阅读理解。
Our most commonly held code for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this code is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around. When we are positive, our brains become more engaged, creative, motivated, energetic, and productive at work. This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigid research in psychology and neuroscience(神经学), management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe.
In The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research—including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS to fix this broken code. Using stories and case studies from his work with CEOs of Fortune 500 in 42 countries, Achor explains how we can reprogram our brains to become more positive in order to gain a competitive ability at work.
Based on seven practical, actionable principles that have been tried and tested everywhere from classrooms to boardrooms, stretching from Argentina to Zimbabwe, he shows us how we can capitalize on the Happiness Advantage to improve our performance and maximize our potential.
A must-read for everyone trying to stand out in a world of increasing workloads and stress, The Happiness Advantage isn’t only about how to become happier at work. It’s about how to acquire the benefits of a happier and more positive mode of thinking to achieve the extraordinary in our work and in our lives.
1. What do we know about the new discovery in paragraph 1?
A. Conventional code for success is totally useless.
B. The more we are successful, the happier we are.
C. Positive psychology is really backward.
D. Happiness contributes greatly to success.
2. Why did the writer write the book The Happiness Advantages?
A. To reprogram one’ s brain to be healthier.
B. To make people more positive and competitive.
C. To study stories and cases of CEOs.
D. To make a lecture at Harvard University.
3. The underlined phrase “capitalize on” in paragraph 3 is closes in meaning to ____
A. provide fund for
B. make full use of
C. write big letters for
D. stand out in
4. What is the purpose of the writer in writing the passage?
A. To help people stand out in the world.
B. To arouse people’s sense of happiness.
C. To help people decrease the work stress.
D. To strongly recommend the book.
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds dashing and dancing in the exciting atmosphere above the earth. As the strong winds gusted against the kites, a string kept them in check.
Instead of blowing away with the wind, they arose against it to achieve great heights. They shook and pulled, but the controlling string and the clumsy tail kept them in tow(牵引), facing upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled and trembled against the string, they seemed to say, “Let me go! Let me go! I want to be free!” They flew beautifully even as they fought the forced restriction of the string. Finally, one of the kites succeeded in breaking loose. “Free at last,” it seemed to say. “Free to fly with the wind.”
Yet freedom from control simply put it at the mercy of an unsympathetic gentle wind. It flew ungracefully to the ground and landed in a twisted mass of weeds and string against a dead bush. “Free at last”. Free to lie powerless in the dirt, to be blown helplessly along the ground, and to settle down lifeless against the first roadblock.
How much like kites we sometimes are. There always exist misfortunes and restrictions, rules to follow from which we can grow and gain strength. Prohibition is a necessary counterpart to the winds of opposition. Some of us pulled at the rules so hard that we never fly fast to reach the heights we might have obtained. If we keep all the commandment(戒律), we will never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.
Let us each rise to the great heights, recognizing that some of the prohibitions are actually the steady force that helps us climb and achieve.
1. In the passage the writer watched _______.
A. many young people enjoying the sunny day
B. many birds dashing and dancing in the sky
C. many young people flying multicolored kites
D. the strong winds blowing against the sky
2. What enables a kite fly gracefully in the sky according to the story?
A. The kite itself and strange shapes.
B. A long string and blowing wind.
C. A windy spring day and blue sky.
D. The size and a long string.
3. What didn’t happen to the freed kite?
A. It kept flying freely in the air.
B. It lay powerless in the dirt.
C. It was trapped in a dead bush.
D. It was blown helplessly around.
4. What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?
A. To give up tips on how to fly kites effectively.
B. To warn us that freedom is actually powerless.
C. To explain that restrictions are really unnecessary.
D. To teach us a lesson that rules are important in life.
5. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. Fly with Restrictions
B. Where to Fly
C. Why to Fly Kites
D. Fly to Freedom
语法填空。
With the1. (develop) of industry, air pollution is getting more and more serious. In Beijing, many people suffer different kinds of illnesses because 2. air pollution.
Air pollution is caused by the following 3.: about half of the problem is caused by vehicles. There are more and more cars, buses on the roads, and they give off 4._ (poison) gases. 25% of air pollution is caused by factories. Another factor is the smokers. Smoking not only does harm to their health 5. to others. 6.these, about 10%of air pollution is caused by other reasons.
We should take some measures to fight 7. pollution. New fuel can be used to take 8.place of gas. We can plant more trees. If everybody realizes the9._ (important) of environment and does something to stop pollution, the problem will 10._ (solve).
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
There are times when people are so tired that they fall asleep almost anywhere. We can see there is a lot of sleeping on the bus or train on the ______home from work in the evenings. A man will be______the newspaper, and seconds later it _____ as if he is trying to _____it. Or he will fall asleep on the shoulder of the stranger_____ next to him.______ place where unplanned short sleep ____ is in the lecture hall where a student will start snoring（打鼾）so _______that the professor has to ask another student to______ the sleeper awake. A more embarrassing（尴尬）situation occurs when a student starts falling into sleep and the _____ of the head pushes the arm off the______, and the movement carries the_____ of the body along. The student wakes up on the floor with no______ of getting there. The worst time to fall asleep is when ____ . Police reports are full of ______ that occur when people fall into sleep and go_______ the road. If the drivers are _______ , they are not seriously hurt. One woman's car, _______ , went into the river. She woke up in four feet of ______ and thought it was raining. When people are really ____，nothing will stop them from falling asleep-----no matter where they are.
1.A. way B. track C. path D. road
2.A. buying B. folding C. delivering D. reading
3.A. acts B. shows C. appears D. sounds
4.A. open B. eat C. find D. finish
5.A. lying B. waiting C. talking D. sitting
6.A. Next B. Every C. Another D. One
7.A. goes on B. ends up C. lasts D. returns
8.A. bravely B. happily C. loudly D. carelessly
9.A. leave B. shake C. keep D. watch
10.A. size B. shape C. weight D. strength
11.A. cushion B. desk C. shoulder D. book
12.A. action B. position C. rest D. side
13.A. memory B. reason C. question D. purpose
14.A. thinking B. working C. walking D. driving
15.A. changes B. events C. ideas D. accidents
16.A. up B. off C. along D. down
17.A. lucky B. awake C. calm D. strong
18.A. in time B. at first C. as usual D. for example
19.A. dust B. water C. grass D. bush
20.A. tired B. drunk C. lonely D. Lazy
基础写作
【广东省梅县东山中学2014届高三上学期期中】你是英语校报的一名小记者，最近进行了一次采访，
以下是这次采访的情况：
【写作内容】
【评分标准】
句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。
【参考词汇】
心理学psychology
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和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 was in my third year of teaching creative writing at a high school in New York, when one of my students, 15-year-old Micky, gave me a note from his mother. It ______ his absence from class the day before.
I had seen Micky himself writing the note at his desk. Most parental-excuse notes I received were penned by my ______. The forged(伪造的) excuse notes made a large pile, with writing that ranged from imaginative to crazy. The ______ of those notes didn’t realize that honest excuse notes were usually ______: “Peter was late because the alarm clock didn’t go off.”
The students always said that it was hard putting 200 words together on any subject, but when they ______ excuse notes, they were brilliant.
So one day I gave the excuse notes to my classes, saying, “They’re ______ to be written by parents, but actually they are not. True, Micky ? ” The students looked at me ______.
“Now, this will be the first class to study the ______ of the excuse notes --- the first class, ever, to practice writing them. You’re so______ to have a teacher like me who has taken your best writing and turned it into a ______ worthy of study. ”
Everyone smiled as I went on, “You used your ______. So try more now. Today I’d like you to write ‘An Excuse Note from Adam/Eve to God’.” ______ went down. Pens raced ______ paper. For the first time ever I saw students so ______ in their writing that they had to be asked to go to lunch by their friends.
The next day everyone had excuse notes. ______ discussions followed. The headmaster entered the classroom and walked ______, looking at papers, and then said, “I’d like you to see me in my office.” My heart ______.
When I stepped into his office, he came to ______ my hand and said, “I just want to tell you that that lesson, that task, whatever the hell you were doing, was ______. Those kids were writing on the college ______. Thank you. ”
1.A. explained B. described C. introduced D. announced
2.A. parents B. students C. teachers D. partners
3.A. editors B. readers C. writers D. speakers
4.A. true B. false C. easy D. dull
5.A. produced B. considered C. imagined D. delivered
6.A. designed B. collected C. supposed D. improved
7.A. eagerly B. nervously C. excitedly D. coldly
8.A. form B. difficulty C. meaning D. art
9.A. lucky B. helpful C. lovely D. active
10.A. talent B. habit C. product D. subject
11.A. devotion B. imagination C. Concentration D. information
12.A. hands B. eyes C. heads D. ears
13.A. across B. with C. against D. behind
14.A. curious B. careful C. casual D. calm
15.A. Separated B. Surprising C. Heated D. Lasting
16.A. day and night B. in and out C. now and then D. up and down
17.A. sank B. rose C. flew D. hurt
18.A. watch B. touch C. shake D. catch
19.A. sure B. dim C. tough D. great
20.A. base B. level C. paper D. theme
