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playing outside.
"Look at what I found in Ms.Lee"s office." Karen 1 a small box filled with pieces of chalk in
every color of the rainbow.
"Wow! What fun it would be to write on the 2 " Judy"s eyes shone with joy. "But Ms.Lee
doesn"t let us do so," I responded."Don"t be 3 , Janet.No one will ever know," said Karen, 4 into
the box and drawing out some chalk.I 5 joined my friends in the artwork.However, I found it was
funi Next we were
6 the clock all the time in case 7 walked in.
Then it struck Judy that we should 8 each other to writing names with our left hands.Picking up
their chalk, they started.I chose a white piece.My 9 was a bit shaky, but no one would 10 that it
said "Janet".
"Better get this board cleaned off now," said Judy, erasing our handwork.Everything 11 ...but my
name! In 12 , I was sweating and I felt my knees 13 It wasn"t chalk at all, but a white piece of crayon
on closer 14 .Mom had a saying: "Fools" names and faces always 15 in public." I never understood
16 what it meant before.Now I did!
I rushed to the toilet to get a can of cleanser while Judy tried with 17 paper towels.After rubbing
hard, my name was gone, but an abrasion (磨损处) remained on the board.
Hearing footsteps coming, we 18 the area as much as we could to remove every tell-tale trace
of wetness.We were just slipping into our desks 19 the teacher walked in.Perhaps Ms.Lee never
noticed the abrasion.But I did.
Now I still remember the lesson I learned that day."No one will ever know" is never 20 .To me,
living with a guilty conscience is punishment enough.
| ( ) 1. A. carried out ( ) 2. A. chalkboard ( ) 3. A. shy ( ) 4. A. putting ( ) 5. A. unwillingly ( ) 6. A. seeing ( ) 7. A. anyone ( ) 8. A. challenge ( ) 9. A. arm ( )10. A. recognize ( )11. A. cleaned off ( )12. A. anger ( )13. A. tired ( )14. A. notice ( )15. A. appear ( )16. A. mostly ( )17. A. thin ( )18. A. erased ( )19. A. before ( )20. A. true | B. held up B. wall B. embarrassed B. opening B. happily B. looking B. no one B. fight B. handwriting B. doubt B. came off B. prayer B. nervous B. thought B. mark B. quickly B. wet B. spread B. after B. reasonable | C. called up C. box C. chicken C. reaching C. luckily C. observing C. everyone C. compare C. chalk C. realize C. cleared off C. disbelief C. frightened C. examination C. exist C. carefully C. thick C. dried C. since C. fair | D. made out D. table D. bored D. getting D. readily D. eying D. someone D. check D. heart D. tell D. took off D. vain D. weak D. touch D. change D. fully D. useful D. covered D. when D. acceptable | ||||||
| 1-5: BACCA 6-10: DDABB 11-15: BCDCA 16-20: DBCDA | |||||||||
| 阅读理解。 | |||||||||
| About 10 years ago, I started a job as a trainer for a telemarketing agency. In one of my first classes, the head trainer told a very inspiring story. He began by drawing a stickman standing in the middle of a circle. To make it more interesting, he drew things like a house, a car, and a few friends inside the circle. He asked the question, "Can anyone tell me what this is?" In a long silence, one guy decided to throw out "the world?" The trainer said, "That"s close and this is your Comfort Zone. Inside your circle you have all the things that are important to you. " "Your home, your family, your friends, and your job. People feel that inside this circle they are safe from any danger or conflict. " "Can anyone tell me what happens when you step out of this circle?" A strong silence came over the room. The same eager guy abruptly announced, "You are afraid. " Another guy said, "You make mistakes. " The silence continued and the trainer smiled and said, "When you make mistakes, what can the result be?" The first guy shouted, "You learn something. " "Exactly, you are learning. " The trainer turned to the board and drew an arrow pointing from the stickman directly to the outside of the circle. He continued to say, "When you leave your Comfort Zone you put yourself out there, in front of the world to be in situations that you are not comfortable with. " "The end result is that you have learned something that you did not know and you expand your knowledge to become a better person. " He turned again to the board and drew a bigger circle around the original circle, and added a few new things like more friends, a bigger house, etc. "The moral of the story is that if you stay inside your Comfort Zone, you will never be able to expand your horizons and learn. When you step out of your Comfort Zone you will eventually make your circle bigger and your mind grow stronger, and all in all a better person. " | |||||||||
| 1. According to the passage, the Comfort Zone is ______. | |||||||||
| A. a place where we can enjoy a lot of amusement B. a person who can offer us some comfort and protect us C. a state in which we feel all safe and right with the world D. a circle which we don"t dare to get out of | |||||||||
| 2. Which of the following statements is TRUE? | |||||||||
| A. If we move beyond the Comfort Zone, our anxiety level will go up. B. When we step out of the Comfort Zone, we must feel excited. C. We don"t need to leave our Comfort Zone if we really want to grow. D. We are all still in our Comfort Zone when making new friends. | |||||||||
| 3. Why does the author tell us the story? | |||||||||
| A. To build up our interpersonal skills. B. To make us work better as a team. C. To provide us some working activities. D. To motivate us to step out for a better world. | |||||||||
| 阅读理解。 | |||||||||
| As women in the rich Asian country have become better educated, with five times as many now getting advanced degrees as in 1995, they have also become choosier and are less likely to settle for the role of gentle wife traditionally expected of Korean women. "I heard if you are a female with master"s degree, it is much harder to arrange a meeting than if you have a bachelor"s degree because of an unfavorable concept "too smart women" here," said King, a college senior in Seoul. The age at which Korean women are getting hitched has risen by an average 4. 1 years over the past 20 years to 28. 9 years, according to Statistics Korea, and that has created worried mothers getting things rolling for their daughters. "My daughter is in her early 30"s, an age considered late for marriage here", said a woman who took her daughter to a match-making agency in Seoul. "If she does not find her match this year, it will be much more difficult to marry in the coming years. So I went to the firm with her and made her join. " At DUO, a matchmaking firm, its 26, 000 members can choose between five different membership programs with fees from 1. 08 million won( 韩元)($971) to 8. 8 million won. To attract more customers, the site displays the average annual income of its male and female customers, as well as their professional standing. "In a privately set-up blind date, you cannot be entirely sure of how much of personal information given to you is accurate," said DUO spokesman Yon Jun. Critics say the industry focuses more on income and status. Some of them have coined the phrase "employage" to sum up employment and marriage. "If your father works in the financial industry or is a high-ranking administrator, maybe you will find your match with similar backgrounds through a matchmaking firm, starting a perfect marriage on the back of parental support," said comedian Quan. | |||||||||
| 1. The underlined word "hitched" in Paragraph 3 probably means ______. | |||||||||
| A. employed B. married C. educated D. worried | |||||||||
| 2. What leads to the embarrassing state for Korean women in matchmaking is that . | |||||||||
| A. they don"t want to be gentle any more B. most of them are not in good shape C. they have a much higher education D. matchmaking agencies pushed them too hard | |||||||||
| 3. From the passage, we can conclude that . | |||||||||
| A. all the perfect marriages result from good backgrounds B. blind date can help you get more accurate personal information C. mothers are more worried about themselves than their daughters D. twenty years ago, girls averaged less than 25 when they were married | |||||||||
| 4. Why do some people invent the word "employage"? Because . | |||||||||
| A. they like the special way that matchmaking is arranged B. the matchmaking firm pays more attention to money and status C. mothers are more worried about their daughters in marriage D. young women prefer personal information to profession | |||||||||
| 完形填空。 | |||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||
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