C．adults
C．return
C．worrying about
C．broken
C. exercise
C．free
C．career
C．fair
C．play
C．imagined
C．dream
C．Unless
D．confident
D．miss
D．health
D．limits
D．romanticism
D．understand
D．colorful
D．elders
D．stop
D．showing off
D．excited
D．work
D．easy
D．future
D．beautiful
D．live
D．tried
D．truth
D．Before
something__2__to say.In his opinion, the bottom line is your choice__3__you live a life.
One morning, he did something you are never__4__to do in the restaurant business: he left
the back door open and was__5__up at gunpoint by three armed robbers.While trying to open
the__6__, with his hand shaking from__7__, he input the wrong code.The robbers beat him
and even__8__him.Luckily, Jerry was found__9__quickly after the robbers had fled and he
was rushed to the local first aid center.After 18 hours of operation and weeks of good care,
he was out of hospital with fragments (碎片) of the bullets still in his body.
Jerry told me what happened after he was sent to hospital.He said the doctors were__10__.
They kept telling him he was going to be fine and__11__him into the emergency room.But when
he saw the__12__on the faces of the doctors and nurses, he got really__13__.In their eyes, he
__14__, "He"s dying." He knew he needed to take__15__.There was a big,burly nurse shouting
questions at him.She asked if he was allergic (过敏的) to anything, and the doctors and nurses
stopped working as they waited for his reply.Jerry__16__for a while and then he decided to live.
He took a deep breath and said, "Yes.__17__!" Over their laughter, Jerry told them to operate
on him__18__he wouldn"t die.
Jerry lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing__19__.I learnt
from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.
Attitude, __20__, is everything.
( )2.A.positive
( )3.A.how
( )4.A.advised
( )5.A.pulled
( )6.A.box
( )7.A.nervousness
( )8.A.knocked
( )9.A.probably
( )10.A.excited
( )11.A.rolled
( )12.A.surprise
( )13.A.scared
( )14.A.knew
( )15.A.notice
( )16.A.thought
( )17.A.Medicine
( )18.A.unless
( )19.A.reply
( )20.A.to be honest
B．funny
B．where
B．imagined
B．put
B．safe
B．worry
B．killed
B．relatively
B．organized
B．carried
B．expressions
B．embarrassed
B．found
B．order
B．wondered
B．Operation
B．even if
B．attitude
B．in that case
C．new
C．whether
C．asked
C．held
C．counter
C．unwillingness
C．knifed
C．merely
C．hard-working
C．wheeled
C．feeling
C．disappointed
C．meant
C．breath
C．judged
C．Bullets
C．as if
C．opinion
C．after all
D．different
D．why
D．supposed
D．done
D．door
D．pressure
D．shot
D．reasonably
D．great
D．forced
D．puzzles
D．annoyed
D．read
D．action
D．stopped
D．Fragments
D．before
D．determination
D．strictly speaking
ruean everything, not just houses and shops and grown-ups, but colors and flowers and joumeys,
especially journeys which seemed endless. "Are we there yet, Daddy?"
Funfairs(游乐场) were huge things that spread for miles around you with noise and lights
and exciting danger. Rainy days at home when you were ill seemed to last for ever. Being a
grown-up yourself was an un- thinkable distant possibility. Every sound was louder, every
game was grander, every pain was unbearable.
As I"ve grown old, life has become smaller. Tastes have dulled. Surprises have turned into
shocks. Days go by unnoticed. How can I regain childhood when it was an illusion?
I have only one repeatable and wonderful way and even in this way I can regain only part
of that larger world.l can play upon the stage like a child and make the crowd laugh with them,
sonletimes helplessly like a child, and then, even though I"m a sixty-one-year-old man, I can almost
catch the colors and sounds and stillness of those bigger years when I was little.
B. It was unpleasant.
C. He is glad that it is over.
D. He misses it as a grown-up.
B. children were cunous and eager about life
C. things appeared really big in children"s eyes
D. to grow up seemed so long for children
B. time goes by too fast
C. he has had too many surprises
D. foods no longer taste delicious
B. live an unusual life
C. make the crowd laugh
D. regain his childhood
sounds. Streaks (条纹,线条) of light cast by the blinds of the tall 1 send shafts (杆状物)
of light through the dusty air. I take a 2 and the concrete and paint 3 tickle my nose. I
4 everything about this room.
Some of the 5 times of my life have been spent here. It"s ironic (讽刺的) , but the 6
is the only place where I feel that I don"t have to 7 to be someone I"m not. Like many
teenager, I almost 8 think that people are judging me, but when I act, that feeling disappears.
People only look at your 9 ability, not your clothing, money, choice of friends, or any of the
other ways people are usually 10 .
When I" m on stage, everything else vanishes (消失). All the worries and 11 of the outside
world are put on hold. Nervousness is still present, 12 it"s the excited and tingly kind, not the
queasy (不稳定的) 13 of being different and alone.
I 14 love to work backstage and on lighting. I 15 you could find another girl who would
work on a ladder 16 her elbows in cables and dust and love every second of it. It makes me
unique and gives me a sense of 17 to know that I succeed in an area where 18 others and
virtually (事实上的) no girls do.
High school is a difficult atmosphere, to put it 19 . Like others, I" m often insecure (不安的) ,
not 20 who I am or where I " m going in life. Wherever that may be, I will always have the
confidence I get from theater.
( )2.A. last look
( )3.A. smells
( )4.A. hate
( )5.A. worst
( )6.A. room
( )7.A. pretend
( )8.A. hardly
( )9.A. acting
( )10.A. thought of
( )11.A. happiness
( )12.A. and
( )13.A. feeling
( )14.A. seldom
( )15.A. hope
( )16.A. up for
( )17.A. pride
( )18.A. few
( )19.A. cruelly
( )20.A. fond of
B. long walk
B. tastes
B. love
B. tiring
B. office
B. expect
B. seriously
B. speaking
B. judged
B. anxieties
B. however
B. idea
B. almost
B. doubt
B. out at
B. duty
B. many
B. tensely
B. afraid for
C. short breath
C. sounds
C. miss
C. best
C. building
C. want
C. constantly
C. moving
C. taken care of
C. chances
C. but
C. hope
C. relatively
C. think
C. up to
C. humor
C. a few
C. friendly
C. sure of
D. deep breath
D. looks
D. forget
D. better
D. stage
D. decide
D. happily
D. repeating
D. feeling
D. pressures
D. though
D. fact
D. absolutely
D. suspect
D. down to
D. sight
D. some
D. mildly
D. interested in
I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. 1 , he did not teach me acceptance when he was
strong and healthy, but rather when he was 2 and ill.
My father was 3 a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness 4 all that away. Now he
can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is 5 . One night, I went to
visit him with my sisters. We started 6 about life, and I told them about one of my 7 . I said that we
must very often give things up 8 we grow----our youth, our beauty , our friends-but it always _9 that
after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father 10 up. He
said ,"But, Peter. I gave up 11 ! What did I gain?" I thought and thought , but I could not think of
anything to say. 12 he answered his own question: "I 13 the love of my family." I looked at my sisters,
and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.
I was also 14 by his words. After that, when I began to feel irritated (愤怒的)at someone, I 15
remember his words and become 16 .If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others,
then I should be 17 to give up my small irritations. In this 28 , I learned the power of acceptance
from my father.
Sometimes I 19 what other things I could learn from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a
boy. For now, though, I am gratetful for this one 20 .