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8. Two fifths of the land in that district________________ (be) covered with flowers and grass.
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take off end up on average flood in pick up
1. The students scored 100 ___________ in the intelligence test, while John got 160.
2. If you don't know what you want, you might______________ getting something you don't want.
3. He has never studied French; what he ____________knows is what he while living in France.
4. The plane___________________ from the airport and headed south towards Hong Kong.
5. When I drew the curtains back, the sunlight _________________.
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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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1.大火烧掉了很多房子，使很多人无家可归。
The fire destroyed many houses and many people_______________________.
3.―The earthquake last night was really terrible.
一 _______________(Luck) ， no people were injured or killed, and they escaped in time.
3. They warned him___________ _ the dangers of sailing alone.
M： Hello, I'm carrying out some market research of Beauty Fitness Club. Would you be able to spare a few minutes 35. (answer) a few questions?
W: Sure, as long as 36. doesn't take more than 5 minutes.
M: OK, first of all, may I have your membership number, please?
W: Urn-It's PTF78196.
M: So that's PTF78196. OK, your occupation?
W: I'm 37 . accountant in an oil company.
M: OK， now I'd like to ask you some questions 38. (relate) to the club. What do you think of our classes?
W: Um， I really enjoy them. I 39. (attend) rock climbing and yoga in the past five weeks.
M: 40. the scale is one to five. Five is the best. How would you rate your instructors?
W: Oh, I would say " the top score, definitely.They're extremely 41. (profession) and supportive.
M ： Do you have any suggestions 42. the improvement?
W: Well, the only thing 43. I would say
is the evening class. Yoga, I mean, can get very busy. Maybe the club could think about running another class in the evening.
M ： Well ， thanks. We take the view of our customers very 44. (serious) and I'm sure you'll see some exciting improvement in the near future.
We all know the importance of curiosity, and here are some tips on how to develop it.
Keep an open mind. This is essential if you are to have a curious mind. Be open to learning, unlearning, and relearning things. 9 Therefore, you should be prepared to accept this possibility and change your mind.
10 Most people just accept the world as it is. This way, they will certainly lose the "holy curiosity". Try to dig deeper beneath the surface of what is around you. A sure way to dig deeper beneath the surface is asking questions. What, why, when, who, where, and how are the questions curious people always ask.
Don't label anything as boring. Whenever you label something as boring, you close one more door of possi?bilities. Curious people are unlikely to consider things boring. 11 Even if they don't yet have time to ex?plore them, they will leave the door open to be visited another time.
Take learning as something fun. If you see learning as a burden, there's no way you will want to dig deeper into anything. That will just make the burden heavier. However, if you think of learning as something fun, you will naturally want to dig deeper. 12
Read diverse materials. It will introduce you to the possibilities and excitement of other worlds which may attract your interest in exploring further. One easy way to do this is through reading diverse materials. 13 It'll feed your mind with the excitement of a new world.
A. Never take things as granted.
B. Don't spend too much time on just one world.
C. Try to pick a book or a magazine on a new subject.
D. Some things you know and believe might be wrong.
E. It doesn't matter that you don't agree to others' opinions.
F. Instead t they always see these things as a door to a new exciting world.
G. So look at life through the glasses of fun and enjoy the learning process.
Many cities around the world today are heavily polluted. Careless methods of production and lack of consumer demand for environment-friendly products have contributed to the pollution problem. One re?sult is that millions of tons of glass, paper, plastic,
and metal containers are produced, and these are difficult to get rid of.
However ， today ， more and more consumers are choosing " green" and demanding that the products they buy should be safe for the environment. Before they buy a product, they ask questions like these： "Will this shampoo damage the environment?" "Can this metal container be reused or can it only be used once?"
A recent study showed that two out of five adults now consider the envi?ronmental safety of a product before they buy it. This means that companies must now change the way they make and sell their products to make sure that they are "green", that is* friendly to the environment.
Only a few years ago, it was impossible to find green products in super?markets ，but now there are hundreds. Some supermarket products carry labels to show that the product is green. Some companies have made the manufactur-ing(生产)of clean and safe products their main selling point and emphasize it in their advertising.
The concern for a safer and cleaner environment is making companies rethink how they do business. No longer will the public accept the old attitude of "Buy it, use it, throw it away, and forget it". The public pressure is on, and gradually business is cleaning up its act.
1. It is clear from the passage that the driving force (动力)behind green prod?ucts is .
A. public caring for the environment
B. rapid development of companies
C. new ways of doing business
D. rapid growth of supermarkets
2. The underlined word "it" in Paragraph 4 refers to " ".
A. the selling point
B. the company's products
C. a great demand for healthful goods
D. the manufacturing of green products
3. What would be the best title of the passage?
A. Business and people
B. Shopping habits are changing
C. Business goes green
D. Supermarkets and green products
