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阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

“Mum,you’re always on the computer!”Laure complained.

“No,I'm not.”I

“Every day I come home from school you’re working on the computer.”

“Well,at least I'm here you!”

My daughter was right.Day after day,in my home office,I would stare into space as my typed out the thoughts of a speaker or research completed for an article.It seemed that my work as a writer and speaker my fingers to the keyboard and my mind to valuable ideas.What Laure did not was that during her day away,I'd also be doing a lot of housework.It was only around three in the afternoon that I'd seat myself at my desk for a few moments of deep thought.Then she’d come in from schoo1.

I was of myself on being available to my children.After all,I am a speaker on child behavior and parenting.But Laure’s observation my heart.In her eyes,I must have been a mom who was but unapproachable.I wouldn’t make such an image(形象)before her.My relationship with my children is more than any other work.

“Laure,”I called.“come here a minute.”

She wandered to my doorway.I had decided to have her me when I was too devoted to work.I wanted her to have the to let me know when she thought I was cold.

After I explained my and the fact that I chose home office to be accessible to her and her sister,I offered Laure the following

“Whenever you feel I'm ignoring you or you need my ,I want you to me,I said,“just come up and give me a little hug,that’11 be our signal that you me.”

Years later we still have that sign.I've become much more sensitive to my daughters’comings and goings. she always gives me a little hug to remind me of the real reason I work at home.

1.A.thought B.refused C.defended D.agreed

2.A.for B.over C.against D.after

3.A.feet B.hands C.eyes D.ears

4.A.connected B.turned C.gave D.added

5.A.admit B.realize C.believe D.recognize

6.A.1uckily B.gradually C.instantly D.finally

7.A.anxious B.precious C.busy D.rare

8.A.proud B.ashamed C.afraid D.scared

9.A.filled B.broke C.touched D.mended

10.A.suitable B.available C.acceptable D.reasonable

11.A.important B.funny C.obvious D.wonderful

12.A.warn B.persuade C.encourage D.remind

13.A.patience B.time C.power D.honor

14.A.pattern B.dream C.schedule D.choice

15.A.promise B.chance C.answer D.truth

16.A.help B.attention C.decision D.advice

17.A.hug B.shake C.kiss D.kick

18.A.miss B.hate C.need D.scold

19.A.unknown B.unexpected C.unfinished D.unspoken

20.A.And B.But C. Or D. Yet

Obviously!

Until Descartes came along in the seventeenth century, everyone assumed that we exited. Obviously. The fact seemed so mind-blowing obvious that it wasn’t really discussed. We could see ourselves in the mirror, we could feel pain and pleasure, we could think thoughts for ourselves and, more importantly, perhaps, all the world’s main religions assumed that we do exist. So we exist.

No you don’t it!

You don’t exist. That’s because it’s impossible to show once and for all that you do. There’s no proof. You might think you exist-that you are sitting at a table reading this book, for instance-but how could you show with 100 percent certainty that this is true? There’s no experiment that could prove it. Although Descartes said just you could prove your own existence by the fact that you are able to think, this isn’t actually, according to the British philosopher A. J. Ayer. Just because we know that we are thinking, this doesn’t mean that there is a “you” doing the thinking. It just shows that the thoughts are happening, not that anyone is having them. Thoughts exists, “You” don’t.

_____________!

What a waste of time this question is. Although you can argue until the end of time whether you exist or not, it doesn’t get you anywhere. Unless you forget about this unanswerable question, you’ll be stuck thinking about it forever, and that isn’t of any use to anyone. Move on. Think about something more important! This very roughly, is the view of almost all philosophers, who prefer to answer other, apparently more useful, questions.

Yes, but…

You exist, but not in the way you might think. According to the great French philosopher Ren Descartes, you can’t show that anything exists—apart from your own self. The existence of the entire world can be doubted in one way or another, but the facts you’re having thoughts shows that there might be something (that’s you) having them. This let Descartes to write the famous philosophical phrase, “ I think before I am”.

1.Which of the following can be the missing heading?

A. Forget about it B. What a ridiculous point

C. Think about it D. What a pointless question

2.This passage is anything but a(n)___________.

A. comment B. discussion

C. argument D. debate

3.The famous answer to the question “Do I exist?” is ___________.

A. No, you don’t exist.

B. I think, therefore, I am.

C. Yes, you do exist.

D. It won’t get you anywhere

Long, long ago, in a dense forest there were thousands of tall and beautiful trees. They were happy, but____ of themselves. Among them there also a(an) ____ tree whose branches were badly twisted. All the trees made ______ of that ugly tree.

“How are you, hunchback?” the other ____ always shouted and their laughter made the ugly tree ____. The ugly tree thought, “I wish I were as ____ as the other trees. Why did God do this to me? Neither can I provide shade to the travelers. Nor can the ____ make their nests on me. Nobody needs me.”

One day, a woodcutter came to the____. He took a look at the trees and said, “These trees are lovely. I must ____ them.” As soon as he picked up his axe, the trees became ____. “Chop, Chop, Chop” went the woodcutter’s axe and one by one the trees started to fall.

“None of us is going to ____,” screamed one of the beautiful trees.

But when the woodcutter came near to the ugly tree. He had just raised his axe when suddenly he noticed how ____ the ugly tree was. “Hmm! This crooked tree seems to no ____ to me.”, he thought. Then he moved towards another beautiful tree. The ugly tree breathed a huge sigh of ____. He realized that by making him ugly, God had actually given him a boon. From that day on, the ugly tree never ____. He was happy with his crooked branches. He never forgot how he had escaped from the woodcutter’s axe, only because he was crooked and ugly.

1.A. proud B. short C. tired D. full

2.A. strong B. ugly C. thin D. straight

3.A. light B. fun C. sense D. use

4.A. directions B. persons C. trees D. animals

5.A. surprised B. angry C. sad D. moved

6.A. short B. long C. hard D. beautiful

7.A. fish B. pets C. hens D. birds

8.A. forest B. shop C. office D. hospital

9.A. cut B. put C. bring D. take

10.A. puzzled B. frightened C. amused D. satisfied

11.A. appear B. escape C. remove D. lie

12.A. soft B. flexible C. bent D. tall

13.A. doubt B. harm C. use D. way

14.A. desperation B. anger C. sorrow D. relief

15.A. complained B. grew C. spoke D. Waited

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