_____you don’t lose heart, it will be easy for you to overcome the difficulties.

Begin doing the work you love as soon as possible, even if you don’t get paid for it, or if you can only work at it part-time. Albert Einstein was unable to get a job as a physics professor. He could have said to himself, “Well, I just don’t have the work relative to physics. I should give up on it and settle for something else.” Instead, he wrote the two most famous papers when he was employed as a patent  clerk. After their publication, there was not a major university in the world that would not have been glad to have him on their staff.

If you want to work as an artist and you are making a living as a waiter, don’t think of yourself as a waiter who hopes one day to become an artist. That puts the work you love somewhere off in the distant future. Rather, think of yourself as an artist, supporting yourself by waiter tables—and paint, or draw as much as you can. It is possible to earn a living wage as a waiter working 24 hours a week. That leaves plenty of time to devote to training or developing your craft（手艺）in the off hours.

While seeking the work you love, it helps to expand your awareness  into the universe of all possibilities. You don’t want to be limited to the ideas of what you should do or what you have done before. Having opened to all possibilities, you can make a final decision and select the work you love as your own.

Doing the work you love requires that you be equally comfortable with the imaginative and the practical. It requires the ability to dream big dreams and the ability to face and master all the little details that make dreams come true.

1.According to the passage, perhaps Einstein once said to himself, “_______.”

A．Well, I just don’t have the work relative to physics. I should give up on it and settle for

something else

B．The job is just what I want, I should work very hard at it

C．I have to support myself by working as a patent clerk now, but I won’t give physics up

D．I must wait until I find my favorite job

2.If a person works 24 hours a week, he can________.

    A．have enough spare time for his hobbies

    B．have no time left to make his dream come true

    C．do nothing else

    D．make a good living

3.Which of the following is not implied in the last paragraph?

    A．Sometimes the imaginative is different from the practical.

    B．We have to take care of a lot of details before we make our dreams come true.

    C．We shall do practical things rather than dream.

    D．We shall dream big dreams and practice as well.

4.According to the passage, the author encourages us to ________.

    A．start work quickly                                 B．select job carefully and patiently

    C．dream often                                        D．make up our minds quickly

“Have a nice day!” may be a pleasant gesture or a meaningless. When my friend Maxie says “Have a nice day” with a smile, I know she sincerely cares about what happens to me. I feel loved and secure since another person cares about me and wishes me well.

“Have a nice day. Next!”This version of the expression is spoken by a salesgirl at the supermarket who is rushing me and my groceries out the door. The words come out in the same tone（腔调）with a fixed procedure. They are spoken at me, not to me. Obviously, the concern for my day and everyone else’s is the management’s attempt to increase business.

The expression is one of those behaviors that help people get along with each other. Sometimes it indicates the end of a meeting. As soon as you hear it, you know the meeting is at an end. Sometimes the expression saves us when we don’t know what to say “oh, you may have a tooth out? I’m terribly sorry, but have a nice day.”

The expression can be pleasant. If a stranger says “Have a nice day” to you, you may find it heart-warming because someone you don’t know has tried to be nice to you.

Although the use of the expression is an insincere, meaningless social custom at times, there is nothing wrong with the sentence except that it is a little uninteresting. The salesgirl, the waitress, the teacher, and all the countless others who speak it without thinking may not really care about my day. But in a strange and comfortable way, it’s nice to know they care enough to pretend they care when they really don’t care all that much. While the expression may not often be sincere, it is always spoken. The point is that people say it all the time when they like.

1.How does the author understand Maxie’s words?

2.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

3. By saying “Have a nice day,” a stranger may _____.

4.According to the last paragraph, people say “Have a nice day”_______.

5.What is the best title of the passage?

三、完型填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，共30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从31~50各题所给的四个选项（A、B 、C 、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

I am a teacher. Last Monday, at the beginning of class, I  31  asked my students how their weekend had been. A boy said that his weekend had not been so good. The boy then asked me       32  I always seemed to be so cheerful.

His question  33  me of something I’d read somewhere before, “Every morning when you  34  up, you have a  35  about how you want to face life that day.” I smiled and said to myself, “I choose to be cheerful.”

“Let me give you a(n)  36  ,” I said. “In addition to teaching here, I also teach in another college, 17 miles down the freeway from where I live. A few weeks ago, I  37   those 17 miles to the school. I only had to  38   another quarter mile to reach the school, but then my car  39 . I tried to start it again, but the engine wouldn’t start. So I took my  40  and walked to school.”

“As soon as I got there, I called AAA and arranged for a tow truck(拖车)to meet me at my car  41  class. The headmaster asked me what had happened. ‘This is my  42  day,’ I replied cheerfully. ‘Your car is broken and today is your lucky day?’ she was  43  . ‘What do you mean?’ ‘I live 17 miles from here,’ I replied. ‘My car could have broken down  44   along the freeway, but it didn't.  45 , it broke down in the perfect place: off the freeway and  46   walking distance from here. I’m still able to teach my class, and able to arrange for a tow truck to meet me.’ The headmaster’s eyes were  47   open and then she smiled.”

I  48  the faces in my class. Although it was the early hour, no one seemed to be  49 . My story had  50  them, or maybe it wasn’t the story at all.

31．A．anxiously  B．angrily     C．sadly D．cheerfully

32．A．why  B．how  C．that   D．whether

33．A．warned     B．told   C．reminded  D．thought

34．A．raise  B．keep  C．wash D．get

35．A．problem   B．choice      C．right  D．chance

36．A．example   B．answer      C．story D．explanation

37．A．walked     B．ran    C．drove       D．flew

38．A．stay   B．repair       C．run    D．cover

39．A．burst B．died  C．started      D．hit

40．A．friends     B．books       C．ways D．students

41．A．after        B．during      C．before      D．in

42．A．terrible     B．great C．lucky D．special

43．A．surprised  B．puzzled     C．shocked    D．amazed

44．A．somewhere      B．everywhere      C．nowhere   D．anywhere

45．A．Instead     B．Also  C．Then D．Therefore

46．A．at     B．within      C．beyond     D．off

47．A．hardly      B．almost      C．wide  D．quite

48．A．watched    B．saw   C．made D．scanned

49．A．awake      B．asleep       C．alone D．cheerful

50．A．controlled B．defeated    C．touched    D．educated

第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16-35各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

I still remember the day I was driving to the supermarket I own. When I came out, I found a boy 16 my car with a brush. I went over and patted (拍) him 17 the shoulder, which surprised him very much. In no time he began to 18 at me, so I was sure he   19 some money. From the shoes he was wearing I could hardly imagine how 20 he was. So I offered him a $100 bill. To my great surprise, he 21 to take it. When I was wondering what he was doing, he said, “I was waiting here for 4 hours, waiting for you. Your 22 is so beautiful and I like it, but I don’t need that.” I knew he was mentioning the 23.

As he had refused the money, I offered to drive him around the town. The boy became so 24 that he got into the car at once, “Would you please drive me 25? It is only about 3 miles.” What the boy wanted to do was to show off to his friends and his family.

26 I stopped, he jumped out and ran into an old building, telling me to wait there for some time. Very soon he came out, saying to a little girl on his back, “Look at this beautiful car. I will buy you 27 some day.”

I noticed his sister had a pale (苍白的) face. 28, her legs were too thin, and she was unable to 29. 

After that day I went to his home several times. And I got to know more about him and his 30. Poor as they were, the boy 31 refused my money, and said, “I can   32 money by myself, thank you.”

Soon I 33 my manager of the supermarket that a boy would go to 34 here the next day.

No matter how poor we are, we would 35 give in (屈服) to ourselves.

16. A. repairing             B. cleaning         C. fixing            D. hitting

17. A. over               B. off              C. in                  D. on

18. A. shout                B. cry                     C. smile                D. throw

19. A. lost               B. got                     C. received             D. needed

20. A. rich              B. poor            C. handsome              D. brave

21. A. begged           B. agreed           C. allowed           D. refused

22. A. car               B. shoes             C. suitcase           D. clothes

23. A. box              B. wheel            C. paper                D. bill

24. A. unhappy             B. scared         C. excited                 D. unfriendly

25. A. yard          B. office                  C. school            D. home

26. A. As soon as       B. As long as       C. As well as          D. So far as

27. A. one              B. it                  C. this                 D. that

28. A. So                B. However         C. What’s worse             D. In general

29. A. run              B. jump            C. climb                 D. walk

30. A. brother       B. family            C. friend            D. boss

31. A. no longer           B. at last          C. at first                   D. once again

32. A. spend             B. save                 C. make               D. borrow

33. A. told          B. asked            C. answered          D. warned

34. A. shop         B. work             C. sleep                   D. buy

35. A. always       B. often             C. ever                D. never