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1.We should take a positive attitude _______failures in our life.
2.The price of a car is much higher than _________of a bike.
3.It has been three years ________ we last saw each other.
4.I would appreciate ____ if you could help me with my English.
5.He wrote many books, two of_________ have been published so far.
6._____________(fortunate), only one person was killed in the terrible accident.
7.With everything he needed ______________(buy),he went home happily.
8.Before taking the medicine, please read the ______________(instruct) carefully.
9.I would rather ________(stay) at home than go out on such a rainy day.
10.From his ____________(disappoint) look,we know that he failed the maths exam again.
11.Please remember ________(lock) the door when you leave the office.
12.You must take the mistakes you made _______________(serious).
13.The old house _____________(build) more than 100 years ago is being repaired.
14.Nowadays ,many people abandon themselves to ___________(play) computer games.
15.My mother ______________(leave) for Beijing tomorrow to attend an import meeting there .
16.With their help and _______________（encourage) , I have made rapid progress recently.
17.I have been waiting for an hour and I am getting _________(patient).
18.His daughter ______________(admit) to a famous university last year.
19.The new teacher made a good _________________(impress) on the students.
20.The little boy sat in front of the farmhouse,____________(look) at the birds flying in the sky.
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I am taught by many teachers in my school. Every subject has a 1.(differ) teacher, but I like my math teacher 2. (well). Her name is Lakshmi but we usually call her Ma’am. She is our class teacher too.
Ma’am 3. (join) us last term. She is very kind and her way of 4. (teach) is so interesting and simple that we all can understand what is being taught and how it could be done. Most 5. (important), Ma’am teaches math with lots of patience. 6. we do not understand a problem, she will spend extra time 7. (guide) us until we understand it. And we can go to her at any time during school hours for help.
She also helps us with activities at school. When there are8.(program), she will be there to help us to get ready for the show. Even when we go on picnics, she takes good care of 9..
To me, Ma’am is not only 10. good teacher, but also our best friend. I love Ma’am and I wish her a happy life.
Life will be peaceful if you always do kind things. I teach my daughters to develop a habit of ______ others. The little acts of ______ give you chances to provide service for others. They can make you feel how ______ it is to be kind and helpful.
We ______ in a rural (乡村的) area. Most of what we ______ is beautiful nature. One of the exceptions to the ______ is the rubbish that some people throw out of their car windows as they drive along the rural roads. One of the few ______ of living there is short of ______ public services，such as rubbish collection，which is common in the ______.
A helping behavior that I practice regularly with my daughters is ______ rubbish in our neighborhood. My daughters often have a match to see who can collect the most rubbish. They will often say to me in a(n) ______ voice, “There’s some rubbish，Daddy—______ the car！” And if we have time,we will often get out of our car and pick it up. ______ it may seem strange, we do it. In fact, we ______it. We pick up rubbish in parks, on sidewalks, almost anywhere.
One day I saw a stranger picking up rubbish on the road. I stopped. He ______ his head and smiled，“I saw you doing this with your family. It’s a good ______ to protect our environment.”
There are many other ways to ______ kindness for others. You may share a dinner with a beggar，visit ______ old people in the nursing home，or help the blind ______ the street. You can thinkof something that can be finished ______ but helpful. It is fun, selfsatisfying, and what’s more, it can set a good example. Helping others is helping yourself.
1.A. watching B. helping C. welcoming D. teaching
2.A. carefulness B. peace C. kindness D. interest
3.A. great B. unusual C. easy D. sad
4.A. work B. travel C. live D. stay
5.A. dream B. see C. need D. develop
6.A. environment B. weather C. area D. beauty
7.A. disadvantages B. favorites C. wishes D. answers
8.A. comfortable B. necessary C. modern D. excellent
9.A. sky B. village C. city D. street
10.A. picking up B. looking for C. taking away D. laughing
11.A. surprised B. tired C. excited D. angry
12.A. speed B. start C. move D. stop
13.A. Although B. But C. And D. Since
14.A. understand. B. experience C. forget D. enjoy
15.A. covered B. lowered C. shook D. raised
16.A. sport B. idea C. result D. question
17.A. describe B. buy C. provide D. make
18.A. puzzled B. successful C. healthy D. lonely
19.A. clean B. cross C. repair D. draw
20.A. suddenly B. impossibly C. easily D. hardly
Nobody can live without money. 1. However, money cannot buy everything. You can’t buy the following things only relying on money you have.
Time
Money is a tool for trade. We spend most of our time in getting, spending, worrying and fantasizing（想象）about money. 2. Instead, money takes away your time that could have been spent playing with your children or having a long walk with your friends. When the sun sets, a day goes away from our life forever. No money has power to bring that back to life.
Self-respect
There are a lot of examples to prove that no money can buy self-respect. 3. If you are your worst enemy, gods of money can’t save you from the self-destruction（自毁）you add to yourself.
Health
As I write this, I find that one of my best friends has brain cancer, and it is in the last period. 4. But no money can buy insurance for his life. We buy insurance for just about everything including our life but money can never bring our life back.
Happiness
This is doubtful. Money can buy happiness if it is spent bringing greater financial safety for the family. 5. Going after money every day can never find its destination（目的地，终点）with great eagerness（渴望）to get more.
A.Show your respect for others.
B.Self-respect is got from within.
C.Money can buy a lot of things.
D.You can’t buy time or save it in your storeroom.
E.Of course money can give him the best health care.
F.So you should not try your best to earn money without caring about your health.
G.But money can’t buy happiness if the purpose is to make much more money.
New research has found that even if you give up smoking,the damage it has done to your genes（基因）will stay there for a much longer time.
In the research,a team of US scientists studied the blood of 16,000 people.Among them, some were smokers,some used to smoke,and the rest were non-smokers.Scientists compared their genes and found that more than 7,000 genes of smokers had changed a number that is one-third of known human genes.
According to NBC News,both heart disease and cancer are caused by genetic changes. Some people may have had the changes when they were born,but most people get them in their day-to-day lives while doing things like smoking.
When you stop smoking,a lot of these genes will return to normal within five years.This means your body is trying to heal（治愈）itself of the harmful effects of smoking.But the changes in some of the genes stay for longer.They can stay for as long as 30 years.It’s almost like leaving a footprint on wet cement（水泥）— it will always be there, even when you’ve walked away and when the cement becomes dry.
Although the study results may make people unhappy,there is a bright side: the findings could help scientists invent medicine to treat genetic damage caused by smoking or find ways to tell which people have heart disease or cancer ricks.
1.The function of Paragraph 1 is to ______________.
A. give an example B. show the main idea of the passage
C. make an argument D. introduce the topic of the passage
2.Most genetic changes happen because of ____________.
A. people's bad living habits B. environmental pollution
C. people's condition at birth D. heart disease and cancer
3.The underlined word "it" in Paragraph 4 refers to ________________.
A. the cement B. the footprint
C. the harmful D. the genetic change
4.Which of the following statements is true?
A. The findings help to find treatments for genetic damage caused by smoking.
B. The findings have prevented more people from starting smoking.
C. The findings offer evidence that a damaged gene can heal itself.
D. The findings are the fruit of more than three years' research
I was in a rush as always,but this time it was for an important date I just couldn’t be late for! Thinking of my upcoming evening,I hurried into a store to pick up some flowers,for I did not want to be late for this date.
when I paid the bill at a checkout counter ,I found myself behind an elderly woman who seemed in no hurry when she paid for her groceries.She looked up at me and smiled.It was a nice smile –warm and friendly –and I returned her gift by smiling back.
“Must be a special lady,no matter who will be getting those beautiful flowers,” she said.
“Yes,she’s special,” I said,and then to my embarrassment,the words kept coming out.
“It’s only our second date,but somehow I am just having the feeling that she’s ‘the one’. Jokingly,I added,“The only problem is that I can’t understand why she’d want to date a guy like me.”
“Well,I think she’s very lucky to have a boyfriend who brings her such lovely flowers and who is obviously in love with her,” the woman said.” “My husband used to bring me flowers every week –even when times were hard and we didn’t have much money.Those were wonderful days; he was very romantic and – of course – I miss him after he died.
I paid for my flowers as she was gathering up her groceries. I walked up to her, touched her on the shoulder and said,“You were right,you know.These flowers are indeed for a very special lady.” I handed her the flowers and thanked her for such a nice conversation.
It took her a moment to realize that I was giving her the flowers I had just bought.“You have a wonderful evening,” I said.I left her with a big smile and my heart warmed as I saw her smelling the beautiful flowers.
I remember being slightly late for my date that night and telling my girlfriend the above story.A couple of years later,when I finally worked up the courage to ask her to marry me,she told me that the story I had told her that night helped me win her heart.
1.Why was the writer in a hurry that day?
A. He had to pick up some groceries B. He had to go back to school soon.
C. He was delayed by an elderly lady. D. He was to meet his girlfriend.
2.What does the underlined phrase “her gift”(Paragraph 2) refer to?
A. Her words. B. Her flowers.
C. Her smile D. her politeness.
3.Why did the writer give his flowers to the elderly lady?
A. She told him a nice story. B. She gave him encouragement.
C. She allowed him to pay first. D. She liked flowers very much.
4.What does the writer want to tell us by sharing his story?
A. Flowers are important for a date. B. Small talk is helpful.
C. Love and kindness are meaningful. D. Elderly people should be respected.
