When asked about happiness, we usually think of someth.ng extraordinary, an absolute delight, which seems to get rarer the older we get.

For kids, happiness has a magical quality. Their delight at winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved (毫无掩饰的).

In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it's conditional on such things as excitement, love and popularity. I can still recall the excitement of being invited to dance with the most attractive boy at the school party.

In adulthood the things that bring deep joy—love, marriage, birth—also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. For adults, happiness is complicated(复杂的).

My definition of happiness is "the capacity for enjoyment". The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are. It's easy to overlook the pleasure we get from the company of friends, the freedom to live where we please, and even good health.

I experienced my little moments of pleasure yesterday. First I was overjoyed when I shut the last lunch-box and had the house to myself. Then I spent an uninterrupted morning writing, which 1 love. When the kids and my husband came home, 1 enjoyed their noise after the quiet of the day.

Psychologists tell us that to be happy we need a mix of enjoyable leisure time and satisfying work. I don't think that my grandmother, who raised 14 children, had much of either. She did have a network of close friends and family, and maybe this is what satisfied her.

We, however, with so many choices and such pressure to succeed in every area, have turned happiness into one more thing we've got to have. We're so self-conscious about our "right" to it that it's making us miserable. So we chase it and equal it with wealth and success, without noticing that the people who have those things aren't necessarily happier.

Happiness isn't about what happens to us―it's about how we see what happens to us. It's the skillful way of finding a positive for every negative. It's not wishing for what we don't have, but enjoying what we do possess.

51. As people grow older, they ______.

A. feel it harder to experience happiness

B. associate their happiness less with others

C. will take fewer risks in pursuing happiness

D. tend to believe responsibility means happiness

53. What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 5 and 6?

A. She cans little about ha own health

B. She enjoys the freedom of trawling

C. She is easily pleased by things in daily life.

D. She prefers getting pleasure from housework

53. What can be inferred from Paragraph 7?

A. Psychologists think satisfying work is key to happiness

B. Psychologists* opinion is well proved by Grandma's case.

C. Grandma often found time for social gatherings

D. Grandma's happiness came from modest expectations of life,
54. People who equal happiness with wealth and success

A. consider pressure something blocking their way

B. stress their right to happiness too much

C. arc at a loss to make correct choices

D. arc more likely to be happy

55. What can be concluded from the passage?

A. Happiness lies between the positive and the negative.

B. Each nun is the master of his own fate

C. Success leads to happiness.

D. Hippy is he who is content.

We live in a very competitive world. Everybody seems to be competing with someone at some level. Each week we spend hours playing or watching others compete in sporting activities all over the world. We cannot help being impressed by the level of excellence that these people achieve.

In sport and business, competition encourages excellence in performance. Where there is no competition, improvement in performance is less likely. Some level of competition is a have-to in all aspects of life.

The following story makes this point.

As two friends are hiking in the forest they come across a huge, ferocious and obviously hungry bear. Its next meal has just come into sight, and they are it! The first friend calculates that the bear will catch them in 27.3 seconds. At that point, she panics, realizing there is no escape. She faces her friend, with the fear of death in her eyes. To her amazement, she observes that her friend is not scared at all. On the contrary, her friend is quickly but calmly taking off her hiking boots and putting on running shoes. “What do you think you’re doing?” the first hiker says to her companion. “You’ll never be able to run faster than that bear”. “That’s true,” says the companion, “but all I have to do is escape, faster than you.”

We all compete when the motivation is strong enough. However, competition is not the real purpose of life. Fulfilling the measure of our creation can only be achieved individually.

Most of time, we are not in competition with any other person, so we do not have to compare ourselves with others. There is only one person that can fulfill our role and that is us. This means that others cannot beat us to the finish line because there is no race. This is not to say that others do not have a similar role to us, but it is never the same. This is important to understand if we are going to enjoy life. Every human being is unique and cannot be cloned. In this, I am not referring to the body, only to the spirit, soul, or the essence of a person.

1.The first four paragraphs tell us that competition       .

A．is necessary though harmful               B．only exists in sports and business

C．is a fight against oneself                   D．is unavoidable and beneficial

2.Why is the story of two friends told in the passage?

A．To advise friends to be loyal even in competition.

B．To expose the weak side of friendship when tested.

C．To support the author’s own argument on competition.

D．To persuade people to beat others, even friends.

3.From the last two paragraphs we learn that       .

A．there is more to life than just competition

B．we don’t have to compete since we are all different

C．we have to beat others in order to survive

D．competition plays an important role in social development

4.As a whole the passage advises the readers to       .

A．realize we are living in a world of competition

B．face competition in a balanced state of mind

C．have a strong sense of being a possible winner

D．value friendship however fierce competition may be

Our planet is in trouble．Polluting industries and corporations are destroying our planet, resulting in increasing global temperatures, melting ice caps, and economic turmoil（混乱）．All across the country, folks are waking up to the reality that if they do not ad now to solve the environmental problems of today, the consequences are unthinkable．If we don't i ct now, who will? Fortunately, an amazing team of young leaders are taking action．They a e getting involved with the Greenpeace Student Network!

The Student Network has student leaders who deal with the most pressing environmental issues．We have organized and won inspiring campaigns．Convincing corporations to change their ways and politicians to do the right thing．All thanks to our team of leaders, known as Campus Coordinators．

Campus Coordinators are located all across the United States, and even Canada! They work on Greenpeace Student Network campaigns at their schools and in their communities．They organize events like film screenings and days of action．They hold meetings with elected officials, work with the media, recruit（招募） volunteers, and mobilize（动员） their campus to take action! They do all of this with excellent training and expert support from our team of Student: Network staff．Campus Coordinators develop their leadership skins and become an unstoppable force for green solutions on pus and in their community．

Currently, the Greenpeace Student Network is campaigning to solve the largest environmental threat to humankind: global warming．With only months until a new international treaty（协议）on global warming is decided this December, the time to stand up and take the lead has never been

more important,

If you are concerned with environmental issues, want to mobilize your scho4l and community, nd are ready to become a skilled organizer and strong leader, then the Campus Coordinator position is for you! We are now accepting applications for the Fall 2009-Spring 2010 academic year．

Are you ready to be a leader on your campus?

       Apply to be a Campus Coordinator today!        

Why does the author write the passage?                        

       A．To describe the serious environmental problems．               

       B．To call on students to apply to be Campus Coordinators,        

       C．To explain the advantage of the Greenpeace Student Network．．

       D．To stress the importance of solving environmental problems．

We can learn from the passage that the Greenpeace Student Network _____．

       A．is a place where school leaders are framed

       B．is a worldwide organization helping student leaders

       C．helps solve corporations' economic problems

       D．helps deal with global warming at present

If you are a Campus Coordinator, you may probably _____．

       A．have．the chance to play a role in a film             

       B．find a job at a TV station

       C．develop your leadership skills               

       D．build up your strength．

Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

       A．The duty of Campus Coordinators．

       B．The distribution of Campus Coordinators．

       C．The aim of the Greenpeace Student Network．

       D．The history of the Greenpeace Student Network．

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【小题1】 We don’t know that we can do about it.
【小题2】Could you tell me how I could get to the nearest post office?
【小题3】The old man said he had joined the army in 1965.
【小题4】Mary said she did not heard from her old classmate since September.
【小题5】 Charles asked he could use my car.
【小题6】Mother asked me where I will go the next day.
【小题7】Do you have a friend whom you could tell everything, like your deepest feelings and thoughts.
【小题8】Don’t look at someone else paper, John. You should do it by yourself.
【小题9】 In order to improve your English, you can try writing an English diary every day.
【小题10】 The teacher gave a series of example in her lecture in order that everybody could understand.

A man and his girlfriend just got married. The husband didn’t talk much but he was a steady man. The wife was pretty and dreamy.  Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.

     A few months later, the wife came to the husband with a proposal, “I read in a magazine about how we can  36   our marriage. Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit   37    with the other. Then, we can place them on the table to discuss how we    38    them together and make our life even happier.”

     “Are you sure you are about to do this?” the husband sighed and    39   . So each of them went to a(n)   40    room and thought about the things that annoyed them about the other for the rest of the day.

     The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their    41    .

     “I’ll start,” offered his wife eagerly. She    42    her list. It had many items on it, enough to fill 3 pages. She read all three pages to her husband and seemed to be quite pleased with her hard “work”. After hearing that, the husband stated   43   , “I don’t have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the   44   that you are. I don’t want you to   45   anything for me.”

     The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for and his   46   of her without any conditions, turned her head and wept. At that moment, she came to understand the saying: “Beauty lies in the lover's eyes”.

     In life, there are enough time when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don’t really have to go  47   for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. Why waste time seeking the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the wonderful things before us? If you are accustomed to judging people, you have no time to love them.

1.A. enrich                   B. strengthen              C. lengthen                D. deepen

2.A. annoying                B. surprising                C. satisfying                 D. inspiring

3.A. fix               B. do                C. find             D. set

4.A. smiled         B. refused                C. agreed                   D. hesitated

5.A. spare          B. separate           C. empty                D. special

6.A. dishes                  B. magazines         C. lives                    D. lists

7.A. put away                B. handed in          C. took out             D. wrote down

8.A. disappointedly          B. unluckily                C. bitterly                   D. quietly

9.A. appearance            B. way               C. situation                 D. position

10.A. change               B. accept                  C. decide                  D. drop

11.A. advice                 B. warning                 C. acceptance              D. pride

12.A. leaving         B. waiting               C. asking                   D. looking