A year ago I paid no attention to English idioms,  31_my teacher said again and again that it was important．

One day, I happened to  32  an Englishman, on the road, and soon we began to  33  ． As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner shook his head, saying, “You don’t say! You don’t say!” I was  34  , I thought, perhaps this is not a  35  topic. Well, I’d  36  change the topic． So I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall?  37 _ the way, have you ever   3 8  there?”

“Certainly, everyone back home will  39   me if I leave China without seeing  40 . It was great．” I said, “The Great Wall is one of the wonders in the world． It is a place of   41  ．” Soon I was interrupted again by his words, “  42  !” I couldn’t  43  asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?” “Well, I didn’t ask you to do  44  ”, he answered, gently surprised．

I said, “Didn’t you say ‘You don’t say’?”

Hearing this, the Englishman  45   to tears. He began to  46 , “‘You don’t say’ actually means ‘really?’. It is an  47  of surprise. Perhaps you don’t pay attention  48  English idioms．”

Then I knew I had made fool of   49  ． Since then I have been more  50  with idioms．

A year ago I paid no attention to English idioms,   41  my teacher said again and again that it was important．

    One day, I happened to  42  an Englishman on the road, and soon we began to  43   ．As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner shook his head, saying, “You don’t say! You don’t say!”  I was  44  , I thought, perhaps this is not a  45  topic．Well, I’d  46  change the topic．So I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall?  47  the way, have you ever 48 there?” “Certainly, everyone back home will  49  me if I leave China without seeing  50  ．It was great．” I said, “The Great Wall is one of the wonders in the world． It is a place of   51  ．” Soon I was interrupted again by his words, “  52  !” I couldn’t  53  asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?” “Well, I didn’t ask you to do  54  ”, he answered, gently surprised．

   I said, “Didn’t you say ‘You don’t say’?”

   Hearing this, the Englishman  55  to tears．He began to  56 ,“‘You don’t say’ actually means ‘really?’．It is an   57  of surprise．Perhaps you don’t pay attention 58  English idioms. ”

   Then I knew I had made a fool of  59 ．Since then I have been more  60  with idioms．

A.though            B. when         C. if                  D. as

A.look           B. meet       C. pick up             D. find out

A.walk           B. talk        C. play              D. go

A.pleased        B. angry      C. afraid             D. surprised

A.proper             B. strange      C. safe              D. polite

A.to                  B. better       C. not                 D. like

A.On                B. In           C. All                 D. By

A.gone                B. visited      C. seen              D. been

A.look at         B. think of    C. send for          D. laugh at

A.it                B. hem         C. anything       D. something

A.fun            B. interest     C. business            D. mountain

A.Really        B. Good        C. You don’ t say  D. You are right.

A. be               B. help         C. think             D. do

A.this              B. so           C. anything         D. me a favor

A.laughed     B. cried      C. moved             D. came

A.explain         B. shout       C. prove              D. say

A.experience   B. expression  C. explanation       D. example

A.for           B. to           C. at                   D. in

A.me             B. myself      C. him                D. somebody

A.helpful         B. popular    C .careful            D. satisfied

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, or 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, 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 some 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．

Tell them this：Read in the backyard with the sunshine 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 rifle 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 her own 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 lesson in life

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

A．Do it well to serve others．

B．To 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 doesn't try her best to work well

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

D．the author likes traveling very much

Studies show that laughter is something that makes you feel calm or relaxed for both physical and psychological wounds though it may seem futile to laugh in the face of pain and fear.

When Dan Rather interviewed comedian Bill Cosby just one week after his son, Ennis, was killed, Cosby said, “I think it is time for me to tell people that we have to laugh. You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.”

Call it a flashlight for dark times: laughter just seems to adjust attitude better than anything else. Inspirational speaker Steve Rizzo recalls a TV interview with an injured firefighter a few days after 9.11．The man had fallen more than 30 stories in one of the towers and had broken a leg. Everyone was crying, and the reporter asked, “How is it that you’ve come out of this alive?” He looked at her and without missing a beat, said, “Look, lady, I’m from New York and I’m a firefighter; that’ all you need to know.”

“Everyone laughed and though the laughter was only a couple of seconds,” says Rizzo. “Sometimes that’s all you need to catch your second breath. Laughter gives you that couple of seconds. You’re sending a message to your brain, and the message is: If you can still laugh even a little among the pain, you are going to be OK.”

Of course, there is a difference between laughing off a serious situation and laughing off the fear that results. The firefighter was doing the latter, states Rizzo, the author of Becoming a Humorous Being, and so should we. “If there is anything we have learnt from 9.11, it’s how precious life really is,” she says. “We have to send a message that our spirit won’t die. One important thing that unites us is our ability to laugh.”　

60．The writer uses the examples of the comedian and the firefighter to show　　　　　　 .

　 A．laughter is a good way to get rid of pain and fear

　 B．laughter is the best way to cure psychological wounds

　 C．it is your attitude that decides whether you can survive the pain or not

　 D．laughing off a serious situation is different from laughing off the fear that results

61．We can infer from the passage that Steve Rizzo is　　　　　　　　　　　 .

　 A．a reporter B．a soldier　　 C．a firefighter　　 D．a doctor

62．The underlined word futile in the first paragraph means　　　　　　　 .

　 A．hopeless　　　　　　 B．useless

C．careless　　　　　　 D．worthless 　

63．From the passage, we can know that Americans are　　　　　　　　 .

　 A．really inspired after 9.11　　　　　　　　　　 B．hardly united after 9.11

C．nearly surprised by 9.11　　　　　　 D．greatly hurt by 9.11