How I Turned to Be Optimistic(樂觀的)

I began to grow up that winter night when my parents and I were returning from my aunt’s house, and my mother said that we might soon be leaving for America. We were on the bus then. I was crying, and some people on the bus were turning around to look at me. I remember that I could not bear the thought of never hearing again the radio program for school children to which I listened every morning.

I do not remember myself crying for this reason again. In fact, I think I cried very little when I was saying goodbye to my friends and relatives. When we were leaving I thought about all the places I was going to see—the strange and magical places I had known only from books and pictures. The country I was leaving never to come back was hardly in my head then.

The four years that followed taught me the importance of optimism, but the idea did not come to me at once. For the first two years in New York I was really lost—having to study in three schools as a result of family moves. I did not quite know what I was or what I should be. Mother remarried, and things became even more complex for me. Some time passed before my stepfather and I got used to each other. I was often sad, and saw no end to “the hard times. ”

My responsibilities in the family increased a lot since I knew English better than everyone else at home. I wrote letters, filled out forms, translated at interviews with Immigration officers, took my grandparents to the doctor and translated there, and even discussed telephone bills with company representatives.

From my experiences I have learned one important rule: Almost all common troubles eventually go away! Something good is certain to happen in the end when you do not give up, and just wait a little! I believe that my life will turn out all right, even though it will not be that easy.

1.How did the author get to know America?

A. From her relatives B. From her mother

C. From books and pictures D. From radio programs

2.Upon leaving for America the author felt_______.

A. confused B. excited C. worried D. sad

3.For the first two years in New York, the author_______.

A. often lost her way

B. did not think about her future

C. studied in three different schools

D. got on well with her stepfather

4.The author believes that ________ .

A. her future will be free from troubles

B. it is difficult to learn to become patient

C. there are more good things than bad things

D. good things will happen if one keeps trying

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。

There is an English saying:“___1._____.” Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body. ____2.___.

Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their hearts, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. ___3._____. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.

Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group that tolerated(忍耐) the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program. ____4.___.

_____5.____. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.

A. Laughter can make one’s life longer.

B. As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics in which they help to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh.

C. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain which reduce both stress and pain.

D. It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing; it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach and even the feet.

E. Although laughter helps cure the disease, doctors still can not put this theory into clinic practice.

F. Laughter is the best medicine.

G. They have found that laughter really can improve people’s health

完形填空

閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

One Starry Night

I will never forget that night: Sept 26, 1996. I pulled into my driveway after a busy day of school and baby-sitting. I still ________ to write a big chemistry paper. There were many things on my mind. At that time I was having many problems with my family and friends, and ________ I was in a very bad mood. And I was unhappy with ________ and the way that my life was going. A major ________ I was struggling with was drug use. For two years I had been smoking marijuana (大麻) and ________ it, but could not stop. I did not let drugs ________ my grades or personality, but it made a(n) ________ in how I thought about myself. I had always been a good kid and still tried to be, but drugs brought me ________ . I frequently thought about how drugs were not something I wanted as part of my life. I wanted to ________ but I was scared to make the transition (改變).

I looked up at the sky as I got out of my ________ . The moon was covered by the earth’s shadow in a lunar eclipse (月蝕). The outer circle of the moon was exposed and gave off tiny beams of light, gleaming in all directions. The sky was a dark, ink-black color________ with millions of stars. I stood outside in the cool fall air for what seemed a long time of heaven and ________ . The joy that I had not ________ for ages came upon me. I closed my eyes to decide if this dream could be ________ . I slowly opened my eyes and caught a shooting star fly over treetops. Tears fell from my eyes and streamed down my cheeks. I had ________ the true beauty of nature and God. Those few ________ helped me find the________ to change.

It was not easy to make the decision to stop using drugs. It was even harder to ________ stop. Quitting has given me hope and a reason to be ________ myself. It has helped me grow ________ and more mature (成熟).

1.A. wanted B. had C. intended D. meant

2.A. therefore B. however C. then D. yet

3.A. my family B. my job C. my friends D. myself

4.A. problem B. subject C. topic D. challenge

5.A. liked B. got used to C. hated D. needed

6.A. damage B. harm C. lower D. affect

7.A. difference B. part C. sense D. impression

8.A. down B. away C. up D. back

9.A. live B. change C. escape D. behave

10.A. house B. office C. school D. car

11.A. covered B. dotted C. crowded D. surrounded

12.A. sorrow B. sadness C. happiness D. regret

13.A. received B. tasted C. known D. felt

14.A. real B. practical C. useful D. helpful

15.A. caught B. seen C. guessed D. imagined

16.A. minutes B. stars C. thoughts D. nights

17.A. way B. courage C. chance D. solution

18.A. actually B. simply C. gradually D. quickly

19.A. crazy about B. pleased with C. proud of D. critical of

20.A. Wiser B. happier C. healthier D. stronger

閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當?shù)膬?nèi)容（1個單詞）或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。

Alice: Mr. Black, this is Alice 1. (speak). I’m calling to ask you if I can take the afternoon off today.

Black: Well, of course. 2. can you tell me what the problem is, Alice?

Alice: OK, Mr. Black. My son is going to take part in a singing competition 3. (hold) in Washington tomorrow. He’s got so many things to take 4. he can’t go there alone.

Black: So you want to take 5. there in your minibus?

Alice: Yes. And as soon as I put him up in the hotel, I 6. (drive) back.

Black: Well, that would be a 7. (tire) journey. It’s nearly 300 kilometers away and it will take you at least six hours 8. (travel) to and from Washington. Why don’t you stay there until you 9. (see) your son perform?

Alice: But I have two 10. tomorrow morning.

Black: Don’t worry. I’ll tell Mary to take your classes instead. She’s always willing to help.

Alice: That’ll be nice. Thank you and give my thanks to Mary.

Black: You,re welcome.

根據(jù)漢語提示用適當形式填空

1.The child is so naughty that his behavior is badly in need of ___________ (糾正).

2.You needn’t pay for the electricity bill, because it is ___________ (包含) in the rent.

3.Now we’re leaving the business district and _____________（靠近）the harbour.

4.Ms Shen gave us ___________（指令）and the we worked by ourselves.

5.Workers __________ (反應) angrily to the latest news of more job losses at the factory.

完成句子

1.實驗之后，這棵植物的高度是原來的四倍。

After the experiment, the plant is four times the _________ __________ what it was before.

2.感謝你幫我走出了困境。

I __________ you _________ me out of the whole trouble.

3.看他生氣的臉，我們保證絕不再提及那件事了。

Seeing his angry face, we promised never to ______ ______ the matter again.

4.雖然物理永遠不會是我最喜歡的課，但我認為有陳老師教，我會考的很好。

Physics will never be my favourite lesson, but I think that I’ll do well in the exam _________ Mrs Chen __________ me.

5.住在這兒我感到很幸運。

I feel very ____________ ______________ here.

單句改錯

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1.One day, little Tony went to a shopping center with his parent.

parents

2.He liked it so very much that he quickly walked into the shop.

3. Five minutes later. Tony saw∧ parents.

1.I am not interested in pop music and so are my classmates.

2.We will go shopping if it won’t rain tomorrow.

3.We visited the factory where we had once worked in for three years.

4.The missing boy was last seen play near the river.

5.Prices of daily goods buying through a computer can be lower than store prices.

6.They have got married since for 1999.

7.As we climbed the mountain, we fed monkeys, visiting temples and told stories.

8.This is one of the most attractive places that I traveled to.

9.It’s the first global meeting since the war began 14 years before.

10.Shanghai is bigger than any city in China.

Just 10 years ago, I sat across the desk from a doctor. “Yes,” he said, “there is something wrong with the left, upper lobe(肺葉). You have a moderately advanced case... You'll have to give up work at once and go to bed. Later on, we'll see.”

Feeling like a man who is in mid?career has suddenly been placed under sentence of death, I left the doctor's office, walked over to the park, and sat down on a bench. I needed to think. In the next 3 days, I cleared up my affairs, then I went home, got into bed, and set my watch to tick off not the minutes, but the months. Two years later, I left my bed and began the long climb back. It was another year before I made it.

I speak of this experience because these years that passed so slowly taught me what to value and what to believe. I realise now that this world I'm living in is not my oyster(牡蠣) to be opened but my opportunity to be grasped. Each day, to me, is a precious thing. The sun comes up and presents me with 24 brand?new, wonderful hours—not to pass, but to fill.

I've learned to appreciate those little, all?important things I never thought I had the time to notice before：the play of light on running water, the music of the wind in my favourite pine tree. I seem now to see and hear and feel with some of the recovered freshness of childhood. How well, for instance, I recall the touch of the springy earth under my feet the day I first stepped upon it after the years in bed.

Frequently, I sit back and say to myself, “Let me make note of this moment I'm living right now, because in it I'm well, happy and hard at work doing what I like best to do. It won't always be like this, so while it is, I'll make the most of it—and afterwards, I remember—and be grateful. All this, I owe to that long time spent on the sidelines of life.”

1.Which word can best describe the author's feeling after visiting the doctor?

A. Hopeless. B. Curious.

C. Confused. D. Energetic.

2.How long did it take the author to recover from his disease?

A. Two years and a half. B. Three years.

C. Three years and a half. D. Four years.

3.The underlined words “these years” in Paragraph 3 refer to the years when the author ________.

A. was ill

B. started his career

C. cleared up his affairs

D. struggled to go back to his work

4.By fighting with his disease, the author realised ________.

A. patients should know how to get on with doctors

B. doctors should treat patients more carefully

C. we should pay enough attention to diets

D. we should value and appreciate life

Tayka Hotel de Sal

Where：Tahua, Bolivia

How much：about $95 a night

Why it's cool：You've stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? That's something few can claim. Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt—including the beds (though you'll sleep on regular mattresses and blankets). The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried?up lake that's the world's biggest salt flat. Builders use the salt from the 4,633?square?mile flat to make the bricks, and glue them together with a paste of wet salt that hardens when it dries. When rain starts to dissolve the hotel, the owners just mix up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks.

Green Magic Nature Resort

Where: Vythiri, India

How much: about $240 a night

Why it's cool: Riding a pulley?operated(滑輪操控的) lift 86 feet to your treetop room is just the start of your adventure. As you look out of your open window—there is no glass—you watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy. Later you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of the hotel. You don't even have to come down for breakfast—the hotel will send it up on the pulley?drawn “elevator”．

Dog Bark Park Inn B&B

Where: Cottonwood, Idaho

How much: $92 a night

Why it's cool: This doghouse isn't just for the family pet. Sweet Willy is a 30?foot?tall dog with guest rooms in his belly. Climb the wooden stairs beside his hind leg to enter the door in his side. You can relax in the main bedroom, go up a few steps to the loft in Willy's head, or hang out inside his nose.

Gamirasu Cave Hotel

Where: Ayvali, Turkey

How much: between $130 and $475 a night

Why it's cool: Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash. But your stay will be much more modern. Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect from a modern hotel, and the white volcanic ash, called tufa, keeps the rooms cool, about 65℉in summer.

1.Which of the following about Tayka Hotel de Sal is TRUE?

A. The hotel is the cheapest among the four hotels.

B. Everything in the hotel is made of salt.

C. Rain has no effect on the hotel.

D. It is located on an old lake.

2.What is the similarity of the four hotels?

A. Being old. B. Being unique.

C. Being natural. D. Being beautiful.

3.It can be inferred that ________.

A. it is the same man who designed the four hotels

B. Green Magic Nature Resort is the dearest in India

C. the building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B is like a dog

D. Gamirasu Cave Hotel is the oldest among the four ones

4.What's the writer's purpose in writing the passage?

A. To show his wide knowledge.

B. To develop business in tourism.

C. To attract attention from readers.

D. To introduce some interesting hotels.

The behaviour of a building's users may be at least as important as its design when it comes to energy use, according to new research from the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). The UK promises to reduce its carbon emissions (排放)by 80 percent by 2050, part of which will be achieved by all new homes being zero carbon by 2016. But this report shows that sustainable building design on its own—though extremely important—is not enough to achieve such reductions: the behaviour of the people using the building has to change too.

The study suggests that the ways that people use and live in their homes have been largely ignored by existing efforts to improve energy efficiency (效率)，which instead focus on architectural and technological developments.

“Technology is going to assist but it is not going to do everything，”explains Katy Janda, a UKERC senior researcher，“consumption patterns of building users can defeat the most careful design.” In other words，old habits die hard, even in the best designed eco home.

Another part of the problem is information. Households and bill payers don't have the knowledge they need to change their energy use habits. Without specific information，it's hard to estimate the costs and benefits of making different choices. Feedback (反饋) facilities, like smart meters and energy monitors，could help bridge this information gap by helping people see how changing their behaviour directly affects their energy use; some studies have shown that households can achieve up to 15 percent energy savings using smart meters.

Social science research has added a further dimension (方面)，suggesting that individuals' behaviour in the home can be personal and cannot be predicted—whether people throw open their windows rather than turn down the thermostat (恒溫器) , for example.

Janda argues that education is the key. She calls for a focused programme to teach people about buildings and their own behaviour in them.

1.As to energy use, the new research from UKERC stresses the importance of ________.

A. zero carbon homes

B. the behaviour of building users

C. sustainable building design

D. the reduction of carbon emissions

2.The underlined word “which” in Paragraph 2 refers to“________”．

A. the ways B. their homes

C. developments D. existing efforts

3.What are Katy Janda's words mainly about?

A. The importance of changing building users' habits.

B. The necessity of making a careful building design.

C. The variety of consumption patterns of building users.

D. The role of technology in improving energy efficiency.

4.The information gap in energy use________.

A. can be bridged by feedback facilities

B. affects the study on energy monitors

C. brings about problems for smart meters

D. will be caused by building users' old habits