1 . All of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks that crop up every day. If we expect that life won’t be perfect,     1     But even if you are strong enough to persist the obstacle course of life and work, sometimes you will encounter an adverse event that will completely knock you on your back.

Whether it’s a financial loss, the loss of respect of your peers or loved ones, or some other traumatic event in your life,     2     You may even wonder if things can ever change for the better again.

Adversity happens to all of us, and it happens all the time.     3     To ignore adversity is to give in to the ultimate self-delusion.

    4     Abraham Lincoln overcomes a difficult child-hood, depression, the death of two sons, and constant ridicule during the Civil War to become arguably one of the greatest president ever. Helen Keller made an impact on the world despite being deaf, dumb, and blind from an early age. Franklin Roosevelt had polio.

There are endless examples.     5    

A．What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

B．we’ll be able to avoid that impulse to quit.

C．these major setbacks leave you doubting yourself.

D．Some are either there or in wait just around the corner.

E．we’ll learn to accept imperfection and compromise with reality.

F．But history is made by people facing hurdles but achieving greatness.

G．People faced adversity bravely, learned valuable lessons and moved ahead.

2 . 根据课文内容填空

Lifestyles differ from person to person. Some people, known as     1     natives, do a wide     2     of things online, such as     3     with friends, watching misreading updated news and interesting articles and so on. Take shopping as an example--it’s so     4     to compare quality and prices before buying. Some other people live their lives as go-getters. They tend to     5     goals when setting out to do something. Then they make a schedule and try hard to achieve it. As for life choices, in the case of Zhang Tian, he chose to be a     6     teacher in Guizhou province instead of going to big cities. Despite the poor facilities and unstable supplies of power and water, he has improved the learning lives for the students by introducing more attractive subjects like music, art and PE to the school.

    7     made him feel satisfied was that his students were able to read, speak and write in English and became more     8     in learning. Besides all these, he contacted charity organizations to set up a library and help sell local products online. As a result of the     9     he made, he became very popular among the villagers and was treated as one of them. Zhang Tian intended to stay for another year. He feels so happy that he     10     his heart, even though it may not be what others expected of him.

3 . The Happy Man

The happy man lives objectively, and has free love and wide interests, through which he secures his happiness. To be the receivers of love is a vital cause of happiness, but the man who demands love is not the man to whom it is given.     1     But it is useless to attempt to give love as a calculation, for it is not sincere and is not felt.

What then can a man do who is unhappy because he is enclosed in self? If he is to get out of the vicious (恶性的) circle of unhappiness, it must be by true interests. But before that, he should analyze his trouble first.     2     If fear is his trouble, let him practice exercises designed to give courage.

Admit to himself every day at least one painful truth.     3     Exercises of this sort will enable him to admit facts and will free him from the fear to a large extent.

    4     Do not say to yourself in advance, “I should be happy if I could become interested in stamp-collecting,” and thus set to work to collect stamps, for it may well happen that you will altogether fail to find stamp-collecting interesting. You may be pretty sure that true objective interests will grow up as soon as you have learnt not to be self-centered.

All unhappiness depends upon lack of integration (融合). There is disintegration within the self,consciously and unconsciously or between the self and society.     5     Such a man feels himself a citizen of the universe, enjoying what it affords, untroubled by the death because he feels not separate from those who will come after him.

A．There is much he can do about it.

B．The man who receives love is the man who gives it.

C．The interests will arise when you overcome being self-centered.

D．The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.

E．Teach himself life is worth even not having great virtue or intelligence.

F．Self-denying leaves a man self-absorbed and aware of his own sacrifice.

G．Neither divided against the self nor the world, the happy man never fails to unite.

4 . Think about that. If you are anything like me, you struggle to ask for help when you need it. It’s something a lot of humans battle with. You don’t want to be a burden on others. You are afraid to speak up, or want to prove that you can do it yourself.

You don’t ask for help when you don’t know how to do something or can’t manage it on your own, because you might be afraid of looking stupid or incompetent. You might pretend like you know what you’re doing when you’re really drowning. Perhaps you think asking for help is a sign of weakness; that if you ask for help you’re admitting you’re inadequate in some way; that you lack knowledge, skill or experience to do something yourself. You don’t want anyone to see that you’re struggling and you want people to think that you’re in control and can handle things.

There are tons of reason you won’t ask for help, but not to do so can be a mistake. You get in your own way if you make asking for help mean something negative about you when it doesn’t. Asking for help doesn’t mean you’re stupid or inadequate. It simply means you need help with something specific for a time.

Confident people often ask others for help. They do so not only because they’re secure enough to let it be known they need help, but they know that trying to do everything themselves is not always the best use of their time, skills or energy. They recognize it can leave them feeling overwhelmed and stressed and then they can’t do things properly. Confident people find someone who’s good at what they need to learn or get done and then ask for their help and guidance. They know that asking, “Can you help me?” shows respect for the other person’s knowledge and abilities. Otherwise, they wouldn’t ask.

1. What is the author’s personality like?

A．He shows great love to others.	B．He hesitates to ask others for help.
C．He looks down upon other people.	D．He dislikes those who pretend to know.

2. What does the underlined word “incompetent” mean in paragraph 2?

A．Indifferent.

B．Unqualified.

C．Determined.

D．Devoted.

3. Confident people will find it quite natural to ________.

A．offer help to other people	B．respect others’ abilities
C．promote their abilities	D．turn to others for help

4. Through this text, the author is trying to ________.

A．advise us to learn more knowledge	B．encourage us to bravely ask for help
C．show our respect to the people around us	D．encourage us to be more confident in our life

5 . Very occasionally, I escape to the city. Boarding the train, I watch the North Sea flash by and disappear. I like to stare out of its window and look for deer standing in fields, or the sight of a red kite in the sky.

    1     The rough edges of Northumberland become smoother and softer the further south I travel, until the fields are swallowed by buildings.

    2     In other words, they do not fully understand my choice. At the same time, they glance over my shoulder at the wide beaches and distant hills. But while the middle of nowhere holds its own charm, I always find a trip to the city nourishing in its own special way. The city codes of life in the south feel familiar to me: standing on the right of the escalator (自动扶梯), always moving. Sitting on the train, I watch tired faces, beautiful faces, wise faces, and young faces.     3    

When I am here, the possibilities who I could become feel endless. The streets are filled with sights and sounds that leave me breathless and hungry for more.     4     Somehow lost in the beauty and attraction all around me, I am filled with the feeling that I can be whoever I choose.

At home, most of the diversity lies in the landscape. The beautiful vastness of Northumberland feeds my reflective soul and taps into my creativity, but I am an outgoing person who enjoys being with others.     5     In it, there are more chances that I can get along with people. Both the ones I already know and those I have yet to meet may be whom I get along with.

Following an escape, I return to writing alone at my desk, watching the sky burn pink outside as candles shine and daughters sleep inside.

A．I absorb all in and feel less ordinary.

B．It is this that I miss the most about the city.

C．Choosing to escape now is definitely not a wise choice.

D．Some people are confused about the concept of escaping to a city.

E．With the train travelling forward, what is shown in front of me varies.

F．Many of the conveniences of the cities cannot be enjoyed in the villages.

G．I wonder what lives these people are leading and form stories in my head.

6 . Nearly five years ago, I booked a retreat (僻静处) to work on my book, Tracking Wonder. I knew I worked best with limited distraction, but when I finally was able to carve time away from the world to do this creative work, I found it very difficult to focus.     1     Now I know that we need to work on something counter-intuitive (违反直觉的): our ability to be bored.

    2    

Ⅰ. Reboot(重启) your mental health.

Just as our muscles need rest days between workouts to grow stronger, our minds need periods of idleness to process the world around us.

Innovators in times of crisis and adversity actually grant themselves space to be bored and daydream deliberately. This kind of daydreaming can lead to positive mental feelings of hope, renewal, and forward motion, but it requires boredom and space.

Ⅱ.     3    

The capacity to be bored and the capacity to be creative go hand in hand. Want to increase your creativity?     4     Embrace those periods of boredom that are built into your commute, break time, or meals. Turn off the podcast, stop scrolling through the news feeds, and let your mind lie fallow (休耕的) so that the seeds of your next idea have space to grow.

Ⅲ. Reconnect with what matters to you.

These days, current events—and the resulting analysis, opinions, and Twitter hot takes—come at us so quickly that it’s difficult to process one issue before the next takes its place.     5     Rather than reaching for stimulation (刺激) by searching for the next event to be entertained or enraged (激怒) by, boredom gives you space to think through the information you’re gathering and begin to challenge ideas. The next time you find yourself compelled to reach for your phone, I challenge you to try sitting with what matters to you, and letting your idle mind discover surprising connections.

A．Become more creative.

B．I completely lacked creativity.

C．Here are three ways to release your creativity.

D．The answer may not be more stimulation, but less.

E．Reach for our phones to check a fact during a conversation.

F．Learning to let yourself be bored can have three surprising benefits.

G．But to truly be an informed citizen, you need to allow time for idleness.

7 . 语法填空。

When I first look at the picture, it seems to be just a pretty simple drawing of a man in a garden. However, when     1     (look) at it more closely, I see something interesting.

In the picture, a man is wearing a hat and an apron, and is carrying an umbrella because it is raining     2     (heavy). He has his back turned to us. We can see he is in his garden, for he is watering the flowers     3     a watering can. The drawing     4     (entitle) “It’s Time to Water the Flowers”.

This implies that this man obviously loves routines (and his flowers), and probably     5     (water) his flowers every day at the same time. He is doing this even though it is raining heavily. However, the plants don’t need the extra water he is providing. He is not seeing the obvious, but is just going through the motions without     6     (think).

The overall message we can take from this picture is that it is important     7     (have) routines and timetables, as they can help us stay organised,     8     sometimes routines can control us, rather than us controlling the routines. It is important not to become too preoccupied with routines and schedules, because they can make us blind to     9     is in front of us. Sometimes we need to be flexible and adapt to changing     10     (circumstance).

8 . It should have at least been a dunk (扣篮). Everyone in the area knew it as the tall, wonderful _______ flew toward the basket. There was no one within 20 feet of him and no obstacle to _______ him from scoring as he had so many times before. But this time he _______.

Never mind that he was_______ at full speed during a pressure-packed game, with thousands of _______fans screaming at him to miss. As far as I was concerned, there was no _______for missing such an easy, automatic shot. I couldn’t believe it. For the rest of the game, I _______about every missed shot and every bad pass. By the end of the game, I _______ at him through the television screen, “You’re a professional. A professional doesn’t make mistakes like that!”_______, he didn’t play a perfect game.

Later that evening I was doing some filing (归档) when I paused to reread a column from several weeks ago. I stopped when I __________ a typo(打字错误). Instead of “the”, I had written “tje”. But it was an understandable __________. After all, the letters “h” and “j” are right __________ to each other on the keyboard. Anyone could slip and hit the wrong __________. And I was sure the editors would catch the mistake and fix it __________it went into publication.

My eyes went __________ to “the”. And somewhere in the back of my mind I heard a(n) __________ scolding voice: “You’re a professional. A professional doesn’t make mistakes like that!”

I guess it’s __________ that we don’t really have a right to expect __________ in others until we’re prepared to expect it in ourselves. And not just professionally. This is __________true on the highway, in the grocery store, at the movies and most especially in the home. Unless we can offer ourselves as a perfect example, we ought to be willing to excuse others’__________.

1.

A．professor

B．athlete

C．performer

D．announcer

2.

A．prevent

B．discourage

C．take

D．differ

3.

A．touched

B．scored

C．paused

D．failed

4.

A．walking

B．running

C．driving

D．turning

5.

A．supporting

B．crazy

C．opposing

D．enthusiastic

6.

A．possibility

B．chance

C．excuse

D．problem

7.

A．knew

B．complained

C．worried

D．doubted

8.

A．laughed

B．stared

C．aimed

D．shouted

9.

A．Obviously

B．Unfortunately

C．Importantly

D．Finally

10.

A．checked out

B．came across

C．missed out

D．learnt about

11.

A．column

B．word

C．condition

D．error

12.

A．connected

B．next

C．useful

D．first

13.

A．way

B．number

C．place

D．key

14.

A．before

B．until

C．after

D．when

15.

A．suddenly

B．properly

C．directly

D．willingly

16.

A．unexpected

B．strange

C．terrible

D．familiar

17.

A．clear

B．true

C．important

D．probable

18.

A．perfection

B．surprise

C．impression

D．success

19.

A．yet

B．ever

C．also

D．never

20.

A．words

B．faults

C．behaviour

D．absence

9 . “If Bill would praise me once in a while, he’d make my life much happier,” a young homemaker said to her neighbor.    1     But unless we hear words of praise from someone else, how can we know that we are valued friends or co-workers?

Anyone who wants to improve his relationships with others needs only to show a sympathetic understanding. The way to express this understanding and give others the feeling of importance and worthiness boils down to this:    2     Praise and tell him about it.

We each have a mental picture of ourselves, a self-image. When we are proud of our self-image, we feel confident and free to be ourselves. We function at our best. When we are ashamed of our self-image, we attempt to hide it rather than express it.    3    

A miracle happens to the person whose self-esteem has been raised.    4     He is kinder and more easy-going with those around him. Praise is the polish that helps keep his self-image bright and shining. What has this to do with your giving praise?A lot.    5     When you add to his self-esteem,you make him want to like you and to work with you.

As artists find joy in giving beauty to others, anyone who masters the art of praising will find that it blesses the giver as much as the receiver. As the saying goes, “Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows (赠予) them.”

A．He suddenly likes other people better.

B．All of us need to feel needed and admired.

C．Children,especially, are hungry for praise and appreciation.

D．Always look for something in the other person you can admire.

E．We become unfriendly or aggressive, and hard to get along with.

F．You have the ability to create that kind of miracle in another person.

G．Encouragement through praise is a way of getting people to do their best.

10 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

As many of us already know,     1    （have）plans in place for the future is no guarantee that they will become reality. Take two famous authors for example. Although they shared the same ambitious and     2     (energy) approach to life, their careers unfolded in contrasting ways.

The American author, Ernest Hemingway, born in 1899, had his ambition     3    （write) from early boyhood. He kept writing and wrote novels and short stories     4     (base) on his personal experiences. His novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953.     5     contrast, the young Arthur Conan Doyle, born in Scotland in 1859, had originally worked as a doctor. Though his main ambition was to become a writer of     6     (history) novels, he was best known for his fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, which     7     (entertain) readers for well over a century.

    8     both of these men were ultimately successful, their paths to success were very different their futures not necessarily     9     (turn) out exactly as they planned. So, whatever twists and turns you might encounter, take     10     leaf out of the books of these two authors and be prepared for the unexpected.