Old age may not sound exciting. But recent findings offer good news for older people and for people worried about getting older. Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of fifty. In fact, they say by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were when they were eighteen years old.
The researchers 
asked
questions about emotions like happiness, sadness and worry. They also
asked about mental or emotional stress. They also found that levels of stress
were highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five.The
findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their
fifties.
The study also showed that men and women have similar
emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more
sadness, stress and worry than men
.
Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older. One theory is that, as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.
1.When will people become happier and experience less worry?
A. 18 years old B. 80
years old C. 50 years old D. 25 years
old
2.What does the underlined word“emotions”mean in Paragragh Two?
A. 体力 B. 情感 C. 智力 D. 目标
3.Who has the most sadness, stress and worry?
A. a fifty-year-old man B. a fifty-year-old woman
C. a twenty-five-year-old woman D. a twenty-five-year-old man
4.According to the last paragraph, why may people be happier at an older age?
A. They are more thankful for what they have
B. They have better control of their emotions
C. They spend less time thinking about their bad experiences
D. All of the above.
Mary didn’t understand such sentences as“She is blue today”，“You are yellow”，“He has a green thumb”，“He has told a white lie”and so on．And she went to the teacher Mrs James for help．
Mary：Mrs James，there is a colour in each of the sentences．What do they mean?
Mrs James：In everyday English，Mary，blue sometimes means sad，yellow afraid．A person with a green thumb grows plants well and a white lie is not a bad one．
Mary：I'm afraid I don’t understand them all．Would you give me an example for “a white lie”?
Mrs James：Certainly．Now I just give you some cakes．In fact you don’t like it，but you don’t want to let me know it．Instead you say，“No，thanks．I’m not hungry．”That’s a white lie．
Mary：It sounds very interesting．Thanks very much．
Mrs James：You are welcome．Colours are meaningful．I think you will meet more sentences like these in the future．Please come to me if you have any questions．
1.Blue sometimes means sad in ________ English．
A．good B．spoken C．usual D．poor
2.I don’t have a green thumb，so all my plants________．
A．die off B．grow well C．look nice D．are good
3.He is ________today．He is told that his father is seriously ill．
A．blue B．yellow C．green D．white
Mr. King goes to a dinner party. He is wearing old
clothes. He comes into the room. But people in the room don't look at him. They
don't ask him to sit at the table. Mr. King goes home and puts on his good
clothes. He goes back to the party. Everyone in the room stands up and smiles(微笑) at him. They give him very good food to eat. Mr.
King takes off his clothes, and puts them in the food and says, “Eat, clothes!”
The other 
people
ask, “What are you doing?” He answers, “I'm asking my coat to eat food. I am
wearing my old clothes. You don't look at me. You don't ask me to sit down. Now
I'm in these clothes. And you give me very good food. Now I see, you give the
food to my c
lothes,
not to me!”
1.Mr. King goes to the dinner party, but people in the room don’t look at him. Because __.
A. he doesn't come by car B. he is young
C. he is wearing his old clothes D. he is old
2.Mr. King goes back to the party. People in the room stand up and smile at him because_____ .
A. he is wearing his old clothes
B. he comes by a very good car
C. he is wearing his good clothes
D. he is putting on his good clothes
3.Mr. King says the good food is _______.
A. for he B. for his good clothes C. for me D. for him
There was a woman in Nanjing , who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially(尤其) the younger one, Ben, he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class made jokes about him because he seemed(看似) so .
The mother that she herself would have to get her sons to do better in school. She told them to go to the library to read a a week and do a report about it for her.
One day, in Ben’s , the teacher held up a rock（石头） and asked if anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him . Why did Ben raise his hand? They wondered（想知道）. He said anything, what could he possibly want to say?
Well, Ben not only the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were . Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book .
Ben later went to the of his class. When he finished high school, he went to University （大学）and at last became one of the best doctors in the United States.
After Ben grew up, he something about his mother that he did not know as a .
She, herself, had never learned how to .
1.A. because B. so C. but D. though
2.A. clever B. had C. slow D. quick
3.A. asked B.
decided 
C.
forgot D. heard
4.A. notice B. message C. book D. question
5.A. class B. room C. office D. lab
6.A. think B. leave C. speak D. answer
7.A. always B. even C. quickly D. never
8.A. found B. played C. knew D. threw
9.A. whether B. when C. where D. why
10.A. afraid B. surprised C. worried D. unhappy
11.A. pictures B. exercises C. shops D. reports
12.A. top B. end C. back D. side
13.A. learned B. remembered C. understood D. guessed
14.A. doctor B. child C. student D. teacher
15.A. read B. work C. teach D. show
We all think _______ kind ________ you to give your seat to a young lady with a baby in her arms yesterday.
A. that, for B. it’s, for C.it , of D. that, of
I am afraid there’s ____________with the computer. Can you come and have a look?
A. wrong anything B. anything wrong C. wrong something D. something wrong..
