阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
★Money and Happiness★
A Guide to Living the Good Life
Author: Laura Rowley
Publisher: Wiley (March 1, 2016)
Laura Rowley helps us all understand the money-happiness connection in our own lives so that we spend our time and efforts wisely. She offers insights that every reader can use to make smarter decisions that will lead to living a rich life in every possible definition of the term.
★Happiness★
The Science Behind Your Smile
Author: Daniel Nettle
Publisher: Oxford University Press (July 1, 2016)
This is the first book to look thoroughly at what happiness is and how it works. Nettle examines whether people are basically happy or unhappy, whether success can make us happy, why some people are happier than others, and much more.
★The Happiness Makeover★
How to Teach Yourself to Be Happy and Enjoy Every Day
Author: M. J. Ryan
Publisher: Broadway (May 10, 2016)
Ryan’s own desire to be happier first led her to study what is known about happiness from brain science, psychology, and the wisdom traditions of the world．The Happiness Makeover draws on this wide-ranging knowledge and presents a plan that will help you:
Clear away happiness problems like worry, fear, envy, and dislikes.
Learn to think confidently.
Find daily ways to truly enjoy, even relish, the moments of your life.
★Health and Happiness★
Hormones and Qualities Llives
Author: Steven F. Hotze
Publisher: Forrest Publishing (April, 2016)
Dr Steven Hotze is leading a wellness revolution that advances a new model of healthcare. Unlike the popular medical way of treating individual symptoms(症状) with the familiar “anti” drugs, Dr Hotze deals with the basic causes of poor health.
In Hormones, Health, and Happiness you are shown how to reach and keep the best body functioning.
Based on a process of biologically the same hormones(荷尔蒙) and other natural treatments, it can help you enjoy a better quality of life.
1.According to the passage, which of the following books was the first to come out?
A．A Guide to Living the Good Life
B．Hormones and Qualities Llives
C．How to Teach Yourself to Be Happy and Enjoy Every Day
D．The Science Behind Your Smile
2.If you want to know more about whether happiness has something to do with success, you should turn to _____________
A．Money and Happiness
B．Happiness
C．The Happiness Makeover
D．Health and Happiness
3.Whose model will possibly help readers obtain health and wellness naturally?
A．Laura Rowley’s. B．M. J. Ryan’s.
C．Daniel Nettle’s. D．Steven F. Hotze’s.
4.Which is the best title for the passage?
A．What Is Happiness?
B．Recent Books on Happiness
C．Money and Happiness
D．How to Keep Yourself Happy
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Every day, I drive home along Colorado Blvd, a wide street with four lanes on each side of the median (中央分隔带护栏).I always notice a homeless man standing on the corner of Colorado Blvd, ______ for spare change with a sign in his hand.
Last Monday, when I was ______ him, he suddenly threw down his sign and rushed into the middle of the street. At this time I ______ a car moving across the 3 lanes of traffic and heading for the median.The ______ man ran to the side of the car and attempted to push the car back in the right ______. He also knocked on the window of the vehicle, but all ______ Immediately, he ran across the small median into four lanes of oncoming traffic, ______ madly for the cars to stop. Thankfully, all speeding cars ______ to stop just in time to ______ hitting him. The car which was out of ______ came Moving across the median and the four lanes of traffic, where just seconds ago cars had been traveling with ______ speeds.
The homeless man jumped back in front of the ______ to attempt slowing it down again. By this time, we were able to ______ and help the man stop the car ______ it ran into a supermarket on the other side of the road. As it ______ out, the woman driver had a heart attack while driving and became ______ in the front seat.
The homeless man is indeed a hero. He spends every day getting ______ by people who are trying not to make ______ contact with him so that they don't feel bad not giving him money. Yet he didn't even hesitate to risk his life to save this lady and other drivers who would have ______ into her. He didn't think of his safety, nor did he expect anything in return. Heroes do exist in the most ______ places.
1.A. waiting B. begging C. standing D. answering
2.A. greeting B. leaving C. attacking D. approaching
3.A. heard B. saw C. sensed D. smelled
4.A. wealthy B. poor C. handsome D. cruel
5.A. direction B. condition C. communication D. situation
6.A. in place B. in particular C. in vain D. in common
7.A. smiling B. dancing C. acting D. signing
8.A. managed B. pretended C. intended D. decided
9.A. delay B. admit C. avoid D. risk
10.A. sight B. danger C. date D. control
11. A. slow B. top C. strange D. normal
12.A. driver B. beggar C. car D. bike
13.A. pull over B. pull out C. pull down D. pull through
14.A. since B. until C. unless D. before
15.A. takes B. picks C. turns D. points
16.A. uneasy B. unconscious C. unnecessary D. unfortunate
17.A. unnoticed B. admired C. changed D. punished
18.A. body B. face C. eye D. hand
19.A. looked B. broken C. checked D. crashed
20.A. unsafe B. unlikely C. unfair D. unwilling
He talked a lot about things and persons _____they remembered in the school.
A. which B. what
C. whom D. that
There was a time ________the boy often quarreled with his parents.
A. which B. when
C. that D. where
He is _____ his lesson _____ the final exam.
A. preparing; to B. preparing; for
C. ready; to D. ready; for
UN ____ the united Nations.
A. stands for B. mean
C. takes place of D. come from
