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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 are 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 makes you more charming(迷人的)and helps you to win lots of friends. A good mood(心情)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. 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 friends are happier than people who don’t have those relationships. Talking and sharing is a good way to relax and build confidence. 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 feel that your school life is meaningful and happy. But if you hate school, your negative attitude(消极的态度)may cause you to feel bored and upset that you hate 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 and should have got a good mark. You can’t stop blaming(责备)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.
Do you smile a lot or wear a long face most of the time?
1.What is happiness?
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2.What makes you more charming and gives you hope?
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3.What can we do when we can’t change the way life is?
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4.How many factors influence happiness?
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5.How do you make yourself happy in your daily life? Give an example.
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Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friend, c1.up and smile all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you'll find that the whole world smiles to you. While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the h2. smile on your teacher's face when you did a good job?
One day it is fine. Just before you want to go out, it s3. starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start complaining about the w4.. But dear friend, why don't you sit down and listen to the sound that the n5. offers you? And with the timely rain, crops in the fields will g6. better and better and farmers will have a good harvest.
Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes failures can't be a7.. I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that we are a8.of it and give up hopes. When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish w9. we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, "Failure is the mother of success. "
Attitude （态度） decides e10.. Let's smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us.
请根据要求改写下列句子,每空一词。
1.There are something wrong with my computer.(改为一般疑问句)
________ there ________ wrong with your computer?
2.I would rather stay at home than go out when I was young.(保持句意基本不变)
I ________ staying at home to ________ out when I was young.
3.We often see Tom clean the blackboard (改为被动语态)
Tom is often ________ ________ clean the blackboard.
4.The tiger are facing great danger.(感叹句)
________ ________ danger the tiger are facing.
5.“What do you sell online?”I asked the young boy. (改为宾语从句)
I asked the young boy ________ he ________ online.
What colour is your name? What colour is Wednesday? These questions might sound strange to most people, but some can answer right away. One person says her name is the colour red. For another person, Wednesday is blue. These people have a condition called synesthesia. This means they experience two senses at the same time. For these people, the senses of smell, sound, sight, touch, and taste are not separate (分开的）.They might see and also hear colours, for example, or hear as well as feel sounds.
The most common form of synesthesia is to hear sounds as colours, A person with synesthesia might hear the number three as blue or the letter D as red. Someone might always see green upon hearing the word April. Another person might see different colours while listening to music. Some people also taste colours. To one person, beef might taste blue and to another, yellow. Some people experience feelings in colour. For example, one person with synesthesia reports feeling pain as the colour orange.
Another form of synesthesia is to experience sounds or tastes as shapes. Some people see music as squares and circles. Some people taste a sweet as a smooth ball. There are other forms of synesthesia, as well. For one man, different words have different tastes. Some words taste like pork; others taste like potatoes or eggs.
Synesthesia is not a common condition. Perhaps only one person in every 5,000 has it. For these people, the everyday world can be a colourful and interesting place.
1.What is this passage mainly about?
A.An unusual condition. B.People who like colour.
C.The colour of pain. D.Music and art.
2.How many people probably have synesthesia?
A.Only 5,000 in the world. B.One out of every 500.
C.About 5 million. D.One out of every 5,000.
3.Which is the most common form of synesthesia?
A.Experiencing tastes as shapes.
B.Experiencing sounds as colours.
C.Experiencing words as tastes.
D.Experiencing music as shapes,
4.Which of the following is NOT an example of synesthesia?
A.Feeling pain in red.
B.Tasting beef as green.
C.Feeling warm in April.
D.Seeing music as squares.
Jacquelyn and her family were sleeping in their home. Their dog Scruffy was asleep next to Jacquelyn. It was 4:36 a.m. and the night was quiet. There were no cars passing in the street, no noise could be heard, it was like everything was still. Jacquelyn always put a cup with water next to her bed, so that if she got thirsty during the night she didn’t have to walk all the way to the kitchen. That was when it happened. The furniture started shaking, and the cup of water fell to the floor. Scruffy started barking and it woke up Jacquelyn. She looked around and saw that all her stuff was shaking. She started screaming. Soon after, her father came in and told her to come out quickly.
It was an earthquake. Jacquelyn was so scared, and couldn’t move. Her father went in and picked her up. He took her outside, where Jacquelyn’s mother and brother were at already. Jacquelyn and her brother were crying. They didn’t understand what was happening.
Luckily, Jacquelyn’s mother had prepared an emergency kit (应急箱) and had it outside. She looked for the key, which was hidden inside a fake rock, and unlocked the box. She pulled out blankets from it to keep her children warm. Jacquelyn looked at her mother and took the blanket. She then saw her dad take a flashlight (手电筒) from the box. He used the flashlight to see if the house had any damage. The father knew the house was not safe, so they stayed up until someone could examine the house.
The children didn’t have school due to the earthquake, so they spent the day with their parents. Jacquelyn was so proud of her parents, because they knew what to do during this disaster. She talked to her friends, and they weren’t so lucky. Jacquelyn went up to her mother and father and hugged them, because she knew she felt the protection of her parents.
1.When the earthquake happened, ________ .
A.Jacquelyn was too scared to move
B.Jacquelyn went out quickly by herself
C.Jacquelyn’s brother was staying together with her
D.Jacquelyn’s mother came in and took her out quickly
2.The underlined word ‘it ’ in paragraph 3 refers to _________.
A.mum’s room B.the box C.their house D.the flashlight
3.Jacquelyn’s parents did the following except________.
A.preparing an emergency box B.pulling out the blanket
C.examining the house carefully D.taking their children out
4.Which is the correct order according to the passage?
a. Jacquelyn’s father went in and took her outside.
b. Jacquelyn’s mother and brother rushed outside.
c. Scruffy started barking and it woke up Jacquelyn.
d. Jacquelyn’s father used the flashlight to look at the house.
e. Jacquelyn’s mother found the key and opened the emergency kit.
A.c,b,a,e,d B.c,a,b,e,d C.b,a,c,d,e D.b,c,e,a,d
As a student, I was most afraid to answer questions in class, and I found that the students around were just like me. At the beginning of each class, when the teacher asked a question, I always lowered my head because I was afraid that the teacher saw me.
One day, in a foreign language class, Mr. Black gave us a lesson. He wanted us to be active in class, so he asked us some questions, but no one answered. “Let me tell you a story first ,” he said.
“When I came to the United States to study, the university often invited famous people to make speeches. Before the beginning of every speech, I found an interesting thing. The students around me always took a cardboard folded （折叠的）in half, wrote their names in bold with the most eye-catching color, and then placed the cardboard on the seat. So when the speaker needed the answers from the students, he could see and call a listener’s name directly.
“I couldn’t t understand that. My classmate told me the speakers were all top people, who meant chances. When your answer was to his surprise, it meant he might give you more chances. In fact, I really saw a few students got great chances because of that.”
After listening to the story, I understood that the chance will not find you itself. You must show yourself all the time so that you can find a chance on the card.
1.What did Mr. Black want the students to do in his class?
A.Read loudly B.Take notes carefully.
C.Be active D.Listen
2.How did the writer’s classmates behave when they were asked questions?
A.They raised their hands. B.They shook their heads.
C.They closed eyes. D.They lowered their heads.
3.How did the speaker get to know the students’ names?
A.He got them from the computer.
B.He saw the cardboards on the seats.
C.He asked the students for their names.
D.He got them from the name list on the teacher’s desk.
4.What does the underlined word “eye-catching” in Paragraph3 mean?
A.引人注目的 B.眼睛疼痛的
C.目光呆滞的 D.泪眼朦胧的
5.What does the writer mainly tell us?
A.Doing as others do is necessary.
B.Answering questions bravely is easy.
C.Attracting others’ attention is interesting.
D.Showing yourself bravely can win chances.
