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71. Once you are a_________________ to smoking, you’ll find it hard to get rid of it.

72. The old man opened the door and b_________________ in some fresh air.

73. The old man lost his b_________________ and fell to the ground.

74. I watched him until he d_________________ from sight in the crowd.

75. This software is quite good, but we find it also has some d _________________.

76. It seldom rains here, only 50mm in a year on ________________ (平均).

77. After passing the College Entrance Examination, most senior 3 students feel

really _________________ ( 放松的).

78. I would _________________ (感激) it if you could offer me some help.

79. I feel lucky that I have never heard such a good English _________________ (講座).

80. It is the _________________ (傳統(tǒng)的) culture in China to eat dumplings on the Eve of the Spring Festival.

You have the ability to decide if you are happy or not. Happiness is a choice.

You can’t depend on someone else to make you happy. That is a lesson I learned early on in my marriage. I realized that I couldn’t rely on my husband as my source of happiness. I learned that my happiness depended on me and not my husband’s actions. I learned that you have to choose to be happy.

You can choose your emotions (情緒). Happiness can’t be forced by outside forces. So how do you choose happiness? You can choose to smile or choose to wear a certain outfit. You choose it because that’s what you want to experience in your life.

You want to buy a new pair of shoes so you choose a pair that you like and feel good. You wouldn’t buy a pair of shoes that you don’t like or that don’t fit well, right? So why do we keep choosing emotions and feelings that don’t make us feel good?

Choosing to be happy after you realize your anger has shown up (or even choosing to be calm) can be beneficial. We choose our feelings and no one can do that for us. If we let others get to us, influence our emotions—we are giving them power over us. When others cause us anger or pain, we are giving them our power.

We need to keep our feelings in check and not react automatically to what is thrown at us. We need to think our actions out instead of just reacting to what someone says or does.

Remember that we can always choose happiness. At first it will be difficult to just change your thoughts and feelings from anger, self-doubt, or fear to joy and happiness. But it is only a thought away. Don’t think about what happens to you unnecessarily but realize what is causing you to feel that way. Realize that thoughts, feelings and emotions can change. Then move on and choose to be happy.

66. What’s the best title of this passage?

A. Ways to Be Happy                                          B. Choose Your Emotions

C. Choose to Be Happy                                       D. Find Your Happiness

67. The lesson the writer learned in her marriage is ________________.

A. one can’t depend on someone else to make himself or herself happy

B. balancing the relationship between the husband and wife is an art

C. she can depend on her husband to find happiness

D. happiness can be influenced by outside forces

68. Why did the writer mention buying shoes?

A. To offer advice on how to choose comfortable shoes.

B. To use it as an example to explain the importance of choosing to be happy.

C. To consider it as a hard job.

D. To help to move to the next paragraph easily.

69. The writer suggests that we should _________________.

A. let others control our feelings                   B. give answers immediately to others’ words   

C. control our feelings properly                    D. pay more attention to words than actions

70. The main idea of the last paragraph is that __________________.

A. people have different feelings at different time

B. anger is only a thought away

C. we should list the reasons for our different emotions

D. one can change one’s feelings and choose to be happy

When I walk through the streets, I pass strange rooms where people are doing strange things. Some are biking madly. Others are holding metal bars to keep them from dropping down. Still others are jumping around while someone is shouting at them. It looks like something out of Dante’s Inferno (但丁《神曲》中的《地獄篇》). But what is the most amazing is that people pay for these sufferings!

The strange rooms are gyms. It is reported that some 41 million Americans are gym members. 12% of the memberships are born in January, as they are determined to knock off the holiday fat. Maybe it is good to exercise in the gym. However, should they know they can keep in good shape, spending little money, would they still agree with its necessity?

At the age of 23, I joined a gym. I lifted weights twice a week in Muscle’s Gym. I paid as little as $200 per year. You can’t find such gyms in every city any more. Too often, the gym is fancy (花哨的) with lots of equipment. If you ask how much it costs to join it, the person at the front desk often won’t tell you straight. Instead, he’ll let you meet with a fitness consultant (健身顧問), who will provide you with a great number of reasons and suggestions, such as losing weight and getting healthier, just in order to put pressure on you to spend much money joining the gym and becoming a member there.

Working out with the help of equipment at home has problems, too. In the early 2000s, I bought a spinning bike (動(dòng)感單車) at a cost of $700 for home use. I tried a few times only to find that it brought me a neck problem.

Now I’m back to my old way. I do Yoga (瑜伽) every morning and evening. Total cost: $60 for an exercise mat (墊子). I’m enjoying fitness.

61. The strange rooms are places where people _______________.

A. do strange things                                           B. suffer from great pains

C. play Dante’s Inferno                                       D. take physical exercise

62. In the author’s opinion, joining a gym nowadays is _______________.

A. exciting                B. inexpensive                 C. unnecessary             D. helpful

63. The author wrote something about Muscle’s Gym to _______________.

A. tell us he was fat when he was young         B. suggest a new way of losing weight

C. provide us with an example of gyms          D. compare it with the gyms of today

64. The author will possibly agree that _______________.

A. working out in gyms will bring a lot of sufferings

B. to be a fitness consultant can bring in a lot of money

C. taking up Yoga at home is a good way to keep healthy

D. you should buy good equipment if you exercise at home

65. From the text we can infer that ________________.

A. many Americans put on weight after Christmas and New Year’s Day

B. the author and his family had spent a lot of money exercising in gyms

C. 12% of the American people are members of gyms

D. spinning bikes are good equipment for exercise

In her outstanding book, “Choose the Happiness Habit”, Pam Golden wrote, “Take the story of two twin brothers for example. One grew up and became an alcoholic (酒鬼), while the other became a successful businessman. When the alcoholic was asked why he became an alcoholic, he replied, “Because my father was a drunk.” However, the successful businessman’s answer was also “Because my father was a drunk.” when asked why he succeeded. The same background. The same upbringing (培養(yǎng)). However, the results were quite different. Why? The reason is that they had different choices. The brothers chose different thoughts which formed the situations they found themselves in at last, so they had different experiences.

There was a time in my life when I thought difficulty was due to “bad luck”. Have you ever heard the saying “When it rains, it pours”? That was my answer when others asked me how things were going on when I was in trouble. So what do you think I got? “RAIN”. More and more “RAIN”. I couldn’t understand why bad luck was always with me.

Pam Golden says, “You’re either living in the problem or you’re living in the solution.” Now, when I’m faced with what I used to think was a negative (消極的) situation, I use a different way to think about it. I force myself to replace those negative thoughts that make me lose heart in my mind with positive thoughts which encourage me to fight against the difficulty bravely. Sometimes I write down some ideas that may be a solution, which I combine with the lessons I have learned from the bad situations and the difficulties that troubled me in the past, and often, I find a solution to the problem soon. It seems that I should thank the difficulty I met with. The RAIN that poured in my world has become great experiences that provide me with valuable experience, from which I can benefit.

Now, it doesn’t “rain” as much in my life as it used to. In fact, most days are beautiful, cloudless and sunny! Sometimes I do get a rain, but I think it makes me stronger just like the rain helps plants grow up.

56. The example of the twin brothers shows that _______________.

A. making good choices is the most important        

B. education decides a person’s future

C. upbringing makes a big difference                     

D. it is luck that leads to success

57. What does “RAIN” mentioned in the second paragraph refer to?

A. Water.                    B. Good luck.             C. Success.                    D. Difficulty.

58. What is talked about in the third paragraph?  

A. How the author collects useful experience.      

B. How the author deals with difficulty now.

C. How the author gets help from others.            

D. How the author lives in the problem.

59. Now, the author’s attitude towards “RAIN” is _______________.

A. negative                 B. unclear                   C. positive                   D. unknown

60. Which of the following agrees with the author’s attitude in the text?

A. All things are difficult before they are easy.        

B. Meeting with difficulty is not a bad thing.

C. Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.                   

D. Things at the worst will mend.

I ran into quite a few language problems while vacationing with my family last summer. The most embarrassing was when my Mom apologized to the people we were staying with because her “pants were dirty”. They looked at her in amazement, not knowing how to react. You see, Mom had fallen over and gotten mud on her jeans. But in Britain, “pants” means underpants or knickers, not trousers as it does back home.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　 Katie — From America

I went to stay with a friend on the west coast last summer. Her flat was on the first floor of a high-rise building so I got the lift up. Then I wandered round for ages looking for her flat but couldn’t find it. Fed up and tired, I finally had to go out to find a phone box. She explained that her flat was on the first floor, which for me meant the ground floor.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 David — From Britain

When I asked for the “restroom” in a big department store, people kept directing me to a room with seats where I could sit and “rest”. It took me years to get through to someone that I only wanted the toilet!

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Tom — From America

Last summer we went on a two-week family touring holiday, so Dad hired a car over the Internet. This was an old vehicle and there turned out to be lots of things wrong with it. When he phoned the hire company and tried to explain that the lock on the boot was broken, they thought he was talking about footwear! He had no idea their word for “boot” was “trunk”. In the end we went to a garage and just solved the problem.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Mary — From Britain

51. Hearing Katie’s mother’s words, Katie’s friends were in amazement because ____________.

A. Katie’s mother got mud on her jeans　　　　　　　 　

B. Katie’s mother’s underpants were dirty

C. they mistook “pants” in American for underpants

D. they didn’t know English

52. David went out to find a phone box to ____________.

A. phone the police for help　　　　　　　　　　　　

B. phone his friend for help

C. tell his friends he couldn’t go to visit her　

D. apologize for his being late

53. When Tom asked for the “restroom”, the people around him thought _____________.

A. he wanted to have a rest　　 　　　　　　　　　　 B. he wanted the toilet

C. he wanted a chair　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　 D. He wanted to go to a department store

54. The underlined word “garage” is probably _____________.

A. a parking place　 B. a car　　　　　　　　　　 C. a gas station　 　　 D. a place to repair cars

55. Which of the following words is from British English？

A. Pants.　　　　　　　　 B. Ground floor. 　　 C. Restroom.　　　　　　 D. Trunk.

I was walking down the road one day when my cell phone rang. A strange 31 on the other end spoke to me, “Dad, please come back soon. I miss you so much!” I judged that it was a 32_ number. A little while later, the call came once again, so I rudely 33 , “You’ve dialed the wrong number!” and then 34 .

　 During the following days, I got the same 35 now and then. But I didn’t care much about it.

　 Then one day she constantly called me 36 I didn't answer. Finally I answered the phone and heard a weak voice, “Dad, please come back. I miss you so much! Dad, I’m 37 so much pain! Mom said you were too busy to take 38 of me. But, dad, please 39 me again, OK?” The innocent(天真) 40 was difficult to refuse. I made a 41 kiss on the phone and heard the weak voice say, “Thank you．．．Dad, I am so…h(huán)appy, so…h(huán)appy…”

　 Shortly after this, I became 42 about who had been on the other end of my phone. So I called back, and a woman answered, “Sorry, sir. I am really sorry to have 43 you. My daughter has suffered from bone cancer 44 she was born. And her father… died in an 45 a short while ago. I dare not tell her this sad 46 . Poor baby．When she couldn’t bear (忍受) the painful chemotherapy (化療), she would cry for her dad, who had always 47 her. I really couldn't bear it, so I gave her my phone number…”

“How is your daughter now?” I couldn't 48 to ask.

“She has 49 . You must have kissed her on the phone, because she went with a smile, tightly holding the cell phone…”

50 filled my eyes and I was so sad to hear that.

31. A. sound　　　　　　　　 　　　 B. noise　　　　　　　　　　　 C. voice　　 　　　 　　　 D. shout

32. A. bad　　　　　　 　　　　　 B. different　　　　　　　　　 C. unlucky　　　　　　　　　 D. wrong

33. A. refused 　　　　　 　　　 B. explained　　　　　　　　 C. returned　　　　　 　　 D. answered

34. A. hung off　　 　　　　　 B. turned off 　　　 　　　 C. got off D. took off

35. A. number　 　　　　 　　　 B. call　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. telephone 　　　 　　D. result

36. A. as if 　 　　　　　　　　　 B. so that　　　 　　　　 C. in order that　　 　　 D. even though

37. A. of　　　　 　　　　　 　　　 B. on　　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. in　　　 　　　　 　　 　　　 D. at

38. A. care B. control　　　　　　　　　　 　　　 C. attention D. interest

39. A. support 　　　　　 　　　 B. kiss　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. treat　　　　　 　　 　　 D. encourage

40. A. condition　 　　　　　　 B. suggestion　　　　　　　 C. request　　　 　　 　　 D. advice

41. A. soft　　　　　　 　 　　　　 B. sweet 　　 　　　　　 C. low　　　　　 　　 　　 D. loud

42. A. surprised　　 　 　　　　 B. curious　　　　　　　　　　 C. interested　 　 　　　 D. amazed

43. A. bothered　　 　　　　　 B. warned　　　　　　　　　　 C. interrupted　 　　　 D. reached

44. A. when　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. since　 　　 　　　　　 C. as　　　　　　 　 　　　 D. after

45. A. invitation　　　　　　　　　 B. event　 　　 　　　　　 C. accident　　 　 　　　 D. experiment

46. A. experience　　　　　 　　　 B. reason　　　　　　　 　　　 C. story　　　　 　 　　　 D. news

47. A. encouraged 　　　 　　　 B. supported　　　　　　　　 C. satisfied　　　　　　　　　 D. praised

48. A. help　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. wait　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. expect　　　　　　　 　　　 D. want

49. A. survived　　　　　　　　　　 B. passed　　　　　　　 　　　 C. gone　 　　　　　 D. escaped

50. A. Tears B. Cries　　　　　　　　　　　 C. Anger D. Disappointment

 --- Shall I give you some advice on how to play magic tricks?

--- __________. I hope to become a magician in the future like Liu Qian.

A. That’s all right                                               B. It’s up to you           

C. It’s your turn                                                      D. That couldn’t be better

 Li Ming keeps going to the English Corner, mainly _________ his spoken English.

A. improve                     B. improved                C. to improve                D. improving

Your performance in the driving test did not reach the required standard, _________, you failed.

A. in the end B. after all C. in other words 　　　 D. at the same time

 Obey the rule strictly, _______  _ you'll be published.

   A. then                      B. or                   C. and                   D. but