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Michael Leung, a famous TV host(主持人) in Hong Kong, wrote a letter to his son. It is not only__1__ to children, but also good for all ages. The following are chosen__2__his letter.
1. Life is short. While you are__3__it today, you’ll realize you are at the end of it tomorrow. So the earlier you start to value your life, the __4__you can enjoy it.
You might not be successful__5__you don’t study hard, although a lot of successful people haven’t__6__higher education.
I don’t expect you to support(供养) me for the rest of __7__life, so I’m not going to do the same for you. You will be living on your own when you grow up.
You can require yourself to be nice to others, __8__you shouldn’t expect the same from the others.
I’ve been buying the lottery(彩票) for almost twenty___9__, but I’m still poor. I’ve never got the __10__place even once. So you have to work hard to be successful. There is no free lunch in the world.
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After a quick breakfast, I went into the lecture hall in a hurry. A famous teacher was__1__to the students. He was holding up a $100 bill. Then he said to the three hundred students, “Who would like this $100 bill ” The students put up__2__ hands at once. Then he said, “I’m going to give this $100 to one of you, but __3__, let me do this.” He made the bill into a ball. Then he said, “Who__4__it now ” The hands went back into the air. “Well,” he said, “what if I do this ” and he __5__it on the floor and stepped on it. He picked up the __6__ bill and said, “Who will wants it ” hands went back again into the air.
“My friends,” he said, “you have learned a valued(有价值的)__7__today. No matter what I did to the $100 bill! Many __8__in our life, we are dropped and stepped on. We feel as if we are worth nothing. But remember, no matter what__9__happened to you, you will never lose your value: You are__10__valueble to the people who love you. Your value doesn’t come from what you do or whom you know, but who you are.”
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Worried That People Are Laughing at You
Imagine this situation. You pass a group of people. The people are talking to each other. You cannot hear what they are saying. But __1__they start laughing. What would you think Would you think they were laughing at something__2__that one of them said Or to be honest with yourself, would you think they were laughing at you Yes, you.
Being laughed at is a __3__fear. But a major study published(公布) in 2009 found that fear is not the __4__around the world. It differs from culture to culture.
Some people in the study said they felt unsure of __5__ in social situation and hid their feelings of insecurity(不安全). Others said they avoided(回避) social situation where they had been laughed at __6__.
Shy people often avoid situations that would make them get into close contact(接触) with other people. They worry that something they say or do will make other people laugh at them. It can be truly sad for those who live with the fear of laughter. It can__7__ how they lead their lives.
In the studies, a team from the University of Zurich led more than ninety__8__from around the world. They wanted to understand the difference between normal shyness and true fear of being laughed at. Another purpose of the study was__9__the levels of the fear of being laughed at in different cultures. The scientists surveyed more than seventy-two thousand people in forty-two different languages. The __10__would appear in Scientific Humoor.
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根据语篇内容,用方框中所给词的正确形式填空,使短文通顺、连贯。方框中有两个词是多余项。
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“Mommy, what are you doing ” asked Susie.
“I __1__a dinner for Mrs. Smith next door.”
“Why ” asked Susie, who was only six years old.
“Because Mrs. Smith is very sad; her daughter__2__in an earthquake and she has a broken heart. We need to look after her.”
“Why, Mommy ”
“You see, Susie, when someone is sad, they have trouble__3__the little things like cooking dinner or other chores. Because Mrs. Smith is our neighbor, we need to do some things to help her. Mrs. Smith won’t ever be able to talk with her daughter or do all those wonderful things__4__mommies and daughters do together. You are a very smart girl, maybe you’ll think of some way__5__care of Mrs. Smith.”
Susie thought seriously about __6__she could care for Mrs. Smith. A few minutes later, Susie knocked on her door. Mrs. Smith answered the knock with a “Hi, Susie.”
From her sad look, Susie noticed that Mrs. Smith must__7__for a long time. “What can I do for you, Susie ” asked Mrs. Smith.
“My mommy says that you lost your daughter and your heart is broken.” Susie held her hand out shyly. In it was a Band-Aid(创可贴). “This is for your broken heart.” Mrs. Smith burst into tears. __8__her tears she said, “Thank you, darling girl, this will help a lot.”
Mrs. Smith accepted Susie’s__9__and she put Susie’s Band-Aid in a small picture frame(相框). She feels a little__10__every time she sees it. She wisely knows that healing takes time and support.
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请先阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从方框所给的词中选出最恰当的10个,用其适当形式填空。每个词限用一词。
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The best and the worst jobs
There are lots of jobs which we can do. Some are just ordinary(普通的) jobs and __1__are careers(职业), but each person likes something__2__.
My favorite job is that of a(n)__3__. You can make beautiful things and you don’t have to __4__to get to work. Also, you don’t have to do what other people tell you. You can __5__ what you are going to paint and then you just do it. The only__6__thing is that artists don’t make very much money.
The worst job I can think of is a pilot’s. You have to work for long hours and it’s __7__ tiring and boring. If you make a serious mistake, __8__will go wrong. It’s too dangerous. The only good thing is that pilots are paid a lot of money,__9__money isn’t the most important thing about a job.
In a word.__10__job has both good and bad things about it, but I think that artists have got the best jobs.
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Victor used to be such a good runner that he__1__nine awards at the age of 18. Then one day while he was running along the roadside, an __2__suddenly happened to him. Unluckily, both of his legs were hurt seriously by a car which was out of control. He lost__3__ of his legs.
After a long time, however, he knew life didn’t__4__for him. He focused on(关注) what he could do__5__of what he lost. He realized that there were many possibilities for the disabled. One of the things he __6__interested in was foreign languages.
Every day he listened to the tapes and read books. After__7__years he became fluent in three languages. Then he tried his best to work as a translator in a company. To everybody’s__8__, he became the best one in the city.
__9__Vicor can’t work, he is always looking forward to living a wonderful life in the future. Sometimes he misses being able to walk or run. But now at least he can live on his own and make himself__10__what he likes. He thinks there’s much to be thankful for.
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阅读短文,从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空,使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词,每词限用一词。方框中有两个词是多余的。
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Where is love How can we find love
Once a little wanted to meet Love. He__1__ it was a long trip to where Love lived, so he got his things ready with some pizzas and drinks and started off. When he passed three streets, he saw an old woman__2__in the park and watching some birds. She looked very hungry. The boy__3__her a pizza. She took it and smiled at him. The smile was __4__beautiful that he wanted to see it again, so he gave her a Coke. She smiled once again. The boy was very happy.
They sat there__5__the afternoon, eating and smiling, but they said nothing. When it grew dark, the boy decided to leave. But before he had gone more than a few__6__, he turned around, ran back to the old woman and gave her a hug. The woman gave him her biggest smile ever.
__7__the boy opened the door of his house, his mother was __8__by the look of joy on his face and asked what had made him so happy. “I had lunch with Love. She has got the most beautiful smile in the world.” At the same time, the old woman’s son was also surprised at his mother’s pleasure and asked why.
“I ate a pizza in the park with Love,” she said, “and he is much__9__than I expected.”
If the world is full of love, we can enjoy a __10__life.
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词语填空(用所给单词的适当形式填空)
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“Sorry” is a word that people in Britain often say in their daily life.
One day while I was__1__on the street, a young man ran hurriedly, brushing(轻擦) against my handbag. He continued his way, but turned__2__and said “sorry” to me. Even in rush, he didn’t __3__to say “sorry. One day, after I bought some bananas, the shopkeeper was passing me the change, but I wasn’t ready for it and a coin dropped onto the ground. “Sorry, Madam,” he said__4__bending to pick it up. I was__5__why he said “sorry” to me. Another time, I stepped on a man’s__6__at the entrance to the cinema. At the same time, we__7__said “sorry.”
Slowly, I got to know that when something unpleasant happens in daily life, the British don’t__8__much about who is wrong. If someone is in trouble, a “sorry” is always__9__. Perhaps that is __10__I seldom see people quarrel on the buses or streets in Britain.
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Tang Ling often smoked cigarettes in his school’s washing room. He started smoking__1__the age of 14. One day he learned that the NBA star Yao Ming, an ambassador(大使) to the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control(中国控烟协会), asked people not to smoke. Yao Ming was Tang’s favorite star, so his words meant a lot to him. He decided to __2__up smoking.
According to the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, about 350 million Chinese smoke. Among__3__,50 million are teenagers. Sun Jiangping of Beijing University said, “Teenagers can get cigarettes__4__,especially when their parents smoke or shops__5__cigarettes to them. It’s very important for parents to help their children stop__6__.”
A fifteen-year-old boy named Li Kun from Beijing said his__7__didn’t smoke, because they thought smoking could make people feel__8__ill. They only allowed him to play with friends who didn’t smoke. Living in such a good family helped Li say no to cigarettes. Some of his smoking classmates once told Li that smoking made boys look__9__, but Li disagreed. He said, “Smoking is__10__and it’s not cool at all. Please stop smoking now!”
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You don’t have to give thousands of dollars to help someone. Sarah, a girl from Michigan, the USA, make a difference just by giving her__1__. Sarah was seriously ill__2__she was a baby. It is__3__for her to move. Sarah has to__4__around with a walker. However, the 11-year-old girl doesn’t give up, and she uses her experience to help others.
Last summer, Sarah__5__three days a week for seven weeks at the Grand Rapids Comprehensive Therapy(治疗) Center. She was one the youngest__6__for “Therapy and Fun”, a program for children with special needs. Her job was to help them and provide them__7__advice and encouragement.
Sarah says that she’s__8__she can share her knowledge with others, and that working at the Center taught her a lot, too. “I feel my life is getting better because I can help others in __9__way,” she said. Mary, Sarah’s fourth-grade teacher, said that Sarah has the help of other students around her, but shows them that she’s there to__10__them, too.
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Long ago, there__1__a well-known old man. He always__2__what was going to happen. One day, a king who was__3__ill asked the old man, “Am I going to live a long time What is going to happen to me ” The old man looked the king for a moment and __4__, “I wish you good luck forever, but I am sorry to say that you are going to die in three days.” The king said in an angry__5__, “If I don’t die in three days, I will kill you. I don’t say that for fun.”
Three days later, the king really__6__of cancer. The old man took__7__in his prediction. Then the__8__son became the new king. He was very angry with the old man and was quite__9__about his own problem. He said to the old man, “You think you are very clever. Do you think it a joke Tell me, what is your future ” The old man looked at the new king, and he knew what the king’s words__10__in fact. He said, “I am going to die three days before you.”
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Starbucks doesn’t just sell coffee. It sells a coffee drinking__1__. Starbucks coffee shops have__2__quality(质量) drinks, comfortable seating areas and famous brands. They are__3__places to have a drink.
The first Starbucks__4__in 1971, in Seattle, Washington. At first, it was just a common coffee shop. In the 1980s, it went__5__ big changes. The owners, after traveling in Italy,__6__to turn Starbucks into an Italian style coffee shop. Their idea was very successful. Soon, there were Starbucks in many__7__cities.
In the 1990s, Starbucks went international. They opened the__8__store in Japan in 1995, and then all over Asia.
Starbucks is not only coffee shops. The company is part of many community projects. For example, there are a group of__9__called the “Green Team”. They lead recycling projects in their local areas. They also plant trees and clean neighborhoods.__10__group, the Starbucks Foundation, encourages young people to read.
So, the next time you order a drink at Starbucks, feel good about yourself.
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These days, more and more children are becoming overweight. Why is this__1__ Doctors, teachers, and other adults believe that children are not__2__the right amount of exercise and are not eating the__3__kinds of food.
In the past, children__4__to be more active. In early America there was a lot of work to be done. Children helped on the__5__and in the factories. Children didn’t have much time to sit around. Today__6__always watch television or play computer games at home. Too many of__7__activites involve eating and not being active enough.
Another main reason for children being overweight is the types of food they eat. More and more families are eating at restaurants__8__eating too much fast food. In other words, children are eating too many__9__foods.
Children should mostly eat fruits, vegetables, grains and cereals(谷类作物), some dairy products, and only a little meat and oil. These kinds of food can help children keep their weight__10__and help the body fight diseases.
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Do you feel sleep after lunch Well, that’s normal(正常的). Your body naturally__1__down then. What should you do about it Don’t reach for a cup of coffee! __2__, take a nap(小睡)!
It’s good to have a daily nap. First of all, it will make you__3__things better and make fewer mistakes. Also, you can learn things more__4__after taking a nap. A map may make you more active and even cheer you up. But there are some simple__5__you should follow about taking a nap.
First take a nap__6__of the day, about eight hours after you wake up in the morning. Next, a 20-minute nap is best. If you sleep longer, you will feel worse. Also, you should set an alarm clock. That day, you can fully__8__during your nap. You won’t have to keep looking at the clock for fear that(唯恐) you’ll__9__.
Next time if you feel sleepy after lunch, put your head down,__10__your eyes and take a nap.
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Young People In Britain
Life used to be fun for “teenagers”. They used to have money to spend, and free time to while away(消磨). They used to wear teenage clothes, and meet in teenage coffee bars and discos. Some of them still do. But for many young people, life is harder now.__1__are difficult to find. there’s not so much money around. Things are__2__, and it’s hard to find a place to live in. teachers say that students work harder than they used to. They are less__3__in politics, and more interested in__4__exams. They know that good exam results may bring the better jobs.
Most young people worry more about money than their parents did twenty years ago. They try__5__less and save more. They want to be able to get homes of their own one day.
For some, the answer to unemployment(失业) is to leave home and look for jobs in one of Britain’s big__6__. Every day hundreds of young people arrive in London from other parts of Britain, looking for jobs. Some find jobs and stay,__7__don’t, and no home again, or join the unemployed(失业者) in London.
When you read the newspapers and watch the news on TV, it’s__8__to get the idea that British young people are all unemployed, angry in trouble. But that’s not true. Three quarters of them do more or less what their parents did. They do their best at school, find some kinds of jobs in the end, and get __9__in their early twenties. They get on well with their parents, and enjoy their family life. After all, if they don’t, they__10__be British, will they
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