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W：Jack．how have your two sons been doing at school recently?
M：Don’t ask! Mark never starts studying，and Jason never stops 1. (study)．
W：You’re joking! I hear that Jason is likely2. (be)at the top of his class after exam this year．
M：Yes，so his teacher say．He’s been3. (work)very hard at his books every evening for months on end recently．He is hoping to 4. Harvard University．
W：Great．Maybe he’ll become a university professor 5.(he)in the future．
M：Maybe．But sometimes I wish he'd go out and enjoy himself 6. change．
W：Yes…What about the younger one?
M：Well，Mark's teachers say he has abililty，but he7.(rare)does his best．He does his homework in ten minutes every day and then8. (rush)out to play football.
W: Perhaps he can make his fortune at football. People can make 9. (plenty)of money from sports now．
M：My wife always worries about their future
W：Perhaps you can have a talk with him now to find out 10. he is thinking about his studies and future plans．
M：Good idea．I'll take your advice．
In an old city of Hungary, there used to be a boy who was very rich and clever but nothing could make him feel happy．He had almost everything a boy could ever want，so he was only in the most rare objects. One day his parents bought him a very strange ．When the boy went to see his reflection(映像)in it，he looked very ．He tried smiling， his reflection continued with its sad expression
，the boy went off to buy sweets and lots of toys．He came home as happy as he could be，but he looked sad in that mirror, “What a(n) mirror! It’s the first time I’ve seen a mirror that didn’t properly!”
That afternoon he went out to buy some toys and on his way he saw a little girl who was ．The boy went over to see what had to her. The little girl said that she couldn’t find her parents Together the two children set off them. As the little girl wouldn't stop crying，the boy spent all of his money buying her sweets to her up．After much walking，they her parents who were looking for her，very worried
Then the boy said to the family．When seeing the time， he to head for home．without toys and without ．In his room，to his great surprise，he found a(n) face in the mirror. And so he understood the of that mirror. The mirror could only reflect the feelings of its owner. He felt really happy at having that little girl．
1.A．confident B．interested C．skilled D．rich
2.A．mirror B．book C．sweet D．toy
3.A．shy B．excited C．sad D．beautiful
4.A．for B．or C．and D．but
5.A．Proud B．Hungry C．Surprised D．Satisfied
6.A．already B．still C．once D．never
7.A．terrible B．nice C．big D．expensive
8.A．work B．move C．change D．appear
9.A．studying B．playing C．sleeping D．crying
10.A．devoted B．referred C．happened D．turned
11.A．in need of B．in honor of C．in search of D．in charge of
12.A．put B．cheer C．dress D．bring
13.A．found B．recognized C．1eft D．accepted
14.A．goodbye B．hello C．sorry D．no
15.A．refused B．agreed C．pretended D．decided
16.A．effort B．hope C．money D．doubt
17.A．red B．dark C．angry D．happy
18.A．meaning B．wonder C．game D．reason
19.A．true B．strange C．general D．good
20.A．introduced B．helped C．invited D．saved
You can set a budget for your time just as you can set a budget for your money. Since you’re trying to reduce worry rather than increase it，go into this process with a focus on maximizing(使…最大化)your personal time，rather than cramming(塞满) as much as you can into each day.
● Set a sleep schedule 1. Give yourself a one-hour target window for bedtime in the evening，and set a strict time to get up in the morning．Be sure that the space between your bedtime and the start of your day gives you roughly an hour more than the amount of sleep you actually need．2.
●Take care of tasks at the same time every day. Plan time for daily health care， commuting(乘公交下上班)，work，shopping，eating，and chores(家务).Add in time for anything else you do most days，such as homework，exercise，or an active hobby. 3.All the time left over is your free time，to use for relaxation or whatever else you want．
● 4. For example，you might plan to go, dropping on your way home from work, to save the extra trip
For many people，an irregular work schedule make this kind of budgeting difficult．5.
A. However, you can still plan to work around your schedule in the same order every day．
B．Stick to it，even on weekends
C．Try to combine trips outside the home to maximize your free time
D．Different days call for different approaches．
E．Therefore．you won’t lay down and start worrying about whether or not you’ll fall asleep on time．
F．Sit comfortably and focus on your breathing until the rest of your thoughts become quiet.
G．Put them in a specific order that works for you
A good deal of fascinating research has been done about the reading patterns of young people，and it is surprising to discover at what an early age children start expressing preferences for particular kind of books. A recent report，which examined in detail the reading habits of primary-school children．showed that even seven-year-old boys and girls have clear views about what they want to read. Girls，in general，read more，and far more girls than boys preferred reading stories. Boys were showing a taste for the more instant appeal of picture stories，or else books about their hobbies．
These tastes continue unchanged until the children are teenagers. Apparently girls read more in general，but more fiction in particular .You could say that there are more opportunities for girls to read fiction：magazines encourage the fiction habit in girls in their early teens，and by their late teens they have probably moved on to the adult women’s magazines．Teenage boys tend to buy magazines about their hobbies：motorcycles，heavy transport and to on．
Adult reading tastes are also the subject of research．Again the number of women who read for pleasure is considerably higher than the number of men. It seems that the majority of women still want love stories．There has also been some analysis of what men actually read Apparently only 38 percent of men read anything，but 50 percent of what they read is fiction in the form of action-packed(内容丰富有趣的)stories of space or gunmen
1. What has the recent research into children’s reading show?
A. Children begin to read very fast at an early age
B. Children examine in detail what they read at school
C．Children can read clearly in primary schoo1．
D. Children form their reading tastes by the time they are seven
2.If we have a close look at the reading habits of boys and girls we’ll find that_______
A.girls are more interested in fiction than boys
B. girls are more interested in action-packed stories than boys
C .boys read much more than girls
D．boys have no interest in fiction
3.It can be inferred from the passage that_________．
A．boys change their reading tastes more often than girls
B．people usually do not change their reading tastes when they grow up
C．boys and girls form their reading habits by reading magazines
D. people have no definite(确切的)reading tastes
In a computer age，a broadband Internet connection is very popular now．Whether cable or mobile broadband，today’s connections are many times faster than those in the early days. Videos play smoothly, complex websites load quickly，and files download much faster than ten years ago．And the files are much bigger too．
There’s a hidden problem：You have to live near enough to a major city to get broadband Internet. If you don’t，it's slow dial-up access for you. And for those living really far out，there may be no Internet access at a11．
Technology experts often talk about the “last mile” problem， which refers to the difficulty of bringing Internet access to remote locations．In cities and suburbs(郊区)，it's relatively easy to provide access for everyone．It is much more difficult to deliver access to those living far from cities，especially in developing countries．Internet service providers．for their part，have been reluctant to provide access to sparsely(稀疏地)populated areas．The handful of Internet users they would reach wouldn’t cover the expense.
But every year, technological advancements allow of more and more Internet users. Most broadband connections today run over existing cable TV and telephone lines although these technologies aren’t available everywhere．
Some companies have delivered the Internet over standard power lines. Advancements in cheaper more efficient fiber optics cables(光纤电缆)promise to bring extremely fast Internet connections to more users．Still．the“last mile”problem remains hard to deal with．There will always be somewhere that doesn’t have an affordable broadband connection．But someday that might not matter．If the rapid progress in cell phone technology is any indication，it may not be too long before an Internet connection simply follows you wherever you go.
1. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Internet connections have been popular everywhere．
B．Internet service providers are willing to care about rural(农村的)customers．
C. The problem of Internet access hasn’t been completely dealt with
D. Computer can’t become popular in developing countries．
2.Paragraph 4 mainly tells us that technological advancements_______.
A．make TV and telephone available everywhere
B．bring great change to people’s everyday life
C. bring faster Internet connections to users
D. make it possible for more people to use the Internet
3.What may eventually settle the“last mile”problem?
A. The broadband connection’s getting faster．
B．The rapid progress in cell phone technology．
C．More and more Internet connections．
D. More and more Internet users
4.The best title for this passage may be________．
A．Internet Connection Problems
B．Internet Connections Need Improving
C. Progress in Internet Connections
D．Internet Connections Today
I work in a nursing home and my job is to take care of the elderly．
This year, a very sweet old lady that I cared for，Alice, had gone through a difficult time .She got dementia and so she had been in the hospital twice .In November I was finally able to get her back to her“home”．
Alice had thought her daughter was coming to visit her on Christmas day and that they were going to have the whole family together like the old days. When she finally realized that that happy moment was not going to happen，she was very sad．Knowing that her daughter was coming after Christmas was not enough to make her feel happy，I hated the idea of her being alone on the holiday!
On Christmas Eve，I gave her a surprise by asking if she could like to go to a candlelight service at church that night
Instead of taking her to my church，I took her to her old neighborhood church where all her friends were. We got there early and I got her a seat where her friends could see her as they came in．Then soon some of her friends came to the church and they rushed over to greet her and sit with her．
The candlelight service was beautiful and Alice got a lot of love from her old and new friends there.
The truth of the story is that I am the one who got the best gift: the smile on Alice’s face
1.The underlined word“dementia”in Paragraph 2 probably is_______
A．a house B．a letter C．an illness D．a plan
2. Where did Alice spend her Christmas Eve according to the story?
A. In her old house
B. In her old neighborhood church．
C．In the nursing home．
D. In the hospital．
3. What was the best gift that the author got on Christmas Eve?
A．The candlelight service．
B．Praise from Alice’s friends．
C．Alice’s happiness
D．Thanks from Alice’ s daughter．
4.What is the best title for this passage?
A．A special candlelight Christmas Eve
B．The dream of all old lonely lady
C．My special job
D. The true love
