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Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good 1        and always had something 2        to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing,he would reply, "If I were any better,I would be twins！”

He was a 3       manager because he had several waiters who had followed him 4        from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his 5       . He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day,Jerry was there telling the employee how to 6        the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me 7       ,so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him , " I don't 8        it!You can't be a positive person all of the time. 9       do you do it?"

Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and 10        to myself, ' Jerry,you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood 11        you can choose to be in a bad mood.,I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens,I can choose to be a 12       or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining,I can choose to accept their complaining or I can 13        the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life."

'(Yeah,right,it's not that easy," I    14       .

"Yes,it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When you 15        away all the junk (垃圾) ，every situation is a 16      . You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The 17       line: It's your choice how you live life."

I reflected on 18        Jerry said. Soon thereafter,I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost 19       ,but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of 20       to it.

(   ) 1. A. state   B. spirit   C. soul   D. mood

(   ) 2. A. positive   B. negative   C. interrogative   D. active

(   ) 3. A. particular   B. only   C. special   D. unique

(   ) 4. A. around   B. about   C. with   D. together

(   ) 5. A. quality   B. attitude   C. arrangement   D. life

(   ) 6. A. put on   B. look on   C. take on   D. insist on

(   ) 7. A. amazed   B. strange   C. curious   D. crazy

(   ) 8. A. have   B. know   C. get   D. take

(   ) 9. A. When   B. What   C. How   D. Where

(   ) 10. A. say   B. ask   C. reply   D. answer

(   ) 11. A. for   B. and   C. but   D. or

(   ) 12. A. conqueror   B. survivor   C. achiever   D. victim

(   ) 13. A. take out   B. point out   C. speak out   D. come out

(   ) 14. A. prevented   B. protested   C. protected   D. predicated

(   ) 15. A. do   B. take   C. cut   D. put

(   ) 16. A. change   B. chance   C. choice   D. charge

(   ) 17. A. finishing   B. bottom   C. dead   D. main

(   ) 18. A. what   B. that   C. as   D. how

(   ) 19. A. concern   B. relation   C. communication   D. touch

(   ) 20. A. reacting   B. reaching   C. replying   D. responding

   DADAB  6-10 BCCCA  DDBBC   16-20 CBADA

生活就是由很多选择组成的，除去那些不值一提的事情，生活中的每件事都是个选择。你可以选择如何回应这些事件，你可以选择周围人影响你心情的方式，你可以选择有个好心情或是坏心情。重点是：你可以选择如何来过你的生活。

1. D A是状态；B应为in good spirit兴高采烈;没有C这种搭配；mood指心情，符合句毫、。

2. A active强调的是与消极或休止相反的积极活动状态和能力；positive语气强烈，指对自己的看法或结论的正确性有不可动摇的信念，有"正面，肯定"之意。

3. D unique有"独特的，独一无二的，无与伦比"的意思。

4. A词组搭配,意思是"到处跟随"。

5. B跟着他一起干是因为他的处事态度，而不是其他原因。

6. B look on意为"往好的方面看"。

8. C get it理解;have it听到消息，得知；take it以为,猜想。故答案C正确。

9. C此处是问Jerry如何做到这些的。故答案 C正确。

10. A say to myself是"自言自语"的意思。其他选项不符合此处句意。

12. D victim受害者，失败者，符合上下文的意思、。

13. B point out指出;take out拿出;speak out 说出;come out出版。

14. B此处是"反驳，辩解地说出"之意。故B 项正确。

15. C cut away切掉，除掉;take away拿走，减去;没有do away的搭配;put away收拾，储存。

16. C考上下文理解。生活态度的选择在文中多次出现。

17. B bottom底线;finishing终点线;dead安全界线，截止线；main干线。

18. A从语法角度就可以做出本题。 what引导宾语从句，自己本身也作宾语。 that在名词性从句中不作成分,其他不对。

19. D D项最佳地表现出"失去联系"的意思。

20. A此处句意是"当我对生活做抉择而非被动接受生活时，我就会想起杰里"。 A项正确。

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9. She decided to move back to the north after she found that it was hard                  . (adapt)

发现很难适应那里的气候，她决定搬回北部。

For many years Henry had been a journalist. He had worked on many international news?papers and magazines and traveled all over the world.

Henry had witnessed wars and natural disasters such as floods,earthquakes and erupting volcanoes.

He had reported on serious accidents such as major fires and airline crashes. He had seen every kind of terrible crime and strange event there was. He had met and written about some of the most unusual people in the world. In fact,there wasn't much that Henry had not seen or done.

Now he was retired from journalism (新闻业) .He owned a very expensive restaurant and spent his days talking to his wealthy and important customers. He liked to say that nothing sur?prised him.

One day he was sitting at the bar in his restaurant when a big gorilla walked in and asked for a table. Henry showed no surprise. He took the gorilla to a table and handed him a menu. He treated him politely and pretended there was nothing at all strange about having a gorilla in his restaurant. The gorilla looked through the menu and ordered a salad.

Henry served the gorilla his salad personally,knowing that his waiters and waitresses would be too frightened. At last the gorilla finished his salad and asked for the bill. Henry wrote out the bill and handed it to the big animal. The gorilla studied it,shook his head sadly,then gave Henry fifty dollars. "Thank you," Henry said,and then to make conversation he added, "We don't get many gorillas in this restaurant."

"At fifty dollars for a salad," the gorilla said, "I'm not surprised."

(   ) 1. What does the underlined word " witnessed" mean?

   A. Perceived. B. Spectated. C. Observed. D. Identified.

(   ) 2. According to the passage,Henry,as a journalist for many years,had         .

   A. had the most unusual experiences   B. traveled all over the world

   C. made great achievements in his career   D. seen and done everything

(   ) 3. From the sentence "Henry served the gorilla his salad personally,knowing that his waiters and waitresses would be too frightened"，you learn that         .

   A. his staff were not brave enough

   B. Henry didn't normally serve customers

   C. Henry was very glad to serve a gorilla

   D. his staff were frightened when seeing Henry serving

(   ) 4. What does the last sentence of the passage imply?

   A. The higher the price is,the more the consumers are.

   B. The lower the price is,the fewer the consumers are.

   C. The more gorillas come,the more complicated the problem is.

   D. The fewer gorillas come,the simpler the answer is.

S Older people like reading negative news stories about their younger counterparts because it boosts their own selfesteem,according to a new study.

German researchers said older people tend to be portrayed (描绘成) negatively in society. Although they are often described as wise,they are also be shown as being slow and forgetful. "Living in a youth centered culture,they may appreciate a boost (增进) in selfesteem. That's why they prefer the negative stories about younger people,who are seen as having a higher sta?tus in our society," said Dr. Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick,of Ohio State University.

Knobloch-Westerwick and her coauthor Matthias Hastall,of Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen,Germany,studied 276 German adults,including 178 aged 18 to 30 and 98 be?tween 55 and 60. Their findings are published in the Journal of Communication.

All the adults in the study were shown what they were led to believe was a test version of a new online news magazine. They were also given a limited time to look over either a negative or positive version of 10 preselected articles.

Each story was also paired with a photograph depicting someone of either the younger or the older age group.

The researchers found that older people were more likely to choose to read negative articles about those younger than themselves. They also tended to show less interest in articles about older people,whether negative or positive.

But younger people preferred to read positive articles about other young people.

According to Knobloch-Westerwick,older people's preference for negative news about their younger counterparts can be explained by their place in society.

"Everybody likes a selfesteem boost. For young people though,it's almost automatic. Youth is considered important in society”，she said.

After perusing the articles,the participants completed a questionnaire designed to measure levels of selfesteem. Unlike their younger counterparts,the selfesteem of older people rose after they read a negative article about younger people.

(   ) 1. What is the social trend towards older people?

   A. They are often described as wise.

   B. They are also be shown as being slow and forgetful.

   C. They tend to be portrayed negatively in society.

   D. They often tend to be described wise as well as being slow and forgetful.

(   ) 2. What does the underlined word preselected mean?

   A. Choose with care. B. Choose seriously beforehand.

   C. Choose at random. D. Choose deliberately.

(   ) 3. What does the passage imply?

   A. To boot their own selfesteem,older people like reading negative news stories about their younger counterparts.

   B. Older people were more likely to choose to read negative articles about those younger than themselves.

   C. Younger people preferred to read positive articles about other young people.

   D. Everybody likes a selfesteem boost.

(   ) 4. The questionnaire is designed to         .

   A. measure levels of selfesteem

   B. identify both older and younger people's reading interest

   C. strengthen understanding between older and younger people

   D. check whether older people are slow and forgetful

6. Do you know               between the British English and the American English? (come)

你知道英国英语和美国英语的差异是怎样产生的吗？

The first day of school our professor introduced a little old lady to us.

"Why are you in college at such a young age?" I asked later. She jokingly replied, " I'm here to meet a rich husband,get married,have a couple of children,and then retire and travel."

"No seriously," I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. "I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one！ ”she told me.

We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would leave class to?gether and talk nonstop. I was always listening to this " time machine" as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to make a speech to our football team. I'll never forget what she taught us. As she began to deliver her prepared speech,she dropped her note card on the floor. A little embarrassed she simply said, "I'm sorry. This whiskey is killing me!I'll never get my speech back in order to let me just tell you what I know."As we laughed she cleared her throat and began：" We do not stop playing because we are old;we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young,being happy,and achieving suc?cess. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams,you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it!There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing,you will turn twenty years old. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did,but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets."

At the year's end Rose finished the college degree. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral to honor the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.

(   ) 1. Rose set us a good example by        in realizing her dream.

   A. perseverance   B. hard working   C. resolution   D. determination

(   ) 2. What does the underlined phrase "at her age" really mean?

   A. She is actually a middleaged woman.

   B. She is quite a young woman.

   C. She is considerably an old woman.

   D. She is neither young nor old.

(   ) 3. What can we infer from the sentence "Why are you in college at such a young age?"?

   A. The writer asks frankly because he/she thinks Rose is really young.

   B. The writer asks jokingly because he/she knows Rose is really an old woman.

   C. The writer asks the question for sure because he/she doesn't know her real age.

   D. The writer asks the question because he/she thinks Rose is too young to learn.

(   ) 4. What is the best title for this passage?

   A. An Old Wonderful Woman Pursuing Her Dream

   B. No Matter How Old You Are,Never Give Up Learning

   C. Never Too Old to Learn

   D. A Good Student,A Good Example

6. The problem of international tourism                over the recent years (concern)

近些年，国际旅游的问题引起了广泛关注。

 On March 25,1925 Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave a demonstration of the televi?sion set,which would change the world,allow us to know what was going on at the other side of the world and change entertainment forever. But,at that time,he just thought it was cool that he could see his face on a screen.

  It all began in March 1925 when John Logie Baird gave a demonstration of what can only be described as the first ever television set. All that was seen were images of people on a dark gray screen. Then on January 26 ,1926 he gave the world's first public demonstration of a work?ing television system at his laboratory in London. This was the world's first glimpse at televi?sion.

  In 1928 Baird's company broadcast the first transatlantic television signal,between London and New York. This was a great development in television history. In 1931,the first live televi?sion broadcast was made by this stage,the number of television sets was only about 200 in Brit?ain,so it was only the rich and famous who witnessed this great moment in television history.

  The television set itself was going through great change. Originally,the first ever television model,the 1928 Baird model C had a screen of only about two and a half inches square;how?ever by 1935,the Baird T5 had a significantly bigger screen and obviously had much better sound quality and picture quality.

  By 1939,with the American DuMont 183 it was clear that television was going to revolu?tionize the world,with a picture quality of outstanding clearness for the time. By this stage,television sets were still not accessible by Joe Bloggs,but the number of television sets was rela?tively large; in 1939,7000 television sets were sold.

(   ) 5. What can we infer from the passage?

   A. At first,Baird didn't think that his invention could be a contribution to changing the world.

   B. The rule of inventing television sets was very simple.

   C. John Logie Baird wanted to make contributions to humans.

   D. Watching much television can be harmful to people's health.

(   ) 6. Which of the following is true about Baird's achievement?

   A. He gave the first public demonstration of working television systems.

   B. He was the first to make the television broadcast worldwide.

   C. His company was the first to produce electronic television sets.

   D. His company produced DuMont 183 that revolutionized TV.

(   ) 7. What do the underlined words "Joe Bloggs" refer to?

   A. Famous people. B. Scientists.

   C. Inventors. D. Common people.

(   ) 8. This passage is organized in the pattern of         .

   A. comparison   B. time and events

   C. cause and effect   D. meaning and classification

6. It's wrong of you to        young people's ignorance and their lack of experience. (advantage)

你利用年轻人的无知和缺乏经验是不对的。

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