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  Over the last 70 years, researchers have been studying happy and unhappy people and finally found out ten factors that make a difference.Our feelings of well-being at any moment are decided to a certain degree by genes.However, of all the factors, wealth and age are the top two.

  Money can buy a degree of happiness.But once you can afford to feed, clothe and house yourself, each extra dollar makes less and less difference.

  Researchers find that, on average, wealthier people are happier.But the link between money and happiness is complex(复杂的).In the past half-century, the average income(平均收入)has sharply increased in developed countries, yet happiness levels have remained almost the same.Once your basic needs are met, money only seems to increase happiness if you have more than your friends, neighbors and colleagues.

  “Dollars buy status(social position), and status makes people feel better,”say some experts, which helps explain why people who can seek status in other ways, scientists or actors, for example, may happily accept relatively poorly-paid jobs.

In his research, Professor Alex Michalos found that the people whose desires(欲望), not just for money, but for friends, family, job, health, rose furthest beyond what they already had, tended to be less happy than those who felt a smaller gap(差距).Indeed, the size of the gap predicted happiness about five times better than income alone.“The gap measures just blow away the measures of only income.”says Michalos.

  Another factor that has to do with happiness is age.Old age may not be so bad“Given all the problems of aging, how could the elderly be more satisfied?”asks Professor Laura Carstensen.In one survey, Carstensen interviewed 184 people between the ages of 18 and 94, and asked them to fill out an emotion questionnaire.She found that old people reported positive emotions just as often as young people.Some scientists suggest older people may expect life to be harder and learn to live with it, or they’re more realistic about their time running out.Older people have learned to focus on things that make them happy and let go of those that don’t.

  “People realize not only what they have, but also that what they have cannot last forever,”she says.“A goodbye kiss to a husband or wife at the age of 85, for example, may bring far more complex emotional responses than a similar kiss to a boy or girl friend at the age of 20.”

(1)

Some actors would like to accept poorly-paid jobs because the jobs ________

[  ]

A.

make them feel much better

B.

provide chances to make friends

C.

improve their social position

D.

satisfy their professional interests

(2)

Professor Alex Michalos found that people feel less happy if ________

[  ]

A.

the gap between reality and desire is bigger

B.

they have a stronger desire for friendship

C.

the hope for good health is much greater

D.

their income is far below their expectation

(3)

We can infer from the passage that older people ________.

[  ]

A.

would like to have more goodbye kisses than young people

B.

are used to living a hard life because they are kind to others

C.

express their positive opinions just as some young people do

D.

find it easier to feel happy because they are more realistic

(4)

According to the passage, the feeling of happiness ________

[  ]

A.

increases gradually with age

B.

is controlled partly by desires

C.

has little to do with wealth

D.

is decided mostly by genes

答案:1.C;2.A;3.D;4.B;
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 Curly is my big black dog. He is so strong that he can carry me on his back. He likes to run and play with me. He likes to follow my father around in the fields too. One day my father took off his coat and laid it on the ground under a big tree. Curly stood watching him. My father said, Watch my coat, Curly.

 Curly sat down on the coat. My father forgot all about his coat and went home without it. Late in the evening I missed my dog. I looked everywhere for him, calling, Curly, Curly!But Curly did not come. Soon my father wanted something that was in his coat pocket(). Then he remembered (记起) what he had done. He went back to the big tree. What do you think he saw? Curly was sitting on the coat so that nobody could carry it away.

1Curly took care of the       .

[  ]

A man         B. coat

C watch         D. tree

2 When did we miss the dog?

[  ]

A in the morning       B. at noon

C at 4 o'clock          D in the evening

3 The dog didn't come when he was called became he was       .

[  ]

A on guard (看守着)     B afraid

C asleep              D not hungry

4My father placed the coat       .   

[  ]

A in the tree             B on the ground

C in the garden           D over Curly

5This story was written to tell about       .   

[  ]

A a dog                B a forgetful

C a little boy             D a man's coat

阅读理解

  The shopping list

  Quantity (数量) pace{50} Item (项目) pace{50}    Price (价格)

  1pace{150} Magazine (杂志) pace{50} ¥3.75

  3pace{150} Penpace{130} ¥1.50 each

  1pace{150} Tapepace{120} ¥1.25

  1pace{150} Pencil Bagpace{80} ¥2.50

  1pace{150} Notebookpace{100} ¥1.00

  Subtotal(小计)pace{220} ¥13.00

  Tax (税)pace{270} ¥0.50

  Total (总额)pace{250} ¥13.50

  (A:cashier 出纳员  B:customer 顾客)

  A:The total is $13.50.How will you pay?

  B:Do you take credit cards (信用卡)?

  A:Sorry,we don't.Cash (现金) only.

  B:OK.Here is $20.OO.

  A:Thanks a lot.Here is the change (找的零钱) for you.Do you need a bag?

  B:Yes,please.

  A:Here you are.

  B:Thank you very much.

  A:Thank you,too.

(1)

The customer wants ______.

  A.to get a discount (折扣)  

B.to use a credit card

  C.one bag for each item  

D.to pay with a check (支票)

[  ]

(2)

How much does the cashier give the customer?

  A.¥20.00. B.¥10.50.  C.¥10.00. D.¥6.50.

[  ]

(3)

The tax is ______.

  A.less than a dollar  

B.10% of the total

  C.fifty dollars    

D.more than a price of a notebook

[  ]

(4)

“Here you are.” is the same as“______”.

  A.This is for me.  

B.Please leave.

  C.This is your bag.

D.The door is over there.

[  ]

(5)

Which of these sentences is true?

  A.The store doesn't have any bags.

B.A tape costs more than a pen.

  C.The person buys six things.  

D.The store doesn't take credit cards.

[  ]

阅读理解

  You will have a lot of reading to do in this grade this year.You can do more of it in less time if you learn to read rapidly.

  Perhaps you have been told about some habits (习惯) which keep a person from reading fast and have been strongly asked to break those habits which you might have.

  Do you still have any of these bad habits?Check yourself by answering“yes”or“no”to these questions.

  (1) Do you move your lips (嘴唇) when reading silently?

  (2) Do you point to words with your finger as you read?

  (3)Do you move your head from side to side as you read?

  (4)Do you read one word at a time?

  If you answer“yes”to any of these questions,start at once to break the habit.If you move your tips,hold your fingers over them,or hold a piece of paper be-tween your lips while you are reading.Then if your lips move,your will know it and can stop them.

  If you point to words,hold the two sides of your book,one side with your left hand,the other side with your right hand.Then you won't have a free finger to use in pointing while reading.If you move your head,place your chin (下巴) in one hand and hold your head still (静止不动的).

  If you read no more than one or two or three words at a time,you need to work very hard in learning to take in (吸收) more words at each glance (一瞥) as your eyes travel across the lines of words.

  Even if you do rather fast now,you can learn to read even faster.As you probably have been told,the secret of fast reading is to take in whole groups of words as each glance.Read in through groups and force (迫使) your eyes along the lines of words as fast as you can to make them go.Anyone who practices doing these things will he able to read faster.

(1)

You may hold your fingers over your lips while reading so as ______.

  A.to tell others to be silent

  B.to feel whether your lips move or not

  C.to hold a piece of paper between them

  D.to keep yourself from talking to others

[  ]

(2)

When you read,______.

  A.don't keep your head still

  B.don't hold your books with your hands

  C.don't stand up near a desk

  D.don't use your finger to point to words

[  ]

(3)

If you learn to read fast,______.

  A.you can read more in less time

  B.you can write faster

  C.you can understand better

  D.you can read less in more time

[  ]

(4)

You must _______ those habits that we are talking about in this reading.

  A.remember  B.have C.get rid of D.keep

[  ]

(5)

This reading is mainly about ______.

  A.the way of reading fast

  B.the importance of fast reading

  C.the bad habits in reading

  D.how to speak quickly

[  ]
阅读理解

  No one knows how man learned to make words. Perhaps he began by making sounds like those made by animals. Perhaps he made sounds like those he heard all round him. As the centuries(世纪) went by, he made more and more new words, This is what we mean by language.

  People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in

the world. Each has many thousands of words. A very large English dictionary, for example, has four or five hundred thousand words.  But before you leave school you will learn only a few thousands more. Then you should learn more and more words. Read as many books as you can. There are plenty of books written in easy English for you to read. You will enjoy them. When you meet a new word, find it in your  dictionary. Your dictionary is your most useful book.

根据短文内容,选择最恰当的答案。

1. The main idea of the first paragraph is ______.  

                          

[  ]

A. how animals make sounds

B. how man made words

C. man heard different sounds round him

D. man made more and more words

2. About how many different languages are there in the world?

                          

[  ]

A. 150  B. 1500  C. 5000  D. 500

3. A very large English dictionary might have over ______ words.

                          

[  ]

A. 400,000  B. 50,000  C. 40,000  D. 800,000

4. After you leave school, you should learn ______.

                          

[  ]

A. only a thousand words  B. all the words

C. more words         D. all kinds of languages

5. If you want to know more new words, you can ______.

                          

[  ]  

A. read many difficult books  B. read easy books

C. written easy English     D. look them up in your dictionary

  阅读理解

In the cold North there is always snow on the ground. Even in summer it is very cold there. Here is the home of the polar bear. He does not mind the cold. He has a coat of thick white fur.

  

  The polar bear likes the cold air as much as you like the warm sunlight. He does not fall on the ice because he has long hair on his paws and he walks very softly. He is very good swimmer and can swim a hundred miles form the shore. In the sea the polar bear catches seals for his dinner.

  

  He often walks over the ice and looks for a place where there is no ice.

  

  He knows that a seal likes to put out its head, so he sits down and watches. When the round head of the seal comes up, the bear jumps at it. He pulls the seal out of the water, kills it and eats it.   Sometimes the bear jumps into the water himself and catches a fish.

  

  In summer the polar bear also looks for berries. When he is very hungry he eats even the seaweed on the shore.

  

  The people who live in the far North hum the polar bear. His meat and fat give them food, his thick skin gives them a warm bed.

  

  They also cut it up and make it into coats, hats and gloves.

  

  (1)It's very cold ________ in North.

  

[  ]

  A. in winter

  

  B. in summer

  

  C. in spring

  

  D. all the year around

  

  (2)The polar bear isn't afraid of cold because ________.

  

[  ]

  A. he likes cold

  

  B. he doesn't like warm

  

  C. he has thick fur to defence cold

  

  D. he has fire in his body

  

  (3)The polar bear ________ for his dinner.

  

[  ]

  A. catches seals or fish

  

  B. looks for berries or seaweed

  

  C. not only catches seals or fish but also looks for berries of seaweed

  

  D. only catches seals

  

  (4)The polar bear is a good swimmer, so ________.

  

[  ]

  A. he often swims in the sea shore

  

  B. he lives in the sea

  

  C. he often looks for some food in the sea

  

  D. he often swims in the river

  

  (5)Don't hunt the polar bear because ________.

  

[  ]

  A. the polar bear is a useless animal

  

  B. it isn't interesting

  

  C. the polar bear is a rare animal

  

  D. it is too heavy to carry it

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