It is not so much what happens to each of us that determines our quality of life, but rather our reaction to what happens. Though we may have no 36 in unexpected events that happen to us, we most certainly have choice in 37 we interpret what happens, and in whatwe choose to do about it. These choices make all the 38 in how we experience our world and very much determine our 39 of life.
Neither does what we own 40 a major role in quality of life. One person with all the money and possessions in the world may have a 41 life, while another in the lowest income classes may 42 love their life. It is what we do with what we own that 43 our level of satisfaction and joy in life. It's not what you 44 or what happens to you in life that 45 , but rather what you do with it.
Every 46 something is happening in our lives. And every moment we 47 or a judgment about what happens. By choosing to become more 48 of how we react to what happens, we can 49 towards what we really want in our lives. 50 following habitual, reactive patterns which 51 more of the same, we can recognize and 52 our old habits to move powerfully in the 53 of creating the life we really want. Yet to do this, we must first find the 54 to look at some of the disempowering, often unconscious 55 which get in the way and don't serve to increase our quality of life. But by continually reminding ourselves of our intention to be creators, we can transform our life.
36．A．need B．courage C．choice D．necessity
37．A．what B．whether C．that D．how
38．A．difference B．troubles C．decisions D．measures
39．A．type B．quality C．amount D．level
40．A．take B．play C．make D．get
41．A．miserable B．accessible C．acceptable D．adaptable
42．A．practically B．privately C．absolutely D．adequately
43．A．creates B．investigates C．affects D．handles
44．A．lack B．need C．reserve D．possess
45．A．means B．exists C．works D．matters
46．A．time B．period C．date D．moment
47．A．make a mistake B．make a discovery
C．make a decision D．make a fortune
48．A．conscious B．sensitive C．reasonable D．active
49．A．alter B．shift C．differ D．distinguish
50．A．Other than B．Rather than C．As well as D．According to
51．A．lead to B．lie in C．call for D．appeal to/ equal to
52．A．transplant B．transform C．transport D． transmit
53．A．edge B．way C．direction D．center
54．A．hope B．interest C．chance D．courage
55．A．patterns B．frames C．landscape D．examples
完形填空,阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A, B, C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The family had just moved. The young woman was feeling a little ________ .It was Mother's Day—and 800 miles separated her from her parents.
She had called them that morning, and her mother had ________ how colorful their backyard was ________ spring had arrived. Later, she told her husband how she________ those lilacs (丁香) in her parents' yard. “I know where we can find some,” he said. “Get the ________ and come on.” So off they went.
Some time later, they stopped at a hill and there were lilacs all round. The young woman rushed up to the nearest ________and buried her face in the flowers. Carefully, she________ some. Finally, they returned to their car for the________ home. The woman sat smiling, surrounded by her ________ .
When they were near home, she shouted “stop,” got off quickly and ________ to a nearby nursing home. She went to the end of the porch (门廊), where a(n) ________patient was sitting in her wheelchair, and put the flowers into her lap. The two ________ ,bursting into laughter now and then. Later the young woman turned and ran back to her ________ . As the car pulled away, the woman in the wheelchair ________ with a smile, and held the lilacs________ .
“Mom,”the kids asked, “________did you give her our flowers?” “It is Mother's Day, and she seems so________ while I have all of you. And anyone would be ________by flowers.”
This satisfied the kids, but not the husband. The next day he ________some young lilacs around their yard.
I was the husband. Now, every May, our yard is full of lilacs. Every Mother's Day our kids ________purple lilacs. And every year I remember that smile of the lonely old woman.
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完形填空,阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
There Really Was a Santa Claus
Ann worked for a big company. One of the duties of her was to go to the post office every day and the company mail. One day in December, she a beggar making himself up as a Santa Claus on the corner of the street. Each day she her coins and dropped them in his bowl. He would smile and her a Merry Christmas.
At night the temperature dropped below 0℃, but the Santa Clause stood in the cold wind. she dropped her coins into his bowl, she handed him a pair of gloves.
A week later, a(n) Santa Claus was standing there. “What happened to the other Santa Claus?” she asked. He told her, “He’s very today.” She prayed for his health.
Later that day, a colleague came into her office . “I don’t know what I’m going to do.” “What’s wrong?” she asked. “It’s my ex-husband,” her colleague , “I don’t have any money to buy my boys anything for Christmas, my ex-husband refuses to send money to them. It breaks my heart that they won’t have anything this year.” The lady her colleague, “I’m sure everything will . It’s Christmas. Believe in miracles(奇迹).”
That evening, she told her husband about her colleague’s , “I know we don’t have much money to , but I’d like to give her fifty or a hundred dollars. We’ll just get ourselves less this year. Last year we couldn’t afford to buy anything for but we still had a wonderful Christmas.” Her husband smiled, “Give her one hundred dollars. She needs it more than we do.”
She reached up and held him. Warmth spread her body. He held her and realized that there really was a Santa Claus – and he had her!
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B，C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
That holiday morning I didn’t have to attend schoo1．Usually，on holidays，Mother________ me to sleep in．And I would certainly take full advantage of it．On this particular morning，________，I felt like getting up early．
I stood by my window overlooking the ________，having nothing better to do．But as it turned out，I was soon to learn about something ________ in life．
As I watched several people go by，get into their cars and go off，I ________ an old man on a bicycle with a bucket on its ________ and a basket of rags and bottles on its back-carriage．He ________ from one car to another， washing and cleaning them．From the water on the ground，it seemed that he had already ________ washing and cleaning about a dozen or more cars．He must have begun to work quite early in the morning．
Several thoughts ________my mind as I watched him work．He wash’t well-dressed．He had on a pair of shorts and a(n) ________ T-shirt．The bicycle he rode was not by any means the kind modern ________ would want to be seen riding on．But he seemed ________ with life．There he was，working hard at his small business， ________ at passers by and stopping to chat now and then________ elderly men and women on their way to the market nearby．
There was a noticeable touch of ________ in the way he seemed to be doing things ________ the windscreen(挡风玻璃)，then standing back to admire it；scrubbing(擦净)the wheels and ________ ，standing back to see what they look like after the scrub．
It was a ________ to learn，I felt．At no age need one have to beg for a ________ if one has good health and is willing to work hard．For a while I felt ________ of myself．Young as I am—just sixteen，and there was this old man who must have been usefully engaged perhaps before the sun appeared above the horizon．
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完形填空,阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A,B,C,D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂上。
I was 14 years old. I was angry and rebellious, with regard for anything my parents had to say, if it had nothing to do with me. Like so many , I struggled to escape from anything that didn’t my picture of the world. As a “ brilliant without need of guidance” kid, I rejected any obvious of love. In fact, I got angry at the of the word “love”.
One , after an extremely difficult day, I into my room, shut the door loudly and fell down onto my bed heavily. As I lay down in the privacy of my , my hands placed under my pillow. There was an envelope. I pulled it out and on the envelope it said, “To when you’re alone.”
I was alone, no one would know whether I read it or not. So I opened it. It said，“Mike，I know life is right now, I know you are frustrated and I know we don’t do everything right. I also know that I love you and nothing you do or say will ever change that. I am here for you if you ever need to talk. If you don’t, that’s also . Just know that no matter where you go or whatever you do in your life, I will always love you and be that you are my son. I’m here for you and I love you-that will never .Love you, Mom.”
Every night as I went to bed, I would put my hands under my , and I remember the _ I felt every time I got a letter. During my teen years, the letters were the calm assurance that I still could be loved my anger and rudeness. Just before I fell I became grateful that my mom knew what I, an angry teenager, needed.
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完形填空,阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Lyse Doucet lives a happy life in Chicago. But recently there is some difficulty for her and her family. She and her husband have each other’s parents and young daughter and for that they are . But she and her husband are both currently . And their car is in great need of . And then there is the matter of their second child, who is soon. So things are a little tense for the Doucet family these days.
When Lyse and her daughter were walking through a store lot recently, Lyse picked up an envelop from the ground that $4,000 in cash. There were a _of different explanations that could be considered. Was this a kind of good ? Could it be an attempt by the universe to balance everything? Could it be simply a gift from God? Lyse didn’t know. The only thing she knew was that the cash in that envelope to someone else. Oh, and one other thing she knew was that her young daughter was . “My kid was standing right there I found it,” Lyse told WLS-TV in Chicago. “So basically I wanted to teach my daughter how to be . And for me that was enough.”
Never mind the bills that were , or the car that needed to be fixed, or the baby that would come soon. When she the money over to the police she was told that there was actually nothing illegal if she it.
The police were able to return the money to the person who it-- an old woman. And one can imagine the joy and she felt when the police handed the lost envelop back to her. “She came to my house and she was almost in tears, me,” Lyse said. “She gave me a hug and an envelope with a small in it. But what was in it wasn’t . What mattered was the opportunity to teach my daughter honesty.”
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