When I was young I loved taking part in high school musicals．I loved to   36   in front of hundreds of people．In one production, I auditioned（试音）like  37   else. My music teacher was   38  that I would get a particular part in the music drama. The part I thought I had was a   39 lead who sang some of the most beautiful love songs.

But one day the show director pulled me aside. I was   40 to be offered the leading role. To my disappointment, he said, “Bob, I found a boy with an excellent voice. I need to give the   41 to him.”

From that moment on I began hating music class. I  42 that I didn’t like what we were singing. My music teacher didn’t know why. She   43 me in front of the class and told me I had changed. She didn’t know what I had been told. But when they  44 the finalists, I was given a  45 role. For some time my pride was  46 with having to do something I didn’t think I should be doing. But I did it. The minor role I had   47 to be much more fun than I had expected. My performance even   48 my brother who was also in the audience.

Life is really like a   49 and although we do not audition for the role, each of us is   50 by the director to play a certain part in it. The  51 is that we sometimes don’t like the part we are given. Like me in high school I became   52  -–if I couldn’t be the lead, I wouldn’t show up for rehearsal（彩排）.

Then we wonder why we feel so   53 . Sometimes we don’t even feel like we are a part of the “Big Show. ” Everyone does indeed have a role. Some are in front of the curtain, some are behind, but all are  54 for the show to go on. All   55 to success no matter how minor the part is.

1.                A．debate         B．broadcast       C．sing  D．show

2.                A．someone       B．everyone       C．anyone   D．no one

3.                A．prejudiced      B．concerned      C．unexpected   D．convinced

4.                A．romantic        B．ridiculous       C．mysterious    D．sensitive

5.                A．attempting      B．expecting       C．volunteering   D．pretending

6.                A．part           B．deal           C．favor D．item

7.                A．assessed        B．advocated       C．concluded D．complained

8.                A．warned         B．scolded         C．informed D．suspected

9.                A．presented      B．identified       C．announced    D．delivered

10.               A．specific        B．super          C．slight D．small

11.               A．struggling       B．competing      C．swinging   D．changing

12.               A．happened      B．proved         C．expanded  D．switched

13.               A．terrified:       B．disappointed    C．surprised  D．embarrassed

14.               A．joke           B．journey        C．stage D．play

15.               A．appointed      B．attached        C．employed  D．instructed

16.               A．reason         B．problem        C．balance   D．focus

17.               A．curious         B．helpless        C．angry D．positive

18.               A．exhausted      B．lost            C．delighted  D．thrilled

19.               A．necessary       B．dependent      C．natural    D．perfect

20.               A．react          B．adjust          C．refer D．contribute

Once there was a young woman who didn’t like her job. Everyday when she came home from work, she told her husband how terrible her day had been, how tiring the work and how unreasonable her boss. “Leave that job,” her husband told her.

“Oh, I will,” she said. “But not yet. I have too many friends there for me to leave.” And so she remained unhappy at work until the years became decades and her children had children. “Leave that job,” her grandchildren told her. “Oh, I will,” she said. “But not yet. There are only seven more years until I reach thirty years of service and can retire. So I can’t just yet.”

I know this woman. And her story reminds me of an old dog half asleep on the porch of a general store, moaning and groaning in the sun. “Why is your dog acting that way?” a customer asked the store owner. “Oh,” answered the man. “He’s lying on a nail.” “Well, why doesn’t he move?” “Because it’s not hurting him bad enough.”

That’s true for people, too. We convince ourselves the pain is not bad enough to leave the workplace we know. But we’re wrong. Prolonged work pain is continuing. Some work pain damages our self-esteem, kills our passion or destroys our dreams.

Wilbur Wright once commented, “We could hardly wait to get up in the morning. I know that exhilarating feeling of being so passionate about something I was working on that I couldn’t wait to get back to work. And people who are winning at working know that kind of passion, too.”

They get excited about work. They offer their unique gifts and talents eagerly. And when things don’t change as they sometimes will, they refuse to let environment hijack(劫持) their self-esteem, passion or dreams.

1.The woman complained to her husband every day because   .

2.From the second paragraph we can know that the woman   .

3.The underlined word “Prolonged” (in Paragraph 4) means   .

4.People who are getting along well with their work     .

根据句子要求转换句型（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）

1.Xi’an is one of the few cities with city walls. Its walls remain as good as before. (两句合为一句)

Xi’an is one of the few cities __________________________________________.

2.She didn’t spend much time in reaching the standard for entering the Olympic Games. （同义转换）

___________________________________ the standard for entering the Olympic Games.

3.His mother told him not to waste time on computer games. （改为被动句）

___________________________________________________________________

4.By now, the government has spent a lot of money in protecting the old temple. （改为被动句）

____________________________________________________________________

5.And my memory became too large for me to believe it. （同义转换）

And my memory became ____________________________________________.

There was a woman, about 30 years old, married with two children. She had grown up in a home where she was constantly criticized and often treated unfairly by her parents. As a result, she was negative and fearful, and had no confidence at all.

One day, she was hit by a car. When she awoke, she found herself in a hospital. She could still speak, but had no recollection of any part of her past life. She was a total amnesiac! Her husband and children visited her daily, but she did not know them.

Determined to understand what had happened to her, she began reading medical textbooks and studying in the specialized area of amnesia and memory loss. She met and discussed with specialists in this field. Eventually she wrote a paper on her condition. Not long afterward, she was invited to address a medical conference to deliver her paper, answer questions about her amnesia, and share her experiences and ideas. During this period, something amazing happened. She became a genuinely positive, confident, outgoing woman, well informed, and very much in demand as a speaker and authority in the medical profession. All memory of her negative childhood had been wiped out. She changed her thinking and changed her life.

Each person comes into the world with no thoughts or ideas at all, and everything that a person thinks and feels is learned from babyhood onward. The adult becomes the sum total of everything he or she learns, feels, and experiences while growing up.

Everyone is born with no self-concept at all. Every idea, opinion, feeling, attitude, or value you have as an adult is the result of an idea or impression you took in and accepted as true. When you believe something to be true, it becomes true for you, whatever the fact may be. You are not what you think you are, but what you think, you are.

1.What happened to the woman after the accident?

A．She believed she was not talented.

B．She didn't love her husband any more.

C．She refused to recall her past life.

D．She was in complete memory loss.

2.Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?

3.Which statement agrees with the last paragraph?

A．Great minds think alike.

B．Thinking is to man what water is to fish.

C．Confidence in you is the first step on the road to success.

D．You are not what you believe, but what others believe you are.

A traveller was staying in an Egyptian village. One day, she held up her camera to take pictures of the children. Suddenly the young ones began to shout at her. The traveller's face turned red and she apologized to the head for what she was doing, and told him she had forgotten that people in some places believed a person would lose his soul(灵魂) if his picture was taken. She explained to him the operation of a camera for a long time. Several times the head tried to say something, but he couldn't. When she believed that the head didn't fear any longer, the traveller then let him speak. With a smile, he said, "The children were trying to tell you that you forgot to take off the lens(镜头) cap!"

1.The children shouted when the traveller was taking pictures of them because ______.

2.The traveller made an apology to (向……道歉) the head because _______.

3.The traveller explained how to use a camera to the head because _______.

4.When the head smiled, it's clear that _______ .

5.Which of the following is NOT right?