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4．Perhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money．Strange as it may seem，if you're unsatisfied，the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desires-not that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you don't have enough tastes．
Real riches consist of well-developed and hearty capacities （能力）  to enjoy life．Most people are already swamped（淹没） with things．They eat，wear，go and talk too much．They live in too big a house with too many rooms，yet their house of life is a hut．
Your house of life ought to be a mansion （豪宅），a royal palace．Every new taste，every additional interest，every fresh enthusiasm adds a room．Here are several rooms your house of life should have．
Art should be a desire for you to develop simply because the world is full of beautiful things．If you only understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them，they would make you as happy as to find plenty of ham and eggs when you're hungry．
Literature，classic literature，is a beautiful，richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment．To gain that love would go toward making you a rich person，for a rich person is not someone who has a library but who likes a library．
Music like Mozart's and Bach's shouldn't be absent．Real riches are of the spirit．And when you've broughtthat spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk，you have increased your thrills and bettered them．And life is a matter of thrills．
Sports，without which you remain poor，mean a lot in life．No matter who you are，you would be more human，and your house of life would be better supported against the hard days，if you could，and did，play a bit．
Whatever rooms you might add to your house of life，the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding．
32．The author intends to tell us thatA．
A．true happiness comes from spiritual riches
B．big houses are people's most valued possessions
C．big houses can in a sense bring richness of life
D．true happiness lies in achieving wealth by fair means
33．The underlined sentence in the second paragraph probably implies thatC．
A．however materially rich，they never seem to be satisfied
B．though their house is big，they prefer a simple life
C．however materially rich，they remain spiritually poor
D．though their house is big，it seems to be a cage
34．It can be learned from the passage thatC．
A．more money brings more happiness
B．art is needed to mke your hous beautiful
C．literature can enrich your spiritual life
D．sports contribute mainly to your physical fitness
35．What would be the best title for the passage？A
A．House of Life
B．Secret of Wealth
C．Rest and Refreshment
D．Interest and Enthusiasm．

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I had a （56 ）terribleday last Sunday．It was fine and the sun was shining brightly when I （57 ）got upin the morning．There was a new park in the city．So I decided to go sightseeing and take some photos in the beautiful （58）park After I had a quick breakfast，I took my （59 ）camera with me and set off．Everything went well at first，I （60 ）enjoyedmy trip so much that I didn't realize the weather had turned bad．I began to run，（61 ）butit was too late．I was caught in the rain and was （62 ）wetthrough．I kept on running until I got to a bus stop．I stood there （63）waiting for a long time for the bus，shaking with cold．（64 ）Soonafter I got home，I had a high fever，which made me stay in bed for three days．（65）Whata day!

2．Tom is in front of a group of people．He is blindfolded，but he can still show these people something amazing．The young man clls it"the art of memory"．First，the people who are watching him randomly（随机） choose sixty numbers．After that，a helper reads the number to Tom．Then，after hearing them just once，Tom repeats the numbers in the correct order from memory．He dose this first in the order h heared them．Then，he does it again-backwards!
Tom has a very special kind of memory．He explains in his own words，"It's a kind of memory that is connected to what I see．It means every idea that I learn and everything I read become a part of me．Normally，a person who dosen't have the gift，and who dosen't study memory，often forgets things-even an entire book．Not me．"Tom says that with his"gift"，he has memorized more than 250books!
Memorizing more than 250books is surprising，but it's not the only surprising thing ahout Tom．He says that he can remember every detail of every day of his life．He also says that he can remember these details from the time he was less than one year old!
Memoryis very difficult to understand．Scientists don't really know how it works yet．Tom's family genes（基因） may hold important information about his memory．
"The most important question，"says neurobiologist（神经生物学家） Dr．Antonio Malgaroli，"is to understand which is from heredity（遗传），and which is from the environment．"
52．what is Tom doing in front of a group of people？A
A．Showing his amazing memory．
B．Helping read the sixty numbers．
C．Learning about listening skills．
53．The underlined word"gift"in Paragraph2probably meansC．
A．valuable present
B．great wisdom
C．special memory
54．which of the following is TRUE according to the passage？A
A．Tom can remember things well from when he was very young．
B．Scientists have understood exactly how human's memory works
C．Dr．Antonio Malgaroli is sure that memory is decided by heredity．
55．The passage tells us thatB．
A．Tom has written 250books on memory
B．genes may play an important part in memory
C．memory has nothing to do with environment．

1．I was born in New York City and lived there until I was five．After my brother was born，my parents wanted us to grow up knowing our culture，so we moved back to India．But every summer，we return to New York to visit friends，so I feel that I have two homes instead of one．
A lot of my American friends think of teens（少年） in India only as hardworking，book-smart students---and to some degree that's a true．One reason is that，unlike in the US．whether an Indian teen can go to college is decided by his scores only．There are，however，lots of similiarities between Indian and American teens．We wear jeans，eat out，and watch movies．The differences are surprisingly few．
Sometimes I find myself thinking，what it would be like if my friends of both countries could meet．I don't think they would have any trouble asking themselves the same questions：Who am I？What kind of person do I want to be？And what can I give back to the world？
The answers I've heard are similar everywhere．Everyone believes we should do something to improve our world．Everyone believes our generation cannot be influenced easily by the prejudices（偏见） of past generations； not only do we accept differences among us，we also appreciate them．
Besides，all of us have already got some ideas about religious argument，globaling warming---things that have matured（成熟） us faster than our parents and grandparents
And because of this，everyone feels that no matter how old we are or where we are or where we come from，we each should try to unite through differences that drove us apart in the past．That's what I've learned on both sides of the word．
48．We can learn from Paragraph 1thatB．
A．the author was born in India
B．the author's family are from India
C．the author goes to school in America
49．In Paragraph 2，the author wants toA．
A．show there are few differences between Indian and American teens
B．tell us American teens can go to college only by high scores
C．encourage American teens to study as hard as Indian teens
50．The underlined word"them"in the 4th paragraph refers to（指代）C．
A．prejudices
B．generations
C．differences
51．The author holds the view thatB．
A．younger generation are easily influenced by the prejudices
B．people from different countries should unite through differences
C．the younger generation grow faster than the older ones．

20．---Has Hellen made up her mind ______abroad？
---I have no idea．（　　）

19．---Who's _____duty today？
---Jack is．（　　）

18．Not all the people like to share_______secrets with others．（　　）

17．从A、B、C、D四个单词中找出一个与其它三个划线部分读音不同的选项（　　）

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15．从A、B、C、D四个单词中找出一个与其它三个划线部分读音不同的选项（　　）

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