It is said that a person has about 6,000 thoughts every day, Yet, of the 6,000 thoughts you have today, ninety percent of these are the same as the 6,000 you had yesterday and the day before, leaving little room for new thoughts. No wonder life can seem tedious at times. Unless you start to think differently, you are to continue to create and repeat the same old reality every day. Is it not time to change your thoughts, enliven your dreams and let reality catch up?
Most of our thoughts and actions are habits, and we go thought the same motions each day, with little change in our behaviors or outlook. What would happen if you challenged these habits or customs? What if you were to step out of your comfort zone and explore new ideas or new ways or doing things? Would your life not change as a result?
Thought is a form of energy. Does this energy keep you forward or hold you back? You have a choice about the thoughts you think. How many times in the past have you chosen to disregard your positive thoughts and focus on your negative(消极的) thoughts? At this moment, if you were to be at ease and to focus on your positive thoughts while discounting your negative thoughts, how would your life change?
To realize your dreams, pay attention to what is happening around you. Be curious. Notice how your thoughts about yourself, your thoughts about others and your thoughts about what others may be thinking of you influence and what you are able to achieve. Start to think, see and experience things, people, places and events in new ways. Recognize what happens when you begin to think differently about yourself and what you are capable of achieving.
1. thoughts per minute you had are the same as yesterday and the day before.
A．About 40 B．Over 5,400
C．About 4 D．Over 100
2.The author thinks our life changes very little because
A．we have too many new ideas
B．we have only a few new ideas
C．we never have new ideas
D．we change our ideas from time to time
3.The best title for the passage would be
A．The Power of Thought
B．Think Before You Take Actions
C．New world Comes From New Ideas
D．Never Think of Yourself Only
4.The underlined word “tedious” may share the same meaning with “ ”.
A．stupid B．colorful
C．strange D．boring
5.What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
A．To tell people some facts of our thoughts.
B．To encourage us to change our habit of thinking.
C．To tell us why we have no new ideas.
D．To remind us of the influence from other.
Driving to a friend’s house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s roof-tops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most city dwellers, myself included, usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. We have televisions, cell phones, papers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of which was spent indoors, I thought that before long I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains, and perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.
1.The best title for the passage would be __________.
A. Touched by the moon.
B. The pleasures of modern life
C. A bottomless well of silence
D. Break away from modern life
2.The writer felt sorry for himself because _________.
A. there was too much pollution
B. he failed to see the fullest moon
C. he didn’t adapt to modern inventions
D. there were too many accidents on the road
3.What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India?
A. No modern equipment
B. Complete silence.
C. The nice moonlight.
D. The high mountains
4.Modern things (Paragragh 4) are mentioned mainly to ___________
A. show that the writer likes city life very much
B. tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life
C. explain that people have less chances to enjoy nature
D. show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them
5.The author wrote the passage to ___________.
A. express the feeling of returning to nature
B. show the love for the moonlight
C. advise modern people to learn to live
D. want to communicate longing for modern life
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答案卷上。
Everyone has his own attitude 1. getting old. The night before her eighth birthday, I found my daughter Lizzy sat on her bed ___2.____ (weep). “I love being seven,” she cried. “I don’t want to be eight!” I held her in my arms and explained that3. was going to be even better to be eight than being seven. I told her how much I loved her and 4. a wonderful birthday she was going to have. Eventually she was comforted. It’s always strange ____5.____ (tell) that you are a year older, even when you aren’t very old. Now I’m in my early 60s, and I don’t always recognize the face in the mirror, _____6.___ something has changed the way that I think. The process of aging ____7._ (increasing) interests and amazes me, annoys and irritates me, and sometimes still makes me ____8.__(frighten), too, but much, much less than it used to. There is ___9.____ ongoing sadness at the absence of the friends and family members___10.____ have died before me.
When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more ____ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him so much in repairs that he decided that he had better ____ it.
He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly ____ to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so none of them had any desire to buy it. Dave's friend Sam saw that he was ____ when they met one evening, and said, “What's up, Dave?” Dave told him, and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may ____ more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!” Thinking that Sam's ____ was sensible(合理的), he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read “For sale: small car, uses very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50.”
For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no ____. But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry. A man rang up and said he would like to ____ him about the car. “All right,” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o'clock the next morning would be ____ or not. “Fine,” the man said, “and I'll ____ my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to ____ it.”
The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, ____ to wait there for the people who had ____ his advertisement. Even Dave had to ____ that the car really looked like a wreck(残骸). Then, soon after he had got the car as clean as it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Dave's car and then said, “Have you reported this ____ to us yet, sir?”
1.A. hopefullyB. safelyC. easilyD. properly
2.A. keepB. sellC. repairD. throw
3.A. ashamedB. luckyC. anxiousD. happy
4.A. upsetB. delightedC. calmD. astonished
5.A. learnB. missC. findD. get
6.A. adviceB. messageC. requestD. description
7.A. doubtB. helpC. replyD. trouble
8.A. tellB. agreeC. seeD. call
9.A. exactB. lateC. earlyD. suitable
10.A. followB. bringC. meetD. introduce
11.A. recognizeB. testC. admireD. gain
12.A. happeningB. turningC. meaningD. failing
13.A. answeredB. insertedC. caredD. placed
14.A. admitB. showC. disagreeD. forget
15.A. bargainB. saleC. resultD. accident
请根据下列提示要点， 写一篇关于J.K.Rowling的简介。
【写作内容】
姓名 | J. K. Rowling──《哈利波特》的作者 |
出生 | 1965年7月，出生于英格兰, 从小就梦想着当一名作家 |
主要经历 | 中学毕业后父母鼓励她去读法语，一年后在巴黎的大学毕业并在伦敦工作； 1990年有了写Harry Potter的想法，经常呆在咖啡馆里，趁女儿睡着时写作。第一部Harry Potter出版于1997年。 |
成就 | 哈利·波特这本书很畅销，吸引了很多读者。从那以后，J.K.Rowling成为世界上最受儿童欢迎的作家 |
【写作要求】
用100字左右表达全部内容；
【评分标准】
句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。
1.In summer we had tea o______, under the chestnut tree. (not inside a building)
2.I wanted to chat with her, but she i_____ me and went away. (to take no notice of)
3.We began to know each other g______. (slowly, not suddenly)
4.The v_____ from America to France used to take two months. (long journey by sea or in space)
5.Our government’s a_______ to Xinjiang is clear and firm. (the way that you think and feel about sb/sth)
6.In the past, the villagers t_____ their goods by horses not by truck. (to move sth in a vehicle)
7.As a result of the accident, the _______(电) has to be cut off.
8.The flood _____(摧毁) all the houses and many people became homeless.
9.I found this to be a ________ (rely) brand of washing machines.
10.I think it’s_____ (use) trying to talk to her because she never listens.
11.Newspapers should not report_____ (frighten) news without making sure of the facts.
12.After the crash, an ambulance took the _____ (injure) to hospital immediately.
13.______( determine) to finish law school, she studies very hard.
14.Vera was ________( 攻击) while walking home late at night.
15.I feel _______（hope）that we will find a suitable house very soon.
16.昨天在街上碰见他的是我。
It was _____ _____ met him in the street yesterday.
17.他们坚持要邀请老师。
They insisted that the teacher _____ _____.
18.一个小男孩走过来向我们要那个空瓶子.
A little boy _____ _____ ______ us and asked for the empty bottle.
19.Hearing the news，he _____ _____ crying.（突然哭了）
20.他感觉糟透了，好像世界末日来了一样。
He felt so terrible that he thought his world was _____ _____ ______.
21.从一个人的面貌是无法判断他是个怎样的人。
_____ _____ a person’s appearance is not enough to tell what kind of person he is.
22.只有通过努力拼搏， 才能实现自己的梦想。
Only by working hard _____ you ______ your dream.
23.The story _____ is written by an unknown author is the most interesting one _____ I have ever read.
24.Those _____ wish to meet the singer _____ new songs are popular in the party, sign here please.
25.We will put off the match until next week _____ the students won’t be so busy. Thus we can avoid the situation _____they are absent.
