1 . Over the last few weeks, I have been back and forth to the hospital and working with my doctors and medical technicians. I feel very
With everything I
Some inventions were accidental
| A．regretful | B．grateful | C．severe | D．pure |
| A．ignoring | B．concerning | C．curing | D．swapping |
| A．painfully | B．specially | C．frequently | D．particularly |
| A．devices | B．antiques | C．curtains | D．manuals |
| A．gathered | B．threatened | C．relieved | D．detected |
| A．suffered from | B．set down | C．packed up | D．went through |
| A．inventions | B．shadows | C．editions | D．proofs |
| A．pure | B．complex | C．adorable | D．contradictory |
| A．wheel | B．train | C．airplane | D．car |
| A．structures | B．labels | C．vehicles | D．assumptions |
| A．Drafting | B．Reviewing | C．Adapting | D．Seizing |
| A．switched | B．pirated | C．leaked | D．found |
| A．hard | B．steady | C．funny | D．safe |
| A．mean | B．expand | C．include | D．indicate |
| A．discoveries | B．statistics | C．patents | D．observations |
| A．principles | B．policies | C．minds | D．effects |
| A．distinct | B．strange | C．legal | D．common |
| A．current | B．product | C．powder | D．criterion |
| A．challenges | B．directions | C．privacies | D．conclusions |
| A．puzzle | B．frighten | C．annoy | D．surprise |
2 . I was recently told by someone that I am a people-pleaser, a person who works hard on satisfying other people. However, this person wasn't saying it in a nice way. So what's wrong with that? What's wrong with making sure others are happy with me? Moreover, what exactly are the negative results of being a people-pleaser?
People-pleasers bum their fingers because of their "others-focused" mindset, which puts them at a disadvantage. When others are not happy, people-pleasers cannot think of anything else, nor can they enjoy the moment, because they are often disturbed with the fact that there is someone on the planet who is not satisfied with them at the moment.
People-pleasers often make promises they can't keep—they write checks they can't cash. This is the situation I found myself in recently. I made a promise to someone that I would do something for him. But it was a bit unrealistic and would take more efforts than I was willing to put in. As a result, that promise was empty. The act of making the promise made them happy, and that, in turn, made me feel satisfied.
Now that we've got an idea of the negative aspects of people-pleasers, what can we do to get rid of those aspects? Where can we start? The biggest challenge people-pleasers must overcome is to get used to saying "no". I find that it is a struggle, indeed. However, if I want to change my ways, then I must learn to overcome that discomfort
Are you a people-pleaser too? Don't worry. It doesn't make you a bad person, or a dishonest person. But it can sometimes leave you open to unneeded anxiety or be cheated by truly selfish people who only wish to take advantage of your kindness. Keep the good intentions and the good-heartedness in your heart. Just work on how you express your real feelings and hold on to your position through your actions.
1. What does the underlined phrase 'burn their fingers” in Paragraph 2 mean?| A．Hurt their fingers. |
| B．Suffer some losses. |
| C．Get slightly burned. |
| D．Feel angry with people. |
| A．Breaking his word. | B．Behaving selfishly. |
| C．Saying no to others. | D．Cashing his checks. |
| A．To instruct people to express true feelings. |
| B．To stop people-pleasers from being cheated. |
| C．To sum up negative aspects of pleasing others. |
| D．To put forward suggestions for people-pleasers. |
3 . “Katy, please come to the front desk. You have a
As I
“You called me?” I said, somewhat
Sabrina looked up. “Oh yeah, the doorman brought this up and told me to give it to you.” As she
“What is it?” Sabrina asked.
Once glance inside, my doubt was confirmed.
“Someone has tagged me.” I
I had to
As I sat eating this amazingly delicious food, a
| A．call | B．visitor | C．bill | D．package |
| A．telephoned | B．approached | C．left | D．checked |
| A．important | B．ordinary | C．unusual | D．impossible |
| A．focused on | B．tired of | C．satisfied with | D．used to |
| A．excitedly | B．curiously | C．hurriedly | D．doubtfully |
| A．stressed | B．addicted | C．confused | D．thrilled |
| A．emptied | B．filled | C．pushed | D．pulled |
| A．opening | B．passing | C．throwing | D．dropping |
| A．Lying | B．Laying | C．Hiding | D．Loading |
| A．styles | B．shapes | C．contents | D．patterns |
| A．replied | B．requested | C．sighed | D．shouted |
| A．reached | B．put | C．took | D．got |
| A．photo | B．envelope | C．card | D．drawing |
| A．big | B．flat | C．wide | D．round |
| A．swallow | B．count | C．try | D．pray |
| A．hurting | B．beating | C．moving | D．breaking |
| A．sweat | B．rain | C．warmth | D．pain |
| A．strange | B．painful | C．strong | D．different |
| A．confusion | B．peace | C．magic | D．gratitude |
| A．went through | B．looked through | C．lived with | D．dealt with |
Nick was a 10-year-old boy. He was the only son to his parents. Nick’s father was a very busy businessman who could not spend time with his son. He came home after Nick slept, and was off to the office before Nick woke up in the morning. Nick longed for his father’s attention. He wanted to go outdoors and play with his father just like his friends did.
One day, Nick was surprised to see his father at home in the evening.
“Dad, it is a big surprise to see you at home,” Nick said.
“Yes, son, my meeting was cancelled. So I’m at home. But after two hours I have to catch a flight,” his father replied.
“When will you be back?”
“Tomorrow noon.”
Nick was in deep thought for a while. Then he asked, “Dad, how much do you earn in a year?”
Nick’s father was taken aback (震惊). He said, “My dear son, it’s a very big amount and you won’t be able to understand it.”
“OK, Dad, are you happy with the amount you earn? ”
“Yes, my dear. I’m very happy, and in fact I’m planning to launch our new branch and a new business in a few months. Isn’t that great?”
“Yes, Dad. I’m happy to hear that. Can I ask you one more question?”
“Yes, dear.”
“Dad, can you tell me how much you earn in a day or even half a day?”
“Nick, why are you asking this question? ”Nick’s father was perplexed.
But Nick was persistent. “Please answer me. Could you please tell me how much you earn in an hour?”
Nick’s father gave in and replied, “It will be around $25 per hour.”
Nick ran to his room upstairs, and came down with his piggy bank that contained his savings.
“Dad, I have $50 in my piggy bank. Could you spare two hours for me? I want to go to the beach and have dinner with you tomorrow evening. Could you please mark this in your schedule?”
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Paragraph 1：
Nick’s father was speechless!
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Paragraph 2：
The appointed time with Dad was near.
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5 . 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.
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.
Admit to himself every day at least one painful truth.
All unhappiness depends upon lack of integration (融合). There is disintegration within the self,consciously and unconsciously or between the self and society.
| 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. |
6 . When I first began to learn photography, a photographer offered me a simple
Don’t just “point and
This advice could also be applied to
All is too often it is not until our lives are in
| A．example | B．reward | C．tip | D．course |
| A．shoot | B．reframe | C．catch | D．focus |
| A．recognizing | B．considering | C．designing | D．spotting |
| A．behave | B．feel | C．stand | D．play |
| A．maintained | B．aroused | C．recalled | D．recovered |
| A．In other words | B．As a whole | C．In a way | D．On the contrary |
| A．work | B．photography | C．life | D．study |
| A．lose track of | B．make use of | C．get hold of | D．let go of |
| A．surprise | B．challenge | C．happiness | D．regret |
| A．struggle | B．fail | C．intend | D．expect |
| A．tough | B．strange | C．helpless | D．aimless |
| A．surprise | B．doubt | C．crisis | D．pride |
| A．abandoned | B．cancelled | C．misplaced | D．forget |
| A．merely | B．rarely | C．always | D．sometimes |
| A．Thus | B．Moreover | C．Instead | D．However |
| A．comments | B．requests | C．promises | D．decisions |
| A．impossible | B．active | C．negative | D．complex |
| A．beautiful | B．long | C．fresh | D．memorable |
| A．picture | B．figure | C．memory | D．story |
| A．react | B．relax | C．reappear | D．refocus |
Grandfather was a wise and honorable man. His house was not far from ours, and I would visit him often going home after school.
No matter how rotten I had been, 1 could tell Grandpa anything. My secrets were safe. He always understood. He loved me.
I remember a time when a bunch of us were playing baseball in the field behind Mrs. Ferguson's house. I hit one pitch (投) just right and . . . slam! It was a home run that soared (急升) high and away, and ended up breaking Old Lady Ferguson's kitchen window! We all ran!
Walking home, my best friend, Tom, asked, “How will she ever know who did it? She's blinder than a bat!” I decided to stop by Grandpa's. He must have known something was up by the expression on my face. I felt ashamed. I wanted to hide. I wanted to bang my head against a tree a thousand times and make the world just go away- as if punishing myself could undo things. I told him about it.
He knew we had been warned many times about the dangers of playing where we shouldn't. But he just listened.
“I was wrong, I told him, with my head down. “I hate myself for what I did. I really blew it. Is there a way out? Will she call the police?”
“Well,” he said, “she has a problem, just like you. I'll bet if she knew you cared, she would be sad to know that you're afraid of her. I'll bet she wishes you would give her a chance... a chance to be understanding, It's your decision, ” he said, shrugging his shoulders. “Just so I don't say the wrong thing, is the plan to pretend nothing happened? Just keep quiet and carry your little secret around . . . hide what you're not proud of?”
“I don't know, ” I sighed. “Things might get worse. . . . ”
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Grandpa asked, “If you were Mrs. Ferguson, what would you do?”
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“Doing what's right is not always easy, ” Grandpa said, handing me the phone.
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The Summer I Learned to Really See
It was a muggy(闷热)end-of-summer dog day in Missouri. I was preparing to go after the mail—about a mile's distance, through fields and forests, across a river, from our farmhouse, in which three generations of my family lived.
“Take the bucket with you,” my grandmother said, handing me the very familiar bucket.
“What for?” I asked, petulantly(使小性子). The berries had been picked, and it was too early for wild grapes, too late for roasting ears(穗).
“You'll find something to fill it with,” she said, her blue eyes sparkling with anticipation.
I didn't want to take the bucket. It would be a burden to me. Twice a day I'd carried a bucket for milking. With it I'd carried feed to the chickens, salt to the cows, sugar to the neighbors. I'd had enough with carrying with the bucket!
Nevertheless, I took the bucket. Halfway to the mailbox, I set it down beneath a pokeberry bush(胡桃树). I needn't carry it the whole way, I reasoned. There was no mail. When I got back to the bucket, I saw that a few ripe pokeberries had fallen into it. With childish ill humor, I picked off enough clusters(花串) to fill the bucket, even though I thought they were good for nothing.
“Aren't they just lovely!” Grandma exclaimed admiringly when I set them on the kitchen table. She squeezed out the juice of the berries and we used the lovely red ink to paint rings on our fingers and pen letters to distant cousins.
When I went to mail the letters the next day, Grandma again told me to take the bucket along. This time I carried the bucket a little farther than the previous day before setting it down. There was only a sale catalogue in the mail. When I got back to the bucket, I dropped it in. But I felt vaguely uncomfortable, remembering the pokeberries. I caught sight of a bunch of peppermint(薄荷) growing close to the path. Funny, I had passed it every day and never noticed it before. Peppermint just doesn't spring up overnight. I picked a bucketful, its fragrance seeming to cool the day. Grandma was pleased with the peppermint. She liked to chew it and make tea with it.
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The daily routine to take the bucket along was repeated for weeks, and I began to see more.
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One day when I went home, I didn't have anything in the bucket.
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9 . I once taught in a small private school. Each morning at nine o'clock all the students, ranging in age from three to seven years old, gathered in the Great Room for a warm-up in preparation for the day.
One morning the headmistress made an announcement to all the children gathered,“Today we begin a great experiment of the mind.” She held up two ivy(常春藤) plants, each potted in an identical container. She continued, “Do they look the same?”
All the children nodded. So did I, for, in this way, I was also a child.
“We will give the plants the same amount of light, the same amount of water, but not the same amount of attention,” She said. “Together we are going to see what will happen when we put one plant in the kitchen away from our attention and the other plant right here in this room. Each day for the next month, we shall sing to our plant in the Great Room and tell it how much we love it, and how beautiful it is. We will use our good minds to think good thoughts about it.”
Four weeks later my eyes were as wide and disbelieving as the children’s. The kitchen plant was leggy and sick-looking, and it hadn’t grown at all. But the Great Room plant, which had been sung to and surrounded by positive thoughts and words, had increased threefold in size with dark leaves that were filled with energy.
In order to prove the experiment, the kitchen ivy was brought to the Great Room to join the other ivy. Within three weeks, the second plant had caught up with the first ivy. Within four weeks, they could not be distinguished, one from the other.
I took this lesson to heart and made it my own.
1. Why did the headmistress do the experiment?| A．She wanted to teach me a lesson. |
| B．She expected the students to learn to grow plants. |
| C．She meant to prove the impact of good minds on growth. |
| D．She intended to show students how to save a sick-looking plant. |
| A．It stopped growing and died. |
| B．It was leggy and sick with dark leaves. |
| C．It looked almost the same as the other one. |
| D．It grew better than the one in the Great Room. |
| A．Life Means Growth |
| B．Things Grow with Love |
| C．Equality Makes a Difference |
| D．Positive Thoughts Really Count |
10 . Everybody has been rejected .Being rejected often makes you disappointed , depressed and angry .
1. Realize it’s inevitable
Let’s face it .Not everyone is going to think you are as indispensable and wonderful as your mom does .The expression , “Get used to rejection “ may be trite and overused , but it certainly is true .
2 See rejection as an opportunity to learn
3.If you deserved to be rejected , then own it .
Sometimes , believe it or not , we all deserve to be turned down for something .Take responsibility for any foolish decisions you made , or behavior in which you engaged .
4. Be compassionate toward others who face rejection
Once your heart’s been broken by that rejection email , you can empathize with others who are going through the same thing . Be there for them .And someday you may have to write that rejection email .
5. Take the high road
Avoid the temptation to blast the person or organization that just turned you down ,especially on social media .You can never take that tweet or Face book status down .It’s there forever . If you must speak to the experience of rejection publicly , then let your words reflect grace and dignity .
If you give up on that book idea ,business venture , grad school idea , or whatever , then your experience of being rejected was a waste . Never let a devastating , cry-your-eyes -out , come -from -nowhere experience of being rejected go to waste .
| A．Don’t give up . |
| B．Actually , we can learn a lot from rejection . |
| C．Rejection can hurt a person easily . |
| D．Don’t let yourself move on until you can verbalize to yourself at least three lessons from the experience of rejection . |
| E．If you are rejected , you should think about the reason why others reject . |
| F．When you do , remember how it feels to be on the receiving end . |
| G．Then ,do yourself a favor : don’t repeat the error . |
