2 . 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。

Around twenty years ago, I was going through hard times. I couldn’t find a     1     (satisfy) job. To my shame, I had to drive a school bus    2     (make) ends meet. One afternoon, while    3     (drive) through a suburban neighborhood, I was so sad that I kept asking    4     (I), “Why has my life become so hard? What’s wrong with the world?” Then I pulled over the bus to drop off a little girl. As she passed, she    5     (hand) me a pretty earring, saying she found it on the floor and I should keep it in case the owner came to look for it.

In the evening, the owner did come to look for her earring. When I gave it to her, she got excited and said    6     (excited), “Thanks, you are a real gentleman.” I told her that she should thank the little girl    7     had found it. She said, “Yes, and you are a good driver, too. What    8     lovely world it is”! Then she left with satisfaction. I    9     (touch) by her words. I had thought something was wrong with the world just because of my poor condition.     10     fact, nothing was wrong with the world. I should change my attitude towards life.

3 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式.

What is happiness? When     1     (ask) about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, an absolute delight, which seems to get less as we get     2    (old).

For kids, happiness has a magical quality. Winning a race or getting a new bike is     3    (absolute) pleasant.

In the teenage years,     4     concept of happiness changes. Their happiness     5     (lie) in such things as excitement, love and popularity,     6         leave a good impression on them during their youth. I can still recall the excitement when I     7     (invite) to dance with the most attractive boy at the school party.

In adulthood the things that bring deep joy--- love, marriage, birth--- also bring     8    (responsible) and the risk of loss. For adults, happiness is complex. It depends     9     many aspects.

My definition for happiness is "the capacity for enjoyment". The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are. It is easy     10     (gain) the pleasure we get from the company of friends, the freedom to travel to anywhere we like, and even good health.

4 . It was a cold and cloudy afternoon. I was on the bus with my children, aged four and two, heading home when it started to rain. I realized this would mean     1    wet walk home from the bus stop.
Home was only two blocks away     2    it was not a pleasant walk with one small boy fast asleep in the pram (手推婴儿车), the other one in a raincoat and no umbrella for myself. A pick-up truck passed us on the road and, a few minutes later, I saw it     3    (pull) back and the driver looking directly at us.
A young man put the window down. “Hey, here’s an umbrella for you --- please take it.” He called out.
I stood there     4    (surprise), hardly believing that the man,     5    I didn’t know at all, could be so     6    (thought). “Come on, give this to your mummy,” he said to my older son. I gratefully accepted the offer,     7    (thank) him and watched the truck disappear down the road.
This man might have needed the umbrella for     8    later during the day but preferred to give it to me. It was a lesson to me     9    it’s possible to give without expecting anything     10    return.

5 . 阅读下列材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

I was excited    1    (take) my rescue Beagle (比格犬) to the river the other day, as it's within walking distance of our new home. Having spent her first three years in a cage, Georgie had never seen a body of water, and I wanted to get there before sunset to watch her experience it.

I was growing     2     (increasing) impatient about all the stops her little Beagle nose required. She inspected the grass, dirt, and trees, and licked whatever    3    (stick) to the road. These were all new     4     (discovery) for her, and she took her time studying them.

When I accepted that it was fruitless to hurry her along, I whipped out my cell phone and began texting. I thought that I needed something to do while Georgie was slowing us down. Then,     5     some reason, I heard the cicadas (蝉)，and I remembered that the sound of cicadas is my favorite sound in the world. That awakened something     6    (bury) within me that longed for the simple pleasures     7    had been replaced by technology.

I made a    8    (consciousness) decision to be present, and to enjoy the journey to the river Just like Georgie. Now, I admired the flowers and the winding ivy (常青藤) on our path. I smelled the grass and the flowers, and the dirt and the air. I treasured each one equally, as if discovering them for the first time.

As we neared our destination, 1 realized something even    9    (much) important: It didn't matter if we even reached the river. Why must there always be a destination? Georgie had no idea that we had a destination. She was present for the journey, and she completely enjoyed every bit of that sweet experience. There was no race    10     no finish line.

Now I'm not sure who rescued whom.

6 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Long ago, there lived in Greece a learned man. He was so well-known    1    his knowledge of almost everything that lots of people from all over the country came to learn from him. The great man    2    (teach) his students whole-heartedly and answered their questions with great     3    (patient).

One day, a student asked him, “My dear teacher, didn’t you say you yourself have many more questions about things than we do?    4    I think we students have far more than you.”

With a smile on his face, the teacher drew two circles, one as large as a big cake, the other smaller. Then he said, “Of course, I have learned much more. But it is wrong    5    (think) a teacher has fewer questions than his students. Now, look at these two circles. The inside of the    6    (big) one is my knowledge of things, and the inside of the smaller one is    7    (your). Out of the circles is what is still unknown to us. Since mine is larger, I have to use the longer line to draw the bigger circle. That means I have more opportunities to face something    8    (know). And that’s    9    I myself have more questions than you do. The    10    (much) you learn, the more questions you have. You will never learn enough, you know.”