My dear father is an ordinary man I respect, love and admire very much. No one in my life can replace him, it is his physical features and unique personality that make him a gentleman. In my eyes, he is a perfect father. He is not only a great painter, but also good at cooking, singing and repairing small machines in the house. I want to be a man like my father.
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Cooking is one of the greatest talents that my father has.
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I am greatly influenced by him.
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2 . How to cheer others up
It is nice to help a friend, family member, or partner out when he or she is feeling down. Here are some easy ways to cheer him or her up.
Just listen. Generally speaking, people who are feeling down would rather be alone.
Offer to give advice.
Make them laugh.
We are not natural comedians (喜剧演员) but that is okay. Even without being a professional comedian, we all have the ability to make our loved ones laugh.
| A．Reduce their stress. |
| B．Spend time with them. |
| C．Ask for permission before you offer your advice. |
| D．Something as simple as a hug can change a person’s day. |
| E．In that case, listening is a very important step to cheering someone up. |
| F．If they say yes, go ahead and gently offer the advice you have for them. |
| G．Telling a joke, making a funny face or just smiling big enough can make your friends laugh. |
3 . Life is like a book, from which we can find happiness and sorrow, success and failure, hope and despair (绝望), and love. Life is a learning process.
Happiness and sorrow
Materialistic happiness is short-lived, but happiness achieved by bringing a smile to others gives a certain level of fulfilment. Peace of mind is the main link with happiness.
Failure is the path to success. It helps us to touch the sky, teaches us to survive and shows us a specific way.
Hope and despair
Love
Love plays a key role in our life.
| A．Success and failure |
| B．Failure leads to success |
| C．Hope is what keeps life going |
| D．No mind is happy without peace |
| E．Life teaches us not to regret forever |
| F．Without love, a person could become cruel and violent |
| G．Experiences in life teach us new lessons and make us better people |
4 . When I was in high school, I spent most of my holidays going back to my hometown to enjoy life with my family. Being a member of my family
My brother was born when I was a senior high school student. It is
One time, my little brother
As a sister who loves her brother so much, I came to realize the feeling of my parents’
| A．brings | B．visits | C．comes | D．waits |
| A．forced | B．kept | C．looked | D．said |
| A．evil | B．firm | C．pure | D．soft |
| A．curiously | B．sadly | C．politely | D．proudly |
| A．food | B．nature | C．grass | D．water |
| A．afraid | B．brave | C．excited | D．delighted |
| A．noticed | B．saw | C．caught | D．heard |
| A．pass | B．forget | C．imitate | D．carve |
| A．head | B．arms | C．shoulders | D．lips |
| A．living | B．leading | C．learning | D．admiring |
| A．picked off | B．picked on | C．picked out | D．picked up |
| A．made | B．ordered | C．shared | D．offered |
| A．angry | B．hungry | C．thirsty | D．full |
| A．worry | B．trouble | C．hate | D．love |
| A．give | B．avoid | C．enjoy | D．hide |
5 . First, all participants found it quite easy to link colors and emotions. This was particularly true for colors like red, black, or yellow. Other colors, like brown and purple, received fewer associations. We found that colour-emotion associations were not one-to-one, but many-to-many.
Participants did not select one emotion for a colour, but often chose several emotions. In turn, different colors were linked to the same emotion, like pleasure, which was associated with red but also yellow, orange, pink and purple.
What you can also see is that most colors were associated with positive emotions. Only brown, grey and black—that is, darker colors—were associated with negative emotions. Red was the most controversial colour. For some, it was a very positive colour—the colour of passion, love and desire. For others, it was a negative colour—the colour of danger, anger and hate. For even others, it was both positive and negative. What connects all these emotions and ideas is the fact that red is activating and strong.
Second, we found few cultural differences. In other words, many colour-emotion associations seemed universal. Most participants agreed that pink was associated with love and pleasure, yellow with joy and amusement, or that black was the saddest colour.
Third, if you are interested in cultural differences, we found some specificities too. For example, in addition to the universal associations of love and anger with red, Chinese participants also associated joy and amusement, while Nigerian participants additionally associated fear with red. Another example is the association between purple and sadness that only Greek participants chose. For others, purple was generally a positive colour with very little agreement on the exact emotions associated with purple.
Fourth, participants whose languages were more similar to each other also had more similar associations. To arrive at this finding, we estimated the degree of linguistic (语言的) similarity between two languages, which shows how related or unrelated they are. And then, languages from different language families, like English and Chinese, would have the lowest similarity scores.
1. Which colour is most likely to cause controversy?| A．Black. | B．Red. | C．Yellow. | D．Brown. |
| A．Love and pleasure. | B．Joy and amusement. |
| C．Anger and sadness. | D．Fear and disappointment. |
| A．Chinese participants. | B．Nigerian participants. |
| C．Greek participants. | D．English participants. |
| A．The Deep Meaning of Colours |
| B．The Link Between Colours and Emotions |
| C．Cultural Differences in Different Countries |
| D．Linguistic Similarity Between Two Languages |
6 . My mom and my grandpa have been making jam(果酱)every summer for more than 20 years. The jam is sweet ,made from local Okanagan fruit. Not only is it delicious but it also helps me remember my childhood. As kids, we traveled to Salmon Arm, B. C. ,every summer to spend it with my grandpa and grandma. Memories of house-boating, fishing, countless hours in the lake, and of course jam-making remain in all our hearts.
We were never part of making jam, but I remember watching my mom and grandpa carry in fresh berries from the car, and then measure and cook. Only breaking to sleep and eat, they would show up two days later tired, sometimes covered with burns, and proud faces. Although at that time I couldn't tell you how the jam was made, I knew that each jar(瓶)was made with love and care. They never sold the jam at any local markets; they kept some for themselves and the rest was given away to friends and family.
One summer, for some reason, they weren't able to make jam. I remember my mom being really sad and I didn't understand till some years later that making jam with her dad wasn't really about the jam at all. It was an occasion (场合),where she had his undivided attention and he, hers. I don't know what they talked about for all those hours, or if they even talked at all, but any silence was filled with feelings of love and happiness.
Now in my mid-30s, my brother, sister and I have our own children to bring to Salmon Arm every summer, it only for a few days. Much has changed but one thing that has not is the jam. Mom and Grandpa disappear for a couple of days to make it. I feel joy watching my mom and grandpa share this time together. It's a tradition that one day my mom will carry forward with me, and many years from now, I will carry forward with my daughter.
1. What can best describe the author's childhood?| A．Unusual. | B．Poor. |
| C．Troubled. | D．Colorful. |
| A．She shared the same feeling. |
| B．She was unable to understand. |
| C．She didn't care about it. |
| D．She felt sorry about it. |
| A．Filling the family with joy and love. |
| B．Making a good living for the family. |
| C．Bringing happiness to children. |
| D．Helping the old family members feel less lonely. |
| A．To make jam on her own. |
| B．To learn her mom's attitude to life. |
| C．To follow the family tradition. |
| D．To spend more time with her daughter. |
7 . I was sitting at my kitchen table the other day with a pen, notebook, calculator and a pile of bills. I was doing my monthly budget. There were bills for electric water, rent, insurance, the car payment, the phone bill, and the cable bill. Plus money needed to be set aside for food, gas, clothes and hopefully a little left over to save for those unexpected bills that always seemed to show up. When I was done, I shook my head, closed my eyes and thought of a time long ago when I would regularly get treasures.
When I was a boy, we lived across the road from Camp Caesar. It held week long camps all through the summer and my grandma who I lovingly called “Nanny” worked in her big kitchen. I remember slipping there getting a smile, a hug, a kiss and a hot roll from Nanny. Then she would always take deep in her pockets and pull out a treasure, a shiny quarter. She would give it to me and I would run down the hill to either get an ice cold can of coke from the pop machine or I would head to the camp’s swimming pool where I could buy a warm cup of cherry coke for 15 cents and a tiny 10 cent bag of chips from a stand. I took my time because it was always a big decision. It was nice too feeling so rich for a few minutes.
Looking back now I can see that the real treasure was not the quarter at all. It was the love with which Nanny gave it to me. I would have still visited her at work every day if I had never gotten a single quarter. It was her smile, hugs, and kisses that were priceless in my heart then and now.
The old saying is true, “With your work you can make a living, but it is with your love that you make a life.” You can always welcome love into your heart, soul and mind. And you can always share your love with others. It is that one treasure that lasts forever.
1. According to Paragraph 1, what was the author trying to figure out?| A．Where to get treasures. | B．What food and supplies to buy. |
| C．How to sort out these bills at hand. | D．How to balance the money available. |
| A．A kind of bread | B．A kind of act. |
| C．A sound. | D．A greeting. |
| A．Considerate. | B．Generous. |
| C．Affectionate. | D．Enthusiastic. |
| A．To change people’s heart and soul. |
| B．To show what we should value in life. |
| C．To explain work and love can make a life. |
| D．To advise more love and sharing in childhood. |
