阅读理解。 How often one hears children wishing they were grown-ups and, old peop

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阅读理解。     How often one hears children wishing they were grown-ups and, old people wishing they were young
again. Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age
gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets.
     Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents,
he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is impossible that he will ever again in his life be
given so much without having to do anything in return. What"s more, life is always giving new things to the
child-things that have lost their interest for older people because they are too well known. But a child has his
pains: he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is repeatedly being told not to do something, or being
punished for what he has wrongly done.
     When a young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his
clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most of his time playing
about in the way that he used to as a child, he will go hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society as he used
to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, however, he works hard, keeps out of trouble and
has good health, he can have the great happiness of building up for himself his own position in society. 1. According to Paragraph 2, the writer thinks that _____. A. life for a child is fairly easy
B. a child is always loved whatever he does
C. if much is given to a child, he must do something in return
D. only children are interested in life 2. According to the passage, after a child grows up, he _______. A. will have little time playing
B. has to be successful in finding a job
C. can still ask for help in time of trouble
D. should be able to take care of himself 3. The underlined word "responsibilities" in the second paragraph means _______. A. duties
B. jobs
C. suggestions
D. desires 4. The main idea of the passage is that _____. A. life is not enjoyable since each age has some pains
B. young men can have the greatest happiness if they work hard
C. childhood is the most enjoyable time in one"s life
D. one is the happiest if he can make good use of each age in his life

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阅读理解。     Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers said, "Barbara, be enthusiastic!
Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience." How right they were!
     "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste
that helps you hang on there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers,"I can do it!"
when others shout,"No, you can"t!" It took years and years for the early work of Barbara Mc Clintock,
a geneticist (遗传学家) who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she
didn"t let up on (放松) her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought
of stopping.
     We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic
people such youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, cellist (大提琴家) Pablo Casals would start his day by
playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his bent shoulders would straighten and joy would
reappear in his eyes. As author and poet Samuel once wrote,"Years make the skin old, but to give up
enthusiasm makes the soul old."
     Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money, title or power. Patricia Mcllrath, retired
director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm.
She replied,"My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, I never made a penny until I stopped working for money."
     If we cannot do what we love as a fulltime career, we can do it as a hobby. Elizabeth Layton of
Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended her sadness that had troubled her for
at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say,"I am persuaded to call Layton a genius."
     We can"t afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens". We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go
after "what-can-be". We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our senses-finding pleasure in
the sweet smell of a backyard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, and the beauty of a rainbow.1. The passage mainly shows us ____. A. enthusiasm leads to everything
B. enthusiasm helps us to succeed to a greater degree
C. enthusiasm makes us experience more life
D. we can do nothing without enthusiasm2. From the example of the Nobel Prize winner Barbara Mc Clitock, we may find ____. A. enthusiasm can encourage us in difficult times
B. enthusiastic people always get a deep pleasure from work
C. you can"t make any achievement if you have no enthusiasm
D. enthusiastic people are sure to gain great fame in the end 3. The underlined sentence in Paragraph Three suggests ____. A. time and tide wait for no man
B. we grow old as time goes on
C. people feel young with enthusiasm
D. our soul becomes old with enthusiasm 4. The main idea of the last paragraph is ____. A. we should try heart and soul to win what we want
B. enthusiasm can give us pleasure, though we have to sweat
C. we have not enough money to buy what we need
D. enthusiasm with sweat is what we need

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READING COMPREHENSION.      There are two basic ways to see growth: one as a product, the other as a process. People have generally
viewed personal growth as an external (外在的) result or a product that can easily be identified and measured.
The worker who gets a rise, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language-all
these examples of people who have measurable results to show for their efforts.
     By contrast (对照), the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine, since it is a
journey and not the specific signposts or landmarks along the way. The process is not the road itself, but the
attitudes, feelings people have, and their caution or courage, as they meet with new experiences and unexpected
difficulties. In this process, the journey never really ends; there are always new ways to experience the world,
new ideas to try, new challenges to accept.
     In order to grow, to travel new roads, people need to have a willingness to take risks, to face the unknown,
and to accept the possibility that they may "fail" at first. How we see ourselves as we try a new way of being
is necessary for our ability to grow. Do we see ourselves as quick and curious? If so, we tend to take more
chances and be more open to unfamiliar experiences. Do we think we"re shy and indecisive? Then our sense
of fear can cause us to hesitate, to move slowly, and we think we are slow to adapt change or that we"re not
smart enough to deal with a new challenge. Then we are likely to take a more passive role or not try at all.
     These feelings of insecurity and self-doubt are both unavoidable and necessary if we are to change and
grow. If we protect ourselves too much, then we stop growing. We become trapped inside a shell of our
own making. 1. A person is generally believed to achieve personal growth when_____ . A. he has given up his smoking habit
B. he has made great efforts in his work
C. he is interested in making anything new
D. he has tried to determine where he is on his journey 2. Which of the following can be viewed as the process of personal growing? A. Our manager was always willing to accept new challenges.
B. Jane won the first prize in the speech competition.
C. Jerry picked up French during his stay in Paris.
D. Father"s salary rose from 5, 000 to 7,000. 2. In the author"s eye, one who views personal growth as a process would ______.A. succeed in climbing up the social ladder
B. judge his ability to grow from his own achievements
C. face difficulties and take up challenges
D. aim high and reach his goal each time 3.When the author says "a new way of being" (para.3), he is referring to _____. A. a new approach to experiencing the world
B. a new way of taking risks
C. a new method of finding ourselves
D. a new system of adapting to change 4. For personal growth, the author is in favor of all the following except ____. A. being curious about more changes
B. being quick in self-adaptation
C. having an open mind to new experiences
D. staying away from failures and challenges

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阅读理解。    When it comes to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, who possess
wings of their own and who will fly with me. I seek friends whose qualities illuminate
(照亮) me and train me up for love. It is for these people that I reserve the glowing
hours, too good not to share.
    When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and "too serious" about
our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable
social behaviors. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would
sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say:"Let"s start with a train whistle
today." We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out
of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too,
were changing into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped.
    When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend. He was in despair (失望) and I was
in despair. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry
later if we did not explore this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We met
every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walked until our despairs
disappeared and then we parted. We gave London to each other.
    For almost four years I have had remarkable friend whose imagination illuminates mine.
We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves.Each of us appears,
sometimes in a funny way, in the other"s dreams.She and I agree that, at certain times, we
seem to be parts of the same mind. In my most interesting moments, I often think:"Yes, I
must tell…." We have never met.
    It is such comforting companions I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is
worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist (心理学家), who will only
fill up the healing (愈合的) silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would
rather be my own best friend. 1. In the eighth grade, what the author did before developing proper social behavior was
   to _____. A. become serious about her study
B. go to her friend"s house regularly
C. learn from her classmates at school
D. share poems and stories with her friend 2. In Paragraph 3, "We gave London to each other" probably means _____. A. our exploration of London was a memorable gift to both of us
B. we were unwilling to tear ourselves away from London
C. our unpleasant feeling about London disappeared
D. we parted with each other in London 3. According to Paragraph 4, the author and her friend _____. A. call each other regularly
B. have similar personalities
C. enjoy writing to each other
D. dream of meeting each other

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阅读表达。     For the next seven years, sit down each evening and write down ten things you are grateful for each day.
Better still, do this with partner or friend. Before we practice gratitude (感恩), we are in the dark and there
appears to be very little to be grateful for. Once we begin, a new light dawns, sometimes a brilliant light, a
light as bright as heaven itself.
     To whom are you grateful in your life? Do these people know the full extent of your gratitude? Do you
realize how grateful they will be when you tell them? Gratitude is more important than an attitude; gratitude
is philosophy. The philosophy of gratitude being as a hope, grows into a belief, and finally becomes an
absolute knowing. It is a knowing that within any given situation-peaceful or painful or ugly-there is always
a gift waiting, waiting for to see.
     If it appears you have nothing to be grateful for, it is because you are not allowing yourself to receive.
Just because you do not receive does not mean there is nothing to receive. On the contrary (相反), there
is always ____ and so there is always a reason to be grateful. Pray:"Dear God, teach me I am worthy to
receive, teach me how to receive, teach me gratitude". Gratitude is good medicine. One single serving of
gratitude is often enough to open the heart, energise the body, warm the bones, make your hair curl, put a
spring in your step, start you humming, and make you smile like a baby. 1. What"s the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
    __________________________________________________________________________________
2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one? Showing even a bit of gratitude
    can make everything look fine, and it will be of great benefit to you.
    __________________________________________________________________________________
3. Please fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.
    (Please answer within 10 words.)
    __________________________________________________________________________________
4. Do you agree with the author"s opinion of gratitude? Why? (Please answer within 30 words.)
    __________________________________________________________________________________
5. Translate the underlined sentence in the first paragraph into Chinese.
    __________________________________________________________________________________

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完形填空。     We should show respect (尊重) to everybody, especially our elders because they are ahead of us-in age, in
wisdom, in experience and education. Our   1   have done a lot for us, directly or indirectly and most of us   2
everything to their kindness and love.
     When we   3   them respect, whether ii is by bowing to them, or   4   them with a smile, or offering them
any help they need, it is one way of   5   our own love and gratitude (感激) to them.   6  , elders have also been
through all the years you are   7   and know a little more about the world than you do.
     It is   8   that you do not agree with the belief of your elders but this is nothing new. All younger generations
have always   9   with their elders and it is these differences that bring changes in human  10 . However much
you disagree with them, give them credit (信任) for their  11 .
     With changing times and  12  influences, youngsters no longer know what is interpreted as disrespect to
elders. Youngsters should  13  express their views and if there are arguments, they should not  14  their voices.
     If there is no space on sofas or chairs, children will immediately  15  their places, and sit on the carpet. In
buses and trains, youngsters are  16  to give up their places to older people. This is not a  17  of who has more
rights. It is simply that those who are youngsters have the strength to bear  18 , or stand unpleasantness, so it
is natural to show consideration (体贴) to those who are older and perhaps at a  19  disadvantage (劣势).
     When you do simple things as a mark of respect, elders become  20  that youngsters care for them, and they respond
with affection and kindness.

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