“So teach him to close the door”, my daughter Emma responded after listening to me 36   , again, about the dog coming in from the back door, bringing with him a blast of Buffalo January   37   air．

Teach a dog to close a door behind him? That has got to be a really, really   38    thing to do．But then she took it a step   39   ．“Come on, Kolby”, she said, grabbing some treats（犒勞物） and   40   him in front of the open door．“Touch．” And “touch” he did, which moved the door to a   41   position．She  42   him with a treat, smiled, looked at me, and said “see!” And I saw and became   43   ．Over the last few days I have been with Kolby．Each time he comes in I bring him back to the   44  door and ask him to close．There have been   45   in the beginning, but lately more and more successes．

However, there remains much work to be done．I have to get him to follow my hand signal again and again  46   he will close the door from a distance．But, I now realize, as long as you keep to the focus , the    47    will be completed, and, with the way things are   48   , completed quickly．

What a  49   treat to have a dog that can close the door after himself! Even more wonder can be found in the  50   I learned so clearly from both Emma and Kolby．

A wish is just a wish until you decide to take  51  ．Once you   52  the belief that it is “too hard”, then it remains “too hard ” and out of  53  ．Once you want to accomplish a goal, and  54   that it is “easy”, then it becomes “easy” to do what needs to be done．Just  55    doing it．

A．complain       B．scream      C．worry       D．scare

A．thin       B．fresh C．dirty  D．cold

A．interesting     B．funny       C．tough       D．possible

A．a(chǎn)gain     B．further      C．deeper      D．backward

A．pushing  B．catching    C．driving     D．positioning

A．stopped  B．fixed C．closed       D．checked

A．rewarded       B．provided   C．offered     D．thanked

A．moved   B．convinced C．concerned D．puzzled

A．open      B．closed       C．broken      D．perfect

A．pleasures       B．experiments     C．failures     D．pauses

A．in case   B．even if      C．a(chǎn)s if  D．so that

A．interest  B．task   C．profit       D．harmony

A．changing       B．reacting    C．progressing      D．happening

A．wonderful     B．small C．different   D．simple

A．knowledge    B．skills C．lessons      D．experience

A．patience B．part   C．delight      D．a(chǎn)ction

A．hold on to B．pay attention to    C．come up with        D．live up to

A．date       B．touch C．reach       D．power

A．prove     B．decide      C．a(chǎn)pprove    D．realize

A．imagine B．start  C．keep  D．enjoy

Researchers who study relationships have discovered that a big difference between those who make new friends easily, and those who don’t, is that socially successful people tend to make eye contact with their conversation partners much more frequently than those who are less successful socially. In fact, you may be able to become much more socially successful by making this one simple change to your behavior.

   Most Americans prefer to have a lot of eye contact when they are talking with someone. When a person doesn’t make eye contact with them, they tend to think that the person is hiding something or the person doesn’t believe in himself/herself.

   When you are having a conversation and you want to leave a friendly impression, be sure to keep looking at that person frequently while you are talking. If it really bothers you to look directly into another person’s eyes, you can gaze generally at, not above, the eyebrow area or the bridge of the nose; this is close enough to the eye region that you will appear to be looking at the person’s eyes. But neither the hair or the shoulders have the same effect. Don’t stare at other people too intensely, otherwise, you will look aggressive(攻擊性).

   Keep the majority of your focus on the other person. If you glance around the room too much, or look too frequently at other people, your conversation partner may guess that you are looking around for someone else you would rather talk with.

   You can lighten your nervousness by smiling more often, nodding, and by gazing at the entire face as well as the eyes. In addition, you can frequently look away for very short periods.

   When people get the sense that you are really paying attention to them, they will be much more likely to want to have conversations with you!

Which of the following is NOT the impression left by those who don’t make eye contact during the talk?

A. They are not telling the truth.        B. They are bored with the partner.

C. They are lacking in confidence       D. They are angry and ready to attack.

Besides the eyes of the partner, during the talk, you can look at his/her ___________.

A. hair       B. shoulders      C. the bridge of the nose       D. area above the eyebrows

From the passage, we can learn that ____________________.

A. looking away during conversation should always be avoided.

B. looking at a person frequently can give him/her a good impression.

C. many Americans feel like being stared at for a long time.

D. all successful people are good at making eye contact.

What would be the best title for the passage?

A. How to make yourself socially successful

B. How to use eye contact to make a good impression

C. How to make friends with the people around you

D. How to leave a good impression during a talk

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One day a child was playing with a vase in great value．               

He careless put his hand into it．Hard as he tried,                   

he could not pull it out．His father tried his best, too．               

but their efforts were in a vain．They were thinking of breaking             

the vase when the father said, "Now, my son, why have          ．       

one more try? Open your hand or hold your fingers out                    

straight as you see I doing, and then pull．" To his                

surprise, the child says, "I can't hold my fingers straight        

like that, because I don't want to drop my penny．" The．sand of us        

sometimes are so busy hold on to the world's worthless ．      

penny that we cannot achieve liberation．

—Did you stay up late last night?

—Not very late.  It was half past eleven          I went to bed.

       A．that        B．when C．before      D．since

All their attempts to rescue the child from the burning  building were ______．He dies soon afterwards．

       A．in place        B．in return   C．in vain        D, for

The reason  　　　　 being late for the meeting was  　　　　 his little son fell in this morning.

       A．for; that    B．why; that  C．for; because     D．why; because

It's been a difficult time but, on the _______ side, I feel physically fine.

A. primitive            B. original           C. unique                D. positive

------ Can I pay the bill by check ?

       ------ Sorry, sir．But it is the management rules of our hotel that payment _______ be made in cash．

       A．shall            B．can            C．will           D．may

Bob Geldof, who organized Live Aid, ______ to raise money for the famine and it ______ to be a great success．

       A．intended; turned out          B．tried; turned over

       C．hoped; turned in             D．wished; turned up

Helen always helps her mother even though going to school       most of her day.

       A. takes up     B. makes up    C. saves up     D. puts up