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Warmth rushed through my soul．I suddenly found the sun shining again when I stepped out of his office． With the teacher’s help, I eventually got over my depression．From then on, I no longer bowed my head and began smiling to my classmates．I would put up my hand confidently in class and play with my new friends in my spare time．Meanwhile, I was gradually embraced by my classmates．
Now faced with fierce competition, we all study hard because we know that every second counts．Moreover, there is an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect between us．I love my class; I love my classmates!
To be frank, I still have a thirst for my dream university, but I’m not afraid of failure because I can profit by it．With parents and teachers’ encouragement, I’m quite certain of my success and I’m sure I can fly high． 1．Why was the writer in low spirits at the beginning? （No more than 10 words）
____________________________________________________________ ____________ 2．What did the teacher expect the writer to do? （No more than 10 words）
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3．What is the main idea of Paragraph 5? （No more than 15 words）
____________________________________________________________ ____________ 4．What will you do if you are faced with failure? （No more than 20 words）
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Passage3
What is the secret ingredient of tough people that enables them to succeed? Why do they survive the tough times when others are overcome by them? Why do they win when others lose? Why do they soar when others sink?
The answer is very simple. It's all in how they sense their problems. Yes, every living person has problems. A problem-free life is an illusion — a mirage（海市蜃楼） in the desert. Then accept that fact.
Every mountain has a peak. Every valley has its low point. Life has its ups and downs, its peaks and its valleys. No one is up all the time, nor are they down all the time. Problems do end. They are all resolved in time.
You may not be able to control the times, but you can compose your response. You can turn your pain into profanity — or into poetry. The choice is up to you. You may not have chosen your tough time, but you can choose how you will react to it.
The positive solution to a problem may require courage to do it. When you control your reaction to the
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seemingly uncontrollable problem of life, then in fact you do control the problem’s effect on you. Your reaction to the problem is the last word! That’s the bottom line. What will you let this problem do to you? It can make you tender or tough. It can make you better or bitter. It all depends on you.
In the final analysis, the tough people who survive the tough times do so because they've chosen to react positively to their dilemma. Tough times never last, but tough people do. Tough people stick it out. History teaches us that every problem has a lifespan. 1. What is the life of illusion? (no more than 5 words)
2. Find a sentence which has the same meaning with the underlined sentence. (no more than 4 words) 3. What is the secret to enable people to succeed? (no more than 9 words)
4. What is the best title of this text? (no more than 4 words)
Passage 4
Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it;the price is a secondary consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it, and the business of trying it on proceeds at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone’s satisfaction. For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies,tries to sell the customer something else, he offers the nearest he can to the article required. No good salesman brings out such a substitute without least consideration; he does so with skill and polish, ―I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the color you mentioned.‖ Few men have patience with
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this treatment, and the usual response is, ―This is the right color and maybe the right size but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.‖? Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only ―having a look round‖. She is always open to persuasion: indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary to a lot of jokes , most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lookout for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one room to another, to and fro often retracing her steps, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a tiresome process, but apparently an enjoyable one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.?
1. What does a man usually do when he is buying clothes?（no more than 15 words）
_____________________________________________________________________ __________ 2.What does the passage tell us about women shoppers for clothes?（no more than 6 words）
__________________________________________________________________ _____________ 3. What does a man do when he can not get exactly what he wants?（no more than 6 words）?
___________________________________________________________________ ____________ 4.What is the most obvious difference between men and women shoppers?（no more than 8 words）?
Passage5
Freda Bright says, “Only in opera do people die of love.‖ It’s true. You really can’t love somebody to death. I’ve known people to die from no love, but I’ve never known anyone to be loved to death. We just can’t love one another enough.
A heart-warming story tells of a woman who finally decided to ask her boss for a raise in salary. All day she felt nervous and apprehensive. Late in the afternoon she summoned(鼓起)the courage to approach her employer. To her delight, the boss agreed to a raise.
The woman arrived home that evening to a beautiful table set with their best dishes. Candles were softly glowing. Her husband had come home early and prepared a festive meal. She wondered if someone from the office had tipped him off, or…did he just somehow know that she would not get turned down?
She found him in the kitchen and told him the good news. They embraced and kissed, then sat down to the wonderful meal. Next to her plate the woman found a beautifully lettered note. It read: ―Congratulations, darling! I
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knew you’d get the raise! These things will tell you how much I love you.‖
Following the supper, her husband went into the kitchen to clean up. She noticed that a second card had fallen from his pocket. Picking it off the floor, she read: ―Don’t worry about not getting the raise! You deserve it anyway! These things will tell you how much I love you.‖
Someone has said that the measure of love is when you love without measure. What this man feels for his wife is total acceptance and love, whether she succeeds or fails. His love celebrates her victories and soothes her wounds. He stands with her, no matter what life throws in their direction.
Upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Mother Teresa said: ―What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.‖ And love your friends. Love them without measure.
1. How did the woman feel when she decided to ask her boss for a higher salary？(no more than 3 words) ____________________________________________________________ _____________ 2. According to the passage, how do you understand the underlined sentence in the first paragraph? (no more than 8 words)
____________________________________________________________ _____________ 3. What is the best title of this passage？(no more than 4 words)
____________________________________________________________ _____________ 4. Please use several words to describe the husband’s personalities. (no more than 4 words)
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Passage 6
Two similar-sounding English words caused trouble for a man who wanted to fly from Los Angeles to Oakland, California. His problems began at the airport in Los Angeles. He thought he heard his flight announced, so he walked to the gate, showed his ticket, and got on the plane. After flying for twenty minutes, the man began to worry. Oakland was north of Los Angeles, but the plane seemed to be heading west, and when he looked out his window all he could see was ocean. \服务员). The flight attendant was shocked. \
English is not the only language with similar-sounding words. Other languages, too, have words that can cause mistakes, especially for foreigners.
Auckland and Oakland. When similar-sounding words cause a mistake, probably the best thing to do is just laugh and learn from it. Of course, sometimes it's hard to laugh. The man who traveled to Auckland instead of Oakland didn't feel like laughing. But even that mistake turned out all right in the end. The airline (航空公司) paid for the man's hotel room and meals in New Zealand and for his flight back to California. \
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said, \
1. When did the man realize something was wrong?(No more than 10 words)
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2. What is one proper way to deal with a mistake caused by similar-soundings words according to the paasage? (No more than 7 words)
____________________________________________________________ ____________ 3. What does the sentence ―Oh well, I always wanted to see New Zealand‖ may reflect?(No more than 6 words) ____________________________________________________________ ____________ 4. What is the passage mainly about?(No more than 8 words)
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Passage7
The world economy is slowly recovering from the global economic downturn but the comeback has been shadowed by the debt crisis in Europe. The Shanghai World Expo, which opened at a time when the extravaganza（n.盛会) provides an opportunity for countries to recover from the economic nightmare, is expected to build confidence in restoring the world economy.
Faith in the global economy also reflects in the actions of countries around the world. As one of the first countries to confirm participation in the Shanghai Expo, Chile decided to build a pavilion of its own instead of renting one as originally planned. That action came even though Chile was later struck by a strong earthquake. Countries around the world insist on attending the Shanghai Expo because their attendance will boost the world economy, just as the 1933 Chicago World Expo did when the United States was struggling in the worst economic crisis in its history. The US was still in the Great Depression at that time with numerous banks closed and the jobless rate up to as high as 25 percent of the country's workers. But also that year, the Chicago World Expo, named ―A Century of Progress ‖ officially opened. The Chicago fair, the first to have its own theme, established America's leading position in science and technology and also forecast the quick recovery of the US economy.
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