I was tired and hungry after a long day of work. When I walked into the living room, my 12-year-old son looked __21__ at me and said, “I love you.” I didn’t know what to say. __22__ several seconds all I could do was to stand there and __23__ down at him. My first thought was that he must need __24__ with his homework or he was trying to _25__ me for some news. Finally I asked, “What was that all about?”

“Nothing.” He said, “My teacher said we should _26__ our parents that we love them and see what they say. It’s a(n) __27_.”

The next day I called his teacher to __28__ more about this “experiment” and how the other parents had _29_.

“Basically, most of the fathers had the __30__ reaction as you did.” The teacher said, “When I first __31__ we try this, I asked the children what they thought their parents would say. Some of them thought their parents would have heart trouble.” “The _32_ is,” the teacher explained, “feeling loved is an important part of _33_. It’s something all human beings _34_. What I’m trying to tell the children is that it’s too _35_ that we don’t all express those feelings. A boy should be _36__ to tell his dad that he loves him.”

The teacher, a middle-aged man, understands how __37__ it is for some of us to say the things that would be good for us to say.

When my son came to me that evening, I held on to him for __38__ second. And just __39__ he pulled away, I said in my deepest, most manly voice, “Hey, I love you, too.”

I don’t know if saying that made either of us healthier, but it did feel pretty good. Maybe next time if my child says “I love you”, it would not take me a whole day to think o f the right __40_.

21. A. away          B. down          C. out                D. up

22. A. After            B. At                  C. For           D. On

23. A. glance           B. glare           C. watch               D. stare

24. A. patience          B. time                   C. help                 D. paper

25. A. report           B. answer             C. prepare        D. apologize

26. A. help             B. ask                    C. tell           D. make

27. A. thing                    B. experiment      C. word                D. sentence

28. A. search for                  B. search                    C. find out                    D. find

29. A. said             B. reacted         C. done         D. explained

30. A. ordinary         B. different        C. usual           D. same

31. A. allowed            B. agreed                 C. suggested            D. planned

32. A. point                    B. idea                    C. way           D. cause

33. A. body                    B. health          C. life            D. study

34. A. have                    B. know                C. take           D. require

35. A. bad                     B. good         C. late            D. early

36. A. fit                      B. able                    C. nice           D. kind

37. A. easy                    B. much                C. often           D. difficult

38. A. a much                  B. an extra         C. an exact            D. a full

39 A. before                    B. after           C. because              D. if

40. A. answer                  B. key            C. reason        D experiment

    What makes people happier: money or having happy friends and neighbors? Researchers from Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, have found an answer as part of a study.

    The new study found that friends of happy people had a greater chance of being happy themselves. And the smaller the physical distance between friends, the larger the effect they had on each other’s happiness. For example, a person was twenty percent more likely to feel happy if a friend living within one and a half kilometers was also happy. Having a happy neighbor who lived next door increased an individual’s chance of being happy by thirty-four percent. The effects of friends’ happiness lasted for up to a year.

    The researchers found that happiness is really contagious. Sadness also spread among friends, but not as much as happiness. People removed by as much as three degrees of separation still had an effect on a person’s happiness. Three degrees of separation means the friend of a friend of a friend. The study showed that having an extra five thousand dollars increased a person’s chances of becoming happier by about two percent. But the researchers found that the influence of a friend of a friend of a friend can be greater than that.

    Another finding is that people who are married or work together do not have as much of an effect on happiness as friends do. Earlier studies by the two researchers described the effects of social networks on obesity and efforts to stop smoking. The new study shows that happiness spreads through social networks like an emotional virus—a virus people would be happy to catch.

68. A person would feel happy ______.

A. no matter how far away his or her good friend lives

B. if his or her friend living within a short distance is happy

C. only if his or her friend lives within one and a half kilometers

D. if he and his friends can get in touch easily

69. If you are the friend of a friend of a happy friend, you’d _______.

A. be quite likely to be happy too

B. have less chance of being happy

C. be influenced by your friends in many ways

D. have a feeling of being separated

70. We can conclude from the passage that _______.

A. happiness has nothing to do with how much money you have

B. your neighbors can also contribute to your happiness

C. the distance between two friends has nothing to do with happiness

D. the effects of friends’ happiness last a lifetime

71. The underlined word“contagious”in the third paragraph probably means _______.

A. that can be passed from person to person

B. that has been widely accepted

C. that is hard to explain

D. that can be gained through efforts

语法填空（共10小题，每小题１.５分，共１5分）

Learning English may be difficult for beginners. There are two    31  (base) stages to learn English. The first stage of learning this language would be very    32  (interest). Once you have a good command of the alphabets(字母),    33  (gradual) you can learn many words. It would always be better to follow the method of reading first, then writing. When you feel    34   you have understood the words, you can make sentences. This is the most amusing stage to learn. You just think of a sentence in your mother language, and try to set down the same sentence in English. There could be some mistakes,    35   you should not worry about it. You’d better write the same sentence by    36  (make) use of many different words till you are satisfied    37  your sentence. If you follow this way, very soon you can create sentences of your own.

   38   second step is learning the grammar. Compared with    39   languages, English is quite simple and very systematic(系统化的). There are certain rules and regulations for each and every topic in grammar of this language. As long as you follow the rules and regulations,      40   would be a difficult task to make mistakes.

---David has made great progress recently.

--- _____, and _____.

A．So he has; so you have                   B．So he has; so have you

C．So has he; so have you                   D．So has he;so you have

I haven’t seen you since you came back from holiday. ________ a nice time?