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It 　　　　unusual courage and determination to make the break with his family.

A. took　　　　 B. needed　　　　 C. spent　　　　　　 D. shared

答案：A
解析：

It takes sth. to do sth.固定句式，意为“做某事需要……”

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　　Throughout history, other less famous men 　　3　　(want)to fly．An example was a man in England 800 years ago．He made a pair of wings from chicken feathers．Then he fixed them to his body and jumped into the air from a tall building．He did not fly very far．He fell to the ground and broke every bone in 　　4　　 body．

　　The first real step took place in France in 1783．Two brothers, the Mongol fliers, made a very large “hot air balloon”．They knew that hot air rises．Why not 　　5　　 a balloon with it? The balloon 　　6　　(make)of cloth and paper．In September of that year, the King and Queen of France came to see the balloon．They watched it 　　7　　 the very first air passengers into the sky．The passengers were a sheep and a chicken．We do not know 　　8　　 they felt about the trip．But we do know that the trip lasted eight minutes and that the animals landed 　　9　　．Two months later, two men did the same thing．They rose above Paris in balloon of the same kind．Their trip 　　10　　 twenty-five minutes and they traveled about 8 kilometers．

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　　Mr. Johns was given a piece of asbestos which had been found in Italy. He experimented with the material and then showed its surprising powers to his customers. After putting on a pair of asbestos gloves, which looked much like ordinary work gloves, he took red-hot coals from the fireplace and played with them in his hands. How astonished the customers were to discover that he was not burned at all. You can well imagine that he had increasing business in asbestos roofing materials. However, because it was very expensive to transport them from Italy to the United States, Mr. Johns sent out a young scientist to seek a source nearer home. This young man found great vein in the province of Quebec in Canada.
　　Ever since 1881 Quebec has led the world in the production of this unusual mineral, which is made up of magnesium, silicon, iron, and oxygen. When it is mined, the asbestos is heavy, just as you would expect a mineral to be. When it is separated, a strange thing happens; the rock breaks down into fine, soft, soapy fibers .
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　　As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment（承担的义务）, self - improvement.

　　Ask a bachelor（单身汉） why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.

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　　Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.

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　　B. he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single

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2.Raising children, in the author’s opinion is ____________ .

A. a moral duty

B. a thankless job

C. a rewarding task

D. a source of inevitable pain

3.From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from ____________ .

A. hatred　　

B. misunderstanding　　　　

C. prejudice　　　　

D. ignorance

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　　B. make every effort to liberate oneself from pain

　　C. put up with pain under all circumstances

　　D. be able to distinguish happiness from fun

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A. Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain．

B. One must know how to attain happiness.

C. It is important to make commitments. 　　

D. It is pain that leads to happiness.

When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard. I remember him as someone who was a lot nicer than most of the adults in our community.

When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees. His house sat on ten acres, and his life’s goal was to make it a forest.

The good doctor had some interesting theories concerning plant care and growth. He never watered his new trees, which flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them so that each successive tree generation would grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things rough for them and weed out(淘汰) the weaker trees early on. He talked about how watering trees made for shallow roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of moisture. I took him to mean that deep roots were to be treasured.

So he never watered his trees. He planted an oak and, instead of watering it every morning, he beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. Smack! Slap! Pow! I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.

Dr. Gibbs passed away a couple of years after I left home. Every now and again, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I’d watched him plant some twenty-five years ago. They’re extremely tall, big and robust since they have deep roots now. However, the trees in my garden trembled in a cold wind although I had watered them for several years.

It seems that adversity(逆境) and suffering benefit these trees in ways comfort and ease never could. I stood there deep in thought.

Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. I stand over them and watch their little bodies, the rising and falling of life within. I often pray for them. Mostly I pray that their lives will be easy. But I think that it’s time to change my prayer(祷词) because now I know my children are going to encounter hardship.

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A. “Seeing is believing” B. “Put everything in proper use”

C. “Practice makes perfect” D. “No pain, no gain”

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A. I wish them strong wings, with which they can fly higher and touch the sky.

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C. I wish them deep roots into the earth since the rains fall and the winds blow often.

D. I wish them great shades under the tree since the sunlight is always sharp and bitter.

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

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