Have you ever thought that your life will be perfect if something in your outside world changes? You may say, “I will live happily if I find my soul mate.” You may say, “If the perfect job comes along, I will get satisfaction. My problem is that my boss is stupid.” Or you may say, “If I have a child, I will know what it is like to be loved.” The problem is that it is not the outside world that prevents you from experiencing peace, love and joy. Instead, it is your own internal (内部的) patterns that get in your way.
To prove this point, at my weekend programs, I had my students look at a flower on my table. Then I asked them to share their experiences. Some showed a state of complete joy because staring at the flower reminded them of their wedding or a great trip with their lovers. Others said the flower made them angry because it reminded them of a gift given by a former partner who turned against them. Some students even told me that the flower reminded them of their beloved grandmothers’ gardens with some shedding tears (流泪)of joy and others shedding tears of sadness. However, the flower was still just a flower.
Our internal patterns decide whether each moment is filled with peace, anger, joy, love or sadness. When you don’t realize that it is your own internal state that is creating your experience, you are likely to blame (责备)the external situations in your life. Most people aren’t taught that emotion is a choice. And they aren’t taught how to change those lower emotional patterns such as anger, anxiety, sadness and so on. Next time, when you meet something bad, please look at your internal state. When you accept that you are responsible for your own state, and find the courage to turn inward, you can step out of being a slave to what shows up in your external world.
1.Why does the author mention the examples in Paragraph 1 ?
A. To lead to the topic of this passage.
B. To complain about imperfect life.
C. To show common problems in life.
D. To encourage people to change the outside world.
2.How does the author prove his opinion?
A. By giving examples. B. By doing an experiment.
C. By telling a related story. D. By comparing other people’s opinions.
3.What does the author advise us to do in the last paragraph?
A. To step out of negative emotions.
B. To pay attention to our internal world.
C. To share our real emotions with others.
D. To use different methods to change bad emotions.
4.What does the author want to express through the passage?
A. Our external world matters a lot.
B. Our emotions can affect our health.
C. Our internal patterns truly decide our emotions.
D. Our experiences have a great influence on our emotions.
Many children are interested in dinosaurs (恐龙). If you have a child who loves dinosaurs, then here is some good news for you. There is an exhibition of dinosaurs at the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Wembley, Albert A. You can plan a family road trip there. Give your child a surprise and you’ll enjoy your time there as a family.
Sitting just 19 kilometers west of Grande Prairie, the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum was opened in 2015 and has collections that include fossils（化石）of sea animals, art works from different dinosaurs, a large family theater, as well as an outdoor discovery fossil walk, a large outdoor playground and the onsite Dine-O-Saur restaurant. Experience the dinosaurs' world like never before as you watch dinosaurs coming alive in movies. Learn about how these animals lived and breathed.
You can check out Dinosaurs Unearthed and all of the other exciting exhibitions at the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum on the following days/ time periods :
September 1st—May 31st:
Tuesday—Sunday 10 : 00 a. m. — 6 : 00 p. m.
Closed on Mondays
June 1st—August 31st:
Saturday—Monday 10 : 00 a. m. — 6 : 00 p. m.
Tuesday—Friday 10 : 00 a. m. — 8 : 00 p. m.
Admission (门票):
Adults: $ 14 each
Seniors (65 + ) : $ 11 each
Students (with ID) and children (5—17) : $7 each
Children under 5 : free
Family (2 adults and up to 4 children) : $40
If you want to see a National Geographic film or a full-length film during your visit, it is an extra $2— $4.
For more information, please visit the museum’s website at www. dinomuseum. ca.
1.What can people do at the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum?
A. Watch a full-length film for free. B. Learn about dinosaurs’ disappearance.
C. Have fun on a large outdoor playground. D. Buy some souvenirs of sea animals’ fossils.
2.If you want to go to the museum in October, what time should you try to avoid?
A. On Tuesdays. B. After 6 : 00 p. m.
C. On the weekend. D. Before 11 : 00 a. m.
3.What’s the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
A. To introduce a museum. B. To encourage family time.
C. To advertise an exhibition. D. To tell readers about dinosaurs.
假定你是李华，你原与留学生朋友Bob约好周六下午一起去看电影，现因故不能赴约，请写一封电子邮件，主要内容：1表示道歉； 2 说明原因； 3 另约时间
Dear Bob，
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Look forward to your early reply.
Yours
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（︿），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Dear Sir,
I’m glad to recommend my student Li Ming to you. During middle school years, he did well in several subject, including math, physics and chemistry. Later, his efforts paid off when he admitted into Beijing University majoring in physics. After that, he went to abroad for further education. Because for his excellent work and performance, he gets a doctor’s degree at Cambridge University. Today that attracts him most is our country’s great succeed and he hopes to come back home to do something for our country. I will be most gratefully if you consider his recommendation and offer him a job in your company.
Looking forward to receive your early reply.
Yours truly,
Wang Lin
阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。
Last Monday, the students at an elementary school welcomed a new student. He was not shy at all and seemed 1. (recognize) all kids by their names immediately . You may wonder who can do that. Well, the new student was not a human2.a robot. The 1.2 meter tall student is part of a robot experiment. The experiment is to test3.if robots can naturally deal with a group of people.
4.(compare) to other students, the robot appeared to be smarter than his “classmates”, because he was programmed with the facial5.(photo) and voiceprints of all kids and teachers there. Also, he 6.design) with the contents of all the textbooks. As 7.result, he impressed everyone by answering every question 8. (correct).
In fact, this is not the first time the robot 9. (be) around humans. In the past years he has done many tasks, one of 10. was accompanying patients at hospital.
Oxford and Cambridge have decided to remove the words CAN”T and IMPOSSIBLE from their dictionaries. Cox, 25, a girl born without arms, stands inside a(n) ____. Although she was born without arms, that has _______ stopped her from doing one thing: using the _____ “can’t”.
Cox got the Sport Pilot certificate recently and became the first pilot licensed to _____ using only her feet. She made what’s seemingly _____ become a reality. Her certificate______ her to fly a light sport aircraft of 10,000 feet.
“She’s a good pilot and she’s strong,” said Parrish, the flying _____ at San Manuel’s Ray Blair Airport. Parrish _____ a company of PC Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Services and has trained many pilots, some of whom didn’t come close to Cox’s _____. “When she came up here driving a car,” Parrish recalled, “I knew she’d have no _____ flying a plane…”
Doctors never learned why she was born without arms, but she _____ early on that she didn’t want to use prosthetic（假体的）_____.
Not only did Cox _____ a license to fly airplanes on October 10, 2008, but she also has a college degree in psychology, and a successful _____ as a motivational speaker. What doesn’t Cox have? Arms. From _____ on, her feet became her hands. She can drive a car and fly an airplane using her feet, without any _____ adaptations.
“I highly encourage people with _____ were confident enough to consider flying,” Cox said, “It helps _____ the traditional idea that people with disabilities are powerless into the belief that they are_______and capable of setting high _____ and achieving them.”
1.A. aircraft B. wheelchair C. armchair D. microscope
2.A. still B. almost C. only D. yet
3.A. meaning B. motto C. speech D. word
4.A. leap B. jog C. fly D. flee
5.A. awesome B. impossible C. grand D. theoretical
6.A. scans B. drags C. bumps D. qualifies
7.A. instructor B. companion C. fellow D. architect
8.A. conducts B. resigns C. runs D. designs
9.A. ability B. boundary C. satisfaction D. disability
10.A. ambition B. courage C. affection D. problem
11.A. speeded up B. figured out C. took up D. marked out
12.A. cushions B. tanks C. devices D. scanners
13.A. earn B. observe C. abolish D. envy
14.A. awareness B. reflection C. assessment D. career
15.A. time B. then C. birth D. now
16.A. immediate B. physical C. flexible D. special
17.A. faiths B. disabilities C. purposes D. decisions
18.A. transform B. suck C. scare D. urge
19.A. generous B. responsible C. powerful D. independent
20.A. spirits B. goals C. attempts D. profits
