Recently, I felt like I reached a very low point in life. My relationships weren't good, I wasn't enjoying my classes, and I felt like I had nothing to .My life seemed to be full of endless homework, tests and loneliness. Nothing anyone said seemed to me. I wasn't sure what to do about myself. All I wanted was to be happy again, but I didn't know who or what would that.
During these days, I had trouble sleeping. I had to take sleeping pills but still woke up in the midnight. I had no but to tell my dad. He the book The Secret. I immediately bought the e-book online and read the whole thing that night. I'm quite a stubborn person, but the effect on my mood after finishing the book was . Suddenly, I felt like life was beautiful again. I had never felt such a deep and quick in my life before.
In fact, the book's message was very simple—think positively(积极地).The book had many success stories about how people were able to money, soul mates(心灵伙伴)and old friends back into their lives. I started learning to thank everything in my life like them. Little by little, I realized that The Secret could only work I believed these people's success stories.
Now I'm sure I can bring myself happiness.
A．take care of B．come up with C．look forward to D．look down on
A．colourful B．powerful C．peaceful D．helpful
A．prevent B．offer C．answer D．serve
A．problem B．doubt C．need D．idea
A．recommended B．collected C．returned D．borrowed
A．finally B．mainly C．normally D．probably
A．obvious B．common C．realistic D．serious
A．breath B．change C．surprise D．notice
A．imagine B．control C．attract D．mention
A．until B．when C．unless D．before
【2012苏州市中考】Is the art of conversation dying? The other day, my wife two teenage children did something we haven’t for ages. It didn’t require the Internet, a TV screen, batteries… or anything else for that matter. But we all it so much we’re thinking of doing it again sometime.
We had a conversation. The kind of real, live conversation that was when I was growing up, but which seems all too rare these days. Today we have chat rooms, text messages, e-mails but we seem to be losing the of communicating face-to-face. We all know young people are out on a date(约会）these days, they spend most of that time their mobile phones. And teenagers nowadays seem to communicating with their friends by sending text messages rather than actually to them.
If we carry on like this，in the future, we’ll lose the use of our . What do you think? E-mail me, and who knows? Maybe we could even have a real conversation about it!
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【2012年山东济南】In 1608 an Englishman named Thomas Coryate traveled in Italy .He liked the country and down everything interesting. But he found one thing interesting than the others. In his diary Thomas wrote，“ the Italian eat meat，they use small forks. They do not eat with their hands because，as they say，people do not always have hands.” Before he went back to England，Thomas Coryate bought a few .
At home Thomas had a dinner party to show the forks to his friends. When the steak（牛排）
was brought out，he took out a fork and wanted to the steak as the Italians did in Italy. His friends were when they saw this. He told them what the fork was. They all said that Italians were very strange people because the fork was not easy to use at all. Thomas Coryate tried to prove that his friends were ，so he began to show that it was easy to use the fork. But the first of meat he took with the fork fell to the floor. His friends began to at him and he had to take the fork away.
People in England began to use forks only fifty years later.
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【2012安徽中考】The umbrella is a very common object. It keeps the and the sun off the people. Most umbrellas can be folded up[折叠] so it is to carry them. However,the umbrella has not always been as as it is now. In the past,it was a symbol of importance.Some African countries still use umbrellas in this .Someone carries an umbrella and walks behind the king or important person.
Umbrellas are very old.People in different parts of the world began to umbrellas at different times. The Chinese had them more than 3,000 years ago. From there,umbrellas to India and Egypt. In Greece and Rome, wouldn't use them. They believed umbrellas were only for women. England was the first country in Europe where common people used umbrellas against rain.The weather there is very and umbrellas are very useful. Everybody uses umbrellas today. The next time you 60 one, thinking that for centuries only great men and women used them, you'll feel you are important people,too.
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【2013浙江杭州】Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a distance of about 80 miles. It was late, I was late, and I was driving _________.
At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was _________ on the road by now, but as I came near the light, it turned _________, and I braked to a stop. I looked left, right, and behind me. Nothing. Not a car, no suggestion of headlights, _________ there I sat, waiting for the light to _________, the only human being, for at least a mile in any _________.
I started wondering why I _________ to run the light. I was not afraid of being caught, because there was _________ no policeman anywhere around and there certainly would have been no _________ in going through it.
Much later that ________, after I’d met with a group in Lewisburg and had climbed into bed near midnight, the question of why I’d stopped for that light ________ me. I think I stopped ________ it’s part of a contract(契约) we all have with each other. It’s not only the law, but it’s an agreement we have, and we trust each other to follow ________: we don’t go through red lights.
We do ________ we say we’ll do. We show up when we say we’ll show up.
I was so ________ of myself for stopping for that red light. And as no one would ever have known what a good person I was on the road from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, I had to tell s someone.
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【2013湖北武汉】完形填空阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。
“I’m really thankful to our government, for it provides us with such a good training program. The training greatly helps us live well. I will certainly study hard and learn the skills. Then I can my family difficulties and do good to other people.” a learner on the job training program said, feeling .
The learner’s grandfather is nearly 80 years old, and has mother is in bed. So his father, who is a farmer, is the main of the family. The family is poor. The learner graduated from high school and did not the college entrance exam. The job training program helps him learn the skills that he’ll in the work place.
The story reminds me of another . It goes like this: Once upon a time, there was a man who liked fishing very much, and was to catch lots of fish every day. The man was a kind-hearted person, so he always his fish with his neighbors who did not know how to fish. One day, he thought that it would be if he taught them how to fish. So he his neighbors together and showed them how to fish. Everybody was very happy that they could the fish they themselves caught.
At present, there are still a lot of poor people throughout the world. But it’s not good if we give only to them. , we should give them a chance to learn new skills. Therefore, a technical training is very important to people in need, and the will learn the ability to money. People can learn a lot of useful things in the training program and what they learn can help them on the way to find jobs.
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