I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent.

I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows (誓约) mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.

So here’s what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life, not a desire of the next promotion (提升), the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure (休闲), it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. And realize that life is the best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.

It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned.

By telling them this: Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion (激情) as it ought to be lived.

1．The best title of this passage probably is           .

       A．Love your friends                             B．Live a real life

       C．Don’t waste time                               D．Be a good mother and wife

2．How did the author form her view of life ?

       A．Through social experience.               B．By learning from her friends.

       C．Through an unfortunate experience.      D．From her children and husband.

3．By the underlined sentence “It is so easy to exist instead of to live” in the fifth paragraph, the author really means that people tend to           .

       A．make a living rather than live a real life

       B．work rather than enjoy life

       C．waste a lot in life    

       D．forget the most important lessons in life

4．What’s the author’s attitude toward work ?

A．Do it well to serve others.

B．Earn enough money to make life better.

C．Try your best to get higher position and pay.

D．Don’t let it affect your real life.

5．It can be inferred from the passage that           .

A．the author is a success in personal life

B．the author didn’t try her best to work well

C．the author spent all her time caring for her children

D．the author likes traveling very much

Scientists smiled as the three young whales swam through the ocean, turning over, jumping, and racing one another in circles around the ship. After spending seven months in a 60,000 gallon (228,000-liter) pool at the New England Aquarium（水族馆）in Boston, Mass, the whales were now free.

The pilot whales, named Notch Small, and Tag, had been staying at the pool ever since they were saved after running aground on a Cape Cod beach in Massachusetts last December. Although about 60 other whales died during that running aground the three young whales were saved and

nursed back to health. Last June, the whales were freed from a ship about 120 miles (152 kilometers) off the coast of Massachusetts. When the three whales finally swam away from the ship. scientists on board cheered. The event, say the biologists, marked the first time that a group of whales has been saved, cared for , and freed back into the wild.

No one knows what causes whales to run aground. Some biologists think that gently sloping beaches may upset the whales’ sonar systems（声纳系统）. Whales find schools of fish and other objects by bouncing sonar waves off the objects. When a whale approaches a gently sloping beach, the sonar waves may bounce away（反弹）from the whale instead of toward it. The whale may end up in shallow water and run aground.

Other experts think a leader of a group of whales becomes ill and beaches itself. Because whales often band together, other whales soon follow, running aground as well.

1．After spending seven months in a pool the pilot whales, named Notch. Small and Tag, were freed in           .

       A．autumn               B．spring                 C．winter                 D．summer

2．The scientists           in saving, caring for and releasing into the wild any grounded whales before this event.

       A．had been successful

       B．had never been successful

       C．had even been successful

       D．had once been successful

3．Some scientists believe that once the leading whale in a group falls ill and runs aground,     .

       A．others may band together

       B．others may fall ill, too.

       C．others will not care for it and run away

       D．others will follow and beach themselves, too.

4．When a whale approaches a gently sloping beach,           .

       A．it may be able to send out sonar waves

       B．its sonar waves may not bounce back to it

       C．its sonar waves may disappear

       D．its sonar waves become stronger

5．The underlined words band together in the last Paragraph means          .

       A．unite in a group                                   B．bite together

       C．fight together                                      D．dance together

About six years ago I was eating lunch in a restaurant in New York City when a woman and a young boy sat down at the next table. I couldn’t help overhearing parts of their conversation. At one point the woman asked, “So, how have you been?” And the boy-who could not have been more than seven or eight years old, replied, “Frankly, I’ve been feeling a little depressed(压抑的)lately.”

This incident stuck in my mind because it confirmed my growing belief that children are changing. As far as I can remember, my friends and I didn’t find out we were “depressed” until we were in high school.

The evidence of a change in children has increased steadily in recent years. Children don’t seem childlike anymore. Children speak more like adults, dress more like adults and behave more like adults than they used to.

Whether this is good or bad is difficult to say, but it certainly is different. Childhood as it once was no longer exists. Why?

Human development is based not only on innate(天生的) biological states, but also on patterns of access to social knowledge. Movement from one social route to another usually involves learning the secrets of the new status. Children have always been taught adult secrets, but slowly and in stages: traditionally, we tell sixth graders things we keep hidden from fifth graders.

In the last 30 years, however, a secret – revelation (揭示) machine has been installed in 98 percent of American homes. It is called television. Television passes information, and indiscriminately (不加区分地), to all viewers alike, whether children or adults. Unable to resist the temptation, many children turn their attention from printed texts to the less challenging, more vivid moving pictures.

Communication through print, as a matter of fact, allows for a great deal of control over the social information to which children have access. Reading and writing involve a complex code of symbols that must be memorized and practices. Children must read simple books before they can read complex materials.

1．According to the author, feeling depressed is          .

       A．a sure sign of a psychological problem in a child

       B．an unavoidable case of children’s mental development

       C．something hardly to be expected in a young child

       D．a mental sale present in all humans, including children

2．Traditionally, a child is supposed to learn about the adult world          .

A．through contact with society

B．naturally and by biological instinct

C．gradually and under guidance

D．through exposure to social information

3．The phenomenon that today’s children seem adult like is considered by the author to        .

       A．the widespread influence of television

       B．the poor arrangement of teaching content

       C．the fast pace of human intellectual development

       D．the constantly rising standard of living

4．Why is the author in favor of communication through print for children?

       A．It enables children to gain more social information.

       B．It develops children’s interest in reading and writing.

       C．It helps children to memorize and practice more.

       D．It can control what children are to learn.

75．What does the author think of the change in today’s children?

       A．He feels amused by their premature（过早的）behavior.

       B．He thinks it is a phenomenon worthy of note.

       C．He considers it a positive development.

       D．He seems to be upset about it.

Have one of those days or weeks when everything seems to annoy you? Even if you do nothing about it, your bad mood will probably go away after some time. But with a little effort, you can forget it much faster, often within a day or two.

◆Walk it off

Exercise is the most popular way to remove bad mood. A person who’s in a bad mood has low energy and high tension. Taking a fast ten-minute walk, or taking some quick exercise can do wonders towards changing that bad mood.

◆Tune it out

Listening to your favorite music for a while can also make tensions go away quickly, because music starts associations with past positive experiences we’ve had.

◆Give yourself a pep talk

Stop and listen to what’s on your mind. Bad moods are often started by too many negative thoughts. Write them all down on paper, including the pessimistic(悲观的)messages you’ve been giving yourself and then give optimistic answers.

◆Avoid things that won’t improve your mood

TV may not help much. You need to increase your energy level and stimulate your mind. And before you reach for that piece of cake and coffee, think about how             are linked. Sugar and caffeine contribute to depressed moods. While carbohydrates, such as potatoes and pasta(意大利面食)produce a calming effect in people who have a desire for them.

1．What’s the best title of this passage (Please answer in less than 10 words)

2．Which sentence in the passage can replace the following one?

Sometimes your bad mood may disappear of itself after a while.

3．Fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words（Please answer in less than 10 words.）

4．What do most people do to beat the bad mood according to the passage? Please suggest another way to remove the bad mood（Please answer within 30 words）

5．Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.

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--- John,          Mr. Tompson with a copy of Playboy will be waiting for you at the entrance to          hotel along the King Street.

--- God! There are so many hotels along the street, you know!

A．不填; a            B．a; a           C．a; the        D．the; a

Which do you prefer,          your weekends, playing computer games or watching TV?

A．spending          B．spend       C．being spent      D．to spend

The couple never had any friends,           anything to anybody.

A．or they ever gave                                        B．or have they ever given

C．nor did they ever give                                  D．nor they ever gave

Because of the limitation of space, I had to        a lot of excellent materials, which I intend to include in another book.

A．put away         B．leave out          C．cancel out        D．call over

While in London, we paid a visit to the hospital founded        Florence Nightingale.

A．in honor of                                                 B．in terms of          

C．in favor of                                                        D．in place of