Dear Andy
I’m in London now. It’s the c  86  of England. I enjoy everything here except the food. I dislike English food. I miss dumplings and noodles.  Of course I never  s  87   missing you.
Things here are quite d  88  from those in China. T  89 in England goes on the left of the road. And if you want to go the other side of a road, you can have many ways: a subway(地铁), a footbridge or a zebra c  90  . And in some places, you can see black and white poles(杆). There is a button（键）on each of them. You can press the button to tell the drivers you want to cross the road. They usually stop their cars to let you go.
Taxis in London are really e  91  , so if you come to London, you should have enough m  92   with you. Taxi drivers are usually friendly. They are always ready to help you. And they must take exams b  93  they become taxi drivers.
London a   94   has the biggest underground system(系统) in the world. It’s easy to go the w  95   way if you are not careful.
Yours
Li Bing

根据对话内容与上下文，在空白处填入适当的词，使对话完整，并将单词写在答题卡相应的位置上。每空一词。

(Tony is talking to his net friend Mark on QQ. )

Tony: Hello, Mark. _____ (86) are you today?

Mark; Fine, thanks. I've just____ (87) my homework.

Tony: How many classes did you have this morning?

Mark: ____(88). Math, English, Music and P.E..

Tony: Do you like the P. E. class?

Mark: Of ______ (89). I like playing basketball very much. My favorite basketball _____   (90) is Yao Ming.

Tony: Did you have any classes this afternoon?

Mark: Yes, we ____(91) two. After that I played basketball with my classmates.

Tony_: Really? I played basketball, ____ (92). By the way, we had a game with Class 2 this afternoon.

Mark: ____ (93) you win the game?

Tony: No, we didn't. I hate to lose. I'm not_____(94) at basketball, you know.

Mark: Don't be sad. You should always practice it.

Tony: You ____ (95) right. Thank you.

Over the last 70 years, researchers have been studying happy and unhappy people and finally found out ten factors that make a difference. Our feelings of well-being at any moment are decided to a certain degree by genes. However, of all the factors, wealth and age are the top two.
Money can buy a degree of happiness. But once you can afford to feed, clothe and house yourself, each extra dollar makes less and less difference. Researchers find that, on average, wealthier people are happier. But the link between money and happiness is complex. In the past half-century, the average income has sharply increased in developed countries, yet happiness levels have remained almost the same. Once your basic needs are met, money only seems to increase happiness if you have more than your friends, neighbors and colleagues.
“Dollars buy status (social position), and status makes people feel better,” say some experts, which helps explain why people who can seek status in other ways, scientists or actors, for example, may happily accept relatively poorly-paid jobs.
In his research, Professor Alex Michalos found that the people whose desires, not just for money, but for friends, family, job, health, rose furthest beyond what they already had, tended to be less happy than those who felt a smaller gap. Indeed, the size of the gap predicted happiness about five times better than income alone. “The gap measures just blow away the measures of only income.”says Michalos.
Another factor that has to do with happiness is age. Old age may not be so bad “Given all the problems of aging, how could the elderly be more satisfied?” asks Professor Laura Carstensen. In one survey, Carstensen interviewed 184 people between the ages of 18 and 94, and asked them to fill out an emotion questionnaire. She found that old people reported positive emotions just as often as young people. Some scientists suggest older people may expect life to be harder and learn to live with it, or they’re more realistic about their time running out. Older people have learned to focus on things that make them happy and let go of those that don’t.
“People realize not only what they have, but also that what they have cannot last forever,” she says. “A goodbye kiss to a husband or wife at the age of 85, for example, may bring far more complex emotional responses than a similar kiss to a boy or girl friend at the age of 20.”
【小题1】Some actors would like to accept poorly-paid jobs because the jobs__________.

The story is ___87___ a young student. She worked very hard at her lessons. She was too busy ___88___ have a rest. At last, she became ill, so she couldn’t go to sleep. Every night, when she went to bed, she closed her eyes and ___89___ to sleep. But the more she tried, the more she stayed awake. After a while, she went to ___90___ a doctor. “I just can’t go to sleep at night. What ___91__ I do?”
“I have a ___92__,” said the doctor, “Try counting numbers. By the time you reach one thousand, you will be asleep. I am sure of it.” The next day the student returned ___93__ the doctor’s office. “Well,” said the doctor. “___94__ are you today? Did you try it?” The student still looked tired. “Yes,” she said. “I tried counting one, two… up to one thousand. But ___95___ I reached 569, I began to feel sleepy. I had to get up and ___96___ some coffee so that (以便) I ___97__ go on counting to one thousand. But then I still couldn’t fall asleep.”