Do you want to live with a strong sense of peacefulness, happiness, goodness, and self- respect? The collection of happiness actions broadly categorized as "honor" help you create this life of good feelings.

Here's an example to show how honorable actions create happiness.

Say a store clerk fails to charge us for an item. If we keep silent, and profit from the clerk's mistake, we would drive home with a sense of sneaky excitement. Later we might tell our family or friends about our good fortune. On the other hand, if we tell the clerk about the uncharged item, the clerk would be grateful and thank us for our honesty. We would leave the store with a quiet sense of honor that we might never share with another soul.

Then, what is it to do with our sense of happiness?

In the first case, where we don't tell the clerk, a couple of things would happen. Deep down inside we would know ourselves as a type of thief. In the process, we would lose some peace of mind and self-respect. We would also demonstrate that we cannot be trusted, since we advertise our dishonor by telling our family and friends. We damage our own reputations by telling others. In contrast, bringing the error to the clerk's attention causes different things to happen. Immediately the clerk knows us to be honorable. Upon leaving the store, we feel honorable and our self-respect is increased. Whenever we take honorable action we gain the deep internal rewards of goodness and a sense of nobility.

There is a beautiful positive cycle that is created by living a life of honorable actions. Honorable thoughts lead to honorable actions. Honorable actions lead us to a happier existence. And it's easy to think and act honorably again when we're happy. While the positive cycle can be difficult to start, once it's started, it's easy to continue. Keeping on doing good deeds brings us peace of mind, which is important for our happiness.

1.According to the passage, the positive action in the example contributes to our _____.

A. self-respect B. financial rewards

C. advertising ability D. friendly relationship

2.The author thinks that keeping silent about the uncharged item is equal to___.

A. lying B. stealing

C. cheating D. advertising

3.The phrase "bringing the error to the clerk's attention" (in para. 5) means___.

A. telling the truth to the clerk

B. offering advice to the clerk

C. asking the clerk to be more attentive

D. reminding the clerk of the charged item

4.How will we feel if we let the clerk know her mistake?

A. We'll be very excited.

B. We'll feel unfortunate.

C. We'll have a sense of honor.

D. We'll feel sorry for the clerk.

5.Which of the following can be the best title of this passage.

A. How to Live Truthfully

B. Importance of Peacefulness

C. Ways of Gaining Self-respect

D. Happiness through Honorable Actions

Two things I really believe in --- saving money and saving the planet, and it’s even better when I can do something that accomplishes both at the same time. Rainwater harvesting is just such a thing. In the near future, rainwater harvesting will be as common as twelve-year-old girls carrying cell phones.

Many countries already rely heavily on rainwater. Every building in these countries collects the rainwater from its roof and stores it for later use. However, America is just slightly slow to take action.

There are many ways to harvest rainwater and most of them are easy and inexpensive. For example, use rain barrels(桶)to collect the water that would run off your roof. You’d be surprised at how fast a fifty-gallon(加仑)barrel will be filled with free, usable water. New building construction offers some good ways to gather rainwater, and the cost of set-up is usually made up by reduced usage very quickly. Rainwater can be conveyed by roof pipes into underground containers, where a pump can draw water up as needed.

The rainwater can even be treated to make it drinkable. If that rainwater were not collected, but allowed to run over your lawn(草坪), into the street and eventually to a storm water treatment facility, it would pick up all sorts of pollutants on its journey --- chemical compositions and agricultural poisons from the grass, motor oil, waste water and such from the roads, and who knows what else. That is to say, the shorter distance it covers the more drinkable it will be.

Depending on where you live, the rainwater may be piped to a treatment plant or it may run in natural channels to allow nature to remove the pollutants. Either way, the treatment of rainwater is high priced. If you reduce the amount of rainwater run-off from your home or office, you reduce the need for treatment.

Water is rapidly becoming one of our most precious resources and it is not as abundant as you may think. In the year 2015, the United States used generally 479 billion gallons of fresh water per day.

1.According to the passage, harvesting rainwater can ______.

A.help us save money and be good for the environment

B.help us realize the importance of water

C.promote the development of economy and peace

D.make us live a better life in the near future

2.What could we learn from the first and the second Paragraph?

A.Little girls can save money by carrying cell phones.

B.Many countries can’t afford to harvest rainwater.

C.Harvesting rainwater in America is not that common.

D.Rainwater harvesting is mainly adopted by developed countries.

3.What is Paragraph 3 mainly about?

A.How to take advantage of rainwater.

B.How to fix the equipment under the ground.

C.How to reduce the cost of the equipment.

D.How to harvest rainwater.

4.What is the best time for people to harvest rainwater for drinking?

A.Before it is piped to a treatment plant.

B.After it runs over your lawn.

C.After it runs into the street.

D.Before it drops from the roof.

5.It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

A.it is easy to make rainwater drinkable

B.the author calls on people to harvest rainwater

C.many countries ignore to harvest rainwater

D.it is easy to deal with the pollutants from rainwater

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A“blogger” is a person who writes on an Internet website called a “blog”. The word “blog” is a way of saying“web log”, or “personal website”. Anyone can start a , and they can write about anything they like.

There are millions of blogs on the internet today. They news, information and ideas for people who read them. They contain to other websites, and they provide a place for people to write their and react to the ideas of others.

A research company called Perseus has more than 3,000 web logs. It says that blogs are most with teenage girls. They use them to their friends know what is happening in their lives. The study says that more than 100,000 bloggers stopped taking part in the activity after a year.

, some people develop blogs to present political and other ideas. , the Republican and Democratic parties in the southern state of Kentucky recently started their own blogs. And American companies are beginning to use blogs to advertise their .

At the same time, some long-standing blogs have . Last week, blogging leader Dave Winer closed his free blog service “weblogs. com”. He said the site became too expensive to . He started the blog four years ago, and thousands of people had on it. They were that the site had been closed.

One blog that is still going is called Rebecca’s Pocket. Rebecca Blood created the website in 1999. She wrote about the history of blogs on the site. That led to a book called The Weblog Handbook. It has been into four languages so far.

1.A. shortB. longC. regularD. central

2.A. companyB. expressionC. experimentD. blog

3.A. debateB. exploreC. provideD. seek

4.A. issuesB. linksC. recoveryD. guidance

5.A. reasonsB. ideasC. faultsD. choices

6.A. servedB. reportedC. studiedD. attached

7.A. popularB. pleasedC. boredD. careful

8.A. askB. orderC. demandD. let

9.A. insteadB. yetC. stillD. also

10.A. BesidesB. HoweverC. In factD. Therefore

11.A. fierceB. relaxingC. seriousD. humorous

12.A. For exampleB. In totalC. In the endD. On the contrary

13.A. productsB. employeesC. systemsD. predictions

14.A. recognizedB. endedC. survivedD. happened

15.A. advertiseB. startC. continueD. close

16.A. writtenB. appearedC. workedD. taken

17.A. happyB. upsetC. excitedD. confident

18.A. devotedB. gentleC. weakD. strong

19.A. characterB. historyC. articleD. usage

20.A. dippedB. fooledC. mixedD. translated

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