根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Are you truly happy? Do you ever know what it means to be happy and what it takes to achieve happiness?__ 1___. The following are a few tips that I follow to create happiness in my life.

※ Make a plan for attaining goals that you believe will make you happy. Your moods will very likely increase if you are going after something you value.

※ Surround yourself with happy people. It is easy to begin to think negatively when you are surrounded by people who think that way. ___2___.

※ When something goes wrong, try to figure out a solution instead of being absorbed in self pity. Truly happy people don’t allow setbacks to affect their mood because they know that with a little thought they can turn the circumstances back to their favor.

※ __3__. These few minutes will give you the opportunity to focus on the positive things in your life and will lead you to continuous happiness.

※ ___ 4___ . Whether you treat yourself to lunch, take a long, relaxing bath or simply spend a few extra minutes on your appearance, you will be subconsciously (下意识地) putting yourself in a better mood.

※ Finding the humor in situations can also lead to happiness. Find a way to make light of a situation that would otherwise make you happy.

※ Keeping healthy is another way to achieve happiness. __5___ .

A．What makes one person happy may be very different from what makes someone else happy.

B．On the contrary, if you are around people who are happy, their emotional state will be infectious.

C．Being overweight or not eating nutritious foods can have a negative effect on your mood．

D．These are important questions for anyone who is seeking happiness to ask themselves.

E．Spend a few minutes each day thinking about the things that make you happy.

F．There are some tips in life that lead to happiness.

G． It’s also important to take some time each day to do something nice for yourself.

There once was a little boy who often got angry for unknown reasons and ended up quarreling with his friends. His parents felt   36   but had no idea how to deal with the matter.

In order to help the son, his father gave him a bag of   37   and told him that every time he   38   his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the   39  .

At first the boy felt puzzled at his father's words, but he did as he was told. The first day the little boy had   40   thirty nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks,   41   he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily   42   reduced. Three months later, the little boy discovered it was easier to   43   his temper than to hammer those nails into the fence. Finally the day came   44   the little boy did not lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the little boy now   45   one nail each day when he was   46   control his temper. The days passed and the little boy was   47   able to tell his father that all the nails were       48  .

 The father took his little boy   49   the hand and led him to the fence. He said, “You have done well, my son, but look at the   50   in the fence. The fence will never be the   51  .When you say things in anger, they   52   a scar just like this one on the person to whom you lose your temper. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out.   53   many times you say “I'm sorry”, the wound is still there. A mental wound is as bad as a   54   one. The hurt and pain caused by the   55   are deeper than those caused by the hand.

1.A. patient                          B. angry                       C. desperate                     D. worried

2.A. books                           B. tools                        C. nails                               D. suggestions

3.A. kept                            B. missed           C. lost                                    D. left

4.A. hammer                        B. shoes                       C. fence                                D. hands

5.A. discovered                   B. pulled            C. pushed                    D. driven

6.A. as                                   B. unless            C. till                             D. although

7.A. hardly                           B. possibly                   C. terribly                    D. gradually

8.A. catch                             B. lose                          C. break                                D. hold

9.A. before                          B. when                       C. after                                  D. until

10.A. pulled out                           B. pull out          C. pulled over            D. pull over

11.A. able to                        B. managed to   C. succeeded to                  D. going to

12.A. eagerly                       B. fortunately    C. hardly                      D. finally

13.A. lost                              B. returned                 C. gone                                 D. spared

14.A. in                                 B. of                    C. on                                      D. by

15.A. nails                                      B. cuts                          C. surface                    D. holes

16.A. one                             B. same                        C. best                                   D. fence

17.A. run                              B. leave                       C. lead                                   D. remain

18.A. No matter                            B. No doubt                C. How                                  D. However

19.A. serious                       B. violent           C. terrible                   D. physical

20.A. knife                                     B. nail                           C. tongue                    D. hammer

Fish Ears Tell Fish Tales

　 Fish have ears. Really. They’re quite small and have no opening to the outside world carrying sound through the body. For the past seven years, Simon Thorrold, a university professor, has been examining fish ears, small round ear bones called otoliths (耳石).

　 As fish grow, so do their otoliths. Each day, their otoliths gain a ring of calcium carbonate (碳酸钙). By looking through a microscope and counting these rings, Thorrold can determine the exact age of a young fish. As a fish gets older, its otoliths no longer get daily rings. Instead, they get yearly rings, which can also be counted, giving information about the fish’s age, just like the growth rings of a tree.

　 Ring counting is nothing new to fish scientists. But Thorrold has turned to a new direction. They’re examining the chemical elements (元素) of each otolith ring.

　 The daily ring gives us the time, but chemistry tells us about the environment in which the fish swam on any given day. These elements tell us about the chemistry of the water that the fish was in. It also says something about water temperature, which determines how much of these elements will gather within each otolith ring.

　 Thorrold can tell, for example, if a fish spent time in the open ocean before entering the less salty water of coastal areas. He can basically tell where fish are spending their time at any given stage of history.

　 In the case of the Atlantic croaker, a popular saltwater food fish, Thorrold and his assistant have successfully followed the travelling of young fish from mid-ocean to the coast, a journey of many hundreds of miles.

　 This is important to managers in the fish industry, who know nearly nothing about the whereabouts of the young fish for most food fish in the ocean. Eager to learn about his technology, fish scientists are now lending Thorrold their ears.

1.What can we learn about fish ears from the text?

　A. They are small soft rings.

　B. They are not seen from the outside.

　C. They are openings only on food fish.

　D. They are not used to receive sound.

2.Why does the writer compare the fish to trees?

　A. Trees gain a growth ring each day.

　B. Trees also have otoliths.

　C. Their growth rings are very small.

　D. They both have growth rings.

3.Why is it important to study the chemistry of otolith rings?

　A. The elements of the otoliths can tell the history of the sea.

　B. Chemical contents of otoliths can tell how fast fish can swim.

　C. We can know more about fish and their living environment.

　D. Scientists can know exactly how old a fish is.

4.How would you understand “fish scientists are now lending their ears”?

　A. They are very interested in Thorrold’s research findings.

　B. They want to know where they can find fish.

　C. They lend their fish for chemical studies.

　D. They wonder if Thorrold can find growth rings from their ears.　

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Vermont Adventure Camps

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We offer 8 six-day adventure camps for teens l1 to 13. The kids go stay in rustic cabins at our camping site in Andover VT and on adventures each day. A discount of 10％ will be given to the team with over 3 persons.

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The site is in close proximity to New York, Philadelphia, and Princeton University. Campers will receive three hours per day of English language instruction, a full range of planned activities including sports, arts and crafts, and weekly excursions.

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1.According to the passages, which camp offers hunting skills?

A. Vermont Adventure Camps.        B. Indianhead Ranch.

C. Acting for Teens.                 D. International ESL Camp.

2.Which of the following statements about ACTeeen is TRUE?

A. Applicants out of town cannot submit.

B. There i s no need for application to the camp.

C. The camp lasts until September.

D. Its curriculum includes script writing.

3. If Tom plans to send his 4 children to join Six-Day Adventure Camps, how much should he pay?

A. 2,340.         B. 2,600.          C. 260.            D. 2,860.

Knowing the best way to study will help you to be a better student. By using your time properly, you can do your homework more quickly. Learning to study is not difficult.

The first thing to remember is that you must be willing to learn. It doesn’t mean that you must always like the subject. It does mean, however, that you must be wil1ing to do whatever is necessary to learn. Try to understand why it is important and how it will help you now and later to do and learn other things. Knowing mathematics facts will be useful in your whole life. Knowing how to spell makes any kind of writing easier. Sometimes the subject that you think is going to be uninteresting will be exciting when you begin to work at it and understand it more clearly. Learning things can be fun if you are willing to work with them.

Here’s some advice for you: have a certain time each day and a quiet place with good lighting for study, so that you can concentrate on your study without interruptions(中断); have everything ready before you sit down to study, a dictionary, paper, a pen and books; be sure you understand what you should learn before you start; read carefully and pay special attention to the most important things; when memorizing, first find out the main parts and then recite the whole thing; check your homework after you finish it; never forget the importance of review and preview.

    Don’t try to spend a lot of time researching learning methods. There are many students who know many good learning methods but don’t study well. They forget that the most useful learning method is to study hard.

1. The main goal of the article is______

A. to prove that learning is not difficult

   B. to make the readers be interested in study

C. to tell the importance of self teaching

D. to tell the students how to study well

2. The first thing to remember in studying is that

A. you must like the subject           

B. you must follow the teacher

C. you must enjoy learning              

D. you must study hard

3. We learn things because______

A. our parents want us to learn         

B. every student learns at school

C. we may use these things in the future    

D. we like the subjects

4. Which of the following is NOT the advice given in the article?

A. To put a pen, paper and books beside you before study.

B. To study at any possible time and place.

C. To review and preview

D. To pay attention to the most important things.

5. Which of the following statements is true?

  A. The more learning methods we have, the better we will study.

  B. Finding the best learning method is the most important in learning.

  C. If you don’t work hard, though you have a good learning method, you can’t be good at study.

  D. Once we have mastered a good learning method, we can improve our study greatly.