Until recently daydreaming was viewed as a waste of time. Or it ___【小题1】_______（consider） an unhealthy escape from real life and its duties. But now some people are taking a fresh look at daydreaming. Some think it may be a very ______【小题2】____ （health） thing to do. Some researchers are finding that daydreaming may be important to mental health. Daydreaming, they tell us ,____ 【小题3】___（be） a good means of relaxation. But its benefits go beyond this. A number of psychologists have conducted experiments and have reached some    【小题4】（surprise） conclusions.
Dr. Joan T. Freyberg has concluded that daydreaming contributes to intellectual growth. It also improves      【小题5】   （concentrate）,attention span, and the ability _____【小题6】____ (get) along with others. Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser believed that much of his success was due to the positive use of daydreaming. Florence Nightingale dreamed of becoming a nurse. The young Thomas Edison pictured      【小题7】    as an inventor. For these notable persons, it appears    【小题8】   their daydreams came true. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick offered this advice: “Hold a picture of yourself… in your mind’s eye, ____【小题9】______will drew you toward success. Picture yourself   【小题10】    (vivid) as defeated and that alone will make victory impossible.

Julio loves to visit his grandmother．He doesn’t get to visit her very often because his family lives in a city that is six hours away．His grandmother lives in a big wooden house on a farm .It is old and looks as if it has secret hiding places .

       On the third Sunday of June ,Julio’s parents took him to his grandmother’s .Since it was summer vacation ,he was going to stay at grandmother’s for a whole mother ! His cousins Mario and Linda would soon be arriving .They would also be staying at their grandmother’s this summer.

       A big porch（走廊）wraps around two sides of the house .Julio sat in the porch swing .He could see the trees that circle the house．They had been planted as a windbreak .They protect the house from the wind and blowing dirt .The house is in the middle of a large ,flat field.

       Julio watched the dirt road that leads to the house .He couldn’t wait for his cousins to get there !Mario was his age ,and Linda was a year younger .They had fun together .Last summer they spent one whole morning making a fort out of sacks of seed .Then Uncle Henry had taken them on  a tractor ride.

       Julio remembered another time with his cousins .They had gone out to explode the fields．Julio touched an electric fence and got a shock .Then they found an old snakeskin .Nothing like that ever happened at his own home!

       Julio could smell the dinner that his grandmother was cooking .It made him hungry.

       Finally he saw a cloud of dust coming up the road．“They ‘re here! There’re here!” He shouted.

The story tells about Julio and his cousins doing all of the following except_______．

       A．watching old movies       B．taking a tractor ride

       C．finding a snakeskin  D．making a fort from seed sacks

How do you think Julio felt when he saw his cousins arriving?

       A．He was worried       B．He was excited C．He was angry   D．He was sad.

After Julio’s cousins arrived ,what would probably happen next?______．

       A．They would build a fort on the hill.

       B．They would look for snake skins.

       C．They would climb the trees in their grandmother’s yard

       D．They would eat dinner at their grandmother’s house.

These boxes show events that happened in the story .What is in box 2?

       A．Julio’s cousins arrived at Grandmother’s house.

       B．Julio could smell dinner cooking.

       C．Julio sat in the porch swing.

       D．Julio saw a cloud of dust coming up the road.

Steve Jobs made technology fun．The co-founder of Apple died last Wednesday at the age of fifty-six He had fought for years against cancer．Mourners gathered outside his house in Palo Alto, California, and Apple stores around the world．
Tim Bajarin, president of a high-tech research and consulting company, said "If you actually look at a tech leader, they're really happy if they have one hit in their life．Steve Jobs has the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad and Pixar．"
Steve Jobs was a college dropout．He was adopted by a machinist and his wife, an accountant．They supported his early interest in electronics．
He and his friend Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer—now just called Apple—in nineteen seventy-six．They stayed at the company until nineteen eighty-five．That year, Steve Wozniak returned to college and Steve Jobs left in a dispute（分歧）with the chief executive．
Mr．Jobs then formed his own company, called NeXT Computer．He rejoined Apple in nineteen ninety-seven after it bought NeXT．He helped remake Apple from a business that was in bad shape then to one of the most valuable companies in the world today．
Steve Wozniak, speaking on CNN, remembered his longtime friend as a "great visionary and leader'' and a "marketing genius（天才）"．
President Obama said in a statement: "By building one of the planet's most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity．By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun．"
David Carroll is a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York City．He says Steve Jobs not only revolutionized technology, he also revolutionized American business．
"The fact that he was able to redesign American commerce top to bottom and across is really stunning （令人惊奇的）．He probably will be considered an industrial giant on the scale of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, so one of the great[s] of all time．" David Carroll said．
Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple's chief executive in August because of his health．He died a day after the company released a new iPhone version that met with limited excitement．Apple's new chief, Tim Cook, will also have to deal with the new Kindle Fire tablet computer from Amazon．com．It costs less than half as much as an iPad but also does less．
【小题1】Why did people all over the world mourn Steve Jobs?

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1.我想我之所以长寿而且精力充沛，要归功于我的健康生活。

I think my long and active life must be ________ ________the healthy life I live.

2.尽管未来对你来说也许是艰难，但无论你什么时候需要温暖与爱，记住我都会给你。

Although the future may be difficult for you,________ you need warmth and love, remember I’ll have some to give you.

3.有如此多不同的诗歌形式可选择，学生们可能会想写他们自己的诗了。

With so many different forms of poetry to __________ _________,students may want to write poems of their own.

4.巧合的是这一时期油画颜料也得到了发展，它使得绘画的色彩看上去更丰富、更深沉。

______ ____________,oil paints were also developed at this time, which made the colours used in paintings look richer and deeper.

5.一些四川地震的图片正在博物馆展览。

Some pictures of Sichuan Earthquake are _______ ____________in the museum now.

6.Henry Clay Frick，纽约的一位富豪，于1919年去世，把他的房子、家具和艺术收藏品全都留给了美国人民。

Henry Clay Frick, a rich New Yorker, died in 1919,___________his house, furniture and art collection to the American people.

Until recently daydreaming was viewed as a waste of time. Or it ___1._______（consider） an unhealthy escape from real life and its duties. But now some people are taking a fresh look at daydreaming. Some think it may be a very ______2.____ （health） thing to do. Some researchers are finding that daydreaming may be important to mental health. Daydreaming, they tell us ,____ 3.___（be） a good means of relaxation. But its benefits go beyond this. A number of psychologists have conducted experiments and have reached some    4.（surprise） conclusions.

Dr. Joan T. Freyberg has concluded that daydreaming contributes to intellectual growth. It also improves      5.   （concentrate）,attention span, and the ability _____6.____ (get) along with others. Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser believed that much of his success was due to the positive use of daydreaming. Florence Nightingale dreamed of becoming a nurse. The young Thomas Edison pictured      7.    as an inventor. For these notable persons, it appears    8.   their daydreams came true. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick offered this advice: “Hold a picture of yourself… in your mind’s eye, ____9.______will drew you toward success. Picture yourself   10.    (vivid) as defeated and that alone will make victory impossible.