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. |
| A．5%. | B．8%. | C．15%. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| A．By providing examples. |
| B．By analyzing causes. |
| C．By making comparisons. |
| D．By listing figures. |
| 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”. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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
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
假设你是李津，请代表同学们用英文写一封致敬信，并表达努力学习他们的精神。
内容包括：
1.对航天员表达敬慕之情；
2.学习他们不同的精神；
3.表达努力学习的决心。
注意：(1)词数不少于100词；
(2)可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
(3)开头及结束语已写好，不计入总词数。
Dear astronaut uncles,
Knowing that you three have succeeded taking the Shenzhou XVI spacecraft docking with the Tiangong space station on May 30th 2023, we sincerely extend our respects.
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Yours faithfully,
Li Jin
6 . The silence was broken by the voice of a child. Out of the window, I saw my neighbor and her six-year-old daughter, Ayuni, playing in the park. Ayuni tried to climb the ladders of the slide again and again. Ayuni cried, shouted at her mother to help her, and then fell, but her mother told her to try again. Every time Ayuni fell off the ladder, her mother asked her to get up rather than helping her and wiping her tears.
I saw Ayuni shouting in anger, “You are the worst mother; I hate you!” But her mother listened to that quietly and patiently, and then she told her to try again. I was confused about why she was doing that. Even if she wanted Ayuni to learn to climb the ladders, she had to first help her by holding her and showing it practically to her. After all, Ayuni was too young to learn this based on verbal (口头的) instructions. Oh! I saw her mother trying to hide her tears as Ayuni fell for the 13th time! Then, I got curious to know what was going on!
Later, I noticed there was a letter that was addressed to my mother on the desk near the window. I saw the signature “Lavangi”, which is the name of the little girl’s mother. From the letter, I knew why she did that. Now, I extract the following from this letter: “Dear Manya, you’ve been like my elder sister and I’m emotionally attached to you so I decided to write this letter. I’ve been diagnosed with the last stage of cancer. I just want you to know that I love you.
You’ve been a great supporter during my difficult time. The last favor I need from you is to keep an eye on my daughter, little Ayuni...”
After I read the letter, my tears rolled down my cheeks and I realized Ayuni’s mother was trying to teach Ayuni a lesson that she must be strong enough to live without her and do things by herself in the future. I gazed out of the window and then closed my eyes praying for Ayuni. I wished everything would go well with her.
1. How did Ayuni’s mother respond to Ayuni’s request in the park?| A．She punished Ayuni. |
| B．She let Ayuni do all by herself. |
| C．She ignored it and criticized Ayuni. |
| D．She was impatient with Ayuni. |
| A．Touched. | B．Relaxed. | C．Puzzled. | D．Delighted. |
| A．Ayuni’s grandmother. | B．The author’s mother. |
| C．The author’s aunt. | D．The author’s neighbor. |
| A．To be tough and independent. |
| B．To be open-minded and ambitious. |
| C．To enjoy the pleasure of exploration. |
| D．To attach importance to physical exercise. |
| A．To encourage people to help each other. |
| B．To share a story about a mother’s special love. |
| C．To illustrate the key to developing self-confidence. |
| D．To make us realize the importance of keeping healthy. |
7 . We like to think we can read people like a book, relying mostly on facial expressions that give away the emotions inside. But when it comes to the strongest emotions, we read much less from facial expressions than we think we do. In fact, even though we believe it’s the face that tells the story, we’re typically reading something very different: body language.
That’s the new finding from a study published this week in the journal Science. Researchers from Princeton, New York University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem presented volunteer study participants with a series of pictures showing people experiencing extreme emotion, either positive or negative. The images included professional tennis players who had just won or lost a point in a major match.
In some of the images, researchers only show the study participants a face; in others, only a body; and in others still, both the body and the face. You might think it’d be obvious from a face whether he has just won Wimbledon. But it turns out it isn’t.
“The striking finding was that our participants had no clue if the motion was positive or negative, when they were judging faces only,” says lead study author Hillel Aviezer from Hebrew University. “By comparison, when they were judging the body (with no face), or the body with the face, they easily told positive from negative expressions.”
The findings are doubly surprising because the study participants themselves were convinced that they recognized the emotions from the faces, not from body language. “They even had their own theories about what part of the face was most important — but this was a false idea,” Aviezer says. He adds that we do, of course, read a great deal of emotional information from faces but only in certain situations.
“I think the findings may have some clinical applications,” he says. “Consider populations such as individuals with autism (孤独症). We know these people often have difficulties with recognizing facial expressions,” he says. “Until now we have been trying to help them by training them to better understand just the faces. But our work suggests that perhaps we should teach them how to recognize emotions from the full person.”
1. Compared with facial expressions, body language is ________.| A．more important for showing strong emotions |
| B．good at expressing more negative feelings |
| C．more difficult to recognize and understand |
| D．especially important for professional tennis players |
| A．just a body | B．just a face |
| C．a full person | D．negative emotions |
| A．could explain the reasons behind their judgments correctly |
| B．read most emotional information from faces |
| C．overstressed the importance of faces |
| D．could recognize the emotions easily |
| A．may offer new ways to recognize facial expressions |
| B．can be used to understand some patients’ feelings |
| C．can help people deal with negative emotions |
| D．may help people with communication problems |
| A．In a health magazine. | B．In a news report. |
| C．In a science textbook. | D．In a personal diary. |
8 . In the dining room of my grandfather’s house stood a large clock. When I was a child, the old clock
It was even more
After my grandfather
| A．disappointed | B．encouraged | C．interested | D．confused |
| A．picture | B．sound | C．noise | D．time |
| A．meals | B．homework | C．dreams | D．trouble |
| A．beating | B．testing | C．heating | D．watching |
| A．wonderful | B．strange | C．different | D．fearful |
| A．pen | B．ring | C．clock | D．key |
| A．small | B．colorful | C．beautiful | D．magic |
| A．running | B．standing | C．speaking | D．laughing |
| A．painted | B．opened | C．locked | D．repaired |
| A．go | B．play | C．stop | D．leave |
| A．and | B．but | C．or | D．so |
| A．first | B．last | C．next | D．second |
| A．gave in | B．passed away | C．turned over | D．took off |
| A．face | B．door | C．hands | D．eyes |
| A．wet | B．broken | C．dirty | D．shaking |
| A．while | B．sudden | C．way | D．step |
| A．closed | B．lost | C．waited | D．turned |
| A．quickly | B．wrongly | C．carefully | D．angrily |
| A．joy | B．excitement | C．fun | D．life |
| A．cried | B．walked | C．lived | D．listened |
9 . I was ten years old, standing on the stage. My hands were
“The life of an elephant and the life of a human,” I said,
I swallowed hard. “Over the
I glanced at my teacher, who gave me a smile of
“Elephants
Suddenly, my mind went blank. I could not
In all the years since then, I have never forgotten a single
| A．free | B．sweaty | C．tired | D．empty |
| A．mattered | B．hesitated | C．escaped | D．appeared |
| A．interviews | B．experiments | C．presentations | D．celebrations |
| A．formerly | B．constantly | C．barely | D．shortly |
| A．created | B．gave | C．repaired | D．held |
| A．cheering for | B．caring about | C．arguing with | D．staring at |
| A．fair | B．easy | C．safe | D．boring |
| A．connected | B．heated | C．crowded | D．renewed |
| A．purpose | B．course | C．discovery | D．opportunity |
| A．affect | B．admire | C．explore | D．observe |
| A．enemies | B．efforts | C．mistakes | D．decisions |
| A．sympathy | B．welcome | C．encouragement | D．innocence |
| A．exhibition | B．movement | C．notice | D．painting |
| A．communicate | B．compete | C．compare | D．compromise |
| A．miss | B．recognize | C．understand | D．remember |
| A．breathing | B．writing | C．drawing | D．reading |
| A．downloaded | B．practiced | C．attended | D．announced |
| A．funnier | B．further | C．stronger | D．worse |
| A．hurt | B．opened | C．locked | D．saw |
| A．speech | B．image | C．lesson | D．fact |
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)2. How do you understand the underlined word in Paragraph 2? (no more than 5 words)
3. What does the chase of happiness mean to Americans? (no more than 6 words)
4. What’s the main idea of Paragraph 5? (no more than 12 words)
5. Do you think you’re on the way to chasing happiness? Please explain. (no more than 25 words)
