Think you can't be happy？You'll think again after reading this story. Barbara Ann Kipfer hated her feet.They were too big and she always seemed to ____ over them when someone was ____ —usually a smart guy.Come to think of it，her teeth were too big，too.The other kids teased(取笑)her because of the way she ____，and because she wanted to be a sportswriter some day.No matter what she did，she was teased for being “____”．
That's ____ she started writing down things that she liked in a notebook.“It was like a friend，and it ____ me that there are good things，____ everything around me is unpleasant，”she says.She copied the list over and over，____ new things every day.
One day，she decided to ____ her list with some of the girls in her class，hoping they would think it was as much fun as she did.But ____，they made her feel stupid again.“They laughed at me，” she remembers，“I was ashamed，and I ____ doing it.” Here comes the ____ part.When she was in 10th grade，Kipfer found her old notebook and decided to ____ where she left off.“It was like a diary，like a photograph of my life，” she says.She started writing to publishers，asking them if they'd be interested in printing her list as a book.
She kept writing to one company ____，because she liked the types of books it printed.“He kept saying，‘It's just a list，what am I supposed to do with it？’” “You're not ____ to do anything with it.It's ____ supposed to remind people of something they did that was really ____.
Finally，the publisher ____ to turn Kipfer's list into a book，which sold more than 1 million copies！14,000 Things to Be Happy About even ____ it to be New York Times Best Sellers List.____ being a bestselling author，Kipfer also went to realize her dream of becoming a sports editor at the Chicago Tribune.
A．jump B．fall C．turn D．push
A．nearby B．around C．watching D．laughing
A．dressed B．lived C．thought D．looked
A．silly B．special C．different D．shy
A．how B．when C．because D．where
A．reminded B．told C．persuaded D．helped
A．because B．but C．unless D．even though
A．adding B．finding C．making D．giving
A．talk B．discuss C．share D．write
A．then B．naturally C．further D．instead
A．continued B．stopped C．enjoyed D．hated
A．cool B．important C．difficult D．funny
A．find out B．pick up C．think of D．give up
A．in general B．at first C．in particular D．at last
A．made B．going C．advised D．supposed
A．often B．just C．also D．always
A．excellent B．successful C．fun D．true
A．hoped B．agreed C．refused D．considered
A．made B．pushed C．improved D．helped
A．Without B．Instead of C．While D．Besides
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I was in my third year of teaching creative writing at a high school in New York, when one of my students, 15-year-old Micky, gave me a note from his mother. It his absence from class the day before.
I had seen Micky himself writing the note at his desk. Most parental-excuse notes I received were penned by my . The forged(伪造的) excuse notes made a large pile, with writing that ranged from imaginative to crazy. The of those notes didn’t realize that honest excuse notes were usually : “Peter was late because the alarm clock didn’t go off.” The students always said that it was hard putting 200 words together on any subject, but when they excuse notes, they were brilliant.
So one day I gave the excuse notes to my classes, saying, “They’re to be written by parents, but actually they are not. True, Micky ? ” The students looked at me .“Now, this will be the first class to study the of the excuse notes --- the first class, ever, to practice writing them. You’re so to have a teacher like me who has taken your best writing and turned it into a worthy of study. ”
Everyone smiled as I went on, “You used your . So try more now. Today I’d like you to write ‘An Excuse Note from Adam/Eve to God’.” went down. Pens raced paper. For the first time ever I saw students so in their writing that they had to be asked to go to lunch by their friends.
The next day everyone had excuse notes. discussions followed. The headmaster entered the classroom and walked , looking at papers, and then said, “I’d like you to see me in my office.” My heart .
When I stepped into his office, he came to my hand and said, “I just want to tell you that that lesson, that task, whatever the hell you were doing, was . Those kids were writing on the college . Thank you. ”
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阅读短文， 然后根据短文内容从A、B、C、D四个选项中选择最佳答案。
Jane’s mother worked on the farm from dawn till dark, which just could make ends meet. To make Jane live a life. Mother was very careful about spending money. ，Jane didn’t understand her. Every day Mother was busy with her while Jane was studying at school, so they had little time to enjoy themselves.
One day, Mother realized Jane was unhappy and even to her, so she decided to go with Jane to make Jane happy.
On Sunday morning they went happily to the snowfield. Since they were in white clothes, the manager advised them to buy ski clothes. He said there was an accident, they might be easily________ in their ski clothes. Mother couldn’t them, so she refused.
Then they went skiing in their white clothes. They were skiing happily on the when suddenly the snowfield began to . It was the snow slide(雪崩). They ran a long way and the snow slide finally, but they couldn’t find their way. Later, a helicopter was flying above, people on it couldn’t see or hear them. Jane was because she had hurt her head seriously and ________ dropped on the snow. Just then an idea struck Mother. She pierced (刺破) her wrist________ and then bright red blood dropped down on the snowfield. A red SOS was on the snow. At last Jane ________ , but Mother died.
Every time I ________ the blood dropping onto the snowfield, I feel ________ . I believe anyone who hears the tragedy will ________ Mother for her selfless love to her daughter.
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My name is Wang Gang. Last summer, I went to a coastal city called Brisbane in Australia on an exchange(交换) program. I stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Smith and their daughter Joan. They lived in a big house close to the . I like that area very much, because there is a cinema, a swimming pool and a .
I got along very well with Joan. We shared many interests. Almost every day, we went swimming in the swimming pool. Sometimes we swam in the sea if the was nice. We went to the zoo and I really seeing those wild animals and the ones. I saw those cute koalas and kangaroos, but I didn't get close to them people said actually koalas were not as gentle as they . They might bite people. We also went to the cinema a couple of times and I really liked the films there.
We visited Sydney on a sunny day. Brisbane is about 1 000 kilometres from Sydney, so it's not a short distance. , we went there by plane. The journey by plane was quite fast and________ and it took us only two hours to get there. When I got the plane, I was so excited to see this modern city. The next day, we visited the famous Sydney Opera House. It was amazing!
The in Sydney was absolutely beautiful and the food there was well-cooked. My favourite was sea fish. The Smiths were very nice to me. They even ________ me to some very expensive lobster(龙虾). That was the first time I ________lobster, and I ________ say it was really delicious.
The whole trip was very enjoyable ________ the last day. We planned to go boating on the sea. However, it rained the whole day. We ________ in the hotel that day and chatted. In the end, we decided to go back to Brisbane by ________ , because the ticket was cheaper and also we could enjoy the scenery outside the train windows.
On the whole, I really had a great time in Australia. It was a ________ trip. I'd like to go back there again!
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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。
With the development of the information technology, we are stepping into the new century. People’s topics, especially the young people’ s , are becoming more and more _________, which older men never understand: the Internet and __________life.
Just a few years ago, people ___________ talked about what a computer could do to help their daily life. They considered it as a high - tech ________ for programming, to design machines, to control robots, ________ to make A-bombs ! At that time, PCs were very expensive and it was too dear to _________ one’ s computer to the web. What’ s more, it was too slow. So _________ people knew what the Internet really meant.
But today, things have changed greatly. The Internet times are coming__________, if you like to have a shot at succeeding in business today, you will have to succeed ____________ the web. ___________ around and it seems as if about every company out there is in E-business
For ordinary persons, E-mail is taking the place of traditional ways of __________ letters. And young people keep in touch with each other by connecting their ___________ to the web. They can express their __________ , either happiness or anger, sorrow or loneliness, to their web mates in chat rooms. Some ____________ have found their “true love” on the Internet!
I cannot ____________ the Internet’s great devotions to our daily life in the world of tomorrow. The Internet can do ____________many things for us that we almost cannot live without it. Everything is ___________ in the future, and no one can _________ what will exactly happen in years to come. But one thing is __________ : more and more people will come to know the Internet and will surely __________themselves in his or her daily life.
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1─20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
There was a boy who was sent by his parents to a boarding school. being sent away, this boy was the student in his class. He was at the top in every always with high marks.
But the boy changed after home and attending the boarding school. His grades started . He hated being in a . He was lonely all the time. And there were especially dark times when he committing suicide (自杀). All of this was because he felt and no one loved him.
His parents started about the boy. But they even did not know what was with him. So his dad decided to travel to the boarding school and him.
They sat on the bank of the lake near the school. The father started asking him some casual(随意的) questions about his classes, teachers and . After some time his dad said, “Do you know, son, why I am here today?”
The boy answered back, “To my grades?”
“No, no,” his dad replied. “I am here to tell you that you are the most person for me. I want to see you . I don’t care about grades. I care about you. I care about your happiness. YOU ARE MY LIFE.”
These words the boy’s eyes to be filled with tears. He his dad. They didn’t say anything to each other for a long time.
Now the boy had he wanted. He knew there was someone on this earth who cared for him deeply. He the world to someone. And today this young man is in college at the top of his class and no one has ever seen him !
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