A little girl lived in a small, shabby house on a hill. She enjoyed playing in her small ________ as she was growing up. She was able to see over the garden and across a valley (山谷) to a wonderful house high on a hill—a house that had golden ________.

Although she loved her own family, she dreamed all day about ________ wonderful and exciting it must be to live in that golden house.

She eventually (终于) ________ an age, where she could play outside of her garden. She asked her mother if she could go for a bike ride outside the gate of her home. Her mother finally ________ her to go. The little girl rode her bike until she got to the gate of the golden house.

As she leaned her ________ against the gatepost, she focused on the path that led to the house and then looked at the house itself. However, she felt a bit ________. All the windows were actually plain (普通的) and rather dirty.

She was so sad that she didn’t try to go any further. Heartbroken, she got on her bike again. As she ________, she saw a sight that amazed her. She could see a small house on ________ side of the valley. Its windows glistened (闪耀) as the sun shone on her little home.

She realized that she had been living in her own ________ house all along. Everything she dreamed of was right there in front of her eyes!

1.A.house B.park C.room D.garden

2.A.windows B.keys C.roofs D.doors

3.A.why B.what C.how D.whether

4.A.reached B.got C.arrived D.became

5.A.drove B.allowed C.led D.organized

6.A.bike B.car C.dream D.window

7.A.happy B.disappointed C.excited D.afraid

8.A.lifted up B.looked up C.turned up D.dressed up

9.A.another B.other C.the other D.others

10.A.shabby B.warm C.small D.golden

The way we spend our time can be divided into three "bottles". These are the Necessary Tasks Bottle, the Voluntary Tasks Bottle and the Happiness Bottle.

Every day, we spend time filling the Necessary Tasks Bottle with useful things, like making money, doing housework, buying food and paying bills. We then fill another bottle with Voluntary Tasks. These are things that we do for others, we may not enjoy, but we do them anyway This bottle gets filled with tasks like taking children to activities, cooking family meals, and washing clothes for family members, Those bottles are very important if we don't fill them each day.

However, we often forget to fill the third bottle-the Happiness Bottle. This is the bottle that we fill with activities that make us happy. Is your Happiness Bottle sometimes empty at the end of the day? Between doing all the Necessary and Voluntary Tasks, time flies by, and before we know it. it is time for bed. We all have days like that.

This is why each day we have to make an effort(努力) to fill our Happiness Bottle. Most days, I fill mine by going to the dancing class. And I always leave classes more happily than when I enter. This week, I had the pleasure of taking part in a guitar practice in my neighborhood. We show our musical talent and practice music for charity(慈善) It was a time of fun, friendship and music-making. At the end of the evening, my Happiness Bottle was filled to top.

The challenge(挑战)for each of us is to not let the day go by without filling our Happiness Bottle. That takes some planning. Many of us probably need to pencil happiness activities into our schedule(日程表) Or, we will fill our schedule with those Necessary and Voluntary Tasks.

This week. Think about how your time is being spent. Are you doing enough activities that bring joy to your life? Or are the Necessary and Voluntary Tasks using up all your time? At the end of the day. Hopefully we've done all we can to make sure that our Happiness Bottle is filled.

1.Which activity belongs to(属于) a Necessary Task according to the passage?

A.Having fun with your good friend

B.Preparing a big dinner for your family.

C.Going to work although it is raining heavily.

D.Sending your son to a piano lesson on Sunday.

2.People can fill the Happiness Bottle by________.

A.planning our schedule without any Voluntary Tasks

B.spending time on activities that make us happy

C.using up all the time to find happiness.

D.doing more things for other people

3.What can we learn from the passage?

A.People often fill the Happiness Bottle at bedtime.

B.People are happy to fill the Voluntary Tasks Bottle each day

C.It is necessary for people to plan happiness activities on the schedule.

D.It is OK if we don't fill the Necessary Tasks or Voluntary Tasks Bottle.

4.What is the writer's main purpose in writing this passage?

A.To describe what the Happiness Bottle is like

B.To introduce ways to fill the Harness bottle

C.To share the experience of filling the Happiness Bottle

D.To tell people to spend time filling the Happiness Bottle

When you write a text message or an email, you might put a smiling face or other pictures at the end to make the message more fun. These pictures are emojis. The first emojis were on Japanese mobile phones in the 1990s. Later, they were used on Apple’s iPhone and Android phones. Now they are everywhere!

Before emojis, there were emoticons. The word is a mixture(混合) of emotion(感情) and icon(图标). Emoticons are made of the signs you can find on your keyboard, for example:-) for a smiley or @};---for a rose. The first use of :-)was in 1982 and it was called “joke marker”. Emoji is a Japanese word which means pictograph: e(picture) +moji (character). Emojis are real pictures, for example,or.There are 1851emojis that can be used on mobile phones and other devices. There are all kinds of emojis, from faces and weather to things in the kitchen and animal.

In England, we have a saying: A picture paints a thousand words. For many people, an emoji is like a punctuation mark(标点). It’s like the tone of voice when we speak on the phone, or hand movements(gestures) used in conversation. Emojis are also changing the way we write. The more we use emojis, the less we use slang(俚语), such as LOL or OMG.

When someone speaks and looks serious, we try to look serious, too, and when someone smiles, we smile as well. This is how we show empathy(同感) and make friends(and enemies!). But when we’re online, we can’t see the person’s face and there’s no emotion. The invention of emojis changed that! Scientists in Australia have discovered that when we look at a smiley face online, the same parts of the brain start working as when we look at a real smiley face. Our mood changes, and we try to change our face to match the emoji. This is something we learn as we get older. Our brains have developed this ability over the last two or three years. This means that emojis have created a new brain pattern(模式)in us!

1.Where does the writer of this passage possibly come from?

A.Australia B.Japanese C.America D.Britain

2.What is NOT true about Paragraph 3?

A.Some slang is used less often because of emojis.

B.We no more need words.

C.An Emoji adds emotions to our messages.

D.An Emoji makes people feel face to face.

3.What is (= ̄ω ̄=) according to the passage?

A.an emoji B.a picture C.an emoticon D.a sound

4.What can we learn from the passage?

A.Emojis will make our words disappear.

B.Emojis have greatly influenced us in many ways.

C.We don’t need to speak to others or meet others any more.

D.Scientists are worried about this invention of emojis.

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