We have two daughters: Kristen is seven years old and Kelly is four. Last Sunday evening, we invited some people home for dinner. I dressed them nicely for the party, and told them that their job was to join Mommy in answering the door when the bell rang. Mommy would introduce them to the guests, and then they would take the guests’ coats upstairs and put them on the bed in the second bedroom.
The guests arrived. I introduced my two daughters to each of them. The adults were nice and kind and said how lucky we were to have such good kids.
Each of the guests made a particular fuss over Kelly, the younger one, admiring her dress, her hair and her smile. They said she was a remarkable girl to be carrying coats upstairs at her age.
I thought to myself that we adults usually make a big “to do” over the younger one because she’s the one who seems more easily hurt. We do it with the best of intentions. But we seldom think of how it might affect the other child. I was a little worried that Kristen would feel she was being outshined. I was about to serve dinner when I realized that she had been missing for twenty minutes. I ran upstairs and found her in the bedroom, crying.
I said, “What are you doing, my dear?”
She turned to me with a sad expression and said, “Mommy, why don’t people like me the way they like my sister? Is it because I’m not pretty? Is that why they don’t say nice things about me as much?”
I tried to explain to her, kissing and hugging her to make her feel better.
Now, whenever I visit a friend’s home, I make it a point to speak to the elder child first.What were Kristen and Kelly asked to do last Sunday evening? (No more than 20 words.)
____________________________________________________________________Why did the guests praise Kelly so much rather than Kristen? (No more than 15 words.)
____________________________________________________________________The underlined expression “make a big ‘to do’ over” in Paragraph 4 means ________________. (No more than 5 words.)
Why did Kristen feel sad and cry? (No more than 15 words.)
____________________________________________________________________In your opinion, how should adults treat children? (No more than 15 words.)
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阅读填空: 阅读短文，根据所读内容在表中空格处填上适当的单词或短语，每空不超过3个单词。
If people work to meet their needs, it would be good to know what these needs are. They are very simple. Dr. Maslow has suggested that people have only five needs. Everyone has them, and everyone spends his or her life trying to satisfy them. Although we may try to satisfy our needs in different ways, we all are trying to satisfy the same needs. In a way, it is these needs, which are common to all people that make us human. They seem to be a basic part of human nature.
The needs, which occur in the order shown below, can briefly be described as follows:
1. The Physiological Needs--Our needs for the things that keep our bodies alive – food, water, air, rest, elimination, etc. These needs come first. We must meet them or we will die.
2. The Safety Needs--First we need to stay alive, and then we need to be safe. There are two kinds of safety needs: the need to be physically safe and the need to be psychologically safe or secure.
3. The Belongingness Needs--Once we are alive and safe, we then try to satisfy our social need, a need to be with and accepted by other people. We discover our need for love.
4. The Esteem Needs--After our first three needs are fairly well met, we try to satisfy a fourth need. This is a need for recognition, respect, reputation. The need has two parts: self esteem(thinking well of ourselves) and the esteem of others.
5. The Self--Actualization Needs--The highest need of man is to actualize himself, to achieve his full potential, to become all that he might be. This need is one that no one ever satisfies completely, partly because we are too busy trying to satisfy our lower needs.
If Dr. Maslow is correct, those are the things we are after. Our work, rest, play--whatever we do--is done in an effort to meet one or more of those needs.
81. _____________
| Names of the Needs |
84. ______________ |
87. _____________ |
| 82. ____________ |
Food, water, air, etc. |
to be alive |
| Safety |
a. physically safe b. 85. __________ (secure) |
to be safe |
| Belongingness |
86. be _________ |
to satisfy 88. ____________ |
83. ___________ |
by other people(for love) recognition, respect, reputation |
89. _____ and esteem of others |
| Self-Actualization |
a. to achieve full potential b. 90. ____________ c. to become all that one might be |
B. 单句填空（共10小题；每小题 0.5 分，满分5分）
选用所给词的适当形式填空，每空限填一词。请将答案转写到答题卡上。
misunderstand; honour; cost; improve; flee;
amuse; disappoint; remind; enable ; speak;
78. The criminal was arrested in the airport before he could _______ the country.
79. Some people can get a full-night’s sleep, but to their ______, they still feel tired when they wake up.
80. Careless driving ______ his uncle’s life last summer.
81. The environment in the north of China has _________ greatly since the government took measures to plant more trees.
82. Comedians make people laugh by telling _______ stories, or imitating people’s behaviour.
83. It is important to know about the customs and traditions of different countries in order to avoid ________ .
84. We felt _______ that the Mayor chose to visit our school.
85. If everyone _______ the same language, it would be very easy for different nations to communicate and understand each other.
86. The picture of the young girl in the magazine ________ me of my sister.
87. China’s entry into the WTO has _______ us to export more goods.
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或受用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填在答题卡标号为1～10的相应位置上。
A young man,while traveling through a desert，csme across a spring of clear water.1water was sweet.He filled his leather container so that he could bring some back to an elder2 had been his teacher .After a four-day journey, the young man_3.(present) the water to the old man. His teacher took a deep drink, smiled4(warm), and thanked his student very much for the sweet water.The young man went home5a happy heart.
After the student left, the teacher let6student taste the water. He spit it out,7(say) it was awful. Apparently, it was no longer fresh because of the old leather container. He asked his teacher," Sir, the water was awful. Why did you pretend to like8?"
The teacher replied," You tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of kindness and love. Nothing could be9 (sweet)."
We understand this lesson best10 we receive gifts of love from children. Whether it is
a cheap pipe on a diamond necklace, the proper response is appreciation. We love the idea within the gift rather than the thing.
一、填空（每小题1.5分，共30分）
（根据汉语提示填空并完成句子或短语。每空一词，请将答案做在答题卡上）
1．This was the moment when Spielberg’s career really _______off.（成功，腾飞）
2．Books are made _______ paper and paper is made _______ wood.（由……制成的）
3．The house where he once lived has been turned ______a museum and is visited by thousands of people every year.（变成）
4．If we reuse something, it will not end up ______waste.（以……告终）
5．Keep in ______（保持联系）
6．the other way _______（相反）
7．They will ______ down the old building .（拆毁）
8．a _______graduate student（一个有前途的研究生）
9．What does the UK______ ______ ?（代表）
10．A storm is just ______ the corner .（就在附近,即将来临）
11． keep up with the high ______of modern life（跟上现代生活的快节奏）
12．The twins have a lot in ________ with each other.（与……有相同之处）
13．come to _______ with（甘心忍受）
14．________ one’s goals.（达到自己目标）
15． He ______ about to lock the door when the telephone rang .（正要）
16．We tie the boat _____a tree.（把……拴在……）
17．Share happiness and _______（同甘共苦）
18．____ number of the sdudents in our class is 56.（……的数量）
19．learn from the best _______ in the world（向世界顶尖人物学习）
20．The weather turned _____to be fine.（结果是……）
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项多余选项。
There is an English saying, “Laughter is the best medicine.”51 Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body. They have found that laughter really can improve people’s health.
Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. 52 It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing; it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.
53In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programmes. The group that tolerated (忍受)the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program. 54
In this way55 they help to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really fell like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.
| A．The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain which diminish both stress and pain. |
| B．Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. |
| C．Laughter and physical exercise have similar effects on the human body. |
| D．It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. |
E. As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics.
F. Laughter could produce a kind of chemical.
G. Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body.