Happiness is a feeling that lights up your eyes, makes your steps light and makes you want to sing for no reason. Everyone wants to be happy. But sometimes, a guest comes in without invitation. It's unhappiness. Don't let it get you down. Send it away!
When you feel happy, the world feels like a better place. As the saying goes: When you smile, the world smiles with you; when you cry, you cry alone. Wearing a smile will make you more charming (迷人的) and help you to win lots of friends. A good mood always gives you hope, which makes trouble and problems easier to handle.
No matter how happy you are, it's normal to feel angry, sad or gloomy once in a while. Life is full of ups and downs. We can't change the way life is, but we can do our best to change a bad situation into a good one. To help us do this, it's good to know some of the factors (因素) that influence happiness.
One of the biggest factors is social relationships. People who are close to family and friend are happier than people who don't have those relationships. Talking and sharing is a good way to relax and build confidence (信心). Knowing someone is there for you will make you braver and more outgoing.
Another factor is work or school. If you enjoy school, even if you have lots of homework or extra classes, you will still feel that your school life is meaningful and happy. But if you hate school, your negative attitude may cause you to feel bored and upset that you have to do so much work.
A third factor is your attitude towards life. How do you feel if you fail in an exam? Maybe you think it's unfair because you always study hard and should get a good mark. You can't stop blaming yourself. Or, maybe you accept it. You go through the paper carefully, find out why you made stupid mistakes, and tell yourself, "Take it easy! I'll do better next time!" Your attitude makes a big difference.
1.The writer tells us ______ factors that influence happiness.
A. two B. three C. four D. five
2.If you fail in an exam you should ______ .
A. blame yourself
B. complain about others
C. work harder than before
D. go through the paper again
3.Which of the following is probably the best title for the passage?
A. Make Trouble Easy To Handle
B. Your School Life Is Happy
C. The World Smiles With You
D. You Make Your Own Happiness
Street Ping Pong— Ping!
Do you like table tennis? If you had traveled to cities in the UK like London or Birmingham last summer, you might have seen one of the dozens of free tables that were there as part of a project （项目） called Ping!.
What is Ping!?
Ping！is a three-year table tennis project. It has been running since 2010 and this year, 2012, is the final year. The idea is to put free table tennis tables in eight different towns in the UK for four weeks during the summer. Each table comes with its own bats and balls and is free to play. You can find the tables outdoors.
What does Ping! hope to achieve?
It would be great if Ping！helped find a new Olympic table tennis star but what Ping! really hopes to achieve is just to get people playing and having fun together. "Putting a ping pong table on the street gives people a chance to connect with other people," said Meera Sodha , Ping! Project Manager.
One of the towns that took part in the project was Hull, a city in England. Forty-five tables were put into the city. Jakob Adamski, an ESOL student learning. English, said, "I really enjoyed playing table tennis in the park. It was also a good way for me to practice my English and meet people."
1.When did the Ping! project start?
A. Last summer. B. Last winter.
C. In 2010. D. In 2012.
2.What's the Ping! project?
A. Choosing table tennis stars.
B. Holding table tennis matches.
C. Teaching people how to play table tennis.
D. Putting free table tennis tables in some towns.
3.The purpose of the Ping! project is
A. to help people practice English
B. to invite people to visit the UK cities
C. to get people to play and have fun together.
D. to encourage people to take part in the 2012 Olympics
One day, my mother and I went shopping at a Chinese supermarket. We found that the crucian carps(鲫鱼)in the seafood counter were very fresh, as a result we chose four crucian carps and handed them over to the seller. As it would take some time to clean the fish and dispose of their internal organs(处理内脏）, we decided to look around the other places first. When we came back to the seafood counter, I asked the seller for my fish. He raised one, which was being cleaned, to let me have a look and tell me he was still working on the fish. I hurriedly said, "Go ahead. Go ahead." I meant for him to go on.
To my surprise, the seller stopped his work, looking at me with puzzled (困惑的) expression, and asked me," Go ahead?”“Yes," I said, "go ahead". He pointed at the fish in all seriousness, and repeated very seriously, "Head?" Paying no more attention to him, I turned back to chat with my mother. Suddenly," Bang, bang, bang," was heard from the counter. Quickly, the seller passed the four fish without heads to me.
I asked loudly, "Why did you cut all the heads off?" The seller was also very angry and said, "Didn't you tell me to go ahead again and again?"On hearing what he said I felt funny as well as angry. It turned out that he considered "go ahead" as "cut the head off". No wonder he asked me several times about it!
1. The writer went to ____ with her mother that day.
A. a restaurant B. a beach
C. a supermarket D. a park
2.What does "Go ahead" mean in this passage?
A.Go on cleaning the fish.
B. Continue walking.
C.Cut off the heads of the fish.
D. Go around.
3.The seller cut all the heads off because ____.
A. the writer asked him to do so
B. he was angry with the writer
C. he wanted to cut off the heads
D. he didn't understand what the writer said
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1.You can ______ at Lisa’s Gym.
A．watch a movie B．find a job
C．listen to a concert D．play basketball
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A．call 8124697 B．go to Huachen Cinema
C．call 2133730 D． to the Children’s Palace
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阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
It’s not easy to be an astronaut’s son. Everybody expects you to be perfect, but I’m just a fourteen-year-old kid, and I’m not a special ________ too, when it comes to math, geography, music, and baseball.
Well, to be honest, I often dream about being some kind of ________ or doing something special—like saving a child from a burning building. or discovering a new star. I was daydreaming at school one morning when my teacher said there would be a Father’s Day writing competition for the whole school. “I ________ we can have a winner right here in my class.”
When I got home, I started to think about what to write. My father is an astronaut. No, I wouldn't start like that. The whole country and maybe even the whole world saw my father as an astronaut, but that wasn’t the way I saw him.
How did I see my ________ ? Hmm.
I saw him sitting with me in the dark when I had a terrible dream. I ________ how he hugged me for hours when my dog Spotty was________ by a car. Yes, to me, he wasn’t just a world-famous astronaut. He was my dad.
My parents and I went to school on Thursday night. There were so many people in the big hall! My dad looked at me, and I shrugged(耸肩). The third prize was announced and it was not me. I was relieved（释然）and disappointed at the same time. The second prize was announced. It was me ________ .
I went up to the stage and read what I had written, “My father’s son”. When I finished, the people ________ and cheered. I saw my father blowing his nose. Dad cleared his throat and put his hand on my shoulder. “Son, this is the ________ moment of my life.”
It was the proudest moment of my life, too. Maybe I’ll never be a great hero or win a Nobel Prize, but it was ________ just to be my father’s son.
1.A．one B．son C．student D．person
2.A．astronaut B．hero C．dad D．man
3.A．think B．guess C．know D．hope
4.A．father B．mother C．teacher D．son
5.A．felt B．thanked C．remembered D．noticed
6.A．killed B．stopped C．thrown D．carried
7.A．really B．surprisingly C．easily D．especially
8.A．stood up B．sat up C．walked away D．walked down
9.A．best B．luckiest C．happiest D．proudest
10.A．right B．special C．enough D．different
—Do you know _________ the posters tomorrow?
—Near the school gate.
A. where they will put up B. where they put up
C. where did they put up D. where will they put up
