[1]Everyone has periods in his life when everything seems very hard, when there’s nobody to talk to and the mood is just getting worse and worse. There are some things that may help you lift up your mood.

[2]The first thing you should try is socializing and thinking positively. It is very hard, because usually when we feel depressed we lock ourselves at home and try to think about all the bad character issues we have. But if you try to force yourself and call a friend for a cup of coffee, the chances of changing your mood into a better one are very good. _____ Instead, try to think only about the bright side of your life. Don’t forget: We are what we think we are.

[3]You should also try doing something only for yourself, something totally selfish. This could be something you wanted for a long time: maybe a short trip, a coat, a ring or anything that could lift up your mood. This doesn’t have to be extravagant or costly. The point of all these is being good to yourself.

[4]Giving presents to yourself can lift up your mood. What’s more, buying things to others may be a perfect way to feel happy. Think of your friends, families, relatives or even local charities, choose one person and give him a gift that doesn’t have to be something expensive or big. It may be just a little toy to your poor neighbor’s child. Making another person feel happy will make you feel good in your heart and mind.

[5]Meeting a positive person should be very useful. Just try to keep your problems off the conversation. The idea here is to get out of your shell and have some interaction. Get involved with someone else and your mind will take a turn as well.

76. What’s the main idea of this passage? (no more than 8 words)

77. Complete the following statement with proper words. (no more than 4 words)

It’s better to get out of _______________  and do something together with others.

78. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. (no more than 6 words)

79. List three ways that can lift up your mood, according to the text. (no more than 16 words)

①___________________  ②___________________  ③____________________

80. What does the word “It” (line 4, Paragraph 4) probably refer to? (no more than 3 words)

Good readers know that reading isn’t just about knowing words — it’s a way of thinking. Smart readers think before, during and after reading. Here are some tips that may be of some help.

    Think before you read. Before you read the text, ask yourself the questions why you are reading it and what you want to get from it. Answering the questions will help you choose what words you need to know and what words you can skip or scan.

    Think while you are reading. Can you get the meaning of the text without looking up new words in a dictionary? Are there any clues in the text? A text will often give examples that may help you understand what some of the words mean. Let’s take the following sentence for example: Many large Russian cities, such as Chelyabinsk and Irkutsk, have taken steps to protect their culture. The words “Chelyabinsk” and “Irkutsk” may be new to us, but the sentence tells us that they are examples of ______.

    Think after you read. Do you understand the text? What is the main idea of the text? Can you guess the meaning of the new words? Which words do you need to look up? Is the text too easy or too hard for you?

    If you practice reading and thinking in this way you will become a smarter reader and you will learn faster and better.

25. This passage is probably taken from _______.

A. a newspaper for general readers     B. a magazine for language teachers

C. a book for language learners          D. an advertisement for a new book

26. Which of the following can best be put in the blank in the passage?

A. countries             B. mountains             C. rivers             D. cities

27. The author of the passage advises us to do all the following EXCEPT_______.

A. we should think before, while and after we read a passage

B. we’d better look up every new word in a dictionary

C. we should learn to guess the meanings of new words

D. the clues in a passage should be made use of

As a matter of fact, we do meet now and then, but not        .

A. regularly        B. actually              C. gradually          D. normally

One day a mother brought home a small   26  and gave it to her little girl on her birthday. She told her little girl that the jar was   27  , and that she could write to her mommy about anything in the world and then put it in the jar. And    28   , in its place, there would be a    29    for her. Soon the jar became a special part of their lives.

       The little girl loved to get   30    from her mommy. They always told her how  31      she was. Sometimes, too, there would be a little     32         in the jar with a note telling her how   33   her mommy was of her. She   34   all of her mommy’s letters in a pretty box by her bed.

       The mother     35        each of her little girl's letters, too. As the years went by, that little girl  36       into a young lady and then got married and started a      37   of her own. For the first time, the jar sat   38  . The mother dusted the jar every day and sometimes looked inside,   39    sadly that the magic jar years had to end.

       One day the young lady came to   40  her mother. She went straight to her mother's room, opened the chest at the end of her bed, and found what she was looking for. She  41   a piece of paper and put it in the jar, and   42  it to her mother. The mother opened the magic jar and there was that note from so long ago, "You're going to be a      43   !"

And when that baby boy was born months later, there was the jar   44  in his nursery (育儿室) with a blue bow tied around it, and a note that read,"Magic jar years never 45  : they are always just beginning."

26. A. jar       B. box        C. bag         D. toy

27. A. worthy   B . magic      C. beautiful   D. cheap

28. A. thus         B. somewhat C. later          D. anyway

29. A. doll      B. candy         C. book     D. note

30. A. letters    B. sweets        C. flowers         D. gifts

31. A. fat           B. special           C. ordinary    D. wise

32. A. air           B. love        C. present   D. money

33. A. ashamed   B. afraid          C. tired     D. proud

34. A. kept        B. hid          C. buried     D. forgot

35. A. marked      B. treasured  C. counted     D. numbered

36. A. developed    B. turned        C. grew           D. fell

37. A. business     B. factory   C. shop        D. home

38. A. empty    B. straight         C. full       D. shining

39. A. judging           B. remembering       C. realizing     D. knowing

40. A. treat       B. award            C. visit       D. notice

41. A. designed    B. cut        C. prepared    D. folded

42. A. handed    B. fell           C. posted          D. sent

43. A. hero      B. grandma    C. beginner    D. mother

44. A. hanging   B. placing        C. sitting           D. lying

45. A. disappear  B. sell           C. break           D. end

   Alexis, 17, sat quietly in the passenger seat of her dad’s car. She let her eyes lazily scan the landscape for wildlife. Then a deer came into view about 200 yards in front of them. “Dad, there’s a deer there!” Alexis said. It was a male deer with sharp antlers (角) on each side of its head.

   As the car moved closer, Alexis saw that the deer’s head was bent toward the ground. Then she heard a scream and saw an arm fly up near the deer’s head. Alexis realized the deer was attacking a woman. Sue, a 44-year-old mother, had been out for her morning run. The deer followed her and edged closer. “I knew I was in trouble,” Sue says. She went to pick up a stick for self-defense, and the deer charged. It lifted her with its antlers and threw her into the air. Sue could feel blood flew down her leg. Within seconds, the deer had pushed her off the road.

   When Alexis and her father pulled up, the deer was throwing Sue like a doll. Alexis looked into the woman’s terrified eyes, and before her father had even stopped the car, the teenager jumped quickly out of the car and ran toward the deer. “I was kicking it to get its attention,” she says. Then her father, who had followed his daughter, pushed the deer away from the woman.

   Alexis helped Sue into the car, and then applied a piece of cloth to Sue’s injured leg. “We’re going to get you to a hospital,” Alexis said. Then she heard her father shout loudly. He had been knocked to the ground. Alexis took hold of a hammer from the car and ran to where her father lay on his back. She beat the deer’s head and neck, but the blows didn’t scare it away. “I was losing faith,” she says. “A couple more strikes, Alexis,” said her father. “You can do it.” Turning the hammer around, Alexis closed her eyes and beat the deer’s neck with all her strength. When she opened her eyes, the deer was running away. Alexis got in the driver’s seat and sped toward the nearest hospital.

   After Sue was treated, she tearfully thanked her rescuers. “You expect a teenage girl to get on the phone and call for help,” she says, “not to beat up a deer.”

24. What was Sue doing when she was attacked by the deer?

   A. She was driving home.                         B. She was taking exercise.  

   C. She was resting on the road.               D. She was feeding wild animals.

25. What did Alexis do to save Sue?

   A. She pushed the deer away.                  B. She beat the deer with a hammer.

   C. She drove the car to hit the deer.        D. She hit the deer with her feet.

26. Which of the following words can best describe Alexis?

   A. Strong.                     B. Cruel.                     C. Energetic.               D. Brave.

27. What is the best title for the passage?

   A. A Woman Was Seriously Injured                 

   B. A Dangerous Deer Attacked a Woman

   C. A Girl Rescued Her Father Successfully            

   D. A Teenager Saved Others from a Deer Attack

Most episodes (片段) of absent-mindedness—forgetting where you left something or wondering why you just entered a room—are caused by a simple lack of attention.” says Schacter. “You’re supposed to remember something, but you haven’t encoded it deeply.”

“Encoding”, Schacter explains, “is a special way of paying attention to an event that has a major effect on remembering it later. Failure to encode properly can create annoying situations. If you put your mobile phone in a pocket, for example, and don’t pay attention to what you did because you’re involved in a conversation, you’ll probably forget that the phone is in the jacket now hanging in your wardrobe (衣柜).” “Your memory itself isn’t failing you,” says Schacter. “Rather, you didn’t give your memory system the information it needed.”

Lack of interest can also lead to absent-mindedness. “A man who can recite sports statistics from 30 years ago,” says Zelinski, “may not remember to drop a letter in the mailbox.” Women have slightly better memories than men, possibly because they pay more attention to their environment. And memory depends on just that.

“Reminders can help prevent absent-mindedness,” says Schacter. “But be sure the reminder is clear and available,” he says. If you want to remember to take medicine with lunch, put it on the kitchen table— don’t leave it in the medicine chest and write yourself a note that you keep in a pocket.

Another common episode of absent-mindedness: walking into a room and wondering why you’re there. Most likely, you were thinking about something else. “Everyone does this from time to time,” says Zelinski. The best thing to do is to return to where you were before entering the room, and you’ll likely remember.

32. Why does the writer think that encoding is important?

A. It helps us understand our memory system better.

B. It enables us to remember something from our memory.

C. It expands our memory ability greatly.

D. It slows down the process of losing our memory.

33. Why can a note in the pocket hardly serve as a reminder?

A. Because it will easily get lost.                                         B. Because it’s not dear enough for you to read.

C. Because it’s out of your sight.                                        D. Because it might get mixed up with other things.

34. What do we learn from the last paragraph?

A. If we pay more attention to one thing, we might forget another.

B. Memory depends to a certain extent on the environment.

C. Doing something again helps improve our memory.

D. If we keep forgetting things, we’d better return to where we were.

35. What is the passage mainly about?

A. The process of gradual memory loss.

B. The causes of absent-mindedness.

C. The influence of the environment on memory.

D. A way of encoding and remembering.

   A little boy invited his mother to attend his elementary school's first teacherparent meeting. To the little boy's　36　，she said she would go. This would be the 37 time that his classmates and teacher met his mother and he was embarrassed（难堪的）by her 38　.

   Although she was a beautiful woman，there was a severe scar（伤疤）that 39 　 nearly the entire（整个） right side of her face. The boy 40 wanted to talk about why or how she got the scar. At the meeting，the people were 41by the kindness and natural　42 of his mother despised(鄙视）the scar，43 the little boy was still embarrassed and　44 himself from everyone. He could hear clearly the 45　 between his mother and his teacher，and heard them speaking. 46 did you get the scar on your face？” the teacher asked.

   The mother replied，“When my son was a baby，he was in a room that caught on fire. Everyone was too 47　to go in because the fire was out of control，so I went in.　48　 I was running towards his bed，I saw a beam(横梁） coming down and I placed myself 49　trying to protect him.I was  50  unconscious（失去知觉） but fortunately，a fireman came in and 51 both of us，” she touched the 52 side of her face.“This scar will be permanent（永久的），but to this day，I have never  53　doing what I did.”

   At this point，the little boy came out 　54　towards his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her and felt a great 　55　of the sacrifice（牺牲） that his mother had made for him .He held her hand tightly（紧紧地） for the rest of the day.

36.A.pleasure      B.disappointment  C.happiness        D.sorrow

37.A.last          B.second           C.first            D.final

38.A.manner       B.appearance     C.ugliness         D.shyness

39.A.covered       B.spread          C.hurt             D.hid

40.A.always        B.often           C.never            D.still

41.A.surprised      B.satisfied         C.moved           D.impressed

42.A.feeling        B.honesty         C.beauty           D.bravery

43.A.but           B.so              C.or              D.and

44. A.stopped       B.kept            C.hid              D.tore

45.A.argument      B.question         C.discussion        D.conversation

46.A.How          B.When           C.Why            D.Where

47.A.anxious       B.afraid            C.worried         D.cruel

48.A.Before        B.As              C.Since           D.After

49.A.above         B.towards          C.off             D.over

50.A.beaten        B.knocked          C.lost             D.found

51.A.helped        B.noticed           C.protected        D.saved

52.A.burned        B.cut              C.darkened        D.recovered

53.A.minded       B.cared             C.remembered     D.regretted

54.A.crying        B.running           C.pushing         D.forcing

55.A.sense         B.wave             C.favor           D.benefit

On my first day of high school, going into math class, I was pointed and laughed at by two of my classmates. I initially thought my fly was open, or that something was stuck in my teeth. But as I took my seat, I heard one student whisper, “Why is a black boy taking Honors?” So, my fly wasn’t open. An honors level class had simply been taken by a student whose skin was brown.
Many people think my clothes should be big enough for me to live in, or expect me to listen to only “black music.” In seventh grade, a group of my classmates fixed their cold stares on my clothes. They called out to me, “Go get your gangsta clothes.” In one of my Spanish classes, the teacher asked me, “Do you like rap music or rock music more?” I replied, “Rock.” The look of shock on my classmates’ faces made me uncomfortable.
Now I still take all Honors courses. I still wear clothes that fit me. My music library covers from rock to pop to techno, and almost everything in between. When it comes to choosing my friends, I am still colorblind. I continue to do my best to work in school in order to reach my goals; and yet, when I look in the mirror, I still see skin of that same brown.
I believe in being myself. I believe that I myself should decide who I am and what actions I take in life. In high school, popularity often depends on your willingness to follow trends. And I’ve been told that it doesn’t get much easier going into adulthood. But the only other option is to sacrifice my personality for the satisfaction and approval of others. This can be appealing, but I’m not going to do that.
【1】Why did his classmates laugh at him?
A. His fly was open.
B. Something was stuck in his teeth.
C. He went into the wrong classroom.
D. They had prejudice against him.
【2】What are black people usually believed to do?
A. Listen to rap music. B. Wear small clothes.
C. Take Honors courses. D. Attend Spanish classes.
【3】What does the underlined word “colorblind” probably mean?
A. Making friends of the same skin color.
B. Having no idea what friends to make.
C. Treating people equally and fairly.
D. Feeling hurt and offended inside.
【4】What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Following Popular Trends B. Being Content with Myself
C. Having Faith in Skin Color D. Changing My Personality