We convince ourselves that life will be better once we are married, have a baby, then another. Then we get frustrated because our children are not old enough, and that __1__ will be well when they are older. Then we are frustrated __2__ they reach adolescence and we must deal with them. Surely we’ll be __3__ when they grow out of the teen years.
We tell ourselves our __4__ will be better when our spouse(配偶)gets his/her act together, when we have a nicer car, when we can take a __5__， when we finally retire. The truth is that there is no better time to be happy than __6__.If not, then when? Your life will always be full of challenges. It is better to admit as much and to decide to be happy __7__it all. For the longest time, it seemed that life was about to start—real life.
But there were always some obstacles along the way, an ordeal(苦难) to __8__， some work to be finished, some time to be given, a bill to be __9__.Then life would start. It finally dawned on me that those __10__ were part of life. Little by little, that point of __11__ also helped me see that there isn’t any road to happiness.
Happiness is the road. So, enjoy every moment. And bear in mind that __12__ waits for no one. So stop __13__ school to end, for a return to school, to lose ten pounds, to __14__ ten pounds, for work to begin, to get married，...before deciding to be happy.
Happiness is a voyage, not a destination. There is no __15__ time to be happy than...NOW! Live and enjoy the moment.
| 小题1: | | A．we | B．they | C．all | D．nothing |
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| 小题3: | | A．luckier | B．happier | C．older | D．healthier |
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| 小题4: | | A．life | B．study | C．children | D．condition |
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| 小题5: | | A．rest | B．bath | C．breath | D．vacation |
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| 小题6: | | A．before | B．ever | C．just then | D．right now |
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| 小题7: | | A．instead of | B．in addition to | C．in spite of | D．up to |
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| 小题8: | | A．meet with | B．go ahead | C．turn to | D．get through |
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| 小题9: | | A．paid | B．got | C．asked | D．printed |
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| 小题10: | | A．achievements | B．obstacles | C．duties | D．opinions |
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| 小题11: | | A．view | B．life | C．position | D．condition |
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| 小题12: | | A．happiness | B．time | C．age | D．road |
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| 小题13: | | A．asking for | B．supposing | C．waiting for | D．hoping for |
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| 小题14: | | A．gain | B．reduce | C．weigh | D．enjoy |
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| 小题15: | | A．worse | B．better | C．more | D．less |
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小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:A
小题5:D
小题6:D
小题7:C
小题8:D
小题9:A
小题10:B
小题11:A
小题12:B
小题13:C
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本文论述了在享受幸福时不要期待将来，要把握现在。
小题1:本题考查代词。本句的意思是“当他们大了以后，一切会好起来。” 本题中A项干扰性最大。但根据句意可排除。
小题2:本题考查连词。 前后为因果关系，因此选because。
小题3:本题考查形容词。联系空后的when they grow out of the teen years我们知道，有时我们认为“孩子长大了我们就会更幸福”。
小题4:本题考查名词。联系第一段第一句我们可以得此答案。本题中D项干扰性最大，全文讲述的是生活中的幸福，因此可排除。
小题5:本题考查名词。联系前文的a nicer car 及空后的retire我们知道，人们常盼望有一个假期。
小题6:本题考查副词。现在就是幸福的时刻。本题中A、B均有一定干扰性。联系全文我们知道，作者认为要想幸福，就要把握现在。
小题7:本题考查介词短语。。尽管有这一切，但是要决定享受幸福。本题中A项干扰性最大。instead of 意为“代替”，可排除。
小题8:本题考查动词短语。我们要经历苦难，因此选D项。
小题9:本题考查动词。联系空前的a bill可得出此答案。
小题10:本题考查名词。 联系前文But there were always some obstacles...我们可以得此答案。
小题11:本题考查名词。 point of view为固定搭配，意思是“观点”。
小题12:本题考查名词。联系后文so stop … school to end …可知，作者认为时间不等人。
小题13:本题考查动词。联系空后的to end我们可得此答案。本题中D项有较大干扰性。联系前句 … waits for no one我们可排除。
小题14:本题考查动词。联系空前的to lose ten pounds可以得此答案。本题中B项有较大干扰性。to reduce与前文的to lose 重复，因此可排除。
小题15:本题考查形容词。联系后文Live and enjoy the moment.我们知道，没有哪个时间比现在更能让你享受幸福。 |
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试题【We convince ourselves that life will be better once we are married, have a baby,】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
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Whether we’re 2 years old or 62, our reasons for lying are mostly the same: to get out of trouble, for personal gain and to make ourselves look better in the eyes of others. But a growing body of research is raising questions about how a child’s lie is different from an adult’s lie, and how the way we deceive changes as we grow.
“Parents and teachers who catch their children lying should not be alarmed. Their children are not going to turn out to be abnormal liars,” says Dr. Lee, a professor at the University of Toronto and director of the Institute of Child Study. He has spent the last 15 years studying how lying changes as kids get older, why some people lie more than others as well as which factors can reduce lying. The fact that children tell lies is a sign that they have reached a new developmental stage. Dr. Lee conducted a series of studies in which they bring children into a lab with hidden cameras. Children and young adults aged 2 to 17 are likely to lie while being told not to look at a toy, which is put behind the child’s back. Whether or not the child takes a secret look is caught on tape.
For young kids, the desire to cheat is big and 90% take a secret look in these experiments. When the test-giver returns to the room, the child is asked if he or she looked secretly. At age 2, about a quarter of children will lie and say they didn’t. By 3, half of kids will lie, and by 4, that figure is 90%, studies show.
Researchers have found that it’s kids with better understanding abilities who lie more. That’s because to lie you also have to keep the truth in mind, which includes many brain processes, such as combining several sources of information and faking that information. The ability to lie — and lie successfully — is thought to be related to development of brain regions that allow so called “executive functioning”, or higher order thinking and reasoning abilities. Kids who perform better on tests that involve executive functioning also lie more.
小题1:What’s the purpose of children telling lies?| A．To help their friends out. | | B．To get rid of trouble. | | C．To get attention from others. | | D．To create a popular image. |
小题2:The underlined word “deceive” in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by “ ”.| A．tell lies | B．handle troubles | | C．raise questions | D．do research |
小题3:From the second paragraph we can know that .| A．which factors can reduce lying | | B．why some lie more than others | | C．it is normal for kids to tell lies | | D．how lying changes as kids grow |
小题4:It can be inferred from the passage that .| A．children’s lies are the same as adults’ | | B．the better kids are, the more they lie | | C．the older kids are, the more they lie | | D．kids always keep the truth in their mind |
小题5:What is NOT included in the passage?| A．The reasons why kids tell lies. | | B．Which kind of kids tells more lies. | | C．Experiments about lying of young kids. | | D．What to do with lying children. |
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Shopping is not as simple as you may think! There are all sorts of tricks at play each time we reach out for that particular brand (商标) of product on the shelf.
Colouring, for example, varies according to what the producers are trying to sell. Health foods are packaged (包装) in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colours. Ice cream packets are often blue and expensive goods, like chocolates, are gold or silver.
When some kind of pain killer was brought out recently, researchers found that the colours turned the customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffective. Eventually, it came on the market in a dark blue and white package—blue because we think of it as safe, and white as calm.
The size of a product can attract a shopper. But quite often a bottle doesn’t contain as much as it appears to.
It is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average, 70 per cent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging!
The most successful producers know that it’s not enough to have a good product. The founder of Pears soap, who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to promote(推销) their goods, came to the conclusion: “Any fool can make soap, but it takes a genius (天才) to sell it.”
小题1:Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text? | A．The cost of its package. | B．The price of the product. | | C．The colour of its package. | D．The brand name of the product. |
小题2:The underlined part “the colours turned the customers off”(in Para. 3 ) means that the colours _____.| A．attracted the customers strongly | | B．had weak effects on the customers | | C．tricked the customers into shopping | | D．caused the customers to lose interest |
小题3:Which of the following is the key to the success in product sales?| A．The way to promote goods. | | B．The discovery of a genius. | | C．The team to produce a good product. | | D．The brand name used by successful producers. |
小题4:Which of the following would be the best title for this text? | A．Choice of Good Products | B．Disadvantages of Products | | C．Effect of Packaging on Shopping | D．Brand Names and Shopping Tricks |
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Have you ever seen a movie in which a building was burnt down or a bridge was destroyed? Have you seen films in which a train crashed or a ship __21_ into the ocean? If so, you may have wondered how these things could happen without __22_the people in the film.
The man who knows the __23__ is the “special-effects” man. He has one of the most important jobs in the film __24__. He may be __25__ to create a flood or to make a battlefield explode. But he may also be told to create a __26_ effect which is much less exciting, though just as important to the success of the film. In a __27__ for one movie there was a big glass bowl __28__with water in which small fish __29__ swimming. The director of the movie__30__ the fish to stop swimming suddenly __31_ they seemed to stare at(盯着) an actor. Then the director wanted the fish to stop staring and swim away. But fish suddenly __32__ be ordered to do anything. It was quite a __33_.
The special-effects man __34_ about this problem for a long time. The result was an idea for __35_ the fish with a harmless use of electricity. __36__he applied electricity to the fish bowl causing the fish to be totally still(静止的). Then he rapidly reduced the __37__ of electricity allowing the fish to be free. __38_ he got the humorous effect the director wanted.
__39_in other parts of movie making there are those who have developed __40__ skill in creating certain kinds of effects. Jim White, who has been a special-effects man for thirty-two years, is best known for work with ships and airplanes.
| 小题1: | | A．burned | B．sank | C．fell | D．dropped |
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| 小题2: | | A．telling | B．harming | C．protecting | D．organizing |
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| 小题3: | | A．reply | B．question | C．message | D．secret |
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| 小题4: | | A．factory | B．making | C．field | D．company |
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| 小题5: | | A．forced | B．ordered | C．allowed | D．chosen |
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| 小题6: | | A．terrible | B．ill | C．good | D．special |
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| 小题7: | | A．scene | B．step | C．stage | D．room |
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| 小题8: | | A．covered | B．asked | C．filled | D．fitted |
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| 小题9: | | A．liked | B．enjoyed | C．was | D．were |
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| 小题10: | | A．hoped | B．wanted | C．decided | D．designed |
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| 小题11: | | A．while | B．since | C．so that | D．as long as |
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| 小题12: | | A．mustn’t | B．may not | C．shouldn’t | D．can’t |
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| 小题13: | | A．question | B．failure | C．problem | D．disappointment |
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| 小题14: | | A．talked | B．set | C．quarreled | D．thought |
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| 小题15: | | A．controlling | B．operating | C．driving | D．lighting |
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| 小题16: | | A．As a result | B．Immediately | C．First | D．Above all |
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| 小题17: | | A．price | B．number | C．amount | D．speed |
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| 小题18: | | A．Even | B．Thus | C．Finally | D．Actually |
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| 小题20: | | A．certain | B．particular | C．advanced | D．careful |
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Bringing Art into Hospitals.
The medical world is slowly realizing that the quality of the environment in hospitals may play an important role in helping patients to recover(康复).
As part of a nationwide effort in Britain to bring art out of the museums and into public places, some of the country’s best artists have been called in to change older hospitals and to soften the hard, modern buildings. Of the 2500 national health service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have collections of art in passages(走廊), waiting areas and treatment rooms.
These recent movements were first started by one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital in northeastern England during the early 1970’s. He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and that art should be enjoyed by more people.
A common hospital waiting room might have as many as 5000 visitors each week. What a good place to hold exhibitions(展览) of art! Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the waiting area of the Manchester Royal Hospital in 1975. Believed to be Britain’s first hospital artist, Senior was so much in demand that he was soon joined by a team of six young art school graduates.
The effect is amazing. Now in the passages and waiting rooms the visitors experience a full view of fresh colors, playful images(形象) and restful courtyards.
The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs when a patient is recovering from an illness. A study has shown that a patient who had a view onto gardens needed half the number of strong pain killers compared with(与……相比) patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at.
小题1:Some best artists of Britain have been called in to_____| A．set up new hospitals | | B．make the corners of hospital collect paintings | | C．bring art into hospitals | | D．help patients recover from serious illness |
小题2:After the improvement of the hospital environment, _____| A．patients no longer take drugs to kill their pains | | B．patients don’t have to stay long in hospital | | C．patients need fewer pain killers when they suffer from an illness | | D．patients feel happy in hospital |
小题3:It can be inferred from the passage that_____| A．the role of hospital environment is being recognized | | B．hospital artists have done more than doctors | | C．exhibitions attract more people in hospitals than in museums | | D．the hospitals is a better place for people than the museum in Britain |
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The clothes you wear. The food you eat. The color of your bedroom walls. Where you go and how you get there. The people you hang around with. What time you go to bed. What do these things have in common, you’re asking? They’re just a few examples of the many hundreds of things that your parents controlled for you when you were a child.
As a kid, you didn’t have a say in everything; your parents made decisions about everything from the cereal you ate in the morning to the pajamas you wore at night. And it’s a good thing, too—kids need this kind of protection on their own.
But finally, kids grow up and become teens. And part of being a teen is developing your own identity—one that is separate from your parents’. But as you change and grow into this new person who makes his own decisions, your parents have a difficult time adjusting(调整).
In many families, it is this adjustment that can cause a lot of fighting between teens and parents. And issues like the type of friends you have or your attitudes to partying can cause bigger arguments, because your parents still always want to protect you and keep you safe, no matter how old you are.
The good news about fighting with your parents get more comfortable with the idea that their teen has a right to certain opinions. It can take several years for parents and teens to adjust to their new roles, though. In the meantime, focus on communicating with your parents.
Sometimes this can feel impossible—like they just don’t see your point of view and never will. But talking and expressing your opinions can help you gain more respect from your parents.
Keep in mind, too, that your parents were teens once and that in most cases, they can relate to what you’re going through.
小题1:In the first two paragraphs, the writer________.| A．complains that parents control kids too much. | | B．proves that kids have no right to give their opinions. | | C．describes how carefully parents look after kids | | D．explains that it is necessary for parents to control kids |
小题2:A lot of fighting breaks out between teens and parents because________.| A．parents aren’t used to losing control of kids | | B．teens like to have everything decided | | C．parents blame teens for not respecting them | | D．teens are eager to develop their own identity |
小题3:In the opinions of the writer, parents control teens in order to ________.| A．prevent them from having their own ideas | | B．protect them from being hurt | | C．make them respect parents in family | | D．make sure that children have a good future. |
小题4:The underlined word “this” in paragraph 6 may refer to “________”.| A．arguing with friends | | B．fighting with your parents | | C．communicating with parents | | D．adjusting to new roles |
小题5:What might be the most suitable title for the passage?| A．What do parents control their children for? | | B．How parents take are of children? | | C．How to get rid of your parents’ control? | | D．Why do I fight with parents so much? |
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