When asked about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, an absolute delight, which seems to get rarer the older we get.
For kids, happiness has a magical quality. Their delight at winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved(毫无掩饰的)．
In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it's conditional on such things as excitement, love and popularity. I can still recall the excitement of being invited to dance with the most attractive boy at the school party.
In adulthood the things that bring deep joy—love, marriage, birth—also bring responsibility and the risk of loss.For adults, happiness is complicated(复杂的)．
My definition of happiness is “the capacity for enjoyment”．The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are.It's easy to overlook the pleasure we get from the company of friends, the freedom to live where we please, and even good health.
I experienced my little moments of pleasure yesterday. First I was overjoyed when I shut the last lunch－box and had the house to myself. Then I spent an uninterrupted morning writing, which I love. When the kids and my husband came home, I enjoyed their noise after the quiet of the day.
Psychologists tell us that to be happy we need a mix of enjoyable leisure time and satisfying work.I don't think that my grandmother, who raised 14 children, had much of either. She did have a network of close friends and family, and maybe this is what satisfied her.
We, however, with so many choices and such pressure to succeed in every area, have turned happiness into one more thing we've got to have. We're so self－conscious about our “right” to it that it's making us miserable. So we chase it and equal it with wealth and success, without noticing that the people who have those things aren't necessarily happier.
Happiness isn't about what happens to us—it's about how we see what happens to us. It's the skillful way of finding a positive for every negative. It's not wishing for what we don't have, but enjoying what we do possess.
1.As people grow older, they ________．
A．feel it harder to experience happiness .
B．associate their happiness less with others
C．will take fewer risks in pursuing happiness
D．tend to believe responsibility means happiness
2.What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 5 and 6?
A．She cares little about her own health.
B．She enjoys the freedom of traveling.
C．She is easily pleased by things in daily life.
D．She prefers getting pleasure from housework.
3.What can be inferred from Paragraph 7?
A．Psychologists think satisfying work is key to happiness.
B．Psychologists' opinion is well proved by Grandma's case.
C．Grandma often found time for social gatherings.
D．Grandma's happiness came from modest expectations of life.
4.People who equal happiness with wealth and success ________．
A．consider pressure something blocking their way
B．stress their right to happiness too much
C．are at a loss to make correct choices
D．are more likely to be happy
假设你是李华，前天是你的外国朋友Anne的生日。你本答应要参加她的生日聚会，但你当时正忙着准备期末考试，不小心忘了赴约。请写封信向Anne表达你的歉意，说明原因，并提出补救的方法。
注意：
1.词数120词左右；
2.文章中不得出现真实班级和姓名；
3.可适当增加内容。
Dear Anne，
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Yours truly，
Li Hua
下面短文中有10处语言错误, 请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。
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My dream is to become a school teacher in the future. In fact, I had the dream of becoming a teacher since my childhood. In my opinion, without teachers, no society could make progresses. There is no doubt whether teachers play an important role in children growth. Not only do teachers pass on knowledge for children, but they also teach children how to behave themselves. Comparing with other jobs, teaching is hard and the pay is lower. And to me, what great fun it is to be with children! They make me to feel young forever because I’ll study harder and try my best to realize my dream.
阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
A jobless man applied for the position of “office boy” at a big firm.
The HR manager ___1.__ (interview) him, then a test: clean the floor. “You are hired,” he said, “give me your email address, ___2.__ I’ll send you the application to fill.” The man replied “I don’t have a computer, ___3.__ an email”.
“I’m sorry,” said the HR manager, “that means you do not exist. And ___4.__ doesn’t exist cannot have the job.” The man left ___5.__ no hope at all. He didn’t know what to do, with only $10 in his pocket.
He then decided to go to the supermarket and buy a 10 KG tomato crate. He then sold the tomatoes in a door to door round. In less than two hours, he ___6.__ (success) in doubling his capital. He repeated the operation 3 times, and returned home with $60.
5 years later, the man is one of the ___7.__ (big) food retailers(零售商) in the US. He started to plan his family’s future, and decided to have a life insurance.
He called ___8.__ insurance broker, and chose a protection plan. When the conversation was concluded, the broker asked him his email. The man replied: “I don’t have an email”. The broker replied ___9.__ (curious), “You don’t have an email, and yet have established an empire! Do you imagine ___10.__ you could have been if you had an email?
The man thought for a while, and replied: “An office boy!”
Over the years, thanks to my life’s obstacles(障碍), I understood the meaning of faith and the strong will to survive. It was Hurricane Ike that made me fully____ the beauty of our strength and a human’s motivation to ____.
Mom had a two-week ____ in summer. While we enjoyed our holiday in Southeast Texas, we didn’t realize the fact that Ike ____ cause months and likely years of “labor”. By September 7th, the “eyes of Texas” were watching Hurricane Ike more ____, making the typical mad rush for last-minute hurricane ____. Two days later, both oil and ice were in ____ demand.
In the early hours of September 11th, some neighbors were planning to ____the storm in their homes, ____ others were making final preparations to get away. At first, we decided to stay. But that afternoon, the Houston-Galveston area would be on the more ____ side of the storm. Mom and I packed some of our most ____ belongings in the car and ____ the East Texas town of Lufkin.
As Ike pushed farther inland, we ____power in Lufkin. On Sunday, our next-door neighbor told us via cell phone that our ____ had remained well. Our hopes could not have been ____. But a few hours later, the neighbors reported that our brick chimney had ____, and it was sitting on our living room, ____ a hole in the roof between two skylights (天窗).
We wouldn’t be allowed to return home ____ September 17th. I climbed upstairs, and looked toward the hole in the roof which showed a beautiful blue sky.
Without hesitation, I shouted, “Wow! A third skylight!”
My neighbors could not believe I was making jokes ____ crying, but ____ is always good medicine. It was with that joke that I knew, given time, everything would be okay.
1.A observeB. appreciateC. exploreD. improve
2.A. workB. apologizeC. recoverD. change
3.A. vacationB. journeyC. meetingD. schedule
4.A. mustB. mightC. should D. would
5.A. closelyB. constantlyC. warninglyD. differently
6.A. adventureB. equipmentC. suppliesD. reports
7.A. basicB. highC. pureD. neat
8.A. get throughB. put awayC. test outD. suffer from
9.A. sinceB. whenC. untilD. while
10.A. dangerousB. abundantC. peacefulD. awesome
11.A. availableB. concreteC. prized D. potential
12.A. set outB. headed forC. settled downD. watched out
13.A. providedB. reducedC. producedD. lost
14.A. gardenB. houseC. poolD. yard
15.A. clearerB. wilderC. lowerD. higher
16.A. passedB. stoodC. goneD. followed
17.A. leavingB. diggingC. fillingD. kicking
18.A. by B. before C. until D. after
19.A. in spite ofB. instead ofC. apart fromD. in terms of
20.A. faithB. willC. strengthD. laughter
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
I had an experience once which taught me something about the ways people made a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I officiated(主持) at two funerals for two elderly women. 1. . At the first home, the son of the deceased(已故) woman said, “If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died.” At the second home, the son said, “If only I had not insisted her going to Florida, she would be alive today. 2. . It is my fault.”
When things don’t turn out as we would like them to, we tend to assume that had we done things differently, the story would have had a happier ending. Any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out bad, they believe that the opposite course, for example, keeping mother at home, would have turned out better. 3.
There seem to be elements involved in our readiness to feel guilty. The first lies in our belief that the world makes sense---there is a reason for everything that happens.
The second is the thought that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. 4. . A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and calls the rest of the world to its tasks. 5. . When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely abandon that childish thought that our wishes cause things to happen.
A.That long airplane ride was more than she could take
B.After all, how could it have turned out any worse?
C. Life and dead is an unsolved mystery.
D.The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood
E.He cries, and someone comes to attend to him
F.Both died a natural death
G. They believe that they are responsible for what has happened.
