No one loves me more than my parents, especially my father. My father is stout and strong, 1. a severe look on his face and keen expressive eyes. At first sight you may feel him hard 2.( approach ). In fact he is very kind and considerate. I believe my father is a 3.( talent ) man. He is decisive and efficient in doing things. By his own talents and years of efforts, he 4. ( provide ) his family with a good social position and a 5.( relative ) rich life. Besides, he lives in harmony with others and never quarrels with anyone, so people from all walks of life come to my home, from 6. I’ve gained lots of social experiences. But at home he is a strict parent who is hard on me and has high 7. ( expectation ) of me. I can see that my i
dling away time 8. ( hurt ) him deeply, while if I have done something great and meaningful, such as 9. ( write ) a book, he will be more excited than me. I always remind 10. ( me ) I must go on and on, and never shall I give up halfway.
The first thing Sue said to her new therapist was, “I know you can’t help me, Doctor. I'm a total mess. I keep messing up at _______, and I'm sure I'm going to be _______. Just yesterday my boss told me I was being _______. He called it a promotion. But if I was doing a _______ job, why transfer me?"
Then gradually, Sue's story moved past the put-downs. She had received her M.B.A. two years _______ and was making an excellent salary. That didn't sound like _______. At the end of their first meeting, Sue's therapist told her to _______ down her thoughts, particularly at _______ if she was having trouble falling asleep.
At her next _______ Sue’s list included: “I’m not really smart. I ____________ ahead by a bunch of lucky things. “Tomorrow will be a disaster. I've never ____________ a meeting before." "My boss looked angry this morning. What did I do?" She ____________, "In one day alone, I listed 26 negative thoughts. No wonder I'm always tired and ____________. ” Hearing her own ____________ and a strong feeling that something bad will happen soon made Sue realize how much energy she was wasting on ____________ catastrophes.
If you have been feeling down, it could be you are sending yourself ____________ messages too. Listen to the words ringing inside your head. Repeat them aloud or write them down. With practice, being aware of your ____________ will become your natural state. As you’re walking, you can ____________ the constant stream of thoughts that flow through your mind. Soon you will gain some ____________ over this undisciplined thinking, rather than the other way around. And when that happens, your feelings and actions will ____________ too.
1.A. school B. exam C. home D. work
2.A. fired B. fined C. punished D. accused
3.A. transported B. transform C. transferred D. translated
4.A. chief B. good C. steady D. satisfied
5.A. later B. after C. ago D. before
6.A. failure B. loss C. misery D. disaster
7.A. calm B. cast C. set D. settle
8.A. dusk B. night C. times D. weekends
9.A. treatment B. movement C. appointment D. assignment
10.A. went B. got C. worked D. lived
11.A. chaired B. charged C. held . D. attended
12.A. announced B. admitted C. annoyed D. assumed
13.A. exhausted B. alarmed C. heartbroken D. depressed
14.A. complaints B. regret C. fears D. sorrows
15.A. imagined B. impossible C. insignificant D. imaginative
16.A. false B. scary C. absurd D. negative
17.A. emotions B. attitude C. thinking D. disadvantage
18.A. hear B. see C. note D. feel
19.A. control B. knowledge C. experience D. benefit
20.A. take B. understand C. change D. adapt
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。
Thanks to the magic of the Internet, booking your yearly trip is just a few clicks away. 1. Here are some o f the most common travel mistakes that waste your money and what you can do to fix them．
Not having travel insurance
2. But if Something bad does happen while you’re traveling and you aren’t covered（给……保险）, you’ll be left paying thousands of dollars.
What you should do: Get travel insurance! It only costs a few dollars a day and it offered through many of the credit card companies．
Mismanaging your money
Whether it’s by using traveler’s checks, or getting cash before you go，you don’t look for the best rates.
What you should do： 3. Check if your bank has a partner ATM network in the country you’re visiting and it may cost you nothing to take out local cash.
Booking too early
People get excited about their trip and, to make it real，book their flight right away. 4. Both area mistake．
What you should do：Book your flight about two to three months in advance to secure the lowest fares.
Asking where to eat the wrong way
Even if you’re doing the smart thing and asking locals，“Where should I eat？”you’re asking the question in a wrong way. 5.
What you should do：It seems simple but asking，“Where do you eat？”means a world of differ ence. Instead of guessing what you might like, a local can direct you to a place he likes to visit
A．But you will make a mistake in finding a wrong place or booking a wrong hotel.
B．Use the ATM for cash and a credit card for all your shopping．
C．But you may throw money away when you travel.
D．A lot of people think“I’m just going away for a short time．I’ll be fine.”
E．Go to a bank and exchange for local cash you need in the country you will visit at the best rate before you set off.
F．You will be sent to restaurants that loca1s think tourists would want to visit.
G．Or they forget and wait until the last minute.
Why do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations: keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regular exercise, etc. But what effect does your personality have on your longevity(长寿)? Do some kinds of personalities lead to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality characteristics of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.
The study shows that those living the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic (神经质的) than other people. Long-living women are also more likely to be sympathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span. These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the evolutionary theory: those who like to make friends and help others can gather enough resources to make it through tough times.
Interestingly, however, other characteristics that you might consider advantageous had no impact on whether study participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old. Also, being open to new ideas had no relationship to long life, which might explain all those bad-tempered old people who are fixed in their ways.
Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate. But the new paper suggests that if you want long life, you should strive to be as outgoing as possible.
Unfortunately, another recent study shows that your mother’s personality may also help determine your longevity. That study looked at nearly 28,000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more anxious, depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhealthy diets. Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we’re adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.
Personality isn’t destiny, and everyone knows that individuals can learn to change. But both studies show that long life isn’t just a matter of your physical health but of your mental health.
1.The aim of the study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society is ________.
A. to see whether people’s personality affects their life span
B. to find out if one’s lifestyle has any effect on their health
C. to investigate the role of exercise in living a long life
D. to examine all the factors contributing to longevity
2.What does the author imply about outgoing and sympathetic people?
A. They have a good understanding of evolution.
B. They are better at negotiating an agreement.
C. They generally appear more resourceful.
D. They are more likely to get over hardship.
3.What finding of the study might prove somewhat out of our expectation?
A. Easy-going people can also live a relatively long life.
B. Personality characteristics that prove advantageous actually vary with times.
C. Such personality characteristics as self-discipline have no effect on longevity.
D. Readiness to accept new ideas helps one enjoy longevity.
4.What does the recent study of Norwegian mothers show?
A. Children’s personality characteristics are invariably determined by their mothers.
B. People with unhealthy eating habits are likely to die sooner.
C. Mothers’ influence on children may last longer than fathers.
D. Mothers’ negative personality characteristics may affect their children’s life spans.
Sir William Osler has a few words for you: “In the Life of a young man, the most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.” Truer words were never spoken. For what more could you ask than comradeship during the peaks and valleys of life? To whom else but a close, valuable friend can you show off your successes and complain about your failures or losses?
What is a “good friend”? How is he best described? Well, it has been my observation that although many will cry with you, few can sincerely rejoice (欣喜) with you. Therefore, in my opinion, a good friend is one who can enjoy your successes without envy; one who can say, “That was wonderful! You can do it again, even better if you want!” and mean it. Nothing taxes a friendship more than the success of one and not the other. Even the closest of friendships often cannot resist such pressure and fail. No wonder many minor friendships go down day by day for the same reason.
A person of good character and sound moral, of honor and humor, of courage and belief is a friend to be sought and treasured — for there are few. Too often we hear, “If you can count your good friends on more than one hand, consider yourself blessed.” And even then I would add, “Even if you have lost two fingers of that hand to the electric saw.
What makes a friendship last? Well, I don’t know all the answers, but one of my observations is that most good friends usually have similar tastes. They generally like and dislike many of the same things. There also usually seems to exist a similarity of personality types — especially in the fundamental values of life such as honesty, sincerity, loyalty, and dependability. More often than not, birds of a feather do fly together. I don’t think it matters a lot whether one prefers jazz or hockey to another’s Mozart or ballet. Much other matters far more: relying, sharing, giving, getting, enjoying; a sympathetic ear always there; criticism when it can help; praise — even if only because it would help. With not many people on this earth will you find this much in common. When you find one, hang on to him, for a good friend found is a rare treasure.
1.What is the meaning of the underlined sentence in Paragraph two?
A. People don’t have to pay taxes to develop friendship with others.
B. Success of one person can promote his friendship with others.
C. Friendship can be affected by the difference in success between friends.
D. Nothing can affect friendship because it has gone through the peaks and valleys of life.
2.What is the main idea of Paragraph three?
A. One is lucky to have many friends.
B. A friend should have a good character.
C. We should count our friends on more than one hand.
D. A true friend should be treasured because there are few.
3.According to the passage, which of the following plays the LEAST important role in a long-lasting friendship?
A. Hobbies. B. Tastes. C. Personality. D. Sympathy.
4.The passage mainly tells us “________”.
A. How good friends share the same taste and hobbies?
B. Why is friendship essetial in one’s life?
C. What is friendship and what makes it last?
D. What one can do to keep friendship last?
The Swedish Academy’s mid-October announcement regarding literature seldom fails to cause second-guessing.
Bob Dylan was awarded the big prize this morning, and my social media has been alive with indignation ever since. The Nobel did not go to those excellent novelists but to a songwriter. Some of those same people are still protesting that last year it was warded to Svetlana Alexievich, a “journalist”. They have decided, for whatever reasons, that song lyrics(歌词) are not literature.
And people are upset because Bob Dylan is the voice of some generation other than theirs, because he works in a popular style, because he does not work in this minute’s popular style, because he appeared on a car commercial that aired during the Super Bowl, because his songwriting skills dropped off — he was famous long ago, after all.
You may not think of Dylan as a poet, but Dylan created a climate in which lyrics were taken seriously. And Dylan accomplished something that few novelists or poets or for that matter songwriters have managed to do in our time: he changed the time he lived. Through words, with music, he affected the opinions and ambitions of hundreds of millions of people all over the world.The Nobel Prize in Literature cannot ever be all things to all people, and while this year’s award failed to accomplish various possible objectives, it was not in any way misapplied.
1.What does the underlined word “indignation” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
A. Curiosity. B. Happiness.
C. Excitement. D. Anger.
2.Why are people upset about Dylan’s being awarded?
A. He failed to represent any generation.
B. He didn’t have good songwriting skills.
C. He played badly in the Super Bowl.
D. He is not popular any longer.
3.Paragraph 4 mainly focuses on Dylan’s _________.
A. style B. influence
C. efforts D. ambitions
4.Which can serve as the title of the passage?
A. No dish suits all tastes
B. Great minds think alike
C. Misfortune may be actual blessing
D. Judge not according to the appearance
