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It was many years ago. I was a young dad sitting on the couch reading a fairy tale to my little girl. She sat next to me with her head on my arm as I told the _______. When it came to the _______ I finished with those famous words：“And they lived happily ever after.” _______ I looked over to her with her wavy, brown hair and big, innocent eyes, I could see the _______ on her face and I never wanted it to end. It _______ me then that the ending of the book was what I wanted for her. I wanted her to “live happily ever after."

_______, deep in my heart I knew that this couldn’t always be so. I knew that there would be times when her heart was _______. I knew there would be times when she cried in grief and I couldn’t _______ her. I knew there would be times when all she felt was _______, sadness, sorrow, and despair. As I stroked her hair and smiled at her I hoped that those times would be ________ and that she would have joy in her life more often than not. Living happily ever after, though ________ out of the question.

It took me a lot of years to ________ that it is possible to live happily ever after. You just have to do it "one day at a time." Happiness you see isn’t some ________ that you get at the end of your ________. Happiness isn't something dependent on ________life hands you. Happiness is ________ you create in your life choice by choice and day by day.

The ________ is that happiness comes when you love. Love is a(n) ________ from God. It is love that ________ broken hearts. It is love that heals grief. It is love that gives us joy. ________ to “live happily ever after, one day at a time.”

1.A. tale B. words C. times D. book

2.A. beginning B. middle C. end D. bottom

3.A. Until B. Though C. As D. Unless

4.A. tear B. smile C. worry D. sadness

5.A. dawned on B. took in C. caught on D. made out

6.A. Therefore B. However C. But D. So

7.A. hurt B. injured C. harmed D. broken

8.A. persuade B. entertain C. comfort D. satisfy

9.A. desire B. eagerness C. stress D. fear

10.A. quick B. fast C. brief D. soon

11.A. remained B. stayed C. kept D. seemed

12.A. recognize B. realize C. know D. accept

13.A. prize B. award C. reward D. value

14.A. journey B. trip C. travel D. tour

15.A. how B. when C. what D. which

16.A. something B. anything C. everything D. nothing

17.A. reality B. truth C. faith D. belief

18.A. fate B. fortune C. offer D. gift

19.A. improves B. recovers C. mends D. calm

20.A. Choose B. Accept C. Prefer D. Remember

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How to enter

Children aged 5-12 should respond in words and/or pictures to the questions, “Your favourite has jumped out of the book to spend the day with you. Tell us: What happens next?”

One winner will be chosen for each age group：

Ages 5-6：Please submit a drawing no larger than 8.5cm x11cm and an essay written in child’s own words—may be dictated to an adult – of up to 50 words. Essay must be typed or written in blue or black ink.

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All entries must be postmarked by October 31, 2016.

1.What’s the purpose of the text?

A. To persuade readers to attend the contest.

B. To give information about the contest.

C. To get kids excited about reading and writing.

D. To give kids a chance to earn money.

2.Whoever wins the contest can ______.

A. gain a total of $625 in cash B. get a library of books valued at $ 500

C. see his work on ReadersDigest.com D. win a certificate to go to library

3.What’s the difference between Ages 7-9 and Ages 10-12 in request of entry?

A. The word number of the essay. B. The color of the submission.

C. The size of the submission. D. The form of the essay.

My father enjoys bike riding. Ever since I was little, I have always loved going biking with my dad.________, as I became a teenager, other things began to draw my _________ It became important to do things with friends _________ I saw my dad every evening at home. Why did I have to ________ my Sundays to all-day bike trips with him, too? If my indifference(冷漠的) hurt him, my father kept________, but he would always let me know when he was planning a bike trip________I wanted to come with him.

It was a Sunday morning, and I was in low ________. Two of my friends had gone to the movies without inviting me. Just then my father________my room.“It is a beautiful day. Want to go for a ______, today, Beck?” “Leave me alone!” I impatiently

____. Those were the last words I said to him before he left the house that ______.

Several hours later, the police called us, informing(告知) us that Dad had a traffic ________. My father’s injuries were serious. It ________ several days before he could eventually(最后) speak. Beside his bed，I held his hand gently，________ of hurting him. “Daddy… I am sorry…” “ It’s okay, my dear, I’ll be okay.”

“No,” I said, “I ________ what I said to you that day. You know, that morning?”

“My dear, I don’t ________anything about that day, not before, during or after the accident. I remember kissing you good night the night before, though.” He ____

a weak smile.

I felt regretful for my thoughtless remark(话语)，for I _______wanted him to leave me alone in my heart. My teacher once told me that ______ have immeasurable power. They can hurt or they can heal. And we all have the ______ to choose our words. I intend to do that very carefully from now on.

1.A. Therefore B. Instead C. Besides D. However

2.A. attention B. sight C. effort D. energy

3.A. once again B. all of a sudden C. in time D. on one hand

4.A. start B. save C. devote D. waste

5.A. silent B. busy C. asleep D. awake

6.A. unless B. in case C. so that D. as if

7.A. spirits B. conditions C. emotions D. hopes

8.A. left B. checked C. entered D. knocked

9.A. ride B. walk C. picnic D. game

10.A. whispered B. warned C. announced D. shouted

11.A. moment B. morning C. afternoon D. evening

12.A. jam B. trouble C. accident D. problem

13.A. took B. spent C. cost D. paid

14.A. tired B. afraid C. aware D. sorry

15.A. discuss B. think C. care D. mean

16.A. hate B. forget C. remember D. like

17.A. got B. expressed C. exchanged D. managed

18.A. often B. never C. even D. once

19.A. apologies B. promise C. smiles D. words

20.A. expensive B. honor C. power D. desire

When someone reads the right book at the right time in his life, it can have a profound effect. Such is the case for the people on this list, who come from all walks of life. These people have singled out a book that they read which had a life-changing effect on them. They, in turn, affected the worlds of science, technology and politics.

1. That Printer Of Udell’s—Ronald Reagan

One book that had a big effect on former President Ronald Reagan as a child was the Christian-book That Printer of Udell’s, by Harold Bell Wright. The main character of the book, Dick Falkner, was born into a broken home with an alcoholic father. After losing both of his parents, Falkner moves to a bigger city, called Boyd City to make a living. However, everyone turns Dick down for a job, except for a printer. At the end of the book, Dick heads to Washington, D. C, to become a politician. It's said that the book showed him that good could defeat evil and that the good guys followed a code of morality, which can be seen as a driving factor in his presidency.

2. A Treatise Of Human Nature—Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was one of the greatest minds of all time. His name is synonymous with brilliance. So, what book had the biggest effect on such an important mind? It was A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume, which was published in 1738. Hume was a Scottish philosopher known for his contributions to philosophical skepticism(怀疑论). Einstein mentioned a few times that A Treatise of Human Nature had a large influence on him. He read the book just before coming up with his famous special relativity theory. In a letter, Einstein said that Treatise helped him formulate the ideas. It was like he already had the ideas in his brain, and Hume helped him to express them clearly.

3. The Aeneid—Mark Zuckerberg

When Mark Zuckerberg first added his likes to his Facebook profile, he put the book Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, as a favorite book. Later, in an interview with The New Yorker, Zuckerberg clarified that the sci-fi classic was one he enjoyed, but it wasn't his favorite. He said that his favorite book is The Aeneid, by Virgil, a Latin epic poem that was written somewhere between 29 - 19 BC about a group of Trojan survivors. Zuckerberg said he first read the book when he was in high school while he was studying Latin and that one thing that stuck with him was Aeneas's drive to follow his fate to build a city that “knows no boundaries in time and greatness".

1.How did the book That Printer of Udell's influence Ronald Reagan?

A. He believed in goodness and morality.

B. He found a role model in the hero of the book.

C. Ronald Reagan had similar experience with Dick Falkner.

D. Reagan was also a politician.

2.Why is the book A Treatise of Human Nature so important to Einstein?

A. Because it was written by a great philosopher David Hume.

B. Because it was a great philosophy book.

C. Because it helped Einstein form the ideas of special relativity theory.

D. Because it helped Einstein express his ideas of special relativity clearly.

3.What is Zuckerberg's favourite book?

A. Ender’s Game B. The New Yorker

C. The Aeneid D. A Latin epic poem

4.What can we infer about the books mentioned above?

A. They all affected different areas of the world.

B. They all have a profound effect on all people.

C. They are all the right books for their readers.

D. They are all written in English.

When I was about 12, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings(缺点). Week by week her list grew: I was very thin, I wasn’t a good student,I talked too much, I was too proud, and so on. I tried to hear all this as long as could. At last, I became very angry. I ran to my father with tears in my eyes.

He listened to me quietly, then he asked. “Are the things she says true or not? Janet, didn’t you ever wonder what you’re really like? Well, you now have that girl’s opinion. Go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things she said.”I did as he told me. To my great surprise, I discovered that about half the things were true. Some of them I couldn’t change (like being very thin), but a good number I could—and suddenly I wanted to change. For the first time I go to fairly clear picture of myself.

I brought the list back to Daddy. He refused to take it. “That’s just for you,” he said. “You know better than anyone else the truth about yourself. But you have to learn to listen, not just close your ears in anger and feeling hurt. When some thing said about you is true, you’ll find it will be of help to you. Our world is full of people who think they know your duty. Don’t shut your ears. Listen to them all, but hear the truth and do what you know is the right thing to do.” Daddy’s advice has returned to me at many important moments. In my life, I’ve never had a better piece of advice.

1.What did the father do after he had heard his daughter’s complaint?

A. He told her not to pay any attention to what her “enemy” had said.

B. He criticized (批评) her and told her to overcome her shortcomings.

C. He told her to write down all that her “enemy” had said about her and pay attention only to the things that were true.

D. He refused to take the list and have a look at it.

2.What does “Week by week her list grew” mean?

A. Week by week she discovered more shortcomings of mine and pointed them out to me.

B. She had made a list of my shortcomings and she kept on adding new ones to it so that it was growing longer and longer.

C. I was having more and more shortcomings as time went on.

D. Week by week, my shortcomings grew more serious.

3.Why did her father listen to her quietly?

A. Because he believed that what her daughter’s “enemy” said was mostly true.

B. Because he had been so angry with his daughter’s shortcomings that he wanted to show this by keeping silent for a while.

C. Because he knew that his daughter would not listen to him at that moment.

D. Because he wasn’t quite sure which girl was telling the truth.

Recently some American scientists have given a useful piece of advice to people in industrialized nations．They say people should eat more of the same kind of food eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago. 1.

The scientists say that the human life has changed greatly．Our bodies have not been able to deal with these changes in lifestyle and this had led to new kinds of sicknesses. 2. So they are called "diseases of civilization"．Many cancers and diseases of the blood system are examples of such diseases.

Scientists noted that people in both the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age enjoyed very little alcohol or tobacco, probably none．3. However, a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and that of today.

Stone Age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than domestic ones．They ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables and fruits．They did not have milk or any other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains. 4..We eat six times more salt than our ancestors．We eat more sugar．We eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein and much less vitamin C.

5. But scientists say that we would be much healthier if we eat much the same way the ancient people did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet food.

A．Stone Age people lived a simple life.

B．But today, we enjoy having a lot of these.

C．In that case, they would live much healthier.

D．Ancient people also got lots of physical exercise.

E．These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times.

F．People today probably don't want to live like our ancestors.

G．Modern people used to suffer from "diseases of civilization".

In its early history, Chicago had floods frequently, especially in the spring, making the streets so muddy that people, horses, and carts got stuck. An old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: A man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street. Asked if he needs help, he replies, "No, thanks. I've got a good horse under me."

The city planner decided to build an underground drainage (排水) system, but there simply wasn't enough difference between the height of the ground level and the water level. The only two options were to lower the Chicago River or raise the city.

An engineer named Ellis Chesbrough convinced the city that it had no choice but to build the pipes above ground and then cover them with dirt. This raised the level of the city's streets by as much as 12 feet.

This of course created a new problem: dirt practically buried the first floors of every building in Chicago. Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level. Small wood-frame buildings could be lifted fairly easily. But what about large, heavy structures like Tremont Hotel, which was a six-story brick building?

That's where George Pullman came in. He had developed some house-moving skills successfully. To lift a big structure like the Tremont Hotel, Pullman would place thousands of jackscrews (螺旋千斤顶) beneath the building's foundation. One man was assigned to operate each section of roughly 10 jackscrews. At Pullman's sign each man turned his jackscrew the same amount at the same time, thereby raising the building slowly and evenly. Astonishingly, the Tremont Hotel stay open during the entire operation, and many of its guests didn't even notice anything was happening. Some people like to say that every problem has a solution. But in Chicago's early history, every engineering solution seemed to create a new problem. Now that Chicago's waste water was draining efficiently into the Chicago River, the city's next step was to clean the polluted river.

1.The author mentions the joke to show ________.

A. horses were fairly useful in Chicago

B. Chicago's streets were extremely muddy

C. Chicago was very dangerous in the spring

D. the Chicago people were particularly humorous

2.The city planners were convinced by Ellis Chesbrough to ________.

A. get rid of the street dirt

B. lower the Chicago River

C. fight against heavy floods

D. build the pipes above ground

3.What can we conclude about the moving operation of the Tremont Hotel?

A. It went on smoothly as intended.

B. It interrupted the business of the hotel.

C. It involved Pullman turning ten jackscrews.

D. It separated the building from its foundation.

4.The passage is mainly about the early Chicago's ________.

A. popular life styles and their influences

B. environmental disasters and their causes

C. engineering problems and their solutions

D. successful businessmen and their achievements

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