Stay on the brighter side of life
One very important component of optimism is gratitude or feeling grateful. In fact, there is a strong connection between a grateful attitude and a heightened sense of well-being. Appreciate all the positives in your life by starting a gratitude journal in order to remember what you’re grateful for. ____
Feeling down? Instead of feeling sorry for yourself waiting for the universe to throw you a bone, try acting like you’re happy—even if you aren’t. A sincere smile and a forced smile will cause the same chemical reactions in your brain, so you can actually fool your mind into feeling better by making it react chemically as if things were going well. ___ Reassure yourself that everything is good— even if you don’t feel it.
“_____ If you’re stuck in traffic, then everything else must be going horribly too,” says Anne Parker, a wellness counselor. By blowing negative events out of proportion, you’re setting yourself up for feeling down all day. Instead, acknowledge that you’re stuck in traffic, but also bring to mind something good, like the beautiful scenery outside the window. That way, you’ll get in the habit of forbidding negative circumstances from blanketing your whole day.
Swearing to lose 20 pounds or to run a marathon seems like goals leading to happiness, but they take time to achieve. ____ You may even end up admitting that you have been defeated. However, if you focus on the small milestones that occur along the way, you will feel positive about your progress, which will give you the strength to keep going.
___ Try making someone else’s day better. A report by United Healthcare and Volunteer Match found that volunteers are 72% more likely to characterize themselves as optimistic compared with non-volunteers. Plus, 89% of volunteers say that volunteering has improved their sense of well-being, and 92% say that it enriches their sense of purpose in life.
| A．Try to help someone in need. |
| B．Want to give your attitude a lift? |
| C．People tend to think in an either-or way. |
| D．Act in an optimistic way—smile, laugh, tell a joke. |
E. You’ll fail to appreciate more important things in your life.
F. By focusing on not having accomplished them yet, you will start to feel down on yourself.
G. By remembering the pleasant things in your life, you can actually turn a negative attitude around.
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。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Question: I found a new job in the nearby town last week. But my six-year-old son doesn’t want to leave, because he has established a good friendship with our neighbor’s children. I am really puzzled about how to explain our moving plan to him. And there is only three weeks left. Will you please tell me some good advice?
Answer: Congratulations on your new position! It frequently causes them to feel unsafe. But don’t worry. There are many things you can do to make the moving experience less frightening for your children.
● Involve them from the very beginning.
Tell your children as soon as you know you’re moving. Explain why you’re moving in terms they can understand. This will remove a lot of the fear and confusion they may be feeling. Be sure to answer their questions as fully as you can.
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If you approach the coming move as an exciting adventure for the entire family, it will help to calm your children’s fears. If possible, show them the new house and let them spend some time exploring it. Help them imagine where their furniture and toys will go. Show them the yard and help them imagine all the fun they will have there. Talk about all the fun things the family will do there.
● Let them help.
If you give your children an active role in the move, they are much more likely to accept it and even grow excited about it. Let them pack some of their own things. If there are old toys you don’t plan to take, let the kids help decide which of them should be taken or given away.
| A．What to do on moving day. |
| B．Make the move an adventure. |
| C．Don’t tell them at the last minute. |
| D．Moving can upset children of any age. |
E. This will help them feel a part of the move.
F. My wife and I are considering moving there next month.
G. If you’re driving to your new home, make the trip exciting!
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，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余项。
It is necessary as well as important that teenagers learn how to save money. As is known, the money you save can be for rainy days and be used to pay through your college education. If you think it is a hard task and don’t know how to do it, please do as the following.
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My dad always tells me that if one doesn’t respect money, it will never respect you. Hence, it’s important that you keep a record of your daily expenses. Make it a habit to write down all that you have spent. And when you find out the total expense at the end of the month, you’ll realize what you’ve spent more money in doing _____ .
Open a savings account
Opening a savings account is a better way to save money. You can set a goal: say (for example), the money is for a new notebook or for college, and then save, until you have enough money to buy a notebook or until you go to college. _____
Don’t carry much cash
Do you have the habit of not leaving a store without buying anything? The only way to stop that is carrying less money with you. Go to the store with the minimum amount of money, which will not even help you buy a drink. _____.
Save the change
Save the change that you get back. If you have gone to a shop to buy something and get back some change, then do not spend them __ And you’ll be surprised at the huge amount of money after days.
Follow these tips above, and thus you can save a lot of money. And surely, they’ll help you be more responsible in your life.
| A．Next month, you will automatically try and save more in that part. |
| B．Instead, you can save them in your piggy bank. |
| C．By that time, you’ll realize the importance of saving money. |
| D．Nowadays in the developed and developing countries, people are all working for the sake of earning money. |
E. Keep a record of your daily expenses
F. After a few days, you’ll get rid of this habit.
G. Saving money builds your financial power and personal freedom.
阅读下列材料，从所给的六个选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）中，选出符合各小题要求的最佳选项，选项中有一项是多余选项。
注意：选E在答题卡上同时涂黑A和B，选F在答题卡上同时涂黑C和D。
请阅读以下网站简介：
http://www.ddff.com
The site enables users to keep track of where their friends are and get informed of who is visiting their hometown. Users put in their travel plan and link to their friends. It allows them to see where everyone is.
B. http://www.euke.com
A New York-based Internet businessman once said it was “your place to buy and sell all things handmade”. You can sell everything made by yourself from clothes and furniture to music on euke.com. The site was founded in 2005 and now has more than half a million users and 60,000 sellers.
C. http://www.momo.com
Created by a London games firm, Momo combines computer pet games with social communication and questions. Players keep “pets”, and look after them by answering regular questions. “Pets” can play each other online, providing “pet owners” with chances to socialize. With its funny pictures and attractive qualities, Momo wants to become the next craze for young people.
D. http:// www. png.canwest.com
The site provides a platform for companies and individuals that try to satisfy every need of today’s customers. The practice has moved from the office to the customer’s kitchen and beyond. And the services provided include everything from dog walking to laundry. Founded this year, the site already has more than 5,000 users.
E. http://www.cosmo.com
Instead of marketing videos, Cosm entres on online video diaries. The site has not gone public yet, but has had positive reviews from testers. The website’s founder was once an Internet advisor to an international company.
F. http://www. ttter.com
Ttter enables you to text messages to large groups of people at a time, and for free. Sign up and send it a message, from a phone or the Internet, and it will be sent to receivers. The message is limited to just 140 characters. Set up in March, 2006, ttter.com has already attracted over 500,000 users.
请阅读以下五个人的人物简介，并匹配他们需要的网站。Tara has got a new video camera and is crazy about it. Wherever she goes, she’d like to take It with her and record everything she finds interesting. She thinks it cool to share her life with others through the recordings.
As a newcomer to this city, Claudia wants to make new friends with people around her. She likes this city except for one thing, that is, she is not allowed to raise any pet due to the flat rules. That’s too much for an animal lover like her.
Monica is clever with her hands and likes making toys. She wants to find a way to show her work to others and share the pleasure with them. If possible, she’d like to make pocket money by selling the toys.
Terry worries about his phone bill every month. As he has lots of friends, making phone calls, sending and receiving messages are a necessary part of his life. Sometimes he has to say hello to each of his friends by mobile phone. It costs him lots of time and money.
In his spare time, Tony travles a lot. It’s hard for his friends to get in touch with him when he’s away. He’s like to find a way to share his travel experiences with his friends and let them know where he is.
首先请阅读“澳大利亚环保网站”页面的基本信息：
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Climate change to make downpours more violent: expert NICKY PHILLIPS 2:55pm If you’re sick of the heavy rain, you’d better get used to it. The downpours and flash flooding Sydney experienced over the past few days are going to become more frequent, the expert says. |
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Food security, economy to be hit by climate change, leaked IPCC reportPETER HANNAM Global warming will displace millions of people, cause crop output falling, and cost a loss of billions of dollars in economic output, a United Nation’s report warns. |
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IPCC warns climate will worsen, harming Australia’s economy TOM Australia’s billion-dollar mining, farming and tourism all face threats as worsening global warming causes more dangerous and extreme weather, the world’s leading climate science warns. |
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Australia’s record hot year much more likely because of global warmingPETER HANNAM Global warming caused by humans vastly increased the possibilities of Australia’s record hot year in 2013, according to the Status of the Global Climate report. |
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Geo-engineering no solution to dangerous climate change, study findsPETER HANNAMGreening deserts in Australia and North Africa with millions of trees would have an influence on climate change, with possibly big side-effects, new international research finds. |
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Seven million people died as a result of air pollution in 2013, the World Health Organization says. PETER HANNAM 1:26 pmIts findings suggest a link between air pollution and heart diseases, lung problems and cancers. |
请阅读以下新闻信息，然后匹配与上面新闻相关的报道内容。The study by scientists at Germany’s Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel examined five possible methods of climate engineering as a means of heading off the worst influences of global warming, along with widespread tree plantings of the deserts, and the study examined three methods involving the ocean.
The report, to be given later this month by the IPCC and obtained by The Independent in Britain, says that food security will increasingly be threatened, with crop output to drop by as much as 2 percent per decade for the rest of the century. Demand, though, is on course to rise 14 per cent per decade until the year of 2050.
One in eight global deaths were linked with air pollution, making it “the world’s largest single environmental health risk”, the WHO said. Nearly six million of the deaths had been in South East Asia and the WHO’s Western Pacific area, about 3.3 million died as a result of indoor air pollution and 2.6 million outdoors, it found.
As the atmosphere heats up because of climate change, more rain in Sydney will most likely cause disaster with traffic and public transport and may increase the number of people injured or killed in flash floods, such as the man who drowned after being swept in to a storm water drain at Lucas Heights on Monday, said Nicky Phillips.
A five-year assessment by IPCC details the global influence because of the climate change, including the displacement of hundreds of millions of people, reduced crop output and increased the loss of millions of dollars of the economy, which harms Australia’s economy in many industries very seriously.
任务型阅读（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下列材料，从所给的六个选项(A、B、C、D、E和F)中，选出符合各小题要求的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。
A.Smile more often.
B.Be a good listener.
C.Show that you consider them important.
D.Remember and use people’s names.
E.Talk to people in terms of their interests.
F.Give others chances to talk about themselves.
G.Some ways to make people like you_____________
Studies show that the word that people say more than any other word is “I”. People love to talk about themselves, their lives, their hobbies, their families, their passions, etc. when you become interested in people, ask them questions and allow them to talk. They will like you for that.______________
We’ve all been in situations where you recognize a person but can’t remember his/ her name. it’s awkward, uncomfortable and sometimes embarrassing. If you want to make people like you, you need to begin to remember their names. Develop a system. When you meet someone use his/ her name 3 times in your conversation, or write down his/ her name in a notebook with some notes about him/her after the conversation.________________
Listening is an active process. It is much more than being silent. It involves empathy, which is to walk in the speaker’s shoes and understand his/ her feeling. Listening is a skill that is developed with practice and as you master it, people will like you more and more._________________
People love it when you talk to them in terms of their interests. They love it when you are knowledgeable on subjects they enjoy. They love it when you can have intelligent conversation with them about what matters most to them. One way to do this is to study topics of their interests before you meet with people. If you know that you will have a business lunch with a huge baseball fan, then take some time to broaden your knowledge of the game.________________
Making people feel they are important can be done in all kinds of ways. You can give a compliment, remember their birthday or a spe4cial occasion, recognize them for their skills and contribution or give them a gift. Leave every person happier for having met you.