1.When the foreigners spoke to me in English I felt ____（尴尬）because of my poor English.
2.I would a____ it if you could tell me the result of your enquiries via Email.
3.Seeing the f____ animal in the forest, the poor boy was afraid to move.
4.With spring festival ____ (靠近), I decide to go back home to see my parents.
5._____(fortunate), she won’t be able to attend the opening ceremony of the sports meeting.
6.There are so many tourist ____(attract) in Australia that millions of people are drawn there.
7.Seventy percent of the smokers s____ by BBC said that they would like to give up.
8.In America, students and teachers are quite r__ (放松、随和) with each other .
9.Tens of thousands of people visit Shangari-la every year for its beautiful natural s____.
10.On December 31, 2002, Premier Zhu Rongji and the German chancellor attended the opening c____ of the train service.
Born into 1. poor family in Gaomi, Shandong Province on February 17, 1955, Mo Yan, 2.original name is Guan Moye, threw himself into reading and calligraphy 3. (enthusiastic) in his early years. Not only did he have a strong sense of humor, 4. he was intelligent and patient. With his attention 5. (fix) on literature, Mo Yan went on further education and received a Master’s Degree in arts from Beijing University five years later after graduating from the PLA Academy of Arts in 1986. What happened next was 6. he won China's 7. (high) literary prize — Mao Dun Literature Prize by his book Frog in 2011. To all Chinese's 8. (amaze), he became the first Chinese writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, which will certainly make great contributions to development of Chinese literature. Since then, he 9. (consider) as the best Chinese writer in modern China. Although he is famous, he is still as common as an old shoe and he doesn’t keep his readers 10. a distance.
One day, in New York, the employees of a big company returned from their lunch break and were greeted with a sign on the front door. The sign said, “Yesterday the person who had been hindering (阻碍) your ______ in this company passed away. We ______ you to join the funeral in the room that has been ______ in the gym.”
At first, all the employees were sad to ______ that one of their colleagues had died, ______after a while they started getting ______ about who this person might be.
The excitement ______ as the employees arrived at the gym to pay their last ______. Everyone wondered, “Who is this person that was hindering my growth? Well, ______he’s no longer here!”
One by one the ______ got closer to the coffin and when they looked inside it, they ______became speechless. They stood over the coffin, _____ into silence, as if someone had ______ the deepest part of their soul.
There was a mirror inside the coffin — everyone who looked inside it could see himself. There was also a ______ next to the mirror, ______“There is only one person who is capable to set _______ to your growth: it is YOU.”
You are the only person who can revolutionize (变革) your ______. You are the only person who can ______ your happiness, realization and success. You are the only person who can help yourself. Your life does not change when others change. Your life changes when you change, when you go ______ your limiting beliefs and when you realize that you are the only one ______ for your life.
1.A. performance B. progress C. program D. process
2.A. demand B. allow C. invite D. advise
3.A. started B. prepared C. opened D. designed
4.A. find B. accept C. realize D. learn
5.A. but B. and C. so D. for
6.A. serious B. obvious C. curious D. nervous
7.A. appeared B. grew C. improved D. passed
8.A. admirations B. attentions C. appreciations D. respects
9.A. at least B. at last C. at present D. at once
10.A. friends B. managers C. employees D. citizens
11.A. quickly B. finally C. obviously D. suddenly
12.A. shocked B. depressed C. upset D. embarrassed
13.A. broken B. touched C. bothered D. removed
14.A. letter B. sign C. mark D. signal
15.A. told B. warning C. saying D. written
16.A. directions B. instructions C. targets D. limits
17.A. career B. luck C. life D. business
18.A. influence B. satisfy C. exchange D. approach
19.A. for B. upon C. over D. beyond
20.A. dependable B. responsible C. suitable D. valuable
Traveling to all corners of the world gets easier and easier. We live in a global village, but this doesn’t mean that we all behave in the same way.
How should you behave when you meet someone for the first time? 1. In Japan, you should bow, and the more respect you want to show, the deeper you should bow. In Thailand, people greet each other by pressing both hands together at the chest.2.
3. In Muslim countries, you shouldn’t expose your body, especially women, who should wear long blouses and skirts. In Korea, you should take off your shoes when entering a house. Remember to place them neatly together where you come in.
In Spain, lunch is often the biggest meal of the day, and can last two or three hours. 4. In Mexico, lunch is the time to relax, and many people prefer not to discuss business as they eat. In Britain, it’s not unusual to have a business meeting over breakfast.
In most countries, an exchange of business cards is necessary for all introductions. It should include your company name and your position. If you are going to a country where your language is not widely spoken, you can get the back side of your card printed in the local language. 5.
A. For this reason, many people eat a light breakfast and a late dinner.
B. As the saying goes, "when in Rome, do as the Romans do."
C. In both countries, eye contact is avoided as a sign of respect.
D. In China, you may present your card with the writing side up.
E. An American shakes your hand while looking into your eyes.
F. Many countries have rules about what you should and shouldn’t wear.
G. Don't make any noise when you eat or drink soup.
Studies show that you may be lied to every day anywhere from 10 to 200 times. We say, “Nice song.” “Honey, you don’t look fat in that, no.” But another study showed that strangers lied three times within the first 10 minutes of meeting each other. We lie more to strangers than we lie to coworkers. Men lie eight times more about themselves than they do about other people. Women lie more to protect other people. If you’re married, you’re going to lie to your wife/ husband in one out of every 10 communications. If you’re unmarried, that number drops to three. But look, if at some point you got lied to, it’s because you agreed to get lied to. Truth about lying: lying’s a cooperative act. Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we’re willing to get lied to for social dignity(尊严), maybe to keep a private secret.
Lying is complex. It exists in our daily and business lives. We’re deeply disturbed by the truth. We explain it, sometimes for very good reasons, other times just because we don’t understand the gaps between ideals and realities in our lives. We’re against lying, but secretly we’re for it in ways that our society has practiced for centuries and centuries. It’s as old as breathing. It’s part of our culture and history. Think the stories from Dante, Shakespeare, the Bible, News of the World.
Lying has great value to the evolution of human beings. Researchers have long known that the more intelligent the species, the more likely it is to lie. We humans like to become leaders. It starts really early. How early? Well, babies will pretend to cry, pause, wait to see who’s coming and then go right back to crying. One-year-olds learn hiding truth. Five-year-olds lie outright and try to control through flattery (奉承). Nine-year-olds, masters of covering up.
So what do we do about lies? Well, there are steps we can take to guide our way through the bushes. Trained lie spotters (检测员) get to the truth 90% of the time. The rest of us, we’re only 54% right. There are clever liars and stupid liars, but there’re no real creative liars. While lying, we all make the same mistakes, and we all use the same techniques.
1.The passage tells us in the first paragraph that lying is very __________.
A. harmful B. easy
C. interesting D. common
2.Lying is complex because __________.
A. people are for it as well as against it B. it is the whole part of great culture
C. ancient stories are full of lies D. it is practiced by clever ones
3.According to the passage, a lie works when __________.
A. the liar’s words are sweet enough B. someone gives the liar cooperation
C. we are willing to lie for good reasons D. it is given to a complete stranger
4.What might the writer talk about in the following passage?
A. How to become clever liars. B. How to avoid stupid lies.
C. How to tell truth from lies. D. How to get through the bushes.
When we think about happiness, we usually think of something surprising and unexpected, a top great delight.
For a child, happiness has a magic quality. I remember playing police and robbers in the woods, getting a speaking part in the school play. Of course, kids also experience lows, but their delight at tops of pleasure is easily seen, such as winning a race or getting a new bike.
For teenagers, or people under 20, the idea of happiness changes. Suddenly it’s conditional on such things as excitement, love, and popularity. I can still feel the pain of not being invited to a party that almost everyone else was going to. I also recall the great happiness of being invited at another event to dance with a very handsome young man.
In adulthood the things that bring great joy — birth, love, marriage — also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. Love may not last; loved ones die. For adults, happiness is complex.
My dictionary explains “happy” as “lucky” or “ fortunate”, but I think a better explanation of happiness is “ the ability to enjoy something”. The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are. It’s easy for us not to notice the pleasure we get from loving and being loved, the company of friends, the freedom to love where we please, and even good health. Nowadays, with so many choices and much pleasure, we have turned happiness into one more thing we have. We think we own the right to have it, which makes us extremely unhappy. So we try hard to get it and consider it to be the same as wealth and success, without noticing that the people who have those things aren’t necessarily happier.
While happiness may be more complex for us, the answer is the same as ever. Happiness isn’t about what happens to us. It’s the ability to find a positive for every negative, and view a difficulty as a challenge. Don’t be sad for what we don’t have, but enjoy what we do possess.
1.According to this passage, Middle School students look at happiness mainly in terms of _______.
A. academic achievement B. spiritual satisfaction
C. friendship D. material gains
2.The author thinks that when one dreams wealth and finally gets it he __________.
A. can realize what happiness is B. may consider it extreme happiness
C. may not end up with happiness D. should not feel satisfied with himself
3.According to the passage, happiness lies in the ability to __________.
A. think of something pleasant B. experience delight at an old age
C. feel the magic quality of pleasure D. enjoy what one has at the moment
4.The passage aims to tell __________.
A. the constant dream of happiness B. the great importance of happiness
C. the real meaning of happiness D. the changing idea of happiness
