1 . 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。

When I was very young, Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei     1     (send) into Earth orbit. My mother told me Yang is a national hero. I have been     2     (increasing) interested in space travel ever since. By     3     (read) books about space science, I have learned     4     (much) about space travel such as the space station, space shuttles and moon landing. We Chinese people have the Chinese Dream. As part of it, my dream is     5     (become) an astronaut and to land on     6    moon. When I described my dream to my teacher, he gave me his     7     (advise): I should work hard by spending more time and energy     8    maths and science. And     9    is the most important is that I should develop courage and endurance. Following these instructions, I will redouble my efforts to realize     10     (me) dream.

2 . 学校将要举行演讲比赛，请以My Dream为题写一篇参赛演讲稿。注意：1.文中不能出现真实姓名和学校； 2.词数：80词左右；3. 开头已经给出，不计入总词数。
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3 . Things to do when you aren’t hopeful about anything

You dream. You work hard. But often those expectations are not met. You don’t achieve your goals. Life seems so unfair when you do everything you can and still don’t get the desired results. You don’t want to do anything. You feel hopeless about everything in your life. What’s next?     1     Or should you hold on to hope? Here are several things to do to bring yourself back on track when you aren’t hopeful about anything in your life.

Don’t focus too much on controlling everything. Many external (外部的) factors affect your life and you can’t control everything. Worrying about things you can’t control isn’t going to help. The desire to control every situation only exhausts you completely.     2    

Avoid coming to conclusions too soon. We are sometimes too quick to judge the situation before it even unfolds completely.     3     Things aren’t as bad most of the times. You just need to take a step back and reflect on your thoughts.

    4     Hope is an amazing feeling that lifts your life. Never stop tr find an opportunity to improve your life. There is always an option. You just need to open yourself to it. And for that, you need to have hope. Hope motivates you, fuels you to keep working on your goals no matter what.     5    

A．Should you just drop everything and give up?

B．Allow yourself to open up to endless possibilities.

C．Wait before forming an opinion about a particular situation.

D．Are you upset about a particular situation not going your way?

E．Concentrate on what you can control or improve and forget about the rest.

F．Believing in yourself and hoping for the best makes a huge difference.

G．It makes you believe in yourself and ensures that your hard work will actually pay off.

4 . We’ve all experienced failure. Whether we like it or not, failure is part of life. How people respond to it is of great importance both to their decisions and achievements. Some are likely to have such expectations: “If I should reach that goal, how happy would I feel?” In a recent study, we wanted to understand how such expectations may change in the face of failure. Are people able to predict their own happiness?

The old saying “the grass is always greener on the other side” suggests that people spend much of their time longing for things they can’t have. In other words, the harder it is to achieve, the higher the valuation. But is this a good model for how ordinary people process failure? According to the story The Fox and the Grapes, failure often leads us to drop our initial (最初的) plan. In the story, the fox jumps with all his strength, yet he fails to reach the grapes. Finally, he walks away, concluding that the grapes were sour (酸的) anyway.

So, which is it: greener grass or sour grapes? We did an experiment to determine how people react to failure.

In the study, about 1,200 participants (参加者) received either good or poor feedback (反馈) on the practice trial of a test. Half of them were told that they had performed in the bottom 20 percent, while the other half, in the top 20 percent. They were then asked to predict how they would feel if they earned a high score on the actual test.

The research results showed that those who received poor feedback on the practice trial predicted that they would feel less happiness and less pride, compared to those who received strong feedback. However, when they received a top score on the actual test later, they were just as happy as the other half, and much happier than they had predicted before. This suggests that the initial failure made people undervalue how good it would feel to succeed in the future.

The question though, is why failure makes us downplay our future happiness. According to Professor Jon Elster, people don’t always know what they want, and often change their wishes to match what appears within reach. When the outcome doesn’t fit the one they have of themselves, they protect themselves by devaluing the goal—rather than devaluing self. In other words, when personal failure happens, one way of protecting our positive (积极的) sense of self is to refuse to accept the emotional importance of future achievements.

Detachment (超脱) from personal goals can be useful, if it helps people redirect their attention from the impossible to better and more achievable goals. However, if the sour-grape effect kicks in too early and people become fearful of failure, they could miss out on the chance to try again and realize that what once seemed impossible is now within reach.

1. What does the story The Fox and the Grapes suggest?

A．The outcome valuation depends on what goal is set.

B．Difficulties result in a higher achievement expectation.

C．Past performance doesn’t help predict future happiness.

D．Initial failure makes future success appear less attractive.

2. The word “downplay” in Paragraph 6 probably means “________”.

A．undervalue

B．better understand

C．destroy

D．discover

3. What do we know from the passage?

A．The participants cared more about strong feedback.

B．The happier people are those who predict less happiness.

C．The participants’ performance failed to match their abilities.

D．People devalue the goal to keep a positive view of themselves.

4. What is the writer trying to tell us?

A．Failure is the mother of success.

B．Detachment stops people from changing wishes.

C．The seemingly impossible is worth trying sometimes.

D．The sour-grape effect pushes us to keep moving forward.