A young man had a beautiful dream.

A fairy came to him and said,"Little boy, whatever you like, you may  5  . I will give it to you now.

"What will I ask?" Suddenly he 6 from his mind one of his great desires. With 7 he raised his voice, "I have a 8 Can you take 'nights' away from our life?"

The fairy asked, " 9 should I take away nights from the earth?"

The boy opened his heart. "As the day 10 , my mother forces me to stop playing. If there is  11  night,I can play for a long time. Not only that, I am afraid of going out at night. Devils and thieves 12 us at night. Therefore, nights are unnecessary."

"Yes, let it happen as you wish," the fairy said. 13  , the night disappeared. Everywhere was full of light! But as time passed, it became 14 As nights disappeared, there were  15   days full of light. Then he could play and play, but he got 16 at the end. The joy of sunrise and sunset was just good old  17 .The boy cried out, "Oh, Fairy, give nights. 18 to me my beautiful nights.Suddenly the young boy 19 from the dream.

Nights give rise to days, months and years. If there are no nights, days will not be as 20 as we have them today.

It is the same with regard to the darkness in our life 21  pain, sorrows and troubles.   A life 22 problems and difficulties will result in a lack of strength and  23    As day takes birth from the womb of night, joy takes birth from the womb of   24 .

5.    A. tell     B. say

C. inform       D. ask

6.    A. picked       B. made

C. packed       D. accepted

7.    A. joy     B. sadness

C. surprise      D. disappointment

8.    A. goal    B. suggestion

C. desire  D. chance

9.    A. How   B. What

C. When  D. Why

 

10.   A. starts  B. breaks

C. continues    D. ends

11.   A. one     B. no

C. any     D. some


12.   A. see     B. destroy

C. protect       D. attack

13.   A. Finally       B. Naturally

C. Suddenly    D. Luckily

14.   A. nice    B. troublesome

C. horrible      D. orderly

15.   A. always       B. never

(、• seldom     D. sometimes

16.   A; delighted    B. interested

C. satisfied     D. tired

17.   A. life     B. memories

C. games D. ideas

18.   A. Give   B. Send

C. Return       D. Show

19.   A, got up B. turned up

C. woke up        D. jumped up

20.   A. beautiful    B. short

C. dark    D. moon-lit

21.   A. next to       B. due to

C. as to   D. close to

22.   A. with   B. of

C. without      D. under

23.   A. weakness    B. courage

C. force   D. trouble

24.   A. sorrow       B. pleasure

C. astonishment      D. excitement

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Many years ago, Dr Cronin occasionally wrote an unusual treatment for some of his patients who were feeling down. He would insist that for six weeks the pa?tients say "Thank you" for every kindness and he had a great cure rate.

Everyone gets down at times, and sharpening your sense of gratitude(感激)can make a difference. I have observed again and again that people's hap?piness is not usually found in getting what they want; it comes from apprecia?ting what they have.

Writer Arthur Gordon used to tell about asking a doctor friend for the name of the most effective treatment he knew. "Well, I'll tell you," his friend said. "A colleague of mine once had a woman patient who suffered from de?pression. The usual prescription didn't seem to help."

One day this doctor sent a small package to the woman's home. "I want you to take what's in this package," he said, "and spend ten minutes every?day looking through it at some objects in this room.,,

In the package there was a magnifying glass(放大镜).She began looking at her sofa. She was amazed at what she saw. Then she examined a flower picked from her garden and even her own skin. She was amazed at the brand new world opening up before her eyes.

As this woman gazed at her world through a magnifying glass, she saw, in a completely different way, what had been around her all along. Her sense of wonder gave way to another more powerful emotion―gratitude. The doctor said that her experience with the glass was the turning point of her illness. She began to appreciate what she had and get well.

Do you practise gratitude? 1 think you'll discover that it is a great way to keep happy.

1.Why does the author mention Dr Cronin in the beginning?

    A.     To show that Dr Cronin was a great doctor.

B.     To introduce what the author wants to talk about.

C.     To introduce some good ways of recovering from illness.

D.     To show his attitude towards Dr Cronin's unusual treatment.

2.According to the passage, the woman was required to_________________ .

   A.     play with her furniture as often as she could

B.     look at the world through a magnifying glass

C.     look for some objects she had lost in her house

D.     spend ten minutes taking exercise every day

3.What did the doctor probably want the woman to understand?

   A.     Happiness comes from appreciating what we have.

B.     Our life will be ruined if we are too careful.

C.     The magnifying glass will open a brand new world to us.

D.     Our life will become colourful with the help of the magnifying glass.

4. What does the underlined word " prescription" in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A. Paper.             B. Plan.             C.  Treatment.      D. Award

5. According to the passage, practising gratitude is a good way of

A.   calming down ourselves                 B. living a richer life

C.  curing some deadly diseases             D. curing some mental problems

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