With the fast pace of modern life, more and more people are living under great pressure.
Some people are afraid   48 pressure. They think that the stress of work takes joy and happiness away from them. In their view, stress does harm to them   49 physically and mentally. That is   50 they prefer something less competitive to something more challenging.
Others argue that stress isn’t as bad as it is often supposed to be.   51 it is beyond yourself, a certain amount of stress can be of great significance.   52 , without stress it is easy to waste time. Stress gives purpose and meaning to a meaningless and boring life. Most people   53  are under stress finally achieve goals. And they can bring   54 ability into full play.
In my opinion, we shouldn’t escape from stress but face it as it is. What we can do is to adapt to stress rather   55 avoid it.

Everyone has his own attitude____1____ getting old. The night before her eighth birthday, I found my daughter Lizzy sat on her bed ____2____ (weep). “I love being seven,” she cried. “I don’t want to be eight!” I held her in my arms and explained that____3____ was going to be even better to be eight than being seven. I told her how much I loved her and ____4____a wonderful birthday she was going to have. Eventually she was comforted. It’s always strange ____5____ (tell) that you are a year older, even when you aren’t very old. Now I’m in my early 60s, and I don’t always recognize the face in the mirror, _____6____ something has changed the way that I think. The process of aging ____7____(increasing) interests and amazes me, annoys and irritates me, and sometimes still makes me ____8___(frighten), too, but much, much less than it used to. There is ____9____ ongoing sadness at the absence of the friends and family members____10____ have died before me.

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This morning, 【小题1】 I finished my homework, I went to the People’s Park together with my classmate Mary to fly a kite. We got a very nice kite, and it was  【小题2】 a lovely day that we were sure to have a lot of fun.    I began to fly 【小题3】  kite. Once it went up into the sky, I began to run very fast, in the hope that it would go higher and higher. Then suddenly I felt something wrong. 【小题4】 (look) up into the sky, I was 【小题5】(disappoint) to find that the kite had got 【小题6】 (break). In no time the kite and rope fell over me. What a fool! I sat on the grass, feeling rather【小题7】 (shame) of what I had done. Then Mary  【小题8】(comfort) me, saying “Now, you know what makes a kite fly high. It’s【小题9】  (patient) and skills!”【小题10】  (hear) this, I nodded my head. 

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Over years, I’ve been teaching children about a simple   【小题1】 powerful concept——the ant philosophy. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. First, ants never quit. They’ll climb over, they’ll climb under, and they’ll climb around. They keep looking for another way. What a neat (了不起的) philosophy it is to never quit   【小题2】(look) for a way to get 【小题3】  you are supposed to go! Second, ants think about winter and summer. That’s   【小题4】 important attitude. You can’t be so naïve(幼稚的)as to think summer will last forever. People who have a little experience are clear about this. So ants are gathering their winter food in the middle of summer. It’s important to be realistic. You have got to think about rocks as you enjoy the sand and sun. Think ahead. The third part is   【小题5】 ants think about summer all winter. During the winter, they remind   【小题6】 , “This won’t last long; we’ll soon be out of here.” And   【小题7】 the first warm day, the ants are out. If it   【小题8】  (turn) cold again, they will dive back down. But they come out again if it is warm. They can’t wait   【小题9】(get) out. Last, how much will an ant gather during the summer to prepare for the winter? All that it  【小题10】 (possible) can. What a great philosophy to have —— the ant philosophy: never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.

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A lot of hiking holidays sound e_____________, 【小题1】___________
but the r___________(现实)is often very different. 【小题2】__________
Hiking trips can be _________(不舒适的)and even 【小题3】___________
dangerous.However,at A________2000 we feel that we 【小题4】__________
understand the n______of hikers.All our guides have【小题5】___________
several years of __________(经验) in      【小题6】__________
__________(带领)hiking trips in the Himalayas.  【小题7】___________
They know all the best_________(路线)and the best  【小题8】___________
places to camp.We also realize that hiking can be hard
work and believe that hikers need our help.As well as
the group guide,all teams have cooks and porters.While
on the hiking trip,our cooks prepare__________(可口的) 【小题9】___________
meals.And our porters carry your_________(行李),which【小题10】___________
means that you can simply enjoy the hiking action.

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格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。
Sixteen years ago my mother gave b        to a baby girl. That’s me.        1.      
As my parents worked abroad, I was          up by my grandparents. They      2.      
loved me too much and         (允许) me to eat anything as I wished to. I         3.     
preferred junk food         protective food although I knew I would suffer         4.     
from it later.      was my custom to do my lessons after meals. I never took        5.    
exercise, and thus I put on weight before          . For this reason my classmates 
6.     
often played t         on me, which made me upset. My parents wrote             7.      
to me telling me to             (咨询/请教) a doctor about it. The doctor
8.     
made a suggestion that I keep a b           diet and combine work with
9.     
athletic sports. I had great difficulty managing to        (减) down my weight.     
10.   

短语：从方框中选择适当的短语，并用其适当的形式填空，有两个多余项。
（每题1分，共5分）

1. ________________ you’ve got a chance, you had better make full use of it.
2. I think the photos can ________ us ________ the days we spent together in the country.
3. When they crossed the Rocky Mountains, they managed to _____________ some mountain goats.
4. He wrote a long moving poem ________________ those who died in the war.
5. It is not polite to ____________ other people.

An artist went to the beautiful countryside for his holiday and                
______ (停留) in a farmer’s home. He often went out to paint with his          1. _____________
paints and brushes. When it got d______, he went back and had a good           2.______________
d______ (吃饭)with the farmer. At the end of his holiday, he wanted to             3. _____________
______ (付) the farmer some money. But the farmer said, “Give              4. _____________
me ______ of your pictures instead of money. Money can be used up,             5. _____________
but your picture will be here forever.” The artist was very p______            6. _____________
and thanked the farmer ______ saying such kind words about his pictures.       7. _____________
The farmer ______ (回答), “My son wants to become an artist. When he            8. _____________
comes home from London, I’ll s______ him your picture. He won’t want        9. _____________
to be an artist any more ______ (那时), I think.”                           10._____________

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My parents plan to let me go abroad to study, but l don’ t                     
agree with them. I think my English is too          (有限)to   【小题1】         
communicate with          .And l’ m still so young that        【小题2】        
I’m afraid that it would be hard for me to          with       【小题3】         
Some problems I’ll face .Besides, the c          will be       【小题4】         
too much for my family.
_____,my parents think that it’s natural for me to             【小题5】        
Study English well in an          (讲英语的/说英语的)country.  【小题6】         
S          abroad at an early age will enable me to learn      【小题7】        
to be          (独立).Then it will be easier for me to learn   【小题8】         
advanced science and technology, ______will prepare me          【小题9】        
for a brighter future.
I really don’t know _______I should obey my parents            【小题10】         
or not. I need advice.

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Attention! Our earth has been facing a serious threat—global warming.
According to some _____ (专家), thousands of people die of hot wave    【小题1】_______
a     , and the ice in the poles has been becoming thinner and thinner 【小题2】 _______
year by year, _____ leads to the rise of the sea level and is threatening  【小题3】_______
many areas of the world, especially those coastal areas. On the _____      【小题4】 _______
hand, ______ (自然) disasters, like flooding, are more or less connected with【小题5】_______
the global warming, and it’s o      that all these are the punishments 【小题6】 _______
from nature. To look back, in the past five _____, that’s half a century,  【小题7】_______
we’ve destroyed our environment _____ random to develop the economy 【小题8】 _______
by _____ (滥用) oil and by using private cars instead of public transport. 【小题9】 _______
These r      in the rise of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, causing 【小题10】_______
the global warming.