One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest
fault. It’s like looking at the tiled (铺瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is 1
Once I heard a bald man said, “whenever I enter a room 2 I see is hair.” Once you’ve 3
what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will 4 make you happy. Then do one of the
three things: get it, replace it with a different 5 , or forget about it and 6 the tiles in your life that
are not missing.
We all know people who have a relatively 7 life, yet are essentially unhappy while people who
have suffered a great deal but 8 remain happy.
The first 9 is gratitude. All happy people are 10 . Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We
tend to think that being unhappy leads people to 11 , but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to
people becoming unhappy.
The second secret is 12 that happiness is a byproduct (副产品) of something else. The most
obvious 13 are those pursuit (追求) that give our lives purpose - anything 14 studying insects to
playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are 15 to experience.
Finally, the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our 16 has some larger
meaning can help us to feel happier. We 17 a spiritual faith, or a philosophy, it should 18 this truth:
if you choose to find the 19 in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful,
you will be cursed. As with happiness itself, this is 20 your decision to make. |
( ) 1. A. different
( ) 2. A. nothing
( ) 3. A. determined
( ) 4. A. completely
( ) 5. A. tile
( ) 6. A. look on
( ) 7. A. peaceful
( ) 8. A. certainly
( ) 9. A. secret
( )10. A. wealthy
( )11. A. upset
( )12. A. admitted
( )13. A. sources
( )14. A. among
( )15. A. probable
( )16. A. value
( )17. A. need
( )18. A. involve
( )19. A. worst
( )20. A. absolutely | B. missing
B. none
B. predicted
B. naturally
B. brick
B. focus on
B. difficult
B. merely
B. factor
B. grateful
B. quarrel
B. assuming
B. results
B. from
B. possible
B. destination
B. lack
B. include
B. best
B. totally | C. short
C. all
C. assumed
C. hopefully
C. ceiling
C. count on
C. easy
C. hardly
C. rule
C. proud
C. complain
C. proving
C. answers
C. through
C. likely
C. survival
C. demand
C. absorb
C. positive
C. exactly | D. broken
D. anything
D. imagined
D. really
D. house
D. focus on
D. ordinary
D. generally
D. key
D. generous
D. depress
D. realizing
D. goals
D. for
D. capable
D. existence
D. expect
D. mean
D. negative
D. largely |
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核心考点
试题【完形填空。 One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and 】；主要考察你对 题材分类等知识点的理解。 [详细]举一反三
| 短文填空. | Mr Smith offers us some advice on how to write a good composition , whichi
_______ the following steps.
l.___________
Firstly,we should read the topic c_______ and organize our ideas.
2.___________
Then we start to shape our thoughts __________our own words and finish
3.___________
our writingin theg__________time. After that . wehave tocheckour
4.__________
compositions , payingattentionto _________ (语法) andspelling.Itis very
5.__________
important to read them aloud to ____________(自己 ) or someone else from
6. __________
_____________ to end. Lastly, we had better ask our teachers or classmates for
7. __________
advice on how to improve our writing. If ________(可能) , we may leave
8. __________
them alone for some time before reading again, ___________ will help a
9. __________
a great deal. I hope you will b_______a lot from the advice above.
10.___________
| | 完形填空 | It was pouring outside. We all stood there__1__, some patiently,others annoyed _2_ nature messed up
their hurried day. I got lost in the sound and sight of the heavens 3 away the dirtand dust of the world.
" Mom , let"s run through the rain , " a girl"s voice 4 me.
" No, honey. We"lI wait until it 5 down a bit, " Mom replied.
The young girl waited about another minute and 6 , " Mom, let"s run through the rain. "
" We " lI get wet if we do, " Mom said.
" No , we won " t , Mom. That " s not what you said this morning, " the young girl said as she 7
her Mom " s arm.
" This morning? 8 did I say we could run through the rain and not get wet?"
" Don" t you remember? When you were talking to Daddy about his cancer,you said, "If God can get
us through this, he can get us through 9 . " "
The entire crowd turned 10 . Mom paused and thought for a moment about ll she would say. Now
some would laugh it off and scold her for being 12 . But then we heard , " Honey,you are 13 . Let"
s run through the rain. If we get wet, maybe we just need washing , " Mom said. Then 14 they ran.
We all stood 15 ,smiling and laughing as they ran past the cars. Yes, they got wet. But they were 16 by a few who screamed and laughed like children all the 17 to their cars. Circumstances or people
can take away your material possessions, and they can even take away your 18 . But no one can ever
take away your precious 19 . So, don"t forget to make time and take the 20 to make memories every day! I hope you still take the time to run through the rain. | ( )1. A. chatting
( )2. A. although
( )3. A. keeping
( )4. A. caught
( )5. A. slows
( )6. A. asked
( )7. A. pulled
( )8. A. Why
( )9. A. everything
( )10. A. still
( )11. A. what
( )12. A. naughty
( )13. A. right
( )14. A. off
( )15. A. sighing
( )16. A. followed
( )17. A. time
( )18. A. sense
( )19. A. children
( )20. A. possibilities | B. waiting
B. while
B. putting
B. annoyed
B. comes
B. repeated
B. touched
B. How
B. nothing
B. silent
B. how
B. silly
B. wrong
B. along
B. joking
B. stopped
B. way
B. confidence
B. memories
B. opportunities | C. complaining
C. because
C. driving
C. impressed
C. falls
C. required
C. waved
C. When
C. anything
C. serious
C. whether
C. daring
C. stupid
C. on
C. discussing
C. respected
C. same
C. health
C. courage
C. risk | D. talking
D. when
D. washing
D. reminded
D. stops
D. added
D. held
D. Where
D. something
D. happy
D. if
D. dishonest
D. clever
D. over
D. watching
D. scomed
D. best
D. time
D. experience
D. challenge | | 阅读理解 | I arrived at my mother"s home for our Monday family dinner. The smells of food flew over from the
kitchen. Mother was pulling out quilt after quilt from the boxes,proudly showing me their beauties.She
was preparing for a quilt show at the Elmhurst Church. When we began to fold and put them back into
the boxes,l noticed something at the bottom of one box. I pulled it out. " What is this?"I asked.
" Oh? " Mom said , " That"s Mama"s quilt. "
I spread the quilt. It looked as if a group of school children had pieced it together:irregular designs ,
childish pictures , a crooked line on the right.
"Grandmother made this?" I said, surprised. My grandmother was a master at making quilts. This
certainly didn " t look like any of the quilts she had made.
" Yes , right before she died,l brought it home with me last year and made some changes, "she said. "I"m still working on it. See, this is what I" ve done so far. "
I looked at it more closely. She had made straight a crooked line. At the center of the quilt, she had
stitched(缝) a piece of cloth with these words : "My mother made many quilts. She didn"t get all lines
straight. But l think this is beautiful. I want to see it finished. Her last quilt. "
" Oh, this is so nice, Mom, " I said. It occurred to me that by completing my grandmother" s quilt,
my mother was honoring her own mother. I realized. too, that I held in my hands a family
treasure. It started with the loving hands of one woman, and continued with the loving hands of another. | | 1. Why did the author go to her mother"s home?_________ | A. To see her mother"s quilts.
B. To help prepare for a show.
C. To get together for the family dinner.
D. To discuss her grandmother"s life. | | 2. The author was surprised because__________. | A. the quilt looked very strange
B. her grandmother liked the quilt
C. the quilt was the best she had seen
D. her mother had made some changes | | 3. The underlined word "crooked" in the passage most probably means__________. | A. unfinished
B. broken
C. bent
D. unusual | | 4. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?_________ | A. A Quilt Show
B. Mother"s Home
C. A Monday Dinner
D. Grandmother"s Quilt | 语法填空
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在标号为1~10的相应位置上.
Jane was walking round the department store. She remembered how difficult 1 was to choose a
suitable Christmas present for her father. She wished that he was as easy 2 ( please) as her mother ,
who was always delighted with perfume.
Besides,shopping at this time of the year was not 3 pleasant experience: people stepped on your feet
or 4 ( push) you with their elbows(肘部) ,hurrying ahead to get to a bargain.
Jane paused in front of a counter 5 some attractive ties were on display. " They are real silk , " the
assistant tried to attract her. "Worth double the price. " But Jane knew from past experience that her
6 (choose) of ties hardly ever pleased her father. Jane stopped where a small crowd of men had
gathered. She found some good quality pipes 7 sale. She did not hesitate for long : although her
father smoked a pipe only once in a while, she knew that this was a present which was bound to please 8 .
When Jane got home , with her small but well-chosen present in her bag, her parents were already
9 table having supper. Her mother was excited. "Your father has at last decided to stop smoking , "
Jane 10 ( inform) . | | 完形填空. | John stood up and studied the crowd of people who making their way through the
station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew ,but whose face he 1 ,the girl
with a (an) _2 . The story had begun twelve months before in a 3 . Taking a book
off a shelf he found himself 4 by the notes penciled in the margin (空白处 ,白边) .
The soft handwriting 5 a thoughtful soul and insightful mind. In the front of the book,
he discovered the 6 owner"s name , Rosanna.
During the next year the two grew to know each other through the 7 . Each letter
was a seed falling on a fertile heart. The day finally came for their first 8 7 :00 pm
at the station.
A beautiful young girl in a green suit was coming toward him,whose 9 was( were)
tall and slim. John started to walk towards her with delight, entirely forgetting to 10 that
she was not wearing a rose. He 11 made one step closer to her, and then saw
Rosanna,a short and fat woman well past 40 , with a rose on her coat was standing almost
directly 12 the girl. The girl in the green suit quickly walked away.
John felt 13 he was split (撇开) in two, and there she stood. His fingers gripped
the wom leather copy of the 14 that was to identify him to her. He knew this would
not be 15 . something perhaps even better than love. John felt choked by the bittemess
of his 16 . "I"m John, and you must be Rosanna. I am so glad you could meet me,may
I take you to 17 ?"
The woman"s face broadened into a big smile. "I don"t know what this is about, son,
" she answered, " but the young lady in the green suit who just 18 begged me to wear
this rose on my coat. And she said 19 you were to ask me out to dinner,l should tell you
that she is waiting for you in the big 20 across the street. She said it was some kind
of test ! " |
( )1. A. hadn"t
( )2. A. rose
( )3. A. restaurant
( )4. A. absorbed
( )5 . A. reacted
( )6. A. previous
( )7. A. phone
( )8. A. dining
( )9. A. legs
( )10. A. observe
( )11 .A.carefully
( )12. A. behind
( )13. A. as long as
( )14. A. newspaper
( )15. A. a meeting
( )16. A. excitement
( )17. A. a walk
( )18. A. went by
( )19. A. when
( )20. A. market
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B. haven"t
B. flower
B. meeting room
B. surrounded
B. reflected
B. nice
B. telegram
B. meeting
B. face
B. conclude
B.eagerly
B. past
B. even though
B. book
B. happiness
B. sorrow
B. your home
B. followed me
B. if
B. restaurant
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C. couldn"t
C. book
C. library
C. interested
C. responded
C. thoughtful
C. book
C. walking
C. figure
C. notice
C. luckily
C. beside
C. no matter how
C. magazine
C. love
C. disappointment
C. a party
C. came here
C. unless
C. building
| D. didn"t
D. notes
D. station
D. burdened
D. repeated
D. beautiful
D. mail
D. talking
D. hair
D. say
D.easily
D. before
D. as though
D. note
D. a dinner
D. unwillingness
D. dinner
D. went in the restaurant
D. since
D. library
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