1 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What do we know about the Happiness Research Institute?

A．It opens this year.

B．It is located in America.

C．It is popular with people of all ages.

2. What percent of happiness comes from financial factors?

A．5%.

B．8%.

C．15%.

3. What is a simple way to gain happiness?

A．Comparing yourself to those who are poorer than you.

B．Imagining yourself to be a famous or wealthy person.

C．Spending more time with your family and friends.

4. What does the speaker want to tell us?

A．Happiness is everything.

B．Wealth is the foundation of happiness

C．Money doesn’t always mean happiness.

2 . “Lonely” is defined in the dictionary as “unhappy because you are alone or do not have anyone to talk to”. However, in my perspective, “being alone” can also be meaningful and enjoyable. In other words, “being alone” isn’t equivalent to “loneliness”. Actually, we can literally enjoy our time when staying alone.

Think of loneliness as the “tunnel phase” of our lives. It’s a time when we don’t have a group of friends around to keep us company; when we are away from the hustle and bustle (熙熙攘攘) of the outside world; when we get the chance to tune in to our inner monologue (独白); when we are given the time to recharge ourselves on our own so that we can focus entirely on ourselves. It is during these periods that, without being disturbed and distracted, we are able to discover the things we truly want from our lives. This process is like digging a tunnel, through which we improve ourselves, achieve our goals and get a jolt of power to prepare for the or darkness we may meet with in our future lives.

A distinguished figure skater (花滑冰运动员) once said in his interview that he often felt lonely, but the external environment would to some extent affect his mind and body, making it difficult for him to concentrate during his practice and performance, and thus he was actually willing to be alone and at times would rather be isolated from the world. This type of “loneliness” must be one of the reasons why he has been able to deliver so many elaborate and splendid performances throughout his career.

So don’t be frightened by the temporary void or unhappy feeling when you have to he alone. Instead, cherish and enjoy the sense of loneliness you get when you are completely free. Spend time with yourself.

We become more independent in loneliness. We grow stronger in loneliness. Most importantly, we find our complete selves in loneliness. When we learn to embrace the feeling of “loneliness” and enjoy the time in which there is no other, loneliness itself ceases to exist.

1. What’s the author’s opinion about “being alone”?

A．Being alone is as something shameful

B．Being alone means being lonely and helpless

C．There is no point in being alone.

D．We appreciate our time more when we are alone.

2. How does the author develop Paragraph 2?

A．By providing examples.

B．By analyzing causes.

C．By making comparisons.

D．By listing figures.

3. Why is the distinguished figure skater mentioned in the passage?

A．To show athletes always feel lonely.

B．To demonstrate the factor of the success.

C．To indicate solitude (独处) is as important as practice.

D．To confirm the positive effect of “loneliness”.

4. What can we learn from the last two paragraphs?

A．Time spent with yourselves is more enjoyable than that with others.

B．People will always feel depressed when faced with being alone.

C．Loneliness can benefit us a lot in many aspects.

D．Loneliness can exist all the time, so we should change our attitude toward it.

5. What is the author’s purpose for writing this passage?

A．To illustrate different opinions on staying alone.

B．To encourage people to learn to value and enjoy their time of loneliness.

C．To persuade people into staying away from others.

D．To offer some suggestions on how to spend time alone.

3 . 假如你是晨光中学的李津，你校举办了一场有关用英语讲中国故事的演讲比赛，你的朋友
Chris 获得了第一名，请你给他写一封祝贺信。内容包括：
(1)表达祝贺;(2)向他学习;(3)希望他能够分享提高英语口语的方法。注意：
(1)可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯; (2)词数不少于 100。
参考词汇: 用英语讲中国故事 Stories of China Retold in English Challenge
Dear Chris,
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Yours,

Li Jin

4 . 假设你是红星中学学生李华。上周你在天津举行的亚洲青年环保论坛英语演讲中荣获一等奖(Asian Youth Forum Speech) 。在准备参加演讲期间，你的英语老师Mark 给你提供了很多帮助。请你用英文给他写一封感谢信。要点如下：
1.对Mark给予的无私帮助，而使自己在竞赛中获奖表达感谢；
2.具体的帮助，如选材上，语言表达上及遇到困难时……
3.感谢和展望。
注意：1. 词数不少于100词；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Mr Mark,
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Yours,

Lihua

5 . I was ten years old, standing on the stage. My hands were _________ and my heart was beating fast, and through the sea of faces in the audience, I was searching for the only one who _________ most to me. She knew that our _________ were today. She’d promised me she would be there.

“The life of an elephant and the life of a human,” I said, _________ audible(听得见的), “are not so different.” My fingers _________ the watercolor painting I’d done of an African elephant; I knew that my face was red and that everyone was _________ me because of it, which only made me blush(脸红) even more. Speaking in public had never been _________ for me, but today, having to present my animal research project to a _________ gym, was terrifying.

I swallowed hard. “Over the _________ of a lifetime, elephants both __________ and are affected by their environment. Elephants live in female-led groups. The matriarch-the oldest in the family-makes all the. __________.”

I glanced at my teacher, who gave me a smile of __________, and just then I saw a(n) __________ at the door of the gym. She came in.

“Elephants __________, not just with gestures but also with sounds too low for us to hear.”

Suddenly, my mind went blank. I could not __________ a single word. My __________ became the heartbeat of the world. I had __________ this presentation in the shower, while brushing my teeth, and while riding on the bus. As it turned out, there was something __________:forgetting the speech. Then my mother cleared her throat, and our eyes __________. Gradually, I started to remember everything.

In all the years since then, I have never forgotten a single __________ about elephants.

1.

A．free

B．sweaty

C．tired

D．empty

2.

A．mattered

B．hesitated

C．escaped

D．appeared

3.

A．interviews

B．experiments

C．presentations

D．celebrations

4.

A．formerly

B．constantly

C．barely

D．shortly

5.

A．created

B．gave

C．repaired

D．held

6.

A．cheering for

B．caring about

C．arguing with

D．staring at

7.

A．fair

B．easy

C．safe

D．boring

8.

A．connected

B．heated

C．crowded

D．renewed

9.

A．purpose

B．course

C．discovery

D．opportunity

10.

A．affect

B．admire

C．explore

D．observe

11.

A．enemies

B．efforts

C．mistakes

D．decisions

12.

A．sympathy

B．welcome

C．encouragement

D．innocence

13.

A．exhibition

B．movement

C．notice

D．painting

14.

A．communicate

B．compete

C．compare

D．compromise

15.

A．miss

B．recognize

C．understand

D．remember

16.

A．breathing

B．writing

C．drawing

D．reading

17.

A．downloaded

B．practiced

C．attended

D．announced

18.

A．funnier

B．further

C．stronger

D．worse

19.

A．hurt

B．opened

C．locked

D．saw

20.

A．speech

B．image

C．lesson

D．fact

6 . 阅读表达

I used to chase happiness a lot when I began to work. I would run after different experiences--goals, achievements and success, because I was quite sure that once I caught up with them, happiness would be with me. It was during that period that I learned happiness was a very fast runner.        

Later, I tried to sneak up on happiness. I thought if I didn’t care too little or too much but just enough, it wouldn’t see me coming and then I could catch it.

It turned out that happiness is similar to owls, for both of them have 360-degree vision and extremely sharp hearing. Finally, I decided to sit still, very quietly, until happiness forgot I was there, let down its guard and got close to me. This, surprisingly, worked better than either of the other two ways.

After reading a passage in Time, I think I know the reason. Apparently, for Americans, the chase of happiness is just linked to achieving individual goals which is different from that in other cultures. In many cultures, happiness is regarded as a social phenomenon that happens most readily when it is shared. But our society puts the responsibility for catching happiness on each individual’s shoulders --a heavy burden indeed.

On Facebook, there are a lot of unbelievably happy people doing amazing happiness—producing things every day. However, most of the time, no one is really that happy all the time behind the scenes.

I also like what a famous businessman told Time reporter Mandy Oaklander, “A happy life doesn’t consist of happy moments but every moment of the day.”

Now you know how to get happiness, don’t you?

1. What did the author learn from his first period of chasing happiness? (no more than 10 words)
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2. How do you understand the underlined word in Paragraph 2? (no more than 5 words)
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3. What does the chase of happiness mean to Americans? (no more than 6 words)
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4. What’s the main idea of Paragraph 5? (no more than 12 words)
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5. Do you think you’re on the way to chasing happiness? Please explain. (no more than 25 words)
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7 . 阅读下面短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。

When I was eight or nine years old, I wrote my first poem. My mother read the little poem and began to cry. “Buddy, you didn’t really write this beautiful, beautiful poem!”

Shyly, proud-bursting, I stammered that I had. She poured out her praise. Why, this poem was nothing short of genius! I glowed.

I spent the best part of that afternoon preparing for the arrival of my father. But he did not return until an hour late for dinner. “Ben, a beautiful thing has happened,” my mother began. “Buddy has written his first poem! And it’s beautiful, absolutely amazing.”

“If you don’t mind, I’d like to decide that for myself,” Father said.

That poem was only ten lines. But it seemed to take hours. I could hear my father breathing. “I think it’s lousy,” my father said.

“Ben, these are the first lines of poetry he’s ever written,” my mother was saying. “He needs encouragement.”

They quarreled over it. I couldn’t stand it another second. I ran from the dinning room bawling.

Up in my room I threw myself on the bed and sobbed.

A few years later I took a second look at that first poem; it was a pretty lousy poem. But it wasn’t until years later that the true meaning of that painful “first poem” experience dawned on me. As I became a professional writer, it became clearer and clearer to me how fortunate I had been. I had a mother who said, “Buddy, did you really write this? I think it’s wonderful!” and a father who shook his head no and drove me to tears with “I think it’s lousy.” A writer — in fact every one of us in life — needs that loving-mother force from which all creation flows; and yet alone it is incomplete, even misleading, finally destructive, without the father force to caution, “Watch. Listen. Review. Improve.”

1. How do you understand the underlined part in Paragraph 2?(no more than 8 words )
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2. Why did the writer’s parents quarrel at dinner?(no more than 10 words )
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3. What did the writer think of his first poem when he grew older?(no more than 8 words )
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4. What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?(no more than 15 words )
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5. What kind of parents do you need in life?(no more than 20 words )
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8 . 假设你是晨光中学高三学生李津，参加完高考后，你将要在学校英语沙龙活动中发言，请根据以下要点写一篇发言稿。
1.感谢老师:
2.感谢母校;
3.对未来的展望。
注意:1.短文不少于100词;
2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
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9 . Just before Christmas, my daughter Katie and I went over to my dad’s place to decorate. I couldn’t help _________ the old glass balls when _________ them on the tree. Later that night before I went to sleep, in the quiet darkness, I recalled some _________ from years ago.

The Christmas after I turned 16, while decorating the _________ with my mom, I accidentally _________ and broke a ball. The old glass ball had been on our tree for as long as I could _________.

Broken-hearted, I knelt to pick up the pieces and was _________ to find a small slip of paper on the floor. Unfolding the note, I _________ my father’s writing. Lifting my eyes, I saw my mother’s _________ expression.

“Your daddy wrote that and put it in that __________ during our first Christmas together, just before you were born,” she said with a smile.

I wouldn’t have __________ it, except for the proof there in my __________. The daddy I knew always seemed a bit __________ around the holidays. And yet, this bit of yellowed paper __________ that long ago, my daddy had done something quite romantic at Christmas.

I cleaned up the pieces, __________ I could put them together. “It’s OK,” Mom said. “Just pick out another of the old ones and put the __________ inside.”

Now, as we __________ the holidays without my mom, who we lost to cancer, my discovery is even more __________. Each year as I decorate my dad’s tree, I remember the moment I __________ with my mom that winter afternoon.

The note inside one of those old glass balls on my dad’s tree holds the heart of my parents’ __________ in three little words: “I love you.”

1.

A．selecting

B．admiring

C．breaking

D．collecting

2.

A．holding

B．printing

C．hanging

D．hiding

3.

A．memories

B．ideas

C．dreams

D．opinions

4.

A．wall

B．tree

C．cake

D．room

5.

A．discovered

B．covered

C．caught

D．dropped

6.

A．tell

B．decide

C．remember

D．predict

7.

A．annoyed

B．surprised

C．excited

D．disappointed

8.

A．realized

B．learned

C．expected

D．recognized

9.

A．warm

B．anxious

C．angry

D．bored

10.

A．ball

B．drawer

C．pocket

D．box

11.

A．understood

B．recalled

C．believed

D．noticed

12.

A．mind

B．hands

C．book

D．shoes

13.

A．thoughtful

B．passionate

C．cheerful

D．mean

14.

A．proved

B．described

C．explained

D．stressed

15.

A．showing

B．knowing

C．wishing

D．pretending

16.

A．bill

B．note

C．pieces

D．card

17.

A．prepare

B．demand

C．celebrate

D．save

18.

A．funny

B．difficult

C．puzzling

D．touching

19.

A．shared

B．cooked

C．quarreled

D．read

20.

A．decorations

B．business

C．success

D．marriage

10 . When people have positive feelings for one another then they are able to sit down and talk about what really matters, that is, the true purpose and meaning of life. When envy and jealousy flee, truth has a rich soil to grow and ripen.

In order to really talk, people have to be willing to admit their weakness, and open up. But if there is anger, envy, jealousy or feelings of superiority, truth cannot exist because everyone is measuring what they are saying, trying to avoid making themselves vulnerable in any way.

Perhaps the biggest truth-killers of all are envy and jealousy. Envy is desiring what someone else has, while jealousy is feeling unhappy that someone has something that you would like.

The objects of envy and jealousy can be material possessions such as jewelry and houses, and other intangibles such as popularity and respect.

Most of us hold back when we think about being envious or jealous. But do we really understand how these feelings express themselves? It`s not always so obvious—unless we slow down and examine ourselves, we may miss the signs.

We think to ourselves: That person who just won that award/contract/position doesn’t deserve it. She thinks her child’s so great but he’s not very good and is really a mediocre guy. Who does he think he is—he doesn’t know anything about that subject.

We may not in truth want what the other person has, but we don’t want them to have it either. This is what we call “Dead-end Envy”. It’s the feeling of dissatisfaction that occurs when someone else owns/achieves something and you aren’t happy about it. If you turn envy or “Dead-end Envy” inside out, you get schadenfreude (幸灾乐祸), taking pleasure in someone else`s misfortune. In an earlier study, “neural correlates (神经关联) of envy and schadenfreude were tied together, with the magnitude (量级) of one predicting the strength of the other,” says researcher Matthew D. Lieberman who specializes in respect and how people get along.

Can envy ever be positive? In terms of motivating people to push themselves to succeed—yes. But in terms of personal relationships? That’s harder to prove a positive. Once you accept that someone is your superior in one aspect or another, or has been blessed with a unique talent or quality, and they become a role model, envy may turn into something else, respect.

1. The author intends to tell us that when people talk with others, ________.

A．envy and jealousy are unavoidable	B．people don’t need to be open up
C．people should measure what they are saying	D．positive feelings help talk deeply.

2. About envy and jealousy, the author thinks that ________.

A．there is no difference between them	B．most people are willing to accept them
C．they have a bad influence on truth	D．they are easy to understand and recognize

3. What does the underlined word “mediocre” mean?

A．Ordinary.

B．Useless.

C．Outstanding.

D．Unique.

4. What can we conclude from Paragraph 7?

A．Envy is the opposite of schadenfreude.

B．“Dead-end Envy” can lead to schadenfreude.

C．People with envy or jealousy have no sympathy.

D．People always want what others have.

5. What is the best title of the passage?

A．Envy and Jealousy, the Power of Success

B．The Harmfulness of Envy and Jealousy

C．How to Overcome Envy and Jealousy Successfully

D．Envy and Jealousy and Their Effects