1.In autumn，the days are shorter and the temperature ______．
2.It’s already midnight．Who ________ so much noise outside？
3.—What a mess your room is！
—Sorry．I ______ it up right now．
4.He _______ his hand into the air to get my attention and so
on I noticed him．
5.─Why are you in such a hurry？
─My father’s car _______ down on the way．I have to go to help him．
1.My grandma likes to be with the young though she is in her _________ now.
2.Those __________ books will be donated to the schools in poor areas.
3.It is difficult work, but the sense of _________ is huge.
4.The patient is getting much better after the operation and now she can look after _________.
5.To make a green world, we should try to reduce air _________ by walking more and driving less.
1.Alex is crazy about computer．He wants to be a computer ________（工程师）in the future．
2.Being tall gives him an _________（优势）over the other basketball players．
3.The young detective decided to _________（find out）the truch alone．
4.My father is not in．He has gone _________（away from one’s own country）on business．
5.________ People can’t hear，so they always use their hands to communicate．
We all face quantities of stresses in day-to-day living, whether at work, in the home, or anywhere in between. 1. Here's how stress can help us on an everyday basis.
◆ Sharpen your memory.
Did you ever notice that sometimes when you are stressed, your memory seems to improve? Remember that test you passed where the answers seemed to come out of nowhere? 2. It's because of stress hormones（荷尔蒙）that increase your alertness(机敏) when it's most needed.
◆ 3.
Successful employees turn stress into motivation. Have you ever noticed that you get the least amount of work done when you have the fewest deadlines? Too little stress can affect how much you actually get done. When you take risks and choose to get over the difficulty, it improves your mental toughness and self-confidence.
◆ Helping you resist the attack of illness.
4. Believe it or not, the right kind of stress can help your body's defenses against illness. When you get sick, stress causes you to make hormones that battle threats to your health. That burst of stress is helpful to your immune system when your body faces a threat.
◆ Making your life more interesting.
Think about some stressful situations that we consciously put ourselves into make life more interesting and enjoyable, like asking someone out on a first date, conquering a known fear, or learning something new. These may not immediately come to mind when you think of stress because of the positive outcomes. 5.
A. Helping you get an advantage at work.
B. Helping you get through difficult times.
C. This will happen whenever you are stressed.
D. That's one way your brain responds to stress.
E. You need a healthy immune system to help fight off diseases.
F. But they're the types that can help you achieve fulfillment and happiness.
G.But handled properly,stress can have many benefits for the body and mind.
Close your eyes for a minute and imagine what life would be like if you had a hundred dollars less.Also imagine what it would be like spending the rest of your life with your eyes closed.Imagine having to read this page，not with your eyes but with your fingertips.
With existing medical knowledge and skills，twothirds of the world's 42 million blind should not have to suffer.Unfortunately，rich countries possess most of this knowledge，while developing countries do not.
ORBIS is an international nonprofit organization which operates the world's only flying teaching eye hospital.ORBIS intends to help fight blindness worldwide.Inside a DC8 aircraft，there is a fullyequipped teaching hospital with television studio and classroom.Doctors are taught the latest techniques of bringing sight back to people here.Project ORBIS also aims at promoting peaceful cooperation(合作) among countries.
ORBIS tries to help developing countries by providing training during threeweek medical programs.ORBIS has taught sightsaving techniques to over 35,000 doctors and nurses，who continue to cure tens of thousands of blind people every year.ORBIS has conducted 17 plane programs in China so far.For the seven to ten million blind in China，ORBIS is planning to do more for them.At the moment an ORBIS team is working on a longterm plan to develop a training center and to provide eye care services to Shanxi Province.ORBIS needs your help to continue their work and free people from blindness.
For just US $38，you can help one person see；for $380 you can bring sight to 10 people；$1,300 helps teach a doctor new skills；and for $13,000 you can provide a training program for a group of doctors who can make thousands of blind people see again.Your money can open their eyes to the world.Please help ORBIS improve the quality of life for so many people less fortunate than ourselves.
1.The first paragraph is intended to ________.
A. introduce a new way of reading
B. advise the public to lead a simple life
C. direct the public's attention to the blind
D. encourage the public to use imagination
2.What do we learn about existing medical knowledge and skills in the world?
A. They are adequate.
B. They have not been updated.
C. They are not equally distributed.
D. They have benefited most of the blind.
3.ORBIS aims to help the blind by ________.
A. teaching medical students
B. training doctors and nurses
C. running flying hospitals globally
D. setting up nonprofit organizations
4.What does the author try to do in the last paragraph?
A. Appeal for donations.
B. Make an advertisement.
C. Promote training programs.
D. Show sympathy for the blind.
So many of us hold on to little complaints that may have come from an argument, a misunderstanding, the way we were raised, or some other painful events. Stubbornly, we wait for someone else to reach out to us—believing this is the only way we can forgive or rekindle a friendship or family relationship.
A friend of mine, recently told me that she hadn't spoken to her son in almost three years. She said that she and her son had had a disagreement about his wife and that she wouldn't speak to him again unless he called first. When I suggested that she be the one to reach out, she said, “I can't do that. He's the one who should apologize.” After a little gentle encouragement, however, she did decide to be the first one to reach out. To her amazement, her son was grateful for her willingness to call and offered an apology of his own. As is usually the case when someone takes the chance and reaches out, everyone wins.
Whenever we hold on to our anger, we turn “small stuff(问题)” into really “big stuff” in our minds. We start to believe that our positions are more important than our happiness. They are not. If you want to be a more peaceful person you must understand that being right is almost never more important than allowing yourself to be happy. The way to be happy is to let go, and reach out. Let other people be right. This doesn't mean that you're wrong. Everything will be fine. You'll experience the peace of letting go, as well as the joy of letting others be right.
You'll also notice that, as you reach out and let others be “right，” they will become less defensive and more loving toward you. They might even reach back. But, if for some reason they don't, that's okay too. You'll have the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your part to create a more loving world, and certainly you'll be more peaceful yourself.
1.The underlined word “rekindle” in Paragraph 1 probably means “________”．
A. recover B. develop
C. accept D. replace
2.In the author's opinion, we hold on to our anger often because we think ________.
A. we can turn small issues into big ones
B. our positions are higher than others
C. our own opinions matter most
D. others will be less defensive
3.The best thing to do after a quarrel is to ______.
A. let go of our own rights
B. realize that you are wrong
C. expect others to give in
D. apologize to others first
