Birthdays are strange things. The more you have, the more you try and pretend they don’t matter, and the more     1.  . I’m not really sure why they think so. It’s true that you are getting older, but as     2.  , “Who isn’t getting older every day?” The problem may be that a birthday reminds people of all the things     

3.  , but have not. I certainly understand that feeling, though I think    4.    that I most want to do — a kind of personal re-ordering (重新排序) of the to-do list. What makes you depressed(郁闷) on your birthday is that you realize your re-ordered to-do list is exactly the same as it was last year. That makes you feel     5.  , and not been anywhere. I have not had that experience this year. I look back at where I was last year and find things have changed since then.

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 I _______ like science but I think it is very useful.

A.    not        B. don’t             C. am not       D. no

从方框中选择正确的句子补全对话。

A: What’s wrong with you, Helen?

B:    1.     I have a cold.

A: Bad luck!   2. 

B: Oh, but I’m busy now and I must

finish these exercises in the class.

A:  3.    He will ask you to

have a rest at home.

B:    4.    I don’t want to ask for leave.

A:   5.   You’d better lie down and have a good rest now.

B: OK. I’ll ask for leave at once. Thank you very much.

Smiling is the most attractive human behavior. The power of smiling can work out many wonders. I love to take a walk around the small neighborhood where I live. Whoever I meet on the way, they always give me a friendly greeting with a nice smile as soon as our eyes contact  1 . I smile back. This kind of smiling exchange represents the most   2  part of my jogging experience in the States.

My daughter's smile is just like sunlight, which warms me inside the same way   3   the sun warms my body. It can clear away any clouds and unpleasant feelings. The smile of my wife, however, makes me enjoy the   4  of an elegant woman, it can sometimes relax me quite a lot.

Julia Robert's    5  is nothing but roaring like an earthquake. Americans may have   6   opinions in many things, but they all agree that Julia is America's sweetheart. Her laugh plays a very good part in her acting. Once I tried some candy in a store, the owner asked me how sweet the candy is, I said sweeter than Julia Robert.   7  both of us broke into a kind of Julia's laugh. Yes, laugh is something we can not do without. Otherwise, our life would be too   8  .

Smiling does not belong to human alone. Once I stayed at an American home and he had a little dog named Mini. When I held her gently and asked her to give me a little smile,   9   just opened her mouth wide and half closed her eyes, looking like smiling.

Los Angles is not only the place where it has the most sunshine in a year,   10   where most people smile! That’s why so many people love to travel there all year round.

1.                A．contact         B．close           C．change   D．open

2.                A．fashionable      B．painful          C．enjoyable     D．educational

3.                A．though         B．like            C．as   D．from

4.                A．pride          B．courage         C．success   D．beauty

5.                A．cry            B．laugh           C．smile     D．performance

6.                A．different        B．similar          C．same     D．strange

7.                A．All             B．Both           C．Neither   D．None

8.                A．lonely          B．cool            C．sunny    D．sad

9.                A．it              B．she            C．he   D．I

10.               A．even though     B．as if            C．so that    D．but also