I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.
I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows (誓约) mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.
So here's what I wanted to tell you today: get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion (提升), the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love，and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure(休闲) but work. Pick up the phone. Send an email. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.
It is so easy to waste our lives，our days，our hours，and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of living. I learned to live many years ago. Something really，really bad happened to me，something that changed my life. If I had my choice，it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what，today，seems to be the hardest lesson of all.
I learned to love the journey，not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and tried to give some of it back because I believed in it，completely and totally. And I tried to do that，in part，by telling others what I had learned.
By telling them this：read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness，because if you do，you will live with joy and passion(激情) as it ought to be lived.
1.How did the author form her view of life?
A．Through social experience.
B．By learning from her friends.
C．Through an unfortunate experience.
D. From her children and husband.
2.By the underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of living.” in the fifth paragraph，the author really means that people tend to________.
A．make a living rather than live a real life
B．work rather than enjoy life
C．waste a lot in life
D．forget the most important lesson in life
3.What’s the author’s attitude towards work?
A．Do it well to serve others.
B．Earn enough money to make life better.
C．Try your best to get higher position and pay.
D．Don’t let it affect your real life.
4.It can be inferred from the passage that________.
A．the author is a success in personal life
B．the author doesn’t try her best to work well
C．the author spends all her time caring for her children
D．the author likes traveling very much
As a boy I was always small for my age. I was also five years younger than one of my brothers and seven years younger than the other. As a result I often felt left out when their friends came over to play. I was either too small or too young for whatever they were doing and they didn't want their younger brother listening to their conversations either. More often than not I found myself outside playing alone and feeling forgotten.
I remember one spring afternoon feeling especially lonely as I sat in the yard behind our house. We lived miles from town and I hardly saw my own friends outside of school. I heard my brothers laughing from inside the house and felt a single tear coming down my cheek. At that moment I saw a large brown dog walking over to me. He looked happy and his tail was wagging as well. Even though he didn't know me he greeted me like a long lost friend, licking(舔) my chin and sitting beside me on the spring grass. It must have been at least an hour that I patted and talked to this four-legged angel. He let me pour out all my troubles and share my deepest thoughts before he kissed my cheek goodbye and ambled off either to Heaven or his home. I went back inside feeling happy, knowing that no matter what life may hold I was loved. Now over 40 years later I still remember that angel with a smile.
I believe that God sent him at that moment of sadness to remind me just how much he loved me. There is nothing more important than knowing we are loved. When we are loved, we will learn to love others. Learning to love helps us to understand ourselves and other people better.
1.How did the writer feel when his brothers’ friends came?
A. Proud. B. Worried.
C. Lonely. D. Happy.
2.The writer shared his troubles and thoughts with the dog because ______.
A. it was his friend B. it could understand him
C. it looked like an angel D. it was friendly to him
3.From Paragraph 2, we can learn that ______.
A. the boy met a long lost friend
B. the boy had no friends at school
C. the dog spent the afternoon with the boy and his brothers
D. the dog helped the boy realize that he was loved
4.The author wrote the story to______.
A. encourage people to talk about their troubles
B. show knowing you are loved is the most important
C. tell people they should treat animals friendly
D. share his unforgettable experience with us
你校做了一个关于中学生睡眠、饮食和休闲等生活习惯的调查, 发现学生最常见的不良生活习惯: 晚上熬夜; 不吃早餐上学, 常吃方便面; 长时间上网聊QQ和玩游戏。请根据以上信息写一篇不少于100词的短文,要求:
简述这些坏习惯可能产生的不良影响。
呼吁广大中学生培养健康的睡眠、饮食和休闲的习惯。
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Let’s develop a healthy lifestyle
According to a survey among middle school students, many students have the following bad habits:
There are many different signs in the public. They tell you what to do or what not to do in
a place. Do you know what they exact mean? For example, if you go to see a film, you should
enter the cinema at the ENTRANCE and leave for the EXIT. You will either find NO
SMOKING signs in many cinemas. If you visit a museum, don’t take some photos inside the
halls. You are not allowed. You will find NO PHOTOS signs in many museum. When
you drive a car, don’t park in a street without a NO PARKING sign. Making sure
you understood the signs and you won’t get into any trouble.
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Nowadays, quite a lot of parents are in a dilemma(窘境). On the one hand, they want to provide 1.___________(comfort) living and learning conditions for their children. On the other hand, 2.__________ worries them is that too cozy(舒服的) conditions might lead to spoiled children 3.___________ good qualities like perseverance(毅力), determination, and so on.
I firmly believe that hard life is good for children. Children from poor families are usually independent and have a strong will. Hard life makes them understand 
that their future lies in their own 4.___________. They are grateful to whatever 5.__________(give) to them by their parents. They 6.___________ complain because they know complaints can only result in disappointment. 7.___________, most of them are determined to change their present situation through hard work.
So I 8.___________(strong) recommend that parents should create 9.___________ for children to experience hard life, thus letting them realize the 10.___________ of valuing the present life and make good use of every minute to be prepared for the future.
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
A good book can be satisfying. If reading is a habit you’d like to get into, there are some ways to develop it.
Realize that reading is enjoyable if you have a good book. If you have a difficult book and you are forcing yourself through it, it will seem like a task. 1._____________
Set time. You should have some time during every day when you’ll read for at least 5 to 10 minutes. 2.____________ For example, make it a habit to read during breakfast and lunch and even dinner if you eat alone.
Always carry a book. 3.____________ When I leave the house, I always make sure to have my car keys and one book at hand. The book stays with me in the car, and I take it into the office and to appointments and pretty much everywhere I go.
4._______________ Find a place in your home where you can sit in a comfortable chair. Don’t lie down unless you’re going to sleep. There should be television or computer near the chair, and no music or no noisy family members/roommates. If you don’t have a place like this, create one.
Reduce television/the Internet. If you really want to read more, try cutting back on time on TV or the Internet. 5.____________Still, every minute you reduce of the Internet/TV, you could use for reading. This could create hours of book reading time.
A. Wherever you go, take a book with you.
B. Go to bookstores.
C. Have some good tea or coffee while you read.
D. Find a quiet place.
E. This may be difficult for some people.
F. If this happens, give up the book and find another one that you’ll really love.
G. It means you will read no matter how busy you are.
