1 . Positive thinking is a significant element of happiness. In order to become a positive thinker, determination and consistency are important. The first thing to know about positive thinking is that everyone can do it. With certain cognitive (认知的) and behavioral changes, we can all become positive thinkers. Another important factor is that being a positive thinker does not mean you become numb to anything that is not working properly in your life or is negative - it just means that you approach life and face challenges with a healthier outlook.
Instead of selectively attending to negative events, focus on the positive ones. Then pay attention to the delayed consequences of your behavior rather than the immediate ones. For example, if a job is not going like you want, focus on the fact that you have a job and how you can take your time to make the situation better.
Challenge any internal attributions and see if you compare your behavior to standards that are excessively rigid and perfectionistic. If so, change these and be reasonable with your comparisons. For example, if you constantly compare your weaknesses with other people's strengths, then switch this and compare yourself with those who are doing poorer than you as well. Overall, people who focus more on their strengths than their weaknesses but at the same time are aware of their weaknesses have a healthier self-evaluation result.
When faced with too much fear about a situation, imagine the worst case and visualize a solution for it, then let go of fear. This way, you will be prepared for anything and your fear will not block you from being open and creative to different solutions. For example, if you are constantly worried about losing your job up to a point where it is creating a lot of anxiety and fear and is effecting your performance and your happiness negatively, then think of losing your job, visualize how you will handle it, find solutions in your mind and then let go of the thought and the fear attached to it.
So positive thinkers are better problem solvers and have better interactions. In addition to that, people who are positive thinkers are happier and more satisfied with their life.
1. Why is positive thinking a significant element of happiness?| A．It means that one is blind to the troubles and difficulties that exist. |
| B．It means that one constantly compares everything with other people's. |
| C．It means that one is strong in mind and has nothing to be afraid of. |
| D．It means that one approaches life and faces challenges more healthily. |
| A．Quitting it and finding a better one. |
| B．Keeping and trying to make it better. |
| C．Being negative and numb to it. |
| D．Challenging yourself with a new outlook. |
| A．Be prepared for the worst: and let go of fear. |
| B．Being constantly worried will lose your job. |
| C．Fear will prevent you being open and creative. |
| D．There is nothing to fear if well prepared. |
| A．How to focus on the positive events |
| B．How to be a positive thinker |
| C．What to do when faced with fear |
| D．What to know of self-evaluation |
2 . Today, after 10 days of medical treatment, for the first time, I went out alone to meet a motherly lady who I had met during my stay in a program. She had been unwell recently and lived alone. Her sons live in foreign countries.
After I called her and told about my plan to visit her, she started becoming excited and planning food at once. Nowadays, she has a lady cook coming by to help her but she does part of the work herself with her bandaged (绷带) leg.
I reached her home alone after being guided a couple of times by her before. I carried little things (snacks, books etc.) for her. She had been waiting for some time when I arrived. We talked about different things from health to her life and mine, from past to future, from food to travel etc. During the discussion, her care for me became clear when she made warm suggestions or supported me.
During the last few months, she had struggled with health and housework. She had got over those difficulties and here she was telling me how all of us must face some problems. She had seen a few people facing worse problems in the hospital and mentioned about their cases and was grateful for her present condition which was manageable.
She wanted to gift me something—she kept thinking of a dress, watch, footwear etc. whatever was new and great in her home. I kept refusing but finally took the footwear out of politeness.
She loved the snacks I had brought and wanted to eat them with her tea, I was quite happy to see the childlike interest.
While I was spending time with my motherly friend, the following thought kept coming back to me—probably this is why I have lived through the 10 days in this city. The time I spent with her seemed so much needed. I felt the deep peace it could bring to me and that brought such a big joy!
1. How did the elderly lady feel when she heard the author’s visit?| A．Shocked. | B．Pleased. | C．Nervous. | D．Embarrassed. |
| A．She was considerate and very healthy. |
| B．She wished the author lo live with her. |
| C．She showed much concern to her bandaged leg. |
| D．She was grateful compared with those less fortunate. |
| A．It is impolite to turn down the warm-hearted offer. |
| B．She happened to need such shoes to wear. |
| C．It would be a waste to keep shoes unused. |
| D．She wanted to exchange gifts with her. |
| A．It enabled the author to live in the city so long. |
| B．It gave the author a lot of advice on a better life. |
| C．It helped the author to keep a peaceful mind. |
| D．It helped the author stay away from loneliness in life. |
3 . The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.--Thomas Macaulay.
Some thirty years ago, I was studying in a public school in New York. One day, Mrs. Nanette O’Neillgave an arithmetic
There is really nothing new about
I don’t
| A．test | B．paper | C．lesson | D．problem |
| A．examined | B．finished | C．marked | D．answered |
| A．same | B．usual | C．silly | D．serious |
| A．lying | B．talking | C．guessing | D．cheating |
| A．how | B．why | C．what | D．when |
| A．come | B．leave | C．remain | D．apologize |
| A．excuse | B．reject | C．spare | D．scold |
| A．above | B．common | C．special | D．following |
| A．get | B．put | C．copy | D．repeat |
| A．worry | B．hear | C．talk | D．know |
| A．chance | B．lesson | C．incident | D．memory |
| A．even | B．still | C．always | D．almost |
| A．way | B．choice | C．reason | D．sentence |
| A．All | B．Few | C．Some | D．None |
| A．nations | B．families | C．individuals | D．organizations |
| A．final | B．temporary | C．important | D．personal |
| A．finder | B．stranger | C．passer-by | D．policeman |
| A．some | B．extra | C．small | D．necessary |
| A．paid | B．shared | C．returned | D．remembered |
| A．me | B．us | C．you | D．them |
4 . When I was three years old, I couldn’t speak. It was a strange reality that none of the doctors I visited could understand.
One day, I was shadowing（跟随）my mother. She found herself looking in a mirror, and through it our eyes met. She began to speak to me through the reflection, and I slowly began to mimic（模仿）her mouth’s movements until I formed a word.
It turned out I’m deaf in my left ear, and have a slight problem in my right. Being hard of hearing has been difficult, but I’ve never lived in a state of self-hating sorrow.
Imagine being able to shut out all sound as you lay your head down to sleep by simply rolling over onto one side. That’s my reality when I sleep on my “good ear”, and it makes me feel like a superhero sometimes.
People call my deaf side my “bad ear”, but when I wear my hearing aid, I have access to a range of features that some other deaf people don’t. In cinemas, for example, with one click of a button I can enjoy a whole film as though it were whispered to me from the mouths of the actors.
Owning a hearing aid hasn’t always felt good, however. On the first day I got my aid, when I was eight, I took it to school for show-and-tell. As I explained how it worked to my classmates, a boy yelled out, “Aren’t those for old men?” At that moment, I felt different. It took me a long time to get over that sense of being so unlike my peers.
But it’s not just school kids who can make us deaf and hard-of-hearing people feel like burdens. Every video on social media that lacks subtitles（字幕）, for example, means an entire community of deaf people is unable to enjoy it. Completely deaf people are excluded from enjoying many movies too, as subtitles in cinemas are almost impossible to find.
And with hearing aids costing around $2,500 each, it can be hard for many people to afford to be able to listen to the things that others take for granted. As for me, I can listen to music, enjoy films, and catch conversations – I’m lucky. I’m deaf, but I can still hear everything. I’ve been blessed with wonderful life experiences, and I am human. And when it comes to sleeping, I’m even superhuman.
1. How does the author view his hearing difficulty?| A．It’s a disaster and causes him a lot of trouble. |
| B．It gave him a chance to experience something special. |
| C．It made him feel embarrassed in front of his classmates. |
| D．It helped him to live in his own world without being interrupted. |
| A．He was born deaf. |
| B．He is optimistic and helpful. |
| C．The hearing aid brings convenience to his daily life. |
| D．His family and classmates have supported him a lot. |
| A．Excited. |
| B．Anxious. |
| C．Grateful. |
| D．Disappointed. |
| A．To give advice on life to disabled people. |
| B．To show how difficult life is for disabled people. |
| C．To show the convenience a hearing aid could bring. |
| D．To share his experience of treating a disadvantage with gratitude. |
5 . Compassion（同情）is a desire within us to help others. With effort, we can translate compassion into action. An experience last weekend showed me this is true. I work part-time in supermarket across from a building for the elderly. These old people are our main customers, and it’s not hard to lose patience over their slowness. But last Sunday, one aged gentleman appeared to teach me a valuable lesson. This untidy man walked up to my register（收款机）with a box of biscuits. He said he was out of cash, had just moved into his room, and had nothing in his cupboards. He asked if we could let him have the food on trust. He promised to repay me the next day.
I couldn’t help staring at him. I wondered what kind of person he had been ten or twenty years before, and what he would be like if fortune had gone his way. I had a hurt in my heart for this kind of human soul, all alone in the world. I told him that I was sorry, but store rules didn’t allow me to do so. I felt stupid and unkind saying this, but I valued my job.
Just then, another man, standing behind the first, spoke up. If anything, he looked more pitiable, “Charge it to me,” was all he said.
What I had been feeling was pity. Pity is soft and safe and easy. Compassion, on the other hand, is caring in action. I thanked the second man but told him that was not allowed either. Then I reached into my pocket and paid for the biscuits myself. I reached into my pocket because these two men had reached into my heart and taught me compassion.
1. The aged gentleman who wanted to buy the biscuits______.| A．promised to obey the store rules |
| B．hoped to have the food first and pay later |
| C．forgot to take his credit card with him |
| D．could not afford anything more expensive |
| A．Kind and lucky. | B．Friendly and helpful. |
| C．Poor and lonely. | D．Hurt and disappointed. |
| A．He considered the old man dishonest. |
| B．He felt no pity for the old gentleman. |
| C．He wanted to keep his present job. |
| D．He expected someone else to pay for the old man. |
| A．Obeying the rules means more than compassion. |
| B．Wealth is most important in older age. |
| C．Experience is better gained through practice. |
| D．Compassion means helping in some way. |
6 . With golden sunshine and a gentle breeze（微风）, autumn is the most beautiful seasons in the year. This is a great time to go outside and have fun. Go to a valley to see red maple trees,go and pick fruit in an orchard or find an open field to fly your kite in.
However, for many high school students, these great activities may be just a dream. With plenty of work to do, they spend all their hours indoors, struggling for a high mark in their exams. Of course, study is one of the most important things for teenagers. But life is definitely much more than that.
Sometimes we spend so much time studying that we forget how to make life wonderful. In doing so, we lose the real purpose of life —to be a valuable and happy person. To enjoy just how great it is to be alive, we have to put down our books and pens and look around us. Students, take some exercise to improve your health, talk with your parents and friends for understanding and walk around outside to refresh（振作）our body and mind.
Going out and enjoying the beautiful countryside often helps our creativity in our work. Chinese craftsman, Lu Ban created a saw to help woodworkers. But if he hadn’t walked outside, he would not have been inspired by a kind of toothed（锯齿状的）grass. We could also suppose if Newton hadn’t rested under that apple tree, then he wouldn’t have been hit by an apple, and his classic（经典的）theories would not have come out.
Going out is not only a break from hard work, but a chance to add to life experience. So come on, give your brain a good rest. Step out of the books and get your bag ready for an autumn outing. We are sure you will get much more than knowledge from the exciting journey.
1. In which paragraph does the writer make a summary about his opinion?| A．Paragraph 1. | B．Paragraph 2. |
| C．Paragraph 4. | D．Paragraph 5. |
| A．They are unhappy to do so. |
| B．They have too much work to do for getting high marks in the exams. |
| C．Their parents don’t allow them to do so. |
| D．They think study is the most important thing for them. |
| A．describing the beautiful scenery in Autumn |
| B．pointing out the present situation of high school students |
| C．making predictions |
| D．reasoning and giving examples |
| A．Going out can make high school students get more. |
| B．Nature is power. |
| C．All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. |
| D．The author isn’t happy with our education at all. |
7 . Grandma, almost ninety years old, sat weakly on the park bench. She didn’t move. She just sat with her head down staring (凝视) at her hands. When I sat down beside her, she didn’t even notice me. I wondered if she was OK. So I asked her if she was OK. She raised her head, looked at me and said with a smile, “Yes, I’m fine .Thank you for asking me.” “I didn’t mean to disturb you, Grandma, but you were just sitting here staring at your hands and I wanted to make sure you were OK,” I expained to her.
“Have you ever looked at your hands?” She asked “I mean really looking at your hands.” I slowly opened my hands and stared down at them. And then I turned them over. No, I guess I had never really looked at my hands as I tried to figure out the point my grandma was making. Grandma smiled and told me the following story, “My hands put food in my mouth and clothes on my back. They tied my shoes and pulled on my boots. They held my husband and wiped my tears when he went off to war. They were uneasy when I tried to hold my newborn son. Decorated with my wedding band, they showed the world that I was married and loved someone special. They wrote my letters to him and shook when I buried my parents. They held my children and grandchildren and comforted my neighbors. They covered my face ,combed (梳) my hair and washed the rest of my body. These hands are the mark of where I’ve been and the ruggedness (崎岖) of life.”
I never look at my hands the same again. When my hands are hurt or when I touch the faces of my children and my husband, I think of my grandma. I know I can also create a bright future using my hands.
1. The writer disturbed her grandma in order to know ________.| A．what she was doing | B．whether she understood the writer |
| C．why she was staring at her hands | D．if there was something wrong with her |
| A．The writer had hardly seen such weak hands. |
| B．The writer had seldom stared at her hands before. |
| C．The writer had never realized the importance of hands before. |
| D．The writer couldn’t figure out the secret of her grandma’s weak hands. |
| A．She is fond of telling stories. |
| B．She treats others in a caring and helpful way. |
| C．She loves telling stories in an interesting way. |
| D．She prefers to talk with others about her friend. |
| A．She couldn’t do anything as a result of her weak hands. |
| B．She lived a poor life without any help of technology. |
| C．She felt very tired when dealing with life with her weak hands. |
| D．She managed to go through many difficulties with her weak hands. |
8 . A Writing Fool
In the seventh grade I realized I was dyslexic, which made it difficult for me to read and spell. I did really badly in my history course, so my mother said to me, “I’ll work with you for a full week. I’m going to show you what you can do if you put in the right amount of effort.” So we did. We worked on history for a full week, an extra hour every day. Then I went to school and failed the test, as always. It was really upsetting.
By the time I got to college I came to know that I couldn’t spell no matter how hard I tried. So I would sign up for extra courses. I’d be in registration lines all day. Then I would go around the first day of class and ask each professor: “What’s your policy on misspelling?” If he said, “Three misspellings is a fail,” I’d drop it.
Although I was an academic failure, I had a great time. I had many friends and I was always popular. I was a good football player, which was important in those years because I could read my name in the newspaper. I never had a day when I would think, “People don’t like me.”
In spite of my obvious weaknesses, I became successful in my career, so much so that people say to me, “So you’ve overcome dyslexia.” No. I don’t overcome it. I just learn to compensate for it. Some easy things are hard for me. Most people read 500 words a minute. I only read 200. I try not to dial a phone because I sometimes have to dial three times to get the number right. I owe my successful career to my writing instructor, Ralph Salisbury. He looked past my misspellings and gave me encouragement. So I always feel confident. When I write my books, I’m seeing everything in my imagination. I write quickly and go like the wind.
The real fear that I have for dyslexic people is not that they have to struggle with their reading skills or that they can’t spell correctly, but that they will quit on themselves before they get out of school.
1. When the author did badly in the course, his mother thought that .| A．he needed a better teacher |
| B．he did not work hard enough |
| C．he was probably too ill to study |
| D．he was not as smart as other children |
| A．choose most interesting courses |
| B．become friends with new classmates |
| C．stay distance from language teachers |
| D．avoid courses that require correct spelling |
| A．Happy and active. |
| B．Shy and unhappy. |
| C．Successful and funny. |
| D．Quiet and unsuccessful. |
| A．not to get out of school |
| B．not to give up so easily |
| C．to learn to spell correctly |
| D．to develop reading skills |
9 . Failing Successfully
Two years ago I took part in a speech competition and delivered a memorized speech. It was a hard time for me when the judge
After not being placed in the competition, I really wanted to
The next year I participated in the competition again. I gave my
I was deeply disappointed, since I couldn’t accept the fact that I had
While I didn’t earn
| A．interviewed | B．predicted | C．observed | D．announced |
| A．compete | B．suffer | C．win | D．check |
| A．range | B．condition | C．system | D．process |
| A．companion | B．audience | C．director | D．author |
| A．reviewing | B．supposing | C．picking | D．comparing |
| A．during | B．against | C．behind | D．through |
| A．increase | B．occur | C．expose | D．flow |
| A．choice | B．instruction | C．reason | D．speech |
| A．annoying | B．surprising | C．frightening | D．confusing |
| A．slowed | B．dropped | C．went | D．rolled |
| A．Angrily | B．Sadly | C．Strangely | D．Eagerly |
| A．placed | B．treated | C．settled | D．affected |
| A．decreased | B．escaped | C．struggled | D．failed |
| A．flexible | B．typical | C．appropriate | D．normal |
| A．but | B．so | C．for | D．or |
| A．assume | B．declare | C．overcome | D．acquire |
| A．awards | B．profits | C．comments | D．qualities |
| A．continue | B．agree | C．regret | D．apply |
| A．allow | B．inform | C．accuse | D．remind |
| A．fall | B．push | C．kick | D．walk |
10 . It was Mother’s Day and I was shopping at the local supermarket with my five-year-old son, Tenyson. As we were
By now medical staff had arrived, and were
The man bent down and gave his wife the flower, telling her who it was from.
| A．stopping | B．driving | C．moving | D．leaving |
| A．elderly | B．awful | C．honest | D．injured |
| A．The seller | B．My son | C．The crowd | D．Her husband |
| A．Fortunately | B．Particularly | C．Interestingly | D．Importantly |
| A．If | B．Since | C．Unless | D．While |
| A．guilty | B．curious | C．worried | D．angry |
| A．shouted | B．lied | C．said | D．answered |
| A．no one | B．everyone | C．someone | D．anyone |
| A．buy | B．bring | C．leave | D．lend |
| A．concerned | B．shocked | C．puzzled | D．amazed |
| A．wise | B．innocent . | C．sweet | D．crazy |
| A．which | B．what | C．when | D．whether |
| A．must not | B．needn’t | C．may not | D．can’t |
| A．scene | B．deed | C．flower | D．habit |
| A．checking with | B．praying for | C．operating on | D．looking after |
| A．about | B．to | C．with | D．from |
| A．wonderful | B．cheerful | C．successful | D．respectful |
| A．Out of | B．Regardless of | C．Thanks to | D．As to |
| A．pity | B．hope | C．love | D．pain |
| A．smile | B．money | C．idea | D．comfort |
