完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I couldn’t quite summon up (鼓起) the power of positive thinking Monday. I would be tied up in meetings the next two days and I was having serious doubts _________ I’d be able to get everything done for the June issue deadline Thursday. At home Monday night, I sat down on my sofa with my _________ after dinner and went back to work, virtually. I finished _________ the last story for June, read it _________ and hit save. “Now I can breathe a little easier”, I thought, feeling some of my_________ return.
I clicked over to my email to _________ the story to Keren, our copy chief, so she’d have it first in the _________ . Only I couldn’t. I'd _________ my Internet connection. My digital cable modem, which _________ has four blinking green lights, was unfavorably dark. I called the cable company’s 24–hour helpline. The technician tried several different ways to _________ my modem remotely. Still nothing. “I have to _________you to a higher level of technical assistance,” he said, “and I’ll give you the _________ appointment available Friday afternoon.” No _________ for four days! There went my positive attitude.
More than I thought, as it turned out. Sure, I had to _________ longer hours at the office since I couldn’t wrap up things from home. But when I left work, I could just _________ and relax at home. I watched TV without feeling_________ to catch up on emails or my coworkers’ blogs during advertising time. _________ wandering the web and losing track of hours and hours, over those four days I made dinner from the very beginning, finished reading a(n) _________ , and even wrote some long overdue thank-you notes. I wouldn’t have if my modem hadn’t _________. Being disconnected from the Internet _________ made me feel more connected with what I was doing in the moment.
1.A. why B. whether C. when D. where
2.A. television B. camera C. cassette D. laptop
3.A. editing B. summarizing C. copying D. printing
4.A. on B. out C. over D. up
5.A. positivity B. attitude C. negativity D. courage
6.A. enjoy B. accept C. receive D. send
7.A. afternoon B. morning C. evening D. week
8.A. separated B. changed C.1ost D. repaired
9.A. usually B. hardly C. seldom D. often
10.A. retell B. review C. restart D. rearrange
11.A. remove B. transfer C. throw D. move
12.A. latest B. best C. worst D. earliest
13.A. Internet B. opportunity C. activity D. business
14.A. cost B. save C. spend D. waste
15.A. turn back B. sit back C. step back D.1ook back
16.A. astonished B. frightened C. embarrassed D. compelled
17.A. Instead of B. Except for C. In spite of D. According to
18.A. order B. humor C. novel D. joke
19.A. built B. died C. existed D. appeared
20.A. happily B. luckily C. sadly D. surprisingly
选句填空
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。
What will you do if you can’t eat everything bought in the canteen? 1. According to a survey, what students waste every year could feed over 10 million people. 2. .
According to Xinhua News Agency, the food wasted by Chinese people is about 50 million tons of grain every year, which could feed 200 million people.
Food waste, which has become a global issue, serves as a mirror that reflects various cultural and social issues in different countries. In the West, for instance, consumerism, the belief that it’s a good thing to use a lot of goods and services, is often to blame for food waste. 3. . Chinese people are well known for being hospitable and generous. Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food. On campus, a generation of single children is less aware of the food waste issue. Students nowadays are well protected by their families and hardly have any concept of how much toil（辛劳）others go through in order to provide them with the food they eat. 4.
There are over 925 million hungry people in the world, most of whom live in underdeveloped countries and areas. They don’t have enough food to eat. Many children die for lack of nutrition each year in some African countries. And farmers work very hard to grow the crops. 5. . It’s also important that everyone should think about how they can do their bit to reduce food waste.
A. Students’ waste is extremely serious.
B. Most of us would simply throw away any leftover food.
C. Students can never realize the serious food crisis.
D. So there’s no excuse that we should waste our food.
E. But canteen waste is merely the tip of the iceberg .
F. Compared with them, some live in a different world.
G. China, in turn, features its own eating culture.
A German study suggests that people who were too optimistic about their future actually faced greater risk of disability or death within 10 years than those pessimists who expected their future to be worse.
The paper, published this March in Psychology and Aging, examined health and welfare surveys from roughly 40,000 Germans between ages 18 and 96. The surveys were conducted every year from 1993 to 2003.
Survey respondents were asked to estimate their present and future life satisfaction on a scale of 0 to 10, among other questions.
The researchers found that young adults (age 18 to 39) routinely overestimated their future life satisfaction, while middle-aged adults (age 40 to 64) more accurately predicted how they would feel in the future. Adults of 65 and older, however, were far more likely to underestimate their future life satisfaction. Not only did they feel more satisfied than they thought they would, the older pessimists seemed to suffer a lower ratio of disability and death for the study period.
“We observed that being too optimistic in predicting a better future than actually observed was associated with a greater risk of disability and a greater risk of death within the following decade,” wrote Frieder R. Lang, a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Lang and his colleagues believed that people who were pessimistic about their future may be more careful about their actions than people who expected a rosy future.
“Seeing a dark future may encourage positive evaluations of the actual self and may contribute to taking improved precautions (预防措施),” the authors wrote.
Surprisingly, compared with those in poor health or who had low incomes, respondents who enjoyed good health or income were associated with expecting a greater decline. Also, the researchers said that higher income was related to a greater risk of disability.
The authors of the study noted that there were limitations to their conclusions. Illness, medical treatment and personal loss could also have driven health outcomes.
However, the researchers said a pattern was clear. “We found that from early to late adulthood, individuals adapt their expectations of future life satisfaction from optimistic, to accurate, to pessimistic,” the authors concluded.
1.According to the study, who made the most accurate prediction of their future life satisfaction?
A. Optimistic adults.
B. Middle-aged adults.
C. Adults in poor health.
D. Adults of lower income.
2.Pessimism may be positive in some way because it causes people________.
A. to fully enjoy their present life
B. to estimate their contribution accurately
C. to take measures against potential risks
D. to value health more highly than wealth
3.How do people of higher income see their future?
A. They will earn less money.
B. They will become pessimistic.
C. They will suffer mental illness.
D. They will have less time to enjoy life.
4.What is the clear conclusion of the study?
A. Pessimism guarantees chances of survival.
B. Good financial condition leads to good health.
C. Medical treatment determines health outcomes.
D. Expectations of future life satisfaction decline with age.
We have a strange and strong belief in the idea of perfection. Driven by our culture, we struggle for an unattainable ideal: If I have the perfect parents, perfect grades, perfect…, then I would be happy. We seek what we can’t have without remembering that we don’t actually need to be perfect. Imperfection allows us to be human.
Parents, teachers and other high-achieving peers will have us believe that we must be perfect if we wish to remain competitive. However, what job or school requires you to develop a cure for some form of cancer by the age of 18? Although these grades would be admirable achievements, are they worth losing sleep over? We feel like we need the perfect grades to get into the perfect college that will provide us with the perfect education necessary to obtain the perfect job. Making use of our thirst for perfection, the whole college and career industries have emerged claiming to help us reach our goals.
Truth is, you only need to be good enough to get into the conversation. It is what you do afterwards that sets you apart. Focus more on your passions. Don’t worry about anything secondary to your passions. You don’t become an expert at anything if you spent your time trying to succeed in everything you do. You only become an expert when you devote your time to that one project that truly brings you joy.
As members of this society, we have a responsibility to be excellent in what we do, not perfect. Although perfection can be a goal, it should not be the only goal. We only have 24 hours in a day and seven days in a week. Thus, we need to plan what we want to do and cut out the activities we cannot do.
With everything, though, make sure you’re doing enough. Pursuing your passions is not enough of a reason to completely give up on everything else. Try as hard as you can and let your future worry about itself. Worry about your task at hand and you will be successful in achieving your dreams. Most of all, remember that you’re going to be okay.
1.It is implied in Paragraph 1 that there is a culture where ________.
A. Students are driven to learn concepts
B. great importance is attached to perfection
C. imperfect people aren’t happy at all
D. perfect grades result from remembering facts
2.We can infer from the second paragraph that ________.
A. a perfect grade is worth losing sleep over
B. the whole college and career industries are perfect
C. some schools ask students to invent some medicine
D. someone is profiting from our search for perfection
3.According to the author, we should ________.
A. see becoming perfect as our responsibility
B. deal with what we hope to do first
C. set a goal of perfection in our life
D. worry about our future dreams
4.What might be the most suitable title for the passage?
A. How to be perfect
B. Being enough is enough
C. Finding your own passions
D. Giving up your secondary goals
I was at Kendriya Vidyalaya in Bambolim, Goa, in the 1980s. On Inspection Day one year, an officer and his team from the Board of Education were coming to see how our school was run. As usual, our teachers asked us to be prepared.
At the end of the day, Mrs Sushila Tyaji, our Hindi teacher, walked in and told us that the inspector had come and quietly observed the class from the back door. He had also left an adverse remark! That was sad for us. Would we now be punished for having failed our teachers? There were no answers from Mrs Tyaji. Instead, she wrote the Hindi word “dukh” on the blackboard. And then she did something I have never seen a teacher do in my entire school life. She apologized.
“I am sorry for having taught you something wrong,” she said. “I missed out the dots between the letters ‘du’ and ‘kh’. The inspector told me this in the staffroom. I hope you will not make this mistake in future.”
That admission had a significant effect on me. If our teacher can say sorry to us when she is wrong, why can’t I? The incident helped me get rid of two common vices—ego and dishonesty.
Twenty-three years passed. I had to let my teacher know what that lesson meant to me. I recently located Mrs Sushila Tyaji using the Internet and went to meet her with my husband.
She smiled when she heard my story of how her small decades-old apology had transformed me for good. “It’s tough being a teacher. But every once in a while, when an old student comes along and tells us that we did something right, it makes up for everything else,” she said.
1.The underlined word “adverse” in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by “________”.
A. offensive B. unfavorable
C. encouraging D. unforgettable
2.At the end of Inspection Day, Mrs Tyaji ________.
A. praised the students for their hard work
B. expressed her disappointment in the students
C. told the students that she had made a mistake
D. punished the students for their bad behavior
3.What did the author learn from Mrs Tyaji ?
A. Honesty is the best policy
B. Comfort is better than rude
C. One can never be too careful
D. It is better to be safe than sorry
4.The author’s word during the visit made Mrs Tyaji feel ________.
A. guilty B. contented
C. surprised D. embarrassed
HOLIDAY FUN AT THE POWERHOUSE
500 HARRIS STREET ULTIMO •TELEPHONE (02)9270111
Join in the holiday fun at the powerhouse this month linked to our new exhibition, Evolution & Revolution: Chinese dress 1700s to now. DON’T FORGET our other special event, the Club Med Circus School which is part of the Circus（马戏团）！150 years of circus in Australia exhibition experience!
◆Chinese Folk Dancing: Colorful Chinese dance and musical performances by The Chinese Folk Dancing School of Sydney. Dances include: the Golden and the Chinese drum dance. A feature will be the Qin dynasty Emperor’s count dance. Also included is a show of face painting for Beijing opera performances.
Sunday 29 June and Wednesday 2 July in the Turbine Hall, at 11:30 am & 1:30 pm.
◆Australian Chinese Children’s Arts Theatre: Well-known children’s play experts from Shanghai lead this dynamic youth group. Performance include Chinese fairy tales and plays.
Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 July in the Turbine Hall, at 11:30 am & 1:30 pm.
◆Chinese Youth League: A traditional performing arts group featuring performance highlights such as Red scarf and Spring flower dances, and a musician playing Er Hu.
Sunday 6 to Tuesday 8 July in the Turbine Hall, 11:30 am to 1:30 pm.
◆Kids Activity: Make a Paper Horse: Young children make a paper horse cut-out. (The horse is a frequent theme in Chinese painting, including a kind of advancement.) Suitable for ages 8-12 years.
Sunday 28 June to Tuesday 8 July in the Turbine Hall, 12:30 pm to 1:00 pm.
◆Club Med Circus School: Learn circus skills, including the trapeze, tramp lining and magic. Note only for children over 5. There are 40 places available in each 1 hour session and these must be booked at the front desk, level 4, on the day.
Enjoy unlimited free visits and many other benefits by becoming a Family member of the Powerhouse. Our family memberships cover two adults and all children under the age of 16 years at the one address.
Members receive Power line, our monthly magazine, discounts in the shops and restaurants, as well as free admission to the Museum. All this for as little as $50.00 a year! Call (02)9217 0600 for more details.
1.When can you watch the Chinese drum dance?
A. On July 2. B. On July 3. C. On July 6. D. On July 8.
2.To learn the magic tricks, you can go to ________.
A. Kids Activity.
B. Chinese Youth League.
C. Club Med Circus School.
D. Children’s Arts Theatre.
3.What is required if you want to enjoy free visits to the Museum?
A. Calling (02)92170600.
B. Gaining family membership.
C. Coming for the holiday fun.
D. Paying powerline $50.00 a year.
