It is always good to come to an understanding with your parents.
Gurdjieff used to say,“ you are in good communion with your parents, you have missed your life." If some anger persists between you and your parents, you will never feel
ease. Wherever you are, you will feel a little guilty. You will never be able to forgive
forget…Parents are not just a social relationship. It is out of them
you have come. You are part of them, _
branch of their tree. You are still rooted in them. When parents die, something very deep-rooted dies within you. When parents die, for the first time you feel alone, uprooted.
while they are alive, do everything that you can so that an understanding can arise and you can communicate with them and they can communicate with you. Then,
they leave the world-and they will leave someday,you will not feel guilty; you will not repent; you will know that things have settled.
have been happy with you and you have been happy with them.
Part m Reading Comprehension (30 marks)
I had a disease,made my life difficult and demanding. This disease was called “and then I’ll be happy.”
I first (catch) it in middle school. During my younger years, I seemed to always enjoy each day of my life. During those middle school years, however, I started to look to the future more and more and enjoy today less and less. At first, I thought
_______(get) into high school and being a teenager would make me happy. Then the dream changed to being on my own in college. Next came having
______ great job. After that was the dream of raising a family. Then there was retiring and enjoying my life. Each dream postponed my
_____ (happy) a little further.
_______ (final), I realized that
______I kept going this way, I would never be happy. And I came
______(see)that it would be much better to be happy now than to live with this disease. So I began to keep a happy heart and loving soul rather
______ to wait for life to become perfect. These days I still occasionally suffer
_______ the disease, but I heal it by knowing that I can choose love and joy every second of my life.
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Charity shops are popular in the UK. The first charity shop_ ( be) opened by Oxfam in 1947. Now there are over 7,000 charity shops in the UK. The shops sell different things from
old book to a famous brand handbag. Here are the reasons why I often go to charity shops.
First, things in charity shops are much _(cheap) than those in street stores. People give things to charity shops
free. Most of the things have been used _
they are well cleaned and _
(repair). So you can buy useful things with less money in charity shop.
Second, people give their own thing to charity shops instead of (throw) them away. Then other people who need the things buy them. It's good for the environment.
Third, is for charity work that charity shops are set up. The money earned in charity shops is for people in need,
(especial) for homeless and disabled people after the things in charity shops are sold, the owner will receive a letter telling him about that. That's the main reason why people like charity shops. So I hope there will be more and more charity shops in other__
(place)
【原创】Zheng Xiyu works at an office in Beijing's Central Business District. Every day, it takes her roughly 40 minutes to go to work by bus. But she is thinking of _ (switch) to a different way of transport-a bicycle. She's also adapting to a vegetable diet as Iivestock can make many contributions
today's most serious environmental problems. A recent survey shows that 78% of all the 17,000 people
(question) have developed environmentally_
(friend) habits in their daily lives. They are doing things, such as taking reusable shopping bags to the store and setting the air conditioner at
temperature above 26 C in summer. On many popular social networking
(website), people are advocating a low-carbon lifestyle.Their tips include using the stairs and public transport more frequently
_ using elevators and cars. They hope this lifestyle will become more than just a trend within certain groups. As the most populous nation on the planet with the world's
(fast) growing economy, China has become the second biggest emitter(排放者) of greenhouse gases. The recent extreme weather in the southern regions
(reflect) a serious environmental challenge.Experts say there is no time
(delay) with the effort to reduce carbon emissions.
【原创】Patience is of great importance in our daily life. Once I waited a bus to come at a stop. 30 minutes
(pass), but no bus came. Both upset and annoyed, I decided to walk on
(foot). But no sooner had I left
the bus arrived. I thought if I had waited for one more minute, I would have caught it. If I chose to take
next bus, I would have to wait for
30 minutes. Only then
(do) I realize my problem. Being impatient will
(possible) waste all the effort in
we have put . Now whenever I am close to
(lose) my patience, I’ll think of this experience.
【原创】People feel ______(puzzle) by some unexplained phenomena, one example of
is the possible existence of Yeti.
is said that the Yeti is__
___(tall) than an average human but walks with amazing speed and strengths. Though some people even reported____
____(see) the footprints belonging to a Yeti, no stronger evidence for its ____
___(exist) has been found.
_____the development of science and technology, __
_____ is unknown to us today ___
___(be) explained in the future. We hope that __
____(science) will solve the mystery one day and give us a satisfactory answer.