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—I hate it when it rains.
—_______ ! It will be sunny tomorrow.
A.Don’t say that B.Cheer up C.I’m sorry D.Too bad
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Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you’ll find that the whole world smiles to you.
While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job?
One day it is fine. Just before you go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start to complain about the weather. But friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the free concerts that the nature offers you? And with the timely(及时地) rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest.
Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes failure can’t be avoided. I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident(信心) in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success”.
Attitude(态度) decides everything. With an optimistic(乐观) attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.
【小题1】 People sometimes complain _________.
| A.the sky is always dark | B.their studies are successful |
| C.they see the world with their heart | D.life is tiring |
| A.must be confident in ourselves | B.shouldn’t be afraid of it |
| C.shouldn’t give up hope | D.All of the above |
| A.Smile and the World Smiles to You | B.Complaining about Life |
| C.Failure is the Mother of Success | D.It is Very Hard to Succeed |
Feeling blue about world? “Cheer up.” Says science writer Matt Ridley.”The world has never been a better place to live in, and it will keep on getting better both for humans and for nature.”
Ridley calls himself a rational optimist—rational, because he’s carefully weighed the evidence; optimistic, because that evidence shows human progress to be both unavoidable and good.And this is what he’s set out to prove from a unique point of view in his most recent book.The Rational Optimist.He views mankind as grand enterprise that on the whole, has done little but progress for 100,000 years.He backs his finding with hard facts gathered through years of research.
Here’s how he explains his views.
1) Shopping fuels invention
It is reported that there are more than ten billion different products for sale in London alone.Even allowing for the many people who still live in poverty, our own generation has access to more nutritious food, more convenient transport, bigger houses, better ears, and of course, more pounds and dollars than any who lived before us.This will continue as long as we use these things to make other things. The more we specialize and exchange, the better off we’ll be.
2)Brilliant advances
One reason we are richer, healthier, taller, cleverer, longer-lived and freer than ever before is that the four most basic human needs -food, clothing, fuel and shelter- have grown a lot cheaper.Take one example.In 1800 a candle providing one hour’s light cost six hours’ work.In the 1880s the same light from an oil lamp took 15 minutes’ work to pay for.In 1950 it was eight seconds.Today it’s half second.
3)Let’s not kill ourselves for climate change
Mitigating(减轻)climate change could prove just as damaging to human welfare as climate change itself.A child that dies from indoor smoke in a village, where the use of fossil-fuel(化石燃料)electricity is forbidden by well - meaning members of green political movements trying to save the world, is just as great a tragedy as a child that dies in a flood caused by climate change.If climate change proves to be mild, but cutting carbon causes real pain, we may well find that we have stopped a nose - bleed by putting a tourniquet(止血带)around our necks.
【小题1】What is the theme of Ridley’s most recent book?
| A.Weakness of human nature. |
| B.Concern about climate change. |
| C.Importance of practical thinking. |
| D.Optimism about human progress. |
| A.It encourages the creation of things. |
| B.It results in shortage of goods. |
| C.It demands more fossil fuels. |
| D.It causes a poverty problem. |
| A.oil lamps give off more light than candles |
| B.shortening working time brings about a happier life. |
| C.advanced technology helps to produce better candles. |
| D.increased production rate leads to lower cost of goods. |
-----Hi, Maria! I got the first place in the exam.
-----______! Everyone knows you cheated and you just copied Tony’s.
| A.Congratulations | B.Come on |
| C.Good luck | D.Cheer up |
-- Mum, I failed again in today’s examination.
--Oh, ________. The world is not _______.
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A.come up; at its end |
B.Cheer up; in the end |
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C.Look up; at the end |
D.Take it easy; at an end |
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