阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
A group of frogs were travelling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw 1.deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The two frogs didn’t listen to the others and tried to jump out of the pit with all their might. The other frogs kept 2.(tell) them to stop. Finally, one of the frogs heard what the other frogs were saying and 3.(give) up, so he died.
The other frog went on jumping as hard as he could 4. (get) out. Once again, the other frogs cried at him and told him to stop and just allow 5. to die, but he jumped even 6.（hard） and finally made himself out. When he was out, the other frogs said, “Didn’t you hear us?” the frog explained to them that something was wrong with his7. (hear). He thought they were encouraging him 8. whole time.
There is power of life and death in the tongue. An 9. (inspire) word to someone who is down can lift him or her up and help them make it through the day,10. bad words can rob another of the spirit to go on in difficult times. Be careful of what you say.
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
In Florida, one McDonald's customer started a pay-it-forward chain that other 249 customers to be generous and do the same.
ABC News reports the spirit of is in the air as 250 drive-thru customers at a local McDonald's paid for the meals of the people next to them.
When Torie Keene was paying for her food on Wednesday morning, it occurred to her to pay for the meal of the car next to her. Keene then told McDonald's cashier Figueroa to greet the other customer "Merry Christmas". The next customer was when Figueroa said her food was already paid by the car. That's she thought that she would love to do the same and the domino effect (多米诺效应) .
"It kept going and going" Figueroa told ABC news. "After the 15th car, I started the number of people participating a piece of paper."
Figueroa said the chain almost lasted for her entire shift. "I just kept giving everyone the same , and they were all so astonished and so happy," she continued. "One lady paid for the meals of the next three cars behind her."
While people were amazed by how they could get, Figueroa said she had "never experienced 。like that before" in her 12 years of working for McDonald's. "I feel very to have been a part of all that," the cashier said.
Keene contacted Figueroa on Facebook when the pay-it-forward chain in the local news. She revealed that she the long chain of kindness, adding that she was by the number of people who continued her good when she was "only trying to someone's day."
1.A．invited B．instructed C．indicated D．inspired
2.A．receiving B．gaining C．giving D．taking
3.A．purposely B．particularly C．especially D．casually
4.A．infected B．guided C．reminded D．affected
5.A．unusual B．previous C．next D．familiar
6.A．when B．where C．how D．what
7.A．created B．disturbed C．made D．followed
8.A．accounting B．marking C．estimating D．evaluating
9.A．in B．under C．on D．at
10.A．reception B．reaction C．reflection D．range
11.A．order B．request C．message D．suggestion
12.A．still B．also C．even D．merely
13.A．mean B．generous C．lovely D．selfish
14.A．something B．it C．everything D．all
15.A．blessed B．helpful C．interested D．doubtful
16.A．took out B．came out C．picked out D．stood out
17.A．produced B．released C．started D．spread
18.A．surprised B．puzzled C．confused D．delighted
19.A．process B．idea C．decision D．deed
20.A．strengthen B．loosen C．lengthen D．brighten
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。
How to live life to the fullest
“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” But for those who take critical decisions, life can be different. How true that is! Stare life in the face as you experience it like a roller coaster ride. 1.Life is made up of choices and decision-making is critical as each choice has both consequences and benefits. Please weigh the latter and always choose life. Always ask what you can learn and how you can move forward, and stop yourself from blaming other people if things aren’t the way you would like them to be.
Seize the day. 2.Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift—that’s why it’s called the present. Life presents us with a lifetime of opportunities, but the opportunities of a lifetime are got when right choices are followed. Be present to enjoy the moment. Each day is a fresh start with choices just waiting to be explored, so what are you waiting for?
3.This is a great way to live life. It means accepting your present the way it is, and offering no resistance to it. However, it does not mean not trying to change it. It means being truly yourself, accepting the present around you, then trying to change it. Often ask yourself: “Has my resistance helped me in any way?” Remember: “Life goes on.”
Accept yourself. Don’t judge yourself. This is the very first step you must take if you really want to live life to the fullest. Why? Because if you’re judging yourself or thinking part of you is wrong, you’ll limit yourself.4.
5.No matter what the situation you find yourself in ,always be focused on what you can be learning from it, how you can be growing, and what you can be taking away from it ,so that you can respond to similar situations more effectively in the future.
A. Always be learning.
B. Fully accept the present.
C. Go on enjoying your life.
D. Show a positive attitude.
E. Live each day as if it’s your last day.
F. And if you limit yourself, you can’t live life to the fullest.
G. The meaning of your life is something you create day after day with your own actions and thoughts.
A full stop is used at the end of an idea or thought, and is an important rule in proper grammar. But text messages are changing the rules, as a new study finds digital messages ending with one aren't sincere. The results suggest skipping punctuation altogether, as it indicates you are answering naturally and heartfelt.
Binghamton University’s Harpur College observed 126 students, who read a series of messages displayed as texts on a screen or handwritten notes on loose-leaf paper(活页纸). In the 16 experimental exchanges, the sender’s message contained a statement followed by an invitation phrased as a question such as, “Dave gave me his extra ticket. Wanna come?” The receiver then gave a one-word response like “Okay”, “Sure”, “Yeah” or “Yup”. Half of the participants’ responses were with a full stop and the other half did not use it. Based on the responses, text messages that ended with a full stop were rated less sincere than those that did not end with one. The students who read the notes on the paper reported that full stop or not, they felt the message was sincere. These results suggest that punctuation can misconstrue or influence the meaning of text messages. The study concludes, “ not so much that the full stop is used to convey a lack of sincerity in text messages, but that punctuation is one of the cues(提示) used by senders, and understood by receivers, to convey practical and social information. ”
“Texting is lacking many of the social cues used in actual face-to-face conversations”, said Celia Klin, associate professor of psychology at Binghamton University’s Harpur College. “When speaking, people easily convey social and emotional information with eye gaze, facial expressions, tone of voice, pauses, and so on. People obviously can't use these mechanisms when they are texting. Thus, it makes sense that texters rely on what they have available to them -- emoticons, deliberate misspellings that mimic speech sounds(拟声) and, according to our data, punctuation. ”
Recently, Klin’s team conducted a follow-up study and found that text response with an exclamation mark（感叹号） is interpreted as more sincere. “That’s not surprising, but it broadens our claim,”saidKlin. “Punctuation is used and understood by texters to convey emotions and other social and practical information. Given that people are wonderfully good at communicating complex information in conversations, it’s not surprising that as texting evolves, people are finding ways to convey the same types of information in their texts. ”
1.According to a new study in the first paragraph, digital messages with punctuation indicate you are ______.
A. impolite B. insincere C. heartfelt D. natural
2.The underlined sentence in the passage means that ______.
A. the full stop conveys a lack of sincerity in text messages
B. to show sincerity, people shouldn’t use punctuation in text messages
C. punctuation can’t influence the meaning of text messages
D. punctuation actually conveys practical and social information in a way
3.Compared with face-to-face conversations, which of the following can text messages rely on to convey their meaning?
A. Eye contact B. Tone of voice C. Emoticons D. Gestures
4. Which of the following agrees with Celia Klin’s opinion?
A. Conversations rely on the same expression way as text messages.
B. Texters may find more ways available to convey the same information.
C. Text response with an exclamation mark sounds more insincere.
D. Punctuation is only used to convey emotions.
A study of a million UK women, published today in The Lancet, has shown that happiness itself has no direct effect on mortality, and that the widespread but mistaken belief that unhappiness and stress directly cause ill health came from studies that had simply confused cause and effect. Life-threatening poor health can cause unhappiness, and for this reason unhappiness is associated with increased mortality. In addition, smokers tend to be unhappier than non-smokers. However, after taking account of previous ill health, smoking, and other lifestyle and socio-economic factors, the investigators found that unhappiness itself was no longer associated with increased mortality.
The lead author, Dr Bette Liu, now at the University of New South Wales, Australia said: "Illness makes you unhappy, but unhappiness itself doesn't make you ill. We found no direct effect of unhappiness or stress on mortality, even in a ten-year study of a million women."
As in other studies, unhappiness was associated with deprivation, smoking, lack of exercise, and not living with a partner. The strongest associations, however, were that the women who were already in poor health tended to say that they were unhappy, stressed, not in control, and not relaxed.
The main analyses included 700 000 women, average age 59 years, and over the next 10 years these women were followed by electronic record linkage for mortality, during which time 30 000 of the women died.
After allowing for any differences already present in health and lifestyle, the overall death rate among those who were unhappy was the same as the death rate among those who were generally happy. The study is so large that it rules out unhappiness being a direct cause of any material increase in overall mortality in women.
This was true for overall mortality, for cancer mortality, and for heart disease mortality, and it was true for stress as well as for unhappiness.
1. The word “mortality” in the passage means .
A. richness B. relaxation
C. death D. morality
2. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
A. Unhappiness will definitely make a person ill.
B. Unhappiness doesn’t necessarily make you ill.
C. Unhappiness is not associated with lack of exercise.
D. The death rate among those unhappy people is greater.
3.It’s wrongly believed that ________.
A. unhappiness itself is not associated with increased mortality
B. there is no direct link between unhappiness and mortality
C. ill health directly causes unhappiness and stress
D. ill health directly results from unhappiness and stress
4.The writer’s attitude towards the result of the study is __________.
A. disappointing B. indifferent
C. subjective D. objective
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A group of black parents and civil rights activists presented a petition（请愿书） Thursday calling for officials to drop charges against a 16-year-old South Carolina high school student who was videotaped being dragged from her desk and thrown to the floor by a police officer in her classroom.
The group said it was unfair and unacceptable that the student and her 18-year-old classmate at Spring Valley High School who taped the incident were the only people charged that day when authorities already knew Richland County Deputy Ben Fields had tossed the girl from her desk to the ground.
They also said their petition had hundreds of thousands of names from around the country asking prosecutor Dan Johnson to drop the "disturbing schools" charges against the teens. The students in the case are black; Fields is white.
Johnson issued a statement Wednesday saying he won't do anything with the case until the FBI finishes its investigation into Fields, who was fired after the video became public. "I do not simply decide cases based upon feelings, public opinion or sentiment, nor do I decide them based on political pressure," Johnson said in the statement.
Disturbing schools is punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 or 90 days in jail. The students' lawyer did not respond to telephone messages.
The video spread quickly across the country, prompting questions about when police officers should get involved with classroom discipline. Fields was called to the classroom after the student refused to stop using her cellphone, and then she would not leave the classroom for a teacher or administrator.
In the days after the incident, the teacher turned her class over to a substitute and the administrator was placed on leave. Richland two officials didn't respond to an email asking about their current status. The students were allowed back in school.
Organizers of the protest said they plan to be at South Carolina's Statehouse next year, calling for legislators to change the law that allows police officers to arrest students for misbehaving at schools. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott blamed that law for escalating the situation. "Let's find a way where we don't saddle students with arrest records," said EfiaNwangaza from the Malcom X Center for Self Determination. "Let's get ahead of the schoolhouse-to-jailhouse train in South Carolina."
1.What are the teens charged with?
A. Playing cellphones in class
B. Disobeying the teacher
C. Disturbing schools
D. Fighting with the police officer
2.What is Don Johnson's attitude towards the case?
A. Indifferent B. Ambiguous
C. Subjective D. Cautious
3.According to the passage, people are now concerned about the following except_____.
A. whether the incident reflects a racial issue
B. when police officers should get involved with classroom discipline
C. whether students can play cellphones in class
D. whether the law that allows police officers to arrest students for misbehaving at schools should be changed
4. Which of the following could be the best title for the passage?
A. Police officer fired for tossing student
B. Black parents protest charge for teen tossed from desk
C. Charged teens allowed back in school
D. Violence at school
