Researchers have shown that your talent for happiness is, to a large degree, determined by your genes（基因）.   36   We can do this by overcoming negative emotions and developing positive emotions.

Strategy（策略）1:   37 

The first step is to make a choice to be happy. In Seeking Happiness, Bertrand Russell said, “Happiness must be an achievement rather than a gift of the gods, and in this achievement, effort must play a great part.”

Once you’ve decided to be happier, you can choose strategies for achieving happiness.

Strategy 2: Develop gratitude（感激）.

In Authentic Happiness, psychologist Martin Seligman encourages readers to perform a daily “gratitude exercise”.   38 

Strategy 3: Remember, money can’t buy happiness.

Research shows:   39  Yes, “we always think that some things are wrong because they cannot bring us happiness.” writes Daniel Gilbert in Stumbling on Happiness.

Strategy 4: Take part in meaningful activities.

“People are seldom happier,” says Jackson, “than when they’re doing meaningful activities.”

Yet, he has found that the most common leisure（休闲）activity — watching TV — produces some of the lowest levels of happiness.   40   Active leisure that helps a person grow does not come easily, he writes in Finding Flow.

A. Choose to be happy.

B. Seek happiness.

C. However, psychologists believe we can pursue happiness.

D. This drives bitterness from our heart, and promotes happiness.

E. Happiness is decided by many things.

F. To get more out of life, we need to put more into it.

G. More money doesn’t often bring more happiness.

       A student who is only interested in improving his grades but doesn’t _______ his country and people is not a real “good student”.

       A. come about              B. care about      C. set about        D. dream about

假设你是小王，你的笔友Kate给你来信。请你针对信中Kate遇到的问题进行回复，给她提出建议。
Dear Xiao Wang，
  How are you?
  I am having trouble with my deskmate Jenny at the moment. Last week，we had a maths test. The test was important and everyone had prepared for it except Jenny. During the test，she asked me to help her. I refused and didn’t let her copy from my paper. As a result，she failed the test. She is angry with me and hasn’t talked to me since then. Now I don’t know how to deal with this problem. Can you give me some advice?
  I’m looking forward to your reply.
                                                              Yours，
                                                                Kate

词数120左右(开头与结尾已给出，不计入总词数)。

Dear Kate，
    I’m sorry you are having trouble with your friend. Here are some tips that may help you.
________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
    Best wishes.
                                                            Yours，
                                                            Xiao Wang

91. In the northeast of the campus is the playground. It is                        (三倍大) that of my Junior High school.

92. After school, the male teachers invite some students to                      (参加) activities such as playing basketball and football.

93. Her teaching style is                         (一点也不像)that of most other teachers.

94. I’m                  (盼望着) making progress in English under her instruction(在她的指导下).

95. It’s                     (远离) the center of the city, so it’s very peaceful here.

96. To                    (确保) each of us understands her lessons, she adopts many lively teaching methods which are nothing like those of other teachers’.

97. I believe that I’ll                 (取得进步)                         (有她教我们).

98. Considering good learning habits are equally important, she                         (不仅) teaches us knowledge                    (而且) spends much time helping us develop our learning habits.

The Winner's Guide to Success

How do successful people think? What helps them to make success? To find out the answers,an American scholar recently visited some-of the most successful people in America._46

Be responsible for yourself

Sometimes you may want to blame others for your failure to get ahead.  47  . You' re saying, "You have more control over my life than I do. " .

Live life "on purpose"

Almost all successful people live life "on purpose" - they are doing what they believe they should and want to do. When you live your life on purpose, you' ll try your best to do your job or study as well as you can. You love what you do and you can find pleasure in what you do.

Write a plan .      .

It is very difficult trying to get what you want without a good plan. 48  A good plan is like a map to you. Without this “map”, you may wast you time, money and also your energy; while with the  "map"  you' 11 enjoy the  "trip"and get what you want in the shortest possible time.

Be willing to pay the price

Nothing great is easy to get. So you must be ready to work hard - even harder than you have ever done.If you are not willing to pay the price, you won't get anything valuable.

Never give up

      49  When you are doing something, you must tell yourself again and again: Giving up is worse than failure because failure can be the mother of success, but giving up means the death of hope. 

   50

  Once an American writer was writing a novel. He could not have a good ending for his book until one night when he had a very good idea. . He was so excited that he made a phone call to one of his best friends.   "I' ve got a perfect idea, "  he said,  "I'll put it down later and show it to you. "But he never did. He died of a serious disease later . His book was left without a perfect ending. So remember, do what you can right away. Never delay at all.

A. It is just like trying to-drive through strange roads to a city far away.

B. It seems to us that everyone knows this, But it is easier said than done.

C. Some people achieve success much later in life because they fail to realize earlier the importance of hard work.    .

D. In fact, when you say someone or something outside of yourself is stopping you from making success,  you' re giving away your own power.

E.  Someone else' s opinion of you doesn't have to become your reality.      .

F.  Don' t delay.

G. Here are some keys to success that they give.

1.  Wear a hat to protect yourself ______ the sun.

2.  The article is good, _________ for a few spelling mistakes.

3.  _____ total, for more than 375 million people, English is their mother tongue.

4.  ---- What should a friend be _____?

    ---- I think a friend should be friendly.

Five steps to better handwriting

Some kids love handwriting, but others hate when it’s time to put their pen to paper. Maybe they are worried about their handwriting. Are you one of them? 36 Here are five steps that really work!

Get a great grasp

Try this — hold your pencil at the top and try to write your name. Pretty hard? But when you hold your pencil the correct way, writing is much easier. 37 Hold it in place with your thumb, and your index (食指) and middle fingers.

Let the lines be your guide

Lined paper is your friend! Those lines can help you create letters that are the right size and proportion (均衡). 38 Also be sure to fill up the lined space completely. Those capital letters should be from the bottom line to the top one.

Slow down

If your writing is hard to read, try slowing down a little. If you rush, it’s hard to control where you stop and start your letters.

Lower the pressure (压力)

39That makes it harder to make the smooth lines. Try easing up and don’t hold the pencil too tightly.

40

Lots of games require you to write or draw pictures. So even though it’s not schoolwork, you’re still using the skills you need to control your pen better.

A. So “a” should be half the height of a capital “A”. 

B. You’ve been writing since you were a little kid.

C. Some kids press down really hard when they write. 

D. The good news is that just about everyone can improve their handwriting. 

E. The best way to hold a pen or pencil is to let it rest next to the base of your thumb. 

F. Play games

G. Ask for more advice

什么是最好的学习方法，在这个问题上学生中存在较大分歧。有人认为独立学习好，有人认为与他人合作学习好。而你的老师建议采用合作学习的方法。请以“The Best Way to Learn”为题，用英语写一篇短文，陈述你的看法。

内容要点如下：

1. 你喜欢独立学习（或：与他人合作学习），并简述理由；

2. 老师建议的学习方法是合作学习（或：独立学习）；

3. 你对老师建议的看法

4. 你的学习效果

字数：120 左右（开头部分已给出）

参考词汇：独立学习：study alone   合作学习： study in groups

The Best Way to Learn

There is a growing debate about the most effective ways of study among the students.

 He played a trick _____ Alice and he had to apologize ______treating her to a nice lunch.

   A. on, for       B. in, by       C. on, to         D. on, by

__________, I am sure that the boy is honest.

A. Whatever people say    B. No matter people say

C. What people say    D. It doesn’t matter people say

   With modern technology, much written communication tends to focus on the keyboard, but handwriting is still a necessary and important skill.   36   Here are some tips for you to improve your handwriting.

   Examine Your Handwriting

    ___ 37   Look through your writing to decide what makes it difficult to read or what makes it unattractive. Perhaps you write your letters too small. Check on spacing of letters and words, and proper formation of letters. If your letters are small, put more effort into writing larger letters. If certain letters trip you up, practice those letters separately and within words.

   Write Correctly

   Positioning and technique play a role in how your handwriting looks. Hold the pen between your thumb and first two fingers so that it rests against your fingers. Hold it firmly enough to control the tip but not so hard that it hurts your fingers. Lighter pressure on the paper helps you create smooth lines and focus on your letter formation.   38

   ___39 

   Letters are formed from several basic strokes(笔划). Practice those strokes separately to get your hand used to forming them. Strokes found in letters include vertical lines, horizontal lines, and circles. Build on those to practice specific letters.

   Write for a Purpose

   Teach young children handwriting in meaningful contexts. Use that same idea by picking up a pen to write lists and notes by hand instead of typing. Keep a journal daily with slow, correct strokes.   40   These true and sincere writing opportunities make the practice meaningful.

A. Build on Basics.

B. Practice makes perfect

C. Focus on improving your correctness instead of speed

D. Writing at a slower speed also helps you focus on letter formation

E. Put a handwritten letter in the mail to surprise a friend or a relative

F. Handwriting requires your brain, eyes and hands to work together to form letters.

G. Before you can improve your handwriting, you need to know where you’re falling apart.

 It’s said that the power plant is now       large as what it was before.

A. twice as    B. as twice     C. twice much   D. much twice

We are all time travelers on a journey into the future. However, we are not tourists with guides who can tell us just what lies ahead. Instead, we are explorers in an unknown area.

In our personal lives, we often feel the unknown in our future when we start college, take a new job, or open a business. We never can be sure what will happen to us. But the great explorers of the past would tell us that we have a better chance of succeeding if we prepare ourselves as well as possible.

Though those explorers are not here to advise us personally, we have descriptions of their expeditions(探险), and from these we can draw the lessons they would have offered for our journey into the unknown future. Reading records of great expeditions, we notice that the explorers prepared very carefully for their journeys. Their success depended on having the right equipment, the right supplies, the right teammates, and the right training.

So the first lesson of the great explorers is: Prepare for what you will face in the future. That may seem obvious, yet many people today see no point in preparing or even thinking about the future. “Let’s not worry about the future until we get there,” they say. The great explorers would have no use for such a person. Only a fool would imagine that problems will sit patiently waiting until we find a way to clear them up. However, problems may rush upon us at the worst possible moment, and our very survival can depend on how well we have prepared for them

Good preparation can work for us today as we plan how to deal with what we have to face. The well –prepared student does well on exams; the well-prepared job hunter gets hired. Most of us may think we have learned this lesson long ago, but we often seem to forget.

36. Why were the great explorers able to succeed?

A. They had much knowledge.

B. They were extremely brave.

C. They made careful preparations.

D. They read stories about expeditions.

37. They under lined word “they” in Paragraph 4 refers to those who        .

A. respect great explorers

B. like making expeditions

C. always worry about the future

D. refuse to prepare for the future

38. The author describes the fool to show that we should             .

A. avoid doing tasks with fools

B. be calm at the worst moments

C. get ready for possible problems

D. find ways to deal with problems

39. Many people today are likely to forget that     .

A. it is important to learn how to predict the future

B. good preparation may lead to a good future

C. hard-working students do well on exams

D. a business needs well-prepared workers

40. The author expresses his opinion in the text      .

A. by using the examples of explorers

B. by following the order of time

C. by presenting research findings

D. by introducing a practical method

How many men do housework? Recently a European commission (委员会) tried to find out people's ideas and reactions to the women's movement. As part of their survey (调查), they asked many men and women the question: “Who does the housework?” The men answered very differently from the women!

　　The housework they asked people about were: preparing meals, washing dishes, cleaning the house and babysitting. 48% of British husbands said they did these things. 37% of Danish men helped in the house. But only 15% of Italian men said they did the housework; many of them said they never helped at all.

　　But there was an interesting point of view from the wives. According to British wives, only 35% of their husbands helped in the house. And Italian wives said that their husbands hardly ever helped. The Italian and British men did not tell the truth! The Commission found that Danish men were the most trustful husbands; their answers were the same as their wives' answers.

　　Do the men you know help in the house? Do you think the survey gives a true picture in your experience?

11. The subject for the survey is _______ .

A. who does the housework at home

　 B. how many boys do the housework

　 C. how many women do the housework 

　 D. who are more diligent, wives or husbands

12. More _______ husbands help in the house than _______ husbands.

A. Danish; British     B. Italian; Danish

C. British; Danish     D. Italian; British

13. The survey shows that _______ husbands were the most trustful.

A. Italian   B. Danish   C. British    D. Both A and B

14.The followings are the housework of the survey except _________.

A. preparing meals        B. washing dishes

C. remove the weeds in the garden

D. cleaning the house and babysitting.

15.Which word has the same meaning as “trustful”?

A. brave     B. cheerful    C. modern    D. honest

 When friends come to visit us in the evening, they spend their time telling us that they are in a hurry and looking at their watches. It isn’t that our friends are all very busy. It is just that we haven’t got a TV set. People think that we are very strange. “but what do you do in the evenings?” they are always asking. The answer is simple. Both my wife and I have hobbies. We certainly don’t spend our evenings staring at the walls. My wife enjoys cooking and painting and often attends evening classes in foreign languages. This is particularly useful as we always go abroad for our holidays. I collect stamps and I am always busy with my collection. Both of us enjoy listening to music and playing chess together.

 Sometimes there are power cuts and we have no electricity in the house. This does not worry us. We just light candles and carry on with what we were doing before. Our friends are lost ---no televisions! So they don’t know what to do. On such evenings our house is very full as they all come to us. They all have a good time. Instead of sitting in silence in front of the television, everybody talks and plays games. Yes, life is possible without television!

1. The writer’s friends are in a hurry to leave when they visit him in the evening because _____

  A. they have a lot of things to do at home

  B. they don’t want to stay too long at someone else’s home

  C. they are always busy with their work

  D. they want to go back home to watch TV

2. When there is no electricity, the writer’s friends _____.

  A. can’t see anything at home     

   B. don’t know how to spend their evening

  C. do something else by the candle’s light at home

  D. stay at home and wait until electricity is on again

3. The story tells us that _____.

  A. the writer and his wife don’t like watching TV

  B. watching TV wastes too much time

   C. we can manage to live without television

  D. the writer and his wife have a lot of hobbies            

假定你是新华中学的学生会主席李华，你校学生会将举办一次音乐周活动。请根据提示内容给你市留学生协会主席史密斯先生写一份电子邮件，并请他邀请更多的外国留学生来参加。

注意：1. 100字左右（开头和结尾已给出，但不计入总词数）；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：留学生协会 Overseas-Study Association  音乐周 Music Week

Dear Mr. Smith,

___________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

                                              Yours sincerely,

Li Hua  

71. He had lost his i________ card and was being questioned by the police.

72. Last winter it was e________ cold and many of their sheep froze to death.

73. The place was t________ from a quiet farming village into a busy port.

74. I’d recognize your handwriting anywhere — it’s u________.

75. The Olympic winner received a gold medal as an a________.

76. This job is so boring.I wish I could do something more ___ (创造性的) .

77. The task requires ________ (非凡的) patience and courage.

78. Victor, like his author, is a Jew, born into a poor ________ (移民的) family.

79. There were at least three g________ — grandparents, parents and children — at the wedding.

80. Mr. Wang _______ (代表) the company at the trade conference last year.

I have decided to test myself every day in a different way. Today’s test: practice the art of __41__. It is something so simple, but so ____42____ to those who need a kind heart and a good listener. Sometimes, we all need someone to listen to us with no ___43_____. We just want to be heard. ___44____, I really made sure that I listened to everyone who spoke to me throughout the day, ___45____ I was busy.

As I was __46____ in the break room today, I had a conversation with a colleague I __47_____ talked to. She always looked like a(n) ___48____ lady, but today she seemed very troubled. So I sat down with my lunch and just listened. She told me about her unlucky __49_____ who was killed in a car crash last year, and her ___50____ daughter who struggled with pain every day. I listened and made her ___51____ much better. At the end of the ___52____, I gave the single mother a big warm hug and told her how ___53____ she was. Of course, we ___54____ friends after our first talk.

What an inspiration she is! __55_____ with so many difficulties and frustrations, she still comes to work with a positive attitude, a __56_____ to succeed and a big smile every day.

I believe everyone ___57____ a ray of sunshine in their life, someone that will give them a big warm ___58____ and say, “You’re amazing!” I hope I can always get need like this met.

I am a dreamer, but I move forward while I dream. My dream is to ___59____ happiness. Tomorrow, I will write “You are beautiful!” on small cards, hide them everywhere, and make those I work with ___60____ them by chance and with joy.

       Two runners stand side by side at the starting line of a race. Both look every strong and fast. __21__ one runner speeds ahead and wins the race. The other falls behind.

       Some sportsmen can reach great goals__22_ the achievement of an Olympic gold medal while others__23__live up to their promise. What kind of __24_ before a race or other event makes the __25__?

       Everyone knows that sportsmen work out to strengthen（加强） their __26_. But research shows that strengthening the mind may be just as __27__. Careful study shows that the best sportsmen win __28__ because they think they can win.

Thinking positive(乐观的) thoughts seems to give possibility for __29__ in sports. People who say to themselves over and over, “I know I can do this,” often find they have the __30__ to win. On the other hand, people who think “I can’t win” often __31__.

       One procedure（步骤）that helps many sportsmen is creating __32__ in the mind. They are told to think of each __33__ they must make to win. Some use pictures that are more fanciful. One skater liked to __34__ a star bursting inside her, __35__ her with energy. Another sportsman who wanted to feel __36__ pictured himself as a __37__ floating(漂浮) in the air.

       Next time you want to do something well, try training your __38__ to help you. Perhaps a teacher or other instructor can help you plan your training. If you imagine yourself doing better, you may soon see __39__ in what you __40__ can do. Positive thinking and picture created in your mind can help you win!

21．A. Therefore             B. And                    C. But                         D. While

22．A. for example                   B. so on            C. in all                   D. such as

23．A. always                          B. never            C. sometimes        D. not

24.A. preparation               B. picture          C. plan                        D. working

25．A. same               B. difference          C. most                       D. best

26．A. mind                      B. thought      C. bodies                    D. legs

27．A. important             B. interesting          C. possible                  D. correct

28．A. mostly                           B. almost               C. partly             D. nearly

29．A. success            B. goals              C. win                         D. failure

30．A. disadvantage                 B. advantage          C. luck                   D. hope

31．A. fail                            B. succeed             C. win                   D. pass

32．A. ideas                    B. pictures         C. thoughts     D. movements

33． A. move                          B. step             C. jump              D. place

34．A. think                         B. imagine                   C. hope                       D. wish

35．A. giving                     B. helping      C.filling            D.supporting

36．A. calm                             B. excited                    C. encouraged             D. happy

37．A. fish                      B. bird                C. cat             D. horse

38．A. body                        B. mind                C. thoughts        D. imagination

39．A. improvement                 B. advantage       C. chance              D. winning

40．A. usually                   B. really           C. possibly        D. mostly

 The young man was glad that his experience as a cook in the army finally _______.

   A. paid off           B. paid for      C. paid up          D. paid back