Fear can be a wonderful feeling in our lives, protecting us from dangerous situations and keeping us safe. But fear can also limit our lives significantly. While it may not be conscious, fear may make us think we are unacceptable or that what we have to offer isn’t valuable. Fear may make us feel that we are not safe being ourselves.

To avoid feeling fear, we may limit our lives greatly, living in tiny boxes. Living this way gives us the illusion(假象) of safety but leaves us with an unfulfilling life of no passion. If we shine a light on many of our fears, we see they have a very limited view of what is “safe” and how to “protect” us. Many of our fears are concerned only with protecting us from humiliation(羞辱) and failure. While these fears are doing their jobs incredibly well, they are doing so with faulty and outdated programming. Many fears we have as adults are trying to protect us as they protected us when we were children. Indeed, many of our current, automatic reactions to fear were actually formed when we were children.

Even so, it’s important not to judge ourselves for feeling these types of fears. If we judge ourselves, we will bury our fears or disguise them. By denying our fears, however, we also deny our energy, creativity and passion.

So what do we do with fear? We recognize the fear for what it is--- a feeling we’ve experienced many times in the past and a feeling we will experience many times in the future. We become very familiar with our own particular brand of fears and how we allow them to control our lives. It is especially beneficial for each of us to become aware of the particular behavior patterns we’ve adopted when we feel fear, so we can look at our reactions with a sense of humor and compassion. Then, if we wish, we can choose a different response, which can be a scary yet very exciting experience.

1.According to the first paragraph, fear sometimes      .

2.It can be inferred from the passage that the author   .

3.According to the author, the ways we react to fear      .

4.The last paragraph mainly tells us      .

5.What would be the best title for the passage?

NEW YORK---One in five U.S. workers regularly attends after-work drinks with coworkers, where the most common mishaps range from badmouthing another worker to drinking too much, according to a study released on Tuesday.

Most workers attend so-called happy hours to bond with colleagues, although 15 percent go to hear the latest office gossip and 13 percent go because they feel necessary, said the survey conducted for CareerBuilder. com, an online job site. As to what happens when the after-work drinks flow, 16 percent reported bad-mouthing a colleague, 10 percent shared a secret about a colleague and 8 percent said they drank too much and acted unprofessionally. Five percent said they had shared a secret about the company, and 4 percent confessed to singing karaoke. While 21 percent of those who attended said happy hours were good for networking, 85 percent said attending had not helped them get closer to someone higher up or get a better position. An equal number of men and women said they attended happy hours with co-workers, with younger workers aged 25 to 34 most likely and workers over 55 least likely to attend. Overall, 21 percent of workers attend happy hours with co-workers and of those nearly a quarter go at least once a month.

The survey was conducted online by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder. Com among 6,987 full-time employees between February 11 and March 13. Harris Interactive said the results had a sampling error of plus or minus 1.2 percentage points.

1.Harris Interactive made the survey to find out     .

2.      of workers who attend after-work drinks speak ill of a colleague. 

3.According to the passage, most of those surveyed believed attending after-work drinks      .

4.We can learn from the text that         .

5.After the survey, it can be inferred that      .

Senior citizens are permitted to travel cheaply on a bus if they have a special card. Women may get cards when they are sixty.

Mrs. Matthews lived in the country but she went into town once a week to buy food and other things for the house, and she usually went by bus. She always had to pay the full price for her ride.

Then she reached the age of sixty and got her senior citizen’s card, but when she used it for the first time on the bus, it made her feel very old.

The bus driver had often seen her traveling on the bus before, and he noticed that she was feeling unhappy, so after she had paid her money, he winked at her and whispered, “Don’t forget to give your mother’s card back to her when you see her again.”

Mrs. Matthews was very happy when she heard this.

1.Senior citizens in the story refer to       .

2.Women over sixty       .

3.Mrs. Matthews used to pay the full price for her ride because    .

4.Mrs. Matthews felt unhappy on the bus because      .

5.The driver whispered to her      .

Nowadays advertisements are everywhere. I think advertisements have both good and bad effects    1.   young students.

On one hand, advertisements give us information about things     2.   buy. They make    3.  easier for us to choose the best product. Also, some advertisements are beautifully designed and pleasant to look at.    4.    on the other hand, they can make trouble for us. First, most advertisements look attractive and they persuade us to buy things we don’t need at all. This is especially bad for young people. They are not making money yet. So they have to ask for money   5.   their parents. Sometimes they buy lots of junk food    6.  the advertisements look delicious. This is not healthy for them. What’s more, some advertisements don’t tell the truth. Many people find   7.  cheated after using certain products.

In short, advertisements have pros and cons﹙赞成和反对点﹚.   8. young students, we should learn to deal with.

My mother really knows how to get others to do what she suggests. Besides my father, her neighbors and even a stranger in a grocery store, has fallen under her 36  .

One day we were shopping in a supermarket. When we were passing by the baby aisle(过道), she    37 a young mother browsing through different brands of powdered milk. Her baby was playing with a toy. My mother   38  babies so she went up to the woman and chatted with her.

My mother is an easy person to like. She has the kindest eyes in the world, so it isn’t 39 

to trust her. She 40 with the baby a little bit and told the woman about how I used to be cute at that age, too. They laughed together.

The woman was about to put Brand X Milk Powder in her cart when my mother suggested Brand Y  41 because it obviously had better vitamins. Would you believe the woman actually

42      brands just like that?

She really does know how to influence people. But what about her getting other people to

43     whatever she tells them?

My father and I actually had a long conversation about her  44 on how to influence people. According to my father, my mother is just a really likeable person, and she has 45 been

like that, even when he first met her. Chatting people up is natural for her.

During our conversation, I realized that what my mother has is the  46 to build rapport(亲善) with other people. With rapport comes  47 . People are more likely to be influenced by those who they think understand their viewpoints or share their opinions.

----I am sorry to tell you that I can’t arrive on time as planned due to the delay of the flight. You have to look after your brother yourself tomorrow.

----Don’t worry, uncle. There’s      .

Mother asked the young kid      with his toy car.

Can you tell me       ?

I’m considering      a computer, which is considered      a great help to my work.

Above one third of the population in Beijing and Shanghai      netizens, but in poor

areas, only three or four percent        online.