What is the difference between happy people and unhappy people?1. Read the following list of things that HAPPY people do differently from UNHAPPY people and you will know.

Well, I can tell you for sure that those people who are really happy, FEAR less and LOVE a lot more. They see each moment, each challenge, each person as an opportunity to discover more about themselves and the world around them2.

Happy people understand that you can’t really change a situation by resisting（反抗）it. But they can feel better by understanding that there might be a reason for its existence（存在）. 3. But rather, they ask themselves questions like: What can I learn from this? How can I make this better? They always seem to be pleasant and hopeful no matter what happens to them.

They do the things they do because of the meaning it brings into their lives and because they get a sense of purpose by doing so.

4. They care more about living a life full of meaning rather than, what in our modern society we would call, living a successful life. The fact here is that most of the time they get both, success and meaning, just because they choose to focus on doing the things they love the most.

5. They make sure that their actions bring meaning and happiness in the lives of many. They look for ways to give and to share the best of themselves with the world and to make other people happy.

A. They have an ideal living and a balanced life.

B. What are the things that these people do differently?

C. They are kind to themselves and others and they understand the power of love.

D. The things happy people do are not for themselves, but for the good of others.

E. They are ready to embrace whatever lies in front of them.

F. They understand that “Doing what you love is the most important for living a full life”.

G. When something unpleasant happens to them, they don’t try to fight it, knowing that this will make the situation even worse.

Dear Social Security,

I am applying for a new Social Security Card.

I lost my old one last week, I was walking home from the subway station, and I pulled a tissue(纸巾)out of my pocket and lost my wallet at the same time. My card was in my wallet.

Please send me a new card. If you can get the card to me within two weeks, please sent it to my old address . If it will take longer than this, then you will have to send it to my new address. I am moving on May 23rd to 103 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 28445.

If you can send my new card within two weeks, I would be very pleased. I am applying for a new job at Ventura Savings Bank, and I know they will want to have my Social Security Number. Unfortunately I have forgotten it, so I will need my card to find out. On my old card I was called Victoria Matthews. Since then I have gotten married. Please send my new card to me using my married name: Victoria Villata. In case you need more information about me to get my old number, my date of birth was September 11, 1985. Thank you very much.

Sincerely

Victoria Villata

1.Why does Mrs. Villata need a new Social Security Card?

A. She is moving.

B. She lost the old one.

C. She has just gotten married.

D. She doesn’t remember her Social Security Number.

2.Why does Mrs. Villata give the Social Security Administration her birthday?

A. She wants them to know how old she is.

B. She is afraid they may have lost her Social security Card.

C. She thinks it will help them find her old Social Security Number.

D. She thinks that the older she is, the more social Security she will get.

3.Which part of Victoria Villata’s letter is LEAST important to the Social Security administration?

A. The fact that she has changed her name.

B. The fact that her card should be send to a new address.

C. The fact that she needs a replacement of Social Security Card.

D. The fact that she lost her wallet while pulling a tissue out of her pocket.

When you are travelling, whether on business or for pleasure, you often need to stay in a hotel. The kind of hotel you choose probably is decided above all according to how much money you want to spend. There are small hotels with very few services, where the prices are low, or there are large hotels with all the very latest comforts, where you could spend a lot of the money you have in the bank for one very comfortable night.

There are several different kinds of people who go to hotels. Some want to live, rather than just stay, in a hotel; the hotels which are designed to meet their needs are called residential hotels(长住型饭店). However, most people who stay in hotels are either business people or tourists on holiday.

In most hotels, there are two kinds of rooms: single rooms, for the use of one person, and double rooms, for the use of two people. In addition, in large hotels, there are also suites(套房), which include two or more rooms connected together — perhaps a bed-room and a living room. They are for people who are very rich or very important.

1.One’s choice of a particular hotel is made mainly according to _______.

A. how much one is willing to pay for a night

B. whether one is travelling on business or for pleasure

C. whether the hotel is in the central part of a city

D. how good the services of the hotel are

2.If the president of a certain country comes, he will _______.

A. live in a new hotel with few services    B. stay in a single room of a hotel

C. stay in a double room of a hotel    D. stay in a suite of a modern hotel

3.If a person stays in a modern hotel with latest comforts for a night, _______.

A. he will become poor

B. he has to pay a lot of money

C. he has to spend all the money he has in the bank

D. he has to pay some money

4.The title of the article is probably _______.

A. Rooms of a Hotel    B. Cost of a Hotel

C. Services of Hotels    D. The choice of Hotels

假如你叫李华，你的好朋友张敏来信说每次遇到重要的考试，她都会出现一些焦虑的症状，想让你给她提出一些建议并说明建议的理由。请你用英语给她写一封回信，信的内容包括以下要点：

1. 考前制订好复习计划；

2. 考试期间正常休息；

3. 介绍有助于睡眠的两种方法；

4. 希望对方考试顺利。

注意：1. 词数100左右；

2. 不要逐字翻译，可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：anxiety n. 焦虑

Dear Zhang Min,

I’m sorry to know that you are always anxious before important exams. ______________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Hua

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Dear Jerry,

I’m glad to know that you have an interest for Chinese food. Here I’d like to tell you something about it. Chinese food is famous for it wide variety. The food in one area can easily told from that in another. For an example, Shanghai food, a little bit sweet, differed from Sichuan food what is rather hot. However, every kind of Chinese food is worth try because each has a delicious taste and is good for healthy. Since restaurants in China usually serve specially dishes of different areas, you can enjoy many kinds of Chinese food whenever you are. I’m looking forward to meeting you here so that I can tell you more about Chinese food at table.

Yours,

Li Hua

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

On Sept.19, 2014, Alibaba went public on the New York Stock(股票)Exchange. It shows that Ma Yun has done his business 1.  (successful). A short Chinese man seems to be the 2.  (tall) man in the world right now.

Ma Yun used to be an English teacher. When he was twelve, he found that English was very interesting. Every morning he got up at 5 a.m., and then ran to a hotel near the West Lake, 3.   he could communicate with foreign 4. (tourist) in English. He did it for nine years. The experience made 5. (he) a fantastic English speaker and also opened his views to the wide world. In a trip to the US in 1995, Ma had access to the Internet for the first time. When seeing the opportunity on the Internet, Ma returned to China and decided to set up a website  6. he knew little about computers then. Ma gave up his job and created 7.  was called Alibaba in Hangzhou. He was so  8.  (devote) to his work that he  9.  (name) “Crazy Jack Ma”. Now, Alibaba has developed into the world’s largest e-commerce company and  10. (go) even further in future.

I realize that we all live in a world where trust is in short supply. It seems that everywhere I go, I have to ______ my identity and trustworthiness ― whether it’s a bank, shop or any office. I have been accustomed to living by the ______ that no one is trustworthy _____  proved otherwise.

Yesterday I saw a young man who lived by a totally  ____  rule. I was walking along a busy intersection when I ______ a young man standing near the pedestrian crossing setting up a stall(货摊).  _____ I would ignore and hurry past such sellers. But I noticed this young man was ______, so I stood for some time without crossing the street to see how he sold his _____ .

Soon, a young mother with a little boy came by and the child set his ______ on one of teddy bears. The mother asked the _____  and it was only one dollar. She pulled out a 10 dollar note and told the young man that she was giving him 10 dollars and wanted the ______ back. I was  _____ to know how he was going to do it. He told the mom to put the  _____ in the pouch(袋子) hanging around his neck and take out whatever change he_____ her.

I realized that this young man’s whole mode of earning  ____  on trusting people not to cheat him. There was no ______ for him to know if someone took out more out of his pouch of earning. I was so  _____ by how this young man trusted people that I bought a car model from him. I did not need it,  ____ . I just hoped to help a little.

Now I _____  believe that the world would be a better place if we could all learn to  ___   others more, like the young blind street seller of toys.

1.A. introduce    B. present    C. prove    D. request

2.A. rule    B. habit    C. practice    D. law

3.A. if    B. since    C. although    D. unless

4.A. similar    B. different    C. special    D. common

5.A. approached    B. noticed    C. watched    D. looked

6.A. Actually    B. Normally    C. Informally    D. Casually

7.A. blind    B. handsome    C. disabled    D. strange

8.A. clothes    B. bears    C. toys    D. pouches

9.A. mind    B. interest    C. heart    D. attraction

10.A. price    B. stall    C. toy    D. help

11.A. money    B. charge    C. change    D. note

12.A. anxious    B. surprised    C. pleased    D. curious

13.A. hand    B. money    C. teddy bear    D. necklace

14.A. gave    B. owed    C. owned    D. showed

15.A. depended    B. settled    C. decided    D. focused

16.A. problem    B. point    C. way    D. doubt

17.A. attracted    B. shocked    C. excited    D. touched

18.A. either    B. instead    C. moreover    D. though

19.A. firmly    B. tightly    C. unwillingly    D. negatively

20.A. take in    B. turn to    C. help out    D. believe in

You’d think the human race would have understood sleeping very well by now, but many of us are still sleeping poorly. Part of the problem is that we have wrong information and beliefs about this important health need. Let’s set the facts straight. 1.

1. More sleep is better for you.

There could be such a thing as too much sleep. The amount of sleep we need varies by person and also changes as we age. Harvard researchers found that a lot of sleep (9 hours or more) is linked with poor sleep quality. 2. Aim for better sleep.

2. 3.

Alcohol can help most people fall asleep. However, it also can cause you to wake up more during the night, decreasing your sleep quality. Consider drinking non-alcoholic drink before bed instead.

3. If you wake up in the middle of the night, lie in bed until you eventually fall back asleep.

4. We all hope to quickly fall back asleep. So we tend to stay in bed hoping it’ll happen at any minute now. If that doesn’t happen, though, within 15 minutes, most experts recommend getting out of bed to do something that occupies our bodies and brains without overstimulating us. Try not to check the clock either.

.4. You can catch up on sleep on weekends.

When we lose sleep during the week, we accumulate a kind of sleep ＂debt＂. 5.     Not so fast. This might actually make you sleepier the next week. Instead of waking up later on the weekends, you’d better go to sleep earlier or perhaps take a nap in the afternoon.

A. Alcohol helps you sleep.

B. Here are some things you might have been told about sleeping but aren’t completely true.

C. Everyone should get 7—8 hours of sleep per night.

D. So don’t aim for more sleep — even on the weekends.

E. Waking up in the middle of the night is the pits (烦心事), but it happens to all of us.

F. You’ll have a better day and perhaps sleep better at night.

G. Can you pay that debt back by sleeping on Saturday or Sunday?

People are being attracted to Facebook with the promise of a fun, free service without realizing they’re paying for it by giving up large amounts of personal information. Facebook then attempts to make money by selling their data to advertisers that want to send targeted messages.

Most Facebook users don’t realize this is happening. Even if they know what the company is up to, they still have no idea what they’re paying for Facebook because people don’t really know what their personal information is worth.

The biggest problem, however, is that the company keeps changing the rules. Early on, you keep everything private. That was the great thing about Facebook—you could create your own little private network. Last year, the company changed its privacy rules so that many things—your city, your photo, your friends’ names—were set, by default (默认) to be shared with everyone on the Internet.

According to Facebook’s vice-president Elliot Schrage, the company is simply making changes to improve its service, and if people don’t share information, they have a ＂less satisfying experience＂.

Some people think this is more about Facebook looking to make more money. Its original business model, which was about selling ads and putting them at the side of the page, totally failed. Who wants to look at ads when they’re online connecting with their friends?

The privacy issue has already landed Facebook in hot water in Washington. In April, Senator Charles Schumer called on Facebook to change its privacy policy. He also urged the Federal Trade Commission to set guidelines for social-networking sites.

I think that whatever Facebook has done so far to invade our privacy is only the beginning, which is why I’m considering stopping using it. Facebook is a convenient site, but I’m upset by the idea that my information is in the hands of people I don’t know. That’s too high a price to pay.

1.According to the text, Facebook is ____________.

A. losing more customers    B. becoming a more useful site

C. improving its service gradually    D. stealing and selling users’ information

2.At the beginning Facebook’s business model includes selling ____________.

A. its service    B. ads

C. its products    D. personal information

3.Why do Facebook make changes to its rule?

A. To provide better service to its users.

B. To follow the Federal guidelines.

C. To encourage its users’ communication.

D. To gain its users’ more personal information.

4.What is the author’s attitude toward Facebook?

A. Admirable.    B. Negative.

C. Unclear.    D. Supportable.

For the past 100 years, people believed middle age to be around 50 years old. This is a time when we start to grow old. However, new research says we have to change this. A study from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIAS) in Austria and Stony Brook University in New York says middle age now starts at 60 or even 65, or older. Why?

The biggest reason is that we are living longer. We are also healthier, we have better diets, we exercise more and we have more money to live in a nicer lifestyle. The IIAS said, ＂Since life expectancy has increased over the past several decades, and are continuing to increase, people once considered old should actually be viewed as more middle aged.＂

The study was not a worldwide one so perhaps not everyone in all countries can say they are middle aged when they are 65. The researchers looked at populations in 39 European countries, so this is good news for Europeans. Britain’s National Health Service warned against looking at this study and believing it to be 100 percent true. It said the researchers did not look at things which could reduce life expectancy: ＂We don’t know whether, for example, they factored (把……因素包括进去) in the possible impact of being unable to treat infections because of rising antibiotic (抗生素) resistance, or the increased numbers of people with diabetes (糖尿病) due to obesity.＂ It recommended healthy living, eating and exercise as a way to live longer.

1.What do people believe for the past century?

A. People start to grow old when they are about 50.

B. Middle age is far beyond 50 years old.

C. People will die at around 50 years old.

D. Middle age is a time when people become ill.

2.What’s the main idea of the second paragraph?

A. The main reason why we are living longer.

B. The reason why middle age now starts at 60 or even 65.

C. Life expectancy has increased.

D. Middle aged people were once considered old.

3.What do Britain’s National Health Service’s words mean?

A. It believes the study to be true.

B. To live longer, one should live a healthy life.

C. There are more people who suffer from diabetes due to obesity.

D. The researchers didn’t factor in the possible impact.

4.What is the writer’s attitude towards the study?

A. Indifferent.    B. Supportive.

C. Negative.    D. Objective.