I don't know anyone who doesn't want a real life filled with love．In order for this to happen, the effort must start within us． Rather than waiting for other people to provide the love we desire, we must be a vision and source of love．We must tap into our own loving-kindness in order to set an example for others to follow．

   It has been said that the shortest distance between two points is an intention．This is certainly true with regard to a life filled with love．The starting point or foundation of a life filled with love is the desire and commitment to be a source of love．Our attitude, choices, acts of kindness, and willingness to be the first reach-out will take us toward this goal．

   The next time you find yourself frustrated（受挫）at the lack of love in your own life or at the lack of love in the world, try an experiment．Forget about the world and other people for a few minutes．Instead, look into your own heart．Can you become a source of greater love? Can you think loving thoughts for yourself and others? Can you extend these loving thoughts outward the rest of the world-even to people whom you feel don't deserve it?

    By opening your heart to the possibility of greater love, and by making yourself a source of love（ rather than getting love）as a top priority （重点）, you will be taking an important step in getting the love you desire．You'11 also discover something truly remarkable．The more love you give, the more you will receive．As you put more emphasis on being a loving person, which is something you can control-and less emphasis on receiving love, which is something you can't control-you'll find that you have plenty of love in your life．Soon you' 11 discover one of the greatest secrets in the world: Love is its own reward．

1．According to the passage, the goal of real life is to ______．

  A．set an example for others to follow  

  B．make the shortest distance between two points  

  C．have a plain attitude to our life

 D．fill our life with love

2． If you find yourself frustrated at the lack of love in your life you should_______．

  A．forget all about the unhappy things           B．try hard to get more love from others

  C．try to make yourself a great source of love  D．care for yourself instead of others

3． According to the idea of the passage, you will find plenty of love in your life as _______．

  A．you become a loving person                        B．you become a loved person

  C．you discovered the secrets in the world       D．you forget the world and other people

4．The best title of the passage is _______ ．

   A．More Giving, More Receiving                      B．Fill Your Life with Love

      C．Love is the Reward of Love                      D．More Giving than Given

Melissa Poe was 9 years old when she began a campaign for a cleaner environment by writing a letter to the then President Bush. Through her own efforts, her letter was reproduced on over 250 donated ( 捐赠) billboards (广告牌) across the country.
The response to her request for help was so huge that Poe established Kids For A Cleaner Environment (Kids F. A. C. E.) in 1989. There are now 300,000 members of Kids F.A.C.E. worldwide and it is the world’s largest youth environmental organization.
Poe has also asked the National Park Service to carry out a “Children’s Forest” project in every national park. In 1992, she was invited as one of only six children in the world to speak at the Earth Summit in Brazil as part of the Voices of the Future Program. In 1993, she was given a Caring Award for her efforts by the Caring Institute.
Since the organization started, Kids F.A.C.E. members have distributed and planted over 1 million trees! Ongoing tree-planting projects include Kids’ Yards — the creation of backyard wildlife habitats (栖息地) and now Kids F.A.C.E. is involved in the exciting Earth Odyssey, which is a great way to start helping.
“We try to tell kids that it’s not OK to be lazy,” she explains. “You need to start being a responsible (负责任的) , environmentally friendly person now, right away, before you become a resource-sucking adult.”
【小题1】Kids F.A.C.E. is __________.
A. a program to help students with writing
B. a project of litter recycling
C. a campaign launched by President Bush
D. a club of environmental protection
【小题2】What can we learn about Poe?

短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

假如英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

注意：

1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；   

2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

This term we have a volunteer project called “Big Brothers and Sisters”. It’s a home for the

In order to grow as a writer, you've got to be willing to risk it and every time you sit down to write. You've got to open and brave and curious. Whenever I'm asked, "When did you become a poet?" I'm always tempting to say, "When did you stop?"

We're all born poet. We all enjoy the sounds of language. Every new parent know that. We're all born with the need to "sound our barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world" as Whitman would have it.

Poetry is a natural part of our lives. It's not just everything we have to memorize and reciting in front of the class. Losing ourselves in a poem is one of the better ways of find out who we are. The act of writing brings us to that point of discovery, of discovering something we didn't know we knew when we wrote it.

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【小题1】Among all of the above, there is/ are ________ weekly magazine(s).

Can you become a creative person? Can you learn to come up with great ideas or learn to create new things? The answer is yes.

The first step to becoming creative is to remove the words “I am not creative” from your vocabulary. Seriously, do not say them or do not say them even inside your head.

Now you need to start looking what other people are doing. The more you see what they are doing, the more you can get a feel for how they think, and how they come up with creative ideas.

Find a way or a place where you feel totally relaxed. This is important so you can let your mind come up with ideas. Write them down as you get them. For me a relaxing place is outside in nature where it is quiet and sunny, or when I take a long drive in my car by myself.

The last step is to write down a few ideas every day.

Repeat the process of reading and observing what similar people are doing and how they are being creative, finding a relaxing place to write down your thoughts, and writing down a few ideas every day until you start seeing this kind of results you are happy with. It may take a few weeks to a few months, but this is the training process you need to put your mind through to become creative.

Remember, looking at things from different angle(角度) can also make a big difference to creativity. Question the way that everyone else is doing something using the same method and see if being different and doing it another way will produce something cool.

1.The first step to be creative is to _____.

A．have confidence in yourself

B．look up “creativity” in the dictionary

C．understand the meaning of being creative

D．learn many new words by heart

2.The writer develops the fourth paragraph by ______.

A．the order of time                       B．the order of space

C．giving examples                         D．explaining reasons

3.It can be inferred that ______.

A．creativity is a gift people are born with

B．not everyone can be creative

C．it is a piece of cake to be creative

D．creativity can be gained through practice

4.The purpose of writing this text is to tell us how to _____.

A．learn to be creative

B．solve problems easily

C．come up with good ideas

D．improve the ability of thinking